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newestcool · 26 days
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Balenciaga s/s 2004 rtw Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière  Newest Cool
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matsiwrld · 11 months
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betsey johnson ss 04
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jtl-fics · 5 months
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Hmmmm I'd love some Foxhole Bake AU for WIP Wednesday 👀
WIP Wednesday - 11/15/23 (Closed) | Foxhole Bake AU
The Camera showed all of the participants each with a bright smile "The contestants are all excited to be here for their first show stopper challenge!" the camera focused on Neil who was looking focused unlike the day before, "Some have everything to prove." then the camera cut to Andrew who was picking at his nails, "and some have nothing to prove at all." Noel continues to narrate.
"Though some of the joy might be a bit of schadenfreude since Baker Nicole is unable to continue on with the competition due to a medical emergency. We're not saying that she was in the direct path of the fumes of Neil Josten's bake the day before, but well..." the footage cuts to Nicole coughing and with tears in her eyes the day before.
"So we're wishing her a swift recovery and the fellow bakers are feeling a bit refreshed knowing that there will no longer be an elimination this week." Noel continued.
"A wedding cake!" Prue starts expression visibly bright, "It may just be 'cake' but it's a spectacle it's a centerpiece, it has to be big, it to be perfectly decorated, it, like any good marriage, must withstand the test of time." she explains looking at all of the bakers.
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carbone14 · 1 year
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Après leur arrivée à la gare de Klagenfurt, le Führer et Himmler passent en revue la compagnie d'honneur de la Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler – Autriche – 5 avril 1938
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blxxditout · 5 months
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Day 3: Are there any killers in the fog that he fears the most and why?
Day 4: How did he react when he learned her basically immortal (ie dies on hook but wakes up at the campfire)
From your secret Santa who again sorry for the lateness!
DAY THREE
What makes a killer 'scary' is not that they do what they do, why. It's not something that he stops to think about often while being pursued in his trials, but among the many that he's participated in thus far, he has taken notice that some take a lot of pride and joy in the art of killing. It's not an act, because calling it that makes it sound simple. The more complex it is, the more torturous it is, the scarier the killer. Because they are no longer simply a killer, but someone who lives for the continuous torture, someone who thrives off of it.
The Doctor, in his regards, is one of the crueler hunters amongst them in the fog because of this. He will find you, but he won't kill you straight away.
The more prolonged death is, the more he fears for when it will arrive, adding to the building madness already brought from trials spent with Herman. For him, it starts to get really bad when he starts to see the hallucinations, he can't trust what's in front of him or what's beside him. He'll see the electric killer in most cases, but sometimes, there is another amongst the figments of his scattered mind. The image of his late lover appears before him like a ghost, observing him with those kind eyes, and it nearly gets him every time. It's not real, it's not, but he can't help it. He'll go to the apparition, just for her to vanish within his arms. Frustration overflows from the well inside, and he cries out.
Snapping out of it does not cure him of despair, and there isn't any which way to get accustomed or used to it. There is only screaming, and then there is pain. The worst part might be hearing the killer laugh. While this is a job to some, a chore at the very least, to him it is a game. It is something that he is all too enthused to participate in to experiment on the lab rats that the Entity provides. When he is released from the scrutiny of the Doctor, he is neither relieved to be sent back to the campfire or prepared to take him on again. Let alone another trial.
While he will never admit it to any of the others, he is shaken up so terribly bad. The effects of the previous trial still seem to linger, and the static mumbling in his head persists even as he tries to force them to go away. At unrest and unease, he struggles with finding a way to acclimate to his previous state. He can't decide if he wants to be left alone or sit in the company of another until he's settled down. Even when he does, eventually, the bitterness doesn't ever fade.
DAY FOUR
With his first death, he thought that he might finally be able to see Selene again. That he'd go to heaven or to wherever she was to be with her. He'd hoped to find her in their shared bed, awaking to the early morning sunrise as they'd get on with their day or sleep in. He believed that the nightmare was over, but when he found that it was not, he could not have been more distraught. Immortality was what his lady had wanted, what she had killed him over in her sacrifice, but for him to take it in her stead? There was no end to this nightmare. A burning anger filled his veins, curled his fists into balls as he desperately tried to search for a way out.
Either returned to the campfire or set somewhere anew, he ran. He ran until he could not do so any longer, and after that? He cried. He fell to his knees and sobbed besides himself. To be immortal and tortured for as long as time deemed it necessary? That was hell. Hell that he could not fathom that he deserved.
Even while knowing that they'd just be brought back to life, that didn't ease anything for him about the trials, or the blood sport that him and the other survivors were thrust into without a word. If anything, it made him appreciate things more, to take more consideration into the life that he had cultivated over the years and how easy he's had it up until now. It makes him feel even worse about attempting to take that away before he met Selene. At least with knowing that he won't stay dead, he can make it up to the people who's lives end up getting lost during the trials he's in. He doesn't go into them selfishly, but not being able to save them hurts him.
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juyomiao · 8 months
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FIREWORK - P. SUNGHOON
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park sunghoon x idol!reader
★ synopsis newly debuted 5th gen girl group CUP!D from starship entertainment is under everyone's eyes as their debut song 'love dive' goes viral both domestically and internationally ; all is going well until the group's main vocalist, y/n, gets exposed for her old stan… hate account?
☆ featuring enhypen , ive , cravity's seongmin hyeongjun and taeyoung
★ genre smau , idol au , fluff , crack , angst , enemies (?) to lovers
☆ warnings kys/kms jokes , death threats (joking)(most of the times) , my shitty humor , cyberbullying (nothing too heavy) , more specific warnings will be added to each chapter , fromis_9's hayoung as a placeholder for yn's pics
★ status semi-hiatus ? irregular updates
☆ taglist open , send an ask/comment to be added !
★ note firework like the &team song not the katy perry song (ray told me to say this) ,, working on an smau makes u anxious ? why not start writing another one !! im taking care of myself i swear 🫶🏻 the group name i came up with might be ass but theres a specific joke i can make with it
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MASTERLIST
(chapter titles might be subject to change as the fic goes on)
★ profiles [CUP!SS] / [cool men (real)] / [pick me girls]
01 ♡ wonception
02 ♡ gay son
03 ♡ apology letter with tears
04 ♡ #ynOUT
05 ♡ what are we
06 ♡ leash kid
07 ♡ like the stayc song
08 ♡ menstrual cup brand
09 ♡ quadratic equations
10 ♡ illiteracy
11 ♡ homie hopper allegations
12 ♡ first day at gay high school
13 ♡ reddit aita
[more to be added]
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sgiandubh · 7 months
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When clueless, silence is golden
I was just browsing around while looking for something completely different and stumbled upon this quintessential Mordorian POV:
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Disclosing a username is crass and I usually never do this, unless really necessary and relevant. So spare me the ad hominem argument you usually fumble around with, Disgruntled Tumblrettes. Yet, for all its intellectual paucity, this is interesting dissection material, since clearly this person hasn't got the slightest idea of what she is so confidently talking about.
First scenario at play: The Tasting Alliance, 'a company no one has ever heard of', booked and paid for the suite.
Not necessarily booked, nor necessarily paid, madam. In the real business world you are so clueless about, these arrangements are seldom - if ever - monetized. It's rather all about barter.
That company no one ever heard about - except, perhaps, #silly and totally irrelevant Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemicallef/2023/04/13/the-tasting-alliance-and-reserve-bar-are-set-to-launch-top-shelf/?sh=b45f7085f6f1) - is the parent company of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition (SFWSC), largely acknowledged as at least one of, if not the world's leading spirits award contest. Google is your friend, you should try it some time:
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The operative info here is that this evaluation comes from the Beverage Trade Network, a professional portal for spirit dealers. Having determined this, Tasting Alliance's IG number of followers is completely irrelevant, since we are talking about two very different targets, here. Its real leverage and weight on the global market does not really need the boost of an aggressive social media presence and the kind of events it hosts are not your favorite junior hockey league or elementary school cake and bake sale.
Let's look a bit further. It takes one click to get on the Tasting Alliance's website (https://thetastingalliance.com/). Granted, not all the information you need to understand its business model is right there and I had to go dig a bit (not without some help - merci encore!) to even get a grip on how these wheels are really turning.
The way they sell themselves is sober and confident. And completely disinterested in social media impact, to be honest:
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So, in lieu of glitz and sequined bras, we have a success story in its own right, which started in Frisco in 1980, then continued in 2000, with the addition of the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Further expansion followed in 2018, with the New York World Wine & Spirits Competition and 2019, when Dias Blue set a firm foot on the emerging Asian market, with the Singapore World Spirits Competition.
I doubt an explanatory drawing is needed as to the why of this expansion choice: it's all about baijiu, the old/new Chinese sorghum spirit and the everlasting love of the Far East for anything fermented. Lao-lao, the unspeakable Laotian homemade rice whisky, comes immediately to the mind of this blogger: the last bottle I saw, somewhere along the unexploded ordnance ridden Route 13, had a plump snake inside, as a naïve Viagra of sorts. Took a mouthful and thought I was going to die - but when spending the night in a longhouse with the Tai Lü people, you can't afford a faux-pas, can you? /end of travel memories intermezzo
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By all my estimations, The Tasting Alliance is very profitable business. Let's unpack ( for current fees, see source: https://callingallcontestants.com/contest/2023-san-francisco-world-spirits-competition/):
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Considering the 500 USD fee /entry (550, in 2023) in the competition and the fact that in 2022 there were approximately 5000 entries in the Frisco spirits' competition, we have a very rough turnover estimation of 500x5000= 2.5 million USD. That figure is just for one of the spirits competitions, mind you, and does not take into account what the winners probably pay for the right to mention their medals on their bottles (I am yet to see them on the SS gin bottles, btw), nor the multiple sidekick profit (e-shop sales, consulting and/or other distribution deals, etc). So, at the end of the day, I would comfortably multiply that base by 4, assuming a similar scale for all the other events they organize, which takes the yearly turnover at around 10 million USD and keeping in mind this is very probably a conservative estimation. I also assume costs are negligible, taking into account the discretion with which major players traditionally operate on that particular niche. Real expenses are probably limited to the activity of a handful of offices, sparingly and intelligently staffed. Advertisement is probably bartered and social media, well... you just saw the effort, haven't you?
But then there's the brand's real power on that market and this is the right time to talk about influence and impact. Perhaps this recent (2021) Men's Journal article will help us see better: https://www.mensjournal.com/food-drink/inside-the-san-francisco-world-spirits-competition
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With a bit of luck, this could happen:
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Sounds familiar? Of course and I bet that was S's strategy. If you imagined him doing the same exhausting booze tour every year (groping on top and seriously cringe on the sides), I think you might want to reconsider. I told you Sassenach Summer was a sandbox for more serious things to come and until now I have no reasons to change my mind. He did it for a reason and, mind you, that reason is not that the booze did or does not sell. It does. Restaurants start to feature it. Podcasts are being produced. The press starts to mention it (that recent New York Times article is evidence enough). This is not Lucky Luciano dealing in bootleg alcohol during the Prohibition and making obscene money over a fortnight. This is a serious business project that was delayed by COVID. That's all. And it takes time and patience and consistence. We know he has all those aplenty.
We also have the totally inane take on production costs for that podcast. It suddenly made me remember again my media expert past. It is with complete and educated confidence that I tell you: a potential 5K USD extra cost for renting that damn suite for the day is peanuts, even for a two-minute clip (let alone, in reality, a podcast interview, and I stand corrected if wrong), if such costs are covered by The Tasting Alliance. But my money is on a barter with The Shutters on the Beach, which would be, again, common business practice.
Second scenario: 'Shutters comped the room for free promo (...) for an actor most people haven't heard of.' You can throw timelines down my throat as many times as you wish and tell me he already stayed there several times and yell and screech, but here is what I think. Shutters didn't comp that suite for S, an actor most people haven't heard of, a decent, hard working start-up entrepreneur. If so (I doubt it), it would be logical to think Shutters comped that suite for The Tasting Alliance, which has a long documented history of partnerships with hotels that host their competitions:
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So Shutters might have comped that room for a major player of the alcohol lobby world, happy that S, a returning client, picked them out of several possible options, because it was convenient. I don't believe for a second he stayed there.
This guy knows what he's doing and C's gin success completely depends and I bet will rely on that relentless networking effort. If anything, the Keepers of the Quaich recent development is only confirmation of all the above. But that's another story - very soon on this page.
IYKYK. The rest is uneducated cackle. But Mordor people were never the brightest bulbs in the fandom's chandelier, were they?
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sansastarkmeta · 5 months
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An early outline of AFFC written around 2003-04 by GRRM was recently shared on r/asoiaf. Read the original post here for more info.
Two entries are notes for Sansa POV chapters:
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SANSA DIVIDE CHAPTER – LF: CERSEI HAS OVERREACHED SHE'LL SOON BE DONE
LF of course stands for Littlefinger.
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SANSA ?OLD - RESOLVE TO BE SS & TAKE NORTH 1 - TOURNEY OF WINGED KNIGHT 2 - SWEETROBIN [WOOS? WEDS? unclear] 3 - NEWS FROM W.H. KILL THE MOUSE ④
SS very likely stands for Sansa Stark, and W.H. for White Harbor. The mouse of course refers to Ser Shadrich.
The people at r/asoiaf who transcribed GRRM's handwriting favor the reading 2 - Sweetrobin *woos, but *weds is also possible, as well as *wees although less likely.
The circled 4 seems to indicate the then total count of Sansa POV chapters that GRRM had already written drafts of (3) plus one he was planning on writing (already partially written).
As for what can be inferred from all this... The first note almost certainly became AFFC Alayne II. The second one seems to concern an unpublished chapter or chapters that GRRM moved to TWOW. Given it's been twenty years since he wrote this outline, this raises the question: does he still intend to follow this note? Assuming he does, there are some things we can extrapolate and speculate on:
Sansa will not lose herself into the Alayne persona, and is soon heading North to reclaim her identity and Winterfell/the region for House Stark.
The tourney of winged knights is mentioned in the TWOW Alayne I preview from 2015, so this indicates GRRM had the idea for it for at least a decade prior.
Interpretation of the line regarding Robert Arryn is dependant on the reading. If it's *woos it might refer to Robert's infatuation with Alayne, which we've seen in Sansa's last published chapter, AFFC Alayne II, and in the TWOW Alayne I preview from 2015. If it's *weds... the most straightforward reading would be that Robert marries someone, even potentially Alayne/Sansa. Considering Petyr's plans for rulership of the Vale which he reveals in AFFC Alayne II, both scenarios seem surprising.
News from White Harbor most likely refers to news of Ramsay's wedding to Arya Stark. There's no telling whether that includes the crucial detail that the bride is truthfully Jeyne Poole. Another option could be news of the mutiny at Castle Black and some kind of update on Jon, whether that's his death, his speculated resurrection or confusing reports about both and whether he was ever dead at all. Of course, the news could be a mix and match of all of this, too. Any of these options could be the catalyst for Sansa going North.
The strikethrough could indicate these ideas were either moved elsewhere or dropped entirely. Or perhaps GRRM returned to this page a second time and was denotting progress by crossing out passsages he'd since written/included in drafts?
Finally, kill the mouse either indicates that Sansa herself will kill Ser Shadrich or that his death will be featured in a Sansa POV chapter.
I admit I am not super knowledgeable when it comes to GRRM's interviews or any information outside the published novels, so if you're aware of anything that's been revealed in the past that might shed light on this outline, please share.
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s0ur · 1 year
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Gemma Ward at Givenchy SS 04
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On this day, 14 March 1970, two sailors aboard the SS Columbia Eagle, carrying 10,000 tons of napalm for the US military in Vietnam, mutinied in protest at the war. Al Glatkowski and Clyde McKay had smuggled guns onto the ship which they used to hijack it and sail it to neutral Cambodia. But they never could have guessed what would happen next, as they became embroiled in a complex series of world events over which they would have no control. We spoke to Al for a podcast miniseries about the events, and this is how he recounted the start of the mutiny: "When we got the guns out to clean them, I got up and I told Clyde, 'I'll be right back. I'm going to go to the bathroom before we do this.' I looked in the mirror and I said to myself, 'You may not live through this. These may be your last few minutes.' "I will never ever be able to see or look my children in the face when they ask me, ''What did you do to stop the war, Dad?'' You will be able to say that you did your duty to stop it. You did your best to stop it.' I walked around, turned around, went out the door, got the gun and said, 'Let's move.'" Listen to Al tell his and Clyde's incredible story in our podcast episodes 21-24. Find them on every major podcast app or on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/04/09/wch-crime-columbia-eagle-mutiny/ Pictured: Al, left, Clyde, right, and background, the ship with a flag they painted the peace sign on https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2230275147157623/?type=3
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madara-fate · 2 months
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Being recent on Tumblr and in the Naruto fandom in general (I've been there for 04 months), this fandom has really made me see all the colors.
As a die-hard fan of Sakura and Sasuke who didn't particularly care about the prospect of them as a couple before, I tended at first to subscribe mainly to individual pro sakura and pro sasuke accounts, something I I quickly regretted it because lord, these two fandoms suck. I love both of these characters and it's very difficult to see their two fandoms being so vicious towards each other. If you don't like one of them, why talk about it? why make so many passive-aggressive comments to provoke the other party? They despise each other so much that it's difficult to have a moment of peace for those who truly love both.
And then, let's not even talk about the strange takes they have about them.
I swear if I ever come across something like "Sasuke was right" or "Sasuke Revolution" or "Sakura deserved better - that is, she deserved everything except Sasuke - or "Sakura lost all its development", I'm going to lose my shit.
Their views are biased, self-centered, misinformed and so oc for many that it sometimes makes you wonder if they even understand the characters they say they love. It seems more like they… project their problems and their insecurities onto these two and it's frankly disappointing to see. They like the fanon version of Sasuke and Sakura that they have built in their head and not their canon character and it's quite sad that such characters are reduced to stereotypes by their respective fandom. Not all of them are like that of course, but I've encountered so many of them that it ended up exhausting any good feelings I had towards these two fan bases.
All of this ended up pushing me towards the SS fandom because it's easier to find fans who like both characters. And finally, even though this fandom also has its own absurd points of view that sometimes make me want to throw myself out of a window as well as a blatant bias towards one of the two characters that bothers me, it's still better than the shit I've seen before. here at least I don't have to worry about reading crap like "Sasuke is toxic", "Sasuke didn't do anything wrong", "Sakura objectifies/is obsessed with Sasuke", "Sakura is poorly written" etc and I admit it's a relief. Plus, it's nice to see the fans celebrating them and their relationship, which is what I signed up for after all.
Not to say one is better than the other because the whole Naruto fandom is shit anyway but at least there is more room to like these two characters without getting attacked in this fandom than in the other two.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
You know, your experience of the pro Sasuke and pro Sakura fandoms hating on each other, essentially being what pushed you towards the SS fandom, kinda echoes what pushed me to being a SS fan as well. When the series ended, I was fully neutral on them, but I definitely expected them to get together because it was just obvious. But after seeing some of the absolutely absurd takes that a lot of the fandom had towards them, it made me want to defend them because what they were saying just wasn't true. So much like you, I was also pushed towards the SS fandom due to fandom hatred.
And yes, the SS fandom also has it's fair share of absurd points and biased takes, as I've certainly had to argue against some of them before. Yet, it's still better than the toxicity and the sheer delusion exhibited from a very loud portion of the anti fandoms.
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matsiwrld · 11 months
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versace ss 04
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jtl-fics · 4 months
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what time is it?! SHOW TIME
let’s check on the foxhole bake show
WIP Wednesday 12-27-23 (Closed) | Foxhole Bake AU
"It's for the outside." Andrew says as Prue looks at the assortment of fresh fruit that Andrew had on his station.
"For the decoration?" Paul Hollywood asks and Andrew's lip seems to curl up on it's own in disgust before he lets out a long and gusty sigh.
"Yes, for the decoration." he says as if it pains him to call it that.
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carbone14 · 10 months
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Soldats SS sur le territoire de la Serbie – Invasion de la Yougoslavie – Campagne des Balkans – Yougoslavie – Avril 1941
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junk-jester · 3 months
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Damn, that's a good sword.
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And with it in my collection, all I gotta do now is wait for SS 109 Bumblebee Movie Concept Art Megatron to arrive in the mail on the 7th, just so it has a proper wielder.
Until then, SS Gamer Edition 04 War for Cybertron Megs will do in the meantime, because it still works.
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imasallstars · 9 days
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pSSR 【Picking Out Cherry Blossoms】Haruki Ikuta
availability:  [LIMITED] The Nobody’s Place That Exists Nowhere Stamp Plus Gacha  until 2024/04/18 11:59 JST costume name:  Extended Close
APTITUDE
Song: SS Cute, C Cool, C Positive, S Relax, S Emotional Performance: B High Pace, B Middle Pace, SS Slow Pace Environment: D Bright, A Clear, D Cloudy, SS Rainy
MEMORY APPEAL
To Become [Eternity]  Memory Appeal/VOCAL 1.3~2.3 Appeal [Vocal Boost] Link Appeal: (w. Luca Ikaruga, Hana Suzuki)  VOCAL 1.3~2.5 Appeal [Vocal Boost]
LIVE SKILLS
[Picking Out Cherry Blossoms]  VOCAL 4 Appeal/VOCAL 30% UP (4T)/SKILL RESET (once)/GENERATE (Picking Out Cheery Blossoms++) Plus Appeal: (Turn 1 or BEFORE, Full CoMETIK in Team)  Duet (CoMETIK) [Picking Out Cherry Blossoms+] ※Uncap4  VOCAL 5 Appeal/VOCAL 60% UP (4T)/SKILL RESET (once)/GENERATE (Picking Out Cheery Blossoms+++) Plus Appeal: (Turn 1 or BEFORE, Full CoMETIK in Team)  Duet (CoMETIK)
GENERATED SKILLS
[Picking Out Cherry Blossoms++] ※GENERATED from [Picking Out Cheery Blossoms]  VOCAL 5 Appeal/VOCAL 120% UP (2T) Change Appeal: (Full CoMETIK in Team)  VOCAL 150% UP (2T) [Picking Out Cherry Blossoms+++] ※GENERATED from [Picking Out Cheery Blossoms]  VOCAL 6 Appeal/VOCAL 150% UP (2T) Change Appeal: (Full CoMETIK in Team)  VOCAL 150% UP (2T)
PASSIVE SKILLS
[VOCAL 60% UP] ※Uncap1  Turn 2 or BEFORE/35% Chance/Max 1 proc [VOCAL 100% UP/MEMORY GAUAGE 10% UP] ※Uncap2  Active VOCAL UP buff/20% Chance/Max 2 proc [VOCAL 150% UP] ※Uncap4  Turn 4 or AFTER, Full CoMETIK in Team/25% Chance/Max 3 procs
UNCAPS
[VOCAL +50], [VOCAL +50] [VOCAL +50] ※Uncap2 [VOCAL +150] ※Uncap3 [VOCAL +100] ※Uncap4
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