Saturday, May 11 - Friday, May 17, 2024

New Videos

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5	1 comments	[New Video] Tru Trilla - Turn That Down ft Guilty Simpson & Skyzoo (prod by Frost Gamble)	[Sp] [AM] [BC]
3	1 comments	[New Video] Tragedy Khadafi - Ill Allah Spit	[BC]
3	0 comments	[New Video] Copywrite - Turn the Page feat Slug from Atmosphere
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New Songs

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3	0 comments	[New] Nikkle 9 - Nikkle 9
3	0 comments	[New] Estee Nack & Futurewave Feat. Rome Streetz - Clacius vs Fulfore
3	0 comments	[New] Ghostface Killah & AZ – Locked In
3	0 comments	[New] Da Beatminerz, De La Soul, Rasheed Chappell, Pharaoh Monch & Corey Glover – My Year

 

Classic

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7	1 comments	[Classic] Gang Starr - Mass Appeal	[Sp] [AM] [BC] [Dzr] [SC]
6	1 comments	[Classic] Smif-N-Wessun - Wontime	[Sp] [AM] [Dzr] [SC]
5	1 comments	[Classic] Boogie Down Productions - Duck Down	[Sp] [AM] [Dzr] [SC]
5	1 comments	[Classic] Main Source - Just Hangin' Out	[BC] [Dzr] [SC]
4	0 comments	[Classic] Da Youngstas featuring Mentally Gifted - Pass Da Mic (Pete Rock Remix)

 

Live

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3	0 comments	[live] CRU performs live Phat Jam 97

 

BeatsNRhymes

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6	1 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Too $hort - I Ain't Trippin'	[Sp] [Dzr] [SC]
5	1 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] The Coup - Dig It	[Sp] [AM] [BC] [Dzr]
5	0 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Jon Murdock - Hooded Claw - Ft. Lex Starwind & Ricky Fitz
4	1 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] King Magnetic - Who Made the Rules (Feat. Edo G, Reef the Lost Cauze, & Godilla)	[Sp] [AM] [Dzr] [SC]
4	1 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Cage - Agent Orange	[Sp] [AM] [BC] [Dzr] [SC]

 

RiddemNVibes

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7	1 comments	[RiddemNVibes] Sister Nancy - Bam Bam	[Sp] [AM] [BC] [Dzr] [SC]
5	1 comments	[RiddemNVibes] Yami Bolo - When A Man In Love	[Sp] [AM] [Dzr] [SC]
4	1 comments	[RiddemNVibes] Mad Lion - Take It Easy	[Sp] [AM] [Dzr] [SC]

 

RIP

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3	0 comments	[RIP🙏🏾] Mobb Deep – Smoke It (Mastra Remix)

 

Throwback

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3	0 comments	[Throwback] Top Quality - Magnum Opus

 

Top Remaining

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3	0 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Tristate Feat. NuNasa - All Dat Jazz
3	0 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Ja'king The Divine - Sunshine Acid
3	1 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Sean Price & Illa Ghee - The Bryan Song feat. Rim	[Sp] [AM]
3	1 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Shyheim feat Big L - Furious Anger	[Sp] [AM]
3	1 comments	[BeatsNRhymes] Wu Tang Clan - Fast Shadow	[Sp] [AM] [Dzr]

 

Hi everyone.
I am Kirix the mech.
I play a power sword/pistol mech build that benches around 37k dps without food or utility buffs. Not the most impressive dps but does the job in all content.
I live in England and I am looking for a guild that does the following:
Strike CM. Raids + CM. Fractals + CM.
I have 12 years experience in gw2 and have cleared all raids and most of the CM. I have a full set of legendary light armour from the raids and the fractal legendary back item.
The only fractal fight I have not done on CM is 100 silent surf due to how shitty and buggy it was at launch.
As for strikes I have done AH on CM and almost killed LA CM with a pug.
Living in the U.K I am 1 hour ahead of server time due to summer time, in winter it's the same as server time. Due to my full time job the following days are good for me.
Monday - 7pm server time or later. Wednesday - 7pm server time or later. Friday - 7pm server time or later. Saturday - 6pm server time or later. Sunday - 6pm server time or later
I'm also nor interested in joining a small group of 5-7 friends who just started a guild as I prefer established guilds with larger rosters.
Nothing personal I just don't like joining little cliques and the drama they tend to have.

Megapost: A list of statements, press releases, and other sources reporting and expressing concern and criticism about Israel's war in Gaza and related aspects of the war. (Part 4)

Notes: This is a work that is currently in progress; please check back for updates. Titles have been edited to provide details.
Part 1 is here: https://www.reddit.com/Social_Democracy/comments/1clx1uc/megapost_a_list_of_statements_press_releases_and/
Part 2 is here: https://www.reddit.com/Social_Democracy/comments/1cmjhpk/megapost_a_list_of_statements_press_releases_and/
Part 3 is here: https://www.reddit.com/Social_Democracy/comments/1coups2/megapost_a_list_of_statements_press_releases_and/
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Statement on Gaza (April 22, 2024): https://www.actu.org.au/media-release/actu-statement-on-gaza/
'Collective punishment' of Palestinians unacceptable, says Ireland [Michael Martin, Foreign Minister of Ireland: "We believe that the response has been fully disproportionate and has also been, in our view, a breach of humanitarian law in terms of the destruction of Gaza and also in terms of the killing of civilians, innocent men, women and children"] (April 22, 2024): https://www.aa.com.ten/middle-east/collective-punishment-of-palestinians-unacceptable-says-ireland/3198702
Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says: Exclusive: review finds government yet to substantiate claims UN relief agency staff have ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad (April 22, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ap22/israel-unrwa-staff-terrorist-links-yet-to-provide-evidence-colonna-report
NEWS: Bernie Sanders Statement on Amendment Votes on National Security Supplemental (April 22, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-amendment-votes-on-national-security-supplemental/
NEWS: Bernie Sanders Statement on ‘Dark Day’ in U.S. Senate (April 23, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-dark-day-in-u-s-senate/
PREPARED REMARKS: Senator Bernie Sanders on Ending Unfettered Military Aid to Israel and Restoring UNRWA Funding (April 23, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/prepared-remarks-sanders-on-ending-unfettered-military-aid-to-israel-and-restoring-unrwa-funding/
Senator Jeff Merkley: Netanyahu’s War Campaign at Odds with American Values (April 23, 2024): https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-netanyahus-war-campaign-at-odds-with-american-values/
Stephen Tillett: As a Christian minister, I cannot remain silent any longer about Israeli-Palestinian conflict (April 23, 2024): https://www.capitalgazette.com/2024/04/23/stephen-tillett-as-a-christian-minister-i-cannot-remain-silent-any-longer-about-israeli-palestinian-conflict-commentary/
AIPAC Spent Millions to Take Down the Squad. The Working Families Party Is Fighting Back. (April 24, 2024): https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/aipac-is-spent-millions-to-take-down-the-squad-the-working-families-party-is-fighting-back/
GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson defends Israel when Erin Burnett asks about children dying ‘at Israel’s hands’ (April 24, 2024): https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/video/house-speaker-mike-johnson-protests-columbia-university-israel-hamas-war-ebof-digvid
Pro-Palestinian student protests have been largely peaceful. Right-wing media want to call in the National Guard. (April 25, 2024): https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/pro-palestinian-student-protests-have-been-largely-peaceful-right-wing-media-want-call
Save the Children International: GAZA STAFF ACCOUNT: The Reality of the Humanitarian Catastrophe (April 25, 2024): https://www.savethechildren.net/blog/gaza-staff-account-reality-humanitarian-catastrophe
Bishops, delegates join rally sponsored by United Methodist Kairos Response for Palestine (April 26, 2024): https://www.umnews.org/en/news/bishops-delegates-join-rally-for-palestine
‘I stand on the side of the oppressed, whoever they are’: Interview with Palestinian-Ukrainian activist Adib Shaheen (April 26, 2024): https://links.org.au/i-stand-side-oppressed-whoever-they-are-interview-palestinian-ukrainian-activist-adib-shaheen
NBC News investigation reveals Israel strikes on Gaza areas it said were safe: NBC News found Palestinians were killed in seven deadly airstrikes in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones. (April 26, 2024): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-safe-zones-exclusive-nbc-report-rcna148008
Refugee Council of Australia: Our Letter to the Prime Minister regarding the Israel and Gaza Crisis (April 26, 2024): https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/letter-israel-and-gaza-crisis/
Statement in solidarity with student protests for Gaza [Signed by: 350.org US; 18 Million Rising; 198 methods; Adalah Justice Project; Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association; AF3IRM; Afghans For A Better Tomorrow; Al-Haq; Alliance of Baptists; American Baptist Churches USA; American Baptist Churches Palestine Israel Network; American Friends Service Committee; American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC); American Muslim Bar Association; American Muslim Community Foundation; American Muslims for Palestine (AMP); Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action); Arab American Civic Council; Arab American Institute; Asian American Advocacy Fund; Better to Speak; Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue without Walls; Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU); Blue Future; Borderlands for Equity; Borderlands Resource Initiative; Breach Collective; Brooklyn For Peace; CAIR Action; CAIR California; CAIR Minnesota; CAIR Oklahoma; CAIR-WA; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; Cameroon American Council; Carceral Tech Resistance Network; Ceasefire Democrats; Ceasefire Now NJ; Center for Constitutional Rights; Center for Popular Democracy Action; Center for Protest Law & Litigation @ Partnership for Civil Justice Fund; Chicago Area Peace Action; Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy; Christians for a Free Palestine; Civic Ark; Civil Liberties Defense Center; Clockshop; CommonDefense.us; Communities United for Status & Protection (CUSP); Council on American-Islamic Relations; CWA-News Guild Local 38010; Defending Rights & Dissent; Delaware Democratic Socialists of America; Delawareans for Palestinian Human Rights; Detention Watch Network; Disciples Palestine Israel Network; Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM); Doctors Against Genocide; Dream Defenders; Dutch Scholars for Palestine; Eindhoven Students 4 Palestine; Emgage Action; En Conjunto; Episcopal Peace Fellowship-Palestine Israel Network; Faith for Black Lives; Faith in Texas; Fellowship of Reconciliation; Fight for the Future; For All; Freedom Farm Community; Freedom Oklahoma; Freedom To Thrive; Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA); Future Coalition; Gen-Z for Change; Gender Justice Action and Gender Justice; Get Free; Global Campaign to Reclaim People's Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power & Stop Impunity; Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine; Green New Deal Network; Greenpeace USA; Hawai'i for Palestine; Health Justice Commons; Helena (Montana) Service for Peace and Justice; Highlander Research and Education Center; Hindus for Human Rights; Historians for Peace and Democracy; Human Dignity Project (THDP); IfNotNow Movement; IfNotNow New Jersey; Immigrant Defense Project; Immigrant Justice Network; Immigrants Act Now; Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC); Indiana Center for Middle East Peace; Institute for Policy Studies New Internationalism Project; Interfaith Ceasefire; International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; International Mayan League; InterReligious Task Force on Central America; Iowans For Palestine; Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); Islamophobia Studies Center; Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Jewish Voice for Peace; Jewish Voice for Peace-Hawai’i; Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ); Just Foreign Policy; Justice Democrats; Just Futures Law; Justice for All; Kairos USA; Libyan American Alliance; LittleSis / Public Accountability Initiative; Living Water Inclusive Catholic Community; Long Island Progressive Coalition; Make the Road Nevada; Malaya Georgia; Massachusetts Peace Action; Mennonite Action; Mennonite Action WA; Migrant Roots Media; Minnesota Peace Project; Mondoweiss; Movement for Black Lives; MPower Change Action Fund; MSA West; Muslim Advocates; Muslim Community Network; Muslim Counterpublics Lab; Muslim Power Building Project; Muslims for Just Futures; Muslims for Progressive Values; National Arab American Women’s Association (NAAWA); National Domestic Workers Alliance Staff Union, CWA Local 1180; National Iranian American Council; National Lawyers Guild; National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis Chapter; National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR); National Partnership for New Americans; New Hampshire Veterans for Peace; New York City Veterans For Peace; The New Justice Project Minnesota; NH Peace Action; North American Students of Cooperation; No Separate Justice; North Carolina Peace Action; The Oakland Institute; Office of Peace, Justice, and Ecological Integrity/Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth; Our Revolution; Palestine American League; Palestine Legal; Palestinian American Community Center; Palestinian American Organizations Network (PAON); Palestinian Feminist Collective; Partners for Palestine; Pax Christi New Jersey; Pax Christi New York State; Pax Christi Pacific Northwest; Pax Christi USA; Peace Action; Peace Action New York State; Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW!; Pediatricians for Palestine; People’s Action; PeoplesHub; Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies; Presbyterian Church (USA), Office of Public Witness; Presbyterian Peace Fellowship; Progressive Democrats of America (PDA); Project ANAR; Project South; Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice; Reparation Education Project; Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment; Rise for Palestine; Rising Majority; Rising Tide North America; Rochester Committee on Latin America; RootsAction Education Fund; Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre; Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights; Sound Vision; Starr King School for the Ministry; Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at the University of Hawai’i (SFJP); Sunrise Movement; Sur Legal Collaborative; TakeAction Minnesota; Tech Justice Law Project; The Gathering for Justice; The Hague Peace Projects; The Social Justice Center; The Uncommitted National Movement; The Whatcom Peace and Justice Center; Transnational Institute; UndocuBlack Network; Unitarian Universalist Association; Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship; Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice; Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of North Carolina; Unitarian Universalist Mass Action; Unitarian Universalist Peace Ministry Network; Unitarian Universalist Service Committee; Unitarian Universalist Young Adults for Climate Justice (UUYACJ); Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East; United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network; United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR); United Voices for America; Until Freedom; US Campaign for Palestinian Rights; Veterans For Peace; We Are All America; Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club; Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center; Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press; Working Families Party; World BEYOND War; Young Democrats of America Black Caucus; Young Democrats of America Environmental Caucus; Youth Leadership Institute] (April 26-29, 2024): https://www.mpowerchange.org/gazastudentprotests & https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhlWqDQghbVaPb6K7coBoi0o3w1YDfmrPOSbUw5bqNKEnrhg/viewform
Tom Hurwitz: I was arrested protesting at Columbia in ’68. Today’s student encampments carry on a proud, brave tradition: Like the Vietnam War was nearly six decades ago, to many students, Israel’s assault on Gaza feels deeply personal (April 26, 2024): https://forward.com/opinion/607021/columbia-1968-protests-vietnam-gaza-wa
‘We demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza’ – First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill tells major London demo (April 27, 2024): https://vote.sinnfein.ie/we-demand-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-oneill-tells-major-london-demo/
Nineteen American Sociological Association Presidents Endorse the Resolution for Justice in Palestine (April 28, 2024): https://www.sociologistsforpalestine.org & https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t-z9OTPbl5JB9_sKnFOqAl-bQV78qZ-SFvjjjMrPUgY/
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton: Brief thoughts on the wave of campus protests across America (April 28, 2024): https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-thoughts-on-the-wave-of-campus
We’re Jewish students at Columbia arrested for protesting Israel’s war (April 28, 2024): https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4626720-were-jewish-students-at-columbia-arrested-for-protesting-israels-wa
American Association of University Professors: In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on University Campuses (April 29, 2024): https://www.aaup.org/media-release/defense-right-free-speech-and-peaceful-protest-university-campuses
Anat Saragusti: Israeli media’s inevitable hysteria over U.S. campus protests: The media’s unbending self-censorship in covering Gaza has made Israelis incapable of seeing foreign criticism as anything other than antisemitism. (April 29, 2024): https://www.972mag.com/campus-protests-gaza-us-students/
Attorneys inside and outside the administration urge Biden to cut off arms to Israel: So far more than 90 lawyers have signed on to a legal letter alleging Israel’s conduct in Gaza violates U.S. and international law. (April 29, 2024): https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/29/lawyers-israel-arm-sales-biden-00154958
Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention: Statement in Support of Students, Faulty at Columbia University (April 29, 2024): https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-in-support-of-students%2C-faulty-at-columbia-university
Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders: "I'm hearing disturbing reports that students face suspension if they don’t end their peaceful protests in #Columbiauniversity in the USA. This is a clear violation of their right to peaceful assembly" (April 29, 2024): https://twitter.com/MaryLawlorhrds/status/1785020792197038101
Cas Mudde: Why are US campuses facing an orgy of state repression in the ‘land of the free’? The right has painted nonviolent protests against the war on Gaza as hotbeds of ‘woke’ terrorism. It’s a pretext for repression (April 30, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/ap30/us-campus-peace-protests-overreaction-gaza
Joint letter to President Biden on humanitarian risk of Rafah operation in Gaza [Signed by: 350.org; ActionAid USA; Alliance of Baptists; American Friends of Combatants for Peace; American Friends Service Committee; Americares; Amnesty International USA; CARE; Charity & Security Network; Children in Conflict; Christian Aid; Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP); Center for American Progress; Center for Civilians in Conflict; Center for International Policy; Church World Service; DAWN; Demand Progress Education Fund; Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Humanity & Inclusion; IM Swedish Development Partners; Indivisible; Islamic Relief USA; Islamic Relief Worldwide; KinderUSA; Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; MedGlobal; Médecins du Monde / Doctors of the World International Network; Mennonite Central Committee; Middle East Democracy Center; Minnesota Peace Project; MoveOn; Nonviolent Peaceforce; Norwegian Refugee Council USA; Oxfam America; Pax Christi USA; Premiere Urgence Internationale; Presbyterian Church (USA), Office of Public Witness; Refugees International; Save the Children US; SEIU; The Episcopal Church; The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP); The United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society; Truman Center; Vento di Terra; Win Without War] (April 30, 2024): https://www.nrc.no/news/2024/may/joint-letter-to-president-biden-on-potential-incursion-into-rafah-gaza/
Latino students are key part of pro-Palestine encampment protests (April 30, 2024): https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/college-encampments-ceasefire-gaza-latino-students
Michael Gould-Wartofsky: Trump Is Wrong. Columbia Isn’t Anything Like Charlottesville: I survived the deadly violence in Charlottesville, and am now a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University. To compare the two is unwarranted—and unconscionable. (April 30, 2024): https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-wrong-columbia-isnt-anything-like-charlottesville
United Church of Christ Officers issue statement amid ongoing unrest on college campuses; offer continued solidarity with partners and people in the Middle East (April 30, 2024): https://www.ucc.org/ucc-officers-issue-statement-amid-ongoing-unrest-on-college-campuses/
United States of America: UN Human Rights Chief troubled by law enforcement actions against protesters at universities (April 30, 2024): https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/united-states-america-un-human-rights-chief-troubled-law-enforcement-actions
A Statement From Jewish Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni Regarding Indiana University's Treatment of Student Protesters ["Actions are being taken in our name, without our consent or request. Such actions, especially those by the administration, often directly contradict the facts we see daily on the ground at campus. We condemn the actions taken by the administration, ISP, and IUPD against the students protesting on Dunn Meadow."] (May 1, 2024): https://bloomingtonian.com/2024/05/01/a-statement-from-jewish-faculty-staff-students-and-alumni-regarding-iustreatment-of-student-protesters/
Charles H.F. Davis III, Jude Paul Dizon, Jessica Hatrick, and Vanessa Miller: Police Repression Is the Problem, Not the Solution (May 1, 2024): https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/05/01/police-repression-problem-not-solution-opinion
Comment from United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain on Mass Arrests of Anti-War Protestors (May 1, 2024): https://uaw.org/comment-from-uaw-president-shawn-fain-on-mass-arrests-of-anti-war-protestors/
Fellowship of Reconciliation Stands in Solidarity with the Students (May 1, 2024): https://forusa.org/fellowship-of-reconciliation-stands-in-solidarity-with-the-students/
Juan González, Veteran of '68 Columbia Strike, Condemns University Leaders' Silence on Gaza Slaughter (May 1, 2024): https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/1/police_raid_columbia_2024_juan_gonzalez
Mike Littwin: As a veteran of the ’60s campus unrest, I know the value of free speech: Despite what you may hear, most of today’s campus demonstrations, including the one at Auraria, are typically nonviolent. (May 1, 2024): https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/01/israel-gaza-student-demonstrations-opinion-littwin/
On Gaza, NY Catholic Worker community echoes Pope Francis: 'Please! Stop the war.' (May 1, 2024): https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/gaza-ny-catholic-worker-community-echoes-pope-francis-please-stop-war
Senator Bernie Sanders: The billionaires who fund AIPAC are not only concerned about protecting Israel's actions in Gaza — they also want to protect corporate interests. That's why they are targeting progressive lawmakers who stand up for the working class and take on powerful special interests. (May 1, 2024): https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1785684580265074707
Syriac Maronite Archbishops denounce military escalation in southern Lebanon, condemn Israeli actions in Gaza and West Bank (May 1, 2024): https://syriacpress.com/blog/2024/01/05/syriac-maronite-archbishops-denounce-military-escalation-in-southern-lebanon-condemn-israeli-actions-in-gaza-and-west-bank/
The Democratic National Committee's College Democrats of America Slams Biden On Gaza And Backs Campus Protesters (May 1, 2024): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/college-democrats-of-america-statement-biden-gaza-campus-protest_n_663278fce4b0849b2edded55
Tope Folarin, director of the Institute for Policy Studies: We Stand with the Students Protesting the Slaughter in Gaza (May 1, 2024): https://ips-dc.org/we-stand-with-the-students-protesting-the-slaughter-in-gaza/
'You are our hope': Palestinian students find strength in U.S. campus protests: “I feel proud that there is a group of students who feel what we feel now — and are helping and supporting us,” said Reem Musa Suleiman Abu Shinar, speaking to an NBC News crew in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. (May 1, 2024): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinian-students-support-us-campus-protests-israel-war-rcna149296
Bernie Sanders in CNN interview: 'This may be Biden’s Vietnam' (May 2, 2024): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6rQmvko18M
Catholic Relief Services representative for Gaza fears possible Rafah invasion (May 2, 2024): https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-relief-services-rep-gaza-fears-possible-rafah-invasion
‘Disgrace to diplomacy’: Bosnia accuses Israeli diplomat of genocide denial: Envoy to Serbia draws intense criticism for telling Russian media that calling 1995 Srebrenica massacre a genocide ‘diminishes the importance of that term’ (May 2, 2024): https://www.timesofisrael.com/disgrace-to-diplomacy-bosnia-accuses-israeli-diplomat-of-genocide-denial/
Gazans thank US university protesters as Israel calls for students to be expelled (May 2, 2024): https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/middleeast/gaza-children-thank-us-protesters-intl-latam/index.html
Helen Benedict, professor of journalism at Columbia University: ‘US student protests seeking peace in Gaza are the new anti-Vietnam War movement’ (May 2, 2024): https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/us-student-protests-seeking-peace-in-gaza-are-the-new-anti-vietnam-war-movement/articleshow/109766893.cms
Hundreds of U.S. Catholic leaders and laity sign letter urging Permanent Gaza Ceasefire and End to Injustice in Israel and Palestine (May 2, 2024): https://cmep.salsalabs.org/ps-may22024 & https://docs.google.com/document/d/16K1RvL3YdSgSChwO_eWB9iSvIglNP59ahqtAQ1aZiGM/
PREPARED REMARKS: Senator Bernie Sanders on the Nationwide Student Protests and the Ongoing Humanitarian Disaster in Gaza (May 2, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/prepared-remarks-sanders-on-the-nationwide-student-protests-and-the-ongoing-humanitarian-disaster-in-gaza/
Recalling Civil Rights Era Abuses, Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP Roundly Condemns Rising Violations Against Peaceful Protesters and Calls for Immediate Federal Intervention ["Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) issued a statement roundly and unequivocally condemning the rising civil and human rights violations against peaceful protesters across the U.S. and issued a letter calling for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to conduct an immediate investigation into the treatment of peaceful protesters" (May 2, 2024): https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/recalling-civil-rights-era-abuses-ldf-roundly-condemns-rising-violations-against-peaceful-protesters-and-calls-for-immediate-federal-intervention/
United Nations Development Programme: As war in Gaza enters seventh month, 1.74 million more Palestinians will be pushed into poverty across State of Palestine according to United Nations assessment: UNDP and ESCWA estimate more than two-decades reversal in human development— beyond earliest recorded levels of 2004. (May 2, 2024): https://www.undp.org/papp/press-releases/war-gaza-enters-seventh-month-174-million-more-palestinians-will-be-pushed-poverty-across-state-palestine-according-united
“Workers Have Power”: Thousands Rally in NYC for May Day, Call for Solidarity with Palestine (May 2, 2024): https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/2/nyc_may_day_rally_palestine_solidarity
A Message to the Protesters From Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.: A call to keep raising the tempests on campus over the Gazan horror. (May 3, 2024): https://chicagomaroon.com/42811/viewpoints/op-ed/a-message-to-the-protesters-from-reverend-jesse-l-jackson-s
Association of Flight Attendants President Sara Nelson on Mass Arrest of Anti-War Protestors (May 3, 2024): https://www.afacwa.org/mass_arrest_right_to_protest
Rashid Khalidi, Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University: Opposed to Genocide in Gaza, This Is the Conscience of a Nation Speaking Through Your Kids (May 3, 2024): https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/rashid-khalidi-columbia-gaza-speech
“This Militaristic Approach Has Been a Failure”: Meet Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza (May 3, 2024): https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/3/state_dept
Where pro-Palestinian university protests are happening around the world (May 3, 2024): https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/03/world/pro-palestinian-university-protests-worldwide-intl-hnk/index.html
100-year-old Jewish activist Jules Rabin is speaking up again — this time about Gaza [In a podcast on the nonprofit news site VT Digger, Rabin referred to the tragedy unfolding in Gaza as “a piecemeal Holocaust.”] (May 4, 2024): https://forward.com/culture/609442/jules-rabin-vermont-activism-gaza-ukraine-israel/
Israel will not agree to end the war with Hamas as part of any deal [“Israel will under no circumstances agree to the end of the war as part of an agreement to release our abductees," an Israeli official told ABC News on Saturday morning. "As the political echelon decided, the IDF will enter Rafah and destroy the remaining Hamas battalions there - whether or not there will be a temporary ceasefire for the release of our hostages."] (May 4, 2024): https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-hamas-cease-fire-talks/israel-will-not-agree-to-end-the-war-with-hamas-as-part-of-any-deal-109924741?id=109734705
Roseann "Chic" Canfora survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists (May 4, 2024): https://www.npr.org/2024/05/04/1249023924/kent-state-shooting-activists-protests-survivor
‘They’re sending a message’: harsh police tactics questioned amid US campus protest crackdowns (May 4, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/04/police-tactics-us-campus-protest-crackdowns
Anton Boonzaier: As a South African during apartheid, I admire pro-Palestine protesters’ tenacity (May 5, 2024): https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/05/op-ed-as-a-south-african-during-apartheid-i-admire-pro-palestine-protesters-tenacity
Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Israeli vote to shut down Al Jazeera; warns of alarming precedent (May 5, 2024): https://cpj.org/2024/05/cpj-condemns-israeli-vote-to-shut-down-al-jazeera-warns-of-alarming-precedent/
Union workers join students in rallies Saturday calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza [More than 200 people attended the Maine Labor for Palestine and Maine Students for Palestine rally.] (May 5, 2024): https://www.mainepublic.org/news/2024-05-05/union-workers-join-students-in-rallies-saturday-to-free-gaza
Oxfam reaction to Rafah evacuation order (May 6, 2024): https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/oxfam-reaction-rafah-evacuation-order
Patrick Gaspard, president of the Center for American Progress: American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests: I have trespassed in peaceful protest. I have shut down government offices in civil disobedience. I have made the powerful uncomfortable. That’s the point (May 6, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/campus-pro-palestinian-protests
Save the Children warns of deadly consequences for children following new relocation orders for families in Rafah (May 6, 2024): https://www.savethechildren.net/news/save-children-warns-deadly-consequences-children-following-new-relocation-orders-families-rafah
The campus protesters for Gaza are making America great again: Readers on the demonstrations sweeping colleges and their hopes for the next generation. (May 6, 2024): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/06/campus-protests-gaza-palestine-vietnam/
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF): There is ‘nowhere safe to go’ for the 600,000 children of Rafah, warns UNICEF: With hundreds of thousands of children in Rafah injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized or living with a disability, UNICEF calls for children to not be forcibly relocated, and the vital infrastructure on which children rely to be protected (May 6, 2024): https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/there-nowhere-safe-go-600000-children-rafah-warns-unicef
US campus protests of Israeli ‘genocide’ offer hope to students from Gaza (May 6, 2024): https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/6/us-student-protests-of-israeli-genocide-offer-hope-to-students-from-gaza
Brant Rosen: We Tried to Bring Food Into Gaza—but Israel Blocked and Arrested Us: As Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza, a delegation of rabbis marched toward the Erez Crossing during Passover carrying sacks of flour and demanding a cease-fire. (May 6, 2024): https://www.thenation.com/article/world/rabbis-arrested-for-bringing-food-gaza/
Catholic Workers Movement: After Arrests, Students Renew Call for Notre Dame to Follow Catholic Teaching on War, Investments (May 6, 2024): https://catholicworker.org/after-arrests-students-renew-call-for-notre-dame-to-follow-catholic-teaching-on-war-investments/
Hala Rharrit, former State Department official: Biden’s militaristic policy in Gaza is a failure — diplomacy is the solution (May 6, 2024): https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4646237-biden-gaza-militaristic-policy-failure/
750+ Jewish Students Affirm Support for Pro-Palestine Campus Protests [In Response to Biden’s Speech, 750+ Jewish Students on 140+ Campuses Stand Against Israel's Rafah Invasion, Urge Jewish Institutional Action to Halt Gaza Assault] (May 7, 2024): https://www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-students-support-gaza & https://mailchi.mp/israelpalestinecomms/jstudents
American Friends Service Committee: T­h­e C­o­m­p­a­n­i­e­s P­r­o­f­i­t­i­n­g f­r­o­m I­s­r­a­e­l­’­s 2­0­2­3­-­2­0­2­4 A­t­t­a­c­k­s o­n G­a­z­a (Updated on May 7, 2024): https://afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companies
‘I am leaving for the unknown.’ Palestinians fleeing Rafah describe their fear and despair (May 7, 2024): https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/06/middleeast/palestinians-flee-rafah-gaza-fear-despair-intl-hnk/index.html
Kenneth Roth: Biden Should Not Stand in the Way of the ICC (May 7, 2024): https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/07/biden-israel-hamas-icc-gaza-netanyahu-arrest/
Labour Party of Ireland Eurocandidate for Ireland South, Niamh Hourigan: European Union leaders must push for ceasefire in Gaza (May 7, 2024): https://labour.ie/news/2024/05/07/eu-leaders-must-push-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/
Labour Party of Ireland Further and Higher Education Spokesperson Senator Annie Hoey: Solidarity with Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork Students protest for Gaza (May 7, 2024): https://labour.ie/news/2024/05/07/solidarity-with-trinity-and-ucc-students-protest-for-gaza/
Letter by Ch. Lt Col (Ret.) Stephen Tillett to the Editor: Veteran Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza (May 7, 2024): https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/letter-to-the-editor-veteran-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza/2024/05/07
Three Orange County medics describe wartime health care in Gaza: A once-modern string of hospitals has been reduced to desperate physicians and others relying on wits and luck. Most of their patients are children. (May 7, 2024): https://www.ocregister.com/2024/05/07/three-orange-county-medics-describe-wartime-health-care-in-gaza/
ACLU’s national director of policy and government affairs Mike Zamore and ACLU senior policy counsel Kia Hamadanchy: A disturbing national security bill could silence nonprofits and college protests (May 8, 2024): https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4651053-a-disturbing-national-security-bill-could-silence-nonprofits-and-college-protests/
Al Jazeera shutdown in Israel spells 'dark day for democracy,' say media groups (May 8, 2024): https://www.voanews.com/a/al-jazeera-shutdown-in-israel-spells-dark-day-for-democracy-say-media-groups/7603956.html
Blinken Says Israeli Units Accused of Serious Violations Have Done Enough to Avoid Sanctions. Experts and Insiders Disagree. (May 8, 2024): https://www.propublica.org/article/blinken-israel-military-aid-human-rights-violations-leahy-law
Jeremy Brecher: Anti-Genocide Students Are Fulfilling Their Duty to Prevent War Crimes; Will You? (May 8, 2024): https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/students-prevent-war-crimes
Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on Biden’s Hold on Bomb Delivery to Netanyahu’s Government (May 8, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-bidens-hold-on-bomb-delivery-to-netanyahus-government/
The NYPD’s New Sizzle Reels Aren’t Just Dumb. They’re Dangerous. “This is copaganda, designed primarily to provide the mayor with political cover, but then also to show off the military might and alleged professionalism of the NYPD.” (May 8, 2024): https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/nypd-sizzle-reel-student-protests/
Haim Bresheeth-Žabner deplores the rot in Israeli society: 'Israel has turned into a Nazi society': The son of Holocaust survivors, Haim Bresheeth-Žabner believes the majority of Israel has been taught to normalise the occupation of Palestine (May 9, 2024): https://www.newarab.com/features/son-shoah-survivors-israel-has-become-nazi-society
‘It’s not human’: What a French doctor saw in Gaza as Israel invaded Rafah: When asked about the conditions of the hospitals he worked in, Dr. Zouhair Lahna is pained by the memories of the sick, wounded and dying. (May 9, 2024): https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/5/9/its-not-human-what-a-french-doctor-saw-in-gaza-as-israel-invaded-rafah
Japanese American Citizens League Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza (May 9, 2024): https://jacl.org/statements/jacl-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza
Republicans Funded by Arms Industry Fume Over Biden Threat to Withhold Bombs From Israel (May 9, 2024): https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-israel-weapons
Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on Israel’s Threat to Attack Rafah (May 9, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-israels-threat-to-attack-rafah/
Students against genocide speak for themselves (May 9, 2024): https://newsandletters.org/students-against-genocide-speak-for-themselves/
Trapped in Rafah, I'm watching genocide unfold before my eyes: Gazan journalist Amjad Yaghi's eye-witness account in Rafah describes the horrors of Israel's ground invasion as Gazans desperately try to flee to safety. (May 9, 2024): https://www.newarab.com/opinion/trapped-rafah-im-witnessing-genocide-my-own-eyes
76 Universities in Spain Suspend Ties With Complicit Israeli Universities (May 10, 2024): https://bdsmovement.net/news/76-universities-spain-suspend-ties-with-complicit-israeli-universities
Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project: US Student Pro-Palestine Demonstrations Remain Overwhelmingly Peaceful (May 10, 2024): https://acleddata.com/2024/05/10/us-student-pro-palestine-demonstrations-remain-overwhelmingly-peaceful-acled-brief/
Biden’s arms threat to Israel ‘better than nothing’ but too late, say U.S. officials who resigned over Gaza policy (May 10, 2024): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/bidens-arms-threat-israel-better-nothing-late-say-us-officials-resigne-rcna151454
Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza must end’ – Sinn Féin Chairperson Declan Kearney tells Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine (May 10, 2024): https://vote.sinnfein.ie/israels-genocidal-war-in-gaza-must-end-kearney-tells-global-anti-apartheid-conference-on-palestine/
Rick Salutin: I protested at Columbia in 1968 and today’s campus protests give me hope (May 10, 2024): https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/i-protested-at-columbia-in-1968-and-todays-campus-protests-give-me-hope/article_a505c180-0e32-11ef-9615-e3f88eb6e034.html
Right-wing media encourage invasion of Rafah, Biden impeachment: After the Israeli military seized a key border crossing for humanitarian aid into Gaza, Biden’s statement urging restraint from Israel was met with backlash from right-wing media figures (May 10, 2024): https://www.mediamatters.org/middle-east/right-wing-media-encourage-invasion-rafah-biden-impeachment
Senator Bernie Sanders Statement on Rafah (May 10, 2024): https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-rafah/
Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center (May 10, 2024): https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html
U.S. medical volunteers in Rafah hospital say they've never seen a worse health crisis (May 10, 2024): https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/05/10/1250490688/rafa-hospital-gaza-israel-war-middle-east
Pro-Israel website ramps up attacks on pro-Palestinian student protesters (May 11, 2024): https://www.reuters.com/world/name-shame-pro-israel-website-ramps-up-attacks-pro-palestinian-student-2024-05-11/
Sen. Lindsey Graham says Israel should do 'whatever' it has to while comparing the war in Gaza to Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The GOP senator compared Israel’s military operations to the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Japan in World War II, saying, “Israel, do whatever you have to do.” (May 12, 2024): https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/sen-lindsey-graham-says-israel-whatever-comparing-war-gaza-hiroshima-n-rcna151828
Gazans strive to study as war shatters education system (May 13, 2024): https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gazans-strive-study-war-shatters-education-system-2024-05-13/
‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks: Protesters block convoy, throw food into road and set fire to vehicles at Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron (May 13, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/total-outrage-white-house-condemns-israeli-settlers-attack-on-gaza-aid-convoy
Trump Wants to Deport Pro-Palestine Protesters—and GOP Lawmakers Are Filing Bills to Make It Happen: Republicans continue their push to punish dissent. (May 13, 2024): https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/trump-protesters-gop-marco-rubio-palestine-college-deport/
U.S. Army Officer Resigns From Defense Intelligence Agency Over Gaza Policy: Maj. Harrison Mann's letter criticized the U.S. for still supporting Israel, "which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation" of Palestinians. (May 13, 2024): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/army-officer-resigns-defense-intelligence-agency-military-gaza-israel_n_664281dde4b04540de6e8c69
Columbia-Affiliated Union Theological Seminary Votes to Divest from Israel’s War on Gaza (May 14, 2024): https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/14/serene_jones_union_theological_seminary
Palestinians mark 76 years of dispossession as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza (May 14, 2024): https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-nakba-history-b5cea9556e516655c25598d5dbe54192

#facebook Memory – May 4, 2022
Thanks to your support, CF Vests Worldwide has donated a Hill Rom Cystic Fibrosis vest to Vishaka in #india.
To date, CF Vests Worldwide has donated 27 RespirTech and Hill Rom Cystic Fibrosis to CF patients in India.
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#facebook Memory – May 4, 2022
Thanks to your support, CF Vests Worldwide has donated a Hill Rom Cystic Fibrosis vest to Vishaka in #india.
To date, CF Vests Worldwide has donated 27 RespirTech and Hill Rom Cystic Fibrosis to CF patients in India.
See also attached past CF Vests Worldwide Facebook Memories
https://www.cfvww.org/post/cf-vests-worldwide-facebook-memory-cf-vests-worldwide-donated-cystic-fibrosis-vest-to-india

He’s been a fan since he was like 5. He liked this more than I thought he would.

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Welcome back to this write-up about a complicated artist's complicated book.
Don't be absurd, of course you have time!
Part 1 Part 2
Now that we've established what the book is about, let's take a look at The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls' rich publication and re-publication history. I promise, it's more scandalous than it sounds.

“HER SPEECH IS NOTHING, YET THE UNSHAPÈD USE OF IT DOTH MOVE THE HEARERS TO COLLECTION” (HORATIO, ACT IV SCENE 5)

As I've mentioned in the last installment, TAFWVG has been released multiple times, in multiple editions – four of them, to be precise. And I wish I was exaggerating when I say that three of those four releases have been veritable masterclasses in testing your audience's loyalty. In case you're wondering: the secret is to alter your source material in strange and unpredictable ways, while also constantly messing up on the customer service front.
Most of this installment condenses and combines these two excellent write-ups, which contain most of the receipts: TAFWVG: A History / The Bloody Crumpets: An Inconsistent History. 🔍 Anything that isn't sourced with links is in there. While there were only minor differences between the first and second pressings, the third and fourth editions came with significant alterations to the structure of the book and the story itself, notably the cast of fictional Asylum inmates... a handful of which had, in fact, been obvious avatars of EA's IRL friends and collaborators.
It turns out there are good reasons why most fiction authors don't do real-life inserts so overtly – but in EA's case, it did make sense, and was warmly embraced by fans upon release. When the book first came out, some of these people had been familiar to the fanbase for years, frequently appearing in candid pictures on EA's blog and leaving comments on the forum; some were also involved in her music and show. Recognizing that one character's name was a pun on So-and-So's username was a nice Easter egg for veteran fans, and newcomers got to learn about fandom lore; it brought the story to life and the community closer.
One side character, for instance, was named after EA's best friend from Chicago, whom many fans had had direct interactions with: she co-ran EA's online stores during the Enchant years, and acted as admin, main moderator and EA-liaison of the forum throughout its near-decade of existence.
One crazy girl who thinks she's a pirate is 100% OC... but her description and illustrations 🪞 were explicitly modeled after pictures of Bloody Crumpet Vecona (one of EA's back-up performers), who became the first stand-in pirate character 📺 in the live show. Captain Vecona was also celebrated as the “Asylum Seamstress” 🪞🔍: most of the iconic early Opheliac costumes were her design. She had a following of her own, even prior to touring with EA, for her professional costuming work and her collaborations with German photographer Angst-im-Wald. (Shitty archive link, sorry - most of those badass photoshoots seem to have been lost to time. But if you were a European goth in the mid-2000s, search your old hard drives: I promise you, you've downloaded some of those pictures.)
Inmate “Veronica”, a cabaret girl diagnosed as a nymphomaniac, was a doppelgänger of her namesake, burlesque dancer Veronica Varlow 🪞 – the ride-or-die Crumpet, whom EA often lovingly called her “husband”, saying they had been lovers in a previous lifetime. Veronica was part of every single tour post-Opheliac release and developed a solid fanbase of her own, which she maintains to this day.
Even the brave and well-mannered talking rats (oh yeah, there's talking rats in the Asylum story) were named after EA's real-life pet rodents, who had featured in glamorous photoshoots. (Slight NSFW for sideboob.)
You get the general gimmick by now: EA turns her personal life into art, which she turns into a fictional world, which she then prompts the audience to inhabit with her. The whole Asylum concept was essentially an open invitation to self-insert parasocial fanfic: “Here's this very personal world that I've created, in which I, the artist, exist as a fictional persona, alongside all these quirky inmate characters that you've seen in my stage show, and who are avatars my real-life friends. Come on in, make it your home, and populate it with your own zany Victorian alter egos.”
And it worked, to an extent: like I've said, most fans were on board before they'd even read the book, and the Asylum became “real” in that sense.
But it can get a bit disorienting to find your place in a fantasy world, when said world keeps changing based on the author's shifting feelings about her story, her target audience, and her friends... plus, you'd love to read the book, but the darn thing still hasn't shipped.

ROUNDS 1 & 2: THE HARDCOVERS

\A MINOR ADJUSTMENT\
TAFWVG was first teased in spoken-word bonus tracks 🎤 on a 2007 EP. In spring 2008, EA started reading excerpts from her upcoming book at live shows. Early excerpts from the Asylum narrative featured a character named “Jo Hee” 📺; in the story, she is a cellist from “the Orient” (love that Victorian geography) and Emily's childhood confidante.
In real life, Lady Jo Hee, Center of Happiness, was the OG Bloody Crumpet. 📺 She had been there since from the very first Opheliac show in Chicago in 2006, accompanying EA on the electric cello – the only instrumentalist ever featured in the line-up besides EA herself.
In August 2008, Alternative Magazine ran a feature about the upcoming book.🔍, teasing some of its pages. Fans were quick to spot a very sisterly picture of EA and Jo Hee 🪞, borrowed from a fan-favorite photoshoot of the two. (An aside: this specific picture also became famous in the fandom for another reason. At some point, someone made an edit replacing Jo Hee with Amy Lee from Evanescence; for a while, it kept making the rounds in alt/goth internet circuits, casual onlookers kept getting excited about it, and Plague Rats kept having to step in and disappoint them.)
Anyway. For reasons undisclosed by either party, Jo Hee quietly left the Crumpets after that tour, never to be mentioned again.
By the time the book came out in late 2009, the character of “Jo Hee” had been renamed “Sachiko”. (I guess it didn't matter whether the one non-white character in the story was meant to be Korean or Japanese.) Jo Hee's face had been edited out of the (still clearly recognizable) photograph, and eerily replaced with Nondescript_Asian_Woman_023.jpg from Shutterstock.🪞
You'd think that the switcheroo would have raised more eyebrows, or at least some awkward chuckles, among fans of an artist whose better-known lyrics include “If I Photoshop you out of every picture, I could / Go quietly, quiet - but would that do any good?”. Yet to my knowledge, it did not. Possibly because, by the time people got around to reading the book, some fans had been waiting for their copy longer than Jo Hee had been a Crumpet.
A ROCKY RELEASE
Although the book seemed just about ready for publication at the time of those 2008 readings, the initial release was delayed by technical difficulties (some data had been lost during the editing process). And then delayed some more when, a year later, EA cancelled the US leg of a tour and slammed the door on Trisol, accusing the label owner of exploitation and embezzlement (he was allegedly selling fake tickets to her shows on a phony website). In August 2009, she signed over to The End Records, and we were back in business, baby!
Not only was The Book on its way to the presses, but the long-awaited release would coincide with a “Deluxe” re-issue of Opheliac, with new cover art and bonus tracks. For $100, you could pre-order the “Ultimate Book/Album Collection”, which included the revamped album, the book, a t-shirt, a tote bag, a recipe booklet and some bonus digital downloads, to be shipped in October. Or, for a more up-close-and-personal experience, you could purchase a VIP bundle for her upcoming shows in the fall: $50 plus ticket price would get you the book, a swag bag, and a meet-and-greet. (VIP tickets were capped at 20 slots per show; from what I gather, informal interactions with fans at the merch table were becoming overwhelming on previous tours. Again: fast-growing audience.)
Alas, due to printing issues this time, the making and shipping were soon pushed back to December. VIP ticket-holders were assured, at the start of the tour, that their copies would be shipped first as soon as the books were printed, with handwritten dedications from EA. Purchasers of the “Book/Album” bundle would receive theirs shortly thereafter. This seemed like a reasonable trade-off for a minor delay, and no one was too upset. (Well, some might have been, but at that juncture in Asylum history – for reasons that will become apparent in a later installment, when we get to EA's altercations with her fans – I guess they knew better than to get mouthy about it.)
The bundles came first... and in many cases, “bundle” was a generous term, because they arrived incomplete. When the t-shirt or tote bag weren't missing, they were printed the wrong colors. Many digital download codes had to be requested via email. The book itself was beautiful, but poorly bound, typo-ridden, and missing entire pages. (This was largely fixed in the second hardcover release.)
As far as I know, everyone who complained to the distributor got their money back – and I imagine it was a nice surprise when some items showed up, inexplicably, months after they had already been refunded. But it was still a bit of a “sad trombone” moment for many loyal fans, who had to request a refund on the Ultimate Super-Cool Preorder Exclusive Bundle to purchase the book and album separately.
As for the VIP package books, those didn't start shipping until late 2010 – a whole year after the official book release, months after less invested fans had already received their non-preordered copies. Worse: none of the books were signed, much less lovingly adorned with a personalized handwritten note as EA had promised. (And had tweeted about doing during the year-long shipping delay!) After enough fans meekly expressed their intense disappointment, EA's BFF-forum-admin mailed out signed bookplates that people could stick in their book in lieu of a personalized autograph. No real explanation was given. As far as I know, this particular let-down didn't cause a mass exodus of disappointed fans – but, in the midst of other goings-on, it certainly contributed to eroding many fans' trust in EA's word.
EA TAKES ON HOLLYWOOD
The 2011 release of the largely-identical second edition was better planned and overall uneventful, which gives me time to catch you up on contemporaneous events – like the reason EA ditched the Opheliac red and went platinum blonde. 🪞
Around that time, EA got herself a supporting role and a solo number 🎵📺 in The Devil's Carnival, Darren Lynn Bousman's psychocircus-themed movie musical. (If you're scrambling to place the name: depending on what kind of deviant you are, DLB is either the guy who directed half of the Saw movies or the guy who directed Repo! The Genetic Opera.)
If you've clicked the last link: see the bad boy greaser she's dancing with at the end of the song? That's the titular “Scorpion”, played by Marc Senter, and they were totally hitting on each other while shooting this. 📝🪞 They've been an item for twelve years now, in what appears to be a loving and mutually supportive relationship, and they seem besotted with each other. That's only marginally relevant to the story, but it's nice to know that at least one nice thing worked out in all this mess.
Back to 2011. Through her friendship with DLB and the Devil's Carnival cast (a motley crew of top-shelf B-listers 🔍 that included Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino, the chick from Spy Kids, and the clown from Slipknot), EA also made a bunch of new industry connexions. That's how she came to decide that TAFWVG was meant to be more than a book, more than a live show: it had to become... a musical. Full company, full orchestra, big names, the works. Her 2012 album, Fight Like a Girl, was written and recorded with this project in mind, with most songs narrating events from the book and EA singing as various characters – which turns love duets into finger food for Dr. Freud. 🎵
Shortly before the album release, EA announced on Twitter that the Asylum Musical was scheduled to debut in the London West End, under the direction of Bousman, in 2014. "Casting calls to be announced soon!" (They were not.)

ROUND 3: THE AUDIOBOOK

2014 came, and brought... another TAFWG re-release announcement.
But wait – this time, it was going to be an audiobook! EA had been teasing one since before the original release, so people were quite excited. (It also sounded like a more achievable goal for the calendar year than a West End debut.) In early 2014, recording was well on its way, and the 6-CD boxset was due to ship in May.
PLEASE STAND BY, YOUR ASYLUM WILL BE PROCESSED SHORTLY
First, EA discovered “a new microphone ... that, upon testing, produced a recording of far greater beauty and expressive quality”, which naturally meant the whole thing had to be re-recorded. Two month's delay. No biggie. Our girl is a perfectionist.
But our girl also had to write, coordinate and rehearse her upcoming “Asylum Experience” – an afternoon-long interactive theater event, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, which would be performed at five dates of the Vans Warped Tour in August. (It's not exactly the West End, but it's a start! 🔍) And then she had to prepare for the filming of the Devil's Carnival sequel in the fall. So, obviously, the July deadline was not met. When she finally gave an update in late 2014, the ETA was basically “we are ever so close, but the audiobook gets there when it gets there; feel free to ask for a refund if you're not along for the ride”.
And then she signed with a literary agent. TAFWVG was going to be made into a “real” book, that readers could purchase in stores for a normal price and request from their local library – big event! (More for EA, I think, than for her fans. By that point, the second edition could be purchased as a PDF, and I believe most people who pre-ordered the audiobook had already read the story.) But this involved tailoring the narrative to a more general audience, which meant portions of the book had to be re-written... which meant further delays.

...Besides, and let’s have a teacup of “honesty time” here, if the new Asylum becomes an internationally best-selling novel, not only can we enact more change for good, but the Asylum Musical takes over Broadway faster, the Asylum Movie takes over theatres faster, and YOU are all dressed up as rats/inmates in said movie, you guessed it, faster (“Asylum Audiobook Announcement from EA”📝)

Well, you know what they say in show business: if you can't make it in London, there's always New York.
As EA assured her fans, their patience would be rewarded with a brand new, professionally polished version of the story – and in due time, I guess, a role in the movie. (“Let's hope she doesn't find another new microphone!” 🐀)
From that point on, there seems to have been an ever-widening gap between EA's enthusiasm and fan expectations. When audiobook snippets 🎤.mp3) were released, many fans were unimpressed by the oddly flat, overproduced recording (turns out a microphone can be so good it's a problem! 🐀), which highlighted EA's stilted, uncanny diction and not-quite-transatlantic accent. That caught everyone off guard, because she didn't use to read like... that. Even die-hard apologists had to concede through gritted teeth that, tragically, it was giving William Shatner. (If you're curious, you can find more previews here 🎤📝, along with EA's captions.)
Fans weren't just getting irritated with the various delays and excuses: they were baffled, angry, and embarrassed. When EA clapped back “U know U can just get a refund, right? That is totally within your power to do” on social media, and it came out that requests for refunds had been getting ignored for weeks or months 🐀, seasoned fans were like “Yeah, that tracks.” The whole never-ending ordeal was just starting to feel silly.
All told, the audiobook took two years to complete, with little to no new music in the interim. Two years is a long time for a young-leaning audience! Fans who had preordered at the end of their sophomore year were graduating high school by the time it came out. Others who had been in the middle of undergrad were now looking for full-time jobs. People had gotten pregnant, given birth and potty trained, or had houses built from the ground up. Genuine ultra-fans of the book had had time to... presumably, read other books. (“I wonder how many people passed away waiting for this shitty audiobook to be finished?”)
When the audiobook came out, many long-time Plague Rats had defected, either lamenting the misguided decisions of their favorite artist, or just calling EA a money-grabbing fraud and a lying liar. And a number of patient and unbothered fans had, quite simply, grown out of their EA phase.
Your humble servant, for one, ordered the audiobook the week it went on sale, and stuck with that preorder through five address changes and two graduation ceremonies. Now, bear in mind: through all the ups and downs, even as the charm dispelled, my taste in music evolved, and my perception of EA herself changed, I never formally stopped considering myself a fan. (Mama didn't raise no quitter.) To this day, and to my profound embarrassment, I give enough of a shit that I'm taking the time to write this story at all, and that I was able to draft most of itfrom memory.(Mama didn't teach me how to prioritize.) Well, get this: I have never once listened to the audiobook. I remember unwrapping the signed boxset (minimal artwork, flimsy cardboard, no liner notes), thinking “this could have been an email”, telling myself I'd get around to it for old time's sake... and then I never did, because it was ten hours long, and I just couldn't force myself to care about that story anymore. I was not an isolated case.
In light of this, I apologize in advance for any potential errors in the following paragraphs; others listened so posers like me wouldn't have to 🔍, and I'm going off of their word. The new and improved edition was, indeed, a different book – in that a bunch of things that felt meaningful to fans had been either reworked or excised.
THE AUDIOBOOK EDITS
The hospital narrative had been shortened in favor of the asylum story, and the controversial “Drug / Suicide / Cutting” diaries had been scrapped. Part of the fanbase applauded this decision, but others were disappointed 🐀, as they had found the diaries to be the most (some said only) personal, authentic, and insightful chapters in the book.
Curse words, some abuse, and all mentions of abortion had also been purged. It made the book tamer, but not by much... because Emilie's age had been changed from 27 to 17. Apparently, the literary agent had suggested this to make the book more marketable to a Young Adult audience. No other biographical detail had been altered, so the main narrator was now a 17 year old girl with no parents but an established music career, who checks in by herself into a high-security adult ward, no questions asked. (I'm still perplexed by this one. Did they not expect YA readers to know how hospitals work...?)
The pirate captain, formally known by her “mass of tangled black hair”, was now... a blonde. According to EA, this was a purely aesthetic change: it made the three main Asylum girls a redhead, a blonde and a brunette, which would look better in the stage adaptation. Between the lines, it also distanced the character from its original dark-haired muse: Vecona, who had left the Crumpets in 2008 after a rumored falling-out with EA over unpaid costume work.
The minor characters based on EA's old Chicago friends had been discarded entirely. Which likely made sense for EA – she hadn't lived there in years, the friend group had drifted apart as friend groups do, and by that point, there no longer was an EA forum to administrate or comment on – but not so much for her readers. Some fans had grown fond of these fictional inmates (wasn't that the point?), and weren't too happy to see EA symbolically treat them as disposable. Others were saddened that EA would just scrap these remnants of her old life, and of what felt like simpler, happier times in the fandom. Either way, children, this is why you shouldn't get a neck tattoo of your first boyfriend's name, OR openly base the “good guys” in your career-defining book on friends you made in your early twenties.
To compensate for the loss of... most named inmate characters, Veronica was given a much more prominent role in the plot. Namely, instead of being best friends, Veronica and Emily were now... in love! Lovers! Lesbian lovers! Which naturally meant that Veronica had to die. 🔍 Besides, fans famously love it when you pull a gay ship out of thin air between your two main characters, and then kill one of them off so that the other suffers more.
One last one, because I find it especially goofy: a scrappy teddy bear named Suffer, given to Emily by the talking rats, was replaced with...a Very Large Spoon, which gets its very own number in the musical. 🎵 The rationale was that Emily could use the spoon as a weapon in the climactic uprising against the Asylum doctors. Which, fair enough... except that, prior to being a cute and anachronistic 🔍 MacGuffin in the fictional Asylum story, Suffer the Bear had been a beloved mascot🪞 from the early Opheliac live shows. Some still remembered when EA had raised HELL, even starting a #FREESUFFER campaign on Twitter, because she thought someone had stolen Suffer from the stage (it later turned out that he had been misplaced in a flight case). All that noise back in the day... and now Suffer didn't matter anymore? The nerve. “She made shirts and everything!” 🐀
All this to say, reception was lukewarm. EA hadn't performed live since 2014 and the Devil's Carnival sequel had failed to make a splash (despite decent reviews, the franchise and main collaboration fell apart before the end of the promotional tour 🔍). People were checking out. There was only one way to correct this. A true paradigm shift. A fresh start – a new theme?
Hell no. It's another edition of The Asylum for Revisionist Tortureporn Friendfictions!

ROUND 4: THE E-BOOK & THE QUEST FOR THE SPOON OF ROYALS

In 2017, about a year after the audiobook release, EA self-published a digital version of TAFWVG through Amazon. The literary agent hadn't worked out in the end: publishers were put off by how dark the book was, even after the audiobook edits. EA explained that she hadn't been comfortable with some of the alterations in the first place; she respected the agent's input and had tried to give it an honest shot, but in the end, she wanted to do it the way she wanted to do it, solo... and this was it.
EA had reverted a number of the audiobook cuts (including swear words, mentions of abortion, and the narrator's age), but kept most of the changes to the Asylum narrative – namely, the omission of Former Friends Characters, and the romance between Emily and Veronica. In the newsletter announcement, she mentions being in the process of “re-recording the few little bits of the audiobook to reflect the current text version”. Not sure where we're at on that front; it's never been brought up again, and I don't think anyone's checked. (I assume most fans had war flashbacks when they read the word “re-record”, and instantly repressed that part of the communiqué.)
The “Drug / Suicide / Cutting” diaries were still omitted in the first release of the e-book, but re-included as a coda soon after, by popular demand, under the title “Evidence of Insanity” – with fantastical “doctor's annotations” like“W14A seems to have disassociated her own identity, episodic, each lasting for a longer period of time. We suspect she will continue further in this – stronger medication is needed, schedule electroconvulsive therapy.”
A physical paperback edition was released a few months later; in anticipation of this, the e-book was a stripped-down, text-centric version of the story. (Honestly not a bad call, because the digital version from 2012 was a scanned, non-searchable, 1.3GB PDF behemoth – not super Kindle-friendly!) No elaborate backgrounds and color photographs in this edition, but the pages were still illustrated with inserts of rats, keys, teacups, and... hold on... ciphers??🪞
As always in the Asylum, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. In a throwback to the prelapsarian days of the Enchant Puzzle (remember? the one that no one ever managed to solve?), the e-book illustrations contained puzzles, which formed the master-key to... a scavenger hunt! And in keeping with tradition, the grand prize was an extravagant adornment hand-crafted by EA: the “Spoon of Royals”.🪞📝 Oh my!
Some of the puzzles are simple anagrams that can be solved for keywords. A clickable word within the adjacent text takes you to a password-protected link, which takes you through to an audio file – a song or an atmospheric instrumental that goes with that moment of the story. There are also more complex ciphers that decode into riddles. Each key depicted in the book has a number or letter engraved on it. The total number of rats in the book is apparently significant. One link takes you through to a blank page whose source code contains a list of coordinates from various bridges around the world.
Oh, it was a whole thing. When the book came out, you could send a picture of you doing EA's signature “rat claw” hand sign🪞 to request admission to a private Facebook group (the “Striped Stocking Society”) where people could help each other solve the clues and EA would occasionally pop in for a chat. There was also a series of mysterious newsletters in early 2018, culminating in a Los Angeles event where EA showed up in person to pass on extra puzzle-solving material to a handful of lucky fans (although said material raised more questions that it answered 📝).
Overall, it was a great idea! Although the fanbase was generally smaller and less active after four years without a new tour or album (and a fair amount of other drama, which we have yet to get into), the e-book puzzle did pique people's interest in purchasing yet another version of the same story.
Unfortunately, once again, EA overestimated either how intuitive her fans were, or how invested they would remain. After months of collaborative efforts across multiple platforms, a number of puzzles had been cracked 🔍, but it was still unclear how the individual anagrams and numbers and riddle-solutions all fit together as scavenger hunt clues.
EA kept up the hype for a while, but the few hints that she gave on social media only revealed yet more encryption factors without really helping fans connect the dots. One cipher remained unsolved on Instagram for days and days before EA caved in and hinted at which key to use. She did helpfully specify that if you didn't know how to read music, you'd better start learning. (...Was this a fun puzzle, or a prep school admission test?) The in-person LA event had also sown some confusion as to the rules and constraints of the game: would winning involve traveling to a physical location? That didn't seem very fair. EA had mentioned physically burying some items – but could you solve the puzzle from a distance? Is the Spoon of Royals literally just buried under the Shakespeare Bridge in Los Angeles, California?? 🐀
I'm just saying: if this had come up in 2008? People in corsets and platform boots would have been out there digging.
But this was 2018. As we've mentioned, the core of EA's active fanbase (a lot of whom had been teens and young adults when she was touring Opheliac) was fast aging out of the years when most folks have the spare time, dedication, or desire to essentially do super-involved homework out of love for their favorite singer. Uncovering new songs was a fun perk the first year – but after the new album came out in 2018, none of the passwords led to exclusive material anymore. It felt a bit lacklustre for something so labor-intensive.
(The new music itself wasn't a rallying point either. Behind the Musical was, quite literally, an intended vocal guide for the Asylum musical – so, basically a collection of demos. The sound was VERY Broadway Revival, somewhat Phantomish 🎵, in a way that's either good or bad depending on who's saying it. The violins, to fans' chagrin, sounded all-MIDI; no sign of actual instrumental recordings. EA sang all the parts herself, as she had on her previous album. I'm not saying there's no merit in a one-woman Andrew Lloyd Weber tribute. Many old fans enjoyed the new material well enough, some even really liked it – but most agreed that it just didn't hit like her earlier stuff used to, and that it felt rather unfinished.)
Unlike with the Enchant Puzzle, the prize itself was not much of an intrinsic motivation. While the Faerie Queen's Wings were a straightforward concept that evoked EA's own signature stage costumes, the Spoon of Royals was... a large spoon attached to a necklace, community-college-art-teacher style. It looked impractical both as a spoon and as a necklace, and more importantly, I'm not sure how many readers felt a deep emotional connection to the spoon in the story. The spoon that had usurped Suffer the Bear, no less!
In short: people gave up on the game because it was too hard, it came too late, and they had other things to do.
Thus, the Spoon of Royals remains unclaimed to this day, and I doubt I'll see anyone crack the puzzle in this lifetime. The Striped Stocking Society FB group was terminated in 2020, around the same time a bunch of fansites folded and EA closed her Instagram comments for the first time. By that point, both EA and her fans had bigger rats to skewer – but we have a ways to go before we reach that part of the story.
I would encourage you to give the puzzle a shot for the hell of it (in case you're a cryptography nerd and currently under house arrest or in a full-body cast) but... I just tried a bunch of the links, and the passwords don't work anymore. So I guess that's that. To quote old Bill by way of conclusion: “Much ado about nothing”.

ROUND TOO-MANY: I'LL SEE YOU ON BROADWAY OR I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL

So, what now? Well, not much.
By the late 2010s, what kept many fans semi-invested – if nothing else, because it clearly meant so much to EA herself – was the prospect of an upcoming stage musical adaptation. The way EA talked about it 📺, it was very much a “when”, not an “if”. Sure, ten years on, we were still collectively stuck in the Asylum, but it would at least be a new format – and a return to EA's main field of expertise, ie songwriting and performing. Not only did the core fanbase long for new music and new shows, but Fight Like a Girl and Behind the Musical had brought in small influxes of new fans who were very eager for any chance to see her live. So whether it was out of genuine enthusiasm for the project, or out of “let EA have her musical so we can maybe finally move on”, the fanbase was overall supportive.
Even though people still joked about the 2012 announcement of a “2014 West End debut” (seriously, what was she thinking?), EA had really buckled down in the intervening years, and it looked like the project was plausibly well underway. As in, we had more than just EA's word to go on: the involvement of other people, who did not reside in the Asylum, seemed to confirm that the musical was a thing.

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General Content Warning for this entire write-up, so everyone can have a good time: - Extensive discussion of topics related to mental illness, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, mania / bipolar disorder, distortion of truth, medication, involuntary hospitalization, medical abuse in a hospital setting, and romanticization of mental illness. - Non-detailed mentions of domestic violence (implied abuse by intimate partner and parents) and sexual / gender-based violence (including rape, child sexual assault, grooming, sex trafficking and torture). These last few items feature prominently in one installment, pertaining to a work of fiction; descriptions may be a bit more specific/detailed in that segment, but not graphic. - Mentions and quotes of unchill bigoted behavior, including ableism (mental and physical), white nonsense / white fragility / racism, fatphobia, prejudice against drug users.
Additional CWs may be added at the beginning of specific segments when relevant. While these are heavy topics, the tone of this write-up is generally light-hearted and aims to entertain. If this approach sounds uncomfortable or trivializing, this may not be a good read for you; please trust your gut!
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Picture this: it's the early 2010s, somewhere in the western world. Instagram is a novelty, Harvey Weinstein runs Hollywood, almost no one on Earth leans one way or the other about RNA vaccines, and Donald Trump is that one real estate guy you vaguely remember from Home Alone 2. New player Lady Gaga is the most interesting thing to have happened to pop since Madonna, and the whole industry is attempting to catch up; Miley Cyrus is the chick who used to be on Hannah Montana; Melanie Martinez hasn't hatched yet. The time of Oddball Concept Divas is dawning just below the horizon.
You're a Bowie-loving student who skipped goth night at the club to tag along with your art school friends for a very special evening. You're a giddy sixteen-year old rocking cat ears, purple Wet 'n Wild eyeliner, a polyester petticoat, and a coffin-shaped backpack. You're an effete theater kid who sewed his own waistcoat for the occasion, but won't dare wear it to school the next day. You're a buff, bearded dude in a Venom shirt who's trying not to look too excited, since your girlfriend supposedly had to drag you here. You're a slightly bemused parent leaning against the back wall of the venue, sipping a warm half-pint, wondering if this isn't all a bit dark for a tween. (“It's called 'Victoriandustrial', mom,” you've been told in the car, “and it's not dark, it's art.”)
On stage is a pink-haired woman, with red porcelain-doll lips and a heart painted on her cheek. Among a set of antique consoles, twee tchotchkes, teacups and plastic rats, she pounces and twirls in glittery platform boots, tattered striped stockings, and a tightly laced crystal-studded corset that looks like it's splattered in blood. This is ostensibly a concert, but there is no live band. Where one would expect a drum kit or a bass, three bedazzled burlesque vixens act as back-up singers and dancers, with the occasional vaudeville act – a fire-twirling number, a fan dance, throwing pastries and spitting tea into the audience. Lots of wholesome girl-on-girl kissing, too. The music on the backing track is a genre-bender of clanging beats and beeps, lofty orchestral strings, and the frantic hammering of a MIDI harpsichord, as the pink-haired frontlady sings of heartache and betrayal and drowning. Think if the Brontë sisters had invented industrial rock.
The audience gasps in excitement when the lady whips out a vamped-out wireless electric violin. With rockstar cool and virtuoso poise, she leans into the instrument, touches the bow to the strings, and tears out a single plaintive, impeccably distorted high note. Then her fingers go wild, and for a few seconds, everything is perfect suspended animation. Uncannily perfect, almost. Just behind you, you hear someone whisper: “Wait, is she miming it?”
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Forgive the theatrical intro, but I had to set the stage for... the drama. And I do mean drama in the thespian sense of the term! This, ladies and gentlemen, is a Shakespeare play: wordy and confusing, but it's neat how the main character's opening lines foreshadow the tragic climax. It's a Greek tragedy for the digital age – if, instead of killing his dad and banging his mom, after becoming king, Oedipus was doomed to becoming uniquely obnoxious. It's The Rocky Horror Show under the grim direction of Samuel Beckett. Like all good theatre, this story is about how fiction bleeds into reality – through the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and how all the world's a stage and all that.

WHO IS EMILIE AUTUMN, AND WHAT'S THE DRAMA?

Here's the Broadway Weekly blurb, so you can decide whether the show is worth your time: Emilie Autumn, also known as EA, is a US-American alternative singer-songwriter, author, and actor. She became known in alt circles in the mid-2010s for her violin skills, unique fashion, outspoken stances on feminism and mental health advocacy, and the way she dramatized and sublimated her own life story in her art. In 2009, she self-published a semi-autobiographical book that became a sort of bible to her creative universe and fandom. She toured extensively and enjoyed niche, but considerable success until the mid-2010s – with hordes of devoted fans adopting her fashion sense and lingo, and crediting her music for getting them through dark times.
For the past twelve years or so, EA has mostly been focused on adapting her book into a stage musical, releasing two more albums of songs intended for the libretto. At the time of this write-up, it has been six years since the last album and a decade since the last live show. Although she still talks about the musical as an ongoing, Broadway-bound project, in recent years, she's often gone dark for months at a time on social media. There is no forum, no large Discord, no active community to speak of; comments are restricted on her currently-inactive Instagram and blog.
Who is she hiding from, you ask? Why, you've probably guessed it: the hordes of devoted fans whom she infuriates every time she does anything.
And what are they furious about? (Or frustrated, flummoxed, or plain ol' flabbergasted?) Well, it depends who you ask. For some, it's disappointment in her artistic and marketing choices (what are fans for?). Others cite unkept promises or absurd release delays. For others yet, it's the AliBaba merch sold at jaw-dropping markups with three paragraphs of purple prose in the product description.. Or maybe it was the angry rants on Twitter? Okay, it's the casual bigotry that she staunchly denies or dismisses. It's the criticism she can't take. It's the fact that she won't stop lying about her own life! Either way, I don't personally know of any fanbase that has been so consistently exasperated, for so many years, and for such a diverse array of reasons, by their favorite artist.
In truth, each individual mini-scandal isn't all that juicy or scandalous. Nobody died, no one got sued; nothing of significant value, other than time and sanity, was taken away from anyone. What I find interesting here is the years and years of bizarre parasocial codependency (and antagonism) between a fragile woman who became addicted to her own poppycock, and an obsessive fanbase who cared way too much not to take it personally.
Before we even get to EA's relationship with her fans, you're going to need some lore about EA herself. A “Hobby History” of sorts. Strap in! There's romance, tragedy, laughter, character development, variety numbers, numerous costume changes, (actual) celebrity cameos – and based on how long this OpenOffice doc already is at the time of my writing this, we're probably going to need several intermissions too. This write-up is link-heavy, both with receipts and with additional watching and listening material. Not all of them need to be clicked in order to understand the story; I'm merely providing the rabbit holes. I've tried to make things more easily navigable by including a little glossary about the nature of links; one emoji-indicator carries over the next link until I use a different one.
🪞 = picture / visual 🎵 = music 📺 = video 📝 = primary source / receipt 🔍 = press article / write-up / further reading 🎤 = song lyrics / spoken word audio 🐀 = anonymous fan confession 🦠 = reaction / meme

BAROQUE BEGINNINGS: THE VIOLIN YEARS

VampireFreaks: Do you ever smile to yourself knowing your old music teachers might be seeing your success? EA: I smile to myself knowing they might be dead. (Long-lost interview, late 2000s)

Born in Malibu in the late 70s, Emilie Autumn, often known as EA, was originally trained as a classical violinist.
By her account, she started playing the violin at age 4, and was homeschooled at age 9 so that she could focus on her instrument. After stints at various performing arts colleges, some rather prestigious, she dropped out of formal schooling in her mid-to-late teens to embark on a solo violin career.
In 2001, after disappointing experiences with major record companies, she created her own label, Traitor Records, and released a EP of chamber music, with minor success. The stuffy industry of classical music didn't “get” the twenty-something manic-pixie-fiddler, who played Bach just a bit too fast, but with electric stage presence – wearing period corsets, combat boots, and the occasional fairy wings. But EA evidently knew that there was an audience for that somewhere.
And that somewhere – drumroll – was Illinois.

VW: What do you most hope to accomplish? EA: Everything. (‘Virtual World Radio’ Interview, 2002 📝)

ENCHANT ERA: BRUSHES WITH FAME ON FAERIE WINGS

What if I'm an ocean, far too shallow, much too deep? (...) What if I'm a siren singing gentlemen to sleep? (“What If”, 2003 🎵)

Soon, EA relocated from her native California to Chicago. There, in between odd jobs, she veered away from baroque and began performing her own “fantasy rock” stylings at piano bars, holiday fairs and local venues – and building a decent following through her LiveJournal, website, and IRL friends. People loved the whole renegade genius thing, loved the violin, loved the nightingale voice, loved the fairy wings and costumes🪞, loved the handmade merch and general disdain for The Business, loved her deadpan humor and bookish nerdiness. In 2003, she released her first LP, Enchant 🎵 – an ethereal, introspective indie-pop joint, born under the sign of Imogen Heap, with a moon in Fiona Apple and Tori Amos rising.
Everything about EA's act was exquisitely DIY, personal, and intricate. For instance, the Enchant booklet folded out into a Masquerade-style puzzle of her own design.🪞 The first person to solve the puzzle would win “the Wings, Ruff, Fan and Scepter of the Faerie Queene herself” – all lovingly handmade by EA, and depicted in peak 2003 graphic design on the booklet. For months, YEARS after Enchant came out, people poured over the cryptic metaphors and literary references, the historical symbolism and visual puns of the artwork, looking for hints and patterns. They read every fan chat, every interview, every relevant Shakespeare play, hoping to decipher the inner workings of EA's mind and find new keys to the puzzle. Sure, it's been two decades now and no one's ever managed to crack the damn thing 🔍, which is by now widely assumed to be flawed and unsolvable; still, it's the kind of zany, brainy, immersive experience that tends to cultivate a niche but hyper-invested fanbase.
So it makes perfect sense that underground aficionada and internet frontierswoman Courtney Love (she haunted public AOL chatrooms as early as 1995! 🔍) would take an interest. Just a few months after releasing Enchant, EA was off to southern France to record violin and vocals for Courtney's new solo album; a few months after that, in early 2004, she joined Courtney's band on a brief tour to promote the record.
Alas, no cigar: America's Sweetheart flopped. Maybe because most of those summer recording sessions were ultimately lost to an engineering oopsie; maybe because Courtney was having an especially rough year – and going through all the “rock-bottom moments” that she would discuss in group therapy, later that fall, when she began her sobriety journey at court-ordered rehab. EA, a former homeschool kid who had never done drugs, seems to remember the tour as a generally terrifying experience; she later stated, with some bitterness, that the experience was not worth the time it had taken away from her own solo career.
But it was a good year for TV appearances! Here she is on the David Letterman Show in March 2004, rocking out on a perfectly inaudible violin as C-Love fades in and out of her own body. 📺 She also landed a cute tutorial segment on HGTV's Crafters: Coast to Coast, making sushi-shaped soap and fairy wings. In December, she accompanied Billy Corgan for a Christmas song on a Chicago station.
All of this was chronicled in quirky, wordy posts on her blog – interspersed with late-night musings about casual misogyny in the media 📝, including against Courtney, handmade crafts and clothing auctions, candid pictures of outings with friends in Chicago... as well as periodic updates on the progress of her next opus: Opheliac.

God, too much to even begin to tell right now, and I’m recording anyway, but I can give you this update: I just finished yesterday recording violin parts and backing vocals for B. Corgan’s first single (...) More later, recording piano for my new track “GOD HELP ME”…why do I torture myself with my own self-inflicted drama…or is it a way of exorcizing…yes, I’ll go with that one for now…☠ (“Whirlwind...”, December 2004)

By that point, EA was starting to be more open about her conflicted relationship with what would later be diagnosed as bipolar disorder. The galaxy-brain moments, the trance of creative frenzies, the liminal high of going three days without sleep, the magic... the crippling sensitivity, the restless anxiety, the Zoloft that one both needs and hates, the ever-lurking suicidal thoughts. As EA gradually revealed over the course of 2004, Opheliac would be an exploration of the “mad woman” archetype. The title was a medical neologism for “the syndrome of Ophelia”, as in the tragic character from Hamlet 🔍, driven to insanity and ultimate self-destruction by the fuckboys who rule her life. Here's EA explaining it in her own words. 🎤 The album would dive into how psychiatry and romantic relationships are governed by old misogynistic tropes, and how the “mentally ill” label is used to silence and downplay the justified anger and hurt of abused women.
In a striking case of life imitating art (are you picking up on the theme yet?), this concept was about to become more painfully relevant than ever to EA's personal existence.
CW: implied partner abuse, suicidal ideation.

DISENCHANTMENT: A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS

In the lake, you will find me Behind your house, behind your house (...) My ocean is bluer than the heart you had to break My sea is deeper than your lake (“In the Lake”, 2005 🎵)

Where were we? Ah yes, the Christmas song with Billy Corgan at the end of 2004. Around that time, EA was also recording violin parts and backing vocals for his upcoming solo album. 🎵 They had presumably connected through Courtney, they both lived in Chicago, I guess something clicked.
In January of 2005, EA abruptly went off of her meds, broke up with her live-in boyfriend-slash-bassist, packed up her violin and corsets, and moved into Corgan's mansion. In March of 2005, she posted very melancholy lyrics about drowning in a lake to haunt a deceitful lover. The post was entitled“In The Lake (The Zoloft is calling my name...)” 🎤📝. Later, after the song was released as a B-side, EA disclosed that it had been intended as a public suicide note 📝.
Blog entries from that time touched on a “whirlwind of action and emotion”, “changing residences” and feeling like “you're falling through the air, but you don't know if you'll hit the water or the rocks” 📝. But, EA being an expert vague-poster, her posts remained very elusive about what was going on, who was involved, and how it impacted her. (The specifics were pieced together years later, by fan-led forensic efforts – which, obviously, involved ascertaining the existence of an actual body of water in Billy Corgan's backyard 📝).
Whatever happened over the course of those months was never disclosed explicitly by EA, but is widely assumed to have inspired songs such as “Liar” 🎤, “Misery Loves Company”, “Let the Record Show”, and “I Know Where You Sleep”, , recorded that same spring. A solid quarter of the Opheliac tracklist – which was shaping out to be decidedly darker and grittier than Enchant.

You can lie to the papers, you can hide from the press (...) I know your tainted flesh, I know your filthy soul I know each trick you played, whore you laid, dream you stole I know the bed in the room in the wall in the house Where you got what you wanted and ruined it all I know the secrets that you keep I know where you sleep

Even as her personal blog posts grew more somber, nihilistic, and generally fed-up in the face of what she called “the worst breakdown of her young life”, even as the songwriting process had her rummage through traumatic memories [CW: CSA] 🎤, and even as the Corgan-adjacent trauma was compounded by various rushed moves and broken friendships over that summer and fall, EA remained remarkably (some might say frantically) prolific.
Other than progress on Opheliac, 2005 saw multiple violin collaborations with alternative bands, numerous auctions of, mh, visually strident “punktorian” fashion pieces 📝🪞 (“STRESS COUTURE!” 🦠📺), and an updated re-issue of her 2001 poetry collection, complete with audiobook. ("...The book has been selling like crack in a limo with Courtney Love (and believe me, I know)." - Ooooof, EA. Low-hanging fruit. 📝)
In October, she started recruiting:

WANTED: Hot goth bitch to join touring band of other hot goth bitches. (...) Must be able to: sing backing vocals in a wide range with excellent pitch, growl à la Kittie, handle minimal keyboard parts, push buttons/turn knobs with killer attitude, be extremely comfortable on stage in bloomers and a corset, reside in the Chicago area, know the difference between a crumpet and a scone, have at least one hidden talent. 📝

By winter, most of her blog post titles were written in THIS FORMAT!!!!!!!! In December, she announced that “Emilie Autumn and the Bloody Crumpets” would preview Opheliac live at the Double Door in Chicago, on Friday the 13th (ooh!) of the following month. “We are coming to destroy your world,” the post threatened enticingly. "Miss it and suffer. We really don't want to hurt you.” The flyer advertised a dress code:

Masquerade, Ophelias, green girls, Victorian insane asylum escapees, princes of Denmark, bloomered harlots and rogues – general burlesque ribaldry!

Exit diaphanous butterfly wings and elven tiaras 📺, enter the haunted murder-doll with the blood-red heart on her cheek; out with Elizabethan chamber-pop, in with Victoriandustrial. The fairy had to die to make way for the iconic, the sublime, the tragic, the ridiculous, the positively bananas...

OPHELIAC ERA: LET THE RECORD SHOW

EA: What's more interesting, and what's more fun to watch, than a crazy girl's self-destruction? Nothing. Nothing in the world. (The Opheliac Companion, 2008 🎤)
If I'm going down Then I'm going down good I'm going down Then I'm going down clean (...) The prettiest broken girl you've ever seen (“Let the Record Show”, 2006 🎵)

CW: mania, self-harm, abortion, suicidal ideation, hospitalization.
If you haven't gathered as much by now, what fans were witnessing in real time on EA's blog, without necessarily seeing it, was the ebb and flow of a months-long manic episode. That's not me armchair-diagnosing: EA herself has discussed penning and recording a lot of her best material in a trance-like rush, “when you're writing on the ceiling because there's not enough paper to contain your thoughts”.

...Once I became stable and healthy, I realized that I had no memory of how a great deal of my music had been created. I had written and even programmed most of my best work in a similar manic state, and, when stark raving sane, I didn’t know how to do it anymore, because the part of me that really composes never needed to know how to do it, it just did. (2019 Instagram post 📝)

It's not an uncommon experience for artists with bipolar disorder. Before you burn so hot that you wind up in the back of an ambulance, and/or before the pendulum swings back towards debilitating depression, the boundless energy, heightened sensitivity, and unexpected thought patterns associated with mania can lead to periods of prolific and effortless creation.
Mania also has the potential to lower your inhibitions, making you more bodacious, more quick-witted – more dazzling, more fun at parties, more dramatic. All traits that are valued in the entertainment industry, especially one that, with the rise of social media, was coming to rely increasingly on parasocial engagement and “personal branding”. Why would you refrain from oversharing, overreacting, overworking, overpromising, overcurating a fantasy image of yourself... when new industry models reward exactly that?
My point is that, in retrospect, “the end was built into the beginning”: all the things that would make fans go “What the hell, Emilie!” in subsequent years were brewing below the surface before the album even dropped.
In the summer of 2006, EA said goodbye to her Chicago friends and returned to California, where she moved in with her new beau, another Illinois-born guitarist with an impressive forehead: Brendon Small, of Dethklok/Metalocalypse quasi-fame. (If you're into that sort of thing: the orchestral strings on “Detharmonic”? Yep, that's EA! 🎵📺)
In September, Opheliac was released into the world. Expectations were high... And many sources agree it was a goddamn banger. It was ultrafemme, ultradark, unhinged, hilarious and deadly and brilliant. It had gnarly kitchen-sink drums layered under angelic string harmonies, fauxperatic swells, and guttural screaming. It had sarcastically self-aware double-entendres that were also literary references that were also musical notation jokes. You get the idea: it was the album that a small, but sizable demographic of tormented millennial teens had been waiting to obsess over. Some time in late 2005 or so, EA had signed with German label Trisol Records, which gave her access to better promotion, press coverage and touring opportunities in Europe when the album came out in the fall. By winter, she was on the cover of alternative mags, and the talk of the town on underground music webzines. Within a year, she was embarking on the first of three almost-back-to-back European tours.
It was around that time that EA started giving her fanbase a more defined, aesthetically on-brand identity. EA, funnily enough, disliked the term “fan” due to its proximity to “fanatic”, and started calling individual supporters “muffins” or the "Bloomer Brigade". (After The Book came out in 2009, they would become “Plague Rats”. You know how pets get weird if you re-name them too many times? I wonder if the same is true of fans.) Meanwhile, EA's fanbase as a collective – as well as her home, her recording studio, her online forum and her inner brainspace... – became canonically known as “The Asylum”. Cue infinite jokes about her fans being “committed.”
And they really were, in a slightly more intense way than your average indie-alternative fanbase. Many fans enthusiastically adopted facets of EA's mannerisms and lingo, which gave the fandom a definite LARP-ing bend; and the official forum did, in fact, offer a subforum for Asylum-themed role-play. (In a number of ways, the Asylum was basically Juggalos for socially anxious theater goths. Substitute the clown facepaint, Faygo, and hatchets for cheek-hearts, Earl Grey tea, and obsolete medical tools.) While there was always some side-eye at the embarrassingly candid, often very young Plague Rats who took the Asylum thing too seriously (always speaking in character and worshipping the ground Mistress Emilie walked on), a lot of people were quite thrilled to play romantic Victorian madhouse with their new favorite artist. Live shows were like costume balls. The forum thrived.
It was like Opheliac had opened a portal to this vibrant and inclusive alternate dimension, which the community was now bringing to life in the real world. And each tour brought more inmates (muffins, Plague Rats, you get it) to the Asylum. “Spread the Plague!” was the name of the game.
So, on paper, in the three years that followed Opheliac, EA kind of won the high-concept-indie-artist equivalent of the lottery. After going through her own personal hell of abuse, major upheavals and serious mental health crises, she had decided to gamble on a radically different tone and musical direction. She came out the other side with critical acclaim for her soul-baring record, tons of live shows with a badass girl squad, photoshoots so iconic they pop up on random Pinterest boards to this day, snazzy corporate sponsorships (including Manic Panic and RockLove Jewelry), and an exponentially growing fanbase who couldn't get enough of whatever she had to give. And she gave quite a lot!
Within those three years, in between tours, EA released A Bit O' This & That 🎵 (a compilation of demos and back-catalogue curiosities), Laced / Unlaced (a full-instrumental double album - one side was the baroque recordings from her late teens, the other was demented, distortion-heavy classical-prog), and three EPs packed with new songs, covers, remixes and bonus content. There was also a deluxe reissue of Enchant, without the puzzle, but with a brand new booklet of handwritten lyrics and marginalia. All came in lovely inter-matching digipaks that really made you want to collect them all – much like the handmade merch 📝🪞 that EA still sold on some legs of her tours. She spent time with the fans at most shows, eventually holding meet-and-greets and private showcases for VIP ticket-holders. She also released “The Opheliac Companion”, a kind of “director's commentary” of the album – roughly 10 hours worth of lyrical deep dives, microphone specs, tangents within tangents within tangents, and whacky (tipsy, sometimes unintelligible) banter between EA and her sound engineer🎤. On top of all that, she wrote, designed and self-published a fully illustrated 200-page coffee-table book, the first print of which sold out within a year. Not bad!
Of course, things that seem to good to be true usually are: at this stage in the story, EA is never as enthusiastically prolific as when her personal life is falling apart behind the scenes.
In the three years that followed Opheliac, along with soaring success, EA got to experience: more rapid-cycling between manic phases and the pits of depression, multiple harrowing medication adjustments, an very-much-unwanted pregnancy followed by a traumatic abortion, a suicide attempt, at least one inpatient stay, and a break-up in the aftermath of it all. There were also a few physical health scares that required hospitalization. On one occasion, she had to go off all her meds cold-turkey when they were confiscated at the EU border right before the start of a tour. In some pictures from her summer 2007 festival appearances, you can make out faint self-harm scars on her thigh through the layered stockings. (Obvious CW, for the morbidly curious.🪞(But if you weren't, would you still be reading?))
So yeah. EA was not doing great.
She didn't share any of these struggles with her fans in real time; her posts were all droll banter and updates on tours and releases. Most of what I just listed was disclosed in late 2009, in the autobiographical part of The Book. (The Book gets at least one instalment of its own. Bear with me, there's a LOT to unpack.) And The Book, while never specifying a timeline, kind of really made it sound like the Bad Stuff (the abortion, the suicide attempt, the hospital stay) had taken place a while back, before the release of Opheliac. In fact, EA plainly stated as much, citing “getting locked up and being put in the asylum" 📝 as the reason for the shift in sound between Enchant and Opheliac.
She repeatedly referred to herself as “stabilized” and “now properly medicated” in interviews. As far as the fanbase was concerned, she had triumphed over her abusers, turned trauma into beauty, and lived to pass on her story of survival. And now she had found balance and community and true acceptance of herself, all that good stuff – and all was fine and dandy within the Asylum. On stage, she sang about blind rage and all-consuming despair and general hopelessness, but she didn't actually feel like that – not anymore, right?
This narrative was both inspirational and quite convenient for the fans. We love our Mad Hatters 🎵📺, our Rainmen, our manic pixies. We love and celebrate “crazy” when it manifests as outside-the-box brilliance and/or bubbly eccentricity. But in my experience, even in spaces that ostensibly focus on "destigmatizing mental illness", positivity and support can quickly turn to rejection and awkwardness when your “quirks” manifest in more challenging ways – like through erratic decisions, aggressive or dishonest behavior, or increasingly untethered beliefs about yourself and the world. No matter how much people claim to “embrace the madness”, it just isn't that fun or in good taste for a large group to play-act ~ whimsical insanity ~ with someone who is for realsies mentally falling apart.
Before time has had time to do its thing, "revisiting your trauma" is just called ruminating. And it's rarely good for you, even when you commit some of greatest art in the process.
I think fans had to assume that there was some critical distance in EA's act, that these extreme negative emotions were all theater – because if they weren't, then the Asylum wasn't an empowering performance about healing from past hurt. It was more like a years-long reality show in which a woman picked at her wounds publicly, again and again, in real time, to the cheers of oblivious strangers who thought they were watching a play.
All I'm saying is that EA was essentially still in the thick of raw trauma when she became a poster-child for overcoming it; that the last thing a person needs, at such a vulnerable stage in their life, is an intense parasocial relationship with sad goth teenagers, let alone one centered around romanticized retellings of their own darkest moments; and that if more people had declined to actively engage in pretend-play that toed the line of self-harm... there is a chance that things might have turned out differently. Maybe EA would still be a successful musician whose career isn't plagued by conflict and mutual disappointment, and maybe some fans wouldn't have wasted years getting red in the face at an over-exposed mentally ill woman for not getting her shit together.
OKAY, THAT GOT HEAVY (and preachy), apologies and thank you for your patience. I will now quit my soapboxing, resume telling the story, and let you draw your own conclusion as our dark plot unravels.

EPILOGUE: DEAD IS THE NEW ALIVE

A quick taste of the poison A quick twist of the knife When the obsession with death, the obsession with death Becomes a way of life ("Dead is the New Alive", 2006 🎵)
I am still over-glorified My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine (“306”, 2006)

In summation: becoming an overnight success thanks to your darkest trauma will do things to person's mind.
As EA kept hyping up how much her fans meant to her, and what an amazing and inclusive and free-thinking motley crew the Asylum was, she was also growing more and more controlling of her increasingly large (and opinionated, and overall rather young) fanbase – and more generally, of the way people ought to talk to and about her.
It was during the Opheliac era that she started reveling in made-up stories about her own life. Then came the habit of losing her shit on fans that she perceived as ungrateful or disrespectful. It was also then that massive kerfuffles became routine on the merch and planning front, and EA's creative output started to routinely fall short of her promises. The more fans started raising legitimate complaints, the more defensive and uncompromising EA became in her public interactions. The more people expressed weariness of the Asylum theme, or started questioning EA's hot takes on mental health and feminism, the harder she doubled down on the Asylum lore and fictional universe. Which is where the drama really starts.
Alright, the time has come. Let's talk about The Book.
...Actually, let's not. I'm nearing my character limit, and you could probably use a break and a stretch after making it this far. This is our intermission, and we'll get to The Book in our next instalment.
Thank you for reading! Stay tuned if you're interested in how it all comes tumbling down.

It’s been a bit since our latest release (invertebrate-related kidding aside) but we are excited to be back with a bunch of very exciting updates to STOBETTER, including a slew of new builds and tool tweaks to keep our content and toolbox fresh!
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As promised, we have content from the 14th Anniversary bundle and Last Generation lockbox that we think you’ll enjoy.

Builds

Jay

• Jay has finally completed his Exotic masterpiece, the Verne. It took him 3 years to select the ship from the first Event Campaign and what seemed like another 3 years at least 3 months to build it and the wait has been worth it. It’s now our Exotic DPS leader at 1217K DPS on ISE and is over 1M DPS on HSE. If you’ve been looking for our take on the most highly-touted Exotic platform, it’s here and it’s impressive.
  
• From the 14th Anniversary bundle, Jay’s heart went aflutter when he saw the Chekov and immediately realized its potential for one of his favorite build concepts, DEWSci. Seriously, he has more DEWSci builds than Tilor and I put together. He achieved 1.16M DPS on this ship and it’s a great example of how to make this build type work even at the upper end.
  

Eph289

• I was cajoled into building promised you all a carrier last time so I’m technically going to satisfy that requirement with a Miracle Worker Constitution running CSV. However, the joke’s on you, all 6 of you carrier fans out there, as this is not built for maximizing hangar pet damage. Isomags galore and not a Hydra console in sight instead! However, it does do over 1M DPS so there’s that.
  
• Out of the 14th Anniversary Bundle, the Atlantis was the one that most intrigued me as an upgrade to my Edison. I’ve ported the Edison build to that platform, and while it’s a little more expensive, it’s now perilously close to 1M DPS using Polaron CRF at 972K.
  

Tilor

Tilor has reached a huge milestone in that he’s cracked 1M DPS for the first time, and now he’s done it twice!

• His Iktomi, freshly upgraded with a Bio-Electric Wave, is at 1176K DPS. His motivation to keep flying it is that the Web Cannon wasn't in his top 5 damage sources . . . yet.
  
• Tilor’s Legendary Excelsior with FAW is over 1M DPS now as well with 1015k DPS, and he’s elated to have a 1M DPS Excelsior as that’s his favorite canon ship.
  
• Lastly, Tilor came up with a build that was defying classification for a while on the Fleet Justiciar. Like some other Tilor builds, it’s unique in that it’s an Off-Tank Kinetic build with a hull that is seriously thicc. We found it couldn’t quite completely pull threat on an HSE for a team, but it was survivable and put out 875K DPS.
  

Our full table of builds is below:

Class	Link	Updated	Type	Subtype	Budget Class	Previous DPS	Current DPS	Author
Akira (Fleet Alita)	U.S.S. Olimar	FALSE	Carrier	Phaser	Midrange	500K DPS	500K DPS	Tilor
Annorax	Mist Of Avalon	FALSE	Exotic	Scitorp	Premium	1080k DPS ISE/1001K DPS HSE	1080k DPS ISE/1001K DPS HSE	Jayiie
Arbiter (Fleet Avenger)	U.S.S. Roosevelt	FALSE	Beam FAW	Phaser	Midrange	427K DPS	644K DPS	Eph289
Arbiter (Fleet Avenger)	U.S.S. Thule	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Phaser	Economy	242k DPS	242k DPS	Jayiie
Atlantis	U.S.S. Triton	TRUE	Cannon Rapid Fire	Polaron	Premium	905K DPS	972K DPS	Eph289
Chekov	U.S.S. Myrddin Emrys	TRUE	Exotic	DEWSci	Premium	NEW BUILD	1161k DPS	Jayiie
Chimesh	I.G.V. Jhamel	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Antiproton	Midrange	947K DPS	947K DPS	Eph289
Chronos	Stormbreaker	FALSE	Heavy Tank	Plasma	Premium	387K DPS/92% atks in	553K DPS / 98% ATKSIN	Eph289
Constitution MW FDC	U.S.S. Mitscher	TRUE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Phaser	Premium	NEW BUILD	1015	Eph289
Crossfield Refit	U.S.S. Indebted Sacrosanct	FALSE	Exceed Rated Limits	Phaser	Premium	567k DPS	567k DPS	Jayiie
Da Vinci (Fleet Saber)	U.S.S. Von Neumann	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Phaser	Premium	1152k DPS	1152k DPS	Jayiie
Damar	C.U.V. Lang	FALSE	Exotic	Scitorp	Premium	739K DPS	739K DPS	Eph289
Deimos	U.S.S. Perses	FALSE	Reroute Reserves	Disruptor	Premium	1330K DPS	1330K DPS	Eph289
Dranuur	L.S.S. Pioneer	FALSE	Exotic	Scitorp	Premium	1182K DPS	1182K DPS	Eph289
Eagle	I.S.S. Aquila	FALSE	Kinetic	Mixed	Premium	1494K DPS	1494K DPS	Eph289
Earhart (Fleet Engle)	U.S.S Doolittle	FALSE	Projectile	Quantum	Premium	1006K DPS	1006K DPS	Eph289
Equinox (Fleet Nova)	U.S.S. Perihelion	FALSE	Exotic	Scitorp	Premium	756K DPS	1084K DPS	Eph289
Equinox (Fleet Nova)	U.S.S. Penumbra - Exotic	FALSE	Exotic	DEWSci	Premium	886k DPS	886k DPS	Jayiie
Equinox (Fleet Nova)	U.S.S. Penumbra - CSV	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Phaser	Premium	523k DPS	523k DPS	Jayiie
Eternal	U.S.S. Aegis	FALSE	Exotic	DEWSci	Premium	715K DPS	715K DPS	Eph289
Excelsior (Fleet Resolute)	U.S.S. Cobaltforge	FALSE	Projectile	Mixed	Premium	644K DPS	644K DPS	Tilor
Fleet Cyclone	U.S.S. Opiso	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Antiproton	Economy	357k DPS	357k DPS	Tilor
Fleet Hiawatha	U.S.S. Hiawatha	FALSE	Support	Plasma	Premium	200K DPS/397%DB/3 PBA	200K DPS/397%DB/3 PBA	Eph289
Fleet Justiciar	U.S.S. Adamantoise	TRUE	Kinetic	Torp-Hull Burn	Premium	NEW BUILD	875k	Tilor
Fleet Norway	U.S.S. Bjerknes	FALSE	Support	Plasma	Premium	287K DPS/275% DB/36 PBA	287K DPS/275% DB/36 PBA	Eph289
Fleet Olympic	U.S.S. Cauterize	FALSE	Exotic	Dragonbreath	Premium	658K DPS	658K DPS	Tilor
Friendship Command FDC	U.S.S. Rtas 'Vadum	FALSE	Carrier	Antiproton	Premium	956k DPS	956k DPS	Jayiie
Gagarin (Fleet Shepard)	U.S.S. Aldrin	FALSE	Exceed Rated Limits	Phaser	Premium	757K DPS	870K DPS	Eph289
Gagarin (Fleet Shepard)	U.S.S. Shepard	FALSE	Beam Overload	Phaser	Economy	493K DPS	493K DPS	Eph289
Ghemor	Quiver of Arrows	FALSE	Carrier	Phaser	Premium	684k DPS	684k DPS	Tilor
Hydra	U.S.S. Caliburn	FALSE	Surgical Strikes	Phaser	Premium	1281k DPS	1281k DPS	Jayiie
Hydra	U.S.S. Devastator	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Antiproton	Premium	551K DPS	551K DPS	Tilor
Iktomi	Bwinomer	TRUE	Exotic	Scitorp	Premium	811K DPS	1175.89K DPS	Tilor
Inquiry	U.S.S. Carmarthen	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Phaser	Premium	1070k DPS	1070k DPS	Jayiie
Jorogumo	Ruby/Sapphire/Citrine Hydra	FALSE	Support	Disruptor	Premium	225K DPS/298% DB/11 PBA	225K DPS/298% DB/11 PBA	Tilor
Khaiell	R.R.W. Durendal	FALSE	Reroute Reserves	Disruptor	Premium	892K DPS	892K DPS	Jayiie
Kiwavi	Alpha Zergling	FALSE	Support Tank	Antiproton	Premium	289K DPS/85% ATKSIN	289K DPS/85% ATKSIN	Tilor
Legendary Excelsior	U.S.S. BCF-Bismarck	FALSE	Beam Overload	Phaser	Premium	760K DPS	760K DPS	Tilor
Legendary Excelsior	U.S.S. BCF-Bismarck	TRUE	Beam FAW	Phaser	Premium	NEW BUILD	1015k	Tilor
Legendary Inquiry	U.S.S. Yi Sun-sin	FALSE	Beam FAW	Phaser	Premium	1034K DPS	1034K DPS	Eph289
Legendary Kelvin Timeline Constitution	U.S.S. Rhongomiant	FALSE	Surgical Strikes	Phaser	Premium	857K DPS	857K DPS	Jayiie
Legendary Scimitar	A.R.W. Harpe	FALSE	Surgical Strikes	Plasma	Premium	1002K DPS	1002K DPS	Eph289
Legendary Scimitar	A.R.W. Javelin	FALSE	Support	Polaron	Premium	266K DPS/366% DB/110 PBA	266K DPS/366% DB/110 PBA	Eph289
Legendary Scimitar	R.R.W. Xiphos	TRUE	Projectile	Mixed	Midrange	1106K DPS	1155K DPS	Eph289
Legendary Temporal Operative Science Vessel	U.S.S. Frontenac	FALSE	Support	Disruptor	Premium	~200K DPS/427% DB/100+ PBA	~200K DPS/427% DB/100+ PBA	Jayiie
Legendary Verity (Odyssey)	U.S.S. Bedivere	FALSE	Heavy Tank	Antiproton	Premium	434K DPS/95% atks in	434K DPS/95% atks in	Jayiie
Legendary Verity (Odyssey)	U.S.S. d'Alembert	FALSE	Support Tank	Phaser	Premium	174K DPS/83% atks in	174K DPS/83% atks in	Jayiie
Lexington	U.S.S. Taggart	FALSE	Projectile	Mines	Premium	962K DPS	962K DPS	Eph289
Lexington	I.S.S. Bedivere/I.S.S. Szilard	FALSE	Cannon Scatter Volley	Phaser	Premium	1108k DPS	1108k DPS	Jayiie
Lexington-Tank	U.S.S. Dragonscale	FALSE	Heavy Tank	Antiproton	Midrange	390K DPS/97% atks in	390K DPS/97% atks in	Tilor
Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit	U.S.S. Proxima	FALSE	Exotic	Scitorp	Starter	76k PUG ISA/129k 2MAN ISA/235k ISE/160K HSE	76k PUG ISA/129k 2MAN ISA/235k ISE/160K HSE	Jayiie
Palatine	U.S.S. Capitoline	FALSE	Exotic	Scitorp	Economy	860K DPS	860K DPS	Eph289
Presidio	U.S.S. Alamo	FALSE	Support Tank	Disruptor	Premium	261K/92% atks in	261K/92% atks in	Eph289
Quark	Over Achiever	FALSE	Beam Overload	Tetryon	Premium	725K DPS	725K DPS	Eph289
Scryer	U.S.S. Covenance Heart	FALSE	Exotic	DEWSci	Premium	678k DPS	678k DPS	Jayiie
Sh'vhal	V.S.S. Solemn Penance	FALSE	Projectile	Mixed	Premium	1004k DPS	1004k DPS	Jayiie
Sovereign	U.S.S. Ascendant	FALSE	Beam Overload	Phaser	Starter	140K DPS	140K DPS	Eph289
Styx	I.S.S. Phlegethon	FALSE	Support Tank	Antiproton	Premium	345/95% atks in	345/95% atks in	Eph289
T'Varo Refit	RRW Maelstrom	FALSE	Projectile	Mixed	Starter	189k DPS	189k DPS	Tilor
Tarantula	Obsidian Beacon	FALSE	Support	Plasma	Premium	212K DPS/264% DB/6 PBA	212K DPS/264% DB/6 PBA	Tilor
Terran Sirius	I.S.S. Wolfram	FALSE	Heavy Tank	Phaser	Premium	390K DPS/93% atks in	390K DPS/93% atks in	Jayiie
Theseus (Fleet Theseus)	K.C.S. Parallel Lines	FALSE	Cannon Rapid Fire	Phaser	Premium	586k DPS	586k DPS	Jayiie
Trailblazer	U.S.S. Navigator	TRUE	Kinetic	TorpSci	Premium	1292K DPS	1315K DPS	Eph289
Tzen-tar	Bring the Rainbow	FALSE	Kinetic	Plasma	Premium	878K DPS	878K DPS	Tilor
Vengeance	U.S.S. Lancelot	FALSE	Surgical Strikes	Phaser	Premium	1117k DPS	1117k DPS	Jayiie
Verne	U.S.S. Vivaine	TRUE	Exotic	Scitorp	Premium	NEW BUILD	1217K DPS	Jayiie
Vor'cha	I.K.S. Aiden	FALSE	Beam Overload	Disruptor	Starter	68k PUG ISA/99k 2MAN ISA/200k ISE/130K HSE	68k PUG ISA/99k 2MAN ISA/200k ISE/130K HSE	Jayiie
World Razer	U.S.S. Vishnu	FALSE	Beam Overload	Phaser	Premium	1165K DPS	1165K DPS	Eph289

Guides

We’ve updated Support Basics to include content from the Ahwahnee, and Carrier Basics with a table of what pets get what buffs.
We’ve also added Iuppiter Iratus and Guillotine Elite to the TFO guide.

ICYMI

• Revisiting Exotics 23 covers the Bio-Electric Wave and the new Last Generation lockbox boff powers as well as Unstable Planetoid Detonation.

Tier Lists

• The Personal Space Traits tier list has been updated to include Intel Handler. We have intentionally excluded Fireball Escape
  
• The Starship Traits tier list has been updated to include Inertial Supremacy, Temporal Tunneling, Flagship Staffing, Adaptive Tactical Algorithms, and Trauma Response, and Threaded Particle Projectors. We have intentionally excluded Risk Vs Reward.
  

Tools

The CDR calculator has been updated to Revision 3.7 to include the 3 new boff powers, correct Tyken’s Rift duration scaling with rank, and update RRTW base cooldown. We also fixed Null Pointer Flood and a graphical issue.

• TRINITY has been rolled to 1.6 to fix an issue with shield resistance reduction not applying and add some of the new Exotic items that Tilor derived, most notably Bio-Electric Wave.
  
• After much discussion, the Build Cost Calculator has updated its cost framework for midrange builds to reduce EC expenditure from 1B to 600M. We’ve heard the feedback that 1B was too generous for a midrange, but lowering it drastically to below 300M also did not have much appeal for us given that it’d rework a bunch of builds. The goal behind a midrange build is being able to fit 1-2 Lobi items (particularly Lobi ships for projectile or Beam Overload builds), so 600M is a reasonable ceiling to allow that inclusion while making it more approachable. This also let us tweak only 1 build to accommodate the new framework.
  

Other Resources

Tilor has a printable bridge officer power guide that he put together for all of the boff powers with a brief description of each power, its rank, acquisition method, and cooldowns. Meant as a quick reference when piecing together builds, but also as part of a physical notebook (WIP) for shipbuilding. Check it out here!

YouTube

New to our channel are Tutorial VODs for Infected Space Elite and Guillotine Elite for all the various playstyles.

• Tilor also did a deep dive into ability activation times and firing delay which helps clarify the nuance and confusion around that topic.

One Last Thing

After having been asked about it a bunch, we’ve set up a Ko-Fi where if you want to donate to our team, you can do so at https://ko-fi.com/stobetter. We will never beg for donations and we are not going to be plastering this all over our content. If you’re interested in supporting the team, it’s there as a more direct route than acquiring ingame stuff, which to be fair, we have pretty much all of the easier-to-acquire stuff we need. We appreciate those of you who have already contributed materially to our site.

Thanks

Our continued thanks for members outside the immediate team who nevertheless have contributed immeasurably to our success:

• Mrs. Eph289, who’s been supportive of a lot of gaming and spreadsheet time, and has been flying support to help us push our builds. You remain my favorite captain to fly with, forever!
  
• Our good friend Grim, the author of this masterpiece on EPG flying, and has been helping us in many ways, including pushing the ceiling on carriers, hull capacity, and Aux Cannons
  
• All of our fleetmates in Zion Fleet/Terran Imperial Guard who accompany us on our hijinks
  
• A few generous donors who’ve provided us with some very nice new toys. May the Great Material Continuum continue to bring you success and profit.
  

What’s Next

Jay’s still making us wait a long time for his newest build but is enjoying the long build-up on his ship. I’m still working on the Eagle, as it’s difficult for me to pilot so I am working on cracking that ceiling with some new toys, and I have more ships to T6X2 and tweak. Tilor’s working on several builds, but are all contingent on a single missing piece, so if that falls into place soon, there’s at least 3-4 new builds coming!
Beyond that, who knows what the future will hold?
Thank you for reading this update and participating with us as we update STOBETTER in 2024!. We’re constantly reading feedback and trying to improve as best as we can as three guys working on this very part-time as non web-developers. Our continuing mission in 2024 will be to help people build and fly ships in STO better!

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Alright, since I did my take on both the Classic Series and the HiT Era model series, it's now time for the character basis for the vehicles only (Which are both rail & non-rail vehicles + Rolling stock too), and a quick notice, those 4 other characters from S4-6 need to be based on a different vehicle, since the Reverend W. Awdry and Britt Allcroft only wanted to make characters be based on 1 vehicle design type, and call me crazy, they would've introduced newer vehicle characters in Series 8 and 15! So let's get on with it! Shall we? (Also, this will be from S1-28 in my headcanon)
Series 1:

1. Thomas (Basis: London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) Class E2 0-6-0T)
2. Edward (Basis: Sharp, Stewart and Company "Larger Seagull" K2 class)
3. Henry (Basis: London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Stanier 5MT "Black Five" 4-6-0)
4. Gordon (Basis: LNER Class A1 Pacific)
5. James (Basis: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 28)
6. Percy (Basis: Avonside SS Class "Trojan" 0-4-0ST)
7. Toby (Basis: GER Class C53 0-6-0T Wisbech steam tram)
8. Annie & Clarabel (Basis: LBSC Stroudley Coaches)
9. Henrietta (Basis: Great Eastern Railway (GER) Wisbech and Upwell Tramway 4-wheel coach)
10. Terence (Basis: John Fowler & Co., Caterpillar Inc., Allis-Chalmers, and International Harvester)
11. Bertie (Basis: Leyland Motors "Tiger", type PS-1/PS-2)

Series 2:

1. Duck (Basis: Great Western Railway (GWR) 57xx Class)
2. Donald & Douglas (Basis: Caledonian Railway (CR) McIntosh 812 Class 0-6-0)
3. Bill & Ben (Basis: Bagnall 0-4-0STs "Alfred" and "Judy")
4. Diesel (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08)
5. Daisy (Basis: British Rail (BR)/Metro-Cammell Class 101/102 DMU)
6. BoCo (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 28 "Metrovicks" Co-Bo diesel-electric engine)
7. The Spiteful Brake Van (Basis: British Railways (BR) 20 ton brake van)
8. Trevor (Basis: William Foster & Co. eight-ton Double Crank Compound (DCC) general purpose traction engine)
9. Harold (Basis: Westland Whirlwind helicopter)
10. Patriot (Basis: London, Midland and Scottish Railway "Patriot" Class 4-6-0)

Series 3:

1. Oliver (Basis: Great Western Railway (GWR) 14xx Class 0-4-2T)
2. Alice & Mirabel (Basis: British Railways (BR) Hawksworth autocoaches)
3. Isabel and Dulcie (Basis: British Railways (BR) Hawksworth autocoaches)
4. Mavis (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 04 0-6-0)
5. Bulgy (Basis: AEC Regent V double-decker bus)
6. Flying Scotsman (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
7. Toad (Basis: GWR 16/25-ton brake van)
8. D282 (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 40 "Whistler" 1Co-Co1 diesel-electric engine)
9. D5701 (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 28 "Metrovicks" Co-Bo diesel-electric engine)
10. Class 08 (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08)
11. D5501 (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 31 "Skinheads/Toffee-Apples" Co-Co diesel-electric engine)
12. City of Truro (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
13. Bear (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 35 "Hymek" Bo-Bo)
14. D199 (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 46 "Peak" 1Co-Co1 diesel-electric engine)

Series 4:

1. Stepney (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
2. Cromford (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
3. Adams (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
4. Birch Grove (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
5. Captain Baxter (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
6. Bluebell & Primrose (Basis: Real locomotives of the same name)
7. Fenchurch (Basis: Real locomotives of the same name)
8. Boxhill (Basis: Real locomotives of the same name)
9. Skarloey (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Talyllyn)
10. Rheneas (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Dolgoch)
11. Sir Handel (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Sir Haydn)
12. Peter Sam (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Edward Thomas)
13. Rusty (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Midlander)
14. Duncan (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Douglas)
15. Duke (Basis: Welsh Highland Railway's Prince)
16. Talyllyn (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
17. Dolgoch (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
18. S.C. Ruffey (Basis: 7-plank open wagon
19. George (Basis: Aveling-Barford R class steamroller
20. Caroline (Basis: 1926 Morris Oxford Bullnose saloon)
21. Godred (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's L.A.D.A.S.)
22. Ernest (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's Enid)
23. Wilfred (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's Wyddfa)
24. Culdee (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's Snowdon)
25. Shane Dooiney (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's Moel Siabod)
26. Lord Harry/Patrick (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's Sir Harmood/Padarn)
27. Alaric (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's Ralph)
28. Eric (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's Eryri)
29. Catherine (Basis: Snowdon Mountain Railway's No. 4 coach)
30. Bulstrode (Basis: 1920s self-propelled coastal barge)
31. D261 (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 40 "Whistler" 1Co-Co1 diesel electric engine)
32. Jinty (Basis: London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler 3F 0-6-0T)
33. Pug (Basis: LMS 0F Kitson 0-4-0ST)
34. Neil (Basis: Neilson 0-4-0 box tank)

Series 5:

1. Wilbert (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
2. Ivo Hugh (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Tom Rolt)
3. Bob (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Alf)
4. Western (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 52 "Western" 1Co-Co1 diesel electric engine)
5. Old Stuck-Up (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 37 "Tractor" 1Co-Co1 diesel electric engine)
6. Sixteen (Basis: Hunslet Austerity WD 0-6-0ST)
7. Green Arrow (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
8. Mallard (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
9. Duchess of Hamilton (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
10. Pip and Emma (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 43 High Speed Train (HST))

Series 6:

1. Old Slow Coach (Basis: Diagram E39 Falmouth Coupe TRI brake coach)
2. The Horrid Lorries (Basis: Foden OG range lorries)
3. Cranky (Basis: Various cranes from the 1920s to the 1950s)
4. Thumper (Basis: Unknown)
5. Derek (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 17)
6. Arry & Bert (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08)
7. Bertram (Basis: Welsh Highland Railway's Railway's Blanche)
8. Butch (Basis: Scammell ConstructoScammell Pioneer)
9. Tiger Moth (Basis: Havilland Tiger Moth/Sopwith Camel/Nieuport 17 biplane)

Thomas and the Magic Railroad:

1. Lady (Basis: Freelance)
2. Diesel 10 (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 42 "Warship" diesel-hydraulic engine)
3. Splatter & Dodge (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08)

Series 7:

1. Salty (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 07)
2. Harvey (Basis: Dübs Crane Engine No. 4101)
3. Elizabeth (Basis: Sentinel DG4 steam lorry)
4. Jack (Basis: Nuffield tracto International 454 tractoFoden tractor)
5. Alfie (Basis: 1960 K1C10&K excavator)
6. Oliver (Basis: Unknown)
7. Max (Basis: 1949 Scammell Mountaineer 4-wheel drive dump trucks)
8. Kelly (Basis: 1943 Thornycroft Amazon Coles Crane lorry/1942 Austin K6 lorry)
9. Byron (Basis: Caterpillar bulldozer from the late 1930's)
10. Ned (Basis: Brownings Steam Shovel)
11. Isobella (Basis: 1. Sentinel DG4 steam lorry)

Series 8:

1. Emily (Basis: Great Northern Railway (GNR) 1003 class Stirling Single 4-2-2)
2. Fergus (Basis: Aveling and Porter 2-2-0WT 'TJ' class railway traction engine No. 9449 "The Blue Circle")
3. Arthur (Basis: Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Ivatt Class 2MT tank engine)
4. Murdoch (Basis: BR Standard Class 9F tender engine)
5. Spencer (Basis: London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Class A4 Pacific)

Series 9:

1. Andrew (Basis: Hudswell Clarke Works No 1369 MSC 67 0-6-0T)
2. Bailey (Basis: GWR 5101 Class No. 5199)
3. Trent (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Trecwn)
4. Barry (Basis: LMS 2MT Ivatt 2-6-0 tender engine)

Series 10:

1. Molly (Basis: Great Eastern Railway (GER) D56 Class "Claud Hamilton")
2. Neville (Basis: Southern Railway (SR) Bulleid Q1 Class locomotive)
3. Dennis (Basis: British Railways (BR) No. 11001)
4. Mighty Mac (Basis: Ffestiniog Railway's Merddin Emrys Double Fairlie engine)
5. Proteus (Basis: Perrygrove Railway's Spirit of Adventure)

Series 11:

1. Rosie (Basis: Southern Railway (SR) USA Class)
2. Freddie (Basis: Welsh Highland Railway's Russell)
3. Rocky (Basis: Ransomes and Rapier 45-ton steam crane)
4. Jeremy (Basis: 1963 BAC One-Eleven Airliner)

Series 12:

1. Whiff (Basis: North Eastern Railway's 2-2-4T No. 66, named "Aerolite")
2. Billy (Basis: Manning Wardle L Class 0-6-0ST)
3. Hector (Basis: ICI bogie hopper wagon)
4. Madge (Basis: 1964 Scammell Scarab 6-ton tractor lorry)

The Great Discovery:

1. Stanley (Basis: Stewart & Lloyds 16" 0-6-0STs)

Series 13:

1. Hank (Basis: Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) K4s Class Pacific)
2. Flora (Basis: 1904 Moseley Road Tramway steam tram)
3. Colin (Basis: Unknown)
4. Albert (Basis: Furness Railway (FR) Class J1 2-4-2T)
5. Victoria & Helena (Basis: Furness Railway second class coach)

Hero of the Rails:

1. Hiro (Basis: Japanese National Railways (JNR) Class D51 2-8-2 "Mikado")
2. Victor (Basis: Minaz No. 1173, an 0-4-0ST+PT locomotive)
3. Kevin (Basis: 4 wheel Ransomes & Rapier 6 ton crane)

Series 14:

1. Charlie (Basis: Manning Wardle L Class 0-6-0ST)
2. Bertha (Basis: Midland Railway's 0-10-0 tender engine)
3. Goyle (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 31 "Skinheads/Toffee-Apples" Co-Co diesel-electric engine)
4. Hans (Basis: Auto Union Type B)

Misty Island Rescue:

1. Bash & Dash (Basis: Bear Harbor Lumber Company's locomotive #1)
2. Ferdinand (Basis: Climax Class C)
3. Captain (Basis: Royal National Lifeboat Institution twin-engined Liverpool-class Lifeboat)

Series 15:

1. Scruff (Basis: Sentinel 100 HP BE Type chain-driven vertical-boiler steam locomotive)

Day of the Diesels:

1. Belle (Basis: British Railways Standard Class 4MT tank engine)
2. Den (Basis: Rolls Royce Class 4DH Sentinel diesel-hydraulic 0-4-0)
3. Dart (Basis: 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic shunter no. 3207 "Leys")
4. Paxton (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08)
5. Norman (Basis: British Railways (BR) No. 11001)
6. Flynn (Basis: Tatra, Oshkosh, and Latil fire rescue vehicles)
7. Sidney (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08)

Series 16:

1. Basil (Basis: BR Class D2/1)
2. Casey & Megan (Basis: Dennis F8 type fire engines, modified with a cherry picker and searchlight)

Blue Mountain Mystery:

1. Winston (Basis: Type 4B two-seat Wickham Trolley)
2. Luke (Basis: Kerr Stuart 0-4-0ST Wren Class No. 4256 "Peter Pan")
3. Merrick (Basis Traveling Gantry Crane)
4. Owen (Basis: Incline at the Dinorwic Slate Quarry)

Series 17:

1. Stafford (Basis: North Staffordshire Railway's battery-electric No. 1)

King of the Railway:

1. Stephen (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
2. Connor (Basis: New York Central (NYC) Railroad J-3a Hudson)
3. Caitlin (Basis: Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad streamlined President P-7 Class0
4. Millie (Basis: 0-4-0 well tank No. 8069 Tabamar)
5. Novelty (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
6. Sans Pareil (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)

Series 18:

1. Porter (Basis: H.K. Porter 0-6-0ST)

Tale of the Brave:

1. Gator (Basis: Colombian Steam Motor engine)
2. Timothy (Basis: Open Cab Oil-Burning steam engine)
3. Marion (Basis: Marion Model 40 Revolving Steam Shovel)
4. Reg (Basis: Hybrid)

Series 19:

1. Samson (Basis: Barclays & Co. Works No. 214)

The Adventure Begins:

1. Glynn (Basis: Head Wrightson & Co Ltd. Type 1 "Coffee Pot No. 1" vertical boiler locomotive)
2. Judy and Jerome (Basis: Cowans Sheldon 30 ton breakdown crane)

Series 20:

1. Phillip (Basis: Pennsylvania Railroad (PR) Class A6 "Boxcab" diesel-electric switcher)

Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure:

1. Ryan (Basis: Great Northern Railway (GNR) Class N2)
2. Rex (Basis: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's River Esk)
3. Mike (Basis: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's River Mite)
4. Bert (Basis: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's River Irt)
5. Frank (Basis: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Perkins)
6. Jock (Basis: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Northern Rock)
7. Blister (Basis: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Cyril)
8. Sigrid of Arlesdale (Basis: Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's Shelagh of Eskdale)
9. Skiff (Basis: Eastport Pram)

Series 21:

1. Hugo (Basis: Schienenzeppelin, known as "the Rail Zeppelin")
2. Bradford (Basis: LMS 20 ton brake van)

The Great Race:

1. Ashima (Basis: Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) X class)
2. Axel (Basis: NMBS/SNCB Type 12)
3. Raul (Basis: Three Vertical-Boiler steam locomotive)
4. Frieda (Basis: DB Class 10)
5. Gina (Basis: Ferrovie Nord Milano 200 0-4-0T)
6. Ivan (Basis: TGM23 Class diesel shunter)
7. Etienne (Basis: SNCF's BB 9004 electric locomotive)
8. Vinnie (Basis: Canadian National Railway's U-4-a 6400 class)
9. Carlos (Basis: Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (National Railways of Mexico) GR-3 class 2-8-0)
10. Rajiv (Basis: Fairy Queen 2-2-2 tank engine)
11. Shane (Basis: South Australian Railways (SAR) 520 class)
12. Yong Bao (Basis: Chinese Railways RM class 4-6-2 Pacific)
13. Barzin (Basis: Federated Malay States Rlwy 0-6-2T No. 321.01)
14. Daniel (Basis: Southern Pacific (SP) 4449 "Daylight")
15. Farona (Basis: Renfe Class 334 electric diesel)
16. Szymon (Basis: PKP class Pu29 steam locomotive)
17. Dusadi (Basis: SRT Class Pacific (CX50) No. 824)
18. Mehmet (Basis: TCDD 56301 Class)
19. The Mainland Diesels (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08)

Series 22:

1. Hannah (Basis: Great Eastern Railway (GER) Wisbech and Upwell Tramway 4-wheel coach)
2. Carly (Basis: Chinese portal crane)

Journey Beyond Sodor:

1. Theo (Basis: Aveling & Porter TJ class locomotive)
2. Lexi (Basis: North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPCRR) Cab-Forward 4-4-0 No. 21)
3. Merlin (Basis: South Western Railway (LSWR) N15 Class)
4. Hurricane (Basis: GER Class A55 "Decapod")
5. Frankie (Basis: Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0 diesel shunter)
6. Beresford (Basis: Stothert & Pitt electric rolling gantry crane)

Big World! Big Adventures!:

1. Nia (Basis: Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) ED1 class)
2. Kwaku (Basis: East African Railways (EAR) 59 class)
3. Sam (Basis: Virginian Railway Class AG "Blue Ridge")
4. Natalie (Basis: 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic shunter no. 3207 "Leys")
5. Wan-Shu (Basis: Siemens Eurorunner)
6. Ace (Basis: America spec Triumph Spitfire 1500)
7. Angelique (Basis: Volvo Amazon)
8. Tony (Basis: Volvo Amazon)
9. Beau (Basis: Virginia and Truckee 12 Genoa)
10. Fernando (Basis: British Rail (BR) Class 08 diesel-electric shunter)
11. Emerson (Basis: King Air B200)
12. Kobe (Basis: American WWII USN 20t Tower Crane)
13. Cassia (Basis: Chinese portal crane
14. Carter (Basis: Stothert & Pitt electric rolling gantry crane)

Series 23:

1. Rebecca (Basis: Southern Railway (SR) "West Country" and "Battle of Britain" class (also known as "Light Pacifics"))
2. Hong-Mei (Basis: China Railways GJ 0-6-0T class)
3. Tamika (Basis: South Australian Railways (SAR) SMC Class "Steam Motor Coach No. 1")
4. Noor Jehan (Basis: Indian Railways (IR) WDM-2 class)
5. Greyhound (Basis: Central Pacific No. 131)
6. An An and Yin-Long (Basis: British LB&SCR Stroudley coaches)
7. Aubrey and Aiden (Basis: Pullman First Class Parlour Cars)
8. Karla and Waylen (Basis: SR Maunsell coaches)
9. Dexter (Basis: SCR Stroudley four-wheeled brake coach)
10. Lei (Basis: British London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Diagram 102 12 ton van)
11. Isla (Basis: King Air B200)

Series 24:

1. Gabriela (Basis: Baroneza II)
2. Lorenzo (Basis: FS Class 743)
3. Gustavo (Basis: Little Joe diesel-electric engine)
4. Beppe (Basis: Turkish Sultan Abdulaziz's private coach)
5. Ester (Basis: Unknown)
6. Brenda (Basis: Caterpillar D9H bulldozer)
7. Darcy (Basis: Roadheader STR)
8. Stefano (Basis: LARC-LX)

Series 25:

1. Duchess (Basis: London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class)
2. Marcia and Marcio (Basis: Associação Brasileira de Preservação Ferroviária (ABPF) wood-burning engine No. 215 Maria Fumaça)
3. Sonny (Basis: Haydock Foundry well-tank locomotives)
4. Haoran (Basis: Chinese Railways RM class 4-6-2 Pacific)
5. Jianyu (Basis: National Railways of Mexico GR-3 class 2-8-0)
6. Kenji (Basis: 0 series Shinkansen)

Series 26:

1. Serena (Basis: New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) C38 Class 3801)
2. Robert (Basis Union Pacific 4014 "Big Boy")
3. Matthew (Basis: Electro-Motive Devision (EMD) F Series Unit)
4. Puffing Billy (Basis: Victorian Railways (VR) NA Class 6A)
5. Cairns (Basis: Real life ILR No.1 Cairns)
6. Kiama (Basis: Real life ILR No.2 Kiama)
7. Tully (Basis: Real life ILR No.3 Tully 6)
8. Burra (Basis: Real life ILR No.4 Burra)
9. Felix (Basis: Bedford TK lorry/truck)
10. Sandy (Basis: Talyllyn Railway's Toby)
11. Reggie (Basis: Victorian Railways (VR) R Class R761)

Series 27:

1. Erika (Basis: General Electric (GE) Genesis diesel)
2. Mason (Basis: New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) D59 Class 5917)
3. Mark (Basis: 1980's Freight Rover Sherpa van)
4. Melissa (Basis: Victorian Railways (VR) NA Class 12A)
5. Kent (Basis: NH-90 Cayman)
6. Madison (Basis: Norfolk & Western (N&W) J Class 611)
7. Dylan (Basis: New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) C35 Class 3526)
8. Gary (Basis: Victorian Railways (VR) G Class G42)
9. Bobby (Basis: Ravensglass & Eskdale Railway's Bonnie Dundee)
10. Kana (Basis: E3 Series Shinkansen (E3系))
11. Yuki (Basis: 500 Series Shinkansen)

Series 28:

1. Johnny (Basis: Victorian Railways (VR) K Class K190)
2. Ethan (Basis: New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) C36 Class 3642)
3. Arnold (Basis: Union Pacific 844)
4. Lucas (Basis: Ford Zephyr V6 (1968) Mk.IV)
5. Arkadi (Basis: Soviet locomotive class P36)
6. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Basis: Real locomotive of the same name)
7. Avyaan (Basis: DHR B Class)
8. Bruno (Basis Burlington Northern extended-vision caboose)
9. Riff (Basis British Rail (BR) Class 390 High Speed Train (HST)
10. Zane (Basis: Electro-Motive Devision (EMD) SD70M diesel locomotive)
11. Christine (Basis: Pennsylvania Railroad 4-6-2 K4s 3768)

And also, that concludes the list of Thomas & Friends character basis! Also, they would've made Thomas characters of the those engines I made from S25-28.

My save file with 8 theories f(t)=ee12k 2e120(psi) broke and i need to start Frombork nothing if some one could help here is save file 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So one bit of rhetoric that gets brought up endlessly is the idea that there are no bad breeds.
This has become a slogan of pit owners, but these are also the same people that are quick to tout the natural aggression of the rat terrier, the chihuahua. If we, as a society, are to accept the idea that no dog breeds are bad, then that implies pugs have been a worthwhile dog breed despite its numerous health problems. Doodles, with their plentiful health problems and oftentimes abysmal temperaments, were a worthwhile breed and the original breeder of this breed is wrong to regret his decision in making them. The teacup trend that was around when I was younger wasn't bad at all then and all those dogs born with shortened life spans and a predilection to broken bones was perfectly fine and not bad at all.
I saw the no bad breed comments on a post about a dog attack (guess the breed) and wanted to share my thoughts. There are absolutely bad dog breeds, and the same people that declare there aren't are always the first ones to cling to other dog breeds poor traits but their own.

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Events:

• Yoga in the Park winter indoor series on April 13th from 10:30 to 11:30 am. (info)
• Arts Workshop: Japanese Calligraphy with Chiyo Sanada. Join Chiyo to receive guidance in shodō brushwork and have the opportunity to create their own works of kanji calligraphy.
• The City of Bellevue and the Bellevue Botanical Garden are hosting the 2024 EarthFest on April 20th from 11am - 3pm. EarthFest will be conducting a litter cleanup event before the official EarthFest event starts at 9am. (info)
• Mom’s unhinged standup comedy show. Get ready for a night of laughter and explore everything from motherhood, midlife crisis, marriage, divorce, online dating, and more. (info)

Redmond:

News:

• Approximately 100 chronically homeless people in Redmon will soon move into supportive housing set up at a former hotel. The former Silver Cloud Inn is nearly move-in ready and will offer 24/7 behavioral health services. (info)
• The city is re-opening pop-up dog parks. The Luke McRedmond pop-up dog park is now open and a second location will open at Hartman Park. (info)
• The 2024 Derby Do-Gooder Scholarship is now open for applications. They will award $1,500 to a high school senior in Remdond who has shown extraordinary commitment to community service. (info)

Events:

• Open Jazz Night at SoulFood Coffee House. Join the community in a casual all-ages jazz gathering. April 11th from 6pm - 8pm. (info)
• Lil’ Kickers & Skills Institute Free Kids’ Soccer event. This event is open to the community, kids ages 18 months - 12 years will experience a fun and engaging sample soccer class with coaches. April 20th from 2pm - 4pm. (info)
• Storytime with ponies. Enjoy a variety of light refreshments for you and your kiddos. Mingle with other families and listen to stories with a local Redmond author. April 21 from 12pm - 2pm. (info)

Issaquah:

News:

• The Issaquah City Council held its general meeting on March 18th and approved the Central Issaquah Pioneer Program aims to increase residential development which has failed to occur in central Issaquah. The program will include a portion of permanent affordable housing units within the projects. The City Council also approved the Light Rail Planning Guide to outline the best practices, key considerations, and next steps for the Issaquah light rail station. (info)
• Sales Tax changes went into effect on April 1st. The tax increased from 10.1% to 10.3%. (info)

Events:

• Slip into your favorite flip-flops for Family Beach Bingo at Blakely Hall! Drinks and snacks will be served. It is on April 12th from 6 pm to 8 pm. (info)
• Dog First Aid Class at Pickles Playland on April 13th at 3 pm. (info)
• 2024 Issaquah Rotary Grape Escape on April 24th from 6pm - 9pm. (info)

Kirkland:

News:

• Google is pausing its Kirkland office buildout after pausing construction plans on another building at Kirkland Urban. Google opened its initial two buildings in 2022 and said the buildings would total 760,000 square feet of space with the fourth building set to be completed in 2025 but it is not known if the building will be completed. (info)
• The 520 bridge is closed on Friday at 7pm and will reopen at 5am Monday. WSDOT crews are installing utilities in the area, paving parts of the bridge, and testing the lighting. (info)
• The City of Kirkland has launched the Kirkland Cares Low-Income Support Program to help provide discounts on utility rates, pet licenses, business licenses, annual vehicle registration, and other City services/charges for residents who earn at or below 80% of Area Media Income in King County. (info)

Events:

• Lounge by TopGolf at Kirkland Urban Presents April Showers Paint Nite on April 9th at 7 pm. Paint and Sips are a great date or fun night out with friends! (info)
• Espresso 101 Workshop at Seattle Coffee Gear in Kirkland on April 13th at 4 pm. (info)
• Career services happy hour to help build your resumes, cover letters, and more on April 17th on Zoom at 6 pm. (info)

Sammamish:

News:

• LWSD has submitted a proposal to begin construction for a new high school in Sammamish. It will be located near the new Sammamish Town Center proposed area. The school is expected to serve 600 secondary-level students. (info)
• Lane restrictions on Louis Thompson Hill Road will begin April 8th and continue through May 3rd for Puget Sound Energy gas main relocations in the roadway. Restrictions go from 7am - 4pm. (info)

Events:

• There will be a recycling event at Eastside Catholic High School on April 14th from 9am - 3pm. Recycle a variety of items ranging from mattresses, propane tanks, sinks, and more. (info)
• Join the Sammamish City Council in their regular meeting on April 16th at 6:30 pm. Discuss various city-wide agenda topics and projects. (info)

Renton:

News:

• Petrovistky Park in Renton has had a large outbreak of canine parvovirus infection. It is crucial to make sure your dog is vaccinated and avoid areas with reported outbreaks. (info)
• Community members are pushing for safer streets and measures implemented at the intersection of 140th and 192nd where a deadly car crash occurred. This same event has happened multiple times and community members have growing concerns about road safety and that something needs to change. (info)

Events:

• Renton Chamber of Commerce Drop-In Business Coaching at Renton Chamber of Commerce on April 11th at 10 am. (info)
• Join a tour of historic buildings in Renton. The tour will cover the center and southern part of downtown. May 18th at 10 am or 1 pm. (info)

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News:

• Google is pausing its Kirkland office buildout after pausing construction plans on another building at Kirkland Urban. Google opened its initial two buildings in 2022 and said the buildings would total 760,000 square feet of space with the fourth building set to be completed in 2025 but it is not known if the building will be completed. (info)
• The 520 bridge is closed on Friday at 7pm and will reopen at 5am Monday. WSDOT crews are installing utilities in the area, paving parts of the bridge, and testing the lighting. (info)
• The City of Kirkland has launched the Kirkland Cares Low-Income Support Program to help provide discounts on utility rates, pet licenses, business licenses, annual vehicle registration, and other City services/charges for residents who earn at or below 80% of Area Media Income in King County. (info)

Events:

• Lounge by TopGolf at Kirkland Urban Presents April Showers Paint Nite on April 9th at 7 pm. Paint and Sips are a great date or fun night out with friends! (info)
• Espresso 101 Workshop at Seattle Coffee Gear in Kirkland on April 13th at 4 pm. (info)
• Career services happy hour to help build your resumes, cover letters, and more on April 17th on Zoom at 6 pm. (info)

I've always wanted a dog for as long as I could remember, and I imagined myself getting a yorkie or italian greyhound. However, I also want a dog with a low prey drive as I also keep small pets (mice, gerbil, etc). and after a bit more research, I realised these breeds probably did not have a low prey drive.
I also thought pugs, bulldogs etc. were very cute and matched my requirement for wanting a cuddly lapdog, however I also decided against them as I found out they often had breathing issues.
After more desk research, it seemed like the bichon frise, maltese, havanese all were cuddly lapdogs and had relatively low prey drives.
The colour / looks of the dog is obviously the least important part of my consideration. However, I do prefer grey/brown/black/other coloured dogs compared to white coloured dogs, so the havanese seemed more appealing to me as they come in many colours (compared to bichon frise / maltese) .
What do you guys think ?

1. Will this be your first dog? If not, what experience do you have owning/training dogs? * This will be my first dog. However, I have some experience with animals, including volunteering as a dog walker for a week at a dog rescue, horse-riding 1-2 times a week regularly, and keeping small pets including rabbits , hedgehogs, hamsters etc
2. Do you have a preference for rescuing a dog vs. going through a [reputable breeder]( http://ownresponsibly.blogspot.com/2011/07/identifying-reputable-breeder.html)? * I would like to go through a reputable breeder. I might consider rescuing a dog if I really clicked with the dog, but after looking through the websites of some local rescues, it seems like many of the dogs have behaviour issues which I don't think I have the experience to cope with.
3. Describe your ideal dog. * A small dog who is low energy and loves to cuddle in my lap to watch TV together and get lots of pets and kisses.

Doesn't bark too much.
Must have a low prey drive (compared to other breeds), and hopefully can tolerate any future children if I end up deciding to have kids in 10 years' time ( am I thinking too far ahead?! )
4) What breeds or types of dogs are you interested in and why? * Yorkie, Italian Greyhound, and Havanese, but I think the havanese may be most suitable.
All are small dogs. I think I like yorkies as my mum's friend had one and he was very sweet and cuddly.
Italian greyhounds look very elegant.
I think the havanese might be the most suitable though as they have a lower prey drive but should also be cuddly ?
5) What sorts of things would you like to train your dog to do? * Just to ask them to use the toilet either outside or inside with puppy pads etc
6) Do you want to compete with your dog in a sport (e.g. agility, obedience, rally) or use your dog for a form of work (e.g. hunting, herding, livestock guarding)? If so, how much experience do you have with this work/sport? * No
**Care Commitments** 7) How long do you want to devote to training, playing with, or otherwise interacting with your dog each day? * An hour or more every day
8) How long can you exercise your dog each day, on average? What sorts of exercise are you planning to give your dog regularly and does that include using a dog park?
* 30-40 mins a day on weekdays, 1 hour a day on weekends. I was thinking I could walk them around the neighbourhood, or play fetch with them in the garden
9) How much regular brushing are you willing to do? Are you open to trimming hair, cleaning ears, or doing other grooming at home? If not, would you be willing to pay a professional to do it regularly?
* I'm willing to brush daily, and go to a professional once a month. **Personal Preferences**
10) What size dog are you looking for? * Small dog
11) How much shedding, barking, and slobber can you handle?
* Minimal shedding and barking preferred. Don't really mind slobber.
12) How important is being able to let your dog off-leash in an unfenced area? * Not important. **Dog Personality and Behavior**
13) Do you want a snuggly dog or one that prefers some personal space? * Snuggly
14) Would you prefer a dog that wants to do its own thing or one that’s more eager-to-please? * Eager to please
15) How would you prefer your dog to respond to someone knocking on the door or entering your yard? How would you prefer your dog to greet strangers or visitors? * Friendly with minimal barking. I don't think I can cope with having an aggressive dog / dog that bites
16) Are you willing to manage a dog that is aggressive to other dogs? * No
17) Are there any other behaviors you can’t deal with or want to avoid? * Aggression, biting, high prey drive. Would prefer less barking but the first 3 factors are much more important to avoid.
**Lifestyle** 18) How often and how long will the dog be left alone? * Not often. I live with my mum who is retired and she has agreed to help out with the care of the dog too.
19) What are the dog-related preferences of other people in the house and what will be their involvement in caring for the dog?
* My mum wants a small dog that is not aggressive, and ideally will not poo/wee in the house or bark too much. i will be solely responsible for caring for the dog but she will help me from time to time.
20) Do you have other pets or are you planning on having other pets? What breed or type of animal are they? * I have mice and a gerbil, and I think I will always have small pets in my life, including reptiles etc
21) Will the dog be interacting with children regularly? * No , but there is a (small?) possibility I might have a child in 10 years' time (not sure if this is thinking too far ahead)
22) Do you rent or plan to rent in the future? If applicable, what breed or weight restrictions are on your current lease?
* My mum owns the house, I live with her. If I move out and rent, I will only rent somewhere that allows me to bring my dog with me.
23) What city or country do you live in and are you aware of any laws banning certain breeds?
* U.K. Breed restrictions on large / aggressive breeds, but I'm not considering them anyway.
24) What is the average temperature of a typical summer and winter day where you live? * Summer: around 25 celsius ? Winter: around 10 celsius ?
**Additional Information and Questions** 25) Please provide any additional information you feel may be relevant. * No additional information. 26) Feel free to ask any questions below.