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you had a question a few asks down where you said it indicated enneagram 3 and it made me wonder:
1. know that striving to be like someone or model yourself after someone you admire can indicate 3 but what if you admire them BECAUSE you relate to them on a basic level, but they are like a more ideal version of you? like “i relate to this character so much this could be me with some minor character development” so then you try to achieve that development to become a better version of yourself rather than “they’re ideal i wanna be like this at all costs even if it means losing myself” (which would never even be a consideration for you because you want to be a better version of YOU specifically above all)? but even then you start questioning “well is this character REALLY so similar to me, just a better version, or do i just WANT them to be because i like them?” like questioning if you’re really as self aware as you think or if you’re fooling yourself basically
2. on a different but related note what if you always start questioning your type when you find a character you relate to but their typology is different than what you’ve deduced for yourself (either you relate to them a lot as is, or it’s like i said above, you relate to them a lot but they’re like an improved version of you)? which then presents a problem because what if there are multiple characters you find like that all with different typologies? so then you try to mush them all together and find the pieces that may be you/not you (along the lines of “this one is an isfp 9w8, and this one is an enfp 6w7, this one is an infp 4w3. i know i’m an introvert so maybe im an ixfp with 6 and 9 and 4 in my tritype”). or maybe even try to find commonalities (all the characters use fi, or many of them are 6’s) but you’re still perpetually second guessing it all the time? because again what if you aren’t even actually this way and just see yourself this way but it’s a lie and you’re fooling yourself? and even if it’s true and you are that way it’s still so complicated?
3. what types & enneagrams are generally more inclined to become obsessive about typology & enneagram & even astrology as a means of figuring out their personality and ultimately becoming the best versions of themselves, but in an anxious way like i NEED to figure this out so i can start applying it and bettering myself and my life, IN REAL LIFE, asap. but yet always fall short on actually finding the answers? so it’s just like an endless obsession with maybe frequent breaks where you’re like “i give up! i’m just going to live my life and come back to this later!” out of frustration?
To be honest, all of this sounds very Bermuda / triple attachment / 369. Like you are attaching to something with all three fixes, idealizing it and seeing it as a goal to achieve (3), but then second-guessing and doubting and questioning how self-aware you are (6 with a 9 fix).
1. Relating to characters isn’t always 3, but if you set them on a pedestal and use them as a version of “future/better me” to emulate, that can be 3. 3s are always looking for their ideal self and wanting to live up to that; they are here on this earth to become a better version of themselves. A 4 fix wouldn’t think this way (nothing is me, I have to bring “me” from inside myself by rejecting everything outside me), and a 2 fix wouldn’t think this way (what matters the most is being helpful to other people); it’s the 3 fixer who focuses on embodying admirable traits.
2. This sounds like 6-9. Settling on a character, looking for someone to relate to (“attachment”) as a way to make up your mind about your type, then being confused that none of them are consistent, wondering why you relate, and bringing on inner confusion (the inner confusion, inner swirl, lack of a sense of firm identity is coming from the 9), and then using 6 to analyze it, second-guess yourself by relating to them, instead of pulling from “me” / using “me” as a source. This is a lot of heady energy (what if I am lying to myself, and not who I think I am, or what if it’s true, and how can I find myself if I can’t even relate consistently to characters of my own type?). I might even think 6 core at this point, with a 9-3 fix.
3. I think attachment types, because it’s all about pinpointing “me” from the outside through an impersonal system. Like, this system (astrology, typology, psychology, etc) is going to finally tell me who I am, and then I will know, as opposed to bringing “me” to the table. Here again, we see the Bermuda (nickname for the 369) swirling around. I have to be my best self (3), and how I do that is by locating who I am through an external logical system (6), yet I can’t sit with the answer more than five minutes before I jump up and second-guess it, or re-analyze it (9 haze, causing 6 never to settle and ‘be sure’ since there’s no sturdy gut fix to steady it).
For what it’s worth, I as a 6 have gotten angry and ‘given up’ on many things I couldn’t understand, but I can never just walk away from them for good, because I refuse to be defeated by something or admit I can’t figure it out, and can’t just forget about whatever is on my mind. That is the curse of being a 6 – whatever is ‘happening’ is all you can think about, and that includes trying to figure out your MBTI or Enneagram type.
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What I fail to understand is : if Harry was closeted forcefully and people around him were abusive about his secret relationship, then why would they allow him to put so many obvious clues about that relationship? To me, it does make any sense. The L on the shoe, the LT on the Rubik’s cube, the blue lights, the colourful beaded necklaces, shirts, all of that. It does not make any sense that they would try to cover up a relationship with so many contracts while the artist himself breaks so many characteristics of the said contracts. Unless, there’s no actual contract or secret relationship, huh.. Don’t you think that if they really saw what Harry is doing as a rebellious act against their scheme to hide his relationship, they would try to silence him and deny everything ? Because it should be if we follow that selective narrative of yours. Instead, Harry does not care at all, nor his management for all we know. They let him do whatever he wants. If they were really trying to hide that, they would’ve never allowed Harry to do anything remotely close to what he is doing now. It only makes sense when you want it to make sense, it only adds up if you believe that it does. His whole existence does not revolve around Louis, he is a human being with preferences and traits, if he likes blue or there two lines on his shoes, it doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Same thing for louis, if he wears a green shirt, an H shirt or whatever, it does not mean anything. We clearly saw that Louis did not really care for fashion and trends, he’s a simple guy, he likes to wear football jersey and he wears the same clothes all the time. The 369 theory is completely whack, the poor man probably didn’t even think about all of the possible meaning behind that number, he is not the one who created it. Harry definitely did not count how many days they were between the moment he sang I Will Survive. It only is if you want it to be. Same thing for flights. If your favs were really being manipulated, do you think they would allow them to travel to be at each other’s concert ? What kind of logic is that ? And again, the YAH account is not a secret account made to communicate with Larries. IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. The account is for promotion, if it was really to communicate with Larries, how on earth would they allow that ?????
I agree with everything you have said. I wanna touch on your comments about Louis’ dress sense though as that brings up a much bigger and separate issue which caught my interest cause of a recent wack Larrie post I seen.
Louis has his own style that doesn’t mean he isn’t interested in fashion or what he wears? But Larries actually hate Louis’ dress sense and everything else about him which is why they say it’s ‘part of his image’. But Harry who’s dress sense they likeee they say it’s Harry expressing himself. So Harry can express his personality via fashion choices (cause they like what they can interpret about that 🥴) but Louis can’t, his is all about pushing his ‘straight image’ (cause they don’t like what it says). It’s alllll about them. They don’t care for the real versions of H and L and anything they don’t like is crafted in their eyes for a negative purpose. Ugh.
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I posted 7,357 times in 2022
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My Top Posts in 2022:
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You ever see your friends anime figure collection full of pink girls and get possessed to draw madoka
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Thank you guys for the characters they were very fun ^__^ a lot of these were characters I’ve been meaning to draw anyway.
I probably would normally wild out more when drawing Jane but wanted to keep things less graphic for this lol
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Can’t believe I’ve never made finished art of their cql designs considering that’s the only version I’ve actually seen lol
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probably done joke but its fine. i drew this for me
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I’ve wanted to do a screenshot redraw of this moment since I first watched tutu 🐤🌸
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electric cars
I don't know not who they talk to but it sure is not a true Montanan.
Montana welscomes electric cars, but the state isn't ready for longug 29, 2022UpdSted Sep 2, 2022
Justin Lindh plugs in his Tesla Model 3 at one of the four new EV chargers at the Second Avenue North parking garage in downtown Billings in May 2021.
Tom Lutey
There was some buzz about Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative having an electric vehicle in its motor pool. Even in the utility world “EVs” are still pretty rare in Montana.
The co-op's vehicle is even kind of sexy. It’s a Ford Mustang Mach-E, the fastest versions of the vehicle can do 0 to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds, the most economy-minded versions can travel up to 300 miles on a single charge in favorable conditions.
“The one we have, our state association is always like ‘Let’s bring it to Great Falls, drive it to Great Falls next time we have a meeting,’” said Brandon Wittman, Yellowstone Valley Electric’s CEO. “And I’m like ‘I can’t make it’ and they want to know what I’m talking about.”
What Wittman is talking about is the 219-mile route between Billings and Great Falls on Montana Highway 3, which has no charging stations for electric vehicles, same for U.S. Highway 87 though Lewistown. Either way, an unexpected charge at a regular outlet would ground the speedy EV for several hours. A one-hour charge at a regular outlet, known as a level 1 charge, is good for about three miles, according to Ford. A level 2 charge is about four times as fast as a regular outlet, though it would still take up to five hours for a charge adequate for a 124-mile trip, according to Charge Hub. A rapid, level 3 charge cuts that 124-mile charge to 30 minutes or less.
Simply put, there are hundreds of miles across Montana where accommodations for electric vehicles are sparser than cell phone service. The challenge of finding an easy charge isn’t just a backroad dilemma. There are 211 miles of interstate between Great Falls and Milk River, Alberta without a charge, for example. There isn’t a charger to be found on 463 miles of U.S. Highway 2 between Browning and Williston, ND.
Charge it
The State of Montana has requested $43 million from the federal government to fill some of the gaps. The 2021 bipartisan Infrastructure Act called for states to make long-distance travel by electric vehicle easier. The thinking is that electric vehicles produce less carbon dioxide than combustion engines and that electricity generation will become cleaner over the next 27 years. Congress stirred the pot again in August by including $7,500 tax credits for electric vehicle buyers, $4,000 for used electric vehicles, in the Inflation Reduction Act.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan in a recent press call pointed to the tax credit as a game changer, something readily available to consumers for cutting carbon emissions. The Inflation bill spends $369 billion by way of tax credits and subsidies on clean energy and lower prescription drug costs for seniors using Medicare. The law also cuts the federal deficit by $300 billion through higher taxes on large corporations and wealthy individuals, according to Moody’s Analytics. This is a controversial law passed without Republican support.
“We will see some impacts immediately,” Regan said. “The tax credits for new electric vehicles, once the president signed the dotted line, that tax credit was made available for new vehicles all across the country. It will be similar to what happened when the president signed the bipartisan infrastructure law. You know, within a matter of weeks or a month, EPA hit the ground delivering results immediately from that legislation. We know how to do this, we are prepared to do it.”
The state expects a transition that will play out over several years. Montana’s plan is to fill in some charging station gaps as its first step, assuring that there is a quick charge on the major interstates at least every 100 miles, which means construction in the first year with Interstates 15 and 94 getting some attention. The state submitted at the end of July its proposal to the federal Department of Transportation for appspaceplay / pause qunload | stop fr / faster
Lloyd, energy bureau chief for the Department of Environmental Quality, said the state will keep its ear to the track for news of private investors in charging stations. Companies like Tesla, which installed its own network of fast chargers on U.S. Interstate 90 several years ago, would change the charging landscape if it made its chargers available for cars its didn’t manufacture. Tesla recently made its charging stations in Europe universaElectrify America, which is building universal charging stations across the country, is another company eyeing Montana for investment, Lloyd said.
Less than 2,000 EVs in state
In its electric vehicle infrastructure deployment plan, the state identifies 1,893 fully electric vehicles registered in Montana at the start of the year, with another 1,002 plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. The website Atlas EV Hub, shows that electric vehicles manufactured by U.S. automakers account for the second biggest percentage of registered electric vehicles in Montana. The single largest carmaker represented is Tesla, though its share is less than half. The state expects the number of electric vehicles registered in Montana to reach 31,350 by 2030 and nearly 88,000 10 years after that.
The big EV counties in Montana are Flathead, Missoula and Gallatin, each with rapid growth and inbound migration, according to the state.
The assumption, Lloyd said, is that most of these Montana EVs are traveling distances of a few miles from home, which is what most Montanans do no matter what they drive.
“I would say that over 80% of charging is done at home. Very few people drive more than the range of a typical EV in a day. But, beyond that, the infrastructure in Montana is still in its infancy,” Lloyd said. “So, corridors are being established, where folks can drive longer distances in electric vehicles. That's primarily centered around our interstates right now. But increasingly, there's charging options off of our main corridors. For example, the city of Red Lodge has a level-two charger that they've been operating for a couple years now. It's getting better as more infrastructure is put in the ground, and as battery technologies improve increasing range.”
DEQ gets involved in charging station planning by way of the 2016 settlement of a lawsuit against Volkswagen for violating the Clean Air Act. VW emission controls on diesel autos were giving false readings, indicating the cars were both fuel efficient and clean running. That settlement, of which Montana’s share was $12.6 million, resulted in electric vehicle charging stations installed across Montana, including Billings. About 15% of the money went to charging stations in the state. The lessons learned from the VW work are applied in the broader charging station plan playing out currently.
The Department of Transportation estimates that most of the electric vehicles on Montana’s highways will be from out of state, primarily from Washington. All told, roughly 100,000 out-of-state EVs are expected to travel Montana roads in the next five years. Electricity consumption by electric vehicles is expected to be 61 gigawatt hours under standard conditions by 2030, or 88 gigawatt hours in cold weather. That power consumption is a modest amount considering that Montana’s electricity sales in 2019 were 14,585 gigawatt hours. Lloyd said most of that charging will be done by Montanans at home.
The bigger challenge might be adequate infrastructure to handle fast charging stations at some locations. Yellowstone Valley Electric’s Wittmann said both state and federal officials speaking to the cooperatives wanted fast charging stations, more than one per location. The demand at one site with four vehicles charging at the same time, could be too much for some locations, selected more by distance between chargers than infrastructure.
“Four stations like that would be very energy intensive, think about 30 kilowatts for 90 straight minutes, it’s like turning on an irrigation pump,” Wittman said. That kind of demand typically comes with an extra cost to the customer. “Some companies, maybe a delivery company, if they’re going to plug in a half dozen of these at night at one location, that’s a significant upgrade to the electrical service for that building.”
Electric Cooperatives and Montana utilities informed the state of 10 sites along main travel-ways where infrastructure for charging stations was constrained. Six of those sites were on the Montana Hi-Line where there aren’t enough stations to traverse the state east to west. In towns like Gildford, Hinsdale and Essex, a 600-kilowatt charging station would overload substations at system peak.The effect of the new federal tax credit for electric vehicles remains to be seen, though Lloyd expects the impacts will be minimal at first. Cars that qualify for the tax credit have batteries with at least 50% of their materials sourced in North America. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the tax credit would be used for 11,000 electric vehicle purchases in 2023, but would jump to 60,000 the following year. Consider that U.S. vehicle sales in 2021 were roughly 15 million, according to the National Auto Dealers Association. The tax credit expires in 2032.
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Clues in Spotify canvas (fitf anniversary).
So on November 11 of 2023, the Spotify canvas of the songs of fitf (not including the bonus tracks: change, high in california and face the music acoustic) change to a video with different polaroids of Louis backstage in the LTWT 2022. In this videos some had a few clues that had been used before.
The Spotify canvas show the polaroids and then there is a close up and shows like a flash and they bright the frame. Sometimes they show a clue for a second, in some cases there is a lot of brightness so even if I edit the frames I took I couldn't notice something more, here are the ones I could notice clues:
The greatest.
The "sound" or sound T as I call it because below the word it looks like a T is a clue that has been use before, on the left we see the spotify canvas and on the right same clue in other louis video.
Written all over your face.
This canvas (on the left) is more bright but if you check the font and letter you can see is the same as another old clue (on the right), the full clue used before that says "sound start".
Bigger than me.
Similar case as waofy in terms of the brightness but I match it with another old repetitive clue.
The one in the left is the canvas and in the right the first picture is the one that match and the below one is the full image that I figured t out what it says with other clues.
Lucky again.
The images on the top are from the spotify canvas and below the ones that had been use before on Louis videos and aotv. The first one says "EA" the second one says "MPT UNIVERSAL LEADER" this last one is has show more with different versions.
All this time.
The first three pictures are from the spotify canvas, the other 4-6 are the one that I think could match at least the first two. In the first picture of the canvas you see in the below part of the image the top part of the letters and match the form and font of picture 5 and 6. The second picture looks similar to the 4 picture, that is my theory but I could be wrong. The third canvas has more brightness and you can't see but I think it has a form of a letter on the left.
Headline.
There is not that much in this but I still want it to mention it. The first pic on the left on the top part has like it was part of a letter and I check with the before and after of that screenshot and it's intentional that placement/effect. The second pic on the right side in the midle we see part of a triangle, I don't see this as a clue but is a figure he has use before as I show in the pic number 3 and 4. I don't know if this is part of the arrow or a triangle.
Saturdays.
The arrow has been used in a lot of Louis social media videos, the 7 has also been use a few times before.
Common people.
On the left we see the spotify canvas and on the left two old images from other Louis videos. The SIX for what I figure out is a reference to the famous 369. The word is always with the IX in different color than the S, if you read first the word six and after you read the IX thinking in roman numbers it would be 9, so far is 69 but he has shared in other video the 3, so that with the SIX will be 369.
Holding on to heartache.
On the top we see the spotify canvas and below the images matching from older videos. The first one is the yellow circle with the "I", this has been show a lot in Louis videos. With this, I haven't figure it out if it's a letter or number. Next is the arrow, as I mention before has been used as well. The last two I don't see them as clues but is some figures he frecuently use in videos as we see matching the below pictures.
That's the way love goes.
Same that with Saturdays, we see another arrow and the number 7.
Songs that I could't notice something: Face the music, ooms, sibwawc, silver tongues, angels fly.
And that's it for the post. I had made a few of this clues post and what is interesting for me is the consistency in repiting this numbers, words etc. I do think they mean something but I don't know if we will find out what it is. If you have any theories about the clues, please share it with me.
I will update when I see more clues.
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LT2 masterpost
If it was up to me, we would get an autumn or winter EP. Since it’s not up to me at all, here, enjoy this post with everything we know so far of LT2, which is to say, not much at all. Everything here is hypothetical. I’ll be updating every time I see something relevant. A little disclaimer that while this is a masterpost (kinda), it could be read as discourse (duh, it’s also a theory), AND it’s also by me, and you shouldn’t expect me to be serious at this point.
Due to me restraining myself, there’s no reference to any of the times he’s mentioned his guitar skills and him improving but I hope you know I cried every single time.
I’m also linking my old pinned here. It was written before AFHF and around the free merch thing that didn’t lead to much, but I still think I made some good points.
Possible tracks:
Copy of a Copy of a Copy
Change
Faith in the future??
369??
Possible names:
369
Faith in the future
When is the album coming out?
Your guess is as good as mine
Friday 28th of January 2022. Almost two years after Walls. It’s a Friday. It’s a 28th. What else can I say?
Here you can find @want-to-be-loved timelines for every month.
Here you can find @berlinini’s timeline of what Louis has been up to this year (2021).
The rest is under the cut. And here you can find a PDF version where Tumblr can't tell me how many pictures I can add.
2020
He said back on May 2th 2020 he wasn’t writing anything new yet.
(x)(x)(x)
Interestingly enough, he’s said many times after that that the album’s not ready cause he has no new experiences to drawn from. I won’t call him out because he does it himself.
May 4th. He liked a tweet from DMA’s Johnny Took saying they had to go write together again. Louis has been credited as an influence for them and (kind of) participated in their previous record, so I’m assuming he meant for their music and not his, but you never know.
Nothing(literally nothing??? how did we survive) until 11th of July. We all know what happened that day. We all celebrated it. Nonetheless, that’s not what I’m talking about here.
(x) So, by the beginning of July 2020 he was working on concepts and ideas for the new album. That was fifteen months ago. I know perfection takes time but…
Brief summary of important things that happened from then until the next mention of new music:
Louis left Syco!!!! 10 days later he rescheduled the tour for the first time. He followed Matt Vines on Twitter, probably so we could publicly shame him into doing something. Also, the 10thanniversary. He followed more people I wish he hadn’t.
Then more nothing until September. Not even a single tweet. The first merch drop was on the 28th of August but he just RT’ed the tweet. He first mentioned Free my Meal on the 25th of September. Then on October 1st Walls hit #1 on a lot of countries and Louis was incredibly happy and excited about it ^^
And then, that same day, October 1st, 2020, he dropped this bomb:
(x)
He also said it was too soon to be sharing new lyrics with us (x)
And, obviously, this tweet which is actually what made me start this whole post. I would hope you know mate.
(x)
He also told us he was cooking "banger after banger" and that he was incorporating more social themes into his music (x)(x) (I believe any social issue is a political issue but that’s not the point rn).
COPY OF A COPY OF A COPY?!?!
These next paragraphs are brought to you by my mind not remembering things and me not having any links. I’m assuming COACOAC came from those writing sessions that supposedly happened in October. Or in LA but I have no idea if he actually was in LA at any point other than a Daily Mail article putting him there on December which would have been too late, but I do remember that someone said he was in the studio in LA last autumn???? A rumor. Maybe. IDK. Did I mention already all of this is very hypothetical?? Well, this is it. I can’t even remember if this was October or November or what. So, take this with a grain of salt.
I’m also… taking the liberty to assume, if you must, that Copy wasn’t meant to be a Walls reject because it sounds more mature and darker and it has a vastly different tone that Walls songs. I know he’s said that song probably isn’t getting into the album, but I want to have faith (in the future) that I’m getting a studio version. (But also, Louis, if you’re reading this, first of all GET OUT OF MY BLOG second of all, please don’t ever feel pressured again to add a song to the album because we have already heard it before. It’s your art and it should always be under your own terms).
So yeah, I believe that Copy is either one of those four songs (then imagine the other three??!!) or was written around the 1st of October date.
---End of the Intermission---
Then not much important (other than sharing more about Marcus Rashford fight against food poverty and the 2nd merch drop) until he announced the livestream on the 24th of November. (x)
It wasn’t until a few days before the livestream date we even thought again about new music (jk, I know we’re always thinking about new Louis’ music). So, December 9th/10th, 2020. Nine months ago. We got our first taste of new music!
He made sure we knew Copy of a Copy of a Copy isn't a cover! (x) (x)
(x)
Ok, so that’s it for 2020. (I feel like I’m missing something from September 17th because tweet was deleted but maybe he was still talking about cucumbers. We might never know. Unless I understand how Tumblr tags work). Expected, cause Walls was released in 2020. We needed to let it sit for a while.
2021
Another Summary: Louis third tweet of the year was telling the UK government off. So was the fifth. What a good beginning. On the 26th of January, he said he prefers pancakes over waffles. I hope he meant pancakes other than his own. More importantly, he tweeted the infamous “you lot read into things too much”. Don’t get me started, Tomlinson. Don’t. Then the 31st came around and Walls was one. He tweeted this. How wise. And Project Defenceless happened!!
15th of February!! Who cares about Valentine Day when the next day we got this? ♥
(x)
(x)
So…AN EP?? AN EP?? PLEASE RELEASE AN EP.
“I’m sure I will have something out this year but unlikely that will be the album”. Unlikely but not impossible. Also. A single would be good. This is the second time he mentions releasing something in 2021 and he sounds surer about it than the first time around.
He also said that he isn’t sure we will get a studio version of Copy. And that the best bridges from Walls to LT2 are Walls, OTB, KMM and Copy. Can’t wait!
Then we jump to March 6th when he announced he was going to create his own management company. “Sometimes action is needed first to encourage the motivation and belief”. As we can tell he was already manifesting some stuff which will lead us to the numerology stuff/Tesla… kidding. Or not. We might never know.
On the 22nd of March he answered some questions:
He told us music was still his main focus ♥ mwha. (x) I included this tweet to guilt-trip him into giving us music in case he’s reading this even after I told him to leave. ILY.
(x) I’d love to get a visual EP this autumn. Just saying. It sounds like a lovely concept.
(x)
…next (I will get into it, I promise. I’m just mad).
On the 25th he left for Mexico until April 10th. You could assume it was just for the documentary where we got ten seconds of footage or admit the obvious: LT2 its a Mexican baby!!
On the 26th (so, not so far apart from that first 369) we got the first Faith in the Future mention: (x)
Back then we were innocent people who had no idea what was coming upon us. We still have no idea because what the fuck does he mean with these. Please explain. I have one braincell and I don’t use it enough for this. I’m linking some theories.
On the 30th of March he confirmed he was already working on the documentary. So AFHF was already on the works. Will it take this long for us to get the Veeps numbers? We also got this tweet: "Got a decent chorus idea down" (x).
Same person that got the “something out this year” exclusive. If you know something share with the class. Also. Is this Change? I feel like this could be Change but I also assume he wrote Change after hanging out with his friends or being in Doncaster. But who knows.
(x) And the second mention to 369.
(x) 15th of April. The second "Faith in the future".
On the 19th of April he announced that he had something BIG for us later on the year which turned out to be the Away From Home Festival ♥♥ (x) I love him so much.
Then on the 28th he announced the 369 merch drop (which it’s probably the Walls drop? Except that the TOU and KMM ones were “drop 1 and drop 2” and this was drop 369 which, again, makes no sense) but we still don’t know what 369 means.
Into May’ 21 we go.
He rescheduled tour again. And dropped another bomb (x).
He announced he has signed with BMG as an independent artist by RTing this tweet on May 10th. The article also says that he’s already working on writing and recording LT2. The timing… we don’t know. What this deal involves… we don’t know either. Bear with me here because I have a lot to say about this.
I think the deal is only a distribution one, but that BMG are interested in Louis and what he (us) could bring to the table. They were either present at the festival or watching it, but officially they had no involvement at all with it (everything is credited either to Louis own company, 78 Productions, or Charlie Lightening’s company). That’s the case for both giveaways too; the vinyl one and the tickets for the festival.
I think it would be an unbelievably bad move not to test the waters with BMG now or soon-ish. At least a single, to see how it performs. Due to the circumstances, it’s obvious there’re certain limitations on place but I want to see how they push it, whether the radio play exist this time around and if the song is playlisted and promoted and all that… I would also love to know, since it says he signed with BMG UK, but it also states it’s a global deal, how things are going to go on the US and other countries.
Yes, yes. I know those are all questions and no answers. But I know the same as you, sadly. If any of you know more than you’re letting on… again, share with the class.
Where was I? Yes, on the 25th of May Louis had a great day writing (x). Since the first time he had mentioned he was officially writing to this date there’s almost eight months. And I believe he was writing before October’ 20.
He followed Robert Harvey that day and, on the 28th of May (why is it always the 28th???) he was spotted at the studio for the first time.
June was an interesting month for the fandom ♥. Lots of LHL content which I will love and cherish for the rest of times. On June 4th, June 9th, and June 10th he was spotted at the studio, but I believe he was there more days.
(x)
This was posted on June 6th and captioned Studio. Charlie also shared it with “Mega tunes being put down, can’t wait for this @louist91 #louistomlinson #LT2” as the caption. This gives me 2019 (Elton-Joint) vibes. I like it. Feels like we’re getting closer to something.
He added the Milano date on the 9th too which I’m mentioning because I’m going alone. Anyone wanna go with me please? I’m nice and I never eat anything before a concert so you can have my food. On other news. It didn’t come home.
During July he was at the studio at least three days too. Probably more. Feels like more with all the fan pictures we got. Or was that June? Anyway, July 1st and 9th we got some videos from Robert Harvey and wearesuperhi, which is who Louis has been working with the most, that we know of. I don’t know for sure they’re from that day. And on July 5th we got an article and lots of pictures of Louis looking really good outside the studio.
On the 12th of July the first fans started getting the free, 369 bucket hat and print. We still don’t know what the purpose was other than to thanks fans. Maybe that was it. I want answers and I still think it relates to a future project (see theories above), but it could also just be a bridge with the Walls breaking.
He didn’t tweet about anything interesting for a while, mostly because he lost his phone (he either throwed it in the air or smashed it who knows). Then on the 29th of July he announced the festival!
I’m glossing over it because there’s already been a lot of talk about it (rightfully) and while it was a wonderful thing, it doesn’t have much to do with LT2.
Let’s talk Change!
On August 3rd he tweeted this about the setlist.
(x)
And this (x) on the 28th! I can’t stand him.
We didn’t get it, obviously. Because who was going to get that. But we read too much into things. Alright.
On the 16thof August Dave Gibson shared this post tagged #LT2 with the eyes emojis 👀👀👀. I believe this has to do both with Change but also with whatever else came out of that Mexico trip.
(x) Last relevant tweet related to LT2 is this one.
So, on the 30th of August we got Change and we cried, and we know that Change is going in the new album. He said it. With those exact words. He also said he was “getting a feeling for it”. This has to meant he already has a general idea of the vibe of the new album and what’s going in it!!!!!! (Right? RIGHT?).
Anyway, let’s go back a few weeks because some other things happened on August. He was at the studio a few more times. Or it was suggested that he was there. On the 17th and the 18th. (Why was it so time-pressing to be at the studio instead of rehearsing for the festival? There was no studio at all on the documentary. Which makes sense, but again, then why?).
On the day of the festival we got another mention of Faith in The Future that made me feel part of a cult ngl. The words were flashing on the screen for less than a second. Okay.
And then he tweeted those words again after watching the livestream/documentary on the 4th of September (x). This is what makes me suspect it's either the name of the album or of the single.
On the same day, we got some interesting quotes about LT2 on the documentary.
“Soon I’ll have to think about me second album, which in my head I’ll get the tour out of the way and then I’ll address that. So, I hadn’t really given it much thought, to be honest”.
“When every day is the same is hard to feel creative and it’s hard to have any kind of proper inspiration”.
“As season started to come back, I started writing again and it was great and some of these songs turned out alright”.
And I think this is it. I might be overlooking some important details but that’s what we know and what we don’t know.
So. Conclusions. That’s what you missed on Glee. I do believe the album is, if not mostly done, partially there. And yes, this post is pointless and never-ending but it’s all in here if you need to tell Louis “Hey, you said this, mate”.
#LT2#Louis Tomlinson#Faith in The future#369#Louis#LT#new music#idk what this is#but it's long#pinned
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Danganronpa 2 artbook - Chiaki Nanami
TL note: The chi in Chiaki is the same kanji as the chi in Chihiro. Means 1000.
Seiyuu’s comment: Kana Hanazawa
Chiaki Nanami is a difficult character to grasp early into the game. Her friends didn't understand what she was doing either. But the best thing about her is how she keeps gaining more presence as the story progresses. All the other characters are naturally just as quirky as her, so you end up loving them all equally. I hope you can enjoy both the impactful cast of characters and the chain of surprises delivered both in the plot and in its presentation.
Kodaka's comment: Our highly likable "invisible girl"
I wish I had a girl in my life who loved video games as much as she did... This is a feeling this character always pushed to the forefront. She was made to be seen as cute but kind of unkempt, though in an endearing way. The tone of the name Chiaki Nanami is less about her characterization and more of an attempt at a name that reflects her general image, that being the serenity of someone who blends into the background so neatly she's practically invisible. Another reason behind this name choice was me deciding that I needed to use that "chi" in her name.
Komatsuzaki's comment: Initially envisioned as the sister of a member of the first game's cast
Nanami was initially created to take the role of full-blood younger sister to a character of the first game, Chihiro Fujisaki. But making her design a rehash of Fujisaki's would be boring, so I proposed some alternatives. Later, the story developed to the point she was no longer Fujisaki's sister, so I adjusted her design to reflect that, resulting in Nanami's final version. Nanami had multiple versions of beta designs, all with noticeable differences from the final version. This also applies to many other characters, and you can see them all starting from page 369. In Nanami's case, a key change (the finishing touch to her design, even) is that a hood was added to her cardigan because I dropped the idea of Komaeda's "devil parka" but still wanted to use the hood part somewhere else, and with her being the gamer, she would want something that would make her 8-bit sprite stand out.
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This or That: Away From Home Festival Live Performance Version
It's been 2 weeks since the AFH Streaming Event!!! Which means that everyone has been watching the concert or listening to audio rip offs (with artist's permission 😌) everyday for the last 14 days (I sure have been!)
So now comes the time to expose your thoughts on the performance!
(Thank you for tagging @berlinini and @joliepetitelou !)
Put in bold your preferred song (live version), and then tag 3 people to play!
• BEST COVER: Through the Dark - Drag Me Down - 7 - Beautiful War - Little Black Dress : this one was really hard. Nothing will ever beat the first time we heard Louis cover Beautiful War in Barça (where the infamous porn.mp4 gif originated). In BW, Louis delivers a raw performance swirling with meaning. But 7 is raucous rock ‘n roll, and the way Louis’ band plays it is… 🥵🈹🔥 baddest hottest.
• BEST ACOUSTIC SONG: Only The Brave - Perfect Now - Too Young : too young with the close ups… 🔥… and live perfect now definitely has rights… but there’s something about Louis singing OTB to a rainbow sea of fans, pointing at the rainbow flags and curtsying to them at the end, that will never be surpassed.
• BEST ROCK SONG: Kill My Mind - 7 - Fearless - Little Black Dress : god, I love the Fearless instrumental solos so much… Louis shares his stage with his awesome musicians; they’re so good together and they’re individually amazing. But Kill My Mind… this is the song… nothing, absolutely nothing is hotter.
• BEST SAD SONG: Two of Us - Beautiful War - Change : when Louis sings, “And all of this is all for you,” I realize it’s not only about being on stage, being famous, or having a big career etc., but also about taking the idea of charity to heart, being a worthy role model, living up to standards that Jay set, educating fans, using privilege to share love. This song breaks me every time.
• BEST “FAITH IN THE FUTURE” SONG: We Made It - Just Hold On - Through the Dark - DLIBYH : his walk out to the stage, the wave, what the fuck was I worried for?, the crowd crying on seeing him… after the tour, there will never be any doubt. He made it. We made it.
• BEST CROWD INTERACTION: Always You - Defenceless - Fearless - Through the Dark : he always goes so hard on AY. So glad he gave it to us. But LOUDAH! I’m so in love with him *screams*!!!
• COVER/ LIVE VERSION THAT SHOULD GET A STUDIO VERSION: Beautiful War - Copy of a Copy of a Copy - Fearless - Drag Me Down - 7 - Change : I’m mesmerized by this song. It can feed me for 369 days. But Louis, please don’t. I’m begging. Give me the studio version before year’s end. Begging!!!
• SONG THAT SHOULD EXIT THE SETLIST: Habit (this is a joke, but if you have a song that you would like to see go, type it here): when Too Young and Little Black Dress and Just Hold On are right there- I didn’t say that.
I will tag @myhabit-lou28, @liquorlipslouis, @elceeu2morrow, @mattdinnadgegf, @comradelouis, @louismylifenow, @stoplookingupforheaven, @laxtolhr, @louis-the-eternity, @lou-always-lou, @reloutation, @randomgirlfromnowhere, @celinesunflower, @lwt28brave, @a-kiss-is-not-a-promise, @adam-my-adam, @lt2rck, @britpopstarlwt
No pressure - only if you want to.
You can watch the individual videos here.
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hi clem!! i hope you’re doing well!
now that louis has officially announce there will be another album, when do you think it’ll be released? when do you think the first single will come out? do you think copy or change will be a single or do you think they’ll all be other songs? (sorry this is a lot of questions i just wanna chat lol)
Hello Sophia!
Thank you for these questions, which have sent me to Clown City and made me do the timeline post help.mp3 in order to properly think about it.
I have one (1) issue with AFHF and it is that Louis casually mentioned Change "going on the new album" and that's it!!! SIR!!! Give us details about LT2!!! (ok that's wrong, I have another issue, it's that he had the crowd sing my favorite verse in Defenseless and I will never forgive him for robbing us of hearing his perfect voice in this perfect song I hate him)
Now about your questions... I have no way to know so these are just 🔮thoughts 🔮
About Copyx3 being a single: I don't think so, and I don't even think it will be on the album - based on Louis' tweet saying he wasn't sure a studio version would ever exist. He performed the song in December 2020, which meant he has written it before. I think he's unsure how it would fit on LT2 and we know this man likes the album to tell a story. My guess is that he's "outgrown" the story of Copy and it would not fit with the theme of the new album.
About Change being a single: while this song breaks me every time I hear it, as I said here, it's not a favourite of mine. I personally don't think it would make a good single; it's too long (5 min) and a bit of a lackluster. But these criteria are based on a single having promo, including mostly radio, and we know how that goes for Louis... Also we know about the song now, so having it as a single wouldn't be a surprise. I'd much rather have new songs to discover!
About the timeline of LT2: look, I'm clowning very hard and strongly believe that we will get a music announcement during/at the end of the documentary on Saturday. Is it going to be about a single? An EP? An album? Who knows...
I don't know how much time Louis spent in the studio for Walls so it's hard to say if his studio days (that we know of) in 2021 are enough to make enough songs for an LP.
The theory of a EP makes sense - it gives music, you can have promo around singles, it gives him more songs to play on tour...
If Louis is working towards a proper album, I see potential 2 strategies:
- release the album before tour; making the tour's setlist a mix of Walls and LT2 (which would make me happy because he could finally drop the 1D covers but if I can't see him cover Beautiful War live I will cry). This would mean anytime between now and March 2022, which gives proper time for releasing 1 or 2 singles during the fall and maybe the album in early winter? Maybe the man got emotionally attached to January 31? haha
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- release the album after tour; but introduce some new songs on the tour's setlist. Album would drop in the summer 2022. That gives time to Louis to finalize the songs in the next couple of months before tour starts. In this case, I'm begging for a longer album - around 14-16 songs, to make it worth the wait. There could be a few singles released between now and the start of the tour.
I'm also still considering the idea of visual album (or most likely EP), because Louis mentioned "considering it" in a tweet and he never does anything for nothing ("odd change" my hated), because of his working relationship with Charlie, because he made 3 of his MVs for Walls into a mini-film, because Louis has a great sense for visual storytelling, because there's so much we don't know about 369 and the whole 369 merch drop's imagery was so intriguing (in the line of Walls MV). But making a visual album involves a lot of people, so it would be hard to keep it secret. So maybe it's a future project? I hope he does consider it, because I know it would be extraordinary.
There's a lot of possibilities... my worst fear is that nothing happen, in which case I will crumble. It would be mad not to use the momentum of the festival/stream event to announce some big news... we'd have to wait until tour starts and that would be really hard. At the same time, with the COVID situation, I believe everyone knows that worldwide tours are still a big question mark. I think the US leg of the tour will happen as scheduled. Anyways, what I meant is that if Louis knows that the tour is still up in the air, he's gotta work on other stuff and consider the timelines properly. Which could point to option 1 above.
Insert the meme of that crazy guy with papers on the board and the red strings and all.
What do you think will happen? Curious to hear your thoughts, and everyone's on the question!
#answered ask#tumblr user polaroidplanets#predictions 🔮#lt2#LTWT 2022#change.mp3#copyx3#tumblr user berlinini
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#Memento Mori
So, I guess this is my story. I wanted to write this during the stream but my dyslexia forbays me from being able to write and listen to two completely unrealed things at the same time, and I couldn't bring myself to pull away, so here it is, nice and late ^^;
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Well, I was late to the party like most things in my life. I found the channel at 16 days to go thanks to MatPatt's theory. I haven't watched all 369 videos. My last count put me at 100 and something, maybe 150 ish. I did concider pulling an allnighter the night before to watch all of the remaining ones but I chose against it in the end. I'm happy with the memories I have and not seeing all the videos, because those videos I did watch I'll treasure forever; bing watching them while despritly trying to finish my Level 3 Design board for school.
Working away on Clipstudio paint, and in the corner of my eye laughing, crying, rolling my eyes at the chaios that was unfolding while my wrist screamed at me, my head hurt....I was so sure I was going to burn out again like the two years prior and not manged to finish, but you're videos gave me the strength to do the impossible. If you guys could make over 365 videos in a year, I could finish x2 A1 pannels worth of art and...I did. To a good standard too. I won my schools Top Visual Artist award yesterday at prize giving and top of my Design class.
At first I saw the channel as nothing more than a bit of shit posting, so I wasn't too bothered. A bit of random nonses (It took me soooo long to convince my self to watch cooking with Sex toys, but it was one of the greatest laughs of my month if not longer). The last few months have been hard on me, my family have been waiting 4 and half years to get NZ residency and missing all the Uni application dates and schollarships has had me quite down the last few months listening to everyone around talking about there future plans while I can't progress with mine, because my GOD have you seen international fees???Anyway, your shit posts really helped bring a smile to my face while I was struggling, especailly the halloween stuff: I loved the edward sissors hands, it was the first one I watched and I still love it- so plan and utterly dumb. I'm doing better now. It's still hard, but I really think your videos have have helped me so much.
I think the video which hit hardest for me and acutally helped me to really understand what the channel was about was the hypnotist one with the lemon. What the lady said to both of you really, really hit home hard for me- I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry my eyes out.
Ethan, your story hit home for me because I also went through that as a kid. I was bullied so badly as a kid. Told I was nothing, would be nothing- I have dsylexia too, and I stunk in school for the longest time; bottom of every class, made to take lessons to learn how to put a wooden alphabet together forward and backwards in YEAR 6 (I was 12 and could do so just fine, but the teachers obviously didn't think so). I've been reserved, shy, had the most crippling self of steem issuse for all my life and only in the last few years since moving to NZ I've started to recover and regain some of that confidence I lost; had broken.
"If there was a little girl inside who hurt, who had a discomfort, imagine sitting next to that younger version of you that was in pain or hurt and let her know that she's safe. That little girl looks up to you, trusting you to keep her safe: You're safe." -Unus Annus, 294:11:34:20
It really hit me so hard because I needed someone to tell me this as a kid, hold me close, tell me everything would be ok when I thought my world was crashing down and listing to these words I saw my current self giving back what she needed. And now when I'm scard, doubting myself I see her, I see both of them, current me and past me holding hands and me giving her the support she needs. I have a illustration I made on my desk with the quote, as a reminder when times get tought and that little girl forgetts she's not alone anymore.
Mark, your story also hit home with me too. Like I mentioned, I have dyslexia and for me english -mostly writting- has always been a major problem which had held me back, like a brick chained to my leg and I have to hike up this moutain with it. I still remember disnictly this one time in science I lost out on a high mark because I couldn't spell auoghaous (oesophagus- still can't XD) and my teacher wouldn't believe that was what I had tried to write. I was so bitter about that for the longest time, I still am, 6 years on and still remeber it like yesterday. Anyway, the reason your story hit home is because it reminded me of my old english teacher and what she did to me. Made me into the person I am now. I was in Year 8 (14 years old) and at a parents meeting infront of my dad she said, "you're daughter will never ger higher than a 5- in english. This crushed me so much, because a -5 is avarage for a Year 6 and at this level I should have been getting 5+/6 (like everyone else in my class) - fucking dyslexia. It's like a brick wall of titainium when you're a kid.
I don't know what happened but something in me snapped and I was determained to prove her wrong. I had that teacher for 2 years before I left to NZ (from the UK) and never ONCE did she give me a mark higher than 5- (mostly because the Brittish system require good spelling to reacher 5, something which again, my dyslexia was against and at the time computers weren't a thing in my school as a resorse for dyslexic kids like myself). It sucked, but I kept trying to prove her wrong. I studied, practiced, revised hard and then in my last exam, an external she didn't mark I got a 7+ for reading and 7- for writting with an 8+ being the highest. I proved her wrong. I proved a lot of people wrong. I kept working hard and now I'm near the top of every class I take. You're story reminded me of myself and why I keep pushing myself. Why I continue to drive to achieve the best I can. Be the best person I can.
I know this is long, so before I wrap up I wanted to say thank you. You're channel has not only helped some of my old traumas heal, but I also have a much greater appreciation for life which I guess is crazy concidering I was only apart of it for 16 days, but...it really has made an impact to me. I don't think I ever relised how valuble life is. How important every second is. Death and moving on has always scared me. Moving to NZ and leaving everything I knew and had behind has been one of my biggest trumas for the last 4 years, learning to let go and move on- I use to hate change- ,but now I think I can accept it and move on. I've just finished my last year of high school, I have to make this drastic change in mylife again, moving on, going to uni one day, but I'm ready for it. "Death gives life meaning"; the end, moving on, give the past meaning and means being able to except and be ready to imbrase the future that's coming. Whether in the next few seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months years... I really do feel better prepared for it.
I hate the end, I've been writting a story now for 3 years and I've been scared of how to end it, I've been avoiding it because I love the characters. I don't want them to go, to end, but now. I think I'm willing to acept the fact that maybe it's time I let them go. Write them the end they deserve and move on. Nothing last forever, all great story are great because like the channel it's the ending which gives them meaning.
So...thank you guys, Mark, Ethan, everyone behind the camera. You're work has really made a possitive impact in my life, escpecally the hynpotist video, so thank you. I'm going to start treasuring every second, making every millifractal of a second count. I've been torn for the longest time between a stable career in science, or a dream career in art. And I'm gonna go for it. I'll take the risk, the gamble, shoot for the stars and if I miss I miss. Atleast I can say I tried to do what made me happy and when I do succed it'll be even more rewarding to know I did the impossible. So thank you, I'll treasure every memory and the page of quote I have from todays live stream.
“Every second is a chance to turn your life around."
"When you get those ideas in your head say YES! You never know how you're going to suprise yourself."
"Death gives life meaning."
"Don't cry because its over, cry because it happened."
"Don't take any second for granted, don't waist any moment."
"It's easy to live life in wants and desires, but it's making every second count that matters. Do what makes you happy, use every second wisely, you'll never get that time back."
And my own personal quote, because I want to give back the wisdom you've shared with my own:
"Memento Mori - Remeber death. Embrace it, don't fear it. Live life to it's fullest and take every opportunity that comes your way, because death is a promise, not a bargain. Life the life you want, so you can move on without regret. "
"Life tough and scary, 2020 for sure, but regardless I smile. Laugh in fears face, it happens. Laugh at the problems in life, they happen. Laugh at how close life comes to and continues to fail at killing you. Fill every moment with joy and positivity; we all need more of it in life."
"Bad days are like cloudy skies, they come and go. The weather can get stormy, but the sky will always clear eventually, the sun will shine again."
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ANALYSIS of The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun
Denada Permatasari. 9 September 2017.
Fig 1. William Blake’s The Great Red Dragon and The Woman Clothed with the Sun, circa 1803-5.
Fig 2. Under the same title and artist, circa 1800.
In this essay I will talk about just two out of four of Blake’s The Red Dragon series. The first painting (Fig. 1) was done in watercolour, chalk, and pen. Its dimension is 43.5 x 34.5 cm and was made circa 1803-5. The second (Fig. 2) was done in watercolour and its size is 15.75 x 12.75” (40 x 32.4 cm), made circa 1800. Currently, they are exhibited at different museums.
Both paintings are a part of a larger series, namely Apocalypse, commissioned by Thomas Butts. He commissioned Blake to illustrate biblical passages (Rosenblum and Janson 60), and the first Great Red Dragon painting (Fig. 1) in this essay are a representation of Revelations 12 verse 1-4 (qtd. in Lister 89):
1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars;
2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth; and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
I immediately note that Blake painted the dragon not as a conventional, fully-reptilian dragon but instead as a half-human, half-something else. Further research tells me that the winged, impressive figure is the devil, Satan (Hoagwood 3). The woman was painted brightly, as she is clothed with the sun, but oddly, she is in an unusual, unnatural horizontal pose. She looks up at him, shocked, as if she is in the middle of praying (shown by her hands above head) and then got interrupted by Satan’s unexpected presence. The devil also dominates the artwork, taking up two-thirds of the space, his outstretched wings going beyond the canvas.
I interpret this as Blake wanting to exert the power, the utter dominance of Satan against the bright woman below him, a show of good versus evil, and evil is winning. But the story obviously doesn’t end there, as I will get into the second painting and then conclude the paintings as a whole after I analyse them separately beforehand.
The second painting (Fig. 2) shows the devil now hovering above her, as a continuation of Revelations 12, verse 13-16 (New International Version):
13When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
14The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent's reach.
15Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.
16But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.
Now, the woman is in the possession of new eagle wings, and has her arms outstretched wide open, as if challenging the devil. The zig-zag lines around the woman are the river spewed from his mouth, but obviously it fails to drown to woman as he intended. The devil is still above the woman, but he no longer dominates the canvas, signifying the changed power dynamic between the two forces.
Knowing now that the paintings are chronological (even though Blake made the second painting earlier), I will say that Blake illustrates that at first glance, evil has the upper hand, but at the end, goodness triumphs. While this meaning is okay, I decided to further my research to include the artist and the time period, and my findings give me a deep insight that I didn’t expect.
First, I learned that Blake is “a private rebel who wished to refect virtually the entire system of art, society and religion … in favor of a grandiose private structure of new myths, new moral truths … of what he saw as the corrupt status quo.” (Rosenblum and Janson 59). His use of watercolour indicates that aspect rebellious aspect of Blake, as oil was the standard of creating art in his time era (mid-18th century Romanticism), as explained that Blake “rejected the formal and descriptive formulae of early nineteenth-century painting.” (Maheux 125) and he “vehemently opposed to oils—they did not please him or comport with his style” (Gilchrist 369).
Second, the social and political context during the time both paintings were produced. Blake witnessed and even taken part in the American and French revolutions that happened around 1800. Blake and most artists of his time considered those events as “a scriptural metaphor of what [was happening in that time] –a period of devastating and high-minded revolutions, of radical change …” (Rosenblum and Janson 60). He painted his version of Revelations as a representation of the fundamental shift in worldview that was happening, and this is further compounded by his religious upbringing.
Last but not least, in response of my initial understanding of placement and how it relates to power dynamics: The devil above, and woman below, is actually a recurring motif in Blake’s works, not necessarily a power show. The seer/visionary subject is placed below, with their visions above them (Hoagwood 1). This denounces my first understanding of the positioning choice of the subjects. Blake transformed a literal passage into a mythical one, “[his] vision destroys matter, leaving nothing but bolts of imaginative energy” (Rosenblum and Janson 60).
To finish, I conclude that The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun paintings reveals the historical attitude during the revolution era that was tightly interwoven with religious concerns, and also a novel way of depicting religious morality. The paintings make me realise that our perception of reality is deeply coloured by our upbringing and cultural values. Differences in interpretation will happen no matter what, hence this difference should be celebrated as it enriches my (and to an extension everyone’s) understanding of the world.
Bibliography
Rosenblum, Robert and H.W. Janson. 19th Century Art. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1984. Print.
Lister, Raymond. The Paintings of William Blake. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Print.
The Bible. New International Version, 2011.
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10 Under The Radar Free Agent Options (for when the Yankees decide to get cheap again)
With free agency getting closer and closer, Yankees fans are dreaming about Thanksgiving dinners headlined by Gerritt Cole signings, Anthony Rendon level flirtations and a Francisco Lindor level trade. The reality figures to be a TOUCH smaller than that unfortunately. The Yankees may make one big move and go "all in" but the idea that they're going to open the floodgates and turn into the Yankees who spent to win in the mid 2000s is probably off base. What's most likely is that they'll make a big splash early (Paxton in 2018, Stanton in 2017) and then calmly tiptoe through the offseason making sound decisions and occasionally flirting with a big name here or there. Remember that the Yankees two best signings, at least offensively, were financially sound and prudent depth moves that paid off big time in the long run with Gardner (1/10) and DJ LeMahieu (2/24). The Yankees do not have a bushel of needs to be filled outside of a starter, maybe another bullpen arm and some sort of solution on the infield. They do have some wants though and maybe these players will prove to be affordable wants who wind up filling needs down the line.
1. Cole Hamels, Chicago Cubs
Will be 36
7-7 3.81 ERA 141.2 innings pitched 117 ERA+ 1.391 WHIP 9 H/9 3.6 BB/9 9.1 K/9
Why: Was apparently the back up option if the Yankees couldn't secure a deal with Toronto for J.A. Happ in 2018. Hamels has a proven playoff pedigree, has the prototypical fifth starter make up (gritty innings eater who survives with declining stuff) and the Yankees tend to prioritize left handed pitching given that the Redsox tend to be historically loaded up on lefties. The Yankees just lost CC Sabathia who clearly had a role as a veteran left hander who was capable of getting a competitive start each time out. Seems open and receptive to a one year deal.
Why Not: I mean they DID choose J.A Happ over him for a reason. Hamels, like Happ, was somewhat inconsistent in the juiced ball era with elevated contact rates (despite a lower home run per 9 innings than the four years prior) and elevated walk rates. Hamels has not thrown for 200 innings since 2016 and went for under 150 innings pitched in two of the last three seasons. Soft tossing (by today's standards) flyball pitchers tend to not do so hot in Yankee stadium.
2. 1B Eric Thames, Milwaukee Brewers
Will Be 33
.247/.346/.505 25 HR 61 RBI 51 BB 140 K's 117 OPS+
Why: The Yankees have a potential opening for a platoon 1B who can mash righties and Thames had that going for him (.254/.348/.529 slugging for a 131+ OPS). He's got a sweet swing for NYS and would help balance a Yankees line up in serious need of a masher from the left side. Veteran lefty pop for a small fee would be insanely valuable for a Yankees team in need of more power from that side (with Didi likely gone). Has made spot appearances as an outfielder as well.
Why Not: Is he too much of a three outcome hitter (K, BB or HR) for a team loaded up with three outcome hitters? A nonstarter vs left handed pitching limits his appeal. Not a good fielder in the slightest. A poor defensive fit for 1st base or the outfield so he values more as a lefty DH type. Isn't this Mike Ford's job to be for a smidgen of the price?
3. (S)RP Drew Pomeranz, Milwaukee Brewers
Will Be 31
2-10 4.85 ERA 104.2 innings pitched 88 ERA+ 1.433 WHIP 9.1 H/9 3.8 BB/9 11.9 K/9
Why: Completely rebuilt himself as a specialist out of the Brewers bullpen, racking up a cool .141 average against and a sparkling 2.39 ERA out of the pen. Could be a lefty specialist weapon to save the likes of Britton from making an early appearance. Reinvted himself in Milwaukee as a power pitcher out of the bullpen and curtailed his walk rate with a new pitch mix. Has been AT TIMES a successful starting pitcher in a pinch.
Why Not: Are you willing to invest 5-10 million dollars on 32 some odd innings of work? Has struggled in the past with walks although it was slightly less of an issue as a bullpen piece. Pomeranz has a continued issue with home runs even out of the bullpen (17 home runs in 77 innings as a starter, 4 in 26 innings as a bullpen arm).
4. C Alex Avila, Arizona Diamondbacks
Will Be 33
.207/.353/.421 9 HR 24 RBI 36 BB 88 K's 100 OPS+
Why: Avila is an established name at catcher who has settled into a back up catcher role. Big OPB bat with a 17% walk rate last year for the D-Backs. Another lefty who hits righties well (near .800 OPS). Could provide a reliable back up and a mentor for Gary Sanchez. Not Sanchez-esque with his arm strength but has proven to be tough to run on.
Why Not: Has been on a steady decline since around 2016 both on offense and defense. Doesn't hit for much power or average. A step down from former back up Austin Romine.
5. IF Wilmer Flores, Arizona Diamonds
Will Be 28
.317/.361/.487 9 HR 37 RBI 31 BB 15 K's 118 OPS+
Why: Across the last two seasons, he's played 2nd, 3rd and 1st. Has played shortstop in the past as well. Coming off a career year in Arizona with a career high 118 OPS+, average and slugging. A high contact hitter who could potentially alleviate the overreliance on mashers/deepen the line up at the bottom of the order. Already used to the platoon infielder role with limited starts so there wouldn't be an adjustment period. Also let's not forget that Flores was a Met for five seasons and understands the demands of playing baseball in NYC.
Why Not: Has not played shortstop since 2016 and that would probably be the only spot he would see consistent time at. Flores has not been as good defensively as he was in the past and may be on the decline from a defensive standpoint. How much of his offense is courtesy of the juiced ball era and if they deaden the balls, will he turn back into a below average hitter?
6. IF Eric Sogard, Tampa Bay Rays
Will Be 34
.290/.353/.437 13 HR 40 RBI 38 BB 63 K's 116 OPS+
Why: Another versatile all contact bat who can pinch hit across a variety of locations. Could provide a more experienced version of Tyler Wade in terms of versatility and the ability to play for contact. Was really good with consistent playing time for the Rays. He's coming off his career best offensive season which when combined with his versatility and ability to chip in at a number of spots, the Yankees would be wise to poke around. Also it's another lefty bat who could balance this lineup that right now features righties Giancarlo Stanton, DJ, Aaron Judge, Gleyber Torres and Gary Sanchez.
Why Not: Primarily a contact guy with a career high 13 HRs this season. He doesn't hit for much power and doesn't really walk much either, painting a similar picture to what the Yankees have with Thairo Estrada. He's never been necessarily reliable for a full season. He might actually go from affordable to expensive for his skill set given that bad teams are going to try to sign him so they can flip him in July.
7. SP Brett Anderson, Oakland A's
Will Be 32
13-9 3.89 ERA 176 innings pitched 1.307 WHIP 9.3 H/9 2.5 BB/9 4.6 K/9
Why: If the Yankees are god fearing about flyball contact then a guy with top 10 groundball rates might be of great interest to them. A left handed pitcher who could bounce between a long relief role or a spot starter job for this team. He had a 3.22 ERA away from Oakland so maybe leaving the Coliseum can further unlock Anderson's value.
Why Not: Always be wary of the dudes who are coming off career years that aren't THAT impressive. As such, Anderson with his somewhat questionable stuff coming off a career year might be a risky venture. His 176 innings were a career high and he's been oft injured since 2016. Is he any better than J.A. Happ as a #5 guy? Do you want to progress stop on Jordan Montgomery?
8. IF/OF Ben Zobrist, Chicago Cubs
Will Be 39
Why: A reliable professional hitter who doesn't K much and draws plenty of walks. Outside of one season, he's played in 125 games or more for eight straight seasons.
Why Not: Approaching 40 years of age off a shortened season and has an OPS+ under 100 in 2 of the past three years. You figure at some point he is bound to decline and lose value. While he's versatile, it is worth noting that Zobrist doesn't play SS or CF aka the two spots the Yankees figure to have the most available PT at.
9. IF Brad Miller, Philadelphia Phillies
Will Be 30
.260/.329/.565 13 HR 25 RBI 15 BB 45 K;s 125 OPS+
Why: A super versatile handyman who can play across a variety of spots. Has seen time at shortstop where the Yankees could use some help. Coming off a really great September where maybe something unlocked for him offensively.
Why Not: I mean the Yankees had him once. He was in their farm system as a veteran hand in case of emergency to start 2019 and then they dealt him away once Gio Urshela proved to be legitimate. He's a career journeyman type who bounces around and is wholly unreliable to stick. Most of his damage as a hitter was done in September (.327/.339/.800 (!) with 8 HRs) so he's probably just riding a hot streak as a hitter. Has been all downhill offensively since 2016 when he hit 30 home runs for Tampa.
10. IF Brock Holt, Boston Red Sox
Will Be 32
.297/.369/.402 3 HR 31 RBI 28 BB 57 K's 101 OPS+
Why: Another chess piece who plays a variety of spots and another left handed bat who can add some depth to a righty happy Yankees lineup. A consistent .275 to .290-ish hitter if batting average is your deal. Lauded in Boston for being a big community guy and clubhouse glue type.
Why Not: You probably have to pay a Yankees tax to get him to leave Boston. Has truly no pop whatsoever and in terms of impact, he's a long ways away from his cameo as an All Star back in 2016. Has had issues with injuries recently.
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2020 Chevy C8 Corvette
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2020 Chevy C8 Corvette
I was never much of a Corvette guy. Sure, the 1963 split rear window is gorgeous, and lots of the 60’s ‘Vettes are lovely cars. But I never considered actually owning one.
Until now.
The 2020 Chevrolet Stingray is a mid-engine, rear drive U.S. built super car. Powered by a 6.2L V-8 engine, its the only naturally aspirated (no turbos) car in this segment. The LT2 small block produces 495 horsepower (369 kW) and 470 lb-ft (637 Nm) of torque in a car that weighs only 3366 pounds (see full stats here). That means this thing is going to be fast.
After a dear friend unexpectedly passed away, I had a “life is short, what am I waiting for” moment. I looked at the C7 version of the 2017 Vette. The entry-level I test drove felt like a cheaply made Camaro, and I ended up going in a different direction, picking up a 3-year old, off lease Bimmer.
This new car does not appear to suffer from the same build quality issues. The entry level model 2020 Stingray will cost somewhere in the $58,000 range and appears to be very high quality. If you want to step up to a bigger engine, performance/track package, or higher end leather seating, GM will let buyers push their price tags to over $100k.
Still, I cannot help but think the basic Stingray at under $60k is a steal. A mid-engine, 500HP beast that just might be the best looking car from General Motors of the modern era.
I could easily imagine getting one . . .
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Weekend Top Ten #369
Top Ten Favourite Things About Teen Titans Go!
One of the funny things about life is observing elements of circularity. For instance, nearly twenty years ago, my younger brother really got into the original Teen Titans cartoon, and I sort of got into it with him (having a brother ten years younger than yourself is very good for keeping your oar in with kids’ content when you’re supposed to be too old for that sort of thing; as a result, I got to thoroughly enjoy Justice League, Samurai Jack, Harry Potter and lots more stuff that may have otherwise passed me by). I knew who the Titans were but hadn’t read a lot of their comics; the cartoon was my introduction to most of those characters. It was really good, benefited from a tremendous theme tune, and – for its time – quietly revolutionary in how it incorporated anime aesthetics into a western cartoon. Plus it had a cracking voice cast, which – not that I knew it at the time – would become as synonymous with those characters as Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, and Kevin Conroy had done with cartoons I’d watched as a child.
(that’s Optimus, Megatron, and Batman, in case you’re wondering)
Anyway, here we are, eighteen-or-so years later, and Teen Titans is just a beloved long-gone cult classic but bizarre comedic spin-off Teen Titans Go! is a minor phenomenon. The same characters, the same actors, but wilder, weirder, funnier, crazier, way more violent, and – bizarrely – far more integrated into the wider DC Universe. And my kids – especially my eldest daughter – bloody love the show. It is huge in our house. We’ve seen the film, we listen to the songs, they draw their own comics, they roleplay the characters; we have a home-made Raven costume, for god’s sake. I have a six-year-old who knows who Tara Strong is. This is incredible.
As a result, I’ve seen an awful lot (not quite every episode) of Teen Titans Go!. It’s fortunate, then, that it’s fantastic, easily one of the best comic-book cartoon adaptations ever made. It’s not just how funny it is; it’s madcap and self-referential and full of many (many) MANY DC comics references. And great, great songs. And – like I said before – tremendous performances. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies is a great, great movie with great, great songs and many great, great gags, and it’s a mixed blessing that it ended up being released in what may well be Annus Mirabilis for superhero movies: it’s great that it’s mixing it up with Infinity War, Black Panther, and Spider-Verse, but I feel it got overshadowed a bit. Say what you will for the slightly more “serious” original Teen Titans series, but it was the barmy chibi-inspired stepchild that got a movie.
So this week, I’m celebrating what has become my second-favourite superhero cartoon of all time (after Batman: The Animated Series, natch). My ten favourite things about Teen Titans Go!. Enjoy!
The Songs: I tried to pick a song, or some reference or line or scene, but really it’s impossible. The songs are sublime. So great, in fact, that I’ll probably do another Top Ten at some point listing my favourite TTG songs. Really catchy, great lyrics, supremely diverse, and full of references not just to DC but to, well, everything. There’s a song about America that includes the line “Samuel L. Jackson on the stamp”, which makes no sense as far as I can figure, but is just wonderful.
Deep, Deep (DEEP) Cut DC References: it started with the Darkseid doll. A little plush Darkseid doll that’s always leaning against the couch. How cute, how funny; Darkseid, the literal embodiment of evil, but as an adorable snuggly. And then it got deeper, and weirder, and more wild. B’wana Beast. Alternate universe Robins. “That movie where their moms are both called Martha”. The Haunted Tank. The Haunted Tank! What kind of kids’ show references The Haunted Tank?! And then there’s the fact that The Comedian’s blood-stained smiley face badge is on display in the Batcave. Let’s go back over that one: there are Watchmen references in this cartoon for six-year-olds.
Batman and Gordon: the original Teen Titans cartoon pretty much never mentioned any aspect of the universe outside of the five characters, barring one fleeting visual reference to the Batcave and the episode where you meet the Doom Patrol. TTG has no qualms about explaining that, yes, Robin is Batman’s sidekick. So we see the Batcave, and Wayne Manor, and Alfred. But it’s Batman’s relationship with Gordon that’s golden. Not just stoic men’s men who diligently work alongside one another, never questioning, never needing to; no, they’re best mates, giggling schoolkids who want to shirk off all work and just sit in their PJs watching crap on the telly. Like a superheroic version of Beavis and Butt-Head, they’re often there, in the background, goofing off, playing games, undercutting the narrative. It’s such a perfect inversion of Batman’s usual persona and a great way of referencing – in supremely silly terms – the deep bond of affection between the two men in most Batman fiction. I especially like when Superman gives Gordon to Batman as a birthday present.
The Night Begins to Shine: I know I said I wouldn’t single out one song, but we do need to talk about The Night Begins to Shine. More than just a cool song in one episode, it blossomed into a whole weird parallel universe filled with bizarre references to ‘80s heavy metal and, well, Heavy Metal. Almost coming off like a primary school version of Mandy, the multi-part epic about Cyborg fighting a giant dragon in the “Night” universe, complete with cameos from people like CeeLo Green and Fall Out Boy (as Transformers!), is just a thing of absolute beauty. Truly, the level of reference and artistry on display in terms of writing, composition, and animation won’t be understood by the kids watching now until they’re quite a bit older. They’ll come back to this in ten, fifteen, twenty years and think “wow, now I see what they were doing; that’s so, so weird”.
The Holiday Mascots: belligerent Santa is the king (“you garbage kids!”), a fat psychopath trying to take over every other holiday, but let’s spare a thought for the other representations of holidays, too. The creepy Tooth Fairy, who eats teeth. The turkey from Thanksgiving who is horribly mutilated. Uncle Sam. And the Easter Bunny. Oh my god, the Easter Bunny. Genuinely unsettling. Words can’t describe. Seriously, check it out, it’s some Babadook-level freaky shit.
Raven’s Legs: a little bit worrying when you’ve got two kids under seven watching it, but the fact that Raven is not just hiding very, very sexy legs underneath her cloak, but is also capable of becoming an entirely other superhero who uses her legs as weapons, is very, very funny. Watching Beast Boy go full Tex Avery when he sees Raven’s legs is one of those gags that, I guess, works on different levels if you’re a child or an adult. Regardless, turning snarky sourpuss Raven into golden-costumed Lady Legasus is a nice move.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: they only really do this explicitly once or twice, I think, but overall the show is incredibly self-referential. From Control Freak trying to get them rebooted or cancelled, to jokes about the animation or the writing, it’s beautifully self-deprecating. This reaches its apex in the 200th episode specials, when the Titans journey into “our” world. It’s hilarious to see them interact with their own voice actors, but for me it’s the note-perfect representation of directing voice actors that’s really funny, almost as good as Toast of London in its depiction. Plus the gag about everyone who works on the show being ultimately replaceable. A scathing indictment of the animation industry, wrapped up in an animation; like The Simpsons in its heyday.
Genuinely Quite Upsetting Violence: I don’t think I’d ever seen a cartoon for small children before that quite regularly featured its main characters having their bones visibly broken. And by “visibly” I mean “cutting to an X-ray of their limb to show the bone shearing in half or crumpling to dust”. It’s almost rare for an episode to go by without one or more of the Titans experiencing life-altering injuries. I’m honestly not sure how they get away with it. but it is funny. Apex moment? Oh, undoubtedly them beating the shit out of Shia LaBeouf in the movie.
Real-World References: clearly the people who make Teen Titans Go! are in their late thirties or early forties; people who grew up in the ‘80s and absorbed ‘80s culture. People who liked Transformers and Star Wars and Back to the Future, who listened to rock music, who liked toys and videogames. They probably grew into teenagers who were fans of obscure animations, cult movies, sci-fi, fantasy, horror. They are, basically, me. I think I would get on quite well with the creators of TTG, based on the things they reference. But beyond cultural appropriation, it’s the references to daylight saving’s time, “shareconomics”, American politics and history, “The Man”, and more, that is so wild and weird to see in a cartoon for young kids. They handle these topics beautifully (I’m honestly not sure if my kids think the things the Titans are talking about are real or not), but as a grown-up it’s really funny to see these gags in a kids’ cartoon. I mean, the Titans fight the Illuminati in one episode. They reference “lizard men in Congress”. It’s bonkers.
Nicolas Cage: in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, Nicolas Cage plays Superman. That’s it. I mean, what more do you want? The guy whose whole career almost seems to have hinged on playing Superman finally gets to be Superman. The guy who was nearly – oh so nearly – Superman for Tim Burton is now, at last, Superman. The guy who named his kid Kal-El is now Superman. The guy who was namechecked in The Ultimates about eighteen years ago (“this guy wants to be a superhero almost as much as Nicolas Cage”) is now Superman. It’s such a meta-gag, such a high-level gag. Stunt casting taken to its nth degree. It’s even funnier than Billy Dee Williams playing Two-Face in LEGO Batman. And it got better – this part, I concede, beyond the purview of the TTG creators – because the same year he played Superman, Nicolas Cage also played (an alternate universe version of) Spider-Man in Into the Spider-Verse. And, as I alluded to above, starred in his own version of The Night Begins to Shine when he made Mandy. It all links!
There we go. my favourite things. This was tough, I had to leave a lot out. I’m particularly saddened by not finding room for Cyborg’s tiny body made up of wires whenever he removes his head. And The Jeff; gutted I missed The Jeff. Or the episode that references all the movie incarnations of Batman, including a dumpster full of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin stuff (I’ll save my argument that TTG serves as an even better comic analysis and deconstruction of the meta-character of Batman, and of Robin, than the much-ballyhooed LEGO incarnations for another day). It’s really a great show. I love it to bits. Go watch it.
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Regarding LT2 and tour, would it be a good strategy to release the album mid tour (after the european leg), perform both albums in Latin America and Australia and finally add another leg for NA and Europe at the end of the year? I know it's unlikely but he's been working on the album since late 2020, I imagine he's almost done with it and I don't think he wants to wait a year before finally releasing it.
I know I'm serving clown city central here but at this point I'm even dreaming of him releasing a few tracks from LT0 as an EP before February.
That would mean touring NA and Europe twice in a year... I personally think his touring schedule is already insane and sometimes I worry about how tiring it's gonna be, so I wouldn't think that's a good idea.
An EP scenario is ideal - it fits all the requirements: official new music, promo, songs to play on tour... If he's interested in non-traditional ways to release music, what's stopping him from just releasing new songs? Doesn't have to be singles.... doesn't have to be an EP... Just studio versions that allow some promo and can be toured. BMG can be tested for their playlisting; LTHQ and SJPR will remain useless as usual but at least he could get the pulse of the fandom in terms of streaming/outreach.
I know the roll out of LT2 is a big concern for us, because it's an opportunity to start fresh in term of promo towards the general public. So I get waiting for the right timing/ promo strategy. But in the meantime, fans are getting restless and all this teasing (Faith in the future, 369, the studio pics, next year's AFHF) isn't leading us anywhere...
I think he's at a crossroad in terms of fanbase (established versus future/potential) and there are choices being made (because Louis knows where he's going), and I can understand some of them, but at the same time, it feels like there's been a lot of potential being wasted. And that, I have a hard time understanding - whether it's because they are things he can't do or because he doesn't want to.
At the end of the day, I'm not in Louis' head, and I'm not getting paid to plan his career so... let's have fun with fandom projects and the upcoming tour content, and as always, wait for Louis to blow our minds with whatever trick he has up his sleeve. The wait is always worth it!
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