#undefined audio

[touhoutunes]

Title: もっとおそろしいものについて (What is Most Terrifying...)

Arrangement: RD-SOUNDS

Vocals: めらみぽっぷ

Album: 騙

Circle: 凋叶棕

Original: Heian Alien

#touhou #touhou project #Nue Houjuu #touhou music #heian alien #Undefined Fantastic Object #凋叶棕 #騙 #めらみぽっぷ #rd-sounds #rd sounds #if this doesn't sound the same its bc ive compressed it to hell and back #seriously the original file was over double tumblrs audio file size limit #(i compress a lot of songs bc 10mb is not a lot but this one was like 25mb) #but theres only so much i can do without sacrificing quality

[mice-and-moonbeams]

Ok so hubby and I are working through this at the beginning of The Magnus Protocol trailer.

So, from what we can figure there are two hard drives but they can't read them (errors) and there is a third drive that is undefined.

The programs that are being loaded are J.01, M.01, and then J.02 the J program is split into two files. Like it's either two seperate things or too big for one program file but! they are the same file! It does load them from somewhere to some part of the computer and...

All three files are ok.

We also have a feeling the operating system is coding.... Freed???

Ok so my take is ... JMart is inside the computer and they could be on Data Tapes instead of audio tapes. Programs used to come on tapes because it was cheaper guys! Programs used to come on tapes!!!!!!! Which also could be what the undefined drive is the fears!!!???

#the magnus protocol #magnuspod #TMP #magnus protocol #jonny sims #jarchavist #martin k blackwood #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jonmartin #jmart #jon sims #theory #trailer

[phoneuserhana333]

.°˖✧ NSFW+SFW neighbor!doctor!abby / neighbor!producer!reader headcanons .°˖✧

tags: NSFW!!!, dom!abby, strap on, size kink, semi-public car sex, recording the deed, undefined relationship, fluff? perhaps?, hickey giving, come to brazil

:: notes; basically miscellaneous headcanons and thoughts!! hope u enjoy<3 also, part two of the story-based headcanons is in the works, but i fear that it’ll be tooooo long:(

PART1 — PART2 — PART3 — NSFWHC

• during your situationship era, just when you started to get close, abby and you would pick each other’s packages up. you both had expensive equipment shipped over often, so it was a welcome gesture.

• imagine your shocked face when you see a “nsfw, do not open in public!” stamp on one of these packages

• when you rip it open, and find a sleek black strap on (that’s way too big), you nearly cum on the spot. you could barely wrap your hand around it!

• of course, abby would make it fit, albeit with a bit of a struggle she secretly enjoyed, which is exactly why she ordered a bigger size. dr. anderson has a raging size kink!

• abby acts all cool and unbothered when you show her the love songs that you wrote about her. what you don’t see is her giggling and blushing red when she hears the same song in the hospital during her shift a few weeks later, blasting on the radio in the voice of some singer who you work with often

• on the other hand, hearing a more suggestive song she knows is about her will have the woman pulling the car over during a road trip and kissing you until you’re breathless; “backseat, on your knees”

• and suddenly you’re being fucked silly with her hand over your mouth and the other gripping your hips, as abby tries to angle the strap juuust right so that it pleases you both

• it took abby months to find out you were famous. honestly, nora probably told her.

• and she didn’t realize how famous you are until you started dating. kinda dawns upon her when you explain why people are commenting “come to brazil” on a photo of you holding hands, but she’s still pretty clueless

• she is the FIRST person to tell you that a sample or song or lyric sucks (“you know i love you but sweetheart… what is this?”), followed by a pat on the butt and a kiss on the cheek for trying

• she likes to help with lyrics but stays away from instruments and melodies, rightfully so

• accidentally pressed some random buttons when she was fucking you in your home studio once and recorded the whole thing. will send the audio to you randomly, followed by a formal “When will you be home, darling? :)”

• technologically illiterate. poor abs

• when you were still in that undefined phase of your relationship, abby would hate fuck you alll the time.

• singing loudly late into the night? she’s stuffing your red panties into your mouth to shut you up. back talking when she’s telling you off? suddenly you’re bent over her knee, spanked and edged into oblivion. having another party? abby already snuck in, trapping you in the bathroom until she’s had enough of your pussy

• abby herself has no idea why she’s hatefucking you 80% of the time. spoiler alert: it’s because of her repressed emotions towards you. abby doesn’t really date around imo and you showing up and flipping her life upside down was unexpected

• and tbh ellie doesn’t help with this; she’s a huge fan of your work, knows all the singers you work with and is always super nice to you whenever dina drags her along to your parties

• abby hates her. she becomes so much more affectionate towards you after she meets ellie: touching your shoulders and legs, wiping a crumb of food from the corner of your lips with her thumb, anything she can get away with basically

• makes you cum extra hard the night after she met ellie, making sure your neck and collarbones are bruised from her rough kisses and bites (and you’re not even dating yet, how scandalous!)

• she confessed first. horribly anxious and overdressed, abby showed up at your door with a bouquet of assorted flowers, that she chose based on their meaning, your favorite champagne and some sweets you liked. thoughtful, thoughtful gal

• if it was up to her, you would’ve u-hauled a loooog time ago, but she wants to give you space. still, you find yourself sleeping over 6 nights a week and daydreaming about matching rings. how odd!

• basically, you felt first, abby fell harder.

#abby anderson x you #abby anderson #abby x reader #abby anderson x y/n #abby the last of us #abby tlou #abby anderson x reader #abby x fem!reader #tlou #the last of us #wlw #sapphic #ellie williams

[putschki1969]

「Kaji Fes」 Home-Video Release Announced!

Great news everyone! Today, after the television broadcast of Day 1 of last year's 「30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 ～Kaji Fes.2023～」, it was announced that the special 2-Day event held at Nippon Budokan will be released on Blu-ray! The made-to-order BOX edition comes with benefits such as a limited T-shirt, a replica staff pass, and 48p live photo book! Side note: According to fan reports, it seems like the following five songs were cut from today's TV broadcast => fake garden, canta per me, she has to overcome her fear, I beg you and 砂塵の彼方へ….

■Product overview Title: “30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 ~Kaji Fes.2023~” Release date: May 29, 2024 ▼Click here to purchase https://kajiurayuki.lnk.to/KajiFes.2023 ※So far, most links seem to be for Rakuten which does not accept overseas payment methods afaik and also does not ship overseas so foreign fans will have to use a proxy service like Buyee to make a purchase. It is worth noting though that Rakuten is offering a hefty discount! Update: The box is NOW AVAILABLE on CDJAPAN. ■Appearance Yuki Kajiura / FictionJunction <Day1: Guest artist> Aimer, Yuri Kasahara, Remi ※Revo (Sound Horizon/Linked Horizon) will not be featured. <Day2: Guest Artist> ASCA, Eri Ito, KOKIA, JUNNA, Hanae Tomaru, Hikaru, Aira Yuki (ASUKA) ■Release format

「30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 ～Kaji Fes.2023～」 Limited Made-to-order Box Set　￥20,000＋tax [Contents] Blu-ray x 2 [Day1 & Day2] / replica staff pass / T-shirt [limited colour] / 48p live photo + interview book ※The Rakuten product page actually mentions a third undefined disc (most likely an audio CD) Buy here ▶ https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VVXL-200 　 https://kajiurayuki.lnk.to/KajiFes.2023

「30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 ～Kaji Fes.2023～」Day 1 Regular Edition ￥8,000＋tax （Blu-ray×1） Buy here ▶ https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VVXL-203 https://kajiurayuki.lnk.to/KajiFes.2023

「30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 ～Kaji Fes.2023～」Day 2 Regular Edition ￥8,000＋tax （Blu-ray×1） Buy here ▶ https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VVXL-204 　https://kajiurayuki.lnk.to/KajiFes.2023

■「30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 ～Kaji Fes.2023～」Day 1 Tracklist

fake garden

canta per me

the world

Liminality

in the land of twilight, under the moon

swordland

she has to overcome her fear

luminous sword

星屑

花守の丘

ｗe’re gonna groove

Obsession

千夜一夜

Point Zero

salva nos

花の唄

I beg you

櫂

朝が来る

My Story

Parallel Hearts

stone cold

the image theme of Xenosaga II

蒼穹のファンファーレ

■「30th Anniversary Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#19 ～Kaji Fes.2023～」Day 2 Tracklist

street corner

希望の光

prelude to Act 1

Numquam vincar

Magia [quattro]

storia

君の銀の庭

to the beginning

海と真珠

太陽の航路

time to sail!

The main theme of “L.O.R.D”

I talk to the rain

a song of storm and fire

ring your song

ことのほかやわらかい

夜光塗料

雲雀

君が見た夢の物語

everlasting song

世界の果て

優しい夜明け

君がいた物語

Rainbow~Main Theme~

風よ、吹け

lotus

inverse operation

目覚め

夕闇のうた

荒野流転

Silly-Go-Round

cazador del amor

nowhere

zodiacal sign

into the world

red rose

Parade

#kalafina #yuki kajiura #kajiura yuki #fictionjunction #news #Kaji Fes #Kaji Fes. #Kaji Fes. 2023 #keiko #hikaru #yuki's first home video release under Sony #maybe that's why there is no need to cut the Kalafina songs

[doomdoomofdoom]

Since it keeps getting brought up together with Nimona (which is currently free on YouTube and you should watch it a thousand times), I decided to watch Disneys Wish and,,,

I mean it's not an awful movie. I'm on the fence whether I'd call it bad, but it definitely is inadequate.

The movie refuses to commit to anything. The animation style is caught between storybook and refusal to let go of their 3D formula. The story has several beats it could play off really strongly, but refuses to engage with: The kingdom can't decide if it's a fascist state or a free land under a kinda wack dude. It can't even decide if the people there are happy or not. The dissonance in language is ridiculous, especially within the songs. Your villain song by the medieval king sorcerer should not start with "Peep the name" or randomly talk about genetics?? (I'm pretty sure they only included this so they could make a vague joke about his ass, since the line is "I got these genes from outer space", with "genes" sounding the same as "jeans" - which also have no place in the setting.) I don't think anything could have prepared me for the sucker punch that is a bunch of woodland creatures singing about being shareholders.

I also feel like the audio mixing during the songs is off, I think it's because it doesn't account for atmosphere and the acoustics of its locations, but I do not have a good audio brain. Someone else is more qualified for that.

There's a bunch of cinema sins level criticisms I could make about the story, like "why doesnt anyone outisde the kingdom learn magic" or "mathematically it makes no sense to assume every wish would be granted", but I think that goes against good faith criticism.

The movie also has a huge problem with showing vs telling. We have two characters dedicated to hyping up how much Asha cares for everyone, and within the movie she acts pretty much opposite to that claim. Similarly, we're told that the king clearly rose to this power and status by being so cool and charismatic, but every time he opens his mouth he sounds like a pseudo-intellectual twitter thread.

And don't get me started on the whole self-references thing. I'm normally fond of easter eggs like that, but these just shatter immersion into little pieces. There's a scene where the villain just describes the plots of three different Disney movies. Instead of giving the protagonist a distinct outfit, she spends half the movie wearing the Fairy Godmother's cloak. The entire movie's premise is just "When You Wish Upon A Star".

I do like the attempt at diversity, Asha's best friend using a crutch to get around is never pointed out as unusual and her friend group is presumably diverse in character and race. Unfortunately, I can only name two of them. I can't even tell you how many people the group consists of, that's how undefined they are.

I don't like shitting on a piece of media/art because even if it was created by a shitty greedy garbage studio to hit their ridiculous release schedule, there are always genuinely passionate artists involved in the production. It's a shame they didn't get to shine in this mediocre disappointment.

Anyway, go watch Nimona.

#ramble #wish #disney #disney wish #nimona #go watch nimona #animated movies #movie critique #also yes you can make this movie about being trans and i will prove it

[ajibooks]

I made a list of published books I've enjoyed with asexual and/or aromantic main characters for a friend on Discord and I am sharing it here with links.

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alloromantic asexual characters, primarily romance novels but have plots unrelated to the romance:

- The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz - my favorite f/f book, about a robot and a mechanic who works on robots. CW for bigotry (against robots). Sci-fi.

- The Rat-Catcher's Daughter by KJ Charles - m/f (cis man and trans woman). This one is loosely linked to a longer series but stands alone. Historical (late Victorian London).

- His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto - m/m, one man is a sex-repulsed asexual and the other is demisexual, they are co-workers who fall in love. Looks very normal from the cover and blurb but is actually very strange and dreamlike. Contemporary.

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aromantic characters:

- A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland - secondary world fantasy, aromantic bisexual main character, other queer characters.

- The Murderbot Diaries (series) by Martha Wells - sci-fi adventure novels. The main character is agender, aromantic, and asexual.

- The Dragon of Ynys by Minerva Cerridwen - fantasy and all-ages fairy tale about an aromantic asexual knight who befriends a dragon and finds queer family while on a quest.

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Possibly of interest but these do not have explicitly aro or ace characters:

- Sword Dance trilogy by AJ Demas - M/nb romance with intrigue and mystery. I read the nonbinary character as gray ace. There is on-page sex in this series (not in any of the other books I'm listing here). Secondary world fantasy (set in an imaginary version of the ancient Mediterranean).

- The Design by China Miéville - m/m with non-specific queer vibes, is not a story about being queer. Horror-themed. Historical (early 20th century). Audio version is free online here.

- The Apple-Tree Throne by Premee Mohamed - m/m (ish) but even less romance-y than the last one. Also horror-themed. Set in a fantasy version of post-WWI England. Audiobook is on Hoopla.

- The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley - m/m, definitely a romance but undefined in nature. Fantasy, magical realism. Historical (set in Victorian-era Peru).

#books #fiction #queer fiction #original fiction #my book lists

[timelapse-foundation-reports]

TIMELAPSE FOUNDATION ENTRIES COMPREHENSION MANUAL – by : X

Step 1: Register Naming Convention (RNC)

Anything contained by timelapse will have a register; starting with TLC (TimeLapse Containment)

The rest of the register is then separated in three categories:

TLC-AB: “anomalous beings” - any living or seemingly sentient being, basically anything that seem to have a mind of its own, including artificial sentience. This classification also contains all anomalous field operative that have stopped working for any reasons; agents are otherwise classified under the register “TLC-AA” for “anomalous agent”

TLC-AO: “anomalous object” – anything that isn’t living or cannot be proved to be sentient; this include objects with complex but predictable behavior; which are more similar to a complex system than a true behavioral reaction from their system; this includes anomalous places.

TLC-AE: “anomalous events” – cannot be contained, includes all events recorded, foretold or purely theoretical. Those do not include: outbreaks, experiments, first discoveries. some events are periodical, the foundation must try it’s best to stop those events, or at least contain the resulting consequences.

The register is ended with the lowest non-attributed number at the time of the discovery. It helps differentiating the anomalies and dating them more easily.

If any anomalies produce/contain more anomalies, the subsequent anomalies listed with the original anomalies’ register, followed by a letter, from A to Z (if more needed, register is extended from AA to ZZ)

If anomalies are terminated/have disappeared, the register will end with -Ø

Anomalies’ register will be followed with a surname given by foundation personnel to ease discussions.

Step 2: Classification

There are two types of classification: hazard and comprehension.

Anomalies are ranked between 5 classes depending on their dangerousness level:

0 – Zephir: Benevolent entities or useful objects; Anomalies in this class aid TimeLapse willingly or are used by TimeLapse to their advantage without drawbacks or consequences; almost all anomalous agents are part of the Zephir class.

1 – Mistral: Neutral entities or useless objects; Anomalies in this class poses no threat to TimeLapse or humanity at large, but aren’t benevolent/useful. They can aid TimeLapse, but their usage/help will have drawbacks, like unpredictability or special request.

2 – Squall: Slightly dangerous entities and objects; Anomalies in this class poses an extremely low threat and are easily contained/restrained, regardless of their goals.

3 – Tempest: Dangerous entities and objects; Anomalies in this class need to be under constant surveillance either from an audio-visual system or direct contact; Anomalies in this class poses an important threat to global safety and must be contained, containment procedures can be difficult or convoluted.

4 – Typhoon: World-Ending level threat; Any anomalies in this class must be terminated or contained; in a security breach; all efforts must be given to stop those anomalies from escaping containment. Power-Level and Evil intent so high they could lead to an apocalyptic event.

Anomalies are ranked between 3 levels depending of our understanding:

1 – Axion: Totally understood or explainable anomalies, anomalies under this classification are stable and their behavior can be explained, predicted, or are totally understood. No more research is needed on anomalies in this class.

2 – Eidolon: Partially understood anomalies, behavior is mostly mapped out, but incidents are still common and some variables are still unknown; most common class.

3 – Xenolith: Totally unpredictable anomalies; goals and behaviors aren’t understood in the slightest, anomalies in this class are minimally to not at all understood

Some anomalies can also fall under non-general classes:

Liminal – Anomalies that takes on a fractal dimension; Shape is undefined and probably unending; Those Anomalies can’t be fully explored/understood because of their infinite aspect.

Pyrotechnical – Anomalies with an immediate unstable reaction to air or water; originally reserved to inflammable reaction but now also include: Corrosive abilities, Explosive abilities, and Radioactive abilities.

Memetic – Anomalies with perception-warping abilities; their warping abilities can affect vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, and instinct. The anomalies ARE NOT able to warp the world around them and only affect PERCEPTION

Multiversal – Includes anomalies whose abilities allow them to interact with other universes and anomalies coming from another universe, regardless of their abilities

Galilean – Anomalies that are now totally explained by science and doesn’t bend the laws of physics. Galilean anomalies are still considered as anomalies because they shouldn’t exist or their origins are unexplainable; with science’s progression, some anomalies can fall under the “Galilean” class. This class mostly includes artifact whose origin are not historically possible or entities that shouldn't exist according to Darwin’s evolution theory.

Step 3: Localisation

The Site in which the anomalies are contained is also present on the entries, unless it is redacted sensitive information.

There are 12 active containment sites across the globe (A to L) , and three outside of the earth (X1, X2 and α), most of them don’t have a specific objective, but some will only contain special type of entities:

Site α is an unique containment site in orbit around Jupiter, it mostly contain extra-terrestrial Zephir entities but also contain TLC-AB-456, one of the most dangerous entities kept in containment by the foundation, and needing an extremely complex containment procedure. Most of the information on TLC-AB-456 is redacted and highly confidential due to it’s threat level. 97% of Site α’s personnel as been automatized and most of the tasks are done by drones.

Site E is located under Antarctica and only contain highly-memetic anomalies.

Site F has been built around TLC-AE-012, a multiversal rift caused by an explosion in a TimeLapse laboratory and that is regularly spitting out anomalies from other universes.

Site L is where the L4’s meeting room is located; The L4 are the top leaders of each branch of TimeLapse, no one is above the L4.

#timelapse foundation reports

[nighthazerpg]

Patch Nov 11th

It's been a hot second since the last patch! This one's mostly little fixes and comment resolutions.

Cantrips are now considered to take up 1 space in a Runebook. Previously it was undefined, now keeping Cantrips in a Runebook is actively inefficient.

Biotic Recharge now does not pay out stamina when you get hit in a Ward.

Added an exception to the Pin and Shield martial arts so you can't perform a Knockout or Execution on the same turn that you begin the Pin or Shield, to prevent one-turn KOs. This is kinda klugey and I'd like to add a more elegant solution later.

Changed the SRAD to target Resistance.

Changed the Control Burner to hit all targets in a line, while removing its +1 to attack.

Changed the wording on the Sniping tag to reduce confusion with another keyword

Specified what happens when you try to use the Stealth Takedown with no ranks in Stealth (you need to be adjacent).

Added the Agile property to the Duelling Poncho to align it more with the Found Cloth

Specified that pulling someone with the Leash spell is a Move action, and how much you move when you do that

Specified that **Portal **is 1 tile wide

Exempted attacks with Aura, Cone and Audio range from the effects of Smoke Grenades

Changed the Irostatic Capacitor's Overclock effect from +1 duration to +1 radius, because the Overclock effect kinda did nothing

Specified that Blend In only gives you one free language

Haemophagy's Enthrall was missing a stamina cost. Oops

The Range Tables in Appendix B were still referencing old Sniper Training

Changed Knight's Vow so that dropping it when it's not your turn is a Reaction, because that's potentially relevant

Added the Armoured keyword to the SPQR Rubicon and Vicimus.

Changed pegasus' Stormwalker ability from Body + Acrobatics to Body + Fitness in line with other weather modification abilities

Cost of the Gym lifestyle upgrade cut from 5 to 3, because it's the same price it was back in 0.2 when skills were more expensive

Slight mistake on the Rocket ammo type where the columns were misaligned

Changed wording on Burning Storm to be clearer that the ball of fire slows down temporarily when it hits someone

#nighthaze #patchnotes #cyberpunk #ttrpg #my little pony

[themastertamer]

Duke sings Break the ice!

#ai #singing #lego city adventures #duke detain

[pigeonwit]

thoughts on billie the kid: act 2

again, this is not a full synopsis, but it DOES follow the plot of the show, so big spoiler alert if you're going to see it! i just wanted to have my rough thoughts and notes laid out so that i can write up a full synopsis when the songs are all released, as my memory and audio processing aren't the best and i don't quite remember the show flawlessly. anywhore let's get into it!!

(trigger warnings for: mentions of attempted suicide, homophobia, transphobia and gun violence)

ough when yuki came back on stage to read the opening stage directions and the whole theatre cheered… “howdy yall >:3 you ready for more billie the kid?” I LOVE YOOOOOU

act 2 opens on a flashback of betty when she used to have a job. she used to be a dancer at this dive bar, had a good social circle and people who seemed to care about her – but the seeds of her illness are there. she tries to drink even though she’s pregnant and only stops when darlene rose (who’s a teacher at winchester creek high and used to be betty’s closest friend) stops her. darlene doesn’t treat this as a shocking thing for betty to be doing – she just sort of laughs it off and treats it as betty being a silly, quirky gal. but when we know how betty turns out, how hard she’s trying to keep herself afloat? It leaves such a bitter taste in your mouth.

when betty introduces her set to the bar she yells “how we all doin’ tonight!” and i (and i suppose a lot of other people) weren’t sure if we were allowed to cheer, so she goes “okay we gone try that again – HOW WE ALL DOIN’ TONIGHT!!!” and when we all cheered she went “how DID we fit so many people in a bar :3” oh jodie steele you scallywag…

(seriously for a gay man i was. really twirling my hair whenever jodie steele was on stage. omg haha ‘this many people in a bar’ you’re sooooooo funny teehee…)

they really did so well with betty’s character. she’s a sympathetic and hardworking woman who genuinely does want a better life for her and her daughter. ‘cowgirl thunder’ is about her wishes for herself and billie to have a better life undefined by their tragedies. she even says that she doesn’t care that her husband left her, as long as she has billie. her addiction doesn’t stem from her tragedy, it is an ILLNESS that no one paid any attention to until it was too late.

when ‘cowgirl thunder’ ends the lights fade in on billie centre-stage as the bar patrons leave, singing ‘cowgirl thunder’ alone, by herself at her school’s pep rally, with such dead eyes. when she gets offstage brodie asks if her mother showed up. she didn’t. “i really thought she’d show this time…” “yeah? i didn’t.” oh billie… i just want to hug her and tell her it’s gonna be okay.

milky abel sings this confederate song that i’m sure would’ve been more interesting to me if only my audio processing wasn’t so messed up. i really do wish i’d asked if i could get a transcript or something before coming but alas.

while milky sings, peaches and mouse are backstage getting their money from their client, big willy, who is just the sweetest and really does show that while the hatred in their hometown is the majority, the town in its entirety is not a lost cause.

when peaches and big willy trade their bags and make the sale:

ms banks: um – sir, who are you? big willy: … um- mouse: hey thanks for bringing me my backpack DAD!!!! big willy: uh – no problem, sweet… child o’ mine!

(big willy is an ally and I love him)

kelly, as she’s valedictorian, introduces the ‘best player’ award for brodie at the pep rally. brodie’s been stressing about this award for the whole show, it’s something billie’s been trying to hype him up about because he’s scared of what to say – and seeing kelly’s poisonous smile when she says ‘and now, our best PLAYER, brodie benson!’ curdled my gut.

as brodie accepts the award, kelly congratulates him and also says that as a special bonus for this year only, he’s also won an all expenses paid vacation… with a conversation therapy church camp. candy and mary-beth have party poppers and everything. the way my stomach dropped. the way brodie becomes so very small on that stage. they didn’t just humiliate him… they ACTUALLY gave his information to a church camp. brodie was put in so much danger here and they’re laughing about it.

i can’t remember well enough to quote it flawlessly, but I know kelly does fully announce on stage that brodie was cheating with david, throwing them both under the bus. but she really seems to phrase it like she’s protecting billie, using phrases like ‘did you think you could just get away with it?’, and it’s so horrifying to see kelly, who we've seen firsthand defending all her fellow winchester creek women so fiercely, take such twisted pride in throwing a vulnerable person under the bus.

billie: what’s the matter with you?! i told you to let it go! brodie: you told her…?

NOOOOOOOOOOO….

billie: we made a deal, i was going to stand by him! kelly: you would’ve just let him humiliate you like that?! come ON billie, have some self respect! just because you were raised in a trailer, doesn’t mean you have to act like trash!

oh FUCK… but honestly? yeah. doesn't surprise me. that’s always been it, hasn’t it? kelly has always been fine to defend billie and treat her well when she thought billie was a ‘good’ poor person. because billie didn’t complain too much or go against her at all. but now that billie is defying her? the gloves come off. she’s just trash.

‘poor white trash girl’ reprise while billie beats the shit out of kelly in slowmo?? FUCK yes.

and the way kelly IMMEDIATELY jumps to pressing charges when it’s all done, knowing full well she’s destroying the future that meant so much to billie, the future she confided in kelly about so much? doesn’t even phase her. the trailer trash girl hit her and she’s going to pay for it.

ms banks: she drew first blood. peaches: are you kidding me?! kelly started this, every day for every year that she’s been tormenting us – all of you are adults, and you did NOTHING, but the minute we fight back- ms banks: we? are you implying you were an instigator in this fight, ms harrison?

and then david pulls her away, hiding peaches behind him… oh peaches you try so hard to protect everyone but GOD…

i also really love how they write ms banks as a character. i could write ESSAYS on ms banks. at the start of the show, she’s a supportive teacher who has an obviously good relationship with her students, but we KNOW she's not. i mean for fucks sake, she’s introduced raising the confederate flag for memorial day on the side of the confederates, we KNOW she’s not a good person – but we only see her through billie's point of view. the way she’s so supportive of her students (her straight, white, ‘don’t rock the boat’ students who repeat exactly what she wants them to) and so encouraging towards billie to the point where billie feels comfortable talking about her relationship with her… but the MINUTE anyone steps out of line, the minute someone’s too queer, too poor, too loud, she turns on them. she threatens that ‘there aren’t many delinquents who get scholarships’ and starts ranting to ms rose about how she ‘can’t believe’ brodie and billie would ‘turn out that way’, saying that billie’s wound up ‘just like her mother’. because that that’s all her support ever was. keeping people in line with her beliefs.

i love that ms rose isn’t portrayed as being ms banks’ flawless counterpart. ms rose is flawed too – it would’ve been so easy to portray as this wiser, more sensible woman who the young whippersnappers should be listening to if they want to get anywhere, but no! she IS wrong on this one! she was wrong to turn her back on betty when her addiction grew worse, she was wrong to turn a blind eye when david got bullied to the point of suicide, and now she finally realizes that her innocent blind eyes are just allowing more kids to get hurt. she can make as many jokes as she wants about hating that they hang the confederate flag every memorial day, but unless she does something, she’s part of the problem. she may not understand these kids, but she knows they’re the future, and she knows she has to support them.

when billie’s chucked in jail ('like mother like daughter' SHUT THE FUCK UP UNNAMED POLICE OFFICER) she gets this beautiful moment where she just punches the walls and screams. i love that she’s allowed to express her rage so fiercely.

“are you a white trash girl or are you an outlaw?” […] “are you a good little housewife or a goddamn outlaw?” - GOD. that’s fucking it, isn’t it? that’s the only option. if you’re born trash the best you can hope to do is just stay in the lines, be good, keep your head down and nod politely at all the benevolent people who aren’t judging you as harshly as they could be – but the moment you step out of line? away you fucking go.

there’s a moment in ‘outlaw’ when the choreography is just so… VISCERAL. billie’s punching the floor, the walls, seizing, clutching her head, hitting herself, SCREAMING… i really hope they’re able to keep some of this ferocity when they record the songs in full. we deserve to see women expressing their rage. not just in that palatable hollywood-ified, stone-faced, non-intrusive, covered in blood but still making sure they look pretty enough ‘female rage’ way – we deserve to see women being loud and ugly and unpalatable in their fury and seeing the beauty in that. billie’s been forcing herself to fit neatly in the lines for so long – she deserves to go fucking crazy.

when billie’s mother finally turns up at school and ms rose lays into her, she immediately asks if betty’s drunk again. and it’s revealed that betty IS sober, she’s been sober for the entire time we’ve seen her throughout the show – and yet not even her once best friend wants to see the good in her. ms banks even admits later to billie when she gets her out of jail that she really did turn her back on betty because she thought people would lump her in with betty and assume she was another addict – and maybe if she’d just been there to support her, things wouldn’t’ve been as bad as they were.

but after this really earnest moment of an older woman recognizing her flaws and standing by her younger generation, we get ms banks again. she finds kelly at her locker and immediately starts sinking her hooks in. she does it slowly – she asks about kelly, how she’s feeling, if she’s not too hurt. and kelly confides in her about how upset she is that billie would do this to her when she was only trying to help defend her. and ms banks starts feeding her this narrative that of course billie has to stand by brodie, because that’s their agenda – you have to support gay people no matter what they do or you’re a bad person. that’s why she just got her first warning from ms rose! (totally not because she was badmouthing students and turning a blind eye to bigotry almost a week after a boy just came back to school after trying to kill himself due to rampant homophobia). so kelly, being as ignorant and privileged as she is, is horrified – “so we have to just sit back and let them do and say whatever they want, but we can’t even speak our mind about it?” and ms banks is so clearly offering her such FAKE wisdom, but the way she says it, soft-spoken and understanding, it makes sense that kelly would believe her when she’s justifying everything kelly did as if they’re the only two reasonable people in the world. it’s chilling, seeing ms banks spread her brainwashing so easily and watching kelly lock herself in an echo chamber so willingly as long as it means she gets to be right.

‘not your slave’ is such a genius song for ms banks to sing. taking all this victim-imagery and using it for her own privileged self. making herself out to be this defiant hero when in the background, mouse runs in to hide peaches’ bag of money in her locker, only for kelly to find them, rip the bag from their hands and attack them when they try to get it back, fully slamming their head into her locker.

when mouse falls backwards, clutching their head, david runs in and grabs them, looking at kelly with such hatred before deciding that what’s important is getting mouse out of there.

the conversation milky abel and brodie have was – again – an incredible example of how easy it would’ve been for this show to go with the tropes. at first it really does seem like they’re going to do the ‘love, simon’ thing; milky starts ranting that brodie’s been lying to him since they were six, so clearly he’s in the wrong, right? but that logic falls apart so easily - “milky, when i was six, i didn’t even know gay was a thing you could be. and when i did, i already knew how you’d react.” milky does try to brush this off – “well, maybe you didn’t! maybe i didn’t know how i’d react!” but when brodie says “well, here we are. and no matter what, i hope you get past this, because-“ “don’t you dare-“ “i still love you, brother-“ and milky goes to attack him. brodie puts his hands up at his sides and milky doesn’t do anything, but the point’s been proven. all brodie’s doing is existing as he is. and because milky’s too stubborn to try and understand, he goes straight to fighting. he lets brodie go and storms off, but this has clearly affected him.

god when mouse comes back on stage… and they’re all patching them up… david with a pack of frozen peas and peaches holding them so tight… it’s horrible but it’s also so beautiful… the show somehow balances the sheer tragedy of the queer experience and the pride, camaraderie and joy of it all.

“what were you thinking? normally it’s me getting beat up and you patching me up afterwards…” - i need an entire miniseries dedicated to peaches mouse and david’s family dynamic.

“i’m gonna wear these with pride. it’s a hard rite of passage… for weird boys in small towns.” – this is the point where I started crying and just did not stop.

oof milky confronting kelly… he’s trying man he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit:

"and peaches’ little brother-“ “oh, you mean peaches’ trans-gender-non-conforming-alien-freak-of-nature?!” - kelly GIRL you have got to calm down.

“and what you did to mouse-“ “mouse?! listen to how you’re TALKING about it!!”

“peaches’ brother – sister – WHATEVER-“

HE’S CONFUSED BUT HE GOT THE SPIRIT!!!

god kelly gets SO defensive the moment milky tells her to just leave off…

“well why don’t you go marching in a pride parade with them, hm?” “what are you saying?” “you and brodie were always close. you can go hand in hand. you and brodie, just like always.” - GOD the way kelly so easily goes from just being plain ignorant to spreading this fear rhetoric GIRL… i really thought this would be it for milky I really didn’t think he’d keep changing after this, i figured he’d get scared and stop. but no!! he keeps making progress!! he finds billie and tells her that he and kelly hid peaches’ money in his locker, he tells her the combination, he tells her that he loves kelly but messing with drug money, what she did to brodie and hurting a little kid just isn’t right.

“tell the little one i’m sorry. it never should’ve come to this.” – HE RECOGNIZES THE PART HE PLAYED IN ALL THE HATRED HE SPREAD… HE RECOGNIZES THAT, INTENTIONAL OR NOT, HE PLAYED A PART IN THIS… HE REALLY DOES HAVE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE AND HE'S TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY NOW...

after fixing up mouse, david goes to break into kelly’s locker to get the money back. he’s so frantic when he can’t find it – “no, no, no, where is it, it HAS to be here!!!” … and then ms banks finds him. i am mostly going to paraphrase their confrontation because i can't remember it flawlessly but it's important to me that i have it written down:

david: its not what it looks-

ms banks: it looks to me like you were targeting kelly again.

david: targeting…? like she targeted me?!

ms banks: that's different! i know people like you, david, and you stir the pot! you know you do. there is something... wrong with you, david. something twisted deep inside. you’re sick.

stop. stop stop stop. 'cause isn't that the thing we're all afraid of? that we deserved it all? that if we'd just been a little more normal, maybe people would've let us be?

none of you are ready for saint david. hes lifted up by brodie and milky like christ on the cross. hes on his knees before his homophobic teacher being told that he deserved everything he got for stirring the pot so much, what did he expect, hes SICK. hes thrashing in rage and disgust and beating himself as he sobs. youre not ready.

“you make me feel like a saint, o, david… you are a pervert. and you make me feel like a saint, o, david, you are my favourite.” – the way ms banks sings this to him, so twistedly happy to see what was once a proud and determined boy beaten down, kneeling at her feet, punished for being so ‘disgusting’.

and david still has the gun. the gun that billie promised would keep him safe. he is a saint. he’s the patron saint of every queer in winchester creek and he’s going to make things right for them.

“hey kelly… how much did your daddy have to pay to get you into duke?” – get her ass, david. even if kelly is their valedictorian, how did she get that? because she was able to pay her way to do it. she was able to afford tutors, to go to camps, etc etc, and if she missed the mark, her father could always grease the wheels for her – meanwhile billie’s sleeping four hours a night just to keep her lights on and fight for her full-ride scholarship.

kelly: i can give you the money – it’s in milky’s locker, i’ll give you the combination-

david: don’t lie to me!

billie: she’s not lying, david, i found it! the money’s all here, you don’t have to do this, just put the gun down-

david: shut up, just SHUT UP!

GOD. of course he doesn’t want to see reason! why should he see reason?! he’s been put through fucking hell for years just trying to be himself – he deserves to go off the rails. he wants to make everyone else feel the way he felt just trying to live his own life. there’s no justice for him here, so he has to make it himself.

david trying to take the shot is terrifying. he’s so frightened. “i’ll… i’ll look down the barrel,” he says, reciting everything billie taught him. “and you won’t hurt anyone again… and the world will be a better place for it…”

“you think this ends with kelly? david, don’t do this. xon’t let someone like kelly make you throw your life away. get out of here. live your life. live beautiful. hell, live ugly. just LIVE.” “… what am i doing-?”

yeah. i sobbed. cause isn’t that all we want? just the ability to live our own lives? beautiful and ugly as they are? and we’re put through hell for wanting that every day. of course it drives us to the brink.

“it’s okay, it’s all gonna be okay, david, i’m sorry-“ “no, it's ME! there's - there's something wrong with me, billie…” god. it’s so fucking devastating to see someone who was so proud, so determined, truly believe that there is no hope for him in this world. i’ve been there, man. it's awful to see. we can put on a brave face but god, we just want to be accepted.

the ‘confederate fag’ reprise… david, through tears, trying to convince himself that his life can still come true after everything. he just has to hold on a little more.

god when kelly gets the gun. it’s so different with her. what does it matter if she shoots david? she still gets to live her life. we’ve seen it. maybe she wouldn’t get into duke, but she’d still have her happy southern girl life. she doesn’t have the same desperation david does – she’s driven only by hatred. “he spread it to brodie – i won’t let him spread it to my milky!” – THAT’s what’s driving her. a need to get rid of anything that doesn’t fit into her views. so how do you reason with that?

kelly: get away, youre DISGUSTING!

david, through tears: no. i’m beautiful.

yes you are-

billie standing between david and the gun. “if you want him, you’ll have to get me first... there aren't many school shooters at duke, kelly.” this is what allyship fucking means.

jesus christ, marching up to kelly, shoving the gun between her own eyes like a cowboy in a standoff, telling kelly to look down the barrel and DO IT… billie belle is the insane girlboss musical theatre tumblr needs. she has zero self-preservation and a moral compass stronger than god and she will use those powers to KICK ASS and protect vulnerable communities 😌

betty finding billie after the stand off and refusing to leave her alone – she’s shown up now and she’s not leaving. she’s GOING to be here. and god, when she gives billie the scholarship letter she spent so long hiding from her because she was so scared of losing her… the way she tries to hold it together when billie's almost in tears of relief to know she's getting out of town...

“my white trash girl… my billie the kid…” WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

again, i’m so glad they gave billie the opportunity to process all this on her own terms. she’s allowed to tell her mother “we’re talking about this later – but i just can’t do this right now”. she’s not obligated to forgive or be the bigger person. she’s allowed to take time to process everything that’s happened between her and her mother.

god when mouse comes on stage to sing their solo in ‘like a saint’… that's me. that kid is me. that little fourteen year old trans kid reminiscing about playing with their action men and their barbies, staining the dress they didn't want to wear, plucking daisies from a field and wearing them like a crown for a king - they're me and i'm them and we are each other and that is eternal. daisies, baby. we keep rising up and there's no getting rid of us.

i love all the creek kid's little interactions in 'like a prayer'. billie RUNNING in to hug mouse in their seat, peaches calling brodie 'brodie BAD BITCH benson', david telling billie he'll never forget what she did for him... man. a family can really be just a white trash girl, a cowboy cheerleader, a saint, a peach and a mouse.

billie deciding to stay with her mother is really beautiful and honestly a pretty satisfactory end for her character – her only motivation to leave was to get a general business degree because she didn’t think there was anything for her in winchester creek. but now she realizes that that’s not what she wants, there IS something for her here and she WILL have the opportunity to do something she truly does want to do.

(but also… yikes my working-class scholarship-student heart CLENCHED when she turned down the scholarship. billie you better turn your ass back around-)

“let’s make a deal – no matter where we are, no matter what’s happened, we’ll meet back at this old creek once a year.” “i’ll do you one better – anytime, anyplace, ANYWHERE but winchester creek.” and they did :’)

the epilogue is so fucking beautiful. "i wish i could say things got better for us…" and they don’t. they don’t pretend like surviving their high school and leaving their bigoted town ended all the hatred they experience. the epilogue literally opens on kelly having a talkshow where she smugly declares that gender affirming care is now a felony in multiple states. but even if things aren’t perfect now, they’ve kept going. betty gets a job at the truck stop, milky abel got a dog (‘that’s a big deal round here!’) and mary-beth ‘got serious about wanting to save people… she’s now a safety officer at seaworld 😌’

'ms banks got fired... i think she's home-schooling now.' - man it sucks to know ms banks is now more able to sink her claws into young impressionable people and make a hundred more kellys in the world to spread her hatred, but... yeah. it's real. this is what happens. this is the sad reality. there's very little justice for the people who create the environment of our suffering, and i'm glad this show wasn't afraid to show that truth for what it is.

‘and even though it took seven years of college, law school and LSATS… i just passed the state bar. with a speciality in human rights law.’ – OUR GIRL IS A LAWYER YALL… BILLIE THE FUCKING KID SPREADING CHANGE AND LIBERATION WHEREVER SHE GOES!!!!!

david: and we got shitty jobs, bad boyfriends-

peaches: GREAT girlfriends-

mouse: and messy one-night stands but we also got TESTOSTEROOOOONE-

MOUSE PULLS AND GETS THE CARE THEY DESERVE BABY!!!

‘we lived beautiful. hell, we lived ugly. but we lived.’ – jesus fucking christ. they lived. after everything, they lived. ryan kopel don’t do this to me you can’t do this to me oh god-

‘and we kept our promise! Every year, once a year, we’d meet up – anytime, anyplace, ANYWHERE but winchester creek… except today.’ – and then the cast behind her unfurls a banner… ‘WINCHESTER CREEK PRIDE 2023’. i’ll say it. i wept.

‘and i love you ‘cause you’re amazing… and i love you ‘cause you’re strong… if it’s hell or heaven you’re raising… well, we just keep marching on…’

fuck yeah, man. we’re daisies and we keep marching on.

#billie the kid #billie the kid musical

[deathsdormantdaughter]

We are still putting this idea together, but I thought I would share some of our vision for future calls, promotion, and goals of this publication/project:

First for transparencies sake, it should be known that this blog is run by a neurodivergent system and as such there may be times when we are forced to temporarily shut down or outsource projects/calls/etc that allow for the best possible promotion of authors/artist/musicians/game designers/ect. possible. We will always give our thousand percent to the running of this publication, but please remember we are a single physical body and with a divided consciousness and limited energy and physical power. That being said, we are incredibly ambitious and have many dreams and interest in the next few years that we would like to explore! If you are interested click the read more.

Following the line of thought above, it should be known that as a system we have many different interests and pursuits in the arts. As such we would want to pursue audio submissions, visual submissions, written submissions, interactive submissions and recorded submissions. We have divided these interests into times of year according to when we will pay attention to them specifically and to enjoy bringing them to a wider audience. It should also be noted that all of these would have the same submission fee: 5$

We don't like to charge fees, but it is necessary to keep ourselves in a reasonable amount of independence and keeping the project going.

January 15th--March 15th

music, audioplays, musical art (such as soundscapes or other forms of using sound as an artistic medium--this would be a really experimental section) And would be published/promoted March 25th on this blog, plus on youtube, soundcloud, spotify (if allowed).

March 30th--May 15th

short films, music videos, recorded performance art, recorded plays, recorded monologues, and cryptidart which is something coined by me as something groundbreaking, undefined, new--just rattles the pervious held ideals of recorded art and what the genre can do. Would publish on this blog, as well as on YouTube. Published/promoted May 25th.

May 31st--June 15

RPGS, Tabletop and Board Games, Interactive Novels and Click Through Games (these would be published on itch.io [uploaded June 25th]) as well as visual art and pictures of *original* 3D prints of *original* characters and *original* fantasy/sci-fi concepts which would be shared here on the blog. [Concepts and visual/3D art would be shared in a weeklong upload frenzy between June 19th to June 26th]

June 30th--August 15th

Knitting patterns/Crochet Patterns/Loom Knitted Patterns to be shared in pdf form as well as printed as collection through amazon.com. The PDF will be shared on this blog. We will also be accepting photographic exhibitions of knitting projects to put in a weeklong "digital gallery" showing on this blog between August 25th and August 31st]

September 15th--October 15th

Poetry. short stories, CNF, and experimental writing. These writings will be shared as PDF on this blog, as well as a printed copy on amazon.com The collection will be themed and published on October 31st.

We would also do two retreats a year. (Not starting until at least 2024--but possibly later than that too.)

The first would be November 1st-8th. It would be a playwrighting retreat held digitally in which we present [1] 90-minute lecture on the first night and then host [6] two-hour workshops involving communicating with other writers and receiving feedback on projects and changes.

We would accept between 8 and 10 participants.

It would cost 20$ to apply and, if accepted, it would cost 250$ to attend.

The second would be December 15th-21st. It would be a poetry and visual poetry writing retreat held digitally. We would present [2] 90-minute lectures spaced out between [3] two-hour workshops to receive feedback on current projects and communicating with other writers.

This would also accept between 8 and 10 participants.

It is the same cost as above in both cases.

#litblr #literary journal #literary #literature #literary magazine #books & libraries #music video #video #artists on tumblr #digital artists #creators on tumblr #content creators #submissions #creative project #new outlet #music producers #screenwriters #independent filmmakers #RPGs #ambitious #Plans plans plans #lit #knitting patterns #knitting submissions #new kid on the block #call for submissions #digital retreats #creative writing retreat #editors on tumblr #creatives

[starfallpod]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Did you know we have a full bundle of our previous year’s Valentines, unmarked and upscaled to postcard size, at our $15 tier?

And not just those, but four new, not-yet publicly shared Valentines about our new characters!

And hey - even if you’re not into romance, we have cards for platonic or undefined relationships, or for if you’re just fed up with the day in general.

So pick up a handful of Hearty Stew today! Because we heart you!

#starfall podcast #audio drama #valentines day

[this-week-in-rust]

This Week in Rust 544

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

This Week in Rust is openly developed on GitHub and archives can be viewed at this-week-in-rust.org. If you find any errors in this week's issue, please submit a PR.

Updates from Rust Community

Foundation

Guest Blog: Attending CISA’s Open Source Software Security Summit

Newsletters

This Month in Rust OSDev: March 2024

Project/Tooling Updates

lilos v1.0 released

medium-to-markdown v0.1.1 : Convert your medium blogs easily into markdown files

Fluvio v0.11.6 release and project updates

venndb 0.4.0 - custom validators

Tantivy 0.22: Performance improvements, new aggregations and stability fixes

Announcing r3bl_terminal_async - build async interactive CLIs in Rust

[video] Demo + architecture overview of Ferrostar, a cross-platform turn-by-turn navigation SDK with a Rust core

Observations/Thoughts

The Rust Calling Convention We Deserve

Sized, DynSized, and Unsized

Coroutines and effects

Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust

Adventures In Rust: Bringing Exchange Support To Thunderbird

Rust Walkthroughs

Why SQLite Performance Tuning made Bencher 1200x Faster

drop, the destructor of Rust structs

Building with AWS S3 using Rust

Rust tokio task cancellation patterns

[video] Build with Naz - Published crate r3bl_terminal_async for building async interactive CLIs in Rust

[video] Trent Billington - Bevy ECS - Power tool for data oriented applications

[video] Building a procedural art generator

[audio] Isograph with Robert Balicki

Research

A Study of Undefined Behavior Across Foreign Function Boundaries in Rust Libraries

Rust Digger: Does size matter? The biggest crate is 450MB; More than 100 crates are over 50MB

Miscellaneous

GitHub Sponsor Rust developer David Tolnay

Learn how to write TCP servers using Rust's std::net module

RustFest Zürich 🇨 Talks announced

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is scandir, a high-performance file tree scanner.

Thanks to Marty B. for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

No calls for testing were issued this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

awesome-alternatives-in-rust - Add dqy alternative to dig

fluvio - When a topic is deleted, connected clients should have their connection closed

fluvio - MQTT Connector: Prefix auto generated Client ID to prevent connection drops

fluvio - Remove localhost from fluvio in favor of 127.0.0.1

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

CFP - Speakers

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

RustConf 2024 | Closes 2024-04-25 | Montreal, Canada | Event date: 2024-09-10

RustLab 2024 | Closes 2024-05-01 | Florence, Italy | Event date: 2024-11-09 - 2024-11-11

EuroRust 2024| Closes 2024-06-03 | Vienna, Austria & online | Event date: 2024-10-10

Scientific Computing in Rust 2024| Closes 2024-06-14 | online | Event date: 2024-07-17 - 2024-07-19

Conf42 Rustlang 2024 | Closes 2024-07-22 | online | Event date: 2024-08-22

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the submission website through a PR to TWiR.

Updates from the Rust Project

432 pull requests were merged in the last week

add simple async drop glue generation

llvm backend: Prevent creating the same Instance::mono multiple times

static_mut_refs: use raw pointers to remove the remaining FIXME

add a lower bound check to unicode-table-generator output

add an opt-in to store incoming edges in VecGraph + misc

add llvm-bitcode-linker to build manifest

allow workproducts without object files

at debuginfo=0, don't inline debuginfo when inlining

correctly change type when adding adjustments on top of NeverToAny

coverage: branch coverage tests for lazy boolean operators

coverage: prepare for improved branch coverage

delay interning errors to after validation

delay span bug when Self kw resolves to DefKind::{Mod,Trait}

don't ICE for kind mismatches during error rendering

don't ascend into parent bodies when collecting stmts for possible return suggestion

don't error on subtyping of equal types

don't inline integer literals when they overflow - new attempt

don't repeatedly duplicate TAIT lifetimes for each subsequently nested TAIT

fix ICE in eval_body_using_ecx

fix ICE when there is a non-Unicode entry in the incremental crate directory

fix capturing duplicated lifetimes via parent in precise_captures (impl use<'...>)

fix normalizing in different ParamEnvs with the same InferCtxt

fix trait solver overflow with non_local_definitions lint

flip spans for precise capturing syntax not capturing a ty/const param, and for implicit captures of lifetime params

give a name to each distinct manipulation of pretty-printer FixupContext

ignore -C strip on MSVC

implement Modified Condition/Decision Coverage

implement PROBLEMATIC_CONSTS generalization

implement syntax for impl Trait to specify its captures explicitly (feature(precise_capturing))

improve ICE message for forbidden dep-graph reads

interpret: pass MemoryKind to adjust_alloc_base_pointer

interpret: pass MemoryKind to before_memory_deallocation

interpret: use ScalarInt for bin-ops; avoid PartialOrd for ScalarInt

introduce perma-unstable wasm-c-abi flag

let inherent associated types constrain opaque types during projection

make suggest_deref_closure_return more idiomatic/easier to understand

make thir_tree and thir_flat into hooks

make the comments for ReturnDest variants doc comments

match ergonomics 2024: Implement eat-one-layer

match ergonomics 2024: mut doesn't reset binding mode

match hyphen in multi-revision comment matchers

opaque types have no namespace

outline default query and hook provider function implementations

prefer identity equality over equating types during coercion

print note with closure signature on type mismatch

properly handle emojis as literal prefix in macros

remove default_hidden_visibility: false from wasm targets

remove uneeded clones now that TrustedStep implies Copy

silence some follow-up errors on trait impls in case the trait has conflicting or otherwise incoherent impls

simplify shallow resolver to just fold ty/consts

stop taking ParamTy/ParamConst/EarlyParamRegion/AliasTy by ref

subtype predicates only exist on inference types, so we can allow them to register opaque types within them

tell LLVM Vec::len is invariant across growth

use raw-dylib for Windows synchronization functions

refactor clippy in bootstrap

when suggesting RUST_BACKTRACE=1, add a special note for Miri's env var isolation

miri: data_race: make the release/acquire API more clear

miri: no_std works on Windows now

miri: add localtime_r shim

miri: address reuse improvements and fixes

miri: deadlock: show backtrace for all threads

miri: directly call handle_alloc_error

miri: implement support for __rust_alloc_error_handler

miri: make realloc with a size of zero fail

miri: move read_byte_slice to general helpers file, next to read_c_str

miri: threads: keep track of why we are blocked, and sanity-check that when waking up

Box::into_raw: make Miri understand that this is a box-to-raw cast

PatRangeBoundary::compare_with: also add a fast-path for signed integers

codegen ZSTs without an allocation

stabilize Wasm target features that are in phase 4 and 5

stabilize const_io_structs

stabilize checking of cfgs at compile-time: --check-cfg option

stabilize generic NonZero

make checked ops emit unchecked LLVM operations where feasible

improve std::fs::Metadata Debug representation

fix negating f16 and f128 constants

force exhaustion in iter::ArrayChunks::into_remainder

checked_ilog: improve performance

add an intrinsic for ptr::from_raw_parts(_mut)

fix: make str::from_raw_parts_mut mut

use queue-based RwLock on more platforms

add support for Arm64EC to the standard library

codegen_gcc: fix PassMode::Indirect with params

codegen_gcc: fix check for main function already declared

codegen_gcc: fix panic when calling get_fn for a variable

codegen_gcc: fix passing custom CG_RUSTFLAGS when building sysroot

codegen_gcc: implement more type kinds

cargo install: including Locking message

cargo resolver: add default Edition2024 to resolver v3

cargo resolver: add v3 resolver for MSRV-aware resolving

cargo credential: trim newlines in tokens from stdin

cargo msrv: error, rather than panic, on rust-version 'x'

cargo msrv: put MSRV-aware resolver behind a config

cargo toml: don't crash on parse errors that point to multi-byte character

cargo toml: disallow source-less dependencies

cargo toml: error on [project] in Edition 2024

cargo toml: report _fied variants (e.g. dev_dependencies) as deprecated

cargo: fix 'cargo build' fails when list_files() with gix is triggered

rustdoc: always display stability version even if it's the same as the containing item

rustdoc: fix copy path button

rustdoc: support type '/' to search

rustdoc-search: fix description on aliases in results

rustdoc-search: single result for items with multiple paths

clippy: threadlocal_initializer_can_be_made_const will not trigger for unreachable initializers

clippy: arithmetic_side_effects fix false negative on +=

clippy: ptr_as_ptr: fix duplicate diagnostics

clippy: emit the needless_pass_by_ref_mut lint on self arguments as well

clippy: fix is_test_module_or_function

clippy: reduce single_char_pattern to only lint on ascii chars

clippy: rework interior mutability detection

clippy: the multiple_unsafe_ops_per_block test needs asm!

rust-analyzer: cargo script mvp

rust-analyzer: add convert From to TryFrom assist

rust-analyzer: allow rust files to be used linkedProjects

rust-analyzer: VFS should not walk circular symlinks

rust-analyzer: handle escaped chars in doc comments

rust-analyzer: replace Just the variable name in Unused Variable Diagnostic Fix

rust-analyzer: implement BeginPanic handling in const eval

rust-analyzer: make test harness arguments configurable and not --nocapture

rust-analyzer: render matched macro arm on hover of macro calls

rust-analyzer: try to generate more meaningful names in json converter

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A week dominated by small mixed changes to perf with improvements slightly outweighing regressions. There were no pure regressions, and many of the mixed perf results were deemed worth it for their potential improvements to runtime performance through further optimization from LLVM.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: ccfcd950..a77f76e2

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count Regressions ❌ (primary) 0.4% [0.2%, 1.8%] 57 Regressions ❌ (secondary) 0.4% [0.2%, 1.9%] 26 Improvements ✅ (primary) -0.8% [-3.4%, -0.2%] 50 Improvements ✅ (secondary) -0.6% [-1.9%, -0.1%] 32 All ❌✅ (primary) -0.2% [-3.4%, 1.8%] 107

0 Regressions, 5 Improvements, 6 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups 62 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

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Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for std::path::absolute

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for convenience methods on NonNull

[disposition: merge] Inline more svg images into CSS

[disposition: merge] Edition 2024: Make ! fall back to !

[disposition: merge] static_mut_refs: Should the lint cover hidden references?

Cargo

[disposition: merge] fix(toml): Warn, rather than fail publish, if a target is excluded

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[audiofictionuk]

New Fiction Podcasts - 8th February

Vennix the Mighty Audio Drama Vennix the Mighty is a hilarious and heartwarming podcast about an obnoxious demi-god and his ditzy priestess. It's a must-listen for fans of Hello from the Magic Tavern, Terry Pratchett, and the odd fart joke. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231124-05 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2274972.rss

v12 : de la FIN le DEBUT Audio Drama 12 personnes enfermées dans 1 Dôme pendant 12 mois pour répondre chaque mois aux questions d'un gouvernement d'urgence afin de sauver l'humanité face à 12 évolutions d'un Virus (V12). Mais... Est ce vrai? Une histoire interactive qui varie selon vos choix. En parallèle, suivez les lives et discussions sur les vécus! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240131-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f0bb55a8/podcast/rss

Artemis Ghost Audio Drama An amateur, dysfunctional team steals the score of a lifetime; a teleportation device. Except what they believed to be mechanical turned out to be biological instead. What are they to do with this unexpected addition to their crew? https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240201-01 RSS: https://feeds.castos.com/r34j9

Retrograde Audio Drama Three years ago the world ended in The Pop, an event where creatures from another world arrived seemingly overnight. Following the end of the end of the world Morgan and Kit, two losers are surviving through the apocalypse through wit and sheer luck. That is until they meet an unlikely third companion with unknown intentions. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240202-01 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2177054.rss

Flame & Fiction Audio Drama Whether you’re seeking a moment of escape, a touch of nostalgia, or simply a comforting companion for your day, Flame & Fiction aims to be that refuge where stories come to life and where the timeless tradition of sharing narratives around a fire finds its place in the digital age. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240201-02 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2295142.rss

The Parallel-O-Verse Audio Drama A self-taught inventor uses her quantum radio to listen in to alternate worlds. Tune in each month for strange and fantastic tales from parallel universes. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240202-02 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f1965a04/podcast/rss

Undefined depths Audio RPG A group of good friends join together to play Delta Green and laugh in the face of cosmic horror. Or scream into the void. It's anyone's guess which will happen. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240201-03 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/undefineddepths/

Nuggets: The Audio Drama Audio Drama Nuggets is a series of small audio dramas designed to pack a big punch, as the show tagline says, "big truths in small doses." https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240131-04 RSS: https://feeds.transistor.fm/nuggets-the-audio-drama

Endwatch: A Shadowrun Actual Play Audio RPG Shadowrunners. Thriving in the margins, doing the jobs no one else can. While the Corporations run the world, Shadowrunner live on the edge, and for this team of ‘runners getting back together after a long hiatus, that edge has never been sharper. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240131-05 RSS: https://feeds.castos.com/qoovn

The Pride Of Kyro Audio Drama Led by the rich and powerful Kyro Carter, the Carter family was destined to take over the world. Kyro’s family owns an oil company, making every generation of Carters wealthy before they are even born. However, Kyro didn’t just hand spoon the fortune over to his children. Each of his five kids had to earn a piece of the family wealth by becoming productive citizens first. The plot thickens as the family’s personal lives become even more publicized when Kyro announces his candidacy for city council. It soon comes to light that Kyro’s candidacy is for his own personal gain, as family secrets start falling out the closet. The Carter children become trapped in Kyro’s web of deceit as they find out Kyro isn’t so perfect himself. Filled with suspense, drama, and passion, The Pride of Kyro is sure to entertain. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240203-01 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-pride-of-kyro/

Here Lies Withered Lilies Audio Drama follow the story of our protagonist as they find a way to survive in a zombie Apocalypse. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240202-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f1a8dabc/podcast/rss

Journeys in the Dark Audio Drama Hunger is humanity’s constant companion. Cannibalism has blurred the line defining what is a human and what is a monster. And of course, the evil that brought the world tumbling down to its current state –the monsters from another realm– still stalk the land. Baulder and Hod are survivors. They live from day to day, chasing food and running from the perils of their world. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240206-01 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/JourneysInTheDark/feed.xml

Keeping the Bones Audio Drama We reimagine and remix classic weird tales into found-footage stories set today. Drawing our inspiration from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, and Algernon Blackwood, we shape these old tales into something that might just have really happened in our current world. Come on in, we've been expecting you. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240206-02 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/keeping-the-bones/

Mango: Dead Serious Audio Drama Mango: Dead Serious is an independently produced feature-length podcast movie custom made for your earholes. After saving virologist Dr. Charlotte Fox from a vicious attack in the mountains outside Los Angeles, a mine dwelling recluse named Mango learns a virus has swept the globe causing a worldwide zombie outbreak. In order to continue her work on the virus vaccine, Dr. Fox must find her uncle whose last known whereabouts were 100 miles away in Joshua Tree. Mango, Dr. Fox and Mango’s dog Kismet embark on a dangerous mission to find Dr. Fox’s uncle, complete the vaccine and save the world from a zombie apocalypse. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240205-01 RSS: https://feeds.libsyn.com/508998/rss

Who's Taking Watch Audio RPG A D&D 5e actual play show where we improvise stories in our favourite worlds of fiction! Join us in our first arc, The Dragon's Might, set in the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240207-01 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65bc17c0352c8700161fd698

#audio fiction #fiction podcast

[theoneprecioustome]

So I've talked about Arena and its translations in the past, and I've also gone on and on about how Aigis' Shadow references Aigis' feelings for Makoto.

BUT I finally got to play the game for myself with the Japanese audio and let me tell you, it's somehow even more blatant there! 😭

On the right is the way it was localized, but the literal translation is: "Even if there was someone you wanted to protect, you're unable to be by [his/their] side as a human being..."

The wording deliberately uses the same key words Aigis always tells Makoto! 😭

Following that up, here the localization is perfectly accurate, but it's worth noting that as per usual, in Japanese there is no subject. So if we wanted to translate this as: "That's why you chose to protect him as a weapon. But in the end, you still lost him..." It'd be a valid choice. Specially in light of how blatant the previous line was.

And don't get me started on this bit 😭

In Japanese it's a simple "もの", which literally means "thing" but is often used to refer to people as well. For example, 大切なもの could be either "precious thing(s)" or "precious person" depending on the context. In this case, it's definitely talking about the person Aigis lost, so we could translate this as "You can get him back... the person you lost forever." Or if we wanted to keep it a little vague, we could go for a "You can get it back... that which you have lost forever."

Of course, even with the translation choosing to use plural/undefined subjects, anyone who has played P3 would immediately understand that all these lines are about Makoto.

But the first quote in particular is extremely straight-forward in Japanese, so it immediately reminded me of this:

Aigis calls Makoto her "precious person" in Japanese, and the localization team chose to go for "dear friend". However, they could have easily gone for "my beloved", which is what the Persona 4 Arena: Official Design Works translation team chose to do lol

So, I figured it was worth sharing!

#aikoto #translations #meta #games #arena #I am SO glad these games are now widely available with the japanese audio!! #I even checked the french italian and spanish subs but they all seem to have been translated directly from the English #so I'm assuming it'll be the same way in P3P #at least no matter what we'll always have the japanese audio and option to have japanese subs as well 😭 we've come SO FAR #also full disclosure: playing this had me in tears #literally sobbing at the bits of labry's story that connect to aigis #024 QUOTES AIGIS WORD FOR WORD IN JAPANESE AT ONE POINT #listen I hate the gameplay but this game truly was the perfect mix between the p3 and the p4 lore #amazing

[whovianwatchingstartrek]

A Whovian Watches Star Trek for the First Time: Part 034 - Epidemic on Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise - Season 2 Episode 9 - Singularity

The episode starts with the Enterprise in a rather grim way. Once again, everyone is unconscious bar one member of the crew. This time, T'Pol, who's giving a rather foreboding monologue about how it's unlikely anyone will survive. The episode then uses this as a framing device while the rest of the story is told in Flashback. Which is nice, I love when stories have framing stories around them.

In the flashback, everything seems business as usual, except shock and horror: Chef is sick! And it seems to be spreading quickly, Mayweather and Archer are already reporting symptoms.

I like seeing everyone just going about their normal work. Malcolm doing security planning, Trip designing a new Chair for the Captain was great. But then everyone start turning into irritable hyperfocussing perfectionists.

A disease that makes people become obsessive perfectionists with their work is an interesting concept. It gives you a subtle way of telling who's infected by the radiation once you've figured out that's what's happening, but it isn't so obvious as something like a cough, and just as you figure out what's going on everything starts to break down.

Phlox is once again the highlight of the episode. The disease turning him from our normal happy doctor into this near psychopathic dissection happy mad scientist was amazing.

As someone who has a tendency to become a bit hyperfocussy, this episode was definitely relatable. If I had one complaint, I guess it would be that the crew going from agitated to going unconscious happens too suddenly, but I understand the episode has a time limit. Also it does feel like Mayweather is being shafted again. The solution to the episode is skilled piloting, which would have been great to finally give Travis a stand out scene, but he gets written out of the episode very early on.

Those two issues aside, loved this episode. A lot of care was put into showing the different ways the different characters get irritable, and I just had a lot of fun watching it.

It's also kinda strange that Starfleet chair aren't height adjustable by default, and the chief engineer was needed to do that, but that's neither here not there.

Comparing my Enjoyment of this Episode with a Doctor Who Universe Story of the Same Title

Doctor Who - Big Finish Monthly Range #76 - Singularity

Right, another Doctor Who audio drama. This time, one actually featuring the Doctor. Specifically the Fifth Doctor and Vislor Turlough, which is one of the more interesting Doctor Companion dynamics, especially in the audio stuff. This duos more tense relationship is always great. Turlough has always been an underrated companion in my opinion, I love how throughout his run he grows from the self-serving bastard he starts out as into a more well-rounded person. Not a lot 80's Who companions got solid character growth like that.

But, onto singularity itself: The TARDIS lands in "a zone of space time with inerrant causal discontinuities", that is to say someone has been messing time. Specifically, Moscow in an undefined year in the near-future. To keep the plot summary short and spoilers to a minimum: a group called the Somnus Foundation from the far future are working on a top secret project which is accidentally shattering time.

There's a lot of good stuff in Doctor Who's singularity, the Doctor and Turlough slowly unravelling the conspiracy around the Somnus Institute over the runtime of the story is great, and the incidental characters in this one are definitely Highlights, especially Lena and Pavell. The Somnus Foundation are also really good villains.

The story is a bit darker than I typically like the Fifth Doctor to be, his personality is more suited to more light hearted scripts, but in this one it definitely doesn't detract from this particular Story. This story also does a bit of dissection of that 5 and Turlough dynamic that I mentioned earlier, and it is really well done. I would recommend this one, even if you're not familiar with 5 or Turlough. Audio drama can be a difficult media to get into, but the story is top quality and like most early Big Finish content, it is very standalone.

Choosing which Singularity I enjoyed more is a difficult choice. They were both incredibly good this time and scratch very different itches. Doctor Who Singularity was a really nice piece of Character drama, and I would say it's the better written piece. That said I think I would be more likely to revisit Enterprise's Singularity. The Star Trek episode was a fun, lower stakes adventure that had fun with it's pre-established characters.

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