#Lang ‘Larry’ Bai

[angelicdudles]

Heyyy soooooo uh

May’ve done… somethin

Umm y’know

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Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Propaganda Submissions

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Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)

Kyojuro Rengoku/Akaza (Demon Slayer)

Mikhail”Misha” [Heavy]/Dr. Ludwig [Medic] (Team Fortress 2)

Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)

Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng (Guardian, 2018)

Oliver Marks/James Farrow (If We Were Villains)

David Starsky/Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson (Starsky & Hutch)

Tinn/Gun (My School President)

Loki Odinson/Mobius M. Mobius (Loki)

Jaime Reyes/Bart Allen (DC Comics)

Levi Schmitt/Nico Kim (Grey's Anatomy)

Ren Amamiya or Akira Kurusu/Goro Akechi (Persona 5)

Wallace Price/ Hugo Freeman (Under the Whispering Door)

Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons)

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (Guardian, 2018)

Isak Valtersen/Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton (Montague Siblings)

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)

Argos/Mr. Plant (The World of Mr. Plant)

Richard St Vier/Alec Campion (Swordspoint Universe)

Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz (The Umbrella Academy)

Woody/Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)

Victor Lawson/Hap (In the Lives of Puppets

Charlie/Babe (Pit Babe The Series)

Fred/Shaggy (Scooby-Doo)

Simon Snow/Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Grimm-Pitch (Carry On)

Gaius Octavius/Jedediah Smith (Night at the Museum)

Sound/Win (My School President)

Pat/Pran (Bad Buddy)

Mike Wazowski/James "Sulley" P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Nicholas “Nick” Bell/ Seth Gray (The Extraordinaries)

Evan 'Buck' Buckley/Edmundo 'Eddie' Diaz (9-1-1)

Sean/White (Not Me: The Series)

Vegas Theerapanyakun/Pete Saengtham (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Runaan/Ethari (The Dragon Prince)

Larry Daley/Ahkmenrah (Night at the Museum)

Tintin/Captain Archibald Haddock (Tintin comics)

Bai Lang/Jin Xun An (My Tooth Your Love)

Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E)

Wario/Waluigi (Mario franchise)

Peter Parker/Miguel O'Hará (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Steve Rogers/Anthony "Tony" Stark (Marvel Comics)

Dave Miller/Jack "Old sport" Kennedy (Dayshift at Freddy's)

Boston/Nick (Only Friends)

Kinn Theerapanyakun/Porsche Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Satoru Gojo/Suguru Geto (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Craig Cuttlefish/Octavio Takowasa (Splatoon)

Tulio/Miguel (The Road to El Dorado)

Sun Wukong/Neptune Vasilias (RWBY)

Zachary Ezra Rawlins/Dorian (The Starless Sea)

Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek (The X-Files)

Thomas/Newt (The Maze Runner)

Fulgrim/Ferrus Manus (Warhammer 40k)

Kim Theerapanyakun/Porchay Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments)

Tan/Bun (Manner of Death)

Qrow Branwen/Clover Ebi (RWBY)

Rhy Maresh/Alucard Emery (Shades of Magic)

Yashiro Isana/Kuroh Yatogami (K Project)

Jaskier/Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Dustfinger/Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Inkworld series)

Brandon/Sky (Winx Club)

Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum/Phillip Carlyle (The Greatest Showman)

Alfred Hillinghead/Henry Ashe (Bodies TV Show)

Baal/Inanna (The Wicked + the Divine)

Timothy "Tim" Drake/Bernard Dowd (DC Comics)

Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun Stampede)

Anthony Lockwood/Quill Kipps (Lockwood and Co)

Henry Winter/Francis Abernathy (The Secret History)

Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Dainix/Falst (Aurora Comic)

Prince Rupert/Prince Amir (The Two Princes)

Finn/Poe Dameron (Star Wars)

Jean Luc Picard/Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Will Stronghold/Warren Peace (Sky High)

Heart/Li Ming (Moonlight Chicken)

Wallace Wells/Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off)

Sunai/Veyadi Lut (The Archive Undying)

Linus Baker/Arthur Parnassus (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

Aaron Slaughter/Jace Boucher (House of Slaughter)

Hercule Poirot/Captain Arthur Hastings (Hercule Poirot)

Phaya/Tharn (The Sign)

Hercules/Iolaus (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)

Todd/Black (Not Me: The Series)

Julio "Rictor" Esteban Richter/Shatterstar (Marvel Comics)

Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu (Word of Honor)

Siffrin/Isabeau (In Stars and time)

Kendall Knight/Logan Mitchell (Big Time Rush TV Show)

Yuichiro Hiyakuya/Mikaela Hyakuya (Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End)

Palm/Nuengdiao (Never Let Me Go)

Khatha/Dome (Midnight Museum)

Asterix/Obelix (Asterix Comics)

Bowser/Luigi (Mario Franchise)

Lucien "Luc" O'Donnell/Oliver Blackwood (London Calling)

Kazuki Kurusu/Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies)

Benjamin “Ben” Tennyson/Kevin Ethan Levin (Ben 10: Alien Force)

Lumière/Cogsworth (Beauty and the Beast)

Damian Wayne/Jon Kent (DC Comics)

Spy/Dell Conagher [Engineer] (Team Fortress 2)

Shanks/Buggy (One Piece)

Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Ecks (Six of Crows)

Harold Finch/John Reese (Person of Interest)

Ulrich Stern/Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko)

Vincent Freeman/Jerome Morrow (Gattaca)

Eustass Kid/Killer (One Piece)

Christopher Hitchcock/Jalil Sherman (Everworld)

Frodo Baggins/Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)

[zooterchet]

Spider-Man:

Online Arrests Filed, through "Glamour Girl":

1996: Andrew Wachowski, "nil".

1997: Carrie-Anne Moss, "Damn-Yankee".

1998: Brian Monaghan, "qwerty".

1999: Keanu Reeves, "Howie".

2000: Rich Kyanka, "Toggan".

2001: Anthony Weiner, "Betty".

2002: Larry Wachowski, "Apathy".

2003: Hugh Jackman, "Ghul".

2004: Sayed Adnan, "Petula".

Hannibal Rising:

Michael Charlebois: "Cain", a spy's accountant, out of "Chutzpah", a political artist.

Alice O'Neill: "Kilpatrick", a female spy, out of "U'Niall", a spy's slaver.

Kenny Winston: "Weinstein", a Gentile's banker, out of "Cromwell", a German fire fighter.

Ryan Taylor: "Gaylord", a Buddhist assassin, out of "Polk", an optometrist.

Katie Stevens: "Stevenson", a Jamaican drug runner, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Matthew Lennox: "Satan", a Jewish king, out of "Nigger", a Parisian actor's mother to Scipio Africanus.

John Remby: "Roosevelt", a poverty demanded leader, out of "Alexander", a Macedonian inventor.

Pasquale Acosta: "Ibn Rashid", a Medina Arab, out of "Princeps", a Central Powers mercenary.

William Morgan: "Davis", a Southern cotton obsessive, out of "Hamilton", a treasurer's informant's officer.

Mark Salib: "Harding", a munitions developer, out of "Gilgamesh", a sugar salesman.

Cassie-Leigh Stock: "Donalban", a Puerto Rican Aryan, out of "Gould", a fascist writer for Francisco Franco.

Alexandra Gaetano: "Crowley", an Irish priest, out of "Brian", the victim of Christ.

Jenna Williamson: "Bundy", a Canadian spy, out of "Booth", a Mossad hired assassin.

Zach Savell: "Morales", a firefighter's inventor, out of "Aragorn", the first cowboy.

Maureen Harrison: "Harrison", a poisoner artist Gadze, out of "Cornwallace", a disgraced general.

Jen McDade: "Aensley", a British banker, out of "Lemerise", a British cop family.

Jeremy Stevens: "Mosley", a Group Force Leader, out of "Oswald", a British undercover agent.

Raven Bush: "Desperado", a Comanche Sheriff, out of "Joseph", a defeated Greek.

David Cohen: "Adolph", a German Turkish spy, out of "Ataturk", a cigarettes salesman.

Nicholas Maynard: "Hayes", a patent swindler, out of "Bourbon", a female transgender.

Allison Haimes: "Chi Minh", a CIA undercover, out of "The Duke of York", a professional British knife fighter.

Greg Connolly: "Visser", an Afrikaans Irish, out of "Lan Ray", a Boer Holocaust victim.

Brian Monaghan: "Myers", a KGB Ireland, out of "Carnegie", a Scottish Knight.

Ivan Tomasic: "Dahmer", a professional first strike mutually assured destruction pilot, out of "Ljudovich", an Austrian Black Shirt.

Christopher Sweeney: "Sween", a Black Baron Schultzstaffel, out of "Washington", a Romalian Boelyn.

Joshua Moen: "Van Zant", a professional raconteur assassin, out of "Chaucer", a Knight's Guard.

Bernice Lamb: "De Salvo", a Nietzschean Ubermensch, out of "Panzram", a sculptor author.

Joshua Golden: "Eshkol", an intelligence programs founder, out of "Mosaic", a Hittite Prince.

Uma Thurman: "Magnusdotter", a bodybuilder assassin, out of "Catherine", a surmised monarch.

Joseph Biden: "Capone", a police officer criminal, out of "James of Scotland", a legal reformer.

Lloyd Ahlquist: "Agnew", a Rabbinical entomologist, out of "Bin Laden", a prison convicts manager.

Will Ferrell: "Adams", a carnival's lover, out of "Pedro II", a harbormaster.

Joseph Kennedy III: "Kenway", a pork meats distributor, out of "Kennedy", a Tepes, a cannibal.

Star Wars Episode 1-3:

Leadership:

"Duo": Shaun Wilcox, Hawaiian Coastal Engineer, US Navy Japan.

"Libra": James Holmes, DC Comics Development, Mossad Counter-Bay Station.

"Leo": Jeffrey Lange, Cleveland Rotary Association, Finance and Debitures Apartment.

Duo:

"Blueberry": Police code on APB scanner, to catch "ranger patrols", off cented Mounted and Royal Mounted sections (Canadian-German, Protestant Universalist).

"WTC Location Grab": Profiling of Osama Bin Laden, three days after 9/11, to DC Comics Location and Transition Wards, Mossad Afghanistan; Tora Bora Prison Complex.

"San Andreas": Capture of Toris Nelby, British Co Anchor Author, "Crack Underground"; while in live transit of threat of CIA agent Peter Tsapatsaris, "Nails", posing as "Peebo" on internet as fraud of Russian-Jewry infiltrating CIA Annex Three; Winchester Frauds, IDF Biotech Experiments. Toris Nelby, "Peebo", detained and "destroyed", by fired rounds, from Eric Frein.

Libra:

"British Exemplar": Takeover of Japan by Warerra Party, masquerading Clone Wars film, recently released, by "Lucas Arts", as actual factual plan of attack; Pearl Harbor, as represented by "Kleinmen", Rohypnol dealers for Mossad.

"Gutwill Five": Seizure of criminal resources and allies of Framingham Narcotics, rogue Israeli Defense Forces section of Massachusetts cops, out of Jewish gangsters in Ohio; biker gangs, Canadian Freemasons.

Leo:

"Assassin's Creed": Creation of Assassin's Creed concept, as alternative to parents pamphlets to place children in Mossad underground as "Moslems" or "Mussulman".

"Guantanamo Live Range Agent": Use of third degree interrogator's training from mother's Marine NCO doctor, "Glen", to hunt his killers inside INTERPOL's top ranks; Gwenn Pratt, John Washburne, Steven Charlebois, Brian Monaghan, Alexandra Gaetano, and John Kerry.

"Philips Freemasons of Boston": Stage point of removal of Ted Bundy catchem code, to take over Boston Triads for FBI and State Police, through Cyber Command aegis helix on Los Angeles Police Department server scans; return of Chinese to American policing, as FBI informants and cover agents, against rising tide of Taiwanese nationalism; unions and Russian-Jewish consortiums of film and media logic.

"Pinkville": The strike on the Hell's Angels as a capture turn of the Canadian Freemasons for operating criminal ventures in factories, sports leagues, and boarding schools, to turn children into slaves and writers and prison convicts; the French and British Freemasonic attempt to undo Bill Clinton's peace for labor, athletics, and prison inmates.

"Hideous Karl": Use of Jack Unterweger's serial killer profile, tying a necktie for a business meeting, taught by Scoutmasters in male and female scout troops, for any career or American act, to pen research work for Christopher Nolan, MGM, and FOX.

"The Steroids Scandal": Outing American-Japanese pharmaceuticals, and MI-6 doctors, for selling performance enhancing steroids, Suboxone, for decades, under different brands and claim of brands; the public lawsuit against Dr. Joshua Golden, of United Health Associates, by the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healey.

"The Kennedy Campaign": Legalized marijuana, certified safe and non-sprayed by tree surgeons elected by towns, free from media myth presented on Holland and British telecasts, or by journalist work by High Times magazines authors. Held under tax stamps, through the State Police.

"Spiral": The culmination of three decades of work, as an NSA, from kindergarten to the mid-thirties, in the takedowns of INTERPOL, On Leong Tong, the Unitarian Church, and MI-6. The culmination of years of experience, placed in two blog reformatories, "Lex Luthor and the Sudbury Boys", and "Spiral - The Batman Killer", the prior academic references, the latter actual career references. The shutdown of the "United Nations Security Council", by planting a forged work on American Marxism from 2003, from an economics business professor at UMass-Amherst, Gerald Friedman, through the actual United Nations; published independently overseas, by those dependent on the United Nations as an American CIA entity; falsely framed as MI-6. The same NSA trick, used on Stephen Glass, a Vatican affiliated lawyer out of the Italian government's Nortel structure.

Spiral:

Joshua Moen: Keep the President's secret about Raven Bush getting stoned, or Cam Hollopeter marries your wife. But you don't have a wife, you're in love with Superman. Not Batman.

Method: Men's writing and literature styles, conflict terms of endearment in imago transformation.

Keanu Reeves: Clear Ben Brown of raping Raven Bush, or place yourself in perpetuity of your film, "The Matrix 1", being owned by the Crown Government.

Method: RTS counselor first sight response, however on public Majesty's review in Court.

Jenna Williamson: Place wired testimony through VFW, and accept your draft into the United States photographic corps unit for an upcoming military conflict.

Method: Coverage of the USS Cole bombing, being varied into a "K", the "Kierney" Amish mark on Marlboro cigarettes.

Ben Brown: Admit into economics program despite not earning a valedictorian's GPA through gymnastic and academic marks in highschool, or a military tour on apprenticeship to warrant officer status.

Method: US Presidential merits and statuses of badge, passed, during freshman year orientation.

Matthew Lennox: Separation from Raven Bush, under her alias, "Silver Laventi", at UMass-Amherst; attempting to engage for Elks Club, the Drake family, to remove from David's vicinity and allow him to take a law career for the Winchester CIA undercover in Israeli biotech medical testing on "Goyim", humans that have done DXM.

Method: Interjection through a Coen, the "Chutzpah" family, and placement of Raven inside the German underground as a medical advisor.

Peter Tsapatsaris: Outing that the name and alias used, is false, linking instead to a black drug dealer murdered on the MUSH.

Method: Interpreting with the actual alias, as the individual being extorted by the claimed name, out of Brian Monaghan's connection to NEWS Harvard, the studio print for the Boston Herald.

Brett Norman: Moving between ExSec operations controller, Andre Berube, after being recruited for role, and a permanent incarceration in Pembroke, watched by Steven "The Rifle" Flemmi.

Method: Placement in Pembroke military ward facility, to remove Rhode Island judge in league with Israeli Medical Authority.

The Matrix:

British Commonwealth (UK) Positions:

Boris Yeltsin: Claim, working through America for economic reestablishment.

Elie Wiesel: Claim, working to prevent anti-Semitism in United States.

Stan Lee: Claim, working in an MI-6 brand to teach police morals.

Queen Elizabeth II: Claim, defending British Isles against Adolf Hitler's traditions.

George W. Bush Jr.: Claim, Shriner's Freemasonic Lodge of England.

Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) Roles:

Boris Yeltsin: National Rifle Association.

Elie Wiesel: Romalian Federation.

Stan Lee: Hitler Youth.

Queen Elizabeth II: Catholic-Sepulchre Jewish Orthodoxy.

George W. Bush Jr.: Kaiser's Lodge.

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

WITH TIME AND ENERGY PREVIOUSLY NOT KNOWN TO ME. I ARRIVE. GNAWING ON THE BARS OF OUR CAGE.

Something flickers on his face, and Larry thinks that if he asks, Shi-Long would tell him. He thinks Shi-Long doesn’t want him to ask.

Wolf. Wolf. I think you sent me this line before but in context it's even more. Ough. When I realized that this day at the hot dog stand was, specifically, the first day of AAI2 I went a little crazy because the fucking. alienation. of Lang being so close and so far - in his previous life he'd surely be right there in the middle of things, but he's not, and the president's speech is close enough that he could walk down there himself but the metaphorical distance is still the same whether he's there or if he's there in a hot dog stand.

We’re all living with the consequences of a story we don’t know.”

^^ THAT'S ACE ATTORNEY, BAY-BEE.

He knows that’s part of why Nick’s getting the respect he is, when it feels like every day someone else gets caught with forged evidence, an honest lawyer is a rare sight in this city.

Wolf I am in your walls. I'm in your fucking walls chewing on the insulation.

Dirty Paws - Chapter 17

We're getting in AAI2 everyone!

@wardencommanderrodimiss @pachelbelsheadcanon

--

Larry leans against the wall to catch his breath, looking out at the crowd that has finally abandoned his stand and lets out a huge sigh.

“You’re doing this for Sissel.”

“Fuck you.” Larry tells Shi-Long without venom, “I know I told you to remind me of that but fuck you.”

“I could have helped you clean this place out-”

“You have a bad leg and helped me move a couch!” Larry whirls on him, where Shi-Long sits in the back of the stand, legs propped up and undoubtedly reading fanfic on his phone, keeping him company. “and it wasn’t that hard just…”

“You’d moved, gotten a cat, and been accused of murder in the two weeks before it?” Shi-Long offers and Larry rolls his eyes.

“Life goes on. And trust me, tax collectors do not care how bad your life’s been, so I need this to make money.” Larry reaches up to run a hand through his hair, “at least until…” He pauses, words dying on his tongue and chest getting tight.

“Until?”

Larry swallows hard, “until I get published.” That makes Shi-Long lower his phone, to look over at him, eyes softening.

“You’re a fantastic writer Stripes. Elise thought so too.”

He nods jerkily, because there’s not a lot, he can say to that, other than that the thought of getting published hurts. He’d given her agent the okay to publish the book they’d been working on, but he hadn’t heard back about that yet. Takes time. He knows they’ll want him for that, he wishes he had Elise here for that, to guide him through his first press tour.

But he’s on his own now.

He closes the window a moment, to come sit by Shi-Long, who immediately leans into him, Larry takes the comfort as best he can when they’re both crammed into his small hot dog stand, trying to sell hot dogs, and just get through today.

Larry looks over to Shi-Long’s phone, “Are you rereading my fic?”

“It’s good.”

Larry manages a smile at that at least, brief but manages one. The fanfic is at least easy to write, the words coming easy, when the mere thought of his own original story makes all creativity stop. When all he can think about when he goes to write is the support he no longer has.

They sit in silence a bit, Shi-Long pulls up what looks like a news video of the press conference happening in the park, but the scrawl is in a language Larry can’t place. He squints at it and then asks, “Shi-Long?”

“Yeah writer-boy?”

“Where are you from?”

He gets a warm chuckle in response, sharp eyes flickering to him, “Oh?”

“I… you sent me a message once, in a different language, and I think it’s the same language as that, and I’m a dumbass American, so I don’t know what language it is, so…”

Shi-Long is silent for a moment before he sighs, “I’m Zheng Faian.” At Larry’s blank look he explains, “the Republic of Zheng Fa.” He nods to his phone, “that’s our president speaking.” Something flickers on his face, and Larry thinks that if he asks, Shi-Long would tell him.

He thinks Shi-Long doesn’t want him to ask.

So, he just nods, and trusts that Lang will tell him when he’s ready. He returns to running his hot dog stand.

He pauses, and slowly leans out the window, “hey.”

“Hey what?”

“Didn’t we have more balloons?!? I think someone stole one!”

--

It was clear that Wolf was done talking about his past, and he turned the question on him. “What about you? I remember you and Firebirdstorm explaining the Clan thing to me when we were younger, but what is SpiritClan’s story?”

Orangestripe paused, his mouth parted slightly, “I… I don’t know. The older cats in the Clan just sort of act like we’ve always lived here, but there was…” he stirred the dirt with his paw, “the war with Spark. And Spiritstar’s aunt… There were things that happened that no one wants to talk about and I don’t know why.”

Wolf sighed out his nose and looked off, towards where SpiritClan’s camp lay, “perhaps you should ask your Clanmates. It sounds like these are things you should know.”

Orangestripe sighed himself and nodded. “I think I know who to ask too.”

--

“Is this a dig about me asking you for your Clan’s lore?” Shi-Long is laughing though and Larry grins at him, leaning against the counter, no one has come up for hot dogs in a good twenty minutes, so Larry’s been writing on his phone but passed it to Shi-Long to charge it since the battery started getting low.

So of course, he reads it, and now they’re teasing and Larry’s chest feels lighter than it has in a bit. “And I thought of this really cool idea for why the Clan uses the name spirit a lot, and why despite living in the middle of nowhere with no other Clans around they have the Warrior Code!”

Shi-Long arches a brow and grins, “well, I look forward to reading it.”

Larry shoves off the counter to go get a bucket and wipe things down, something to do to pass the time. At least he’s made a decent amount of money today, which will pay his and Sissel’s bills. He doesn’t want to ask Shi-Long or Edgeworth for help.

Not yet. He’s got his savings and shit, he’ll be alright, so long as he isn’t stupid about not working or something like that.

Shame writing fanfic doesn’t pay the bills.

Larry’s mentally trying to figure out of there’s a way to get a Patreon set up without violating Ao3’s ToS and probably scrubbed the same spot for the past minute when he hears a firework go off.

The next thing he knows he’s on the floor, a heavy and warm body pressed against him, Shi-Long’s face twisted into a snarl, the hand that’s not holding him off Larry down at his belt. At his gun, Larry’s brain helpfully provides, as he registers that he’s lost the American game of Gunshot or Firework, but also that Shi-Long is pressed against him.

He goes still under Shi-Long, neither of them moving before he breathes out and relaxes, “fuck.” He turns his head to look to where his phone lays on the floor, “I think that was at the speech.”

Larry should say something, anything really, but he’s still processing that Shi-Long’s immediate response to hearing a gunshot was to shove him to the floor before he blurts out something stupid, as he’s prone to doing. “Wait, so you can get shot but-”

Shi-Long snaps his head back around to stare Larry dead in the eyes, his face inches from Larry’s, “no, Stripes, you are not allowed to get shot.”

Larry stays there for several seconds, even after Shi-Long shoves himself back up to his feet, very smoothly for someone who probably shouldn’t be putting weight on that leg. He’s only pulled out of it when Shi-Long’s hand comes into view.

“Come on,” he pulls him up, “let’s see what the news has to say.”

He’s still a little shaken though and is grateful when Shi-Long doesn’t say anything about how he leans into him to watch the news.

--

“Feathersong?” Orangestripe’s voice was hesitant as he paused at the entrance to the elder’s den, “Feathersong are you there?”

It did not take long to spot his former mentor, she had raised her head from her nest to look up, “oh, Orangestripe. Come to visit, have you?”

He slipped in, shaking his pelt off before he sat down, to curl his tail around his paws, grateful it was just the two of them, “I had a question. Well, several, and I thought you might be… willing to answer.”

The she-cat blinked gently at him, “I will always be happy to mentor you, Orangestripe, what do you want to know?”

He swallowed and spoke, “where did SpiritClan come from? And why did Spark’s group hate us so much, that he would kill Stonespirit and kidnap Sharppaw? So much happened, I don’t- I don’t understand, no one talks about it, but…” He flattened his ears as he saw the trepidation on her face, “please. We’re all living with the consequences of a story we don’t know.”

Feathersong considered his words, and sat up, to wash her fur, “no. You are right, you deserve to know.” She stretched out, Orangestripe shifted to the side so that she could, before she settled in her nest again, “there is so much we have failed to tell you all. We hoped, I suppose, to protect you. To leave it all behind, but… we are named SpiritClan for a reason.”

Orangetripe’s ears pricked up, but he held his tongue, Feathersong got a distant look in her eyes, looking past him to recall this story.

“You see, I was born before SpiritClan, during the first war with Spark.”

-- “The what?”

“Fuck’s sake Shi-Long.” Larry about jumped out of his skin, he was still a bit on edge after the shooting, even if it seemed no one had been injured, so he’d been writing on his phone, it was his hot dog stand, he could take a fifteen minute break to write Warrior Cats fanfic if he wanted, it was his coping mechanism.

He had not expected Lang to lean over his shoulder and read his fic.

“Sorry Stripes, just happened to see ‘the first war with Spark’, what lore are you dropping?”

“Wouldn’t you like to know Wolf-boy?”

Shi-Long flashes his crooked smirk again, and Larry grins back, and he finds he’s less shaky now, “listen, I will let you read it first, but you have to let me write it all so I can hit you with it to make sure it lands right. Sounds cool, and not like an ass pull.”

Shi-Long throws him a thumbs up and sits back down, “that I can do. But I do have a question.”

“Yeah?”

“Who’s Feathersong? Like, if I’m Wolf, and the pretty-boy prosector’s Demon, then…”

Larry shakes his head with a shrug, “she isn’t anyone really. She was just an OC. I might’ve based her a little off a teacher I had, in like, grade school, before I rewrote the damn thing. She’s… I’m making her a bit more like Elise, shit, uh, Misty, these days, because well…” He trails off, but he doesn’t really need to say it. She was his mentor.

Shi-Long gives him a moment and then prompts, “anyone else in there someone I should know?”

Larry is relieved that Shi-Long, even in person, loves to encourage his ramblings, and he claps his hands together, “well, Spiritstar was Mia Fey, a defense attorney, she was… she was really nice and was great for Nick, I- God I don’t want to kill her, man, it feels nice that I can have her here and watching Nick like she should’ve gotten to.” He doesn’t think about Mia, he tries not to at least, to think about how she can summon her sister for Nick but there’s no one to summon her for her. He swallows hard, “And Cherrywing is her sister, and Nick’s other best friend, Maya. Splashpaw’s Maya’s younger cousin.”

“You are going to get sued.”

“I’m not making money off this, get off me.”

Shi-Long barks with laughter at that, and Larry grins, picking up steam, “Darkleaf ended up working out for someone, uh, the guy who murdered Misty.”

“Figured that one.”

“That’s… a story itself, but uh, otherwise, they’re all just OCs for padding out the Clan. I’m attached to a few of them, but otherwise they’re just like Thornclaw, just the guy who’s always on patrol or whatever. They’re not important.”

“Canon.”

Larry grins, and shoves Shi-Long before he gets to his feet to head back to the counter and lean against it, “oh. There’s Stonespirit. That’s based on Edgy’s dad, he…” He pauses and looks at Shi-Long guiltily, “I don’t know that I should tell you that story, that ones more Edgy’s than mine. Just, he died when we were younger and the whole, Spark killed him and adopted his son thing did happen.”

“I do know about Manfred Von Karma.”

“Good.” Larry bites the word out, and sees Shi-Long’s look of approval, agreeing with his bitterness, his protective streak and it’s nice, it’s vindicating, “I am so glad I could write him into a fic and brutally kill him, like, he’s Franziska’s dad and all but fuck him. But yeah, this whole thing started because I was kinda, coping with that, because when you’re nine and your best friend’s dad gets murdered…” he gestures with one hand, “sucks!” It does a lot but he doesn’t have the words nor desire to talk about it, “I’m forgetting someone…” He pauses and tilts his head to think. “Oh. Timber and Bird are two detectives that Edgy knows, they’re good and support him, and it’s a low bar but these days not enough clear it, so yeah, they do their jobs and they’re good. Dapplepaw’s Kay of course.”

“Not Crowpaw?”

“I thought about it, but I was thinking Dappleshade for her? I really liked the sound of it, and she feels like such a tortoiseshell.”

Shi-Long nods as though Larry isn’t saying some of the weirdest things out of context, “and uh, Beetlelight! That’s it.”

“Who’s he? I know he’s shown up once or twice in the fic but…”

Larry pauses, his eyes narrowed, “I… I don’t know, is the thing? I barely remember him in my own fic, honestly but I know he used to be someone. I think he used to be someone? I’m too attached to him to remove him at this point in any case.”

“Do you not have notes?”

“I mean, I do now, but I originally wrote this fic when I was like, twelve. You read the original one, you know it wasn’t great!”

“I liked it.”

Larry gets a stupid grin, and ducks his head, “yeah, well, thanks Wolfman, but it was rough. I’d know, I reread it to rewrite the damn thing. Originally wrote a lot of it in class instead of focusing on learning. There wasn’t a plot, other than the happy ending I wanted.” He waves a hand again, “that Edgy would come back and we’d be the three muskateers again and Nick would…” Larry trails off, he doesn’t want to think about what Nick got like when he thought about Edgy back then. “Honestly, our parents probably shoulda sent us both to therapy, but hey.” He grins at Shi-Long, “I got an international furry out of it so-”

Shi-Long flips him off and Larry pretends to catch it like a kiss, both of them laughing, the tension breaking and easing, and Larry is so, so, glad at least this fantasy played out close to what he’d wanted when he was a kid.

Of getting to meet WolfDragon and getting along.

Their banter is interrupted by Shi-Long’s phone ringing, he grabs it and gets to his feet, “boss calling.” He steps out the back, already answering, and Larry’s chest hurts slightly at the sight of his back.

He doesn’t know when they’re gonna be able to meet up like this again.

He goes back to wiping down the stand, he’s got nothing better to do after all, until Shi-Long gets back. It seems most people have left, probably been herded off to see who could give statements, and then sent home so investigations could proceed.

“Well, hey stranger.”

Larry looks up with a grin, “should I be grateful you’re not just stealing my hot dogs?” Kay grins back at him brightly.

“I am not that kind of thief! I only steal from the corrupt, so that the hidden truth can be brought to light.”

A sentiment Larry knows well, when so much has been hidden by those tasked with seeking justice lately it seems. He knows that’s part of why Nick’s getting the respect he is, when it feels like every day someone else gets caught with forged evidence, an honest lawyer is a rare sight in this city.

“Yeah well, what are you doing here?”

“Buying hot dogs while Edgeworth talks to people, I needed a snack.”

Larry raises his brows, “oh he’s here?” He doesn’t want to go bother him while he’s working, he doesn’t have anything to add, but if he’s working he might appreciate someone checking on him, “sounds like that whole thing is a mess.”

“Yeah, no kidding. And I think they stole one of your balloons…” Kay looked over, and Larry bites back a curse.

“So that’s where the daang thing went.” He sets a hot dog in front of Kay and waves away payment. She’s one of Edgy’s, and a kid. With no other clear parental figure around. He’s not taking money from her.

“Yup. Hope you don’t want it back, it’s evidence. And also got shot. People keep talking about some Gourd Lake monster?”

Larry sets another hot dog down, “ask no more questions.”

Kay’s grin widens and she eager accepts both hot dogs, biting into the first one eagerly, “oh whoa! These are good!”

Larry gives her a dirty look, “my skills aren’t just limited to larping the Steel Samurai you know.” She laughs, and leans against the stand.

“Did you see who nicked your balloon?”

Larry shakes his head, with a grimace, “I have terrible luck with balloons and this stand.” He sees Kay’s eyes light up at the information and hurriedly presses again before he can be pressed on that, “if I’d seen anything I’d let you know but there was a lunch rush, and then basically nothing. I think I saw an ice cream stand at one point, they might’ve seen something since they’re closer but I’m too far away to see anything. I did hear the shot but that’s about it.”

“How many shots did you hear?”

“Just one?” Larry pauses to think about it, “we were watching a stream of the speech too, so I might’ve heard two, or that might’ve been the stream?” He was a bit distracted, since he’d thought it was a firework, and then, you know, been tackled to the floor.

“We?” Kay prompts, standing on her tiptoes to see further into the stand.

Larry pauses, eyes flicking about wildly, “yeah, I have an assistant in here, Edgy isn’t the only one who can get some help you know!”

At that moment, Shi-Long comes back in, “that went better than expected.” He sounded cheerful, as he drops back to his old seat and flips open something on his phone, “but I’m going to be busy the next few days Writer-boy, something else came up.”

Kay’s eyebrows raise at what was clearly Shi-Long Lang’s voice, and her grin widens at writer-boy. She gives Larry a mischievous look, but there was something else to it, like she’s trying to piece something together or tell him something with it.

Larry just silently sets another hot dog on the counter.

[fuzzkaizer]

seamoon - fresh fuzz

V1 1973

“ So if you want an extensive history of Seamoon, there are a couple places to look online. The first is A/DA's history as Dave Tarnowski began his career at Seamoon. The second one, that Gearphoria printed, specifically focuses on this pedal, the Fresh Fuzz. Reverb won't let me post the actual website info, so you'll have to do a little digging, sorry. This is BY FAR, one the most unique, elusive and RARE fuzz pedals in existence. There are 2 variations of whats known as the "V1" era of the pedal, all of which seem to have been made exclusively in 1973. The earliest Version 1 pedals are extremely rare because most of them shattered upon use (they had a plastic casing). The second incarnation are still pretty damn hard to come by as most people who own them don't want to give them up. By this time, Seamoon abandoned the plastic case of the early Version 1's and opted for the slanted metal casing. This pedal for sale is one of those Version 1's with the newly adapted slanted metal casing. As you can see, it has the same circuitry as those earlier ones, notably the 741 op-amp chip and the perforated, hand-wired circuit board. It's cosmetically impeccable. Sonically, its amazing. You'll read that a lot of people prefer the V2 Fresh Fuzz as they changed to the dual 4558 op-amp, which doubled the power of the V1's 741 chip. “ (Fuzz Wizzard)

“... Fresh Fuzz history a while back, and it looks like late 1973. They had released the Funk Machine earlier that year and it did quite well, so they decided to release a distortion unit under the Seamoon brand as a result. The first version of each pedal was made in a plastic Bakelite box (you can see an example on effectsdatabase, and I have also seen a photo from a guy who messaged me around 2013 about his. Shortly after this, around 1974 they switched to the metal casing you posted there. But not too much later they revised the circuit, making much louder, fuzzier and just better tbh; and they changed up the graphics slightly on the case. It doesn't appear as though they made them for more than a few years in total, as Seamoon switched over to those smaller enclosures in the late 70s and released that Controlled Tone Preamp became the only distortion in their lineup. ...  based off an interview i read with Anderton where he said Seamoon first true release, the Funk Machine, was out in 1973 and that later the same year they released the Fresh Fuzz. ... when i was looking into Seamoon I couldn't find any old ads, or manuals, or print stuff of any kind. “ (Ed Skymall)

“ The Phases of Seamoon      In the early ’70s, Berkeley, California was a thriving hippie community (and in some respects, it still is today) that attracted flocks of creative individuals to its hills. The main campus of the University of California is situated there, and many aspiring electrical engineers came to Berkeley to study. Of course, the San Francisco Bay Area also enjoyed a thriving music scene, and many of these engineers found employment for bands like the Grateful Dead and Santana (Furman, Alembic and Mesa-Boogie are just a few of the companies that got off the ground by making products for Bay Area musicians).      Seamoon  Ltd. was established in Berkeley  in 1973, when Craig Anderton, who later gained fame for his articles and  columns in Guitar Player magazine, and for his book Electronic  Projects for Musicians, solicited a music store in hopes of selling a pedal  he developed. “I had come up with the circuit for an envelope follower that  later became known as the Funk Machine,” says Anderton. “I had a friend named  Larry Schreiber, who was familiar with a music store in Berkeley called Skatzenbag Music. I took it  in there to see if John Lang, who owned the store, was interested in selling  it. He ended up taking it to a NAMM show and got orders, so we decided to make  the thing.”      Shortly  thereafter, Lang founded Seamoon, and started making their first product, the  Funk Machine. The original units featured range and sensitivity controls, and  were housed in a Bakelite box. However, too many overeager funksters crushed  the box with their feet, so later versions were housed in simple aluminum boxes  held together with six screws. The circuit was deceivingly simple.          “It contained two op-amps with an  opto-isolator to do the actual envelope detection,” says Anderton. “It’s that  famous opto-isolator sound that everyone is rediscovering. Because the  opto-isolators are all a little different. Every Funk Machine varied slightly.  It wasn’t anything obvious that would make someone go, ‘Oh, I’ve got to have  this one instead of that one.’ But there was a tiny variation. It was an analog   world, and in some respects that added to the character of the thing. Part of  the testing process was very subjective. If it didn’t work properly, we would  pull the opto-isolator and solder in another one.”Martha  Davis, who later became famous as the lead singer of the Motels, was an early  Seamoon employee who did a lot of the company’s assembly and testing. According  to Anderton, she developed a peculiar method of testing the Funk Machine. “She tested them by running her fingers over  particular parts on the circuit board. By noticing how the hum was affected,  she was able to really nail what was going on with the unit. It was very cool.  Her finger hum testing technique was flawless.”        Soon  after hitting the market, the Funk Machine fell into the hands of several  famous musicians, including Steve Cropper, who bought one of the very first  units, and funk bassist Larry Graham. “He was really big on it,” says Anderton.  “When he was on TV once, he held it up in front of the camera. It was a big  part of his sound.”  Shortly after  designing the Funk Machine, Anderton came up with the circuit for Seamoon’s  Fresh Fuzz distortion pedal. This circuit was a simple op-amp based device with  gain and bite controls.  “It was  really basic,” says Anderton. “It used regular diodes. If I was to design it   today, it would be a lot different.” The unit was a favorite of Tom Scholz, of Boston.  These products remained the mainstays of  Seamoon’s product line through most of the mid ’70s, although the company also   introduced an ill-fated battery-powered solid-state amp called the Peter  Portable.      By  1976, Seamoon had undergone significant changes. Anderton departed the company,  the cosmetic appearance of the products was redesigned and several new products  joined the lineup. However, it was also the beginning of the end of Seamoon and  the dawn of a new company that would carry out Seamoon’s ideals and ideas with  even greater success.      Sometime  in 1975, a young Berkeley  musician named Dave Tarnowski started working for Seamoon. He got the job after  walking into Skatzenbag Music and impressing owner John Lang with his technical   knowledge. “One thing let to another and I started working on some musical  effects,” says Tarnowski. “The first musical effect I designed for them used  early bucket brigade devices from Radicon. These are earlier than the bucket  brigades from National or Panasonic. I actually did some R&D work at  Radicon Corporation. I picked up a few of the chips to see if I could make a  time modulator.”      Tarnowski  designed the Studio Phase, an impressive phase shifter with intensity, shift  and speed controls that originally retailed for $129. Other products in  Seamoon’s line at this time included a cosmetically updated version of the Funk  Machine, and a distortion box called the Controlled Tone Preamp, which featured  volume, tone filter and distortion controls. A product called the Two-Track  Delay was announced in the summer of 1976, but it was never released to the   public.” (adaamps.com)

cred: reverb.com/Fuzz Wizzard’s Vintage Gear, facebook.com/Ed Skymall, adaamps.com/History.htm

[watusichris]

Betty Davis: They Say She’s Different

It appears that everything anyone has written for the old Music Aficionado site has now disappeared from the web. A random Facebook post has prompted me to re-purpose this story, written in 2016, about my favorite funketress. **********

To this day, the name Betty Davis – Betty with a “y,” that is – remains best known to connoisseurs of Miles Davis minutiae and ‘70s funk obsessives. While it’s true that Betty played an important off-stage role in the career of the jazz trumpeter, to whom she was married for just a year, and she undoubtedly made some of the best hardcore funk records of her era, she deserves to be recognized beyond the relatively narrow provinces of the jazzbo and the crate-digger.

Uncompromising, intelligent, brazen, aggressive, and not incidentally gorgeous, sexually provocative, and a fashion plate always ahead of the curve, Betty was a prophetic figure. Spawned by the explosion of music, fashion, and alternative culture of the late ‘60s, and by concurrent leaps in black consciousness and feminism, she was a take-no-prisoners singer and writer who presented herself as something new, rich, and strange with her self-titled debut album in 1973.

There were some badass contemporaries working the soul and funk trenches– gutter-tongued diva Millie Jackson and one-time James Brown paramour Yvonne Fair leap to mind immediately – but they seemed to be adapting tropes previously worked by male singers in the genres. Betty still sounds like something new: a tough, smart, demanding woman who reveled in pleasure and insisted on satisfaction, unafraid to claim what she wanted.

Despite the fact that she was associated with some high-profile male musician friends and lovers – beyond Davis, the roll call included Hugh Masekela, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, Mike Carabello, Eric Clapton, and Robert Palmer – she was no groupie or bed-hopping climber. Possessed of her own self-defining vision, she was producing her own records and leading a tight, flexible little band by the end of her brief run.

In 1976, after completing four splendid albums (only three of which were released at the time), she disappeared, not only from the music business but from the public eye entirely. What happened? It’s an old story that many women in the industry will recognize: Her record company didn’t know what to do with her, and wanted her to tone down her act. Betty Davis wasn’t having any of that, thank you, and she hit the damn road.

She was born Betty Mabry in Durham, NC, in 1945. She grew up country, and was exposed to down-home, get-down music early. On the title track of her second album, They Say I’m Different, she runs down the artists who served as inspirations: Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, Albert King, Chuck Berry. The blues, in one form or another, is the backbone of her style.

Her family relocated to Pittsburgh when she was young, but at 16 she left home for the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. There she was hurtled into the roiling cultural vortex of the Village. She took up modeling, working for the toney Wilhelmina agency, and began running with a posse of similarly disposed, equally beautiful women who called themselves the “Electric Ladies.” Sound familiar? One of her closest cohorts was Devon Wilson, for many years a notorious consort of Jimi Hendrix known for her freewheeling, outré sex- and drug-saturated lifestyle.

Mabry began to try her hand at singing, and cut a few self-penned singles. They were in an old-school mold in terms of structure, but her very first 45 hints at things to come. “Get Ready For Betty,” a 1964 track released by Don Costa (discoverer of Paul Anka and Trini Lopez and a key arranger for Frank Sinatra), is stodgy early-‘60s NYC R&B to its core, but its message is pointed: “Get out my way, girl, ‘cause I’m comin’ to take your man.”

She also made a stolid romantic duet ballad with singer Roy Arlington and, produced by cult soul man Lou Courtney, a homage to the Cellar, the New York club where she DJed. But she didn’t start reaching the upper echelon of the music biz until one of her songs, a hymn to Harlem called “Uptown,” was cut by the Chambers Brothers for their smash 1968 album The Time Has Come, which also included the psychedelic soul workout “Time Has Come Today.”

The Chambers association probably secured a singles deal for her at Columbia Records, and her first session for the major label was produced by her former live-in boyfriend, South African trumpeter Masekela, in October 1968. By that time, she had split with him: A month earlier, she had married a far more famous horn player, Miles Davis, whom she had met in 1967. Davis and his regular producer Teo Macero would head her second session for Columbia in May 1969.

Those two dates were released for the first time as The Columbia Years 1968-1969 earlier this month by Light in the Attic, the independent label that has restored Betty’s entire catalog to print over the last decade. While devoted fans can be grateful that the work is finally seeing the light of day, it does not make for easy listening, for it was clearly made by people groping in the dark.

Betty’s artistic persona was at that point completely unformed, and so her male Svengalis did their best to mold the clay in their hands, with feeble results. Masekela evidently completed just three tracks, two of which, “It’s My Life” and “Live, Love, Learn,” were issued as a flop single. The homiletic song titles give the game away; the music, straight-up commercial soul backed by a large group (which included Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson of the Jazz Crusaders and Masekela), has nothing original to say.

The date with Miles is a bigger waste, if a more spectacular one. The personnel couldn’t have been more glittering: Hendrix sidemen Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell; ex-Detroit Wheels guitarist Jim McCarty; bassist Harvey Brooks, studio familiar of Bob Dylan and former member of the Electric Flag; and Davis’ then-current or future band mates Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, and Larry Young.

But nothing jells. The material is either weak (Betty’s directionless original “Hangin’ Out” is the best of a bad lot) or incongruous (lumbering covers of Cream’s “Politician” and Creedence’s “Born On the Bayou”). Worse, the jazzers are unable to lay down anything resembling a solid soul-rock foundation, and even reliable timekeeper Mitchell blows the groove on more than one occasion. Miles gets impatient with his spouse at one point, rasping over the talk-back, “Sing it just like that, with the gum in your mouth and all, bitch.”

Apparently intended as demos, the failed tracks were consigned to the tape library. By late ’69, Miles and Betty’s marriage was history. She left her mark on his music: She appeared on the cover of his cover of his 1968 album Filles de Kilimanjaro and inspired its extended track “Mademoiselle Mabry” (based on the chords that opens Hendrix’s “The Wind Cries Mary”) and “Back Seat Betty” from his 1981 comeback album The Man With the Horn.

Moreover, she moved him toward the flash style that would dominate his music through the mid-‘70s, by exposing him to the slamming music of Hendrix and Sly and exchanging his continental suits for psychedelic pimp togs. Would we know Bitches Brew, On the Corner, and Agharta without Betty Davis? Maybe, maybe not.

For her part, Betty remained in the wings for a while. She collaborated on demos for the Commodores; in London, she modeled, worked on songs for Marc Bolan of T. Rex, and declined a production offer from her then-paramour Clapton. Drifting back to New York, she met Santana percussionist Carabello. They became involved romantically, and in 1972 she relocated to the San Francisco Bay area, where Carabello’s local connections led to the formation of a stellar band to back her on a debut album.

One reads the credits for Betty Davis in awe. The rhythm section was the Family Stone’s dissident, puissant rhythm section, bassist Larry Graham and drummer Greg Errico (who also produced). Original Santana guitarist Neal Schon, future Mandrill axe man Doug Rodrigues, founding Graham Central Station organist Hershall Kennedy, and keyboardist and ace Jerry Garcia collaborator Merl Saunders filled out the instrumentation. The Pointer Sisters, Sylvester, and Kathi McDonald were among a large platoon of backup vocalists.

Issued in 1973 by Just Sunshine Records, an independent label owned by Woodstock Festival promoter Michael Lang (who also released a set by another unique woman, folk singer-guitarist Karen Dalton), Betty Davis was one hell of a coming-out party. Since her abortive Columbia dates, she had developed a unique vocal attack that could leap from a velvety croon to a Tina Turner-like shriek in a nanosecond. The stomping funk of the studio band backed her up to the hilt.

Like Turner, she was one Bold Soul Sister. The lust-filled opening invitation “If I’m in Luck I Might Get Picked Up” announces that a new game was afoot. The statement of romantic/sexual independence “Anti Love Song,” the lovers’ chess match “Your Man My Man,” and the self-explanatory “Game is My Middle Name” offer up a startling, hard-edged new model of a hard-funking female vocalist.

The album’s most affecting track may be “Steppin in Her I. Miller Shoes,” Davis’ level-headed elegy for her sybaritic friend Devon Wilson, who sailed out a window at the Chelsea Hotel in 1971. “She coulda been anything that she wanted…Instead she chose to be nothing,” Davis sings, implying that route wouldn’t be one she would take herself.

“If I’m in Luck” grazed the lower reaches of the R&B singles chart and the album failed to reach the LP rolls at all, but Davis was undaunted. For 1974’s They Say I’m Different, she took the producer’s reins, which she would hold for the rest of her career. While the backup lineup is less glitzy (though Saunders, Pete Escovedo, and Buddy Miles, on guitar no less, appear), the support is still sizzling; crackling drums and burbling clavinet put over a set of songs that may have been even stronger than those heard on her debut.

No one who hears “He Was a Big Freak” is likely to ever forget it; it’s a startling dissection of a masochistic relationship -- inspired by Jimi Hendrix, and not, as many have assumed, by Miles Davis (“Everyone knows that Miles is a sadist,” Betty remarked later). Almost as notable are “Don’t Call Her No Tramp,” a prescient condemnation of what we now call slut-shaming, and the autobiographical title track, with slicing slide guitar work by Cordell Dudley.

Different and its attendant singles tanked, but Betty managed to maintain her profile with live gigs noteworthy for their uninhibited bawdiness, on-stage abandon, and the star’s Egyptian-princess-from-outer-space wardrobe sense. By early 1974 she had assembled a hot, lean road band that included her cousins Nickey Neal and Larry Johnson on drums and bass, respectively, plus keyboardist Fred Mills and guitarist Carlos Morales. This lineup would back her on her last two albums.

The end of Just Sunshine’s distribution deal liberated Davis, who, at the suggestion of then-boyfriend Robert Palmer, inked with Palmer’s label Island Records. The company released Nasty Gal in 1975, and it may be Davis’ best-executed work. The pared-down backing lets the songs shine, and there are good ones here: The shameless title song, the vituperative blast at the critics “Dedicated to the Press,” and the out-front ultimatum for sexual satisfaction “Feelins” get right up in the listener’s face. The most surprising track is the ballad “You and I,” an unexpected songwriting reunion with Miles, orchestrated by the trumpeter’s famed arranger Gil Evans.

It’s a tremendous album, and Betty supported it with live shows that ate the funk competition alive. A bootleg of an especially out-there set recorded at a festival on the French Riviera in 1976 literally climaxes with Nasty Gal’s “The Lone Ranger,” an in-the-saddle heavy breather that Davis wraps up by feigning a loud orgasm.

One should remember that at this particular juncture, Madonna was studying dance at the University of Michigan.

But Nasty Gal faded with hardly a trace, and Davis’ relationship with Island swiftly became fractious. It’s easy to see why the label declined to issue her final album, originally called Crashin’ From Passion and ultimately released, after years as a bootleg, by Light in the Attic in 2009 as Is It Love or Desire. The collection, which leans heavily on songs about sex, doping, and heavy drinking, includes “Stars Starve, You Know,” an outright condemnation of the games record companies play:

They said if I wanted to make some money

I’d have to change my style

Put a paper bag over my face

Sing soft and wear tight fitting gowns

 They don’t like the way I’m lookin’

So it’s hard for my agent to get me bookin’s

Unless I cover up my legs and drop my pen

And commit one of those commercial sins…

 Oh hey hey Island

And that was all she wrote. Until writers began to seek her out in the new millennium as her records became available again, Betty Davis was an invisible woman, one who had blazed a trail that other talents, such as Prince and Madonna, would blaze more profitably after her. She was definitively ahead of her time.

Asked by one writer what she had done since leaving music, Davis, who turns 71 on July 26, responded with the most tragic thing one can imagine any artist saying: “Nothing really.”

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OK, March 8

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Cover: Bruce Springsteen

Page 1: Big Pic -- as part of Coach's latest campaign Jennifer Lopez posed with a supersized pink version of their new Pillow Tabby purse

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Page 4: Chris Harrison gone for good? The Bachelor host's future with the show remains uncertain after his controversial interview with Rachel Lindsay

Page 6: Since the start of his career Justin Timberlake has endured his fair share of scandals but after welcoming his second son with wife Jessica Biel over the summer and celebrating his 40th birthday, he is confessing that he feels immense guilt about the past and he won't be making the same mistakes in the future -- Justin's done some soul-searching and accepts that he's wronged a lot of people over the years with his own terrible mistakes and he says he's still a work in progress, but step one has been to stand up and admit he's hurt too many women -- in addition to a boozy night out with his Palmer costar Alisha Wainwright in 2019 and his part in the now-infamous Nipplegate incident with Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl, Justin recently came under fire again due to the documentary Framing Britney Spears which showed him exploiting his breakup from Britney Spears to help his solo career -- Justin's learned from his mistakes and has a lot more sensitivity about the impact of his actions on other people and that's the big difference between the Justin of today and his old, immature self and that self-awareness was evident in an emotional statement that he posted apologizing to both Britney and Janet for the errors in his ways -- his words drew praise from his wife Jessica who says he's come a long way as a husband, a father and more importantly, a human being

Page 7: Wendy Williams is on the prowl for a new man and he's got to be husband material and she is ready for a serious commitment -- Wendy's been staying up until all hours of the night checking out guys online and on exclusive dating apps and she wants someone age-appropriate, fun, kind, independent and of course has no history of cheating -- she's feeling very optimistic and even buying new perfume and clothes and jewelry for all the dates she hopes to have once lockdown lifts

* Texas native Matthew McConaughey is seriously considering throwing his hat in the ring to become the state's next governor -- he's been putting out feelers to see if he's got sufficient support and if enough donors are willing to write checks, he'd mount an aggressive run in 2022 -- he's already gotten the thumbs-up from his wife Camila Alves and their three kids -- at this point, he needs to see an actual path to winning because he's not interested in just making a protest statement; don't be fooled by his aw-shucks attitude, Matthew means business

* Now that Keeping Up With the Kardashians is coming to an end, the hunt is on for a new family to replace the clan and one reality pro is poised to nab the prize: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna -- there's already been talk about Lisa picking up the torch and her family is camera ready, consisting of husband Harry Hamlin, and their daughters Delilah Hamlin who's dating Love Island's Eyal Booker and Amelia Hamlin who's dating Scott Disick

Page 8: Things keep going from bad to worse for Armie Hammer -- he was forced to drop out of his upcoming movie Shotgun Wedding with Jennifer Lopez after direct messages he allegedly sent to women in which he described himself as a cannibal and detailed disturbing sexual fantasies were leaked online -- Armie was also fired by his talent agency WME and now the disgraced star may get cut from his new film Next Goal Wins which has already been shot -- he's radioactive and everybody knows it and his completed but unreleased work is getting a second look as studios want to do damage control, and that includes another of his finished projects Death on the Nile where his part could end up on the cutting room floor -- he's a pariah now and it's hard to see how he's ever going to come back from this

* Jennifer Aniston has always had a spiritual side but these days she is taking things to a whole new plane -- Jen has surrounded herself with psychics and has been doing Goddess Circles with the same group of close friends for 30 years, but now she's taking courses to learn to heal herself and be her own guru -- BFF Courteney Cox has been a big influence and Jen's learned a lot from Courteney, who's had a long-term interest in mediums, astrologists and horoscopes, and she's trying to fuse it all together into her own brand of spirituality -- Jen's had a lot of time alone, which has only deepened her questions about the universe and how she can make the most of her life and she's determined to find the answers

* Princess Eugenie is over the moon after welcoming her first child, a baby boy with businessman husband Jack Brooksbank but now the new mom is torn about taking time out from her royal responsibilities -- Eugenie would love to take a long break from everything and focus solely on raising her son however she knows deep down how much she's needed, especially since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are showing no signs of coming back -- as she weighs her options, Eugenie is looking to her multi-tasking cousin-in-law Duchess Kate for some inspiration because she's impressed by how Kate is able to juggle her official duties while raising three young kids

Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- stars captivate in enchanting puff-sleeve numbers -- Bel Powley, Aubrey Plaza, Lupita Nyong'o

Page 11: Kaitlyn Dever, Lucy Boynton, Margaret Qualley

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Hilary Swank vs. Madeline Brewer, Bella Hadid vs. Devon Windsor, Alison Brie vs. Dua Lipa

Page 14: News in Photos -- Tayshia Adams and her fiance Zac Clark felt on top of the world when the visited the Empire State Building together

Page 15: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend were inseparable while out and about in Beverly Hills, Bill Murray and NFL player Larry Fitzgerald Jr. were among the many stars to shoot their shot during a charity golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Rita Ora performing on an episode of the U.K. show Dancing on Ice in Hertfordshire

Page 16: At the Australian Open Serena Williams came out on top during the fourth round, Bachelorette alum Jordan Kimball and fiancee Christina Creedon couldn't wait until they got home to enjoy Candy Pop popcorn's new Peanut M&M's flavor from Sam's Club in Houston, Heidi Montag spent the day hitting the slopes at Lake Tahoe

Page 17: Hailey Bieber starring in Beyonce's new Ivy Park x Adidas collection

Page 18: Brody Jenner had a blast snow tubing while shooting the second season of The Hills: New Beginnings in Lake Tahoe, Avril Lavigne stepped out with her new boyfriend Mod Sun for a romantic dinner in West Hollywood

Page 20: Justin Bieber looked like he'd just hopped out of bed in a sweater and checkered fleece pants in L.A., Robin Thicke in front of a piano in L.A.

Page 21: Steve Martin doubled up on face coverings on the set of his new project Only Murders in the Building in NYC, Michelle Obama on her new show Waffles + Michi, Cardi B spoiled herself with high-end goods during a day of shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills

Page 22: Brooke Burke romancing with boyfriend Scott Rigsby on Valentine's Day, Lucy Hale accessorized her look with her newest rescue pup Ethel in L.A., Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon masked up for a snowy outing in NYC

Page 24: For Galentine's Day Vanessa Lachey snacked on macarons and sipped on wine in L.A.

Page 25: Bella Hadid alongside models Mayowa Nicholas and Heejung Park in Michael Kors' new campaign for the Spring 2021 collection, Hugh Grant stepped out for some fresh hair in London, Sofia Vergara kept it casual during a visit to a pal's house in Beverly Hills

Page 26: Inside My Home -- Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley's Rocky Mountain retreat

Page 28: Marriage isn't easy especially during a global health crisis but for Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard divorce is not an option -- Kristen said she and Dax at the start of the pandemic were at a point in their marriage where they definitely needed a little therapy brush-up and every couple of years they're being very antagonistic towards each other and they don't want that so they go back to therapy and figure out how they can serve their team goal better and it's been incredibly helpful and even in the toughest times they always have each other's back and they're committed to being each other's biggest support systems -- while their relationship may never be perfect, they're happy and love each other and that's what matters most

Page 29: Now that Tom Brady has won his seventh Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he has set his sights on the next prize: baby No. 3 with wife Gisele Bundchen -- they've been telling friends they hope to make an announcement by summer at the latest and Tom and Gisele have been super loved-up since leaving Boston and moving to Florida after the QB signed on with the Bucs and the change of scenery has worked wonders on their love life and put them in baby-making mode -- the duo, who recently bought a $17 million spread on Miami's exclusive Indian Creek Island, plan to build a luxury mansion there complete with a nursery and they hope to be all settled in when the new arrival comes -- they've never felt healthier or been happier

* Aaron Rodgers looked positively giddy when he revealed he had a fiancee, Shailene Woodley at the NFL Honors, but the QB is dreading the next step: bringing her home to meet his parents because it's no secret that Aaron's been estranged from them for years and the last thing he wants is for Shailene to get caught up in the drama -- Shailene wants Aaron to clear the air with his folks, but he's not ready to do that and he doesn't want to bring Shailene into a toxic environment

* It's only been two years since Miranda Lambert married Brendan McLoughlin but she's already itching for some alone time -- she's headed to Texas in April for her first concert in over a year and she's told Brendan he shouldn't come because it will be all work and no play but she really wants to get away from him for a while and after the pair's recent road trip together, Miranda is desperate for some space -- sometimes Miranda feels like she's living with a baby because Brendan whines and complains about life on her farm

Page 30: Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker's romance is heating up fast, so much so that she's practically handed over the keys to her Calabasas estate and she loves having Travis sleep over and sometimes he'll stay the whole weekend -- he gets along famously with her children and Travis has been a friend of the family for years, so the kids have pretty much known him their whole lives and they'll do fun stuff together like hiking or playing video games and Travis loves making breakfast and showing off his pancake-flipping skills --Travis is spending so much time at Kourt's place that he's moved a bunch of his stuff in to make it easier for his kids Landon and Alabama with ex Shanna Moakler to visit him there -- everyone's convinced they'll be living together full-time before you know it

* Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were met with a flurry of well-wishes after they revealed they're expecting baby No. 2 -- the couple decided to wait until Meghan was safely into her second trimester to share the news and they only told a handful of family members before the public and they wanted to cherish this secret for as long as they could -- Harry and Meghan have been nesting at their Montecito mansion and have been busy prepping the nursery and making sure it's eco-friendly with energy-efficient lighting and they're keeping it as plastic-free as possible

* Love Bites -- Clare Crawley and Dale Moss reunited, Kit Harington and Rose Leslie welcomed a baby boy, Paris Hilton and Carter Reum engaged

Page 32: Cover Story -- Bruce Springsteen's private world -- he's an open book in his songs, but here's Bruce's untold story of his struggles with depression and regret -- he still has dark thoughts from time to time but therapy and medication have helped a great deal

Page 36: Stars' Cheating Confessions -- sometimes all you can do is beg for forgiveness; these celebs have all had to plead their case -- Donny and Debbie Osmond, Jude Law and Sienna Miller, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith

Page 37: David Letterman and Regina Lasko, Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling, Kevin Hart and Eniko Parrish

Page 40: Interview -- Elizabeth Olsen -- the Avengers star dishes about getting witchy again for Marvel's mind-bending WandaVision

Page 42: Golden Girls -- how these Golden Globes nominees get their award-worthy figures -- Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Lily Collins

Page 43: Kaley Cuoco, Michelle Pfeiffer, Amanda Seyfried

Page 44: Aadila Dosani's vegan recipe for Chickpea and Potato Soup

Page 46: Style Week -- Ashley Graham is the new global brand ambassador for self-tanning label St. Tropez

Page 48: What's Hot Right Now -- create a naturally gorgeous, flushed look with fashion designer Jason Wu's namesake makeup collection

Page 49: Haute hippie retro jeans -- take a trip back to the '70s with Revice Denim's ultra-cool capsule, Los Angeles Lovers -- Delilah Belle Hamlin

Page 50: Flower Power -- floral prints are spring's hottest trend -- rock the pretty blooms for a fresh, boho-chic look -- Kaia Gerber

Page 52: DIY Blowout -- these foolproof finds deliver impeccable hair right at home -- Drew Barrymore

Page 54: Entertainment

Page 55: Q&A with Mary Fitzgerald of Selling Sunset

Page 58: Buzz -- after months of playing it coy, these celebs confirmed their relationships on Valentine's Day -- Scott Disick and Amelia Hamlin

Page 59: Vanessa Hudgens and Cole Tucker, Sharna Burgess and Brian Austin Green, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker, Kendall Jenner and Devin Booker

Page 60: Sound Bites -- Halsey on not conforming to conventional beauty standards, Anderson Cooper on coparenting with his ex, Ashley Graham on the importance of self-care, Kate Winslet on feeling like a fish out of water in Hollywood

Page 61: Tom Holland on the plot of the next Spider-Man flick, Mila Kunis joking about keeping her family entertained during quarantine, Drew Barrymore when asked if she's ever been skinny-dipping, Madelaine Petsch on playing a teen in Clare at 16

Page 62: Horoscope -- Pisces Lupita Nyong'o turned 38 on March 1

Page 64: By the Numbers -- Riz Ahmed

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Tỷ phú thế giới tuổi Sửu

Hai nhà đồng sáng lập Google - Larry Page và Sergey Brin, ông chủ LVMH Bernard Arnault hay ông chủ Uniqlo - Tadashi Yanai đều sinh năm Sửu.

1. Larry Page

Tuổi: 48

Quốc tịch: Mỹ

Tài sản: 90,8 tỷ USD

Larry Page đồng sáng lập Google cùng Sergey Brin năm 1998. Cả hai đã tạo ra thuật toán PageRank của Google, làm nên sức mạnh cho công cụ tìm kiếm này. Ngày nay, không chỉ là công cụ tìm kiếm, Alphabet (công ty mẹ của Google) còn làm nội dung video, công nghệ di động, giáo dục, thư viện số và cả xe tự lái.

Page làm CEO Google đến năm 2001, rồi nhường vị trí cho Eric Schmidt. Ông tiếp tục đảm nhận vị trí CEO Alphabet giai đoạn 2011 – 2015. Page rời chức CEO Alphabet cuối năm 2019, nhưng vẫn là cổ đông kiểm soát công ty này. Page còn là nhà sáng lập công ty nghiên cứu vũ trụ Planetary Resources và hỗ trợ vốn cho các startup xe bay như Kitty Hawk và Opener. (Ảnh: Reuters)

2. Sergey Brin

Tuổi: 48

Quốc tịch: Mỹ

Tài sản: 88,1 tỷ USD

Sergey Brin đồng sáng lập Google cùng Larry Page năm 1998, khi cả hai gặp nhau tại Đại học Stanford. Ông rời chức Giám đốc Alphabet tháng 12/2019, nhưng vẫn là cổ đông kiểm soát của công ty. Năm 2019, ông vắng mặt trong phần lớn các sự kiện của Alphabet để dành thời gian cho phòng thí nghiệm X của hãng này. Brin được cho là đang hỗ trợ vốn cho một dự án khí cầu công nghệ cao. (Ảnh: Reuters)

3. Jane Lauder

Tuổi: 48

Quốc tịch: Mỹ

Tài sản: 5,6 tỷ USD

Jane Lauder là cháu gái của nhà sáng lập hãng mỹ phẩm Estée Lauder (Mỹ). Bà gia nhập công ty năm 1996, một năm sau khi tốt nghiệp Đại học Stanford. Bà hiện quản lý thương hiệu Clinique và trước đó là Origins của công ty.

Jane Lauder tham gia hội đồng quản trị từ năm 2009. Năm 2018, bà còn gia nhập HĐQT Eventbrite – một hãng công nghệ về bán vé và sự kiện. (Ảnh: AFP)

4. Angela Leong

Tuổi: 60

Quốc tịch: Hong Kong (Trung Quốc)

Tài sản: 3,3 tỷ USD

Angela Leong năm nay 60 tuổi, là vợ tư của vua sòng bài Macau Stanley Ho và đã sinh cho ông 5 người con. Bà xuất thân trong một gia đình quân đội giàu có, nhưng đột ngột rơi vào cảnh nghèo sau khi người cha qua đời. Leong từng phải đăng ký một trường dạy nhảy để có chỗ ở miễn phí.

Bà tham gia đầu tư từ khi hơn 20 tuổi và hiện có danh mục bất động sản lớn tại Hong Kong. Phần lớn tài sản của bà đến từ đây. Angela Leong hiện là giám đốc và cổ đông cá nhân lớn nhất của đế chế sòng bài SJM Holdings. Bà cũng tham gia chính trường Macau. (Ảnh: Bloomberg)

5. Bernard Arnault

Tuổi: 72

Quốc tịch: Pháp

Tài sản: 152 tỷ USD

Arnault hiện là chủ tịch kiêm CEO đế chế xa xỉ LVMH. Ông bắt đầu kinh doanh từ thập niên 70 và đến nay đã quản lý tới 70 thương hiệu, trong đó có Louis Vuitton và Sephora. Tỷ phú hiện là người giàu nhất giới thời trang toàn cầu. 4 trong 5 người con của ông cũng làm việc cho LVMH. (Ảnh: Reuters)

6. Tadashi Yanai

Tuổi: 72

Quốc tịch: Nhật Bản

Tài sản: 43,7 tỷ USD

Tadashi Yanai là người sáng lập hãng bán lẻ thời trang Fast Retailing – công ty mẹ của Uniqlo. Ông mở cửa hàng Uniqlo đầu tiên vào năm 1984, và mở cửa hàng đầu tiên ở Tokyo năm 1998.

Fast Retailing ghi nhận 2,3 tỷ USD lợi nhuận ròng và doanh thu 21,3 tỷ USD năm tài chính 2019. Hiện công ty này còn sở hữu các thương hiệu khác, gồm Theory, Helmut Lang, J Brand and GU. Mục tiêu của Yanai là đưa Fast Retailing trở thành hãng bán lẻ thời trang lớn nhất thế giới, vượt H&M và Inditex (công ty mẹ Zara). (Ảnh: Reuters)

7. Alice Walton

Tuổi: 72

Quốc tịch: Mỹ

Tài sản: 67,5 tỷ USD

Dù là một trong 4 người thừa kế của gia đình sở hữu hãng bán lẻ Walmart, Alice Walton không tham gia nhiều vào việc điều hành hãng này. Bà nổi tiếng là người th��ch sưu tầm các tác phẩm nghệ thuật. Nữ tỷ phú đã ly dị, hiện sở hữu nhiều bất động sản tại New York và Texas. (Ảnh: AP)

8. Miuccia Prada

Tuổi: 72

Quốc tịch: Italy

Tài sản: 4,8 tỷ USD

Miuccia là cháu của nhà sáng lập đế chế thời trang Prada. Bà thừa kế công ty cùng hai chị em của mình năm 1977.

Bà hiện là đồng CEO kiêm nhà thiết kế chính của hãng này. Chồng bà - tỷ phú Patrizio Bertelli - là người cùng quản lý Prada với Miuccia. Năm 2011, cả hai làm IPO cho công ty tại Hong Kong. (Ảnh: AP)

9. Les Wexner

Tuổi: 84

Quốc tịch: Mỹ

Tài sản: 5,8 tỷ USD

Les Wexner là người thành lập L Brands – đế chế bán lẻ toàn cầu sở hữu thương hiệu Victoria's Secret và Bath & Body Works. Ông đã làm CEO hãng này suốt hơn 5 thập kỷ.

Wexner bắt đầu kinh doanh năm 1963, với khoản vay 5.000 USD từ dì của mình để mở The Limited – chỉ kinh doanh các mặt hàng bán được nhanh như tất hay quần dài. Ông mua Victoria’s Secret năm 1982 với giá 1 triệu USD, khi đây chỉ là một chuỗi đồ lót nhỏ ở San Francisco. (Ảnh: AP)

10. Paolo Bulgari

Tuổi: 84

Quốc tịch: Italy

Tài sản: 1,6 tỷ USD

Paolo Bulgari là cháu trai nhà sáng lập đế chế trang sức xa xỉ Bulgari. Ông gia nhập công ty khi chỉ mới 18 tuổi. Khi đó, Paolo còn là sinh viên luật, nhưng đã được cha mình đề nghị thiết kế vòng cổ, nhẫn và vòng tay cho công ty.

Đến năm 1984, ông trở thành chủ tịch Bulgari. Năm 2011, gia đình Bulgari bán cổ phần kiểm soát cho LVMH để đổi lấy 5,2 tỷ USD tiền mặt và cổ phiếu. Paolo hiện cũng nằm trong hội đồng cố vấn cho LVMH. (Ảnh: Reuters)

Hà Thu (theo Forbes)

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Các ẩn ý trong MV mới của Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift ám chỉ mâu thuẫn tranh chấp với ông chủ hãng đĩa cũ, chê bai nhiều tật xấu của nam giới trong MV "The man".

Đề cập đến những bất công phụ nữ phải gánh chịu, Taylor Swift cho biết đã cài cắm nhiều chi tiết ẩn dụ (Ester eggs) - phong cách thường thấy của cô khi làm MV. Điều này góp phần tạo sức hút cho các sản phẩm của nữ ca sĩ bởi Swifties (tên gọi cộng đồng fan của Taylor Swift) rủ nhau khám phá các tình tiết ẩn trong các phân cảnh, lời hát.

MV "The man" của Taylor Swift đạt 8 triệu lượt xem sau 15 giờ phát. Video: Youtube.

Taylor Swift nhắc lại nhiều mâu thuẫn với các đồng nghiệp cũ. Ở cảnh nhân vật nam chính (Taylor Swift đóng) tiểu bậy tại ga tàu điện ngầm, bức tường hiện tên các album của cô như Red, 1989, Speak Now, Taylor Swift... Trên tường có vẽ bảng cấm xe trượt (scooter). Theo trang Elle, chi tiết liên quan mâu thuẫn với Scooter Braun - người mua lại hãng đĩa cô từng hợp tác - vì tranh chấp bản quyền. 

Năm 2019, nhiều dự án của cô bị ảnh hưởng vì Scooter sở hữu bản quyền ghi âm gốc sáu album đầu của cô. Tháng 11/2019, cô cho biết mình bị Scoot cấm diễn các ca khúc cũ trong lễ trao giải AMAs. Cô từng viết thư cầu cứu vì gần như không còn cơ hội hát các sáng tác của mình. Tuy nhiên, đại diện Big Machine Records - hãng đĩa cũ của Taylor Swift - cho biết cô nói sai sự thật, rằng họ hoàn toàn không có quyền cấm Taylor biểu diễn trên truyền hình.

Taylor Swift vào vai nam chính trong cảnh trên tàu điện ngầm ở MV "The man". Ảnh: Vevo.

Trong cảnh tiếp theo, một tờ poster quảng cáo ghi "Boss Scotch" được dán trên tàu điện, bên cạnh là chữ "greedy" (tham lam) viết theo kiểu graffiti. Các fan cho rằng Taylor Swift tiếp tục đề cập tới mâu thuẫn với ông chủ hãng đĩa cũ - Scott Borchetta, người liên quan đến vụ tranh chấp bản quyền của cô.

Trong cảnh nhân vật nam bước qua một hành lang với nhiều cánh tay vươn ra, nhiều fan phát hiện bối cảnh rất giống một nơi trong nhà của vợ chồng Kanye West và Kim Kardashian - cặp sao có mâu thuẫn với Taylor Swift nhiều năm qua. Hình ảnh cánh tay gợi nhớ đến việc Kanye West "cướp micro" Taylor khi cô nhận giải VMA năm 2009 và cho rằng Beyoncé Knowles xứng đáng hơn cô.

Cảnh Taylor Swift đi qua hành lang với các cánh tay gợi liên tưởng đến mâu thuẫn của cô với nhà Kardashian. Ảnh: Vevo.

Cô còn châm biếm về vấn nạn bất bình đẳng giới trong MV. Ở một phân đoạn, nhân vật nam ngồi dạng chân trên ghế, hút xì gà và không để ý đến sự khó chịu của hành khách xung quanh. Taylor Swift châm biếm tật xấu của một bộ phận nam giới. Tại New York và một số thành phố lớn, nhiều bảng hiệu cấm hành khách nam dang rộng chân (manspread) khi ngồi trên tàu để tránh lấn chiếm không gian người khác.

Ở cảnh khác, nhân vật nam vừa cúp máy điện thoại xong quay sang bế con và được tuyên dương "Ông bố vĩ đại nhất thế giới". Ca sĩ ám chỉ việc xã hội luôn đặt áp lực chăm sóc con cái của phụ nữ nặng nề hơn so với đàn ông. Trong cảnh cuối - nam chính diễn xong phân đoạn chơi tennis, Taylor Swift - vào vai một đạo diễn - xuất hiện và góp ý: "Anh có thể diễn kiểu quyến rũ, đáng yêu hơn được không?". Cô mỉa mai việc nhiều phụ nữ, đặc biệt trong ngành giải trí, thường bị cấp trên yêu cầu như thế trong công việc.

Trong một cảnh, một poster dán lên tường với khuôn mặt nam chính cùng dòng chữ: "Mr. Americana, với sự tham gia của Tyler Swift, đạo diễn bởi Larry Wilson, công chiếu tại liên hoan phim Mandance". Taylor Swift giới thiệu bộ phim tài liệu về cuộc đời cô trên Netflix - Miss Americana, do Lana Wilson đạo diễn, từng được giới thiệu ở liên hoan phim Sundance.

Trong cảnh cô gái mặc áo khoác màu vàng, trên áo cô có dòng chữ Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince. Đây là tên ca khúc nằm trong album Lover của Taylor Swift. Nhiều fan cho rằng ca sĩ ngụ ý ca khúc sẽ trở thành đĩa đơn tiếp theo.

Ở nhiều MV trước, Taylor Swift cũng lồng ghép các chi tiết đầy ẩn ý. Trong Look what you made me do (2017), hình ảnh cô nằm trong bồn tắm đầy kim cương với đồng 1 USD ám chỉ về chiến thắng trong vụ kiện MC David Mueller sàm sỡ mình. Ở cảnh khác, cô gái trên xe gặp tai nạn, bức ảnh ở hiện trường cho thấy trên tay cô là một tượng vàng Grammy. Fan cho rằng Taylor Swift muốn thể hiện cô có 10 giải Grammy trong khi Katy Perry - đối thủ của cô lúc đó - chưa giành được giải nào.

Taylor Swift sinh năm 1989. Cô từng được mệnh danh là "công chúa nhạc đồng quê", nhưng sau đó chuyển hướng theo đuổi dòng nhạc Pop pha trộn những âm thanh điện tử bắt tai kể từ album 1989 (2014). Cô từng nhận 23 giải ở Billboard Music Awards và 10 giải Grammy. Năm 2019, cô được Billboard xếp vào Top 10 nghệ sĩ âm nhạc vĩ đại nhất, sau các tên tuổi như The Beatles, Elton John...

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Hey Tena! I really love your blog, esp the horror movies post! :) I'm starting to get really into slasher movies and I was wondering if you maybe had some suggestions for me ! I've seen all the Screams and Friday the 13th so far and was looking for more ideas! Thank you! (:

I’ve always got horror suggestions!

Let’s start with a few proto-slashers (i.e., those films that helped mold the formula for the modern slasher.  They may not be as gory, but they’re important to what the slasher film would eventually become):

M (1931) - Fritz Lang

Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell

Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock

A Bay of Blood (aka Twitch of the Death Nerve) (1971) - Mario Bava (I could have placed this in the next category, but the influence of this film in particular on the Friday the 13th franchise is quite noticeable)

Torso (1973) - Sergio Martino

Axe (1974) - Frederick R. Friedel

Black Christmas (1974) - Bob Clark

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - Tobe Hooper

The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) - Charles B. Pierce

Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) - Alfred Sole

Massacre at Central High (1976) - Renee Daalder

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) - Wes Craven

Giallo films (personally recommended in order to best understand the genesis of the slasher subgenre):

Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Mario Bava

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)- Dario Argento

Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) - Mario Bava

A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) - Lucio Fulci

Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971) - Aldo Lado

The Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971) - Dario Argento

Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) (Dario Argento)

Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) - Lucio Fulci

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) - Emilio Miraglia

What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) - Massimo Dallamano

Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye (1973) - Antonio Margheriti

Eyeball (1975) - Umberto Lenzi

Deep Red (1975) - Dario Argento

The House with Laughing Windows (1976) - Pupi Avati

Tenebrae  (1982) - Dario Argento

Delirium: Photo of Gioia (1987) - Lamberto Bava

Stage Fright (1987) - Michele Soavi

Basic list of slasher films (as in, the most commonly-cited examples of the subgenre):

Halloween (1978) - John Carpenter

Terror Train (1980) - Roger Spottiswoode

Prom Night (1980) - Paul Lynch

Maniac (1981) - William Lustig

My Bloody Valentine (1981) - George Mihalka

The Burning (1981) - Tony Maylam

The Funhouse (1981) - Tobe Hooper

Hell Night (1981) - Tom De Simone

Just Before Dawn (1981) - Jeff Leiberman

The Prowler (1981) - Joseph Zito

Happy Birthday to Me (1981) - J. Lee Thompson

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) - Amy Holden Jones(this was allegedly a feminist parody of slasher films, but ends up being more excessive, and less entertaining.  Noteworthy only for this information)

Sleepaway Camp (1983) - Robert Hiltzik

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Wes Craven

April Fool’s Day (1986) - Fred Walton

Child’s Play (1988) - Tom Holland

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) - Jim Gillespie

Saw (2004) - James Wan 

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) - Scott Glosserman

Hatchet (2006) - Adam Green

Other slasher films:

Motel Hell (1980) - Kevin Connor

Mother’s Day (1980) - Charles Kaufman

Nightmare (1981) - Romano Scavolini

Madman (1981) - Joe Giannone

The New York Ripper (1982) - Lucio Fulci

Curtains (1983) - Jonathan Stryker

The House on Sorority Row (1983) - Mark Rosman

The Initiation (1984) - Larry Stewart

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) - Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Blood Diner (1987)- Jackie Kong

Slaughterhouse (1987) - Rick Roessler

Satan’s Little Helper (2004) - Jeff Leiberman

Hostel (2005) - Eli Roth (I’m not a fan, but you may feel differently)

Them (2006) - David Moreau and Xavier Palud

Standout slasher films (those of exceptional quality, or with traits that set it apart from others):

Tourist Trap (1979) - David Schmoeller

Alone in the Dark (1982) - Jack Sholder

The Stepfather (1987) - Joseph Ruben

Candyman (1992) - Bernard Rose

Dr. Giggles (1992) - Manny Coto

Wolf Creek (2005) - Greg Mclean

LGBT slasher films (because I felt like it):

Make a Wish (2002) - Sharon Ferranti

Hellbent (2004) - Paul Etheredge-Ouzts

High Tension (2006) - Alexandre Aja

You’re Killing Me (2015) - Jim Hansen

Additionally, you could look into German krimi films, which are essentially the sister subgenre to the giallo (and which I unfortunately do not have much personal experience with).

Hope this helps! :D

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NAMES AND TIMELINES.... #honour #WeRemember #shouldertoshoulder #freedom #liberty #educationforall #equality - Canada’s 158 fallen and brought home #HighwayOfHeroes

Remembering Canada's son's and daughters.... and all those beautiful Canadian children we have lost..... and to our 6,000 wounded.... we got your backs.... of that you can be sure.... no political games on this one... we will ensure it gets fixed... and fast..... God bles you all.- and all our Nato Coalition Sons and Daughters from 47 countries.... we are still here.... each and every day.. 158 Canadian soldiers, two aid workers, one journalist and one diplomat have been killed since the Canadian military deployed to Afghanistan in early 2002. CANADA:       Timeline: Death toll in Afghanistan 2013 Master Corporal Byron Garth Greff Age: 28 Deceased: October 29, 2011 Unit: 3rd Battalion Princess Patricias's Canadian Light Infantry Hometown: Swift Current, Saskatchewan Incident: Improvised explosive device, Kabul, Afghanistan Deceased: June     Francis Roy Deceased: May 27, 2011: Bombardier Karl Manning; Hometown: 5th Régiment d'artillerie légère du Canada of the 1er Royal 22e Régiment Battle GroupIncident: Non combat related Deceased: March 28, 2011: Corporal Yannick Scherrer : 24 of Montreal, Quebec: 1st Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment, based in CFB Valcartier in Quebec: Yannick's First tour,Nakhonay, southwest of Kandahar City Deceased: December 18, 2010: Corporal Steve Martin -Age: 24-Hometown: St-Cyrille-de-Wendover (Québec)-Unit: 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment-Incident: Improvised explosive device, Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan. Deceased  February 10, 2010- at home but still on active duty to Afghanistan- Captain Francis (Frank) Cecil Paul to the official list of Canadian Forces (CF) casualties sustained in support of the mission in Afghanistan.  Capt Paul died in Canada last February while on leave from Kandahar. Deceased: August 30, 2010  Corporal Brian Pinksen, Age: 21, Hometown: Corner Brook , Newfoundland and Labrador ,Unit: 2nd Battalion , Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Incident: Improvised explosive device, Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan. Deceased: July 20, 2010 Sapper Brian Collier Age: 24 Hometown: Bradford, Ontariom Unit: 1 Combat Engineer Regiment Incident: Improvised explosive device, Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan Deceased: June 26, 2010 Master Corporal Kristal Giesebrecht Age: 34 Hometown:Wallaceburg, Ontario.Unit: 1 Canadian Field Hospital Incident: Improvised explosive device, Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan Deceased: June 26, 2010 Private Andrew Miller Age: 21 Hometown: Sudbury, Ontario Unit: 2 Field Ambulance Incident: Improvised explosive device, Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan. Deceased: June 21, 2010 Sergeant James Patrick MacNeil Age: 29 Hometown: Glace Bay, Nova Scotia  Unit: 2 Combat Engineer Regiment Incident: Improvised explosive device, Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan. Deceased: June 6, 2010 Sergeant Martin Goudreault Age: 35 Hometown: Sudbury, Ontario Unit: 1 Combat Engineer Regiment Incident: Improvised explosive device, Panjwa'i District, Afghanistan. Deceased: May 24, 2010Trooper Larry Rudd Age: 26 Hometown: Brantford, Ontario Unit: Royal Canadian Dragoons Incident: Improvised explosive device, southwest of Kandahar City, Afghanistan. Deceased: May 18, 2010Colonel Geoff Parker Age: 42 Hometown: Oakville, Ont.Unit: Land Forces Central Area Headquarters Incident: Suicide bomber, Kabul, Afghanistan May 13 Pte. Kevin Thomas McKay, 24, was killed by a homemade landmine while on a night patrol near the village of Nakhoney, 15 southwest of Kandahar City. May 3 Petty Officer Second Class Douglas Craig Blake, 37, was on foot with other soldiers around 4:30 p.m. Monday near the Sperwan Ghar base in Panjwaii district when an improvised explosive device detonated. Apr 11 Private Tyler William Todd, 26, originally from Kitchener, Ont., was killed when he stepped on an improvised explosive device while taking part in a foot patrol in the district of Dand, about eight kilometres southwest of Kandahar City. Mar 20 Corporal Darren James Fitzpatrick, a 21-year-old infantryman from Prince George, B.C., succumbed to wounds received from a roadside bomb that detonated during a joint Canadian-Afghan mission 25 kilometres west of Kandahar City. Feb. 12 Corporal Joshua Caleb Baker, a 24-year-old Edmonton-based soldier died in an explosion during a "routine" training exercise at a range four kilometres north of Kandahar City. Jan. 16 Sergeant John Wayne Faught, a 44-year-old section commander from Delta Company, 1 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry of Edmonton. Faught was killed when a land mine exploded underneath him while he led a foot patrol near the village of Nakhoney, about 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City. 2009 Dec. 30 Private Garrett William Chidley, 21, of Cambridge, Ont.; Corporal Zachery McCormack, 21, of Edmonton; Sergeant George Miok, 28, of Edmonton; Sergeant Kirk Taylor, 28, of Yarmouth, N.S.; and Canwest journalist Michelle Lang of Calgary. All were killed when a massive homemade land mine blew up under the light-armoured vehicle that was carrying them on a muddy dirt road on Kandahar City's southern outskirts. Dec. 23 Lieut. Andrew Richard Nuttall, 30, originally from Prince Rupert, B.C., was serving with the Edmonton-based 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. died when a homemade bomb detonated as he led a foot patrol in the dangerous Panjwaii district southwest of Kandahar City. Oct. 30 Sapper Steven Marshall, 24, a combat engineer with the 11th Field Squadron, 1st Combat Engineer Regiment had been in Afghanistan less than one week when he stepped on a homemade landmine while on patrol in Panjwaii District about 10 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City. Oct. 28 Lt. Justin Garrett Boyes, 26, from the Edmonton-based, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry was killed by a homemade bomb planted while on patrol with Afghan National Police near Kandahar City. Sep. 17 Private Jonathan Couturier, 23, of Loretteville, Que., with the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment, died when an armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device about 25 kilometres southwest of Kandahar City in Panjwaii district. Eleven other soldiers suffered slight injuries. Sep. 13 An armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near Kandahar City, killing Pte. Patrick Lormand, 21. Four other soldiers from 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment received minor injuries in the blast. Sep. 6: Major Yannick Pepin, 36, of Victoriaville, Que., commander of the 51st Field Engineers Squadron of the 5th Combat Engineers, and Cpl. Jean-Francois Drouin, 31, of Quebec City, who served with the same unit, were killed and five other Canadians were injured when their armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Dand District, southwest of Kandahar City. Aug 1: Sapper Matthieu Allard, 21, and his close friend, Cpl. Christian Bobbitt, 23, were killed near Kandahar City by an improvised explosive device when they got off their armoured vehicle to examine damage to another vehicle in their resupply convoy that had been hit by another IED. Both men served with the 5th Combat Engineers Regiment from Valcartier, Que. Jul 16: Private Sebastien Courcy, 26, of St. Hyacinthe, Que., with the Quebec-based Royal 22nd Regiment was killed when he fell from "a piece of high ground" during a combat operation in the Panjwaii District. Jul. 6: Two Canadian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan when the Griffon helicopter they were aboard crashed during a mission. Master Cpl. Pat Audet, 38, from the 430 tactical helicopter squadron; and Cpl. Martin Joannette, 25, from the third battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment, both based in Valcartier, Que. Jul. 4: Master Cpl. Charles-Philippe Michaud, 28, died in a Quebec City hospital from injuries he sustained after stepping on a landmine while on foot patrol June 23. Jul. 3: Corporal Nicholas Bulger, 30, hailed from Peterborough, Ont., and was with the Edmonton-based 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The convoy which transports Canada's top soldier in Afghanistan hit a roadside bomb, killing Bulger who was a member of the general's tactical team and injuring five others. Jun. 14: Corporal Martin Dubé, 35, from Quebec City, Quebec with the 5 Combat Engineer Regiment killed by an improvised explosive device, in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan. Jun. 8: Private Alexandre Péloquin, 20, of Brownsburg-Chatham, Quebec with 3rd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment. Was killed by an improvised explosive device, Panjwayi District, Afghanistan. Apr. 23: Major Michelle Mendes, based in Ottawa, Ont. was found dead in her room at the Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. Apr. 13: Trooper Karine Blais, 21, with the 12th Armoured Regiment based in Val Cartier, Que., was killed in action when her vehicle was hit by a homemade bomb. Mar. 20: Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli of the 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, and Pte. Tyler Crooks of 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, died when they were hit by an IED while on a foot patrol in western Zahri District as part of Operation Jaley. An Afghan interpreter was also killed. Five other soldiers from November Company were wounded as was another Afghan interpreter. About two hours later, Trooper Jack Bouthillier and Trooper Corey Hayes from a reconnaissance squadron of the Petawawa-based Royal Canadian Dragoons died when their armoured vehicle struck an IED in Shah Wali Khot District about 20 kilometres northeast of Kandahar. Three other Dragoons were wounded in the same blast. Mar. 8: Trooper Marc Diab, 22, with the Royal Canadian Dragoons based in Petawawa was killed by a roadside bomb north of Kandahar City. Mar. 3: Warrant Officer Dennis Raymond Brown, a reservist from The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, based in St. Catharines, Ont., Cpl. Dany Olivier Fortin from the 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at 3 Wing, based in Bagotville, Que., and Cpl. Kenneth Chad O'Quinn, from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signals Squadron, in Petawawa, Ont., were killed when an IED detonated near their armoured vehicle northwest of Kandahar. Jan. 31: Sapper Sean Greenfield, 25, was killed when and IED hit his armoured vehicle while driving in the Zhari district, west of Kandahar. He was with the 2 Combat Engineer Regiment based in Petawawa. Jan. 7: Trooper Brian Richard Good, 42, died when the armoured vehicle he was traveling in was struck by an improvised explosive devise, or IED. Three other soldiers were injured in the blast, which occurred around 8 a.m. in the Shahwali Kot district, about 35 kilometres north of Kandahar City. 2008 Dec. 27: Warrant Officer Gaetan Joseph Maxime Roberge and Sgt. Gregory John Kruse died in a bomb blast while they were conducting a security patrol in the Panjwaii district, west of Kandahar City. Their Afghan interpreter and a member of the Afghan National Army were also killed. Three other Canadian soldiers were injured in the blast. Dec. 26: Private Michael Bruce Freeman, 28, was killed after his armoured vehicle was struck by an explosive device in the Zhari dessert, west of Kandahar City. Three other soldiers were injured in the blast. Dec. 13: Three soldiers were killed by an IED west of Kandahar City after responding to reports of people planting a suspicious object. Cpl. Thomas James Hamilton, 26, Pte. John Michael Roy Curwin, 26, and Pte. Justin Peter Jones, 21, members of 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment from CFB Gagetown, N.B., died. Dec. 5: An IED kills W.O. Robert Wilson, 38, Cpl. Mark McLaren, 23, and Pte. Demetrios Diplaros, 25, all members of the 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment based in Petawawa, Ont. All three are from Ontario - Keswick, Peterborough and Scarborough respectively. Sep. 7: Sergeant Prescott (Scott) Shipway, 36, was killed by an IED just days away from completing his second tour of Afghanistan and on the same day the federal election is called. Shipway, a section commander with 2nd battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry based out of Winnipeg, was killed in the Panjwaii district. He is from Saskatchewan. Sep. 3: Corporals Andrew (Drew) Grenon, 23, of Windsor, Ont., and Mike Seggie, 21, of Winnipeg and Pte. Chad Horn, 21, of Calgary, infantrymen with the 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from CFB Shilo, where killed in a Taliban ambush. Five other soldiers were injured in the attack. Aug. 20: Three combat engineers attached to 2nd Battalion Batallion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Edmonton are killed by an IED in Zhari district. Sgt. Shawn Eades, 34, of Hamilton, Ont., Cpl. Dustin Roy Robert Joseph Wasden,25, of the Spiritwood, Sask., area, and Sapper Stephan John Stock, 25, of Campbell River, B.C. A fourth soldier was seriously injured. Aug. 13: Jacqueline Kirk and Shirley Case, who were in Afghanistan with the International Rescue Committee, died in Afghanistan's Logar province after the car they were riding in was ambushed. Kirk, 40, was a dual British-Canadian citizen from Outremont, Que. Case, 30, was from Williams Lake, B.C. Aug. 11: Master Cpl. Erin Doyle, 32, of Kamloops, B.C., an Edmonton-based soldier of 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was killed in a firefight in Panjwaii district. Aug. 9: Master Cpl. Josh Roberts, 29, a native of Saskatchewan and a member of 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry based in Shilo, Man., died during a firefight involving a private security company in the Zhari district, west of Kandahar City. The death is under investigation. Jul. 18: Corporal James Hayward Arnal of Winnipeg, an infantryman with 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was rushed from the patrol in the volatile Panjwaii district to Kandahar Airfield, where he died from his injuries sustained from an IED. Jul. 5: Private Colin William Wilmot, a medic with 1 Field Ambulance and attached to 2nd Battalion Batallion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from Edmonton, stepped on an IED while on foot patrol in the Panjwaii district. Jul. 4: Corporal Brendan Anthony Downey died at Camp Mirage in an undisclosed country in the Arabian Peninsula of non-combat injuries. He was in his quarters at the time. Downey, 36, was a military police officer with 17 Wing Detachment, Dundurn, Sask. Jun. 7: Captain Jonathan Sutherland Snyder, a member of 1 Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry based in Edmonton, died after falling into a well while on a security patrol in the Zhari district. Jun. 3: Captain Richard Leary, 32, was killed when his patrol came under small arms fire while on foot patrol west of Kandahar City. Leary, "Stevo" to his friends, and a member of 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was based at CFB Shilo, Man. May 6: Corporal Michael Starker of the 15 Field Ambulance was fatally wounded during a foot patrol in the Pashmul region of the Afghanistan's Zhari district. Starker, 36, was a Calgary paramedic on his second tour in Afghanistan. He was part of a civil-military co-operation unit that did outreach in local villages. Another soldier, who was not identified, was wounded in the incident. Apr. 4: Private Terry John Street, of Surrey, B.C., and based with 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Shilo, Man., was killed when his armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device to the southwest of Kandahar City. Mar. 16: Sergeant Jason Boyes of Napanee, Ont., based with 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Shilo, Man., was killed when he steps on a buried explosive device while on foot patrol in the Zangabad region in Panjwaii District. Mar. 11: Bombardier Jeremie Ouellet, 22, of Matane, Que., died in his quarters at Kandahar Airfield. He was with the 1st Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. His death is under investigation by the National Investigative Service. Mar. 2: Trooper Michael Yuki Hayakaze, 25, of Edmonton was killed by an IED just days before his tour was scheduled to end. He was in a vehicle about 45 kilometres west of the Kandahar base. He was a member of the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians). Jan. 23: Sapper Etienne Gonthier, 21, of St-George-de-Beauce, Que., and based with 5e Regiment du genie de combat in Val Cartier, Que. was killed and two others wounded in an incident involving a roadside bomb. Jan. 15: Trooper Richard Renaud from Alma, Que., was killed and a second Canadian soldier was injured when their armoured vehicle hit a roadside bomb Tuesday in Kandahar's Zhari district. Renaud, 26, of the 12eme Regiment blinde du Canada in Valcartier, Que., and three other soldiers were on a routine patrol in the Arghandab region, about 10 Kilometres north of Kandahar City, when their Coyote reconnaissance vehicle struck the improvised explosive device. Jan. 6: Corporal Eric Labbe, 31, of Rimouski, Que., and W.O. Hani Massouh died when their light armoured vehicle rolled over in Zhari district. 2007 Dec. 30: Gunner Jonathan Dion, 27, a gunner from Val d'Or, Que., died and four others were injured after their armoured vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Zhari district. Nov. 17: Corporal Nicholas Raymond Beauchamp, of the 5th Field Ambulance, and Pte. Michel Levesque, of the Royal 22nd Regiment, both based in Valcartier, Que., were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their LAV-III armoured vehicle in Zhari district. Sep. 25: Corporal Nathan Hornburg, 24, of the Kings Own Calgary Regiment, was killed by mortar fire while trying to repair the track of a Leopard tank during an operation in the Panjwaii district. Aug. 29: Major Raymond Ruckpaul, serving at the NATO coalition headquarters in Kabul, died after being found shot in his room. ISAF and Canadian officials have said they had not ruled out suicide, homicide or accident as the cause of death. Ruckpaul was an armoured officer based at the NATO Allied Land Component Command Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. His hometown and other details have not been released. Aug. 22: Two Canadian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. M.W.O. Mario Mercier of 2nd Battalion Batallion, Royal 22nd Regiment, based in Valcartier, Que., and Master Cpl. Christian Duchesne, a member of Fifth Ambulance de campagne, also based in Valcartier, died when the vehicle they were in struck a suspected mine, approximately 50 kilometres west of Kandahar City during Operation EAGLE EYE. An Afghan interpreter was also killed and a third soldier and two Radio Canada journalists were injured. Aug. 19: Private Simon Longtin, 23, died when the LAV-III armoured vehicle he was travelling in struck an improvised explosive device. Jul. 4: Six Canadian soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle. The dead are Capt. Matthew Johnathan Dawe, Cpl. Cole Bartsch, Cpl. Jordan Anderson and Pte. Lane Watkins, all of 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, and Master Cpl. Colin Bason, a reservist from The Royal Westminster Regiment and Capt. Jefferson Clifford Francis of 1 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery based in Shilo Man. Jun. 20: Three soldiers from 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, died when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. Sgt. Christos Karigiannis, Cpl. Stephen Bouzane, 26, and Pte. Joel Wiebe, 22 were on a re-supply mission, travelling between two checkpoints in an open, all-terrain vehicle, not an armoured vehicle. Jun. 11: Trooper Darryl Caswell, 2nd Battalion Royal Canadian Dragoons, was killed by a roadside bomb that blew up near the vehicle hewas travelling in, while on patrol about 40 minutes north of Kandahar city. He was part of a resupply mission. May 30: Master Cpl. Darrell Jason Priede, a combat cameraman, died when an American helicopter he was aboard crashed in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province, reportedly after being shot at by Taliban fighters. Priede was from CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick. May 25: Corporal Matthew McCully, a signals operator from 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signals Squadron, based at Petawawa, Ont., was killed while on foot patrol and another soldier was injured when a roadside bomb exploded near them during a major operation to clear out Taliban. The soldier, a member of the mentorship and liaison team, is believed to have stepped on an improvised explosive device. Apr. 18: Master Cpl. Anthony Klumpenhouwer, 25, a special forces member, died from injuries sustained in an accidental fall from a communications tower in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It is the first death of a special forces member while on duty in Afghanistan. Apr. 11: Master Cpl. Allan Stewart, 30, and Trooper Patrick Pentland, 23, were killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. Both men were members of the Royal Canadian Dragoons based at CFB Petawawa, Ont. Apr. 8: Six Canadian soldiers died in southern Afghanistan as a result of injuries sustained when the vehicle they were travelling in hit an explosive device. Sgt. Donald Lucas, Cpl. Aaron E. Williams, Cpl. Brent Poland, Pte. Kevin Vincent Kennedy, Pte. David Robert Greenslade, 2nd Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment, based in Gagetown, N.B. were killed in the blast. Cpl. Christopher Paul Stannix, a reservist from the Princess Louise Fusiliers, based in Halifax, also died. One other soldier was seriously injured. Mar. 6: Corporal Kevin Megeney, 25, a reservist from Stellarton, N.S., died in an accidental shooting. He was shot through the chest and left lung. Megeney went to Afghanistan in the fall as a volunteer with 1st Batallion, Nova Scotia Highlanders Militia. 2006 Nov. 27: Two Canadian soldiers were killed on the outskirts of Kandahar when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of military vehicles. Cpl. Albert Storm, 36, of Niagara Falls, Ont., and Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, from Bouctouche, N.B., were members of the Royal Canadian Regiment based in Petawawa, Ont. They were in an armoured personnel carrier that had just left the Kandahar Airfield base when a vehicle approached and detonated explosives. Oct. 14: Sergeant Darcy Tedford and Pte. Blake Williamson from 1st Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment in Petawawa, Ont., were killed and three others wounded after troops in Kandahar province came under attack by Taliban insurgents wielding rocket propelled grenades and mortars, according to media reports. The troops were trying to build a road in the region when the ambush attack occurred. Oct. 7: Trooper Mark Andrew Wilson, a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons of Petawawa, Ont., died after a roadside bomb or IED exploded under a Nyala armoured vehicle. Wilson was a gunner in the Nyala vehicle. The blast occurred in the Pashmul region of Afghanistan. Oct. 3: Corporal Robert Thomas James Mitchell and Sgt. Craig Paul Gillam were killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan as they worked to clear a route for a future road construction project. Both were members of the Petawawa, Ont.-based Royal Canadian Dragoons. Sep. 29: Private Josh Klukie was killed by an improvised explosive device while he was conducting a foot patrol in a farm field in the Panjwaii district. Klukie, of Thunder Bay, Ont., was serving in the First Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment. Sep. 18: Four soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber riding a bicycle detonated explosives in the Panjwaii area. Cpl. Shane Keating, Cpl. Keith Morley and Pte. David Byers, 22, all members of 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from Shilo, Man., and Cpl. Glen Arnold, a member of 2 Field Ambulance, from Petawawa, Ont., were killed in the attack that wounded several others. Sep. 4: Private Mark Anthony Graham, a member of 1st Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment, based at CFB Petawawa, Ont., killed and dozens of others wounded in a friendly fire incident involving an American A-10 Warthog aircraft. Graham was a Canadian Olympic team member in 1992, when he raced as a member of the 4 x 400 metre relay team. Sep. 3: Four Canadian soldiers - W.O. Richard Francis Nolan, W.O. Frank Robert Mellish, Sgt. Shane Stachnik and Pte. William Jonathan James Cushley, all based at CFB Petawawa, west of Ottawa, were killed as insurgents disabled multiple Canadian vehicles with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. Nine other Canadians were wounded in the fighting that killed an estimated 200 Taliban members. Aug. 22: Corporal David Braun, a recently arrived soldier with 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was killed by a suicide bomber outside the gates of Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City. The soldier, in his 20s, was a native of Raymore, Sask. Three other Canadian soldiers were injured in the afternoon attack. Aug. 11: Corporal Andrew James Eykelenboom died during an attack by a suicide bomber on a Canadian convoy that was resupplying a forward fire base south of Kandahar near the border with Pakistan. A medic with the 1st Field Ambulance based in Edmonton, he was in his mid-20s and had been in the Canadian Forces for four years. Aug. 9: Master Cpl. Jeffrey Scott Walsh, based out of Shilo, Man., with 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was shot in a friendly fire incident, just days after arriving in Kandahar to begin his tour of duty. He arrived in Kandahar less than a week earlier. Aug. 5: Master Cpl. Raymond Arndt of the Edmonton-based Loyal Edmonton Regiment was killed when a G-Wagon making a supply run collided with a civilian truck. Three other Loyal Edmonton Regiment soldiers were also injured in the crash. Aug. 3: Corporal Christopher Jonathan Reid, based in Edmonton with the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was killed in a roadside bomb attack. Later the same day, Sgt. Vaughn Ingram, Cpl. Bryce Jeffrey Keller and Pte. Kevin Dallaire were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade as they took on militants around an abandoned school near Pashmul. Six other Canadian soldiers were injured in the attack. Jul. 22: A suicide bomber blew himself up in Kandahar, killing two Canadian soldiers and wounding eight more; the slain soldiers were Cpl. Francisco Gomez, an anti-armour specialist from the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Edmonton, who was driving the Bison armoured vehicle targeted by the bomber's vehicle, and Cpl. Jason Patrick Warren of the Black Watch in Montreal. Jul. 9: Corporal Anthony Joseph Boneca, a reservist with the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment based in Thunder Bay, Ont., was killed as Canadian military and Afghan security forces were pushing through an area west of Kandahar City that had been a hotbed of Taliban activity. May 17: Captain Nichola Goddard, a combat engineer with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery and Canada's first female combat death, was killed during battle against Taliban forces in the Panjwaii region, 24 kilometres west of Kandahar. Apr. 22: Four soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Gombad, north of Kandahar. They were Cpl. Matthew Dinning, stationed at Petawawa, Ont.; Bombardier Myles Mansell, based in Victoria; Lieut. William Turner, stationed in Edmonton, and Cpl. Randy Payne of CFB Wainwright, Alta. Mar. 28-29: Private Robert Costall was killed in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in the desert north of Kandahar. A U.S. soldier and a number of Afghan troops also died and three Canadians were wounded. Costall was a member of 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton. An American inquiry, made public in the summer of 2007, determined Costall was killed by friendly fire. Mar. 5: Master Cpl. Timothy Wilson of Grande Prairie, Alta., succumbed to injuries suffered in the LAV III crash on March 2 in Afghanistan. Wilson died in hospital in Germany. Mar. 2: Corporal Paul Davis died and six others were injured when their LAV III collided with a civilian taxi just west of Kandahar during a routine patrol. The soldiers were with 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Jan. 15: Diplomat Glyn Berry was killed and three soldiers injured by a suicide bomber in Kandahar. They were patrolling in a G Wagon. 2005 Nov. 24: Private Braun Scott Woodfield, Royal Canadian Regiment, was killed in a traffic accident involving his light-armoured vehicle (LAV III) northeast of Kandahar. Three others soldiers suffered serious injuries. 2004 Jan. 27: Corporal Jamie Murphy died and three soldiers were injured by a suicide bomber while patrolling near Camp Julien in an Iltis jeep. All were members of the Royal Canadian Regiment. 2003 Oct. 2: Sergeant Robert Alan Short and Cpl. Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger were killed and three others injured when their Iltis jeep struck a roadside bomb outside Camp Julien near Kabul. They were from 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment. 2002 Apr. 18: Sergeant Marc Leger, Cpl. Ainsworth Dyer, Pte. Richard Green and Pte. Nathan Smith were killed by friendly fire when an American fighter jet dropped a laser-guided 225-kilogram bomb on the soldiers during a training exercise near Kandahar. All served with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.

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Fanmixes and Playlists

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by DeathLife97

Fanmixes and playlists inspired by different pairings and/or connected to my stories. Check the individual stories for more information.

Republishing so it doesn't take up too much space in my works. Each chapter summary will contain tags listed for the specific mix.

Words: 305, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Fanmixes and Playlists

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Supernatural, Newsies (1992), Suits (TV), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Teen Wolf (TV), Original Work, Night at the Museum (Movies), Batman - All Media Types, DC Animated Universe, Thor (Movies), Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler, Captain America - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), X-Men Evolution, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015), Star Wars Original Trilogy, Frozen (2013), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Sherlock (TV), Zootopia (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Transformers (Bay Movies), Psych, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ant-Man (Movies), Suicide Squad (2016), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Once Upon a Time (TV), NCIS, DCU, Satan and Me (Webcomic), Gravity Falls, Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), ワンパンマン | One-Punch Man

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Gabriel/Sam Winchester, David Jacobs/Jack Kelly, James "Bucky" Barnes/Pepper Potts, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Michael/Adam Milligan, Mike Ross/Harvey Specter, Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov, Hank McCoy/Alex Summers, Beast/Havok (X-Men), Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Logan (X-Men)/Scott Summers, Wolverine/Cyclops (X-Men), Isaac Lahey/Scott McCall, Ahkmenrah/Larry Daley, Jedediah/Octavius (Night at the Museum), Allison Argent/Lydia Martin, Harleen Quinzel/Bruce Wayne, Harley Quinn/Batman, Loki/Sigyn (Marvel), Peter Hale/Sheriff Stilinski, Sebastian Michaelis/Ciel Phantomhive, Brock Rumlow/Sinthea Schmidt, Roy Harper/Wally West, Sean Cassidy/Moira MacTaggert, James T. Kirk/Spock, Rogue/Scott Summers, Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Amanda Grayson/Sarek, Hernan Guerra/Kirk Langstrom, Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Elsa (Disney)/Jack Frost (Guardians of Childhood), Poe Dameron/Finn, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde, Peter Quill/Ronan the Accuser, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Helena Bertinelli/Vic Sage, James "Bucky" Barnes/T'Challa, Bumblebee/Sam Witwicky, Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer, Balthazar/Jo Harvelle, Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Scott Lang/Sam Wilson, Kon-El | Conner Kent /Dick Grayson, Joker (DCU)/Harleen Quinzel, Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Anthony DiNozzo/Timothy McGee, Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan, Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Natalie McAllister/Satan | Lucifer, Bill Cipher/Dipper Pines, James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, Loki/Tony Stark, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Genos/Saitama (One-Punch Man)

Additional Tags: Fanmix, Playlist, Why Brain Why, Rare Pairings, Sorry Not Sorry, Pansexual Character, pansexuality, Female-Centric, Female Empowerment, Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Star Trek Beyond

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Fanmixes and Playlists

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by DeathLife97

Fanmixes and playlists inspired by different pairings and/or connected to my stories. Check the individual stories for more information.

Republishing so it doesn't take up too much space in my works. Each chapter summary will contain tags listed for the specific mix.

Words: 147, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Fanmixes and Playlists

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Supernatural, Newsies (1992), Suits (TV), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Teen Wolf (TV), Original Work, Night at the Museum (Movies), Batman - All Media Types, DC Animated Universe, Thor (Movies), Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler, Captain America - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), X-Men Evolution, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015), Star Wars Original Trilogy, Frozen (2013), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Sherlock (TV), Zootopia (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Transformers (Bay Movies), Psych, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ant-Man (Movies), Suicide Squad (2016), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Once Upon a Time (TV), NCIS, DCU, Satan and Me (Webcomic), Gravity Falls, Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), ワンパンマン | One-Punch Man

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Gabriel/Sam Winchester, David Jacobs/Jack Kelly, James "Bucky" Barnes/Pepper Potts, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Michael/Adam Milligan, Mike Ross/Harvey Specter, Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov, Hank McCoy/Alex Summers, Beast/Havok (X-Men), Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Logan (X-Men)/Scott Summers, Wolverine/Cyclops (X-Men), Isaac Lahey/Scott McCall, Ahkmenrah/Larry Daley, Jedediah/Octavius (Night at the Museum), Allison Argent/Lydia Martin, Harleen Quinzel/Bruce Wayne, Harley Quinn/Batman, Loki/Sigyn (Marvel), Peter Hale/Sheriff Stilinski, Sebastian Michaelis/Ciel Phantomhive, Brock Rumlow/Sinthea Schmidt, Roy Harper/Wally West, Sean Cassidy/Moira MacTaggert, James T. Kirk/Spock, Rogue/Scott Summers, Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Amanda Grayson/Sarek, Hernan Guerra/Kirk Langstrom, Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Elsa (Disney)/Jack Frost (Guardians of Childhood), Poe Dameron/Finn, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde, Peter Quill/Ronan the Accuser, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Helena Bertinelli/Vic Sage, James "Bucky" Barnes/T'Challa, Bumblebee/Sam Witwicky, Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer, Balthazar/Jo Harvelle, Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Scott Lang/Sam Wilson, Kon-El | Conner Kent /Dick Grayson, Joker (DCU)/Harleen Quinzel, Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Anthony DiNozzo/Timothy McGee, Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan, Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Natalie McAllister/Satan | Lucifer, Bill Cipher/Dipper Pines, James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, Loki/Tony Stark, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Genos/Saitama (One-Punch Man)

Additional Tags: Fanmix, Playlist, Why Brain Why, Rare Pairings, Sorry Not Sorry, Pansexual Character, pansexuality, Female-Centric, Female Empowerment, Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Star Trek Beyond

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Fanmixes and Playlists

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2pnKGxJ

by DeathLife97

Fanmixes and playlists inspired by different pairings and/or connected to my stories. Check the individual stories for more information.

Republishing so it doesn't take up too much space in my works. Each chapter summary will contain tags listed for the specific mix.

Words: 305, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Fanmixes and Playlists

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Supernatural, Newsies (1992), Suits (TV), X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), Teen Wolf (TV), Original Work, Night at the Museum (Movies), Batman - All Media Types, DC Animated Universe, Thor (Movies), Kuroshitsuji | Black Butler, Captain America - All Media Types, Young Justice (Cartoon), X-Men (Comicverse), X-Men: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), X-Men Evolution, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015), Star Wars Original Trilogy, Frozen (2013), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Sherlock (TV), Zootopia (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons), Transformers (Bay Movies), Psych, Justice League - All Media Types, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ant-Man (Movies), Suicide Squad (2016), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Once Upon a Time (TV), NCIS, DCU, Satan and Me (Webcomic), Gravity Falls, Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime), ワンパンマン | One-Punch Man

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Gabriel/Sam Winchester, David Jacobs/Jack Kelly, James "Bucky" Barnes/Pepper Potts, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Michael/Adam Milligan, Mike Ross/Harvey Specter, Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov, Hank McCoy/Alex Summers, Beast/Havok (X-Men), Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Logan (X-Men)/Scott Summers, Wolverine/Cyclops (X-Men), Isaac Lahey/Scott McCall, Ahkmenrah/Larry Daley, Jedediah/Octavius (Night at the Museum), Allison Argent/Lydia Martin, Harleen Quinzel/Bruce Wayne, Harley Quinn/Batman, Loki/Sigyn (Marvel), Peter Hale/Sheriff Stilinski, Sebastian Michaelis/Ciel Phantomhive, Brock Rumlow/Sinthea Schmidt, Roy Harper/Wally West, Sean Cassidy/Moira MacTaggert, James T. Kirk/Spock, Rogue/Scott Summers, Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Amanda Grayson/Sarek, Hernan Guerra/Kirk Langstrom, Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Elsa (Disney)/Jack Frost (Guardians of Childhood), Poe Dameron/Finn, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Judy Hopps/Nick Wilde, Peter Quill/Ronan the Accuser, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Helena Bertinelli/Vic Sage, James "Bucky" Barnes/T'Challa, Bumblebee/Sam Witwicky, Carlton Lassiter/Shawn Spencer, Balthazar/Jo Harvelle, Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Scott Lang/Sam Wilson, Kon-El | Conner Kent /Dick Grayson, Joker (DCU)/Harleen Quinzel, Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Belle/Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Anthony DiNozzo/Timothy McGee, Captain Hook | Killian Jones/Emma Swan, Tim Drake/Jason Todd, Natalie McAllister/Satan | Lucifer, Bill Cipher/Dipper Pines, James "Bucky" Barnes/Tony Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, Loki/Tony Stark, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov, Genos/Saitama (One-Punch Man)

Additional Tags: Fanmix, Playlist, Why Brain Why, Rare Pairings, Sorry Not Sorry, Pansexual Character, pansexuality, Female-Centric, Female Empowerment, Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Star Trek Beyond

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NFC Pro Bowl roster 2018: Russell Wilson, Drew Brees will play despite injury reshuffling

The team voted on by fans and the team actually playing in the game are rarely the same.

Every year, the Pro Bowl roster gets changed up after the fact. Injuries, Super Bowl participants, and other factors mean that alternate players make up a large portion of the game. As a result, the team voted on by fans and the team that actually takes the field are extremely different.

Things are no different for the NFC team this year. Carson Wentz got voted as the starting quarterback, but an ACL tear ended his season early. (Wentz’s replacement is Jared Goff.) Julio Jones, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, and Bobby Wagner are just a few big names to pull out as they recover from nagging injuries.

The Philadelphia Eagles made the Super Bowl, so their Pro Bowl selections (Zach Ertz, Lane Johnson, Brandon Brooks, Fletcher Cox, Malcolm Jenkins) are required to sit out the game.

Due to the injuries and Super Bowl participants, only 23 of the original Pro Bowl selections are still in the game. The running back position managed to stay intact, with Todd Gurley, Mark Ingram, and Alvin Kamara all set to suit up.

The Pro Bowl begins at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN and WatchESPN.

NFC roster

Quarterbacks

Carson Wentz, Philadelphia Eagles (injury withdrawal) Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints Jared Goff, Los Angeles Rams (replacement)

Running backs

Todd Gurley, Los Angeles Rams Mark Ingram, New Orleans Saints Alvin Kamara, New Orleans Saints

Fullback

Kyle Juszczyk, San Francisco 49ers

Wide receivers

Julio Jones, Atlanta Falcons (injury withdrawal) Adam Thielen, Minnesota Vikings Larry Fitzgerald, Arizona Cardinals (injury withdrawal) Michael Thomas, New Orleans Saints Davante Adams, Green Bay Packers (replacement) Doug Baldwin, Seattle Seahawks (replacement)

Tight ends

Zach Ertz, Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl withdrawal) Jimmy Graham, Seattle Seahawks (injury withdrawal) Jason Witten, Dallas Cowboys (replacement) Kyle Rudolph, Minnesota Vikings (replacement)

Offensive tackles

Trent Williams, Washington (injury withdrawal) Tyron Smith, Dallas Cowboys (injury withdrawal) Lane Johnson, Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl withdrawal) Andrew Whitworth, Los Angeles Rams (replacement) Joe Staley, San Francisco 49ers (replacement) Duane Brown, Seattle Seahawsk (replacement)

Guards

Zack Martin, Dallas Cowboys (injury withdrawal) Brandon Brooks, Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl withdrawal) Brandon Scherff, Washington (injury withdrawal) Trai Turner, Carolina Panthers (replacement) T.J. Lang, Detroit Lions (replacement) Larry Warford, New Orleans Saints (replacement)

Centers

Alex Mack, Atlanta Falcons Travis Frederick, Dallas Cowboys

Defensive ends

Demarcus Lawrence, Dallas Cowboys Everson Griffen, Minnesota Vikings (injury withdrawal) Cameron Jordan, New Orleans Saints Michael Bennett, Seattle Seahawks (replacement)

Defensive tackles

Fletcher Cox, Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl withdrawal) Aaron Donald, Los Angeles Rams (injury withdrawal) Gerald McCoy, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Mike Daniels, Green Bay Packers (replacement) Linval Joseph, Minnesota Vikings (replacement)

Outside linebackers

Chandler Jones, Arizona Cardinals Ryan Kerrigan, Washington Anthony Barr, Minnesota Vikings (injury withdrawal) Thomas Davis, Carolina Panthers (replacement)

Inside linebackers

Luke Kuechly, Carolina Panthers (injury withdrawal) Bobby Wagner, Seattle Seahawks (injury withdrawal) Deion Jones, Atlanta Falcons (replacement) Kwon Alexander, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (replacement)

Cornerbacks

Patrick Peterson, Arizona Cardinals Xavier Rhodes, Minnesota Vikings Marshon Lattimore, New Orleans Saints Darius Slay, Detroit Lions

Safeties

Earl Thomas, Seattle Seahawks Landon Collins, New York Giants (injury withdrawal) Malcolm Jenkins, Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl withdrawal) Keanu Neal, Atlanta Falcons (replacement) Harrison Smith, Minnesota Vikings (replacement)

Kicker

Greg Zuerlein, Los Angeles Rams (injury withdrawal) Graham Gano, Carolina Panthers (replacement)

Punter

Johnny Hekker, Los Angeles Rams

Return specialist

Pharoh Cooper, Los Angeles Rams

Long snapper

Jake McQuaide, Los Angeles Rams

Special teamer

Budda Baker, Arizona Cardinals