#swansea is in the like territory for me

[clearlydusty]

me and my sisters played Mouthwashing for the first time, and even though I got a ton of spoilers from tumblr this game was still an AMAZING experience. Can you guess who my favorite is??

(also just found out that daisuke describes his experience on the tulpar to Anya, not J*mmy, so I put him there for nothing)

[kokytea]

(Text to accompany the art wohooo) Anya got practically shoved in this space, She always tought the door was stuck or something but no, secrets kept from her, from everyone else, she wanted to yell a couple of insults to the capitain for this, but ended in just a muttering, no one was hearing her and the door was sealed until she came back. No one could hear her anyways from the inside, or very little, it was a dark corridor that led somewhere unknown, and took her a good deal of time to get adjusted to it, with the small box of medicine and what little tools she was given in one hand, in the other a very dim flashlight that used a swivel to charge, it was old and barely did the job at this point, but it was better than nothing. She carefully walked trough the corridor, and felt like she was going to be jumped on from everywhere, like a little mouse that wandered too far off into owl territory, it was silent for the most part, but at times she could hear some kind of vapor or gas scaping violently on the ceiling, the Tulpar cold steel bones creaking and snapping, a signal of the old age the vessel showed, she was on her last legs after all, not even ol' Swansea could save this metal beast from inminent death, it was a miracle it hadn't exploded yet. She finally reaches out what seems the end, only an old metal door separated her from whatever waited in this place. She opens the door, it creacks a bit but otherwise is not that different from the ones on the main halls. There's a dim, weak light on top, barely lighting up something. Someone, someone is sitting there. Anya feels an inmediate discomfort, like she is being judged , biten like a prey in the jaws of an all powerful, inevitable monster in the jungle of steel they are in, her heart starts to race,whatever it is, it's massive, even just sitting there, doing nothing. She can notice some kind of vapor coming from their back, it slowly rises to the ceiling, the breathing of the thing is hard, like it takes them some effort for thar simple action, under the hood she later notices it's looking at her, a piercing glance, but at the same time it seems it begs for something. -A-Are you the Nurse?- It questions, with a deep but incredibly gentle voice, it's a woman, Curly didn't even bother telling her that, he seemed to not care about it himself, treating them as just an object. -Yes, I am, the name is Anya, I'm here to check on you- Anya feels more comfortable now, the stranger voice seems kind and her fears start to slowly dissipate. -Oh, thank the stars!- She speaks back to Anya, the tone seems hopeful and tries to wake up to greet her, but falls of again to the same place, clearly in pain.-Ughh... Name is Francisca, but if it's easier Pancha is ok too, sorry if I scared you, not moving was the only thing that helped a bit, I couldn't reach my medications or my supplies because they got left in the cargo, I always put my stuff in there in the other company vessels and I have the code and permissions to get there and check on it, I also had my own keys for the door but I don't know where they got left to get out again, He said he didn't need security and didn't listen to me when I told him my stuff was there. - I... He did really say that? Ok ok don't worry, I'm here now and I will help you apply your medications, I will try to bring your other stuff too, now just let me check you, I will try to make this short.-

[ask-postcrash-curly]

Hello again, dear! Kind Words.

Just a follow-up... since last, I keep finding myself thinking about what kinds of birds you all would be! (Sigh. I even thought of one for Jimmy, yes. That man.) I know, quite silly, isn't it? I suppose I just couldn't help myself. If you don't mind me musing to you for a bit...?

[ https://open.spotify.com/track/219YZeCWcs99zpB1pKoQy7?si=8S-dJn9FRNmvsBJw5P_-9g ]

Curly: Blue Jay. I am sure you are familiar with these. Blue jays are recognizable for their iconic blue-and-black plumage, and they are quite popular among bird lovers! They are known for their intelligence, boldness, and loyalty to their tightly-knit flocks. A blue jay may represent good fortune, and chances for new opportunities within our lives.

Jimmy: Mockingbird. Unassuming little bastards - oh, excuse me - with loud and noisy calls. Don't be fooled by their humble appearance, though; they are known to be highly aggressive and territorial over their nests. I have heard they may represent a need for self-reflection and change. I frequently spot them bullying the blue jays in my neighborhood... and the squirrels. And the crows. And the neighbor's cat. Seems quite fitting to me.

Anya: Pigeon. Ah, the noble pigeon. Unassuming to most, and shamefully discredited for their helpfulness. They once played an important role alongside people as message carriers, but were eventually phased out and abandoned to city streets. Due to their domestication, though, they are now quite docile and tolerant of humans. I hear they can make for fantastic and loyal companions. They are common symbols of peace, hope, and freedom.

Daisuke: Hummingbird. Yes, everyone's favorite flashy, hyperactive backyard pollinators. They are just too cute to dislike, aren't they? They are known for their love of flowers' sweet nectar, as well as their speed and curious personalities. They symbolize unabashed joy, courage, and strength, and remind us to enjoy life's pleasures as they come.

Swansea: Trumpeter Swan. I am sure this one was obvious... the trumpeter swan is the largest swan species in North America. They are quite the loudmouths, with their signature "trumpeting" calls... and, like all swans, are known to be rather fierce and aggressive, especially regarding their young. Swans typically symbolize grace, beauty, and love... though, uh, I'm not sure how much of that is applicable to Swansea. You know him better than I. But they can also be symbols of wisdom and inner-strength, too.

And... that's everyone! What do you think, blue jay? I'll admit I may be a bit biased in my selection - especially yours, but I just couldn't put another bird to your name! Who couldn't be happier seeing a blue jay among the feeders, yes? They are just so charming.

Oh, gosh, I do apologize if all of that was terribly boring, though. It seems I certainly know how to chatter your ear off one way or the other. Feel free to stop me next time, yeah? (Whoops! I did it again.)

Ever watching the birds, darling! Cheers! 🐦

Hello again!

Hah, really? Course I don't mind. Please do.

(This sounds much nicer than the effects by the lounge's window screen...)

Awww. I can't agree with you that this sounds like me. I mean, c'mon, boldness? Good fortune? Please. Still, I'm flattered. Heheh.

Pfft. Can't much argue there. I thought cats were supposed to chase birds, not the other way 'round?

Pigeon, huh? This I have to hear. Mm, yeah, sounds like her... Peace, hope, and freedom. I like that.

Hah! That sure fits him. Always flitting about making some sort of noise (before the crash, anyways) and bouncing off the walls. Here's hoping he gets back there again. Hummingbirds are resilient, yeah?

Of course, of course. He really leans into the swan thing, you know. Even his keys are swan-themed! A fierce, aggressive loudmouth? That's Swansea all right. And— Hah! Hey, he's loving in his own special Swansea way.

I think you've got my crew pretty much down. Definitely biased when it comes to me, but I'm not complaining.

Nope, not boring at all! I told you over and over how much I appreciate your talks, yeah? It's more of a comfort for me than I can tell you. Please continue! (Hah. Yep.)

Cheers! (Psst. You did it again!)

[ash-imagines]

Mouthwashing Pokémon Team Headcanons

Curly: Pikachu, Salamance, Blue Core Minior, Alolan Sandshrew, Articuno, Pawmot

Jimmy: Noivern, Vileplume, Drapion, Espurr, Mimikyu, Sneasel

Daisuke: Smeargle, Togepi, Pachirisu, Magnemite, Rowlet, Budew

Anya: Audino, Stufful, Glaceon, Swablu, Gallade, Riolu

Swansea: Herdier, Diggersby, Luxray, Pangoro, Swanna, Shieldon

I feel like I don't often explain my choices when I make these team headcanons, so let me do that. When I choose Pokémon, I like to consider aspects of the characters' personalities, but also what would be helpful to them in their everyday lives. Also, I know that all of the Tulpar crew has favorite Pokémon, but Daisuke's wasn't even a Pokémon and I don't feel like Rayquaza would vibe with Jimmy. Rayquaza would show up, tell Jimmy to get his shit sorted, and then leave imo.

Curly: Pikachu because it's his favorite. Salamance, in my opinion, is a good representation of Curly's dissatisfaction with his position as captain. Salamance goes its entire life wanting to be able to fly, and at this stage of evolution, it finally can. Salamance is at the top of its ladder. Minior is a Pokémon from space that wishes it could return home. It is vulnerable in its core form. It likely will never see its home again. Alolan Sandshrew to represent his fate in the cryo pod and because they are prey to Sneasel. Articuno for its Ice/Flying typing (since Curly is a space captain and the aforementioned cryo pod) and because it appears to trainers who are doomed. (Yes, Jimmy is envious like you wouldn't believe.) Pawmot because of its peaceful personality and because they will occasionally heal others with their electric power.

Jimmy: Noivern because of its violent temper and cruelty towards its enemies. Vileplume because of its toxicity. Drapion because they are territorial. Espurr because of its constant internal struggle. Mimikyu because of Curly's pikachu. Sneasel because they are smart, sneaky, and vicious.

Daisuke: Smeargle because he's an artist. Togepi because it shares happiness with those who need it. Pachirisu because it hides its food from others to eat later. Magnemite because he's interning to become a handyman like Swansea. Rowlet because it, according to Bulbapedia, feels most relaxed in tight, dark spaces... like vents... Budew because of his hibiscus shirt.

Anya: Audino because it can use its antennae as stethoscopes. Stufful because they don't want to be touched, and the consequences of doing so are dire. Glaceon because it's her favorite. Swablu to help her keep her workspace tidy, and because it somewhat resembles the nighttime screen with the dead pixel. "Gallade is known to be sharply aware of a person's wish for help and seeks out those who need its assistance in battle, fighting savagely with fast and fierce attacks." Riolu because they are playful, energetic, hardworking, and tough, much like Anya. (Until she became traumatized...)

Swansea: Herdier because it's his favorite. Diggersby for its strength and usefulness in bigger repairs. Luxray because it can see through objects. Pangoro because they are friendly but dislike those who pick on the weak. Swanna, for obvious reasons. (He used to not like the Swanna, but it grew on him. He got it in a trade with Daisuke.) Shieldon for its Rock/Steel typing and because it's mild-mannered.

[gameb0yadvanced]

🐕☁️ tells me it's always been this way. it's weird to feel so conflicted about a woman i've never properly met. 🖊️🩸 says it comes with the territory. but he understands why i'm so conflicted. he gets that i had a rocky relationship witu my mom in my source. i dunno if ours reminds me of her yet. but i see it, sometimes. 💜⭐️ is probably more like me than he realizes.

still, i wish there was more i could do. my mind keeps racing. all i can do is listen to some music and try not to think about it.

i've been listening to a lot of tv girl. ghost and chappell roan, too. they've become my top three artists. i like a mixture of things. touchy, feely slow songs, and energetic fun ones.

i guess that's just me. the struggling ray of sunshine.

i want to live up to Swansea's vision of me. i want to be the sun. yet it feels like the world tries to kill my sun sometimes.

my new friend called me love. he calls me pretty. he calls me cute and loves how shy i am. he compliments my giggles.

i don't know how i feel about him yet.

11/21/2024

i watched 💜⭐️ call our mom. i've never met the woman, but it struck me, the way he went from smiling at her over video call, to tearing up the moment they hung up, practically sobbing quietly on my shoulder as i took primary from him so he could take it easy.

i don't know what kind of woman our mom is. but it hurts to see that.

i'm worried for Thanksgiving.

🧯👾 Daisuke

[lo-lynx]

Laurits/Loki as a queer character in Netflix’s Ragnarok

Spoilers for season one of Netflix’s show Ragnarok!

I binged the first season of the Netflix show Ragnarok yesterday, and felt compelled to write something about it. This is somewhat hastely written, so I apologise if the arguments are not as well thought out as they could be, but I wanted to write something. So here we go:

In the Netflix show Ragnarok we meet the two brothers Magne and Laurits as they move to the Norwegian town of Edda with their mother (Ragnarok 2020a). The audience and the characters soon realise that this town is not quite normal, and something mysterious is afoot… It becomes clear that Magne has been bestowed with some sort of magical powers and has been put in the role of Thor in the battle between Norse gods and giants. However, it is less clear what role Laurits is supposed to play. In this text I will claim that he is the Loki to Magne’s Thor, and that is especially interesting in regards to the queerness of his character.  

So, first of all, why do I think Laurits is Loki? I think the first point that should be made here is his and Magne’s physical descriptions.

Here we see Laurits sitting furthest to the left, with a green jacket, and Magne sitting to the right of him (with blue jeans and a red t-shirt). Magne and Laurits very much look like how one would imagine Thor and Loki, especially a contemporary audience who has seen the Marvel version of them:

But even beyond Laurits’ looks and brotherly relation to the Thor character, there are parallels between Loki and Laurits. There is his slightly deceptive and trickster like nature, such as when he plays pranks on Magne (for instance by messing up his essay for class when he was supposed to look over the spelling) (Ragnarok 2020a, 22 min). Then there’s also his affinity with the Jutul family, who are actually giants (the name seems to be a play on the old Norse word for giants, jǫtunn). The Loki of Norse myth is often associated with giants as well and might be giant or half-giant (Hume 2019). In the series it is also hinted at several times that Laurits has some sort of magical connection to the giants, for instance at the school dance (Ragnarok 2002b, 31 min). It is also hinted at that the father of the Jutul family, Vidar, has had an affair with Laurits’ mother Turid previously (for example: Ragnarok 2002b, 11:30 min). This makes me wonder if Laurits’ parents are in fact Turid and Vidar, making him half giant… If that is the case, he would have a sort of double cultural heritage, that of humans and that of giants.

Another cultural aspect that is interesting to look at is the parallels between the Loki of myth and the culture of the indigenous Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and Russia (Laidoner 2012). For one, the land of the giants seems to somewhat resemble the description of the Sámi peoples land, in regards to geographical location (north, on the borderlands). Similar to how Sámi was (and are) seen as “other” by Scandinavian people, so were the jǫtunn seen by the æsir (the gods). Laidoner also sees parallels between Loki and historical Sámi shamanism (noadi). She writes:

Loki’s potential links to the cultural world of the Sámi might perhaps first and foremost lie in his combination of being both a jǫtunn and (possibly) an áss and the fact that he seems to lack a home and a clear cultural background (…). This certainly makes him a very untrustworthy outsider among the æsir who, irrespective of the fact that their own ancestry goes back to the jǫtnar, frequently show hostility towards them. Loki’s jǫtunn background, and the possible connection between the Sámi and the jǫtnar whose headquarters seem to have been placed in an area that corresponded to the Sámi territories, allow us to place the focus of the following discussion on Loki’s potential affiliation with Sámi culture, where ideas of symbolic soul travels, cosmic oppositions and ambiguity seem to form a natural part of human existence, something most clearly reflected in the noaidi-tradition. It is difficult to overlook the fact that many dualistic ideas of the same kind are also embodied in the Loki figure. Besides being borderline jǫtunn and áss, a curious relic of Loki’s possible connection to the Sámi-world can perhaps be found in his everpresent duality. This duality is shown in several contrasting qualities, such as existing in both male and female form and being a father and a mother, representing aspects of both good and evil (to the extent that such clear distinctions existed in pre-Christian times), being a causer and resolver of problems, a thief and a bringer of valuable objects, all of which again seems to be in accordance with the functions of a noaidi. (Laidoner 2012, 69)

So, as we can see, Loki crosses borders between both cultures and genders, and both of these aspects make him seem untrustworthy. We can also see a parallel here to how indigenous people have been seen and are seen still today. Now, to return to Laurits, we can see some of these aspects here. Laurits move between different worlds, from the luxury of the Jutuls and the popular kids at school, to his rather less glamorous home-life. As I mentioned above, I also think there’s a possibility of him being half Jutul. But he also most definitely plays with gender borders.

I have previously written on this blog about characters moving between genders, for instance regarding Varys in ASOIAF/GoT and Alex in the “Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard” series by Rick Riordan. As mentioned in the latter text, in that story Loki is presented as genderfluid for similar reasons as I outlined above with his changing of sex/gender. In the analysis of Varys, I wrote about how he was perceived as a transgressor of both borders of gender and ethnicity, with being a eunuch from “the East”. (I there relied on texts about the historical eunuchs in for instance Ancient Greece (Llewyn-Jones 2002; Nikoloutsos 2008)). Similar to what Laidoner writes about Loki, one can see that the fluidity of Varys is connected to his movement between different gender expressions as well as cultures. Here I want to briefly touch on some more theoretical background that might be useful when understanding the crossing of borders with gender and ethnicity. Emma Bond writes about the experiences of trans people who also crosses borders of nations, and how they are seen as transgressors in double ways (2018, 71). She further writes that those who permanently inhabit this liminal space between borders, this site is often experienced as a place of alienation and violence (2018, 97). So, throughout these different examples we can see that people who cross borders of gender and ethnicity are seen as suspicious, and perhaps doubly queer (in the sense of non-conformity to norms of sex/gender/sexuality, which is of course also bound up with norms of ethnicity).

In the show, Laurits is seen crossing gender borders several times. One clear example is during the school dance, where he shows up with eyeliner, skinny jeans, and his mother’s old shirt (Ragnarok 2020b, 22:30 min). At the same dance it becomes clear that he has somewhat of a crush on the popular boy Fjor Jotul (who might be his half-brother if my theory is correct… but I’m also not sure if the Jutul family is actually related in the way they claim…) (Ragnarok 2020b, 24:36 min). This is of course also a break with gender norms, that dictate that men should be attracted to women. Then in the last episode of season one Laurits shows up to the school’s celebration of the national day dressed as the school’s headmistress Ran Jutul to mock and criticise her (Ragnarok 2020c, 31:40 min). Here he cross-dresses, perhaps in a similar way as the mythological Loki has done at times. He also plays the role of the trickster very well. Throughout the season it has been somewhat unclear on whose side he is on, but here at the end he helps the “good guys” (mainly his brother), but of course in a mocking manner. This illuminates the dualistic nature of Loki that Laidoner describes (2012).

Overall, Laurits can be seen as portraying several aspects of Loki. He is a trickster, but also a somewhat fluid character in regards to his heritage/culture and gender/sexuality. He moves between different spaces, inhabiting the liminal space between borders of good/evil, feminine/masculine, etc. This portrayal of a queer character is very interesting, and I hope in the event that the show is renewed for a second season it will explore this further. I should however mention the risk of showing a queer character as a deceiver, this could of course play into stereotypes about queer and/or trans characters. This is something that I write about in the previously mentioned text about Alex from the Magnus Chase novels. But I also think this can be portrayed well and interestingly if the audience is shown a contrast between how Laurits is perceived and who he is. A similar element was most definitely present with Magne in season one. So overall, this portrayal of a queer Laurits/Loki is quite interesting and promising.

 References

Bond, Emma. 2018. Writing Migration through the Body. Springer: Cham

Hume, Kathryn. 2019. “Loki and Odin: Old Gods Repurposed by Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, and Klas Östergren.” Studies in the Novel, (51)2: 237-308.

Laidoner, Triin. “The Flying Noaidi of the North: Sámi Tradition Reflected in the Figure Loki Laufeyjarson in Old Norse Mythology.” Scripta Islandica 63 (2012): 59–91.

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. 2002. “Eunuchs and the royal harem in Achaemenid Persia (559-331 BC)”, in Eunuchs in antiquity and beyond, ed. Tougher, Shaun, 19-50. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.

Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P. 2008. ”The Alexander Bromance: Male Desire and Gender Fluidity in Oliver Stone’s Historical Epic.” Helios, (35)2: 223-251

Ragnarok. 2020a. New Boy. [TV-show] Netflix, 31st of January.

Ragnarok. 2020b. 541 Meters. [TV-show] Netflix, 31st of January.

Ragnarok. 2020c. Yes, we love this country. [TV-show] Netflix, 31st of January.

[phroyd]

There are still a few things in public life that you cannot fake. You can fake photographs and you can fake news. You can fake conviction and you can fake emotions. You can fake a Twitter-petition and you can fake Facebook outrage. But you cannot fake an almighty crowd.

The numbers attending Saturday’s march for a second “people’s vote” on Brexit will no doubt be contested. The organisers claimed more than a million people were out; detractors inevitably argued a few thousand fewer. But make no mistake, for anyone who travelled to it, and shuffled along among it and who tried to find their way home after it, the Put it to the People march represented a formidable sea of humanity, and a powerful strength of feeling.

And let no one tell you that this was just a London crowd. By 10.30 at Speaker’s Corner there were people arriving for the high noon rendezvous from all corners of the country and beyond. Groups draped in the saltires of Scotland and the dragons of Wales. Anna Soubry MP was among the earliest arrivals, walking cheerfully down Park Lane through the gathering crowds with her daughter (“my security for the day”) having been forced to stay away from her home last night after death threats.

Meanwhile phones were alive with feeds and photos of people making their way from Newport and Newcastle, Carlisle and Canterbury. An entire train had been booked from Bristol, rattling along Brunel’s Great Western Railway into Paddington. There were overnight coaches from Inverness, dawn starts from Cornwall.

Some had gone more than the extra mile. Ed Sides, 63, had walked here from his home in Swansea over the past couple of weeks. I’d spoken to him on the penultimate leg of his journey, along the Grand Union Canal. “If I didn’t do something I felt I would regret it for the rest of my life,” he said, voicing the sentiment of many. Sides had tried to make the theme of his quest “walking and talking”: “When you talk to ardent Leavers and you meet them on the street, or by a riverbank where they are fishing or whatever, you find you can have a proper conversation,” he said. “And that’s something we all need to do in the coming days.”

Like many of the marchers, he felt that if nothing else walking had been a good way of avoiding the stress and frustrations of watching the news. “I thought, if I am sitting at home on Twitter for the next three weeks I am going to go insane.”

That feeling was shared by those expats who had flown in from the continent who, having been denied a vote in the first referendum, were now facing the climax of three years of painful uncertainty. Rebecca MacKian, 52, who has lived in Turin for the past 15 years, joined up with 20 others from the “British in Italy” group to be here.

“If no-deal happens then the next morning we will become what the Italian government now calls an ‘illegal resident’,” she said, a status that will affect everything about her life from driving a car to continuing to run her training business. “We have literally been working every day – 1,000 days – with each other to try to get some clarity on all of it. I never thought I would become addicted to Parliament TV, but I have.”

Jason Harris, 47, had got up at 2am to be here with his 14-year-old son Oran. They lived on the frontline of backstop territory in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, three miles from the border. Harris, a landscape designer who works on both sides of the border every week, also felt he had to be here rather than shouting at the television. “It is clear that either no deal or her deal will leave things in Northern Ireland up in the air for years,” he said. “I fear we will spend the next decades just trying to get back the freedoms we have given away.”

Like many on the march his priority had changed in the past week or so, with the options narrowing and the cliff-edge looming, and the online petition torevoke article 50 climbing towards 5 million signatures. “Revoke would now be number one, number two people’s vote,” he said. That idea had travelled in this crowd. Variations of the three Rs populated signs and banners: revoke, remain and reform.

There have been many attempts to divide the respective Leave and Remain tribes since the referendum – into somewheres and nowheres, populists and globalists, gammons and snowflakes.

One of the simplest distinctions, however, has always seemed to come down to that division between those who relish the idea of being cheek-by-jowl with people unlike themselves, and those who feel threatened by that idea. As the tide of protesters inched its way along Piccadilly toward Trafalgar Square it looked like an above-ground exhibition of what most Londoners experience below ground every day: the tolerant sharing of space with others. The people who had come to demonstrate voiced, above all, a conviction, to borrow that telling phrase from Jo Cox, “that we have more in common than that which divides us”. (Cox, it goes without saying, would have loved this event. Her killer would have loathed it.)

There had been suggestions that the march would be met by counter-demonstrations, but there were none in evidence. As the crowd first massed, with its blue and gold EU flags, I heard one or two shouts of “traitors” from those driving by. These “patriots” would have done well to talk to Brigadier Stephen Goodall, who led the “Veterans For EU” group.

Goodall will be 97 in June. He had travelled up from his home in Devon with four generations of his family including his great-granddaughter. During the war he helped to pull survivors out of the rubble of the Coventry bombing. He served in India and Burma and was awarded the Military Cross in 1945 for bravery behind enemy lines.

I had spoken to the brigadier the day before the march about his reasons for coming. “It was an easy decision,” he said. “There is not much time left for me to do anything and I just feel if we can even at this late stage get people thinking sensibly, then it will be worthwhile.” His great anxiety, as a former controller of the Slimbridge Wildlife Trust, was that our fractured politics would deflect us from the co-operative spirit required to combat climate change. “One thing that I always bear in mind from when we were in Malaya in the 1950s,” he said, “was this imperative that governance was first about reaching hearts and minds. We need politicians who think first of people,” he said, “not about their investments in the City of London.”

Goodall was pushed in his wheelchair near the head of the march, along with a brass band. It was impossible watching that sight not to make some comparisons with those few stubborn souls on the ill-fated “March to Leave”, moved to trudge along lonely hard-shoulders by Nigel Farage, only to find that he had turned up for the photo opportunity and left them to fend for themselves. Farage, alive to BBC requirements for “balance”, had returned to preach on Saturday to his handful of leaderless foot soldiers at a pub car park in Linby, Nottinghamshire: “You are the 17.4 million,” he told a crowd of 150.

As the thousands upon thousands flowed down towards Parliament Square there was, contrarily, a spirit that the Brexiters have failed over the past three years ever to begin to convey: that of creative optimism. You saw it in the 100 and more tango dancers led by Matthew Cooper, who had met in growing numbers on each of the past three protest marches, aged between 20 and 80. And in the improvised speeches on freedom given by an Emmeline Pankhurst lookalike under the statue of the suffragette. And even in the bloke flogging Donald Trump toilet rolls from a shopping trolley to stockpile should the rationing begin.

There was a very droll Britishness in the spirit that tempered any edges of anger from the many younger voices on the march. There were lots more students’ union buses than on previous marches, and among them plenty who had lost their faith in the Labour leadership to solve the crisis and deliver on its conference commitment to campaign for a second referendum.

Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on a screen. Get outside.

That brief marchers’ favourite “Oooh Jeremy Corbyn” had been replaced for several sections of this crowd by a more plaintive “Where’s Jeremy Corbyn?” The answer, perversely, was that the Labour leader was canvassing in Morecambe Bay – about as far from this event as it was symbolically possible to go.

Only one of Labour’s frontbench felt able to lend his voice to this event. Tom Watson, breaking ranks, was given something of a hero’s welcome on the speakers’ stage alongside some of those others who have emerged from the sorry parliamentary process with heads held high: Soubry, Jess Phillips, Dominic Grieve, David Lammy, Caroline Lucas; and some of those from beyond the Commons who have best articulated the cause of returning to the people to find a way through the current impasse: Michael Heseltine and Nicola Sturgeon.

Their collective message served as a reminder that when the prime minister stands up again this week and claims to speak for “the people” with her unloved deal and her fingernails-down-the-blackboard phrases about delivering Brexit, she will not speak for the million individuals who filled the wide streets and squares of the capital yesterday, or for the millions more across the country who were with them in spirit.

Watching the crowd I was reminded of a book I reviewed for this paper not long after those electoral convulsions of 2016 here and across the Atlantic. The book, On Tyranny, by the Yale historian Timothy Snyder, was a little survival guide against the digital forces of populism and the brutalist politics they promoted. Snyder called above all for a “corporeal politics” in response, for voting with paper ballots that can be counted and recounted; for face-to-face conversation, and for marching rather than online petitioning: “Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on a screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.”

Those who did this on Saturday will no doubt be told in the coming days, as Britain determines the kind of country it will become, that they were wasting their time and effort. But this march mattered in the simple and fundamental way that mass marches always matter: as a reminder to those who make decisions in their name that democracy is not a settled state, but a shifting expression of collective will. As one little girl’s sign had it: “The people are STILL speaking”.

Phroyd

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Charlton 1-0 Cardiff

That’s a bit more like it from Gary Madine, again running across his marker but this time actually getting his header on target. It’s straight into the arms of Dillon Phillips, however.

This is his 21st league appearance for the Bluebirds and he’s yet to score for them.

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Charlton 1-0 Cardiff

Cardiff are a bit unlucky to find themselves behind, although they’re not really turning their good possession and territory into genuine chances.

Gary Madine, a £6m signing from Bolton in January 2018, sends a near-post header well wide.

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Charlton 1-0 Cardiff

Conor Gallagher has been one of the early stars of this Championship this season and, full of belief from his goal, very nearly creates a second for his side.

Cutting inside onto his right foot, he sends in a teasing come-and-tap-me-in delivery flashing across the six-yard box.

Unfortunately for the Chelsea loanee, nobody in a red shirt reacted quickly enough.

Could Gallagher find himself in Frank Lampard’s team next season?

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Charlton 1-0 Cardiff

Jonathan Leko can be some player on his day, full of pace and trickery, but he’s not having his finest afternoon here so far.

First he blocks a shot from Addicks team-mate Erhun Oztumer and then he fails to properly connect with a low cross when well placed about eight yards out.

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You have to say, looking at that replay Callum Paterson has every right to be annoyed. He’s 100% clipped by Deji Oshilaja as he went to shoot first time and Cardiff should’ve had a penalty.

Bluebirds boss Neil Harris is fuming, still remonstrating with the fourth official. And he’s not even seen the replay I’ve just seen.

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Callum Paterson’s a proper bruiser, isn’t he? The big Cardiff frontman is sporting a moustache for ‘Movember’, too, and it only serves to make him look even more intimidating than usual.

He goes shoulder to shoulder with Charlton defender Deji Oshilaja but the linesman flags for a free-kick against him.

Moments later, his frustration with the officials grows even deeper when he goes tumbling in the area only for the referee to wave away his appeals.

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The Addicks are without a win in four games, losing three of those, and in truth they’d started like a team low on confidence here too.

A sixth goal of the season for Conor Gallagher has certainly got the crowd up.

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Charlton 1-0 Cardiff

In Fantasy Football parlance Jonathan Leko gets the assist there, but it just looks funnier with every passing replay. He ended up kicking the ball against his standing foot.

What now for new Bluebirds boss Neil Harris?!

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GOAL: Charlton 1-0 Cardiff

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And, against the run of play, Charlton lead.

There’s a bit of everything in this goal. Macauley Bonne’s excellent burst of pace and low cross is then let down by a comical miskick from Jonathan Leko, but fortunately for the Addicks it drops straight toConor Gallagherand the Chelsea loanee pokes into the bottom corner.

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Charlton 0-0 Cardiff

Nearly!

The away side have started to take control in the past few minutes and now they’ve created the first big chance of the game too.

After Nathaniel Mendez-Laing does brilliantly to squeeze between two Charlton defenders and get into a crossing position, Callum Paterson can only flash a near-post snapshot wide of the upright.

Should he do better? Quite probably.

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Charlton 0-0 Cardiff

There was a stat doing the rounds when Cardiff lost to Bristol City before the international break that centre-half Aden Flint had enjoyed more touches inside opposition penalty areas than any other Bluebirds player in 2019-20.

Predictably, he’s the target for the set-piece but Charlton manage to get it clear.

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Charlton 0-0 Cardiff

Gary Madine is making his first Cardiff start of the season today and he earns an early free-kick inside the Charlton half.

The visitors play it short and eventually work the ball over to Junior Hoilett, who gets to the byline and wins the game’s first corner.

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Charlton 0-0 Cardiff

It’s been pretty attritional stuff in the early stages, with the action almost exclusively taking place in the middle third of the field.

The Bluebirds are without an away win so far this season and they’ve made a cagey start here too.

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Charlton 0-0 Cardiff

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Having not touched the ball at all inside the opening 60 seconds, Cardiff win a free-kick when Wales full-back Adam Matthews brings down Junior Hoilett.

What are we expecting from the new Cardiff City? Many suggest it’ll be much the same under Neil Harris as it was under Neil Warnock, but please do let us know what you think by using#bbceflon social media.

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Charlton 0-0 Cardiff

The Addicks get us up and running, kicking from right to left as we watch on, towards the contingent of away supporters behind Neil Etheridge’s goal.

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The teams are out…

Charlton v Cardiff (12:30 GMT)

The two teams have already made their way out onto the turf, Charlton in their usual red and white home kit and Cardiff dressed head to toe in blue.

Kick-off is just a few moments away.

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Team news

Charlton v Cardiff (12:30 GMT)

Both managers have made two changes for this match, with Neil Harris naming Callum Paterson and Gary Madine in his first Cardiff City starting XI.

Charlton:Phillips, Matthews, Purrington, Oshilaja, Lockyer, Pearce, Gallagher, Leko, Bonne, Cullen, Oztumer.

Subs:Maynard-Brewer, Morgan, Solly, Sarr, Davison, Doughty.

Cardiff:Etheridge, Peltier, Nelson, Flint, Bennett, Pack, Bacuna, Mendez-Laing, Hoilett, Madine, Paterson.

Subs:Smithies, Morrison, Coxe, Vaulks, Murphy, Tomlin, Bogle.

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As I’ve already mentioned, we begin today at The Valley, where Neil Harris will be taking charge of his first match as Cardiff City manager.

The former Millwall boss has replaced Neil Warnock, who parted company with the Bluebirds following their 1-0 home defeat by Bristol City.

Harris was in attendance as Wales beat Hungary to qualify for Euro 2020 on Wednesday – and has said this week that he hopes to tap into that feel-good factor.

“I think that’s lifted everybody in the vicinity,” he said. “Hopefully we take that goodwill and good spirit into the weekend at Charlton.”

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Kamara double sees Fulham beat QPR

Friday: Fulham 2-1 QPR

This round of English Football League fixtures got under way last night, as stand-in striker Aboubakar Kamara scored twice to give Fulham victory over Queens Park Rangers to move up to fourth in the Championship table.

Kamara, brought in to replace suspended top scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic, coolly took his chances after Rangers stunned the hosts with an early goal.

You can read Andrew Aloia’s full match report by clicking the link below.

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Championship fixtures

Kick-off 15:00 GMT unless stated

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We start off at The Valley this afternoon asCharlton AthletichostCardiff City,with nine more Championship matches kicking-off at 15:00 GMT.

LeadersWest Bromwich AlbionhostSheffield Wednesday,as the Baggies look to stretch their unbeaten run to seven league games.

Two points behind them arePreston North End,who travel toDerby Countyin search of a fourth win in a row.

Leeds Unitedare level on points in third and head to Kenilworth Road to face a woefully out-of-formLuton Town.

At the bottom, newBarnsleyboss Gerhard Struber will get his first taste of Championship action atBlackburn Rovers.

Charlton Athletic v Cardiff City (12:30 GMT)

Blackburn Rovers v Barnsley

Brentford v Reading

Bristol City v Nottingham Forest

Derby County v Preston North End

Huddersfield Town v Birmingham City

Luton Town v Leeds United

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This is a true story, based around actual events, although some names and facts have been changed.

February 7th 1985

It was the harsh winter of 1985, only 5 weeks since the end of 1984. The country was in the grip of the miners strike. Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson were Number One in the charts with ‘I Know Him So Well’. Margaret Thatcher was having dinner with celebrity rapist and necromantic Jimmy Savile, comparing notes on how much suffering they had caused. It was also a full moon.

Imagine Shane Meadow’s seminal film ‘Made In England’, but Welsh, that was the group of friends at the time. We were connected by music. We came from all parts of Cardiff and the surrounding areas. We’d met at gigs and pubs and nightclubs. No specific identity, just a bunch of misfits. We’d known each other for a good few years by now.

For some unknown reason, we had all got tickets to see two ‘well past their sell by date’ punk bands in Swansea. The Exploited supported by the UK Subs?? I’m guessing there was nothing else on that week in Cardiff.

We got the train to Swansea and made our way to the Marina Night Spot on Gloucester Place. The gig was sold out, so it was a tight squeeze to get in. We made our way to the bar, got a cider and black and headed to a raised area on the left-hand side of the venue, the opposite side in which we had entered. Big mistake. We chatted and waited for the UK Subs to come on stage. The lights went down, the band appeared and launched in their first song, the crowd went berserk. Watching the whole set from the sidelines, repeatedly asking, how old do you think Charlie Harper actually is?

Then we waited for the main act, The Exploited… They burst onto the stage, the singer, Wattie, with his bright red mohican standing erect. Within seconds into the first song, he’d lifted his mic stand up and started smashing the stage lights above his head, glass and sparks falling into the crowd. Danny had gone into the crowd to get amongst it. The energy in that room was off the scale.

After three or four songs, Danny emerged from the crowd with a swollen, split, bloody eye… “The fuckers know we’re Cardiff” he said. We questioned whether it was an accident, as a year earlier I had broken my nose dancing the Spear of Destiny’s ‘Liberator’ in the Mars Bar. Shit happens right? He said, definitely not an accident, he was targeted by some Swansea skinheads*. “We need to get out of here now”. We knew there was rivalry between Cardiff and Swansea, but we left that to the football hooligans.

So we waited for the band to play one of their “hits” so the crowd would be focussed on them and not ten of us slowly making our way out of the venue… As I mentioned previously, we were on the wrong side of the venue… And now we were in the wrong city and on the wrong side of town. As we left, the Swansea streets were empty, it was like a ghost town. The last train had long left for Cardiff by now. But we had to make it to the train station, it was our only option, there was nowhere left to run. We had five hours and 3696 feet of ground to cover.

We started making our way through enemy territory, running part of the way, then stopping to make sure everyone was together. We’d regroup. Send a lookout to check the next stage of the journey was clear…  Slowly we made our way closer to the train station. Finally it was in sight. Then we heard a car driving very slowly down the high street… leaning out of the window was a rough looking young man in a leather waste-coat, he had pop bottles stuck on his fingers and tapping them together. In a deep Swansea accent he sang, “Carrrrrdiff Carrrrrrdiff come out to play-e-yay” over and over… It was like something out of a film. The car turned and headed out of sight. We made the last leg of the journey to the train station, jumping over the barriers as we got there.

With four hours left until the next train, we sat in a porta-cabin in the middle of the station, trying to keep warm. Andy lay down on one of the seats and went to sleep… It was getting late, we were cold and the alcohol and adrenaline were wearing off. We sat and waited in silence…

Suddenly, without warning eight to ten skinheads burst into the station, jumping over the barriers, wearing white boiler suits, bowler hats and waving baseball bats… (The gig had clearly finished). One of them picked up a metal dustbin, screaming, running towards the porta-cabin, throwing it through the window… Glass shattering everywhere as the bin landed on top of us. A guard appeared from an office with phone in hand shouting “I’m calling the police I am me, you just wait” The skinheads legged it. Andy woke up, shook the broken glass off his jacket and went back to sleep. The police turned up shortly after in their panda car and stayed at the station until our train arrived…

It was a long night…

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all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual​:

I don't think there's much redeemable about Edgar Swansea in-universe. I think he's a very pathetic sort of evil and his good intentions mean nothing. Sorry not sorry.

Not only do I not think there's much to redeem, I don't think he's worth it.

If you’ll permit me leaping on your post (which is a totally valid take for you to have and be entitled to), I think it’s worth submitting a few things about Edgar that—in my eyes—make him a character with more dimensions than The Reveal might make us inclined to see.

Edgar runs a hospital pre-NHS that specifically caters to the poor, or, a voluntary hospital. This means: terrible pay, infamously low staff morale, complete reliance on donations, no input from the state. We can tell from Edgar’s accent and the way he comports himself that he comes from an extremely privileged background. He has specifically eschewed a comfortable position in private healthcare to run an establishment like this alone, an usual move for someone of his standing for the time. Usually these hospitals would have an entire group of revolving voluntary administrators at the helm. And...

...he does it very well! Further to the above point, despite the hospital struggling due to its status as a financial black hole, all the staff speak positively of Edgar, including Ackroyd and Branagan, who I’d argue set a pretty high ethical bar for the practices of the staff around them. Even his vampire side gig doesn’t interfere with his dedication to the hospital; think about how he drops everything to redo a rota for Nurse Crane after he brings Jon back there for the first time. Edgar has been such an effective administrator of the hospital that Edwina Cox describes it as “neutral territory,” like the poor and hungry masses of London’s poor know they have somewhere to go when things are dire.

A more subtle one: Oswald and Newton, a gay couple in an egregiously homophobic era of Britain’s history, feel they have nowhere to go, and one of them is too terrified of hospitals to go inside the Pembroke for treatment he needs. So they live inside some kind of storage area beside the Pembroke Hospital’s docks, and you (Jonathan) can only enter this area if you kill one of them to retrieve a key. Who gave them this key, to give them the only kind of shelter they could compromise on? Presumably the hospital’s administrator.

Don’t get me wrong; I lean into Edgar’s moral ambiguity and think he’s deeply entertaining even at his very worst. But I think it’s reductive to say he’s all bad, because we are given every reason to believe his experiment absolutely came from the right place after he’s made years of otherwise good calls.

[themillenniumscribe]

Yu-Gi-Oh: Brilliancy (38)

(Yep. I am a garbage human who does not update often. Personal reasons have kept me away as well as conventions and costumes. But, here is the next chapter to move the story along! Enjoy and I will do my best to get the next one done in an orderly fashion...after next weekend...if Irma doesn’t try to take North Carolina with her...because I will be there...

Anyhoo, enjoy the spectacle! :D)

Her name is Clarisa Swansea. She was born in Hong Kong to a wealthy yet loving family, a father, mother, and two older sisters. A competitive beast in women’s lacrosse with a pretty face to match, there was no mistaking that she was striving for greatness far beyond any expectations. But, when one accident took her family along with her mobility, her life took an intriguing turn into the world of chess.

Clarisa let out a heavy sigh of frustration. This was now the third time they had passed what looked like the same tree and dirt path combination. She desperately wanted to rant and rave about how poorly constructed this world seemed to be. However, with Kaiba’s already foul mood, she was reluctant to push any of his buttons.

“Damn! Where does this forest lead to?” It seemed that Clarisa wasn’t the only one who was frustrated, as Mokuba’s outburst seemed to indicate. Chewing on her tongue, she glanced over at the brunette, gauging his reaction.

“Damn you, Noah…” He cursed quietly. “Just you wait. I will escape from this ridiculous Virtual World and show you who’s boss…”

“The only thing I find ridiculous about this world is that a lot of the same scenery motifs have been used.” Clarisa piped up, blue eyes roving once more over the forest. “I have personally seen that tree at least half a dozen times.”

She pointed nonchalantly at one of the oak trees. Sure enough, the more the boys looked at the tree, the more they started to see similar details show up. Kaiba’s brow furrowed, azure eyes gazing at her curiously.

“You seem to have a keen eye for detail.” He murmured gently. She could have sworn she heard a pinch of admiration behind his words.

“Only when it comes to virtual displays.” She replied, shrugging her shoulders. “Daddy always liked to make sure his daughters were kept up to date on his technology. That includes knowing when things are going wrong.”

As if on cue, another door appeared. It was the same wooden structure and Clarisa couldn’t help but narrow her eyes at the familiar sight. Her mouth formed a hard line.

“You know, it’s like he’s never seen another kind of door….” She grumbled with a huff. Her displeasure was disregarded and the CEO immediately approached the door without hesitation. Though she was reluctant to trust the entryway, when Mokuba followed, she made her way through the wooden structure and into the dull room within.

Grey carpet covered the floor, given only a little bit of light from the massive wall of windows at the back of the office. The walls were just as dismal, barely registering color along with the mediocre wood stain. Everything was so monotone, glossed over with a hammered silver finish. As Clarisa studied the space, the more she felt the walls close in around her like some kind of prison cell.

“The…The President’s office of Kaiba Corporation…”

“Really?” She chimed in. “More like a bunker than an office.”

“You need something from me?” The chair at the back of the room spoke, the graveled voice ringing in their ears. All three of them froze, wondering for a second if they were the ones being addressed. Kaiba and Mokuba both looked surprised while Clarisa was struck dumb.

It wasn’t until the man turned around that the color drained from her face.

“Gozaburo…” She murmured, making Kaiba’s thoughts audible.

“Yes, I want to talk with you about the Virtual System I created.” Clarisa’s head snapped in Kaiba’s direction only to find the CEO hadn’t said anything at all. Instead, another image appeared, one of a younger Seto but older than the one she had seen previously.

He was taller and thinner, his flesh a little gaunt but still pink with youth. He was wearing a white uniform and black shoes, something Clarisa wasn’t used to seeing him in. In addition to his wardrobe change, his voice had undergone a transformation, the soothing bass timbre starting to appear.

“Your voice dropped quite early for a boy…”

“Shush!” Mokuba hissed, placing a finger to his mouth. Clarisa zipped her lips.

“I remember this…” Kaiba murmured, his tone almost gentle. “It was two years before I became the president…I was thirteen…”

Now this was intriguing to Clarisa. She had known that Kaiba was a young man when he took over Kaiba Corporation but she didn’t realize that he was that young. Her brow knitted together, lips pursing.

“I thought you were sixteen when you became Kaiba Corporation’s CEO…” Her head tilted to the side, studying the brunette carefully.

“He just turned sixteen when he took over…” Mokuba stated calmly. “He was about thirteen when this happened…”

“You were thirteen when you created the Solid Vision program?” Clarisa’s strong inquiry earned her a narrowing of the eyes from Kaiba. His shoulders tightened and his lips hardened.

“Yes,” He affirmed sternly. “Is that a concern?”

“Not so much a concern for you as it is for me.” She replied with a sigh, her hand rubbing the back of her neck. “God, what am I doing with my life?”

“Playing chess and hanging out with us?” Mokuba’s hazel eyes met her own and Clarisa felt inadequate.

“It sounds so much worse when you say it…” She mumbled solemnly, returning her attention to the young Seto and Gozaburo.

“If that is what you want then I have nothing to say to you.” The older man gruffed out, picking up several papers on his desk. His dark eyes skimmed over the details, his face remaining as stoic as ever.

“I’m busy, Seto.” He responded firmly. “Leave.”

“I invented that system so everyone could enjoy games!” The young Seto argued, a young fire burning in his eyes. “But, you wanted to use it for war!”

Clarisa registered Kaiba flinching at her side.

“You didn’t hear me.” Gozaburo’s voice was eerily sterile. “Get out.”

“This system is not a war tool!” Seto cried out, his hands clenching into fists. “I invented it for people to use in the future Kaiba Land!”

Papers flew at the young Seto, striking him in the face as Gozaburo got to his feet. Clarisa could see the rage building behind his dark eyes and his voice boomed in the room.

“I said get out!” He roared. “You are still fixated on this Kaiba Land? It’s all nonsense! Such ridiculous games have no use in this world!”

Clarisa felt her heart sink in her chest and a fire settled there. She didn’t like what she was seeing. Not one bit.

“Listen very carefully, Seto!” Gozaburo’s yelling turned into a seething command. “The Kaiba family makes things that are of great use to mankind around the world! My objective is to dominate the world with my military business and I will start by the Virtual System you developed to reproduce the territory of the world so I can sell it to train soldiers.”

There was a steely wash that flashed over the man’s eyes and Clarisa watched as the young Seto’s face filled with a silent horror.

“You’re wrong! You can’t!” He put up a defiant front but it was in vain when security escorted him out. Clarisa watched the boy kick and scream, even addressing Gozaburo as his father a few times. She figured it was one of the last times he ever addressed Gozaburo as such.

The scene ended with a white out, pixels dancing around and the forest surrounded them once again. Clarisa must have been more disappointed than she thought because she actually made an audible groan when the scene took shape.

“Really!?” She exclaimed to the sky. “Forest again?!”

Silence answered her and she took a few breaths to calm herself. In the meantime, she eyed the two brothers carefully, noticing the concern on Mokuba’s face and the tension in Kaiba’s body. To her surprise, she noticed that his lips were pulled back in on themselves, pressing together as though to hold back something that was on his mind.

“He was willing to let countless people die in wars using my Virtual Software…” He whispered harshly. “Just so he could make a profit.”

His arms crossed over his chest, eyes averting to the ground.

“I couldn’t hand it over to that evil man. On that day, I lost all my respect for him and I made up my mind that Kaiba Corporation would belong to me.”

“So, what changed?”

Clarisa was alarmed when she saw the shock on Kaiba’s face. His eyes were wild, burning with an incredible ferocity at her challenging his narrative. Though she could feel the anxiety of a fight coming on, Clarisa didn’t back down and held her head high when she met his glare.

“What do you mean, Risa?” Mokuba asked tentatively. She could hear a sense of guilt behind his tone. Her eyes flicked his direction to register his question but all of her focus was on Kaiba.

“That boy I just saw was so full of life and light. He had a sense of hope in his ambition to make the world a better place. He believed in doing things for those who are less privileged and to fight for a dream that is inherently good. Nothing like the man I see now.” Her eyes narrowed on Kaiba, giving him a once over. His expression didn’t waver.

“I ask you again,” She inquired carefully. “What changed?”

She mostly expected Kaiba to shut her out again, give her a stony stare that commanded her to shut her trap with one angry glower. However, the longer they maintained eye contact, the more variety of emotions she began to catch in his eyes.

There was anger, of course, but where it was directed, Clarisa wasn’t sure. Mostly at her for sure, however, something told her it was also aimed at himself. Guilt was also present, buried deep but still visible to her eyes. The rest was a mixture of surprise and panic wrapped vainly in a blanket of half hearted stoicism.

“Gozaburo said that games were meaningless to the world. They served no purpose and were a waste of time.” Kaiba’s voice was low, softer than usual. A part of it felt like a confession that Clarisa wasn’t meant to hear.

“What he didn’t know was that we had been playing a game the whole time…and that was his downfall.”

“But, that doesn’t explain what changed if you were the one that made the game.” A flash of bitterness washed over his eyes as he flinched. His silence didn’t give her the answer but it slowly came to her as the world around them began to fade once more into pixels.

Kaiba may have made the game but Clarisa was about to find out who made the rules.

[junker-town]

Premier League clubs are mentally ‘on the beach’ because there’s less to play for than there used to be

Arsene Wenger is probably bitter about Arsenal’s failures, but he’s not wrong about the league changing. Six big clubs leave the rest with less to play for.

There are few subjects more prickly in English football than the suggestion that some teams try harder in some games than in others. When Kevin Keegan exploded at Alex Ferguson in 1996 — "I'll tell you, honestly, I will love it if we beat them. Love it." — he was responding to Ferguson's suggestions that teams were trying harder against Manchester United than against Newcastle United, their title rivals.

“I think football in this country is so honest, and so, honestly, when you look sometimes abroad you have your doubts, but it really has got to me, and I've voiced it like, not in front of the press or anywhere, I'm not even going to the press conference, but the battle's still on. Man United have not won this yet, not by any means.”

Arsene Wenger's venture into the same territory this week hasn't had quite the same impact: his club aren't in a title race, the blood isn't running quite as hot, and there's nobody as wonderfully innocent as Keegan knocking around any more. But still, his claims that …

“We have two leagues. For example we had to fight very hard at Stoke and Southampton but some teams once they are safe just have a breather, which didn’t happen 10 years ago. The league has changed mentally. Morally it has changed a lot.”

… were met with some pushback. Pep Guardiola noted that "if you don’t want this situation, you have to win more games yourself"; David Moyes called it "an insult to football". Still, Wenger returned to his theme after Arsenal beat Sunderland on Tuesday night to keep the Race for the Champions League just about alive:

“I still think City are in it, they go to Watford, which is a difficult place to go. What you want is for everybody to fight like Sunderland did tonight. Then you accept your result, that's it.”

It is not, of course, an allegation that a player or a team has consciously decided to throw a game; that would be an extremely serious and possibly even slanderous thing to say. But at the same time, it's sort of heading in that direction. It suggests that something has insinuated itself into the minds of players, robbing them of their competitive edge. And in the process, distorting the final stages of the season.

This is not a new accusation, to the point that even has a cliche: "On the beach." It's not a particularly pleasant one either. At best it speaks of a certain lack of professionalism, at worst a complete abrogation of commitment. Wenger frames this as a "moral" issue, a question not just of preparation but of duty. In this context, a duty to the sporting integrity of the league; to an abstract principle that all 380 games must be played in a spirit of full, unfettered competition.

Is he right that this happens, this drift to the beach? Moyes rejected the idea out of hand, as did West Bromwich Albion's Jonny Evans earlier this season, but it can certainly appear so to the external observer. Naturally, the general wear and tear of a season will play a part, but the fact that this phenomenon has its own cliche suggests that at the very least there's a certain stickiness to the suspicion. In any case, perhaps the most interesting element of Wenger's thoughts is not his assertion that it happens, but that it has increased over the last 10 years.

A cynic might suggest that this same decade has seen Arsenal drift from regular title challengers to regular Champions League qualifiers, and wonder if there might not be a small amount of frustration, even bitterness, informing this opinion. But a different kind of cynic might look elsewhere, and wonder if the league itself has changed.

What can teams get from a Premier League campaign? They can win the thing, of course. They can come close to winning it, and qualify for the Champions League. They can come a little further away, and nick themselves a Europa League place. Or they can avoid relegation. Those are the prizes, practically speaking, even though only one comes with a trophy. And over the last 10 years — Leicester City's miracle notwithstanding — they have all, bar one, been slowly removed from the reach of most of the league.

This season, six teams began the season with the explicit target of trying to win the league and, if they fell short, at the very least qualifying for the Champions League. In theory that makes for an exciting title race, but one consequence is that it rather clogs up the top of the league. At least two of them have to fail, and that failure will most likely manifest itself as fifth- and sixth-place finishes. And so it has turned out: Chelsea are in first, Spurs are in second, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal will sort out third through fifth, and Manchester United will come sixth.

So the rest of the league is competing for just two things: seventh, which sometimes comes with a Europa League spot depending on how the cups go, and the much more important reward of Not Getting Relegated. Eighth through 17th are, increments of prize money aside and notions of pride aside, effectively the same position. This season's league table seems determined to drive the point home: even if Southampton, currently in eighth, beat Manchester United on Wednesday evening, they'll go into the final weekend 10 points ahead of Swansea City in 17th, but 13 behind Everton in seventh.

Over the last ten years, the Premier League's glass ceiling has been pushed down and now seals away almost all of the league's prizes. Obviously this doesn't prevent miraculous charges like Leicester last season, or spectacular collapses like Chelsea, but the trend is there. And any club that has the temerity to have a notably good season is immediately picked clean by the teams above them, ensuring that sides can't ever chain seasons of progress together. Arsenal have played their part in this last process, of course, making occasional raids on Southampton's academy.

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen: six into four doesn't go, after all, and winning the Europa League isn't the most reliable back-up plan when there are hungry sponsors to feed. But at the moment, for the majority of its teams, the league offers nothing much to play for beyond survival. If Wenger is right, and more teams are mentally checking out at this point, then perhaps the fault lies not with them but with their league.

Obviously footballers, just like everybody else, are motivated by more complex forces than just 'box ticked, no more boxes to tick, job done'. But it would be hard to blame anybody for losing just a little intensity, even unwittingly, once it becomes clear that the season is essentially sorted. No consolation to Wenger, of course, who has his season and perhaps his job riding on the efforts of others. But it's hard to escape the thought that even if the hypemen are right, and anybody can beat anybody in the Premier League, increasingly there isn't always a whole lot of point.

[esandcasg]

After-thoughts

I guess I can be reasonably happy with my efforts, last night. I was pretty close to last year’s time, albeit with a slightly different start-finish area. The distance may have been slightly less.

I’d say that I owe a lot to my pace judgement, and how I chose to approach the race. The first couple of KM, roughly, was on an uphill gradient...nothing too hideous, but definitely uphill. I decided to just ease myself into the race - see how my body was feeling, and take things a little cagey. I wasn’t feeling overly fresh, and did have a hint of right hamstring tightness.

The next 2.5KM were downhill, on switch-back trail into a valley. Basically this area is a forest reserve on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, popular for MTB tracks. So I just coasted down this section, being careful not to slip on the loose surface of stone and gravel.

After this it was pretty much flat for about 4KM. I decided to put in some harder work along this section, along the valley floor. I knew what was coming at the end, from last year, so had to keep enough in reserve. I managed to pull a good few people back, and one or two who I had mentally picked from the first 2KM.

So, onto the hill of doom! This was a switch-back climb, undoing the earlier descent. It was just a case of walking/jogging, according to what the body would allow. Hamstrings were screaming, so I knew not to risk a strain here.

One guy overtook me about 3/4 of the way up, and gave the obligatory “Keep it going” encouragement. I never respond well to these things, as it just feels patronising. Like “Duh!”. And the truth is, he wasn’t really gaining anything, apart from lactic acid build-up. Whatever pace he thought he was doing, he stayed within 10 to 15 metres of my walk/jog. So I whooped his ass with a sprint finish, as the slope levelled off. It probably meant more to me, but he did give me a knowing look after we’d cleared the finish funnel.

My legs were like jelly, though. Serious cramping territory, but not quite. The idea of this race was to use head torches in the dark, but I’d say that only the very last runners will have actually switched them on. The bugs were feasting on my sweaty body, but Celia had made a tub of meat-ball pasta for me to scoff while watching the tail-enders.

I got roped into a Swansea Harriers group photo at the finish, which I always feel a bit awkward about. I don’t train with them, and always have to explain who I am to those who’ve not seen me before. Whatever...I’m rambling!

I’ve got another trail race in about 10 days - beach and woodland. I always enjoy that one.

T Man

[fmlfpl]

Lineup Lamentations - GW21

Our Transfers, Captains, and Starting 11s.

**Lineup Lams written before the latest Costa news**

WALSH

Transfers:

OUT: Carroll, Firmino, Can

IN (for -4 points): Crouch, Yaya, Ramsey

I can only imagine the look of horror on Alon's face when he reads the opening transfer lines of this mail, but fuck it. It's time to have some fun and go for flair, differential, and sex. Yaya I shouted on the pod as a dead cert to come in. I'll have those pens and I think he will be a key player for Pep over the near term. I think he's sort of a bargain although the stats from open play haven't been incredible, they never are with YYT. But, he's one of my favorite players and I'm happy to have him in FPL as I always have been. Hoping he can chip in with the odd open play tit and pens will buoy his value so let's fuck.

Ramsey is sort of an insane pick, but his stats were pretty good last game, he scored in the FA Cup so is maybe finding some form, and is completely nailed with Santi dead as he will be either partnering Shocka or playing on the wing possibly. I think he usually is a better shout for returns when Giroud is in the side and I'm backing Ramsey for some points in this burst of nice fixtures. It really is a case of fixtures over form, and is high risk high reward, but we'll see how it goes. Another player I love and always enjoy having him in FPL.

Finally, Carroll to Crouch was my makeweight for funds. It's fucking crazy, and I get that, but I am doing this with two things in mind. 1: at Sundy with their whole team in Africa is a tasty proposition for the 8 foot giant after news of Jon Walters having knee surgery and every other striker human basically in Africa or dead...and 2: I might look at going 352 in a couple weeks after the Chelsea v Hull game. I really, really didn't want to lose either Costa or Hazard right now and I needed money to get the midfielders I wanted. Carroll is a fucking piece of shit and with Payet gone with bad fixtures I felt that he was an even more useless person in life than usual. Plus I won't have to root for him getting points against Palace tomorrow. I am a little worried about my team for the following gameweek, but, after Chelsea play Hull I will reassess which of Hazard and Costa I would like to keep and plan accordingly by either upgrading De Roon to someone good or re-upgrading Crouchy to someone actually good. It's risky, but I've been sucking, so whatever the fuck. Plus, if I get Crouch points, I win at life.

GK: Heaton solo. I am supremely excited for him in game 3 in my side to finally have me breaking even with the hit I took to get him in for Fuckford (3 points in 2 games - 4 = fuck me)

DEF: FINALLY back to playing 3 defenders....and I can only assume that the week I bench Holebas will be the week he gets a double digit return but they could be playing a mid-table Championship side and I wouldn't want to start a Watford defender right now. Home Boro is as good as it gets but he'll be sat first on my bench. I'll be trotting out Alonso, Baines, and VVD this weekend. Not sure what will come of these three and could easily see anything from 5 points to 30 points. Feels pretty solid at this time though and I'm glad to keep my price structure in tact at defense with three fairly heavy hitters. Rose is looking tasty and I will be excited to see if Poch keeps the 352. If so, I suspect Rose will find his way into my group soon...possibly for Van Fuck. A concern for another day.

MID: New friends! If Jags is on the Everton team sheet then Yaya is basically nailed on for a double digit pen + bap game so please tit me Koeman. Hazard in a dreaded away game - we'll see if I get something from him this weekend against a tightened up Leicester side as of late. He's been frustrating but he's still averaging 5ppg over the last four which is not horrible but from a 10m+ guy you want more than that. Surely I do. Anything less than 15 points out of these next two games (lei, HUL) will be a big let down. Finally, my new double Arse mid of Alexis and Rambo go to Swansea where they will hopefully destroy and pillage. Rambo in is one of my biggest rogue transfer feels of the season and a trip to his native Wales in his inaugural game for team Walsh seems very treatful to me. If Arsenal put up a crooked number on the scoreboard I think I'l be laughing.

FWD: Ibra and Costa stay - not much to say about them boys. New toy and tallest giraffe savage fuck Crouchy accompanies the heavy hitters. I had seen a couple of rumblings from Stoke fans wanting N'Goy to play instead of Crouch, but I can't imagine Sparky playing a teenager away to the Stadium of Light when Crouch has two from two in his last two league starts. They were dire in the FA Cup and got bounced but hopefully they will show up against a very depleted Sundy side and bang a couple of goals.

CAP: Alexis. Not much to think about or say on this front. A prime away game for him to terrorize Alfie Mawson and sons. He'll be runaway captain of the weekend and hopefully he comes in with a double return.

ALON

Transfers:

OUT: Costa, Carroll, Payet

IN: Giroud, Lukaku, Stanislas

*BREAKING NEWS COSTA IS A TWAT AND NOT TRAVELING TO LEICESTER AND HIS FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN YESSSSSSSS* 

I talked on the pod, and have been for a few weeks now, at length about Chelsea and their attack from the FPL perspective. I just don’t think they offer value, Costa and Hazard that is. You could sell me on Pedro being great value but I don’t have the luxury spot to go for a punt with still several dickfaces in my team even after making three transfers in the shapes of Firmino and Siggy. So anyway I’ve taken Costa out after a long long while in my side, and a great job of hauling points for me. Cheers Diego thanks for the memories. Ollie Ollie Giiiiiroud and Arsenal’s fixtures come into the side accompanied with the news of Walcott being dead gives me the feels for Le Donq. I think he has an extremely high ceiling for the next month+, higher then that of Costa and I’m saving 2 million there. Though it must be said there’s still a small percent chance he gets dropped. Don’t fuck me Arsene please.

Carroll for every reason on Earth needs to be fucked off ASAP. He’s been shit, West Ham have been shit, and as Walsh highlighted above the recent transfer request handed in from Payet just means he’s that much worse to own. They have no one else in their squad who’s naturally a creator and Andy, piece of donkey shit, absolutely needs a creator to feed him as he will not create his own chances. Here sums it up quite nicely: West Ham on the season as a team have 204 chances created total. Payet has created 73 of them... that’s 35.7% of their chances. Fuck off Andy.

And yes Payet the above lad. I was all al dente on the pod about getting rid of Siggy but Payet decided to fuck Bilic and the Hammers off has forced my hand to move Dimi instead. Fine with it, I wanted to lose both in the coming weeks anyway. Payet out left me a lot more money to play with for the midfield replacement and I flirted with Raz, Pedro, Phillips, Redmond, but I ended up following my gut with Stanny. He leaves me money for the future transfer outs of Siggy/Firmino and I think he’s finally fit. And again as mentioned on the pod his points per start are phenomenal. Bourne, have three absolute joyous fixtures coming in hul, WAT, CPL. So, yeah, let’s do it Stan the man.

GK: I only have one GK and am monogamous in this moment. Lee Grant tit me.

DEF: I, like Walsh, am also benching Holebas. It’s gotten to pretty ridiculous territory with Twatford as they haven’t kept a cleany since GW10 and I’m sick of getting between -1 and 2 points from Holes. Sure he can come good with an assist here or there but it feels like their defense is too bad even against Boro to trust. Negredo will probably accidentally score some dickfuck goal off his shin... Rolling out Phil Jones even against Liverpool seems kind of mad at first but we know what Mou does against top teams and what he does is shut down shop. Case in point earlier in the season in the NW Derby United were fully parked and it was 0-0 at Anfield. So I’m playing my best guys and seeing what happens. Though if Liverpool fucking do them and Phil Jones ends up with -1 points I won’t be mad either :).... Other two gents pick themselves in Alonso and Bainesy. Alonso had his little fitness scare which seems over based on Conte, and Bainesy has this one bad fixture before a nice run. I love left-backs and I love sexy fucks, and they both tick these boxes.

MID: New friend Stanny I’m truly very excited to own. Feels to me like these next three fixtures he has an extremely high ceiling and can hopefully fucking hugely outscore my sworn enemy in Matty Phillips. Stan has good if not better stats and I think Phillips’ chances created to assists ratio is a little fucking haywire right now. He will come back down to Earth, though I still rate him it must be said. Amazingly the other three mids in my side have been there for fucking ever. Amazingly also Firmino and Siggy have scored a combined 33 points in the last five gameweeks so fucking fuck me (Firmino’s draught goes a lot further back). But, alas, here I am, not being insane and taking -12s, calming myself, and getting rid of the 0 pointer Payet so hopefully these guys can get some fruits. If there’s anything good to say (a big if) it’s that Coutinho’s return maybe moves Bobby back to false 9 which would in my mind make him a good option again, and Siggy can score at anytime against anyone so fuck off Arsenal. Speaking of Arsenal Alexi is the third of the three aforementioned stalwarts. But he’s the good and consistent one and we all have him so nothing much to say there...

FWD: Wow an explosion in my frontline and it feels so fucking good. It feels to me at this point in the season that a 3-5-2 or three heavy hitting forwards is the way to go. There is no Chaz Austin type of guy who’s cheap as fuck and returning regularly, though you could argue for a Zlat/Costa/Defoe front line too and I’d not try to refute it. Anyway I’m in on heavy. My new front line of Zlatty, Lukaku, Giroud I think will last me at the very least 4-5 gameweeks and I think I can make a very cohesive argument for each of them being the best forward pick for this next 4-5 gameweeks. I really believe in this front line and I think backing it this hard with a power move of getting rid of Costa will net me a lot of points, a lot of team value, and most importantly a lot of overall rank places. So I’m confident now on a Friday. Who knows how the world will relentlessly fuck me on a Saturday. Time will tell.

CAP: Donkey man Ollie Giroud. I like him slightly more as a captain then Alexis when he’s playing up top and Alexis is wide left he’s just more consistent and gets more opportunities. Also on pens could bail me out you never know. Swansea are an absolute shit show and no matter what shit ass CBs they trot out there Ollie should have his way with them. Go on G.