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“Raindrops in the Sun’s corona”: New adaptive optics shows stunning details of our star’s atmosphere

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun’s corona, revealing clearest images to date

The Sun’s corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued scientists due to its extreme temperatures, violent eruptions, and large prominences. However, turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere has caused image blur and hindered observations of the corona. A ground-breaking recent development by scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO), and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), is changing that by using adaptive optics to remove the blur.

As published in Nature Astronomy, this pioneering ‘coronal adaptive optics’ technology has produced the most astonishing, clearest images and videos of fine-structure in the corona to date. This development will open the door for deeper insights into the corona’s enigmatic behavior and the processes driving space weather.

Most Detailed Coronal Images to Date Revealed Funded by the NSF and installed at the 1.6-meter Goode Solar Telescope (GST), operated by NJIT’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California, “Cona”—the adaptive optics system responsible for these new images—compensates for the blur caused by air turbulence in the Earth’s atmosphere —similar to the bumpy air passengers feel during a flight.  “The turbulence in the air severely degrades images of objects in space, like our Sun, seen through our telescopes. But we can correct for that,” says Dirk Schmidt, NSO Adaptive Optics Scientist who led the development. 

Among the team’s remarkable observations is a movie of a quickly restructuring solar prominence unveiling fine, turbulent internal flows. Solar prominences are large, bright features, often appearing as arches or loops, extending outward from the Sun's surface. A second movie replays the rapid formation and collapse of a finely structured plasma stream. “These are by far the most detailed observations of this kind, showing features not previously observed, and it’s not quite clear what they are,” says Vasyl Yurchyshyn, co-author of the study and NJIT-CSTR research professor. “It is super exciting to build an instrument that shows us the Sun like never before,” Schmidt adds. A third movie shows fine strands of coronal rain—a phenomenon where cooling plasma condenses and falls back toward the Sun’s surface. “Raindrops in the Sun’s corona can be narrower than 20 kilometers,” NSO Astronomer Thomas Schad concludes from the most detailed images of coronal rain to date, “These findings offer new invaluable observational insight that is vital to test computer models of coronal processes.” Another movie shows the dramatic motion of a solar prominence being shaped by the Sun’s magnetism. A Breakthrough in Solar Adaptive Optics The corona is heated to millions of degrees–much hotter than the Sun’s surface–by mechanisms unknown to scientists. It is also home to dynamic phenomena of much cooler solar plasma that appears reddish-pink during eclipses. Scientists believe that resolving the structure and dynamics of the cooler plasma at small scales holds a key to answering the coronal heating mystery and improving our understanding of eruptions that eject plasma into space driving space weather—i.e., the conditions in Earth's near-space environment primarily influenced by the Sun's activity (e.g., solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and the solar wind) that can impact technology and systems on Earth and in space. The precision required demands large telescopes and adaptive optics systems like the one developed by this team. 

The GST system Cona uses a mirror that continuously reshapes itself 2,200 times per second to counteract the image degradation caused by turbulent air. “Adaptive optics is like a pumped-up autofocus and optical image stabilization in your smartphone camera, but correcting for the errors in the atmosphere rather than the user’s shaky hands,” says BBSO Optical Engineer and Chief Observer, Nicolas Gorceix.

Since the early 2000s, adaptive optics have been used in large solar telescopes to restore images of the Sun’s surface to their full potential, enabling telescopes to reach their theoretical diffraction limits—i.e., the theoretical maximum resolution of an optical system. These systems have since revolutionized observing the Sun’s surface, but until now, have not been useful for observations in the corona; and the resolution of features beyond the solar limb stagnated at an order of 1,000 kilometers or worse—levels achieved 80 years ago.  “The new coronal adaptive optics system closes this decades-old gap and delivers images of coronal features at 63 kilometers resolution—the theoretical limit of the 1.6-meter Goode Solar Telescope,” says Thomas Rimmele, NSO Chief Technologist who built the first operational adaptive optics for the Sun’s surface, and motivated the development. Implications for the Future Coronal adaptive optics is now available at the GST. “This technological advancement is a game-changer, there is a lot to discover when you boost your resolution by a factor of 10,” Schmidt says. The team now knows how to overcome the resolution limit imposed by the Earth’s lowest region of the atmosphere—i.e., the troposphere—on observations beyond the solar limb and is working to apply the technology at the 4-meter NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, built and operated by the NSO in Maui, Hawaiʻi. The world’s largest solar telescope would see even smaller details in the Sun’s atmosphere.

“This transformative technology, which is likely to be adopted at observatories world-wide, is poised to reshape ground-based solar astronomy,” says Philip R. Goode, distinguished research professor of physics at NJIT-CSTR and former director at BBSO, who co-authored the study. “With coronal adaptive optics now in operation, this marks the beginning of a new era in solar physics, promising many more discoveries in the years and decades to come.”

The paper describing this study, titled “Observations of fine coronal structures with high-order solar adaptive optics,” is now available in Nature Astronomy. 

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Electromagnetic Flow Meter Manufacturer - Fluido Sense Pvt Ltd

Your one-stop solution for flow measurement systems in India

Fluido Sense Pvt Ltd is a leading company for electromagnetic flow meter manufacturer in India. We specialize in offering high-quality and accurate flow measurement solutions for various industries like Diesel Generator Engine Fuel Consumption, Liquid Filling machine, Oil Refinery, Petroleum Products, Chemical Filling, Fuel Filling

What is a Electromagnetic Flow Meter?

Imagine an electronic device that keeps track of the amount of liquid flowing through a pipe. That is exactly what a flow meter delivers. It works as a liquid counter, similar to how a speedometer measures your car's speed.

Our Expertise: Electromagnetic Flow Meter

One of our main specialties is the electromagnetic flow meter. This type of meter uses electricity and magnetism to measure the flow of a liquid without any moving parts. This makes them ideal for a wide range of industries because they are less prone to wear and tear and can handle dirty liquids.

A Range of Flow Meter Solutions

We understand that every industry might have different needs for flow measurement. That's why we offer a variety of flow meters besides the electromagnetic ones:

Oval Gear Flow Meter: This type of meter uses oval-shaped gears to measure the flow of liquids. It's great for accurate measurement of clean and low-viscosity liquids like water, oil, and chemicals.

Fuel Consumption Meter: If you're looking to track how much fuel is being used by your generators or vehicles, this meter is for you. It helps you monitor fuel efficiency and manage costs.

Tri Gear Flow Meter: This meter uses three gears to measure the flow of liquids. It's particularly useful for high-viscosity liquids like paints, syrups, and resins. We also offer Tri Gear flow meters in larger sizes for high flow rate applications and special designs for handling harsh chemicals.

Flow Totalizer Batch Controller: This handy device not only measures the flow rate but also keeps track of the total amount of liquid that has passed through. It's perfect for controlling batch processes in industries like food and beverage production.

Tri Gear Chemical Flow Meter: Tri Gear Chemical Flow Meter is a powerful tool for accurately measuring the flow of harsh chemicals. Made with durable materials that resist corrosion, it can handle tough liquids like acids, solvents, and more. This meter uses a unique three-gear design to ensure precise measurement, even for viscous liquids.

Why Choose Fluido Sense Pvt Ltd?

We offer a wide range of flow meters to meet a variety of needs. Our flow meters are known for their precise measurements and dependable performance. We have a team of experts dedicated to providing you with the best flow measurement solutions. We value our customers and strive to provide excellent service and support.

Ready to Find the Perfect Flow Meter for Your Needs?

Visit our website at https://fluidosense.com/ to explore our entire range of flow meter products. You can also contact us directly at +919898958888 to speak with our team and discuss your specific flow measurement requirements.

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Invest Smarter: Why M3M Jewel Gurgaon is Your Next Commercial Real Estate Play

Gurgaon's commercial real estate market is booming - but here smart investment takes more than taking any project. This is the place where M3M Jewel Gurgaonseparates itself. This is not just another business place on MG Road; It is a careful curate retail and F&B Destination designed to give long -term value. For forward-penetrating investors, it is less about square foot and is actually more about achieving a place in the future ready-made investment.

More than just location: M3M Jewel's strategic edge

Yes, MG Road is a prized place in Sector 25. And yes, MG Road is just 350-550 meters from the metro station and just 2 minutes from cyber city. But the one who actually raises the M3M Jewel Gurgaon is how it takes advantage of these benefits.

Premium customer base in every direction

The M3M Jewel is surrounded by some of the most residential neighbourhoods in Gurgaon. Within the 8 -minute drive, Elite is a DLF Golf and Country Club, and over 5 lakh residents live in nearby premium houses. It is an ideal audience for luxury retail stores, petu restaurants and great dining outlets.

Easy to reach, hard to remember

With direct access to NH -8 and Golf Course Road, M3M Jewel Retail Spaces Gurgaon is incredibly connected -only within Gurgaon, but also in Delhi and other major areas. Such access makes it a destination, not just a convenient stop.

Why M3M Jewel's mixed-use locations are designed for long-term success

A lot of commercial projects try to offer everything - but M3M Jewel Gurgaondoes it with purpose. It is not just about filling the space; It is about the creation of a rich ecosystem where each element works together to create a long -term value.

Boutique luxury retail, redefined

From the lower ground to the second floor, the M3M Jewel Gurgaon is restarting luxury retail. 300 to 2700 square feet with boutique spaces.-It contains double-hit shops-it is clear that it is not your average purchasing complex. It is about attracting premium brands and high-end shoppers who are looking for more curate, Upskale experience. The discussion is real: more than 100 brands have already shown interest, and there is a strong east-hit activity.

F & b is a destination in itself

Food and drink is not just an ad-on-it is a central attraction. The third and fourth floors are dedicated to a two-tier food court and fine-dining spaces, which is the position of M3M Jewel as a true Pak destination. In today's market, restaurants and cafes can create or break a commercial project. And M3m Jewel Nails It.

Entertainment

A four-screen multiplex adds even more value. It is not only about entertainment - it is a traffic magnet. People come for films and live for shopping or cutting, increasing the footfall throughout the day, especially when other commercial spaces may slow down.

Premium office space -sold from first

Office locations on 5th to 7th floors are completely sold - a major sign of confidence with investors and businesses. It also means a stable flow of professionals working within the complex, which directly benefit retail and F&B outlets.

M3M Benefits: How M3M Jewel reduces risk and maximizes returns in commercial real estate

Let's face it - commercial real estate can be judged. There is a lot at stake. But with M3M Jewel, this risk has reduced significantly to a smart mix of your investment security and features designed to increase your returns.

12% assured returns up to OC - yes, during construction too

One of the standout benefits? Select the units - such as in the lower ground hyper market and multiplex, until the possession certificate (OC) is not implemented with a assured return of 12%. This means that you start earning from day one, while the project is still under construction. For many investors, this frequent cash flow is a major relief.

Troubles free retail with developer-related places

It is a total game-changer. For specific retail units, the M3M takes full responsibility to hire and manage the India space. From curating brands to covering 100% of fit-out capex, the developer ensures that you are "ready to hire" space without raising a finger. This is perfect for investors who want concrete returns without the general headache of management of commercial tenants.

Supported by a reliable name - M3M India

When you invest with M3M, you are partnered with one of the most reliable names in Gurgaon's real estate market. Their portfolio -M3M IFC, M3M Urbana, and M3M cornerwalks to meet landmark developments - tell about their commitment to speech, luxury and timely delivery. That reputation alone adds serious value to your investment.

Rare

The M3M Jewel Gurgaonis fully registered RERA which means that the project follows strict regulatory guidelines. For investors, which translates to Greater TR

Conclusion

M3M Jewel Gurgaon is not just one more commercial project on Gurgaon's real estate landscape. It is cleverly designed, fully located, and is designed to give strong returns to a professional managed property. With its unique focus on luxury retail and food and beverages experiences, M3M stands as a major option for Jewel investors. If you are looking for a safe place appreciating an investment supported by a reliable developer at a safe place, then M3M Jewel Retail Spaces Gurgaon is definitely worth your attention.

📄 Download the M3M Jewel brochure for floor plans and pricing.

📞 Call +91-78273 20485 to schedule a visit.

📍 Location: Sector 25, MG Road, Gurgaon—where the future unfolds.

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Diesel Flow Meter Manufacturers

Introduction

Fuel usage is the heartbeat of any operation that runs on diesel — whether it’s a truck fleet, a mining site, or a fuel station. Accurate diesel measurement isn't just about keeping records — it’s about saving money, reducing waste, and keeping operations efficient. That’s why Fluidyne’s diesel flow meter manufacturer are trusted across industries.

Introduction to Fluidyne

Overview of Fluidyne Control Systems

Fluidyne is a pioneering Indian manufacturer of high-precision fluid management systems. From flow meters to fuel automation, their solutions are engineered for industries that demand performance, durability, and accuracy.

Core Expertise in Fluid Measurement Technology

Backed by decades of experience, Fluidyne focuses on flow metering and dispensing systems for diesel, petrol, AdBlue, and other industrial fluids — catering to both small operators and large enterprises.

What is a Diesel Flow Meter?

A diesel flow meter is a device that measures the volume of diesel fuel passing through it, typically in liters or gallons. It's essential for accurate billing, inventory control, and efficiency monitoring.

Industries That Use Diesel Flow Meters

Transportation & Logistics

Mining & Construction

Oil & Gas

Agriculture & Marine

Why Choose Fluidyne Diesel Flow Meters?

Precision Engineering

Fluidyne meters offer ±0.5% or better accuracy, ensuring you measure every drop of diesel accurately — critical when dealing with high-value fuel.

Trusted by Major Sectors

Used by government utilities, transport fleets, and private oil retailers, Fluidyne's meters are built to meet industrial-grade standards.

Proven Track Record

With installations across India, Africa, and the Middle East, their meters have stood the test of time and terrain.

Types of Diesel Flow Meters by Fluidyne

Mechanical Diesel Flow Meters

Classic, reliable, and low-maintenance — these are ideal for remote areas and manual operations.

Digital Diesel Flow Meters

With backlit displays, real-time monitoring, and preset volume dispensing, these are suited for automated fueling stations.

Oval Gear Diesel Flow Meters

For high-viscosity diesel and accurate batching, oval gear meters deliver top-notch precision.

Electromagnetic Flow Meters

Though uncommon for diesel, Fluidyne also offers specialized magnetic meters for niche applications.

Comparison of Flow Meter Types

TypeAccuracyIdeal ForMaintenanceMechanical±1%Rural, Manual SitesLowDigital±0.5%Retail, IndustrialModerateOval Gear±0.2%Precision RefuelingLowElectromagnetic±0.3%Special FluidsModerate

Key Features of Fluidyne Diesel Flow Meters

Robust Metallic Construction for outdoor and harsh environments

LCD or LED Displays with totalizer and batch readings

Real-Time Data Integration with SCADA or ERP

Customizable Calibration Settings

Explosion-Proof Options Available

Applications Across Industries

Transport and Logistics

Manage every liter dispensed to trucks, reducing fuel theft and improving record accuracy.

Construction and Mining

Diesel usage in excavators and loaders is huge — Fluidyne meters help track it in real-time.

Fuel Depots and Retail Stations

Ensure regulatory compliance and accurate billing with commercial-grade meters.

Marine and Defense

From patrol boats to coastguard ships, accurate diesel metering is a mission-critical task.

Technological Innovations by Fluidyne

IoT Integration

Fluidyne meters can transmit data via cloud-based monitoring systems, allowing centralized fuel tracking.

Remote Monitoring via GSM/GPRS

Stay updated with SMS or web dashboards about diesel consumption and meter health.

Smart Dispensing Systems

Pre-program diesel volume to auto-shutoff after dispensing — ideal for fuel depots and bunkering stations.

Manufacturing Excellence

In-House Design and Calibration

All meters are designed and tested in-house using master calibrators and gravimetric testing systems.

ISO Certifications and Quality Assurance

Fluidyne adheres to ISO 9001 standards, ensuring consistency in quality and performance.

Custom Solutions

From dual-line outputs to multi-nozzle systems, Fluidyne designs solutions around your needs.

How to Select the Right Diesel Flow Meter

Determine Flow Rate – Choose a meter that suits your pump capacity.

Fuel Type and Viscosity – Diesel is medium-viscosity; choose suitable materials.

Installation Space – Inline, vertical, or wall-mounted options available.

Automation Needs – Go digital if you need data integration.

Maintenance and Support

Simple Cleaning and Calibration

Annual Service Contracts Available

24/7 Technical Support via phone or onsite visits

Quick Access to Spares and Accessories

Competitive Advantages

Designed & Made in India

Global Export Standards

Cost-effective Compared to Imports

Strong After-Sales Network

Real-World Use Case

A major logistics fleet operator in Maharashtra installed Fluidyne diesel meters across their depots. Result?

30% drop in unaccounted diesel

15% savings on overall fuel budget

Instant access to reports for fleet managers

Comparison with Other Diesel Flow Meter Brands

BrandAccuracyCostSupportCountryFluidyne±0.5%$$India-WideIndiaTCS±0.2%$$$$LimitedUSAPIUSI±1.0%$$$ModerateItalyFill-Rite±1.0%$$$LowUSA

Fluidyne strikes the perfect balance between performance, price, and local support.

Conclusion

When it comes to diesel flow measurement, accuracy isn't optional — it’s essential. With Fluidyne’s advanced diesel flow meters, you're not just measuring fuel — you're measuring efficiency, savings, and control. Whether you manage a fleet, run a construction site, or operate a fuel depot, Fluidyne is your go-to partner for dependable, high-performance flow metering.

FAQs

1. Are Fluidyne diesel flow meters explosion-proof? Yes, models with ATEX and flameproof ratings are available for hazardous zones.

2. Can they handle high flow diesel pumps? Absolutely. Fluidyne meters are available for flows up to 300 LPM or more.

3. Are they approved for commercial fuel dispensing? Yes, they comply with Weights & Measures Department standards where applicable.

4. What is the warranty period? Typically, 12 months, with extended warranty plans available.

5. Can I get a digital + mechanical combo? Yes, Fluidyne offers hybrid models with mechanical totalizers and digital readouts.

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Digital Water Flow Meters: How They Work and Their Benefits

Introduction

Water is one of the most essential resources for life and industry, making efficient water management a top priority. The evolution of water metering technology has significantly improved the way water consumption is measured and monitored. Traditional mechanical meters have been in use for decades, but with advancements in technology, Digital Water Flow Meter India has emerged as a more efficient, accurate, and reliable solution. These meters offer numerous advantages, including real-time monitoring, increased durability, and minimal maintenance, making them an ideal choice for various industries and applications.

Understanding Digital Water Flow Meters

A Digital Water Flow Meter India is an advanced instrument designed to measure the volume of water flowing through a pipeline. Unlike mechanical flow meters, which rely on moving parts, digital flow meters utilize electronic sensors and advanced measurement techniques to determine the flow rate with high precision. These meters are commonly used in industrial, commercial, and residential applications where accurate water measurement is crucial for resource management and billing.

How Digital Water Flow Meters Work

Digital water flow meters function using various measurement techniques, each suited to different applications. The most commonly used types include:

Ultrasonic Flow Meters: These meters use ultrasonic sound waves to measure the velocity of water flow. Sensors placed externally on the pipe send and receive sound pulses, and the time difference in pulse travel is used to calculate the flow rate. Ultrasonic meters are highly accurate, non-invasive, and ideal for applications where direct contact with the fluid is not desired.

Electromagnetic Flow Meters: Based on Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction, these meters generate a magnetic field through which the water flows. As conductive water moves through the field, it creates a voltage proportional to its velocity, which is then converted into a flow rate reading. These meters are widely used in water treatment plants, industrial processes, and municipal water supply systems.

Turbine Flow Meters: These have a small turbine inside the pipe that spins as water flows through it. The rotation speed of the turbine is directly proportional to the flow rate, and a sensor records the number of rotations to determine the total volume of water passing through the meter. Turbine meters are commonly used in irrigation, water distribution systems, and industrial applications.

Thermal Mass Flow Meters: These meters measure the rate of heat dissipation in the fluid to calculate the flow rate. They are especially useful for measuring low flow rates in water distribution systems.

Advantages of Digital Water Flow Meters

The adoption of Digital Water Flow Meter India offers several benefits over traditional mechanical meters. Some key advantages include:

High Accuracy and Precision: Digital meters eliminate human errors and mechanical inaccuracies, ensuring reliable measurement of water consumption.

Real-time Data Monitoring: Many digital meters are equipped with IoT connectivity, allowing users to track water usage remotely via mobile apps or web dashboards.

Reduced Maintenance Costs: Digital meters have fewer moving parts, leading to minimal wear and tear, which significantly reduces maintenance expenses.

Leak Detection and Alerts: Advanced digital flow meters can detect anomalies in water flow, helping to identify leaks before they cause significant damage or water wastage.

Remote Accessibility: With cloud-based data storage and analytics, users can monitor water usage trends and receive alerts from anywhere, improving water management efficiency.

Sustainability and Water Conservation: By providing accurate data and minimizing wastage, digital water flow meters contribute to effective water conservation strategies.

Durability and Longevity: Unlike traditional mechanical meters, digital water flow meters are resistant to wear and tear, ensuring a longer lifespan and reliable operation.

Applications of Digital Water Flow Meters

Due to their precision, durability, and ability to integrate with modern smart systems, Digital Water Flow Meter India is widely used across various sectors, including:

Industrial Manufacturing: Helps monitor and control water usage in manufacturing processes, optimizing operational efficiency.

Municipal Water Supply: Essential for monitoring and managing water distribution networks, ensuring efficient water allocation.

Agriculture and Irrigation: Ensures accurate measurement of water used in irrigation systems, preventing overuse and promoting sustainable farming practices.

Residential and Commercial Buildings: Used for precise water billing and leak detection in homes, apartments, and commercial spaces.

Wastewater Treatment Plants: Helps track the flow of treated and untreated water, improving operational efficiency and compliance with regulations.

Food and Beverage Industry: Ensures accurate water measurement in production processes, reducing waste and improving sustainability efforts.

The Future of Digital Water Flow Meters

With the growing emphasis on water conservation and smart resource management, the demand for Digital Water Flow Meter India is expected to rise. Emerging trends in this industry include:

Integration with Smart Grids: Digital water flow meters are becoming a key component in smart water networks, enabling automated leak detection and demand forecasting.

AI and Data Analytics: Advanced data analytics and machine learning are enhancing the predictive capabilities of digital meters, making them more efficient in resource management.

Wireless and IoT-enabled Solutions: The development of wireless digital meters with remote monitoring capabilities is revolutionizing water management by providing real-time insights and predictive maintenance alerts.

Sustainability Initiatives: Governments and industries are adopting digital water flow meters as part of their sustainability goals, aiming to reduce water waste and promote efficient usage.

Conclusion

As industries, municipalities, and households increasingly focus on smart water management solutions, the adoption of Digital Water Flow Meter India continues to expand. Companies like Atlantech are at the forefront of manufacturing high-quality digital water flow meters that provide unparalleled accuracy, durability, and efficiency. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, Atlantech ensures that its flow meters cater to the diverse needs of different industries, contributing to water conservation and cost-effective resource management. By investing in digital water flow meters from Atlantech, businesses and homeowners can take a significant step toward sustainable water usage, reduced operational costs, and improved efficiency in water management systems.

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An In-Depth Look at the Growth of Global Flow Meter Market

The global flow meter market was valued at USD 10.02 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5% from 2024 to 2030. In 2020, the market's shipment size reached 53,78,749 units. The growth of the market is expected to be driven by the increasing demand for flow rate measurement technologies, particularly in industries such as oil & gas (O&G) management, where precise flow measurement is critical for optimizing operations. Additionally, the adoption of advanced measurement technologies is anticipated to extend to other sectors, such as water and wastewater management, power generation, and the pulp and paper industry.

A significant factor contributing to this market growth is the expanding need for flow meters in O&G and chemical and petroleum refinery sectors, particularly following the recent discovery of shale gas reserves in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. The growth of these reserves has spurred demand for accurate flow measurement systems to manage and monitor the flow of gas and other liquids effectively.

Furthermore, rapid urbanization in developing countries, particularly across the Asia Pacific, is driving the need for adequate water and wastewater management and power generation. As cities and populations grow, the need for more sophisticated infrastructure, including effective monitoring of fluid systems, is increasing. Consequently, the demand for flow meters in water and wastewater applications is expected to remain strong in this region.

Gather more insights about the market drivers, restrains and growth of the Flow Meter Market

Product Insights

The magnetic flowmeter segment accounted for the largest revenue share of approximately 26.17% of the total flow meter market in 2023. Magnetic flow meters are favored in many industries for their ability to measure flow accurately and reliably without having any moving parts, which makes them suitable for measuring conductive liquids, including water, chemicals, and slurries. Magnetic flow meters have been further categorized into wired and wireless versions, with the wireless options gaining traction due to their ease of installation and flexibility in remote monitoring applications.

The ultrasonic flowmeter segment is expected to witness a high growth rate, with a CAGR exceeding 7.3% from 2024 to 2030. Ultrasonic flow meters are particularly valuable in applications where non-invasive measurements are needed, and they are increasingly being integrated with Internet of Things (IoT) technology to provide smart flow rate measurement solutions. This integration of IoT allows for real-time data collection, remote monitoring, and more precise control, all of which contribute to the growth of ultrasonic flowmeters in industries such as water treatment, oil and gas, and power generation.

While differential pressure (DP) and positive displacement (PD) flowmeters remain conventional choices for flow rate measurement in certain applications, the magnetic flowmeter is gaining prominence, particularly in industries like pulp and paper, petrochemicals, food and beverage, and chemicals and petroleum refining. This is due to the magnetic flowmeter's reliability, high accuracy, and cost-effectiveness. In these sectors, where flow measurement of liquids is often required under harsh or challenging conditions, magnetic flow meters provide a robust solution.

The magnetic flowmeter segment is expected to capture an even larger share of the market through 2030, thanks in part to the continued product innovations in this category. Notable innovations include two-wire magnetic flow meters and clamp-on magnetic meters, as well as wireless magmeters, which offer further flexibility and convenience in applications like power generation, oil and gas, and water and wastewater management. These innovations are expected to drive the adoption of magnetic flow meters across various sectors, enhancing their market dominance and contributing to the overall growth of the flow meter market.

Order a free sample PDF of the Flow Meter Market Intelligence Study, published by Grand View Research.

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What are the most effective methods for managing power factor in your system?

`What's Power Factor?

In an energy management system, the power factor gauges the efficiency of electrical power usage. It is defined as the ratio of real power to apparent power (the total power supplied). A high power factor signifies efficient use of electrical power, which minimizes energy losses and enhances system performance.

Beer is active power (kW)—the useful power, or the liquid beer, is the energy that is doing work. This is the part you want.

Foam is reactive power (kVAR)—the foam is wasted power or lost power. It’s the energy being produced that isn't doing any work, such as the production of heat or vibration.

The mug is apparent power (kVA)—the mug is the demand power, or the power being delivered by the utility.

Understanding Low Power Factor?

A low power factor is primarily caused by inductive loads, including motors, transformers, and lighting ballasts, which draw reactive power. This reactive power is essential for generating and sustaining magnetic fields but does not contribute to useful work, increasing apparent power and consequently lowering the power factor. Moreover, harmonics from nonlinear loads, such as electronic devices and variable frequency drives, further reduce the power factor by introducing additional reactive power.

Benefits of High Power Factor

A high power factor decreases the apparent power and current drawn from the source, which can lower energy bills as some utilities impose charges for low power factor or provide incentives for maintaining a high power factor. It enhances voltage regulation and stability, increases system capacity and efficiency by reducing losses and heating, and lessens the effects of harmonics, thereby improving overall power quality.Benefits of Power Factor

Measuring Power Factor

Power factor is measured using a power meter or analyzer that monitors real, reactive, and apparent power, or with a power factor meter for direct readings. Measurements should be taken at various points in the system and at different times to account for load variations.

Correcting Low Power Factor

The most effective way to correct a low power factor is by installing power factor correction devices such as capacitors or synchronous condensers. These devices provide reactive power locally, reducing the flow of reactive power and improving the power factor. Depending on the load characteristics and desired power factor levels, they can be installed centrally or near specific inductive loads.

Controlling Power Factor Correction Devices

Power factor controllers, which can be either manual or automatic, are used to manage correction devices. Manual controllers rely on human adjustments based on meter readings, whereas automatic controllers use sensors and microprocessors to adjust devices. Automatic controllers can also be programmed to optimize performance under varying load conditions.

Optimizing Power Factor Management

Optimizing power factor management requires balancing cost, performance, maintenance, and safety. Essential practices include regular evaluation and adjustment, proper maintenance to prevent overloading and overheating, and compliance with utility codes and standards. This comprehensive approach ensures improved efficiency, stability, and cost-effectiveness of your electrical system.

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Avião Cessna 340A – Ano 1978 – 3.919 H.T.

Preço: US$335,000.00

*Ex-works;

Valor de venda + impostos para nacionalização;

Airframe

Total Time: 3,919

Fuel Capacity Volume: 183 gal

Auxiliary Fuel Tank: Yes

Complete Logs: Yes

Spoilers: Yes

Airframe Notes: 3919 Total Hours* Since New *Hours as of October 23, 2023

Engine 1

Engine 1 Make/Model: CONTINENTAL TSIO520NB

Engine 1 Horsepower: 335 HP

Engine 1 Time: 631 SMOH

Engine 1 TBO; 1,600

Aftermarket Engine 1 STC: Yes

Engine 1 Notes:

– 631 Hours* Since RAM VII Conversion – Continental TSIO520-NB 335 HP 1600 TBO – GAMI Fuel Injectors

*Hours as of October 23, 2023

Engine 2

Engine 2 Make/Model: CONTINENTAL TSIO520NB

Engine 2 Horsepower: 335 HP

Engine 2 Time: 631 SMOH

Engine 2 TBO: 1,600

Aftermarket Engine 2 STC: Yes

Engine 2 Notes:

-631 Hours* Since RAM VII Conversion -Continental TSIO520-NB 335 HP 1600 TBO -GAMI Fuel Injectors

*Hours as of October 23, 2023

Props

Prop 1 Manufacturer: MCCAULEY

Prop 1 Time: 631 SNEW

Prop 2 Manufacturer: MCCAULEY

Prop 2 Time: 631 SNEW

Number of Blades: 3

Props Sync: Yes

Prop Notes:

-631/631 Hours* Since New -McCauley 76″ Three Blade Heated Propellers -Propeller Synchrophaser

*Hours as of October 23, 2023

Modifications/Conversions

Dual Aft Body Strakes: Yes

Vortex Generators: Yes

Modifications/Conversions:

-RAM VII

-Spoilers, Vortex Generators, AFT Fuselage Strakes

Avionics

Flight Deck Manufacturer/Model: GARMIN

ADS-B

Yaw Damper

Engine Monitor

Avionics/Radios

King KMA 24 Audio Panel w/Five Place NAT Intervox II Intercom

Pilot & Copilot Bose Connection

Aspen 1000 Evolution Electronic Flight Display

Garmin 530W COM/NAV/GPS/MAP — Displays on Aspen 1000

King KX155A NAV/Com (#2) Displays on CDI w/GS

Cessna 400 DME (INOP)

Avidyne EX 500 Multi-Function Displays —

Garmin GTX 345 Transponder – ADS-B In & Out – Traffic, WX Data

Garmin 496 Panel Mounted GPS

Cessna 400B Autopilot/FLT Director. Yaw Damper

Pilot’s Back-Up True Airspeed, ADI, Elec. Altimeter, Turn & Slip, V/S

Pilot’s Stand-By Electric ADI

Copilot’s Inst: A/S, ADI, Baro Altimeter, V/S, DG

400 MHz Emergency Location Transmitter

Additional Equipment

Pressurized: Yes

Oxygen System: Yes

A/C: Yes

183 Gallon Fuel System, Aux Pump Mod, Shadin Fuel Flow

JPI EDM 760 Graphic Engine Monitor

Spoilers, Vortex Generators, AFT Fuselage Strakes

11.0 CU Ft. Oxygen Systems

Air Conditioning

Certified for Flight Into Known Icing: Full DeIce Boots, Heated Propellers, Fuselage Ice

Protection Plates, Pilot’s Windshield Hot Plate (INOP), Heated Pitot/Static/Stall, 100 Amp

Alternators, Ice Detection Light,

Nacelle Fire Detection & Extinguishing System

Davtron M811B Digital Clock, Hour Meter, Flat Card Magnetic Compass

Strobes, Beacon, Dual Landing Lights, Taxi Light, LED Cowl Lights

Upper & Lower Cabin Door Extenders

Exterior

Year Painted: 1996

Exterior Notes – Allover White w/Burgundy & Gray Accents – Polished Spinners

Interior

Year Interior: 2009

Number of Seats: 6

Configuration: Passenger

Interior Notes – Six Total Seats: Two Cockpit, Four Cabin Club – Seats — Gray Leather, Pilot & Copilot Seat w/Gray Sheepskin, Gray Seat Belts & Pilot & Copilot Shoulder Harnesses – Blue Carpet, Side Panels — Gray Fabric & Leather, – Gray Suede Headliner, Beige Fabric Curtains, Rosen Sun Visors, Cockpit Floor Scuff Plates, – Executive Table, Relief Tube

Inspection Status

Annual Due August 31, 2024. No Damage History. All Logs. At www.jerrytemple.net see Buyer Services/Support to learn about JTA’s support for all types of Twin Cessna Buyers.

Airworthy: Yes

A aeronave acima é de terceiros, os dados estão sujeitos a verificação.

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“All the things about you that matter” - Arthur, Carnival, Joker x Reader // comfort, angst

Summary: Arthur doesn’t allow himself to experience his own pain and doesn’t allow you to enter his world. You try to reach him in his deepest thoughts so you can teach him to take care of his own feelings.

Warnings: heavy thoughts, mention of childhood trauma, crying, self-destructive coping mechanisms, mental abuse

Word count: 6574

A/N: I have this fic in my mind since October, it jumped into my mind the second after watched Joker but it took me a lot of time to write it because it was just too much for me and I wasn’t ready, but finally I write it and I cried a lot during the process. I put all of myself in this fic and I throw up all my feelings for Arthur. For a better atmosphere, I was listening to this while writing.

A/N: English is not my first language. I’ve written this fic in my native language, italian, and then I translated it in english, so I apologize for any typos or grammar errors, I’m still learning.

Gotham that night seemed darker than usual, you thought, along the way you were walking home with the only desire of falling into Arthur’s arms and staying until the day after in the only place in Gotham where you seemed to breathe: his arms.

You traveled the streets of Gotham with a swift pace, eager to his contact. You went out to work that morning and only since then have you not seen him, but even just a few hours away from him had always seemed to you much more, every part of your body quivered with his presence and it seemed to you that your body no longer had a center of gravity, so strong was the lack you felt for Arthur. Because you both were like that, you always have been. You were always insatiable to each other, the desire you had for him was so strong that you often missed him even while you were in his arms. In the moments when you were apart Arthur kept you company as if it were an invisible shadow hidden around you, It seemed so real that sometimes you might even be surprised to feel a strange pressure on your body, as if Arthur was actually caressing you from afar, and since your relationship began you felt his presence everywhere, in your heart.

There was no room in you that Arthur could not occupy.

You watched the city as you walked thinking about the love of your life. You left the building where you worked when the sunset was still coloring the city. The time of sunset was the only time in which Gotham seemed to be almost a beautiful place to live and was pleasant to look at. As you walked the city was tinged with a vivid red that reflected pink shadows between the buildings and the strangers you met, in the atmosphere was a golden color that reminded you of the same color of amber reflections in Arthur’s hair when in the morning you woke up with the sun that illuminated his still sleeping face; at that moment, as you were making your way through the streets of a city that at sunset looked totally different from the city you were used to at other times, you felt the light warmth on your skin of a sun that was going away again as if it wanted to say goodbye, see you tomorrow, to the next sunset.

You were almost near the long staircase that led you home, the sunset was getting lost along the horizon and Gotham was about to return to the dark city it used to be. You always hated that stair, especially on days when you were more tired than usual, like that day, when every step seemed to hold your feet tight in a fist and wouldn’t let you walk.

You hated it, and yet somehow you’d always found it poetic that your home was beyond such a long, endless staircase. It was as if your love nest was above a gloomy city populated by even darker people. It was as if you were above the whole world and that staircase separated you and your love from a world that had never been kind, especially with Arthur. You hated that staircase, but you loved it because every time you walked down that stair it meant you were going back to your fold where you were sure you would have found Arthur, waiting for you.

By then you had already started to walk that stair when the last lights of the sunset had totally abandoned the city and Gotham had started to be again that ghost-haunted city that had always been. It was no longer illuminated by the otherworldly colors of sunset. The buildings had started to look dark again and they looked like ghosts of a city that in the past, you were sure, hadn’t been so gloomy, and the few passersby that you met on the way home seemed empty bodies without a heart, black figures who walked every day the same roads as if they were robots who no longer had desires left in their soul. A soul that you were sure they didn’t even have. Except for your Arthur. You can feel his soul in the love you feel for him and in the way he loves you, it is so palpable that at night you feel it resting on you as if it were another blanket that wants to protect you from nightmares. Because Arthur worries about you and takes care of your every need even when he sleeps and his mind is not vigilant, he doesn’t need to be awake to know that you need him even in the nights when you are far, far away in a world made of dreams where he can’t reach you.

You were so eager to come back home and to embrace him again that as soon as the entrance door was in front of your eyes you took the keys so fast that they fell to the ground, several times, so much was the almost painful lack you had of him. On the fourth attempt, when you managed to calm yourself and dominate your body eager to see him, you inserted the keys into the lock slowly, with no little difficulties in doing so, and in a second you were finally at home.

It didn’t take you long to understand that something was going on in the air and that Arthur wasn’t well. You understood it from the way in which every window of the house was closed and the lights off, the house was illuminated only by the reflection of a moon that was now high enough in the sky and allowed you to distinguish the furnitures. You understood this from the fact that Arthur hadn’t run towards you as he did every time you came home after him, picking up the pieces of you which that workday had broken and hugging you to put them back together, one by one. Arthur assembled your broken soul every day, and every time you came home after him he ran into your lips as soon as he heard the door open, not even giving you time to put down your coat. He felt the same painful lack that you felt of him, none of you could stay away from the other and this was what you shouted at each other in your kisses and in your hugs.

And how could this not be so? You were no longer the people you were before meeting, who wandered the world in search of a destiny, in search of something that, you both were sure, had been created just for you. At the exact moment when you both met, you understood that what you knew was waiting for you was the lips of the other, the love of the other, and that the person who was in front of you was your destiny. The exact moment you met, you both stopped being two distinct bodies and you became a single soul hidden in two bodies that sometimes have to be apart: for work, for tasks, because life is just not yet used to two souls who have known how to find each other, so rarely does happen such a unique thing, and in those moments you both feel that you aren’t whole. Until one of the two of you come back home, and then you both go back to being complete with that piece that you have always missed in the time you were apart.

You threw your coat and your bag on the floor not even interested in which corner of the house they had fallen in and went in search of Arthur. You found him sitting on the couch of the living room, his eyes fixed on the TV off looking at an indefinite point on a completely black screen. That television didn’t show any programs, but you knew that what Arthur was watching on that screen were his invisible thoughts, which you knew were flowing through his mind like infectious rockets that erased every vital spark in him. His hands were closed in a fist so tight that you could clearly see the knuckles of his hand reddened and the nails entered his flesh, even if you had just crossed the threshold of the room and you were a few meters away.

Looking at him carefully you then noticed that he was wearing Carnival’s make up and took you by surprise because it was his work make up and he always took it off immediately after coming home, even if this time he hadn’t drawn any black line around the red paint on the lips, unlike the make up he usually does for work. Arthur wasn’t looking at you but he could feel the amazement in your face just by listening to your body. The one in front of you wasn’t Carnival, it was another person who belonged only to Arthur and whose name you couldn’t have said. In that moment, at least, because now you know that identity without black lines around his red smile and you love every single thing about him, just like you love Arthur and Carnival.

Seeing the love of your life in such a strong grip of pain you felt your heart slip away from you. How was it possible to love a person so much that you felt his pain? And how was it possible that at the exact moment you met him your soul had completely absorbed his, and vice versa? You ran towards him without even thinking about the movements you were doing, your body knew for itself exactly what to do and you went along with it. You sat next to him so close that your thighs touched and pressed each other, you wrapped him in your arms as hard as you can.

Arthur hadn’t moved since you got home. The pain seemed to have frozen him. He hadn’t moved his eyes to look at you, he hadn’t moved his lips to ask you how was your day and he hadn’t instinctively approached you when you sat on the couch as he normally does.

Because you are like two magnets who struggle to stay apart and get drawn to each other and every time you sit on the couch, he comes close to you and cannot resist to such a strong force. He hadn’t moved but you knew perfectly well that every part of his body and his heart was thanking you, even though he was inanimate from the outside. He would have liked to hold you tight and greet you, he would have liked to run into your arms and feel his skin burn less than when you weren’t there, because your arms were what softened the grip he was feeling to the soul, he would have liked melt into you and stay in that position for the rest of his life, but he just couldn’t.

But luckily you could hear his wishes and you welcomed him in the place where he had dreamed of coming back since that morning, when you had said goodbye to him and he had seen you walk out the front door to go to work: you welcomed him into you.

Arthur trusted you and knew that you were fully aware of his every desire, so he let your body move his own and guide him into your arms, at that moment when he didn’t have the strength to be able to approach to you by himself. He was so thin and fragile that you could easly support his torso with your arms and bring him close to you. He had remained motionless when he felt your arms around him and brought him closer to you as much as you can, he had remained motionless even when he felt your body pressing on his body, his left cheek touching the fabric of your shirt and your hands on his head to put it on your chest. In all that time in which he had allowed you to take care of him, he had remained motionless for so long that you felt the shivers of fear flowing on your back and becoming intense every second more. In that position you could feel his ribs protruding from the left side of his body pressing on your stomach and pricking you like thorns, yet that pain didn’t hurt you. Feeling his bones and his tiny body on you was the only thing that reminded you of being alive and every time he was close to you or on you, you knew that you didn’t need anything else.

Being with Arthur had never been easy, and every day you had to help him fight against himself and against that world that had never helped him to get him up when he fell to the ground. Some days were easier than others. Sometimes he managed to live with himself and in those days he seemed almost not to have any boulder on his heart, those were the days when he didn’t get sucked into his pain and he looked just… happy, with you in your daily life, even though you both knew that it wasn’t so and that in those luckiest days his pain was only dormant, ready to reveal itself at any time; sometimes even though that pain showed up he had enough strength to try to hide it, even though he had never been able to hide it from you. You would have recognized his pain everywhere: from the language of his body, from the way he breathed, from the way he moved in the world, from the look in his eyes, and from his thoughts, that you knew so well that sometimes you were surprised by it and looked like you were going into his mind and living in it, and maybe you really were. You two were the same soul, after all.

But you never saw him as grieving as he was at that very moment. That day his pain was so heavy and his thoughts so swirling that he couldn’t handle them and he got sucked by them. In other circumstances he would have tried in every way to make you worry as little as possible, pretending that he was okay, that at work no one had called him a freak and that no bunch of kids had beaten him, left him bleeding on the ground. He would have cleaned the wound himself, he would have hidden the bruises as much as he could until the last sign of pain of his body was vanished. He knew that somehow you would have understand that he wasn’t okay, but if he could make you believe for one second that he was okay, it was already a victory.

That day, however, he was so much in pain that he had no strength and he couldn’t find those to pretend to be okay, even if he wanted. He hated the thought of being the source of your worries more than he hated himself and that pain that never went away. If he could, he would have lived his whole life pretending to be okay so he wouldn’t be your burden, even though he knew you would have been worried about him every single day of your life and you would never stop yourself from do it, because that’s what you do when you love someone more than your own existence, and he knew that very well, too, because he felt the same way about you when between you two you were the one who was in a bad mood. 

And you wanted, on your side, to be able to take all his pain away from him and live it on your skin, and you would have done it every second of your life if that meant seeing him happy. It’s a great way to live making sure the love of your life doesn’t suffer. That was what you thought every second of your life with Arthur.

You stroked his hair for so long that you couldn’t tell how long it had been, but you noticed that the moon had risen even higher in the sky and brightened the room in a better way. Arthur hadn’t moved yet and he hadn’t said a word since you were home. You kept caressing his hair for a few more minutes, while you rocked him with your arms still around him and your right cheek rested on his hair, and then you decided to break that silence that made his pain resonate in every corner of the apartment.

“What happened, my sweetheart? Are you okay?” Arthur remained silent for a few seconds as he looked for the physical strength to answer you. “I’m okay”, he said with a decisive tone and a strength you would never expected at that moment, judging by how much his face was empty and wounded and he was still so weak that he couldn’t move. It was clear that he wasn’t okay and that he had probably consumed the only ounce of strength he had left to make you believe otherwise.

“Arthur…” you pushed your cheek away from his head and with the index finger of your left hand you raised his chin to look him in the eyes, “you know you can tell me everything, right? Are you really okay?” You smiled softly and holding his face with your hands you caressed him with your thumbs, taking away the paint from his face that had stained your hand. “And why… why are you wearing your make up?”

Never before he had been so determined not to let you into his world and you had to figure out why, you had to make him feel better and you wanted him to open his arms and let you enter into his haunted world, knowing that you would have love every single ghost you met on that road. His pain would never keep you away from him, and none of his ghosts would ever scare you. To your surprise, Arthur moved away from you, and that was the first movement he had made since you came home. He sat down and took the position he had when you walked into the living room and noticed him sitting on the couch. This time, though, his face wasn’t for television, it was for you. He stared at you with an intense, wounded look, in his eyes you could read the pain of his whole life that was tormenting him at that very moment. He was so determined that night to convince you that he was okay, even though his eyes made you understand everything he didn’t want to say, that he put his fingers to the corners of his mouth and raised them upward, faking a smile with such a strength that he felt his flesh burning and his face tightened in such a grip so painful that made him bend his eyebrows and forehead in a painful expression. Telling you he was okay wasn’t enough, so he decided to prove it to you in the only way he could.

In Arthur’s mind echoed the words of a lifetime, those same words that had never stopped tormenting him. My mother calls me Happy. Smile and put on a happy face. Your purpose in life is to spread joy and laughter into this cold, dark world. You have to be happy. Happy. Put on a happy face.

He had been told so many times that after all this time he had learned to hold his pain in his body so much that he was immobilized, it did not allow him to breathe properly and he felt every part of his skin burning. He wasn’t supposed to let anyone know his deepest pain, put on a happy face, or no one would ever love him, or his life wouldn’t have no meaning. To be loved he had to smile and be happy, his pain didn’t matter and no one was supposed to see it. How do you plan to spread joy and laughter in to the world if you aren’t happy in the first place? Put on a happy face, my little Happy boy. C’mon, Happy, put on a happy face.

He had to listen to that voice, he shouldn’t have felt that pain even though that day was deeper than the previous one and didn’t allow him to hide it. Especially that day when it was stronger than the other days, he had to do everything he could to keep that play that he didn’t even remember when it started. By hiding it in every possible way and holding it in his bowels, at the end, that day his grief had exploded invading everything around him.

The pain had invaded his mind which every day fought against the instinct to scream, it had invaded his body that he could barely move. It had also invaded his vision, the reason why he had noticed with difficulty how upset his Y/N was at the time. He saw you sitting next to him, he heard you talking, but even though your body was there and Arthur perceived you beside him, he could only see the outline of a person who would have pushed him away, as all the others with whom he had come across his life. What would you have done if he stopped smiling?

You’re not supposed to feel this pain, you freak. How do you think people will ever like you if you don’t feel the happiness you want to spread so much into the world? What would they have done with him if people realized he hadn’t been able to keep the only thing he seemed to be born for? Would they have dropped him in one of Gotham’s dark alleys, if they found out he couldn’t accomplish the one thing he’d ever been asked to do? Put on a happy face, you’re useless if you are sad. Your pain doesn’t matter. This is your job. This is your only purpose. Your pain doesn’t matter.

Even if he had trying to resist with all the strength of his fragile and minute body that was a battle already lost. How did ever think he could have the freedom to suffer and be comforted by the woman he loved, if even his own body had taught him for all his life to hide the pain behind a laugh? To burst into laughter every time he was upset?

Everything in his life had only one purpose. His mother, the name given to him, his job, his aspiration. His body, his neurological disorder. That purpose was to yell at him that he didn’t deserve to feel pain. And if he felt it, he had to laugh. Your pain doesn’t matter. Put on a happy face. Those words resonated in his mind every time he thought of his mother, every time he wore clown makeup at work, when he practiced his jokes in front of the mirror or when he simulated the old recorded episodes of the Murray Franklin Show. Put on a happy face.

“Arthur!” Your voice was broken as you held back tears from a pain that Arthur didn’t allow himself to experience. His hands were anchored with all his energies to his skin and in a second your hands were already on his to set him free from that painful grip that was inflicting himself.

Arthur smiled faintly at you in a dull and empty smile that had cost him so much effort, he was screaming inside and those screams had not allowed him to hear properly even the words that you spoke shortly after. “Don’t! Arthur, stop! What you are doing, my love?” You tried to be as calm as possible, you had to be strong for him and you didn’t want to upset him further with your tears, but you couldn’t disguise the pleading tone with which you called him my love, the desperate scream that came out of your mouth as you screamed at him to stop and the broken tone of your voice, that revealed all your pain and how you would have take his pain away from his soul. You held his hands tight in yours and kissed the spot on his finger with which he had hurt himself knowing that, if you had left them, he would have faked another smile and cause himself another grip of pain.

“I shouldn’t be feeling… that way… I disappointed you” he said, not answering your question, while his eyes focused on any point beyond your shoulders as if he were talking to someone. The voice in his head reminded him that his pain wasn’t important, that it didn’t have to exist, and it was so strong that he almost seemed to be able to look at that voice in front of him, growing and taking the shape of his mother yelling at him smile and put on a happy face. That voice had kept him company in his mind for so long that he couldn’t tell what his origin was, so he was so used to his presence. He thought of his mother and of all the times she had called him Happy, of all the times he had been told his purpose in the world was to make people smile, of all the times he wanted to cry and scream, but the only thing that came out of his body were desperate laughs that caused him only pain.

That’s why that day when his pain had been unbearable, at some point when his mind was clearer, he had found himself in the bedroom, sitting in front of the mirror that once belonged to his mother, wearing the clown make up. He was hoping that the fresh paint wouldn’t only paint his face but would also deceive his soul, he was hoping that the happiness that he desired so much would enter him and, above all, he was hoping that he would erase that pain and never feel it again, or he would try it less and at best, pretending it didn’t exist, he would start to believe it, just like he did until that day. Deceiving himself he hoped that even his Y/N would look at him and would only see the smile of a clown. He would tell you a joke and you would keep to love a brave man who felt no pain and who, not feeling pain, was still useful and not trash to throw away.

“In that way? What do you mean?“ You clung to his words because it was the only thing you could really get from him. You looked at him and his mind looked lost in a place very far away that you couldn’t reach, that he didn’t allow you to reach and looked like he wasn’t able not to feel on his skin even your touch. He was simply absent. "I… I shouldn’t be suffering” Arthur fought with all of himself as he tried to hold back tears that were in stark contrast to the words he had just said, were tears that Arthur couldn’t resist and came out of his eyes, making his way between his cheeks. “Arthur, my love, no baby,” you approached him just enough to put your hands on his face and kiss every tear that fell from his eyes and the corners of his mouth that he had hurt before. You looked into his eyes and wondered how two eyes so beautiful and deep could hold all the pain of a world that had only hurt him, and how eyes of such a bright green color could be so… dead eyes. “You don’t always have to be happy, my love”, you told him while between one word and another you kept kissing his tears. “You don’t have to pretend to be happy with me, or with anyone else.”

With your lips you kissed every single tear your mouth could reach and the tears you couldn’t reach in time were stopped by your thumbs that drove them away. “Is that the reason why you’re wearing your Carnival make up?” Arthur nodded between your hands that held him and your fingers that caressed his face. Your hands weren’t just holding his face, they were literally grounding him to reality and he felt his body held tight to his life thanks to your touch.

“It’s Joker now”. His body trembled but spoke with a firm tone of voice. Joker, you repeated it slowly to imprint it in your memory and in your skin. By lingering on every single letter of that name, Joker, you wanted to kiss every part of that identity that was growing up within him and you hoped that just by speaking it slowly, as you had just done, it would have make him feel loved. It would have make Joker feel loved. Joker had always been inside him, and now that he was finding the strength to emerge completely, you knew that you would have loved that part of him, too, and over time you would have known him even more deeply and love him even more. He had to feel loved and you tried to make him feel that love in every possible way. This has always been your main purpose: to teach him to love himself, to take care of his own feelings and to make him understand that the person to whom your heart, your soul and your entire existence belonged was him, your Arthur, your Carnival, your Joker.

“Arthur, Joker, love of my life. Your pain matters.” Your lips felt the salty taste of his tears and the bitter taste of the paint. Arthur’s make up was still visible but it had vanished along those thin stripes that his tears had formed falling on his face. You had never stopped kissing his tears, you hoped that by kissing the only way his body had found so far to express pain, Arthur would understand that you were kissing his pain itself and that you would have keep kissing him every day of your life, and by kissing his tears, you wanted to teach him to take care of himself in a way that he had never known before, but that you allowed yourself to teach him during the course of your relationship. He deserved to feel pain and he deserved to be seen pained.

“You don’t need to use your make-up with me to pretend you’re okay”, you had moved your face away from his face to speak up and only at that very moment, looking at his face entirely, you understood from his grateful look that everything you wanted to tell him through those kisses, he had heard it all. “I want you to allow me to see your pain, I want you to allow me to be here for you, and I love you no matter what you’re feeling.”

With your hands still on his cheeks, you were trying to wipe the smile of red paint off his face. You wanted to see his naked face, you wanted to see his real smile for what it was like at that exact moment, you wanted to see it whether if it was lifeless, or it was fake or even if it didn’t exist. You would have loved him anyway, and you wanted to see his beautiful lips so you could kiss them hoping you would have made him really smile in that kiss that you both, were sure, wished for.

“I want you to allow me to see your pain so I can send it away, because I love you even if you are not happy. I love all of you, all of your feelings and there isn’t a part of you that I couldn’t love. I love you entirely, and I am entirely yours.” Arthur answered by hugging you tightly. That day he had no strength, since you had returned home he was almost motionless, but as soon as his arms surrounded your body you were surprised by how much strength he had to hold you so intensely. You were his strength and he had found it again, thanks to you, and he had found also his energies that were slowly growing up through your contact and those words of love that he had felt to the soul, and he was showing you all of this in that deep hug.

He clutched you in a desperate way with his hands on your back, his nails anchored to your skin as if he was afraid you would have been gone at any moment. He probably would have left scratches on your back, but you didn’t care. If you could have carried on your body forever all the signs that Arthur inflicted on you, you would have done it. He was desperate to feel your existence and your body close to him because in his whole life he never thought that a person could feel such intense feelings for him and he was sure that, If he had released you from that hug and showed you that he was smiling, the first real smile he had done since he woke up, you would have smiled back, because every time one of you smiled for the other was almost impossible not to do the same. And you heard him smile for real, and you smiled back, and Arthur heard him.

You were two pieces of the same soul that had found each other, after all, and your existence made music that only you two could hear. Every time one of you smiled, the other felt it. Arthur moved away from you just enough to reach your lips with his own. 

In a kiss that tasted like tears, paint, pain and just like Arthur, you read through his smiling lips while he was kissing you all his gratitude and all the love he felt for you. I love you, Y/N, this was the music of that kiss. I love you, and thank you for taking care of me like no one has ever done, and thank you for telling me that my feelings matter.

You didn’t know what happened that day, you didn’t even know if something really happened that day. Certain wounds don’t need a reason to explode. That was a pain that Arthur had kept in his body for so long that sooner or later it would explode with all the destructive power possible, and it could happen even on an ordinary day when, apparently, nothing different than the other days had happened. That day was the first of many other bad days you would have lived together because his demons were not yet gone, they were so deep that his soul would always need you, your hands that support him and a lot of care. He could still hear his demons scream at him as he kissed you and probably it’s impossibile to heal from such an intense wound, but those voices weren’t as strong as they were before you came over, and that was all that mattered. He only moved away from you a few inches to break the kiss and, in the very moment you lost the contact with his lips, you approached him with your hands to hold his face. Not feeling Arthur on your body was impossible since you always craved for him, and as soon as you lost his contact, you went back looking for it.

“Until a little while ago it was like nobody ever saw me, even I didn’t know if I even really existed.” He said, not looking at you in the eyes and making a sound that hardly looked like a laugh and instead brought out all his shame, as if he was telling you a deep thought that had been held for a long, very long time and for him it was even a fault to feel such a feeling. You held his face in your hands like a fragile thing you had to hold to keep it from breaking, because your purpose wasn’t to pick up his pieces and put them back together, your purpose was not to let anyone break him, in the first place, and to keep him whole. But if the part of that world he wanted to hide from had managed to catch him and had broken him, if you had found the pieces of him scattered on the floor, then you would have held him tight until those pieces would return to their place and you would personally checked that no one could have scratch them again.

“You exist, sweetheart, the love I feel for you is a proof that you exist. I see your pain. I see you. Okay? I. See. You. And you are beautiful, in every way.” You told him with your hands caressing his face and your lips a few inches from his lips, from that distance you could smell the paint on his skin. He didn’t answer, but you knew he was thanking you because he put his lips back on yours. In that kiss his demons had gone and the only voice he could hear in his mind was no longer the voice of his demons, or his mother. It was his own. I do exist. And people are starting to notice. You are noticing. I love you, Y/N.

You knew that teaching him to love himself and to experience his pain took a long time and that you would have to fight with him every day, and that was okay. That’s how love works, and with you, your love and a little patience, Arthur would understand it, and every day the voice that he heard in his head would fade, more and more. Until it completely disappeared.

You couldn’t took his pain away from him and erase it from his body to make him happy, no matter how much your soul might desire it, but every day you woke up with the purpose of helping him as best you could, with your presence and your love in his life, and every day you decided to bear his pain with him.

You couldn’t hold it all and free him from this burden, even if you wanted it with all your heart, but you could hold it together, going down with him into that abyss and pulling him out when the time had come. Or in the days when Arthur didn’t have the strength to come out of the abyss by himself because that pain froze him, just like that day, then you would have sat next to him holding him by the hand in that abyss that never scared you, and you would have stayed there until he would have found the strength to let it go and get back into his alert mind. He would have climbed back from the abyss without leaving your hand and would have found you again on the surface.

It was true that you wanted to eradicate out every seed of his pain from him as if it were a root but this had never prevented you from loving him with all of yourself even in his most difficult days, on the contrary this made you love him even more. 

You love all of himself with all of yourself, even on days like these, because his pain is a part of him too.

He is your Arthur, your Carnival, your Joker, and you love him completely, and you couldn’t love him any other way.

[edendaphne]

“Discordant Sonata” Chapter 4

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CHAPTER 4:  WALTZ

(cw: panic attack)

Mood Music:  Medley from Frozer and Mayura (piano) - arranged by Corpington 

I can’t believe I’m doing this, I can’t believe I’m doing this, why am I doing this, this is super dumb, this is a very bad idea, why am I going through with it, do I look okay, do I have lipstick on my teeth, why did I have to open my big mouth, why do I turn into a numbskull anytime I‘m around him, why does he have to be so dang wonderful and gorgeous and kind and — Ladybug anxiously rambled and fretted internally as she walked towards the designated meeting area at the Trocadero.

Sighing, she looked up the Sunday evening movie times for the 10th time and checked her cardigan pockets (yet again) to make sure she’d brought enough money for snacks. While she knew that Adrien could afford his own fare, she wasn’t sure if she’d be the one to pay because she was the one who invited him.

What even is date protocol?! What even is date protocol when you’re a SUPERHERO?

Marinette had only ever gone on a handful of dates, none going further than awkwardly holding hands or maybe a quick peck on the cheek at the end. Her parents were high school sweethearts, which meant they were of no real help to her because they had spent practically every waking moment together since they were kids; the way they’d gone about their courtship was entirely relaxed, natural, and informal. So essentially, she was entirely lacking in experience in this field.

She finally spotted said object of her affections leaning against a pillar wearing a red zip-up hoodie, as promised. He wore his hood up, and yet he almost seemed to glow ethereally despite the dim evening light. Taking a deep breath, she walked towards him in what she hoped looked like a carefree and relaxed gait and not like a platypus, which is what she felt like in her disguise. To borrow a phrase from her school nemesis: utterly ridiculous.

A few dozen meters away, Adrien rubbed his hands nervously, then opted to stick them in his pockets to try to avoid drawing attention to himself. Plagg had snickered the whole way there and even now he kept busting out into fits of uncontrollable giggles every so often. Adrien rolled his eyes. Maybe Plagg was right and this was a horrible idea. And although Plagg did eventually warm up to the concept of going on a date with Ladybug, Adrien suspected that it was just because he wanted to watch him crash and burn.

He shook his head in determination, reminding himself that he was there on a mission: to investigate and determine whether Ladybug was trustworthy or whether she was two-faced.

Behind him someone abruptly cleared their throat. He turned to look at whoever was trying to get his attention and came face to face with a stunning young woman wearing a stylish, long sleeved cardigan and a flowing mid-length skirt. Her long, raven hair was in a low ponytail and she sported large Hello Kitty eyeglasses with tinted lenses that looked slightly out of place with the rest of her ensemble but somehow pulled the look together nonetheless.

“Hello,” he greeted. “Can I help you?” The thought entered his mind that maybe this was one of his fans and she had recognized him despite wearing his hood.

“Um,” the young woman replied, rubbing her arm nervously. “Hi Adrien. It’s me.” She waved with a gloved hand and smiled shyly, her lips shimmering with a soft pink lip gloss.

Adrien moved closer so he could see her face more clearly. He squinted for a moment, then his eyes widened in recognition. He gave a small gasp and started to exclaim, “Ladyb--!”

Ladybug surged forward and put her hand over his mouth, and raised her other hand to made a “Shh” sign. Adrien finally noticed that she was wearing her mask under the tinted glasses. He realized that she was transformed under the clothes she was wearing. He had half expected her to show up as herself, although, all things considered, that may have been a very bad idea. He had also wondered if she’d show up in her civilian form and potentially reveal her identity, but Ladybug wasn’t reckless enough to do something like that. He hadn’t considered the possibility of her wearing a disguise over a disguise.

Ladybug stood on her tiptoes and put her free hand on his shoulder so she could whisper into his ear, her breath tickling his neck pleasantly, “I didn’t want us to attract any attention but I had to come while transformed. Miraculouses have glamour magic that helps protect the wearer's identity, otherwise there’s a chance I’d be recognized.” She lowered herself and asked timidly, “I-is that okay?” 

Adrien felt like his heart was trying to jump out of his chest and he desperately hoped he wasn’t as red as he felt.  At this proximity, even without his enhanced Chat Noir sense he could still subtly smell her familiar floral scent, which always brought him inexplicable comfort. He could count the adorable tiny freckles speckled on her nose, could feel the warmth radiating from her hand in spite of the thin material of her suit, could see the lights from the Eiffel Tower reflected in her piercing, azure eyes. Suppressing a dreamy sigh, he nodded slightly and let out a muffled, “Mm-hmm.”

Ladybug gasped. “Oh! I’m sorry!” she sputtered and released him, then put some distance between them.

Wringing her hands, she spoke softly, her cheeks pink, “Thank you, by the way. For coming here. I realize this... ‘outing’ may not be exactly what you’re used to, but... it means a lot to me that you even showed up.”

Ladybug’s captivating smile almost caused Adrien’s knees to buckle, which confused him to no end. We’re literally just standing here talking, what is WRONG with me??

Shaking himself out of his slight haze, he replied, “Thanking you for inviting me. I’ve been looking forward to it,” he half-lied. She didn’t really need to know just how terrified he’d been.

“Thanks, Adrien. I appreciate it. But, having said that,” she added anxiously, “I... I wanted to give you one last chance to back out. I don’t want you to feel obligated to go through with it.” She looked up at him, eyes filled with apprehension and dread. “I’ll totally understand if you change your mind. Really. I wouldn’t want you to have to do something that you’re uncomfortable with.” 

Adrien smiled at her fondly. She was so unexpectedly considerate, as she’d proven to both sides of himself. He wasn’t accustomed to being given a choice, of having the agency to do whatever he was comfortable or not comfortable with doing. Her thoughtful gesture filled his chest with warm tingles, and he found himself suppressing an indescribably strong urge to hug her.

Grinning sympathetically, he took a step towards her and offered her his arm. “Shall we?”

Ladybug beamed and her whole countenance brightened, then she took his arm. “Yes!”

It was extraordinarily difficult for Adrien to keep his attention on the movie. All around him everyone laughed and exclaimed at the protagonists’ antics and misadventures, but, as if by some magnetic force, his eyes were pulled elsewhere; he unwittingly yet frequently stole glances at his masked companion, who laughed along with the rest of the audience. Her radiant smile and unbridled laughter was so infectious, he couldn’t keep himself from grinning widely himself whenever he peeked at her. Anytime their hands brushed while sharing snacks (which, after a short debate on who would pay for what, they’d settled on her buying the tickets and him buying the snacks), it would send his heart racing for reasons he could not fully comprehend. At one point their eyes met and she grinned cheerfully at him. He returned the smile and was infinitely grateful that the theater was dark, since he was pretty sure that his face was beet red instead of its usual color.

Ladybug seemed so ordinary here, but in the best way. A way that made her extremely approachable and warm. A way that put his nerves at ease while simultaneously setting fire to his chest. In the battlefield she had always seemed so fierce and intimidating to him, but that was not how he felt now. He felt perfectly comfortable and, dare he say it… safe . How was this chipper and animated girl that same intense and formidable opponent that he was so used to seeing as Chat Noir? It was baffling, to say the least.

UGH, I need to stop thinking and actually try to focus on the movie so I can have something to talk about afterwards, he scolded himself.

Instead of paying attention, however, Adrien found himself wondering about just that: what exactly they would be doing after the movie. The plan was for them to go to an outdoor cafe so the darkness would help to conceal Ladybug’s presence from others, followed by a walk along the Seine.

He wasn’t really sure what was considered “normal,” as this was the first date he had ever actually agreed to go on. All of his previous (and numerous) other dates had been arranged by either Nathalie or his father and added to his schedule without him even being consulted about it; each and every one of them meticulously fabricated for some strategic socioeconomic or business purpose. Some of those dates ended with a bored, cordial handshake from both parties (much to his relief), but most of the time his companions were superficial and flirtatious, always aiming to take advantage of him and benefit from their affiliations, which only worsened as he got older. His dates had become increasingly provocative and pushy, which he detested and almost feared.  

However, since this date had all been entirely voluntary and Ladybug was letting Adrien participate in all the decision making, did that also mean that he would also get to choose how to end his date with her?

Is there a handshake? A hug? Is there a k-- A kis-- AUGH!!

His stomach flip-flopped anxiously just thinking about it. What was the traditional way of doing things? Although, he supposed, this date wasn’t exactly like a traditional date, to say the least.

 Before he knew it, the movie was over and Ladybug reached over to touch his forearm, since apparently she’d been trying to get his attention.

She smiled sweetly and asked, “Um, shall we go? Unless you really wanted to stay til the end of the credits.”

Adrien stammered as he stood, “Oh- uh, no, it’s fine. We can go.” They walked over to the garbage and recycling bins to get rid of all their empty wrappers and containers, then walked out of the auditorium.

As they made their way towards the theater’s exit, Ladybug asked, “So how did you like the movie?”

Adrien’s brain froze, but he managed to stutter out, “Uh, it was… it was really something, huh?”

Ladybug replied enthusiastically, “Yes, it sure was! I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard!” she giggled and continued, “What was your favorite part?”

Drawing a complete blank, Adrien desperately tried to remember an event from the movie, just anything at all. “W-well, it- it was…”

“Holy crap, is that Adrien Agreste?!” a voice exclaimed from a few meters away.

Ladybug and Adrien whipped their heads around towards the source of the yelling.

“Oh no,” Adrien let out a bleak sigh.

Instantly more excited cries chimed in.

“No way! It’s really him!”

“It’s the legit Adrien Agreste!”

“Wow! He watches movies like regular people!”

“Oh my goodness, let’s get his picture!”

Within seconds they were surrounded by squealing fans, all shuffling to try to get as close to him as possible.

It was then that Adrien realized that he’d forgotten to put his sweatshirt’s hood back on. He groaned internally, berating himself for his absent-mindedness. This situation could very quickly spiral out of control.

Ladybug touched his shoulder apprehensively. “We need to get you out of here,” she whispered to him. He glanced at her nervously and nodded. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders protectively and they began their attempt to shuffle away from the mob of starry-eyed teenagers.

In the commotion, Ladybug cried out as she was jostled roughly and knocked over against Adrien, who instinctively caught her by the waist. She held tightly onto his arms, stabilizing herself.

“My L- uh... hey, Ladybug, are you alright?” he asked quietly, concern lacing his voice.

Ladybug looked up at him, her eyes still wide and startled, but a beat later she relaxed a bit then smiled at him, replying softly, “Yeah. Thanks.”

Adrien could feel his face flush as he stared down at her, the latter looking more vulnerable, more… human than he was used to. He smiled back and gently helped her right herself, hands still on her waist. She held his gaze, her own cheeks a bit pink as well... most likely flustered from being shoved by the crowd, he surmised. Her eyelashes fluttered slowly, her bright eyes contrasting against the deep red of her mask.

...Her mask.

He could see her mask.

Adrien’s expression changed from one of fondness to one of complete shock, and Ladybug’s face scrunched in confusion.

Mortified, Adrien stammered, “Y-your glasses—”

Ladybug reached up to touch her face and realized that they’d fallen when she was pushed. She quickly scanned the floor, trying to spot her fallen glasses. After a few moments of searching she realized that it would be near impossible to find them in this crowd.

“Forget it,” she said, shaking her head. “There’s no way I’ll find them. Let’s just leave.”

Beside them, a fan yelled, “Is that Ladybug?!”

More voices clamored, “It is Ladybug!”

“What? She’s here??”

“She’s with Adrien!”

“A celebrity date?! How romantic!”

“Someone get a picture!!”

Adrien winced and let out a grumble. “Great.”

He whipped around and snatched Ladybug’s hand. “Run!” he cried.

Ladybug made no objections as they bolted through the crowd, making their way out of the theater and into the enormous shopping center. As it was indoors, Ladybug couldn’t swing them away from the crowd using her yoyo, which would have been ideal. Instead, they were forced to try to leave the mall through the proper exit. Unfortunately, said exit was quite a ways from their current location; additionally they were on the third level.

Deciding to skip the escalators altogether, Ladybug picked up a very surprised Adrien and leaped to the floor below. Adrien let out an involuntary gasp and wrapped his arms tightly around her shoulders, pressing himself close to her small yet powerful frame. They landed gracefully and Ladybug uttered a quick apology as she set him down, taking his hand once again.

The two quickly made their way towards the exit… only to encounter another sizable group of teenagers who were loitering near the doors of the shopping center, as it was closing time. Despite them still being a few meters away, Adrien was instantly recognized and they approached the pair. He swore under his breath, then pulled Ladybug in the opposite direction.

As they ran back, they caught sight of the previous crowd from the movies making their way down the escalators, who would no doubt notice them in a few moments. Stopping short, Ladybug let out a short whimper and looked up at Adrien, her expression full of worry and clearly having run out of ideas. His eyes darted around looking for another escape route. A beat later, he located a possible hiding spot and tugged on Ladybug’s hand to get her attention. She quickly understood and followed him.

Together they dashed into a small side hallway and scrambled into a storage closet at the far end, shutting the door quietly.

Panting from the exertion of having sprinted across the mall, Ladybug and Adrien met each others’ eyes, chuckling awkwardly as they stood tightly pressed up against each other in the tiny room, which was full of large, heavy boxes.

For a few of minutes neither of them spoke a word, but strained to listen to the commotion outside, trying to figure out if they had been discovered. 

Once the noise dissipated (no doubt due to the crowd being ushered outside by mall security), they shared a hopeful look. Breathing slowed as they took the time to loosen their postures and relax. Head still reeling from what had occurred, Ladybug asked him, “Is… is it always like this? With your fans?”

Adrien shrugged, resting his back against the closed door. “Well, not always. But…” he mused, “We did have a photo shoot a couple of weeks ago and, uhhh... there was a lot of leather.”

Ladybug’s eyes widened in confusion and her head tilted to the side. “...Leather?” she queried. “Sounds like an… interesting shoot.”

Flustered, Adrien clarified, “Th-that is...! Leather clothes! Leather pants and leather jackets, motorcycles, the ‘bad boy’ look, that sort of thing.”

Ladybug realized that she knew exactly which photo shoot he was talking about. In fact, she remembered it very well. It was her new favorite magazine spread of his. He had always played the part of the angelic, flawless, studious blonde model who you’d want to take home to meet your parents over dinner. The leather photo shoot, however, complete with deadly smouldering eyes and sinful parted lips, was a complete change from his usual innocent portrayal. She’d already purchased two copies of the magazine... although she wasn’t about to divulge that information to the aforementioned model while standing chest to chest against him in a tiny closet.

“Aha, gotcha,” she replied nonchalantly. She looked up at Adrien who chuckled sheepishly, cheeks tinged with a delightful shade of pink which was visible despite having a dim light bulb as the only light source.

“Well, I bet you looked amazing. Especially if this is the reaction you’ve been getting lately. Maybe you should wear leather more often,” she teased with a wink.

Adrien blushed and rubbed the back of his neck. “Ah, um, well, I guess- maybe,” he stammered timidly. Was she flirting with him? Not that he was opposed to the idea. They’d flirted playfully as Chat Noir and Ladybug many times, but he wasn’t used to being flirted with as Adrien by anyone without ulterior motives. It was… nice.

They stood in silence for a few moments, neither knowing what to do or say next.

Mood Music: The Dark Side - Muse

Eyeing the door across from her, Ladybug decided to take the initiative and speak first. “Well, I’m sure all your rabid fans are gone,” she said as she tried to go around him and failed because of the lack of available space. She abandoned that idea and instead she reached across to grab the doorknob next to Adrien’s waist. “We should head out too, since it’s getting pretty la-” she suddenly went quiet and her eyebrows furrowed. She tried turning the doorknob again, but as before, it didn’t budge.

It was locked from the outside.

“Wh-what’s wrong?” Adrien asked nervously in spite of himself, already suspecting exactly what was wrong.

Ladybug quirked her mouth to the side. “It’s stuck. Or locked.”

Adrien’s hand instantly reached for the door for confirmation. He roughly twisted and yanked on the doorknob in desperation, his hands suddenly becoming clammy and slick. 

Ladybug noticed his erratic movements and grew increasingly concerned. “Hey, are you feeling alright?”

Adrien didn’t answer. Was he trembling? She looked closely at him and noticed his pupils becoming dilated. His breathing was rapidly becoming more and more shallow. His other hand was clenched into a painfully tight fist and he appeared as though he’d collapse at any moment.

He looks woozy and disoriented… Is he sick??  

“It’s going to be okay, Adrien,” she attempted to reassure him. “We’ll find a way out and we can find someplace for you to lie down if you’re not feeling well.”

But it was like he hadn’t even heard her. He quietly muttered, “No, no, no… We’re trapped. We can’t get out of here and we’re stuck, just- trapped. What if we never get out? What-what if we can’t-- Don’t keep me in here, please, please let me out...” he trailed off, mumbling absently.

Ladybug’s eyes popped wide open in realization. Adrien was claustrophobic. He was having a panic attack.

Oh no… What have I done?

Guilt flooded into her like a waterfall. She never should have brought Adrien here. This whole thing was wrong. She shouldn’t have approached him as Ladybug. He didn’t know anything about her, and “Ladybug” wasn’t supposed to know anything about him. Getting close to him would only put him in danger. If Hawkmoth were to find out that he’d been associated with her it would be disastrous. But she’d been too careless, too selfish, too self-absorbed and infatuated to think clearly and now Adrien was the one paying for her grievous lack of judgment.

Ladybug was brought back to reality as Adrien’s breathing hitched sporadically and his chest heaved laboriously. She braced herself in case she needed to catch him were he to pass out from lack of oxygen, but she hoped it wouldn’t come to that.

Watching Adrien helplessly as he continued down a spiral of fear, she knew she had to do something. She tried desperately to stay calm and level-headed for his sake. She needed to help him get through this.

Pulling herself together after a brief self-pep talk, she tried to reassure him softly, “Hey. It’s okay, Adrien. I’m right here with you, you’re not alone. Nothing bad is going to happen to you. You’re not going to get hurt, I promise.”

Adrien squeezed his eyes shut. She could tell that he’d heard her and was trying to process her words. She waited a few moments and added, “Are you okay with physical touch? Is it alright if I touch your arm?”

Adrien paused, then nodded slightly in response.

Ladybug’s hand reached over slowly and tentatively touched his forearm. Once she was sure that he really was okay with the contact, she eased upwards to his shoulder and rubbed it gently.

She tried again, “We need to slow down your breathing. Try to take some deep breaths.”

Frantic, he stammered, “I ca- I can’t! I’m... it-it’s too… I can’t!” he cried.

Ladybug slowly took his hand and gently pressed it up to the area just below her neck at the collarbone. She held it there with an almost featherlight touch.

As calmly as she could, she cooed soothingly, “Breathe with me, Adrien. Follow my lead.”

His head turned and he stared at where his hand rested on her. Finally meeting her eyes, his pupils finally began to focus again. With a last shaky breath, he nodded.

Adrien accepted Ladybug’s other hand and placed it on his own chest, his larger hand covering hers completely.

She took deep breaths and he did the same, their hands a physical indicator to help him follow along. Their breaths intermingled during their synchronizations, and Adrien’s trembling steadily decreased, as did his heart rate.

Ladybug smiled comfortingly. “You’re doing so awesome, Adrien. Would it help if I rubbed your back?”

His eyes were still squeezed shut, but he replied, “Y-ye-… Please.”

Ladybug reached behind him and gently placed her hand on his back when he suddenly lurched forward to crush her into a tight embrace, holding onto her as if she were a tether to reality. She leaned her head against his as she practically held up his body from falling over. It broke her heart to see him like this, to learn of yet another hardship he had to struggle with.

Pushing those thoughts aside, she whispered softly, repeating, “Everything’s okay… you’re okay… We’re going to be completely fine… we’re not in any danger. You’re doing so great…” Her hands gently slid in wide, smooth strokes and circles on his back.

They stayed that way for a few minutes, the only sounds were Adrien breathing and Ladybug’s peaceful ministrations.

Adrien practically nuzzled into her as he whispered, “Thanks, Ladybug.”

Ladybug blushed despite herself. Adrien had been able to push through and recover from his panic attack. Butterflies swelled within her and she was so immensely proud of him; she couldn’t help but smile.

“We won’t be in here forever,” she spoke soothingly. She knew she needed to talk about the situation rationally to try to help Adrien keep his fears under control.  “Even if we can’t get out right this moment, someone will find us eventually.”

“But that could take hours,” he replied, gulping, and pulled away slightly. “The mall doesn’t open until 9am.”

They both thought for a few moments, trying to come up with an idea.

“Couldn’t you like… punch the door open?” he asked. “You’re pretty strong. I could always pay the mall back for the, uh… vandalism.”

Ladybug scrunched her face in consideration. “I could possibly kick it open. But… there’s not quite enough room for me to raise my leg. Plus, you’re right in front of the door and you’d be in the way, since I can’t go around. I might hurt you. I don’t want to risk that.”

Adrien breathed out through his mouth, much calmer than before but obviously still distressed. “What else can we do?” He looked at her hopelessly.

Ladybug frowned. There weren’t a lot of options. She couldn’t use her Lucky Charm for self-gain. Detransforming while Adrien closed his eyes so Tikki could unlock the door was out of the question also (Fu had made it crystal clear that she was never to trust anyone with her detransformation, no matter the circumstances).

She looked around, examining her surroundings. Above the boxes behind her she spotted a single vent on the ceiling. It was the only escape route. If they made their way through the air ducts, it would lead them back out into the mall and they could finally leave.

We could climb up the vent, she thought. However... it looks too small for Adrien. She furrowed her brows, deep in concentration.

Adrien followed her gaze and noticed the vent as well. He shook his head. “That won’t work. I’m way too big, I’d never fit through that hole. But...” He stopped suddenly, eyes wide and he looked back at her, throat dry. “But you could.”

“No! No, don’t worry, Adrien. I wouldn’t leave without you,” she quickly reassured him. “You have nothing to worry about.”

Adrien continued resolutely, “I don’t think we have a choice. I think you need to do it.”

“What?! But Adrien, I-” she cried, bewildered. “I can’t leave you alone in here! There’s gotta be another way,” she argued, arms flailing as much as the available space allowed.

He placed both his hands on her shoulders and gave her a small smile. “I’ll be fine, really. Unless you want to spend the next 10 hours in here without food or a bathroom break, you have to. I...” he stopped and considered carefully. “I’ll be alright. I believe in you,” he said quietly.

Ladybug bit her lip, debating his proposal. She twisted the edge of her cardigan nervously. She didn’t want to leave him lest he have another panic attack. He was right though. They had to escape unless they wanted to wait an obscenely long amount of time locked in a closet together. Which, had she been asked prior to this experience whether she’d be okay with being stuck in a closet overnight with the love of her life, she would have gladly leaped at the chance. But she’d never known about his claustrophobia. She felt horrible about this. How could she not have known? Had he ever told anyone?

All things considered, however, it made perfect sense. If anyone knew a thing or two about what it’s like to be trapped, it was Adrien Agreste. He could hardly ask for a drink of water without being closely monitored. It was a miracle that he’d even been allowed to go on a date with a girl his father hadn’t run a background check on. Or… had he snuck out? How would he be able to do it without being detecte-

“Ladybug?” Adrien asked uncertain, interrupting her thoughts and bringing her attention back to the current situation.

She finally looked up at him, expression resolute. “Okay, I’ll do it. I won’t be long, I promise.”

Ladybug reached into her pocket and pulled something out; a flash of red caught his attention.

“Here, take this,” she said, holding out the item out in front of her. Adrien’s eyes widened as he realized what it was.

“Your yo-yo?!” Adrien stammered. “W-why? I don’t know how to use it.”

Ladybug placed it on his hand squeezed reassuringly with both of hers. “You don’t need to. I want you to hold onto it. That’s how you’ll know that I’m coming back and that you’re not alone.” She looked straight into his eyes earnestly. “So you know that I would never leave you behind.”

A shiver ran up Adrien’s spine and his stomach twisted into knots. He had never seen her without her yo-yo. It was her only defense and weapon. 

And Ladybug trusted him with it. Trusted him.

Breathless, Adrien nodded.

Ladybug quickly shrugged off her outer clothes so all that remained was her regular costume. Adrien gathered up as much courage as he could, watching her climb haphazardly up the tall mountain of boxes at the back of the room. She stuck her fingers between the vent slats and easily pulled it out.

Turning her head back towards Adrien, she called at him with forced cheerfulness, “See you in a minute!” Then she disappeared.

Adrien was alone. It was just him and the darkness.

He squeezed his eyes shut and leaned up against the door, working hard to keep his breathing even. He could feel his heart begin to race and and a wave of nausea hit him yet again. He struggled and fought to push away the thoughts of hopelessness, clutching Ladybug’s yo-yo tightly against his chest, which gave him a sense of security and control.

Plagg peeked out from Adrien’s pocket before he emerged to perch on his shoulder. “Hey, kid, you know I could get you out in a jiffy! I could touch the door and KABOOM! Free as a bird!” “What?! Plagg, no!” Adrien protested.

Pouting in response, Plagg muttered, “Party pooper.” He amended, “ Fine. I guess I could just phase through the door and unlock it for you.”

Adrien seemed to consider Plagg’s suggestion for a second but replied, “No, we can’t do that. How would I even begin to explain it to her?” With fake cheer, he dramatized, “‘Hey Ladybug! By the way, I had my kwami open the door for me, I hope you don’t mind,’” then added sarcastically, “Because that’s not suspicious at allllll.”

“So we’re just going to sit here and wait?” Plagg protested.

Sighing, Adrien said, “Yeah. We have to trust Ladybug. She’ll get us out.”

Storing that thought for later teasing when Adrien wasn't so emotional, Plagg flew to the top of Adrien’s head to lay down and assured him, gently patting his head, “Don’t worry, buddy. She’ll get here soon.”

Concentrating, he thought of Ladybug assisting him with his breathing earlier; he visualized their hands on each other, remembering the rhythm of their breaths. He followed along with this memory, inhaling and exhaling deeply and slowly, his mind focusing on thinking about Ladybug and her calming presence instead of thinking about where he was at the moment. He thought about her words, her whispered reassurances that his situation was only temporary, that the chances of him being stuck in that closet forever were slim to none.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

I can do this. She’s coming back.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

She will come back. She’s not like Father. She’ll keep her promise, right?

Breathe in. Breathe out.

Right...?

After what felt like an eternity, there was a jiggle at the doorknob. Adrien’s back straightened like a shot and he stepped away from the door, waiting expectantly.

The door swung open, and there stood Ladybug, who looked concerned at first, but upon seeing that he was relatively calm and not panicking, she smiled brightly at him.

“Ta-da!” She said in sing-song. “I’m back! A little dusty but no worse for wear.” More quietly, she asked, “How about you? Are you alright?”

He said nothing but walked up to her slowly practically dragging his feet and stopped right in front of her. She looked up at him through her lashes, eyebrows slightly upturned, eyeing him curiously. Bending over, he hugged her, a shudder racking his large frame, which suddenly felt smaller than Ladybug had ever witnessed. He buried his face into the crook of her neck, gripping her tightly.

“Adrien…”  Ladybug was speechless and confused, yet she gingerly wrapped her arms around him in return.

“You…” he panted as he squeezed her tightly. “You came back for me.”

“Oh, Adrien.” She reached up with one hand, gently stroking the back of his head, threading her fingers slowly through his soft (yet a bit damp from sweat) hair. “I would never abandon you. Not ever.”

They stayed that way for a while, both relieved to be out of that horrid, musty space.

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The night air was fresh and crisp and the breeze felt particularly amazing after their unprecedented ordeal. Adrien let out a relieved sigh, clearly elated to be out in the open once again.

“This is much better, huh?” Ladybug sighed lightly, having donned her previous disguise again.

“Absolutely,” Adrien replied airily, stretching his arms over his head. “It always feels amazing to be outdoors.”

Ladybug glanced towards the direction of the café they were supposed to go to and frowned. There was still enough time to do a quick meal before it closed, but she knew it would be useless to try to salvage this poor excuse of a date and retain any semblance of normalcy after what had just happened.

“Listen, Adrien, I…” she started as she turned to face him. “I think I should take you home,” she said contritely.

“...Oh.” Adrien replied, feeling somewhat disappointed for some reason. He looked away, not knowing what to say or how to proceed. “I understand,” he finally answered, rubbing the back of his neck. Truth was, he didn’t entirely understand. But he wasn’t about to argue with Ladybug, so he allowed her to pick him up and carry him home.

Minutes later, Ladybug carefully avoided the Agreste mansion’s cameras and swung them both into Adrien’s bedroom through the large, slightly open window. After setting Adrien down, he and Ladybug stared at each other, both wanting to say something but not knowing what or how.

Ladybug shuffled her feet awkwardly and spoke first. “Adrien, I’m… I’m sorry about tonight.” Her gaze dropped, unable to look at him anymore. “I’m really, really sorry. I totally messed up.”

Adrien could see that she was struggling to keep her emotions under control. She inhaled sharply and resumed, voice quavering, “I didn’t keep your safety in mind, which is the most important duty I have to all of Paris, and I was irresponsible. I should have known better,” she said bitterly, clearly angry with herself.

Adrien stood stiffly, unsure of how to respond. He was so taken aback by this sudden outburst; he’d never seen Ladybug display any kind of negative emotion that wasn’t aimed towards Hawkmoth or at himself as Chat Noir. It wasn’t like her at all to show any sort of flaw in front of anybody, much less in front of someone who she thought was merely a civilian, someone who would depend on her strength and confidence to feel safe.

His father had always taught him that you must never show even the tiniest hint of insecurity or vulnerability in front of others because it would give your opponents the upper hand. They must never see you weak. Adrien had failed at meeting this principle countless times, although not from lack of trying. He always had figured he just wasn’t strong like his father, and that he needed to try harder to meet his expectations.

However, his current situation was causing him to examine and reconsider this ideology. Was showing “weakness” truly a weakness? He didn’t think any less of her after finding out that she made mistakes, and not only that, but she owned up to them and accepted the consequences of her actions. If anything, it made him feel better about himself to know that she experienced negative emotions like regret, frustration, and self-doubt. The knowledge that he wasn’t the only one out of the two of them, the ladybug and cat miraculous wielders, who had these faults, it felt… comforting. It felt right.

Ladybug quickly wiped away a tear, taking a deep breath. “I should have known it would be a disaster. People like me aren’t supposed to be doing stuff like this.” She scoffed with a grimace, “Some ‘hero’ I am, endangering a civilian, maybe even risking you getting akumatized in there. I’m supposed to protect you, not put you in harm’s way. It was selfish of me to try to pretend I was normal, I guess.”

Adrien guiltily recalled the conversation they’d had while dancing at the ballroom akuma attack a couple of nights prior:

“Just let me have your miraculous. We could stop fighting and then you’d never have to see me again. I’d be out of your hair and you could live a normal life and be a normal girl who worries about normal things, and not have to worry about all of this.”

He couldn’t help but feel empathy for her. She was just a regular person who’d been chosen out of everyone in one of the most populated cities in Europe to take on a huge power and burden, and she was doing it alone. And she had been for years; she’d been just a kid back then. It was a lot of pressure. He couldn’t blame her for wanting to reach out to someone and not feel as lonely.

Enemy or not, Adrien couldn’t stand to see her cry, especially not because of him.

“Ladybug, hey,” he lifted her chin and wiped away a stray tear with his other hand. “It’s okay. Really. I’m fine now.” He shrugged. “Maybe we both didn’t exactly make the best decision about doing this but I’m not upset with you, and I don’t regret it.” He then added without thinking, “And... I think you’re doing a great job trying to protect everyone. In fact, I really admire you.”

Wait, what?   His brain short-circuited.

Ladybug sniffled. “R-really?”

Do I really?!  Adrien internally yelled.

He couldn’t deny that she was impressive. He had his father on his side while she was by herself. Or maybe she had the guardian to help her, he wasn’t sure. But out in the battlefield it was just her. They’d gotten close to defeating her a few times only to have her turn it around on them using only her wits and creativity. And while it had been frustrating every time it happened, looking back on it, it really was quite remarkable, if he were to be completely honest with himself. He always did appreciate the tenacity of an underdog.

Smiling, Adrien replied decisively, “Yeah. I do.”

Eyes shining, she beamed at him and said, “Thank you. That’s so sweet of you to say.” Her cheeks turned a light shade of pink (most likely because she’d just been crying, he figured); nevertheless he felt his own face reddening as well.

She sighed and hesitated before speaking again. “In any case, this experience taught me that I must stick to my responsibilities and can’t make the same mistake again. I… I’ll stay away from you from now on. I won’t give you any more trouble and you’ll be out of danger. I’m sorry to have bothered you.”

Adrien felt a pang of inexplicable sadness upon hearing these words. But why? Why should he care that Ladybug couldn’t be seen hanging out with some random citizen? He understood why it would be risky from her perspective. And she didn’t owe him anything. They didn’t even know each other... Theoretically. It was for the best, he supposed.

And yet... it still hurt for some reason.

“I understand, Ladybug,” he finally replied, masking his disappointment. “Don’t worry about it, I’m not offended. And, for what it’s worth…” he added shyly, rubbing his neck. “I’m glad you asked me. To go out with you, that is. I really did enjoy spending time with you.”

“Really??” Ladybug replied incredulously, her face turning almost as red as her mask. “T-thank you, Adrien. That means a lot.”

Adrien held back a sigh. “I know you said we wouldn’t be hanging out with each other anymore but…” he said timidly, “If you ever see me around, will you- uh… will you be sure to stop and say hello? Don’t be a stranger.”

Grinning widely, she replied, “Of course.”

Her eyes bore into his, as if carefully considering his words. Hesitantly, Ladybug took a slow step forward so that their bodies almost touched. She tentatively took his hands and held them between hers, causing goosebumps to spread all over his body. As he was almost a whole head taller than she was, she craned her neck upwards so she could see in his face if her actions were unwelcome. Adrien’s heart skipped a beat in anticipation as he waited, unconsciously tilting his head down slightly.

Then it happened. Time seemed to slow down to a crawl and everything was silent. Ladybug gracefully stood on her toes and leaned forward to place a most delicate kiss on his cheek. He let out a soft gasp despite himself, heat flooding his face, chest swelling with a feeling he couldn’t identify. She didn’t pull away for a few moments, her soft, warm skin remaining on his, and he distinctly felt a sense of rightness, or belonging. It was as if their heartbeats and their breathing were in sync, like gears in a clock that fit together perfectly. What was this feeling, and more importantly, why was he yearning for more?

Before he could ponder it further, he felt Ladybug smile and she whispered, “See you around, handsome boy.”

With a quick wave, she sauntered towards the window and zipped away, leaving a very dazed and blushing Adrien behind holding his cheek, which almost seemed to tingle at that point.

Breathless, he muttered out loud, “Did… did she just call me ‘handsome boy’?”, which was followed by shrill hysterical laughing coming from his pocket.

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The opening of Kedr Livanskiy’s Your Needtwinkles into audibility—a breathless mist, an upbeat shift. Quickly, it’s back down to earth, leveled by warm, warbling vocals. But for a minute, it’s pure pop, effervescent teenage girlhood cut, deliciously, with a little winking excess. Yana Kedrina—the artist behind the nom de plume—is radiant, unfathomably long platinum hair echoing the yellow stripe down the side of Your Need’s album cover. This second album, the Bandcamp copy tells us, is “a celebration of life and rebirth”—a high-energy jaunt, clubby and cavorting with peaks like “Bounce 2” and the focused, grainy build of the penultimate “City Track.” 

We’re eating hummus in the back of a Persian grocery store in London when Lawrence tells me he has a surprise. It’s embargoed but Really Exciting; he needs my passport and won’t tell me why until I guess the spot. He holds up a photo of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, and my dumb American sensibility is like, uhh, I don’t know, it’s some grungy former Eastern Bloc destination that, five years down the line, guys in Carhartts will describe as the Bushwick of the East? Maybe, in a manner of speaking. The depth of my Russian cultural knowledge is really nil, pathetic, so he humanely cuts me off to answer. Moscow. We’re going to Moscow.

Aside from some half-retained undergrad lectures about early Soviet film montage, Kedr Livanskiy is the beginning and end of my insight into the Russian avant-garde. I stream her debut EP, January Sun, on repeat while I wait for my visa to get approved, wandering around Berlin and relaxing into the titular track’s metered, melancholy flow. I’m kind of down about a bunch of impending change so January Sunand Audrey Wollen’s Sad Girl Theory are propping me up while I twitch around the cramped apartment block where I’m staying for a filmmaking residency, in which I learn that I actually really, really don’t want to be a filmmaker. The early EP, released in 2016, has a lo-fi grit about it that perfectly suits Berlin’s much-maligned maxim, “Poor but Sexy,” with its reverberant hum. 

Landing in Moscow, I’m allayed, for a second. Compared to Berlin, everything’s immaculate—pastel confections of buildings sit low on the horizon; a glass of complimentary champagne is stuffed in my hand when I check into Hotel Richter. My room! It has a fucking fresco on the ceiling! But within a day, the smoothness sours into homesick disorientation. In line for the bar one night, I watch a lethargic progression of gallery totes, screen-printed with Cyrillic sans-serif. Vacillating into and out of elation,Your Needturns out to be perfectly suited to my first trip to Russia. Grounded by slower moments like “LED” and “Why Love,” the albumflutters into occasional severity, recalling the coarse, foggy rhythms that magnetized me to January Sun.

Of course, it matters that I don’t speak any Russian. In my total alienation from lyrical meaning, Livanskiy’s songs come to me as pure structure—texture and affect and the granular nuances of each tiny build and fall, fully divorced from signification. I feel kind of icky and preposterous as I fumble towards interpretation, so it’ll suffice to offer a personal read, here. If January Sun scored a month of depressey self-searching, Your Need, released at the beginning of May, came right as the clouds began to clear, all while retaining a sense of the meticulous depth that made Kedrina’s early work so haunting. 

Lawrence shows his movie one night at a cinema club that was founded by Sergei Eisenstein. Lights up after and it’s really well-received by a crowd comprised entirely of plausible Gosha models. An angelic blonde with pigtail braids is the first to find him in the front row, before most have risen from their seats. “It was so great! I loved it!” He thanks her warmly. She rushes out. I elbow him, giggling. “That,” I hazard through a dumb starstruck grin, “was Kedr Livanskiy.”

Later I fall into some party at Strelka, the architecture-school-cum-cultural-hub that’s hosting a NTS showcase sponsored by the British Embassy. Beatrice Dillon—another favorite from the Cult of Domesticity playlist, dedicated to Women in House, where Kedr takes up residence in my Spotify library—takes the stage. Dancing mechanically, I catch a glimpse of platinum in my peripheral. I ask my newish buddy, probably an appropriate source of journalistic guidance because he has a monthly Vice column, whether it would be bullshitty to approach her. It’s loud so I don’t really know how he answers. 

I try to put it out of my mind. I keep grooving. Eventually, my dedication to hardcore reporting outweighs my sense of personal self-preservation, so I shuffle towards her and yell over the music.

—“Hey, I love your new album!” 

Graciously, she smiles. Magnetic.

 —“I’m writing a review for this online fashion magazine—want to talk to me about Your Need?” 

—“What?” 

 Yelling now, I’m so hyper-conscious of my shrill American valley-girl affectation, I want to unzip my skin and leave my body on the dancefloor. Mortified, I still persist, pressing on in service of Journalism. 

 —“I’m writing about Your Need! Is there anything you want my readers to know?” 

She’s stilted, no recognition. 

—“Uhh….. maybe later.” 

 Is that a scoop? Whatever. I still give this album five stars.

courtesy KEDR LIVANSKIY

@kedr_livanskiy

words ADINA GLICKSTEIN

@addieglickstein

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