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Haaaaaaaaaa! I WAS VINDICATED! (TPoH spoilers ahead)

I remember way back when I talked about Time's stolen eye and just assumed it was Hate who stole it. And everyone else told me it was Madras, which I sort of accepted because she could see into the future but it didn't make much sense to me.

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It's now back in stock, in case you've missed it. The mixes are really good recreations of the original and those two Mike Howlett era versions are fascinating.

Tears for Fears - The Hurting (Steven Wilson 5.1/Atmos/Instrumental) Blu-Ray Audio

Slightly over a year after the first Blu-Ray audio disc in the "SDE Surround Series", said series circles back to the band that began it all.

Steven Wilson (renowned musician and engineer) wasn't involved yet when Universal (helped by Paul Sinclair and Steve Hammonds) compiled the 30th anniversary box set of The Hurting in 2013. Looking back, it almost appears modest. None of the tracks were previously unreleased, although many were on CD for the first time, and the concert video In My Mind's Eye made its first official DVD appearance.

The High Fidelity Pure Audio initiative started in 2012, and in early 2014, The Hurting was released in this format, but only in stereo. This disc is one of many good examples why the BD-A format never really took off: It was seen as pointless by most music buyers.

As Songs from the Big Chair was a bigger album, Universal then brought Steven Wilson on board to create a new stereo and 5.1 mix. Both were included on a DVD-A within the box set, but also on a standalone Blu-ray Audio - a much more attractive release than the Hurting BD-A. Nevertheless, the format fell out of favor. Blu-ray Audio continued to exist (both standalone and in box sets like Steven Wilson's 5.1 of The Seeds of Love), but the series was over after 2016. Until Paul Sinclair brought it back from the dead with the exclusive The Tipping Point Blu-ray.

That release, it turned out, was just the beginning of a series. Follow-up Blu-ray discs have been made of albums by xPropaganda, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Shakespear's Sister, Brian Eno, Orbital, Ten Years After and most recently none other than Bob Dylan!

Now for the 40th anniversary of The Hurting, Steven Wilson created not just a 5.1 mix but also a Dolby Atmos one (which will also be listenable on streaming sites, but the other mixes are exclusive to this disc), as well as an instrumental mix of the whole album!

Another find is two bonus tracks - versions of "Mad World" and "Watch Me Bleed" from the aborted Mike Howlett sessions (the original b-side mixes of "Ideas as Opiates" and "We are Broken", which were erroneously missing from the 2013 box set, are absent, though).

So we're getting four different versions of the album:

Dolby Atmos

DTS-HD 5.1

Original stereo mix (apparently/hopefully a new remaster)

Instrumental mix (hi-res stereo)

Plus two bonus tracks (stereo):

Mad World (Mike Howlett Version)

Watch Me Bleed (Mike Howlett Version)

The exclusivity and various tax/customs shenanigans haven't gotten any better since last year for me, but at least the offering appears quite a bit more generous than The Tipping Point. Still, I'm definitely glad none of the other SDE Blu-ray discs were anything I needed to have. (If I lived in the UK, I probably would've gotten more of them.)

As with the second pressing of the Tipping Point blu-ray, the number of copies of this disc is going to be pressed based on how many are preordered until March 17.

There's also a new half-speed mastered vinyl reissue of the album.

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TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read TPoH from the start here.

The Property of Hate is a webcomic that I’ve been making for 13 years and you can read it all online for free! Yippee!

If you’d like to support it, you can buy books of the comic, cosy Assok socks, a dazzling enamel butterfly pin and a whole lot more! Head on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store for books, shirts, stickers and more!

Oh, and you can always support me on patreon for little extras~

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TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read TPoH from the start here.

The Property of Hate is a webcomic that I've been making for 13 years and you can read it all online for free! Yippee!

If you'd like to support it, you can buy books of the comic, cosy Assok socks, a dazzling enamel butterfly pin and a whole lot more! Head on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store for books, shirts, stickers and more!

Oh, and you can always support me on patreon for little extras~

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TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read TPoH from the start here.

The Property of Hate is a webcomic that I've been making for 13 years and you can read it all online for free! Yippee!

If you'd like to support it, you can buy books of the comic, cosy Assok socks, a dazzling enamel butterfly pin and a whole lot more! Head on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store for books, shirts, stickers and more!

Oh, and you can always support me on patreon for little extras~

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TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read TPoH from the start here.

The Property of Hate is a webcomic that I've been making for 13 years and you can read it all online for free! Yippee!

If you'd like to support it, you can buy books of the comic, cosy Assok socks, a dazzling enamel butterfly pin and a whole lot more! Head on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store for books, shirts, stickers and more!

Oh, and you can always support me on patreon for little extras~

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TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read TPoH from the start here.

Have you still not got your cute cosy Assok socks, or a dazzling butterfly pin? Head on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store for books, shirts, stickers and more! Oh, and you can always support me on patreon for little extras

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Minotaur confirmed with page 592!

So on the two missing parts of the sun in the tarot card… (and the new page)

We (not me, I should say) have already established that the fifth one is a Minotaur. What about the fourth one? I've looked at the Tarot card from various directions, and after much squinting I thought I could recognize something vaguely elephant-shaped.

Looking for "elephants in myth" and thinking of Hinduism already, I came across Ganesha.

Now, almost all the foreshadowing on the pages 380/381 seems to have to do with the trees.

Also, we have already had an elephant in the comic - Assok's original form, whose reveal directly precedes this "flash forward". His new gear (the flying marionette thing built by Tinker) appearing on a page otherwise mainly devoted to Sun allusions makes sense in that context.

My theory is that he might crash into an already freed part of the sun, fall into the abyss (which also gets shown on the foreshadowing page with TOby and the Ferryman), and together they'll find the fifth part of the tree and raise it out of the abyss.

This would also explain why Assok has been described as "empty" by RGB; he's probably going to merge with the fifth part of the sun and regain his previous elephant form.

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TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read TPoH from the start here.

Thank you for your patience! A HUGE HUGE THANK YOU to my friends for helping me out with the art for this page! I literally could not have made it without the help of: @furiouskettle @staarbles

This is the first time collabing with anyone on a page for TPoH so it was a huge leap to have the courage to ask my friends, and I had so many offers! You will see work from others in the near future, too!

Have you still not got your cute cosy Assok socks, or a dazzling butterfly pin? Head on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store for books, shirts, stickers and more! Oh, and you can always support me on patreon for little extras

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Fully eyes open and wide eyed: " Does that door lead to the outside? "

👉 at bedroom door

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Today I drew my design for Gloria Pascoalina 🦋

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Family Ties

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French DWD comic (Mickey comic actually but it had a DWD story) that I’ve NEVER been able to find online before, hope the images aren’t too low quality!!

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I reblog stuff that appeals to me in some way. In this case, Tumblr decided to show me several snail-related posts in short succession and I found that one nice enough to show to my followers, without knowing anything about it.

I hope you're joking but there is very little I dislike more than being falsely accused of lying. So please don't do it.

Do u watch hermitcraft?

Never heard of it...

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Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

This only takes a few minutes!