Four girls finger paint video

Danganronpa

2013.02.14 18:51 Danganronpa

Danganronpa is a Japanese visual novel franchise created by Kazutaka Kodaka and published by Spike Chunsoft since 2010.
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2010.07.22 15:58 TheSixFeet r/Firearms

Discuss firearms, politics, 2nd amendment news. We value freedom of speech as much as we do the right to keep and bear arms. Posts must be somewhat related to firearms and must comply with the Global Reddit Rules.
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2013.11.27 21:53 fenton115 Praise Unto The Brick!

In the beginning the brick created the heavens and the earth. It was this brick who we refer to as the One Brick of All Creation who created life in the beginning. From this brick we were born, and from this brick we will die. The Brick is the source of all good. Bricktology focuses on worshiping this brick. We believe that if we glorify him enough he will grant us a room in his great brick mansion in the afterlife. #####[bricktology](http://reddit.com/bricktology)
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2024.05.28 00:43 therealdocturner Fast Food

“Hey Pretty.”
I had just walked out of the club when I heard her voice. A beautiful voice. An accent I couldn’t place. She was behind the wheel of a black and silver convertible Shelby that was rumbling in the street.
“Don’t you want to take a ride with me?”
She was in this purple thing that cut off just under her butt and squeezed her perfect breasts up to her chin. She looked like she was from somewhere in the middle east.
She opened the passenger door.
I got in.
“What’s your name?”
“Lilith.”
“I’m Mark.” She laughed.
“It doesn’t matter.”
We sped off into the night.
She reached forward to the radio and found the song she wanted.
She pumped up the volume.
I could feel it beating in my chest while the wind beat against my face.
“Give me your hand.”
I gave it to her. She placed it on the stick shift and then she draped her hand over mine.
“Help me.”
We shifted into high gear and she pulled onto the freeway. She started weaving in and out of traffic, shifting up and down. I don’t know if she ever went below a hundred. Her driving scared me, but it was exciting. She was a precise machine behind the wheel.
“Who was that girl in the club?”
I didn’t answer. I silently cursed myself. She had been watching me.
“The one you screamed at and slapped?”
“She’s no one. She doesn’t matter.”
Another smile.
“Interesting.”
Something pierced my hand underneath hers. I tried to pull away, but I couldn’t. My body went numb. I couldn’t even speak. My tongue wouldn’t work. My eyes were the only things that I could move.
I started to panic.
She smiled.
“You’re exactly what I was looking for.”
She jerked the wheel to the right and we flew down an offramp onto a crowded street. She started breathing fast, and I watched her bite her lip as she started to weave through traffic on the surface street, sometimes hopping the curbs onto the sidewalks. She never slowed down. People jumped out of the way.
I was helpless. My heart was pounding. She moved the car to the beat of the music, and the more panicked I became, the more sharp inhales she made.
She was getting off on how terrified I was.
My hand felt hot and wet. I moved my eyes down. I could see that her hand over mine had turned a milky clear; almost translucent. I could see that my hand was liquifying into hers.
She was absorbing my hand.
She moaned and flew back onto the freeway.
She took her hand from the stickshift, leaving me with nothing below a melted wrist. She splayed her fingers over my face.
It burned.
“You taste so good!” Her hand and fingers spread out in a clear thin film that covered my face.
My hearing was muffled.
I couldn’t breathe.
My eyes popped.
I was melting into her.

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2024.05.28 00:42 Acceptable-Tea-6937 H: Gear & Plans List, W: Junk/Leaders/BWM6 Offers

WEAPONS: AA/E/15R Fixer, AA/E/15V Fixer, B/25/15V Fixer, TS/E/15R Fixer, B/E/90 Fixer, EXE/E/15R Fixer (2), JUG/25/25 Fixer, V/E/90 Fixer, TS/50/15R Fixer (2), TS/25/90 Fixer, B25/15R Fixer, B/E/250 Fixer, AA/HIT/15R Fixer, JUG/50H/25 Fixer, Q/HIT/15R Fixer, V/25/AGI Fixer, V/25/50DR Fixer, TS/25/PER Fixer, Q/50H/PER Fixer, V/E/25 Railway, TS/25/15R Railway, EXE/E/25 Railway, EXE/25/25 Railway, TS/50/25 Railway, Q/50L/15R Railway, Q/50B/15V Railway, Q/50L/90 Railway, AA/25/Dur Railway, I/25/25 Railway, J/25/15R Railway, GOUE/25 Railway, F/50/25 Railway, ARI/50/25 Railway, A/50/25 Railway, TS/E/50DR Handmade, EXE/25/25 Assault, TS/E/90 Assault, F/25/25 Plasma, B/E/90 Lever, JUG/E/25 Lever, Q/E/15R Pipe, AA/25/15V Minigun, B/E/50DR Minigun, V/25/AGI Gatlaser, AA/50/15R Lmg, B/HIT/250 50cal, JUG/E/90 Gatling, V/STE/15B Chainsaw, JUG/40P/S Drill, V/SS/90 Deathclaw, AA/SS/15B Deathclaw.
ARMOR: Hellcat Power Armor Chassis (tradable), Father Winter Helmet (tradable), BOL/END/WWR Ultracite Left Leg, BOL/1STWWR Ultracite Left Leg, BOL/RAD/SENT T-60 Right Arm, UNY/RAD/SENT Combat Left Leg.
NEW PLANS (alphabetical order): Alien Head Lamp, Alien Table (2), Assault Rifle Wraith's Wrath Paint (4), Bloody Rug (6), Chainsaw Ghostly Grinder Paint, Chainsaw Skeptikill Paint (9), Cultist Adept Hood (5), Cultist Adept Robes (4), Cultist Enlightened Hood (7), Cultist Enlightened Robes (6), Cultist Eventide Hood (9), Cultist Eventide Robes, Cultist Incarnate Helmet (3), Cultist Neophyte Hood (3), Cultist Neophyte Robes (5), Dried Wildflower Bouquet (3), Enlightened Lantern (8), Executioner Mask (2), Fluttering Moths (6), Fossilized Megalonyx Right Arm, Fossilized Megalonyx Torso, Fuzzy Enlightened Plushie (3), Fuzzy Mothman Plushie (8), Giant Red Dinosaur (2), Glowing Flatwoods Monster Lamp, Ground Meat Plushie (2), Hazmat Suit - Teal (3), Herdsman’s Bell, Honeycomb Paper Blue Mothman (8), Honeycomb Paper Brown Mothman (6), Honeycomb Paper Ghost Lantern A (4), Honeycomb Paper Ghost Lantern B (2), Honeycomb Paper Green Mothman (9), Honeycomb Paper Holiday Tree A (2), Honeycomb Paper Holiday Tree B (3), Honeycomb Paper Icy Snowflake (6), Honeycomb Paper Jack-o'Lantern A (5), Honeycomb Paper Jack-o'Lantern B (3), Honeycomb Paper Jolly Target, Honeycomb Paper Mothman Globe (8), Honeycomb Paper Red Mothman (6), Honeycomb Paper Ribbon Bell, Honeycomb Paper Snowman (2), Honeycomb Paper Spider Lantern (6), Peppino Pig Plushie, Plastiform Gingerbread (5), Plastiform Nutcracker (4), Plastiform Santa, Punty Pig Plushie (2), Rad Skull Rider Helmet (3), Rotted Rib Plushie, Sacred Mothman Tome (8), Scorchbeast Queen Beer Stein (7), Star Light (3), Steak Plushie, Super Mutant Diagram (3), Taxidermy Mutant Hound, Weenie Wagon.
OLDER PLANS (alphabetical order): Alien Blaster (2), Alien Blaster Cryo Mag (3), Alien Blaster Poison Mag (3), Alien Corpse Operating Bed (3), Alien Disintegrator (2), Alien Disintegrator Automatic Receiver (2), Alien Disintegrator Cryo Receiver (2), Alien Jack O’Lantern (3), Alien Stash Box (3), Alien Tube (5), Antique Globe of Mars (3), Asteroid (3), Bos Officer Uniform (4), Boss Soldier Uniform (2), Barbed Walking Cane (2), Barbed Wire Fences (2), Bear Arm, Bear Arm Heavy Mod (3), Bear Arm Puncturing Mod (2), Bed of Nails (2), Behemoth Boss Plushie (2), Blue Devil Curtain Door (3), Blue Devil Outfit (3), Blue Devil Pelt Hood (3), Blue Devil Statue (2), Blue Ridge Rug, Blue Ridge Scout Outfit, Bos Medallion, Bottle Bot (4), Bottle and Cappy Balloon Statue, Bottle and Cappy Hoop Jump Statue, Bottle and Cappy Painting Statue (5), Bottle and Cappy Walking Globle Statue (3), Bottle Plush, Brahmin Backpack (3), Brahmin Grill, Brahmin Plushie (2), Brahmin Skin Rug (2), Burning Sheepsquatch Club, Canopy Tent (3), Cappy & Bottle Cowboy Cutouts (2), Cappy Clapper (3), Cappy Smashed Super Sledge Pain (4), Cartography Table, Chally the Moo-Moo Backpack (2), Circus Bench (2), Circus Cage Trailer, Circus Cube (2), Circus Seesaw, Circus Stilts (3), Circus Walking Globe (5), Civil War Era Suit (2), Civil War Era Top Hat (2), Classic Jack O’Lantern (2), Condemned Notification Sign (2), Confederate Hat, Costume Witch Hat (2), Crowd Bench Seats, Cryogenic Bed (5), Cryptid Hunter Boonie Hat (3), Cryptid Mobile, Cuckoo Clock, Cultist Backpack (4), Cupid Cappy Sign (6), Deathclaw Gauntlet Extra Claw (2), Decoy Ducks, Deputy’s Hat (3), Electrified Assaultron Blade, Evil Jack O’Lantern (2), Electrified Sheepsquatch Club, Electrified Shepherd’s Crook, Electro Enforcer (2), Flamethrower Trap, Freezing Electro Enforcer (2), Full Pumpkin Rack (2), Getaway Wagon, Glass Covered Sheperd's Crook, Gorilla Chair, Grim Reaper Vault-Boy Cutout (4), Grocery Cart Grill, Gulper Head (5), Gulper Rug (3), Half Empty Pumpkin Rack (2), Half Full Pumpkin Rack (3), Halloween Skull Mask, Happy Jack O’Lantern (3), Hula Hoop, Human Tube 1 (5), Human Tube 2 (5), Insurgent Hat, Insurgent Outfit (3), Kids Brahmin Clock (3), Large Ultracite Shard (3), Marine Armor Helmet, Marine Tactical Helmet, Marine Wetsuit (2), Meat Cleaver, Milkman Hat (3), Milkman Outfit (2), Mirelurk King tube, Mobster Jack O’Lantern (3), Molerat Wind Chime (2), Mounted Blue Devil Head (2), Mounted Ogua Head (2), Musket Stack Monument (6), Nuka Cola Bottle Kiosk (3), Nuka Girl Area Rug (5), Nuka Launcher Model (3), Nuka Launcher Posters (2), Nuka Launcher Snow Globe (2), Nuka-Cade Poster (4), Nuka-Cola Ad Barrier (3), Nuka-Cola Balloons, Nuka-Cola Clock (4), Nuka-Cola Crate Stalls (3), Nuka-Stool, Nuka-World Cowboy Duster, Nuka-World Cowboy Hat (3), Ogua Curtain Door (3), Ogua Egg (3), Ogua Hunter Hood (2), Ogua Hunter Outfit (2), Ogua Plushie (2), Ogua Shell Backpack (3), Overcharged Electro Enforcer (4), Paddock Gate (3), Pepper Shaker, Pink Brahmin Plushie, Pioneer Scout Bowie knife Paint (3), Plasma Gun True Flamer Barrel, Plastic Fruit Bowl, Poisoned Electro Enforcer (2), Practice Jack O’Lantern, Princess Castle Pink Sleeping Bag (2), Protective Lining Raider Underarmor, Pumpkin Rack, Radioactive Barrel (3), Red Rocket Gas Pump Wall Light (3), Red Rocket Gas Station Lamp (5), Red Truck Ceiling Light (4), Replica Gronak’s Axe, Rust Eagle Banner (6), Safari Crocolossus Backpack, Safari Gorilla Backpack (2), Salty Tenderizer Mod, Sheepsquatch Staff, Shielded Lining BoS Underarmor (5), Shielded Lining Marine Underarmor, Shielded Lining Raider Underarmor (2), Sitting Gorilla (5), Skeleton Costume (2), Skiing Outfit, Small Vault Girl Statue, Spear, Spicy Tenderizer Mod (2), Spiked Electro Enforcer, Spiked Shepherd’s Crook (3), Spin the Wheel Ornament, Spin the Wheel Snow Globe, Standing Gorilla (4), Strongman’s Super Sledge Paint, Surprised Jack O’Lantern (3), Tattered Curtains (5), The Fixer (5), Titan Plushie (2), Tomb Stones, Toothed Shepherd's Crook, Treasure Hunter Outfit Hat, Truckbed Trailer with Junk (2), Tunnel of Love Poster (3), Tunnel of Love Snow Globe (6), Ultracite Emergency Protocols, Ultracite Overdrive Servos, Vault Boy Jack O’Lantern (3), Vault Door Jack O’Lantern (3), Vault-Tec Jack O’Lantern (3), Vintage Water Cooler, Wall Mounted Fan (5), Wild West, Show Posters (3), Witch Costume (2).
RECIPES (alphabetical order): Caramel Mutfruit, Cranberry Moonshine, Cutting Fluid (3), Disease Cure (Savage Divide), Fasnacht Donut, Fasnacht Sausage, Formula P, Gulper Stuffed Foot (2), Healing Salve (Mire), Lead Champagne Bellini, Nuka-Cola Dark, Pickaxe Pilsner, Stimpak Diffuser (3), White Russian.
WANT: Adhesive, Aluminum, Asbestos, Ballistic fiber, Ceramic, Coal, Concrete, Copper, Cork, Crystal, Fiber optics, Flux: Cobalt/Fluro/Yellow/Violet/Crimson, Gold, Gears, Nuclear waste, Oil, Silver, Springs, Ultracite, Leader Bobbleheads, Backwoodsman 6, Rare Apparel, Enclave Forceful Stock Mods.
CAPS VALUE PER EACH (for reference): Adhesive 5, Aluminum 3, Asbestos 2, Ballistic fiber 7, Ceramic 2, Coal 1, Concrete 1, Copper 4, Cork 1, Circuits 3, Crystal 3, Fiber optics 7, Fiberglass 1, Flux: Cobalt/Fluro/Yellow/Violet/Crimson 100, Gold 4, Gears 4, Screws 3, Nuclear waste 1, Oil 5, Silver 4, Springs 5, Anticeptic 2, Ultracite 7, Leaders 500, Backwoodsman6 500. Shoot me an offer :)

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2024.05.28 00:41 ThrowRAImplement 26F wants me 29M to pay all her expenses. When is this okay?

I have been seeing this girl for a little over a month now (have gone on four dates) and on our last date she told me that a traditional relationship is important to her. We both have jobs. She knows of another couple where both partners work, and she described the financial dynamic between them as the man’s money is theirs, and the woman’s money is solely hers.
Generally speaking, it’s been my belief that if two people are working and earning money in a relationship, then both should be contributing financially in some capacity. I don’t see how the situation she is describing is a traditional relationship. She believes the man should be the provider in the relationship, which I have no problem with if the day comes where we have kids and she wants to not work and be a stay at home mom. The expectation from her is that if we are going to be exclusive, then I am going to be taking on all her expenses. She even said she could send me a list of her monthly expenses. This is something she wants regardless of us living together. She also told me later that she’s not looking for a man because he has money, and that she has her own money, she’s looking for her husband/life partner and so a traditional relationship is important to her.
I just don’t see how this is traditional, or right, for both people in a relationship to be earning money, and only one person’s income being used to pay for both people. Is there any situation where this kind of financial dynamic is justified? I know it depends on the relationship and everyone is different, but I just don’t see how this is right.
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2024.05.28 00:38 xyrhe seeking guidance:fighting addictions, finding god, trying to become a virtuous person

i need your help, guys. ill tell you about my life,addictions im fighting, decisions i regret, sins i have committed, and the realizations i have had (nihilism and existentialism, finding god).
my downfall started around 8th standard i was exposed to adult videos and become addict and i still am, i knew its morally wrong i should not, by 9th grade, i got into an online relationship with a girl, but we broke up due to family issues(i got caught by my brother),not much after this incident i got involved too much in social media, random people, group chats ,lot of friends, lot of girls now i know, i felt like i have found i wasted my time crazy on it, i used to get in online situationships here and there, i was so doomed then again in 10th grade, i got into a serious online relationship,i wanted to stop it i felt so bad, my life was in shambles(still is), and was still extremely socially active, my actual life(real) was barely anything, after i was done with this one, i got involved with girl irl this time, wasted my time again, also i somewhat got physical with her,she offered me, i couldnt resist, tho it was barely holding hands (which i still regret), cycle continued in next standard, with this one i almost got into a relationship, but my hesitations prevented it.
currently some months ago i dont know what was that but accidentally realised im mortal, i got depressed not because exactly me and everyone gonna die but because of idea of nothingness, this happened at a cricial time, tho im not atheist, but if the idea even god existed or not, this troubled me a lot, i tried to explore in every way possible, reading holy books, some philosophies, some crazy theories of physics, anything which can satisfy my soul that there is indeed a afterlife and god does exist, but obviously that wasnt enough, this kept going and i realised the only true answer is through the laws of nature(physics), but this barely lasted for like 20-25days ,but when i activated my instagram account, slowly i was getting absorbed again forgetting everything getting involving again in girls, oversocialization, wasteful chatting, all again this is still going on, thought of nothingness is not scaring me(which makes me sad that, even when i was guided towards the truth, i still couldn't beat my addictions and immoral activities)that much because i cant even think clearly im on phone for 15-16 hours, talking with people(i barely know), girls and stuff, just wasting my time i have realised i must go explore the existence of god, morality, and philosophy through science, mathematics, reason, logic, physics, and biology but my relationships, social interactions, and adult video addiction have left my life in shambles, i have no morals, no discipline, im not even doing good in academics, disappointment to my parents also, since childhood, i've been the problematic one in my family. despite loving my parents, i have been very disrespectful to them. as a teenager, this behavior continued, which is shameful because i have been sweeter to outsiders, this disrespectful behavior towards my parents weighs heavily on me, i feel terrible about it. im currently entangled in online problems, with many group chats and temptations from girls that im trying to resist,
i want to work on myself, resist the temptations of social media, and become morally good and stoic,not caring what others do and think,(in a good way) im crazily interested on what people think of me, and not knowing things depresses me,so i want to become someone with good virtues and someone who can handle things and not let social media and social network effect me,these are crucial days for me as i prepare for college(entrance test is in a month) and embark on my journey of finding god, however, im struggling to overcome these temptations and need advice on how to counter these challenges and stay focused on my path, i really need to clear this exam so that my journey becomes easier, i want to find god,i want to become a person with good morals, i dont want to hate anyone ,i want to make my parents proud ,in order to do all these, i must win against my addictions, become a moral person ,also a hardworking and disciplined one, any sort of advice on anything i mentioned here will be highly appreciated, thankyou
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2024.05.28 00:38 chewytime Would you still get a 11th gen Accord hybrid now that the 2025 Camry is out?

I expect I’ll get some biased responses here, but I also think it’ll be some good perspective.
Anyway, I was wanting to get a new car a couple of years ago, but then the pandemic hit and supply chain issues pushed things back a couple of years. In that time frame I had to replace my car unexpectedly and ended up with an old used car I managed to get on the cheap. Unfortunately, I’ve had to put nearly as much money in repairs/maintenance into it as I initially paid for the car itself. It is once again in the shop and I think I just need to get a new car.
My big needs are reliability (with reasonable maintenance/repair costs), driving comfort (I’m not a big guy, but the seats should be comfy enough for like stop and go traffic and regular multi-hour trips), and good mileage (at least 40mpg combined). Would also like decent passing/overtaking acceleration on the highway so I dont have to worry when merging. Budget is ~$35k-ish (not necessarily counting taxes/fees).
From my research, that basically narrows things down to the Accord and the Camry. Based on pricing I would probably be looking at either the EX-L or base XLE, respectively. I’ve driven past generations of both and the Accord always seemed to have a clear overall edge in the past. However, all the first impressions I’ve seen of the 2025 Camry seem to paint it as a better car now. Not sure if it’s just hype though since there aren’t a lot of in-depth reviews yet. The only direct comparison video I’ve seen so far shows the Camry is faster than the Accord in a straight line, and some seem to say the new Camry’s handling is comparable now as well. I think the Camry’s gas mileage will probably be more consistent too with Toyota’s hybrid experience [I’m probably doing 70/30 highway/city driving right now and I’ve seen some posts here showing the Accord takes a notable dip with highway mpg, but not sure how widespread that is]
Looks wise, it sort of depends on the angle for me. I’ve seen more 11th gen Accords IRL [haven’t seen any new Camry’s on the road yet] and it took awhile for me warm up to it, but I think it’s alright now. I wasn’t the biggest fan of some of the styling choices of the last gen Camry, but some of the small changes to the front and sides have made a big difference for me, with the XLE being my favorite of the available grills.
As far as tech is concerned, for my price range, my “needs” include blindspot monitoring, proximity/parking sensors, lumbar support with seat memory, brake hold, and a way to permanently turn off any idle stop system [driven a couple rental cars with it and some of them required me to turn it off every time I restarted the car]. I haven’t had a car with CarPlay before but can you navigate YouTube audio on it? I dont watch videos on it, but I like to listen to some playlists on it. Also, I would love to have a 360 camera, but I dont think it’s offered in my price range.
Anyway, I want to see what you all think and whether the new Camry makes you rethink your purchase?
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2024.05.28 00:37 xyrhe seeking guidance:fighting addictions, finding god, trying to become a virtuous person

i need your help, guys. ill tell you about my life,addictions im fighting, decisions i regret, sins i have committed, and the realizations i have had (nihilism and existentialism, finding god).
my downfall started around 8th standard i was exposed to adult videos and become addict and i still am, i knew its morally wrong i should not, by 9th grade, i got into an online relationship with a girl, but we broke up due to family issues(i got caught by my brother),not much after this incident i got involved too much in social media, random people, group chats ,lot of friends, lot of girls now i know, i felt like i have found i wasted my time crazy on it, i used to get in online situationships here and there, i was so doomed then again in 10th grade, i got into a serious online relationship,i wanted to stop it i felt so bad, my life was in shambles(still is), and was still extremely socially active, my actual life(real) was barely anything, after i was done with this one, i got involved with girl irl this time, wasted my time again, also i somewhat got physical with her,she offered me, i couldnt resist, tho it was barely holding hands (which i still regret), cycle continued in next standard, with this one i almost got into a relationship, but my hesitations prevented it.
currently some months ago i dont know what was that but accidentally realised im mortal, i got depressed not because exactly me and everyone gonna die but because of idea of nothingness, this happened at a cricial time, tho im not atheist, but if the idea even god existed or not, this troubled me a lot, i tried to explore in every way possible, reading holy books, some philosophies, some crazy theories of physics, anything which can satisfy my soul that there is indeed a afterlife and god does exist, but obviously that wasnt enough, this kept going and i realised the only true answer is through the laws of nature(physics), but this barely lasted for like 20-25days ,but when i activated my instagram account, slowly i was getting absorbed again forgetting everything getting involving again in girls, oversocialization, wasteful chatting, all again this is still going on, thought of nothingness is not scaring me(which makes me sad that, even when i was guided towards the truth, i still couldn't beat my addictions and immoral activities)that much because i cant even think clearly im on phone for 15-16 hours, talking with people(i barely know), girls and stuff, just wasting my time i have realised i must go explore the existence of god, morality, and philosophy through science, mathematics, reason, logic, physics, and biology but my relationships, social interactions, and adult video addiction have left my life in shambles, i have no morals, no discipline, im not even doing good in academics, disappointment to my parents also, since childhood, i've been the problematic one in my family. despite loving my parents, i have been very disrespectful to them. as a teenager, this behavior continued, which is shameful because i have been sweeter to outsiders, this disrespectful behavior towards my parents weighs heavily on me, i feel terrible about it. im currently entangled in online problems, with many group chats and temptations from girls that im trying to resist,
i want to work on myself, resist the temptations of social media, and become morally good and stoic,not caring what others do and think,(in a good way) im crazily interested on what people think of me, and not knowing things depresses me,so i want to become someone with good virtues and someone who can handle things and not let social media and social network effect me,these are crucial days for me as i prepare for college(entrance test is in a month) and embark on my journey of finding god, however, im struggling to overcome these temptations and need advice on how to counter these challenges and stay focused on my path, i really need to clear this exam so that my journey becomes easier, i want to find god,i want to become a person with good morals, i dont want to hate anyone ,i want to make my parents proud ,in order to do all these, i must win against my addictions, become a moral person ,also a hardworking and disciplined one, any sort of advice on anything i mentioned here will be highly appreciated, thankyou
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2024.05.28 00:36 Maoern AITAH for breaking with my friend after she wouldn’t talk to me for a month?

I am a high schooler (16M) in Texas who was formerly friends with a high schooler slightly younger than me (14/15F, idk exact age). We met in JROTC and for a while we were pretty close. We hung out at Color Guard practices and in 3rd period, reviewed the creed, had matching friends, etc. Since she was into Taylor Swift and played in our Philharmonic Orchestra, I would, every week, go to print out a bunch of viola sheet music for stuff like Anti-Hero, Cruel Summer, and it was nice. She was kinda weird sometimes, like once when she accidentally caught a glimpse of my armpit hair when I was wearing short sleeves that no longer fit and got a jaw drop look on her face. Remember that for later.
So she began to act weird in a different way. She stopped talking to me, sat away from me with her other friends, and generally looked kinda down. I kept asking her what was up, but she always said it wasn’t my problem. Soon after, I got shoved into her in the hallways when she was carrying her viola case and she yelled at me for it. One of my other friends (14F) told me that the girl, let’s call her Sal, was going through some messy shit at home with her parents arguing and stuff. So I was like, ok, and tried to reconnect with her. One day in the lunchroom, we’re sitting down with a friend of hers, and he’s on talking about the other guys and the weird shit they get up to (we’re all high schoolers, remember?) and brings up that one of them laughed at someone’s finger hair. Sal was grossed out by this, after which I told her she wasn’t innocent either and brought up the awkward moment stated earlier. Sal and her friend were shocked, and I thought that was because she didn’t remember it, so I explained the entire scene to her. She was mortified and said she would never talk to me again. A while later, a girl was drawing a smiley face onto my arm and Sal slapped the marker and made it fly all over. I jokingly told her “how dare you” because I didn’t take any of it seriously and she responded in kind VERY aggressively.
Now we’ve gone our separate ways. I tried to reconnect with her last week through some more Swift sheet music. She mumbled some words and took the papers without even a thanks.
All of the friends I made through her have stopped talking with me too. I often hear them talking about a ton of things I say in VCs that they take WAY OUT OF CONTEXT. My only friend left is the girl who told me about Sal’s situation and a friend of hers (refer to them as Alex and Gabby repectively). Since Alex is also a teen mom and extremely autistic, even less people want to talk with me now, so we’re stuck with each other. Not that I’m complaining, they’re quite honestly some of the most understanding and kindhearted individuals on the planet. Still, kinda sucks, for me and especially Alex, who also lost a friend in Sal after she decided to continue hanging out with me.
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2024.05.28 00:35 xyrhe seeking guidance:fighting addictions, finding god, trying to become a virtuous person

i need your help, guys. ill tell you about my life,addictions im fighting, decisions i regret, sins i have committed, and the realizations i have had (nihilism and existentialism, finding god).
my downfall started around 8th standard i was exposed to adult videos and become addict and i still am, i knew its morally wrong i should not, by 9th grade, i got into an online relationship with a girl, but we broke up due to family issues(i got caught by my brother),not much after this incident i got involved too much in social media, random people, group chats ,lot of friends, lot of girls now i know, i felt like i have found i wasted my time crazy on it, i used to get in online situationships here and there, i was so doomed then again in 10th grade, i got into a serious online relationship,i wanted to stop it i felt so bad, my life was in shambles(still is), and was still extremely socially active, my actual life(real) was barely anything, after i was done with this one, i got involved with girl irl this time, wasted my time again, also i somewhat got physical with her,she offered me, i couldnt resist, tho it was barely holding hands (which i still regret), cycle continued in next standard, with this one i almost got into a relationship, but my hesitations prevented it.
currently some months ago i dont know what was that but accidentally realised im mortal, i got depressed not because exactly me and everyone gonna die but because of idea of nothingness, this happened at a cricial time, tho im not atheist, but if the idea even god existed or not, this troubled me a lot, i tried to explore in every way possible, reading holy books, some philosophies, some crazy theories of physics, anything which can satisfy my soul that there is indeed a afterlife and god does exist, but obviously that wasnt enough, this kept going and i realised the only true answer is through the laws of nature(physics), but this barely lasted for like 20-25days ,but when i activated my instagram account, slowly i was getting absorbed again forgetting everything getting involving again in girls, oversocialization, wasteful chatting, all again this is still going on, thought of nothingness is not scaring me(which makes me sad that, even when i was guided towards the truth, i still couldn't beat my addictions and immoral activities)that much because i cant even think clearly im on phone for 15-16 hours, talking with people(i barely know), girls and stuff, just wasting my time i have realised i must go explore the existence of god, morality, and philosophy through science, mathematics, reason, logic, physics, and biology but my relationships, social interactions, and adult video addiction have left my life in shambles, i have no morals, no discipline, im not even doing good in academics, disappointment to my parents also, since childhood, i've been the problematic one in my family. despite loving my parents, i have been very disrespectful to them. as a teenager, this behavior continued, which is shameful because i have been sweeter to outsiders, this disrespectful behavior towards my parents weighs heavily on me, i feel terrible about it. im currently entangled in online problems, with many group chats and temptations from girls that im trying to resist,
i want to work on myself, resist the temptations of social media, and become morally good and stoic,not caring what others do and think,(in a good way) im crazily interested on what people think of me, and not knowing things depresses me,so i want to become someone with good virtues and someone who can handle things and not let social media and social network effect me,these are crucial days for me as i prepare for college(entrance test is in a month) and embark on my journey of finding god, however, im struggling to overcome these temptations and need advice on how to counter these challenges and stay focused on my path, i really need to clear this exam so that my journey becomes easier, i want to find god,i want to become a person with good morals, i dont want to hate anyone ,i want to make my parents proud ,in order to do all these, i must win against my addictions, become a moral person ,also a hardworking and disciplined one, any sort of advice on anything i mentioned here will be highly appreciated, thankyou
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2024.05.28 00:35 mycatismeowingsoloud Is time the only remedy? I want to be friends but he doesn’t seem mature enough right now.

It’s been 5 days since I broke up with him. I feel bad for leaving but I think my self-respect and confidence is more paramount than being essentially a roommate with benefits. He means the world to me and I’m very heartbroken we had to separate but it is better for both of us to not have to fight daily and hurt each other day after day (he never hurt me physically just emotionally. owie)
I am extremely grateful he literally saved my life from the side of the road living out of a van and he always made everything work somehow. We were together for 8 months and for the first 4 months I thought, how did I get so blessed by God with such a great man who protects, provides, and makes me his angel and life partner? But of course I got a suspicion and went looking. Each time I looked I found more I didn’t like. I guess it’s my fault because if I didn’t go looking then I wouldn’t have found anything. Ignorance is bliss until you aren’t ignorant anymore.
I am wondering why he couldn’t tell me he had his issues. Maybe he doesn’t think it’s an issue. I don’t know about porn addiction apart from what I’ve read online but it was extremely hard to see the history of porn every time we were apart, at work or not. The Instagram and Facebook following dirty hashtags, models, even requested to follow a teen girl clearly with high school in her bio. I’m 23 with a baby face and he’s 43. And we both live in our cars so he is always in public, so I am sure it’s a problem.
So far I’ve left the city we live in, went to my families house to decompress, realized I am broke. I went to work in a city exactly between my family and the city he’s in. I have to come back, I have a medical appointment tomorrow and I have something of his I need to give back because it’s something his mother gave him and all his sisters. He frequents a bar we stayed near so I think I should give it to his friend there. I have one of his shirts in my laundry but it has his smell on it and a paint stain (he paints houses) I am not ready to give it up. I can’t eat, I can drink alcohol though. Only after I’m parked safely at the spot i’m staying for the night.
Is the only way to forgive him and move on as friends letting time take its course? I tried keeping one form of communication open but once I told him where I was staying he turned cold and immediately accused me of being with guys in the new city. Projecting, maybe? I gave him full report of my whereabouts to no avail. Just a “i’m done talking. have a good holiday.” Is this him showing me who he really is or is it heat of the moment? I’m so confused like 10 mins before he was saying how much he misses me, he’s gonna keep my photos to cry over, everything he does reminds him of me.” Help, please. It’s my first relationship and i’m still young and a baddie.
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2024.05.28 00:34 RBrandomize Help with hand pain

I (30F) was diagnosed in March of last year (RH-). I'm currently on sulfasalazine and, while it is moderately controlled, I feel like I'll need to go see the rheumatologist again soon. I'm at a point where I can't do a lot of things throughout the day with my hands. I'm a teacher and completing my masters online, plus I have 3 kids to care for. I'm finding it incredibly difficult to finish homework (or work work) when there is a lot of typing and/or scrolling involved. Cooking is getting hard and peeling potatoes is almost impossible. I'm also a reader and love video games, but holding a book or controller for long periods is rough.
When I do any of these a lot in short periods of time, my right-hand pointer finger starts to basically seize up. It twitches a lot at first, then it's almost like it's cramping and tries to close itself up repeatedly. I'm not sure if I need different meds (haven't seen many people mention sulfasalazine on here, mostly hydrochloriquine and methotrexate) or if there are things I can do to help at home. Heat seems to help and I want to cry if I have to hold something cold for too long (yet I overheat when moving around or outside so damn easily).
What has worked for you in terms of hand pain? Could it be that the medication just isn't right for me (based on experiences with it)?
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2024.05.28 00:34 drapesmatchthecarpet 4 star for 4 star, need paparazzi and devoted fan. I got a 4 for each

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2024.05.28 00:32 Sweet_Design_5204 Art Analysis help - Composition

Art Analysis help - Composition
Hi artists and art lovers!
I need to analyze a painting called "The Dame from Harlem" by Palmer Hayden. I love looking into the artwork's history and looking at YouTube videos for inspiration but I cant find any information on this art piece. So I have turned to the internet just to ask if anyone has any thoughts on this painting or how to analyze it. So far I've written about its color pallette but need to figure out how to talk about its composition.
The Dame from Harlem, By Palmer Hayden
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you :))
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2024.05.28 00:31 yola156 Sports Bra?

What sports bras work for you? I’m am having one heck of a time finding one that fits, holds the girls down, and is lined but doesn’t have those annoying removable pads.
For reference, I’m a 38DD.
I saw a video posted on Instagram where I was in the background doing jumping jacks…and oh my!! I need better support!
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2024.05.28 00:29 Round_Turn_9514 Trades trying to finish boy band set

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2024.05.28 00:29 Ready-Building-3189 Is it ok if your parents hit you so hard, you can’t see?

hello everyone, this is my first post. i just wanna vent to you guys and also ask for advice. First of all, i have a very religious nigerian dad & he n sometimes beats me if i lie to him. so today i was playing a tiktok video and he heard it. then he asked my sister & i who was playing a video, but instantly i said that i wasn’t bcs its was instinct. but i kept on denying it (sorry i can’t really type well. i’m covering my eye with an ice pack with one hand & i’m writing with the other). he started to get up from his chair and walk closer to me but i was still denying it. then he towered over me and the he started slapping my head and i was deaf for like a few seconds then he poke my eye with his fingers but i don’t feel like it was intentional but i started screaming that he hit my eye, so i kinda turned my back towards him on the couch and he still kept beating my back hard. ngl i think it’s kinda my fault for lying in the first place.
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2024.05.28 00:29 LifeofDavidGale Is "Wala ng oras dahil sa trabaho" is really a thing?

Me(24) and my girl(23) is already 3 yrs last feb and I can say na our traditional is the best relationship na naranasan ko. Walang toxic, we can both party na walang nagagalit pag pauwi or hindi papayagan (but of course, we know our limits) , mag sasabi ka lang kung saan ka pupunta and oks na yon, etc etc you name it. Moving forward, since we are both working na. Morning shift sya tapos ako VA (GY). Before, hindi naman apektado yung time namin sa isat isa despite of our work sched pero recently lang, medyo na fefeel ko na mas umuunti yung time namin sa isat isa. Papasok sya ng 12pm then out nya 9pm tapos uuwi sya around 10 or 11 na, minsan 1am na pag nag kakape sila. So ako naman, gising ako ng mga oras na 'yon since gy nga ako tapos usually video call kami non pag uwi nya maliban nalang if mag patawag ng meeting boss ko. So hindi nanaman kami makakapag usap kasi aantukin na sya non. Minsan pa pag maaga sya umuuwi, kausap nya padin nga ka work nya sa chat kaya minsan pinapatayan ko sya ng tawag sa sobrang badtrip ko aakanya non. Pero later on sinabi ko naman sakanya kung bakit ko sya binabaan and nag sorry naman sya. Tapos ang off sya is, tuesday which is di ako pwede kasi tulog ako sa umaga, ang tanging choice lang namin para magkita is sya ang pupunta sa bahay. Dati every tuesday syang pumupunta dito pero ngayon madalang na, reason? Papahinga daw sya. Then saturday, may pasok sya which is available ako. Madalas yon lalabas kami pero kasama parin mga ka work nya. I just dont understand why she cant no sa mga ka work nya pero sakin nagagawa nyang mag no. And if you guys think na the love is not there sa part nya or medyo nanlalamig na, hindi eh. She loves me so much, she post me every single time, she appreciates me, motivate, supports me. Gusto ko lang sabihin sakanya na "Gawa ka naman ng paraan para magkita/mag sama tayo" kasi im always the one who compromise my time/sched for her. Idk, wala lang akong mapag kwentuhan. Ciao
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2024.05.28 00:28 mirrorshaman42 [US][Selling] A TON of Manga (and a few novels) - 20th Century Boys, Frieren, Vinland Saga, JoJo Golden Wind and MUCH More

https://imgur.com/a/9HmSzXF
There are far too many books for me to list the condition they’re all in. I’ve included notes about the condition on a few of the books, but anything beyond that can be discussed in PMs.
US ONLY
Free Shipping on orders of $25 or more
Individual volumes CANNOT be split up EXCEPT for the One Piece omnibuses, since they’re all over the place.
PRICES:
Manga: Toritan: Birds of a Feather - $17
Nyankees 1-6 - $50
Ancient Magus’ Bride Wizard’s Blue 1-3 - $25
Sue & Tai-chan 1-3 - $25
Nekogahara 1-5 (volumes 1 and 2 are not in great condition) - $35
FukuFuku Kitten Tales 1-2 - $14
Perfect World 1-9 - $75
Grim Reaper and 4 Girlfriends (has mild spine creasing. this happened after one read.) - $15
The Town of Pigs - $12
Rabbit Game - $8
Maiden Railways - $9
Lil’ Leo - $10
Ripples - $10
The Four Immigrants Manga - $13
Glaeolia 3 (Lettered Edition) - $35
Glaeolia 2 (slight back cover creasing) - $25
The Poe Clan 1 - $26
Mission: Yozakura Family 1-6: $39
I Cannot Reach You 1-6: $50
How Many Light-Years to Babylon? - $9
Fire in His Fingertips 1-2: $18
Black or White 1-2: $17
JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World manga 1-2: $18
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind 1-9 - $117
Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart - $9
Seven Days: Monday to Sunday - $9
Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle 1-3 - $19
Mermaid Boys 1-3 - $25
Yona of the Dawn 1-2 - $12
Snow White with the Red Hair 1-2 - $12
Classmates 1-5 - $48
Solfege - $7
The Moon and the Sandals 1-2: $17
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas manga - $16
Sayonara Game - $9
Primitive Boyfriend 1-3 - $25
Fruits Basket Collector’s Edition 1-7 - $90
Blame! Master Edition 1 - $23
Monstaboo 1-2 - $17
Moteki 1-2 - $27
Knight of the Ice 1-7 - $59
Knights of Sidonia Master Edition 1-7 - $159
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable 1- $13
My Broken Mariko - $13
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin 1-3 - $58
Saint Young Men 1-6 - $93
Industrial Revolution and World War (not great condition) - $8
The Heiress and the Chauffeur 1-2 - $12
Bad Boys, Happy Hone 1-3 - $25
Gigant 1-5 - $45
Orange: The Complete Edition 1-2 - $26
Love Me, Love Me Not 1-12 - $78
Go With the Clouds North-by-Northwest - $43
A School Frozen in Time 1-4 - $33
Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie 1-4 - $33
Mermaid Saga 1-2 - $32
Heavenly Delusion 1-2 - $17
The Walking Cat: A Cat’s-eye View of the Zombie Apocalypse - $16
Monotone Blue - $10
Hard-Boiled Stories From the Cat Bar - $10
No-Guns Life 1-13 - $110
Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams - $13
Asadora 1-3 - $29
20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition 1-13 + 21st Century Boys: The Perfect Edition - $180
Stravaganza 1-3 - $39
Orient 1-2 - $13
The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess 1-2 - $17 Yoshi no Zuikara 1-3 - $29
Ragna Crimson 1-5 - $42
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 1-9 (volume 1 has noticeable back cover creasing) - $70
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood 1-3 - $39
An Incurable Case of Love 1-7 - $45
QQ Sweeper 1-3 - $19
Fly Me to the Moon 1-9 - $58
The Vampire and his Pleasant Companions 1-4 (volume 1 has slight spine wear) $31
Candy Color Paradox 1-5 - $42
A White Rose in Bloom 1-2 - $17
Love of Kill 1-3 - $25
BL Metamorphosis 1-3 - $25
The Golden Sheep 1-3 - $25
Magus of the Library 1-5 - $42
Beastars 1-4 - $33
Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand - $13
The Breaker 1-2 - $26
Kageki Shojo!! The Curtain Rises + Kageki Shojo!! 1-6 - $63
High-Rise Invasion 1-21 - $133
One Piece Omnibus 10-15, 43-45, 67-87 - $97 (Individually: $9.70)
The Bride and the Exorcist Knight 1-4 - $30 Wave Listen to Me! - $42
The Complete Chi’s Sweet Home Box Set - $57 Berserk 9-13 - $40
Dai Dark 1-4 (volume 3 has mild front cover creasing) - $32
The Voynich Hotel 1-3 - $25
H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness 1-2 - $26 Escape Journey 1-3 - $25
After Hours 1-3 - $19
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1-6 - $39
Vinland Saga 1-13 - $175
Novels: Manga in Theory and Practice - $13
Pretty Boy Detective Club novel series 1-3 - $27
JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World + JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World: Summer novels - $19
Vampire Hunter D - $13
The Sorcerer King of Destruction and the Golem of thr Barbarian Queen 1 - $9
Berserk of Gluttony 1 - $9
I Have a Secret - $10
Yes, No or Maybe? - $10
Spice and Wolf 1 - $7
Chitose is in the Ramune Bottle 1 - $10
The Astro Boy Essays - $11
Heaven Official’s Blessing 1 - $13
Rascal Does Not Dream of series 1-4 - $39
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2024.05.28 00:24 notnerdofalltrades Beatles Chronological Playlist

Hello I wanted to do a chronological playlist combining all The Beatles material on Spotify from the live releases, to studio tracks, to outtakes. Here is a link to the playlist and below are my justifications for the placements. Would be curious if anyone could tell me any sections where I may have went wrong with the dates. This project has inspired me to dig deeper into the bootlegs of the studio sessions and I’ve already begun doing that so maybe I will make a post about that at some point as well.
1958-1961
1 We Were Four Guys… That’s All [Anthology 1]
Actually an interview clip from December 8 1970. Placed here for sequencing like in Anthology 1.
2 The Quarrymen - That’ll Be The Day [Anthology 1]
3 The Quarrymen - In Spite Of All The Danger [Anthology 1]
Two Quarrymen recordings from July 12 1958. These are the only official releases of the Quarrymen on Spotify. You may see another song listed by them on their Spotify but this is actually a different group.
4 Sometimes I’d Borrow… Those Still Exist [Anthology 1]
Actually from an interview on November 3 1994 but placed here for sequencing like Anthology 1
5 Hallelujah I Love Her So [Anthology 1]
6 You’ll Be Mine [Anthology 1]
7 Cayenne [Anthology 1]
1960 home demos. Left the sequencing the same as Anthology 1. Not sure on exact dates, but the interview clip mentions Hallelujah so I think it makes sense to start with.
8 First Of All… It Didn’t Do A Thing Here [Anthology 1]
Actually an interview clip from October 27 1962 but placed here for sequencing like Anthology as he mentions the Tony Sheridan recordings.
9 My Bonnie [Anthology 1]
10 Ain’t She Sweet [Anthology 1]
11 Cry For A Shadow [Anthology 1]
All recording with Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers June 22 1961. The June 22nd date is disputed
1962
12 Brian Was A Beautiful Guy… He Presented Us Well [Anthology 1]
13 I Secured Them… A Beatle Drink Even Then [Anthology 1]
Actually from October 1971 and October 1964 interviews respectively but placed here for sequencing like on Anthology 1.
14 Searchin’ [Anthology 1]
15 Three Cool Cats [Anthology 1]
16 The Sheik Of Araby [Anthology 1]
17 Like Dreamers Do [Anthology 1]
18 Hello Little Girl [Anthology 1]
Beatles Decca audition tape recordings. Recorded January 1 1962 from Anthology 1.
19 Well The Recording Test… By My Artists [Anthology 1]
Actually from the same October 1964 interview as I secured them… but placed here for sequencing like Anthology 1.
20 Besame Mucho [Anthology 1]
21 Love Me Do [Anthology 1]
Recorded June 6 1962 featuring Pete Best on drums for Love Me Do
22 How Do You Do It? [Anthology 1]
Recorded September 4 1962
23 Please Please Me [Anthology 1]
Recorded September 11 1962
24 Love Me Do (Single Version) - 2023 Mix
25 P.S I Love You [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
Love me do, the first Beatles single, releases October 5 1962. This version features Ringo on drums and would be different from the version on the Please Please Me LP.
1963
26 Please Please Me [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
27 Ask Me Why [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
Please Please Me releases as a single January 11 1963
28 Keep Your Hands Off My Baby [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
29 Beautiful Dreamer [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded January 26 1963 for the Beatles Saturday Club.
30 One After 909 (Takes 3, 4, & 5 with stops) [Anthology 1]
31 One After 909 (Takes 4 & 5 complete) [Anthology 1]
Recorded March 5 1963
32 Misery [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded March 12 1963 for Here We Go
33 I’m Talking About You [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded March 16 1963 for the Beatles Saturday Club
34 I Saw Her Standing There [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
35 Misery [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
36 Anna (Go To Him) [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
37 Chains [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
38 Boys [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
39 Love Me Do [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
40 Baby It’s You [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
41 Do You Want To Know A Secret [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
42 A Taste Of Honey [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
43 There’s A Place [Please Please Me 2009 Remaster]
44 Twist And Shout [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
Please Please Me LP released March 22 1963. This version of Love Me Do features Andy White on drums. I exclude all the singles that release before the album when doing this so Please Please Me, Ask Me Why, and P.S. I Love You were excluded.
45 From Me To You [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
46 Thank You Girl [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
From Me To You single releases April 11 1963
47 We Were Performers… In Britain [Anthology 1]
Actually from a December 8 1970 interview, but placed here before a big chunk of live material similar to the sequencing on Anthology 1.
48 Love These Goon Shows! [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
49 I Got To Find My Baby [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
50 Young Blood [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
51 Sha La La La La! [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
52 Baby It’s You [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded June 11 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
53 Sure To Fall (In Love With You) [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded June 18 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
54 Some Other Guy [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
55 Thank You Girl [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded June 23 1963 for Easy Beat
56 I’ll Be On My Way [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded June 24 1963 for Side by Side
57 Hey Paul… [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
58 Hello! [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
59 A Real Treat [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
60 Boys [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
61 Absolutely Fab [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
62 Chains [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
63 Bumper Bundle [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
64 P.S. I Love You [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded June 25 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
65 Lend Me Your Comb [Anthology 1]
Recorded July 2 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
66 That’s All Right (Mama) [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
67 Carol [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
68 What Is It, George? [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
69 Soldier Of Love [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
70 A Little Rhyme [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
71 Clarabella [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
72 Lend Me Your Comb [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded July 16 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
73 And Here We Go Again [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
74 A Taste Of Honey [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
75 Sweet Little Sixteen [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
76 1822! [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
77 Lonesome Tears In My Eyes [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
78 Nothin’ Shakin’ [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
79 So How Come (No One Loves Me) [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
80 Love Me Do [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded July 23 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
81 Memphis, Tennessee [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
82 The Hippy Hippy Shake [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
83 Set Fire To That Lot! [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
84 Matchbox [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
85 How About It, Gorgeous? [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
86 Do You Want To Know A Secret [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
87 Till There Was You [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
88 Please Mister Postman [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded July 30 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
89 I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
90 Crying, Waiting, Hoping [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
91 To Know Her Is To Love Her [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
92 The Honeymoon Song [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
93 Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
94 Twist And Shout [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded August 6 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
95 I Got A Woman [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
96 Long Tall Sally [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
97 Please Please Me [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded August 13 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
98 Glad All Over [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
99 I Just Don’t Understand [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
100 Slow Down [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
101 Words Of Love [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded August 20 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
102 She Loves You [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
103 I’ll Get You [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
She Loves You single releases August 23 1963
104 Dear Wack! [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
105 You Really Got A Hold On Me [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
106 Glad All Over [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
107 Lift Lid Again [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded August 24 1963 for Saturday Club
108 A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
109 Ooh! My Soul [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
110 Ooh! My Arms [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
111 Don’t Ever Change [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
112 Anna (Go To Him) [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded August 27 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
113 Honey Don’t [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
114 Roll Over Beethoven [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
115 There’s A Place [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded September 3 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
116 Too Much Monkey Business [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
117 Lower 5E [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
118 The Hippy Hippy Shake [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded September 10 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
119 Lucille [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded September 17 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
120 Ask Me Why [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
121 The 49 Weeks [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
122 Sure To Fall (In Love With You) [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
123 Never Mind, Eh? [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
124 Bye, Bye [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded September 24 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
125 Devil In Her Heart [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded September 25 1963 for Pop Go The Beatles
126 Lucille [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
127 I Saw Her Standing There [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
128 I’ll Get You [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
129 Memphis, Tennessee [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
130 She Loves You [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
131 Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded October 5 1963 for Saturday Club
132 I’ll Get You [Anthology 1]
Recorded October 13 1963 at the Palladium
133 Now Hush, Hush [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
134 From Me To You [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
135 I Saw Her Standing There [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded October 20 1963 for Easy Beat
136 I Saw Her Standing There [Anthology 1]
137 From Me To You [Anthology 1]
138 Money (That’s What I Want) [Anthology 1]
139 You Really Got A Hold On Me [Anthology 1]
140 Roll Over Beethoven [Anthology 1]
Recorded October 24 1963 at the Karlaplansstudion
141 Beatles Greetings [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded November 3 1963 for The Public Ear
142 She Loves You [Anthology 1]
143 Till There Was You [Anthology 1]
144 Twist And Shout [Anthology 1]
Recorded November 4 1963 at Prince of Wales Theatre
145 It Won’t Be Long [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
146 All I’ve Got To Do [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
147 All My Loving [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
148 Don’t Bother Me [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
149 Little Child [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
150 Till There Was You [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
151 Please Mister Postman [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
152 Roll Over Beethoven [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
153 Hold Me Tight [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
154 You Really Got A Hold On Me [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
155 I Wanna Be Your Man [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
156 Devil In Her Heart [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
157 Not A Second Time [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
158 Money (That’s What I Want) [With The Beatles 2009 Remaster]
With The Beatles releases November 22 1963
159 I Want To Hold Your Hand [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
160 This Boy [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
I Want To Hold Your Hand single releases November 29 1963
161 This Boy [Anthology 1]
162 I Want To Hold Your Hand [Anthology 1]
163 Boys, What Was I Thinking… [Anthology 1]
164 Moonlight Bay [Anthology 1]
Recorded December 2 1963 at ATV Studios
165 Brian Bathtubes [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
166 This Boy [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded December 21 1963 for Saturday Club
167 Money (That’s What I Want) [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
168 I Want To Hold Your Hand [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded December 26 1963 for The Beatles Say From Us To You
1964
169 Can’t Buy Me Love (Takes 1 & 2) [Anthology 1]
Recorded January 29 1964 in Paris during their residency at Olympia. Komm gib mir deine Hand and Sie liebt dich were also recorded at this session.
170 All My Loving (Live on the Ed Sullivan Show) [Anthology 1]
Recorded February 9 1964 for the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City
171 Johnny B Goode [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
172 If I Wasn’t in America [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded February 15 1964 for Saturday Club
173 You Can’t Do That (Take 6) [Anthology 1]
174 And I Love Her (Take 2) [Anthology 1]
Recorded February 25 1964 in EMI
175 Komm gib mir deine Hand [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
176 Sie liebt dich [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
German version singles of I Want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You released March 5 1964*. These were done to try to penetrate the German market after The Beatles began to achieve international fame following I Want To Hold Your Hand going #1 in the US with pressure from Odeon execs. *Both Walter Everett and Barry Miles write the single was released in West Germany on March 5 1964, but the songs were not mixed for mono and stereo until the 10th and 12th. John C. Winn says the single was rush-released in West Germany after mixing, but does not provide a release date. See this for more details.
177 Can’t Buy Me Love [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
178 You Can’t Do That [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
Can’t Buy Me Love releases as a single March 20 1964
179 From Us To You Opening [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
180 Can’t Buy Me Love [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
181 From Fluff To You [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
182 Till There Was You [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
183 Ringo? Yep! [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
184 I Wanna Be Your Man [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
185 Just A Rumour [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
186 Roll Over Beethoven [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
187 All My Loving [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
188 Oh, Can’t We? Yes We Can [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
189 From Us To You Closing [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
From BBC vol 1 these are listed as March 10 1964 but Oh Can’t We? from vol 2 I believe lists the correct date of March 30 1964.
190 I Got A Woman [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded April 4 1964 for the Saturday Club
191 A Hard Day’s Night (Take 1) [Anthology 1]
Recorded April 16 1964 in EMI
192 I Wanna Be Your Man [Anthology 1]
193 Long Tall Sally [Anthology 1]
194 Boys [Anthology 1]
195 Shout [Anthology 1]
Recorded April 19 1964 for Around The Beatles in London
196 I Forgot To Remember To Forget [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded May 18 1964 for From Us To You Say The Beatles
197 I’ll Be Back (Take 2) [Anthology 1]
198 I’ll Be Back (Take 3) [Anthology 1]
Recorded June 1 1964 in EMI
199 You Know What To Do (Demo) [Anthology 1]
200 No Reply (Demo) [Anthology 1]
Recorded June 3 1964 in EMI
201 Long Tall Sally [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
202 I Call Your Name [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
203 Slow Down [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
204 Matchbox [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
The Long Tall Sally EP releases June 19 1964
205 A Hard Day’s Night [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
206 I Should Have Known Better [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
207 If I Fell [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
208 I’m Happy Just To Dance With You [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
209 And I Love Her [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
210 Tell Me Why [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
211 Any Time At All [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
212 I’ll Cry Instead [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
213 Things We Said Today [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
214 When I Get Home [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
215 I’ll Be Back [A Hard Day’s Night 2009 Remaster]
A Hard Day’s Night releases July 10 1964 along with A Hard Day’s Night single featuring the B Sides Things We Said Today and I Should Have Known Better in the UK and the US. Can’t Buy Me Love and You Can’t Do That were previously released singles.
216 Crinsk Dee Night [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
217 A Hard Day’s Night [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
218 Things We Said Today [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
219 Long Tall Sally [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
220 If I Fell [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
221 A Hard Job Writing Them [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
222 And I Love Her [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
223 You Can’t Do That [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded July 16 1964 for Top Gear
224 Mr Moonlight (Takes 1 & 4) [Anthology 1]
225 Leave My Kitten Alone (Take 5) [Anthology 1]
Recorded August 14 1964 in EMI
226 You Can’t Do That [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
227 All My Loving [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
228 Things We Said [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
229 Roll Over Beethoven [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
230 I Want To Hold Your Hand [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
231 Boys [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
232 She Loves You [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
233 Long Tall Sally [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
Recorded August 23 1964 at the Hollywood Bowl. I have decided to split Hollywood Bowl’s tracklist by day it was actually recorded and yes it does make the sequencing terrible. I did try to mirror the original setlist as closely as possible for that day, but both the The Paul McCartney Project and Beatles Bible list She Loves You as the 4th song, but the song features a clip saying “the next song will unfortunately be the last” making me think a different show show I put it second to last. The rest of the tracks on Hollywood Bowl are from the 1965 tour.
234 No Reply (Take 2) [Anthology 1]
Recorded September 30 1964 in EMI
235 Eight Days A Week (Sequence Takes 1, 2, & 4) [Anthology 1]
236 Eight Days A Week (Complete Take 5) [Anthology 1]
Recorded October 6 1964 in EMI
237 Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Take 2) [Anthology 1]
Recorded October 18 1964 in EMI
238 Riding On A Bus [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
239 She’s A Woman [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
240 I Feel Fine [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
241 I’m A Loser [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
242 Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
243 Honey Don’t [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
244 I’ll Follow The Sun [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
245 That’s What We’re Here For [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
246 I Feel Fine (Studio Out-take) [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded November 26 1964 for Top Gear
247 I Feel Fine [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
248 She’s A Woman [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
I Feel Fine single releases November 27 1964
249 No Reply [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
250 I’m A Loser [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
251 Baby’s In Black [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
252 Rock And Roll Music [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
253 I’ll Follow The Sun [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
254 Mr Moonlight [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
255 Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey - Medley [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
256 Eight Days A Week [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
257 Words Of Love [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
258 Honey Don’t [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
259 Every Little Thing [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
260 I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
261 What You’re Doing [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
262 Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby [Beatles For Sales 2009 Remaster]
Beatles For Sale releases December 4 1964
263 Rock and Roll Music [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
264 Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded December 26 1964 for Saturday Club
1965
265 Yes It Is (Takes 2 & 14) [Anthology 2]
Recorded February 16 1965 in EMI
266 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (Takes 1, 2, & 5) [Anthology 2]
267 If You’ve Got Trouble [Anthology 2]
Recorded February 18 1965 in EMI
268 That Means A Lot (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
Recorded February 20 1965 in EMI
269 Ticket To Ride [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
270 Yes It Is [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
Ticket To Ride single releases April 9 1965
271 Green With Black Shutters [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
272 Ticket To Ride [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
273 Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Live At The BBC (Remastered)]
Recorded June 7 1965 for the Beatles Invite You To Take A Ticket To Ride
274 Bad Boy [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
Bad Boy releases June 14 1965 on Beatles VI in the US
275 I’m Down (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
276 Yesterday (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
Recorded June 14 1965 in EMI
277 It’s Only Love (Takes 2 & 3) [Anthology 2]
Recorded June 18 1965 in EMI
278 Help! [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
279 I’m Down [Past Masters (Vols. 1 & 2) 2009 Remaster]
Help! single releases July 23 1965
280 I Feel Fine [Anthology 2]
281 Ticket To Ride [Anthology 2]
282 Yesterday [Anthology 2]
283 Help! [Anthology 2]
Recorded August 1 1965 for Blackpool Night Out at ABC Theatre, Blackpool, UK
284 The Night Before [Help! 2009 Remaster]
285 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
286 I Need You [Help! 2009 Remaster]
287 Another Girl [Help! 2009 Remaster]
288 You’re Going To Lose That Girl [Help! 2009 Remaster]
289 Act Naturally [Help! 2009 Remaster]
290 It’s Only Love [Help! 2009 Remaster]
291 You Like Me Too Much [Help! 2009 Remaster]
292 Tell Me What You See [Help! 2009 Remaster]
293 I’ve Just Seen A Face [Help! 2009 Remaster]
294 Yesterday [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
295 Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Help! 2009 Remaster]
Help! releases August 6 1965. Ticket To Ride and Help! were previously released singles.
296 Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby [Anthology 2]
Recorded August 15 1965 at Shea Stadium, New York City
297 Ticket To Ride [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
298 Help! [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
299 Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
Recorded August 29 1965 at the Hollywood Bowl. Dizzy Miss Lizzy includes recordings from August 30th spliced in so I put it last.
300 Twist And Shout [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
301 She’s A Woman [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
302 Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
303 Can’t Buy Me Love [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
304 Baby’s In Black [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
305 A Hard Day’s Night [Live At The Hollywood Bowl 2016 Remaster]
Recorded August 30 1965 at the Hollywood Bowl
306 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
Recorded October 12 1965 in EMI
307 I’m Looking Through You (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
Recorded October 24 1965 in EMI
308 12 Bar Original (Take 2 Edited) [Anthology 2]
Recorded November 4 1965 in EMI
309 John Pop Profile [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
310 George Pop Profile [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded November 30 1965 at The BBC
311 Day Tripper [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
312 We Can Work It Out [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out released as a double A Sided single December 3 1965 along with Rubber Soul.
313 Drive My Car [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
314 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
315 You Won’t See Me [Rubber Soul 2009 Remaster]
316 Nowhere Man [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
317 Think For Yourself [Rubber Soul 2009 Remaster]
318 The Word [Rubber Soul 2009 Remaster]
319 Michelle [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
320 What Goes On [Rubber Soul 2009 Remaster]
321 Girl [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
322 I’m Looking Through You [Rubber Soul 2009 Remaster]
323 In My Life [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
324 Wait [Rubber Soul 2009 Remaster]
325 If I Needed Someone [The Beatles 1962-1966 2023 Mix]
326 Run For Your Life [Rubber Soul 2009 Remaster]
Rubber Soul was released December 3 1965
1966
327 She Said She Said (Johns Demo) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
John Lennon began recording She Said She Said in March of 1966 and this is a home demo.
328 Yellow Submarine - Songwriting Work Tape Part 1 [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
329 Yellow Submarine - Songwriting Work Tape Part 2 [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
These are home demos of Yellow Submarine and I am assuming they would go around here, but I’m not sure of an exact date. Possibly before She Said She Said, but I believe before the studio recording began.
330 Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
331 Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
Recorded April 6 1966 in EMI. This was the beginning of the Revolver sessions. I am pretty sure these are the exact same but the mixing and mastering are different.
332 Tomorrow Never Knows (RM Mono Mix 11) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
From the April 7 1966 tape loop overdubbing sessions or the final overdubbing on April 22nd in EMI
333 Got To Get You Into My Life (First Version Take 5) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
334 Got To Get You Into My Life (First Version Take 5) [Anthology 2]
Recorded April 7 1966 in Abbey Road Studios
335 Love You To (Take 1) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
336 Love You To (Unnumbered Take) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Love You To began recording April 11 1966 in Abbey Road Studios with an additional session taking place on the 13th. I am going to assume these are both from the 11th.
337 Love You To (Take 7) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded April 13 1966 adding an additional vocal to a previous take
338 Paperback Writer (Takes 1 & 2) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded April 13 1966 in EMI
339 Rain (Take 5 Actual Speed) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
340 Rain (take 5 Slowed Down For Master) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Either recorded April 14 or 16 1966 in EMI
341 Doctor Robert (Take 7) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded April 19 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
342 And Your Bird Can Sing (First Version Take 2) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
343 And Your Bird Can Sing (First Version Take 2 Giggles) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
344 And Your Bird Can Sing (First Version Take 2) [Anthology 2]
First version of And Your Bird Can Sing was recorded April 20 1966 in Abbey Road Studios
345 And Your Bird Can Sing (Second Version Take 5) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Second version of And Your Bird Can Sing was April 26 1966 in Abbey Road Studios
346 I’m Only Sleeping (Rehearsal Fragment) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
347 I’m Only Sleeping (Rehearsal Instrumental) [Anthology 2]
348 I’m Only Sleeping (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
349 I’m Only Sleeping (Take 2) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
350 I’m Only Sleeping (Take 5) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded April 27 1966 in Abbey Road Studios
351 Eleanor Rigby (Strings Only) [Anthology 2]
352 Eleanor Rigby (Speech Before Take 2) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
353 Eleanor Rigby (Take 2) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded April 28 1966 in Abbey Road Studios
354 Paul Pop Profile [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
355 Ringo Pop Profile [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol.2)]
Recorded May 2 1966 at The BBC
356 I’m Only Sleeping (Mono Mix RM1) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
I’m Only Sleeping was completed May 6 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
357 Taxman (Take 11) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
358 Taxman (Take 11) [Anthology 2]
Overdubbing for Taxman Take 11 was done May 16 1966.
359 For No One (Take 10 Backing Track) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
I am assuming this is from the May 16 1966 session at Abbey Road but possibly from the May 9 1966 session. I believe the French horn solo was recorded at the final session on the 19th.
360 Yellow Submarine (Take 4 Before Sound Effects) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded May 26 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
361 Yellow Submarine (Highlighted Sound Effects) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded June 1 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
362 I Want To Tell You (Speech And Take 4) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded June 2 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
363 Paperback Writer [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
364 Rain [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Paperback Writer single releases June 10 1966
365 Here, There And Everywhere (Take 6) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded June 14 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
366 Got To Get You Into My Life (Second Version Unnumbered Mix) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
367 Got To Get You Into My life (Second Version Take 8) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded June 17 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
368 She Said She Said (Take 15 Backing Track) [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Recorded June 21 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
369 Rock And Roll Music [Anthology 2]
370 She’s A Woman [Anthology 2]
Recorded June 30 1966 at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan
371 Taxman [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
372 Eleanor Rigby [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
373 I’m Only Sleeping [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
374 Love You To [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
375 Here, There And Everywhere [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
376 Yellow Submarine [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
377 She Said She Said [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
378 Good Day Sunshine [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
379 And Your Bird Can Sing [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
380 For No One [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
381 Doctor Robert [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
382 I Want To Tell You [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
383 Got To Get You Into My Life [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
384 Tomorrow Never Knows [Revolver (Super Deluxe)]
Revolver releases August 5 1966 along with Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine as a double A Sided single.
385 Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
386 Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1) [Anthology 2]
387 Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 4) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded November 24 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
388 Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded November 29 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
389 When I’m 64 (Take 2) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded December 6 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
390 Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7 And Edit) [Anthology 2]
391 Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
I believe the edit was done and take 26 was recorded December 8 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
392 Strawberry Fields Forever (Demo Sequence) [Anthology 2]
The final edit for the song was done on December 22 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
393 Penny Lane (Take 6) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded December 29 1966 at Abbey Road Studios
1967
394 Penny Lane (Vocal Overdubs And Speech) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded January 10 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
395 Penny Lane (Alternate Mix) [Anthology 2]
Likely created January 12 1967 at a later overdubbing session.
396 A Day In The Life (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
397 A Day In The Life (Take 2) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
A Day In The Life began recording January 19 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
398 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
399 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9 And Speech) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded February 1 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
400 Good Morning Good Morning (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
401 Good Morning Good Morning (Take 8) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded February 8 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
402 Fixing A Hole (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
403 Fixing A Hole (Speech & Take 3) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded February 9 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
404 A Day In The Life (Orchestra Overdub) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
405 A Day In The Life (Takes 1, 2, 6 & Orchestra) [Anthology 2]
406 A Day In The Life (Hummed Last Chord) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded February 10 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
407 Strawberry Fields Forever [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
408 Penny Lane [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane release as a double A Sided single February 13 1967
409 Only A Northern Song (Takes 3 & 12) [Anthology 2]
Recorded February 14 1967 at Abbey Road Studios. I do not believe these takes include the overdubs done on April 20th but would be interested in hearing from someone that knows more.
410 Good Morning Good Morning (Take 8 With Overdubs) [Anthology 2]
Recorded February 16 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
411 Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! (Speech Before Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
412 Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite! (Takes 1 & 2) [Anthology 2]
Recorded February 17 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
413 Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! (Take 7) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
414 Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! (Take 7) [Anthology 2]
Recorded February 20 1967 these are duplicates but with different mixing and mastering
415 A Day In The Life (The Last Chord) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded February 22 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
416 Lovely Rita (Speech & Take 9) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded February 24 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
417 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded February 28 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
418 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Speech, False Start & Take 5) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
419 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Takes 6, 7 & 8) [Anthology 2]
Recorded March 2 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
420 Getting Better (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded March 9 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
421 Getting Better (Take 12) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Likely recorded March 10 1967 following John Lennon’s LSD incident the previous day, but possibly both recorded on the 9th.
422 Within You Without You (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
423 Within You Without You (George Coaching The Musicians) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded March 15 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
424 She’s Leaving Home (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
425 She’s Leaving Home (Take 6) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded March 17 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
426 Within You Without You (Instrumental) [Anthology 2]
This version contains overdubs that were done on March 22 1967, but it’s possible this is based off the mix created April 3rd but it does not feature the sound effects overdubbed at that session so I’ve placed it here.
427 With A Little Help From My Friends (Take 1) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded March 29 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
428 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Take 5) [Anthology 2]
429 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Speech & Take 8) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Recorded April 1 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
430 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (Extended Stereo Mix) [Anthology 2]
Recorded May 17 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
431 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
432 With A Little Help From My Friends [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
433 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
434 Getting Better [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
435 Fixing A Hole [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
436 She’s Leaving Home [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
437 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
438 Within You Without You [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
439 When I’m Sixty-Four [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
440 Lovely Rita [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
441 Good Morning Good Morning [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
442 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
443 A Day In The Life [Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Super Deluxe Edition)]
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP releases May 29 1967
444 All You Need Is Love [1 2015 Remaster]
445 Baby, You’re A Rich Man [Magical Mystery Tour 2009 Remaster]
All You Need Is Love single releases July 7 1967
446 I Am The Walrus (Take 16) [Anthology 2]
Recorded September 5 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
447 The Fool On The Hill (Demo) [Anthology 2]
Recorded September 6 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
448 Your Mother Should Know (Take 27) [Anthology 2]
Recorded September 16 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
449 The Fool On The Hill (Take 4) [Anthology 2]
Recorded September 25 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
450 Hello Goodbye (Take 16) [Anthology 2]
Recorded October 19 1967 at Abbey Road Studios
451 Hello Goodbye [1 2015 Remaster]
452 I Am The Walrus [The Beatles 1967-1970 2023 Mix]
453 Magical Mystery Tour [The Beatles 1967-1970 2023 Mix]
454 The Fool On The Hill [The Beatles 1967-1970 2023 Mix]
455 Flying [Magical Mystery Tour 2009 Remaster]
456 Blue Jay Way [Magical Mystery Tour 2009 Remaster]
457 Your Mother Should Know [Magical Mystery Tour 2009 Remaster]
Magical Mystery Tour releases November 27 1967 in the US before the UK EP.
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2024.05.28 00:23 Redeyes222222 Do most people have a negative view on competitive paintball?

I really love paintball, and seeing the types of negativity in these comments always makes me sad. It specifically seems to be these Youtube shorts, where everyone seems to clown on paintball as a sport.
Here is an example of one of the videos. Just take a look at the comments.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GMVgWiOX2fY
Regardless of your thoughts on the sports itself, I just found it strange that almost 90 percent of the comments seem to be people who clearly don't enjoy the content or see the value of it.
Why are videos of this niche getting recommended to groups of people who dislike this type of content anyways? I just find it interesting, as there are plenty of paintball themed videos where people are very positive, and ones like this. Youtube seems strange sometimes.
Do most people actually have this view of paintball as a sport? It's not perfect by any means, but this just feels wrong.
Edit: I know the missing reloads/paint is a common meme. Not really talking specifically about those ones.
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2024.05.28 00:22 embernickel Bingo Reviews 1/5 (Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Promise of the Flame, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Spinning Silver, The Infinite Arena)

Lonely Castle in the Mirror, by Mizuki Tsujimura
"Lonely Castle in the Mirror" is a genre-savvy portal fantasy about junior high students who get drawn into a mysterious castle when they're supposed to be in school. Kokoro had a terrible experience early in the school year that's made her terrified of facing her classmates, and develops some kind of (psychosomatic?) illness that prevents her from attending either the normal school or a special alternative school for students who need more support. Shortly after this, her bedroom mirror turns into a portal to the castle with six other students who are also not in school during the normal hours. The "Wolf Queen" in charge--an elementary school girl who enjoys allusions to "Little Red Riding Hood"--tells them all that there's a secret key in the castle that can grant one wish, and they have a year to find it and, potentially, use it. Also, if anyone is caught in the castle outside of the 9-5 school day timeframe, they'll all be eaten by a wolf.
So, these painfully shy students have the opportunity to make friends and have a non-terrifying experience with kids their own age, and they all enjoy bonding and playing video games and drinking tea together, and for the most part nobody cares about finding the key, because that would make the castle close and prematurely end their new friendship. For most of the book, the contrived quest stuff doesn't play into it. And then when it does, it kind of lampshades "oh yeah I have to do this on speedrun mode."
There are a lot of takes pointing out that books where "the magic goes away"/"everyone loses their memories"/"we just have to move on with our lives and pretend like the portal fantasy never happened" can be pretty messed up. In this book, however, I couldn't find myself relating to the characters because it felt like a perverse incentives situation. Yes, middle school is an emotionally volatile, turbulent, unpleasant environment full of many immature people. This is a pretty common experience, actually. Kokoro just can't handle it, and as a response, the infinitely patient teacher at the alternative school reassures her mother that she's battling really hard and it's not her fault, she just can't go to school, and then she gets to go through a portal into fantasy world with people who play video games and eat snacks all day...? I understand there's more to it than that, but something has to change about this situation because otherwise this really isn't the message you want to send. (Once we learn about the backgrounds and life situations of some of the other students, I can imagine how it was easier for people like Subaru and Aki to fall through the cracks, but it feels like, eg, Masamune and Ureshino's junior high situation should have had some kind of guidance counselor or adult in the room. The readers' guide in the back of the book describes Kokoro as a "futoko," and I understand this is more pervasive in Japan than elsewhere, but I have a hard time accepting that seventh graders staying home for months on end with no apparent homeschooling or tutoring gets such a shrug.)
The prose didn't really grab me, sometimes it felt awkward ("That day, Fuka apparently enjoyed the chocolates back home, for she faithfully reported to Kokoro that 'they were delicious.'") and there were a several parts with very. short. one. line. paragraphs.
Kokoro tried to convince herself that she hadn't been at home that day. Miori and the others had simply pounded on the door of an empty house, trampled over the patio, gone round and round over outside of the house. But nothing actually happened. Nothing at all. She never was about to be killed. And yet the next day, she said, "I have a stomachache." And she really did. It was no lie. And her mother chimed in: "You do look pale. Are you OK?" And that's when Kokoro stopped going to school.
A few paragraphs later:
Would she be able to protect herself?
The only place she could now go to freely from her bedroom was the castle.
If I'm in the castle, she started to think, then I'll be safe.
Only the castle beyond the mirror could offer her complete protection.
Girl, I know your mental health isn't the greatest, but we're talking about the place where people threatened you with being eaten alive by a wolf. ??? Sorry, my suspension of belief does not extend this far.
There's also a random red herring with a neighbor student whose father has an interest in researching fairy tales, and like, maybe that "real world" location/characters are related in some way to the portal world? No, it's just a fortuitous coincidence that helps Kokoro have access to more Western fairy tale info.
The good news is, about halfway through the characters start developing some genre-savviness and realizing what they have in common, and towards the end, things pick up significantly in terms of how and why some of the arbitrary fairy-tale logic came about. So it definitely sticks the landing in that way.
Bingo: Prologue/Epilogue, Author of Color, Book Club
Promise of the Flame, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
At the end of "Stewards of the Flame," to which this book is a sequel, our heroes Jesse, Carla, and Peter had hijacked a spaceship and jumped to an uninhabited planet to set up a colony where humans could develop psionic powers free from the medical bureaucracy of Undine. Jesse's hyperspace jump was rushed and not perfectly calculated, so in order to ensure their oxygen supply makes it all the way to planet Maclairn (named after their late founder), the Group had to confront their deepest fear and brave the stasis boxes that had been Chekhov-gunned several times in the last section. As the existence of the sequel implies, the protagonists and most of their comrades survive stasis. But while, in "Stewards," the hyperspace navigation "error"/imperfection sets up the Group's ultimate test, here it casts a long shadow as Jesse keeps wondering, "could we have picked a better landing site if I hadn't screwed it up?"
The early days on Maclairn are a struggle. The first part of the book is a recurring cycle of "should we do things this way or that way? Well, we came here to set up a society fully founded on mind powers, we pretty much have to commit to the bit or else what's the point." Repeat ad infinitum. Later, this broadens somewhat to "we have to have psi powers coexist with modern technology to fulfill Ian [Maclairn]'s dream, otherwise what's the point." There are clear parallels to (Engdahl's older trilogy) "Children of the Star"; that society represents the endpoint if they go down a path of giving up on modern technology--and the burdens of agrarian, high-population-growth societies fall disproportionately on women. If "Stewards" had motifs of baptism, this is more of an Exodus story, with the characters sulking about "why did you bring us out of Undine just to starve in the wilderness, at least there we had enough to eat." "My God, came Carla’s thought, we’re homesick! Homesick for Undine! I never admitted that to myself, it was so foolish, I’d wanted so much to leave . . . I guess I just pushed it down inside, into a place I didn’t dare go. . . ."
The consequences of the hyperspace jump being off are a minor tonal retcon/change in perspective on the events of the first book. A more significant one, to me, involves love triangle dynamics. In "Stewards," we learn that Carla and Peter both previously had spouses who died under the authoritarian Undine government. Fortunately, Jesse shows up just when Carla is ready to love again, and their relationship brings him into the Group and thus enables their escape from Undine. "Promise" adds that Peter has been silently pining for Carla all along, but needed Jesse's starship skills too much to say anything. We're told the Group's adult recruits skew slightly female, but that isn't represented among the main characters, and you're telling me that none of them are Peter's type? All three of them sigh and angst about "oh, we're such great friends, we can't let this love triangle come between us," and at times it feels like it's setting up for a polygamy plotline (they're all highly powerful telepaths, they can't keep secrets from each other!) And then it just...goes nowhere. As in the first book, I can accept that sex is probably great among telepaths; I can't buy that every single person has to have sex in order to fully level up their telepathic sensitivity!
The best parts of "Promise" involve the culture clashes between Jesse, who grew up on Earth; the rest of the adult Group members, from Undine; and the Maclairn-born generation. Undine's environment is so tightly regulated, they don't even have insects or lizards, so the planet's "collective unconsciousness" doesn't have a fear of creepy-crawlies; Jesse's initial revulsion risks "contaminating" the psyche until everyone faces their fear.
“Horror vids involving animal life aren’t permitted on colony worlds,” Peter told him. “Haven’t you ever wondered why starship libraries don’t contain any? Earth has always banned their export as a measure to protect extraterrestrial lifeforms. It’s one of the few government trade regulations I think is wise.” Of course, Jesse realized. The average Earth citizen’s reaction would have been to kill the crawlies—if possible, to exterminate them. That hadn’t occurred to anyone yesterday. And horror vids often portrayed even intelligent aliens as repulsive; what kind of precedent would that set if similar ones were ever encountered?
Traditionally, said the knowledgebase, small farmers had chopped chickens’ heads off with a hatchet. Wringing their necks was said to be more humane, but nobody wanted to experiment on live, squawking chickens despite the specific instructions provided. These warned that the hardest part, in the physical sense, would be catching a grown chicken in the first place—a fact soon borne out by experience, as chickens are not devoid of telepathic sensitivity and the pursuers were unconsciously broadcasting their intent to kill.
Kel, like many of the Group’s other children, had been slow in learning to talk. It had taken awhile before it dawned on the adults that this was because the kids’ telepathic bonds with their parents had been so strongly encouraged that they felt no need to communicate vocally. Speech could not be allowed to die out in a psi-based culture; it was essential not only to reading but to the framing and communication of complex ideas. Now, everyone realized that like the skills for volitional control of the body, telepathic conveyance of concepts, as distinguished from emotions, must wait until the kids were older.
On the other hand, the scope of "this is dangerous, but we must, to commit to the psionic bit" and "well, we've come through a lot of tough situations before, but this time really is the end...jk never mind we got out of it" got repetitive. There was one scene towards the end where it's like "okay, we're almost done, I can see how telepathy might be used to enable a permanent self-sacrifice...nope, we're still going, huh," and even though some of the resolutions were nice callbacks/tying up foreshadowing, it was still a lot.
Like in James P. Hogan's "Voyage to Yesteryear," the kids who were raised outside of Earth and Undine's prejudices are, overall, a great step forward for humankind, but there can be some values dissonance. In both cases, the desire for lots of population growth leads to a much lower age of consent than Earthlings are used to. Justified somewhat more in Maclairn's case; telepathy means almost everyone wouldn't fathom hurting each other and of course sex is consensual, as well as amazing. On the other hand, in both cases, there's no prison infrastructure; if someone is determined to be evil and is posing a grave threat to others, you just have to kill them. "Promise" gets a little more philosophical about the problem of evil--if it's not nature and it's not nurture, what causes it? Free will? Sure, but it seems as if some people are also evil from day one even if their DNA is just fine.
There are a couple shoutouts to Lord of the Rings and Star Trek that fit in nicely. I found "it's just like using the Force, you know, like in that old vid, Star Wars" to be more of a distraction. Similarly, Engdahl's commitment to showing her work ("in the twentieth century on Earth, you know, people experimented with remote viewing!") got to be a distraction. But the exploration of "okay, let's try a rain dance, even if it fails we're learning something and pushing knowledge forward" was a great use of the "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" trope, which is what I come to Engdahl for anyway.
Some people, like Peter, tend to believe in an afterlife; others, like Jesse, are more skeptical. Earth religions don't transfer well to other planets because the interstellar gap is too big for the collective unconsciousness to bridge. Despite this, characters use the word "God" (like in a telepathic context of "Carla . . . oh, God, Carla, answer me!") approximately 144 times. Do you have no one else's name to take in vain???
Criticisms aside, I do think that this is less heavy-handed than "Stewards" and at least as good a starting point!
Bingo: Dreams, Prologues/Epilogues, Self-Published, Survival. One prominent character acquires a physical disability midway through the story. Jesse and Peter's Criminal record on Undine is not very important (since the entire book is set on or around Maclairn), but it becomes more prominent in the last section.
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty
Once upon a time (1100s Indian Ocean) there was a notorious nakhudha (pirate captain) named Amina al-Sirafi. Ten years ago, she retired, and now she's a single mom with a bad knee and a leaky roof. However, a wealthy noblewoman who believes her granddaughter has been kidnapped by a Western European would-be sorcerer insists on having Amina rescue her, never mind Amina's own family responsibilities. So Amina has to put the band back together, staying one step ahead of the authorities while getting to the bottom of the mystery.
Amina and her crew are likable rogues. I found this easier to get into than Chakraborty's "City of Brass". That book focused more on a long-term conflict between two factions, neither of whom consistently seem like the "good guys"; maybe that's supposed to be sending a message about RL actually works, but I found it confusing at times. In contrast, the early sections of "Amina" are about tracking down individual allies, from a gay smuggler stuck in a prison in Aden, to a navigator and family man in Mogadishu, while researching the notorious Falco Palamenestra and speculating what he might be up to.
At first, Amina's Muslim identity comes through more in the ways characters talk, and some level of monster-fighting exorcism (like Catholicism in some horror movies), than actual practice. But gradually, we see more of how she's struggled to be a parent in her post-pirate life:
If the criminal past didn’t alert you, I have not always been a very good Muslim. Drinking and missing prayer were among my lesser sins, and if I tried to straighten myself up every year when Ramadan rolled around—a new life of piety easy to imagine while dazed with thirst and caught up in the communal joy of taraweeh—I typically lapsed into my usual behavior by the time the month of Shawwal had ended.
But then Marjana was born. And Asif was . . . lost. And if one of these events made me feel as though I had no right to ever call upon God again, the other filled with me a driving need I could not deny. So I keep my daily prayers, even if I feel unworthy the entire time.
To me, this rang true as a depiction of a complicated, realistic, person of faith.
This is a time and place that I knew very little about. For instance, one plotline involves the island of Socotra, an island off the coast of Somalia which is today part of Yemen. There are caves there with graffiti from sailors going back thousands of years, in Indian and Greek and Ethiopic scripts. This is a real place! I would not have been able to tell you anything about it before reading this book! So Chakraborty's vivid descriptions of places this, and of the diverse cultures and religious backgrounds of pirates who live and work alongside each other, is compelling. There's a danger in this as a reader, though, in that getting too caught up in the "worldbuilding" of the actual world can make it feel like its "foreignness" is what makes it speculative and fantastical, which is obviously inaccurate and beside the point. That's one reason why jumping in at the deep end with an honest-to-goodness sea monster in chapter one might have been a good choice, to remind us that there really are otherworldly things happening.
The themes of "rich people love to jerk poor people around" and "the male gaze sucks" are clear, but there's lots of quippy banter mixed in.
“That was you, was it not? The woman who poisoned the soldiers at the wali’s office, freed a crew of homicidal pirates, set a score of ships on fire, and fled the harbor in the middle of the night?” “I would never confirm such a thing and put you at risk of consorting with criminals. But it was two ships, not a score. I wouldn’t wish to encourage exaggeration.”
Sailing past its ancient breakwater—the stones said to have been set there by giants—you might feel as though you have entered a mythical port of magic from a sailor’s yarn. You would be sorely mistaken. Aden is where magic goes to be crushed by the muhtasib’s weights, and if wonder could be calculated, this city would require an ordinance taxing it.
“She knows you are a pirate?” “I am not a pirate,” Majed huffed. “I am a cartographer with a checkered past.” “Yes. A checkered past of piracy.”
The book contains a few chapters that are "in-universe documentation" or chronicles of the places and people in the main narrative. This is a trope I really enjoy at times. However, in this case, I didn't feel it added much, beyond underscoring the themes that "men feel threatened by powerful women, oh no."
The biggest issue for me was how all the diverse, sympathetic characters just kind of went along with developments that felt more reminiscent of 2020s Tumblr idiolect than 1100s Indian Ocean. How fortuitously convenient! (At least it got a Hugo nom.)
Smaller quibbles: the timeframe with Amina in her forties is appeSaling to the extent that it's a story about a working mother trying to follow her own dreams while also desperately missing her kid. But in order to make that work, the narrative sometimes withholds a lot of important information about the tragedies in Amina's past/her relationship with her child's father until it can be brought forward for dramatic effect, and it made me wonder what a story from the younger Amina's POV would look like without the artificial suspense problem.
More broadly, I felt like the second half's pace wasn't as crisp as the first--there's a dramatic near-death experience, then a bunch of fantastical creatures are introduced in quick succession as if to make up for the "worldbuilding via the actual world" stuff earlier, then we get a very contrived in-universe sequel hook, then we double back to a setting that had already been introduced. Whereas the first part was "we need to go to A to do B and then that gives us a clue that leads us to C."
Who wore it better?
“It is invalid!” I burst out. “Our nikah. It is not permissible for me to marry a non-Muslim.” Raksh frowned. “Is that why the man had me say all those words about God and prophets?” He returned to studying the contract. “Trust me, dear wife, I can be a vast number of things.” “But—but you are not a believer.” “Of course I am. Best to know the competition, yes?”
Compare "Alif the Unseen" (which is one of my favorites and I suspect I probably was harsh on "City of Brass" by comparison):
"But I told him I couldn't marry him even if I wanted to, because I can't marry an unbeliever. And he laughed and said he'd been a believer, 'for a the better part of a thousand years,' I believe were the exact words." "What?" said Alif. "Vikram? Vikram the madman who bites people?" "He might be those things," said the convert hastily, "but did you ever know him to do or say anything really blasphemous?" "I guess not."
Bingo: Alliterative Title, Criminals, Dreams, Reference Materials, Readalong! It's planned to be First in a Series but the sequels aren't out yet. (Statistics from last year just came out and this was the most popular book across all 2023 bingo cards, with ~200 reads!)
Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik
When I read "Uprooted" and griped about the implausible romance and/or reactive plot, people's reactions were "try Spinning Silver, it's an improvement in some of those ways." And yeah, it is! I was aware that Spinning Silver was set in the same world as Uprooted, ~1700s Eastern Europe but with some fantasy elements, and that it was based on Rumplestiltskin.
But it's a lot more than a simple retelling. "Spinning Silver" teases out the individual trope elements of Rumplestiltskin--a mercenary father trying to get his daughter to marry up, the dead mother looming over the plot, a woman given the impossible task of making gold out of other elements, terrible bargains, aloof and unknowable beings from the fae world, the power of knowing someone's true name, the horror of a mother trading her child to inhuman creatures--and blows them all up, turning them inside-out, and creating something original.
It also does a lot with POV. For the first chunk, we have two young women from a small town who go back and forth telling the stories of their business dealings. But as the book goes on, we start jumping into more and more people's heads, and everyone's voice is very different. Sometimes this can be used for dramatic irony; we hear what character A thinks of their interaction with B, then we jump back and tell the same scene from B's POV and what was going through their head is very different than what A assumes. Once in a while, this makes the plot drag--there's a couple of scenes towards the end where we can't have any suspense about "oh no, will they find what they're looking for" because we've just seen the corresponding scene from another POV, and it would have been more effective to rearrange them--but overall, things are propelled forward much more intriguingly than "Uprooted."
Our POV characters are:
So I said the romance was better than "Uprooted," in that we didn't have the implausible "elderly magician berates young woman all the time but also they can't keep their hands off each other." In "Spinning Silver," both {Miryem and the Staryk king} and {Irina and Mirnatius} are paired off without much say-so on anybody's part, it's being manipulated by magic/higher-ups. So the timeframe of the book is mostly them all learning how to tolerate each other, and the romance is kind of left to your imagination in the future era.
The Staryk magic is kind of like...you can see their roads briefly if they make incursions in the human world, but as soon as they've disappeared, you start forgetting them and it really takes effort to remember. This means that if someone, like Miryem, disappears into the Staryk world, she's forgotten almost immediately except for little irregularities that don't seem right. These depictions were well-done. (Except that I was trying to remember if the Staryk were the same as the [jerk, mundane human] aristocrats in "Uprooted." They're not. I think I was half-remembering "Marek," the creepy prince, instead of "Staryk," the winter elves.)
There's a cool liminal space that sets up back-and-forth "communication" between the human and Staryk realms, and again, the multiple POVs are a good framework for this. On the other hand, there are some things, like, why do the Staryk want human gold, that are kind of chalked up to "magic idk" and not completely spelled out; for some of the confrontations at the end, again, it's better not to worry too much about hard magic systems and just go with the vibes. There's also an earlier plot that definitely plays the trope of "the less the audience knows about the plan, the more likely it is to succeed" trope straight.
Especially early on, it can be a very bleak "everyone sucks here" setting. Wanda and Stepon's father is horrific. Irina's father is mercenary and sets her up with Mirnatius, a dandy who abuses animals for fun. Nobody in the village respects Miryem's family, and when she tries to reclaim what she's due, her parents are horrified. The Staryk raid the village and carry off women and demand impossible tasks. There's a lot of "I have my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it" coming from all sides. Even though the plot is moving forward, it's hard to feel like there's anything to root for.
But cracks of light shine through. Miryem's mother, and her mother, defy the "dead moms" trope, and are able to be loving parental figures to Wanda, Stepon, and their brother Sergey. Miryem's grandfather is wise and conscientious, warning her of the risks that some of her choices pose not only to their family but to the Vysnia Jewish community as a whole, but still recognizing she's mature enough to make her own choices. They even make use of a real-world Jewish blessing for the first blossoming of trees in the spring. Even when people are trying to be cold, sometimes they're just too human!
Bingo: Alliterative Title, Under the Surface (not for most of the plot, but there is a secret tunnel that gets use), Multi-POV (and how!)
The Infinite Arena (edited by Terry Carr)
Anthology of SF short stories about sports, stumbled upon while browsing a used bookstore. I like sports and the first one was based on "Casey at the Bat," so okay, sold.
It's from 1977, and the stories were originally published in the 40s-70s timeframe. The sex ratio among writers appears to be nine men, zero women, which is pretty "impressive" considering there are only seven stories. Three of them are installments from series that feature the same recurring character(s), so maybe that explains some of the...paucity? I don't want to say they're "flat" or "shallow" or anything, most of the contemporary "deep" stuff isn't to my taste either, but it feels like there's "no 'there' there" for several of these. In some cases, it's like, "we have to raise the stakes by involving gambling/someone's fate being on the line"; in others, it's looking for parallels between sports and other aspects of life (warfare? weird alien insects?) that provide the impetus for two plots to intertwine.
-Joy in Mudville (Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson)--very impressionable and earnest teddy-bear-like alien species imprints on humans, and immediately become obsessed with baseball. One of the aliens names himself Mighty Casey, but unfortunately, opponents can rattle him by reminding him of how "Casey at the Bat" turned out. Fortunately, what poetry can break, poetry can also fix...
"You untentacled mammal! raged Ush Karuza. "You sslimeless conformation of bored flesh!" Alex had long ago discovered that mankind rarely reacts to insults couched in nonhuman terms. It did not offend him at all to be told that he was slimeless.
-Bullard Reflects (Malcolm Jameson)--Dazzle Dart is a sport played by bouncing light rays around with reflective gear and aiming for a goal at the opponents' end. Like American football, one team is designated on offense at a time, and the other is on defense, but you can "intercept" and score from on defense. In Dazzle Dart, this is worth bonus points. Except instead of normal goals and "turnover" goals being worth one and two points respectively, it's twenty-five and fifty. And you thought Quidditch was silly. (This is from 1941.)
-The Body Builders (Keith Laumer)--the best of the stories, in my opinion, in that it predicts both technological advancement and the social changes that will ensue in a clever way.
So it's a little artificial maybe--but what about the Orggies, riding around in custom-built cars that are nothing but substitute personalities, wearing padded shoulders, contact lenses, hearing aids, false teeth, cosmetics, elevator shoes, rugs to cover their bald domes? If you're going to wear false eyelashes, why not false eyes? Instead of a nose bob, why not bob the whole face? At least a fellow wearing a Servo is honest about it, which is more than you can say for an Orggie doll in a foam-rubber bra--not that Julie needed any help in that department.
-The Great Kladnar Race (Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett)--bored humans on an alien planet try introducing something like horse races that they can bet on. However, the aliens' concepts of sports and competition and betting don't necessarily align with the humans'.
-Mr. Meek Plays Polo (Clifford D. Simak)--guy who has only seen one space polo game in his life somehow accidentally stumbles into being the "expert" space polo coach, oops. Also there are weird alien bugs that are great at computation (a little like "The Circle").
-Sunjammer (Arthur C. Clarke, whose name is spelled wrong on the front cover)--a solar flare interrupts a solar sailboat race. Felt timely given the storm of a few days ago! (I did not get to see the aurora, alas.)
-Run to Starlight (George R. R. Martin)--short and slow but extremely muscular aliens enter an American football league and crush everyone, metaphorically and literally. However, the aliens' concepts of sports and competition don't necessarily align with the humans'. Too bad he never wrote anything else ;)
Bingo: 5+ short stories.
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2024.05.28 00:20 LotLizard7676 Dear Emily Music Video Idea since you're shooting it soon

I have an idea on how to structure your music video. I'm going based off genius lyrics as it breaks your song into 4 parts, Verse 1, Chorus, Verse 2, and final Chorus. Have your music video themed around falling in love with a girl in your dreams while waking up to reality with nobody beside you.
https://genius.com/Jasontheween-dep-gai-lyrics
Verse 1
Chorus
Verse 2
Final Chorus
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2024.05.28 00:17 tomiee8970 Need laptop for law school

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