#participatory planning

[txttletale]

hi I've been following you for a while and I had some questions about MLism. First, while I think I have a decent understanding of how it works economically, how would a ML government (after the revolution) ensure it doesn't become too powerful? like what systems would be put in place so that it hears public opinion and dissent (should there be any) and not try to maintain power through oppressive means?

Secondly, what would the aftermath of the revolution look like? once the government is overthrown, there will most likely be a period of instability where different factions trying to sieze control. How would the MLs make sure that they get seated in power?

I am genuinely trying to learn more about it, so I'm sorry if those questions are ignorant. Thanks!

i mean, that first part? i'll be completely honest with you and say that in my opinion that's a partially unsolved problem. i think that lenin's prescriptions in state & revolution, based on the actions of the paris commune--that all 'officials' should be subject to democratic recall at any time and paid no more than anyone else--would be a good start.

but of course the USSR did not ossify and see abuses of power because its leaders simply forgot about what lenin wrote--the centralization of power and limiting of worker democracy was a direct result of the newly formed state apparatus having to fight brutal years-long civil war followed as mere decade later by a brutal years-long international invasion. & this is of course a situation that will be faced by any serious socialist government & their newly formed apparatus!

however, on the other hand -- cuba has succesfully maintained an incredible system of participatory democracy. i think that mao's idea of the 'mass line' -- that theory must constantly be in dialogue with the situation on the ground and the situation of the workers -- is vital to maintaining this. in its own time of crisis, during the 90s, instead of 'pulling the ladder up' on workers' councils, cuba expanded and doubled down on its participatory democracy. i think if any nation has succesfully followed lenin's theory and example, it's cuba, and the mass workplace and municipal democracy that the cuban communist party has invited should be the model for any future socialist revolution.

and quite frankly the reason why MLs will 'take power' after the revolution is because marxism-leninism is the only revolutionary socialist ideology with a plan and ability to take and maintain power over the bourgeoisie. i think one thing reading lenin will very much clarify is that the socialist state is not something that is built after the revolution but a continuation of the revolution -- lenin explains aptly the marxist position that, having taken up arms in order to dethrone the bourgeoisie, to not establish a marxist dictatorship of the proletariat is to throw aside those arms that have already been wielded and used. 'not setting up a worker's state' isn't inaction, but a deliberate choice to be disarmed and helpless in the face of foreign intervention or counterrevolution.

and this is also why i think that while solving the (very real and dangerous!) spectres of bureaucracy, of revisionism, of socialist militias becoming police forces "special bodies of men apart from and above" the people instead of "self-acting armed organizations" of the people is a vital and pressing question for marxism-leninism to address in both theory and practice, it is just as vital to note that only marxism-leninism can succeed to the point where this becomes a problem--only marxism-leninism has shown the historical ability to put the workers in a position of political supremacy that they might risk losing to these flaws and missteps.

& seriously, don't be sorry for asking questions. any questions in good faith are welcomed on this blog, because i'm a communist and i do in fact think it is my job to explain communism to people. have a nice day & don't be so down on yourself!

#ask #Anonymous

[jeremy-queere]

Screw it, I'm posting SQUIP lore anyway

I just spent an hour writing the word "squip" over and over with varying capitalization nuances, so I am posting the exposition whether it is needed or not.

Okay. OKAY. ok. SO. In the pre-musical days where the Be More Chill novel was published and the internet was young and exciting, there was a tie-in website.

I lied. There were TONS of tie-in websites. They all existed in-universe and were ridiculously interconnected, and thank god for the wayback machine. Be More Chill was advertised - or as Jeremy says, "I wrote that above. I wrote Be More Chill too, with the help of my squip, under the name Ned Vizzini, which I figured was so dumb no one would think was real." The websites were linked as product testimonials or website ads (cheekily disclaimered as "Ads by Squipple").

I don't know if I can even collect all the website urls quickly without missing some but here's a spattering (with the link going to the wayback machine). Most of these websites aren't just a single page but an entire site:

Humiliationsheet.com for a list of Jeremy's daily mortification events

Squipette, a SQUIP - but pink!

Bemorechill.com, Jeremy's book website

InterSquip.com for people worried about cybersecurity - with or without a squip, take this pill and see who has one installed!

GenerationSquip.com - Sort of an unreality disclaimer that also serves as fan hype. (How do we know it's old? It suggests we "google 'squip'" and helpfully provides us with a hyperlink to the google home page.) It calls this "the squipiverse" a "100% participatory reality"

Squipped.com - a gossip rag collecting user testimonials about bad experiences with squips. It, like many of these sites, collected fan-submitted content - "Tell us about what happened to you when you came in touch with a squip! (If you don't have a story, use your imagination--we need ruthless tactics to fight the industry.)"

Squipnews.com - collecting SQUiP tips from the community in the fields of Business, Technology, SQUiP & Society, Health, and Entertainment

Iwanttobecool.org - Promoting the use of squips despite those naysayers Squipsters Against Squips. As the site poll asks: "How should we deal with anti-squip cyber-terrorists? - jail time - fines - physical dismemberment"

SQUIPusa.com - SQUIP-specific insurance which regrettably does not cover squipotomy or squipiatry, but does cover some SQUIP viruses: "SQUIPusa squipsters are now entitled to one free virtual session with an Intersquip squipnician for each week they have lost their "coolness" due to a National Squip Board-recognized virus. Valid up to six weeks"

Squipsoft.com, the parent company of squip technology. Its homepage addresses important questions like: how can you get good grades that aren't so perfect as to tip off the authorities? Use "Squipsoft School" which promises "guaranteed averages of 96.82 in every subject" except for Business Ethics or Compubiology. Or install SquipServer, which is an honest-to-god VPN ad: "Using a virtual private network (VPN) framework, this revolutionary technology turns your squip into a server capable of temporarily extending your coolness to up to three acquaintances."

CelebritySquip.com - "What percentage of American Idol finalists have squips?"

SquipWorks.com - Offering add-on tech for your squip like the MakeOut Optimizer 4.0 or the Nanolyzer (which picks up on social clues to one billionth of a meter).

SquipWorld - A more chatty experience of Squips spotted in the wild and other squip news.

Squipzophrenia.com - (I'm not endorsing the term...) - Information about the phenomenon in the novel where, if a SQUIP is turned on while the user drinks alcohol, it starts ordering them to kill people. This site has academic research on the subject and related Squip disorders. "However, [avoiding alcohol] is not a foolproof plan. Marijuana and mescaline can also cause squipzophrenia, although with the mescaline we're not sure and just think it might be the mescaline, you know?" Other squip disorders include "Loss of recognition of squip insertion i.e. 'I didn't take a pill, I'm just cool naturally!'" which can be cured via the Konami code; Squip flashbacks after a Squip is removed (which the site describes as likely false claims for the sake of "perpetuating insurance fraud"); the dangers of buying used Squips on ebay; or feeling that you can't live without your squip: "acute squipdependence. The solution is to surround yourself with calming bright plastic objects and remember that everything is fine."

Squipsters Against Squips - The notorious anti-Squip lobbying group advocating for a National Squip Registry.

Squipster - A squip-based social media platform that sadly doesn't seem to have made it to the public yet.

#be more chill #bmc #squip #idk if tumblr will even show this in the tags because of the many many links

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Ruth Wisse

Hamas recently beat the competition with a demonstration of savagery unlike the earlier improvised pogroms in Europe to which it has been compared. October’s slaughters were plotted with crucial input from Gazans employed in Israeli homes they had scouted and mapped for the purpose, making this the first military campaign designed to culminate in acts of beheading, torture, and rape of predetermined victims. As attempts to destroy Israel through conventional warfare had only made Israel militarily stronger, the new tactics aimed at destroying the Jews’ will to remain among antagonists sworn never to leave them in peace. More than to intimidate, these attacks were made to demoralize.

Survivor-witnesses describe new refinements of psychological warfare. Hamas murdered parents and children in each other’s presence so as to sharpen the survivors’ agony. They took hostages—not, as others do, for eventual exchange—but to taunt the country with images of prisoners’ suffering, and fear that many would never be returned. Every Jewish value—respect for women, honoring the human being who was made in the image of God—was gleefully defiled.

As for the Jews living in nearby Gaza, many of them self-described Jewish “peaceniks,” they had prided themselves on the medical help and hospitality they extended to their Gazan neighbors, persuaded that cooperation was obviously to everyone’s benefit. The terrorists exploited the Jews’ desire for peace as a means of entrapment and further opportunity for torment. By attacking on a Jewish holiday and a secular festival, they intended to destroy the Israelis’ joy in life. Anyone reading Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s exhilarating book about the collective strengths that constitute The Genius of Israel will recognize how Hamas turned precisely those virtues into weapons of torture to tear the Jewish people apart.

October’s slaughters were plotted with crucial input from Gazans employed in Israeli homes they had scouted and mapped for the purpose, making this the first military campaign designed to culminate in acts of beheading, torture, and rape of predetermined victims.

Nor does this exhaust their inventiveness. The Arabs’ strategy of martyring generations of their own people in the cause of eliminating Israel dates back to the 1947 refusal of Arab leaders to accept the partition of Palestine into two states—in order to keep Arabs perpetually homeless. Arabs were to remain permanently displaced as evidence of Israel’s “occupation” while Israel integrated the over 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands and granted participatory citizenship to over 2 million Arabs who chose to remain in its boundaries.

Taking this tactic of martyring their fellow Arabs to a new level, Hamas turned Gaza into suicide central. Above ground, residents were allowed to conduct a quasi-normal life, knowing that, below ground, every school, every hospital, and many private homes were booby-trapped for the Israelis whom their leaders would lure into their cities. The IDF continues to uncover a tremendous amount of infrastructure built over years, confirming Hamas’ intention of invading and killing Israelis en masse. In the words of one of its soldiers “[It] is clear they expected us to arrive and laid plans to exact a cost in the form of IDF casualties.” The attack of Oct. 7 had to be monstrous enough to provoke Israel into full-scale war in the hope of rescuing the hostages and destroying the terrorists—a plan that would also ensure the collateral death of as many Gazans as possible to attract Western sympathy.

#hamas #gaza #kafka #franz kafka #the trial #kafka the trial

[sharklilly]

When he's angry, his pupils expand to be the size of his irises, and the yellows of his eyes become as red as his irises.

arrives at your village the same way any other villager arrives (anytime after three disappearances during jack's residancy)

his house is mostly decorated with the balloon series. there is a display of a completed saber tooth tiger fossil upon move-in. after every villager disappearance, there is a chance for his saber tooth tiger fossil to be replaced with a table upon which an australopith is displayed.

interacts with jack frequently and is generally more active and sociable than other villagers. he's seen interacting with non-villager npcs much more frequently than other villagers as well, and he wants to interact with you much more often.

villagers jack focuses on interacting with will also receive more of scout's attention.

gets mad after interactions with anyone much more frequently than most other villagers, including after interactions with jack.

villagers will begin being more active in the community and more participatory in events.

talking with villagers or npcs while scout or jack are nearby will result in relatively normal but brief interactions.

talking with villagers when away from scout and jack will sometimes cause them to breakdown and beg for them to be removed from the village while expressing feeling unsafe with them around

villagers will make plans to move out more frequently. if a villager plans to move, they might disappear anytime during the process.

villagers planning to move may be seen interacting with jack or scout (scout is more likely). they will sometimes change their mind about moving out after the interaction. they may tell you that they've changed their mind, or they may quietly return to their normal activities.

if you ignore scout too frequently when he wants to talk, he will eventually run up to you and you'll be locked into an interaction with him against your will.

scout usually seeks you out to discuss problems with villagers, other npcs, or with the village itself. if you do not correct whatever issue he's brought to your attention, he will continue to pester you about it with increasing frustration until it gets done.

if you do not participate in events, he will seek you out during the event to insist that you participate since you are the mayor. he will get mad and will reprimand you if you do not participate.

if you do not play for a couple days or longer, he will be at your door when you start the game to ask where you've been and to remind you of your duties that you've been slacking off on.

if you fail to save your game, both resetti and scout appear at your door, resetti reprimanding you and scout informing you of a new autosave feature to prevent further mistakes.

if you try to delete your save file, you meet with resetti who says that you cannot.

disappearances might result in blood patterns appearing anywhere in the village, most often near or within jack, scout, or the villager's house. if not picked up, they will be gone the next day.

if scout gets too upset with you, jack or scout will run up to you at night and knock you out. your screen will go black for a while. turning off the game and turning it back on will not change this. after a few hours, you'll appear in a dark room with a pot at the top left corner and a door at the bottom of the right of the screen.

#animal crossing #creepypasta animal crossing #ac new horizons #acnh #acnl #acnh oc #animal crossing oc #animal crossing tiger #acnh villagers #boisco herati #animal crossing scout

[do-you-have-a-flag]

the one post I saw about burning man on here has missinfo (breaking event so understandable) and a pretty unsympathetic tone (I get it fyre fest or whatever but it is a former arts event that has been around since the 80s a lot of people did not have reason to expect stranded by the weather like this)

there is so much funny and interesting about this event even beyond the rich people stuck in the mud element

if you get a chance to skim the "Event timeline" portion of the Wikipedia article its a mix of creative themes and facts about mishaps

but to summarize the general history and give you a sense of how chaotic this event has been for the last almost 40 years

this event which started as an art collective and encouraged leave no trace trash policies as well as decomodification, a gifting/barter economy, and "radical inclusion and self expression" slowly changed into something critisised as less participatory and more influencer-baity which, when contrasted with the earlier emphasis on self reliance, is a recipe for trouble

By 1988, Larry Harvey formally named the summer solstice ritual "Burning Man" by titling flyers for the happening as such. This was apparently done to ward off references to "wicker man", the reputed Celtic pagan practice of burning live sacrifices in human-shaped wicker cages. Harvey has stated that he had not seen the 1973 cult film The Wicker Man until many years after and claims it did not inspire the action.

THE SOLSTICE BONFIRE OF A HUMAN EFFIGY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MOVIE ???

In 1990, a separate event was planned by Kevin Evans and John Law on the remote and largely unknown playa, known as the Black Rock Desert, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Reno, Nevada.[26] Evans conceived it as a dadaist temporary autonomous zone with sculptures to be burned and situationist performance art. He asked John Law, who also had experience on the dry lake and was a defining founder of the Cacophony Society, to take on central organizing functions of the events. In the Cacophony Society's newsletter, it was announced as Zone Trip No. 4, A Bad Day at Black Rock (inspired by the 1955 film of the same name).

there was a whole OTHER desert art party but this one openly inspired by a CRIME DRAMA?

so anyway several of these desert events of varying artistic and seasonal relevance got merged and grew through word of mouth, Wikipedia gives this insane sentence

1991 was also the year that art model and fire dancer (and later Burning Man's first art director) Crimson Rose attended the event.

this is very much something that started small

There were about 20 participants the first year, and approximately 100 in the second and third year. The annual, several weeks-long event, was held over summer Solstice at various fertile hot springs surrounding the desert. Participants built art and participated in self-directed performances.

and only became a public event in the mid 90s

Some key organizers of Burning Man were also part of Desert Siteworks [...] Hence, the two events saw much cross-pollination of ideas and participants.[...] 1996 was the first year a formal partnership was created to own the name "Burning Man" and was also the last year that the event was held in the middle of the Black Rock Desert with no fence around it.

the year it became a public event 2 deaths happened in the space between camp sites

Harvey insisted that the [crash] had not occurred at Burning Man, since the gates were not yet open. Another couple were run over in their tent by an art car driving to the "rave camp", which was at that time distant from the main camp. After the 1996 event, co-founder and partner John Law broke with Burning Man and publicly said the event should not continue.

so from the late 90s on there's a new location and much more regulations and formal ticket sales, shifting the tone firmly from loose artists commune/solstice bonfire into a more standard festival vibe with the aesthetic qualities of a Mad Max movie.

new rules include:

A grid street structure.

A speed limit of 5 mph (8 km/h)

A ban on driving, except for approved "mutant vehicles" and service vehicles.

Safety standards on mutant vehicles.

Burning of any art must be done on an approved burn platform.

A ban on fireworks.

A ban on animals.

in 2017 someone threw themselves into the flames

in April 2020 covid canceled the event, in September 1000 people tried to hold their own Burning man on a beach and San Francisco's mayor called them reckless and selfish. Similarly some people still showed up to the original location despite it's official cancelation.

in 2021 online events were planned

people showed up to the desert unofficially yet again, even more than in 2020

The Bureau of Land Management implemented restrictions including no structures other than shade structures and no fires other than campfires. There was a massive illuminated drone display outlining the Man instead of the burning of a Man effigy.

the event has had issues of trash, the flames releasing co2, gentrification by silicon Valley, diversity issues

so where we are at now is a lot of clueless and willfully ignorant people, mostly rich, several tech bros, going to an event that used to be an unregulated seasonal arts commune and is now an overpriced photo op with just as much drugs but way less active participation to the point of being like any standard music festival.

and it is in the desert.

and it has flooded for the first time in the event's history due to torrential rain. climate activists trying to block the only route to the event a few days ago make this especially symbolic as an example of dramatic weather conditions.

the mud is solidifying in heavy layers, people are stranded, there are no portable toilets working, they are on limited supplies, they are dressed for a party and celebrities are there and there is a real risk of trenchfoot but no ebola. someone died.

so yes hubris and schadenfreude at the rich people wading through muck during the escalating climate crisis. but also in addition to that a wild event with a wild history for which this is far from the first scandal. there's something to the counterculture and anarchic roots of the event, how they appropriated cultural practices, and how they were commodified in turn. how the pandemic interacted with the messaging of the event, how people with tech money and celebrities got involved, how the event is a particularly flashy and less sympathetic example of climate problems that have been hitting vulnerable communities for years now.

[tanoraqui]

Trick or Treat! Something Silmarillion?

In the early Third Age when Turgon has returned to life and he and Elenwë and Finrod & Amarië are finally fulfilling their long-held plan of having children at the same time, that they might grow up close as siblings like Finrod and Turgon had, Idril and Tuor say, "Hey, we could also do that! We always meant to have more than one child, and there's nothing actually stopping us!"

So they do. Now, there actually is something stopping them a little - the bearing of Elvish or half-Elvish children is more...metaphysically participatory? than that of Men (or Dwarves, etc). For both parents. Tuor had done it once and been fine, but that was in his native land, and even with Ulmo's guardianship and life on Tol Eressëa, which was fairly mild in terms of blessing-intensity, at roughly 3,500 years of age, his fëa is now worn a little thin.

But their daughter is born hearty and whole, and if Tuor is abed for a few weeks with weariness, well, he's back on his feet soon, and Idril is more than strong enough to bear a single mother's spiritual burden now that the babe is born. Indeed, she insists. Unequivocally.

Moriwen ("dark-crowned maiden") is named for her grandmother Rian and the dark brown hair she inherited from her (to no small amusement to many, given that her parents were both very blond). Her hair never quite achieves the natural luster of Elvish locks - instead, it easily gets tangled, bedraggled, and encrusted with sea-salt like her father's.

She grows up on Tol Eressëa at a nearly Elvish pace, because that feels most natural to her, and chooses to live and die (or not) as an Elf. All her friends and family are Elves (or as close as one semi-retired prophet of the sea can be) so why should she wish to be otherwise?

(The Choice is natural to all first-generation half-bloods, though after that, majority-genetics determines it unequivocally, and mortality wins in a coincidentally 50/50 balance...unless complicated by Maiaran blood, see: the heirs of Lúthien. That extends the Choice for a couple more generations, though mortality is still a heavy draw. Usually. Several Valar very quietly wish those guys would stop reproducing because tbh it's freaking them out.)

But the Mannish half of her heritage did enrapture her as well, and even more eagerly than Tuor, she sought tales of mortal Arda from every newcomer to the immortal shores. What were her distant cousins up to now? How was their mastery of metallurgy going? Were Elrond's youngest (her great-niece!) walking yet? Was that cathedral in Osgiliath still under construction?

She started recording accounts, new and old, and copying any books people brought with them when they Sailed. She blinked and she'd founded a library, soon the greatest in Aman for records of mortal lands. She was called Moriwen Peradan ("half-Man"), and for at least half of the Third Age had a thriving covert correspondence with Elrond via specially bred seabirds. (If you combine the migratory endurance of the arctic tern with the seagull's ability to get everywhere, and you're very patient, long-lived, determined, and by a precise intersection of Ainu blood and favor have a particular knack with seabirds, you can create an all-new species that can travel back and forth along the Straight Road, and discreetly share them with family!)

Moriwen ends up marrying Maeglin about a century after his re-embodiment, after he awkwardly shyly sidles into the Great Library of Tol Eressëa to find out (without, god forbid, talking to anyone involved) what happened to Idril's descendants after they survived, y'know, Stuff; and some rom-com mistaken identity shenanigans ensue.

#aniseandspearmint #ask meme #idril #tuor #my fic #ficlet #aman ever after #the silmarillion #peredhil

[maristelina]

MILGRAM 2nd Anniversary Stream Translation

Translated by @/JuriTea_ and @/CatDraft0307 46 Pages, 11675 words.

🎴 Host

🔸Takuya Yamanaka 🔸DECO*27

🎴 Guest Voice Actors

🔸Amami Yurina (Es) 🔸Arthur Lounsbery (Futa) 🔸Yuuka Aisaka (Yuno)

🎴Start at 5 min

🔸Amami: Good evening everyone! We’ll now begin the 2nd anniversary for Milgram, a viewer participatory interactive music project

🔸Everyone: You tripped on your words already?

🔸Amami: Sorry~

🔸Lounsbery: Now I feel at ease, she lowered the bar

🔸Yamanaka: Now that she’s lowered the bar, let’s introduce our guests today. First, Amami-san who just tripped over her words

🔸Amami: Now, sing your crime. I’m Amami Yurina in the role of Es. Pleased to meet you!

🔸Aisaka: I have an idea! I’ll let you rest your head on my lap for 1000 yen. I’m Aisaka Yūka in the role of Yuno. Pleased to meet you.

🔸Lounsbery: Don’t take me lightly just cuz I’m a prisoner! I’m Lounsbery Arthur in the role of Futa, pleased to meet you.

🔸Deco: I’m the sound producer for Milgram, Deco*27. Pleased to meet you

🔸Yamanaka: I’m the screenwriter for Milgram, Yamanaka. Pleased to meet you. These are the members that will be delivering the Milgram 2nd anniversary stream today

🔸Everyone: We’ll be in your care.

🔸Amami: Yamanaka-san and I will be the MCs for today. I hope our viewers today can participate through comments and join the fun with us.

🔸Yamanaka: Actually we’ve been receiving a lot of comments at an alarming rate even before we started

🔸Lounsbery: Plus they’re coming from a variety of different countries. I’m so grateful

🔸Amami: I don't understand them, but thank you! I feel your passion.

🔸Aisaka: The sentiment makes me so happy

🔸Yamanaka: We don’t understand them, but we feel the love

🔸Lounsbery: Thanks everyone

🔸Amami: Milgram is already 2 years old

🔸Everyone: Time passes so fast

🔸Yamanaka: What are you grinning about

🔸Amami: It went by in a flash!

🔸Yamanaka: Were you able to make friends with the prisoners, Es-san?

🔸Amami: Ah yes… I have the opportunity to work closely with the prisoners the most. In the first year we were a little distant, but now, and we’ll talk more about this in the later half, we’re working towards the second trial, and I’ve gotten a little, you know, with Aisaka-san

🔸Aisaka: Yes?

🔸Amami: Closed the distance

🔸Aisaka-san: Did you need to say something to me?

🔸Lounsbery: What??

🔸Yamanaka: The distance is still there

🔸Lounsbery: Your message isn’t getting through to her

🔸Amami: This partition is in the way

🔸Aisaka: She’s right. The two producers.. Yamanaka-san and Deco-san asekd me, have you guys become good friends yet? I told them that even if they want us to, it’s hard to build friendships within the recording time only. Then I was told to go out for meals together, so we’re planning to go in the future.

🔸Amami: in our fantasies, for now

🔸Aisaka: Right, we still haven’t decided on a date yet, but we agreed to go SOMETIME in the future, so it’s a step in the right direction

Amami: Yes, we’re making progress

🔸Yamanaka: Amami-san said she wanted to make friends, so I suggested they share their LINE with each other… but that only happened after a year and a half after I made the suggestion

🔸Lounsbery: Isn’t that a little late?

🔸Deco: Not just a “little”…

🔸Yamanaka: So I’m guessing the meal will happen around two years… two years and a half later

🔸Amami: Yes.. we exchanged our LINEs just recently

🔸Aisaka: Slowly, you know? Deepen our bond one step at a time

🔸Amami: Exactly

🔸Lounsbery: I hope you guys have a meal together before the third trial

🔸Deco: I hope it happens before Milgram ends

🔸Lounsbery: I hope you guys go before Milgram ends

🔸Amami: Okay but we are talking about going to LOFT in Ikebukuro where there’s a Milgram pop up store now together.. Um, before everything ends

🔸Aisaka: But if I didn’t bring it up, Amami wouldn’t even have thought of it

🔸Deco: I was there when it happened. It was Aisaka-san’s idea.

🔸Amami: Aww… okay, let’s go.

🔸Deco: You have to go

🔸Amami: we’ll go for sure

🔸Aisaka: I guess deep down, she’s shy

🔸Amami: Yes you’re right

🔸Aisaka: You can’t tell from her usual friendly self

🔸Amami: I’m embarrassed. Please don't focus the camera on me that much

🔸Lounsbery: Just go out for meals already

🔸Aisaka: Yes, I want to build our friendship one step at a time

🔸Yamanaka: Amami, Deco-san and I have opportunity to chat during the CD limited events, but it’s been a while with the Aisaka and Lounsbery pair.

🔸Lounsbery: Yes.. I think since pre-pandemic times? When everyone got together to celebrate the start of Milgram just when it launched. I feel it’s certainly been a while

🔸Yamanaka: How did you feel about Milgram?

🔸Lounsbery: Eh?

🔸Yamanaka: Arthur-sensei, what was your view on Milgram?

🔸Yamanaka: Arthur-sensei, what was your view on Milgram?

🔸Lounsbery: I think it comes down to, “Ah, so this person is forgiven while this person isn’t?” I had a lot of thoughts about that. We can see the changes in the votes in real time, so I wondered at what point did people have changes of heart. At first you can have this person with majority votes, but before you realize, the other person has more votes. I’m guessing that’s due to everyone changing their minds as the speculations are updated. I want to peek into the thoughts of everyone who follows the websites that post speculations and theories. Like why did they decide they could no longer forgive certain issues.

🔸Amami: True, true

🔸Aisaka: I wonder if people also change their minds from reading the prisoner’s conversations on the timeline. Like if they see some more personal sides of the prisoners on the timeline, and go “What the heck. You’re actually adorable”

🔸Yamanaka: That adorableness is the culprit behind dilemmas when casting votes

🔸Aisaka & Amami: True

🔸Yamanaka: Whether it’s a good thing…

🔸Aisaka: I wonder

🔸Yamanaka: or a bad thing, we can’t know for sure

🔸Lounsbery: True

🔸Amami: I’m trembling

🔸Aisaka: Trembling?

🔸Amami: I’m trembling

🔸Aisaka: You’re trembling

🔸Amami: I’m trembling. As Es, I get the opportunity to touch on stories of the prisoners, so I have more information than my colleagues. I’m already trembling.

🔸Aisaka: Oh my

🔸Amami: Yes. I’m nervous with fear. It’s pretty intense, isn’t it Yamanaka-san?

🔸Yamanaka: It’s intense. Let’s talk about how intense it is later.

🔸Amami: Sounds good!

🔸Lounsbery: I’m sure everyone is eager to know more about the second trial

🔸Amami: Definitely

🔸Yamanaka: Deco-san, how has the two years been? It’s already been two years since we started

🔸Deco: It went by so fast

🔸Yamanaka: It was quick wasn’t it

🔸Deco: We’ll talk more about the second trial later, but I just want to say that it’s so fun to produce contents for Milgram. We receive votes from everyone who’s sending us comments right now, and we come up with new ideas based on those votes. Milgram isn’t only made by the people sitting here, but also by the viewers. I felt it’s a very fresh take, and I had a lot of fun

🔸Yamanaka: We can’t prepare the screenplay or music beforehand. It really feels like a free-style rap based on the answers we get from everyone

🔸Amami: True true

🔸Deco: It’s a lot of hard work

🔸Yamanaka: Like if that’s how you’re gonna come at us, then we’ll add these factors in. I have that side to me and I’m sure Deco-san does too, like adding new information or setting. That’s also a part of the fun over the last two years

🔸Amami: I’m telling you the second trial is really intense

🔸Lounsbery: I really think writing scenarios is a difficult job. Plus people speculate and write their own theories on how things are going to turn out. Do you ever feel like you never want to make those theories come true?

🔸Yamanaka: Yup. The story progression has already been decided though

🔸Lounsbery: Of course

🔸Yamanaka: It’s already been decided, and most of the time I already have a feel for how people are going to guess, and what kind of speculation will be born. But there are times when I see something that comes from a completely different angle, and I feel tempted to direct the story that way because it’s so interesting. That’s how diverse the minds of our audience are from all walks of life and various parts of the world, and I feel great value in our contents.

🔸Lounsbery: That’s wonderful

🔸Yamanaka: Because we want to hear everyone’s opinions and comments, in this stream we will be hosting Q&A sessions with each of our guests for the first time in Milgram history, and we have announcements that everyone might be interested in.

🔸Amami: I’m so excited

🔸Yamanaka: Please stay with us until the end.

🔸Everyone: Please do~

🎴Trial Results

🔸Amami: The current status in Milgram is that the first trial just ended, and we are waiting for the second trial. Let’s have a recap on what happened with each of the prisoners. Here we have 6 prisoners that were forgiven, and 4 that were not.

🔸Yamanaka: They’re in descending order based on the highest percentages. Looking at the results sorted in this way gives me a new impression. Like who was forgiven with the highest percentage of “forgive” votes

🔸Everyone: yes…

🔸Aisaka: Heh~ (I see~)

🔸Yamanaka: It was a very close vote for Mu… She was on the edge of being guilty

🔸Amami: Yes, she almost didn’t make it to innocent

🔸Yamanaka: Jackalope mentioned this too in the video after the first trial, but we can see the history of the actions taken to arrive at forgive/not forgive and the movement of each vote, and I can say that Mu was really on the edge. We really didn’t know how it would turn out until the very end.

🔸Lounsbery: We might have had a different result if the vote lasted longer by 2-3 days

🔸Yamanaka: It’s that unpredictable

🔸Amami?: True, true, both Mu and Yuno were really on the edge

🔸Yamanaka: Now that we look back on it, for example, is that high percentage a correct result for Haruka, or is it that high because people voted when they didn’t quite understand Milgram yet?

🔸Amami: True, true

🔸Deco: That could definitely change.

🔸Lounsbery: True, when people get more familiar with Milgram, their criteria can change

🔸Amami: True, if he was later in the line, it could be possible that he wouldn’t be forgiven. That being said, it’s amazing that Kokoto, being the last, was forgiven with the highest percentage

🔸Aisaka: True! Amazing

🔸Lounsbery: It’s interesting

🔸Amami: All of this ties back into the story, and it makes me so excited

🔸Yamanaka: Are there anything in these results that caught your attention? Like ah, this person got forgiven, but that person didn’t. It’s going to be difficult, you need to avoid spoilers

🔸Amami: Good point

🔸Lounsbery: It’s difficult. Like you have to…

🔸Deco: You have to avoid spoiler questions

🔸Yamanaka: Point out something that surprised you, but without spoilers

🔸Lounsbery: It still hasn’t been revealed yet what each character has done, so I’m worried that I might let something slip here. It scares me a little.

🔸Yamanaka: But was there anything that turned out differently than you expected?

Deco: Kotoko has a scene in her MV that shows her clearly beating someone, yet she was the most forgiven character, and that was unexpected for me. Like, why?

🔸Yamanaka: Those of you who voted to forgive Kotoko, please tell us in the comments why you forgave her

🔸Amami: Please do! I want to know.

🔸Yamanaka: I think Kotoko left a strong impression in her drama… it’s like her route is branching

🔸Amami: Es was moved by her as well

🔸Deco: If Kotoko wasn’t there, Es-kun would have been in a predicament

🔸Amami: True true

🔸Lounsbery: Those who didn’t forgive Futa, I wonder what were their reasons? I really want to know. He did the same thing as Kotoko, so why did people choose to not forgive him?

🔸Amami: True

🔸Lounsbery: So I really want to know everyone’s thoughts about that.

🔸Yamanaka: Some people are saying they didn’t really know so they just voted alternatingly

🔸Amami: There’s one saying that Kokoto’s justice is the type of justice they like

🔸Yamanaka: There are actually a lot of comments saying they didn’t forgive Kotoko

🔸Aisaka: Some are saying they forgave her because she’s cute. I think that’s valid

🔸Amami: Yup

🔸Aisaka: That is a valid decision

🔸Yamanaka: Valid indeed. All are valid

🔸Deco: There’s a comment saying they wanted to see how Futa would react, so they chose not to forgive him

🔸Lounsbery: There’s another one saying that it’s because they don’t like people who are similar to themselves… Is that even a thing?

🔸Deco: That’s so harsh

🔸Yamanaka: Like Deco-san mentioned earlier, instead of those with blatant depictions like Haruka and Kotoko, those without any depictions, like Mahiru, are less likely to be forgiven. It’s interesting how people approach Milgram

🔸Amami: I was really surprised by Mahiru-chan. I wonder why she wasn't forgiven? I read up on a lot of speculations through comments and hashtags, and realized there were so many different ways of how her character was interpreted.

🔸Yamanaka: “Mahiru kinda creeps me out” says this comment

🔸Deco: “Futa was the most difficult”

🔸Amami: Ah, I see…

🔸Lounsbery: If they chose to not forgive, then they would become a perpetrator too. It’s difficult. But it’s so interesting

🔸Yamanaka: It’s interesting… I want to read the comments the entire time

🔸Lounsbery: It’s so interesting to read everyone’s comments

🔸Amami: By the way, what do the two of you producers think about the result?

🔸Yamanaka: Ahh… I don’t know about Deco-san, but in my mind I kind of had a hunch about if this person would be forgiven, or if they wouldn’t be forgiven. I was wrong about 2 people

🔸Amami: Wow, two people?

🔸Lounsbery: Can we ask who?

🔸Yamanaka: Hmm what should I do? Maybe just one… hm, what to do?

🔸Lounsbery: We want to know at least one

🔸Yamanaka: Should I do it? What should I do… Umm

🔸Amami: Hey, tell us

🔸Yamanaka: Um… Mahiru

🔸Amami: Oh… Mahiru-chan

🔸Lounsbery: Did it surprise you?

🔸Yamanaka: Well, not surprised per se, but I pictured that she would be forgiven in the beginning. How about you Deco-san? From a composer perspective. Like did you have a feel for whether a song would lean towards being forgiven, or not forgiven?

🔸Deco: Mahiru.

🔸Amami: So it’s Mahiru

🔸Deco: I thought the result would be the opposite. It was unexpected. The song itself was cheerful, cute, a girl in love.

🔸Amami: The comments are saying her voice drama was scary

🔸Deco: I guess she has this something that’s seeping out of her, and that’s scaring people

🔸Amami: I’ve been told that it’s unrelated, but I’m pretty sure her cover song is also influencing the results

🔸Yamanaka: It’s totally unrelated

🔸Deco: covers of Deco*27’s songs are completely unrelated. Unrelated.

🔸Amami: I know it’s completely unrelated, but the song choice makes people wonder if she has that side to her too.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s unrelated though

🔸Amami: It makes me read into it too deeply

🔸Yamanaka: We’re telling you that it’s unrelated all this time, but you don’t believe us

🔸Amami: But it really makes me wonder why the cover songs were assigned the way they were.

🔸Yamanaka: To add to why I found the results unexpected for Mahiru, I was more surprised at how quickly everyone was adapting to Milgram. The rate at which everyone understood Milgram was faster than I expected. They really gained the proper skills to interpret Milgram MVs, and that’s what made the results this way.

🔸Aisaka: I was really surprised that everyone is thinking this far, when I read the comments on Youtube. Everyone really is skilled

🔸Yamanaka: In that aspect, the transition from Haruka’s THAT PV to Yuno’s girly PV must have surprised everyone. The imagery and music are vastly different in genres. After I write the scenarios, I just leave everything to Deco-san and Otoiro-san. I’m always excited to see the results

🔸Deco: I think writing the screenplay, which will be the base for everything, is the most difficult part

🔸Yamanaka: No, I’d say the acting is the most difficult

🔸Lounsbery: No no no, now we’re just going in circles. Someone’s gotta stop it.

🔸Amami: I personally think the theories for Amane-chan are the most interesting. People were saying that she’s a child, so if they forgive her… well ultimately she wasn’t forgiven.. But.. was that part of your intentions when you wrote the scenario?

🔸Yamanaka: Yes

🔸Amami: He said yes

🔸Yamanaka: Well what I mean is, I gave elements that could be thought as forgivable or unforgivable to every character. We don’t know what Amane has done yet, but despite her crime, she’s still a child. I’ve added elements that could be interpreted differently by audiences depending on the stage of their lives. For example, opinions may differ depending on if the viewer is a child, or parents, or someone who just had a child. For Amane-chan, age is definitely an important factor

🔸Amami: Amazing

🔸Lounsbery: It’s been thought through

🔸Yamanaka: It would be fun to think about what kind of questions each character has, and what kind of balance they’re carrying

🔸Amami: This was very interesting to hear, as a consumer myself. I think this will increase the theories. We are starting to find more about the second trial ourselves too.

🔸Yamanaka: That’s right

🔸Amami: So when we hear you say that, we have a lot of thoughts too.

🎴Second Trial Production

🔸Yamanaka: So we just summarized the first trial, and of course the second trial is already in production. How are the songs for the second trial going?

🔸Deco: Second trial songs are… intense. Um, for real, they’re … I choose this word deliberately, but they’re hell. Even in the first trial, there were some scary and thrilling songs, but looking back, they were merely self introductions. Just the surface of the character. We’ve only taken the tip of the iceberg to show the viewers. The second trial takes into account everyone’s votes and we’ve reflected the characters’ turmoils, so it’s hell. Really. So those of you who voted – I think we have a lot of viewers here who have voted – you need to fully prepare yourselves for the second trial, or else it will be very mentally taxing.

🔸Amami: It does feel taxing

🔸Deco: It’s taxing. Especially if it’s your bias

🔸Lounsbery: But it’s a result of everyone’s decisions.

🔸Everyone: Exactly

🔸Lounsbery: The second trial is based on everyone’s choices, so as Futa would put it, “It’s all you! You guys did this!” That’s the case here.

🔸Everyone: True true

🔸Lounsbery: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

🔸Yamanaka: I think if you keep in mind the fact that you influenced the outcomes of the second trial songs, based on your choices and actions in the first trial, you can get a very different impression, compared to merely listening to them.

🔸Amami: Everyone is starting to get scared

🔸Lounsbery: I’m curious about the differences in songs between the innocent group and the guilty group.

🔸Amami: True!

🔸Lounsbery: like what difference will there be in the melodies

🔸Yamanaka: The scenario, just like the songs, is influenced by everyone’s response for forgiven/not forgiven. It’s like you threw a pebble into their self introductions, and now you can see more of what’s underneath the surface

🔸Deco: It’s crazy. The screenplay is also brutal.

🔸Yamanaka: I’m really having fun writing the screenplay for the second trial

🔸Deco: Oh nooo… I can’t give any spoilers, but if I liked a certain prisoner, and they turned out this way, I really can’t accept it. I wouldn’t be able to stand it.

🔸Lounsbery: Now I want to know

🔸Yamanaka: I’m not doing this out of spite, it’s just that if that prisoner was forgiven, then obviously they’d turn out this way. I’m just following the logic. That’s a rule that I stand by, so I hope that you’ll accept it as a consequence of your choices

🔸Amami: I’ve been recording voice dramas here and there, and I’m like “Eh? That’s how it turns out?”

🔸Yamanaka: How was it? Recording the drama for second trial

🔸Amami: Can I say it?

🔸Yamanaka: Yes, it’s okay

🔸Amami: I’ve recorded a drama with Yuno-chan, and I was like, “Eh?! Yuno-chan?! Eh… you were like this…?”

🔸Aisaka: Ah, true. But I felt that it was very in-character for Yuno

🔸Yamanaka: Aisaka-san knows Yuno’s personality very well, so I think it also would be an obvious result.

🔸Aisaka: I felt like there are a lot of points that I can empathize with, when I was playing her role. How should I put it, like, people have certain expectations for someone because of their preconceived notions of what kind of person that someone is. And Yuno has opinions about that… I’m terrified that I’ll spoil it!

🔸Amami: It’s very tempting, right?

🔸Aisaka: Yeah… I felt like I could empathize with her on that. Like she’s right. I felt it was very realistic, and Yuno has her own unique way of feeling things. That made me like Yuno even more.

🔸Yamanaka: Regardless if it’s good or bad, it’s about learning more about that character.

🔸Aisaka: I agree

🔸Amami: At least it feels like no one from the first trial is here, so everyone please look forward to it.

🔸Aisaka: Everyone?

🔸Amami: I Wonder…

🔸Deco: Maybe everyone… like there could be someone who completely changed, and there could be people who’s affirmation in their opinions grew even stronger

🔸Yamanaka: Or it could simply be that they’re seeing new things from a different perspective.

🔸Aisaka: Humans are multifaceted

🔸Yamanaka: Amongst that, we have Arthur sensei who’s still waiting to record

🔸Lounsbery: Yeah not my turn yet

🔸Amami: You’re after Yuno-chan so it should be pretty soon

🔸Lounsbery: I haven’t recorded the drama yet but we’ve finished the song. I wish I can tell you soon.

🔸Yamanaka: The song is amazing

🔸Lounsbery: It’s totally badass. I can’t tell you the contents because it would be a spoiler, but it’s completely badass and I screamed a lot this time too.

🔸Deco: yup you did

🔸Amami: It’s gonna be awesome for sure

🔸Lounsbery: It’s a really cool song so I hope you can listen to it soon.

🔸Yamanaka: I’m having such a great time using these unreleased songs as my personal BGM

🔸Amami: I’m so jealous

🔸Aisaka: Me too

🔸Deco: I hope people can listen to it soon. All songs for the second trial have been completed. Only the voice drama left

🔸Yamanaka: They’re all amazing songs

🔸Aisaka: For real, they really are

🔸Amami: I felt that all the songs for the second trial, and also the voice dramas, reveal new aspects for each of the characters. I really want everyone to be able to listen to them soon. I’m so excited

🔸Lounsbery: I’m so curious

🎴MILGRAM Novel

🔸Amami: Right? So excited. Moving on, Milgram’s main story is super eventful, and it even had this turn of events. Let’s take a look at the PV

28:38: Taking society by storm even before release! Amazon Ranking Books>Japanese literature number 1 *based on 2022/2/5 data

28:39: An astoundingly shocking controversial work exposing the modern day “Crime and Punishment”!!

28:44: Milgram Experimental prison and the girl warden

28:46: Five prisoners charged with murder

28:46: No. 1 Gentle, a young man who always has a kid smile on his lips

28:47: No. 2 Nervous, a girl who harms herself

28:47: No. 3 Close, a girl who is usually cheerful but starved of love

28:48: No. 4 Two Side,a boy who brightens everyone’s mood

28:48: No. 5 Torch, a boy who has no interest in people

28:49: A prison wrapped in mystery where innocent/guilty is decided, “Milgram”

28:52: The one who investigates their crimes is a girl warden who lost all memories of the past, Es

28:54: The past of the murderers that are gradually revealed, and the cruel punishments sentenced to them

28:57: When the truth of the birth of “Milgram” is exposed, the story avalanches towards an unpredictable astounding conclusion

28:59: When you learn the truth of everything, will you be able to forgive?

29:02: A story born from the musical project “Milgram” by

Deco*27 “Vampire” Spark” “Otome Dissection＂ Yamanaka Takuya “Caligula”

29:05: Milgram Experimental prison and the girl warden

Author: Namitsumi Original concept: Deco*27/Yamanaka Takuya Illustrator: Shokumura On sale now! Price 748 yen (incl. taxes) Mediaworks Bunko

29:05 background text: An astoundingly shocking controversial work exposing the modern day “Crime and Punishment”!!

29:10: That is a Milgram that I (you) don’t know 29:10: Read? Won’t read?

🔸 Yamanaka: This novel is called Milgram Experimental prison and the girl warden by Mediaworks Bunko, on sale now. It’s Milgram’s first novel. Let us know if you have read it already in the comments. We have comments saying that they have.

🔸 Everyone: Lots of people are saying they enjoyed it

🔸 Lounsbery: There’s actually quite a lot saying that they’ve read it

🔸 Yamanaka: With this many positive feedback, we are happy that we took on the challenge of making our first novel

🔸 Aisaka: It’s very well received

🔸 Amami: We’re grateful

🔸 Yamanaka: so grateful

🔸 Yamanaka: “I read it too” It seems everyone has read it

🔸 Amami: Thank you

🔸 Yamanaka: I think everyone wondered how we were going to adapt Milgram into a novel when we announced it. We worked together with the author Namitsumi-san and Mediaworks to express Milgram in a way unique to the novel format. We’d love for you to give it a read if you haven’t done so already.

🔸 Everyone: Please do.

🔸 Deco: You need to be mentally prepared before you read this, right?

🔸 Yamanaka: You can go in prepared, or not prepare anything at all. Even if you don’t know anything about Milgram, for example you don’t follow any of the Milgram contents on Youtube, you can still read it. That’s what makes it unique

🔸 Amami: True, it’s a standalone story in a different timeline

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s a self-contained story

🔸 Yamanaka: Yup. And if you do follow the main Milgram contents, it will be even more interesting to read. I think there are some people who joined Milgram through this novel. What an ideal condition to promote it.

🔸 Amami: At first I was surprised. Instead of the current events in Milgram, the novel is about events before the current Milgram started. It was very interesting to see what happened before the current Milgram.

🔸 Yamanaka: We were quite ambitious going into it, but I’m happy that it was very well received by everyone.

🔸 Amami: The contents are quite shocking, but how does it fit into Milgram as a whole?

🔸 Yamanaka: I’d say it’s a different story from the current Milgram, but as those of you who have read it would know, they’re definitely connected. Maybe your understanding of Milgram will deepen by reading this novel, and maybe it will make you reflect on your past votes and wonder if you’ve made the right decision. It could also act as a standard to how you will vote in the second trial. Right now we finished the first trial and are awaiting the second trial, so it would be the perfect time to read it.

🔸 Amami: I’m so excited

🔸 Yamanaka: I really want to address some more comments but there are so many from our overseas viewers, so I can only appreciate the sentiment

🔸 Aisaka: They’re saying “Milgram fan cult”

🔸 Yamanaka: thank you

🔸 Aisaka: Thank you~

🔸 Amami: I wish I can read english

🔸 Lounsbery: There are also English comments saying it’s scary. “Scary”. And also that they’re excited.

🔸 Amami: The Milgram novel is only in Japanese at this point right?

🔸 Yamanaka: Yes that’s correct

🔸 Amami: Wait so… they’re reading it in Japanese? Amazing?!

🔸 Yamanaka: There are people asking for translated versions on Twitter. Mediaworks-san is looking into it

🔸 Amami: Thank you everyone. We’d appreciate it if you could enjoy the novelized version of Milgram as well. Now we will be moving on to addressing the questions we’ve received from you beforehand for the warden and prisoners. Spoilers are forbidden, so our guests here today, if you’re unable to answer any of the questions, please feel free to say that you can’t answer it. Please be careful when answering~

🔸 Everyone: Got it!

🎴Question and Answer #1

🔸 Amami: Yamanaka-san, would you like to start?

🔸 Yamanaka: We received a lot of questions, so I had a difficult time choosing. First, a question for our three voice actors. “There is a lot of content ranging from prisoner’s songs and drama parts. Which parts did you have the most fun with, and which parts were the most difficult?” From username Shiranui-san.

🔸 Amami: Thank you for your question

🔸 Yamanaka: For example in a song, did you have a certain phrase, or part, or in Dramas, a certain scene, or a certain line that left an impression on you?

🔸 Lounsbery: Can I go first?

🔸 Amami: be our guest

🔸 Lounsbery: Or else we’ll just give the opportunity around to each other

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s go in order of tallest to shortest

🔸 Lounsbery: In order of height. In my case with Futa, we recorded songs before the dramas. When I was recording the songs, I was told what kind of character Futa is, like he’s a little cocky, and he’s hot-blooded. I wanted to add those nuances into the songs, so I’ve reflected them through growling, like “Don’t fuck with me” like that, and shouting at the end of Bring it On. I wanted to condense some elements of Futa and put it into the songs, so I approached the song recording with everything I’ve got, and that’s what I liked the most. That’ll be the same for the second trial, I have so much fun acting. And also, his cockiness… like how cocky can I be? How cocky should I be? It was very interesting to discuss that with the staff as we record

🔸 Yamanaka: The recording for Milgram is very fun

🔸 Everyone: it’s fun!

🔸 Yamanaka: The singers give it their 100% and don’t compromise, and meet everything we ask for in the dramas.

🔸 Everyone: True

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s a really great environment

🔸 Amami: I feel so at home at the recording set

🔸 Yamanaka: Complete opposite from the vibe of the content

🔸 Amami: Exactly! After we finish recording the contents everyone is like “Ah, everyone worked hard today~” and we relax together. I love that vibe. Thank you~

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san, how about you?

🔸 Amami: I have the opportunity to work with each of the prisoners in the voice dramas, and I’m also doing covers of each prisoner’s song to celebrate 1,000,000 views, but what I found the most fun was the voice dramas and they left a strong impression on me. I especially had so much fun with Futa’s drama

🔸 Lounsbery: Ah…you had such an evil expression back then

🔸 Amami: No way, really? For other characters, I kind of put on an unapproachable attitude when I act in the dramas, but for Futa, he provokes me so I provoke him back. So I remember it being really fun. I’m really interested to find out how the voice dramas would change for the second trial. I hope the recording day comes soon

🔸 Lounsbery: Right? I want to read the script already

🔸 Amami: Right? I’m dying to know. That’s all from me. How about you?

🔸 Aisaka: For me, you know how Yuno-chan always.. What’s the word.. Not exactly tease Es-kun, but she tends to drag Es-kun into her pace. But in the later half of her first trial drama, Es-kun was kind of handsome. Like he said, “No matter what, I…” to Yuno, and Yuno-chan seemed happy at that. That scene was fun for me. When I read the script and act, I also want to see Yuno-chan’s true self, so I like acting scenes when Yuno-chan genuinely feels something in her heart. That applies to songs as well.

🔸 Yamanaka: This is my personal opinion, but it’s been a while since we finished recording the dramas for the first trial, and everyone improved so much when they came back for the second trial.

🔸 Amami: That’s great to hear

🔸 Yamanaka: I can tell everyone is comfortable in their acting, and I feel so happy that everyone is growing and becoming more experienced as they work on Milgram. That’s what I feel as we record the second trial.

🔸 Deco: Are you their dad?

🔸 Lounsbery: Parental love

🔸 Aisaka: I think we understand our characters better now

🔸 Amami: True, we have a clearer picture of who they are now

🔸 Aisaka: That too, and we learn more about the characters from everyone’s comments. Like, “Oh, this can be interpreted this way… maybe they have that side to them too”. Everyone is so smart.

🔸 Amami: True… everyone comes up with things that never even crossed my mind

🎴Question and Answer #2

🔸 Yamanaka: I want to ask Deco-san this question too, were there any part of the songs and dramas that left an impression on you?

🔸 Deco: Impression, huh

🔸 Yamanaka: Just off the top of your head

🔸 Deco: I think overall, you know how Milgram songs have parts where each character talks? They speak during the songs, and I think that adds depth and atmosphere to the songs. I have a lot of fun thinking about where I want to add those speaking lines into the songs for each character. If I add too many, it might give too much away, and we don’t need that. So in the first trial, I loved the process of trying to find a good balance to make it the most effective for the song, and where it would sound the best.

🔸 Yamanaka: I think the audience has scenes that were memorable to them as well… if they could tweet them, maybe we can read what left an impression for them

🔸 Everyone: we could be reading them!

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san do you want to ask the next question?

🔸 Amami: Hm, which one should I pick?

🔸 Yamanaka: Just pick the first one

🔸 Amami: We have a question from Kansen-san. “How did you…” … can you read it for me?

🔸 Lounsbery: Oh it’s in English? English… Kansen-san, from overseas. “How did you feel when you saw the results of the characters that you’ve voiced? What predictions did you have about other characters, and did they come true?”

🔸 Aisaka: What does it mean?

🔸 Yamanaka: What does it mean?

🔸 Lounsbery: Um, basically, what did you think about the results? The first trial results. And… What are your predictions for the upcoming contents, like for the second trial.

🔸 Aisaka: I see I see

🔸 Lounsbery: in a nutshell

🔸 Yamanaka: Especially the characters you were in charge of

🔸 Lounsbery: Yes, your thoughts on the characters you played

🔸 Yamanaka: In that sense, Arthur and Aisaka-san. What did you feel about Futa and Yuno?

🔸 Lounsbery: I’ve mentioned this before, but his cockiness was fun to act, and in terms of songs, it’s almost like a musical.

🔸 Yamanaka: Ah, I see

🔸 Lounsbery: Of course they’re character songs, and even in the category of character songs, you have to bring out their characters as you sing. “I’m this kind of person. Listen to me. Listen to what we have done”, so it’s very musical-like to me. I enjoyed that a lot. And as for the predictions I have for the second trial, hmm, I wonder how it’ll go down. I feel like whatever I say, it’ll be a spoiler.

🔸 Amami: By the way, by the way, I know you haven’t recorded your voice drama yet, but just based on the song, do you think you’ll be forgiven, or not forgiven?

🔸 Lounsbery: Just from the song, can I say this? Can I say it?

🔸 Yamanaka: That should be okay

🔸 Lounsbery: Won’t be forgiven. Definitely won’t be forgiven.

🔸 Deco: Dahh… well, probably not

🔸 Yamanaka: You never know though

🔸 Amami: It’s amazing that you can say that with certainty

🔸 Lounsbery: Won’t be forgiven

🔸 Deco: Maybe the results would be different if you take into account the speculation and MV, but the first impression you’ll get from just hearing the song is that he probably won’t be forgiven.

🔸 Amami: If the composer and the singer both are saying that…

🔸 Lounsbery: But if there is visualization to go along with it, there’s a possibility he would be forgiven

🔸 Yamanaka: Exactly… and if you listen to the drama, the results could be different.

🔸 Lounsbery: Right… I haven’t recorded the drama yet. But I’ve had a lot of fun singing the song. How about you, Aisaka-san? What did you feel during your acting?

🔸 Aisaka: Wait, what was the first question again?

🔸 Lounsbery: It was about what you thought about the results of the first trial, and what were your thoughts during voice acting for Yuno?

🔸 Aisaka: Let’s see… Yuno-chan was really flip flopping between innocent and guilty, but personally I really wanted her to be forgiven. Just my personal thought, not as a voice actor, but just from watching Yuno-chan, I thought it would be more interesting if she was forgiven. Forgive her! I thought. She was forgiven, and I was like, okay, so she was forgiven by a close margin. But if you ask me what I think will happen in the second trial, this will also, for real, Amami, what I mean is, I don’t want the results to be affected by my opinion, but I also want her to be forgiven again. I feel like she probably won’t be forgiven, probably

🔸 Lounsbery: You think so too?

🔸 Aisaka: Yeah.. based on what I felt when singing, I felt like “Ah.. Yuno-chan, you’re saying a lot of things” so she might not be forgiven, but I wonder what would happen if she was forgiven again… I’m so scared! This is getting dangerously close.

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s fine, it’s fine

🔸 Aisaka: I wonder if I said too much.. But um, I really don’t know. I don’t know.

🔸 Yamanaka: Don’t know. No one knows the answer

🔸 Aisaka: I’ll leave the answer in you guys’ hands.

🔸 Amami: You’re so cool!

🔸 Aisaka: Whichever way it rolls, Yuno will be interesting

🔸 Amami: True!

🔸 Lounsbury: No doubt about that

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s do that. Whichever way it rolls

🔸 Aisaka: Let’s do that, yup.

🔸 Amami/Lounsbery: Thank you.

🔸 Yamanaka: Next up, username Hanchahan-san. A question for Deco*27-san.

🔸 Deco: yes

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s finally here. “You’ve mentioned that you personally select the pairings for cover songs. Were there songs that were difficult to select, or ones that you decided on instantly? Please let us know” You’ve been complimented on again.

🔸 Amami: I want to know too.

🔸 Deco: Yuno’s Stickybug was decided on in an instant. I thought it was perfect for her voice.

🔸 Aisaka: Yay! It was so fun to sing

🔸 Deco: I wonder whose was difficult…?

🔸 Yamanaka: I haven’t seen any that were difficult to pair. I felt like all the decisions were quick

🔸 Deco: There hasn’t been any that was difficult. I had clear visions for each character’s voice, and I decided who would cover each of my songs pretty fast.

🔸 Yamanaka: it’s a bit different from being difficult, but Deco-san is releasing a lot of new songs, but did you ever feel like one of the new songs would suit a certain character better?

🔸 Deco: I did change some in between

🔸 Amami: Every time a new song is uploaded, I think a lot about which character’s vibe it gives off.

🔸 Aisaka: Now that you say it, that’s another way to enjoy it

🔸 Deco: All because you became Milgram fans.

🔸 Amami: Exactly

🔸 Deco: Every time you listen to Deco*27’s new songs.

🔸 Aisaka: True!

🔸 Amami: Every time a new song is uploaded.

🔸 Aisaka: That seems really fun

🔸 Amami: Like, “This feels like this character” and “doesn’t this one feel like that character?”

🔸 Aisaka: I agree!

🔸 Deco: I see, that’s a new way of enjoying them

🔸 Yamanaka: Milgram fans think you wrote a new song for one of the characters to sing

🔸 Deco: Ah, I see

🔸 Aisaka: That’s so interesting

🔸 Deco: I like that style of enjoyment

🔸 Aisaka: It’s the perk of being a Milgram fan

🔸 Amami: Maybe the second trial cover songs will be exactly as how everyone predicts

🔸 Aisaka: I’m looking forward to it

🔸 Deco: I do want everyone to take a guess though.

🔸 Aisaka: Sounds fun!

🔸 Amami: true

🔸 Deco: I think they’ll probably get it right.

🔸 Yamanaka: Do they get any prizes if they guess right?

🔸 Aisaka: Eh? That’s great. There are prizes? Just for having fun?

🔸 Amami: I think there are those who are starting to record their cover songs now, but when it gets to Kotoko at the end, Deco-san will probably have more songs.

🔸 Yamanaka: That’s right

🔸 Lounsbery: Good point

🔸 Deco: The cover songs for characters going later might change. I might feel that new songs would suit them better.

🔸 Yamanaka: You’re making too many songs, are you okay?

🔸 Deco: I’m okay

🔸 Amami: True, it’s a lot

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s very fast paced

🔸 Yamanaka: You’re releasing them at an intense pace

🔸 Deco: I’m totally okay

🔸 Yamanaka: You’re even making a lot of songs for Milgram, and I often wonder if you’re doing okay. And you keep releasing new songs on top of that.

🔸 Deco: I’m okay.

🔸 Lounsbery: Let’s have everyone take a guess in the comments about which songs we will cover

🔸 Amami: True!

🔸 Deco: Then let’s have everyone guess Yuno and Futa’s second trial cover songs.

🔸 Aisaka: Ah~ Sounds fun

🔸 Deco: We gotta make sure to not give anything away from our facial expressions

🔸 Lounsbery: We definitely can’t give it away with our facial expressions

🔸 Deco: All five of us here know

🔸 Lounsbery: And we’ll all read the comments, so we’ll know if it’s right or wrong

🔸 Aisaka: That’s gonna be so hard

🔸 Amami: Poker face! Poker face!

🔸 Deco: Poker face

🔸 Aisaka: That’s so hard

🔸 Lounsbery: I wonder if everyone can guess right

🔸 Everyone: Oh~

🔸 Lounsbery: I see…

🔸 Amami: I see…

🔸 Lounsbery: There are also requests of which ones they want

🔸 Deco: By the way, songs that have been covered already in the first trial won’t be covered again.

🔸 Lounsbery: So there won’t be overlaps

🔸 Deco: Correct. For now

🔸 Yamanaka: I see.

🔸 Lounsbery: As expected, a lot of people guessed the newest songs.

🔸 Yamanaka: Not that we’ll give you an answer though

🔸 Lounsbery: We don’t answer anything

🔸 Amami: But there are so many that I agree with! Like “Oh yeah that’s great, I want to hear that too”

🔸 Deco: I agree

🔸 Deco: We’re just making them comment and we’re not answering anything

🔸 Lounsbery: Because then they’ll find out. There’s about half a year to go until the second trial, so I hope they can wait for it.

🔸 Deco: But I like that there are a variety of predictions. I do agree that some of them are pretty compatible.

🔸 Amami: I see… so that kind of song could fit that character too…

🔸 Lounsbery: I hope everyone looks forward to it.

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san do you want to read the next question?

🔸 Amami: From Umanoko-san. Thank you!

🔸 Lounsbery: Thanks

🎴Question and Answer #3

🔸 Amami: Is there anything that Yamanaka-san pays close attention to when writing the story?

🔸 Yamanaka: What I pay attention to… What I pay attention to…This can be said about all of Milgram, but I want to make it so that your interpretation of it changes depending on your standpoint, thinking processes, and ways of life. I pay great attention to avoid writing the story in a way that depicts something as absolute good or absolute bad, or one thing is right and the other is wrong. I want the story to elicit a different opinion from you when you revisit it as you get older. Milgram is a long term project, so for example someone might discover Milgram when they’re in elementary school, and grow up with Milgram into their highschool years. When they become highschoolers, they can look back on their decisions they made in elementary school, and see how their thought processes have changed over the years. I’d be happy if Milgram could accompany you through your life. I want Milgram to be something that when you look back on your life, you remember it as something near and dear to your heart. That’s what I think about when I write the story

🔸 Lounsbery: I see

🔸 Yamanaka: I gave such a serious response

🔸 Amami: Not at all, you’re completely right. It took about a year and a half to complete the first trial, so everyone is probably already aware that it’s a long term project. It’s completely probable that elementary school kids could become highschoolers during the duration of this project.

🔸 Yamanaka: In the current times, entertainment is very fast paced. Like “Here’s a new mobile game!” and it thrives for a year, then it starts to decline. The society thrives on fast consumption. I hope that Milgram can provide content that progresses at a slower pace, which you can enjoy in between your favorite manga or games as a change of pace.

🔸 Amami: I like that a lot. Thank you for the question

🔸 Yamanaka: Should I read the next question?

🔸 Amami: Please do

🔸 Yamanaka: Username Haru-san. “Good evening, a question for Yurina-chan. You cover the prisoner’s songs as Es, and I always enjoy your commentaries about what happens afterwards. I think your commentaries are always easy to understand. I love Yurina-chan’s covers, and I want to ask which prisoner’s song do you like best? I’d love to know if there are any lyrics that are impactful because they’re from a certain prisoner, or any stories you might have because you covered the songs.

🔸 Amami: Oh~ I see

🔸 Yamanaka: Yurina-chan’s fan

🔸 Amami: There are still some songs that haven’t reached 1,000,000 views, so I haven’t covered those yet, but what I personally enjoyed the most was surprisingly Throw Down…

🔸 Deco: Oh, it’s Throw Down?

🔸 Amami: It was very fun. Of course, songs like “This is How To Be in Love With You” ended up completely different from the original. I wanted to sing in a cute way at first, but Deco-san said let’s not do that.

🔸 Deco: Es would sing it more gruffly and brusquely

🔸 Amami: He told me to be more like Es. So I sang that song in that way. Among the covers of songs that have reached 1,000,000 views that haven’t been released yet, I think you can see a new side to Es in Throw Down. But Umbilical was super fun too.

🔸 Aisaka: I’m glad to hear that. It’s a good song, right?

🔸 Amami: I hope you can enjoy Es Covers while you wait for the second trial

🔸 Aisaka: I want to hear Es sing “Yatchattanda Shitchattanda” (I messed up, I found out) as soon as possible. I think it’ll be great.

🔸 Amami: I think you can hear it sooner than you think. I think it’s the next one?

🔸 Yamanaka: Yes, it’s the next one

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so excited!

🔸 Amami: So I think Yuno-chan’s cover will be released next

🔸 Aisaka: I can’t wait

🔸 Yamanaka: What do you think as Futa, the original singer, about Es’s cover of Bring it On?

🔸 Lounsbery: It was fresh. I did expect Es to sing in a gruff manner, but I was surprised by the talking parts in the later half. It was really fresh. So I really want Es to cover the second trial songs soon.

🔸 Yamanaka: So let’s get the second trial songs over 1M views fast

🔸 Amami: Please, everyone

🔸 Lounsbery: I started thinking about ways how Es would cover it in my head already

🔸 Deco: Ah it’s quite difficult… all of season 2's songs are difficult.

🔸 Amami: Yes… personally –

🔸 Deco: I felt everyone was so amazing for being able to sing them, especially in character.

🔸 Lounsbery: It was properly difficult

🔸 Deco: certainly

🔸 Yamanaka: Every song was difficult, really.

🔸 Amami: Personally, I felt that second trial songs are more in line with each character compared to the first. It shows more of their personal parts. I’m really excited to know what kind of directions I’ll receive when I cover them as Es. I hope everyone, including the prisoners, can look forward to it.

🎴Question and Answer #5

🔸 Yamanaka: Amami-san do you want to ask one more?

🔸 Amami: Yes~ Let’s see which one… Cute… a cute one

🔸 Lounsbery: Which one will you choose?

🔸 Amami: Ice cream…

🔸 Lounsbery: That's great. go ahead and read it

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s go with that one

🔸 Amami: Is this one okay?

🔸 Lounsbery: You can just read it

🔸 Amami: It’s from Link-san. What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?

🔸 Deco: They asked, what your favorite flavor of ice cream

🔸 Yamanaka: This is a question specific to Milgram, so please do answer it

🔸 Lounsbery: This has almost nothing to do with Milgram, just what flavor of ice cream you like

🔸 Yamanaka: They want to know

🔸 Lounsbery: What flavor do you like?

🔸 Amami: I like the classic, milk flavor

🔸 Aisaka: Heh~ that’s so like you

🔸 Lounsbery: Milk?

🔸 Deco: Vanilla?

🔸 Amami: Ah, Vanilla! Vanilla milk. I don’t know. Vanilla. I like vanilla

🔸 Aisaka: That’s a good answer

🔸 Yamanaka: That’s a classic.

🔸 Amami: What about you? Yamanaka san?

🔸 Yamanaka: Well, vanilla.

🔸 Deco: We got two vanillas

🔸 Lounsbery: Vanilla is good. Hmm, I don’t really know what flavors are available at foreign Baskin-Robbins

🔸 Yamanaka: You don’t need to think that deep. Just answer casually

🔸 Lounsbery: I like Popping-Shower, but in terms of more standard flavors, I like vanilla and cookies and cream. I like vanilla

🔸 Amami: Hm?

🔸 Lounsbery: what about you Deco?

🔸 Deco: Azuki bar

🔸 Aisaka: It’s delicious

🔸 Lounsbery: True, it’s good. For real.

🔸 Amami: So yummy

🔸 Deco: More than the flavor, it’s about the brand

🔸 Lounsbery: Yes, the brand name. Delicious.

🔸 Amami: They almost break my teeth. Like “Gahh”. What about Aisaka?

🔸 Aisaka: I like mint chocolate

🔸 Amami: It’s so yummy! I love it too

🔸 Yamanaka: Please support Milgram

🔸 Amami: The room is so relaxed

🔸 Lounsbery: We just talked about our favorite ice cream flavors.

🔸 Yamanaka: I like it. We also have a job interview-esque question. From username Yua-san, question for the three voice actors. “How do you feel about getting selected as the voice actor for Milgram characters?”

🔸 Deco: Seriously, it’s a job interview

🔸 Yamanaka: Please respond.

🔸 Lounsbery: I feel like I’m being tested

🔸 Aisaka: I’m very happy, but I do wonder what they saw in us when they chose us. They didn’t ask me to audition for Yuno, so I wonder what they saw in the voice sample on my production company’s home page. But I felt very happy.

🔸 Yamanaka: You didn’t refuse us, so

🔸 Aisaka: Of course not, I would never. I was very excited when I saw the project.

🔸 Lounsbery: True, that’s my case too. When I read about Futa’s character and the script, I was like, this is nothing like anything in my voice samples

🔸 Yamanaka: True, you’re right

🔸 Lounsbery: I’ve never acted for this type of character until Futa came along, so I wondered what they saw in me – like, do people think I'm attacking people on social media? Do I look like the type who’d attack people behind their backs? But I really had fun acting as Futa, and I really like it, so I think it’s a brilliant casting decision. I’m very grateful.

🔸 Yamanaka: We’re choosing for Milgram afterall, so instead of something we’ve heard before, I wanted to excavate a side that no one knows yet. Arthur-kun is elegant in all aspects. I want to hear a Futa from someone who is elegant.

🔸 Amami: That’s a great point

🔸 Yamanaka: That’s what I feel when I’m making the contents, and Arthur-kun’s fans probably also want to see this new side of you, so it’s a win-win if I can excavate this side of you.

🔸 Lounsbery: True. I’m so happy to hear that. I feel like all that growling paid off.

🔸 Amami: It’s really great

🔸 Yamanaka: Warden, your turn

🔸 Amami: Eh~ I wonder… Personally, I’ve always wanted to play a shota-like character

🔸 Aisaka: It’s really great.

🔸 Amami: really?

🔸 Aisaka: I stan Es because it’s Amami

🔸 Amami: I’m so happy! I’ve also always liked Deco-san’s songs, so I wanted to sing them with a shota voice. I was so happy when I received the offer. The casting was done by Yamanaka-san, right?

🔸 Yamanaka: It was a group decision after listening to you sing

🔸 Amami: He was the one who found us though

🔸 Aisaka: How did you find us?

🔸 Yamanaka: I don’t know if I can say this, but we took on Amami as a new challenge for us too. I think for a central character, it’s important to choose someone who wasn’t already known for being in other works. I hope that being at the center of Milgram can have a meaningful impact on Yurina’s career in some way.

🔸 Amami: It has already! Thank you so much

🔸 Yamanaka: It was a new challenge for us too, and we hoped that you would also be able to go beyond your potential

🔸 Amami: I’m so happy, thank you so much

🔸 Lounsbery: That’s a heartwarming story

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so happy

🔸 Amami: I feel warm and fuzzy now

🎴Question and Answer #7

🔸 Yamanaka: There’s one more similar question. It’s about acting. From the username Chikushi-san. Are there characters in Milgram that you’d like to play as, other than your own?

🔸 Amami: Ehh~~ I see…

🔸 Lounsbery: A character that I want to play as?!

🔸 Yamanaka: They’re also asking me, and Deco-san, to answer.

🔸 Deco: Everyone?!

🔸 Aisaka: I want to know!

🔸 Yamanaka: A character that you want to play as.

🔸 Amami: Time to think

🔸 Lounsbery: I’ve never even thought about acting as other characters.

🔸 Deco: Can I go?

🔸 Yamanaka: Go ahead

🔸 Deco: Futa

🔸 Amami: I can see that, you do give off that vibe.

🔸 Deco: It seems fun

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s fun

🔸 Deco: Yeah. He just said that with a huge smile. It looks really fun.

🔸 Aisaka: You were practicing Futa’s lines in the dressing room just before, right?

🔸 Lounsbery: Show us

🔸 Deco: Why?!

🔸 Lounsbery: You were practicing them just before this, in the dressing room

🔸 Amami: It feels lonely, we start by saying our characters’ lines first but Yamanaka-san and Deco-san don’t have any.

🔸 Lounsbery: How about the line on the first page

🔸 Yamanaka: We don’t want to be introduced as cringelord producers

🔸 Lounsbery: Say “Don’t take me lightly just cuz I’m a prisoner!”

🔸 Aisaka: Yeah! You were saying it just a while ago

🔸 Deco: I have to really use my throat right?

🔸 Lounsbery: yup

🔸 Deco: “Don’t take me lightly” like that?

🔸 Aisaka: yes

🔸 Amami: Sounds good

🔸 Lounsbery: Should I do an example first? “Don’t take me lightly just cuz I’m a prisoner!”

🔸 Deco: “Don’t take me-”…. Can I recuse myself?

🔸 Aisaka?: Eh~ But I want to hear it

🔸 Yamanaka: I’m sorry to mention another one of my works, but Deco-sensei has debuted as a voice actor in the game I made, Caligula2

🔸 Amami: That’s amazing!

🔸 Aisaka: Already debuted

🔸 Deco: Thank you for the opportunity

🔸 Yamanaka: He has so much stability that you wouldn’t think it’s his first time. I don't want to sound arrogant but he has great aptitude for it.

🔸 Deco: Really? Then please, cast me for Milgram too. Any role

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s switch someone out

🔸 Amami: Switching them out?!

🔸 Deco: Then, Shugo

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s switch Shugo out

🔸 Deco: with Shidou, lol

🔸 Yamanaka: Any characters you want to play as?

🔸 Amami: Eh~

🔸 Aisaka: Yes

🔸 Yamanaka: Go ahead

🔸 Aisaka: I want to play as Haruka

🔸 Yamanaka: Haruka?

🔸 Aisaka: It seems really fun, everytime I listen to him. Horieru seems to be doing both the songs and lines with so much fun. I’m envious. So if there’s an opportunity, I’d love to try playing as Haruka.

🔸 Lounsbery: I see.

🔸 Aisaka: I want to laugh creepily like “gufu gufu” like him

🔸 Yamanaka: “Gufu Gufu”?

🔸 Amami: Eh~ For me it’s…?

🔸 Lounsbery: Go ahead

🔸 Amami: Ah, do you have one?

🔸 Lounsbery: I think Mikoto would be fun to play. I feel like it’s fulfilling to act as him because of the way he is. I want to act as Mikoto in my own style.

🔸 Aisaka: I can see that

🔸 Amami: Yamanaka-san do you have one?

🔸 Yamanaka: When I’m writing, who I think the most fun would be is… I hear their voices in my head, and excuse me for my word choice but I think the one that makes me feel the most complicated is Mu.

🔸 Deco: Do you want to give it a go as Mu?

🔸 Yamanaka: I can’t do it

🔸 Amami: Give it a try!

🔸 Deco: Let’s go!

🔸 Yamanaka: I personally feel like Mu’s character is very exquisite, like she irks me but at the same time I want to forgive her. She has this childishness to her. She has a pretty appearance and pretty voice that makes you want to fawn on her. Like when you see a cute baby, you want to gobble them up.

🔸 Amami: Gobble them up

🔸 Yamanaka: It tickles a hint of my sadism. She’s a complex character

🔸 Amami: Ah I see…

🔸 Yamanaka: Rather than wanting to act as Mu, I want to see many different actors’ versions of Mu

🔸 Everyone: Ah I see~

🔸 Deco: You totally ran away just now. You escaped from doing her impression

🔸 Yamanaka: I ran away and used up a lot of air time doing it

🔸 Lounsbery: you took your sweet time saying a lot

🔸 Yamanaka: We don’t have a lot of time left so let’s move on

🔸 Deco: Not like I can say much, since I recused myself too

🔸 Amami: not at all, not at all

🔸 Lounsbery: This is great

🔸 Aisaka: How about Amami?

🔸 Amami: For me, it’s Mahiru-chan. I respect that she’s so dedicated to love. After listening to O-Miho’s Mahiru-chan, I felt that those kinds of girls are wonderful, so I would like an opportunity to play as her too.

🔸 Yamanaka: There’s a lot going on within her, but on the surface she is always very positive, so she’s interesting

🔸 Amami: That was a very interesting question

🔸 Yamanaka: Now that we have answered a lot of questions…

🔸 Lounsbery: We’ve received a lot

🔸 Yamanaka: We’re almost out of time

Lounsbery: Time goes by so fast

🔸 Amami: It really went by in the blink of an eye. We are approaching the end of the program.

🔸 Lounsbery: Too fast!

🔸 Amami: Let’s take a look at the information for the second anniversary.

🔸 Yamanaka: I’ll take it from here. Please take a look at the slide. This information has been announced already, but we have received a brand new illustration from Akka-san to commemorate the second anniversary. It looks so cool

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s so cool

🔸 Amami: Amazing, so cool. It’s also very different from the first anniversary

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s a perfect illustration after the first trial had concluded. In addition to that, the next slide please. There will be a lot of merch going on sale using this illustration. There is currently a pop up store to commemorate Milgram 2nd anniversary in Ikebukuro Loft. Amami-san, you went already right?

🔸 Amami: Yes! I went.

🔸 Aisaka: So fast!

🔸 Amami: I wanted the can-badges, but because everyone adopted so many, so I wasn’t able to adopt any

🔸 Aisaka: But that’s a happy thing

🔸 Amami: Yeah!

🔸 Aisaka: We’re grateful for that

🔸 Yamanaka: I see..

🔸 Aisaka: I see..

🔸 Amami: Thank you so much everyone!

🔸 Yamanaka: The pop up store will be available for the dates on screen, so please give it a visit everyone

🔸 Amami: Please go~

🔸 Yamanaka: Next slide please. If you purchase over a certain amount, you will get one special post card at random. Each one comes with the prisoner’s signature.

🔸 The slide: You’ll get a free post card “Event limited post cards (12 kinds)” at random with purchases over 2000 yen

🔸 Amami: I want them all!

🔸 Yamanaka: Signed by the prisoners. Please check them out

🔸 Amami: So wonderful~

🔸 Yamanaka: Another piece of information that’s already available is that we are giving pin badges to our members with annual membership on the official Milgram app for the 2nd anniversary. All of our annual members can get the badge by submitting an application, so please don’t forget

🔸 Amami: It’s available until 4/28, which is tomorrow.

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s this

🔸 Yamanaka: It looks cool

🔸 Lounsbery: Yup. Milgram badge

🔸 Amami: It looks cool

🔸 Lounsbery: Please get it

🔸 Yamanaka: It really looks cool

🔸 Lounsbery: Stylish

🔸 Amami: I wear mine here

🔸 Lounsbery: Your collar

🔸 Amami: Yup, it’s here. It’s available until 19:00 on 4/28, so please don’t forget~

🔸 Amami: Okay! Everyone has been waiting for this right? From this point on, we’ll announce the new information

🔸 Yamanaka: Next slide please. Milgram’s official online store will be open soon. This store only carries Milgram products

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so happy

🔸 Amami: They’re the best

🔸 Yamanaka: A store dedicated to Milgram. There are merchandise that can only be obtained here, and there are more products being designed specifically for sale through this store. It will be open in the near future. Please check twitter for updates.

🔸 Amami: It’ll be open soon~

🔸 Aisaka: I’m so excited

🔸 Yamanaka: Next please. It’s been decided that Milgram merch will be made by the popular merch site AMNIBUS as a part of their popular merch series “Ani-Art”. “Ani-Art” is a popular artistic merch series by AMNIBUS. As you can see behind us…

🔸 Aisaka: Ah, that’s right!

🔸 Amami: It’s so great

🔸 Lounsbery: You can see behind us, our own characters and the other characters too

🔸 Aisaka: They’re so stylish

🔸 Lounsbery: There were a lot of comments asking about these illustrations

🔸 Amami: there were!

🔸 Lounsbery: So here’s the answer.

🔸 Deco: They were leading up to this

🔸 Amami: Please check them out!

🔸 Yamanaka: It’s very different from the usual art

🔸 Everyone: Yeah it’s very different

🔸 Yamanaka: I think it’s great

🔸 Amami: So cute

🔸 Yamanaka: Let’s move onto the next slide. Undercover LINE stamps will be on sale soon

🔸 Amami: They’re finally here

🔸 Yamanaka: Undercover has reached over 3M views

🔸 Amami: Thank you!

🔸 Yamanaka: So it’s been decided that we will distribute the LINE stamps from Undercover. These will also be available in the near future so please check our official Twitter for updates. And now…

🔸 Amami: The atmosphere will change from here

🔸 Lounsbery: It’s time, finally?

🔸 Amami: I feel restless

🔸 Yamanaka: There was a hint in our conversation earlier in this stream

🔸 Amami: I wonder what it was?

🔸 Deco: Ice cream?

🔸 Yamanaka: Ice cream

🔸 Amami: Ice cream! Vanilla, maybe?

🔸 Deco: Milgram and ice cream collab?

🔸 Yamanaka: Milgram and ice cream collab

🔸 Aisaka: That’s so good!

🔸 Amami: I want that

🎴FINAL THREAD FINALLY.

🔸Yamanaka: Next slide please! After the novel, it’s been decided that Milgram will be made into a comic!

🔸Lounsbery: Manga!

🔸Yamanaka: It will become a manga.

🔸Amami: What a surprise!

🔸Yamanaka: This was a surprise for us too

🔸Deco: It was quite a surprise.

🔸Yamanaka: It wasn’t like this was decided from the start, it’s because the novel did so well, and we were asked if we wanted to make it into a comic

🔸Deco: We’re so grateful

🔸Yamanaka: It was received so well, and everyone was so passionate about it, and that’s why we were offered to make it into a comic.

🔸Lounsbery: wow

🔸Yamanaka: It will be based on the story in the novel, but I feel like it will also have its own unique story.

🔸Amami: We as the main story can’t lose! Let’s work hard

🔸Aisaka: Exactly, the novel is too popular.

🔸Yamanaka: True

🔸Aisaka: I’m worried people will forget about us.

🔸Yamanaka: That’s so scary, what are you talking about

🔸Amami: Eh?! I’m so worried

🔸Yamanaka: A horror story

🔸Aisaka: I don’t want that

🔸Yamanaka: The last announcement. I feel like there are a lot of people who came today to listen to this.

🔸Deco: Probably

🔸Yamanaka: I’ll announce it now. Slide please! Milgram second trial, commencing July 2022

🔸Lounsbery: Finally!

🔸Deco: It’s finally happening!

🔸Lounsbery: Summer

🔸Deco: The second trial is coming

🔸Yamanaka: The second trial is coming, everyone. How about it, the second trial

🔸Amami: Eh? How about it?

🔸Yamanaka: Just by mentioning the second trial, everyone gets so hyped.

🔸Aisaka: I only have excitement for it

🔸Lounsbery: It pains me that I can’t say anything

🔸Yamanaka: You can’t say anything

🔸Lounsbery: We are so limited in what we can say that people will think we have no love for Milgram

🔸Deco: We’re too scared of spoilers

🔸Lounsbery: Exactly. We can only say things that barely touch the surface

🔸Deco: So it’s just a little over 2 months away?

🔸Yamanaka: yup. You might have thought that the second trial can’t come soon enough, but you only have 2 months left where you’re safe

🔸Amami: Hell is coming

🔸Aisaka: Eh~ but I’m really looking forward to it. I wonder what decisions everyone will make

🔸Yamanaka: I think everyone will see a new side of Milgram, so I hope everyone can watch it.

🔸Lounsbery: I want everyone to watch it soon

🔸Amami: Thank you everyone! Now we are really at the end of the stream. Let’s get a closing comment from each of our guests today. First up, Aisaka-san

🔸Aisaka: I’m Aisaka Yūka in the role of Yuno. I’ve already completed recording for the second trial for Yuno. I hope everyone can listen to them soon. It’s really hard to say without spoilers, but I’m worried that when you first listen to them, you might not forgive her, but I will leave it to everyone’s sensibility and their own interpretations. “This character is saying this, but my decision is that” and maybe it’s a decision similar to what you would make in your own life - I hope that you can make the decisions in simple ways. Please forget everything I said today, and listen to Yuno’s song/drama with a blank slate of mind. I felt lonely because it’s been a while since recording until the second trial, so it’s really great that you guys asked a lot of questions and I was able to address so many today. Thank you everyone!

Amami: Thank you~ Next, Arthur-san please

🔸Lounsbery: First, I want to thank everyone for watching today. Now that the first trial is over, we are heading into the second trial in July. Whether you have listened to all characters’ songs and dramas, or whether you follow only your bias, Milgram can be enjoyed in many ways, even individual contents. You can pursue a single character, and you can also enjoy the novel and the upcoming comic. Milgram is expanding as we speak, and the range of how you can enjoy it is also widening. And as we mentioned today, the second trial is pretty hellish. The songs have powered up since the first trial, and they’re even more enjoyable. Please prepare yourselves for July. Whatever the results may be, “They’re the results of your decisions! Enjoy them until the end!”

🔸Amami: That’s amazing, thank you so much!

🔸Deco: So cool!

🔸Amami: Next, Deco-san please

🔸Deco: Thank you for coming today everyone! I felt your passion once again through your comments today. The recording of second trial songs have been completed, and we are working on the MVs. We’re doing our best to match your passion level to drag you all down to hell. Thank you so much for today.

🔸Amami: Thank you! Next, Yamanaka-san please

🔸Yamanaka: Everytime I visit the set, I really feel like the content creators and the voice actors are really enjoying their work. I hope that the more we enjoy our work and face it head on, the stronger our work can leave an impression on your life. Arthur-kun has said this too, but you can enjoy Milgram just by listening to the songs, or just enjoying the illustrations, and you can listen to the dramas too. There are many different ways to enjoy Milgram. I think Milgram is something that will become more interesting the more people participate. The more different opinions and interpretations there are, the better and more complicated the world of Milgram will be. I want everyone to be aware, and proud that you are a part of what’s making Milgram interesting, and take responsibility Everyone: Scary!

🔸Yamanaka: Milgram is interesting because of everyone’s participation, and I’d be grateful if you can continue to make Milgram a fun content. That’s all!

🔸Amami: Thank you~ Lastly, my turn. Thank you for today everyone, I am Amami in the role of Es. I said this near the beginning too, but as Es, I have the opportunity to work on Milgram longer than the others, so I prepare myself to experience hell before every recording. First trial has finally ended without troubles, and the second trial is starting in July, and I really want everyone to be able to watch the second trial soon. Until then, in the 2 months leading up to July, Es’ covers will be uploaded, so I hope you can enjoy that in the meantime, and fall down to hell 2 months later

🔸Lounsbery: So the hell is a given?

🔸Yamanaka: It’s really hell

🔸Amami: It’s really hell! Haruka and Yuno-chan’s voice dramas are done already, but I can say they were hell.

🔸Yamanaka: It’s not that I intended on making them hell

🔸Amami: Yamanaka-san I think you have terrible personality

🔸Yamanaka: they just became hell naturally

🔸Amami: I felt malicious intent

🔸Aisaka: For real though, Yamanaka-san has bad personality

🔸Amami: It’s bad

🔸Yamanaka: I just calculated everyone’s forgive or not forgiven, and as a result it became hell. That’s all.

🔸Amami: But really, from looking at the votes and all the comments from the wardens today, I feel like a lot of you are onto something. So especially those of you who watched form the first trial, you might be like, “oh, it was like this” and regret your decisions, or you might feel reaffirmed in your choices, so please look forward to 2 months later. Thank you for your continued support of Milgram! We are now approaching good-bye time. We will continue to post new information on the official Milgram twitter. Please look forward to the second trial, and continue to support Milgram. Thank you so much for today!

🔸Everyone: Bye~

#milgram #milgram translation #milgramtranslations #anniversary #2nd anniversary #ミルグラム2周年 #ミルグラムファンアート #Youtube

[nuctoria]

I've had a kind of AU, in which Antasma returns and captures Luigi for his power that is equal to the Dream Stone he does not plan to eliminate him, now he is a threat to the Pi'illo Kingdom and the dream world. Mario and Dreambert try to stop him while Luigi tries to escape.

Antasma now feeds on Luigi's dream energy which makes him more powerful (and it's delicious), he gets a new castle, an army that is common enemies controlled by him and the Zeekeeper locked up...

Although Antasma wants to devour all that power, Luigi is persistent and fights, every time the bat warns with a "Time to Eat" and enjoys a fight and then feeds.

Nothing can stop him.

BUT...what if that would cause side effects?

Starting with his appearance, a slow transformation that affects all three of his forms, he is still a bat but less intimidating, like a Woobat with extra fluffy fur. This makes him a little worried, but he doesn't care as he have the power, continue with his plans and cause terror.

(The green plumber will become more attentive if more changes happen)

Then his appetite, having Luigi in his clutches, does not need to consume nightmares, but he decides to try one again by changing his meals a little, he vomits the nightmare, if before his concern was low, now it is high and his hunger has changed; but he can't be distracted he has more important matters, however, when feeding this time he feels different, he almost feels...full.

(Luigi notices this, decides to be more participatory, what happens if the bat reaches his limit?... he also notices his slight change in behavior)

Later his powers, after a battle against Mario and Dreambert, both are weakened, especially the prince, Antasma is pleased to finish off Dreambert, something goes wrong, his attack instead of finishing him at once heals him of all his wounds, Dreambert is confused, this hits the bat and he tries to do it again, the prince dodges that attack that could have hurt him, he continues with the battle and it has only gotten worse, now his enemies are like new, furious he lets out a high-pitched scream that the Stun them both and take advantage of this to escape. He is scared, he feels how some are breaking free from the mind control and the Zeekeeper is breaking his restraints; When thinking about the situation he comes to a conclusion: Stop eating from that power. He hates the idea, but sacrifices have to be made, he doesn't plan on getting rid of Luigi.

(Luigi takes this opportunity to escape and the bat's new power seems not to be what he expected, despite feeling a little weak, Antasma has actually held it well, he has noticed that, he has an idea to defeat it)

And finally himself, how the hell did they get into his castle? Luigi has escaped, great.

He has been distracted, a part of him wanted to satisfy his hunger to feel full and another did not want to know the result that would await him; No more distractions, a battle awaits him that will decide destiny.

Everything seems to be going in order, some of his attacks were more beneficial for the plumbers but he can see that they will not hold out for long, that at least puts him at an advantage, until help appears, the Zeekeeper interferes in the fight, this distraction It's enough to put Luigi's plan into motion.

A smell, a delicious one, attracts the attention of the bat, receiving an attack from the bird, on the ground he tries to get up but someone prevents him, the green plumber is too close, Antasma is terrified, but he has to maintain control.

Luigi expected the bat king to take the first bite by making his energy dream much stronger present to him, so he resorts to drastic action but not before saying: "Time to Eat."

He joins his lips with those of the bat, this action causes shock on the faces of the team, except Zeekeeper he has a thumbs up.

Antasma resists, but that rational side disappears when he can finally calm that hunger, finally have a full stomach.

What seemed like an eternity, the king is satisfied, he falls defeated to the ground and with an extra weight that makes him look like a fat cat, he feels the other weight of someone else, it must be the weakened plumber; he feels tired...warm...comfortable...

Antasma slowly closes his eyes.

And when he wakes up he will be someone new.

Luigi is a cinnamon roll.

And you are what you eat.

I have more to say about what happened next, but I don't know whether to keep his name or change it.

This went very well with my morning coffee, first of all.

Get this on Ao3! Please! The people will love it! Y'all go follow this user, what I just read was fantastic.

The Zeekeeper giving a thumbs up while everyone is flabbergasted, oml, yes!! I couldn't get past that part for a good minute!

Thank you so much for writing all of this out, it's absolutely amazing, have a lovely day. If you continue it or put it on Ao3 please tag me.

#luigi #antasma #luitasma #mario & luigi dream team #au #I love this way too much oml #good shit #thank you so much #go read #now #not my writing

[cr1mson5returns]

I do really like the concept of the Batfamily having a family group chat because I feel like Dick created it as a "let's coordinate family plans and occasionally encourage group bullying in the name of self-care" thing. But it totally devolved into memes and TikToks and bickering two hours in, and Bruce doesn't have the energy to even leave the chat anymore, because he keeps getting added back in. He's also too lazy to mute it and gets annoyed that he gets eight million notifications per hour because of how often the kids are on it.

Bruce's only participatory act in the family chat is to remind his kids to be safe and he gets the mocking SpongeBob meme in response every time.

#damn bruce how you gonna lecture your kids about safety and then be reckless as hell on your very next patrol #ya fuckin hypocrite #bruce now has a deep understanding of alfred's pain from the early batman years #his kids are stressing him out y'all #bruce wayne #batman #batfamily

[denimbex1986]

'Margot Robbie and Cillian Murphy — she the star of “Barbie,” he of “Oppenheimer” — have shared an experience, one unique in film history. On July 21, 2023, their two movies came out, and instead of cannibalizing one another during a time when box office receipts were sluggish, they actually boosted each other, creating the global phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer.”

On paper, the two movies couldn’t be more different. Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” produced by Robbie’s company LuckyChap Entertainment, is the story of the world’s most popular doll, who, after going on a journey to recover from an existential crisis, becomes a woman; Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who oversaw the invention of the atomic bomb. What they have in common, though, is that their directors made wholly original films, ones guided by their inventiveness, and it was the innovative spirit of “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” that in turn inspired audiences to be creative and participatory in their fandom for both films. The memes, the double-feature TikToks, the costumes people wore to go out to theaters again and again to experience Barbenheimer — after COVID had nearly destroyed in-person moviegoing — “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” proved joy is still to be had (as well as profits, with the box office for “Barbie” at more than $1.4 billion worldwide, and “Oppenheimer” recently crossing $950 million).

In other words, Robbie, sporting a “Barbie”-inspired pink polka-dot shirt with matching heels, and a darkly clad Murphy have a lot to discuss when they meet for Actors on Actors — a rendezvous during which Murphy professes he now knows what a meme is, after famously claiming ignorance about them in a 2017 interview.

CILLIAN MURPHY: Congratulations on your reasonably successful film. You’re a producer on the movie as well. How did you know a “Barbie” movie would connect with audiences in the manner that it did?

MARGOT ROBBIE: Yeah, 90% of me was certain that this would be a big deal and a massive hit, and 10% of me thought, “Oh, this could go so badly wrong.” It was all about Greta Gerwig. And it was like, “If it wasn’t going to be Greta, then, yeah, this could have been an absolute disaster.”

MURPHY: She was always your first choice?

ROBBIE: I just wasn’t going to let her say no. It was about six years ago we got the property. We got it out of Sony, set it up at Warner Bros., got Mattel’s blessing to let us produce, then went after Greta. Obviously, I didn’t know it was going to be the cultural phenomenon that it ended up being.

MURPHY: When did you realize that?

ROBBIE: It was all the way along. The fact that it’s Greta Gerwig, people are like, “Greta Gerwig and a ‘Barbie’ movie, what?” And then the pictures of Ryan Gosling and me Rollerblading on Venice Beach came out and went even wider than I was expecting. I’d been thinking big for it, and it still turned out bigger than I expected.

But what about you? Did you think so many people were going to watch a movie about the making of the atomic bomb?

MURPHY: No. I don’t think any of us did. Christopher Nolan was always determined that it would be released in the summer as a big tentpole movie. That was always his plan. And he has this superstition around that date, the 21st.

ROBBIE: Do all his movies come out on that date?

MURPHY: In and around the 21st of July — they always come out then.

ROBBIE: It’s a good date. We picked that day too!

MURPHY: Yeah, I know.

ROBBIE: One of your producers, Chuck Roven, called me, because we worked together on some other projects. And he was like, “I think you guys should move your date.” And I was like, “We’re not moving our date. If you’re scared to be up against us, then you move your date.” And he’s like, “We’re not moving our date. I just think it’d be better for you to move.” And I was like, “We’re not moving!” I think this is a really great pairing, actually. It’s a perfect double billing, “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie.”

MURPHY: That was a good instinct.

ROBBIE: Clearly the world agreed. Thank God. The fact that people were going and being like, “Oh, watch ‘Oppenheimer’ first, then ‘Barbie.’” I was like, “See? People like everything.” People are weird.

MURPHY: And they don’t like being told what to do. They will decide, and they will generate the interest themselves.

ROBBIE: I think they were also really excited by the filmmakers. People were itching for the next Chris Nolan film and itching for the next Greta Gerwig film. To get them at the same time was exciting. You’ve done five movies with Christopher Nolan now, right?

MURPHY: This is six, actually.

ROBBIE: So you like the guy? A big fan.

MURPHY: It seems to work. This is the first time playing a proper lead role for him. There’d always been supporting parts over the years — it’s 20 years we’re working together. Emma Thomas, his wife, the producer, she called me because Chris doesn’t have a phone. So she put me on to Chris, and he said in his very understated British way, “I’m making this movie of Oppenheimer — I’d like you to play the part.” I had just finished something; I wasn’t doing anything. I did realize then that it was different than the other jobs I’d done with him, because it was the story of Oppenheimer’s life. And then when he eventually gave me the script, it was written in the first person, which I’d never read before, and so I —

ROBBIE: The script was written in the first person? The big print would be like, “I’m going to put the cup down and walk towards the door”?

MURPHY: Exactly, exactly. Which I’d never read before. And so it was very clear that he wanted it to be truly subjective storytelling. And that did add to the feeling of “Oh, fuck, this is a biggie.”

ROBBIE: Why do you love working with him? And why do you think he loves working with you? I know you’re going to have to maybe be really humble and be like, “I don’t know, why does he like me? I can’t understand.” Take a guess.

MURPHY: With Chris, it’s just the work. He’s not interested in anything else other than the work and the filmmaking. And he’s incredibly focused, and it’s incredibly rigorous.

ROBBIE: When he called you and said, “Movie about Oppenheimer,” were you like, “Gotcha”? Or were you like, “Who’s that? I should go read a book.”

MURPHY: I knew the very basic Wikipedia level. I knew about the Trinity tests, and I knew about the Manhattan Project and then obviously what happened in ’45. But I didn’t know what happened afterwards or anything like that.

ROBBIE: So you read a lot to prep. What else did you do?

MURPHY: Walk around my basement talking to myself.

ROBBIE: Really? I prep like a psychopath as well. Did you have a thing that would get you into him?

MURPHY: Physically, there was loads of pictures of him, and he always stood with his hand on his hip. He was such a slight man, but he always stood with this very kind of jaunty angle. So I nicked that pretty early as a physical thing. And then Chris Nolan kept sending me pictures of David Bowie, like in the Thin White Duke era, with the big voluminous trousers.

And how about you? Such a difficult character. It’s this kind of 20th-century icon, but not a real person. How did you figure it out?

ROBBIE: It was so weird prepping Barbie as a character. All my usual tools didn’t apply for this character. I work with an acting coach, and I work with a dialect coach, and I work with a movement coach, and I read everything, and I watch all the things. I rely on animal work a lot. I was maybe 45 minutes into pretending to be a flamingo or whatever, and I was suddenly like, “It’s not working.”

I went to Greta, like, “Help me. I don’t know where to start with this character.” And she’s like, “OK, what are you scared of?” And I was like, “I don’t want her to seem dumb and ditzy, but she’s also not meant to know anything. She’s meant to be completely naive and ignorant.” And Greta found this episode on “This American Life,” where it was a woman who can’t introspect, who doesn’t have the voice in her head that’s constantly narrating life the way we all do. This woman’s got a Ph.D. and is extremely smart, but just doesn’t have that internal monologue.

MURPHY: Is she happy?

ROBBIE: Yeah, totally.

MURPHY: Is she happier, do you think?

ROBBIE: Oh God, I wondered about that. She kind of thinks about exactly what’s in front of her — a spotlight to what exactly is in front of her at the time.

MURPHY: Well, that’s perfect, right? We should talk about the costumes. So you’re clearly still not sick of pink then?

ROBBIE: No, I’m not done with pink yet. Yeah, the costumes were incredible. I mean, you just can’t have a “Barbie” movie without the color pink. And everyone really got on board with that. I’d make a “On Wednesdays, we wear pink” day. Do you know that reference from “Mean Girls”?

MURPHY: I had forgotten that reference.

ROBBIE: On Wednesdays, they wear pink. And so if you didn’t wear pink on set, you got a fine. And then I’d donate it to charity. It’s always the guys, I feel like, that are like, “Oh, finally I have permission to wear pink and get dressed up!” It would get crazier and crazier until Ryan would be like, “I think I need a mink.” It would just get insane.

In my opinion, there are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people who are obsessed with “Peaky Blinders,” and then there’s the people who haven’t seen “Peaky Blinders.” I obviously sit in the first category, so can we please talk about Tommy fucking Shelby for just one minute? I mean, that was years and years of your life.

MURPHY: Yeah, it’s like 10. That was also a 10-year adventure. We started shooting at the end of 2012.

ROBBIE: Is there going to be a spinoff movie?

MURPHY: I mean, I’m open to the idea. I’ve always thought that if there’s more story to tell …

ROBBIE: Please do it. Please! Obviously, I’ve now revealed that I am a big fan of yours, not just “Peaky Blinders.” I also love your sleep story on the Calm app. But because I’m a fan of yours, I have watched a lot of your things on YouTube, and it’s out there on the internet that you are not that aware of memes and things like that. First of all, is that true? And second of all, if that is true, were you even aware of the Barbenheimer phenomenon, or were you just blissfully unaware because you use a dial-up phone or something?

MURPHY: I have two teenage boys. I do know what a meme is. Now I know that there are memes about me not knowing what a meme is.

ROBBIE: It’s a great meme. It’s like the “Inception” of memes. A meme within a meme.

MURPHY: Genuinely at the time I did not know. But people forget that was a long time ago.

ROBBIE: I might not have known back then what a meme is. I’m not that tech-savvy.

MURPHY: Exactly. And I think children started that stuff, right? Now that it’s become this sort of meme that’s eating itself, I am aware. But it’s mostly because of people either sending it to me or showing me and saying, “Look, you gotta look at this.”

ROBBIE: You see any of the Barbenheimer fan art?

MURPHY: I mean, it was impossible to avoid any of that stuff.

ROBBIE: Weren’t there some great ones? People are so clever. People kept asking me, “So is each marketing department talking to each other?” And I was like, “No, this is the world doing this! This is not a part of the marketing campaign.”

MURPHY: And I think it happened because both movies were good. In fact, that summer, there was a huge diversity of stuff in the cinema, and I think it just connected in a way that you or I or the studios or anybody could never have predicted.

ROBBIE: You can’t force that or orchestrate that.

MURPHY: No, and it may never happen again.'

#Cillian Murphy #Margot Robbie #Barbenheimer #Barbie #Oppenheimer #Christopher Nolan #Inception #Meme #Greta Gerwig #Chuck Roven #Mean Girls #Peaky Blinders #Sleep Story #Calm App #David Bowie #Thin White Duke #Youtube #Emma Thomas

[galaxymagick]

VIXX’s Leo confirmed to appear in the musical ‘Great Comet’! The role of Anatole, a charming and devilish man!

By. ROLLINGSTONE KOREA 

interview and translation under cut

VIXX’s Leo will appear on stage in a new role through the musical ‘Great Comet’. Leo was named to the lineup of the musical 'Great Comet' (planned and produced by Shownote Co., Ltd.), which was recreated by Dave Malloy, a composer and playwright who is attracting attention in the United States, based on the story of 'War and Peace', a masterpiece by the great Russian writer Tolstoy. The musical 'Great Comet' ' is set in Moscow, Russia ahead of Napoleon's invasion in 1812 and tells the story of Pierre, Natasha, and Anatole becoming entangled in a love triangle. Leo appears in the play as Anatole, a young soldier with an irresistible charm who seduces Natasha. The musical ‘Great Comet’ expressed expectations, saying, “Leo, who has proven his improved acting skills, will participate in the role of Anatole,” and “The character of Anatole, who will be portrayed with his natural movements and attractive voice, cannot be missed.” Meanwhile, Leo has appeared in the musicals 'Mata Hari', 'Monte Cristo', 'The Last Kiss', 'Elizabeth', 'Marie Antoinette', 'Frankenstein', 'Bungee Jumping', 'West Side Story', and the play 'Tebasland'. As he has shown solid acting skills and perfect character digestion through numerous works such as ' It received rave reviews and won two Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, and two External Critics Awards. Attention is focused on the transformation of Leo, who will play the lead character after coming to Korea and being recognized for his work and popularity, including winning the Producer Award, Choreography Award, Stage Design Award, Lighting Design Award, and Ensemble Award at the 6th Korean Musical Awards. In particular, 'The Great Comet' is an audience-participatory musical in which the boundary between the stage and the audience is blurred, so Leo's passionate performance will be vividly conveyed to the audience. As it is a work that requires him to perform both acting and playing instruments at the same time, he is also considered a K-pop artist. Expectations are rising for Leo's active performance. Meanwhile, Leo's next musical 'The Great Comet' will open at the Universal Arts Center in Seoul on March 26.

빅스 레오, 뮤지컬 ‘그레이트 코멧’ 출연 확정! 매력의 마성남 아나톨 역!

빅스(VIXX) 레오가 뮤지컬 ‘그레이트 코멧’을 통해 새로운 역할로 무대에 선다. 레오는 미국에서 주목 받는 작곡가 겸 극작가 데이브 말로이가 러시아 대문호 톨스토이 대표작 ‘전쟁과 평화’ 스토리를 기반으로 재창작한 뮤지컬 ‘그레이트 코멧’(기획·제작 ㈜쇼노트) 라인업에 이름을 올렸다.뮤지컬 ‘그레이트 코멧’은 1812년 나폴레옹의 침공을 앞둔 러시아 모스크바를 배경으로 피에르, 나타샤, 아나톨이 삼각관계로 얽히는 이야기를 그린다. 레오는 극중에서 거부할 수 없는 매력을 가진 젊은 군인이자 나타샤를 유혹하는 아나톨 역으로 나온다. 뮤지컬 ‘그레이트 코멧’ 측은 “한층 더 업그레이드된 연기력을 입증한 레오가 아나톨 역으로 참여한다”라며 “타고난 움직임과 매력적인 보이스로 그려낼 아나톨 캐릭터도 놓칠 수 없다”라고 기대감을 드러냈다. 그동안 레오는 뮤지컬 '마타하리', ‘몬테크리스토’, ‘더 라스트 키스’, ‘엘리자벳’, ‘마리 앙투아네트’, ‘프랑켄슈타인’, ‘번지점프를 하다’, ‘웨스트 사이드 스토리’, 연극 ‘테베랜드’ 등 수많은 작품을 통해 탄탄한 연기력과 완벽한 캐릭터 소화력을 보여준 만큼 이번 작품에서도 남다른 무대 내공을 드러낼 예정이다.레오의 차기 뮤지컬인 ‘그레이트 코멧’은 지난 2012년 오프브로드웨이에서 첫 선을 보인 이래 끊임없는 호평을 받으며 토니 어워즈 2관왕, 드라마 데스크 어워즈 4관왕, 외부 비평가상 2관왕을 달성했다. 국내로 넘어와 제6회 한국 뮤지컬 어워즈에서 프로듀서상, 안무상, 무대 디자인상, 조명 디자인상, 앙상블상을 수상하는 등 작품성과 대중성을 인정받아 주연 캐릭터로 활약할 레오의 변신에도 시선이 집중되고 있다.특히 ‘그레이트 코멧’은 관객 참여형 뮤지컬로 무대와 객석의 경계가 허물어져 있어서 레오의 열연이 관객에게 생생하게 전달될 예정이며, 연기와 함께 악기 연주를 동시에 소화해내야 하는 작품인 만큼 케이팝 아티스트로도 활약 중인 레오의 활약에 기대감이 높아지고 있다.한편, 레오의 차기 뮤지컬 ‘그레이트 코멧’은 오는 3월 26일 서울 유니버설 아트센터에서 막을 올린다.

#vixx #taekwoon #leo #jung taekwoon #vixx leo #musical the great comet #*shownote_theatre #*v:p #🖤

[kutputli]

I planned to rewatch season 2 of Ted Lasso doing my Nate notes before watching season 3, but the torrent dropped and I was weak. So since I seem to have decided to break my lurker mode and get into participatory fandom after mumblemutter years, forewith! Oh also, I propose a #Safe for Nate Fans tag for ease of finding posts of likeminded people. :)

I find myself watching the show with a split conciousness. Which is always how I watched it. In one way, I watch it in ‘normal’ mode, which is to say through a white gaze, which I’ve cultivated through decades of watching white media and being perfectly able to enjoy and appreciate it. When I do that, I’m able to spread my attention wide and indulge my curiousity about all the characters. (I’ve never had much affection for either Ted or Rebecca, so I look around them to see what the rest are doing. Roy, Trent, and Sam the most, and then Keeley and Jamie.)

But reading fannish posts about the show, and reading fic, inevitably gets me into the second mode of watching, which is as a person of colour, watching a show made by white people, which has a few (so few!) characters of colour. And oh boy, the defensive tension that envelopes me as I watch it that way.

All of which is to say, its very hard to code switch between both. Either I can be in one mode and complain about the absence of Trent when teased with James Lance in the series regular credits, and I can writhe in the excruciating agony that is Roy and Keeley’s shattering heartbreak as they go through their super mature super friendly concious decoupling and to wonder where the fuck a constantly crying Keeley came from and when she hung out with Higgins so often... or.

Or I can talk about how I automatically notice every non-white body in every frame, and start counting them in every scene with extras.

And since I guess there will be enough posts doing the former, that I can like and agree with, I might as well do the latter.

I am so angry about Sharon being given a (presumably) white boyfriend. Because the ultimate signaling that a Black woman is successful is for her to have a conventionally hot, thin, tall, WHITE man. Fucking yuck.

Meanwhile Nate... Jesus. Watching him be cruel to people below him is just painful. That moment when he ignores the hello from the Black woman on the escalater... ugh. And there’s always the explanation that he is so caught up in his own head and his paralysis of social interaction, but still. It’s wrong, and it hurts to watch. I can’t bear people who are rude to employees, and I’m so angry with Nate for doing that. And I’m also angry that I have to keep pointing out to myself, in response to the fannish reactions I’m anticipating, that none of what he is doing is worse than the way Rebecca treated her employees. (And probably how Cartrick treated the players?) The dum-dum line is just terrible, but then again, Ted Lasso told Nate to call his players big dumb pussies, so...

Nate’s new colleagues! Disco is entertaining! I enjoy how he does not seem to be judging Nate, and has an eager terrier vibe of his own. It would be nice if they could be friends.

Rupert’s PA Ms. Kakes, that pallid zombie lady, is interesting, because here’s my prediction. She’s kind of Rupert’s new Higgins. So she probably has to help him bring his women in and out. I suspect at some point Rupert will either sexually harass her, or do something else that she feels responsibility for, and Nate is going to side with her over Rupert. And that (to call back to Keeley’s line about how the previous business in her new office got shut down) is going to be how Nate will help take down Rupert. (I did enjoy the casual mention of the Sacklers as Rupert’s friends to signpost that he is Truly Evil and The Worst. Yes Rupert, you are.)

I am also enjoying the hell out of watching the craft both Anthony Stewart Head (Giles!) and Nick Mohammed are bringing to their scenes, because they are both being so very layered. Rupert just keeps flipping on a dime between genuinely charming and flirtatiously encouraging, and coldblooded threats (he totally staged that car tow, like he got Robbie Williams cancelled). And Nathan... can hold his own! He’s getting so much better and being able to keep up with the social interaction, and respond to the situation as needed, and yet maintain a bit of his own voice and opinion (on his face, if nowhere else.) I honestly thought Nate would just let them tow the car away and try to get it back quietly afterwards, out of shame, but he spoke up for his ride. (And of course the parallels - Nate gave Ted a ride in his car on his first day, Rupert gave Nate a car on his first day.)

And now, Nate’s first press conference! (And of course, all the parallels with Ted’s)

“I’m pretty sure I said wonderkind” - this is at the heart of the Problem of Nathan. Because, he didn’t. I’ve gone back and watched it. We’ve all gone back and watched it. We’ve seen Jan Maas point out to him his mistake. But Nathan just doesn’t let it go. He keeps sticking with the lie. Has he convinced himself about it too? I honestly can’t tell. But here’s the thing. This is a character who has for years, for decades, been dealing with lies and gaslighting and omissions - structurally, by being the kind of person he is in the place he is in. He was told he was worthless, and only capable of being a kitman, and of course I can fill in all the lies a brown man in post-Brexit Britain gets met with, just while walking down the street. Colin and Isaac and Jamie all acted like they had never bullied him. Rebecca taking actions that anyone with a knowledge of the game and the club like Nate has would be able to tell were harmful, and then just acting like she was always everyone’s well wisher. People in power lie, and the structure supports their gaslighting and their rewriting of of history. So that’s what Nate is doing, stubbornly pushing his own stupid, ridiculous lie at all the powerful people he aspires to be a part of. This is the part where I’d like to sit Nate down and ask him what his morals really are. Does he want to make of himself a Rishi Sunak or Bobby Jindal? Is he that self-serving and hypocritical?

There are two reasons why I know Nate to be better than the average self-serving conservative desi sell-out: One is the deep vein of feminism and sensitivity that runs through him - his inner critic is as harsh on him about the misogynistic mistakes he makes as about the social cues he fumbles. And the second is that, unlike Ted (who cares about people) and Rebecca (who cares about winning), Nate cares about the game. He has a deep love for football, which is what fuels his knowledge of it. And unlike Rupert, I don’t think Nate hungers for power (though he definitely misuses what power he now has). I think Nate hungers for belonging - for being included, for having the right to be considered an inalienable part (of the game, of the people, of the nation). The only way out is through, but I hope that we will find a distinction between the way Rupert loves the game - wanting ownership and control, and how Nate loves the game - wanting inclusion and celebration of his own talents in improving it.

But back to that press conference. Nate having the soundtrack of an impending panic attack like Ted had is a bit on the nose, and I get that the show wants us to keep comparing how Ted deals/dealt with a situation vs how Nate does. But, I’m sorry, you just cannot keep making 1:1 comparisons between a well off white American and a middle class brown Britisher. As Nate keeps futilely reminding the narrative - he has a right to be here, he belongs!

What I find frustrating and fascinating is the entire absence of any discussion of Nate as a person in Richmond - Higgins and Rebecca are alone, watching his press conference, and there is not one personal remark about him - oh, he’s really gone grey now! Has he lost weight? His contract was generous enough for him to have not needed to leave, right? Something? Anything! Even Beard and Roy and Ted - all we get is a “that little shit” from Roy. It’s all of Nate’s worst fears - they don’t know him, they don’t remember anything about him, they don’t talk about him. Contrast that with how much Rebecca talks about Rupert. Whatever happened to ‘be curious, not judgemental’? I actually think that’s rubbish - I am both curious AND judgemental of things that bother me, but why is no one gossiping about their assistant coach suddenly fucking off?

Besides the journalist who asked the sewer photo question to Nate, there was another older Black woman journalist in the funky flowy top. I hope one of them becomes the Trent Crimm to him. Though its nice to see Marcus Adebayo get his full byline at the Independent. Marcus’s article says, “Harsh words from Shelley for the club and coach who raised from obscurity as the kitman to assistant coach” and yet again - the same misleading narrative of white saviorism and enforced gratitude. Ted needed Nate’s help to do the job he was unqualified to do, and Nate gave his extra labour, skill and help for a full season without any recompense. For all of Ted’s being nice about Nate on a personal level (and I do believe in the genuineness of that niceness) he has not reversed this narrative of what Nate owes to him.

And that is the Problem of Ted Lasso. Ted values personal kindness and generosity over structural change which is both why he fails to be an actual friend to the first person (of colour) who was kind to him when he came to the UK, and also why he is failing as a coach to get his team to the victorious position his boss wants him to take it to.

And then we see Ted Lasso ‘fighting back’, as Rebecca begs him to. (A note that marginalised people are often not perceived as fighting back against the structural injustices that attack them daily; they are mostly portrayed by the dominant framing as just ‘combative’ and ‘angry’.)

This scene is doing a lot of work, and I think of it as emblematic of the show (and the writers) greatest strengths and weaknesses both. The show is good at craft and writing and flipping from emotion to comedy to pathos to truth, and this scene does all that. Ted makes himself vulnerable, though you can see how it batters at him to invite those laughs. It’s a contrast to Nate - a reminder that the masculinity the show values is about bringing down one’s defences and inviting collaborative relationships - get people to laugh with you, don’t attack, be kind.

But the show is also terrible at accounting for the ways that race and racism are a structural force that affects every character it casts with a racialised body, and this scene highlights it. Nobody laughed with Nate when he was self-deprecating and open. In season 1 we see him constantly try to respond to his bullies with laughter and smiles, trying to play it off as banter between equals so as to minimise the hurt it causes as violence with a power imbalance. It doesn’t work. (And anyone who has studied the evolution of the stand up comedy circuit over the past few decades - a background that of these several show writers have - knows the ways that material is racialised, both the race of the comedian, and of the audience, matters deeply in figuring out what material gets people to laugh, and when.)

You cannot expect me to believe that Nathan Shelley, newly minted coach of West Ham, at his first press conference, could have got everyone to laugh with him and twitter to meme approvingly had he made jokes about calling himself a dummy and the washer of other players’ underwear. That Ted’s tactics are universal, and would work for any man, and not specifically a successful white american who got paid the big bucks to do a job he wasn’t qualified for while he fucked off and left his son on his Eat Pray Love foreign travel. (Nathan will never be allowed to forget that he fucked up the pronunciation of wonderkind. Ted can make comments about a reptile having a belly button uncontested.) 

And I bet that’s what Nate is thinking as he watches that press conference - that subtle fear and sadness on his face (God, Nick Mohammed is SO FUCKING GOOD) for both himself and Ted. Nate cares for Ted as he resents him, and watching Ted publicly take a hammer to himself like this is scary and painful. But its also terrifying because Nate has been frantically trying to keep up with the rules of professional interaction in the echelons of power, and now here’s another exception made. Did he just fuck up again, making them laugh at his wit about another team, the way that Rupert clearly indicated he was to do?Ted was the one who taught him it was ok to be snarky and snappy and put-downy! Now he has to account for a different way to play the game?

I’m not going to pick a side on the headcanons about Nate being neurodiverse, but even for neurotypical people codeswitching and transitioning across lines of race and class and culture - it is exhausting to keep up with the constantly edited rulebook in your head. And Nate has not a single person on his side to help him do it.

Cue the text from him mum, which, imma just going to be full South Asian and call her Aunty. Because she sends him photos of the pretty moon, and he responds sweetly, because of course he does. I bet she sends him whatsapp forwards about eating almonds soaked overnight in water. The thing about his dad being upset about him swearing - its a very immigrant experience to have to prove over and over that you know the language as well as the white people, and can use it properly and politely, that you aren’t uncouth and barbaric. I know exactly where the dad is coming from and I also know how it cuts Nate like a knife that never once can his parents just be fucking normal (white) and say love you! (This is why I maintain that Nathan’s dad is not the James Tartt Sr monster that fandom makes him out to be. He’s an immigrant parent who raised a diaspora kid and the can of worms of messy fucked up relationship that involves is a whole other thing.)

I love that Nate read the note saying follow your gut, and immediately went for the honesty of admitting that he didn’t know whether to open the present in front of her or not. (The struggle is real).

Ms Kake’s ‘its a car’ was beautifully delivered. I get the sense that this character is watching a seduction going on as she has had to facilitate for many before, and is observing with the attentive dispassion of a scientist.)

Rupert nodding from the asinine futuristic window like a cartoon supervillian, while Nate gives a nod and immediately after (he can’t help it!) and awkward thumbs up. God I love these two actors. And I really really want to watch Nate collaborate with Ms Kake and take on Rupert. That would be the parallel to season 1 Ted and Higgins vs Rebecca that is worth making the comparison with. (Nate, unlike Colin, can drive a fancy car perfectly well.)

I’m not a fan of the precocious children dispensing wisdom trope, so Henry telling Ted he still needs to try to win, and Phoebe saying Roy is stupid for breaking up is whatever, but if I don’t see Nate’s niece in person this season, I will sulk a lot. (I am assuming Trent Crimm’s daughter will show up as part of whatever romantic arc he’s destined for.)

My final plea for the season is to see Nate in non-branded non-work clothes, and not That Suit, either. Let the man do a scene in jeans and a soft sweater! And thank you lord, for the gratuitous shirtless Sam shot.

#ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso spoilers #safe for nate fans #i guess i should have a nate tag

[kidddoz]

Lotftober, day 28 - Happy Ending

The canticles of the free birds who flew above the trees were the best way of waking up. Even with Piggy being able to make his solar clock, the chirping was a tradition that felt like home. Whenever a new hour started, the chirping never ceased. And by four, the chirping aggravated and was now the choir who were ululating.

The heat seemed now bearable like their gown bodies developed well enough to be over the dizziness of such tropical temperatures. So noon was, by far, the hunters' favourite time of the entire day. It felt like a tradition, or more like the time to play and do sports. The choir planned which pig would be the best to hunt, so they picked one, that was the final decision, and the hunt began. One opened the door of the pigsty and let the pig run for a couple of minutes until the race started.

It was still harsh work, even after all those years, it was hard for them to become used to it, so they decided to do it once or twice a week. After all, that decision would let them control the pig population well enough not to have a meat shortage. And it also allowed them to have variety. For those who didn't enjoy the rush of the kill, the idea of being a farmer might suit them better. The fruits seemed to be easier to eat once they realised how to plant and take care of them.

The huts seemed now as stable as ever or as some of the younger call them, "Castle wood". They would return to Castle Rock during summer to prevent the high tide from flooding their homes. Plus, the smooth grey rock was cooler during those scorching hot nights. And for those who had crafty qualities or just enjoyed fixing broken things, there was the manual crafts group. They were in charge of keeping the huts in great shape, designing complex water routes, creating tools and even mending clothes.

And life could not feel better when dawn came by, and the leaders reunited again. They soon realised having just one leader was a problem, so what better than having more than one? A leader for each activity would be great, and so there they met before night. The chief of the hunters, Jack. The head of the farmers, Simon. The leader of manual crafts, Ralph.

Every time they saw each other after a long day of work, it was inevitable to smile. It felt like the first time they went exploring the island. But now they were smarter, taller, older, and even kinder. Even though the years passed by, and no ship came, even if the fire never ceased, the three friends loved to climb to the top and admire the setting sun.

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There's no way in hell I can imagine a happy ending for this monstrosity, so my version of the happy ending is that they never got rescued and no one died. They went for participatory democracy but with all sectors having one leader at least and a respective second-in-command (eg. Roger / Samneric / Piggy). It is so fun creating this concept that I'd really like to explore more of this idea in the future.

#lotf #lord of the flies #lotftober #lotf ralph #lotf jack #lotf simon

[omegaphilosophia]

Economic Systems

Economics is the social science that studies how individuals, firms, and societies allocate scarce resources among competing wants and needs. It is concerned with how people make choices and how those choices affect the production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services. Economics also examines how markets and economies function and how policies, such as taxes and regulations, can influence economic outcomes. The field of economics encompasses a broad range of topics, including microeconomics (which focuses on the behavior of individuals and firms), macroeconomics (which examines the performance of the overall economy), international trade, labor economics, environmental economics, and many others. Economists use a variety of tools and methods, including mathematical models, statistical analysis, and experiments, to understand economic phenomena and to inform policy decisions.

Here are some economic systems:

Capitalism: This economic system is based on private ownership of the means of production and the operation of markets for goods, services, and labor. In capitalism, prices and profits are determined by supply and demand, and individuals and firms are motivated by self-interest and the pursuit of profit.

Socialism: This economic system is based on collective ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods, services, and labor based on the needs of society. In socialism, prices and production are determined by central planning or democratic decision-making, and individuals and firms are motivated by social goals and the public good.

Communism: This economic system is based on the common ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods, services, and labor based on need. In communism, economic decisions are made by a centralized government, and individuals and firms are motivated by social goals and the public good.

Mixed economy: This economic system combines elements of capitalism and socialism, with both private and public ownership of the means of production and a mix of market and government intervention in economic activity. The mix of capitalism and socialism can vary widely between countries, with some favoring more market-oriented policies and others favoring more state intervention.

Market economy: This economic system is based on the operation of markets for goods, services, and labor, with prices and production determined by supply and demand. In a market economy, economic decisions are made by individuals and firms acting in their own self-interest, without centralized planning or government intervention.

Command economy: This economic system is based on central planning by a government or other central authority, with prices and production determined by the government rather than supply and demand. In a command economy, economic decisions are made by the government, rather than by individuals and firms acting in their own self-interest.

Mercantilism: This economic system emphasizes the accumulation of wealth and power through international trade, with the goal of exporting more than importing to achieve a favorable balance of trade.

Feudalism: This economic system was based on a hierarchical social structure in which land was owned by lords who granted use of the land to peasants in exchange for labor and goods.

Corporatism: This economic system emphasizes the role of large corporations and other organized interest groups in economic decision-making, often in collaboration with government.

Participatory economics: This economic system emphasizes democratic decision-making and equitable distribution of resources, and aims to provide economic opportunities and social justice through decentralized planning and worker self-management.

Market socialism: An economic system in which some or all of the means of production are owned by the state or by worker cooperatives, but the allocation of goods and services is determined by the market.

Mutualism: An economic system that advocates for worker cooperatives, mutual aid, and voluntary association. The goal is to create a society where people can produce and consume goods and services based on principles of equality, reciprocity, and justice.

Post-Keynesian economics: An economic system that builds on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, emphasizing the role of government intervention in the economy to achieve full employment, price stability, and economic growth.

Georgism: An economic system based on the ideas of Henry George, which emphasizes that land is a common resource and should be taxed accordingly to prevent monopolies and encourage economic growth.

Islamic economics: An economic system based on Islamic principles, including the prohibition of interest, speculation, and hoarding of wealth, and the emphasis on social justice, charity, and cooperation.

Feminist economics: An economic system that emphasizes the role of gender in economic activity and seeks to address gender-based inequalities through policies and practices that promote gender equality and social justice.

Neoclassical economics: A dominant economic system that emphasizes the role of markets in allocating resources and assumes that individuals act rationally to maximize their own self-interest.

Austrian economics: An economic system based on the ideas of Austrian economists, including the emphasis on subjective value, the importance of entrepreneurship, and the rejection of central planning and government intervention in the economy.

Anarcho-capitalism: A political and economic system that advocates for the abolition of the state and the establishment of a free market where all goods and services are privately owned and exchanged.

Behavioral economics: A subfield of economics that combines insights from psychology, sociology, and other social sciences to explain and predict human behavior in economic decision-making.

Institutional economics: An economic system that emphasizes the importance of institutions, such as social norms, laws, and customs, in shaping economic behavior and outcomes.

Technocracy: A political and economic system that advocates for the use of technology and scientific expertise to manage and allocate resources for the benefit of society.

Resource-based economics: An economic system that emphasizes the importance of natural resources in economic activity and advocates for their sustainable use and management.

Social market economy: An economic system that combines free market principles with social welfare policies to promote economic growth, social justice, and ecological sustainability.

Green economics: An economic system that emphasizes the importance of environmental sustainability and advocates for policies and practices that promote the long-term health of the planet and its ecosystems.

Sharing economy: An economic system that emphasizes the sharing of resources, goods, and services among individuals and communities, often facilitated by digital platforms and technologies.

#philosophy #epistemology #economics #politics #sociology #systems #society #resources #goods #services #knowledge #education #learning #chatgpt

[atlurbanist]

The long-delayed Jackson Street Bridge parklet moves closer to reality

City Council's Liliana Bakhtiari says that funding has been found to complete the Jackson Street Bridge placemaking project! She announced at the NPU M meeting tonight that both this & protected bike lanes for Edgewood Ave are going out to bid this year.

The Jackson Street project creates a new pedestrian area that extends beyond the sidewalk -- basically a parklet. It will also include a protected cycle track creating a safer connection between the Freedom Parkway Trail and Baker-Highland Trail.

This plan has been gestating for several years (it was first announced in 2018). I served on the advisory committee for it as a neighborhood representative long ago.

The Jackson Street Bridge parklet & Edgewood Ave bike lane are using a mix of funding sources from City Council District 5 & District 2, and both projects are getting $ through the Downtown Decides participatory budgeting program.

Many thanks to all involved🙏

#atlanta #urbanism #downtown atlanta

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I know this is supposed to technically be a participatory meme but I need to draw my favourite little coloured guys in a circle so I'm planning it in advance.

DJ Cadence is one of 2 characters I could think of for pink. The other was Princess Cadance from MLP. Huh.

#club penguin #dj cadence #color wheel meme