Hello all, I want to get a tattoo of a sentence from one of my favorite Italian songs, “a forma di fulmine” by vasco brondi.
The line i want to get as a tattoo is:
“Poi continuare a vivere e non avere niente da perdere”
However, im not sure if it’s tied to the previous sentence or can be tattooed as only this line. I’d really appreciate if i get a feedback to see if it makes sense or not.
Here goes the lyrics to understand the context:
https://genius.com/Le-luci-della-centrale-elettrica-a-forma-di-fulmine-lyrics
Thanks in advance!

So I uploaded a picture to this and yeah it really annoys me 🤣
There’s a few more dumb moments in the show like when the Brotherhood of Steel are at Griffith Observatory and they’re killing everyone but will happily stop and listen to Cooper Howard to talk about weaknesses in power armour so US the viewer can understand how one ghoul can kill a couple guys in power armour…
Why is this dumb? Because he should have had the speech when he was facing Maximus in the 2nd episode. Then Maximus can say it’s line leaded (or whatever it was he kept banging on about in every few episodes about Titus’s power armour) the speech I’m referring to is in the season finale. If you have seen the show you will know exactly what I’m talking about. I also think that the headless Brotherhood of Steel member in power armour barges through the door HEADLESS so Hank can wear the armour is also dumb… I don’t know why they didn’t simply write that Maximus helps a wounded soldier in power armour through the door. 🚪 🤷
That speech about the power armour having a weakness should have happened in episode 2 not in the last episode. Why does the Brotherhood stop shooting to listen to Cooper? Because he needs to have the speech to tell us the viewer and that’s dumb writing… after all it’s not because it’s a ghoul and that’s the reason they stopped and listened because they were ghouls at Griffith Observatory and one pointed at Lucy mouthing “that’s the girl who saved me” or whatever.
Here’s another one. If everyone in vault 31 are Bud’s Buds then why didn’t Hank go to vault 31 when the overseer In vault 33 died? We know he can message vault 31 and he knows everyone in bud’s buds BUT NOPE! looks fine! let them in and marry my daughter! It’s calm that you all have tattoos and no pip boys and your vault suits are dirty nahhhh nothing wrong here -_- No it’s dumb and all this needs to happen for the sake of the plot and that’s stupid. Hanks main goal is to protect the vault that’s his job, his goal and to back track to forward track again is just so out of his character. BUTTTTTTT Hank needs to be dumb here so the plot can happen. But there are smarter ways to start the show and keep the mystery.
Why didn’t Lee Moldaver just tell Lucy in the first episode that Hank is a bad guy? 🤷 Again that needs to happen in the season finale but if you’ve watched a lot of tv shows and movies like I have you already KNOW THAT’S WHERE THE SHOW IS GOING!!!
This is what should have happened… lets say Hank was the smart dude he was and that he kept his oath to protect the vault and never opened vault 33 because he feels like something is off and in stages this is how it should have gone down.

1. Lucy would be annoyed ‘cause she’s not getting married at first but would see the other vault dwellers be confused on why aren’t they doing the ceremony. You see Hank walk to the overseer office just ignoring everybody. He looks at his computer and his son walks in and they have a little discussion and Hank says everything will be fine just a hiccup. This scene would also come back later in the show when his son hacks the terminal then enters vault 31.
2. The rest of the vault is confused on why they’re not opening vault 33 for the ceremony and creates talk and they ask too many questions but Hank shuts everyone down and to not ask why they’re not opening vault 33.
3. Some vault dwellers get curious and open vault 33.
4. At this point Lee Moldaver’s team comes in and Hank is carried off. Lucy sees Lee Moldaver and her dad being captured and then the explosion happens and now we can enjoy the show (and have the power armour speech in episode 2 not in the season finale) and ta-dah season one is a banger now. It would also make more sense because the rest of the show Moldaver is made out to be a good person trying to do the right thing so in the first episode why would she let her team kill people in the vault? I’m not saying my version is better but it makes a lot more sense for her character.

Apart from those issues the show is still pretty great! 👍 but because of these massive elephants in the room it just irks me to not let it go.
Am I wrong here? I don’t care about the lore in the show and how it’s wrong. I only care about the story and the writing and the characters.
Okay there’s one more problem I have. So the Brotherhood says “this mission is the most important mission we will ever do blah blah we must get it back don’t fuck it up it’s super important” etc etc words to that effect it’s important. So what they do is that they send multiple teams of 1 dude in power armour and their squire carrying their stuff 🤣🤷 WHY!!!! I thought it was important?!?!? Why isn’t there like a party of people?
Now I’m not gonna make a comparison to the games but the show runners have said that it is cannon so the only comparison I will make is that even the Brotherhood Outcast go out in groups all of them wearing power armour. Sarah Lyons in Fallout 3 the first time we see her she’s in a group of people who all wear power armour I’M JUST SAYING!!!
The show is great but it could have been better.

Silly, cute, gamer girl looking for someone to chat with regularly. Preferably with similar interests. I don’t care how tall you are. Would initially like to start platonically, but open to more should we be compatible (Duel Income, No Kids lifestyle) Bonus if you’re down for playing video games with me. Extra happy points if you use complete sentences when you text. Posting from phone so sorry if the formatting is horrendous.
Physical:
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Interests:
Roller skating/Bike Riding Video Games (RPGs like Fallout/Skyrim are my favorite). I Love Lucy. Bob’s Burgers. Game Grumps (Hey fellow lovelies!). Manga & Mystery Novels. Stand-Up Comedy (Nate Bargatze, Shane Gillis as examples). Comedy Songs/Bands (Garfunkel & Oates, Tom Cardy, NSP). Tarot & Astrology (No, I won’t turn you away if our signs aren’t “compatible”). Working towards getting my motorcycle permit.
If you’re interested, don’t be shy! I’d really love someone to geek out with.

Major Potts and Captain Blakely sat in the small meeting room they had chosen as they went through the records one last time. “Are you sure this is a good idea, Major?” Blakely asked her, and she shook her head. “No, I’m not. But it’s the best idea we’ve got and we ought to give it a try.” Before the last of the group had arrived, the two had finished reviewing the records of the 5 women before them…
(suggested music: https://youtu.be/nLHDofvU5gA?si=skxyZ2Y966uAb2Gs )
First up, 1^st Lieutenant-select Idena Verona. Her record was, in a word, exemplary. Cool, logical, determined to the point of ruthlessness, deeply loyal, and an officer from a long line of military service - the daughter of an Imperial Navy captain. Verona was listed as an expert tactician and crack shot with a sniper rifle, but the only problem was that she had no actual combat experience outside the raids on Westbridge. A dark-haired woman with deep tan skin and dark eyes, she had arrived on time in a perfect inspection ready uniform, as expected.
Next was Sergeant Virginia Woolworth, a veteran soldier and former correctional officer who consistently shot “expert” or higher on every single rifle range training course. She was tough, no-nonsense, and physically strong, protective and reliable in the extreme, having been counted on to assist Potts before in the arrest of Commissar Gardner and his would-be attackers. She was at least a known quantity in the team’s favor.
Third was a woman whose past couldn’t be more opposite than Woolworth, Corporal Lucy Raycraft, a tattooed athletic blonde soldier and former gang member with a rap sheet longer than most troopers’ service records. Raycraft was an expert in melee combat, scouting, and stealth, and was generally considered to be extremely dangerous. She smiled wryly at the Major and Captain as she arrived - with her usual sense of dark humor, she would no doubt find it very funny to be working under Sergeant Woolworth, who had once been an overseer at her place of imprisonment.
Corporal Rachel Darling’s record was best left to speak in its own words. “Despite her mousy black hair and unassuming glasses-wearing appearance, Corporal Darling may be one of the most unstable and dangerous women in the regiment. A convicted arsonist who claims her sister’s ex-husband “had it coming” and that’s why she blew up his hab-block with a stolen melta bomb, she is, however, also an expert in explosives and heavy weapons of peerless skill.”
The final member of the team was Specialist Violette Wake-Stewart, a prim and proper-looking pretty redhead. Wake-Stewart was trained as a combat medic by service specialty, but she was also known to be an excellent amateur singer and actor (which ran in her family for three generations). The only problem was that she was also known to be a compulsive liar, which threatened to make her as problematic and distracting to her allies as she was to potential enemies.
Once the last of them arrived (Darling had been the last to show up), Major Potts signaled for the sentry to shut the door, which she did. “Thank you all for coming,” she said by way of introduction. “Some of you know each other, some of you don’t. But you’re all here for the same reason,” she continued. “The regiment needs to explore new methods of warfare to fight against new and existing enemies on this world. You five have been chosen as the first experiment, the first foray into a more…unconventional side of warfare by our doctrinal standards.” She looked to Blakely, who cleared her throat. “Put simply, we want you to learn how to fight as a team, but not fight like Praetorians.”
Raycraft looked to her left and right and grinned widely, clearly pleased by the prospect, while Verona nodded concisely. “Yes, ma’am,” she said obediently. “Our mission?” “Your mission is to form a functioning commando team out of the five of you, Lieutenant,” Potts said. “Once your team is ready we intend to deploy you into the mountains and surrounding terrain to hunt down the troublesome Auxilia officers and their T’au overlords.”
Woolworth coughed quietly. “Sergeant?” “Ma’am, how long do we have, respectfully?” she asked, looking sidelong at Raycraft and Darling. “As soon as you can,” Potts said with a slight sigh. “I need a functioning group of soldiers who can respond to what’s going on as soon as possible. This regiment cannot afford to be stagnant any longer.” She shifted her attention to Verona. “Idena, I’m promoting you to 1^st Lieutenant, effective immediately – Yeoman division has already been informed, don’t worry – and making you commanding officer of Team ARTEMIS. Your first task will be to find gear suitable for your work. Supply division will comply with whatever you need, Lieutenant Leary has guaranteed that.” She scanned the team as a whole. “This isn’t a normal mission for any of us. But I’m confident you’re the right women for the job. If anyone can pull off this sort of unladylike warfare – stealth, tight tactics, knife work, sniping, and more - I think it’s you. We’ll be in touch with more orders soon. Good luck.”
As soon as the team had saluted and left, they gathered around outside to discuss their plan with their new commanding officer. “Right. Well, first things first, we need to get new kit,” Idena said, thinking through the tasks ahead. “What did you have in mind?” Woolworth asked her curiously. “I’m not sure,” she admitted as the group proceeded toward the supply warehouse. “Let’s see what they have first and go from there.” "Nice to just get what we need first and not have to swipe it later," Raycraft smirked at Woolworth. "Beats the old days, wouldn't you say, Sarge?" "I'm sure there won't be any 'swiping' of regimental resources required, Corporal," she shot back, but stopped at a sideways look from Idena. It took the better part of the rest of the day to find out what they would need and how they planned to set it up, and then another day to get all of the gear prepared – but after that, Team ARTEMIS gathered again outside their barracks dressed fully in new uniforms and armor, attracting curious glances from nearby soldiers.
The storekeepers had provided them with a stock of extra black and red jumpsuits in the same style that the tank crews wore, which Idena ordered the uniform maintenance and supply division to modify with extra fabric and stitching, as well as tailoring them better to fit each of the five soldiers. The storekeepers had also procured black ballistic vests of a more lightweight and mobile design than the usual heavy tan armor vests worn by infantry, as well as matching black helmets with visors – all of this together making the five Praetorians look very much not like their peers. “They do say black goes with everything,” Raycraft joked, sliding a knife into a sheath strapped to her arm. “I think it looks good,” Darling piped up as she fussed with the settings on a grenade launcher absent-mindedly. “I think so too,” Wake-Stewart agreed, smoothing her hair as she tried on the helmet and flicked the visor down, then back up again. “Well, hopefully it does more than just look good,” Idena commented matter-of-factly as she finished reassembling the lightweight sniper rifle she had procured. “Now the real work begins.”
(just a little bit of ground work on the black ops squad I'll be writing about. Enjoy as I create yet more characters, though these are definitely more misfits than the usual band of prim and perfect Praetorian girls.)

I recently moved to Port St Lucie, Florida and I’ve been searching for a new artist that specializes in American Traditional. I visited one shop and asked the guy at the counter “Do you have an artist that specializes in American Traditional?” His answer was “Yeah, anybody can do that” I felt like that was the absolute wrong answer. I’ve seen enough meh and just bad AmTrad tattoos to know that not anyone can do it. So, I courteously looked through a few of the artist’s books, asked a few more generic questions and thanked him for his time. Am I wrong?

Last time, Dennis showed up at my door in the middle of the night... DRUNK. Up to that point, he’d claimed to be a virtuous teetotaler, but something had apparently gone amiss. He staggered into my apartment, hurled tequila all over the place, and claimed to have pooped his pants. Neither seeing nor smelling evidence of dookie, I surmised that he was pretending to need clean underpants because he wanted to wear mine for some damn reason. And my lovesick, dong-struck, smitten AF ass was flattered.
The freshly showered, drunken little horned-up weasel finally stretched out on the couch, wearing a pair of my black boyshots. His semi-alert junk was pitching a tent, and the sack was hanging out of the small undergarment that wasn’t made to contain a male package. He kept slurring something about certain body parts being blue. I knew better. Mr. Butt-Blaster over there was in the Psych Research program, while I was in the MFT/Sex Therapy program, although we had to take a few of the same classes. Having some sex therapy training under my belt, I knew for sure that BBs are a MYTH. Genito-pelvic pain resulting from prolonged and unreleased arousal may feel subjectively painful to a small number of delusional horndogs (although self-report measures are notoriously unreliable). However... more often than not, manipulative horndogs use blue balls to coerce potential partners into pity bangs, pity tugs... pity what-have-yous. And I have receipts. Or as we say in academia... REFERENCES.
Me: Dude, that’s not a real condition. Plus, your... stuff’s hanging out of my underwear. Nothing’s blue. I’d feel better if you covered yourself with that blanket.
Dennis: It’s real, I swear! I’m in so much pain!
Me: Go yank it in the bathroom if it’s bothering you so much.
Dennis: But that’s a sin.
Me: Oh for fuck’s sake. I won’t tell Jesus.
Dennis: I need to call my friend first. We gotta paray. Pray.
Me: You need to sleep it off. You can paray in the morning.
I covered him up with the blanket as he continued to mumble about his private parts. I think I heard him apologize for being drunk, but I don’t know if he was talking to me or to Jesus. No matter. I got in bed and stared at the ceiling, both irate and elated that Dennis was on my couch. I didn’t sleep at all.
As the dawn crept through the curtains and provided a gentle golden glow in my little studio apartment, I heard The Golden God stir. Footsteps. I heard the bathroom door close. Water running. Toilet flushing. There was a bit more rustling around. And then I heard the door open. I watched through half-closed eyes as he tip-toed towards the door in clothes that still looked damp. He gingerly turned the deadbolt.
Me: Sneaking out?
Dennis jumped. “Uh. No. I didn’t want to wake you.”
Me: You really think I’d be able to sleep? I’ve been writing stories in my head all night. You’re in them...
Dennis. Sweet! Can I play myself in the movie version?
I glared at him, but I don’t think he could see my face clearly. His glasses were perched on top of his head.
Me: Anything you’d like to say to me?
Dennis: Honestly, babe. I don’t remember much. I think they goofed and put alcohol in my drink even though I ordered a virgin.
Me: Don’t call me babe.
Dennis. Oh. Okay. Sweetie, I really don’t remember last night.
Me: Do you remember the past MONTH? You asked me for a really revolting sexual favor, I declined, and you dropped off the face of the Earth. It really hurt my feelings. Am I nothing more to you than a butt to screw?
Dennis: Noooo! Babe! Uh. Sweetie... It was just an idea. I love you and I... (He said some more words, but that Delphic L-bomb was making the blood rush through my ears to the point where I couldn’t hear anything else he was saying.)
He was leaning down to kiss me when I floated back into my body. “What?”
Dennis: See you next week?
Me: Ummmm.. Yeah. Text me the details. I’m half-asleep and I’m not sure I’ll remember.
Dennis. I got you, babe.
Me: Hold up. Are you still wearing my underwear?
Dennis grinned. “Yep!”
I shook my head, laughing a little and feeling slightly flattered that he wanted to keep something of mine so close to himself. “Keep them. Consider them a reminder of the treacheries of tequila.”
He nodded, kissed my hand, and sauntered out the door. What the actual fuuuuu had just happened???
Girl Talk
The next evening, I met up with Lucy and two of her friends from a recent show, Pick-Me and Doormat. These three had bonded over a shared burning desire for a forever love. Out of the three, Lucy remained the most jaded and skeptical. After all, she could override her own desires and read people well enough to discern the possibility that Scooter (her crush) was a skin-fluter. Skin-flautist? He was GAY. He’d at least had the decency to come out to her when he picked up on her romantic feelings for him. But Scooter was still deep in the closet to the rest of the world, though.
Doormat: Lucy, what’s going on with Scoots??? You guys would make suuuuuch a cute couple.
Lucy: Yeah, that’s not happening. He’s got too much baggage from his ex-wife.
Pick-Me: Well, maybe you could find out what she did to run him off and do the exact opposite???
Lucy: Yeah, I don’t have the money for that...
(Lucy and I both laughed. Doormat and Pick-Me didn’t get the joke.)
Lucy: Okay, Val. These are my boy-crazy backstage gal pals. Present your case!
Me: The whole case? As in... butt stuff...
Lucy: No! Maybe no butt stuff with this crowd.
Pick-Me giggled. “Butt stuff? I can handle talking about that. What’s going on? Your guy wants to try anal?”
Lucy: Okayyyyy... Apparently they’re fine with it?
Me: Yeah. But that’s not even the worst of it. He disappears. And then he reappears acting like nothing was ever wrong. And he’s a religious fanatic when it’s convenient, but he’s never mentioned actually going to church. He doesn’t even wear a cross. And he lied about this summer camp...
Doormat: Girl, just give him the booty!!! That’s why he’s being shifty. He wants something taboo. Most guys need to feel like they’re bending the rules a bit.
Me: Yeah, but I don’t...
Pick-Me: Do you love this guy or not? At least try things his way.
(Yeah, that thought had unfortunately already occurred to me. And I’d dismissed it.)
Lucy: I don’t know. Ladies, we’ve gotta consider her personal limits. Then again, if you really think it’ll land you the love of your life, what’s 30 seconds of discomfort?
Pick-Me and Doormat giggled.
Me: It’s not always that quick....
Lucy: Okay, girl. But George Gay and I have already started scripting a sketch called “The Prematurely Popping Butt-Blasting Hobbit!” We’re doing it in a show at The Imp as soon as it’s ready! And I talk about him in my stand-up. He’d be good at border control ‘cause he’s a MINUTE MAN. A miniature Minute Man. He’s already a one-pump chump, and he seriously wants to put it in the donut instead of the eclair??? “Hey babe... Sorry I haven’t called. How about we... Uhhhh! Uhhhh. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Damn. I didn’t even get my pants off! But I at least I GOT MY ROCKS OFF.”
I tapped her on the head with my straw, secretly trying not to laugh. “RUDE! Please never let him hear that.”
Lucy: I promise you that no good Christian boy would ever come to an open mic night at The Raunch Room. Or a show at The Imp. That place has gotten vile. The other girl in our troupe up and quit, and the director replaced her with this fatass sex manic. She’s disgusting. She’s obsessed with George Straight and she won’t stop going on about how much she needs some Georgie Porgie sexy time... Because she’s got “blue lips.” And then she sits there in her micro-miniskirt with her fleshy hoo-hah hanging out, rambling on about all this freaky stuff she wants to do with this dude who’s like my freakin’ brother. I can’t stand it.
Me: Gross.
Pick-Me: Wait... Lucy, did you say Denny’s a good Christian boy? Val, you have to reel him in!!!
Me: That’s the problem... I’m not sure I believe him when he says he’s a Christian. George Gay thinks he’s using religion as an excuse to ask for weird stuff in the sack.
Doormat: I bet he’s totally a Christian. They make the best husbands. You do what you gotta do to lock this one down! And if you can’t give him exactly what he wants in bed, give him something close. He’s a man. You can’t blame him if he goes looking for it elsewhere.
(I felt my fists clenching. Pick-Me and Doormat were making my brain implode.)
Me: Or maybe I need to admit that I’m not right for him and walk away? I mean, that sounds impossible right now, but I think it’d be for the best in the grand scheme of things.
Pick-Me: Nooooo! As a woman, it’s your duty to make yourself into exactly what your man wants. It sounds old-fashioned, but old-fashioned WORKS. That’s why our grandparents never got divorced!
(Yeah, I’m not sure Grandpappy was running around trying to put in in Granny’s hiney.)
How (NOT TO) Prepare for a Date
My lovestruck brain convinced my lovestruck ass to prepare itself for the possibility of an invasion. Dennis had texted me that he was coming over on Saturday night around 8:00 PM, and that he wanted nothing more than conversation and respectful making out. But he also asked me to wear lingerie...
On Friday, I went to Victoria’s Secret and abused my credit card with a very pretty, very flattering halter teddy with Swarovski crystals adorning the plunging neckline. I’m pretty flat-chested, but I’m also short-waisted, so the plunge gives the illusion of length. Once I was all set for lingerie, I got my hair professionally done, extensions and all. Then I went to the dentist and had my teeth whitened with medical grade lasers. This plunged me even further into debt, and it hurt like hell. I was crying and shaking by the end of the procedure. And my teeth hadn’t been even slightly yellowed beforehand. But I wanted Hollywood-caliber blinding white teeth.
And then, feeling like I’d just been punched in the mouth, I went to the day spa to have every bit of body hair removed, save my eyebrows. Dennis disparaged body hair on women, even the vellus hair (peach fuzz) that tended to crop up when you’re a bit malnourished. So I had everything waxed. And when I emphasize the word “everything,” I’m not just talking about my crotch and my armpits. I’m talking about my forearms. My back. My cheeks. My toes. It was like he wanted a plastic doll. And I was more than willing to get as close to that as I possibly could.
And, listen. I know this was dumb AF. No matter how much I abused my credit card with flattering garments and beauty services and cosmetic dentistry, I’d never be “Hollywood Hot.” I was “regular person attractive with a former scene kid slant,” which basically meant that nerds, theatre weirdos, and recovering scene kids found me irresistible, normal attractive dudes flirted with me some, gross guys gushed over me (although I still didn’t know how to describe or even identify a bona fide neckbeard... remember this was the 20-tweens), and image-conscious posers didn’t give me the time of day because I was a bit weird.
And I’d always been relatively fine with the way I looked until Dennis and his hot and cold whiplash got into my head. If only I were Hollywood Hot enough to serve as a trophy on his arm, maybe he’d consistently pay attention to me? BARF. And sure, I had considered that our personalities didn’t quite mesh. Even so, he kept calling (sporadically) and I kept answering (faithfully), so I decided to focus on something that I could pretend to have some semblance of control over... I could waste a shit-load of money on superficial crap that most straight guys probably wouldn’t even notice (but that might make me feel more confident in my own unnaturally hairless skin). Oh, and then there was the butt stuff...
On Saturday morning, I went to the Sal Paulo Center for Wellness and Healing and got my very first high colonic... just in case. I wish I had a disgusting story to share, but it actually wasn’t that big of a deal. My colon hydro-therapist was named Harmony, and she was able to put me at ease. I explained that I might try anal sex with my boy... with a guy I was dat... With this guy I’d been kinda seeing. So I wanted to be clean. Harmoney enthused, “Oh, that’ll be fun! But these are sooo good for you, even if you’re not planning on having visitors in there. A high colonic flushes out years and years of toxins that get trapped in the pockets of your large intestines.
This was complete BS, but Harmony was really sweet and she did a good job of keeping my mind off what was happening. Ultimately, it wasn’t painful (just a bit uncomfortable), and I did feel better and lighter and more energized when it was over. Probably no different than the way the average person would feel after taking a giant dump. Before I headed home, I popped by another salon for eyelash extensions, a mani/pedi, and a bottle of snake oil that was allegedly packed with pheromones. Well then... I suppose I was as prepared as I could be. Lightheaded and woozy from the emptying of my lower intestines, combined with the fact that I hadn’t eaten anything since Wednesday of that week, I made the long drive back to my apartment in Wellsprings and started tidying up.
As the 8:00 hour grew nearer, I wiggled into the halter teddy. I checked my hair and makeup. I changed my shoes three times. And I poured myself a small glass of Rosé to take the edge off. I gently brushed my insanely white (and incredibly sensitive) teeth and gargled with Listerine so that Dennis wouldn’t be able to smell booze on my breath... and to counteract any fasting-related halitosis that might have been present. The clock said 8:15, so I dimmed the lights, lounged on the couch, and waited.
He never showed.
Laugh at me. I’m not kidding. Please laugh. Or at least cringe. This was some of the dumbest BS I’ve ever done in an effort to please some dude. And then to get stood up... It felt like the end of the fucking world at the time, but it just seems pathetic when I look back on it. Although... to give my lovesick younger self some grace, it really was a pretty harsh blow to my little ego. I mean, at least call to cancel! Right?! Oh, that’s too much to ask from a spiritually confused young man? Okaaayyyyy... For whatever it’s worth, I wore the halter teddy for Axton a few years later and he seemed to really appreciate it. He also didn’t give a fuck about the peach fuzz on my forearms. M’kay, back to the story!
Stood Up? Stand-Up!
George and Lucy soon figured out what was going on, came over with hard liquor and a carton of Marlboro Lights, listened to me cry, shared some of their own stories of being sorely disappointed by men, and cracked me up with their “Prematuely Ejaculating Butt-Blasting Hobbit” sketch... which would eventually lead to me becoming a regular at The Imp. But, in the meantime, how did I cope with the crushing disappointment that seemed to permanently permeate my mind long after The Golden Weasel went completely radio silent... AGAIN?
Well, once we were in tech week for Cats, I barely had time to eat or sleep, let alone obsess over Dennis. And once the show opened, I took up smoking again, I dyed my hair purple, and I had a green finch, a linnet bird, a nightingale, and a blackbird tattooed on my ribs to commemorate my first leading role in a semi-professional production. It’s a very pretty and meaningful tat, and I’ve never regretted it. I loved having purple hair, although I eventually got tired of the upkeep. And I finally managed to quit smoking for good just last year. That may have been the hardest freakin’ thing I’ve ever done. But I’m a soprano again!!! In my world, that’s very, very important.
So... About halfway through the run of Cats, my phone rang at 2:00 AM. It was a number I didn’t recognize. 716 area code. Must have been a wrong number. I pressed Ignore and rolled over. The phone rang again. Same number. Again. Same number. Why the hell am I trying to create suspense??? I finally answered the butt-fucking weasel’s call.
Me: Who the fuck is this???
Dennis: Uhhh... Hey, babe. Good to talk to you, too!
Me (with as much venom as I could muster): YOU. I had written you off as a lost cause.
He laughed. “Nah, babe. I told you. I’m staying with my bro here in Buffalo. But I’m coming back to Cali in a few weeks. Whatcha... wearing?
Me: Dennis, it’s 2:00 AM...
Dennis: Ah. Darn it. It’s 11:00 here. Didn’t think about the time difference.
Me: Yeah, well. I have a matinee tomorrow. If you really wanna talk to me, call me tomorrow evening.
Dennis: Sa-sweet! What show ya doing?
Me: Cats. I told you that.
Dennis: Ew. Nobody likes that play anymore!
Me: I DO. Our audiences seem to.
Dennis: Hey, you wanna hear about the show that I just helped direct here in New York?
Me: Tomorrow.
I hung up on him and silenced my phone.
But he didn’t call the next evening. Midway through the following week, I tried to call the 716 number. No answer. I had fumed and stewed and cursed his name and gotten dangerously intoxicated and written about a hundred pages of scorned woman rage after he’d stood me up. But in time, I put my focus into rehearsals. I planned activities with my parents and my brothers since they were coming to Wellsprings to see Cats. I got back into burlesque. I enjoyed mocking “the weasel” with Darius during my voice lessons and I admitted that he’d been absolutely right about the intolerably arrogant character of the man I’d idealized. And while I wasn’t taking summer classes, I looked forward to the classes I’d be taking in the fall. Things had evened out, and I had pretty much gone back to being my perky, happy-go-lucky self.
And then Dennis rang again, claiming to be back in town. He claimed he was desperate to see me. I caved and agreed to meet him at his place. Things got spicy. And then he clutched his nuts, hung his head and begged me to whip him as he wept over his wicked sin of desire. NO. A little light BDSM (just for fun) between consenting adults isn’t shocking or off-putting to me. But this felt unhealthy.
Even students of psychology battle with mental health issues just as med students sometimes get physically ill. Dennis needed help. My best guess was that he needed some combination of psychological and spiritual counseling, but I’m not sure that an ideal hybrid exists. I tried to assure him that I was perfectly happy to avoid engaging in anything “intimate,” I offered to lend an ear, and I assured him that I didn’t think less of him because he had certain *ahem* fantasies. But he banished me, accusing me of being a wicked siren.
And my head was re-fucked after that bizarre encounter. So before long, due largely to my insistence on making things much, much weirder than they needed to be, things... got suuuuuper weird. Still dazed by Dennis’ bizarre behavior and ensuing radio silence, I decided to take drastic measures in an attempt to forget about The Golden God once and for all. That drastic measure was... Scumbanger. I’d rather not talk about that again. It’s embarrassing. Apologies to anyone who applies Rule 34 to Cats. No smut for you!
But fun random fact! Furries are NOT into Cats (the musical). They despise it. Mainly because the actors in Cats don’t wear fur suits (we wore elaborately decorated leotards and tights). And the actors in Cats have human faces (we were wearing heavy makeup, but you could still completely tell that we were people). There isn’t the anonymity that a “fursona” would allow. So, no. We didn’t have to deal with any furries yanking it in the audience or skulking around by the stage door.
Let’s pop back over to The Imp! Once Cats had opened, it was much, much easier to see the weeknight shows. The improvers were elated since George Gay’s rehearsal schedule (which was the same as mine) no longer forced them to rehearse during absurd hours. And once “The Prematurely Popping Butt-Fucking Hobbit” was ready to perform, I started seeing shows at The Imp on the regular.
It was tons of fun at first! Moe hadn’t disclosed to me that I was in his boom-boom crosshairs, so I thought he was just some eccentric old dude who made up bizarre stories using tarot cards as prompts. The fatass sex maniac that Lucy had told me about was terrible at improv. But holy crap... I laughed my ass off at her outfits, and at the fact that she often got onstage, plopped down with truckloads of grub, and proceeded to engage in what we’d now call a “mukbang” while the real comedians acted out a sketch. Was she ahead of her time???
Within the month, Cats wrapped up. Moe divulged his disgustingness and pitched a hissy fit because he was being rejected by an “older woman.” Even so, I continued to spend my Thursday nights at The Imp, careful to avoid Moe and determined to keep a safe distance from Mary. But the fall semester was upon us before I’d had enough time to completely get Dennis out of my system.
I’m embarrassed to admit that Moe had given me a “love banishing” spell that involved a candle, a pendulum, a few drops of my own blood, and myrrh oil. He’d passed on this “super chill Wiccan bro wisdom” before he revealed his romantic intentions, and he lorded his generosity of spirits and spells over me when I rejected his advances. Whatever. I still nicked my skin, mixed the blood with myrrh, smeared it on the crystal pendulum and let the it swing over the flame, allowing the ideomotor effect to “magically” push the pendulum clockwise or counterclockwise depending on what I wanted to hear. If I’m being brutally honest, it comforted me in those moments. And, no. The skin-nicking wasn't self... Are we allowed to use those words together? Let me put it another way. I didn't get any kicks from the nicks. I didn't even believe in spells. I just felt like I needed a ritual. It was dumb. Moving on!
The Fall Semester (just before the events of Married Mary)
The golden weasel, prematurely popping butt-blasting hobbit, religious fanatic horndog, women’s underwear wearing weirdo... indeed resurfaced when our class schedules forced him to. We had Biological Psychology together, which didn’t exactly thrill me. That had been my favorite class as an undergrad, and I was psyched to experience the grad school version. I wasn’t about to let Dennis ruin it for me. So I vowed to keep my contact with him purely surface level. Even if that meant busting out Moe’s bullshit spell every week after class.
Of course, Dennis tried to yank me around a little more once the fall semester was in full swing. Though it was heartbreaking to keep him at arm’s length (and though I faltered many times), I realized that I simply liked him more than he liked me. And that was nobody’s fault. We met. We clicked. We low-key dated. We hooked up. And it all meant one thing to me and quite another thing to him. The longer things carried on and the more opaque the emotional connection became, the harder I tried and the harder I loved. Meanwhile, he slacked off and loved far more lightly (if indeed at all). My feelings waxed as his waned. Yes, he should have manned up and had a conversation about his waning feelings with me. That would have suuuuucked in the moment, but it would have saved me heaps of heartache in the long run.
The Diary...
Where did I go wrong with Dennis??? I think I went wrong right off the bat when I dreamt up my own version of him, fell madly in love with it, and then gave that pompous ass undue attention and too much forgiveness because he was the avatar of the dream guy I’d invented. It’s happened to me before. I think I’ve been in love with fictional characters (mostly my own) more times than I’ve been in love with real human beings.
Is that weird? It’s probably weird. I’ve also heard it’s an aro/ace thing. I’m grey aro and grey ace in case anyone’s confused by my undying love for Dennis and the crrrrazzzy hot sex with Axton. Oh, I left that part out of the Funky epilogue, didn’t I? Best to keep those details private. And I’m not gonna launch into an explanation about what “grey aro/ace” means. I realize that it’s annoying to go on about such things. If you know, you know. If you don’t, you probably don’t care. I’m not offended at all. It’s a completely understandable indifference.
So what else went wrong with Dennis? Does he deserve to get tarred and feathered, drawn and quartered, locked in the stocks to have rotten food thrown at his face? I don’t think so. I think he might have been on the spectrum. I think he was far less experienced than he let on when we entered into something vaguely resembling a romance. Eventually, I succeeded in backing away from him, although I never dramatically cut ties. That would have required giving him more undeserved attention. I simply allowed myself to lose touch with him.
Am I angry that he led me on? Not anymore. Early into the fall semester, he tried to recreate the vibe we’d had initially, but I just couldn’t trust him. I still liked him more than I cared to admit, but I politely refused his quasi-romantic advances... for the most part. But as I slipped a few times and found myself alone with him (resulting in varying degrees of intimate contact), a bizarre new behavior emerged. Dennis would sometimes ignore me at school. Grad school? Nah, son. We were back in middle school. It was infuriating. The ignoring usually happened when things had gotten spicy between us. But it wasn’t consistent. Sometimes, he was extra sweet and touchy-feely after things got spicy. It was unpredictable, inconsistent, senseless, smokin’ hot, ice cold, and completely maddening.
And I captured every little thing that transpired between us in that dreadful, dramatic diary of mine, which was brimming with saccharine statements about my undying adoration of... Dennis? The Golden God? The Golden Weasel? The Prematurely Ejaculating Butt-Blasting Hobbit? His moniker depended on my mood. I often took inspiration from Sex and the City and tried to write like Carrie when she was pining over Big. I wrote terrible poems. I tried to close the door on Dennis by writing a definitive ending to our dalliance. I tried to rewrite some of the more confusing interactions and make them make sense. I cried myself to sleep in an effort to maximally suffer because I still believed in the notion that one must reach a “suffering quota” before she’s earned the right to be happy. That’s total BS.
But now that Dennis was partially reinforcing my pining, the emotional high was off the charts whenever he would randomly pop up and express romantic desires. The high was even higher when he continued to acknowledge my existence following an expression of romantic desires. I briefly became a Behaviorist and worked privately with one of my professors to research schedules of reinforcement and the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect in relation to a phenomenon that Dr. Helen Fisher calls “frustration attraction.” In layman’s terms, we were researching The D.E.N.N.I.S. System. So my unintentionally hilarious giga-cringe diary also included crap-tons of research notes, many of which were terrible ideas. If you’ve ever made notes on a project, you know that the cutting room floor is there for a reason. As for me? I had accidentally saved my cutting room floor as a word document...
A year or so later, Funky hacked into my computer, found my diary, and posted it to Tumblr. I wouldn’t find out about this “publication” until a few years after I dumped Funky. And by that time, an older, even weaslier version of Dennis had seen it... More on that in The Abridged Goblinization.
Pre-Funky
I suppose I have to close this out with a small mention of Whiskers. Ugghhhh... He didn’t leave much of an impression on me until he upped his game and got waaaaay more obvious with the flirting. My head was rammed so far up Dennis’ ass (even when I hated him... perhaps most of all when I hated him), I paid no attention to any other man. With the obvious exception of the superficial attention I paid to Scumbanger.
At some point, once Mary fully loathed Whiskers and once Whiskers was able to socialize freely without Mary keeping tabs on him, I basically told him exactly what I wrote in this post about my feelings waxing while Dennis’ waned, and how I was working on accepting things for exactly what they were instead of what they might have been under different circumstances, blah, blah, blah. He sniffed out my weakness and put on this creepily consistent “attentive, emotionally available guy” act. It didn’t work on me at first because I still thought Whiskers was butt-ass ugly. But then I checked myself for being shallow and decided to give him a chance since he’d been consistently kind for several months.
After some awkward initial missteps, Whiskers (now Whisky, not yet Funky) and I got along really well and I felt proud of myself for finally being able to enjoy male attention from someone other than Dennis. I gave myself too much credit for helping Whisky escape the crazy clutches of Mary, and I broke Girl Code when I dated the bearded giant (even though Mary had been through four new men since the night of the Christmas show... and was still MARRIED). Girl Code is tricky when you’re dealing with a delusional maniac. Some would probably say that I didn’t break Girl Code. Mary said that I did. And that had some suuuuuper dramatic consequences that I’ll touch on later.
I neglected to mention this in the first Dennis chapter, but it's relevant to the story; so I'm mentioning it now. Remember how I wasn’t able to sleep next to Dennis at first because I didn’t feel comfortable enough (even though I was fine with banging him). Was that weird? It seemed a little weird to me. And I had a long think about it after I began to accept that Dennis was a douche. So I made up a new rule. No banging until I felt comfortable enough with the guy to literally sleep next to him.
I broke that rule with Scumbanger. Of course, I wasn’t trying to have a relationship with that dreamy, depthless douche. I also broke that rule with “Whisky.” Once. And by the time he convinced me that he had simply been too “in his head” because he cared so very much, I flat-out told him that I wasn’t going to bed him again unless I reached a point where I felt more comfortable with him. And... Dude managed to make me feel at ease. Was this an act? Of course! But how was I supposed to know it was an act? Especially when he was being infinitely kinder and more attentive to my emotions than Dennis had ever even come close to being? It honestly felt like an improvement in the beginning.
So. I fell asleep in Funky’s Whisky’s bed one night. And I took that to mean that I must have trusted him and that he might be worth considering as a legitimate romantic partner. I had established a boundary for myself long before things got real with that masked beard. And although I had faltered a few times, I felt like I was finally getting it right. I felt confident that I had somehow walked into a hidden gem of a relationship. I was dating a guy who wasn’t my typical “type” (theatre weirdo/attention-seeking pretty boy). But he had been consistently kind. Even when he was weird at first, he was awkward and apologetic. And once things settled down and I convinced him to stop worrying about boom-boom and focus on being a genuine gentleman... He did just that. It was honestly a legitimately enjoyable companionship. AT FIRST.
And that’s how it began. Dennis, by being a middling piece of shit, had paved the way for Funky, a bona fide piece of shit alcoholic psycho, to do his very convincing impression of a normal human being (an impression that he’d honed over the many years he’d spent as Vert’s maître D), to seem like an improvement over the last guy and the guy before... Which resulted in a sense of accomplishment and personal growth when I began to catch feelings for this "hidden gem of a man." Or so I thought.
I’m still not sure if these chapters really explain anything... I think if you’re determined to dismiss my reality, you’ll never accept anything I say. I spent a few weeks writing very defensive entries in my journal, and I think I got all the poison out. So that wasn’t intended to be a passive-aggressive statement. Just a statement that hopefully demonstrates my current understanding of human nature. On the flipside, if you’re already an ally to me, you probably didn’t need this long-winded explanation in order to feel some semblance of empathy. But hopefully it was a little bit funny?
So is Dennis an entertaining character? I’m breaking the fourth wall and asking ReddX as well as the audience. Because I personally feel like this trash fire of a relationship belongs in the book version. And I’m already deep into the re-writes, so the Dennis mess is woven in from the get-go. Also... I’m not dropping any hints that Whiskers is pre-Funky. I think letting the audience in on Whiskers' future identity creates more confusion than comedy. Plus, it's probably not that hard to figure out, so I should let the audience/readers solve that mystery. I’m totally open to constructive feedback! Even if you're politely saying that I suck, I'll take it in stride and try to do better.
Alright. I’ve taken you very patient people on the lamest romantic journey of my life! And with that out of the way, let’s go have a drink at nasty-ass Beer Goggles next time! That's Married Mary (Part 9), which I posted several months back, before I decided to shoehorn the Dennis debacle into the story. Sorry if that creates any confusion. And thank you, as always, for being here!!!!
And here are some peer-reviewed articles debunking BLUE BALLS!!!
https://academic.oup.com/smoa/article/11/2/qfad016/7148610
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Anderson-38/publication/10707600_Tactics_of_sexual_coercion_When_men_and_women_won't_take_no_for_an_answelinks/59874c9745851560584cede8/Tactics-of-sexual-coercion-When-men-and-women-wont-take-no-for-an-answer.pdf

New Releases - Thursday 02 May

MM Romance

Kindle Unlimited

• Autopilot by Candice Evans - 60 pages - Amazon - (sci-fi erotica, unexplored planet, colleagues, rivals, friends, threatened by aliens)
• Dawson (Jasper Springs #2) by Eve Riley - 292 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, small town, firefighter x claims adjuster, fresh start, dislike to lovers)
• Fen by Barbara Elsborg - 400 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, serious illness, confrontational meeting, hurt/comfort, in it for the money, sugar daddy (?))
• HEA: Happily Ever After (After Oscar #5) by Lucy Lennox & Molly Maddox - 286 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, unlucky in love, fake dating, wedding photographer x investment company owner, pet hedgehog, final book in series (standalone but likely best read in context))
• Hot Streak by Beth Bolden - 381 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, sports (baseball), hot temper, rivals/angry, called away for work)
• House Of Cards: Porth Ewan Bay (Rebel Kings MC) by Garrett Leigh - 213 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, friends to lovers, forced proximity, hurt/comfort, 2 x broody tattoo artists, reworked & re-edited)
• Out for Blood (Cartel Wars #1) by Ashlynn Mills - 234 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, mafia/crime, rivals to lovers, bad intentions, secrets)
• Pump Fake (Red Zone #2) by Brooklyn Cate - 275 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, sports, coming out, teammates, forbidden relationship)
• Rules of Play (Chance's Harbor) by CJ Pines - 625 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, new adult, sports (soccefootball), rivals to lovers, jock/nerd, forced proximity, only one bed, sexuality exploration)
• Spellbound by You (Mage Match #2) by Fel Fern & Kara Kitt - 203 pages - Amazon - (paranormal, outcast mage x protective fox, cast out by family, homeless MC, reluctant MC)
• The Collector (Book of Sin #1) by Matthew Dante - 330 pages - Amazon - (contemporary, dark, exotic dancer x former policeman, undercover (?), protective MC)
• The Witching Woods (Relict Saga #4) by J.A. Skald - 107 pages - Amazon - (fantasy, thriller, dark, mystery, pining, forced to reveal secrets, witch in the woods, inspired by Scandinavian folk tales)

Kobo Plus

• Doc and His Shadow (Nerd Squad #2 ) by Dani Gray - 150 pages - Amazon / Kobo - (contemporary, crime, protectocharge, pink haired twink doctor hacker x Russian enforcer, size difference)
• Great Depths by Mina Hinves - 152 pages - Kobo - (sci-fi, YA, found family, post-apocalyptic, drowned Earth, survival, hurt/comfort, friends to lovers, maybe more adventure than romance)

Other Queer Romance

Kindle Unlimited

• Finding Molly Parsons (The Lost & Found Series #1) by Alyson Root - 315 pages - Amazon - (FF, contemporary, coming out/promoting sexuality, quest to find long-lost queer relative, roadtrip, found family)
• Loving Jemima by Sienna Waters - 255 pages - Amazon - (FF, contemporary, closeted MC (?), business partners, second chances (?), secrets)
• Mask of the Heart by Lauren Hart - 190 pages - Amazon - (FF, contemporary, age gap, masquerade ball, hidden identity, boss/employee)

Kobo Plus

• A Troublemaker in Her Eyes (The Troublemaker Series #3) by Genta Sebastian - 402 pages - Amazon / Kobo - (FF, historical (1969), fantasy/alt universe (?), untrusting MC, hijinks (?))
• Embers by Tiffany. E Taylor - 151 pages - Amazon - (FF, contemporary, Cinderella retelling, butch x femme, colleagues/business partners, matchmaker gay fairy godfather, no Kobo link but author's other books are available on Kplus)

Audiobooks

MM Romance

• HEA: Happily Ever After (After Oscar #5) by Lucy Lennox & Molly Maddox, narrated by Michael Dean - Audible - (contemporary, unlucky in love, fake dating, wedding photographer x investment company owner, pet hedgehog, final book in series (standalone but likely best read in context)) - 9 hrs 26 min

Queer
No new releases.

It's been a while since we've had a mod discussion, but with the removal of a number of beauty mods over the last few days it felt like a good time to revisit this topic, last discussed in the u/clofas1 hosted Mod Discussion Pt.5. There is still lots of useful information there so do have a read.
https://www.reddit.com/SkyrimModsXbox/comments/jvzxu6/mod_discussion_pt_5_pcnpc_overhauls/
Number 1 rule is the same as ever - don't be a jerk. People have different opinions on what looks good, and that's fine. With Bethesda's removal of the MorriganHellsing mods this week, people are also upset about losing mods they valued. If you didn't use them, that's ok, but do take account of people who might be frustrated that they did, and help suggest alternatives. The Skyrim community is at its best when it helps each other :)
PC/NPC overhauls is a huge topic, so this week I'll focus solely on non-beast race player characters. Next week we'll discuss beastraces. And the week after, we'll look at how to improve the look of your NPCs. I am by no means an expert, so let's make this a discussion, let me know if I've got something wrong, or if there is a better way of doing things. There's no need to read all my waffle below, you can just dive straight into the comments if you like and offer your suggestions on how best to improve the look of your PC!
For those who fancy a read, let's get into it.
Before choosing your mods, it's a good idea to have a general understanding of how appearance works in Skyrim, as there are some things that will change how your player character looks, some things that change how NPCs look, and some things that will do both.
As with all models, you are dealing with meshes, and textures. Meshes change the shape of things, while textures change how they look.
PART 1: Meshes
CHOOSE YOUR BODY
The overall body in Skyrim is made up of seperate meshes for the body, hands, feet and head, with the head itself made up of separate parts. When you're choosing a body shape, it is just the naked body (plus underwear) you are choosing. When your character puts on clothes or armour, that is a separate body, which is why (if you want to see body shape) you need to pick clothes and armour matched to the body shape you've chosen.
The underwear is baked into the body mesh. While it can be retextured, the only way to change underwear is to choose a different body.
After the vanilla body, the most popular body shape on Xbox for women is UNP. There is also UNP Blessed (also called UNPB) which is a UNP variant that, at 0 weight, is the same as UNP but at 100 weight has a larger bust. There are many of these bodies on Beth.net, you'll need to check to see whether they include textures or if it just the body mesh, and to see what kind of underwear is included. A couple of examples:

• [XB1] Dimon99 and Maevan2 Female body
• Meister's Female Body Replacer - Mesh Only (UNPB)

CBBE is the next most popular body shape. There is a slim and curvy version, and both are considerably larger in file size than the UNP/B mods. This is because body textures and clothes/armour resized to fit are included.

• Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer -CBBE- (Official) - Curvy AIO
• Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Enhancer -CBBE- (Official) - Slim AIO

Other body shapes available include TMB Enhanced (TMBE), SevenBase (7base or 7B) and its variant 7Base Oppai (7BO), Nephilim and likely some more obscure ones I am forgetting. But for any of them, to see them in game except when stripping someone down, you'll need a compatible clothing/armour.
Body shapes for men are not as popular, but include:

• Highly Improved Male Body Overhaul -HIMBO- Male Body Mesh Only
• Males of Skyrim Body - Mesh Only - zzjay
• Better Males Body - Mesh Only
• Men Underwear Replacer

CHANGE YOUR HEAD SHAPE
Heads in Skyrim are a bit more complicated than bodies. Not only is there a head mesh, but also seperate parts for eyes, brows, left and right side of face, and mouth. Along with the standard mesh, there are morphs which control expressions, others which deal with facial features (size/position of nose, lips, ears, etc) and others still which deal with the different race face shapes.
Together, all of these things make a huge difference to how the vanilla head looks. For example, the recently deleted Definitive Beauty Pack contained morphs which made it a lot more pleasing. Mods to consider in this category include:

• RAN46's female head mesh which changes the female human head
• R246 Concept XBR which has new eye, nose and mouth shapes, again for human females
• Aesthetic Elves adds new morphs for female elves, which really make a big difference
• Better Male Presets [XB1] adds some new defaults, giving you a better base to work with. If you search, there are other preset mods too such as
• rsmith7's Presets
• [XB1] Ashara Skyrim Characters as Presets
• Better Breton Presets
• Inu Atama tri
• Cerul's Head .tri Edits
• Head Tri Edit - “Elf” Ears
• Female Head .tri Test
• [XB] Elven Ears For Breton NPCs & Player
• Not So High-Poly Head

CHANGE YOUR EYE SHAPE
If wanted, you can also change eye mesh

• Improved Eye Model
• HN66 Updated Long Eyelashes SSE

CHANGE YOUR HAIR AND BEARD MESH
Again, this is completely optional. You can either change the mesh for vanilla hair (to which you can add textures), or download new hair meshes entirely. Popular options include:

• High Poly Vanilla Hair Fixed
• Vanilla Hair Remake
• Vanilla Hair Variety Plus - Salt and Wind Bundle
• KS Hairs
• Apachii Skyhair
• Beards of Power
• Blackbeerd's Beard
• Dwemer Beards

With massive hairpacks like KS and Apachii, I strongly recommend you don't download the full things. Take a look at them on nexus, find a style or a few you like, and find as small a hair pack as possible with those styles included. Unless you frequently change hair during your playthrough, it is wasted space as won't effect NPCs
PART 2: Textures
Textures come in different forms. The diffuse texture is what you see (colour, pattern, etc). Normal textures give the illusion of depth, by telling the game engine where to cast shadows and reflection. It creates the illusion of cracks and bumps without needing a mesh. Specular textures deal with how shiny or reflective an object, including skin.
There are seperate texture overlays to cover aging, simulating wrinkles, as well as tintmasks for eye/nose/forehead/cheek/chin/lip colour, dirt, tattoos, scars, etc.
Combined, they have a massive impact on how objects look, even when there is no difference in the mesh.
CHOOSE SKIN TEXTURES
Whether your mesh came with a texture or not, you can overwrite it. It's important to make sure you choose a texture that is compatible with your body shape. You also need to have the same texture for your body and head mesh, or you'll have a clear line around your neck.
Most skin mods will include everything you need (diffuse, tints, etc) but read the description to see what's included. You can overwrite skin mods with other files. So a different specular or tintmask might give a very different feel to a skin.
It will be impossible for me to cover them all (list your favourites below) but some good female skins include:

• Unslaad Pale Skin
• RUNP Textures only without body mesh
• Tempered Skins for Females (Smooth, Rugged or Weathered versions)
• Bijin Skin UNP 2k, UNP 4k, CBBE 2k, CBBE 4k
• Fair Skin UNP or CBBE
• Mature Skin UNP 2k, UNP 4k, CBBE 2k, CBBE 4k
• Fatherland: Daughters

And for men:

• Males of Skyrim (mesh and textures) Hairless 2k, 4k and other options are available if you search
• Vitruvia 1k, 2k, 2k hairy and scarred,
• Tempered Skins for Males (Smooth, Rugged or Weathered versions)
• Fatherland: Sons

If you want to, you can add a specular map such as 'UNP Wet Gloss' or 'Mature Skin Specular UNP' - which as the names suggests is the specular included in mature skin. Something like 'Mild Complexions' will add freckles and wrinkles as options, and change the aged appearances. Other mods to consider in the category:

• Wash Yo Face - Blank Dirt and Face Tint for Facegen
• MintChoco Tintmasks
• Hhaley Makeup Overhaul
• 01 Tintmasks
• Full Lip Tinmasks 4k
• Shieldmaiden Female Muscle (Heavy version)
• Shieldmaiden Muscle Slider Beastmaiden Edition 1k
• Sporty Sexy Map - Athletic muscle UNP
• Sporty Sexy Map for Mature Skin UNP

CHOOSE HAIR, BEARD, BROW TEXTURES AND COLOURS
There are a lot of hair retextures. For my money the best remains AOF, but there a number of options:

• AOF Believable Hair - I honestly think this is the best bang for your buck. Looks better than options many times the size
• Salt and Wind is very popular, and comes in a version that fixes an issue with elf hair, a 1k and 2k version
• Vanilla Hair Retexture 3.1
• Vanilla Hair Retexture by svK42
• Superior Lore Friendly Hair in both saturated and desaturated versions
• Improved Short Hair
• Beards [XB1]
• Beards by DDSworkshop in 2k/1k and 1k/512 versions
• Brows [XB1]
• Kalilies Brows
• True Brows
• SG Brows Reworked for Vanilla Heads

You can also expand or modify the colour range with mods, which work alongside not overwriting hair textures:

• Skyrim Vanity Kit
• Mysti's Tincture - Immersive Hair Colors for Skyrim
• Tempers "Kissable" Colors Ultra Pack
• Natural Hair Colours
• Mild Hair Colours
• Hallgarths Additional Vanilla Hair SE
• Extra Hair Colors for Vanilla Races
• Cut Content Restoration - Beards and Hairstyles

CHOOSE EYE TEXTURES
There are so many to choose from here, both with options that will replace the vanilla eyes, and those that will add to them. Again, impossible to list them all, but popular choices include:

• The Eyes of Beauty - replacer 512, replacer 1k, standalone 512, standalone 1k, or AiO
• Authentic Eyes
• Fia's Eyes - replacer or full versions
• Runic Eyes
• Natural Eyes
• Feral Eyes - Beast Eyes for Humanoid Races
• BnP Eyes Overhaul - replacer or addon

CHOOSE MOUTH & TEETH TEXTURES
Completely optional this one, but there are some good ones if you want a change:

• CC's Immersive Mouth and Teeth SSE
• BBG Mouth & Teeth Retexture
• A Dentist for Orsimers
• The Teeth of Skyrim SSE (a pack of some of the above)

CHARACTER PACKS
Some packs will also combine or change many things of the above. Examples include:

• Yvonne Assests - New Eyes, Brows, and Hair
• Xenius Character Expansion Complete (Dirt, Scar and Warpaint additions)
• Xenius Character Enhancement (Eyes, Scars, Lips, Warpaint, Faces, Body, Hands Head, Brows)
• Extended Character Creation Options
• [XB1] Character Editor - All In One Vanilla Customization Pack

ALTERNATIVELY CHOOSE A MOD BUNDLE
All of that can seem overwhelming, but you don't have to do it all. There are a number of beauty bundles that have combined some or all of the above, to give you a body mesh, skins, head mesh changes, eyes, teeth, etc. And you can use these as a base and overwrite or add to them. Popular examples include:

• Bella Beauty Bundle by basspainter
• My Beauty Bundle by CelticJudo
• Simple Character Makeover Bundle /
• Simple Character Makeover Bundle Lite by Mandoo6435
• Simple Character Retexture Bundle - Males of Skyrim, Lucid Skin, Natural Eyes, Salt and Wind /
• Simple Character Retexture Bundle - Vitruvia, Lucid, Natural Eyes, Salt and Wind by Mandoo6435
• Jarl's Complete Character Overhaul Lite

If you read the descriptions, you'll see a lot of the individual mods mentioned above mixed and matched to different degrees, but they'll give you a really solid base to work off. There are also some bundles that cover beast races too, which we'll discuss next week.
Hope that's been helpful. Please let me know if you think there's anything I've missed, and would love to hear your various beauty builds (both those that try to minimise size and those that go all in) in the comments below.

I really want to get a tattoo of my dog Lucy stretching in the style of the other tattoo and I'd really appreciate some help in visualizing what that would look like. I'm not sure if converting it into tattoo friendly lineart would take away from her lovable quality in the pic
Thank you in advance to anyone who might be interested in helping out!

Hey! Want to chat a bit and meet up soon?
Here’s me: https://imgur.com/gallery/zxF6lUe
Here’s a pic of my dog: https://imgur.com/gallery/LgdaAbL
I day dream all the time. I think life is pretty much open to however you want to mold it. I believe in being good to people without anything in return. My dream life is about the simple things - love, joy, and lottsss of laughter 😆
I’m easy going yet ambitious, open minded yet opinionated. I like to talk about all sorts of things without judgment. I love the outdoors. Proud homeowner (so I’m not quite willing to relocate far out of the Bay Area). That’s my dog Lucy, she’s 6. Looking for someone to share this life with and add to each other’s.
My favorite sports to watch are basketball and football. I’m into the stock market, like I can really geek out about it. 420 friendly, 5’8”. I have arm tattoos. I’m spiritual and celebrate my Jewish heritage, but I’m not religious.
Ideally looking for “my person” but I go with the flow of life.
Thanks for reading and hope to chat! Please share a little bit about you 🙏
Edit, a few more details about me: -CPA -family immigrated from Israel, I’m first generation American (I speak Hebrew too) -UCLA undergrad (go bruins!)

-I’ve been through challenges and successes, some of both kinda unreal. Hoping to meet someone who is open minded about life experiences of all kinds

Movies -Brad pitt -1.Inglourious basterds -2.Bullet Train -3.Babel -4.Sleepers -5.12 Monkeys -6.Seven -7.Fight Club -8.Once upon a time in Hollywood -9.Ocean's eleven -10.The curious case of Benjamin button -11.Seven years in Tibet -12.The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford -13.Fury -14.Moneyball -15.Mr and Mrs Smith
Thrillers 16.Heat 17.Shutter Island 18.Mystic River 19.Drive 20.The place beyond the pines 21.Primal Fear 22.Zodiac 23.Nightcrawler 24.The machinist 25.The Green Mile 26.Parasite 27.American History X 28.Django Unchained 29.Tesis 30.Peeping Tom 31.A clockwork Orange 32.Taxi driver 33.The Truman show 34.Prisoners 35.Gone Girl 36.The exorcist 37.The woman in the window 38.Mother! 39.Cape fear 40.Donnie Darko 41.The girl with the dragon tattoo 42.Hereditary 43.Jacob's Ladder
-Christopher Nolan 44.Prestige 45.Memento 46.Inception 47.The dark knight
-Thomas Harris adaptations 48.Red Dragon 49.Hannibal 50.The Silence of the lambs 51.Hannibal rising
-F'd Up 52.8mm 53.Requiem for a dream(personal favourite) 54.Lolita 55. 56.Nocturnal Animals(personal favourite,very relatable) 57.Come and See
-Goofy Ah 58.V/H/S 59.V/H/S 2 60.V/H/S 85 61.V/H/S 94 62.V/H/S 99 63.Hell house LLC 64.Paranormal Activity 65.Southpaw 66.The Poughkeepsie Tapes 67.Insidious
Pleasing 68.The talented Mr Ripley 69.Pulp fiction 70.The Blair witch project 71.The Call 72.The Game 73.Orphan 74.Lucy 75.The matrix 76.Titanic 77.Blood diamond
-Animation(western) 78.Jack and cuckoo-clock heart 79.Ballerina 80.Monster house 81.Zootopia 82.Ratatouille 83.Finding Nemo 84.Toy Story 1,2,3 85.Hotel Transylvania 1,2,3 86.Kungfu panda 1,2,3 87.Despicable Me 88.Cars 1,2,3 89.Free birds 90.Angry Birds 1,2 91.Ice age (all parts) 92.Coco 93.Beauty and the beast(1991) 94.Minions 95.Madagascar 96.Smallfoot
-Recent's 97.12 Angry Men 98.Phonebooth 99.A beautiful mind 100.Insomnia 101.Full metal jacket 102.Split 103.we need to talk about kevin 104.The butterfly effect 105.The shining 106.Oldboy 107.Grave encounters 108.Funny games 109.Southbound 110.Rec 111.V/H/S Viral 112.Reservoir dogs 113.Falling down 114.ABC's of death 115.Pusher II 116.Guilty 117.The cure 118.Memories of murder 119.Martyrs 120.No country for old men 121.I saw the devil 122.Deliverance

I apologize in advance, for this post being super long. It's impossible to understand the context without knowing my life story, since family & friends have a huge part in my life.
Chapter 1: Early Life (1996 - 2018)
I'm pansexual, closeted & 27 years old. I was outed publicly a few times as a teenager, and my family had already found out when I was 8 years old (more on that later). I was furious, but my family was relentless with their homophobia & transphobia. It all started when a stepcousin assumed I was gay when I was 8 years old (the truth is, I didn't know what gay and trans and bi was back then - it was 2004, when - growing up in NJ - the only gay person I heard about was Governor McGreevey, but I only found out about him a few years later, and by then, I was 12 years old & McGreevey seemed like a figment of my imagination). All my cousins started to bully me multiple times a week after that, and they'd blurt out that I was gay during church (I also grew up in a Conservative Christian family - 20 years later, they're 10 times more Conservative than they were back then, which is why I hate them, but I put on a fake smile & pretend that I like them, when I'm around them; I'm still confused as to why I got Cs and Ds in drama class). I'd always say I was straight, but they just kept bullying me over and over again, for the next 5 years (and by that time, at 13, I was "the gay kid" in town - everyone knew me by my name and face, which are both distinctive for personal reasons), until I moved to the next town over.
I'd go as far as to say that I'm masculine myself, because of my family conditioning us to think that toxic masculinity is the only way for my family to accept me (basically, the only reason they - and most of my straight friends - accept me is because I'm a masculine LGBT man, since my family grew up in the '60s and '70s, when the only black gay person on TV was..... nobody. My grandfather watched Westerns on TV his whole life, so when my mom got older, she also became a homophobe & I've never been feminine, but it still doesn't stop my family from saying I'm fem to taunt me. Basically, if I had to translate - Somebody who'd fit right in, in my family, is Andrew & Tristan Tate - their toxic masculinity is exactly the same beliefs that I was raised on. No wonder I'm a vers top then? I didn't think about all the toxic masculine conditioning I went through (I grew up in the 2000s - I was born in '96) until typing all this today....... How did I survive all those years? I still don't understand it.
Long story short, the bullying kept continuing until my high school graduation at 17 (in 2014). I later came out to my mom in 2018 - biggest mistake of my life (I was 22 by then, and looking back, coming out to anybody is something I should not have done). My family and friends at that time, were all homophobic. Most of them still are. I cut off most of them, except my mom (I moved out 4 months ago, but when she visits, I don't talk about "your sexuality", as she calls it).
Sidebar #1 - Growing up, my half-siblings were (what I call) "absentee siblings". I always wanted a relationship with them, but they've never been present in my life. I was raised as an only child (I have 6 siblings, 2 of which are deceased, but the rest live between Bermuda - where my dad, a Pisces born in '55, was from - and the US). My mom neglected me growing up, and my dad was the active parent (but my family never liked my dad, so they continue to dismiss his extremely important role in shaping who I am today - they say my abusive mother taught me everything, while my family shuns my dad, unfairly and brutally - which is just disrespectful. My dad was the best father - which I didn't know actually, because my mom routinely lied about him being abusive toward me my whole childhood - and to this day, when I say anything nice about my dad, she snaps at me, "You're delusional!" My mom has a few personality disorders, so her mood swings no longer shock me. I wanted to add that, because my dynamic with my parents & my mom's abuse toward me still impacts me to this day).
Sidebar 2 - My dad died when I was 14 years old, in 2010. Due to everything discussed in Sidebar #1, television was my parent from around 6 years old until my high school graduation at 17. I was a latchkey kid after age 11, since my grandma pretty much raised me until she died when I was 11 (me, my parents and my grandma all lived together; after my grandma died in '08, it was just my parents and I, until my parents separated in 2010. My mom and I moved out of town, and my dad stayed at my grandma's house, which is where he died in 2010. My cousin's ex-boyfriend basically committed malpractice toward my dad, but he refuses to be held accountable for my dad's death, to this day). TV was my parent through all this. I knew I was LGBT at 13, when I watched gay porn for the first time. But long before that, I'd "have lots of good times", if you will, fantasizing about Ashton Kutcher, Ricky Martin (my 1st celebrity crush, way back in 2001 & still is, to this day), Desi Arnaz (aka Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy - my 2nd celebrity crush, way back in 2005 & still is, to this day - by the way, the line "Lucy! You don't like when we.... vibrate?" drove me wild back in the day. Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz are my idols & personal role models, so I'm not shocked at Desi happening to be attractive on top of being ahead of his time & an iconic trailblazer in TV history.
My type as a kid (before I discovered str8 porn at 10 & gay porn at 13, so before 2009) was Ricky Martin, Desi Arnaz, Eminem, Justin Timberlake (my mom once walked in on me.... "having a good time" to that Justin Timberlake photo of him shirtless in the back seat of a car in denim jeans. To say I was embarrassed is a huge understatement.), Ashton Kutcher (before he went off the rails), Chris Evans and Jason Biggs (American Pie; why wouldn't I be turned on by them? - that is all), Ike Barinholtz (I discovered Ike as K-Fed on MadTV - I also "had lots of good times" to Ike back in the day, and my crush on him died a few years ago, when I discovered his bearded twink death stole his attractive qualities from me), Drake Bell (Drake was also a huge celebrity crush of mine, which I actually forgot until recently), all 3 Jonas Brothers (as a 27 year old, I only find Kevin and Joe appealing - my crush on Nick died 4 or 5 years ago, and I don't know why), all of N'Sync and Backstreet (before the year 2002 - twink JT, twink Lance Bass, Aaron Carter pre-tattoos, and so many more are still my everything), Chace Crawford, and - on the Old Hollywood front - when I was 8 years old, watching Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy, when he was shirtless walking down the stairs, really made me swoon. But they're just a few examples of the many men that I still model my physical type after, to this day.
I've made many mistakes dating wise - From 18 to 24, I once dated my now ex-boyfriend, a hoodlum gang member from New York City.
In 2016, Hoodlum (as I'll be calling him) posted revenge porn of me on Facebook (this is how I came out to my family; they'd suspected I was LGBT until the revenge porn confirmed it). My entire family found out, and they've victim shamed me ever since (they think that I posted it). Hoodlum, who was already serving prison time, told me later that he served an additional 3 months in prison because of the revenge porn. And he didn't admit to posting the RP at the time, but he only admitted to it in 2020, shortly after our breakup (and I forced him to tell my mom that he did it, because of how much I still hate her, for how badly she cursed me out about the RP incident. To this day, when I mention Hoodlum's name or anything about his life, she rolls her eyes at me, like a child. My mom is 61 years old.)
My family refers to this ex-boyfriend as "the crazy Puerto Rican", and one of my relatives (Trigger warning: My whole family is racist) said to me, "Puerto Ricans don't f*** with black people." Well, I dated 3 Latin men after him, and..... Other mistakes include letting my family tell me (Trigger warning: Misogyny & Femphobia from my family), "Please do not date a flamboyant homosexual." (Keep in mind, the cousin who told me this is 54 years old, and a gang affiliated career criminal - yes, my mom and I are the only people in the family who never got into the street life and pretty much I turned my life around. My mom, however..... she's also a hardcore homophobe/misogynist/transphobe/racist. My mom's from Georgia and grew up in New Jersey, so when she makes homophobic, transphobic, racist and basically Republican remarks, I'm very quick to snap at her, "You sound like Jefferson Davis!" but.... my mom's past is totally irrelevant to the story, for personal reasons). For context, my mom is so delusional that she told me, "I commend Trump for building The Wall." My mom is a black woman; the delusion is 3,000%!!!!!! I want to donate her brain for scientific examination when she dies, so somebody can see the high levels of Conservative Cray Cray that she fails to see about herself.
But as I said, my family's homophobia & transphobia are a different conversation.
Chapter 2: Later Life (2018 - Present)
Basically, I came out to my mom and cousin (the same cousin who made the "flamboyant homosexual" comment) at 22, moved out at 27. What led to me moving out was I was a victim of domestic violence toward me 3 times, and 5 days after the third incident, I started to visualize me living at home at 80 years old, and I didn't want my life to turn out that way. So in December 2023, I moved out & am doing much better. The only bad thing is, I've been unemployed since I moved out. I get government assistance (my mom basically Britney Spears'ed me to get that check every month) and she uses it to pay my rent here.
Positive: I have my own apartment (my mom - who's always been overprotective and controlling my whole life - pays my rent, since I got approved for an apartment in Nebraska, and she refuses to allow me to move to NE; but that's a different conversation).
Negative: I have decent work history, but the only jobs that will hire me are sales jobs (I've worked in a few industries before, but only sales seems to seek me out the most - and I resent this a lot).
Side note about my type - From 2018 until last year, I was polyamorous. When I fell in love with my boyfriend, I decided to be fully monogamous as my way of committing to him. However, last month (March '24), I started having sleepless nights, and have had them for the last 4 weeks - and still do, in fact - as well as started having dreams about 2 celebrities I have crushes on for these last 4 weeks (it's.... interesting & I just had a dream about celeb #2 last night). Last week, I realized the reason all that's been happening to me is because I regretted monogamy. This is a totally different topic (obviously), but I don't even know how to bring up polyamory to my boyfriend. He's my soulmate, and I'm terrified of his reaction.
So hopefully, it's easy to understand why coming out is my biggest regret in life. However, I'm in a happy, 1 year relationship now and my boyfriend is 27 like me. I'm black, he's Asian, and he's actually moving from Hong Kong to the US to be with me. And my lifelong dream has always been to be a father, and to get married. I hope my boyfriend also wants to start a family with me, since my life truly feels complete on the romance side; however, in terms of cutting people out my life, I still have a lot more work to do.

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Elysium (2013) & District 9 (2009) (MA/HD) $7.25
Elysium (2013) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $3
Emoji Movie (2017) (MA/HD) $2.25
Empire Records (1995) (MA/HD) $5.75
Enough Said (2013) (MA/HD) $3
Equalizer 2 (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $4
Escape from L.A (1996) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5.50
Escape from Planet Earth (2013) (Vudu/HD) $4.50
Eternals (2021) (MA/4K) $6.75 (MA/HD) $4.25 (GP/HD) $2.75
Everest (2015) (MA/4K) $6 (MA/HD) $3 (iTunes/4K) $4
Extreme Prejudice (1987) (Vudu/HD) $5
F9: The Fast Saga + Director's Cut (2021) (MA/4K) $6.75 (MA/HD) $4.75
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) (MA/HD) $5.50
Fatherhood (2021) (MA/HD) $3.50
Fences (2016) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $1.75
Ferdinand (2017) (MA/HD) $3.25
Fifth Element (1997) (MA/HD) $5.50
Fifty Shades of Grey + Unrated (2015) (MA/4K) $5.25 Unrated (MA/4K) $4.75
Finding Nemo (2003) (MA/4K) $6.75 (iTunes/4K) $5.25 (GP/HD) $3
Finest Hours, The (2016) (MA/HD) $6.25 (GP/HD) $3.75
First Man (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $4
Footloose (2011) (Vudu/HD) $5 (iTunes/HD) $3.50
Ford v Ferrari (2019) (MA/HD) $4.50
Forrest Gump (1994) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $5.50
Foxcatcher (2014) (MA/HD) $3.75
Frankenstein (1931) (MA/4K) $6.25
French Dispatch (2021) (MA/HD) $4.75 (GP/HD) $3.50
Fright Night (1985) (MA/4K) $5.75
Frozen (2013) (MA/4K) $5.50 (MA/HD) $3.50 (GP/HD) $1.50
Frozen 2 (2019) (MA/4K) $4.50 (MA/HD) $4 (GP/HD) $1.75
Future World (2018) (Vudu/HD) $4
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $3.75
Gamer (2009) (Vudu/4K) $6.25 (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5.50
Gangs of New York (2002) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5.25
Gate, The (1987) (Vudu/SD) $4
Gattaca (1997) (MA/4K) $6.25
Gemini Man (2019) (Vudu/4K) $5.25 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.25
Get Out (2017) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $3.50
Ghost In The Shell (2017) (Vudu/4K) $6.25 (Vudu/HD) $2.25 (iTunes/4K) $2.75
Ghostbusters (1984) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $3.50
Ghostbusters + Extended (2016) (MA/HD) $2.50
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) (MA/HD) $3.50
Gifted (2017) (MA/HD) $4.50
Girl In The Spider's Web (2018) (MA/HD) $4
Girl with All the Gifts, The (2016) (Vudu/HD) $5
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) (MA/HD) $6
Girls Trip (2017) (MA/HD) $1.50 (iTunes/HD) $1
Gladiator (2000) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $5
Glass (2019) (MA/HD) $4.50
Godfather Part II (1974) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $6.50
Gone Girl (2014) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $5.50
Goonies (1985) (MA/4K) $6.50
Goosebumps (2015) (MA/HD) $4.75
Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) (MA/HD) $3.75
Green Knight (2021) (Vudu/4K) $5.25
Grey, The (2012) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3.50
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) (MA/4K) $7.25 (iTunes/4K) $4.75 (MA/HD) $4 (GP/HD) $1.75
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) (MA/HD) $4.25 (GP/HD) $1.25
Guilt Trip (2012) (Vudu/HD) $3.50 (iTunes/HD) $1.75
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) (Vudu/4K) $4.25 (iTunes/4K) $3.50 (Vudu/HD) $2.25
Half Brothers (2020) (MA/HD) $5.75
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Resurrection (2002) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $10.50
Halloween Kills (2021) (MA/4K) $6 (MA/HD) $4
Hands of Stone (2016) (Vudu/HD) $3.50
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Happy Death Day (2017) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $5.50
Hateful Eight (2015) (Vudu/HD) $2
Haunting in Connecticut (2009) (Vudu/HD) $6.25
Heat: Director's Definitive Edition (1995) (MA/4K) $5.75 (MA/HD) $4.75
Hellboy (2019) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $4.25
Hercules (1997) (MA/HD) $6.50
Hereditary (2018) (Vudu/HD) $3.50
Hidden Figures (2016) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2
Highlander (1986) (Vudu/4K) $4.50
Hitman (Unrated) (2007) (MA/HD) $6
Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) (Vudu/4K) $6 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4.25
Hocus Pocus (1993) (MA/4K) $6.75 (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $4.75 (GP/HD) $2.25
Holmes And Watson (2018) (MA/HD) $3.50
Home Alone (1990) (MA/HD) $3.75
Hop (2011) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3
Hotel Mumbai (2019) (MA/HD) $4.25
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) (MA/4K) $6.75 (MA/HD) $5
House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) (MA/4K) $5.50 (MA/HD) $3.50
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) (MA/HD) $2
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) (MA/4K) $6.25 (MA/HD) $3.75
Hugo (2011) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3.50
Hulk, The (2003) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $6
Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) (MA/HD) $6.50 (GP/HD) $5
Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002) (MA/HD) $6.50 (GP/HD) $5
Hunter Killer (2018) (Vudu/4K) $5.25 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $3
Huntsman: Winter's War - Extended Edition (2016) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.75
Hurricane Heist (2018) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/4K) $3.50
I, Tonya (2017) (MA/HD) $5
Ice Age (2002) (MA/HD) $4.25
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) (MA/HD) $4.25
Identity Thief (2013) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $3.50
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) (MA/HD) $5.25
Impossible, The (2013) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.75
Incredibles 2 (2018) (MA/4K) $6.25 (iTunes/4K) $4.50 (GP/HD) $2
Independence Day: Resurgence (2014) (iTunes/4K) $2 (MA/HD) $1.50
Indivisible (2018) (MA/HD) $5
Infinite (2021) (Vudu/4K) $5.50 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4.50
Inside Out (2015) (MA/4K) $5.75 (iTunes/4K) $4.25 (GP/HD) $1.50
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) (MA/HD) $6.50
Insidious: The Last Key (2018) (MA/HD) $5.50
Insidious: The Red Door (2023) (MA/HD) $5.25
Instant Family (2018) (Vudu/HD) $2 (iTunes/4K) $1.50
Insurgent (2015) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $4 (Vudu/HD) $3.50
Interstellar (2014) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5.75 (Vudu/HD) $3.75
Invisible Man (2020) (MA/4K) $6.25 (MA/HD) $3.75
Iron Man (2008) (MA/4K) $7.25 (iTunes/4K) $7 (GP/HD) $3
Iron Man 2 (2010) (MA/4K) $7.25 (iTunes/4K) $6.50 (GP/HD) $3
Iron Man 3 (2013) (iTunes/4K) $3 (MA/HD) $2.25 (GP/HD) $1.50
Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United (2013) (MA/HD) $5.25 (GP/HD) $4.25
Irresistible (2020) (MA/HD) $5.25
It Comes at Night (2017) (Vudu/HD) $5.50
It Follows (2015) (Vudu/HD) $4.25
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (Vudu/4K) $5 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4.50
Jack and Jill (2011) (MA/HD) $3.50
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) (Vudu/4K) $5.25 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.75
Jackie (2016) (MA/HD) (iTunes/4K) $4
Jason Bourne (2016) (MA/4K) $5.25 (iTunes/4K) $3.50 (MA/HD) $3
Jason X (2001) (MA/HD) $6
Jaws (1975) (MA/4K) $5.75 (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $4.50
Jay & Silent Bob Reboot (2019) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5.50
Jesus Music, The (2021) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.50
Joe (2014) (Vudu/HD) $5
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $4
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) (MA/HD) $5.25
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017) (MA/4K) $5 (MA/HD) $2 (MA/SD) $1
Jungle Cruise (2021) (MA/4K) $5.50 (MA/HD) $3.75 (GP/HD) $3
Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997) (MA/4K) $6.50 (iTunes/4K) $3.50 (MA/HD) $2.75
Kandahar (2023) (MA/4K) $7
Karate Kid (1984) (MA/4K) $6.50
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3.50
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016) (MA/HD) $3.50
Kick-Ass (2010) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5.25
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) (MA/HD) $5.25 (iTunes/HD) $5
Kicks (2016) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $4.50
Kid Who Would Be King (2019) (MA/HD) $4.50
Kid, The (2019) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $4.75
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) (Vudu/HD) $6.75
Killing Kennedy (2013) (MA/HD) $6
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) (MA/4K) $7
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.75
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $4.25
Knives Out (2019) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5
Knocked Up (Unrated) (2007) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5.50
L.A. Confidential (1997) (MA/HD) $5.75
Labor Day (2013) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.50
Last Duel, The (2021) (MA/HD) $5.25 (GP/HD) $4
Last Night in Soho (2021) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $5.25
Last Word (2017) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $4.75
Lawrence of Arabia (Restored Version) (1962) (MA/HD) $5
Leap! (2017) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3.25
Les Miserables (2012) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.75
Life of Pi (2012) (MA/HD) $2.50
Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (1998) (MA/HD) $6.25
Little Mermaid (1989) (MA/4K) $7 (iTunes/4K) $5 (GP/HD) $3.25
Little Mermaid III: Ariel’s Beginning (2008) (MA/HD) $6.50 (GP/HD) $5
Logan (2017) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.50
Lone Survivor (2013) (MA/4K) $6.25 (iTunes/4K) $2 (MA/HD) $1.50
Long Shot (2019) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/4K) $4.25
Longest Ride (2015) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $1.25
Looper (2012) (MA/4K) $5.25 (MA/HD) $2.75
Lords of Salem, The (2012) (Vudu/HD) $4.75
Lucy (2014) (MA/HD) $2
Ma (2019) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $5
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) (MA/HD) $2
Maleficent (2014) (MA/4K) $5.50 (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $3 (GP/HD) $1.25
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) (MA/4K) $6 (iTunes/4K) $3.75 (GP/HD) $3.25
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50
Man on a Ledge (2012) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $6.25
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) (MA/HD) $6.50
Marksman, The (2021) (MA/HD) $5
Martian (Theatrical) (2015) (MA/4K) $7 (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $3
Maze Runner (2014) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $5.25
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) (MA/HD) $5.50
McFarland, USA (2015) (MA/HD) $6 (GP/HD) $4.50
Megan Leavey (2017) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $1.75
MIB: International (2019) (MA/4K) $5.50 (MA/HD) $4.50
Midsommar (2019) (Vudu/HD) $5.50
Midway (2019) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $3.75
Mile 22 (2018) (iTunes/4K) $1.75
Mile 22 (2018) (Vudu/4K) $7
Million Dollar Arm (2014) (MA/HD) $4 (GP/HD) $3
Minions (2015) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.50
Missing Link (2019) (MA/HD) $5
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/4K) $7
Mission: Impossible Fallout (2018) (Vudu/4K) $2.75 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.50
Moana (2016) (MA/4K) $7 (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $4.50 (GP/HD) $1.75
Monster Trucks (2016) (Vudu/HD) $2.25
Monster's Ball (2001) (Vudu/HD) $6
Monsters University (2013) (MA/4K) $6.75 (iTunes/4K) $5.75 (GP/HD) $3.50
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) (MA/4K) $6.75
Moonlight (2016) (Vudu/HD) $3.75
Mortal Engines (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $3.50
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2014) (MA/HD) $3.25
Mother! (2017) (Vudu/HD) $3.25
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) (MA/HD) $3.50
Mulan (1998) (MA/4K) $6.75 (MA/HD) $5 (GP/HD) $3
Mummy (1999), Returns (2001), Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Scorpion King (2002), Mummy (2017) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $22
Mummy, The (2017) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.75
Muppets Most Wanted (2014) (MA/HD) $5.75 (GP/HD) $4.25
Murder on The Orient Express (2017) (MA/HD) $2.50
My Dinner with Herve (2018) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.50 (GP/HD) $3
My Fair Lady (1964) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $5.50
Nebraska (2013) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.25
Never Grow Old (2019) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.50
Night House, The (2021) (MA/HD) $5 (GP/HD) $3
Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (MA/HD) $6 (GP/HD) $3.50
No Country For Old Men (2007) (Vudu/HD) $5.50
No Hard Feelings (2023) (MA/HD) $5.50
No Time to Die (2021) (iTunes/4K) $3.50
Non-Stop (2014) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.75
Norm of the North (2016) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.75
Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) (MA/4K) $5.75 (MA/HD) $3
Oblivion (2013) (MA/4K) $7 (iTunes/4K) $3.50 (MA/HD) $2
Office Christmas Party (2016) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.25
Old (2021) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $4.25
Oliver! (1968) (MA/4K) $6.50
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) (MA/HD) $5
Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (2019) (MA/4K) $6.75 (MA/HD) $4.25
One Direction: This is Us + Extended Fan Edition (2013) (MA/HD) $3.25
Onward (2020) (MA/4K) $5.25 (MA/HD) $3.75 (GP/HD) $2
Ouija (2014) & Origin of Evil (2016) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $8
Ouija (2014) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Overboard (2016) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5.50
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) (MA/HD) $2 (GP/HD) $1
Pain & Gain (2013) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3
Paper Towns (2011) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $4.25
ParaNorman (2012) (iTunes/HD) $5
Parasite (2019) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $4.50
Paterno (2018) (iTunes/HD) $4.25 (GP/HD) $2.75
Patriot Games (1992) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5
Paul (2011) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $4.25
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) (MA/HD) $3.75
Peppermint (2018) (iTunes/HD) $2
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) (MA/HD) $6.75
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) (MA/HD) $2.25
Perfect Guy (2015) (MA/HD) $3.50
Pet Sematary (1989) (Vudu/4K) $5.50 (iTunes/4K) $4 (Vudu/HD) $3.75
Pet Sematary (2019) (Vudu/4K) $4 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.50
Peter Rabbit 2 (2021) (MA/HD) $4
Philadelphia (1993) (MA/4K) $8
Pinocchio (1940) (MA/HD) $5.50 (GP/HD) $3.75
Pitch Perfect (2012) (MA/HD) $2.50 (iTunes/4K) $3.50
Pixar Short Films Collection, Vol. 3 (2018) (MA/HD) $5.25 (GP/HD) $3.25
Planes (2013) (MA/HD) $2.25 (GP/HD) $1.25
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) (MA/HD) $5.50 (GP/HD) $3.25
Poltergeist (Extended Cut) (2015) (MA/HD) $5
Pompeii (2014) (MA/HD) $3.25
Poms (2019) (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Pretty in Pink (1986) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4.50
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) (MA/HD) $6
Princess and the Frog (2009) (MA/4K) $7 (iTunes/4K) $5.50 (GP/HD) $3.25
Prodigy (2019) (Vudu/HD) $5
Prometheus (2012) (MA/HD) $1.75
Public Enemies (2009) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $6.25
Pulp Fiction (1994) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5.25 (Vudu/HD) $4
Purge, The (2013) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.75
Purge: Anarchy (2014) (MA/4K) $5.50 (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $4.25
Puss in Boots (2011) & The Last Wish (2022) (MA/HD) $10.50
Quantum of Solace (2008) (Vudu/HD) $5.75
R.I.P.D. (2013) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3
Raid Collection 1-2 (MA/HD) $11.50
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) (MA/4K) $5 (MA/HD) $4.25 (GP/HD) $1.50
Rambo Last Blood (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $2.75
Rampage (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50
Ready or Not (2019) (MA/HD) $6.50
Rear Window (1954) (MA/HD) $5
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) (MA/4K) $7
Red Sparrow (2018) (MA/HD) $4
Red Violin, The (1998) (Vudu/HD) $5
Replicas (2019) (Vudu/4K) $5.25
Rescuers Down Under (1990) (MA/HD) $5.75 (GP/HD) $4
Rescuers, The (1977) (MA/HD) $5.75 (GP/HD) $4
Reservoir Dogs (1992) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) (MA/HD) $2.25
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $3
Ricki And The Flash (2015) (MA/HD) $4.50
Ride Along 1-2 (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5 $2.75 Each
Rio 2 (2014) (MA/HD) $2
Rise of the Guardians (2012) (MA/HD) $3
Risen (2016) (MA/HD) $4.50
Robin Hood (2010) (MA/4K) $6
Robin Hood (2018) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $3
Robin Hood (Animated) (1973) (MA/HD) $3.75 (GP/HD) $2.75
Rocketman (2019) (Vudu/4K) $4.25 (iTunes/4K) $2.50 (Vudu/HD) $2.25
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (MA/HD) $5.25
Ron's Gone Wrong (2021) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $5.25 (GP/HD) $3.50
Room (2015) (Vudu/HD) $4.25
Rush (2013) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $3.25
Safe House (2012) (MA/HD) $3.50 (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Same Kind of Different as Me (2017) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2
Sausage Party (2016) (MA/HD) $4.75
Saw (2004) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5.25
Scarface (1983) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $5
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $3
Schindler's List (1993) (MA/HD) $4.50
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) (iTunes/HD) $2.75
Scream 5 (2022) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $5.25
Scream 6 (2023) (Vudu/4K) $7 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $6.50
Second Act (2018) (iTunes/HD) $1.50
Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) (MA/4K) $6.25 (MA/HD) $5.25
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $4.50
Sex Tape (2014) (MA/HD) $3
Shack (2017) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $1.50
Shallows, The (2016) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD $3.50
Shang-Chi (2021) (MA/4K) $6 (MA/HD) $4.75 (GP/HD) $2.75
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) (Vudu/HD) $3.75
Sherlock Gnomes (2018) (iTunes/4K) $2.25
Shrek (2001), Madagascar (2005), Home (2015), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2003), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Croods (2013), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Boss Baby (2017), Abominable (2019), Trolls (2016) (MA/HD) $16
Sideways (2004) (MA/HD) $5.75
Sing (2016) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.50
Sisters (Unrated) (2015) (MA/HD) $4 (iTunes/HD) $3.25
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Walk with me through this — a headline on my FYP for a Fresh Air interview with St. Vincent caught my attention:
"The songwriter, guitarist and singer known as St. Vincent didn't exactly name herself after a saint. Instead, she took her stage name from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where the poet Dylan Thomas died."
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246593330/st-vincent-all-born-screaming?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2_J9Pv6psMFuPqI2xjJCMm-Xl2zApQwYkULOgFw_T5dd2MWM-dH3BWJg4_aem_AeKNLVlEA5no1w_LIlcHgHe1T_-7xakI8uu7jn8oo6kJ4w1HraVbAlm4Bx2UzOltGIzNMpvI3jIb7gJJzlWdZ1vt
Dylan Thomas lyrics, The Tortured Poet's Department
I laughed in your face and said You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith This ain't the Chelsea Hotel, we're modern idiots And who's gonna hold you like me? No-fucking-body, nobody (who's gonna hold you, who's gonna hold you?) (Who's gonna hold you, gonna know you, won't control you?) NobodySometimes I wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me But you told Lucy you'd k!ll yourself if I ever leave And I had said that to Jack about you so I felt seen Everyone we know understands why it's meant to be
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If you're not familiar, St. Vincent (Annie Clark) collabs with Taylor and co-wrote Cruel Summer.
Though not "out" she's also not "in" and openly dates famous women. She has allegedly said (a decade ago) "When asked during a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone whether she identified as gay or straight, Clark responded: "I don't think about those words. I believe in gender fluidity and sexual fluidity. I don't really identify as anything."
Headlines: "Vincent's Annie Clark, it probably reminds you of her ex-girlfriend, British supermodel Cara Delevingne." https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/cara-delevingne-st-vincent-breakup
"KRISTEN STEWART AND ST. VINCENT MAKE THEIR FIRST OFFICIAL APPEARANCE AS A COUPLE. They were the epitome of an It couple front row at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund show in LA" https://graziamagazine.com/articles/kristen-stewart-st-vincent-official-couple/
And a quote from an early interview with Lucy Dacus who comments on being a fan of St. Vincent
What were shows you saw there that were meaningful to you? ... And St. Vincent. Her power is immense. A singesongwriter in like a heavy band that verges on punk rock. But she has a sweet, beautiful voice. I’ve felt I have a really quiet voice, but she was just capable of exuding power without sacrificing beauty.
Boy Genius shared a producer who has worked with St. Vincent https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/boygenius-music-producer-catherine-marks-interview-1235680463/
And the one where Lucy Dacus said "i bet she fucks" in a convo about whether St. Vincent is a "top or bottom" from earlier this year. https://twitter.com/newcareerinsad/status/1757887625443074542
So idk — probably not, but also? It shows there are more references out there and available to make connections with other prolific poets and artists other than MATTY HEALY.
Dylan Thomas is both a VERY specific reference ... but also a bit of an English 101 reference, yet St. Vincent has a stronger connection to Dylan Thomas than, say ... Healy appears to (at least on the surface.)
And Annie strikes me as very much "Patti Smith," even if she's not, in fact, Dylan Thomas.
Only part that doesn't fit is that St Vincent has very publicly said "nope never not me" to tattoos.
At minimum, I wonder if this is a "new romantics" thing, or if they all just worship at the same artist alter, if it really is that easy to "make connections" if we want to, or ... if there is something to it.
At maximum, this is my new headcannon that erases Healy from the narrative.
Sorry and/or you're welcome, Taylor.

I’ve been sitting on this song - I love its melody but the lyrics… well.
Until it hit me today. It’s meant to make fun of her “tortured poet”, pretentious man.
The receipts:

• “You left your typewriter in my apartment, straight from the tortured poets department. I think some things I never say, like, who uses typewriters anyway?”. This is fairly obviously mocking the song’s subject and their pretentiousness.
  
• “But I’ve seen the episode and still loved the show, who else decodes you?”. The subject has an overinflated sense of their complexity, she caters to that
  
• The chorus is obvious - “You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m no Patti Smith, this ain’t the Chelsea hotel, we’re modern idiots”. I think it’s her mocking him putting both of them in some pedestal of genius songwriters
  
• “You smoked and ate seven bars of chocolate… like a tattooed golden retriever”. A “tortured poet” thinking Charlie Puth should be a bigger artist? Here I think she’s making fun of the faux-intellectual that’s just as mainstream as the next bloke
  
• “But you told Lucy… and I had said that to Jack… everyone we know understands why it’s meant to be… cause we’re crazy”. I think this makes more fun of the “sure, hun” phase of infatuation. Like Angelina Jolie and BBT and the blood vials
  
• “At dinner… wedding rings… heart explode”. Again, this A. Makes fun of the Taylor persona media portrayed post- Joe break up, the marriage obsessed Taylor. B. Her vulnerability at the time, during the rebound
  

I know, I know, the chorus “who’s gonna hold you like me” - there is still affection for the tortured poet, poor bloke.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, xoxo

First off, I never played Fallout games, just enjoyed the show (I won’t be hating, just have honest question, I think it was a great show made with love and details) - but TBF, I had read/saw a little bit about the Fallout lore before.
Nothing about the whole story made me have doubts or think “I don’t get this, this can’t be right”, at most sometimes I was a little bit lost on lore - except, precisely, episode 1. So I was wondering if the problem is the episode or me because I lack lore/knowledge about the Fallout universe. My observations about how EP01 makes me go “this is not right” after seeing the show are:
1) Every dweller have PipBoys with radiation meters. We see how Lucy PipBoy just starts alarming when she puts it and point it against her “husband” when things go bad. Then, how it’s possible nobody had a pipboy radiation alert when opening the vault?
2) Lucy screams “raiders!” Like knowing their nature (“bad” people from the surface) - then, how it’s possible in theory she believes the vaulters will be the ones recolonizing the surface? If they know the risk of raiders on vaults, how is it that they are not on alert just in case?
3) Not only both Vaults (32 & 33) say to celebrate a “come together” every 3 years (IIRC?) - but we later know 32 & 33 overseers have a direct coms channel (with Bud at 31 also) and they are all teammates from VaultTec’s Bud department/subsidiary - for example, in the scene where Copper spies on its wife while waiting for Lucy dad, it seems the woman managing the “wait here please” would be a young Betty.
Also, we know Bud force 31 VaultTec employees to be always 32 & 33 overseers.
So, how it’s possible Hank, Betty or Steph (31 VaultTec Teammates, that in theory would know each other even if slightly) don’t get alarmed when not knowing Vault 32 Overseer? And how it’s possible, even if Moldaver plays the gig, that Bud doesn’t alert them or at least get informed of what are they doing?
For example: Hank contacts 32 overseer and inform the Boss of what are they doing - Bud says nobody from 31 got decryo and sent to 32, and he can’t get to his man/woman there for 2 years now - precaution.
4) The raiders are shown to have some “surface characteristic marks” like one have a cross tattoo on its head (and AFAWK there aren’t “tattoo shops” on the vaults?) - others show a strange behaviour around food or in their language. I understand how dwellers wouldn’t know better, but at least Hank was already on the surface, knows how it’s up there, and his son picked the signals even before than him?
5) Moldaver knows Lucy and Norms and seems to have good heart about them because her mother being a very good friend. Even then, she is OK with sending a psycho with Lucy that could kill her? Even if she just could use Lucy as a pawn to get Hank, it wouldn’t make sense to put her on risk. The husband would make more sense trying to “arrest” Lucy and get her to Moldaver alive than to kill her.
6) To end, we later see Moldaver is some kind of leader on a faction trying to keep the new California republic alive. We see she can be ruthless (she has to) but she is majorly a strategist with an objective, she is not “violence just because” - we can see it when we see how “peaceful” the people are at the observatory, almost like a community. And how Vault 4 Shady Sands people, even resentful about what happened, they are “wholesome” and community following Moldaver as a figure.
Still, it appears she surrounded herself of crazy violent psychos on EP01? People that seems to be there just because? People that at times are shown almost like undomesticated animals when detained on Vault 33? They don’t seems to be Moldaver people (and neither people that would follow Moldaver or that she would want around?)
AT THE END, I think the show is great, but itches me that the EP01 I feel like was written long before the rest of the show and have some inconsistencies with later episodes? Not to account the radiation thing of the pipboys.
This is just an observation from someone that just catches this about EP01, it’s not a critique on the show
What do you think?

20th Century?

• The Stupid Ages. (Alternate First)
• Fry's era is referred to as the Stupid Ages more than once in the series. No dates are given, but the 20th century seems stupid enough to me (Alternate First)

1988 AD

• Fry hides his lucky seven-leaf clover from his brother. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Fry falls through the ice before ice fishing with his father and catches a cold. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Barack Obama works as a pizza delivery boy for Mr. Panucci. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Fry fails to win the Nerd Search '88 Science Competition, which is won by Josh Gedgie. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Josh Gedgie's winning science experiment is launched into space. Years later, it will be dumped on Saturn's dump moon. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada/What Hermes will later describe as a "legendary Jamaican bobsled team" first competes in the Winter Olympics. This is historical fact, which is not to be confused with the slightly fictionalised account given in the movie Cool Runnings.

1989 AD

• June 16 - The film Ghostbusters II is released, tarnishing the previously well-regarded Ghostbusters franchise. ("This number has been lame since 1989")
• December 17 - The Simpsons debuts on the Fox Network.

Between 1990 and 1996

• Applied Cryogenics experiences their penultimate power failure (Alternate First)

1991 AD

• The Internet commences robbing people of their privacy (6ACV03). This is actually the date Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.

1992 AD

• Date of manufacture of the green Latura in the Past-O-Rama exhibit. (Alternate First)

1993 AD

• Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States.

1994 AD

• Fry fails to graduate from Coney Island Community College. (Possibly Alternate First)

1994 AD or 1995 AD

• Fry scrawls a picture of himself on a rocket (Possibly Alternate First)

1995 AD to 1998 AD

• Fry is unemployed. "I haven't had time off since I was twenty-one through twenty-four!" (Possibly Alternate First)

1997 AD

• Last known power failure at Applied Cryogenics/Applied Cryogenics: No power failures since 1997". Despite this failure and the previous one, Applied Cryogenics will actually maintain continuous power - or at least avoid critical outages - through war, barbarism and alien invasions for the next 1003 years. (Alternate First)
• HAL 9000, the subject of Calculon's one-man show HAL 9000, comes online in Urbana, Illinois. (Alternate First)
• Date on the last existing can of anchovies ("Angry Norwegian Anchovies" brand) in the year 3000. (Alternate Fisrt)
• August - Fry finds Seymour in a New York street after a pizza delivery to "Seymour Asses" which turned out to be a crank call. (Possibly Alternate First)

1998 AD

• July - Fry's dog Seymour Asses has become a beloved member of the Panucci's Pizza family (Possibly Alternate First)
• Unknown - The United States Air Force launches the top-secret satellite USAF Flying Destiny, and the Federal Communications Commission launches the equally top-secret FCC V-Chip. A short time later, both satellites collide to form the planet-censoring V-GINY (Possibly Alternate First)

1999 AD

• Nibbler is assigned as Supreme Fuzzler for a Nibblonian scientific outpost on the planet Vergon VI, where he will remain assigned for a further thousand years. Over the following centuries, Nibblonians consume many of the planet's animal inhabitants and gradually fill the planet's core with dark matter. (Alternate First)
• Fry spills beer on the control console at New York FOX) station WNYW, knocking Single Female Lawyer off the air. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Fry's bank account is left with a balance of 93 cents which, after one thousand years of gathering interest, becomes $4.3 billion. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Decemder 31 (Possibly Alternate First)
  • 9:00am - Fry wakes up
  • 10:00pm - After dinner, Fry leaves his family's house for work at Panucci's/Fry wasn't at his house after 10:00pm according to Farnsworth in this episode.
  • evening - Nibbler orders a pizza to be delivered to Applied Cryogenics, using the pseudonym I. C. Weiner.
  • 11:35pm - Fry leaves Panucci's to deliver Nibbler's pizza, leaving Seymour to wait for him outside. This scene occurs in more than one episode, but "Jurassic Bark" is the first time a clock is visible.
  • 11:??pm - Nibbler's chauffeur, Digby, lands them on the roof of Applied Cryogenics.
  • slightly before midnight - Nibbler hides underneath the desk that Fry will sit at as the new millennium rolls in, intending to deliberately make Fry fall in the cryogenics tube, so that in the future (specifically, the episode "The Why Of Fry") he can defeat the evil brains on behalf of all intelligent life. An alternate version of Fry arrives from an alternate future in which he failed to defeat the brains. He delivers to Nibbler the dire warning, "Scootie-Puff Junior sucks!" before disappearing. The alternate Fry's interference has no lasting effect on the timeline until the events of "The Why Of Fry" in 3002 or so.
  • 11:58pm - Two minutes to midnight, Fry boards the elevator to the Applied Cryogenics floor
  • Fry is sent on a fake pizza delivery to I. C. Wiener at Applied Cryogenics.
  • Fry is frozen at the stroke of midnight when pushed by Nibbler. He wakes up in the future.

2000s

• (presumably early) Baywatch: The Movie becomes the first movie shot entirely in slow-motion, and wins Pamela Anderson the Oscar. (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)
• Atlanta moves offshore, but after over-developing, sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and is lost until the early 31st century (Alternate First)
• New Atlanta is the capital and most populous city) in the U.S. state of Georgia) (Alternate First)

2000 AD

• January 1 (Possibly Alternate First)
  • Nibbler's plan proceeds: Fry falls backwards into a cryogenic chamber. At that exact instant, Digby (who is also in the room) remembers that he left his spacecraft on the roof unlocked, and locks it remotely using his key fob. These four musical tones and the response from the ship are the last things Fry hears before being frozen.
  • Seconds into the new year, Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen due to the actions of Lord Nibbler/his future self.
  • Using a time code tattooed on his ass, Fry returns from the year 3007 back to New York and lives in the upstairs storage room of Panucci's Pizza. Bender also travels back in time to kill Fry but loses him.
  • A Bender from "way at the end" comes to put the code on Fry's ass in the first place.
  • Seymour sees Fry frozen in a cryogenics tube.
  • Fry's family calls off the search for their missing son.
  • Lord Nibbler's mother dies.
  • Digby and Nibbler, now drunk, lose their keys and are forced to take a taxi back to Vergon 6, leaving their spaceship parked on the Applied Cryogenics roof.
• 2 January -Seymour waits for Fry outside Panucci's Pizza.
• 8 November - Bender attempts to kill someone with the same name as Fry. All of Al Gore's votes are destroyed after Bender accidentally shoots them causing George W. Bush to win the election. (Both Bender´s Alternate First and George W Bush´s Orginial Timeline)
• The City of New York quietly dispatches its massive garbage supply out to sea. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Wisconsin wins the Rose Bowl, 17-9. This is Fry's mother's strongest memory of this day. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Past-O-Rama is "like stepping back into the year 2000!" (Alternate First)

2001 AD

• The movie Jury Duty) II: Trouble on the Hubble, starring Pauly Shore), is released. (Alternate First)
• Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle leaves her husband and family behind and freezes herself for 265 years. (Alternate First)
• (later changed to 990 by Lars) unaware that Fry has also been frozen. (Alternate First)
• Brain spawn use the Infosphere to start a thousand-year quest to obtain all knowledge in the universe. (Alternate First)

2002 AD

• A barge filled with New York's garbage starts floating around the oceans of Earth for 50 years, as no country will take it, not even "that really filthy one" (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)

2003 AD

• Lucy Liu is named People) magazine's "Sexiest Woman of the Year". (Alternate First)
• Fry gets a job at an aquarium working with a rare narwhal called Leelu. (Alternate First)

2005 AD

• October 20 - Yancy Fry Jr marries an unnamed woman (Possibly Alternate First)

Between ~2005 and 2007?

• Philip J. Fry's nephew, also named Philip Fry honour of his uncle, is born to Yancy Fry and his wife. (Philip Fry Jr appears to be roughly five to seven years old when Bender accosts him in 2012.) (Alternate First)
• In the original timeline, Philip Fry Jr is named because the original Philip Fry disappeared in 2000 and Yancy Fry misses him. In the current revision of the timeline, this is no longer true, but this paradox is seamlessly resolved by the Time Code. (Alternate First)

2006 AD

• Britney Spears becomes queen of something. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Wearing a sink plunger on his head as a horn, Fry-B duels with Leelu. (Alternate First)

2007 AD

• Charlie's Angels III: The Legend of Charlie's Gold is released in cinemas. (Alternate First)
• February 3 - Philip J. Fry II (Fry's nephew and simultaneously his great-grandson) is born. He is destined to be the 1st man on Mars and one of the 21st century's greatest celebrities. (Possibly Alternate First)

2008 AD

• January 15 - A Suicide Booth is built in New York (Alternate First)
• July 17 - The Svalvard Global Seed Vault starts preserving seeds of every known plant species.
• Fry-B plays with Leelu on a rubber raft in her tank, which she punctures (Alternate First)
• Creation of the "infinitely priceless thousand-year-old brandy", later involved in Bender's initiation ceremony into the League of Robots (Alternate First)

2010 AD

• July 31 - Leelu is released back into the sea. (Alternate First)
• August 4 - Depressed, Lars Fillmore hires Leroy's fishing boat to take him to the North Pole to find her. (Alternate First)
• The Loch Ness monster is revealed to be a log with a Halloween mask stapled to it. (Alternate First)
• Leelu is released into the wild and Fry searches for her with Mr. Panucci's cousin Leroy. (Alternate First)

2012 AD

• Michelle Jenkins freezes her body at Applied Cryogenics. (Alternate First)
• The War of 2012 occurs. Conan O'Brien claims to having lost his legs during the conflict.
• Al Gore) drives a hybrid taxi, or "hybraxi" for short. (Alternate First)
• Lars Fillmore hitches a ride with Michelle for 990 years. (Alternate First)
• Fry locates Leelu and nearly takes her home, but releases her after realizing she is with a male narwhal. (Alternate First)
• Bender visits the second Philip J. Fry and attempts to kill him. (Alternate First)
• Fry returns from his trans-Arctic voyage. (Alternate First)
• Bender blows up Panucci's Pizza, which causes Fry's time duplicate to become Lars Fillmore and ends up flash-fossilizing Seymour Asses. Bender hides under the future location of the Planet Express building for 1000 years. (Alternate First)
• Gas costs $100 a gallon. (Alternate First)
• Seymour Asses dies. (Alternate First)
• December 21 - Some people believed that the world would end (Orginial First Timeline)

2018 AD

• December 27 - Charles Constantine dies. (Alternate First)

2019 AD

• Project Satan is created. (Alternate First)
• May 7 - The most evil car is built using many evil mechanics such as Hitler's steering wheel. (Alternate First)
• June 20 - The Were-Car virus is first transmitted, with Calculon being its first victim (Alternate First)