#FOR KING & COUNTRY

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FOR KING & COUNTRY – She Believes (Mp3 Download, Lyrics)

for KING & COUNTRY – She Believes (Mp3 Download, Lyrics) Most Talented Popular American gospel singers and Worship leader, for KING & COUNTRY has released an amazing new track titled “She Believes”. update your playlist with the song She Believes listen and download below! She Believes Lyrics by for KING & COUNTRY. Clouds hanging lower Rain is colder now Watching my breath escape me Feeling the…

[tiand]

"By Our Love" by for KING & COUNTRY

[yesdreamilyenchantingbouquet]

53rd Annual GMA Dove Awards Winners 2022

53rd Annual GMA Dove Awards Winners 2022

The 53rd Annual GMA Dove Awards were handed out Tuesday night, October 18th, 2022, at the Allen Arena in Nashville, Tennessee to a sold-out audience. The show aired Friday, October 21st, exclusively on TBN and was simulcast on SiriusXM The Message. Co-hosts Erica Campbell and Chris Tomlin led the all-star night of music with performances from across the music community including Gospel, Latin,…

[theindyreview]

Live Report: Grammy Gala 2024

Live Report: Grammy Gala 2024 The #Grammy #HallofFame inductees were honored by @AndraDayMusic @hansonmusic @warandtreaty @Shinedown @ElleKingMusic @WBellMusic @RecordingAcad @GRAMMYMuseum @2BENTERTAlNMENT @AtlanticRecords @MsLaurynHill @TheNovoDTLA

The 2024 Grammy Hall of Fame inductees were honored in what would be the first of a new annual tradition of galas, hosted at the Grammy Museum and Novo in Downtown Los Angeles this last Tuesday night. Outside of a few delays and moments of miscommunication, the evening was a swift and enjoyable tribute to some groundbreaking albums and memorable songs, with a slew of famed modern artists paying…

[stubaby777]

Stu's World CXVIII

Hey everyone😊 It has been weird since I have truly let y’all inside other than a few updates. But here goes…. I had the privilege of finally meeting Charity ☺️ She’s so cool. Hoping for more visits as her travels allow😊 Yes, I took Angie to see King & Country♥️ I was a little worried there for a bit as she hit a very down spot where she didn’t even want to talk to me. But we went and had fun.…

[kmac4him1st]

Tell All My Friends

I am telling my family and my friends that Jesus loves them and hoping huge that they give their lives wholly-holy to Him and during these turbulent times, that they are Navigated by God's Holy Spirit.

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding. He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound]. [II Cor. 12:9.] Even youths shall faint and be weary, and [selected] young…

[gospelcover]

King & Country – Together (mp3 Download, Lyrics)

King & Country – Together (mp3 Download, Lyrics)

King & Country – Together Download MP3 KING & COUNTRY & Kirk Franklin – Together (Lyrics, Video) Here is a gospel song titled “Together” by the Award winning Super Star American gospel musician and pastor King & Country Ft Kirk Franklin & Tori Kelly. “Together” is not their first song as King & Country began his music career years back with the release of many glorious songs. “Together” is…

[verifiedaccount]

tagged by @crewneck to pick a song per letter of my url

v- V-2 Schneider // David Bowie

e- Earn Enough For Us // XTC

r- Racer X // Big Black

i- I Am Decided // The Amps

f- Four Words // Parenthetical Girls

i- (I Make the) Product // Desperate Bicycles

e- Ex-Con // Smog

d- Drums of Africa // King Tubby & Prince Jammy

a- Awesome Sound // Ween

c- C.R.E.E.P. // The Fall

c- Cooking Wine // Alkaline Trio

o- Octopussy // The Wedding Present

u- Useless Information // The Move

n- Noise Ramones // Boredoms

t- Thank You God for Making Me An Angel // Country Teasers

If you want to do it, consider yourself tagged, since actually tagging people only seems to work some of the time

[hxjikonn]

IMPORTANT!!! PLS READ I NEED ASSISTANCE!!!

This is gonna be long bare with me, So for context this annon is requesting a part two of my fic where reader surprises the TWST boys by speaking their native tongue and I reallyyy wanna write this but I have a few issues especially with the Savannah claw boys.

The issues are:

1. Ruggie and Leona are twisted of the hyenas and Scar from Lion king, and Lion king was set in the pride lands of Africa, which is where sunset savanna is twisted from. I’ve done a bit of researching and there are over 2000-3000 estimated languages spoke in the country of Africa, although there 5 main languages spoken (Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Zulu) I still don’t know which one I should use and I’d like to clarify that I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SPEAK ANY OF THESE LANGUAGES so I am very careful not to write without consulting someone who speaks the language(s) fluently.

Source: ( https://www.nordictrans.com/the-different-languages-spoken-across-africa/amp/# )

2. Jack Howl, we all know that he maybe twisted from Jack London’s “White Fang” novel, which featured a white wild wolfdog, I did my research yet again, and these animals are found in Europe and North America, so I’m yet again confused with what language Jack speaks…

3. I’ve said this in the first fic, and this one, but I will say it again, I am not fluent nor do I even know how to speak these languages, When I wrote the first part, I had assistance from people who spoke the language fluently, and I’m very thankful for them, however in this request I do not know anyone who speaks any of the languages in Africa, European, or even Italian. I want to write it but my top priority is being careful of not disrespecting other people’s cultures and languages. I am writer and I want to make my work as respectful and as comfortable for everyone to read even if it’s just a fanfic.

—Summary: What I’m saying here is that I need someone to help me, if you speak any of the languages mentioned in the thread FLUENTLY or if you are a native speaker please dm me, I know this is a bit too much just for a fic but I’d rather go through all this work and research than to write a fic and use phrases from a language I do not speak and accidentally offend people who speak those languages.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

- Pete Townshend, The Who

The crowned king of smashing guitars is none other than The Who’s Pete Townshend. In a sense he was the godfather of guitar smashing on stage. The year was 1964. The Who were playing a small pub in London known as the Railway Tavern in Harrow and Wealdstone. At some point, Townshend’s Rickenbacker headstock hit the venue’s low ceiling, cracking it with a thud. When Townshend saw that none of the other band members seemed to notice or care, he decided to make it noticeable and smashed the guitar to the floor and against his amp, shattering it to pieces. And thus began a decades-long destructive affair between Pete and his many guitars.

Townshend would go on to smash more guitars on more stages in more countries the world over than any guitarist in rock ‘n’ roll history. He set the bar high on the act, performing it with an intensity and poetic presentation that bordered on dance. He would often raise his Gibson or Fender high over his head, holding it to the sky - a kind of sacrifice to the muse, to the crowd, to the moment. From there, the smashing took many directions. From bouncing the bottom of the body at the strap-button end off the stage over and over, to wielding it like an axe and chopping down a mic stand, to ramming it over and over into the drum stand or into a tower of speakers, Townshend made each guitar smashing an unforgettable moment for the audience.

In 2020, Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of The Who, perhaps with mischief in mind, said that Pete Townshend would creep around the stage collecting up all the bits of smashed guitars so he could glue them back together again. Which on the face of it wasn’t very rock’n’roll. It gets worse. According to Daltrey, to make it easier to repair his broken guitars, Townshend went to great lengths to smash them up as carefully as possible.

On the How to Wow podcast, Daltrey revealed the careful process behind Townshend’s destruction. “They were real guitars, but we worked out very cleverly that very rarely did the neck break. As long as the neck didn’t break, you could glue the body back,” he said. But Daltrey did charitably add that also pointed out: “It was costly in glue.” Fans of Townshend believed that Daltrey was deliberately trying to sabotage Townshend’s reputation. The pair interacted as little as possible during their time together and especially since the band broke up, doing separate interviews, having separate backstage areas at concerts and even recording entire albums without seeing each other.

However the story has a ring of truth to it. Pete Townshend once confessed inhis autobiography that, “The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.“ Listen, it’s important to remember that even rock stars are people, and they have to deal with the same mundanities as the rest of us. Why Townshend had to glue all his guitars back together was because it was expensive to replace the smashed guitars and The Who were as frugal as they came.

In any case Townshend helped to set in stone one of rock’n’ roll’s defining images, the art of guitar smashing, unlike any other musical genre. In doing so he paved the way for the likes of other legendary guitarists like Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix to smash their guitars during their live performances on stage.

[jupiterswasphouse]

WASP REVIEW - ZINGER (DONKEY KONG SERIES)

[Image IDs: Two renders of the Zinger from DK: Jungle Climber and the original Donkey Kong Country respectively /End IDs.]

and were back to the wasps based entirely on eusocial species! This time, the basic Zingers (although having a few different recolored iterations) look the most like some black and yellow species of paper wasp or yellowjackets. Given Rareware's home of operations and the homeland of designer Steve Mayles, being England, I feel like it's fairly safe to assume that they're based on one of three species of wasp: the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris), the European wasp/German yellowjacket (Vespula germanica), or the European paper wasp (Polistes dominula)!

[Image Sources: Wildlife Insight, and Wikimedia Commons, Sharp Photography | Image IDs: Two photos of yellow and black wasp species, the former being the common wasp, a type of yellowjacket, on a grey wood surface, and the latter being the European paper wasp on a stone or concrete surface /End IDs.]

They're not entirely accurate; the markings aren't too precise, they only have two wings as opposed to the four on a real wasp (Although the DK: Jungle Climber iteration changes their shape to at least imply a second pair), and obviously real wasps don't have a trail of spines/stingers running down their metasoma nor a pair of signature Rareware cartoon eyes. However, the original model especially is surprisingly accurate for being based on an animal that the designer himself said he was scared by! I especially appreciate the original's fairly accurate legs and addition of setae!

It's in the games themselves where we run into more inaccuracies to these particular species, however. In the original DKC, the queen of the Zingers is named Queen B. and is fought on the boss stage titled 'Bumble B. Rumble', clearly being a direct reference to real world bees, which are several familial branches away in the wasp subclade Aculeata from the previously listed Vespids. This is honestly, while a little frustrating, not a big deal. But, when we get into the second game in the DKC line, we discover their hives.

The Zinger hives throw a major spanner in the works. The wasps mentioned make paper nests, with the yellowjackets nests having a round, closed structure, some yellowjackets building inside of trees or in dirt burrows, and the paper wasps having an open, umbrella-like structure both including cells built in hexagonal shapes, built to contain their larvae and often having silk caps covering them. Meanwhile, the Zingers have nests that match the hexagonal cells, caps, and larvae of these wasps, but are clearly made of yellow wax and contain honey, like that of honey bees.

[Image Sources: Carolina Honey Bees, and Wikimedia Commons, Dicklyon | Image IDs: Two photos showing the nests of the western honey bee and the european paper wasp, followed by a screenshot of one of the Zinger's hives /End IDs.]

Honey bees will also cap their honey and larvae with wax, and while a few notable species of Vespid wasps do, in fact, produce honey, the european paper wasps and yellowjackets are not a part of that particular set of species! Oddly, some of the cells appear to contain notably smaller adults as opposed to other cells that contain larvae. To add further confusion, one of these hive levels is titled 'Hornet Hole', hornets being another completely different genus within Vespidae (Vespa).

On top of all that, at the end of the area that contains the hive levels, Krazy Kremland, you fight another Zinger boss, this time named King Zing. As you may know, no wasps have a 'King', solely having a Queen, with hives having both Kings and Queens among eusocial insects being moreso found in termites, belonging to a completely different order (Blattodea).

Outside of their nesting behavior and hierarchy, their behavior is generally unremarkable for platformer enemies, with amped up aggression from that of a real world wasp (although admittedly not nearly as aggressive as a real world wasp would be if you were a monkey with a baseball cap and an unquenchable thirst for bananas invading their nest, as you play in DKC2) to give the player an obstacle to overcome in these levels. It is, at least, implied that these wasps would collect nectar from flowers to turn into the honey found in their nest.

Plus, as I wondered in my review of Fallout: New Vegas' Cazadores, I have to question what exactly a wasp of such a size hunts to bring back to its young! Hopefully Donkey or Diddy Kong wouldn't find themselves on the menu!

All in all, these wasps get a few things right, but are quite the mixed bag of confused species with a couple outright inaccuracies not found in Hymenoptera in general thrown in there. Though I can commend the effort by the designer!

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Overall: 4.5/10

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Make sure to tune in next week when we cover the Circuit Bees and Mask Hornets from Lethal Company!

[saintmeghanmarkle]

the Duchess of Kent the Duchess of Sussex - a contrast between pure hearted love & malevolence by u/ElectricalAd9212

the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Sussex - a contrast between pure hearted love & malevolence in the thread 'She's working on her brand', AcanthaceaeOk2426 says:"Jeez lady you have had all the goddamn time in the world to work on you brand, you just chose to work the negative angle instead. How about shut the f up, take off that tacky jewellery and go sweat your butt off for a few hours at a community garden. There’s a good start to your fking brand."This reminded me of the Duchess of Kent.She is the wife of Her Majesty the Late Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, Prince Edward the Duke of Kent.She lived a very aristocratic life, and was heart stoppingly beautiful and glamourous.But in the 1990s, she decided to step back a little.She wrote to the Queen and asked permission to have her 'Her Royal Highness' title rescinded.Earlier in her life she had exprienced tragedy when her child, a son, died. And she herself had health problems. She also converted to Roman Catholicism. But because the Monarchy is the defender of the Anglican Church, she first of all wrote to the Queen asking permission, which was of course granted, because her Majesty was deeply loving and compassionate.So what did she do after she stepped back from royal life? She basically disappeared from public life. But she was working for charities. In particular UNICEF.But also, she became a music teacher at a primary school in Hull.Hull is an industrial, working class city in the north east of England.There is poverty, and people from the rest of the country sneer at it as a boring, bleak place, they are snobbish about it.She became a music teacher. She taught music to children from deprived areas. Anonymously. She never used her royal title. She did it because all of her life she loved music, she loved children, and she just wanted to do good.She had no airs or graces. She moved away from the glamour of palaces and royalty, and lived in a working class industrial city in the north of England, teaching music to kids.In an interview, the headteacher said:"She is an inspirational music teacher and the children love working with her. They say she never gets cross, she always looks for the positive."She added: "I believe that because they are so fond of her, they have done well in music."Nobody knew she was doing it. It wasn't trumpeted as PR. The children didn't curtsey or bow to her. She became a music teacher who conveyed love and the wonder of music. She did her duty, quietly, humbly, with love.She embodies everything that is true and graceful about noblesse oblige and the good things that can be done for those with good hearts and souls.The contrast with Markle and Harry is profound.Lets pray for the Duchess of Kent. She is in her nineties now. She embodies what is great about the monarchy and Britain. What a beautiful and kind soul.God Save the King, God Bless America.​​https://ift.tt/3wOJdB4 post link: https://ift.tt/5OzgoLp author: ElectricalAd9212 submitted: October 29, 2023 at 12:38PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[tiand]

"Priceless" by for KING & COUNTRY

[sammyhasspammy]

Switcheroo Brainstorming

I'm making an role reversal au! I'm going to post this along with my posts for Viva, Poppy, and Branch specifically, which you can find by clicking on their names! Here's some ideas I have:

So Branch and Poppy are basically going to be full-on switching lines, though their backstories will be very different cause... it's kinda hard to replace 4 people with 1 sister and a father. So band together is going to be the most different! More details in the individual posts for the characters

I want "Better Place" to be replaced with "It Takes Two" for the final confrontation in TBT :)

Not all characters are going to be switch 1-to-1. Again, the brothers are going to be hard to switch for. Also, not all characters readily have someone to replace them with

There will be a lot of trollstopia characters that will be in the world tour switch, but they'll mostly have the personalities of the trolls they switch with so watching the show isn't a must (But i still recommend both shows, they're pretty fun!)

Most of the troll tribe leaders will be replaced with a trollstopia character, EXCEPT for Queen Essence and King Quincy cause I need them to be in those roles. They'll just change lines and outfits maybe?

I have no idea what to do with the bounty hunters so if you have a recommendation id love to hear it!

There's not much to say other than character switches which will be put under the cut cause it'll be a long list. If you have any recommendations or questions, hit up my ask box!

Character Switches:

Branch ↔ Poppy

Gristle ↔ Bridget

Biggie ↔ Creek

Creek’s Mr Dinkle would be the little bug thing that makes him fly in canon

Satin and Chenille (Their names also change order and they switch which side they're usually on cause I think that's fun) ↔ DJ Suki

Guy Diamond ↔ Sky Toronto

Tiny Diamond doesn't have a counterpart so he's just kinda the same

Copper ↔ Darnell (personalities don't change only backstories)

Smidge ↔ Milton (not sure if I want to change their personalities or just professions... a loud vet and a sweet bodybuilder sounds fun)

Chad and Todd ↔ Chef (Not sure if I should change her name or just keep her as Chef)

Peppy ↔ JD

Cloud Guy ↔ Janet

Barb ↔ Val

Thrash ↔ Val's unnamed father that shows up for one frame in "Flyer's Ed" (Trollstopia season 4 episode 4b)

Riff ↔ Demo

Sid Fret ↔ Blaze (their personalities do not change, just their roles)

Carol ↔ Petra

Since there's no rock child Amp just kinda hangs around and takes the roll of that random rock kid in "Val Serves Murray Duty" (Trollstopia season 7 episode 6b)

Holly ↔ Delta Dawn (no personality change)

Growley Pete ↔ Gust

Pigtail is the one who bites Poppy instead of Clampers. Again, with Clampers there's no child country troll so she's just... around.

Minuet ↔ Wolfgang Trollzart

Dante ↔ Beetrollven

Not 100% sure what I wanna do with the show's funk trolls yet. It's either switch Lownote with Groovetavius and switch R&B with each other, OR have R switch with Lownote, B switch with Groovetavius

For the techno trolls it's going to be a triangle. Laguna-> Trollex -> Synth -> Laguna. The reason for this is changing Trollex and Synth would be too similar, and would leave Laguna with no one (Except for Bliss Marina)

Velvet ↔ Veneer

Crimp ↔ Ritz

The other BroZone members don't really have counterparts. Clay and Bruce stay mostly the same while Floyd joins the rock trolls.

[gatekeeper-watchman]

Daily Devotionals for August 3, 2024

Proverbs: God's Wisdom for Daily Living

Devotional Scripture:

Proverbs 21:30-31 (KJV): 30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. 31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD. Proverbs 21:30-31 (AMP): 30 There is no wisdom or understanding or counsel (that can prevail) against the Lord. 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance and victory are of the Lord.

Thought for the Day

Verse 30 - No matter how brilliant a man's plan against God may be, it will not prevail. Man is mortal; he makes mistakes and faces uncontrollable events. Every plan of man is subject to change, cancellation, or destruction. None of man's wisdom and understanding is any match for the Lord. "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" (1 Corinthians 1:19-20). All plans of God are guaranteed success, as Romans 8:31b says: "If God be for us, who can be against us?"

"But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy" (James 3:15-17). Man's wisdom is based on selfishness, while God's wisdom is pure and impartial. God calls each of us to die to our own desires and ways and live according to His. How wonderful it would be if we would all trust God and obey His Word!

Verse 31 - The horse symbolizes a country's strength in warfare. It is not wrong to prepare an army for the defense of a nation, because we live in a world of evil men and we must be prepared to protect ourselves. This is true for all emergency situations. We should be prepared in case something happens. Because of man's propensity to error, and because we live in a fallen world, we make mistakes that can create the need to instigate emergency measures. However, we should remember that our real protection comes from God. Ultimately, no matter how formidable a battle looks, and no matter how well prepared we might be, the outcome and victory of that battle rests in our faith in the Lord and His capabilities.

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance…There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength" (Psalm 33:12; Psalm 33:16-17).

Prayer Devotional for the Day

Dear heavenly Father, thank you for Your protection and blessing upon us in this land. Forgive us for the many ways in which we have failed You and sinned against You. Lord, I am reminded of Psalms 20:7 which says, "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God." Dear Lord, I voice my trust in You, and declare that we shall be delivered as a nation! Bring revival to our land and heal us. Work in my own heart, and give me a more sacrificing spirit that will give up things I want to do and do only Your will. Let revival begin in me. I ask this in the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.

[ferromagnetiic]

𝟑 - 𝟓 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐄 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘.

𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒:

literally every hue of red

obsidian

golden-bronze

steel-silver

𝐒𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒:

faded whiffs of cheap deodorant mingled with sweat at the end of a busy afternoon. distinct, masculine musk and warmed skin from being outside in the summer sun, beating down on him. the shared tang of the ocean’s headwind.

the nervousness lingering in the back of your nose, during moments of sharpened instincts; staining your tongue with something foul. like trepidation. he smells like oncoming threat. he smells like the anxiety you experience when you know danger is approaching, like something bad is about to occur, though you're uncertain of what that entails. he smells like clammy palms and a quickened heartbeat and a distrust that never quite dissipates.

metallic notes: spilled blood and laborious metalwork. the dryness of dusty tools in need of a polish, accompanied by the overwhelming bite of motor oil. an engine that's been running for too long, been functioning too hard, and is now emitting fumes.

the booze he's been drinking. rum on the rocks, or a frothy beer. stale fruit. shrouded in miasma while glasses clink in celebration as his men exchange a round of hearty toasts. an occasional cigarette when he steps outside for a smoke break. cheap thrills and long nights.

𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍:

his signature coat: an exotic plume of feathers, heavier than it looks and impossible to ignore, racing like a sea of soft fire down his back.

gaudy-printed pants which some would consider an eyesore for being so needlessly dramatic.

crimson hair, spiked each morning with copious amounts of hair gel.

a sizeable collection of expensive jewelry: bangles, cuffs, rings; stolen and never once bought.

bold lipstick in dark shades and kohl eyeliner painted on a face that would otherwise be too bare without.

𝐎𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒:

a pair of tinted goggles from an old friend dear to him, still.

the harsh, jagged edges of a false alloy arm: a paradox in both loss and gain. of something clearly solid yet missing.

a welding torch carelessly abandoned on the ground next to the incomplete body of an unfinished project.

a well-used electric guitar resting atop an amp.

imposing mechanical animals seeming to contain life of their own, rattling and hissing with complicated motions.

𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄:

the brutal collision of a fist; knowing precisely where to land to make his opponent reel.

the brawl-promised warning of a sneer poorly disguised as a wry smile.

the fluid movement of a tongue, thick with an accent belonging to an almost-dead language.

the absentminded wiping of grease-smears on an old rag.

bellowing laughter; gruff, satisfied rumbling lodged within a throat.

𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒:

“the scream of thunderbolts overhead; a country that has lost its privileges to quiet skies. the deafening patter of raindrops crashing onto tin roofs. there’s a presence in the junkyard hidden amongst the piles of scrap. sparks that are unpleasant to touch. a thousand flesh-eating sea kings swarming the coast, keeping you at bay. fingertips smudged with pencil lead from designing blueprints, so many of which are torn. your first successful invention, and short-lived moments of joy. pride swells in your chest.”

"a storehouse of restless discomfort and emotion. static stammering beyond your rabid snarling, the rushing of blood giving rise to the fine hairs on the back of your neck, disobedient and unlistening. a tense jaw that’s starting to go sore from gritted molars. everything about you is so loud. they won't part from you, uninjured. they'll speak of spite as though they'll understand it half as well as you do."

“being too good at these war-games. at collecting broken teeth and lacerations on your knees. a narrowed set of copper eyes — alight with animosity, dangerous and unnerving. it should hurt each time they knock you down; yet you don't quite feel it anymore. no love for the frail. you're about as angry as a bruise can get."

"your pull, magnetized on the outside, commands the creaking of the earth’s core. all iron folds to your will. you have little interest in playing god; despite what they say. you don't believe in transcendence, only perspective. so you continue to climb, tireless: a sentient contraption of mismatched parts continuously breaking down in the pursuit of strength. you’re an unburied artefact, terror on hooves. a rampaging minotaur lost inside the remnants of a once-great civilization. the wild shrillness of your best friend’s laughter, reeking in sacrifice and hardship, makes your residual limb flare up in turn. the pressure upon your shoulders remains heavier than any monstrous prosthetic you wield. you’ll protect everyone who’s counting on you: you’ve no other choice. you glint in spite of the rust."

"you were a boy once, turned man too early. you cling to survival like a hungry dogchild, thinking he can feast on raw bones alone, hurting yourself on every splinter. your stomach pierced; you, swearing you're never going to die. this is what it means to be the underdog. this is what it means to have the mettle not to recoil when you were made to stand in the living room of fear. you dread nothing and no one."

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