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theresattrpgforthat · 10 months

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Any games thematically similar to Fallen London? Blades in the Dark helps me scratch that itch on the tabletop, but there are probably others.

THEME: Fallen London.

Hello friend! So first of all, I’d recommend checking out the free ttrpg Skyfarer, written by Grant Howitt & Chris Taylor, and released by Failbetter Games, as it’s the canonical Sunless Skies TTRPG. So it’s set in the same universe! I’ve talked about it before in one of my Free Games posts.

Now that that’s covered, let’s see what else is out there.

Do Not Fear, by Hella Big Claws.

Do Not Fear is a Forged In the Dark Tabletop Roleplaying game, about accepting the fleetingness of life; and using the strength that gives you in order to combat a growing stagnation.

Fight as a Hunter, a person who has been given a Gift of Bloom; a fungus like infection that allows for incredible strength and regenerative ability; in exchange for subsuming your flesh as you die.

Combat or save the Rusted; living creatures infected by a growing viral stagnation; marbling their bones and rusting their flesh; sculpting them into horrifyingly beautiful creations.

Ascend the Tower; a large, multilayered structure which you call home. Interact with the factions and people within, as you set down roots.

This game is on my to-buy list for sure, as I love FitD games and I’m intrigued by the themes of infection and stagnation that appear in this game. This game is still very much in-progress and so there might be some bugs to work out, but thanks to the Itch.io Summer Sale, this game is currently half-off! Honestly the cover art draws me in as well, and I’m hoping that the designer has more in store where that came from, because I find it very evocative, and I’m interested to see where this game goes.

Beneath a Cursed Moon, by Karrius.

Beneath a Cursed Moon is a Gothic fantasy game that uses a system based on the Apocalypse World engine. Take the role of monster hunters and slay vampires, werewolves, mermen, and more in a game inspired by Castlevania and Bloodborne.

I’m seeing a lot of ties between Fallen London, Blades in the Dark, and Bloodborne, which is why if a game has Bloodborne in it’s list of inspirations, I add it to the list. Beneath a Cursed Moon is a pay-what-you-want PbtA game that focuses primarily on monster-slaying. Because it expects you as a group to create and tailor your own unique setting, I can see creating a space that evokes the same tone as Fallen London as pretty feasible. There are 11 different playbooks to choose from, and a whole section of monsters and monster-creation guidelines that give the GM plenty to work with. You should absolutely check out this game.

Vigilant, by Ill Advised Gaming.

Vigilant is a Gothic Victorian world of monsters and churches and eldritch secrets. Of Blood and Beasts and Hunters. Of Dreams and Nightmares.

Using a combination of rules from Caltrop Core and Powered by the Apocalypse, this should be a pretty easy-to-learn system. You’ll make moves similar to PbtA games, but you’ll roll pools of d4’s, similar to Caltrop Core. Characters also have a shared resource called Momentum, which represent show you can affect the narrative using assets present on your character sheet. Setting-wise, the world of industry is introducing new monsters to a world already fraught with the terrors of the ancient. Your characters are monster-hunters who find themselves empowered by the Covenants: knights, scientists, hunters, and more.

The game is still in early-access, so not all of the character options are available yet, but the setting itself fucking slaps. You should check it out.

Unhallowed Metropolis, by Strix Publishing.

It has been two hundred years since first the outbreak of the Plague, when the dead rose to feed on the flesh of the living. Countless millions perished in the chaos that followed. It was the dawn of a new dark age.

London, the capital of the Neo-Victorian Empire, is a vast, densely crowded city. Beneath the towering walls and crackling Tesla towers, where the fallout of a thousand crematoria darkens the streets, ten-million souls live in squalor. Predators, human and inhuman, stalk the slums and rookeries, preying on the unwary and the helpless. Beneath the haunted streets, resurrection men and body snatchers hock their grisly wares at blood-stained meat markets. Their clients are degenerate ghouls and amateur anatomists who practice the outlawed science of reanimation.

This game inspired by authors such as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe. It uses a point-buy character creation system, and allows you to play Dhampirs, Mad Doctors, Aristocrats, Criminals and so much more. This is a game about noir tropes, a Victorian post-apocalypse, and zombies. One of my favourite pieces of this game is the character class of the Mourners, who are a group of women hired to stand by the bedsides of the recently deceased, ready to decapitate them at the first sign of re-animation.

If you want to hear an actual-play of this game, the long-standing AP podcast Fandible has a campaign that is one of the longest-running games on their feed. You can hear from their play how much of a dearly-loved game this is.

What Lies Beneath the Darkness, by Cezar Capacle.

What Lies Beneath the Darkness is a gaslamp fantasy game about intrigue and struggle.

You play as a Horror employed by a faction to expand their dominance over the victorianesque city of Ravenswatch, while you fight to balance the human and supernatural natures that inhabit you.

You will face the dark streets of Ravenswatch performing missions for your faction. You live an internal battle between your human links and your dark instincts, between what you want and what your faction demands.

This is a GM-less game that puts factions front-and-center, with both solo and multiplayer options. The game uses the Push system, which allows you to push-your-luck for better results, with a possibility of going too far, which I really really love. The game is gaslamp-gothic and supernatural, and puts the characters in fraught positions where they must work for more powerful masters, struggling not to fall into their personal darkness. I’m very very intrigued by this game.

Games I’ve Recommended Before

Slayers, by Gila RPGs.

18XX Night, by Deep Light Games.

The Between, by The Gauntlet.

#dnd #game recommendations #tabletop games #indie ttrpgs #asks #fallen london #victorian gothic #horror #monster hunters

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blueiskewl · 7 months

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Why These Imperfect Korean ‘Moon Jars’ Sell for Millions

Old, round, imperfect and beautiful — that’s how fans of Korean art describe the moon jar, or “dalhangari.”

These unassuming, plain white pots have entranced everyone from rapper RM, of K-pop sensation BTS, to philosopher Alain de Botton.

The former director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, Beth McKillop, has called the moon jar an “icon of Korean identity.” And if price is any indicator of popularity, one recently sold for over $4.5 million at a Christie’s auction.

This month, a rare example from the late 17th or early 18th century will go on sale at Sotheby’s in New York, where it’s expected to fetch more than $3 million.

“A large moon jar has always been expensive, but I think the big uptick in prices and value is… because their appeal is now global,” said Angela McAteer, Sotheby’s international head of Chinese art for the Americas and Europe, over video call. “You’ve got an international cohort of bidders competing for them, so it’s gone beyond the traditional connoisseur collecting community of Korean art.”

Huge price tags also result from the jars’ rarity. Although made for over a century in the royal kilns of Korea’s last kingdom, the Joseon dynasty, few are thought to exist today. Estimates for the number of larger ones (those more than 40 centimeters, or 15.7 inches, tall and wide) that have survived over the years range from 12 to 30.

Having passed through auction houses and antique dealers across the world, several of these are now in the collections of institutions like the British Museum and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, as well as in the hands of private collectors.

‘Owning a piece of happiness’

The first moon jars were created in the royal kilns in Gwangju (a city just outside Seoul, not the larger southern city of the same name) from 1650 to 1750. They were made from pure white porcelain and kaolin clay, and, following the neo-Confucian fashions of their day, the pots reflected values such as propriety, humility, frugality and purity. They were likely used at court and in upper-class homes as containers for food and liquids, or as decorative vessels.

In the mid-20th century, moon jars began gaining international appreciation thanks to influential admirers such as Japanese folk crafts scholar Yanagi Soetsu and British potter Bernard Leach, who bought one from a Seoul antique store in 1935. Leach once said that having a moon jar was like “owning a piece of happiness,” and would later give his to fellow potter Lucie Rie for safekeeping during World War II. It stayed in her studio until her death and was later acquired by the British Museum.

Charlotte Horlyck, lecturer in Korean Art History at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, wrote in the Art Bulletin journal that after World War II the moon jar “caught the attention of an early generation of postcolonial Korean artists and scholars who sought to restore Korean art history and national identity,” as the pieces “resonated with the visual language of international modernism and minimalism of the mid-20th century while remaining a distinctly Korean work of art.”

The moon jar’s allure

When Sotheby’s announced its forthcoming sale, the auction house described its 44-centimeter (17.3-inch) moon jar as an object that inspired, astounded and soothed those who “stand in its presence.” It’s a funny thing to say about a pot, to speak as if it’s alive, but the jars’ visceral, emotional impact on people is something that comes up time and time again in the literature.

Choi Sunu, a former director of the National Museum of Korea, has described the museum’s moon jars as being like companions, or muses that have inspired his writing and stirred his creativity. Bernard Leach admired the pots for their “natural unselfconsciousness.” In 2012, South Korea’s then-Unification Minister Yu Woo-ik used the pot as a metaphor symbolizing a reunified Korean peninsula (moon jars are created in two hemispherical pieces and joined in the middle).

More recently the rapper RM, of K-pop group BTS, posted a picture of himself hugging a modern-day moon jar on Twitter, telling fans that the pots made him feel calm.

“It’s hard for someone to really comprehend how a pot can make you feel that way,” said McAteer. “It has this real meditative presence. If you’ve sat in front of a great (painting by US artist, Mark) Rothko and you feel this kind of palpable energy emanate from it, and you could sit for hours and just feel something in its presence — the moon jar has that too.”

“The more you look at it, the more there is to see. It looks different from every angle,” she added. “We had real issues with the photography and the catalog because it looks like a different piece every time you rotate it, or you change the lighting. The surface is just alive, you know.”

“You can see how the glaze coalesces; you see these spontaneous bursts of this blush color that’s happening in the firing. You can lose yourself in its surface.”

Modern masters

Modern Korean potters have been inspired by the jars, and a number have come up with their own homages. Ceramist Kim Syyong covers his pots with a black glaze, while Yun Ju Cheol’s versions look spikier like a pufferfish and Choi Bo Ram’s unvarnished, textured blue vases have a denim-like quality.

Others, like Kwon Dae Sup, have looked to closely recreate the process used by the potters of yore. The 71-year-old ceramist produces unadorned white jars and allows for all the beautiful imperfections produced to shine through. He works out of a studio in Gwangju, where the royal kilns that produced moon jars were once located.

There’s a great deal of preparation that goes into making a moon jar traditionally. It’s labor-intensive: washing, sifting impurities from the clay, kneading and rolling it to remove air bubbles, carrying around these large hunks, not to mention hand throwing the clay itself to that oversized bowl shape without collapsing, and the work keeping a pine wood fire burning for 24 hours while the pot hardens in the kiln. Kwon also built his own kiln to replicate the old process as closely as possible.

“I do this because it’s fun,” he said in a phone interview. “Every time I make something, it’s novel … The quality of the material is different every time. The conditions in which I make the pots is new every time.”

Kwon said he also feels an emotional connection to the moon jar. As a student he was so moved by a one he saw in a Korean antique store that he decided they would be his life’s work. “They feel alive,” he said.

In a 2019 book on his work by Axel Vervoodt Gallery the potter is quoted saying he tries to produce art that needs no addition or subtraction. “I wish to create work that has an imposing presence but harmonizes with its surroundings regardless of where and when it is displayed. It should give peace of mind and a sense of comfort to all who look at it.”

By Christy Choi.

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st-armand · 10 months

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Author’s Notes: Earth-138 & 138B are the same, Hobie lives in New London (NY after British V.E.N.O.M associates take over the city alongside NYC Venom affiliates). The magical girl references in this head cannon are Sailor Moon after the final season; Post Sailor Galaxia, technically from a worldbuilding head canon I have of the scouts after Neo Tokyo.

Hobie Brown x Magical Girl!Reader Headcanons Part 1

This one is for all my hobie lovers, feast well.

Tags: Fem implied reader with the term ‘magical girl’, Reader is portrayed as Sailor Saturn, black reader but can be read as any and all

Warnings: Magical girls are scary, Mentions of Violence, Political Ideologies, Light Gore, LONG ASF

• Hobie isn’t naive, he lives in a multiverse with infinite possibilities and circumstances, even in his own earth and its surrounding universe there exists mutants, heroes, chaos and beings of extraordinary skills and abilities.

• So its safe to say he isn’t necessarily surprised, but he is amused by the prospect of worlds where the boundaries between reality, the alchemical, and the magical are thinner than what most would even be able to theorize it to be.

I have two ideas of how Hobie meets you:

1. He meets you through another spider—Senshi Araneus aka the Red Spider Nebula one who instead of a traditional spider suit, they have a transformation-based suit, so they’re more likely to be seen out of transformation than in it, since it’s an almost instantaneous change.

So let’s say there’s a dangerous anomaly running amuck in the magical spider’s universe, which is where he meets their friends, comrades, and you.

• The Spider team all have this collective idea that the world where you come from is filled with childlike wonder, and merriment, due to the kind, accommodating and just nature of Araneus, are shocked upon arrival.

(For now at least) it is similar our current world set in an unknown future timeline, the world is amidst a revolution for the fall of economic systems and classes to one founded by the people under a magical galactic ordinance.

New York and Japan are the largest ungoverned magical cities renamed Millennium Lenapehoking and Neo Tokyo.

• The politics of your world fascinates Hobie. You exist in a timeline ripe for molding society into the shape of liberation, and to do so taking up a mantle to fight oppression on earth and across constellations, this ABSOLUTELY riles Hobie up.

He lead a liberative revolution in his own world, and still has to fight fascists to keep peace within his community, so he sees the mantle that magical people uphold on a galactic scale, he empathizes and genuinely respects your fight and struggle.

• The more time he spends in your world, the more he falls in love with it— from the crystalline structures, to the modes of space travel, and especially the clothes that are made to replicate the fashion eras of planets, he finds it especially amusing that punk is classified as a vintage, but he is enthralled at by the future of punk and how the style evolves to match the magical and futuristic styles of the people and aliens on the planet.

• CONSTANTLY asks Senshi Araneus for weekly correspondence between the two of you, it starts off sweet with exchanging gifts from each other’s worlds, then evolves into having whole conversations with Araneus being the messenger between the two of you.

They get annoyed with it quickly, and opts to give Hobie an unlicensed multiverse communication device from your world, he uses it, but shrugs his shoulder languidly and says something along the lines of, “Don’t need it mate, jus’ made my own.”

• Has a group chat with Araneus, you and some other Senshi where you all listen to him complain about Miguel and talk about how terrible his politics are, recently Hobie spends HOURS complaining about the Miles incident (it’s still a sore spot),

but you all like to spam Hobie with photos of creatures and other beings yall meet, your private messages consists of selfies of your mundane days, your day job, updating him on the fun you have with other senshi, but his favorites are the photos you take, face sweaty, styled hair ragged, and your uniform in tatters after a particularly hard battle, flecks of magic flittering in your determined eyes you remind him of a predator, confident in its stride after a good hunt.

2. You also live in Earth-138(B) and while the public information around Magical People is limited to anecdotes from people’s experiences with magical girls, or comics around those who’ve seen them in action, little to none is known about the pretty vigilantes plowing through villains, criminals, corruption, slavery, and fascists.

• You live in New London, your family lived there before the British occupation when NYC became NL.

It was essentially the same, but the difference can be spotted between residential slang, and state sanctioned zoning.

• You’ve been a magical girl since 12, you spent your entire life fighting monsters, corrupted humans, other magical peoples, cops, government spies, you name it, and you’ve fought it and lived, you’re quite privileged in that aspect

• You became a senshi after a traumatic event, cornered in an alley, moments from death, or whatever gruesome ideas your assailant could think of, your body couldn’t handle the stress and anxiety, your star crystal was activated to protect its owner.

When you came to, all that remained were disintegrated bodies and chunks of flesh.

• The first time Hobie meets you, he’s an older teen, mostly accustomed to his duties as Spiderman of his world, and New London, aiding him in the fight against a beast, a V.E.N.O.M synthesized Chimera, in all of its many headed and limbed glory, had attacked the city.

Hobie did his best to contain it, but a monster with few weak points and unpredictable strikes, his spidey senses were a bit overwhelmed.

• Just as he is in the most compromising position battling the enemy, having no aid, and focusing on keep bystanders safe, you came down upon him like a rapture, a visage of death amongst its ghastly horse.

You take down the Chimera with an earth-shattering blow, severing its head with an immaculately clean cut.

• To Hobie you are the visage of destruction, the essence of a vengeful deity that graces its people with salvation, but severs those unworthy of it.

He is enamored by your strength, adoration graces his masked face, but before he gets a quip in to break the ice, you depart—fly really, leaving him with the carcass.

• Hobie only ever sees you in your senshi uniform during fights with extraordinary powers and abilities, or public demonstrations, keeping protestors safe, killing off cops, and helping to rebuild infrastructure in NL.

• Hobie does see you often out of uniform, specifically at a store ‘Clash & Kill’ where many punks go to craft, and barter for accessories.

He always sees you admiring the leatherwork of the items, even smelling them, he learns later you do this to verify if its real leather, this always makes him laugh, he loves to tease you about it too, “You smellin’ the wares again, huh?”

• He won’t know your identity as a magical girl until he’s transparent about his role as Spiderman, this will cause clashes in the relationship that’s fostered between the two of you, but love is a work in progress right?

Comments, Questions, Criticisms?? Im still getting used to formating on tumblr posts so im always down to listen to tips and advice

#hobie brown x reader #across the spiderverse #astv #hobie brown #hobie headcanons #miles morales x reader #gwen stacey x reader #astv x reader #hobie brown x black!reader

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yourkimjaejin · 10 days

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Dizzying Thoughts

In Osaka

“Unnie-yah, You ate right? I didn’t see you grab anything.” Juno sat down with her full plate in catering. The younger barely missed the leader's wince. Moxy’s face snapped back into a neutral position when Juno looked up.

“Yeah I had some food earlier.”

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In Madrid

“Migyeong-ah, I didn’t see you eat today. You’ve had something right?” Soonjae asked her charge while Moxy adjusted her mic.

“I ate a granola bar Unnie. You know how my stomach is before a show. I promise to eat after.” Before Soonjae could respond, The stage director started rehearsal.

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In Paris

“What did you order last night, Gyeongie?” Hannah luckily was lounging on one of the beds in Moxy’s room while the aforementioned leader was finishing up her skincare in the bathroom. It’s lucky cause Hannah missed the flash of panic that racked thru older’s body while she thought of an answer.

“Uhh…..I got a……burger?”

“Really?” Hannah sat up, “I got one too but Kenji-oppa never mentioned getting you one too.”

“He must have gotten mine earlier than you.” Moxy walked out the bathroom, praying her face didn’t betray her.

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The members of AG and their tour crew were crowded around two long tables with piles of food lining each one. The group was celebrating ending the European leg of AG’s tour with a final show in London tonight. While her members and staff sat around talking jovially and devouring the food laid out for them, Moxy sat hunched over. Moving the food around on her plate, illuding that she was eating. But Moxy had been doing quite the opposite for a while now.

See, our precious leader has an anxious stomach. Sometimes things get so severe that the sight of food nauseates her. Leading to the rapper going on stage with nothing for her body to feed off of for three hours of vigorous dancing and exhausting singing. Nervousness mostly affects her before big moments in her career. Her first stage of Limitless. The first time she sang You Don’t Know Me. Her first recording session for Something Like A Party. You get the point.

It was never something she couldn’t manage. Once her worries were disproven, she’d take the time to eat and everything would be right with the world. Noone would be none the wiser. The first time it got real bad was during 127’s tour, Neo City - The Origin. Moxy was so nervous. Anxious over how each crowd would receive her. Everytime the boys offered her food she shrugged it off, promising to eat later at the hotel. Then she’d there and a whole new batch of fearful thoughts crept into her brain, taking her appetite with them.

This went on for a weeks. Regretfully, all of 127 were just starting to get along. So the boys weren’t tuned into Moxy behavior until it was too late. After the group's show in Phoenix, Moxy collapsed as soon as she made it backstage. Nobody had a clue what was wrong so Soonjae made the decision to call an ambulance. She was diagnosed with low blood sugar and was forced to spend the night for observation. The managers knew they had to get to Houston. They all could tell getting them to leave would be like pulling teeth so they rebooked flights. Migyeong got the scolding of her life from Johnny when she came to. She proceeded to get smothered within an inch of her life between the arms of Doyoung and Taeyong.

127 had a serious talk about what Moxy had been going through after the next show. Jaehyun and Doyoung paired up on ways to help the rapper get past her nerves before they got on stage and it worked. As the tour went forward, with her members help, Moxy was able to stomach small meals and snacks before performing. Anytime another attack came, she knew her members would be right there to help even when Moxy had to fly back to Korea for AG’s debut.

Before AG left for their tour, Johnny talked to her about keeping up with meals.

“I’m seriously Migyeong-ah. I do not want to hear about you fainting while I’m here and you’re across the country.” Moxy grabbed Johnny’s hand. She felt the same concerns but she was better now.

“It won’t get to that point and if it does I’ll tell Hannah. You know she doesn’t play with any of our health.” Moxy continued to pack. She missed her oppa’s concerned gaze.

Now almost a month later and it was worse. Moxy was lucky to fly under Hannah's radar while the second oldest fretted over Aurora and her healing burn. As she looked around at the others happily shoveling food into their mouths, it nauseated her even further. Moxy pushed her plate away, ready to escape the stuffy restaurant into the sweet silence of her hotel room. But her actions caught the attention of her dongsaeng.

“Unnie have you even eaten anything? Your plate still looks full.” Juno stole a piece of the elders chicken. The leader had to fight off the look of disgust. Then the question registered in her brain. If Moxy was in an anime, that one sweat drop would be right next to her forehead.

“Oh! That's just because….. I grabbed more food than I can handle. Don’t wanna be too bloated before tomorrow.” She rubbed her stomach to sell the lie.

“Are you girls excited?” Soonjae interrupted, “The crowd last night was crazy. I swear they’re the loudest we’ve heard so far.”

Hannah snorted, “Yeah lets hope we don’t get another crying session courtesy of Aurora.” Aurora reached out to smack Hannah’s shoulder but the elder ducked out of the way. “YAH! I told you that was because my nanan was in the crowd.” Happy to have the attention off of her, Moxy slumped down in her chair.. The nauseous feeling dulling down. Maybe once she gets to the hotel, she’d be up to eating something.

Yeah, she could do that. Just make it to the hotel.

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That hotel meal didn’t happen. After dinner finished, Moxy had every intention of ordering something small but the girls were called to the venue to do some testing and last minute rehearsals. They didn’t finish until 3am. By that time, food was the furthest thing from the leader’s mind. She crashed as soon as her body hit the bed.

Breakfast and lunch didn’t cross Moxy’s mind either. Even after a flawless show yesterday, Moxy woke up worried. She didn’t want to underperform especially when their fans had paid money to see them at their best. The leader went through the motions all day. Time passing in a daze of anxiety. She blinked and the group were being ushered to their places. During the entire opening, Moxy fought off several bouts of blurriness. The rapper was lucky her spots were drilled into her brain. She could find a formation blindfolded.

Nobody questioned if something was wrong……at least until the dizzy spells started.

Come on….not now… Moxy thought as another wave of dizziness washed over her after the girl group cover section. The results of her mistake had been growing and growing all night. Honestly, the stories of adrenaline doing crazy things to the human body was a fact to her now. Moxy had no idea how she made it through this much of the concert with passing out.

She couldn’t wait until the show was over so she could finally eat.

In the middle of the cordi noona’s helping her change for the next stage, Moxy felt her legs give out for a moment before she caught herself. The noona’s around her shared a look but Moxy waved them off. “Just lost my balance.” reassuring everyone

Come on girl……two sets then you’re home free.

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Everything was moving in slow motion. Every step felt like it took minutes. Moxy barley felt the hands ripping clothes off and replacing them with the ones she needed for the encore.

The noise around her turned into sludge. The rapper was incapable of distinguishing what anyone was saying around her. She didn’t even notice when her members surrounded her.

“Noona?”

“Moxy..can…..you…..hear……”

“Is…..-thing…..on.”

The world around her felt far away. Like she was floating into a dark abyss. The arena’s backstage a small box as she lifted off.

Moxy didn’t even register when she hit the ground.

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Her eyes opened to the concerned eyes of Soonjae.

Moxy’s brain caught up before her body. The memories of the night coming like photos in her brain. Skipping meals. Feeling sluggish just as the concert started. The dark spots in her vision as she looked out at the thousands of fans. The dizziness giving way to exhaustion finally taking her out. Confusion, recognition then panic rattled through her. She sat up but another sudden wave of dizziness almost sent her back down. Soonjae tried to push her back but Moxy twisted away.

The director ran in, “I don’t know how much longer we can stall.”

Hannah’s eyes snapped over, anger blasing, “You better find time. Migyeong’s not awake yet but when she does there's no way she’s going on stage yet.”

“Actually look who's joined us.” At Soonjae’s voice, three faces snap to Moxy’s place on the couch. All wearing different expressions: one pissed, one of concern and another of relief. They crowded around the leader but instead of assuring them she was ok. Moxy went against Hannah’s words.

“Yes….I am.” Moxy was finally able to say after the dizziness faded. She tried getting up but Hannah pinned her with a dark look.

“Moxy you just passed out. No way are we performing the encore.” Hannah was ready to argue back but Moxy glared.

“Good thing you're not the leader.” Four pairs of arms reached out as Moxy stood up, wobbling a bit in place but quickly steadying herself, “I was only out for a couple minutes. We’re going out there and finishing this show.” Everyone tried to object but Moxy just held her hand up. “I’ll take it easy but we are going out there and that’s final.” Nobody said anything. Well nobody had the courage to.

Hannah, Juno and Aurora worried over the leader's condition but they all knew she wouldn’t change her mind. Slowly everyone resumed their tasks. Three women surrounded Moxy to fix her makeup and clothes. Practically erasing the past four minutes from reality.

The girls ran to reenter the stage while the music started up for Our Time Is Here. Several mangers followed behind the eldest, making sure she made it to the stage safely. Before Moxy walked out, Soonjae grabbed her hand.

“Answer me one thing? Have you been eating?” Moxy’s silence was answer enough. She couldn’t even look Soonjae in the eye.

If looks could kill, Moxy wouldn’t be walking into a stadium full of cheers from the crowd. She’d be in for an earful when they got back to the hotel.

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Moxy stayed back to get checked by the doctor while her other members left for the hotel. Maybe I won’t get chewed out tonight Moxy though as the car pulled into the hotel's parking lot. The dread built as she walked through the lobby to the elevators. The leader dragged her body down the hall, feet sliding on the carpeted floor. She swayed on her feet, fumbling with the key to unlock her door.

She could feel the embrace of her bed close by but instead of a blissfully cold bed, there sat Hannah with a full bag of food and holding a phone, Moxy sighed knowing what she was in for.

“Oppa’s on the phone for you.” Hannah held the phone out for the leader to take.

“Taeyong-oppa?” She said, hopeful.

“No…..Johnny-oppa.”

“Shit…” Hope’s shattered, Moxy plopped down on the chair across from Hannah. The dancer focused on taking out the food while Moxy braced herself for a pissed off Johnny.

“Yeobeoseyo?”

“........Thea Marie Thompson.”

“Oppa before you start—”

“Don’t even try it, Thea.” Moxy’s mouth snapped shut. She could feel Johnny's anger through the phone.

“I can’t believe I’m talking to you about this. You promised me we would not repeat what happened during Regular promotions. You promised me you’d eat, Thea. But now not only am I getting calls from Soonjae but from Hannah about you passing out and still going back on stage.” Hearing Johnny’s retelling of what happened tonight made Moxy feel worse than she already did. Maybe things had gotten bad and she just didn’t want to acknowledge it.

“I did and it wasn’t going that far. At least I didn’t think it was. I…I was only skipping food before the show. I tried to eat after..…but things got hectic. And that's on me. My nerves have been getting to me and I felt like I couldn’t stomach anything. So I kept going because I had to” Both sides of the line were quiet. “I’m sorry for not calling for help.”

“Tell me why I shouldn’t fly out to make sure you’re eating before every show.”

“Hannah’s already got food sitting in front me.” Moxy looked out at the impressive spread Hannah was able to put together between the ending of the show and the car ride to the hotel.

“You should have told Hannah beforehand.”

“I thought I could handle it okay! I’m not some little kid Johnny. I’m a young adult who made a mistake and went past her limits” She heard Johnny sigh on the other end.

“You’re right…..You’re right you are an adult. But can you blame me for being concerned? Last time this happened, you landed in hospital with no one knowing what was wrong. I never want any of us to go through that again.” Moxy didn’t like to think about her last stretch of not eating. All of her memories revolved around the worried looks of the 127 members as they surrounded her hospital bed.

“I’m sorry Johnny. I promise to keep a closer watch on my food intake.”

“And I promise to help her.” Hannah chimed in, making Johnny and Moxy laugh. “Don’t worry oppa, we’ll get our leader back on track.” Hannah placed a container of food in front of Moxy and a fork. Before he hung up, Johnny told Hannah to take photo evidence of Moxy eating and send it to him. To ease his worries.

Moxy finally dug into the delicious food Hannah had ordered. It’s not weird to cry over really good food, right?

“So what happens?” Hannah asked between bites.

“What do you mean?”

“When it feels like you can’t eat. What runs through your head.” Moxy blew a raspberry trying to think of how to answer that.

“I guess….I overthink about everything. The performance and my vocals. I want everything to be perfect for the fans. I don’t want to disappoint them. Those thoughts…..they run through my brain like a hamster wheel. I get overwhelmed then my stomach gets queasy. You know what happens next.” Moxy took another bite of her food.

The members of 127 set up a code word to help Moxy through these anxious moments. Code: Underwater. Anytime her emotions took over, Moxy could text one of the members at any time. They in turn would help calm her down and get a couple bites of food down in Moxy’s system. The more she thought about it. The more the truth behind her regression became apparent. She was AG’s leader. Calling her older members for help with her anxiety felt like she was being a baby. Someone that wasn’t fit to lead a team, especially when they were away from home.

“Now, you got me to help. And anytime you feel nervous like that I’ll remind you that you’re a beast and one of the best leaders around.” Hannah shook her shoulders, getting a smile on her face.

Luckily, she has the greatest members on the planet. Who would never think less of her for having anxieties.

“Even if you made a mistake you could never disappoint anyone. Not us and much less the fans, okay?” Moxy nodded. It would be difficult reaching out at first. But she never wanted to worry her members again. Not when it can be stopped beforehand. Taking Hannah’s words to heart, The oldest began to eat with earnest, savoring every bite.

As they ate, Aurora and Juno joined them with their own food. The four of them crowded around the small table, sharing what they had between them. Moxy knew the younger two wanted to be close after she scared them today.

The members decided to screw bedtime and just stay up. They scrolled through instagram, played music, danced and even caught up with some of the members. They all needed a night like this. After all, the tour just started. AG had a long way to go.

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Next up for tour angst.....Hannah ~ Author Izzy

#NCT AG #NCT AG.Writing #NCT AG.Moxy #nct female addition #nct female member #nct female unit #nct female subunit #nct female oc #kpop addition #kpop!au #kpop!oc #kpop!addition #kpop!fakegroup #kpop female member #kpop fake group

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On March 3rd 1792, Robert Adam, the Scottish architect, furniture and interior designer, died.

Born in Kirkcaldy, Adam is regarded as one of Europe's great architects. Now I'm not one for visiting Stately homes and the like, give me a castle ruins any day of the week, but Adam designed some of the most admired houses, not only in Scotland, but throughout the British Isles, he didn't just work on buildings, he was also a furniture designer, I have added a couple of his pieces in the pics.

After his death some of his structures were remodeled as tastes and styles changed, some of his best surviving work in Scotland can be seen at Hopetoun House, Register House and The former Royal Exchange, now the City Chambers in Edinburgh, Trades Halls Glasgow and the mock medieval Culzean Castle in Ayrshire. Down south in England my favourite of Adam's work is Pulteney Bridge which crosses the River Avon in Bath Somerset, I lived in Somerset for a few year and loved visiting Bath. Over in Ireland he designed the Templetown Mausoleum in County Antrim, his style was copied extensively and is described as "neo-classical"

Adam was a success in part because he insisted on designing everything himself, down to the tiniest detail. The result is work that has a sense of overall unity, or flow. He moved beyond the Roman classical style, and borrowed heavily from Greek, Byzantine, and Italian Baroque influences.

This obituary appeared in the March 1792 edition of The Gentleman's Magazine:.....

"...... Mr Adam produced a total change in the architecture of this country: and his fertile genius in elegant ornament was not confined to the decoration of buildings, but has been diffused to every branch of manufacture. His talents extend beyond the lie of his own profession: he displayed in his numerous drawings in landscape a luxuriance of composition, and an effect of light and shadow, which have scarcely been equalled...to the last period of his life, Mr Adam displayed an increasing vigour of genius and refinement of taste: for in the space of one year preceding his death, he designed eight great public works, besides twenty five private buildings, so various in their style, and so beautiful in their composition, that they have been allowed by the best judges, sufficient of themselves, to establish his fame unrivalled as an artist."

He left nearly 9,000 drawings, 8,856 of which (by both Robert and James Adam) were subsequently purchased in 1833 for £200 by the architect John Soane and are now at the Soane Museum in London.

The pics are odf Adam and some of the interiors with his designs,

#scotland #scottish #history #architect #designer

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Born in Edinburgh in 1959, Peter Doig moved to Trinidad as a baby, yet grew up mostly in Canada. He studied in London, first in the early 1980s and again at the end of that decade, sandwiching a few years spent in Montreal. After his second bout of study in London, he settled there for many years, before moving back to Trinidad in 2002. Today, he lives between the Caribbean island, London and New York, and teaches in Düsseldorf. The constant movement has marked his painting. ‘My thinking is always between places,’ he said recently. ‘Something I would like to achieve in my paintings is a place in between places.’

Doig began to gain recognition in London just as the city’s art world was being engulfed by the energetic scene triggered by Damien Hirst’s 1988 Freeze exhibition, and dominated by work inspired by minimalism, Neo-Geo and conceptualism. Doig ignored the zeitgeist, yet achieved success when many other painters felt excluded. ‘I really enjoyed being a painter then, actually,’ he said in 2013. ‘And I think you can see I enjoyed it, too, in the work that I was making. I don’t think I was chasing anything, I definitely wasn’t a bandwagon chaser. I think that’s a big mistake for artists — to try to chase something and want to be part of something.’

The sources, however, can vary wildly, as can his treatment of them. Ski Jacket (1994) was based on a photograph he saw in a Toronto newspaper of a Japanese ski resort. For him, it evoked ‘a black and white oriental scroll painting’, but the diptych he produced transports the image into an entirely different realm by mirroring the scene and situating it in a field of veils, mists, drips and thick blobs. Blotter (1993), meanwhile, was based on a shot he took of his brother standing on a frozen pond that they had flooded to create more dramatic, reflective effects. Doig’s use of photography goes in and out of focus, and since his move to Trinidad, the presence of the photographic image is less insistent. ‘I don’t see it being a big issue, the photographic side of the paintings, and I never really have. But it’s less important now to me than it was,’ he said in 2013. ‘Maybe one day I’ll abandon it altogether, but for the moment it’s still important.’

https://www.christies.com/en/stories/10-things-to-know-

https://www.theguardian.com/.../dec/16/peter-doig-caravaggio

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selena nyx for @birdietrait's coven of simblrs

"selena nyx was a rebel from birth. she was born in the year 2097, in a dystopian world. she grew up in the slums of neo-london, witnessing the oppression and injustice of the system. she hated the regime and its enforcers, the cybercops, who used cybernetic enhancements to augment their abilities and enforce their laws she refused to conform to the system, choosing to live by her own rules. she joined a group of underground rebels who fought against the regime and its allies. she became a master of stealth and infiltration, using her natural skills and gadgets to evade detection and sabotage the regime’s operations selena also had a secret that made her different from most people. she was a vampire, a descendant of an ancient bloodline that survived the apocalypse. she inherited the traits of her ancestors, such as enhanced senses, agility, and longevity. she also had a craving for blood, which she satisfied by feeding on the cybercops and other enemies of the rebels selena embraced her vampiric nature, adopting a gothic style as a way of expressing her identity. she wore dark clothes, makeup, and accessories, creating a striking contrast with the neon-lit city selena nyx is a rebel of the future, a fearless fighter with a thirst for freedom" cc list can be found here

#simblr #ts4 #ts4 edit #show us your sims #coven of simblrs

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theroseandthebeast · 4 months

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Yuletide Recs, Batch Three

16 recs for The Eagle, Earthsea, Emma., The Expanse, The Faculty, The Fall of the House of Usher, Fallen London, The Green Knight, The Handmaiden, Jane Eyre, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and The Matrix

Between Two Rivers, Marcus Flavius Aquila & Esca Mac Cunoval

Two rivers. Two near kisses.

The White Ladies of the Ring, Penthe/Tenar

There was a sorcerer imprisoned in the Labyrinth, and Arha had told Kossil that she would kill him—but she did not want to. Perhaps she needed to ask someone for help...

My Queen Bee, George Knightley/Emma Woodhouse

Emma went on, brightly, “I have spoken with Harriet about it.” George blinked. He was fast losing his grip on this conversation.

We aren't righteous (or: five times Amos did as Naomi asked, and one time he didn't.), Gen, Amos Burton & Naomi Nagata

For EdosianOrchids901 for Yuletide, who asked for Amos and Naomi and suggested something pre-canon, something about that dynamic where he sees her as an external moral compass, and how their friendship developed. This is mostly pre-canon, overlapping with canon in the last two parts. (Also it's been a while since I've seen this so apologies in advance if I've missed something in research and inadvertently contradicted canon on their immediate pre-canon backstories!)

Pyriscence, Gen, Amos Burton & Praxidike Meng

After the war with the Free Navy, Amos comes to see Prax.

What do you do when you survive a shape-shifting mind-controlling alien as a teen?, Stokely Mitchell/Stan Rosado

Twenty years later, Stokely and Stan arrive back in each other's lives.

the miraculous lustre of her eye, Madeline Usher/Verna

"If she wants Madeline fucking Usher, she's going to have to look me straight in the eyes."

a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Gen, Verna + Arthur Pym

Arthur Pym's first meeting with Verna.

The Margin, Gen, Verna + Arthur Pym

“We have to go back,” Arthur Pym said, teeth rattling in the wind. He clutched the ragged edges of his coat closer. “Ship can’t break through that ice. We’ll founder.” -- The first time Verna and Arthur met, on the Transglobe Expedition.

by such dreaming high, Gen, The Duchess + The Roseate Queen

It is summer, in a fallen city; and someone, somewhere, is doing something unwise...

The Half-Seen Door, Gen, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorensen + Sixteen | Sarah Raphael + Gawain

It’s a hard job, coming home.

leverage and its utility, Fujiwara + Original Female Character(s)

The three he smoked in the carriage ride here was nothing but a gamble. A roll of the die, a flip of a coin, a dealing of cards. Lucky for him, luck is in his favor.

lilacs out of the dead land, Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester

I had, within me, that rich world of imagination that I could always retreat to, and so I transformed myself.

All Earthly Happiness, Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester

Reader, I lied. Or, rather, I omitted. As the mother of daughters, who had openly declared their intentions of reading my autobiography, I was hesitant to paint a full picture of the course of my first engagement to my dear Edward. Although in many ways it did progress much as I described, discretion prevented absolute disclosure

When It's Worth It, Gen, Arthur + The Mage

The chilly air tasted of dust and lightning strikes and the faint iron tang of blood, and there were still all too many questions lingering unanswered.

dissolved girl, Neo/Trinity

What if Trinity came back wrong? A post-Matrix Resurrections fic about what happens if the body was rebuilt again, and again, and again, and in the remaking, became something new.

#yuletide #yuletide 2023 #the eagle #earthsea #emma #emma.#the expanse #the faculty #the fall of the house of usher #fallen london #the green knight #the handmaiden #jane eyre #king arthur #king arthur legend of the sword #the matrix

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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More (1985) (Album Version) Tom Petty / David A. Stewart from: "Don't Come Around Here No More" / "Trailer" (Single) "Southern Accents" (LP|CD)

Neo-Psychedelia

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: The Heartbreakers: Tom Petty: Lead Vocals / Piano Mike Campbell: Lead Guitar / Bass Synthesizer Benmont Tench: String Synthesizer Howie Epstein: Bass / Backing Vocals Stan Lynch: Drums / Percussion

Additional Personnel: David A. Stewart: Electric Sitar / Synthesizer / Backing Vocals Stevie Nicks: Backing Vocals

Dean Garcia: Intro Bass Guitar Alan "Bugs" Weidel: "Wild Dog" Piano Daniel Rothmuller: Cello Marilyn Martin: Backing Vocals Stephanie Sprull: Backing Vocals Sharon Celani: Backing Vocals

Produced by Tom Petty / David A. Stewart / Jimmy Iovine

Recorded: @ Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, California USA @ The Church Studios in London, England UK 1984

Single Released: on February 28, 1985

Album Released: on March 26, 1985

MCA Records

#Neo-Psychedelia #1980's #Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers #Tom Petty #David A. Stewart #Don't Come Around Here No More #Southern Accents

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Russia is an ally of the horrific régimes in Syria and Iran. Putin probably smiles when he sees reports of ISIS-style atrocities committed by Hamas.

As Iran-backed terrorists rampaged through Israeli cities, some – including many in Ukraine – pointed fingers at Russia, a country with established ties with Hamas and a clear beneficiary of a war set to diverge attention from its own atrocities in Ukraine. "Russia is interested in igniting a war in the Middle East so that a new source of pain and suffering will weaken world unity," said Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Oct. 9. Ukraine's intelligence even reported that Russia gave Hamas captured Ukrainian weapons in an effort to discredit Kyiv, while Polish President Andrzej Duda said, "This (war) certainly helps Russia and Russian aggression against Ukraine, it distracts the world's attention."

There's much for Putin to love about Hamas. It reminds him a lot of Russia.

Hamas, and to a lesser extent, the Palestinian Authority, have been criticized for severe corruption and disregard for democratic processes while in power, canceling and postponing elections for more than a decade. Hamas has also been accused of gruesome human rights violations, including killings and systematic torture of its opposition, violence against women, and repression of civil society in Gaza.

So the Nazi-style rampage by Hamas across their border with Israel has attracted admiration from Russians committing genocide in Ukraine.

As Hamas terrorists rampaged through Israeli cities, murdering hundreds of soldiers and civilians, Russian propagandists rejoiced in triumph. "Not a drop of pity or sympathy (for the Israelis)," Dmitry Steshin, Russian military correspondent known for his support of ethnic cleansing of Ukrainians, wrote on his Telegram channel. "This mess is beneficial for Russia…Iran is our real military ally," said Russia's prominent propagandist Sergey Mardan.

Hamas's leader was welcomed to Moscow earlier this year. Terrorists chillin' with terrorists.

The latest meeting between Hamas representatives and Russian officials took place in March 2023, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomed Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas, in Moscow.

Russia, acting like a neo-colonialist on steroids in Ukraine, may hypocritically try to play the anti-colonialist card.

Russia is also seizing the moment to advance its anti-American propaganda, playing the fictitious role of an anti-colonial champion. "(Russians) present this disorder as a 'win' for Russia not just because it supposedly weakens the West but also because it is proof their worldview is correct," Jade McGlynn, a research fellow at the Department of War Studies at King's College London, told the Kyiv Independent. [ ... ] "Russia presents itself as a friend of the colonized against the imperial West and the U.S.," McGlynn added. "Of course, empirically speaking, this is absurd: Russia is conducting a nakedly imperial war in Ukraine," she added.

Russia may not have directly assisted Hamas in its weekend mass murder spree, but it has been on cozy terms with Iran which is the chief backer of Hamas. The misogynist régime in Iran supplies Russia with Shahed drones which are then used on Ukrainian civilians.

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On this day, 12 September 1992, anti-racist group Anti-Fascist Action fought neo-Nazis heading to a Blood & Honour music gig in the Battle of Waterloo in London. It was probably the biggest street fight against fascists in the city since that in Lewisham in 1977. Blood & Honour drew crowds of up to 2,000 racists to listen to bands with names like "Dead P*ki in the Gutter". To try to avoid anti-fascists, Blood & Honour didn't disclose the location but instead chose Waterloo station as a redirection point. So around 100 anti-fascists headed to the station. One of the participants later recalled: "I was very nervous. I thought we were going to be slaughtered. Everyone knew that Blood and Honour could muster ten times more people than we had." But the Nazis were turning up in small groups, and so, the anti-fascist wrote: "We spent the rest of the afternoon ambushing groups of fascists as they arrived, and trying to avoid the police. For example, four fascists arrived by car and were set upon until every window was broken, and the rest of the car was not exactly in showroom condition. The battles raged in all the surrounding streets. A comrade from Norwich and myself piled into a group of three fascists by the Waterloo roundabout. One of them turned to attack my comrade and I stuck my foot out to trip him up and with wonderful luck it was perfectly timed and he keeled over and hit his head, crack, on the pavement." Learn more in this short personal account of the events: https://libcom.org/library/bash-the-fash-anti-fascist-recollections-1984-1993/15-waterloo-blood-and-honour-gig-london-1992 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2080226115495861/?type=3

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Bands/Artists I Consider Personal Favorites (4/4)

With the three parts put together, the last piece of the puzzle is here.

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Tad

Origin: USA Years Active: 1988 - 1999 Genre(s): Grunge // Alternative Metal // Noise Rock Studio Albums: 4 Personal Favorite Album: Inhaler (1993).

Talking Heads

Origin: USA Years Active: 1975 - 1991, 2002 Genre(s): New Wave // Post-Punk // Avant-Funk // Art Pop // Worldbeat // Dance-Rock Studio Albums: 8 Personal Favorite Album: Remain In Light (1980).

Tally Hall

Origin: USA Years Active: 2002 - 2011 [On Hiatus] Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Indie Pop // Progressive Pop // Power Pop // Hip Hop Studio Albums: 2 Personal Favorite Album: Good & Evil (2011).

Tame Impala

Origin: Australia Years Active: 2007 - Present Genre(s): Psychedelic Pop // Psychedelic Rock // Indie Rock // Synth-Pop // Neo-Psychedelia Studio Albums: 4 Personal Favorite Album: Currents (2015).

Tankard

Origin: Germany Years Active: 1982 - Present Genre(s): Thrash Metal Studio Albums: 18 Personal Favorite Album: Two-Faced (1994).

Teddy Pendergrass

Origin: USA Years Active: 1970 - 2008 [Died 2010] Genre(s): R&B // Soul // Disco // Funk Studio Albums: 14 Personal Favorite Album: Life Is A Song Worth Singing (1978).

Teenage Bottlerocket

Origin: USA Years Active: 2000 - Present Genre(s): Punk Rock // Skate Punk // Pop Punk Studio Albums: 9 Personal Favorite Album: Freak Out! (2012).

Teenage Fanclub

Origin: Scotland Years Active: 1989 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Power Pop // Indie Rock // Indie Pop // Jangle Pop // Noise Pop Studio Albums: 12 Personal Favorite Album: Bandwagonesque (1991).

Tenacious D

Origin: USA Years Active: 1994 - Present Genre(s): Comedy Rock // Acoustic Rock // Hard Rock // Heavy Metal Studio Albums: 4 Personal Favorite Album: The Pick Of Destiny (2006).

The B-52's

Origin: USA Years Active: 1976 - Present Genre(s): New Wave // Dance-Rock // Post-Punk // Art Pop Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: Wild Planet (1980).

The Bangles

Origin: USA Years Active: 1981 - 1989, 1998 - Present Genre(s): Pop Rock // Power Pop // Paisley Underground Studio Albums: 5 Personal Favorite Album: Different Light (1986).

The Beautiful South

Origin: England Years Active: 1988 - 2007 Genre(s): Pop Rock Studio Albums: 10 Personal Favorite Album: [To Be Confirmed]

The Beatles

Origin: England Years Active: 1960 - 1970 Genre(s): Rock // Pop // Beat // Psychedelia Studio Albums: 12 Personal Favorite Album: Revolver (1966).

The Cars

Origin: USA Years Active: 1976 - 1988, 2000, 2010 - 2011, 2018 Genre(s): New Wave // Pop Rock // Power Pop // Synth-Pop Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: Heartbeat City (1984).

The Clash

Origin: England Years Active: 1976 - 1986 Genre(s): Punk Rock // New Wave // Post-Punk // Reggae // Experimental Rock Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: London Calling (1979).

The Cramps

Origin: USA Years Active: 1976 - 2009 Genre(s): Psychobilly // Punk Rock // Gothabilly // Surf Studio Albums: 8 Personal Favorite Album: Songs The Lord Taught Us (1980).

The Cranberries

Origin: Ireland Years Active: 1989 - 2003, 2009 - 2019 Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Indie Rock // Pop Rock // Jangle Pop // Post-Punk // Dream Pop Studio Albums: 8 Personal Favorite Album: To The Faithful Departed (1996).

The Cure

Origin: England Years Active: 1978 - Present Genre(s): Gothic Rock // Post-Punk // Alternative Rock // New Wave Studio Albums: 13 Personal Favorite Album: Disintegration (1989).

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Origin: USA Years Active: 1997 - 2017, 2023 - Present Genre(s): Mathcore // Metalcore // Experimental Metal // Progressive Metal Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: Miss Machine (2004).

The Doors

Origin: USA Years Active: 1965 - 1973, 1978 Genre(s): Psychedelic Rock // Blues Rock // Acid Rock Studio Albums: 9 Personal Favorite Album: The Doors (1967).

The Killers

Origin: USA Years Active: 2001 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Indie Rock // Post-Punk Revival // New Wave // Heartland Rock // Pop Rock Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: Day & Age (2008).

Them Crooked Vultures

Origin: USA Years Active: 2009 - 2010, 2022 [On Hiatus] Genre(s): Hard Rock // Alternative Rock Studio Albums: 1 Personal Favorite Album: Them Crooked Vultures (2009).

The Network

Origin: USA Years Active: 2003 - 2005, 2020 - 2022 Genre(s): New Wave // Pop Punk // Synthpunk Studio Albums: 2 Personal Favorite Album: Money Money 2020 (2003).

The Offspring

Origin: USA Years Active: 1984 - Present Genre(s): Punk Rock // Skate Punk // Pop Punk // Melodic Hardcore // Hardcore Punk // Alternative Rock Studio Albums: 10 Personal Favorite Album: Ixnay On The Hombre (1997).

The Police

Origin: England Years Active: 1977 - 1986, 1992, 2003, 2007 - 2008 Genre(s): New Wave // Reggae Rock // Post-Punk // Pop Rock Studio Albums: 5 Personal Favorite Album: Reggatta De Blanc (1979).

The Pretty Reckless

Origin: USA Years Active: 2009 - Present Genre(s): Hard Rock // Alternative Rock // Post-Grunge // Blues Rock Studio Albums: 4 Personal Favorite Album: Death By Rock And Roll (2021).

The Prodigy

Origin: England Years Active: 1990 - Present Genre(s): Big Beat // Electropunk // Alternative Dance // Breakbeat Hardcore // Electronic Rock Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: The Fat Of The Land (1997).

The Residents

Origin: USA Years Active: 1969 - Present Genre(s): Art Rock // Industrial // Electronic // Avant-Pop Studio Albums: 49 (De facto. I almost found the actual amount of studio albums but when i took a check, it felt confusing, so, i counted the soundtrack and split albums they released as well since i did listen some whatsoever) Personal Favorite Album: Eskimo (1979).

The Rolling Stones

Origin: England Years Active: 1962 - Present Genre(s): Rock // Pop // Blues Studio Albums: 27 (If counting both the earlier UK and US releases from 1964 to 1967) Personal Favorite Album: Sticky Fingers (1971).

The Runaways

Origin: USA Years Active: 1974 - 1979 Genre(s): Hard Rock // Glam Rock // Punk Rock // Heavy Metal // Glam Punk Studio Albums: 4 Personal Favorite Album: The Runaways (1976).

The Smashing Pumpkins

Origin: USA Years Active: 1988 - 2000, 2006 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock Studio Albums: 12 Personal Favorite Album: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995).

The Smiths

Origin: England Years Active: 1982 - 1987 Genre(s): Indie Pop // Indie Rock // Jangle Pop // Post-Punk // Alternative Rock Studio Albums: 4 Personal Favorite Album: The Queen Is Dead (1986).

The Stooges

Origin: USA Years Active: 1967 - 1971, 1972 - 1974, 2003 - 2016 Genre(s): Proto-Punk // Garage Rock // Hard Rock // Punk Rock Studio Albums: 5 Personal Favorite Album: Fun House (1970).

The Stranglers

Origin: England Years Active: 1974 - Present Genre(s): Punk Rock // Pub Rock // New Wave // Post-Punk Studio Albums: 18 Personal Favorite Album: No More Heroes (1977).

The Strokes

Origin: USA Years Active: 1998 - Present Genre(s): Indie Rock // Garage Rock Revival // Post-Punk Revival // New Wave Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: Room On Fire (2003).

The Vaselines

Origin: Scotland Years Active: 1986 - 1989, 1990, 2006, 2008 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Indie Pop // Indie Rock // Jangle Pop // Noise Pop // Twee Pop Studio Albums: 3 Personal Favorite Album: [To Be Confirmed]

The White Stripes

Origin: USA Years Active: 1997 - 2011 Genre(s): Garage Rock // Blues Rock // Alternative Rock // Punk Blues // Indie Rock Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: White Blood Cells (2001).

The Who

Origin: England Years Active: 1964 - 1982, 1985, 1988 - 1991, 1996 - 1997, 1999 - Present Genre(s): Rock // Hard Rock // Power Pop Studio Albums: 12 Personal Favorite Album: Who Are You (1978).

Third Eye Blind

Origin: USA Years Active: 1993 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Pop Rock // Post-Grunge // Power Pop // Pop Punk Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: Third Eye Blind (1997).

Three Days Grace

Origin: Canada Years Active: 1992 - 1995, 1997 - Present Genre(s): Post-Grunge // Hard Rock // Alternative Rock // Alternative Metal // Nu Metal Studio Albums: 8 (1 as Groundswell + 7 as Three Days Grace) Personal Favorite Album: One-X (2006).

Titãs

Origin: Brazil Years Active: 1982 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Post-Punk // New Wave // Pop Rock // Punk Rock Studio Albums: 17 Personal Favorite Album: Cabeça Dinossauro (1986).

Toadies

Origin: USA Years Active: 1989 - 2001, 2006 - Present Genre(s): Grunge // Punk Rock Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: Rubberneck (1994).

Tonic

Origin: USA Years Active: 1993 - 2004, 2008 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Post-Grunge Studio Albums: 5 Personal Favorite Album: [To Be Confirmed]

TOOL

Origin: USA Years Active: 1990 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Metal // Art Rock // Post-Metal // Progressive Metal // Progressive Rock Studio Albums: 5 Personal Favorite Album: Ænima (1996).

Tripping Daisy

Origin: USA Years Active: 1990 - 1999, 2017 - Present Genre(s): Grunge // Alternative Rock // Neo-Psychedelia Studio Albums: 4 Personal Favorite Album: Bill (1992).

Twenty One Pilots

Origin: USA Years Active: 2009 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Electropop // Alternative Hip Hop // Rap Rock // Indie Pop // Pop Rock Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: Blurryface (2015).

Twisted Sister

Origin: USA Years Active: 1972 - 1988, 1997, 2001, 2003 - 2016, 2023 Genre(s): Heavy Metal // Glam Metal // Hard Rock Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll (1983).

Tyler, the Creator

Origin: USA Years Active: 2007 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Hip Hop // West Coast Hip Hop // Jazz Rap // Neo Soul // Hardcore Hip Hop // Horrorcore (Early) Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: Flower Boy (2017).

Type O Negative

Origin: USA Years Active: 1989 - 2010 Genre(s): Gothic Metal // Doom Metal Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: World Coming Down (1999).

Van Halen

Origin: USA Years Active: 1973 - 2020 Genre(s): Hard Rock // Heavy Metal // Pop Rock // Arena Rock // Glam Metal Studio Albums: 12 Personal Favorite Album: 1984 (1984).

Vein.fm

Origin: USA Years Active: 2013 - Present Genre(s): Metalcore // Hardcore Punk // Mathcore // Nu Metal Studio Albums: 2 Personal Favorite Album: Errorzone (2018).

Velvet Revolver

Origin: USA Years Active: 2002 - 2008 [One-Off Reunions: 2010, 2012] Genre(s): Hard Rock // Alternative Metal Studio Albums: 2 Personal Favorite Album: Contraband (2004).

Warrant

Origin: USA Years Active: 1984 - Present Genre(s): Glam Metal // Hard Rock Studio Albums: 9 Personal Favorite Album: Dog Eat Dog (1992).

Warren Zevon

Origin: USA Years Active: 1965 - 2003 [Died 2003] Genre(s): Rock // Folk Rock Studio Albums: 12 Personal Favorite Album: Excitable Boy (1978).

Ween

Origin: USA Years Active: 1984 - 2012, 2015 - Present Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Experimental Rock Studio Albums: 9 Personal Favorite Album: The Mollusk (1997).

Weezer

Origin: USA Years Active: 1992 - Present [Hiatus: 1997 - 2000] Genre(s): Alternative Rock // Power Pop // Pop Rock // Indie Rock // Pop Punk // Geek Rock // Emo Studio Albums: 15 Personal Favorite Album: Weezer/Green Album (2001).

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Origin: USA Years Active: 1976 - Present Genre(s): Comedy // Parody // Polka // Geek Rock Studio Albums: 14 Personal Favorite Album: Even Worse (1988).

Wings

Origin: England Years Active: 1971 - 1981 Genre(s): Soft Rock // Pop Rock Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: Venus And Mars (1975).

Within Temptation

Origin: Netherlands Years Active: 1996 - Present Genre(s): Symphonic Metal // Alternative Metal // Gothic Metal // Doom Metal (Early) Studio Albums: 8 Personal Favorite Album: The Silent Force (2004).

Wolfmother

Origin: Australia Years Active: 2004 - Present Genre(s): Hard Rock // Blues Rock // Stoner Rock // Neo-Psychedelia // Experimental Rock Studio Albums: 6 Personal Favorite Album: Wolfmother (2005).

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Origin: USA Years Active: 2000 - 2014, 2017 - Present Genre(s): Garage Punk // Garage Rock // Indie Rock // Art Punk // Dance-Punk // Post-Punk Revival Studio Albums: 5 Personal Favorite Album: It's Blitz (2009).

Yelawolf

Origin: USA Years Active: 2005 - Present Genre(s): Hip Hop // Rap Rock // Country Rap // Southern Rock Studio Albums: 7 Personal Favorite Album: Love Story (2015).

ZillaKami

Origin: USA Years Active: 2014 - Present Genre(s): Hip Hop // Trap Metal // Nu Metal // Hardcore Punk // Emo Rap Studio Albums: 1 Personal Favorite Album: [To Be Confirmed]

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And i guess this is it, i tried my best at researching all that, i may include some more of them later on but as usual, it will depend if their songs are good enough to be part of my personal favorites.

Also, i'm not quite interested in continuing to make more critiques of their studio discographies so, otherwise, it will be put on hold.

Now, i would like to know something. What do you think of these bands and artists i mentioned here? Do you enjoy listening to them as well? You can just comment here anytime you want to, i don't mind if it's empty or not.

With that, i conclude this blog. See you then.

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A year of disinformation around the war in Ukraine

Here are some of the main narratives, false or misleading, that have been fact-checked over the past year.

LONDON: The war in Ukraine has been accompanied by a ferocious battle of disinformation, waged in particular by pro-Russian agitators seeking to distort and shift the blame for many atrocities on the ground.

These agitators have sought to depict the Ukrainian side as Nazis or suggest that Western support for Kyiv is evaporating.

Here are some of the main narratives, false or misleading, that have been fact-checked over the past year.

All an act?

Russian authorities themselves have propagated the idea that some of the worst atrocities -- such as the massacre of civilians in Bucha not far from Kyiv in April 2022 -- were staged.

In this case, two clips of poor-quality video footage were used to imply that people were only pretending to be dead, which AFP was able to debunk thanks to its teams on the ground.

Many other videos have been spread widely on social media with similar allegations that some horrific crimes were staged.

But the accompanying footage turned out to be completely unrelated, such as a rap video, a sci-fi film or a Russian TV series.

Media in the firing line

Many of the accusations point the finger at the world's major media organisations. Countless screenshots have been shared on this theme, for example, claiming to show that CNN used old footage completely unrelated to the war in its coverage.

Other internet users have taken aim at television channels, accusing them of broadcasting images of people bandaged and bloodied, but only pretending to be wounded. In fact, they were very real victims of Russian attacks.

Accusing Ukraine of Nazism

A flood of false claims online parrot Moscow's narrative that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the head of a gang of "Nazis" or "drug users".

Thus, social media posts have been shared worldwide saying that a man covered in Nazi tattoos was a chief of police in Kyiv or that Zelensky had been photographed in a football shirt imprinted with a swastika.

The drug accusations have circulated alongside manipulated video footage of questionable quality, claiming to prove Zelensky's cocaine addiction.

Anti-refugee narrative

Ukrainian refugees have also been targeted, particularly in neighbouring countries such as Poland and Slovakia.

Manipulated or misleading photos or videos have proliferated online purporting to show refugees as neo-Nazis, criminals or the source of trails of garbage on public transport.

Other misleading messages, shared in different European nations, claim that Ukrainian refugees are paid more in social benefits than pensioners or veterans in the host countries.

Betrayed by its allies?

Another recurrent theme is the alleged betrayal of Ukraine by its neighbour and ally, Poland.

Thus, weather maps are manipulated to suggest that Poland wants to annex part of Ukrainian territory, or documents are falsified to show that Warsaw is planning to establish a protectorate in western Ukraine.

Other social media posts suggest that support for Kyiv is not as watertight as the West would like to believe.

There are photoshopped images of anti-refugee posters in Prague or Warsaw; manipulated photos of anti-Zelensky street art in major cities around the world; or fake front pages of the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, mocking Zelensky.

Sanctions and energy crisis

Disinformation has also focused on energy issues against the backdrop of Western sanctions against Russia, and skyrocketing oil and electricity prices.

In addition to countless incorrect claims about prices or supplies, posts say the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell wants to ban homes from being heated above 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees Fahrenheit).

A massive campaign came to light in Europe in which leading news sites -- mainly in Germany but also other European countries -- were being imitated to pump out pro-Moscow messages.

The website of Germany's top tabloid, Bild, for example, appeared to feature an article about a boy killed in a cycling accident in Berlin after streetlights were turned off at night, as Europe's top economy faced an energy crunch.

But the news site and the article were fake.

#Ukraine #war

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