Quirkier x Superheroes: Man, being a late bloomer here could be wild. Being born with mutations is one thing, but having your entire body suddenly go through a huge transformation while you're a teenager would really mess you up.
Yeah things are kinda crazy here
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Avenged Sevenfold members were interviewed to end-of-year issue of Rock Classic Magazine. Check out the full interview below:
Stranger things: Avenged take metal on a trip.
Earlier this year, powered by existentialism and hallucinogens, Avenged Sevenfold crafted the weirdest album by a major heavy metal band in decades. Frontman M Shadows and his wife, Valary, were having a night out at a local bar when the psychedelic mushrooms began to take hold. A new Avenged Sevenfold album was already in the works, but the singer wasn’t seeking chemically enhanced inspiration at that moment – until the feelings of love and happiness got intense.
“Then we got home,” Shadows recalls, “and we just had this connection, being so sure that we had travelled through space and time to be together in every life that we meet up in – the ultimate love story.”
From that experience, Shadows wrote the lyrics to Cosmic, a sweeping ballad with influences ranging from Elton John to Daft Punk and 808s-era Kanye West, and nothing to remind you of metal. It’s also the longest track on 2023’s mind-expanding Avenged Sevenfold album Life Is But A Dream…, with a romantic vocal that promises: ‘As we chase through the stars beyond forever, I’ll follow you.’
The music is fuelled by wild experimentation, balancing heavy riffs with textures and ideas taken from other genres and dimensions. It is the band’s magnum opus, an album of miniepics and pocket symphonies, absorbing sweeping moments of pop, prog, jazz, gypsy folk, hip-hop, Daft Punk-style robotics, classical melody, the Phil Spector ‘Wall Of Sound’, and even some crooning from the Frank Sinatra school. Shadows is excited to watch the fallout.
“I want to make an impact. I want to make bold art,” he says of the album. “I think after people get used to it, it won’t be so crazy. And then it’ll be like: ‘Well, what’s next?’ That’s the journey we’re all on.”
That makes Life Is But A Dream… both a confrontation and an invitation, as the band seek to change the definition of what an Avenged Sevenfold track is supposed to sound like. This time last year, Shadows posted his top five most-played artists on Apple Music, which might have been a clue to his state of mind: The Commodores, Weezer, Kanye West, Queens Of The Stone Age and Billy Joel. And yet just the other day he had Slayer’s Divine Intervention on repeat in the car, happily feeding off its raw power.
“I consider us a metal band,” he says. “We’re definitely influenced by Slayer and Pantera and Metallica and some quirkier things. We’re just trying to put our own twist on it.”
The first public glimpse of the new album was its debut single, the nearly-six-minute Nobody, which mixes ominous guitars with a trap beat and a full orchestra, male harmonies more R&B than metal, and, shortly before an epic guitar solo, a mysterious declaration from Shadows: ‘I’m a god, I’m awake, I’m the one in everything/I’m alive, I’m the dead. I’m a man without a head.’ Initial reactions were mixed – surprised, angry, confused, ecstatic. Some Avenged fans embraced the sound immediately; others didn’t get it at all.
“They’re like: ‘That is fucking shit! These guys forgot how to write a song! Why would you put a solo at the end?’” says Shadows. “We were just laughing. That was more fun to us than someone saying: ‘This is great.’ We always gear towards a little bit of ruffling feathers.”
That song only hints at what the rest of Life Is But A Dream… offers. Working with Joe Barresi, who also produced Avenged’s previous album The Stage, guitarist Synyster Gates calls it “a full U-turn. It’s just like a blast off into outer space”.
Work on Life Is But A Dream… began after Avenged Sevenfold cancelled the final leg of their 2018 tour, due to a viral infection that affected Shadows’s vocal cords. The band returned home to Huntington Beach and started writing new songs. Shadows and Synyster would sit together for hours, hashing out their ideas, usually at the latter’s house. The album took nearly five years to complete.
“It feels like an entire lifetime,” says Gates, whose daughter Monroe was born in the interim. “We needed a break after two decades of doing stuff, but we needed to go to work because there was a creative itch.”
On the new tracks there are riffs as tough and heavy as anything from the band’s past, but the context is completely different. A frantic beat kicks off the crazed We Love You, shifting into the grinding guitar that accompanies Shadows as he chants a wish list of society’s insatiable appetites: ‘More power! More pace! More money! More taste! More sex! More pills! More skin!’ There are moments of stuttering electronics and Beatles melody, closing with guitarist Zacky Vengeance sounding like George Harrison on a 1920s acoustic and a bit of bottleneck to create a warm sound of gypsy jazz, as the band’s chorus of tattooed dudes hums along.
“Me and Gates get [a lot of] joy out of playing crazy jazz chords that we’ve never, ever incorporated in Avenged Sevenfold,” says Vengeance.
Getting the band there was a long, strange trip that included psychedelic experiences for two of them in the form of mindaltering venom – aka 5-MeO-DMT – from the rare Sonoran Desert toad.
“When we went deep into the 5-MeO-DMT stuff, it was before covid,” Shadows explains. “But you don’t just go into that, right?"
The Stage was already starting to deal with these existential things – like: ‘Gimme all the information of what we know about why we’re here.’”
The Stage, released in 2016, was a concept album about artificial intelligence that closed with a 15-minute meditation on the Big Bang, narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
“I want to form my world view based on facts and science, which a lot of times is very nihilistic, then reading philosophy or really great novels about this sort of thing,” says Shadows.
“And then that record dove into the sort of AI element, which we’re dealing with now. And it dove into the Big Bang. This record [Life Is But A Dream…] dove into: ‘Now what do we do with all that information as a human that has emotions, that evolved to this spot where we have our upper brain [wired for reasoning] and lower brain [wired for primitive responses] and they’re battling each other?’”
For the 5-MeO-DMT experimentation, which he hoped would pause that battle, Shadows flew in a shaman, whose skills had previously been employed by engineers at SpaceX and Google. He went through three days of sessions, including one with Gates and another with Valary.
“I don’t promote this,” he’s careful to say. “I don’t want to say that everyone needs that.”
For Shadows, the trips were eye-opening and difficult, resulting in a “pure existential crisis for a year” and loss of ego at one point, but eventually also a feeling of deep connection to the world.
“You come to terms with how important everyone thinks everything is, and how they work themselves up,” he says. “And none of it means anything. You work your fingers to the bones and everyone tells you you’re great your whole life. Then all of a sudden you look back on your life and you go: ‘What the fuck was that?’ Ha ha ha!”
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ok guys. unless you've been living under a tumblr rock you'll know @fkinavocado and i have been working on a collab and by popular demand (not that we gave you guys many options to choose from lol and we kinda wanted to do this one anyway ngl 😅) it's gonna be a wolfrry fic 👀
we've been talking abt it for the past month or so and it's been taking shape in our shared google docs file so much so that now we're kinda ready to get this show on the road in the near future
so now is your chance to speak up and send us asks with what you'd want to see in this fic. we already have a very clear outline of the story we wanna tell- so, think small ideas, particularities wolfrry would have, i dunno- bits and pieces you'd like to see included. so don't go super wild and specific- but the quirkier, the better- and what we mean by that is that we are really keen on doing something super original (at least to our knowledge). we've read anything there is out there in this fandom on this trope to try and not be repetitive, so maybe don't ask for something that has been done before if you can help it
but i for one can speak for my readers that you've always come through with great prompts and ideas that have really gotten my creative juices flowing so i thought it'd be great to ask you guys as well and see what amazing stuff you come up with, and then we'll just take all the credit 👀 djskhfsdfls 🤣🤣
@purplekiwis has already been amazing in giving us some amazing ideas that we've expanded on 💓
so. yeah. i hope y'all are as excited as we are. we're not sure when the fic will be ready to see tumblr daylight but i thought i should officially let you guys know that it's definitely happening and to give you the chance to send in your ideas if you should want to 💌
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ok guys. unless you've been living under a tumblr rock you'll know @gurugirl and i have been working on a collab and by popular demand (not that we gave you guys many options to choose from lol and we kinda wanted to do this one anyway ngl 😅) it's gonna be a wolfrry fic 👀
we've been talking abt it for the past month or so and it's been taking shape in our shared google docs file so much so that now we're kinda ready to get this show on the road in the near future
so now is your chance to speak up and send us asks with what you'd want to see in this fic. we already have a very clear outline of the story we wanna tell- so, think small ideas, particularities wolfrry would have, i dunno- bits and pieces you'd like to see included. so don't go super wild and specific- but the quirkier, the better- and what we mean by that is that we are really keen on doing something super original (at least to our knowledge). we've read anything there is out there in this fandom on this trope to try and not be repetitive, so maybe don't ask for something that has been done before if you can help it
but i for one can speak for my readers that you've always come through with great prompts and ideas that have really gotten my creative juices flowing so i thought it'd be great to ask you guys as well and see what amazing stuff you come up with, and then we'll just take all the credit 👀 djskhfsdfls 🤣🤣
@purplekiwis has already been amazing in giving us some amazing ideas that we've expanded on 💓
here's a little more info to give you a bit of direction: y/n is human and harry is the alpha and we already have the storyline built up for the most part. we're looking for personality traits / maybe some random ideas or situations we can put them in to add to the story / small personal preferences that wolfrry or y/n might have, etc.
so. yeah. i hope y'all are as excited as we are. we're not sure when the fic will be ready to see tumblr daylight but i thought i should officially let you guys know that it's definitely happening and to give you the chance to send in your ideas if you should want to💌
...oh and yeah. it's lhh 👀
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Pale 5.a
interesting that we have this instead of an end of arc 4 interlude. Given that it's a, I'm assuming we'll get several, probably hopping around the different Aware visiting Kennet
“I want to ask you questions, and get straight answers. I bring some things up with people you refer to me, who buy the quirkier items and they dodge the questions. I want answers to those questions."
this seems like something the Kennet Trio could potentially use? I think they're already not wild about the idea of deliberately keeping people Aware but not telling them anything. Of course there's the potential karmic backlash for bringing someone in, and in Clem's case not knowing things might be keeping her safe, but worth considering?
And you, you small, sweat-drenched man, for all that you pretend you are a buffon and a blowhard, for all that you claw to power,
oh that's cool. I guess arrogant incompetent idiot is a very easy person to underestimate. This is basically what Nate on Leverage does for cons.
in the top right corner, a little heart and a note left by a one-night stand. It thanked her for a wonderful seventeen hours.
...impressive
She’d met them at this motivational thing, and they’d joked about how bad it was. The joking had become flirting, the flirting had become chemistry, and chemistry had become Clem taking them back to her apartment.
diversity win! (genuinely happy about this)
You will be alone, Clementine Robertjon. You’ll be utterly and completely alone, blind and hurting, hurt by others who have no idea it’s you they’re wounding as they try to make their own blind way through existence. All of mankind will. Every individual an exile.
hmmm. This feels thematic, the idea that everyone is inadvertently hurting others in their own struggles. Thinking back to Nicolette's interlude, and how focused she was on her own protection, on getting an advantage over the other apprentices, and how sympathetic that struggle made her. But she was still an antagonistic force in the story, and she still casually used omens and an eye-collector, and she still could have seriously hurt Avery for revenge.
It rested at an angle against the two front seats, some of the trash bags ripped. Blood dripped down onto the floor of the car. Where it was ripped, she could see red fur.
holy shit! Gilded Lily works.
Some teenage boys had pulled out the trash bag and were looking around.
not wild about that!
So someone was moving a piece of the CB and slammed into Clem from Gilded Lily shenanigans? Why move it? A new hiding spot? Or were they using its power, potentially as part of warding Kennet from outsiders?
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It’s wild how some schools divide the students in a year into strict groups like class A and class B. I went to one of those schools for middle school and that shit was insane. To make it worse, once you were in a class, you were in that class for life. Class A students would never have classes with those class B losers.
And the rivalry was epic. It really was. Class A had such a sense of superiority of being the better, smarter, quirkier class while class B had a rabid inferiority complex about being not as good, having the lamer students, and not getting into as many “situations” as class A. No class A student would be caught dead in the lunchroom associating with a class B kid. (Unless you sat at the reject table, like me) Our cliques formed around those class assignments. Inter-Class dating was like Romeo and Juliet level drama and we payed more attention to it than we did the actual Romeo and Juliet play we had to read.
There was one steady couple between a Class A it girl and a class B boy who was the worse twin of a class A kid. Their relationship actually outlasted middle school and they ended up going to prom together and we’re probably the first kids in our year to consensually lose their virginities.
Class A and class B had a really big rivalry in School-Sanctioned poetry battles, which were lame for requiring the whole class to spend a considerable amount of time memorizing poetry, but we’re cool because you could blow off class to go shout poems at another class. Class A and class B constantly poetry attacked each other, and our teachers had their own friendly rivalry on whose kids could recite better and also the amount of times they interrupted each other’s classes.
One time, Class A’s homeroom teacher was pissed that he had to come to school on a snow day, so he forgot the poetry thing all together and we went out and filled buckets with snow to go throw at class B while they were in their gym shorts.
I don’t have fond memories of of that middle school at all and I definitely hated all of my classmates, but we will forever be bonded by our unreasonable amount of pride that We Belonged to Class A
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Daft Punk – “Prime (2012 Unfinished)”
Last night at Midnight, many excited fans finally got a hold of something they’ve wanted for a very long time.
I, of course, am talking about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the long-awaited sequel to Breath of the Wild, the beloved Switch installment of the long running franchise. That said, I couldn’t join them last night1.
Instead, I found myself hitting play on another long-awaited release, last night’s drop of the 10th Anniversary edition of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories.
Besides being gobsmacked that it’s been 10 years since the release of what would — unbeknownst to us — become Daft Punk’s last album, I immediately wanted to jump into the second “disc”2, filled with different odds-and-ends from the album’s sessions.
When Random Access Memories dropped a decade ago, the response was mixed, to say the least. Daft Punk was coming off of the stunning career one-two punch of their score to Tron: Legacy, an amazing step-up in profile and difficulty for the French dance music duo, and their Alive: 2007 tour and album, an amazing, enthralling mix of literally their entire career to this point. A mashup of literally all their work to this point, Alive: 2007 served as a celebration of their success, recontextualizing songs from Homework, Discovery and Human After All into one massive celebration of music, grooves and a career well spent. They dug deep into the music they made and generated a new appreciation of it all.
When the massive marketing campaign for Random Access Memories hit, people were expecting something the next Discovery, but instead, they got something quirkier. Sure, Daft Punk received the greatest charting single of their career in “Get Lucky”, but after decades of sample fueled dance hits, the masked robots of Thomas and Guy-Man chose to look back to the records that made them, and put together a true 70’s disco record. In the 2010s.
This was extremely polarizing. Though the appreciation of the record has grown over the years, the hardcore Daft Punk fan base didn’t know what to do with the album placed before them.
And that’s part of what I found so intriguing with this 10 year release. Sure, you’d be getting the expected international release B-Sides (“Horizon”), but you’d also be getting a look at the duo’s creative process, with a number of demos and unspoken of lost tracks. Even the bitter-sweet alternate version of “Touch” which soundtracked their 2021 farewell video.
But there was one track that piqued my interest.
“Prime (2012 Unfinished).”
I’d heard “Horizon” previously, and knew there was a lost Julian Casablancas song (“Infinity Repeating”), but what was this?
In turn, at about midnight last night, that was the first track I hit play on.
I played it once. I played it twice. I played it three times.
Turns out, for a fan of Daft Punk, this track is almost like a Rosetta Stone.
It’s the inflection point from the Tron: Legacy score into the Random Access Memories-era.
The groove is there, but so are the real instruments. The strings, the hypnotic vibes, you lose yourself in it. And yet, you’re teased by what could’ve been. It says it in the title — 2012 Unfinished — this was a song they weren’t able to figure out. It’s a puzzle minus a key piece.
Yet, at the same time, it’s incredible. It’s funny how a creative never sees the full positives of their work. They see the poorly drawn lines, the grammatical errors, the hook that didn’t hit the heights they wanted. “Prime”, even in this form, snakes its way into your brain, and won’t let you go.
I was immediately reminded of another of my favorite musical acts, The Appleseed Cast, who in 2012 as a creative project, opened the doors to their demos in process. Those have been long since archived, but one track lived on on a compilation album. The song later became “North Star Ordination” on Illumination Ritual, but in hearing the demo, found here, there’s a similarity to “Prime”. It’s a work trying to find itself. All the pieces may not be there, but you’re enthralled. And you wonder what could be.
It’s been two years since Daft Punk called it quits. One half of the duo, Thomas Bangalter, did press recently surrounding his original ballet(!), speaking to the BBC.
In it he said, about their robot-era:
As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.
Is it any wonder then, that today, 10 years after the release of Random Access Memories, with “Prime”, we’re getting a look at Daft Punk at their most human. Creating something real and true, and wondering what could have been.
Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition is streaming now.
I promised my wife, who is out of town, that I’d wait until she got back to start the game. She likes watching me play through different games. It’s like real-life Twitch, I guess?
Weird to call it that, given, you know, streaming.
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Avatar FRIENDS!AU
Ok, so in Ba Sing Se, Team Mum Katara lives across the hall from an odd pair – snarky, neurotic Zuko and happy-go-lucky Aang. (Plus Aaang’s pets Appa and Momo). Down the street is Katara’s dorky brother Sokka and her old flatmate Toph – a former wild child who ran away from home. The series kicks off when Suki – an old high school friend of Sokka, Katara and Aang’s – moves to the city and in with Katara.
Sokka is recovering from the death of his fiancée Yue, but he had a major crush on Suki back in the day and her return ignites FEELINGS. Meanwhile, Katara and Zuko have been friends forever (after a shaky start when he was Sokka’s college roommate) but…is there something more?
The gang go through life, getting up to shenanigans and hanging out in the tea shop run by Zuko’s Uncle Iroh. Aang tries to figure out his path in life jumping from job to job, Zuko deals with his abusive father who’s a high-profile politician and businessman in Caldera City, Toph struggles to reconnect with her parents, Suki pursues her dream of starting a female-led martial arts programme/centre, Sokka is a giant engineering nerd, and Katara juggles reforming the world** and keeping everyone fed.
*Clap clap clap*
(Career-wise: Sokka is an engineer, Suki is a marital artist who teaches women’s self-defense, Aang’s done everything (jewellery maker! zoo keeper! world traveller!), Katara is an activist of some kind. (Environmental lawyer? Union organiser? Doctor/nurse-turned-health care reformer??), Zuko originally studied law and business to join the family company but now works in NGO and/or government law. Toph is ??? (A professional athlete? In construction? Security? Another martial artist? Idk, too many options!) )
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Shingeki no Kyojin Headcanons: Survey Corps Veterans (College AU)
Hello, Postmodernbeing here. And it took me a while (seven months wow) to come back. I still have a commission in progress and my College AU without little advances. Anyways, I already made this HCs for the 104th Training Corps (P1 and P2). Hope y'all like this. Much love.
IMPORTANT: I do not own Shingeki no Kyojin nor the trend of this outfits-displays, only this HCs belong to me. // Do not repost this. // English is not my first language, so I ask for your patience and understanding.
Erwin Smith
Following his father’s footsteps, Erwin chose History as his Mayor in College and then went for his PhD in the very same discipline. And one can notice clearly that he adopted his dad wardrobe too lol.
The academic look, the Dead Poets Society clothing, the so casually formal garments. That was all Erwin’s. Trousers’ always clean and shirts always ironed.
Since his college days, Levi teased him about the number of ties he owns. Erwin never pays mind to those comments, he’s rather satisfied with his accessories. But the item he likes the most is his analogue watch.
Cardigans are his statement piece though. Mr. Smith here is a loyal believer in hair products too. Levi pays respect to that, and the efforts Erwin puts into his image such as constantly taking care of his skin and keeping his hair flawless.
Levi Ackerman
Black, gray, brown, navy blue and white. Those are the colors Levi keeps in mind when buying clothes.
#Parisien style #Poets fashion, he follows those tags on Pinterest so he gets ideas since he knew nothing about matching and layering. Actually, Levi knew nothing about styling until college, only because he'd really didn't care. Hange was the one that used to tease him about it, and watching Erwin wear some perfectly coordinated fits, well he finally gave to the pressure.
Nonetheless, that was not enough for him to diversify the range of colors in his clothing. Also, most of his fits are monochromatic, as you can see. Levi makes this choice on a regular basis for three reasons: afraid of taking risks, commodity and to save time.
As in cannon universe, Levi would clean with care, fully aware of all the methods for different textures and fabrics.
Hange Zoë
Our friend here avoids any garment that could enhance silhouettes. Hange feels more comfortable in oversized and squared cuts.
Monochromatic outfits are common but quirkier color combinations aren’t a strange thing to see either. Hange doesn’t really care about fashion since commodity and extravagance are priorities when choosing clothing. Even if it seems contradictory.
Many of her garments have permanent stains like wine taints, cigar marks, small patches made with threads slightly different from the color of the piece. Unlike Levi, Hange has trouble taking care of her wardrobe.
Owns a fair number of blazers and dress pants however her style is far from being formal. Her (most-of the-time) carefree personality is well represented in her clothing, one could say.
Moblit Berner
Comodity is Moblit’s priority. He owns plenty of t-shirts and dress shirts made of cotton and plain designs. Absolutely despises when a good piece of cloth is wasted when printed with stencils like “Born to be Wild” or some shit like that.
Speaking of materials of fabrics, Moblit would avoid wearing synthetic, preferring to choose thrifted clothes made of cotton, linen, and hemp. No denim allowed since he has been reading about the humongous waste of water that is used to make a single pair. Moreso, Moblit would choose clear colors and/or clothes with pigments naturally extracted. He’s even interested in making his own attire if the materials were accessible.
Nonetheless, he’s constantly washing clothes since Hange gets them in some random (and sometimes, dangerous) situations that involves them getting dirty, in a literal sense. So, maybe he wastes even more water in clothing than he thinks.
Miche Zacharias
He looks as he’s about to scoot on a road trip at any given moment, really. He would only wear loose – casual – hippie clothes. Mike dresses like a backpacker/hiking/boho kind of guy, actually. And his analogue camara doesn’t help demoting that image either.
One could wonder if he searches for outfits inspiration from time to time, since all his clothing seems to fit him perfectly. Or maybe he just knows his preferences and body type really well.
Also, Mike gave hipster vibes before hipster was even a thing, he says it’s just bohemian style and don’t even his millennials pairs get it. On the other hand, Eren and his friends (Gen Z) would think “bohemian” it’s just a fancy word for a precarious contemporary hippie. Not that Mike cares about one distinction over another.
Nanaba
Big Princess Diana vibes. She looks like a modern royal tbh. Also, Nanaba and all of her clothes smells like vanilla with some woody tone, I just know it.
Monochromatic schemes for her clothes are decided by season and that’s the way she buys them. That helps her keeping track of the pieces she gets and makes sure of actually use them. Then, when she decides it’s time for some changes, Nanaba will donate them.
Now, everything looks good on her, but she despises very slim pants or dresses, and very long high heels ‘cause she “Can’t feel the wind around her when it rises” and her feet, on the other hand, suffer every step she takes. Nonetheless, and even with her noble personality, people recognize her as a strong minded, honest, and independent woman. Somehow, she’s capable of communicating that in her attire.
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An analysis of the Brawl Stars Trios
I’ve ordered the Brawl Stars “canon” trios with some specifics.
-There is always, in every trio, a Leader. The straight man of the group or the one who is more inclined to lead the other members.
-After the Leader, there’s the second member. I don’t have a name/category for the second member aside from the fact that in the majority of the trios it’s the *other* human character. Let’s just call them the Right Arm.
-The third trio member is most of the times the one with the quirkier design, the one who isn’t human. There are exceptions to the third member always being the quirky one (sometimes they’re the Leader, sometimes there isn’t a quirky Brawler in the trio, I’ll explain myself properly in each trio’s paragraph). The quirky brawler is usually the sidekick of the trio, so I’m just gonna call them the Sidekick.
The game is focused around 3v3s so I suspect that, when Paul and the rest of the Brawl Stars devs came up with the game’s lore with Starr Park, they chose to retcon some info and details about Brawlers so that they’d better fit with each other and form actual groups that co-exist in the Environiments. However, I think some Trios were planned from the start to be there in some way or form. But I’ll explain myself better with each trio. Note that I’m not gonna explain why each Brawler is in its Trio, for that stuff I suggest you watch the Brawl Theory video about the Trios that KairosTime made AND any interview he (or other Youtubers) had with the Brawl Stars dev team regarding the game and its lore, or just go on Paul’s Twitter/Tumblr pages @|pawchaw, he isn’t at Supercell anymore (works for Bandai Namco ever since like 4-5 months now but he’s fine!). I’m just gonna explain the placement and mayyybe discuss a bit about the Brawlers’ personalities? Idk let’s just move over to this perfectly normal analysis of the Starr Park Union of Distressed Employees trapped in a time loop.
The trios are ordered based on the rarity of the first brawler that shows up in the game’s order.
WILD WEST RANGERS: Shelly is the Leader. This one is pretty obvious because, between her and Colt, she is the one who is less focused on being too pretty for pain and just jumps into action. This means that Colt is the Right Arm and Spike is the Sidekick. It’s interesting to note how at the start of the game’s beta Shelly was treated as a bandit and was called Shotgun Shelly. Perhaps you could say hanging around Colt (who is a sheriff) reformed her? Anyway stop making Spike creepy. He’s a good boi. He just wants an hug. Last I checked they don’t have their own environiment yet, or does the one they added back in Season 6 count?
SHAMAN TRIBE: The first trio to NOT have one Sidekick, but rather two. Bo is obviously the (adoptive, given what we’ve seen in the Investor Video) father of Nita and Leon, who are brother and sister. The only thing that’s unknown about these two is which of them is the older one, but seeing Leon’s voice line “Don’t make me get Nita!” it’s very likely he’s the younger one. Funny, you’d think the older of the two would be more responsible instead she just eats spaghetti without a fork. Also, back in the beta they explained Nita summoning Bruce as her collar actually being magic, but now that we’ve shifted to a full-blown Theme Park with a mashup of genres and ideas that is inspired (mostly) by the 70s, I wonder how do they explain her powers...actually scratch that, it’s proably exposure to whatever gave the other Brawlers powers too. They don’t have an environiment either and I have my own doubts about them ever getting one.
RETROPOLIS GANG: It’s interesting to note that even before we’ve become fully aware of Starr Park, this trio was already set in stone when Bibi released. You obviously have Bull as the Leader (he owns the big ass diner that is the most important place in all of Retropolis), Bibi is more of a Right Arm in the sense that she isn’t a walking, talking assassin crow. Crow being the Sidekick is only because he isn’t human (at least in my eyes). There are a few questions I still don’t get about the Brawlers anyways, like: Is the car bumper ride owned by Bibi? What’s Crow’s job in Retropolis? And how much old are these three anyway?
JUNKER FAMILY: Living in Pam’s Scrapyard, this trio has probably the job of fixing/reordering/thrashing stuff in the Park. Pam being Jessie’s mother was probably the first actually confirmed relationship in the game back in the beta. It was probably hard to come up with a third Trio member for Paul, but making a robot nanny with a floating explosive camera was probably the only thing I was not expecting by him. Jessie being a kid makes me wonder when did Pam actually give birth to her...it probably was a bit before the Park got shut down because she’s around Nita and Leon’s age most likely. Small trivia not many probably know: Pam didn’t build Nani, she salvaged her according to Paul. Probably from one of the generic Robo Rumble bots that shoots the Nita-like projectile.
ARCADE CITY TRIO: They don’t really have a moniker or something, but I just like to call them Gamers because Brock (the Leader) has a ROCKET LAWNCHER with gamer buttons on it, Rico (the Right Arm) is a pool bot (in the sense that he owns a ballpit for kids in case his projectiles didn’t tip you off) and 8-Bit (the Sidekick with anger issues dare I say) is a, uhm, how do I put this, walking talking arcade machine. You know, those things where you played GAMES back in the 80s. Another small trivia not many of you know: It’s most likely 8-Bit was inspired by the arcade machines from the failed Rush Wars game from Supercell. Actually, I think it was confirmed, but I’m not sure. The fact that at least two Trio members like to brag about being pros is funny, that’s typical competitive gamer behavior.
GEM MINERS: Being the oldest means you have more experience (despite being a fuckin’ pyromaniac), which would also explain why Dynamike’s the Leader of his Trio. (Does the canary have a name btw?). Jacky being the Right Arm is mostly explained due to her not being the one with the annoying Spongebob-esque voice and not being a mining robot. Carl is, naturally, the Sidekick.
PIRATE CREW: You’d think Darryl was the Leader since, according to Paul, the ship is called “Darryl’s Ship”, but his behavior as a Totally Legit Pirate makes me think it’s more of Penny’s job, with Darryl and Tick being the Sidekicks. Also I want to take a moment to say GOD Penny looks so emotionless in-game. She needs new face animations and voicelines, I swear to god.
MORTUARY MONSTERS: Considering all the shorts we got with Mortis (ESPECIALLY the one with Frank) and knowing Emz is Mortis’ niece, it’s pretty easy to say Mortis is the Leader, Emz the Right Arm and Frank the Sidekick.
THE DEAL WITH STU: What the hell is Stu’s trio supposed to be? A circus trio? Stuntmen? When are we gonna get the second member so we can have a small idea of what is this trio’s role in the park? This guy’s not really that much of a mystery but his design philosophy being similiar to that of Rico makes me think he’s either the Right Arm or the Sidekick of the Trio. If he’s the Leader then you’d need someone with less bolts and screws than him to be part of the Trio.
BANDSTAND PERFORMERS: Brawlers with a Mexican Theme. Methinks Amber isn’t cut for a leader role due to lighting accidentally on fire literally anything, and with El Primo being El Himbo and their environiment LITERALLY BEING CALLED POCO’S BANDSTAND, I’d say Poco is the Leader, Amber the Right Arm and Primo is the Sidekick.
SOUTHERN/WILD WEST SHOPKEEPERS: It’s amazing how we have THREE Wild West trios in here, and Piper (Leader) and Barley (Sidekick)’s felt a bit forced when Byron (Right Arm) got added but the placement is justified as it feels like Byron has this aura of the kind of person who knows everything that’s happening around the park. He is probably even aware of the actual mess regarding the closing down of Starr Park but I’m not so sure about it.
PLANT(?) TRIO: Or, longer name, The Trio That Studies Nature. Bea was originally introduced as Rosa’s assistant so OF COURSE she is the Right Arm and Rosa the Leader. Sprout being the Sidekick was something pretty obvious from his design (plant inside a machine) and from the Twitter artwork that was dropped when he released. Not really related but...are Rosa and Bea...y’know? I’d be very happy if it’s true. Notably they still don’t have an environiment.
GIFT SHOP STAFF: After the Bandstand Performers ANOTHER Trio where the character with a Sidekick design is the Leader. But methinks Griff is quite the irresponsible and lazy boss, like a reverse Mr. Krabs who just LOVES to waste money. Colette and Edgar are technically both Right Arm/Left Arm but I’m more curious to know, like with most if not all of their Brawlers, how old are they, or rather the age gap between them and how do the two of them know exactly what is Brawl Stars. It’s almost as if they weren’t in the Park back when stuff went down...if we didn’t have Colette in the Investor Video I would’ve said they were actual game players but they aren’t. I’m starting to think that age might not be an issue with these characters if they’ve been trapped in a time loop for a long time now.
CASTLE COURTYARD KNIGHTS: If their job is keeping the Castle cleaned up and not a mess, MAN they really do a bad job. Ash is most likely the Sidekick of the Trio and Grom the Right Arm with a severe issue with children and teaching, which means they don’t have a leader yet, and due to Ash being a Knight and Grom wearing an Executioner outfit and being a Tower Watchman...I think it’s safe to say the next Trio member, as the LEADER of the CASTLE, might be a King. Perhaps even inspired by the Clash ones. I wonder what’s the deal with Grom’s teaching past though, and if whatever happened, it happened in Starr Park...
BAZAAR SHOPKEEPERS: The only thing that unites these three is the fact that they all sell stuff at Tara’s Bazaar. Considering the name of the Environiment and their designs, it’s safe to say Tara is the Leader, Sandy the Right Arm and Gene the Sidekick. I am still not sure if Gene’s anger is stuck inside Lampy (yes, that’s the lamp’s name) or if the lamp is its own thing, separate from its djinn.
SUPER CITY HEROES: Wow, Supercell really said “let’s not finish this trio we started two years ago” and then they dropped Meg. You’d think Meg is more fit for the Sidekick role since Surge and Max are kinda the actual heroes here (Max being a bit less expert in the business) but Surge’s design makes me more inclined to think he’s the Sidekick (to Max at least, Meg might very well be their Mission Control, or in Ned Leeds’ words, the guy at the chair).
SNOWTEL STAFF: I really feel bad for Gale (the Right Arm) and Lou (the Sidekick) for working under what’s literally the coldest employee of the Park right before Griff. Back when Mr. P was released I was like, his number one fan, I loved the dude but then Edgar happened, then Buzz happened, and then Fang...starting to see I have a very close-range preference with Brawlers huh.
STARR FORCE: Probably the only Trio of which we know all three members despite the third not being out yet. Colonel Ruffs (the Leader, obviously), Kit (Shelly’s mutated cat, not out yet, might not even be their name but they’re the Right Arm obviously) and the bestest of bois Squeak (the Sidekick). I wonder if Skins are actually canon, if so you’d think the Starr Force would be bigger considering they have Colette and Bull on their side.
GOLDARM GANG: Belle was announced as the Leader of her own Trio and I’m pretty sure AT LEAST one of the Brawlers will be her child, if not both of them. The questions that still stand are: Is the Season 6 environiment JUST for her Gang? or is it for all three Wild West Trios?
VELOCIRAPIDS STAFF: At the time I made the above image I forgot the place Buzz works to is known as the Velocirapids. Considering the Water Park theme it’s safe to say we’re gonna get a new member of the Trio every summer for the next 2 years and the next two are most likely humans or human-looking. Buzz being a lifeguard also makes me think he is the Leader of his own trio. Also, HUG HIM. HE’S A GOOD BOI. OBEY THE RULES. STAY HYDRATED.
BRAWLYWOOD STAFF: One thing I’d love to point out is that Lola was retconned between her debut and the recent update to being an aspiring actress to being part-actress and part-tour guide of Brawlywood. I’m pretty sure she’s the Leader of the Trio because Fang’s just a kid at the end of the day and he’s most likely the Right Arm here. Which means the final trio member is gonna be a Sidekick one.
There ya have it. Stay hydrated. This is normal, yadda yadda when are we getting Dani Piper, Ryan Mortis and Paula Jessie in the game I swear to god. Or even better, throw the Investor from the video in as a Brawler, that’d be HILARIOUS.
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manual monday!
today I wanted to talk about something I came across while prepping a less combat-heavy dungeon for my campaign. As I was rolling on tables for passageways and chambers, I noticed another set of tables in the DMG, on page 298: “Trick Objects.”
According to the DMG, “Tricks are quirkier and less deadly than traps.” DMs using tricks can make some effects permanent and others are temporary, or can be done away with by casting dispel magic.
What I found so compelling about Tricks is that, unlike Traps, they aren’t particularly dangerous. Looking at the trap mechanics, the DMG has positioned traps as damaging: A lightning blasts from a wall, or a pit fills with acid. They’ve even included a Trap Damage Severity table (referring to the trap damage severity categories in chapter 5).
But Tricks don’t have these things. The rules for tricks are much more fast-and-loose; instead of a triggering mechanism, tricks don’t have specific triggers. Some options on the table require the trick object to be touched, but they can also be activated by proximity, saying a trigger word, etc. They don’t deal damage, generally, and their effects are more whimsical, such as a painting that wails loudly when touched, or a pool of water that produces counterfeit coins.
Tricks are also more explicitly magical--these objects speak, move of their own accord, grant wishes, create illusions, and so on. In many ways, I think of them as a sort of Wild Magic Surge counterpart, affecting objects in a dungeon instead of a character.
So you might be asking, Why would I bother with tricks? They don’t make the dungeon more dangerous. If I wanted something to have an effect, I’d just make a trap.
Not so fast! In a dungeon like mine, which is more of an exploration/puzzle/lore dungeon, the players are more likely to face confusing setbacks, magical effects, and psychological warfare; a trick that gives them false directions, for instance, can sabotage their progress.
Tricks also have their place in combat-oriented dungeons. A trick that prevents movement might be quite the problem if it’s activated in the middle of battle, and a trick that summons or releases a monster may kick off the start of combat. A screaming door-knocker could give away the party’s presence.
Used properly, tricks have the power to mess with the players’ minds, too. In a trap-heavy dungeon, players might be hesitant to approach the stone obelisk in the center of the room, expecting some horrendous effect--but when they do, it might simply bestow resistance to fire damage. Tricks can use the players’ own paranoia against them.
One of the most memorable Tricks I’ve seen used was in a dungeon from Critical Role. While exploring a dungeon, the party came upon a beautiful stained-glass window with a red gemstone in it. The warlock touched the gemstone--and was immediately teleported elsewhere. Forcibly splitting the party, creating doubt and fear in the remaining PCs, and making them hurry through the current room to catch up all led to a tense and thrilling scene--and the payoff of discovering that he’d been taken to a chamber with a dragon inside was worth the buildup. Despite this fairly well-known example, until I was perusing the DMG myself, I hadn’t seen anyone discussing tricks before--at least, not when it comes to dungeon creation.
Of course, any object can be a trick, and we aren’t limited only to the effects on the DMG’s supplied table. For me, this discovery added the missing piece my dungeon was missing, a certain pizzazz and unexpected whimsy. Tricks are a great way to add a new dimension (literally or figuratively) to your dungeon, balancing out damage and debuffs with stuff that’s just plain weird.
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Hello! If you don't mind me asking, are you planning on watching House of the Dragon? I'm personally unsure about it. I was cautiously optimistic about it since D&D are not involved, but the recent casting news have been ugh disappointing imo. What do you think?
Hey anon! Sorry to say I kind of mind you asking because my inbox is still closed (to everyone except my secret Santas, which is why the ask page is accessible at all), but then I realized it’s possible if you’re on the mobile app only, you haven’t seen said note in my askbox, or my FAQ, or anything of the sort. And with older metas of mine being reblogged recently, it’s possible you may be confused. (I hope you’re on mobile only and not just ignoring my requests.) So I wanted to inform you of that... but also, y’know, I kind of wanted to make a post about the HotD cast anyway? And this ask is as good a prompt as any... so, you’re lucky, but please don’t push your luck. ;)
So, straight up: I currently have no plans to watch House of the Dragon. HBO is not getting any of my goddamn money, I don’t trust like that. And hunting down illegal livestreaming sites is a pain in the ass and I regret ever doing it for GoT, as well as regretting getting drunk every weekend enough to dampen my senses to ever tolerate that show. Yeah it’s different showrunners and writers, I know. It’s still (mostly) the same executives at HBO and even if the pervert producer is gone (or is he?), you know they still just want to sell sex and violence and dragons to an audience that thinks fantasy is for geeks.
Also, considering that Fire & Blood’s story of Dance of the Dragons has very little actual narrative or dialogue, and the historical record is deliberately untrustworthy, that gives them pretty much full rein to do whatever they like with the story and characterization and words without even being slightly obliged to GRRM at all. Furthermore, since the story is wholly political with virtually none of the magical side of ASOIAF (excepting dragons), and honestly does not have much in the way of themes or depth that main ASOIAF or even D&E has, I think it will be very hard for an adaptation to show even those brief sparks of quality that used to make me wistful GoT couldn’t be that good all the time and eventually just made me frustrated and depressed. Note I do like the history and characters of the Dance despite myself, despite its many many many textual issues, but I don’t need to see an adaptation, I have a very visual imagination. I don’t watch a lot of television to begin with, I don’t see why I should start again with this.
However, I’m not going to avoid spoilers or discussion, and I’ll probably follow the show the tumblr way, through gifsets and video clips and people bitching on their blogs etc. If, somehow, by some miracle of good screenwriting and acting, the show manages to transcend its source material, I’m sure I will be informed. And then, if and only if then, I may try watching. (Without, of course, giving HBO any of my goddamn money.) We shall see.
(Though I certainly don’t know why anyone in Targ standom would ever watch a Dance adaptation considering almost every Targaryen and everyone else in the story is terrible except Helaena and the kids, and considering how the story ends, unless y’all are gluttons for punishment? (I do not comprehend hatewatching, sorry.) It’ll probably be fun at first to see the adventures of those “precious silver douchebags” (to borrow a friend’s tag), but eventually rocks fall, everyone dies, including the girlboss you know you’ll hope the story will be changed enough that she succeeds. Just letting you know now, she won’t.)
That said. I’ve been following the casting news and I think the hate/fear/wild screaming is entirely overblown. Yeah, I know, but wait, just listen. On Friday I officially welcomed @naomimakesart to the “favorite character is now played by an actor who looks nothing like most fanart and is mostly known for wildly different roles” club. I still remember that day in September 2009 when my brother texted me “yarp”... and that right there is the thing. Yeah. Rory McCann looks very little like most pre-GoT Sandor fanart... but many fans grew to love him anyway. (There are some who never did, of course. And yeah the character went off the rails by the end, but truly, who didn’t. Having seen his audition, having spoken to him and heard him wistfully talk about book scenes he loved, I’m convinced if Rory had only been given Sandor’s actual scenes and such, he would’ve killed it. Sigh. Deep, deep sigh.)
And Rory isn’t the only one. Neither of the actors for Jaime and Cersei were considered “beautiful” enough at first. I recall very clearly people bitching about Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (about his nose particularly?) because they had wanted Tarzan-era Travis Fimmel to be Jaime. (Seeing people bitch because current-Fimmel isn’t playing Daemon made me laugh out loud for both BEYONCE?! meme -type “why would you ever cast him omg he doesn’t fit my headcanon Daemon at all”, and amazing amounts of fandom flashbacks.) Lena Headey was “too square-jawed”, “too mean-looking” (since at the beginning you should never be able to guess she’s evil), “too dark-complected”, “too mannish”, not at all attractive enough. (Tricia Helfer was the most common “but I wanted” for Cersei, btw.) And of course “they don’t remotely look like twins, ugh!” Note, there’s receipts for all of this, none of it is made up. (Unfortunately.) Those two actors are just the ones whose casting wank I recall most clearly, particularly because oh how the turn tables.
Also. You know, there’s a post with Matt Smith and Mark Simonetti’s TWOIAF Daemon going around with shrieks of horror... and I’m finding it maddening in a “am I crazy? am I the crazy one???” way, because Matt looks like the painting. Their features are not that dissimilar.
Same deepset eyes. Same cheekbones of doom. Same thin lips. Same protruding chin. Same high forehead. Same invsible eyebrows ffs. Matt has a squarer jaw, and a longer more rectangular face, and a wider nose, but considering that Daemon’s features are not described in the text, and this is the only official ASOIAF artwork that shows Daemon’s face straight on, I can for sure see why he was probably shortlisted to begin with. And that’s not even getting into to his role in The Crown, which I’ve heard is very well played with politics and palace intrigue... and if you doubt Smith can play seductive/roguish and/or evil (depending on how you LARP as a Westeros historian), or look good with long hair... well. I do not want to watch the movie, but this trailer is disturbingly enlightening.
And as for Rhaenyra... y’all know this show is starting at the beginning of the story, right? When she’s a teenager? Not a voluptuous MILF? Yeah, Emma D’Arcy doesn’t look like a Magali Villeneueve painting (though who does, good lord), but you know who she does look remarkably like? Harry Lloyd.
Same jawline. Same nose. Same thin lips. Same sharp cheekbones. Notably, same kind of sharp cheekbones and deep-set eyes as Matt Smith. HBO evidently has a concept of a “Targaryen look” that’s a little bit quirkier than supermodel-Greek statue-gods on earth, yeah, fine. But it’s consistent, and they look like family, and that-- that is good casting.
And yeah, in a few months to a year or so, you’ll see them in costume and wigs and makeup, you’ll see them in motion and speaking lines, and go Oh. That’s different. Never mind. And while people will make fanart of the show depictions of the characters and those will probalby get popular, they’ll also keep doing fanart of their pre-show headcanons, and those too will be popular. (God knows when I draw or visualize book!Sandor, Rory does not come to mind, lol.) Either way, there’s no reason to panic. We’ll live.
(Though will we live well? Got to wait on the writing and showrunning for that, alas.)
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Writing in American High School.
I spent a good five minutes hashing out block schedules, classes, funding, and logistics before I decided to list some of the quirkier facets of American high school. If you aren’t sure whether or not it’s just on TV, I can help out!
Presenting...a list of things that Actually Do Happen in American High School! (despite all functional reasoning)
Buses will arrive as early as an hour and a half before school starts, and kids will walk to them in the dark.
In the morning, you don’t talk to your friends on the bus unless everyone’s okay with it. The morning bus is for sleeping, checking your phone, and eating breakfast.
Fire drills happen every month, and kids will just leave school and hang out at the nearest restaurant if they feel like it—drills where everyone goes outside is the perfect time to slip away.
Lockdown drills happen too, but more rarely. Some schools do ‘active shooter drills’ where they pay people to come in and traumatize kids. Some schools have announced that lockdowns aren’t drills when they are and had to round up all the kids who sprinted off campus.
Arts classes get no funding, so kids will sell anything from fruits to mattresses in an effort to get money to fix instruments and art supplies. Naturally, the kids who sell a lot are rewarded with cold hard cash.
Homecoming rallies—the school will gather all of their kids outside to celebrate. Each school does it different—our school had a boy’s cheerleading routine and a teacher/student wrestling match. The wrestling matches were canceled after a student broke a teacher’s arm.
The ‘juul room’ is real. Instead of bathrooms smelling like smoke, they smell like weird desserts and fruits. Don’t make eye contact with the juul kids. They’re probably younger than you but they’ll still beat you up.
Fights happen regularly. Most with fists, most over boys or girls. Kids bringing in scissors or other objects to fight with are not uncommon.
Not every school has had a shooting, but I can guarantee the majority has had a shooting threat or a gun found on campus. My school did have a shooting, a year after a threat. The threat was written on a pencil, but it still scared everyone.
Football is big. The quarterbacks aren’t idolized like in TV shows and neither are the cheerleaders, but every Friday night football game will be absolutely wild.
Cheating is normal. If the teacher isn’t looking, I can guarantee at least one kid is cheating on a quiz. Sharing homework assignment answers are even more common—kids are running on no sleep after all.
Vending machines in schools. Not super common, but we have three in our school that all open after school hours.
Most upperclassmen (age 16-18) drive to school and park in the parking lot once they get a car. There’s a giant line to get out.
If somebody starts clapping, everyone starts clapping.
Most kids in order to get into college will balance high school with sports, clubs, and volunteering. Some kids will take on part time jobs in order to support their families. Either way, you’re lucky if you have time to yourself at all on the weekdays (besides homework)
Senior skip day. No seniors in sight. They’re all at Wendy’s.
The Pledge of Allegiance is said every day. The farther south you go, the more glares you get if you don’t stand. Some schools will punish you (even though it’s technically illegal)
Antivax kids are at your school, believe it or not. Whooping cough almost had a heyday at my school, and I live in a well off area. Keep up with your shots, kids.
People will set fire to things. Trash cans especially. People will set fire to trash cans. Why? Chances are, they threw away a joint. People will also pull the fire alarm, if they really don’t want to go to class. It’s a crime, but they do it anyways.
Assemblies are an actual thing. They will take up at least an hour of your time.
Public high schools in populated areas can have as many as 3000 students.
Senior pranks are real. Dude, it’s so awesome. Look some up—they aren’t unrealistic. Every high school has a good story.
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So let’s talk about poems | Poetry Update #2
Hello!! I have successfully finished (1) semester in a poetry stream and am officially calling myself a ~poet, so let’s chat about some of the poems I’ve written recently! TW: A lot of my poems deal with difficult subject matter, such as suicide, animal abuse, death, sexism, murder, and captivity, so please tread with caution if these are sensitive topics for you.
1. the birds
About: After a woman’s suicide, birds flood from her neck.
I wrote this poem for a class, where our prof gave us 20 different prompts, and each line of the poem had to follow each prompt. In that order. You can read the prompts HERE if you’re so inclined to actually do this! This poem was originally called “Blessing of the Bird”, but in revisions, got knocked down to “the birds”. I actually prefer the original for its imagery, but it overall, was a horrific poem lol, and this version is certainly much better! It is a bit quirkier than the original, but I do like it!
Publication status: Currently seeking
2. TRANSCRIPT: orca’s coffin birth kills a man (2002)
About: An orca whale posthumously testifies on a recorded transcript, defending her innocence in the accidental killing of a man after she gave a coffin birth.
I also wrote this for my poetry class, and I really went wild on the concept! This poem arose quite bizarrely, but it is probably my favourite poem I’ve written to date. It is an incredibly sad, and I would say, disturbing poem, but it was fascinating writing a speaker who can’t possibly exist, but who feels so real at the same time. This poem was difficult because of the content, but I wrote it quickly because I was on a deadline. I think this poem has some of my favourite line breaks from my collection of work.
Publication status: Currently seeking
3. the drive-up microphone at burger king
About: A group of friends orders food at an underwater Burger King drive-thru with the body of a person they’ve (sort of?) murdered in the backseat.
This poem is so weird. :) I don’t even know what this poem is, but I love it. :) I wrote this in a night for a magazine’s very fast approaching deadline. I’m so happy I had that opportunity because this poem was born, and it’s so delightfully strange. I can’t wait for everyone to be able to read it!
Publication status: This poem is forthcoming in the next issue of carte blanche (I am SO excited and grateful)! Will post on here when it drops.
4. my body in the mirror of a gas station water bottle
About: A speaker watches her body in the reflection of a gas station mirror as it is scrutinized by men.
I started this poem back in July but didn’t finish it until November or so. It’s more lyrical in style, which is interesting to compare to my other work!
Publication status: Currently seeking
5. The last time I screamed I said water
About: A woman is held captive and bonds with her captor by eating salt.
I wrote this poem in 5-minutes in a desperate break from a really... boring take-home exam lol. It’s obviously very dark in content, but focuses really on this “salt ritual”, and is actually the name of the chapbook I am working on! This chapbook contains all of the poems I’ve written recently, including ones that have been published (at Grain and Augur ! <3) which means it’s very chaotic and varied but that’s how I roll! This poem actually stemmed from the title, which I’d had lying around in a document for a few weeks, and easily materialized from there!
6. we drink.
About: Champagne, the patriarchy, some murder & cannibalism vibes
I truly don’t know what this poem is about! But I wrote it tonight in 5-minute fashion like I apparently now do with poems! :) I actually really like it and wish I could explain what it is actually about but I :) do not know :) ! It’s very short, my shortest poem yet, but I really love her! Definitely works particularly with “the last time I screamed” !
Publication status: Currently seeking
That’s it for this update! When I write more poems, I will be back!
--Rachel
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You think Minamimoto has the potential to be an interesting character from the issues that were hinted in Another Day?
Do you mean his issues as the "Tin Pin Professor" who was trying to live up to his master, Ken "Sebastian" Doi the ramen man, or did you mean to say New Day?
If it's the latter, then you should know that while I've played the DS version of this game to death, this is my first time playing Final Remix. Never played Solo Remix either, so any new content post-DS will be new to me.
Either way, I believe every character has the potential to be an interesting character; it all comes down to how you use them. And Sho's a character already consumed by ambition and devoid of co-operation, with a wild view of things. He's kind of like a quirkier version of Neku at the start of this game, in some ways.
So for sure! It's definitely possible and if he's going to be working with people in this new game, then he's getting thrust into unfamiliar territory, just like Neku was, which is always a good start towards development.
Might as well add that I've been avoiding the trailers for NEO after the first one, so aside from odd bits and pieces, I know very little about it. I like going into things as blind as possible.
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