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Tigers (3) @ Royals (8) - 5/20/24 - First Game Scored

2024.05.21 06:00 Jklolroflcopter Tigers (3) @ Royals (8) - 5/20/24 - First Game Scored

Tigers (3) @ Royals (8) - 5/20/24 - First Game Scored
First time scoring a game. I purchased the Halfliner Scorebook and I am really happy with it. Open to suggestions for any improvements
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2024.05.11 03:51 St_Augustine_Discord Live Music and Events Saturday May 11th

Live Music

Amphitheatre Farmers Market

Sunflower and Tomato Festival 2024

St. Augustine Ballet: Snow White

San Marco Chamber Music Society

Romanza Festivale: Unscripted

St. Augustine Community Chorus - Masterworks Concert

Damon Fowler At Cafe Eleven

Movie Night at the Fort!

I am unable to post the sources because they are getting flagged as spam since they are all similar in name. So please visit this site for the list.
Written out urls here tinyurl.com/yjkw32kd

For future events please visit the Discord.

https://discord.gg/NG4eZSWAgR
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2024.05.11 03:51 St_Augustine_Discord Live Music and Events Saturday May 11th

Live Music

Amphitheatre Farmers Market

Sunflower and Tomato Festival 2024

St. Augustine Ballet: Snow White

San Marco Chamber Music Society

Romanza Festivale: Unscripted

St. Augustine Community Chorus - Masterworks Concert

Damon Fowler At Cafe Eleven

Movie Night at the Fort!

I am unable to post the sources because they are getting flagged as spam since they are all similar in name. So please visit this site for the list.
Written out urls here tinyurl.com/yjkw32kd

For future events please visit the Discord.

https://discord.gg/NG4eZSWAgR
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2024.05.10 18:28 PracticalDream4930 My 1975 song tier list

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2024.04.29 14:03 TELMxWILSON New Music! What is everyone favourite fresh tune? Simula, L-Side, Serum, Halogenix, Delta Heavy, Skantia, Noisia and more.. Review of some steppy deep Bristol vibes from Rollout Records’s remix compilation [+weekly updated Spotify playlist] New Music Monday! (Week 18)

 
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Retroactive Playlist H2L: Retroactive New DnB
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Picks Of The Week (by u/lefuniname)

1. Various Artists - Rollout Remixed Vol.1 [Rollout Records]

Recommended if you like: Revan, Molecular, Theoretical
Even though I try my best to cover as much ground as possible, at least in the wide but still limited area of "DnB that I like", there's still so much more to explore. To eliminate some of my admittedly massive blind spots in the deep and dark area, let's put a big ol' spotlight on a rather big anniversary project by an imprint whose 360° One Foot Grabs and other rollerblade tricks I totally didn't have to google have been turning all sorts of headz in the underground lately: Rollout Records!
While we're celebrating only the 3rd anniversary of the platform created by Simon Codling here, its roots actually take us all the way back to 2016! Under the banner of Strictly Rollers, Simon started sharing his love for, well, mostly rollers through both his regular Roller Of The Day posts, which smashed the 100 entries mark by the end, and the SRS mix series featuring the likes of Phentix, missledz, Counter Culture and many more. By the time 2019 rolled around, Simon wanted to get even more involved with the scene, now also building up a portfolio of Free Downloads supplied by his favourite underrated artists around, like VEX, Dubbruvas and Dis:turbed. Of course, Simon had now tasted blood and decided to level things up even further, by turning Strictly Rollers into a full-blown label, Rollout Records! Just like their favourite subgenre, the imprint has been steadily rolling out some very sick deep cuts from the likes of Octavate, VEX (again), Drelio and Bassdubbers, and even putting on some rather sick shows at their home turf in Leeds.
Now, they brought on some of their favourite artists of the deep roller scene to reimagine some of the label's biggest tunes so far - a great chance for me to talk about a whole lot of artists I never mention usually!
We start things off with a remix for High Wycombian producer Matt Coyle aka Mrk-One and his trusty mate Alex Prescott, also known as Prez MC, delivered by London-born but Bristol-based Jesse Weisz and Jersey-born but Vienna-based Sam Barnes, better known as ZeroZero. With both of them growing up in quite the musical environment, Jesse playing the piano and Sam both the trumpet and the guitar, and at least Sam already having gained a ton of production experience through his work with Jersey-based duo Terminal State, it makes a lot of sense that they immediately jumped on the collab train as soon as they met during their studies in Amsterdam and that around 2015, the first few bits of their collaborative output as the newly created ZeroZero, already saw the light of day. Whether together with regular collaborator Teknian, with whom they actually remixed the legendary Evol Intent, or on their own, they quickly made their mark on (mrk-one?) the scene with releases on ProgRAM (RIP), SGN:LTD, Fokuz and Cyberfunk. The way they ZeroZeroed in on their sound didn't just impress the underground labels though, they soon found the likes of Dispatch, Rebel, Flexout, Sofa Sound, Truth Hertz and DARKMTTR taking a liking to their tunes, worked together with all sorts of sick people like Ill Truth, Creatures, Kolectiv and Brain, shared their gathered knowledge along the way through their very own preset label OneZero (and various other avenues) and smashed up the Dance wherever they went.
For their remix of Mkr-One's Jaded, they completely flipped the script of the lushly rolling liquid original, injecting it with all sorts of heavily distorted wub action, steppier drums and a general sense of flow that just sticks in your brain for ages afterwards. Considering how chill the original is, it's actually crazy how well Prez MC's vocal fits this new direction. If you compare the two versions, you realise just how excellent of a job the ZeroZero bois did at incorporating it into their new vision. His voice echoes in the background during the instrumental parts, his bars and the distorted rhythms got this fun back-and-forth going, but my favourite part has got to be the little details like that extra glitchy sound on "Snap back" or the record scratch when Prez says "Scratch that". A lot of fun!
Next, we've got a Hispaulistanoan tale of two Garcias: Spanish producer Jose Manuel Garcia Adorna, or Drelio, who's been going at it since 2021 with releases on Parallel Depth, Citrus and Dissonance, has been remixed by probably the most prolific artist around, João Garcia Neto aka Dunk! While the focus on this particular project is still relatively recent, Senhor Afundanço has been around for a long time already. Just like his love for music has always been ranging across the aisle, from 2Pac and Techno all the way to Hype's True Playaz output, the São Paulo based deep and dark master has also been dipping his toes into all sorts of things, like his House and Techno experiments in 2010, but his true passion has always been DnB. Together with his brother Guilherme, he not only started DJing (on CCE turntables!), but also created their own bangers, under the Jam Thieves banner. Across a decade of excellence, they brought all sorts of Brazilian heat to fire up dancefloors all over the world, most notably on Play- and Serial Killaz, but in 2020 João simply had to break free from it all, and start Dunking on the deep and dark scene, this time on his own!
And man, did he ever do that, so many times over. As soon as he started the project, the release madness began (deep inhale): Four Corners, Vandal, Pick The Lock, Skankandbass, ProgRAM (RIP²), Playaz, 31, RUN, Engage, Chronic, Bowlcut (RIP), Co-Lab, SINE, Soulvent, DEM, Impact, Midas Touch, DARKMTTR, T3K and Delta9 (that's not even the end of the list), multiple albums on Dispatch, and more remixes than you could ever count. Just this year, he's already had 9 releases, multiple of which were full-blown EPs. What an absolute work horse!
Who better to remix Drelio's Rave Tools than someone who's got probably more than a hundred of them under his belt at this point? Everything in Dunk's remix is strung together just that little bit tighter, beefed up just a little bit more, the vocals interspersed just different enough, that it almost feels like a continuation or a VIP of the original, just injected with that extra special sauce minimalistic Brazilian energy. A banger, one might even call it.
Next, we jump back over to the UK, where Chris Brown got the remix treatment. No, not that one, I'm of course talking about the Chris Brown from Hull, who's been part of the game since way back in 2012, but has really kicked his musical career into high gear since 2020, delivering some proper tunage on Subplate, Hyperactivity and Rollout, as VEX. That name again! So, who did the remix then? Justin Minor Forms Mann! Musically shaped by his upbringing in London, full of vinyl mixing sessions and visits to London's Black Market in Soho with his brother Karl, and his years-long stint in Manchester absorbing the vibrant electronic scene there, it's no surprise to me or anyone really that he started producing his own chunes at only 16 years of age. At some point, him, his brother and his good friend Tommy Emrich-Mills, also known as Composite, started working on music together, and not much later, Arcatype was born. After their 2015 debut on Ingredients Records, they also brought their carefully assembled sonics to the likes of CIA, Vandal, Symmetry and Carbon.
In the gaps of their relatively sparse release calendar, Justin started his journey as a solo artist, as Minor Forms. The connections he made through the work as Arcatype meant he could quickly amass releases on many of the same labels I just mentioned, but he's also become known to work with the likes of Sofa Sound, Delta 9 and Overview. Collaborations were still very much his thing though, as evidenced by not just his many features with Kublai and Zero T, but also by his collaborative project with Berlin-based newcomer Refine called Re:Forms, through which he expanded his label catalogue to now also include SINE and ProgRAM (RIP³).
While the VEX original™️ Selector is already quite the heavy one, Minor Forms took it to a whole 'nother level! Fully focusing on the rhythmic potential of The Wub, while also adding a ton of fun new details and all sorts of other new stabby sounds, Justin gives the whole concept such a massive push, it crosses over to exceptional levels of heaviness. Or should I say VEXceptional?
For the last stop, we remain in the UK for a bit longer, as we take a look at a remix for Anders Coop Jensen's and George Exult Bunell's project Octavate. After being brought together at DnB Academy's BASSCAMP event in Portugal, where they were tutored by people like Current Value, Molecular and ZeroZero (oh hey!), they quickly started pushing out their own versatile brand of DnB, ranging from deepness on Dispatch and Rollout, to dubby stuff on Jungle Cakes, to rolling vibes on Soulvent, to even some Neuro for the -headz. For this one, Rollout rolled it back to the very beginning of their journey, and got Hereford-based producer Adam Henton, aka Dis:turbed on board - the guy who, together with Array, did the first ever free download for Rollout! Adam got his start into this whole mess by uploading a proper smorgasbord of mixes from 2018 on, but his first productions followed rather quickly the next year. A couple really well performing free downloads turned into releases on Parallel Depth, Fuck About! (RIP) and his very own imprint Identity Records. Established in 2020, Identity hasn't just been a haven for his own tunes though, we've also got up-and-comers like Illament or Resslek and even names that I wasn't aware of at all before, like Recon and Sonic Trace showing off their skills.
So what did Adam the madman do for his remix of Octavate's Teeth N Lips? Well, in the original, you've got this great minimal bassline in the background, with the occasional wub, wrapped into this insanely progressing, very real-sounding (for lack of a better description) drum action. Instead of going that route, Dis:turbed amplifies the menacing nature of the ominous bassline, dis:turning it into this all-consuming cloud of darkness, swallowing up each and every single one of the atmospheric sounds that try to break through and tickling my brain in all the right places in the process. Once again a rather different approach, working super well.
Happy anniversary to the team at Rollout! May your quest for the strictest of rollers, delivered by the sickest of newcomers, continue for as long as the currently seemingly never-ending well of underground sonics doesn't dry up.
Other deep and dark stuff from this week: - Kimyan Law - Coltan - Hugh Hardie - Brawler - Various Artists - XOU001, Pt. 2 - Creatures - Creatures LP - Son - Move - Nesbra - Fallen Angel
 

New Releases

General DnB / Mixed

Dancefloor

Liquid

Deep / Tech / Minimal

Neuro

Jump Up

Jungle

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2024.04.22 11:51 guiltyofnothing “If you can find me 1950’s quality fresh timber for 2x4’s, i’d let you stick them all the way up my rear.” Chris Pratt and his wife demolish a 70 year-old house. /r/entertainment isn’t happy.

The Context:

An article is posted to /entertainment detailing how actor Chris Pratt and his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger demolished a 1950’s home designed by architect Craig Ellwood with plans to replace it with a new house.
Users have varied reactions — debating the historical and artistic significance of the original home, Pratt’s Christianity, and his wife’s culpability in all of this.

The Drama:

Users debate if this is such a big deal:
It’s an architectural & functional gem and a huge loss. A farmhouse can be a warm and cozy home, but highly unlikely to be a gorgeous product of sleek, sophisticated architecture.
A huge loss for who? Most people wouldn't know this house existed before it was pointed out it's being torn down.
The architectural fabric of the neighborhood is certainly ruptured for a style that is quintessentially plain and rural, an oddity for LA I imagine. There can never be the level of craftsmanship associated with mid-century moderns in a farmhouse. Usually these kinds of houses are sought out by preservationists and caretakers, not the case here. It’s unfortunate in my view.
Don’t project your ignorance onto others. Significant architectural homes are world-renowned and documented in books, film, magazines, TV and more. These homes have historical value and are also incredibly high in demand. This wasn’t a home that didn’t have any interest or importance for others, which is why it’s egregious and wasteful that these people razed it just for convenience.
It's not important to anyone who matters. Stay mad about it.
And you matter to who? Lol Stay simping for some shitty ass celebrities, maybe you’ll get a free Chameo by Pratt, wishing you a very happy birthday /s lmao
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I asked in another thread and didn’t get an answer. What is the huge loss? Everything old is a piece of history. Why is this so vital to preserve?
A MCM stands out because of its sleek elegant design and superb craftsmanship that extends to the landscaping but it deliberately blends into the natural setting and environment. It doesn’t intrude in terms of scale or exterior construction including color choices. A home that seeks to be an oasis of tranquility & beauty in the particular location the owners have acquired to build their home.
Nouveau riche (people who have more money than taste) are infamous for building “look at me now” houses that emphasize their importance and success in a truly abrasive manner. I don’t have any idea what will replace this MCM. I’m sure it will be a nice but extremely generic home that is perfect for the homeowners.
Right so my question comes back. How is it a “huge loss”?
You’re just sealioning and wasting people’s time. You may as well just tell people that you don’t care and can’t be convinced to care. Wonderful! But there are plenty of people who are interested in preserving historical and architecturally significant homes.
Let me put it this way. I’m an art thief I go into a museum one night and I cut out a Cezanne still life with a loaf of bread, a basket filled with fruits, cheese rinds, a bottle of wine on a table in a kitchen in a home in the South of France. You’ve never seen this Cezanne but thousands have over the last 100 years and there are other Impressionist paintings in this quiet wing of the museum. The museum has experienced a loss, visitors have experienced a loss even those who never knew of the painting’s existence, art historians experience the loss, painters especially from the South of France experience this loss. The Trustees of the museum the custodians who hold paintings and sculptures in trust for future generations to witness and experience and even understand a bit of the past from a century ago.
The Trustees announce have no fear one of our patrons have given us an original Lucian Freud on the condition that it go in exactly the same spot where the Cezanne hung. It too is a masterful painting depicting in grotesque detail a sliver of contemporary British society; decadence can be moving too.
A visitor arrives one day to view the Impressionists and notices the ferociously realistic Freud hung where the Cezanne was formerly hung. In his or her mind it doesn’t fit. It sticks out like a sore thumb, the harmony has been lost and detracts from the feel of the other Masters hanging in the wing. To this visitor it’s not really a loss that I cut out and stole the Cezanne. But it remains a void that can’t be patched aesthetically or emotionally.
Razing a MCM won’t evoke a sense of loss in anyone who never enjoyed it while out walking a dog or pushing a baby carriage or just driving past in a convertible. But the newer commonplace and out-of-place rural farmhouse will never evoke the quiet elegance of the MCM and its reverence for being in harmony with the surrounding environment. That is a loss even if you personally cannot feel it. If you prefer generic farmhouses, then you’re in great luck.
The very wealthy typically have a traditional home and a vacation home or homes. They never mistake the two which require completely different settings to make an aesthetic difference. I’m guessing that this young couple could have built a brand new farmhouse on 15 acres of land East of LA or north up in the mountains and preserved this elegant MCM.
That’s all. Something has been destroyed that can never be replaced and that replacement will always be inferior to those who were fortunate enough to see the architectural gem built and sustained by some generations of grateful Los Angelos.
Enjoy a peaceful weekend.
They didn’t steal it lmao
[Continued:]
Congratulations. You solved the case, Detective Joe Friday.
Sorry. You clearly missed that part.
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Yes lets find a woman to blame
Another asks for perspective:
I would understand if the people who are hating knew about this place and admired it for years but that’s not the case here. Everyone’s up their own ass griping about something that has no connection to their lives.
I’m not saying this house was the architectural equivalent of a Rembrandt, because it wasn’t, but if I heard about someone incinerating a Rembrandt painting that I’d never heard of before, I wouldn’t be indifferent simply because it doesn’t have a direct connection to my life. I wasn’t indifferent when that tourist defaced the Colosseum either. Again, I’m not even particularly fired up about this story but I think arguments like yours are a little flimsy, respectfully.
This is an old house, not the Colosseum. Old houses get torn down all the time. If anyone else was doing it, nobody would care. Comparing an old house to great works of art or centuries old architecture is a false equivalence. Your argument is ironically a logical fallacy which is beyond flimsy.
why do I bother with reddit lol
Probably to feed your lust for sanctimony.
[Continued:]
it’s like you’ve known me my whole life!!
You wish lol
”Live and let live,” one urges:
Why are we passing judgment on how Chris decides to live his life?
spotted the modern farm house owner
Apparently he is a Christian or something, so people love to rag on him for any reason.
Yeah that's fucked up, because as we all know Christians have never bothered anyone and all the people who are skeptical of them are just being paranoid haters.
Yeah that why Reddit rags on Muslim people in the same wayz
The reason IS that he's Christian but people make excuses other than that
Nah I hate him because he is known for treating people like shit on his sets and because of how he treated his first wife. He’s got a hell of a good PR firm though, because so many people don’t seem know just how big of a piece of shit this guy is. Politics and religion aside, Chris Pratt is fucking trash.
Sorry, I know how badly y’all want to feel persecuted, what with your silly persecution fetishes and all, but a lot of the hatred that comes with him has absolutely nothing to do with his religion or political affiliation and beliefs. Keep telling yourself that’s why though, anything to make you feel like your group is marginalized and the victims here lol.
Another stresses the impermanence of things:
Sure, but in several hundred years they’ll be other who say the same thing about the modern designed houses. Point being as I’ve said before on another comment, “things don’t last forever” And they especially don’t last forever in residential areas! We aren’t talking middle of the desert Egyptian pyramid type stuff here
I hear your point, and I agree with it to an extent. If they had planned to replace the house with the work of a modern master like Olson/Kundig or a firm like WalkeWarner, Studio ARD, or Brooks + Scarpa, they might have an argument for a replacement that would be worth remembering. From what I’ve read, they’re replacing it was a modern farmhouse, something you might see Chip and Joanna Gaines build. That’s like digging up the tomb of Khufu to put in a Walmart.
Ok? And people are tearing down residential houses for bullshit modern duplexes all the time. Stucco facings and 18ft glass window pains , but do you go around protesting that shit?
We are talking middle of nowhere, wouldn’t see it , or find it if you tired house, which a celebrity has bought. We are also talking about him building a farmhouse on , one of which will be secluded from any residents, especially me or you.
It’s a celebrity and it’ll gain more traction, I understand, but this is completely false outcry, one of which really isn’t worth your time of day.
As someone who spent time preserving and digitizing the work of Craig Ellwood in the archives at my alma mater and currently works to carry on the legacy of midcentury modern masters like Ellwood and his contemporaries in the architecture firm I work at, I disagree. You’re entitled to your opinion as well, and that’s fine.
Hold up. You first call out “celebrity egos” , now you’re name dropping and using your own “ego” to enlighten us on your pretentiousness?
[Continued:]
Name dropping how? Ellwood is the architect of the house in question and the reason why it was worth preserving.
That’s the vibe I’m getting from this guy’s responses too
What about the Pratt of it all?
People love to hate on Chris Pratt
He's quite easy to hate.
If you have a low iq maybe
I… don’t think you understand what IQ measures
Alright explain it to me
Is this house all that significant?
Yes, and, again, if this house was as valuable to the art world as people in this thread are trying to make it out to be, it would have been snatched up by a fan with deep pockets. But it wasn't. Instead, it was ignored until after Pratt and his wife bought it. This neighborhood is made up of millionaires. Another millionaire could have easily bought it.
Sorry, but you're delusional. The house wasn't "ignored" it was simply bought by someone else.
Nope, you’re delusional. There is nothing culturally significant about this house except the style, which it isn’t even the only one of its type.
You obviously don't know anything about art. The significance comes from being designed by Craig Ellwood, and the landscaping was done by Garrett Eckbo.
it isn’t even the only one of its type.
Again, not understanding how art works lol.
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Then why has the house been featured in architecture magazines since it was first built? Why was it on the national and California register of historic places?
Dude stop commenting without showing proof of what you are saying.
Google “Ellwood Case Study House #16” and a shit ton of articles will pop up about it.
That’s literally not the same house. Smfh
That is the house. Why do you think it’s a different one?
Is the house like the Mona Lisa?
Did you just compare a home built in the 50s to the Mona fucking Lisa?!?!? I get that people hate Chris Pratt, but this is just sad.
It's called a proof of concept. Jesus Fucking Christ. The simple concept is that things have value beyond capital value and who can afford it.
Are seriously comparing this house which isn’t culturally significant AT ALL to the Mona Lisa? You are seriously making that comparison?
They are not equal, the comparison was to simply establishes a simple concept. Things can have value beyond their capital value and greater than those who can afford them. It wasn't a hard concept to follow.
No, you are taking a house that wasn’t one of the architects significant projects, and comparing it to a piece of art that has extreme cultural value.
The massive difference being unless you are an architect or are hiring one to build your house, you wouldn’t even know Craig Elwood’s name. But the Mona Lisa is famous world wide.
If you can’t see how your “simple concept” is insanely flawed then it is definite proof that everyone should ignore your opinion.
Lol, "every one should ignore your opinion". Classic, I think people can assess my opinion for themselves just as they can yours.
I was trying to be nice and not call you a complete bumbling idiot. But of course you couldn’t even glean that.
[Continued:]
But you weren't being nice. It's plainly clear what kind of person you are, even when you think that you are hiding it.
I wasn’t trying to hide it dumbass, I was trying to not be aggressive with it. My mistake was assuming you were capable of reading between the lines.
And if you knew what kind of person I am then you’d realize I am not the type of person to give a shit about your opinion about me as person. So thanks for showing me you are willing to waste your time stating the obvious.
You really seem to think that you have a way with words, that you do not.
Additionally, the evidence so far indicates that you REALLY give a shit about my opinion.
If you had a way with reading words you’d realize, again, I don’t give a shit about your opinion.
I do give a shit about making folks show how dumb they are though ❤️
Thanks for being so easily manipulated
You really aren't playing me here. You've got all this tough guy language. You seemed lost at the beginning and continue to spiral downward, desperate claim some victory declaring me "manipulated" to no particular end.
You still contradict yourself, taking joy from trying so hard to make someone look dumb requires a basic value of the opinion that you attempt to highlight and chastise.
[Continued:]
You made a really dumb comparison, got called out for it, and are acting like a cry baby bitch about it.
And here you are desperately trying to make yourself feel better about it. Only a dumb fuck would compare some low level architect to fucking Da Vinci. I can’t fathom how someone can be that dumb, but alas here we are.
Here is another fun fact, go look at the instagram post and realize that Ellwood didn’t even design this house. Someone working for him did.
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It’s a fucking concrete building, not the Mona Lisa.
And the Mona Lisa is just a canvas and glaze. Seriously my dude.
There are 0 houses in the world even close to the artistic significance of the Mona Lisa. Probably the most famous painting ever. Seriously my dude.
I’m more broken up about throwing my daughters 3 year old scribble art then some rich ass persons house.
This is outrage culture at its finest.
You are so close. No body gives a damn about your child's drawing, but it means something to you, and you would be torn up if it was shredded. This house was a piece made by an artist that a lot of people appreciated and it was shredded up. It had a larger cultural significance. Don't pretend that you can't empathize with that when you just gave an example of something that has value to you personally.
If you don't care about he house, that's totally fine, then don't. Why even bother bringing it up then?
Sorry but no one really cares about this house, it’s just another reason to be mad at someone. Its a single house oh well
[Continued:]
I'd say that quite a few people genuinely care and that other people just like dismissing the emotional value that something can have to a wider audience because it makes them feel tough to act so callus. We can both make shallow generalizations.
MF, why yall care what someone is doing with his land? Are yall hearing yourselves lol? Its a just a fuckin house. I know Pratt is a prick, but this aint it smh
And the Mona Lisa is just a canvas. As I've said elsewhere, Jimi Hendrix's guitar is privately owned, but if the owner smashed it the musical world would quake. If someone purchases something of cultural significance then they are also its steward. This was significant to appreciqtors of architecture.
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Oh piss off with the Mona Lisa bullshit...
KILLER counter argument.

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2024.04.16 06:50 Doosits_Ruminile Some good Art Tutorials

Some good Art Tutorials

Here's a list of videos that have personally helped me in the study of Art, Writing and Design. I found them useful and always rewatch over and over and over for refreshers, maybe you will find them useful too! A starting off point.
More will be added as I keep learning, I encourage you to also collect knowledge, I'm just sharing what's worked for me. If you have a good tutorial, you may add in the comments with the title.
Have fun!

Index of Content:

Index of Labels:

Analysis - Lengthy Commentary, in-depth look into stories, topics, or a situation.
Study - Lecture, unveils key information or references to look over yourself.
Tutorial - Step-by-step instruction manual or explains a whole process.
Resource - References software or guides you can save, look up, or download.
Overview - General introduction to a complicated topic.
Interview - Discussion and questioning with an expert(s) on a topic.
Quote - A simple written statement for thought
() > () > () - The order of the labels matters
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- Learn Faster Get Inspired Be Practical v

🧠 SCIENCE OF LEARNING (art) FASTER (my most important video yet)
https://youtu.be/Tl0NKYVwYJs (Analysis) (Study)
What is Inspiration?
https://youtu.be/XglOuxsjHiU (Analysis)
4 Time-Saving Tips (from a guy who spent 13 YEARS drawing a comic)
https://youtu.be/6BzCDVR-tr8 (Analysis)
FAST TRACK TO BETTER DRAWINGS
https://youtu.be/c1L1vF1-6dU (Analysis) (Study) (Tutorial)
🤫 THE SECRET RULE TO LEARN ANYTHING FASTER
https://youtu.be/mrD4AWNOwGY (Analysis) (Study)
✨ HOW TO DRAW ANYTHING - the 7 fundamentals
https://youtu.be/oRiUjL9qmE8 (Overview)
How Artist Find Inspiration - Where I get Ideas to Make Art - Getting Past Art Block
https://youtu.be/59KTBmS-iZw (Analysis)
ART ADVICE THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE
https://youtu.be/ZK9rDFAf2AY (Overview) (Study)
Finding Myself as an Artist + How you can too!
https://youtu.be/WRQ6GuCVLgI (Overview) (Analysis)
"Balance your introspection: 'Don't make mistakes. You will make mistakes.' Repeat." (Quote)
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- Design v

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- Character design & better poses v

What Makes A Good Character Design?
(Study) (Analysis) (Tutorial)
GOOD vs BAD Character Design: Tips and Tricks!
https://youtu.be/8wm9ti-gzLM (Study) (Tutorial) (Analysis)
NEVER DRAW FROM PHOTO REFERENCE! (Drawing Tablet Giveaway!)
https://youtu.be/KxcIXNrzu4s (Tutorial) (Study)
Lackadasy cats - Facial Expressions (and more)
https://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=333
(Tutorials) (Study) (Resource)
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- Perspective v

Perspective Drawing in Photoshop! Grids and Tips
https://youtu.be/upxBGNcryRs (Study) (Tutorial)
DRAW BACKGROUNDS in 2 EASY steps: use google earth and never ALWAYS listen to ROSSDRAWS! always
https://youtu.be/H9f58K7r9X8 (Tutorial) (Study)
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- Background & Landscapes v

Tips for Drawing Backgrounds!
https://youtu.be/tVynETvms-o (Study) (Tutorial)
How To Sketch Landscapes: Tutorial
https://youtu.be/_e6wTOuJ20M (Tutorial) (Study)
Acrylic Painting Tutorial - Purple Ocean Sunset (beginner to intermediate)
https://youtu.be/lTk-ll860vs (Tutorial)
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- Shading, Coloring & lighting v

START DOING THIS RIGHT NOW!
https://youtu.be/QksT7-Nz85c (Study) (Tutorial)
🤩Shading Exersices to Paint like 3D Renders
https://youtu.be/cfLKHbmhCIY?si=d3YI-rwHsqYvmxQ7
Coloring Characters the Industry Way! Photoshop
https://youtu.be/4atFicBvhMM (Study) (Tutorial)
GIVE YOUR ART A SOFT LOOK TUTORIAL
https://youtube.com/shorts/lTaqtOS3yMc?feature=share (Tutorial)
🤯 COLORING WITH GRADIENT MAPS- This changes everything
https://youtu.be/eDB-25rweM8 (Tutorial)
LOOK A FUR TUTORIAL
https://youtu.be/EnLEqUSLjvQ (Tutorial)
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- Studying Artist's Work v

INSTAGRAM ART: NEVER DRAW WITH OVALS! EVER!
https://youtu.be/FCHhNJWzUnc (Tutorials) (Study)
INSTAGRAM ART: TOP 3 MISTAKES
https://youtu.be/Ipm7N2taBNY (Analysis) (Study)
FIXING Kim Jung Gi's TRASH ART: DRAWING MORE WILL NEVER! EVER! MAKE YOU better
https://youtu.be/FxoTwEdbbgQ (Tutorial) (Study)
The Breathtaking Horror of 'The Electric State'
https://youtu.be/BOdca_kJimE (Analysis)
Heh you're so cute and stupid (Pewdiepie Minecraft Fanart)
https://youtu.be/cVid5Fy20Z0 (Study)
secret to standing out as an artist
https://youtu.be/_4X7xFRx4_Q (Study) (Analysis) (Resource)
Encyclopedia Of A World That Doesn’t Exist Codex Seraphinianus
https://youtu.be/l1FXQMmXYoA (Analysis)
The Nightmare Artist
https://youtu.be/dxRB4sdbIcw (Analysis)
Here are 5 artists to follow if you want to learn✨👌🎨
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs-8M5mAHWJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== (Resource) (Study)
Alex Vede
https://instagram.com/alexvede96?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== (Resource) (Study)
David Revoy
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/goodies/index.html (Resource) (Study)
Quentin Tarantino Explains How to Write & Direct Movies The Director’s Chair
https://youtu.be/6V1Sm0WCtHU (Overview) (Analysis)
The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film
https://youtu.be/73hip3pz0Xs?si=-zVsE_uvsikxRNJ8 (Analysis) (Overview) (Study)
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- Story & Script Writing Advice channels v

Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
https://youtu.be/doaQC-S8de8 (Analysis) (Study)
Dialogue Dive: The Scene That Made Thanos
https://youtu.be/iTBQ-gE5Yik (Analysis)
Therapist Reacts to UP and Grief
https://youtu.be/T-3rmYFQUmQ (Analysis) (Study)
Terry Pratchett: 8 Clever Characters — Terry Pratchett Series
https://youtu.be/bPfxOYGZXLU (Analysis) (Study)
How To Make The Audience Cry
https://youtu.be/y4ObTpA_Vkw (Analysis)
How To Terrify The Audience
https://youtu.be/EzRHGS-HUdE (Analysis) (Study)
How Media Scares Us: The Work of Junji Ito
https://youtu.be/lIIA6QDgl2M (Analysis) (Study)
Trope Talk: Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
https://youtu.be/xyp2-Ol6MD8 (Analysis) (Study)
After the Fact: Reinhardt the Warrior
https://youtu.be/avRqY_gKMBE (Analysis) (Study)
How To Make A Great Villain
https://youtu.be/Ga0rs2G8BGI (Analysis)
Inglorious Basterds — The Elements of Suspense.
https://youtu.be/AvtOY0YrF-g (Study) (Tutorial)
Gone Girl — Don't Underestimate the Screenwriter
https://youtu.be/CF3lFPW4E1o (Study) (Tutorial)
Whiplash vs. Black Swan — The Anatomy of the Obsessed Artist
https://youtu.be/ba-CB6wVuvQ (Analysis) (Study)
Ocarina of Time- A master class on subtext.
https://youtu.be/GyUcwsjyd8Q (Analysis)
Perfect Moments in "Bad" Movies
https://youtu.be/h5Y8whMzlwo (Analysis)
The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love
https://youtu.be/1f5Xt5pZZZM (Analysis)
A World of Gothic Horror: The Problem With Modern Batman Stories
https://youtu.be/m4n_XdQC4mM (Analysis)
The Villain of Edith Finch
https://youtu.be/6bMn4CoyUkM (Analysis)
Bloodborne: A World Without Hope
https://youtu.be/2Y7avwiMjB0 (Analysis)
What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler
https://youtu.be/Hhk4N9A0oCA
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- Animation v

The Illusion of Life Principle of Animation 12 Basic Principle of Animation
https://youtu.be/yiGY0qiy8fY (Study) (Tutorial)
12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series)
https://youtu.be/uDqjIdI4bF4 (Study) (Tutorial)
How to Start Animating Your Characters : 4 Principles
https://youtu.be/ynBENQJBQbE (Study) (Tutorial)
AnimtoonOfficial Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@AnimtoonOfficial (Study)
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- Design and Marketing v

Pricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)
https://youtu.be/RKXZ7t_RiOE (Analysis) (Study)
Logo Design Process with a Client – Building A Brand, Ep 6
https://youtu.be/A24V7CUWe4M (Study) (Tutorial)
Chipp Kidd: Designing books isn't funny. Well, yes it is.
https://youtu.be/cC0KxNeLp1E (Study)
Why danger symbols can’t last forever
https://youtu.be/lOEqzt36JEM (Analysis) (Study)
Horror Books Have Lost Their Identity
https://youtu.be/HOr5ALigmHA (Analysis)
The Truth About Making Cartoons
https://youtu.be/R84W2hbmaKk (Study)
Pitching a Show
https://youtu.be/lW_-zpKU-cU (Study)
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- Healthy A.I. Discussion & Defense Tools v

How to Protect Your Art From Ai (Glazing)
https://youtu.be/R1dLwhIdqf4 (Resource)
AI ART is NOT the end of ART
https://youtu.be/boDGi8Y8g3I(Analysis)) (Resource)
The AI Art Apocalypse
https://youtu.be/9xJCzKdPyCo (Analysis) (Study)
AI Art can't replace artists that do THIS! 😱 you NEED to hear!
https://youtu.be/tjFdBT6bvRs (Analysis) (Study)
How to avoid being replaced by Ai Art
https://youtu.be/KU5rSzUXP9E (Analysis) (Study)
Smoother animation ≠ Better animation [AI ENHANCED]
https://youtu.be/_KRb_qV9P4g
reviewing your takes on animation (60FPS follow-up)
https://youtu.be/OhcLATiI9Is (Analysis) (Study) (Tutorial)
❌ THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM WITH AI ART
https://youtu.be/7jatjz80wD4 (Analysis)
DESTROYING Donkey Kong with AI (Deep Reinforcement Learning)
https://youtu.be/ovIykchkW5I (Study)
Disney Animator REACTS to AI Animation!
https://youtu.be/xm7BwEsdVbQ (Study)
Animators React 11: Mulan, Aladdin, Anime Rock Paper Scissors
https://youtu.be/jQ_DfORb3kw (Analysis) (Study)
Ai ART: I'm angry at artists
https://youtu.be/bKLE742LjqE (Analysis)
ChatGPT's HUGE problem
https://youtu.be/l7tWoPk25yU (Study, Analysis)
🛑 AI ART: NEW COPYRIGHT LAW CHANGES EVERYTHING
https://youtu.be/QtxW39OQbbc (Study)
A.I. and Stochastic Parrots FACTUALLY with Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru
https://youtu.be/jAHRbFetqII (Interview)
How to Use ChatGPT to Ruin Your Legal Career
https://youtu.be/oqSYljRYDEM (Analysis, Study)
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Debunking the Tech Hype Cycle with Dan Olson - Factually! - 213
https://youtu.be/4aU-QkJfgGw (Interview, Analysis, Study)
"Driving does not a better Hiker make" (Quote)
"Tools help build. Bad attitudes don't." (Quote)
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2024.04.15 15:59 actually_a_demon [Animation/American Cartoons] Bubbline: The Adventure Time Lesbian Couple That Made A Man Lose His Job

Well, well, well, hello again people of Hobbydrama! Before going right into it, i wanted to thank you all for the overwhelming support on my first post. Really, I didn’t expected that it would blow up this much, so thank you for all the comments and inputs yall gave me! I truly appreciate it! If someone doesn’t know what i’m talking about or is curious to read it, feel free to gave it a shot here
That being said, i’m back earlier than i tought with another drama, this time not related to music, but concerning a Cartoon Network series that i really love. Again, i wanted to talk about it because it seems like the entire Internet forgot about this situation. But not me. I never forget some good old lesbian quarrel (even if it’s fictional). That being said, let’s jump right in!
Introduction: what the hell is Adventure Time?
At this point I don’t think anyone seriously doesn’t know what it is, but for the few who live under a rock or for the older ones: Adventure Time is an American cartoon created by Pendleton Ward in 2010 for Cartoon Network. The series is based on the 2007 short film of the same name produced by Nicktoons and Frederator Studios for Random! Cartoons. Following the viral success of the pilot, (which was rejected by Nickelodeon, btw), Cartoon Network commissioned a full series, which officially aired on April 5, 2010. Adventure Time draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and several video games such as The Legend of Zelda franchise. The series quickly gained a cult following in the years, becoming one of the most recognizable Cartoon Network’s flagship properties of the 2010s. Critically was a success, winning numerous animation awards and having guests such as the one and only James Baxter. It is held in high regards in the world of animation due to the incredibly mature tone it gradually developed over the course of its run, for its scenes bordering on the disturbing, its mature storylines, its frankly depressing character arcs and, in general, it’s emotionally raw tone. For this same reason the adaptation of the series in other countries outside of America has often been severly censored, especially here in Italy, where entire episodes have been removed and dialouges changed drastically, censoring swears, sexual references, exessive violence and even some mentions (already vague in the original version) of an alleged past lesbian relationship between two female characters, wich are both quite important for the plot. This is also the main reason why later Adventure Time projects switched under HBO and basically flew the fuck out of Cartoon Network. Keep this in mind because it will be important later. To give you all further context on this mature and emotional tone, an entire episode is dedicated to the storyline of one character forced to deal with what is basically a metaphor of the Alzheimer’s Disease at the expense of his adopting vampire daughter, who he doesn’t even remember who she was. Just so you know what are we are dealing with.
But what is the plot? Well, to put it EXTREMELY simple, the series is about a young boy named Finn and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers capable of changing shape and size at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with Princess Bubblegum, Ice King, Marceline, BMO and others, trying to protect the inhabitants from enemies from various dimensions. Anyway, the series was so iconic that after its ending in 2018 it spawned both a sequel composed by four episodes and a spin-off, which is currently been renewed for a second season. Now that you have all this context, we can go on.
Our protagonists: a sentient fascist piece of gum and a vampire-half demon goth girl
Ok so. Now i need to go on another tangent to explain some things to make everyone understand, so bear with me. One of our main protagonist in this story is Princess Bubblegum, also called Bonnibelle Bubblegum, PB or Bonnie. Just like her name suggest, she is the princess of the Candy Kingdom. Initially she was presented like the classic stereotype of the “damisel in distress” and her main role was to be kidnapped by Ice King and saved by Finn and Jake. However, as the series went on it was expanded upon the fact that Bubblegum’s leadership was basically autocratic due to her subjects being extremely naive and childlike and without a guiding hand she tought they will quickly destroy themselves. Bubblegum is highly protective of the Candy People and cares deeply for their safety, but is secretly strained by the pressures of ruling and expresses a desire for freedom. Following a near-death experience at the end of the second season (that possession video i linked earlier), she starts to isolate herself and becomes overprotective of the Candy People, even exhibiting authoritarian tendencies temporarily in the fifth season such as installing multiple cameras in the kingdom and implanting tracking chips in every citizen. Ah yes, she also did what was basically the fantasy equivalent of a mass genocide.. They also elaborate upon her passion for science, showing that she basically has a…very worring lack of ethic. Long story short, she was presented as morally gray character that would do anything to keep her kingdom safe regardless of moral implications. Like that one time she literally sabotaged the heat source of an entire kingdom making all the people there almost die, only because she tought they were a danger for her. But the at the end of the sixth season, she is deposed as ruler following an election, where she realizes she has made the Candy People too unintelligent, and basically realized that she is kinda a shitty person and a control maniac. Following the miniseries “Stakes”, Bubblegum is reinstated as ruler and becomes less overprotective and more of a nice person overall.
The other protagonist is Marceline The Vampire Queen. Just like Bubblegum, she was initially presented as the sterotype of the “mean goth girl” who bullied the protagonists (which was very popular in early 2000-2010s cartoons) and her role was basically being insufferable, do illegal stuffs and be hot. But then the series started to expand on her lore and oh my god. It was A LOT. And it was sad as shit. To put it simply, it was discovered that Marceline was born to an human mother named Elise (voiced by Rebecca Sugar, the former creator of Steven Universe) and the demon king Hunson Abadeer. Furthermore, when she was a child, the cataclysmic Mushroom War occurred, and her mom was heavily implied to be killed by nuclear radiations. Her demon father then left her completely alone in this post apocaliptic wasteland and soon after, she developed a father-daughter-like bond with Simon Petrikov, who would one day turn into the Ice King, forgetting everything about her. Then, during the mini series “Stakes” it was discovered that she wasn’t actually born a vampire (originally she was a human-half demon hybrid) and that she was a vampire hunter for a while, until one day she was bitten by the Vampire King. Wich in on itself was an explicit metaphor for sexual assault So yeah, pretty sad and dark stuffs over here. Adventure Time wasn’t shying away from dark topics at all. As you can probably guess, Marceline was expanded upon a lot and quickly became a fan favourite: in her first role, she funcitioned as a sort of antagonist of the story, forcing Finn and Jake from their home. However, she eventually becomes their close friend once Finn recognizes that she’s not really evil and that she just wants to have fun in extreme ways. Under this “bad girl” image, she is actually a very fragile and insecure person. She suffers a lot emotionally and she has very bad abandonment issues (for obvious reasons) and daddy issues (for even more obvious reasons). This fear of being forgotten and left behind by people she loves will be very important so keep this also in mind. Now that I explained all of this and you have a wide knowledge of those characters, let’s jump right into the real meat.
The early days: Princess Bubblegum and Marceline's weird innuendos
Now if you followed what i said earlier, you must have understood that Adventure Time became emotionally devastating and mature gradually over time: it wasn’t always like this. This switch in tone started more or less during season 4-5. The early seasons were way more childish and “random”, containing more jokes, silly moments and whatnot, also the character were more stereotypied and one-dimentional. That being said, that doesn’t mean necessarily that the series didn’t already had weirdly mature subplots, that only means they were not expanded upon unlike they would do later. One of this weird sublopts (and early mysteries of the lore) was: did Princess Bubblegum and Marceline already knew each other?
The speculations started when the episode “Go With Me” from season 2 aired, in which Bubblegum looked weirdly unhappy to see Marceline, and Marceline greeted her teasingly in response. This was their first interaction on screen, but it was pretty evident that they already knew each other prior to this. But what were the circumnstances of their meeting? When did it happend? Nobody knew, but everyone was intrigued. The rest of this episode is basically comprised of Marceline ruining Finn’s attempts to ask Princess Bubblegum out by giving him bad ideas. When Finn is completely rejected by the princess, Marceline is happy to see that he has failed, and when Finn asks her to go to the movies instead, she agrees as long as it’s just as friends. As you can imagine, Marceline’s behaviour was read as suspicious from a lot of people who then started pondering the relationship between her and Bonnibelle. It wasn’t that much a matter of shipping for the hell of it, but it was geniune curiosity since the story was hinting at something. Then the episode “What Was Missing” from season 3 aired and it happened… this.
People were absolutely shocked when they heard this song. Remember this was a time in which LGBTQ+ rep in cartoons wasn’t normalized (Steven Universe wasn’t even invented yet) and it was considered weird at best, causing the cancellation of a series at worst. This wasn’t a direct confirmation by any means, but the lyrics of the song were…uhm, let’s say dubious. Very dubious. Quoting the exact words:
Sorry I don’t treat you like a goddess, Is that what you want me to do? Sorry I don’t treat you like you’re perfect, Like all your little loyal subjects do. Sorry I’m not made of sugar, Am I not sweet enough for you? Is that why you always avoid me? I must be such an inconvenience to you. Well, I’m just your problem. I’m just your problem.
Or even:
I’m sorry that I exist I forget what landed me on your blacklist, but I shouldn’t have to be the one that makes up with you
It wasn’t just the song, tho. The entire episode was full of this weird moments in which PB and Marceline seemed resentful and bitter about something that happened in the past and in the final scene it was revealed that Bubblegum’s most treasured item is a t-shirt Marceline gave her, which she wears as pajamas every night. At this point no one could deny that something was definetly up.
From that time on, the show hinted heavily multiple times that happened something between them that made them fall apart. The linked Bubblegum monologue about “wanting to be with someone but realizing that responsability demands sacrifices” is the greatest offender of this, but there are a lot more examples such as this scene from “Stakes”, this other scene and this one from a season 6 episode that higtly suggests that they have still some unresolved feelings. Now is important to remember that this supposed “ex-girlfriends bantesituationship” they had going on wasn’t officially addressed for a long time in the actual show. LGBTQ+ rep wasn’t normalized at the time, like i said earlier, and so everyone in the crew was silent, even if at this point was pretty obvious that they were trying to hint at the best of their capacity.
This is when our drama takes places: right after the airing of the episode “What Was Missing”.
The behind the scenes special and the illegal lesbian subtext
Now. In 2012 a video was posted on the Frederator’s Youtube channel: it was a behind the scene special of the afromentioned episode, the one with the dubious song. It basically showed early storyboards and things of that sort, nothing too special. But then, at a certain point, the commentator goes on a tangent to suggest that Marceline might like PB a little more than she likes to admit, even more than Finn. In a very “If you know you know” way. Then something strange happened: this video was suddenly removed from the original YouTube channel and the man behind it was abruptily fired from Frederator. But it doesn’t end here: the entire “Mathematical!” behind the scene Adventure Time’s channel was shut down. You can still watch this infamous video reuploaded here For obvious reasons, the fandom was pissed. They didn’t like at all how a man lost his job just for trying to suggest that two female character might like each other, and so they showed support on his blog This sparked a fire in the fanbase and also in the production room of the series itself. Everyone started to defend Bubbline: from storyboarders, character designer, musicians, writers. They all unanimously said that what Frederator’s did was an unjust and homophobic decision that literally went against the intention of the story team and what they wanted to do with those characters. Even the voice actresses of Marceline and Princess Bubblegum spoke up on this, with Olivia Olson (Marceline’s VA) even stating that PB and Marceline were always intended to be exes some years later, adding that the only reason it wasn’t explicitly said was because the network didn’t allow it and because it was considered illegal in some countries the show was airing (remember that gay marriage wasn’t even a thing in America at that time).
This was when Bubbline (Marceline x Bubblegum) became the most popular ship of Adventure Time. It was literally posted everywere, mostly out of spite caused by this entire situation. Frederator’s team tried to put out an half-baked excuse,but it was too late. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The fandom was incredibily supportive of this idea and didn’t wait for the opportunity to write fanfictions and doing fanarts of them. Even some actual character designers from the show did it, like Natasha Allegri. Of course, the support wasn’t universal: there were some people that didn’t liked the ship or tought that the team was playing with fans and that someone was reading too much into it, but it was certanly a minority. The important thing you need to know is that the vast majority of the fandom really liked Marceline and Bubblegum and wanted to see more of them. But no one could have ever imagined what would happen in 2018…
Wait. They are canon…?
During the last episode of the show, Marceline and Bubblegum literally full on kissed on screen after a dramatic moment. effectively confirming what was only a constant hinting for almost a decade. You have no idea how much impact it had on the fandom and in the animation industry in general. Everyone went absolutely insane over this scene.
For context: Marceline and Bubblegum became the most iconic characters of Adventure Time ever since they appeared, surpassing Finn and Jake. Everyone knew who they were even if they didn’t saw the show, everyone knew the weird situationship the creators were desperatly triying to allude and the constant pushback of Cartoon Network, but no one would have EVER imagined something like this happening so suddenly.
But how was it even possible? Well, it was all thanks to Rebecca Sugar. In 2013 Steven Universe came out on Cartoon Network and, for everyone who doesn’t know, the entire plot of the series is: three alien rocks from space adopt an half human-half gem child after the leader of their rebellion dies to give birth to him. They are also gay as shit. No but like, literally. Is not a weird joke, it’s the main point of the entire worldbuilding. The gem race is formed exclusively by female-presenting hologram beings. One of the main characters is literally a permanent fusion (yes, like Dragonball) between a Ruby and a Sapphire. This two ended up marrying each other on screen during later seasons, making it the first gay wedding showed in a modern cartoon. Which is kinda rad, ngl. Rebecca Sugar actually worked on Adventure Time for a period of time. In fact she developed Steven Universe while she was a writer and storyboard artist on it, which she left when Cartoon Network commissioned her series for full production. Plus, she wrote like 99% of Marceline’s song, created her in the first place and also voiced her mom, like i said earlier.
As you can imagine, Steven Universe opened a new road for LGBTQ+ characters in kids show, particularly female ones, considering it was the first big Cartoon Network production being so blatant about it. This more open-minded attitude in the animation industry was certainly one of the reason to explain how the kiss could have happened in the first place (Rebecca worked on the final AT episode) and at the time people took it with satisfaction. However things were not as good as they seemed.
The following years it was discovered that Cartoon Network cutted all the economical support to Steven Universe after the gay wedding scene, forcing Rebecca and her team to basically ending the series unceremoniously leaving out a lot of plot points, story threads, character arcs and actual lore explanations of some important things, like the literal origins of the gem race. So yeah, Steven Universe fans were understandably pretty mad when all of this surfaced. But then it was also discovered that the kiss between Marceline and Bubblegum wasn’t originally in the script of the episode and was added by a storyboard artist named Hanna K. Nyströmthe with the approval of Adam Muto, the showrunner. The fandom was then divided in two factions: the Bubbline supporters and the Bubbline haters. The former one were obviously the supporter of the relationship and they were genuinly happy that they were finally confirmed after all this years and a whopping 10 seasons. The other, instead, tought that the ships was either a late decision made by SugaHanna or straight up a bad idea for the story. Which i personally disagree since it’s literally the best and most natural plot point that ever happened to AT, but i would not spend too much time talking about it. Long story short, there was a bit of discourse in the fandom but nothing too wild or extreme.
It didn’t matter that much anyway, because the sequel “Adventure Time: Distant Lands” came out on HBO in 2020 and one episode was entirely dedicated to Marceline and Bubblegum relationship, and they finally showed in its entirety their nasty breakup, confiming once and for all that they were in fact exes all along. The episode was universally well recived, many praised the quality of the writing and the new song written by Half Shy. In general they also praised the way the relationship itself was presented, in a very natural and sweet way. Now Marceline and Bubblegum are canonically in a relationship. They are cute, adorable and silly and everyone likes them. They even made a cameo in the recent Fionna And Cake's spin-off and everyone was super happy to see them again.
So yeah. I really wonder how that poor man fired in 2013 feels about this.
Tldr: two very beloved female characters from Adventure Time are hinted to be exes, a man is fired because he dares to say it, the fandom goes insane, everyone working on the show is actively trying to pass out as many hints as they can out of spite, at the end of the series they kiss. Now they are a couple and everyone is happy.
EDIT: the song "Monster" from Distant Lands was written by Half Shy, not by Rebecca Sugar! I confused the two! Also the number of episodes from Distant Lands was four, not eight. Don't know what the fuck happened to me. Edited some grammatical errors. Edited some links with more fittings ones.
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2024.04.08 06:59 Chestnut_pod Dos Mujeres at SFB (Carmen and Broken Wings)

This program feels, to me, like Tamara Rojo's great introductory fanfare: we are going to do things differently now! This was clear from the moment we walked into the beautiful lobby of the opera house, which was strung up with papel picado and dotted with clusters of bright silk flowers, selling Mexican wedding cookies at the concession stand. The crowd (even at a Saturday matinee) was also immediately, audibly different than usual -- there were a lot, a lot, of little girls speaking Spanish with their moms and older sisters. Inside the theater proper, a beautifully quilted and embroidered scenic curtain by local textile artist Maria Guzmán Capron took the place of the usual gold velvet, and the loge was decorated by more bight artificial flowers. Down in the pit, they'd scooted the harp into the bassoons to allow for a major percussion section.
This is, after all, to my knowledge the United States' first-ever double bill of Latina choreographers, with pieces about Latina subjects, who also, by the way, both happen to be queer women. Just for that, I was and am thrilled. Part of the joy and frustration of the way ballet has thrived on the Internet is to see how other places are doing things, and for many years, I have been in a profound state of relative deprivation thanks to the staid outlook of San Francisco -- San Francisco! -- Ballet, which had never commissioned a full-length work by a female choreographer or had a female AD before Rojo, hired its first Black principal in 2022, and tended generally to tiptoe around the fact that it's in San Francisco and a bit more of the rainbow would be much appreciated on the main stage. Even its much-hoopla'd new choreography festivals tended to be samey. Dos Mujeres, to me, feels like a dramatic and intentional step forward for the whole enterprise.
And so:
CARMEN
My cast:
Unfortunately, Arielle Smith's Carmen is bad! Well, it's not terrible, but it isn't good. C+
Smith takes the admittedly scanty Bizet plot and transplants it to a Cuban restaurant, where a looming projected specter of heterosexuality (Gilberto-visibly-not-played-by-Myles-Thatcher and Unnamed Dead Mother, in a fake-sepia photograph) used to cook. Upon the death of Unnamed Mother, in come Carmen and Jose, her husband, to run the place for Gilberto. In need of a chef, Carmen, Jose, and Gilberto hire Escamillo. Jealousy ensues.
The good:
This ballet has something I have never, ever seen before in a ballet: a butch. A HOT butch. Sasha Mukhamedov as Chefcamillo, complete with black muscle tank, can get it. She was wonderfully strong and sinuous with great stage presence, and her movement style was distinctly different from the other characters, making her feel genuinely apart and special. Of course, she felt wonderfully special to me. I don't think I ever would have dreamed of seeing something like this as a young person. Jasmine Jimison, who was just promoted to principal a few weeks ago, did a lot with what she was given as Carmen.
The bad:
I don't think I've ever said this about anything before, but this needed to be at least 30 minutes longer. The whole ballet is the merest wisp of an idea, like Smith said "well first this happens, and then this happens, and then this happens, and I guess I'll figure the details out when I get there." The plot is gossamer; the characters tissue. Even the choreography feels like the dancers are marking the real steps which will get put in before opening night. Classical ballet is structure: structure in the steps forming structure in the work. Those structures can be hidebound, but they are also how you convince yourself that Odette really loves Siegfried: they meet, then they have a lovely long pas de deus with unique steps about it before the plot moves on. Nobody here gets anything like that level of characterization; Carmen absolutely whizzed by as it tried to stuff a 4-act opera into 39 minutes. The few moments of really good dancing -- Hot Butch Escamillo's introduction; Carmen's pretty chaines… uh, well, I guess the two (2) moments of really good dancing -- get no time to breathe. Plot points are introduced and resolved in seconds; Carmen and Escamillo are kissing within three minutes of the latter's introduction, Jose is waving a knife around within seven, and then the ballet ends. And yes, it's nice to see some queer women kissing onstage at SFB! It's great! Could we perhaps get some feeling in it? Some dancing?
The dancing is a problem. It's uninteresting and muddled. For all the score leans into the Cuban setting, with some hints of Bizet in there for flavor, Cuban dance influence doesn't show up much in the choreography. In fact, the badly used and mustard-yellow corps does a kind of salsa move which, unfortunately, looks significantly more like Fosse than salsa. However, classical ballet is also in absentia, leaving an indistinct muddle of vaguely contemporary movement. (I like contemporary! I like it when it's good.) The corps is forced to do a Ministry of Silly Walks display to "interview" for the position of chef, which was clearly meant to be funny and was met with crickets. Worsening matters was the fact that the set was too small for the dancers. It did not use the whole stage but partitioned it into a smaller square with internal "walls," then filled that space with a large wooden bar and two sets of large wooden tables and chairs, leaving a fairly cramped, semi-triangular opening in the middle where most of the action took place. There was not enough room for the dancers to move around -- Esteban Hernández (light of my life) has to do a tormented coupé jeté manège at some point and is literally unable to do so because of all the random chairs and extra walls of the set. It may or may not be symbolic, but it's actively impeding the dancing, so sometimes the signified does actually have to take precedence over the signifier, sorry.
The ballet ends incoherently -- the program notes led me to believe Smith thinks it's a happy ending, but I think it's a perfectly fine reading of what actually appears onstage to assume that Carmen did, in fact, die of stabbing at the hands of Esteban Hernández. If it's a happy ending, I am not sure what it even is to be happy about it. It also has the unintended consequence of making everything that came before feel even more paper-thin, because it all seems to go away so lightly and easily.
A nitpick: Myles Thatcher is a handsome young guy, and given ballet companies presumably employ professional old people Principal Character Dancers for a reason, the role and purpose of the father character would have been much better served by casting an actual older man, especially since he didn't do any dancing you would need a young dancer to do.
There's also the insoluble problem that Esteban Hernández is intensely charismatic, full of ballon, and lithely graceful, and the plot isn't doing any of the necessary work to make him truly feel like a horrible, murderous jealous husband, so you kind of would rather get to see him keep dancing. Or at least, I did. I also wanted him and Sasha Mukhamedov to have a jealous PDD together and a jealous pas de trois with Carmen. But no time! No time for anyone!
Alas. I shall treasure the memory of Sexy Butch Sasha Mukhamedov forever.
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BROKEN WINGS
My cast:
A triumph. A! If I was being truly harsh, an A-, but why would I be when I am so thrilled this is now in the rep?
From the moment the beautiful scenic curtain lifted, I was riveted. The score, the sets, the costumes, the staging, the choreographers, and the wonderful cast came together in a masterstroke. It is wildly creative and distinctive and, most importantly, it is not the slightest bit kitsch. Lopez Ochoa obviously thought deeply and consistently about which of Frida Kahlo's qualities and works she wished to prioritize and represent, and the result is a serious analysis of her artwork and biography which also happens to be moving and beautiful in its own right. If you're at all desensitized to Frida Kahlo thanks to the sad commercialization of her image(s), I think this is the perfect antidote.
The story is highly stylized and condensed. The through-lines are artistic inspiration, disability, and Kahlo's relationship to Diego Rivera, and the timespan stretches her from youth through her death. The structure of the ballet as a whole mirrors one of the key choreographic motifs, which is the contraction and then wide expansion of the body in pain and release. The work as a whole is governed by motif, which feels appropriate. Some of the major ones are the nicho box that provides the main set element, the corps of Fridas in their voluminous faldas folklóricas and tall headdresses, the fantastical characters of Frida's paintings (especially birds and trees), the wounded deer, and the skeletons.
The corps is wonderful. The skeletons in particular stood out. They are full of character, always somewhere on stage, even if it is just one lounging off to the side, looking on attentively at the action. They vacillate between humor and menace, sometimes joking and horsing around, sometimes restraining Frida and dragging her around the stage and between stages of her life. She plays with them, hits them, wrestles with them. In one truly chilling moment, one of them presides over a miscarriage. For being fully masked, they are immensely expressive and a true achievement for Lopez Ochoa as choreographer.
The Fridas figure in much of the promotional material and are worth the attention. Played by male corps members, they are made up as so many simplified versions of Frida from her paintings: the lace ruff, the macaws, the braids, many others. The maleness of the dancers may be a reference to Self Portrait with Cropped Hair, or they may just be used practically for their relative size and strength; they often surround Frida to hide her, carry her, and provide contrast against her, and their effect is very androgynous. Frida interacts with them in a variety of ways which made me in the audience switch back and forth between seeing them as muses and reflections or reduplications of her self, sometimes very quickly, which seems apt, as the piece as a whole seems to be making an argument about Frida Kahlo's painting which rests on the interpretation that Kahlo's muse was herself. Kahlo of course had a lot more to say in her paintings, about postcolonialism, subjectivity, marginality, and on, but for a single one-act ballet, I think this particular theme is an effective choice for conveyance via dance. A particular moment where the motif felt powerful was when Frida is first seducing Diego Rivera -- she has three other Fridas with her and poses them seductively, displaying their bodies to him as she runs between them and moves their legs and hips with her hands.
The wounded deer and the fantastical creatures also play major roles and heighten the sense of marvelous real about the whole ballet -- they come and go and interact with the "real people" of the action in a variety of choreographically creative ways. Their figures and shadows interact with the inert parts of the set as well as with the live dancers, and each "subset" of corps has its own movement quality which nonetheless meshes with the others. The wounded deer walks delicately on pointe; the Fridas move with heavy, monumental rhythm, the trees clatter their fingers and feet, the birds are always turning and creating spirals and circles through the other dancers. The impression of them all when the stage is full is truly like one of Kahlo's most detailed paintings, a window into a fantastical world.
The set contributes to this impression too. The lighting and backdrops were perfect: very simple but intense color-washes behind black curtains which opened and closed to change the whole lightscape and mood of scenes. These too seemed freighted with symbolism, while fitting seamlessly with the whole and never obstructing vision, cutting light to a murky level, or clashing with the other bright colors on stage. The nicho box, however, is the star of the set: plain and battered gray from the outside, it opens again and again to display a variety of interiors: mirrors, a hospital bed, splashes of blood, excerpts from Kahlo's own diaries. I never predicted what it would open onto, and I was never disappointed.
Then also, the cast was fantastic. Nikisha Fogo was splendid in everything she did, from the fireworks of Frida's first entrance to the grounded, jerky wrestling of her last appearance. She has to speak in this role, albeit briefly, which I don't think is ever a great choice for a ballet; however, when she did, it felt natural. Nathaniel Remez did a wonderful job playing older here; he gave Diego Rivera a believable sense of gravity and fascination. Pemberley Ann Olson as the wounded deer was delicate and otherworldly. Her brief duets with Frida made me hold my breath, they seemed so unearthly.
I do have a few complaints. I understand the urge to highlight Rivera, but I think they focused on him a little too much -- he could have come and gone a little more, instead of taking up a fairly solid block in the middle. I also understand the urge to have Chavela Vargas sing for a long time, but in a short ballet, the whole of "La Llorona" is a long time. (Also, though she's there audibly, it would have been nice to have Vargas there there -- so too Georgia O'Keeffe, Josephine Baker, Kahlo's other female lovers.) The, say, ten minutes before the final tableau became a bit overlong; a slight tune-up could have done wonders. The dramaturgy falters a little as the scene as a whole becomes more surreal, which is an artistic choice, but one which I felt could have been handled to make the ending feel less abrupt. In particular, I think more directed corps dancing with Frida at the center could have made the transition to that final scene cleaner. This isn't quite a complaint, because I think the theatricality was perfectly apt and did a good job, but a lot of the later corps dancing in particular was not particularly distinctive in terms of steps or memorable phrases -- others' mileage may vary. The first third or two thirds, however, were perfect. The striking opening tableau of the skeletons, the joy and lightness of young Frida's dance with Esteban Hernández, the funny send-up of the four cygnets skeleton-style, the clever introduction of the male Fridas and the bus accident, the power of the miscarriage scene -- I would not change one single thing. I hope they restage this many, many times.
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The last thing I will say is that the whole bill, but Broken Wings especially, felt like a grand, openhearted gesture to the city of San Francisco. SF has its own close relationship to Kahlo and Rivera, and seeing them onstage, in a theater explicitly made over to honor them and local Latine artists of the present day, felt like a proper coming-home. If there's any way for you to make it to SF, Broken Wings is well worth the ticket price and having to watch Carmen first. If you can see it live, do, because the stage magic is so very magical, but a search suggests you can find the ENB version online, and if you can't make it to SF in person, then I do think it would be better than nothing! What a wonderful show.
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2024.03.26 12:07 JanCollector Belgium - Emergency Money 14 19 - Brugge & Blankenberge (West Flanders)

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2024.03.24 19:25 _elliebelle_ New Releases - Sunday 24 Mar & Thursday 21 Mar catch-up

New Releases - Sunday 24 Mar & Thursday 21 Mar catch-up

MM Romance

Kindle Unlimited
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Other

Other Queer Romance

Kindle Unlimited
Kobo Plus

Audiobooks

MM Romance
Queer
No new releases.
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2024.03.08 15:58 richarizard Things to Do in NYC: April 2024 Edition

I have waxed poetic before about the Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo in my Substack called the Blankman List. This is a show that has touched me and grown to be among my all-time favorites. Sadly, April 28 marks the end of its Broadway run, so for this month’s event list, I connect a variety of events to Kimberly Akimbo. All of these events are drawn from my larger April 2024 Blankman List, which includes plenty of additional events. Here is my March Reddit post for the remainder of the month.

What Is Kimberly Akimbo?

For the unfamiliar, Kimberly Akimbo was the 2023 Tony Winner for best musical. The show centers around 16-year-old Kimberly Levaco, who has a fictional genetic disorder causing her to age 4–5 times faster than normal. She is a high school teenager trapped in a 70-year-old woman’s body (and played by the brilliant and practically ageless Victoria Clark).
When I first saw it—during the literal first preview on October 12, 2022—I wasn’t sure yet what to think. But the story sat with me and brought me unexpected moments of joy or heartbreak in the months that followed. I saw myself most notably in Kimberly’s awkward love interest, Seth, who obsesses over anagrams and is the source of the show’s title. He anagrams “Kimberly Levaco” into “cleverly akimbo,” an apt description for the way that she braves life in the face of certain, imminent death.
This is musical theater, however, and it is the music that elevates it from good play to great musical. The Kimberly album easily topped by 2023 Spotify Wrapped, with lyrical fragments, melodies, and sometimes entire songs burying themselves into my brain as I walked to the subway or sat at my computer.
Composer Jeanine Tesori and lyricist David Lindsay-Abaire have put together a score with lyrical virtuosity (“Your disease is a tough one, that’s for sure. / Getting older is my affliction. / Getting older is your cure.”) and a musical range that, at least for me, took many listens to pick apart. The songs pouring out of Kimberly’s heart range from spot-on Joni Mitchell (“Now”) to contemporary classical (“Our Disease”). I especially recommend the 20-minute Tiny Desk concert as my favorite video showcasing the music. (In the video, the role of Seth is brilliantly sung by understudy Miguel Gil.)
As a send-off to one of my favorite works of art in the city, I offer new works of art and a range of events that may not be Kimberly Akimbo, but are connected, at least a little. In many cases, the events are connected along some very broad themes, so fear not; there is no expectation that you saw (or, for that matter, liked) the show. There is still, hopefully, an event for you.

Events: Language and Wordplay

A lot of the show’s clever dialogue and lyrics—especially those of Kimberly’s love interest Seth Weetis—are based around anagrams and wordplay. There are lots of ways to scratch that lexicological itch in New York City without having to see a musical about it.

Events: Woman Musicians

Not only is it a woman who is central to the story and singing throughout, the show itself is composed by woman composer Jeanine Tesori. This was at one time a major rarity on Broadway, though the tides are at long last starting to turn. As of this writing, Hadestown, The Notebook, and Six all join Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway in having woman or nonbinary composers, and both Suffs and Hell’s Kitchen are set to start previews by the end of March.

Events: Cast and Crew

The Broadway show may be over, but its participants need not stop expressing themselves. My admiration for the show comes primarily from the text—the book by David Lindsay-Abaire and the score by Jeanine Tesori. But my joy of experiencing it comes from the performers on stage and the many, many crew members behind the scenes, all making sure that the show goes on.

Events: Disability

One pervasive part of the show is how Kimberly and her family and peers confront her unusual disability. While I hesitate to call the show one about disability, it is unquestionably one of the show’s themes and a major plot driver.

Events: Life and Death

If I had to try and pinpoint Kimberly Akimbo’s most dominant theme, it’s this biggie: life and death. Living life in the face of death. The fragility and magnificence of life coupled with the inevitability of death. This is, of course, not the first work of art to confront leaving this mortal coil.

Events: New Jersey

The show is set in New Jersey, at times a crucial part of the plot. While I restrict the Blankman List to events within the five boroughs of New York City, there are still plenty of ways to honor and experience our next-door neighbor.
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2024.03.06 18:03 dlc03330 C Winterle Olsen?

C Winterle Olsen?
I purchased this piece from Goodwill for $10. The custom framing is what originally caught my eye and then I took in the artwork. I initially thought it was a print that was signed, but now I’m not so sure. I’ve used a magnifying glass to see if I could notice any dots or pixelating and I really haven’t (but I’m not an expert). The artist is C Winterle Olsen. I’ve tried researching her. I’ve scoured through her work online. I haven’t come across this piece, or really anything that feels similar in style. She doesn’t seem to have a website. I tried searching for her Athens, GA gallery info…but haven’t had any luck. Thoughts?? I appreciate the help!
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2024.03.06 06:29 METATRON317 TheloniousWR

TheloniousWR

Warrobots

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2024.03.05 02:04 ZwissDa2nd RSC #66 ☆ Time To Get To The Good Stuff!

WE ARE ANTS.
WE ARE TINY.
WE HAVE BIG DREAMS.
WELCOME back fellow colonists! it's been a long time coming, we've all been biting our feelers (i think? i'm not sure what its called i don't retain information that well) in ANTicipation of what's to come: we've done the prepwork - we've submitted our proposals, some have even took the initative to gain colony wide domestic public research into the tastes and not so tastes of your fellow ant-ees (??) and i can say with with great certainty the moment we've all been waiting for is finally here. Let the Oral Session begin!
I'm so glad this moment has finally arrived, i didn't believe we'd make it this far! In this session, you, yes YOU, ant, finally now have the opportunity to soak in the submitted entry proposals from all your fellow members of the comfy and home-like but also rather anty vicinity that starts with a c and ends with a y - how will yours stack up? Let's see what everyone's packing.
ANT SUBDIVISION A - SOLDIERS [SEMI FINAL 1]
The Soldiers mark an important distinction within the Colony, they are the first on line to help defend from threats both outside and within the colony, maintaining order with peerless strength, loyalty, and sense of place. To be chosen for this group means demonstrating extraordinary talent at strategising and combat prowess matched by no other, nobody will ever dare to put you down without receiving the force of a thousand lashings back. If you are an ant who is a member of this sub-caste you can stand on the firm ground you call home and be proud - you're the reason we all can sleep happy!
Draw Country User Artist Song Release Year Link
1 Albania u/Chimlin daine CUT MY HEART OUT 2023 Here
2 Angola u/Opha23 Megan Thee Stallion HISS 2024 Here
3 Anguilla u/seleyes1 IKRAAAN Carruurnimo (Jeugd) 2024 Here
4 Armenia u/Fun6754 Tucha Sleyerka 2023 Here
5 Australia u/dankmemer8578 NewJeans ETA 2023 Here
6 Bangladesh u/kazamagram Momma Bang Bang 2023 Here
7 Barbados u/Bongo9911 Cesar Santalo (ft Audrey Mika) I'm Done Calling 2023 Here
8 Bhutan u/FKA-Pieck Angel Olsen Chance 2019 Here
9 Bolivia u/boliveee Maeta Questions 2023 Here
10 Bonaire u/AwesomeJoshua Emz, Gemi (ft Charli Brix) Want 2 Dance 2021 Here
11 Bulgaria u/bvsil horsegiirL starsiigns 2022 Here
12 Cabo Verde u/PhillipsBM Mayra Andrade Afeto 2019 Here
13 Christmas Island u/XalionN Sam Akpro Death By Entertainment 2023 Here
14 Cocos (Keeling) Islands u/qyzxf La Roux In For The Kill 2009 Here
15 Comoros u/Zeiskyte Epik High (ft HOSHI) Screen Time 2023 Here
16 Cyprus u/snowboardking454 Low Girl Icarus 2024 Here
17 Denmark u/shoyoh_ Kyle Lux Rollin' Stone 2019 Here
18 eSwatini u/j0rdy000 Victoria Monét On My Mama 2023 Here
19 Falkland Islands u/Flock-RSC Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 1 1901 Here
20 Guatemala u/sondercherry SUGARCOAT KISS OF LIFE (NATTY Solo) 2023 Here
AQ Belarus u/-Stanley_yelnats- Saya Gray AA BOUQUET FOR YOUR 180 FACE 2024 Here
AQ Curaçao u/boapessoa Enya Orinoco Flow 1988 Here
YT Playlist: Here
Spotify Playlist: Here
Recap: Here
[Note: Falkland Islands has unfortunately announced their withdrawal from this ed so please do not include it on your ranking's from this point forward. If you have already voted and gave points to them do not worry, it will be re allocated later on using your 11th placers]
ANT SUBDIVISION B - WORKERS [SEMI FINAL 2]
The Workers are perhaps some of the most tough-willed people in the colony! ready to provide themselves to work day in, day out, and tuesdays; to the colony and their insurmountable effort to the daily proceedings of the colony did not go unnoticed. Laying your lives out on the line everyday, this world is big and scary and at the end of the day we're just tiny ants, but together we're unstoppable. Being selected for this group means you are bold, you give every job 100% and that's not something that you find in people all the time, especially ants! so the innate strength that an ant must possess to be a driving force of the a colony a million strong is something to be proud of and cherished. If you are a member of this sub-caste you need to take the day off you deserve it - we won't pay you but you deserve it!
Draw Country User Artist Song Release Year Link
1 Guinea-Bissau u/alexkaragaya Emilia, TINI La_Original.mp3 2023 Here
2 Honduras u/FreeCuddlesAnyone Ella More At What Cost 2023 Here
3 India u/ZeRoyalSushi Sade Smooth Operator 1984 Here
4 Isle Of Man u/DubiousEnjoyment Crumb Tunnel (all that you had) 2021 Here
5 Ivory Coast u/lux_archives Nadine Coyle Go To Work 2017 Here
6 Jordan u/golden665 9MUSES Figaro 2011 Here
7 Kuwait u/mac1oo Frost Children, Eliminate SMSOU 2024 Here
8 Liechtenstein u/Franky494 Jasimi VORTEX 2023 Here
9 Maldives u/chaoticciolina absolutely 24 Hours 2023 Here
10 Mauritania u/dylantherat Julie Ragbeer Fight Against Your Fleshy Lusts 2023 Here
11 Micronesia u/lauurynn SoRi (ft BASICK) Touch 2018 Here
12 Montserrat u/las_facepalmas AIGEL Pyala (Пыяла) 2020 Here
13 Mozambique u/justlyra Madison Rose ICONIC! 2022 Here
14 Nauru u/theGarden350 Charli XCX von dutch 2024 Here
15 Nepal u/BFerdinand_ Emily Montes, Snake3 The Blessed Emily 2021 Here
16 New Caledonia u/Foobibby ELOI jtm de ouf 2022 Here
17 New Zealand u/Watermelon_Milk_Tea Casual Healing Mauri Tau 2023 Here
18 Oman u/_xSyracuse Andrea Bejar Quien Tengo Que Ser 2023 Here
19 Palestine u/SandHannahtiser Sofie Royer Mio 2023 Here
20 Philippines u/zorkle22 Zara Larsson You Love Who You Are 2024 Here
AQ Georgia u/Georgie-M Nubiyan Twist (ft. Nile Rodgers) Lights Out 2024 Here
AQ Norfolk Island u/BebeLuigi Inabakumori, Kaai Yuki Lagtrain (ラグトレイン) 2020 Here
YT Playlist: Here
Spotify Playlist: Here
Recap: Here
ANT SUBDIVISION C - RAISERS [SEMI FINAL 3]
The Raisers represent possibly the biggest backbone to our society as a whole, the Soldiers lives are fleeting, the Workers lives are arduous but neither would have been possible to reach the great heights they did without the expert care, love, nurturing and immense population numbers the Raisers provided. Being Selected for this group means that we noticed your innate abilities of Motherhood, and your impressive rows of many unscrupulous ants wanting to catch your name. For as kind and willing to provide as you are you are also truly a catch, this world is cruel and many will end up losing their lives too soon but you are at the frontlines ready to raise the next generation and bolster the colony's denizens for many years to come. If you are a member of this sub-caste know that you have the strength of a thousand men strong inside you and without you, there would be no colony to begin with, it all starts and ends with you!
Draw Country User Artist Song Release Year Link
1 Poland u/Erazed11 Miley Cyrus Angels Like You 2020 Here
2 Puerto Rico u/Azzbestos Juana Rozas POSE! 2024 Here
3 Saba u/slfkjia Crizin da Z. O. Demônio do Rio da Prata 2024 Here
4 San Marino u/J2999 Kero Kero Bonito Trampoline 2016 Here
5 Sint Eustatius u/curryraejepsen EVNNE K.O. (Keep On) 2024 Here
6 Sint Maarten u/zuperZany METTE, Sam Gellaitry DARLING DRIVE 2024 Here
7 Somalia u/Sam_ESC Grace Sorensen Madness, Madness 2023 Here
8 Spain u/Cholien99 Cascada Evacuate The Dancefloor 2009 Here
9 St Barthelemy u/george_kaito The Cranberries Linger 1993 Here
10 The Bahamas u/Kaylaboe Berlioz Miro 2022 Here
11 Togo u/BiPolarBear17 Pip Millet Fight You 2024 Here
12 Tonga u/LuzTongaLaughter Qbanaa Mundo En Mis Manos / World In My Hands 2023 Here
13 Turkey u/dies-irs Fikret Kızılok Ben Gidersem 1993 Here
14 Turks & Caicos Islands u/tehhammerz 01101111011101100110111001101001 (ovni) R * FP . NE . FL . FI . FC . L = N 2017 Here
15 Tuvalu u/lissa_1111 K Out Of Luck 2022 Here
16 UAE u/chickflopia Pale Jay Dreaming In Slow Motion 2023 Here
17 Uruguay u/-mytearsricochet Elyanna AL SHAM 2024 Here
18 Wallis & Futuna u/hollandguin Erika Jayne Drip Drop 2023 Here
19 Western Sahara u/Infamous-Film7811 aespa Spicy 2023 Here
20 Yemen u/SaltyPopcorn02 Bronze Avery Scan And Copy 2023 Here
AQ Saint Helena, Ascension And Tristan Da Cunha u/ZwissDa2nd Rupa Biswas Aaj Shanibar 1982 Here
AQ Saint Lucia u/Spooky_Squid Deaf Havana Saint 2018 Here
YT Playlist: Here
Spotify Playlist (Missing: Uruguay): Here
Recap: Here
ANT SUBDIVISION GROUP D - QUEEN & QUEEN CONSORTS (AUTOMATIC QUALIFIERS)
Finally, the more eagle-eyed of you may have noticed a funny few ants had the AQ status, what's this? well i have some good news! i can tell you! the bad news? everyant is special, just some more than others. The Ants with this distinction achieved societal and cultural success due to the generational wealth accrued by themselves placing within the top 6 of the previous edition's contest, enabling them to automatically skip the dread and miasma of despair surrounding the uncertainty of who will qualify. Sorry! As a consort to the Highest Ant, Me, you do not have to worry about your songs not being palatable to all as you are already guaranteed into the final, but you still must vote in each of your above assigned semi-finals just like everybody else! failure to do so will result in your title being lost and your family estranged! as the previous edition's 7th placer will gain the pass all card and advance to the final not unlike yourselves assuming you all vote! so do it!
These special ants are all in the Standard Semi-Final Playlists like the others, but because theyre SOOO special they also get their own little bourgeoisie playlist for only the six of them! enjoy!
YT Playlist (AQs): Here
Spotify Playlist (AQs): Here
So, you've seen your fellow ants' proposals, so Which do you agree on?
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2024.01.31 00:21 Yeatfan22 Relooking The Identity Objection To Marquis And Constitutionalism

NOTE Some parts of this post was written by u/_Key-Talk-5171 Many of us are familiar with the future like ours(FLO) argument, and in this defense I will be arguing the identity based objection does not succeed in showing fetuses do not have futures like ours. I will do this by showing that common accounts of identity throughout time fail, and even if they succeed we need not think of them as a worry to FLO.
(Blackshaw 2020)
FLO ARGUMENT
In case you are not familiar with the FLO argument, it claims that one sufficient reason for why killing us is wrong is that it deprives us of possible valuable future experiences. if i kill you, i’ve deprived you of a life you would have enjoyed had you not been killed, and so this is one reason for thinking killing is wrong. So if killing you or me is immoral for reason F, assuming reason F is present for abortion, killing you or me is ceteris paribus immoral via abortion because of reason F.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2026961
here’s the argument:
P1: it is prima facie immoral to deprive a being of a FLO.
P2: to abort a fetus is to deprive a being of a FLO.
C: with everything else being equal, to abort a fetus is prima facie immoral
now these are fairly controversial premises, and you can object to nearly all of them, but the strongest objection i’ve seen so far is the identity based objection. myself and other people have attempted to rebut other objections in the past, most notably the contraception objection(CO) and the problem of uncertainty of miscarriages in other posts.
IDENTITY OBJECTION
this objection i believe comes from skott brill. it has been defended vigorously by people like Dean Stretton jeff mcmahan, nathan nobis, and many people on this sub, most notably
u/_ ABSTRACTA_ u/revjbarosa and u/Persephonius
what this objection tries to do is say when a woman has an abortion no “i” is being deprived of a valuable future, since we were never early fetuses. we began to exist when a mind starts to exist, and so prior to a mind existing no being is deprived of anything for no being yet exists.
this view tries to say x has a FLO, if x at t1 is identical to y at t2. but since i was never a fetus, x at t1(when the body that i would embody existed) did not have a FLO, since i am said to have a FLO, and i didn’t exist yet. so x at t1 does not share identity with y at t2.since marquis’s views assume we begin to exist at conception, if this view is challenged and successfully rebutted, so is marquis.
here’s a quote of nathan nobis defending a similar objection:
To have a future like our's, a being needs to have some psychological connection to its future: it's not just that there are potential future events "out there". Embryos and beginning fetuses don't have that, since they lack psychologies: **they've never had any kind of mind**: so they don't have a future like our's.
Moreover, this objection historically appeals to certain psychological theories of identity. for instance, in *The Ethics of Killing by Jeff McMahan* jeff mcmahan defends the embodied mind view and gives other psychological views that we should consider, or not consider. i suggest everyone read his book. His view states we aren’t animals, but rather minds embodied within animals. We are parts of the organism that directly think and experience. but unlike other philosophers who defend psychological theories like Michael green, daniel wilkler, and michael lockwood, on mcmahans embodied mind account personality identity is necessary contingent on *certain patterns and functions be preserved.*
mcmahan writes:
According to the Embodied Mind Account, the criterion of personal identity is physical and minimal functional continuity of the brain.
to wrap this portion up, many pro choice philosophers object to marquis on the grounds of the entity inside the womb not being identical to the being that actually ends up being the human who experiences like us and has possibilities like us since the entity inside the womb does not share numerical identity with the later being.
RETHINKING THE EMBODIED MIND VIEW
historically, the embodied mind view and many other psychological theories has had a problem of too many thinkers and seem unmotivated.
for starters, why should anyone think i am a mind and not an animal?
as alexander pruss writes:
Animals are things that maintain homeostasis, take in nutrients and grow, reproduce, initiate and control a large variety of types of motion in response to changing environmental features, etc. It's not very easy to come up with details of the definition, but it seems like it would go something like this. Well, it's pretty clear that we do these things, as well as doing any plausible items we'd want to add to the definition. So we're animals
http://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2016/02/animalism.html?m=1
one may attempt to motivate the embodied mind by appealing to brain transplant thought experiments.
the critic of my argument may ask us to imagine Bob who has his brain transplanted into Fred’s body. the idea is since we have the intuition we survive the brain transplant, we must be our brains, or our cerebrum.
but i think this can be explained away by simply saying the brain is the farthest the animal can be reduced to since the brain is the controlling thing and animals can generally be parred down to their controlling part. one may ask what is the relationship between the brain and the animal in the case the animal is parred down to the brain. one viable answer is to say the animal is co located within the brain. another is to deny brains exist since proper parts don’t exist, and only animals exist because of their causal powers. if this view is correct then not only does it solve a lot of mereolgoical puzzles, it also helps explain the relationship between the brain and the animal. if the animal is reduced to the atoms arranged brain wise and brains don’t actually exist only animals, then there is no ambiguity on the relationship between the brain and animal in the case the animal is parred down to the brain.
with that being said, i don’t think there is any strong motivation to posit our identity throughout time being dependent and contingent on a mind, if animals do everything we do, and can us being them can explain pretty much every ordinary intuition.
More importantly, psychological views like the one proposed by mcmahan suffer from a problem of too many thinkers.
we can formulate this argument as followed:
  1. there is an animal sitting in my chair.
  2. i am thinking.
  3. the animal is thinking.
  4. if i am not the animal there are 2 thinkers thinking my thoughts.
let’s first look at (4). one may be tempted to admit there is nothing wrong with the conclusion, but on further examination it seems this conclusion is absurd and should be rejected.after all most philosophers seem to do everything to avoid this conclusion, we too should not accept this radical conclusion.
eric olson writes:
it hardly makes the current proposal easy to believe. Is it not strange to suppose that there are two numerically different thinkers wherever we thought there was just one?
In any event, the troubles go beyond mere overcrowding. If there really are two beings, a person and an animal, now thinking your thoughts and performing your actions, you ought to wonder which one you are. You may think you're the person (the one that isn't an animal). But doesn't the animal think that it is a person too? It has all the same reasons for thinking so as you have. Yet it is mistaken. If you were the animal and not the person, you'd still think you were the person. So for all you know, you're the one making the mistake. Even if you are a person and not an animal, you could never have any reason to believe that you are. [4]
For that matter, if your animal can think, that ought to make it a person.
It has the same mental features as you have. (Otherwise we should expect an explanation for the difference, just as we should if the animal can't think at all.) It is, in Locke's words, "a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places" (1975: 335). It satisfies every ordinary definition of 'person'. But it would be mad to suppose that the animal sitting in your chair is a person numerically different from you--that each human person shares her location and her thoughts with another person. If nothing else, this would contradict the claim that people--all people--have psychological identity conditions, thus sweeping away the main reason for denying that we are animals in the first place.
On the other hand, if ordinary human animals are not people, familiar accounts of what it is to be a person are all far too permissive. Having the psychological and moral features that you and I have would not be enough to make something a person. There could be rational, intelligent, self-conscious non-people. In fact there would be at least one such rational nonperson for every genuine person. That would deprive personhood of any psychological or moral significance.
https://123philosophy.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/eric-olson-an-argument-for-animalism.pdf
with 4) out the way lets look at (3). can animals think? well i think it’s obvious animals can think. what would stop it from thinking!if i am a thinking part of my organism, and my thinking part is integrated in my organism, why can’t my organism think?
after all, it has all of the necessary prerequisites and neurological structures of the mind. Why can’t the organism think using the same structures?
as hershenov writes:
if human persons are distinct from but spatially coincident with human animals, then if persons can use their brains to think, so can their animals.
eric olson also writes:
Anyone who denies that animals can think (or that they can think in the way that we think) needs to explain why they can't. What stops a typical human animal from using its brain to think? Isn't that what that organ is for?
we may also raise other problems again the typical mcmahan/parfit view.
Andrew bailey brings up an interesting and similar argument to Olson’s argument *the feeling animal argument* which states that we feel emotions, and the best candidate for feeling emotions are animals, and so we are animals. some may be quick to challenge the idea animals are the best for the emotional office. but as bailey explains:
Take some emotions- one that feels like it's in the gut, and the other in the face. First, these states may well seem to be in different locations. They happen in different places within the animal body. One might conclude from this that they are state of distinct things— the first a state of, say, some bits of spinal cord and brain, and the second a state of, say, some facial flesh and associated nervous tissue. But this is implausible, and that is our second observation. For it is exactly one thing that feels both emotions. One and the selfsame item is the subject of both states, despite their apparently distinct locations. There is, then, both locative diversity and unity of subject at play here. A better way to account for this locative diversity and subjective unity — a better way than either positing a unique subject for each emotion or denying that emotions are indeed within your animal body -is to postulate that the subject of your emotions, the thing that has them, is your entire animal body. This body has, of course, various parts at various places (a spinal cord here, some facial flesh there, a toe or two over there), and the activity of these items at least partly explains why the animal body feels this or that. But—and this is the main point—it is the animal body as a whole that feels this or that. Our animals, that is, are good candidates for the emotional office.
The brain may be a fine candidate when it comes to explaining unity of subject; there is typically just one brain within each animal body. But the brain does not include the reddening facial tissue characteristic of embarrassment, or the elevated heartbeat characteristic of fear. If emotions are states of brains alone, as would be the case were our brains the proper candidate for the emotional office, why should those states so invariably involve these other body parts?
Olson and Hershenov also argue there is a problem of vagueness regarding what exactly the mind is composed of. of the mind is composed of parts directly involved with thinking as suggested by mcmahan and parfit, then it is hard to explain why the oxygen which travels through my body allowing my body to function is not part of my mind. it is similarly hard to explain why our body’s heat, or energy isn’t part of our mind since they allow neurons to fire. olson also points out that not every part of the neuron is similarly involved in the sending of electrical or chemical messages to other neurons. some serve other tasks like maintaining structural integrity of the cell or removal of its wastes.
hershenov gives multiple analogies to support this:
The idea of claiming that only the brain is directly involved in the production of thought is like saying only the chef’s cooking of the vegetables in the sauce pan is directly involved in the production of the vegetable dish while her picking the vegetables, washing them, cutting and shaping them, freezing or otherwise preserving them, heating the fire, keeping it lit, placing the frying pan on the fire, adding and draining oil in the pan etc. are not directly involved in the production of the meal. At most, some chef activities are more directly involved in the production of the meal than other prep activities like the growing, picking, preserving or storing of the food, the making of the sauce pan, adding oil to it, or lighting and keeping lit the fire under the sauce pan. Maybe this is because they can be used in the production of a different meal. But they are all activities directly involved in the production of the meal and not just upstream causal contributions. The tending of the fire, adding fuel or puffs of air, removing some of the crispy exterior of the vegetables or non-edible parts or draining the fat or oil is as constitutive of the meal production as placing the prepared vegetables in the sauce pan and frequently stirring them.
the body’s heat and the body’s energy production that enables neurons to fire and receive signals are like lighting and keeping the stove or grill lit and coating the pan with oil. Cutting, shaping, freezing, refrigerating, storing, adding preservatives, seasoning, oil and other prepping of the vegetables is like the body’s maintenance and perfusion of the brain’s neurons which keeps them free from damage, toxins, decay, disease, etc. The removal of fat, stems, leaves, oil, or cooking residue is like the body’s removal of waste productions created by the brain’s chemical reactions; the planting, growing, tending, picking and preparation of the food is akin to the body’s growth, fine tuning and pruning of the brain’s neurons etc.; Maybe, the firing of the neurons is like the placing and stirring of the food in the sauce pan but neither can make a respective claim to solely being directly involved in the production of the meal or thought and everything else done by the chef or animal body not being directly involved. Life processes are not just something earlier and causally upstream of thought production. The very activities of the brain such as neurons firing are dependent and thoroughly intertwined with life processes – heating, energizing, fueling, protecting, stabilizing, building, maintaining, removing matter. The neurons fire because they are alive and they are alive and functioning because they are caught up in the organism’s life processes. Life is constitutive of thought.
in summary of this section i conclude the embodied mind view is implausible since it is unmotivated, has a problem of too many thinkers, isn’t the best candidate for us feeling, and we cannot determine what exactly is involved with a mind.
CONSTITUTIONALISM
response to these concerns, some may argue (lynn baker, sydney shoemaker, johnston) that animals think derivatively and that we experience and think non derivatively since we experience and think in first person. they might even say the animal thinks derivatively since it is the animal that constitutes the person. as baker argues, we are animals but only in a derivative sense since our animal is what constitutes us.
baker writes
The Constitution View holds that something is a person in virtue of having a capacity for what I shall call a 'first-person perspective.' Something is a human person in virtue of being a person constituted by a body that is an organism of a certain kind - a human animal. Minds are not what distinguish persons from other things. The fact that persons have mental or conscious states provides no boundary between persons and nonpersons, according to the Constitution View. Many mammals have mental states of belief and desire; many mammals have conscious states.
What marks persons off from everything else in the world, I shall argue, is that a person has a complex mental property: a first-person perspective that enables one to conceive of one's body and mental states as one's own. We human persons are animals in that we are constituted by animals, but, having first-person perspectives, we are not "just animals." We are persons.
but this view seems to rely constitutionalism. of course, if this mereological view can be showed to be false, then so can the constitution view.
constitutionalism holds that material objects are well, constituted by other material things. the most famous example is the statue and the lump of clay. or david and the lump. the constitutionalist here argues that although there are 2 materially coincided objects, there need not be a problem of too many objects or too many thinkers since they differ in historical and modal properties.
it’s important to note that constitutionalists argue that although x constitutes y, x and y aren’t identical.
borrowing from baker:
1.discobolus is essentially a statue
2.BP is not essentially a statue
3.BP ≠ discobolus
(BP meaning bronze piece)
(discobolus is the name of the statue)
There are a number of concerns with the constitution view, some of which are identical to the problems associated with the EMA, namely, the thinking animal problem. If I am a material object composed of x atoms, a non-animal which can think, why can’t the animal, composed of the exact same atoms, think as well? There doesn’t seem to be any good answer to this, and thus the constitution view can be rejected on these grounds, as there is clearly only one thinker sitting in my chair. There is also the problem of indiscernibility, what exactly makes us non-animals, given that we are physically indistinguishable from them? The main answer given here is that we have different persistence conditions, our existence is rooted in psychological continuity, whereas animals are not. But what about animals makes them able to survive things, such as a brain injury that renders it a vegetable, we cannot? What difference can we point to? There doesn’t seem to be any.
Per Eric Olson;
How can putting the same parts together in the same way in the same circumstances give you qualitatively different wholes? If the same atoms can compose two things at once, what could make those two things qualitatively different? What could give them different mental properties, or different persistence conditions, or different modal properties? If atoms really could compose more than one object at once—if numerically different objects could coincide materially— should we not expect those objects to be qualitatively identical?
now, the constitualist may respond by appealing to a difference in kind. they may say the lump of clay can be squished and moved around and rolled up while surviving, yet the statue cannot be said to do similar things. but this only pushes the can down the road. on what plausible view of mereology can we posit the existence of 2 material coincident objects that are identical to each other yet still have differing persistence conditions.
in response to this type of concern constitutionalists can appeal to relational differences and historical differences between the david and the lump. the proponent of the former objection states the lump of clay is a different kind of thing than david since it was made by a clay maker with the intent on making a lump of clay. but an artist made david with the intent on making a statue and so they are different in historical facts.
but this response suffers from the fact that not all material objects differ in historical relations to each other as gibbard shows:
I make a clay statue of the infant Goliath in two pieces, one the part above the waist and the other the part below the waist. Once I finish the two halves, I stick them together, thereby bringing into existence simultaneously a new piece of clay and a new statue. A day later I smash the statue, thereby bringing to an end both statue and piece of clay. The statue and the piece of clay persisted during exactly the same period of time.
Here, I am tempted to say, the statue and the piece of clay are identical.
They began at the same time, and on any usual account, they had the same shape, location, color, and so forth at each instant in their history; everything that happened to one happened to the other; and the act that destroyed the one destroyed the other.
in this hypothetical that is provided it is clear there are no historical differences between goliath and the lump. for they are identical in virtually every way. on what grounds are we to deny constitution in this case is not identity? of course, one may say constitution is identity, but then the constitution view suffers from a problem of too many thinkers in organisms as it would posit the existence of a thinking organism, and a thinking mind. there would also be an epistemic problem of uncertainty. how could i ever know if i was the mind or the animal if they are both identical?
If we are wrong
but what if we are wrong about personal identity? how does this affect the pro life position and more specifically don marquis’s future like ours argument?
well, remember the future like ours argument is build upon the idea fetuses share identity to future beings that are persons and can experience like us. even the organism is not the proper subject of experience, or the problem subject that thinks, it doesn’t follow it isn’t a relevant subject of experience or harm.
we can make use of the constitution view we have criticized in this post. if animals constitute persons, then animals can be said to think and experience in a derivative sense. thus, killing a fetus could still be wrong since it deprives it of a derivate future like ours.
some critics of this argument concede fetuses have a derivative future like ours but deny this has any significance. skott brill argues this(2019) in response to vogelstein who defenses marquis.
however, it is not uncommon composite wholes can inherit a property from their parts integrated within themselves. it is not uncommon for a composite to inherit a property derivatively from its part and that property be morally relevant. although in some cases we may doubt the truth of this. it is obvious this framework stands in other cases:
a man is said to be strong since he has strong muscles. a car honks in virtue of its horn(mcmahn). a cat walks in virtue of its legs. if in all of these cases a composite inherits a property that can be said to be morally relevant to the composite in virtue of its part, why can’t we say something similar for the fetus and human organisms in relation to thinking and experiencing?
dean strentton objects to this type of reasoning by saying it implies murder is more wrong than originally thought:
Can it be claimed, in other words, that having a derivative future of value gives the foetus a (non-derivative) right to life? I believe not. For suppose a derivative future of value does confer a right to life.
Then a non-derivative future of value must also confer a right to life. But this would mean that, in the case of all normal adult humans, there are two beings present that possess a right to life: an organism (which has the right in virtue of having a derivative future of value), and a person (which has the right in virtue of having a non-derivative future of value). This is counterintuitive: surely if I kill someone I violate only one being's right to life. Even if there are in fact two beings present - an organism and a person
there is surely only one that (non-derivatively) deserves our value and respect, has special moral status, and so on: only one has a right to life. To hold the contrary - that is, that both have a right to life - would entail that the murder of a normal adult human is substantially more wrong than we are normally inclined to think: wrong because it violates the right to life of the person, then doubly wrong (or at least substan- tially more wrong) because it also violates the right to life of a second entity, the organism. This is also counterintuitive: surely murder is not substantially more wrong than we are normally inclined to think.
but i believe strenttons objection is not much of an objection and if his objection is a serious problem as it may appear at first glance.
to begin with, think about what it means for something to be constituted by another thing.
baker writes:
On my view, if x constitutes y at t, then both x and y borrow properties at t from each other.) The intuitive idea of borrowing a property or of having a property derivatively is simple. If x constitutes y at t, then some of x's properties at t have their source (so to speak) in y, and some of y's properties at t have their source in x.

an example would be a man and his relation to his muscles. the man is strong derivatively since he is borrowing a property(his muscles) at a certain time. but it’s still true to say he is strong, and his muscles are strong. there doesn’t seem to be any counterintuitive reasoning here.
i apply the same logic to strenttons counter example. killing an adult human organism may end 2 flo’s just like when a man does a bicep curl his arm and biceps are directly lifting the weight while he is lifting the weigh derivatively. but this is not problematic since the relationship between constitution and identity is so intimately paired., we can think of killing an adult human like a judge sentencing a man to 400 years in prison. while killing a fetus similar to sentencing a man to 200 years in prison. yes, in the former case the sentencing is worse than the latter. yet in both cases the maximum punishment necessary to punish the guy has been exceeded and well maximized. we can contend something similar here. the death of a fetus is technically less bad than the death of an adult. but the way in which it is less bad does not make a difference since the badness of death has already been maximized by the deprivation of the derivative flo.
lastly, even if this objection is successful, all i think it would also serve as an argument against constitutionalism.
baker makes it clear the constitution is not identity, but rather a unity based relation. she also makes it clear a composite having a derivative property is morally relevant since, as she admits, constitution is extremely close to being identity.
she writes
But if being essentially a person were a distinct property from being contingently a person, or if being nonderivatively a person were a distinct property from being derivatively a person, none of those "properties" could be borrowed.
but clearly the baker can’t claim the composite cannot barrow any properties from its parts in any meaningful relevant sense.
after all, Baker's entire argument hinges on chisholm’s idea of borrowing properties. does baker not say if x constitutes y and time t, then x and y both borrow properties from each other?
and of course if she cannot argue that properties borrowed by the whole from the part is not relevant, then she must argue it is relevant. hence, strenttons argument seems like an objection to the constitution view since it would challenge the redundancy of the constitution view. and of course i can say whatever the constitutionalist wants to say to get around it, and if they can’t, then i think this makes my argument easier since i have 1 less popular view that is being defended.
conclusion
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2023.12.29 11:22 ASIC_SP Reviews for favorite fantasy and sci-fi novels I read in 2023

Reviews for favorite fantasy and sci-fi novels I read in 2023
I read 100+ fictional novels in 2023, including re-reads. Most of them were fantasy, rest would fall under sci-fi and magical realism. Progression fantasy continued to be my favorite subgenre.
In this post, I've listed the books/series that I rated 5 out of 5. For some entries, only a short description is provided followed by links to my spoiler filled reviews. Picking favorites is a tough task, so I have ordered the books by dates I read them. I've also listed honorable mentions at the end.
The links lead to the book page on goodreads, from where I've copied a portion of the blurbs for this post.
Collage of 10 book covers

The Weirkey Chronicles by Sarah Lin

Blurb:
Betrayed. Murdered. Reborn. One last chance, to make it right. Theo's adventure ended with his mentor's hands around his neck. The betrayal cost him his friends, allies and everything he had built... but not his life. Though broken and powerless, Theo has one last chance to enter the Nine Worlds, wielding the knowledge and expertise of his first life. This time, he needs more than just power, he needs to unravel the deception that killed him once... and is coming for him again.
Review:
The Weirkey Chronicles is one of my favorite ongoing progression fantasy series. The magic system is amazing and I immensely enjoy reading the main characters going about their crafting, working with each other, fighting, etc. The mystery of the overarching plot and the worldbuilding is great.
There are plenty of slice-of-life scenes too, which is a plus-point for me, especially when paired with compelling characters.
Books 6 and 7 were released this year. See my posts Bloodcrete and Wakespire for detailed reviews with spoilers.

The Captain by Will Wight

Blurb:
Sun-eating extra-dimensional insects, shadowy secret organizations, genetically enhanced alien super-soldiers, ruthless megacorporations, and hordes of cyborg undead all lurk in the darkest corners of the galaxy, and Varic knows that any of them can become a world-ending threat at any moment. All these are beyond any wizard, no matter how many spells he’s mastered or how many interstellar warships he’s rallied to his cause. Hopeless, Varic finds himself trying to preserve what little he can from the coming doom. Until he hears rumors of a mythical starship, an invincible vessel of heroes made to do battle against galactic threats. A ship called The Last Horizon.
Review:
This was an action packed beginning to a new series by Will Wight. Not often do you see such an expansive setting starting with main characters already close to their peak in terms of abilities. In a galaxy where various kinds of sentient beings co-exist, magic and tech intermingle, a mysterious starship manned by powerful crew members battle against existential crisis. In short, imagine an Avengers-like movie being the first introduction to the series.
In terms of worldbuilding, I'd say it was overwhelming a bit due to the sheer amount of variety. There's a trilogy worth of content packed into a book that's less than 500 pages. During one of the battles, Varic mentions mega-reptiles that feed on migratory flocks of extradimensional prey. In one simulation, he witnesses the birth of a solar dragon while using magic to protect that solar system. These are just footnote examples, easily forgotten unless you revisit copious chapter notes like I did.
I'd say the writing was on par with the best Cradle books. All of the main characters (including antagonists) had memorable traits and tics. Unlike Cradle, not all of the crew members were likeable, though there's room for them to grow in the sequels.
Overall, I'd highly recommend this book for those who enjoy a group of competent characters making a stand against overwhelming threats. Bloopers were hilarious as usual. The sequel (The Engineer) was good but I didn't enjoy as much as the first book.

The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells by John Bierce

Blurb:
A new kind of war has come to the continent of Ithos. Airborne mage armies traverse enemy territory in utter secrecy. Vast city-liches conspire to influence events from afar, while city-states and archmages unleash strange new magics in a rapidly accelerating magical arms race. Nations and great powers that have remained quiescent for years have begun reaching out into the growing power vacuum. Magical superweapons and giant monsters are wielded by every side in an deadly tangle of alliances and factions, as each squabbling force spirals in towards their inevitable final conflict. At the center of that spiral lays the capital of the Havath Dominion, where a vengeful madman has proclaimed the precise date and time he will destroy the city.
Review:
Mage Errant is one of my all time favorite series. Especially loved how Hugh, Talia, Sabae and Godrick had complete trust in each other. Despite the escalating events as the series progressed, this series was a comfort read for me.
The final book was an amazing conclusion to the series. The battle build up, powerful mages and great powers battling it out, we even get a glimpse of Named powers fighting it out, and so on. Plenty of revelations and foundation laid for future series.
See my post for the spoiler filled review.

Scion of Storms by Samuel Hinton

Blurb:
It's time for Raysha to embrace her power. After an arduous journey to integrate an ancient spirit heart into her core, Raysha sets out to prove her worth in the Academy's tournament. Raysha must find a path, forge her own techniques, and advance to the Initiate. But as the clock ticks down to the start of the contest, will she be able to prepare and overcome the fierce competition from the student elite? Can she control the vast ocean of aeon with sheer stubbornness and claim victory? Provided the tournament is a straightforward content of will and power, Raysha is determined to find a way. Political incidents, internal and international, are something she'd like to stay in her past.
Review:
This was a fantastic follow up to "Soul Relic". The main focus was on training, advancing and the tournament (limited to students at the Awakened and Initiate stages). As with the first book, there were plenty of slice-of-life scenes. I especially enjoyed the scenes featuring the misfits group and their banter. The third book (Sanctuary) was another good entry.
See my posts Scion of Storms and Sanctuary for detailed reviews.

Waybound by Will Wight

Blurb:
Years ago, Lindon left his home as a powerless Unsouled. Now, he goes to war with the most powerful beings in the world over the future of Cradle itself. The Weeping Dragon has a grudge to settle, and Lindon intends to take out the Dreadgod with his friends by his side. But rival Monarchs know his plans, and they won’t let things end so easily. If Lindon does win, he will ascend to the heavens. But he may not find a safe haven there either. In the worlds above, Suriel and Ozriel face off against the Mad King to determine the new shape of the cosmos. The victor will decide the fate of countless universes. Whether he wins or dies, Lindon will soon leave this life behind. The time has come to say good-bye to Cradle.
Review:
What a journey! I started Cradle after the release of the fifth book (Ghostwater) and since then I've always started the newest book on release day. One of the best ever series I've had the pleasure to discover, thanks to the many gushing reviews I saw on this sub.
Characters, worldbuilding, the magic system, high-stakes action scenes and humor make Cradle special for me. Despite the epic scale, it is a fun read, unlike what you usually see in (grim)dark works. Perfect for the escapism I crave. And it has great reread value, especially after the reveals in books 8 and 10. I did a full reread in preparation for the final — felt like I channeled Lindon's will power to alternate between reading and getting work done over three weeks!
See my post for the spoiler filled review.

Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke

Blurb:
The gods chose him. He said no. After his parents died, Alex Roth had one desire: become a wizard. Through hard work, he was accepted into the University of Generasi, the world’s greatest academy of wizardry... Fate, however, had another plan. On his eighteenth birthday, he is Marked by prophecy as one of his kingdom’s five Heroes, chosen to fight the Ravener, his land’s great enemy. But his brand is 'The Fool'. Worst of the marks. Rather than die or serve other Heroes like past Fools, he takes a stand, rejects divine decree…and leaves. With his little sister, his childhood friend, and her cerberus, Alex flees for the university, hoping to research the mystery of the Ravener.
Review:
Another progression fantasy series that hit just the right spot for me. The main character's choice to run away from the prophecy and see to his own needs (and that of his sister and friends) was a nice hook to start the story. This might eventually turn out to be just a part of a grand plan of the prophecy itself, still it was good to see this difference from the usual trope.
And then there were the thrilling action scenes, the world slowly opening up, the magical academy and all the lessons, wonderful cast of characters and familiars. The tone was light hearted despite the dangers. The academy instructors being competent and helpful was another plus point in my book. To top it all were the slice-of-life scenes, which I prefer over series that focus just on action. Of course, this series goes a bit overboard on this aspect. I still finished four long books in about five days, but I can see how some readers would drop the series.
The magic system was interesting, with a variety of choice available. It was nice to see non-magical parts being given importance as well! I enjoyed Alex having to come up with workarounds due to his Mark, especially the weaponization of potions. Though, I wondered why other wizards didn't already use them or at least learn from him. Some of his rich friends could easily arm themselves with such potions instead of borrowing from him. And that extends to other options like wizard staff, armor, golems and so on. They are rich, so why aren't they making effective use of their inheritance? To be fair, some did have retainers, familiars and golems, but it felt a bit odd that they didn't maximize their options.
Writing was easy to follow. Given the large cast of characters, I wish they each got POV chapters instead of just some of them. This is an ongoing webserial and the published books don't really have a separate arc on their own. I found the third book a bit dragging, especially as the events promised at the end of the second one were fulfilled in the fourth book! I did enjoy the tournament arc, but it took me a while to realize the plot switch. I enjoyed the fifth book as well!
Overall, I'd highly recommend the series to those who enjoy progression fantasy, magical academy and slice-of-life.

Harper Hall of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Blurb:
Every two hundred years or so, shimmering Threads fall from space, raining death and black ruin on Pern. The great dragons of Pern hurl themselves through the beleagured skies, flaming tongues of fire to destroy deadly Thread and save the Planet. But it was not Threadfall that made young Menolly unhappy. It was her father who betrayed her ambition to be a Harper, who thwarted her love of music. Menolly had no choice but to run away. When, suddenly, she came upon a group of fire lizards, wild and smaller relatives of the fire-breathing dragons, she let her music swirl around them and taught nine of them to sing. Suddenly Menolly was no longer alone -- she was Mistress of Music and Ward of the dazzling fire dragons.
Review:
The first two books focus on Menolly, who just wants to learn and play music. She can't but help write new songs and would sing to any audience, even a bunch of fire-lizards (they are the best). She faces opposition from her family and then students from Harper Hall. But, she also gets plenty of support from her fellow artists and other kind-hearted people. Along the way, she makes friends and grows from a shy girl to a confident woman. It's a journey we've seen in plenty of fantasy books, and this was one of the best I've read.
The third book was a departure from the first two books, so much so that I feel it should've been a separate mini-series. Yes, the main protagonist (Piemur) is still a Harper Hall member and a close friend of Menolly. But there's hardly any music, I especially missed reading about Menolly and her fire-lizards performing. Also, similar to the first two books, the main character faces unwarranted hostility. Thankfully, the second-half was much better, even if it was an adventurous ride instead of fulfilling music.
Overall, I found the series a comfort read, despite the side-characters who made life difficult for others. I wish the books were longer too.

Mother of Learning by Nobody103 (Domagoj Kurmaić)

Blurb:
Zorian Kazinski has all the time in the world to get stronger, and he plans on taking full advantage of it. A teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, Zorian is attending his third year of education at Cyoria's magical academy. A driven and quiet young man, he is consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, resenting the Kazinskis for favoring his brothers over him. Consequently, Zorian has no time for pointless distractions, much less other people's problems. As it happens, though, time is something he is about to get plenty of. On the eve of Cyoria's annual summer festival, Zorian is murdered, then abruptly brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take the train to school. Finding himself trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, he will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery set before him. He does have to unravel it, too, because the loop clearly wasn’t made for his sake, and in a world of magic even a time traveler isn't safe from those who wish him ill. Fortunately for Zorian, repetition is the mother of learning…
Review:
The first few chapters were a bit slow and Zorian (main POV character) was annoying to say the least. Speaking from hindsight, they were needed to set up the plot and the character growth was more satisfying as well. Once we got introduced to the time-loop, things got interesting real fast and it was a breeze to finish the rest of this long series in less than a week.
Most loops covered something new, introduced new characters (or covered them in more depth), etc — so don't worry that things would be repetitive. I enjoyed the characters progressing in terms of magical power, getting better at information gathering, etc. As I kept reading, I felt like these four long books wouldn't be enough — turns out that the author had cut short a few sub-plots!
As the title indicates, there was plenty of learning involved. Though the magical academy plays an important role, most of the actual learning we got to see was through mentoring from all sorts of people, including some very surprising choices. And almost all of the teachers had weird quirks, which I came to appreciate as the story moved forward. The mystery of the time-loop and characters involved were a main driving force. Even though there were plenty of slice-of-life scenes, I'd say the pacing was great. Hardly any dull moment and I just wanted to finish the books ASAP. Good thing I was reading a completed series, the wait would've been excruciating!
One of the annoying things at the start of the first book for me was Zorian's attitude towards his family. He did have some genuine complaints, but I do not prefer reading novels with such family angst. Things did improve a lot by the end and I especially came to enjoy interactions with his sister. But overall, it was a sore point. Zorian's various dates were another thing I disliked (they made sense due to the time-loops and stuff from the past, but I felt like it was overdone).
On the other hand, I loved the various characters who ended up as friends and acquaintances. They played a big role in shaping Zorian to become a better person. Speaking of characters, the various antagonists were well written too. Not everybody was clearly good or bad, and from a certain perspective you could even switch the sides.
The magic system was nicely done, though I found it harder to keep track of abilities and stuff as the series progressed. Some of it was probably because time-loops were skipped and some things got explained during action scenes. I didn't mind though, as I was more interested in the plot and characters. The finish was really, really well done! So many surprising twists and turns till the very end. Overall, an amazing fantasy series that I'd highly recommend.

Silvers by Brian J. Nordon

Blurb:
A world infested by demons. An Academy designed to train Heroes to save humanity from annihilation. A new student's power could make all the difference. Humans have been pushed to the brink of extinction by an ever-evolving demonic threat. Portals are opening faster than ever, Towers bursting into the skies and Dungeons being mined below the last safe havens of society. The demons are winning. Quest Academy stands defiantly against them, as a place to train the next generation of Heroes. The Guild Association is holding the line, but are in dire need of new blood and the powerful abilities they could bring to the battlefront. To be the saviors that humanity needs, they need to surpass the limits of those that came before them. In a war with everything on the line, every power matters. With an adaptive enemy, comes the need for a constant shift in tactics. A new age of strategy is emerging, with even the unlikeliest of Heroes making an impact. Salvatore Argento has never seen a demon. He has never aspired to become a Hero. Yet his power might be the one to tip the odds in humanity's favor.
Review:
This book had a nice blend of magical studies and slice-of-life scenes. There's a bit of action as well towards the end. I especially enjoyed the crafting sessions. The author did a great job of bringing together the Heros who needed the magical items, guild politics, support staff, teachers and Sal (main character) using his unique powers related to crafting.
Sal had a really overpowered magical ability — I thought he (and other such OP students) would've been pulled from the academy and fast tracked to work as much as possible against the demons. That said, only a month passed in this book and the already established safe zones are perhaps good enough to not require desperate attempts. It didn't really feel like there was an apocalypse going on. I don't mind though — it made for a very enjoyable lighthearted read.
Writing was easy to follow and characters were well written, including side characters. Other than the first few chapters that felt a bit slow, there never was a dull moment — I didn't want the book to end! I had a few more nitpicks, but overall this was a fantastic experience.

A Coup of Tea by Casey Blair

Blurb:
When the fourth princess of Istalam is due to dedicate herself to a path serving the crown, she makes a choice that shocks everyone, herself most of all: She leaves. In hiding and exiled from power, Miyara finds her place running a tea shop in a struggling community that sits on the edge of a magical disaster zone. But there's more brewing under the surface of this city—hidden magic, and hidden machinations—that threaten all the people who've helped her make her own way. Miyara may not be a princess anymore, but with a teapot in hand she'll risk her newfound freedom to discover a more meaningful kind of power.
Review:
This was a delightful read. There really wasn't much in terms of action, but the pacing was great throughout thanks to a good plot with a bit of mystery and skillfully crafted tension between characters. The romantic sub-plots were fine, but I wish there were more POVs to get a better feel for their experiences.
The different ways of performing magic were intriguing and played a significant role in the plot even though we don't get much in terms of details. I especially liked that magecraft could be learned as a skill and yet had a neat restriction.
The tea ceremony was very interesting. Initially, I found it a bit hard to believe the kind of training tea masters had to go through until I got a better sense of what they did (hint: it's not just about concocting tea). Overall, despite the higher stakes and emotional stuff, this was a heartwarming read.

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2023.12.28 07:31 jensyao Sohh Thread Title Archives 1

The official "Who produced this?" thread
After listening to the "Just Us Bootleg CD's" by Justus Leage, my conclusion is...
Recommend a song that was sampled
SAIGON INTERVIEW..dissing rappers (as usual!) link inside...
Real talk: Why do whiteboys like skeleton girls??
selfish= Pimp's anthem?
new az album "final call on it's way
What are the 3 groups that u're mad they never made it and never will????????
link to the guy getting kicked in the face while is girl is watching in horror
So i guess the movement really is to powerfull.
RIP Weezie from the Jeffersons
What do Ya think about This New Whip!?!
2nd Disc of Streetz Disciple will be the rerelease of Bravehearted
TERROR SQUAD have the best album of the year-TRU STORY!
Picture of BANG'EM SMURF
Cormega's The Realness was a solo debut as good as any, even Illmatic and RD
*watches horse and carriage video*
New Trax
Mc Battle In Miami, Fl Aug, 30th
Black Thought Is Sick Right?
Wtf is this "Straight Vox" version of Flap Your Wings?
Southern Rappers Are Not Gangster
salsa y merengue is quite possibly the worst genre of music ever created
If Nas Disses Eminem...
OMG I cant believe it . Saigon dissed Jadakiss
Slow Motion is the BBQ Jam of the past few years.
Chicago Heads...Essence of Hip Hop Show THIS FRIDAY!!! $1 ADMISSION(July 16th) L-Win.
Couple had sex on stage during concert
Do you get mad when you hear people bumpin whack music???
Pete Rock's Official Website (With Detailed Discography, Biography, Etc.)
As much as i hate eminem
People need to acknowledge Havoc stepping up his rap game
Clipse,MullyMan & Famlay-"Show Em' That U Got It" {link!}
Before R&B Usher Starred in a Famous Movie?!
Vik Vaughn Homeless
can someone yousendit the last 5 lloyd banks tracks
Outthere Got Beats Part 3 ((((just Giving Yall A Glimspe Of My Future))))
Dear God.... UGHHHH!!!! (pic of ashanti)
yo movement i need help!
Kanye West - 18 Years
Best Single Out Right Now......
Luda finally responds to TI on the same track!
"Lifes a B!tch" Metaphors of Rap....
213- Produced by Kanye West
Chamillionaire ****ing Wrecked Mike (Dyke) Jones
Has anyone seen these pics of LIL KIM?..Nasty..
r kelly has jungle fever!
Know thy SOHH history
Rapperz From North Jerz
When is Common droppin?
Artists you will never give a chance to just b/c of their names
TV Theme Songs Sampled Thread(keep adding)
any body got a Link 2 Do or Die & Kanye`s joint Higher
THE OFFICIAL: SOHH BEAT BATTLE (all producers enter)
Hershe: Too Many Bars To Count---heat!!!
Weezie dead
B.g new advance album life after cash money..how the mighty have fallen
Rappers you don't know what they look like or wouldn't recognize on the street
Need Help Guys...
"Rocafella died of pulmonary fibrosis that was the end of his chapter"
LMAO@ "No Cam's Dad"
What happened to Scarlett that used to be down with 50 & G-Unit BEFORE they blew up?!
March 3, 1994... is when Game aka Chuck Taylor caught his first BODY...
The King Has RETURNED... Act Y'all Like Muthaf*ckers Know
LOL @ the idiots screaming "CULO" & not knowing what it really means...
mark my words, GAME is gonna be a PROBLEM!
I just got fired from ups
Ghostface- Keisha's House...2004 instant Classic.
Aight.. Whos familiar with saigon?!
Which is Better Black Booty or Spanish Booty?
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LMAO, B2K Member may face Jail,,,, Thats Gangsta
mc ren: shock of the hour
Jus An Example: "Let's Get Away" -vs- "Sunshine"
The Tipping Point out 2day
8 Terror Squad Bonus Tracks (Complete Your 'True Story')
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it's obvious that hip-hop has grown in 2004
Cuban Link confirms that not only Fat Joe cut him, that JOE has GHOSTWRITERS too!
Finished listening to Devin the Dude's new CD.
News on Nas new album
Nuggets cut Master P
LOL@ dudes who sing along to female parts of songs in clubs
Whats the SOHH picture page?
Why don't they make a new stop the violence record?
Infamous vs ATLiens
Who's deeper in the Streets (For all my thugs)
Penthouse Players Clique
Juvenile Leaves Cash Money Again....
another new JAY-Z TRACK??? (link inside)
Shootouts VS 99 Problems
-------Jay Z and BarberShop 2--------
Justin Timberlake brought back a forgotton part of Hip Hop: Beat Boxing
What movement is ruining hip hop at the fastest rate
It's official, Game is gonna do 50 Cent numbers, maybe take 50's spot even
The Realest Members Of Sohh™
Fabolous vs Lloyd Banks
It's Back! R Kelly Pick Up Lines
"Ima double up, Ima put 8 rings on one hand, Ima wear 42 chains..."
I met ........
Who here still buys albums?
Tim Duncan's wife... I shoulda known (pic inside)
Sheds a tear for Apollo Creed
DJ Premier to produce the entire Nas lp after Streets Disciple drops, 10 years late
And this is exactly What Defines a Crakka Muthafuka
LMAO At this whiteboy who told me he was a Five Percenter...
Come on MAN,,, Cam VS Em = Paid in Full VS 8 Mile
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loud a$$ black people at movie theaters
Last emporer is an uncle tom ass kisser
Who Produced Breathe by Fab?
That chicago Bulls jersey chain piece that r. kelly had on in twista's new video is
Serious EMCEES who need BEATS, ENTER...
Can we all agree that Skillz is a little too obsessed with this Shaq beef?
Damn, Free just sh*tted on Nick Cannon's attempt at being "gangsta"
Benzino = wackest mc with the hottest beats but his new song is hot...
New Untouchables= another weak attempt by benzino tryin to prove he gangsta
Whats a good program that will play all MPEG and AVI videos?
O'Reilly Is going To Speak On Rap Again On His Show Today.
In All Seriousness I Dont Think I've Ever Heard A Wack Rza Beat
When I hear the beginning of "Lean Back" I keep thinking a Jada track is about to...
The Drag-On & Twista- Twisted Heat Appreciation Thread
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Eminem & d- block classic sh*t
Anyone have "Dr. Dre - Sunshine"
What You Think Of Songs Used In T....
Benzino & Major Damage -"WaistBand"..is kinda hot!{link}!
Someone find me link to them white dudes wit no neck freestylin
How many of ya'll think this booty is nice?
"...indeed I touched a few movie stars and entertainers"
Is that Lil Zane in that Scion banner ad SOHH has?
"When you @ the foul line, I feel bad 4 u son/you had 99 free thows and can't make 1"
How do ya'll say M&M is one of the best ever when he don't even got a classic lp??
!!!New Beats by yours...L-Win Productions!!!!HOT FIYAH!!!!
HEADS with large MP3 Collections:Looking for A G Unit Freestyle-WILL TRADE ANYTHING!
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Piazza Catching Clemens In All Star Game.
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Sage Francis makes Blender "100" List
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State The Most Notorious GANG IN Yo CITY!
*EXCLUSIVE*Angie Martinez From Hot 97 Confirms Roc-A-Fella Just .............
Outthere And Jack Tripper Hooking Up In The Studio! (Pic)
PERSONAL Classics!!!
Prodigy vs. Nas Head To Head
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Eminem’s new protégé!!!
OMG Juelz ***tana disses Gay-z again. Will jay answer Juelz like he did with FatJoe?
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What PC Games You Playin?
Carlos Mencia
Stuart Scott tries to hard pt II
Fat Joe Talks so much ****(Dre & Easy E related)
When You Retire from Sohh: Wha'ts Ya Legacy??
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Looking back, Ma$e - Harlem World... Classic?
No Eastcoast artist under the age of 30 can drop an album hotter than these..
Tony Montana vs Tony Soprano
When your peeps decide to....
Olsen Twins Remake Outkast "Roses"
Jay-z wrote all verses On Braveheart Party (No bull****)_CAUGHT THAT FROM NAS"S MB(
flip dissin T.I. on 106
Cash Money Records?
who remembers when charlie baltimore dissed mase? lol
Whatta We Think?
Hip Hop One Hit Wonders!!!!!!!!!!!
REALTALK: whoever says angie mar is wack emcee never heard her albums...
Young Buck or Lloyd Bank$
wu tang clan vs dip set. which group is better?
Will Buck outsold Banks?!?!?
Rip Nelly's Career 2000-2004
Better Beat: Grindin vs. In Da Club
Eminem's Son & Obie Trice Live on Stage
OT - *NSYNC is BACK
Halle Berry is not Irrevelent in the Movie World
Murdah Muzik vs Liquid Swords
Jewelz aka A.I vs Juelz Santana
Ghostwritten For & Ghostwriters...
U wanna know where I'm from?
Dopest crew/label in their prime???
"...and if Game's a Certified Gangsta, then who's givin out certificates"-Joe Buddens
Mase-Welcome_Back-(REAL_RETAIL)-2004-***
Whats the oldie at the beggining of Snoop Doggs "You Thought" Off Dogfather Album?
Ciara is the Lumidee of 2004
Best rapper not to have a classic album
What was Death Row's best album?
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2023.12.23 04:12 paulwreilly Family lost history of this painting

Family lost history of this painting
This is a beloved painting that been with my parents since their parents passed in the early 90s. But so little is known and we would love to know more. The image is St Patrick's Cathedral NYC. We believe the painting was purchased in the mid 1950s in Orange NJ. Their is no signature that we can find (front or back), but we believe the artist was named Olson/Olsen. It is definitely oil on canvas. That is everything we know, and the entire family lives it. We would love to out a name to it if the artist,
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2023.12.19 23:27 CrystalLakeClickbait The (Unofficial) Timeline of Dead by Daylight

The (Unofficial) Timeline of Dead by Daylight
DBD Killer Timeline Tier List (left is earlier, right is later)
(3500) 2700-1450 BCE (1100): Legend of the Minotaur originates with the Ancient Minoans before being adopted by people of what will later be known as Ancient Greece.
1894-539 BCE: Ancient Babylonia (The Birth, Rise, Fall, and Death of Adiris) It’s possible that the Biblical Tower of Babel may have been the inspiration for the Temple of Purgation (or vice versa).
1100-1200/1800s (1862/1865): Legend of Krampus originates.
1300: Ash fights the Army of Darkness.
1343: Vittorio Toscano is born in Italy, possibly in Sicily or Tuscany.
Tarhos Kovács is born in Hungary sometime after, likely in the 1360s.
1391: Vittorio Toscano hires Tarhos Kovács for his expedition to find Lapis Parasidius. The two travel together for months, likely years, before Kovács betrays Vittorio and frees his friends. All of them end up in the Entity's realm not long after the betrayal.
Early 1600s: The Twins are born in France and spend their childhood being pursued by angry mobs and witch hunters. By age five, Charlotte was the main provider for the family after their mother fell ill. Their mother is eventually burned at the stake as a witch, leaving the children at the mercy of the Black Vale occultists. Victor is eventually killed in their attempt to escape and Charlotte lives into her late teens until she is eventually taken by the Entity (possibly after having died of hypothermia?). Charlotte had dreams of escaping on a ship and starting over in the Americas, which were being colonized at this time. "Beware the deceit of witches, for they exploit the goodness in men's hearts." — A History of Witches and Demons (1602)
1755: The first clear recorded reference to the Baba Yaga is made in a Russian Grammar book. She likely existed in oral tradition before this date.
1785: The London School of Medicine (presumably Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry) is founded. Talbot Grimes attends sometime in the 1800s.
1838: Presumably the year Talbot Grimes graduates from the London School of Medicine. His add-on, “Alchemist’s Ring,” features the date, as well as a quote from a “Faculty Reprimand of Talbot Grimes.” Back then, you only had to study for only few years, sometimes only months, to become a Doctor, so Talbot was likely still very young when he completed his education.
4 September 1839 – 29 August 1842: The First Opium War, and Talbot Grimes’ experiments on Dyer Island.*
(Note: While there are multiple islands across the world named Dyer Island, none were used as Penal colonies/camps for POWs during the First Opium War, meaning the island is one of the few geographical locations unique to the DBD universe(s).)
1857: The Crotus Prenn Asylum is established.
1860s: The Lore Guy / Pixel Bush cites it as being sometime around the fall of the Shogunate in the mid-1800s (1868), which seems to be supported by Kazan's tome about him killing "foreign" merchants.
1860: Caleb Quinn is sentenced to (at least) 15 years in Hellshire Penitentiary for the attempted murder and assault of Henry Bayshore.
1875: Caleb Quinn is released from prison, builds The Redeemer, and forms the Hellshire gang. He spends six years in the gang, collecting bounties to be placed in Hellshire Penitentiary.
1876: The date of Gold Creek Whiskey's advertisement, a bottle of which serves as an add-on for the Deathslinger.
1881: Caleb Quinn learns of Henry Bayshore’s purchase of Hellshire Penitentiary and storms the prison with his gang. He leaves Bayshore and the Warden to be killed by inmates and is taken by the Entity sometime during the riot. This is (likely) shortly after the shootout at Glenvale, probably the one that put a bullet through Caleb Quinn’s cheek and broke his jaw.
1887: The Lead Cenobite AKA Pinhead is born as the human British man, Elliot Spencer.
1896: Many of Benedict Baker's entries are dated November 1896, despite him being from the 1950s, indicating the warped nature of time in the Realms of the Entity. The entries include his notes on the Bloodweb, the Entity, the Terror Radius, Killers, Evan MacMillan, Philip Ojomo, and Max Thompson Jr. (the latter two of whom were certainly not from 1896).
1897: February and June, Benedict Baker makes notes referencing the Bloodweb, such as opening the second perk slot and unlocking teachable perks.
Late 1800s: The Mansion that will become the Lery’s Memorial Institute is built sometime in the late 1800s. (Note: This was part of the old map description and the newer version of Lerys looks much more like a typical Cold War-era building.)
28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918: World War I (the Great War, or Anna’s ‘Lovely War’) occurs and Anna hunts the German/Russian soldiers that pass through the Red Forest, taking a doll from them for one of her kidnapped/adopted daughters. (Thank you to Todgeweiht for informing me that the German soldiers’ helmets must have been from before 1916 due to them being discontinued halfway through the war.)
It is generally assumed that Anna was taken by the Entity sometime during or after the war.
1916: After (one of) the battle of Flanders, Elliot Spencer loses faith in humanity and God. He eventually wanders the world until finding the Lament Configuration in 1921 India and being dragged to hell by the Cenobites, joining their ranks as a High Priest of Hell / Lead Cenobite also known as Pinhead.
1877-1910s: September, the Massacre at the Crotus Prenn Asylum leaves 50 patients and staff dead at the hands of the Nurse, who vanishes after capture. (The Nurse has a WWI cosmetic and her default uniform more closely resembles a nurse’s uniform from between the Civil War and WWI era. I assume the 1910s because Sally Smithson worked at the Asylum for upwards of two decades, meaning the absolute earliest would be 1877, 20 years after the Asylum’s founding. The only exact date I can find is that the massacre happened overnight in September.)
NOTE: The Nurse’s Tome cutscene completely disregards everything previously known about Sally Smithson, including base cosmetics, map design, and her alternate cosmetics. The cutscene turns the art-nouveau late 1800s, early 1900s theme of her charactemap design into a more modern 1950s-era asylum/uniform. However, the asylum was also said to use Shock therapy, which didn’t exist until the 1930s, so who knows?
The exact dates for the MacMillan Estate Mine Explosion are unknown but may be anywhere from the late 1800s (1896 if Benedict Baker's journal is correct) to the early/mid 20th century (Nurse is said to be older than Trapper and she is approximately 40 in the 1910s). Likely between 1888 - 1917 since his father uses “socialist” instead of “communist” as an insult.
The new MacMillan Estate rework, especially the control room for the Ironworks and the addition of tank treads, makes it look much more early-to-mid-20th century. The cars on the map presumably belong to those who “disappeared” i.e. were taken by the Entity from the Estate after it was condemned.
The real-life history of US miners' strikes (and Tome I’s focus on the miners’ unionization) indicates that it was likely between 1894 and 1927 (one of the largest steel strikes was in 1919). The MacMillan Estate Massacre was likely based on the Lattimer Massacre (1897) and/or the Columbine Mine Massacre (1927).
We know it had to be at least a decade before 1957 due to the abandoned nature of the mine and the surrounding area by the time Benedict Baker arrived. That leaves us with an approximately 40-year time range (1907-1947).
1932: The Birth of Kenneth Chase. His mother does not survive the birth.
Late 1940s: By the late 1940s, Kenneth had left school and started working as a busboy at a local diner. He had also escalated to catching larger prey, like squirrels, raccoons, and dogs, becoming skilled at customizing the anesthetic dosage for each.
1947: Likely birth year for Sadako Yamamura.
1954: Kenneth Chase leaves home after seeing his father exit the crawlspace with his cigar box of trophies in hand. He changes his identity to Jeffrey Hawk and joins a traveling circus. Over the next decade, “he stayed with the circus, traveling the length and breadth of the United States. But, with the itinerant life providing few repercussions, he fell into bad habits. Drinks, junk food, drugs, he indulged in all of them to excess. For a time, these vices were enough, but then his old urges returned and his nomadic existence became a cover for him to resume killing.” This indicates he resumed killing in 1964 before eventually being discovered and forced to flee again.
(Note: The Clown was probably taken by the Entity in the late 70s at the earliest due to him having a VHS Porn tape as one of his add-ons, meaning his serial killer career likely spanned at least 15 years. This timeline also somewhat works with the timeline of the real-life killer who inspired his character, John Wayne Gacy, who was caught in 1978.)
1956: From September 12th - 23rd, Benedict Baker begins his investigation of a blight of missing people in the town of Weeks, outside of Seattle, Washington. He is taken by the Entity after about twelve days of investigation.
1957: April 8th, Ashley Joanna (“Ash”) Williams is born.
1960s: The Fold is founded by a group of “anonymous philanthropists” (most likely the Black Vale) and led by Otto Stamper. The group eventually becomes haunted by the Dredge and after the murder of a journalist, the whole faction turns on and kills each other, leaving Stamper the only survivor.
1960: Albert Wesker is born.
1962: Cybil Bennet and Lisa Garland are born.
1961: The quote on Hex: Pentimento is apparently from A Guide to Art & Process, a book Carmina studied. A pentimento is “a reappearance in a painting of an original drawn or painted element which was eventually painted over by the artist” (like a leitmotif but in art, hence the rekindled totems). "Though a pentimento is an inherently concealed piece of art, there is something to be said of the desire to discover that which is beyond." — A Guide to Art & Process (1961)
1963: October 31st, Michael Myers kills his older sister, Judith Myers. He is imprisoned in Smith's Grove for the next 15 years.
1965: Possible birth year for James Sunderland
1966: Possible death year for Sadako Yamamura
6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970: The Nigerian Civil War, the conflict in which Philip Ojomo loses his family and first kills.
1964 – April 1975: Sometime during U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (in Left 4 Dead’s timeline/universe), Bill Overbeck serves two tours, during which his knee is injured by shrapnel.
1967: Lery's Memorial Institute becomes a front for the C.I.A. (specifically Project MK Ultra). Sometime between now and 1982, Dr. Herman Carter will be brought in to run the Treatment Theater. (The Mansion itself was built in the late 1800s.)
1968: Possible birth year for Alessa Gillespie
1970s: The hair and clothing in the cutscene for Lisa Sherwood's Tome "Stroke of Luck" indicates that she lived in the 70s and is African American, meaning the Blackwater Swamp is likely somewhere in the American South or along the Mississippi.
1970: Lery's Memorial Institute becomes a C.I.A. black site.
1972: The 'Horrific Events' of 1972 (presumably Max Thompson Jr.'s escape) cause the Thompson House to be abandoned, fall into disrepair, and ruin.
(Continuity Error: There are inconsistencies in the dates as to when exactly Max Thompson Jr. (The Hillbilly) broke out. Early concept summaries had the farm stop production in 1946 (but also mistakenly name the Farm's owners as Mr. and Mrs. Adams), while the individual Map summaries place his escape in 1972. The latter seems more correct given his use of a chainsaw and his character being inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which took place in the 1970s. His new Tome references Superman and Leave It to Beaver, which means he was a child in 1957 or later. There are indications that he was a teenager when he escaped, placing his birth in the early 50s.)
1973: Chris Redfield is born.
August 18-19th: Bubba Sawyer (Leatherface The Cannibal) is taken by the Entity after failing to capture/kill Sally Hardesty. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) narration places it in the summer of 197318 and the use of the name “Bubba Sawyer” indicates that this is the timeline that includes the 1986 sequel.
September 11th: The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. Carmina Mora was based on Víctor Jara, a socialist artist and revolutionary who was murdered within days of the coup (September 16th, 1973). It’s hard to tell how old Carmina was when she died or how long she had been working, but her being 30s-40s is a reasonable guess (Víctor Jara was 40 when he died).
Pixel Bush has an excellent video breaking down the real-world implications and historical context of the Artist’s lore.
1974: likely birth year for Jill Valentine and Ada Wong
1976?: Possibly the year when Alessa Gillespie is burned alive during her mother’s attempt to birth God from her womb. Instead, she manages to partially reincarnate herself as Cheryl Mason, who is found and adopted by Harry and Jodie Mason. Lisa Garland is assigned to her care shortly after, eventually becoming addicted to drugs and later dying and becoming one of the many lost souls trapped in Silent Hill.
The whole series was made without regard to continuity/chronology, so the fashions rarely reflect the era.
For a complete chronology of the series: https://youtu.be/4p0KsirAJug?t=454
1977: likely birth year for Carlos Oliveira and Leon Scott Kennedy
AFTER 1978: Michael Myers (The Shape) and Laurie Strode (Cynthia Myers) are pulled into the Realm of the Entity sometime after Halloween 1978. There is no in-game text that says exactly when, apart from one line in the Spotlight confirming that Laurie Strode knows Michael Myers is her brother, meaning it was after Halloween II, which was still canon when the DLC was made.
(Note: The “Unbreakable Pipe” weapon indicates that this version of Michael Myers may be from the “Thorn” timeline, where he hunts his niece, Jamie Lloyd, after her mother, Laurie Strode, is killed in a car accident. However, Laurie Strode was based on her comic’s appearance, which follows the H20 timeline, so it’s hard to tell which timeline she and Myers are from.)
1979: likely birth year for Claire Redfield
1980: likely birth year of Rebecca Chambers
1979-1984: Philip Ojomo begins and ends his time working at Autohaven Wreckers sometime between those years (this is based on the designs of Illinois and Virginia license plates that formerly acted as map offerings; of course, these being wrecked cars, it’s possible that these offerings were old. Still, 70s/80s fits with the Mob-esque nature of Philip’s job).
1982: In October, Ash Williams, his girlfriend Linda, his sister Cheryl, and friends Scotty and Shelly go to a cabin in the woods. They are slowly all murdered/possessed by the Deadites until only Ash remains. He is forced to chainsaw off his own hand, kill/dismember his sister, friends, and girlfriend, and is eventually sent back in time to 1300.
(The original film was released in 1979, but the fact that Evil Dead 2 is part remake, part sequel, blurs the timeline of the original Evil Dead trilogy.)
1983: The events of Silent Hill (1999) result in the ‘deaths’ of Alessa Gillsepie and Cheryl Mason (the first), and the birth of Heather Mason. The whole series was made without regard to continuity/chronology, so the fashions rarely reflect the era. (Technically, this likely means that Alessa is the youngest survivor in-game, as she was 14 when she died, though whether she's a true legendary or just a linked cosmetic is unclear.)
Lery's Memorial Institute is condemned in 1983 (The Doctor has presumably been taken by the Entity by this point).
November 6th 1983: Forced by Dr. Brenner to make contact with ‘the creature,’ Eleven accidentally opens the Gate to the Upside-Down in Hawkins National Laboratory, unleashing the Demogorgon on Hawkins, Indiana. She uses the chaos to escape the Laboratory, leading to the first season of Stranger Things.
1985: Nancy Wheeler, Steve Harrington, and the (captured Russian) Demogorgon are taken by the Entity sometime after the 4th of July in the Stranger Things timeline/universe.
1986: likely birth year for Sheva Alomar
1987: Kirsty Cotton opens the Lament Configuration and meets the Chatterer and Pinhead (the High Priest of Hell and the Lead Cenobite). She manages to convince them to take her sexually abusive uncle instead of her, then uses the Lament Configuration to send them back from whence they came. The 1988 sequel to the first movie takes place immediately after the events of the first, similar to Halloween 2, however, the Pinhead in-game appears to somehow have been taken after the first movie but before the second.
1990: After failing to transfer his soul into Andy Barklay, Chucky chases after Andy and his foster sister, Kyle, in a Good Guy Doll factory, and is taken by the Entity after thinking he sees Andy running into the Fog.
1993: GHOST FACE DISAPPEARS article is dated June 18, 1993. We know that Jed Olsen Danny Johnson had been writing for the Roseville Gazette for five months when the Ghost Face murders started, but we do not know how long he had been killing before Roseville. We know he had already struck several small towns between Utah and Pennsylvania, possibly including Philadelphia if his camera add-on ‘Philly’ is any indication. Roseville was one of the last towns he hunted in before being taken by the Entity, being taken around June 22nd.
(Note: The date of the article, June 18th, was also the day the Ghostface went live in-game.)
1994?: Possible year for the events of Silent Hill 2 (2001), which includes the debut of Pyramid Head. The whole series was made without regard to continuity/chronology so the fashions rarely reflect the era, though Maria looks pretty 90s.
1996: February 19th (Chinese New Year), Susie of the Legion stabs a man outside of a store for his wallet to impress Frank. The Damaged Photo (Ormond Map Offering) is dated August 28th of 1996. At some point, Jeff Johansen paints the Legion’s mural at Mount Ormond Resort. It is possible that the Legion disappeared at some point during this year (most likely during the winter). Since we know Frank is 19 when he meets the rest of the Legion, it is likely safe to assume he was born around 1976-7.
Takamatsu University (the university Rin Yamaoka attends) is established.
1998: Spring, 1998, Tiffany Valentine finally tracks down and resurrects her ex-boyfriend, Chucky. Unfortunately, the two fight and Chucky kills Tiffany, resurrecting her in the body of a Belle Bridal Doll to force her to cooperate with his plan. The two reconcile and marry, only to fight and die again at Chucky's grave in Hackensack, NJ.
July 24-25: Albert Wesker betrays S.T.A.R.S. and injects himself with the progenitor virus before escaping. Rebecca Chambers is implied to be taken by the Entity from the Spence Mansion in RE1.
September 20th-October 1st: Jill Valentine finds herself embroiled in Umbrella’s conspiracy, setting Nemesis on her trail.
Leon Scott Kennedy arrives in Raccoon City for his first day at the RPD and meets Ada Wong.
Claire Redfield goes looking for her brother in Raccoon City, only to find Sherry Birkin and the mutated William Birkin.
Raccoon City is destroyed by a nuclear bomb to prevent the viruses from spreading. However, the Entity is implied to have taken RPD directly from Raccoon City before the explosion, rather than recreating it from scratch.
Sept 13-27th 1999 - Yoichi loses his father to Sadako, his mother dying not long after.)
1999?: Assuming Elodie is the same age as or is younger than Felix and she was taken in 2020, their parents disappeared in 1999 at the earliest (she was 14 when they disappeared).
2000?: Possible year for the events of Silent Hill 3 (2003)? The whole series was made without regard to continuity/chronology so the fashions rarely reflect the era. Cheryl/Heather Mason is taken by the Entity sometime after the events of the game.
2003: The Great Storm brings down the Silo at Torment Creek (Coldwind Farm), revealing 12 previously undiscovered bodies (victims of Max Thompson Jr.).
(Continuity Error: The original map summary places the Great Storm in 2003, but the 80s Suitcase features a summary that indicates the storm was in 1984 (and the victims died when the building collapsed on top of them, not that the bodies were hidden by the Hillbilly). Alternatively, the summary could have meant that the victims found in the Silo were from 1984, which would make sense given the era the clothes are from.)
Note: It’s possible the “Great Storm” was the North American blizzard of 2003, which caused a lot of damage across the Northeast and Midwest.
2004: Ada Wong goes through the events of RE4, only to be abducted by the Entity.
2004-6: Amanda Young becomes the known first surviving victim of Jigsaw and becomes his apprentice, facilitating/building countless games and murders.
Detective David Tapp dies while attempting to intervene in the Bathroom game (2004).
The original Jigsaw’s games end on April 28th 2006 with the deaths of John Kramer and Amanda Young. (Exact dates are difficult to track due to the fluid nature of the SAW franchise's timeline, but mid-2000s is generally accepted; Mark Hoffman takes over the mantles of both Pig and Jigsaw until he is imprisoned in the Bathroom by Dr. Lawrence Gordon sometime in 2007 and presumably left to die).
2006: The “German National Design Award” is founded. Felix Richter will eventually win the award for his architecture.
2008: The “Swiss Architectural Award” is founded. Felix Richter will eventually win the award for his architecture. (Felix was at most 23 by the time he won this award, meaning he was likely born in or after 1985 and, assuming he was taken in the year 2020, is at most 35 in the game.)
Quentin Smith and Freddy Krueger are taken by the Entity sometime after Krueger murders Nancy Holbrook's mother. (While the remake came out in 2010, the dates given in-universe, namely Quentin and Nancy being approximately four or five years old during their time at Badham Preschool in 1994-5, meaning that the movie is set in spring 2008 at the latest for them to still be in high school.)
Meg Thomas has “Rolled Up Jeans and Sneakers” dated 2008, but the outfit is a reference to the Left 4 Dead character Zoey and is unlikely to have been an outfit of Meg's outside of the Realm of the Entity.
2008-2009: At some point in the Left 4 Dead universe/timeline, Bill Overbeck sacrifices himself to ensure his friends’ survival. After his death, he awakens in the Realm of the Entity.
March 7th 2009: After infecting himself with Oroburos but before being thrown into a volcano, Albert Wesker is taken into the Fog. Chris Redfield's in-game lore is from RE1 but his voicelines with Sheva indicate that they were both taken in RE5.
2012: Feng Min competes and presumably wins at the 2012 Nebula Arc Championships.
2014: Feng Min competes and presumably wins at the 2014 Nebula Arc Championships.
2015-2018: Ash Williams accidentally re-awakens the Deadites and spends the next three years dismembering them, eventually falling into a supernaturally long deep sleep after his final battle.
2016: Feng Min's base cosmetic is the outfit she wore to compete and presumably won at a ‘2016 e-sports tournament,’ which may be a reference to the Nebula Arc Championships that define some of her later released outfits. These confirm Feng Min was still playing with the Lazer Bears in 2016, so her breakdown may have happened shortly after this tournament, which works with the theory that her disappearance was around the time of her DLC’s release (May 11th, 2017). However, her tome also indicates that she and her friends never made it to the tournament due to a car accident that killed some of them and left others with injuries that inhibited their playing.
2021: “The image showcasing Nea's first Legendary Skin (Graft-Crafter, released mid-2020) shows a screenshot of a security camera overlay with the date stamp being in the then future (11/03/2021).”36 This indicates Nea may have been from a later time than the others. Or it could just be in the same vein of cosmetics as Jeff Johansen’s Unhinged Rider outfit and be from an alternate timeline/universe.
2098: According to Gabriel Soma’s lore, “A catastrophic nuclear war nearly ended humanity in 2098.” However, humanity survives through the use of AI and cloning technology.
2122: Ellen Ripley and Jonesy the Cat are the only survivors of the Xenomorph’s rampage of the Nostromo.
2313: HUX’s lore indicates that he was created on June 15th, 2313, with Gabriel also being born/made around that time.
Post-Apocalyptic Future (year unknown): Ash Williams eventually wakes up in a Post-Apocalyptic Future and fights the Dark Ones. He eventually bargains with a Deadite version of his old girlfriend Linda to send him back to his time, only to mess up the words and get sent to the Realm of the Entity instead.
Dates Unknown: Talbot Grimes’ journal entries of the Hallowed Blight are dated October 19th - October 31st, in line with the event dates of the Hallowed Blight event of 2018. However, as these entries were written in the realm of the Entity, no year is attributed.
AHZYMOVS places Kate Denson as being from the 1970s due to her hair and style, however, this has not been confirmed. If so, she would have been considered much more alternative for the 1970s, having multiple prominent tattoos.
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