#AND WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO USE PHONES OR HAVE ANY WRITING MATERIALS ON OUR WORK STATION

[acekindaneat]

TOME BIRTHDAY WEEK !!!!!

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[dduane]

With regards to etiquette regarding authors and fan-works: how does this work with authors who participate in fandom subsequently writing authorized spin-offs or...whatever you'd call "I don't own this IP but I have permission to publish a thing"? Obviously "don't send someone fic directly so they can choose whether or not to engage" is a good rule to follow, but if you — as an example — read a bunch of Sherlock fic and then get hired to write a Sherlock novel, is that then legally problematic?

Hmm.

Let's first sharpen up the terminology a bit, so we can all be sure what we're talking about. The owners of a given IP may not necessarily be the ones tasked with the actual business of inviting others into the property to create new material in that universe. So for convenience's sake let's just lump the actual owners and the ones managing the IP on their behalf together as "the Licensors". The person/s allowed by the licensor to execute this new art, or to hire people to do it, is/are the licensee/s. (...It's actually a little more complicated than that, but let's leave it there for the moment.)

Now, about your first question: let me head first for a situation where I've been in the past, so I can tell you what I did.

Let's say someone who's read Star Trek fanfic—not exactly vast amounts, but some, a decade or so previously—goes pro and then gets asked by the licensor, "Hey, wanna write a Star Trek novel?" When that happened to me, I let my editor know that I'd read some Trek fic in my time, but would do my best to avoid any storyline that was anything like any fic material I could remember. And for a long time I had an informal agreement with Pocket Books—noncontractual, but one I adhered to rigidly—that I would avoid reading any Trek fanfic while I was writing Trek professionally, and would only read Trek material provided to me by the publisher themselves. (This habit has persisted for a long while, as—these days in particular—there's no telling when the phone might ring...)

Back in the day, this approach worked well enough to be going on with. For one thing, Trek fanfic was then way thinner on the ground than it is now, and (being printed pretty much exclusively in paper fanzines) was far easier to avoid. It also worked because I had no desire whatsoever to take the chance of borrowing anybody else's material to begin with. Then as now, I'd have felt that would've been seriously wrong—and anyway, I had more than enough ideas of my own. ...And it worked for a third set of reasons, peculiar to Trek.

Early on, the attitude of (first Paramount, then Gulf&Western, then... who came next? Viacom? Anyway—) the corporate owners was essentially, "We own this IP; nobody should be writing fic in it without our permission; if anybody gives us grief about one of our books being like something of theirs they wrote illegally, we'll come after them with the lawyers." This attitude was markedly not Roddenberry's (at least early on...). He absolutely knew about fic, saw it at conventions, and largely seemed not to mind. This weird dichotomy of stances contributed to an atmosphere in which ficcing fans were inclined to walk softly, try to keep from being noticed by the corporate levels, and (if they engaged with Gene on the subject) keep it very low-key.

Now around the same time I was doing my first couple/few Trek works, the profic/fanfic interface started to get spikier. This was at least partly due to the problems that followed Marion Zimmer Bradley's engagement with a fan writer in her Darkover universe. At least partly as a result of this, various pros' attitudes toward people ficcing in their universes noticeably hardened—the emphasis shifting from concerns about personal preference to sharper ones centering on the writer's potential legal exposure. (Though the two kinds of issue did sometimes get tangled together.)

So that bubbled along for a good while in the background, coming more seriously to the boil when the Internet became a thing, and fic started to percolate through it in newsgroups and mailing lists and (finally) onto easily accessible web pages; and most recently, into platforms like AO3.

And this is where the question of ease of access becomes a significant part of the equation, and the picture shifts equally significantly.

I can't help but smile at the phrasing "If you—as an example—read a bunch of Sherlock fic and then get hired to write a Sherlock novel..." Because though there may be some Tumblerini sitting at the bottom of the crater Daedalus or in the depths of Valles Marineris* who don't know about this, well, I'm a Sherlock fan... and this query is pertinent.

Let's say that Messiah comes, the King returns, and the BBC commissions Sherlock S5. And secondary to that, let's say that the production staff call my agent and say, "We hear you've got this hot licensed-property writer who's done work for all these different licensors. How about you ask her if she wants to write a Sherlock novel for us?"

And now we're up against it... because there's more than one kind of tie-in novel.

One is the kind where you novelize a script. Of agreeing to that I'd have no fear, because the boundaries of such work are tightly circumscribed. The writer's job in such a situation is to render the dialogue and visuals as gracefully as possible into prose, and otherwise to avoid unnecessary flights of fancy that might jar against the writers'/producers' creative vision. ...So if that was what they wanted, I'd pretend to think about it for a couple of days, and then have the agent call them back and say "Yeah, sure, let's do it." (And then the shrieks of delight would begin. Sometimes it's useful to live this far out in the country.)

But if they wanted an original novel? A new Sherlock story?...

I would have to say no. Because my AO3 bookmarks are hip-deep in Sherlock fics, and there is no way, NO way, I could say with my hand on my heart that I was sure I wasn't going to wind up, however accidentally, borrowing or restating something I'd seen of someone else's. If I accepted that job, and then (a year, two years, five years later) someone appeared with evidence in their hands and said, "You used a situation / language that's clearly mine", I would be utterly shattered.

And would it be "legally problematic"? You bet it would. Forgive me for not spelling out all the ways it could be Bad. But even if the situation was finally resolved in the friendliest way possible for everybody concerned, the fact of what had gone wrong would hang like a shadow over every other piece of licensed work I might ever want to do. (And there probably wouldn't be a lot of those.)

So realistically speaking, the ethics of the situation would make that a challenge I wouldn't dare take. I would walk away and try my best to keep to myself the annoyance that would follow. It'd be sad, but it'd be necessary: because the lines I expect to be drawn to protect me, I must also make sure will equally protect others. It's only right.

Anyway, thanks for the question(s). Hope I've sufficiently covered the ground; and HTH.

*I almost typed that as "Valles Marinaris". Yeah, the Solar System's biggest known crevasse now suddenly full of spaghetti sauce? I almost did that. Always proof your copy three times...

[nagisadelune]

Headcanon: Artem Falling in Love With You (Part 1)

(Definitely not edited)

I'M BACK TEARS OF THEMIS FANS! I know that I've been gone for months, but being busy is a clear characteristic of going through depression getting through life. Either way, I'm back to writing for at least a bit.

Okay, I originally had something written for this part before until I found this post which literally has a discussion in the comments about the stuff that was going through my head when I originally thought about this. If you don't want to read the discussion, allow me to sum it up to you: Artem only briefly mentions how he first falls in love with you when you're performing a drama in university, but it seems out of character.

Because of this discussion, I thought that maybe I should write something about how Artem falls in love with you. Because of the amount of time I'm planning to pass with this story, there will be a lot of skipping, so please bear with me. Let's get started!

For the context of the story, we are (obviously) going to be in a time frame before the game even starts, so let's assume that we start around 2026 and move towards 2030.

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"Bro, hurry up! We're going to be late if we don't go now!" a man yells into the apartment building. Artem can only sigh as he adjusts the sneakers on his feet, waiting for the last housemate to leave the house. He can't understand why and how he got dragged into this, but he is now waiting to go to the school drama production in the theater with the rest of the house.

"I get it, I get it!" the last roommate answers annoyed, seemingly out of breath from rushing to get outside. "I know you're going to support your girlfriend, but why are you dragging us into this? Especially our study bug Artem?" Artem looks over at the roommate slightly annoyed, considering that he was interrupted in the middle of a lecture video.

"She asked me to take you guys with me because you deserve a break after working so hard for our masters," he answers annoyed, his eyes glued to his phone and his fingers typing away at the screen. The group locks the door before walking onto campus in the cool night.

After picking up a bouquet from a nearby florist, the group hurries over to the theater, getting ready to sit through a couple hours of performance. They settle into their seats, and the lights dim soon after. A huffy Artem looks towards the stage, deciding to give the performance half of his attention considering the situation. The velvet curtain raises, and for a second, the hard-working student's eyes are glued to the stage, specifically one girl.

Throughout the production, the other two boys take glances at Artem, entertained by the fact that the usually aloof man has eyes on someone rather than his study materials. While the two snicker off to the side, Artem's eyes watches the girl on the stage, noticing the little details about her. The soft cast of the light on her eyes and hair makes everything about her sparkle, and her facial features remind him of an angel.

After a nudge, one of them whispers into his ear, "Which one do you have your eye on?" In an instant, Artem turns towards the pair annoyed before lightly smacking them with the physical program in his hands. With his eyes finally breaking away from the stage, he decides to look through the cast to figure out who has captured his attention so easily. In an instant, he recognizes the face in the program and stares at it, seemingly engraving her face into his mind.

The lights come on with the end of the production, and the three men stand up from their seats to walk out of the theater. The conversations about what they just watched start, discussing everything from the plot to the costume design choices. Artem, whose mind still lingers on the girl on stage, falls behind the pair, making the two turn confused towards him. They both approach him, but he doesn't give them any attention.

"Yo, Artem. What's going on?" his single roommate asks him, throwing his arm around his shoulders. This snaps Artem out of his thoughts for a second, making his cheeks somewhat red from the content of his thoughts.

"I just thought that one of the actresses in the play was pretty," Artem's helpless voice answers in a mutter. The two boys stare at him for a moment before turning towards each other in amazement; their usually stoic roommate has his eyes on a girl instead of his studies. As they walk towards the backrooms of the theater, the two tease him on his feelings, but Artem pushes them down; there's no way that he just fell in love with her like that.

~~~

His slender fingers leafs through the stack of resumes in his hands with a sigh, briefly noting the various candidates for the open positions at the company. Despite just being a mere employee, Celestine is already handing him a large amount of work, but he knows that he is actually greatly helping her. When he gets to a certain resume, the world seems to stop, his eyes landing on the picture.

"No way," Artem mutters under his breath in disbelief. He separates the resume from the stack and tries to process what he is currently seeing: the pretty girl smiling in the picture seems familiar, but he can't exactly remember from where. His mind tries to think of where the face might be familiar: possibly seeing her when she was turning in her resume or maybe spotting her in the restaurant nearby. There's no way though; all the people from his years in school have mostly moved away or pursued a different career path than him. His thoughts start to wander, focusing on the way her hair curls over her shoulder and how striking her green eyes are.

"Artem, is everything okay? I want to discuss something with you," a familiar voice requests from behind the door following a knock. "Are you free?" Artem's head whips up from the picture on the resume, realizing that he must have stared for too long at the photo to hear her knocks.

"I'm okay, Celestine. I'm free too," Artem answers, slightly flustered by the situation. He quickly pulls the resume on his desk back into the stack next to him as the door creaks open, revealing Celestine.

"Why are you so red?" Celestine suddenly asks, stopping in her tracks when she notices the flush on his cheeks. The aloof and somewhat calm Artem now appears somewhat confused, a stark difference from what Celestine is used to.

"I-It's nothing," Artem answers, slightly stumbling on his words. Celestine continues to stare at him in amazement as the Artem sitting at his desk is definitely flustered by something. Despite her interest, she decides to push it to the side, focusing on what she originally wanted to talk about.

Celestine takes a seat in front of him before she asks her shocking question, "Which one caught your eye?" Artem stares at her, trying to piece together how she figured it out. "You don't think I couldn't hear the paper moving?" He can only put his head down in disappointment with himself, forgetting such a small mistake. Because of this, he can only pull the resume out from the top of the pile and hand it to Celestine. While his head hangs in shame, Celestine stares at her picture before handing it back to him.

"Are you interested because she attended your alma mater?" Celestine questions, probing the situation. His new expressions sparks interest, and she stares at him, ready for his response.

"Y-Yeah, you could say that," Artem stutters out, avoiding eye contact with her. This response causes the eyebrows on Celestine's face to raise, suspicions about the situation coming to the surface of her thoughts. "Anyways," Artem starts after clearing his throat, "what was it you wanted to talk about with me?" With a sigh, Celestine can't help but give in to the sudden change in topics despite her interest. However, the situation never leaves her mind.

~~~

"She's so much prettier up close."

Artem watches the girl walk into the office, greeting everyone as it's her first day. His eyes train on her figure as she shakes hands with each person in the office. After seeing her from so far away years ago, he finally gets to see her up close for the first time; she still looks the same from back then, her hair only slightly longer than before. Her eyes seem to shine more brightly than before, her sweet smile growing to her eyes.

In the midst of this, Artem doesn't process that she is about to introduce herself to him, but he finally snaps back to reality when he sees her in front of him. In his mind, time almost stops as she introduces herself and holds her hand out for a handshake. Artem gently grabs her hand and shakes it, giving her a warm smile.

"Welcome to Themis. I'm Artem Wing," he greets, a warm smile on his face. She watches her smiley face turn to shock, seemingly processing something as she shakes her hand.

"Did you happen to study at Stellis University under Professor Hume?" she asks, her mind putting pieces of information together. Artem's mind seems to draw blank as he tries to figure out the situation. How would she know who he is even though they have never officially met?

"Y-yes, I am," he stutters, still overcoming the shock of the situation.

"I never thought I would ever meet you. It's nice to meet you, Mr. Wing," she greets him kindly as they shake hands. She awkwardly clears her throat before repeating her statement, "I-It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Wing."

Artem finally returns to his normal self and responds back, "Again, welcome to Themis Law Firm." Although this is the first time Artem ever met her, the warmth of her hand lingers on his, the skin slightly tingly from the contact.

As the group finally breaks apart to get back to work, Artem quickly returns to his office before settling in his chair and taking a breather. He never expected to encounter her at his work nor for her to recognize him. While he begins to calm down, he sees all of his coworkers help her settle in and interacting with her. For a moment, his eyes linger on her before he turns back to his work, and his mind wanders to how life has been for her. He finally turns away from her and sighs.

For now, this is enough.

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Dang, I realize writing this and watching some of other card stories that Artem is such a simp, but we love it. We love a man that can actually express his feelings.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed reading it. I feel like I want to write more about what happens up until the point of the game, so I will see you in the next one! See you guys soon!

[actuallyadhd]

My husband is autistic, I have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, social anxiety, ADHD and have a provisional autism diagnosis. We both have executive dysfunction issues. I'm 38 weeks pregnant, and my anxiety just keeps getting worse about how we're going to deal with getting things done once the baby is born. I normally have it under decent control, but with the anxiety getting worse and the resurgence of depression symptoms, the executive dysfunction has gotten so much worse. (1/2)

Really hoping I don’t have to deal with post-partum, but even if I don’t, we’ll still be dealing with lack of sleep. I feel like we’ll be able to adequately handle the baby and clean up after changing diapers, but I’m worried about everything else like cleaning the house. I know we can ask for help, but I don’t want to get dependent on the help either. I couldn’t find anything on the blog about parenting with ADHD, especially executive dysfunction. (2/2)

Sent February 7, 2019

I’ve been meaning to write some posts about parenting with ADHD, now that I’m nearly four years into it. I gotta add that to my list. *does so* Okay.

Now, I will note that you’re ahead of me in all of this because I have never in my life had the housework under control. But we are all doing well, my kid is generally healthy, and that’s the biggest thing.

You have a couple of weeks until the baby comes. In that time, figure out what things are non-negotiable: that is, things that if you can just stay on top of them, you will feel like things are going okay. For me, that’s dishes and laundry. When those get behind, I start to feel frazzled.

And next comes a whole lot of suggestions and advice.

Try to get the house clean before baby comes, and enlist help to get it there because you are not as mobile or flexible as you will need to be in order to get everything done.

Choose a couple of locations where you will be feeding the baby, and get those places set up ahead of time with reading material, phone charger, etc. Make sure you have a blanket for your legs, and you definitely want a comfortable chair, preferably with arms so you can rest your arms with baby’s head on your elbow. Think about including non-perishable snacks and drinks you can enjoy at room temperature. I mostly fed my son in the living room, and I breastfed him, but even if you’re bottle-feeding you’ll need stuff to do and you may be sitting there for a long time sometimes.

Think about where you’re going to change baby’s diaper, too. Again, I mostly did that in the living room, but sometimes I did it on my bed in the bedroom. Set up all potential locations with wipes, diapers, etc. (we did cloth initially so I had pins and diapers and diaper covers and diaper cream in a box that was easy to grab and carry wherever I needed it).

I’m not going to advise you about sleeping arrangements beyond the recommendation that baby sleeps in the same room for the first six months. This helps with SIDS. We put my son’s bassinet next to my side of the bed, and when he woke up for a feed I got up and carried him out to the living room. This worked for us because my husband has a regular job with a half-hour commute each way. Of course, executive dysfunction being what it is, my son’s room wasn’t actually fit for him to inhabit until he was 18 months old, when we decided to finally put him into a proper crib because he was climbing out of his travel crib in our room. Remember that for a baby, 5 hours in a row is “sleeping through the night”; it’s easier to deal with the interruptions if you’re not expecting different. By about six months, baby should be sleeping longer and longer at a stretch. You can find more about sleep solutions at Precious Little Sleep (really helped me; so did the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child, by Marc Weissbluth). (Note that I am not into “Attachment Parenting” but I am into Respectful Parenting.)

Okay, here’s what saved me when my son was tiny: if he was awake, and happy, and fed, and had a clean diaper, I put him on a blanket on the floor in the living room and let him do his thing. I lay him on his back, which gave him lots of opportunity to move his body however he needed to, and I didn’t bother with mobiles or anything, though sometimes I did put a toy where he could bat it with his hand or see it if he turned his head. Babies are new to this world, and there is loads for them to take in this way.

I talked to him all the time (oh, wait, maybe that’s why he doesn’t stop talking now). I told him what I was doing before I did it. If I was leaving the room, I told him where I was going and when I’d be back. If he cried, I responded by talking first, letting him know that I heard him. If he cried for longer than a couple of whimpers, I went over to him and asked what was wrong, commented on whatever was going on, and put my hand on his chest if he seemed to need my touch. If that didn’t help, I picked him up and investigated. After a little while I knew what cries meant what, and I didn’t need to wait and see most of the time.

The idea here is that you don’t have to hold your child constantly, so you can do other things when they’re awake (not just when they’re asleep). In addition, the wait and see approach to crying allows you to support the baby when they’re upset and to learn what different cries mean, while also giving them space to figure stuff out for themselves (like self-soothing, for example).

As baby becomes mobile, you will want to set up a play space that is totally safe and doesn’t require your supervision. A lot of parents who do this use a playpen initially and then move to gated areas in the home. You’ll need to think about furniture (it should be anchored to the wall if there’s a possibility of it toppling), outlets (block them with those child safe thingies), and so on and so forth. You don’t need a lot of toys in this space (if you Google “yes space” you’ll get the idea), and they don’t need to be extravagant. This gives your child somewhere to play independently, and you can do things elsewhere (checking in regularly, of course).

Back to new baby stuff: you’re going to be tired after baby is born. If people offer help, take it, especially for the first month or so. 

Giving birth is a physically demanding activity. I had an emergency c-section, and if that happens you will be recovering from surgery as well as caring for a newborn. 

I have a good friend who gave birth to twins in September (no c-section and I’m pretty sure no painkillers either), and they were in NICU for a while, and she went back to work (she’s a paper carrier) after two weeks because it’s good for her mental health. (She’s married. Her husband did her routes while she was off, and he also cares for the kids—they also have a 5yo—when she’s sleeping as he’s seasonally employed.) 

Everyone recovers at a different rate, but it does take at least a year to fully recover physically from being pregnant and giving birth. So cut yourself some slack and ask for help if you need it. You won’t become dependent on it if you want to eventually do it all yourself again.

You can ask any questions you have and I will do my best to answer. Congratulations, and I hope everything goes well with the delivery!

-J

[sftswigan]

Middlesbrough quartet, Swears, tell us about the latest single and idea behind video and their direction on latest EP, Seersucker.

George and Joel from the band join us... Can you tell us a little bit about the band, who plays what and how the band formed?

We got together in the summer of 2017. We’d known each other for years via various bands and jamming together, admired each other’s work and decided to give it a go together. George (guitar) and Stephanos (drums)come as a duo on account of the whole ‘blood bond’ thing and teamed up with Joel (vocals/guitar) to write a few early demos. Tom joined the band around a year ago, replacing our original bassist Craig.

Having only been together for a short time, you’ve released quite a bit of material. How would you describe how your music has developed from when you released ‘Faith In The Nation’ to your recently released EP ‘Seersucker’ and how has the latter been received by fans and critics?

Loud, high energy shit but quite melodic. When we started this band the idea was to do music a little more pop-orientated and accessible than in our previous bands, but as time has gone on and we’ve defined our sound, we’ve ended up becoming darker and heavier, both in terms of the music and in lyrical subject matter.

The reaction has been really good. We put a lot of effort into spreading the word and it's been heartening to see it be so well received. We've had radio play in places we've never reached before, such as USA and Australia, which is super cool.

Your first set of songs are really catchy and as soon as I heard Subliminal I was hooked. Loving this new EP too! I like the direction it’s going. I first came across the band via a sponsored ad video. Thought I’d take a chance...turned out I like it what I heard/saw. How well did the ‘sponsored as’ work out and would you consider doing that kind of promotion for your next video?

Sponsored ads these days are a must for a band of our level. The way social media works these days is to limit the reach of non-paying brands in favour of those who pay. We don't like to spend too much but just enough to make sure people actually see our stuff. We put a lot of effort into our songs and videos etc so we're glad to hear that they are working and we are really grateful you managed to find us. We will be definitely using them for our newest video for 'Say Nothing'. We'd recommend any band use them, even if it's just a spare £10.

So let’s talk about your new single ‘Say Nothing’ that you released recently. What made you choose that particular song and theme for the video?

We chose to release 'Say Nothing' as a single from the EP as it’s one of our favourites from our EP 'Seersucker’ and we really liked the idea for the video. It’s had a good reception and was regularly picked out as one of the stand out tracks from the EP too, which is nice.

We came up with the idea for the video back in January this year. Joel and George were drunk at a bar in Manchester and they made a voice note on George's phone, shouting barely coherent instructions at the phone on what the video should go like. Later, we listened back to it when we were sober and expanded it from there. But really we just wanted to wear matching suits, pretend we were gangsters and shoot each other.

Great idea for a video and I love where the idea came from. Fits in well with the song. I see Sound Music Group are involved with the band now. How did that come about and what will they do for the band?

Thank you, it was a fun video to make. We were recently approached by Sound Music Group to work with us as a booking agent, and the idea is to book a tour with them at some point. Super excited to get back to gigging when we are all allowed to do so!

We can’t wait to see you guys play and we were gutted when we had to postpone the gig! Do you have any pre-gig rituals to prepare yourselves?

We can't wait to finally play for you too! We have various secret rituals to prepare ourselves. We might also go for a quick cigarette and/or extensive toilet breaks. But mainly we all get together separate from everyone else, talk about any last-minute set changes and hype each other up.

Who’s the worst for pre-gig nerves?

We've all been in bands and playing gigs for the past 10 years or more, so at this point I don't think anyone suffers too badly from nerves. As long as we know the set is well-rehearsed we are pretty confident that we will be able to handle anything that could go wrong during the gig - we've had enough experience with all that in the past! There's always a little bit of nervous excitement I guess, but that just shows you give a shit about what you're doing.

We’ll end the serious part of the interview with some more fun questions...

Big UK fest slot or support your favourite band?

Joel: UK fest slot

George: supporting favourite band

Favourite film/series?

A Scanner darkly, The Last Kingdom, The Rush Hour movies, Drive, The Nice Guys, anything Tarantino really. Theres too many to mention really.

If you were to be sent off to a desert island what album, book and other item of your choice would you take with you?

Joel: I would take...

For album I'll go for Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited. A timeless album, every track on it is a classic and it's got my favourite Dylan song 'Ballad of a Thin Man'

For book I'll go for Stephen King - The Stand. Because it's really long so will keep me occupied for a good amount of time, plus it will be fun to read about a fictional pandemic again.

For item I would take:

Either my guitar to give me something to do and stop me going crazy, my laptop so I can write, a big ganja plant if I want to sack off trying to escape and just get high all day on a beach, or something useful like a compass.

George: I would take...

The album I would take is Badbadnotgood - III. The item I would take is my guitar and the book I would take is a Macbook so I can record music. I know it's not a proper book but it says book in the name.

Favourite beer?

That one is an easy one. We all love Keo Beer. It is a beer from George and Stephanos' homeland of Cyprus. Please sponsor us Keo. The only place we can get them from is at one of the supermarkets and they come in those big bottles were you get 3 for £5. But we need more.

Last question...

Summer or winter?

Joel: Winter, "Cos it's cold and dark like my heart".

George: I would say Summer because it reminds me of Cyprus.

Big thanks to George and Joel from the band! go and check their social media pages and give them a listen on the streaming formats!

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Appreciation day: Tshepo Bashanyana Sempapalele

Ao ntate wa Karabo le Oratile, monna wa Sabi, letsibolo la Mme Maki, setlogolo sa Dikonelo, obuti wa ga Papa, Mokheseng le Lerato, mokubung ka seboko.

Botsho, Jonas inja, skhokho sam, direng my authi? ..'

This fellow here deserves all the props he could get. Let me clam a brief on how common we are. Except the fact we're gemini, 6 days apart & undeniable Buccaneer supporters, with you representing your ebony and me with ivory regarded pigment lol, both of us with sprinkled of blood we're indeed the sea robbers.

These are our identity.

1. Not quite articulate, yet the message gets through.

2. Our life experiences are quite the same.

3. You're so INFORMED ( political, historical, ideological, cultural, within sphere of our societies and beyond). I'm few stumbles before you lol, you excel far beyond.

4. Literature freak ( book collection, writing, reading, attending workshops, and so forth).

5. Hardly follow trends.

6. Passionate about ART.

7. Water Specialist wizard.

8. Leadership skills, you always fall for those you stand with.

9. High IQ level (although mine is somehow minimal).

10. Family head.

11. Extremely MATURED.

12. Not a class-ist, if there is such a word. (Despises bragging).

13. Modesty on the greatest shelf.

14. Hardly judge situations.

15. Love beer & we working towards getting rid of this toxicity.

16. Loves sharing.

I can go on and on. Let me break down my journey with you. Allow me to classify you as my "VENTING MACHINE".

You're the ninja I vent to, ALWAYS. Whenever I'm bottled up, having odd moments or emotionally torn I release it on you, not because I couldn't/cannot contain my situations, I always find a reasonable reason within you. You're automatically the prime suspect. The rage I prance, you always give me an ear & you don't interrupt me, you listen to my frustrations with a genuine ear, I sometimes snap at you, and YOU ALWAYS take a bite for it, you never lack to put me into perspective.

I guess all my phones have registered you on a speed dial cause whenever I want to let go, they suggest you all the damn time.

My emotional outrage are with you, and you manage to calm me down, please give me the mechanism you use into fueling me to see wonders of this world, talking to you and with you is always refreshing.

2013 was the year when we enrolled into the water industry field program. You came in a month later looking like a rag, you couldn't be bothered by your physical presentation of self, you knew your background and such puny couldn't move you as you had "qualities of being a good human being".

First day in class together, you ounce a revert analog. I reminisce on how you were detailed with immerse knowledge, self preservation of wealthy ideas, you were highly charged with wisdom, unpacked such diligence, you're still are remarkable man.

I was baffled, couldn't coherent and process how a dude in your "age" has so much passion in/for education cause often people study to escape life realities. You were not there to study bruv you were there to be educated.

Your passion in the water field goes without a question. Truthfully, I just enrolled for escapism, you changed that in me from a distance. I draw inspiration from you. Your invincible study bullied me to pull up my socks as I was dragging the feet, with that acknowledgement I deeply fell for this industry.

You were the class elder and never treated us like a bunch of swine kids, you blended well with our age group. You were the first to submit thorough detailed reports, assignments, projects on time, typed, relevant, yet you didn't have any means or you simply couldn't find excuses as to why you can't give everything your ultimatum best.

Dawg, I mean, you travelled daily from Brandfort to Bloemfontein with few rands we were given (not earning, sponsored), got home way too late, you have a strong beautiful amazing family you need to give your arm and leg to, SGB Chairperson, Church Chairperson, workaholic, so many commitments yet you outdone yourself when it came to "school work"', if this doesn't get moment of brilliance, I'll totally be dismayed. My king, I applaud you. I had to bring my guns up cause your life and how is turning deserves to be archived. I had to throw my laziness to the gutters and pull in weight, and yeah, I did my best, all because of you Meneer. You instigated fire in me to supersede my adversity.

Over the years we became casual friends. We engaged in slime debates, sports talk, politics, shared hip hop conversation, how masterful art is, exchanged our unpublished materials (anthologies, book of rhymes, poetry, books we writing & the Iikes), I found quite similar things I resonate with in retrospect.

We subtly moved from being "friends" to "brothers", most notable example, " VENTING MACHINE" .

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When we initially went into working environment as interns where we spent great time expanding our niche at the bulk water sector, where we grew fond from, staying in compounds (komponeng) during work days. We outlined how resourceful can we be in this industry, what change and legacy should we mark, what's our blueprint and you know this in your dearest heart that we did make a great impact and history is embedded in the walls, books, we carved our path there.

Let me not digress further on it.

How did you become a brother.

As we were working closely together, we shared mortgage, grocery, every tool of survival, we strengthened our brotherhood, my family acknowledge you as their own, this doesn't happen too often. We shared our life stories, open minded about any factors disturbing social ignorance, you know where you resume your religion, likely converted. You opened up yourself to me, conversations went far too deep in many occasions and it's evident how total stranger becomes a family.

You encourage me to glide beyond semantics, constantly remind me there's a light at the end of the tunnel, you're the brother I speak to the longest.

With this post, I was bidding you for your constant contribution in my wellbeing, health, social sphere. Though we hadn't been laying retinas for 8 months cause we're in a mission to harness our gifts and change people's lives impromptu within specter of this field, just know that I have a magnificent ideal appreciation to you wholeheartedly.

May every stone directing for destruction in your journey, be swayed away. Continue to being a phenomenal father, excellent husband, amazing brother to your siblings, obedient worker, selfless leader. Provide your services whenever called, and please walk with me too by being a bravo brother.

Jehovah bless