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bbygirldahyun · 11 months

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i think some people missed the point that she wore it in new york (where people from diff backgrounds reside, including jewish people) multiple times and even went to a jewish owned establishment. i mean even if she did it somewhere else, i think the backlash would still be the same but walking with it in front of the very place wherein it is highly offensive? it just feels like a slap in the face to them.

even if she truly had no ill intentions over it, not everybody who saw her walk with it would know that. to them, she's just another one of those hateful bastards who probably wishes evil to them. because she's wearing a the very symbol of the ideology that literally promotes that.

and as an influential celebrity, their whole team knows just how big her reach and influence is. have you ever seen how fans have the power to sell out products just bcs their favorite celebrity used them? rare item or not, young, under and misinformed fans can be influenced into thinking nothing's wrong with the shirt just because their faves wore it and got no backlash, that's how damaging it can be! and i am honestly also appalled by how not a single soul in their team, both the local and international, bothered to tell her that the shirt she's wearing is offensive, nor double checked her photos before posting them in ig.

when you're a celebrity, intentions aren't always important because not everyone will know and bother to know the truth. what the general public knows however, is how you used your influence to do, show and promote goodness or wickedness. what she did however was... even if it was unintentional.

anyway, if u guys can't respect the writers' decisions then go find other writers or go read somewhere else. it's not their obligation to write what you want because it's you requesting from them so you adjust to what they're comfortable with.

yes yes yes to everything that you said! to display nazi imagery in america right now is a charged statement, especially as you said when in NYC and especially in a jewish owned establishment. like just today i saw a video of people with nazi flags and imagery outside disney world. promoting that shit. how is the average passerby in america supposed to look at chaeyoung wearing that shirt and think she’s any different than the neo nazis outside disney right now? even if it was a “mistake,” it’s a grave one and still deserves reproach.

antisemitism is at an all time high in america right now. everyone in my community is terrified all the time. and clearly her promoting the imagery and ideology intentionally or not has emboldened people to spew nazi antisemitic bullshit and feel like they can get away with defending her behavior! that is exactly why her actions and her “apology” are not something i’m willing to brush under the rug. she used her influence and platform to promote that imagery, she should be using it now to do some antisemitism education to make up for her actions if she’s truly sorry.

but truthfully i can’t say i’m surprised by peoples blind defense. disappointed, yes, but not surprised. so many people don’t take antisemitism seriously and this just continues to prove that to me.

#ask #namihyunrights #tw nazi mention

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the-silver-peahen-residence · 7 months

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||Summoning Chaos 6: Demonic blade meets the dark knight||

Hi guys, Peahen mom here. I just finished reading a pretty funny drabble my amazing friend wrote and thanks to that, I have to add to this! So...here's another part! Lets get right into it.

If you wanna know how this started; chapters are under this:

~~Chapters~~

The first incident in NYC

The second Incident In Japan

Spectator notes version part three/Port Mafia incident report

Spectator notes version part four/Tokyo Jujutsu High report

The fifth incident in the Soul Society

((Your reading part six that takes place in Neo Gotham))

||Drabble summary||

It just seems Wyvern can't stop getting into trouble after the recent events that happened and now it has struck in the Soul Society. Now one could be wondering; did it stop? Well....No. Because now it seems Wyvern has started trouble in Neo Gotham. Lets see how the dark knight feels about this?

~~Guests in Drabble~~

The DBT, Van Ink the dragon and her great sword Wyvern belongs to the amazing and super cool friend of mine @demon-blood-youths

Terry Mcginnis a.k.a Batman, Maxine Gibson a.k.a codename Black cat belongs to me and is from the animated show Batman Beyond. Some others will be seen or mentioned in the drabble.

Seems like the DBT has gotten used to the city of Neo Gotham and it seems Terry was happy about it. Seeing and hearing they have really did well but he was unsure about how they been. Shdwkyz seems to be doing just fine too so they were hanging out together. Maxine was talking with Fosh about some new codes and things and the others chatting and eating like nothing was wrong.

"So then I get why you were so busy. Is that what you were saying?" Fosh asked seeing the new program that Maxine nods.

"Yeah! That way, if you need a back up, you can download this if you wish." she smiled as everyone else was happy about it. However, that's when a phone call happened on both Maxine and Fosh's laptops.

"Huh?" The two looks to open it but saw a video call with head chief Barbara Gordan was in her office but she seemed a bit upset about something.

"Ummm, is something wrong miss Commissioner?" Maxine asked.

"You guys need to come to the downtown station..Now." she said with arms crossed but the hackers blinks but looked nervous. "Ummm okay?"

"Oh, and bring Ink with you. I need to talk to her and her fraction as well." she said before ending the call to leave the hackers quiet. Everyone else blinks wondering what was going on.

"Uhhh what's wrong?" Terry asked but Maxine sighed.

"The chief wants all of us at the station like right now.." she said.

"Huh? But why?" Navarro asked.

"I don't know. She seems a bit upset about something but she means everyone..even Ink too." Maxine said as she tense to blink to Shdwkyz look at her.

"Ink.."

"Ummm..I didn't do it? "She said giggling nervous but Shdwkyz sweatdrops before sighing.

"Even so, lets hurry. We shouldn't keep her waiting." Max said seeing everyone getting up to head to the station. Now they were curious to what is happening.

~~~Later that day at the station~~~

Ink was sitting in the chair while seeing the others in shock after being called in a while ago. However, they were not expecting Barbara to be a bit upset while having her arms crossed over her chest. Though, why would she be upset? Well.....

"Okay, I'm going to try to say this as calm as I can..." she said taking a deep breath then speaks: "HOW THE HECK DID ONE SWORD DO ALL THIS DAMAGE IN GOTHAM!?" she said to see Ink tense looking nervous while Sai and Terry blinks to hear this.

"Wait, what do you mean?" he asked but Barbara sighed to look at Terry.

"What do I mean? You mean you haven't heard of the recent reports this week about some demon sword flying around?! I been getting call after call about the same thing: A scary demon sword comes crashing through the streets spreading fear into all!" she said but The DBT, Terry, and Maxine blinks to see her sigh.

"Ummmm...No? I mean, I been busy doing something at the time. I didn't expect anything like that to happen!" Terry said but Barbara sighed.

"If you don't believe me...then look at this." She said seeing one officer walk over with a huge stack of complaints and reports and it was thick! The officer slams it on the desk that it shook startling the group.

"This!" she said hitting the folder, "Is all the reports, work, cases, and other things regarding one thing: THAT SWORD! You can take a look through if you need to." she said as Hellmare did that to open the file and look. She begins showing pictures of destroyed shops, buildings, some streets, even a tower!?"

"Hmmmm...these looks like the same areas we did mission while staying here for a few months to help out." she said camly while Fosh and Maxine looks seeing the damage.

"How the hell!?" Maxine was shocked as Fosh had a deadpanned expression seeing the damaging areas.

"Geez! Not again!" he said but Barbara blinks.

"Wait, again!? this has happened before!" she said.

"Well...yes but not here! It's...How can I explain this? You see, Ink's sword is well....he has a mind of his own and he tends to be a bit.....destructive. He did the same back home, in japan, toyko, yokohoma, and-"

"Now here." she said to look at Navarro who rubs the back of his head.

"And your telling me that Miss Van ink's sword is a living being of it's own that so happens to do all this. How do I know it's not Ink that caused this!?" she said.

"Well, it's not just that! It only happens when Ink tries to summon him!" Maggie said but Barbara was silent.

"........"

"Again, hard to explain." she mutters that the chief pinches the bridge of her nose to try taking this all in before looking at them.

"Uh huh, so this great sword has done all this just by her summoning it or having a mind of it's own. Are you sure about that?" she said.

"Yes!" The DBT said but Barbara sighed.

"So you expect me to believe that her sword did this? The destructive of the buildings, chaos, bad guys running away like girls over a sword?! And now your telling me it is alive!" she said.

"But he is! Look, I can prove it!" Ink said.

"You can't be serious miss van ink." she said.

"No no! It's true just watch!"

"iNK WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Navarro said trying to stop her but it was too late.

"WYVERN!" she calls out loud for him to hear as Barbara blinks seeing this and the same for Terry and Maxine. The DBT sweatdrops in silence but Ink opens her eyes to look.

"Oh come on! WYVERN!........WYVERN!..." she shook her had but growls to go to the window and open it. "WYVERN, YOU GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!! STOP BEING A DUMB BUTT!!" she shouted comically.

'God dang it Ink..' Sai thought shaking his head with a face palm that Terry sweat drops not getting this.

"Does...does she always call her sword like this?" he asked.

"Yeahhhhhhhh......we will explain later." Rust said rubbing the back of his head seeing Ink still calling out for the sword. Barbara sighed waiting to stop.

"Okay, I think I've seen enough. You guys will have to let us take her in. If she did this, she caused a lot of property damage." she said.

"Wait, I'm sure we can talk about this!" Opheila said worried seeing the cops about to arrest Ink until....something loud was heard like something smashing and breaking from outside.

"Huh?"

Everyone looks to see something coming and heading right towards the building. "Uhhhh guys?" Maxine said seeing something sending smoke up to the sky and people shouting and moving.

"IT'S THE DEMON SWORD AGAIN! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

"PLEASE SPARE US MONSTER SWORD! WHAT DID WE DO THIS TIME!!"

"I JUST GOT THIS DAMN WALL FIXED! CURSE YOU DAMN FUCKING SWORD!"

A few people was shouting from the city but everyone looks to the window before seeing something shot past in a loud boom! Wyvern was flying at high speed to the call of it's owner destroying everything in front or breaking it.

"What...is that?!" one cop said.

"It's a sword....and.." the second one said before everyone begins to move.

"It's coming towards the building! EVERYONE GET OUT OF THE WAY!! MOVE MOVE MOVE!" The cops shouted to see it smash through the building causing a large hole as the DBT's eyes widen seeing that.

"WYVERN! NO DON'T DO THAT!-" ink winces hearing more smashing and cars exploding now from the garage down below. Everyone was shocked even Barbara was.

'A sword..wait, they were telling the truth!? What the hell!?' she said in her mind but hearing more police cars being cut or blowing up as she heard cops screaming and ducking as the sword was smashing through.

"RUN AWAY!! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!" Some scream or some duck from the blade to see it going up and breaking through the ceiling heading towards Barbara's office. The whole building shook but before Barbara can ask, a loud smash was heard seeing her desk breaking in half and shredding the document as pieces of paper was flying everywhere.

Wyvern showed up in all his glory. "Dang it Wyvern! I don't get why you do that! Get down here!" she reaches for him only to see him fly towards Ink quickly and smack her in the forehead. "OW!"

"I........." everyone looks to see her arguing with the sword with a swollen lump on her forehead.

"........"

"Her sword is very violent.....that's a lot of damage." Terry said. "Are you guys sure it's not some sword a gang cursed?" he asked but when Sai tries to explain, Wyvern heard that and quickly goes to hit Terry right in the face through a wall.

"TERRY!" Sai and Maxine rushes to see him but saw him knocked out with stars over his head and swirly eyes. He groans but at least he was not dead. "Owwwwwwwwwww......"

"......."

"....O..Okay....I believe you." Barbara said in shock but Fosh sweatdrops.

"I...we will pay for the damages for this. We are soooo sorry ma'am." he said.

"...........You know what? I....I'm at a lost of words here....I...." she held her head to sigh. "I'm getting too old for this." she sweatdrops as Sai tries to wake terry.

"I'M SORRY SAI!! I REALLY REALLY AM SORRY! I DIDN'T KNOW WYVERN WAS GOING TO ATTACK HIM LIKE THAT!" Ink cries worried but Shdwkyz said nothing.

"We really need to be sure you keep him with you at all times...though I don't think he will stop even if we tried anything." Maggie said with the DBT agreeing. However, Sai was quiet to only sigh.

"Ink.."

"Uhhhhh..y...yeah?" she said but Shdwkyz turns ready to bonk her on the head. Yeah..he was a bit upset.

"Uh oh..."

"........."

"N..Now Sai, come on! I'm sorry! I can fix this!" she said backing up with a sweatdrop.

"I'm sure you can...but I just want to talk first." he said but Ink knew better.

"Ummmmm...I have one thing to say." she said but when she takes a breath to speak, she quickly turns to run out the office.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE INK!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I'M SORRY!! WYVERN IS SORRY!!" she screams running from the phantom slasher.

"WE TOLD YOU TO KEEP THE SWORD WITH YOU! HOW LONG AS THIS BEEN GOING ON!?"

"AGAIN, I CAN'T HELP IT! WYVERN DOES THIS AND I CAN'T STOP HIM FROM DOING THAT! DX"

"THAT'S NOT FIXING THE PROBLEM!!!" he said.

"I'M STILL SORRY! PLEASE I DON'T WANNA GET BONKED ON THE HEAD AGAIN!"

"GET OVER HERE INK!" he said still chasing her.

The DBT, Barbara, and Maxine was seeing this but Fosh shook his head to look and sigh. He got right to work on sending money to pay for the damages within Neo Gotham. Though, he asked.

"Second, how badly are we talking of damages?" he asked but Barbara held a total of damages. When he saw it his eyes widen.

"HOW MUCH!?" he screamed only to fall back and pass out. Yeah, it was a lot. "Fosh!? Hey wake up!" Maggie said as he twitched but Maxine sweatdrops.

'Well...this turned out to be one crazy start of the night.' Max said as the chaos was unfolding. Though, at least Neo Gotham got to meet the demon greatsword of Van ink. Sorta.

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priokskfm · 6 months

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#FREEDOWNLOADS #FREEPROMO #RADIOCHART Jovonn Interviewed By Lenny Fontana For True House Stories® # 121 TRUE HOUSE STORIES® W/ JOVONN # 121 INTERVIEWED BY LENNY FONTANA A native of Brooklyn and current resident of Queens (New York), Jovonn has been active in the music scene since the age of 10. Supported by his mother, a keyboard player; and father, a guitar/bass player, who were aspiring R&B singers; he was nurtured with a solid musical foundation. Jovonn began his career as a Hip-Hop DJ at the age of 14 and started spinning records at those infamous New York block parties of the 80s where he was introduced to the growing New York House music scene, hanging out in seminal Brooklyn clubs such as Sapphires, Club Saturn and Club Serene. Years later clubs such as The Loft, The Choice, Snobbusters and Zanzibar, solidified his full commitment to House music. Exploding onto the house scene in 1991 with his second release, “Turn and Runaway” on Warner Bros. Records, (which reached number 10 on the Billboard chart and catapulted Jovonn on to the global scene) He then went on to set up his first record label, Goldtone Records, in the early 1990’s via Emotive Records (label compilation dropped on clone last year) and since then has produced more than 500 records in the House, R&B, Hip-Hop and Neo Soul genres, not to mention film scores and soundtracks although his true love has always been House music. A pioneer of the NYC, New Jersey, 90’s house sound, he’s produced many classics with releases such as as “Back In the Dark”, “Garage Shelter”, “I Can’t Make Up My Mind”, “I Wanna Go To A Club” that all contain Jovonn’s distinctive vocal delivery and trade mark production, as the man says himself ‘gritty sounds, hard kicks, jazzy chords and a phat bassline’. Other releases in Jovonn’s impressive discography include ‘Something About this Love’ (on WestEnd Records), “The Spirit” album (on Track Mode), and the “Blaque House” album on Code Red. More recently he’s delivered releases on prestigious labels such as Dogmatik, Objektivity, Deeply Rooted House and Apollonia, showcasing his talents to a new audience of house music lovers. Jovonn launched his new label venture Body N’Deep in 2017 via clone distribution, dedicated to releasing the hottest deep and raw underground house tracks from Jovonn and his crew of producers and vocalists including tracks from legendary artists such as Karizma, Delano Smith and Louie Vega. His recent album ‘Timeless’ was released and received great reviews from DJ’s and Press, showcasing Jovonn’s trademark new jersey sound. Look out for a busy release schedule throughout 2020 on Body N’Deep and a new Jovonn album later in the year. Скачать: https://ift.tt/Apw1XQL https://ift.tt/XWqHsDJ

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meanypunches · 11 months

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I have been rewatching lately the documentary “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror”. The second time around particularly I find it interesting watching the interviewed talking heads as subjects themselves rather than merely subject matter experts, this perhaps unintentional collection of urban hipsters, new age pagans and intellectuals. I’m surprised but I think someone should make a real movie about a hipster cult of neo-pagans, tattooed new age bookstore owners and decadent college professors getting together to perform human sacrifice, a kind of urban folk horror as opposed to the stereotypical rural folk horror. A friendly family from Kansas arrives in NYC for vacation and to “see the sights” only to find themselves imprisoned beneath a hip Lower East Side cafe, forced to take part in bizarre rituals of avant-garde performance art until they beg for their lives…

My original review below of the documentary “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror”:

Once you get going with this it is really hard to stop. What do I mean by “this”? I am including analysis of society, film and communication in this bucket which I keep filling up. This movie is full of such odds and ends useful in filling up this bucket we call society. Carry it out into the dark woods and see if you can find the old well called “folklore”. The intellectuals in this film really dance around the flames, the fear on display here, but they can’t quite seem to jump into the possibility that they and other urban members of society, these and other ‘decision-makers’ either in their own or someone else’s mind, with all their fancy ideas, financial centres, “academic industries” and cultural power, still really don’t have any ability to control what’s going to happen and really don’t know very much about what’s really happening all around them. This analysis and rational debate then seems to have a blind spot, a shadow into which these intellectuals cannot see, something at the bottom of the dark well, indiscernible in the torchlight flickering against the trees in the dark wood, and this terrifies them, so they make movies and perform analysis about human sacrifice and weird cults out in the country in an attempt to come to terms with their own powerlessness and lack of control. Here you could reference Pynchon’s mythology (Gravity’s Rainbow) and the fear of death embodied in the path of that rocket. These commentators in the film touch without directly naming the Yerkes-Dodson law from communication studies that shows high stress (or high information) reduces performance (attention, awareness or even understanding). To emphasize, no one in the film names this directly, but again they blame “the Internet” and high information rate for why we all feel so disconnected from reality. So what is reality? What is the soul? What is this power which we all feel yet cannot control? The poor modern intellectuals discover they are just as much in the dark as the premodern bumpkins out in the countryside (the ‘folk’). The academics seek to shift their frame of reference in order to compensate for such a blind spot, but unfortunately cannot seem to leave behind the coding (‘true/false’) of their own subsystem of communication. Listen closely enough, you might hear the sound of this bucket hit whatever happens to live at the bottom of this bottomless well.

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ky-ancom · 1 year

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Ok, so, I want my Tumblr account to be more geared towards exploring my creativity.

I tried that with Twitter, I had a number of threads I put a good deal of thought into that if I put some more work into them would definitely qualify as a good groundwork for a video essay. But ultimately Twitter is not a good place for that, especially because it is really fecking hard to find your older tweets.

Besides, I highly doubt Twitter would be a place for the kind of creativity that sparked this particular post.

The short version is, for the first time in years, I wrote a poem. I was trying to get to bed the other day, and my thoughts turned to an old TTRPG character I used to play in a game that faded off a while back. And this poem came to me almost in its entirety as something he would have written.

A bit more background: the game was Mutants and Masterminds 3rd Edition (a great, if not incredibly complex system), it was a 1 on 1 game just the GM and myself as the sole PC, and it was set in the Marvel Universe, not the MCU mind you but some numbered universe (I forgot what number my best friend, the GM, gave it). My character was Olly Morgan, who started the game as an ordinary member of Midtown High School's senior class of 2019 (or 2020, I forget exactly) and he was on a friend group consisting of Junior Year students Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, Jessica Jones, and Gwen Stacy. And he would go on to become a far left anti-fascist vigilante known as The Red Specter.

How exactly Oliver gained his "powers" is really a story for another post. But what's important as lead up to this poem is that he became bonded with an Onryo (a Japanese spirit of vengeance made most famous internationally by movies like The Grudge and The Ring), who was murdered by members of Hydra during WWII. And due to their shared desire to...render unto fascists the only thing a fascist deserves, the two of them wound up being a very effective duo (mechanically she was a very powerful custom built entity brought into combat by a summoning power on my character sheet, it essentially worked out that I had two character sheets and I would play both mechanically in combat, but in RP and cinematic moments she would be controlled as an NPC by the GM). To explain their situation in game, she would either remain invisible or take on a physical visage of her living form and pose as an exchange student staying with Olly. When they were out solving NYC's neo-nazi problem she adopted a "superheroine" persona of Shin Rei (the name was my friends idea insisting the character would become fascinated by American superheroes and anime after meeting Olly's friend Peter), and together they worked toward the ultimate goal of finding the member of Hydra that had murdered her so that her soul could finally be at rest. And in true Marvel Comics inspired fashion, the two eventually fell in love (my friend is a notorious shipper when it comes to fictional universes).

We never actually played through all of that story, but we did play through a number of flash forwards in The Red Specter's and Shin Rei's story. Including their final farewell after finally avenging her death.

I have only cried I think three or four times due to how moving a TTRPG game/session has gotten. This was one of them. Just thinking about their last day together knowing they would very likely never be together again still rips my heart out in a way very few things outside the works of Mike Flanagan ever have. My friend is really good at doing goofy AF stories, as you no doubt have glimpsed upon in this rambling post, but damn is she a master at knowing just how to hit her players right their cores when the scene calls for it.

And it was to that moment that my mind lingered back to the other day. Specifically in the days after his love's long delayed departure to the afterlife. We only played a scant handful of sessions that took place after this moment, but I knew that Olly would be in a very dark place afterwards for quite some time. And it was thinking about this that the following haiku series came to me, literally as if Olly were reciting it in my mind (apologies in advance if this is about to be as abysmal as Vogon poetry, I haven't written anything like this in YEARS).

For Keiko

Our hard won fights fade

Like the final winter snow

Melts in spring time

Spider lilies grow

Beside and on your grave stone

Marking your passing

Dearest faint spirit

Your memory follows me

Raining like confetti

Rest easy now love

The undiscovered country