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alexthegamingboy · 1 year

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Toonami Weekly Recap 04/08/2023

Food Wars: The Fifth Plate (The BLUE Arc) EP#77 (04) - The Last Supper: Soma, Megumi, and Takumi arrive at the site of the BLUE Tournament along with Saiba and the Noirs. The WGO Book Master explains that contestants will have to pass through three gates, each requiring completing a special culinary challenge to open, before reaching the main castle keep where they will compete in front of the Book Master herself. However, Asahi reveals that he has been seeded to the third gate. Erina then reveals that she will have to pass her own special set of trials separate from the rest of the contestants. Soma, Megumi, and Takumi are then separated into different groups. Soma's group is tasked with creating dishes that will satisfy Tokiyama Heigoro, an elderly Ex-Noir looking for a dish that will be a worthy last supper. The regular chefs are unable to satisfy Heigoro, while the Noirs easily pass. Asahi explains that only Noirs can understand the significance of a last meal thanks to their underworld experience. Soma serves Heigoro monaka with a monkfish liver filling. Soma then chastises Heigoro, pointing out he should stop looking for last suppers and instead take the opportunity to explore and eat new foods he's never seen before. This shocks Heigoro, who was planning on committing suicide after the tournament, and he resolves to keep on living to explore as many tastes as he can. Soma passes the first gate along with Megumi and Takumi. They express confusion that this BLUE does not seem to be focusing on gourmet like previous tournaments. Meanwhile, Erina is forced to face off against a gauntlet of chefs. As Soma, Megumi, and Takumi pass through the first gate, they are shocked to meet Tsukasa.

My Hero Academia Season 6 Dark Hero Arc EP#135 (22) - Friend: Deku and the Top Three Heroes, plus The Lurkers, confront All For One at his hideout in Haibori Woods only to find it abandoned. A recording left by All For One taunts Deku for his failures, telling him it's "his turn", before setting the mansion to self-destruct. The Heroes escape and reconvene to discuss their options, due to the dwindling amount of Heroes left available. Meanwhile, Deku swiftly deals with the second hitman while All Might desperately attempts to convince him to rest. Deku believes that since he can use practically use One For All at 100% without backlash, he doesn't have to watch over him anymore and All Might can only look on devastatingly as Deku flies away, leaving him behind. Over the next several days, Deku proceeds to tirelessly travel through the city, saving whoever he can, ignoring the Heroes and the One For All predecessors' advice to take it easy. Because of this, Deku starts taking on a more monstrous appearance with civilians scared of him and rumours going around that he is a Nomu, yet he refuses to stop, all so that he and everyone he cares about can smile again. He begins to collapse in Kamino where he confronts another hitman named Dictator who uses his Quirk to attack Deku using nearby civilians. Due to being too tired, Deku is unable to fight and is swarmed by the mob until he is saved by Bakugo who knocks Dictator out. After having received Deku's letters, Class 1-A figured out that Deku and All Might were working with Endeavor, and use Nezu to summon him to the school to confirm this. They state their desire to help their classmate in his moment of need and Nezu approves of them going out onto the streets to bring him back. Class 1-A confront Deku, who refuses to give in and demands they get out of his way, preparing to fight.

My Hero Academia Season 6 Dark Hero Arc EP#136 (23) - Deku vs. Class A: Deku attempts to escape from his classmates so they all try to restrain him. During their struggles, each Class 1-A student reminds Deku of something he had done for or said to them in the past, and how much their friendship means to them. Deku refuses to listen as he doesn't want them to be caught up in his battle against All For One and get hurt, as his way of "protecting" them. After almost every one of their attempts to talk or pin him down fail, Deku prepares to execute Faux 100 Percent to blast himself away for good, but Class 1-A combine all of their abilities to create a massive ramp which they use to blast Iida into the sky at blistering speeds, catching up to Deku and grabbing his hand. Iida repeats what Deku had said to him in the past when he saved him, that helping without being asked is the essence of a hero, causing Deku to start to give into his exhaustion. On the ground, he once again tries to keep his distance from everyone, but Bakugo confronts him, admitting the reason behind why he bullied him in the past. He sincerely apologizes for everything he said and done, telling him the class doesn't want to reject who he is, but support him to help save everyone. Deku finally gives in and apologizes himself before passing out. He wakes up in front of the now heavily-fortified U.A. only to be met by a mob of angry civilians demanding Deku not enter, aware that he is the boy Shigaraki is after. Deku is about to leave, but is stopped by Ochaco.

Slightly Damned Page 1086: https://www.sdamned.com/comic/1086

#Toonami #Toonami Weekly Recap #Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma #Food Wars: The Fifth Plate #The BLUE Arc #My Hero Academia #My Hero Academia 6 #Dark Hero Arc #Slightly Damned

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ffxivfisher · 8 months

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There are strict processes I follow when testing anything for fishing. There are substantial changes made depending upon exactly what is being tested, but constants and factors when doing Cast quantitity tests are:

Everything done is recorded in order to be rewatched for verification, or streamed if there is not room on my HDD.

A private linkshell or FC chat is used to keep track of things and for documentation of when important things happen with video timestamp to easily refer to when the recording is done.

All abilities that have the potential to interfere with accurate data collection if used accidentially are removed from the hotbar while testing.

All fish are kept in inventory or FC chest tab 5 until testing is complete for easy verification of quantities.

Data is tracked in a spreadsheet in real-time, and then crosschecked.

In the middle of june 2021 I was working on the Big Fish title on an alt that had not done the Facet quests and got curious how much of an advantage it was not having Amber Monkfish available in The Hills of Amber. I did a small amount of testing and the statistically insignificant data I collected didn't look interesting enough for me to care about at the time, so I didn't continue. In Endwalker, I was curious again about the fish added to the holes when doing the Studium quests. Because Garlemald only has two fishing holes, and the quest fish was available in both, this meant the Studium fish was certain to be in the hole with Garlemald's legendary fish in the future. In december 2021, I began fishing in The Eblan Thaw with Mayfly idly as I felt like it and kept track of data in a spreadsheet as I normally do. I chose The Eblan Thaw and not The Stainless Course because it is closer to the aetheryte. At this time I was also doing significant testing on the scrip fish. Scrip testing was much more important to me, very time intensive and also inventory intensive, so I sold my fish from The Eblan Thaw each time I was done fishing for a session. In total, I collected data for over three weeks in this haphazard manner while I was working without recording the process as I already had significant purple scrip video to review. This is not unusual when it comes to things I'm curious but not serious about, to do lazier work to get a preliminary look and then to return when I'm able to dedicate serious effort if I feel like it. There is a significant amount of things I've looked into and left unfinished or poorly done and not shared the data for as it was done in this fashion. I keep my well-verified and less/un-verified data in separate places. After I was done the data from The Eblan Thaw stayed with my less/un-verified data and I didn't think about this testing again until this patch, when we got the legendary fish.

2021 data:

2024 data:

The 2024 data is easily verified. I recorded the entire process and completeted it over the course of 8 days (30/01/2024 - 07/02/2024) while fishing nowhere else on the character without Studium progress and never touching the inventory except adding Mayflies. On the character with Studium complete I fished in in Sidereal Whale, Furcacauda, or Hyphalosaurus windows and did not touch the inventory other than to sell fish from those windows. The characters upon completion of their respective 5000 catches:

The 2024 results, and similar quantity testing done by a twitter user, indicate the 2021 data is wrong. My question is: where? The answer is: It ultimately does not matter and I am unable to answer with any certainty because of the lack of QC I employed.

Knowing myself and being familiar with my weaknesses and typical mistakes, it's very likely just a data entry error, or multiple of them.

While entering data periodically before being done fishing for a session, I often catch myself entering in numbers incorrectly, though I also usually notice right away - but not always. This is usually never a serious issue with something I will be sharing publicly. With anything else I have shared publicly, I can either verify via recording the precise quantities at any given time, or the totals via the amount of fish in my inventory. I'm certain I went to correct any errors I made mid-session before selling my fish in 2021, but even when working with correct numbers it is possible to manually enter something that is incorrect. Errors like the one below were made during the 2024 test.

I also also on two occasions entered data for Before Quest into the same fishes field for After Quest, or the opposite. As stated, these are mistakes it is entirely reasonable to make and ones which I have a tendency to do. Reality is, much of large-scale individual FSH testing is very boring and tedious and lends itself to such errors.

It is easy to keep accurate counts when you maintain two means of keeping guaranteed accurate count.

This is why I take the mesaures that I do, and why I force myself to be very careful with what I share. That I shared the 2021 data was a much larger error on my part than whatever error(s) I made in collecting the data, so the exact nature of the error(s) in the 2021 data is irrelevant.

Conclusion: Mistakes are not acceptable, but understandable.

Though this is a hobby, it is one I take seriously. Data or research I provide is that which is done by an individual, and not peer reviewed. Due to this, I take what I consider to be strong measures to ensure that what I provide is accurate, and this is where the issue lies. I was aware that I could not validate the data I had. That should have prevented me from sharing it. There have been several instances where I did not provide information or data I had collected because of similar issues. Making a mistake in the research or data collection process is fine. When I become aware, or suspect, that I made a mistake, I determine where the error came from and correct it if possible. If this is not possible, the existing data is disregarded and the test is redone. This is also possible if I don't think I made a mistake but it is possible that I could have. This is time consuming, but it is the responsible thing to do.

I was given a small amount of statistically insignificant data from other parties with numbers that were simialr to my 2021 data. If one is a poor researcher, this could have been seen as validating my data. The 2021 data had also indicated certain numerical scaling, so when viewed while already seeking a specific conclusion "made sense." Neither of these two things are sufficient replacements for the QC which is normally employed, and is extremely poor research practice.

My personal life has been intensely hectic and my free time/access to a computer limited, so I was not going to have time to redo the test immediately. This is understandable. I shared the information against my better judgement with the intention to redo the test as soon as I was able. This is unacceptable.

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iilssnet · 2 years

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About Greenland Sea, facts and maps

How cold is the Greenland Sea? The average surface water temperature is about −1 °C (30 °F) or lower in the north and 1–2 °C (34–36 °F) in the south; the corresponding summer temperatures are about 0 and 6 °C (32 and 43 °F) respectively. The bottom water temperatures are below −1 °C (30 °F). What oceans are in Greenland? Located in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northeastern coast of Canada, Greenland is the world's largest island. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the west by Smith Sound, Baffin Bay and the Davis Strait; and on the east by the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans. How cold is the Greenland Sea? In a word: very. Water temperatures have been rising steadily since 1985, but they're always below freezing. The highest temperatures ever recorded there have all been in the last few years, but the warmest was just over -0.8°C.

Does the sea around Iceland freeze? Contrarily, ice on the Icelandic fishing grounds is quite common, especially in the northwest. Therefore, sea ice is monitored by regular flights for this purpose. Based on observations from the Icelandic Coast Guard and other vessels that sight sea ice, warnings are issued by IMO when considered necessary. What is the coldest sea on earth? A “supercoolometer”, a device that sounds like it should be used to measure hipsters, has found the coldest seawater on Earth, under Antarctic sea ice. What is the coldest ocean on Earth? Southern Ocean It is also known as the Antarctic Ocean as it surrounds Antarctica. It is the coldest and wildest ocean in the world. Can you swim in the ocean in Greenland? Greenland's southern shore, commonly called the "banana coast" due to its accessibility and green landscape in the summer, and the southern towns of Narsaq and Qaqortoq, which lie on the same latitude as the Shetland Islands, are home to many sandy beaches, ideal for bathing. Is Greenland wet or dry? dry The air is generally very dry in Greenland in relation to many other countries, and because of this low humidity the low temperatures do not feel as cold as you might expect. On the other hand, the dry air means that you must drink more water than normal. Does Greenland have fish? Greenland's waters are known to contain more than 250 species of fish, and the figure is probably somewhat larger, as life in the deeper waters is almost unknown. The global warming of the world seas also causes more species to migrate further north towards Greenland waters, such as mackerel, monkfish and porbeagle. How deep is the Greenland Sea? It lies south of the Arctic Basin proper and borders Greenland (west), Svalbard (east), the main Arctic Ocean (north), and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland (south). Average depth is 4,750 feet (1,450 m), with the deepest recorded point at 16,000 feet (4,800 m). Will sea ice disappear? SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Climate change is rapidly melting away the world's frozen regions, with summertime Arctic sea ice sure to vanish by 2050, according to a report published on Monday. Why is Greenland losing more ice than Antarctica? But Greenland's ice loss is different from Antarctica's in crucial ways. One is that almost all of Greenland's ice is on land, with few sections floating on water. The air over Greenland is also warmer, so melting at the surface of the ice sheet is a much more significant driver of ice loss than at the South Pole. What happens if it rains in Greenland? Greenland's ice sheet is the second largest on the planet (after Antarctica) and any rain falling on its surface accelerates melting. Is oil drilled in Greenland? Arctic nation has no active oil fields but U.S. estimates there could be 17.5 billion barrels undiscovered. Is the water clean in Greenland? In Greenland, there is access to clean drinking water in all towns and villages. Efforts are constantly being made to improve the water supply to ensure that all citizens have access to high-quality drinking water. Read the full article

#CanyouswimintheoceaninGreenland?#CanyouswimwithGreenlandsharks?#DoesGreenlandhavefish?#DoestheGreenlandSeafreeze?#DoestheseaaroundIcelandfreeze?#GreenlandSea #HowcoldistheGreenlandSea?#HowdeepistheGreenlandSea?#IsGreenlandwetordry?#IsoildrilledinGreenland?#IsthewatercleaninGreenland?#WhathappensifitrainsinGreenland?#WhatisthecoldestseaonEarth?#WhatoceansareinGreenland?#whereisGreenlandSea?#WhyisGreenlandlosingmoreicethanAntarctica?#Willseaicedisappear?

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legend-collection · 2 years

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Sea-Monk

The alleged sea monk was captured at sea between Denmark's Zealand and Sweden, in the strait Øresund, probably in 1546. Christian III of Denmark sent an illustration of it to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The creature is recorded in Vedel's Den danske Krønicke (1575) as measuring 4 ells long. It was either caught in a herring net, or stranded, depending on the source.

16th century natural history Steenstrup's comparison of a squid with sea monks from the sixteenth century:

The capture of the sea-monk is dated to either 1546 or 1549 in 16th century literature, or to both dates, in the case of Lycosthenes (1557), who states both captures occurred near Copenhagen, Denmark. There is also a German woodcut by Stefan Hamer possibly dating to 1546, illustrating the sea-monk caught in Copenhagen in 1546.

The sea monk was listed in several illustrated natural history books published in the mid-16th century, such as Pierre Belon (1553), Guillaume Rondelet (1554), and Conrad Gesner (1558). It was described as a "fish" that looked superficially like a monk.

Belon (1553) gave a briefer notice on piscis monachus (monk-fish) in his Latin volume, a more expanded account appearing later in his French version of 1555.

Rondelet (1554) called it "the fish with the habit of a monk (piscis monachi habitu), and classed it as a merman (homo maris). But he did not think the pictorial representations he obtained could be taken at face value, and suspected they were embellished "by the painter to make the thing seem more marvelous". What prompted his suspicions of artistic license seems to be his discovery of other portrayals of the monkfish, quite different from his own, obtained by his rival and friend Gesner and others in Rome.

Rondelet stated that a drawing of it from life (or corpse) was made by an artist in the presence of a certain gentleman, who gave a copy to Charles V, and another copy to Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, the latter of which was provided to Rondelet. The picture being the gift of Marguerite, a great patron of the sciences, meant it was not something to be readily dismissed, but rather authenticated, by Marguerite, treated as an authority on par with Pliny.

Rondelet's information was imperfect in other ways: he stated the creature had been taken in "Norway at Diezum near the town called Denelopoch", but this was a garbling of Die Sund ("the Sound" of Øresund) off of Ellenbogen (Malmö, Sweden). The information was conveyed through some intermediary German source.

Belon (1555) in his French edition about the monk-fish also classed the monk-fish as a merman (French: homme marin), and garnished his commentary with mention of merfolk from ancient writings, specifically sirens, tritons, naiads, and nereids. Belon, according to Steenstrup's assessment, had faith in the existence of this sea monk without ever having seen one. Belon attributed these curiosities to "playfulness of Nature".

The fourth volume of Conrad Gesner's famous Historia Animalium described it, and although much of Gesner's piece was derivative or even copied wholesale from his predecessors, Belon and Rondelet, he appended a collolarium section containing his own findings and observations. As to the creature that measured 4 cubits, Gesner added that it had a black face like an Ethiopian, according to a German rhyme. Gesner here quoted Albertus Magnus's account of the monachus maris. He also mentioned a similar monster found in the Firth of Forth, citing Scottish historian Hector Boethius (Hector Boece). Gesner had two other sources to draw from, namely Georg Fabricius and Hector Mythobius.

The aforementioned Lycosthenes in Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon Of Portents and Shown Times described the 1546 sea monk as having a black head, and gave an illustration of it as such.

#sea-monk #denmark #netherlands

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thrilloffirstlove · 3 years

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"Jaws the shark lurking in the dark"

Made a writing that I'm actually proud enough to share, consider it a late Valentine's thing I guess?

CW:Talking about sharks in detail, swearing

"What... are you doing? Like right now."

"Protecting YOU from JAWS." BB was awfully insistent on that, which made Simms wanna laugh. And it did laugh, at how much Bluster was trying to keep it from going more than 3 feet away from him.

"You know Jaws takes place in Florida," It began trailing off before picking up speed again. "Where beaches with people are the most popular coast attractions. New York's mostly just harbors."

"But JAWS is a SMART SHARK." Simms tried not to lose it over how- it swore- it could hear BB whine. Over a fucking b movie shark. Was it going to invalidate the guy? No, but it had to set a record straight..

"I mean, yeah he's able to avoid the authorities, but that's because Great Whites are pretty big sharks, one of the largest around today in fact!" Simms continued "The title of SMARTEST shark belongs to the Mako shark, who are much sleeker and have a much more blue top part. Since they tend to live like, right smack dab in the middle of the ocean, where it's impossible to see sand. They got their own thriller movie, I forgot the name but I remember there's a part where the guy tries to hide in a oven and then the shark comes up and turns the oven on. This was all on a research vessel in the middle of the ocean of course, not along the coast as we see with Jaws. So at least these directors get the settings right, eh??"

BB was quiet, just the hum of electronics and the movie in the background to keep Simms ears company. Simms worried that maybe it said too much, maybe Bluster really was freaked out over the whole shark thing and that it was going to have to deal with the repercussions and-

"Hey Simms?"

"Hm? Oh shit uh-" Simms turned towards Bluster, trying to avoid eye contact all the while. "Y-You ok buddy?"

"There ARE good sharks, right?"

"Oh! Well I-" Simms clasped it's hands together, it wasn't expecting another chance to talk about sharks! "Well first off I feel like, I should mention that most shark species are coastal, warm water type guys. In fact the only shark I can think of that lives specifically up North is the Greenland shark, maybe the Goblin and Tiger sharks but Tiger sharks are a pretty universal one I'd say."

Simms snapped their fingers some more. "Lemon sharks are the first to come to mind for the zero fatality sharks, they eat mostly crabs and unlike other sharks don't go for 'curiosity bites'. Most of the time when you hear about shark bites it's one of those, where the shark is like intrigued by the board or leg passing by and since they don't have limbs their only investigative tools are headbutting and bites."

It snuggled up towards BB more, going to try and rest it's head on his side. "Nurse and angel sharks are also quite friendly! They're mostly found in the Caribbean, with nurse sharks being the larger of the two. Angel sharks are actually more commonly known as monkfish, due to their flatter shape and weird physiology. But they're still sharks, and because of that they're still very endangered!"

"What about the largest one?"

"Oh- that's umm-" Simms stumbled over it's words, trying to detangle the thoughts in it's head to become actual words. "Both the largest and second largest don't have any teeth, they just drift around in the ocean with they're mouths open, looking for plankton and algae to eat. One of thems is the basking shark, I remember that because unlike the other it likes to drift near the surface of the water, there are countless videos and stories of people seeing them while underwater and freaking out. I don't blame them, somebody once got a camera really close to one and I still get the shivs think of it today but uhm... I actually don't know what the other one is called. So sorry, I should of-"

"No, no no! Your cool! I'm kinda scared now though!" Bluster exclaimed, making a strange clicking noise as the lights in the room flickered. The screen went dark, plunging the living room into blackness. The only light coming from the glowstick beside the couch. "So what else do you do besides this?"

"Um. Uh- I don't know what your talking about here?"

"Like- Whatever other cool stuff you do-slash-like??"

"I basically just think about things to no end my guy." Simms laughed nervously. "But I mean, there's like, there's this one thingy that I have been meaning to talk about, not with you specifically, just in general. I think it had something to do with how good shows are structured??"

"Tell me your secrets!"

"I will, just let me think of them!"

#self ship #self ship community #writing #s/i x f/o #infodumping about sharks at the weirdest of times #nurse and angel sharks my beloved #ppacman fever @//﹏//@ (c.o.p.s. snm)

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littlebookreader · 3 years

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iustus alius dies ad domum

This has two parts: Information and the fic itself. For slightly easier accessibility, I will put both in this post itself.

Some information first:

Summary: Julius Bell knows a lot of things, and what he doesn’t know, he learns. Right? (For the Wednesday prompt ‘Favourite Bell Sibling’ of the Victoriocity Appreciation Week 2021. Takes place after ‘SMS Brandenburg’, shortly before Lunae lumen ipsum.)

Fandoms: Victoriocity(Podcast)

Rating: General Audiences

Relationships: Gen

Word count: 666 words(okay....)

Characters: Julius Bell, Septimus Bell, Augusta Bell, Aurelia Bell, Commodus Bell, Tiberius Bell, past implied Julius Bell/Dr. Emeline Tilvane, Dr. Emeline Tilvane(mentioned), John Balmoral(mentioned), Michael Monkfish | The Narrator(mentioned).

Additional Tags: Family feud: the Victorian drama, just kidding, I have no idea what the game is, so that reference is nonsensical at best, Septimus being a sweeties for n minutes straight(?), Julius being way too salty for a man of his size, Aurelia being my crush(is that cause of Beth Eyre, I think it’s also cause of Beth Eyre), The Bells being.....the Bells, I’m waaaaay too late with this, so have two fics!, ayyy, can’t really think of much else, author regrets everything, no beta we quarrel like the Bells, here you go

@victoriocity-appreciation for the Favourite Bell Sibling.

Part 5 of Love, Actually.

This was the information. For the rest of the fic, it’s all under the cut.

Fic:

In his position, Julius Bell had to know a lot of things. What he didn’t know, he had to learn, and what he knew, he had to hide. He’d come to understand, from brilliant inventor and trusted friend(he wasn’t ashamed to admit he’d hoped for more, but those times were long past) Dr. Emeline Tilvane, that they’d only resolved a small piece of the puzzle, that there was a lot more to the spy racket than they’d unearthed so far. Presently, however, this was not the only thing bothering him.

“You must understand, Julius, I cannot do this!”

He frowned. “Whyever not? It’s only a few men.”

“Yes,” Commodus gruffed, “And I need them all.” With that, Commodus, his brother, whom for the most part he tolerated, began to walk out, dashing all of Julius’ hopes with each retreating footstep.

“I will have them back by tomorrow, I promise.”

“It’s already the eleventh hour.”

It was at this point that Septimus decided to grace them with his presence. “Will you stop fighting? It is late, and some of us have early owuhs!”

“He’s right, Julius, can’t this wait till the morning?” Aurelia, who was a socialite, a planner of the highest order, the Bells almost never got to see, despite her schedule keeping being impeccable, had chosen NOW to visit?

“No, it most certainly cannot! This is a matter of national security!”

“It’s always a matter of national security with you, isn’t it? Never a good scoop, just an inane chatter surrounding it,” Augusta grumbled.

“Well-” He faltered. They would never really understand, would they? It wasn’t much use defending himself to them anyway, because they’d just offer up stranger and stranger critique by the passing word. “I have a source.”

This caught Augusta’s interest, while the others rolled their eyes. “Who is it?”

“I’m afraid I cannot tell you that.”

“Why?” Tiberius, who was sitting in the corner, probably writing some terrible poetry, limerick or haiku again, asked.

“Well, that could be because I do not actually know who it is, just that they’ve been sending notes all around the city to my contacts, and gauging their responses.”

Septimus sighed, then frowned. “There was a man at St. Bernadine’s who’d been shot in the leg, but left wight the day after, would ‘your contact’ have had anything to do with that?”

Julius pulled him aside and asked, “Would this man happen to be registered, in records as John Balmoral, by any chance?”

“He most coitanly was!”

“Oh, then yes, I suppose so, why?”

Septimus was not someone he’d generally disagreed too much with, though they’d still had their fair share of arguments leading with one either throwing something at the other, or chasing him around with a scalpel. Right then, Septimus almost looked comical, eyes bulging out of his head, eyebrows waggling about every which way.

“He was placed under obsoivation! And, he was shot in the leg! Couldn’t your contact have waited a few moi days?”

He simply shrugged. “I had nothing to do with that. Balmoral made his choice. I simply pushed him in the right direction.”

“Which was what, exactly?”

If he was being honest, even he had no idea. Apart from a small test, just to understand their reactions a bit better (Fleet and Ms. Entwhistle being the more inaccurate of the two in their assumption, as that interaction had become somewhat common knowledge due to Michael Monkfish’s incessant narration), he wasn’t entirely sure why he’d sent the notes out in the first place.

A new worry began to grow in its stead.

What if his contact went rogue, sending more notes all around Even Greater London? What then? He hated the conclusion he’d come up with, but he knew he would be better of admitting it while he still could. Before it was too late.

He shook his head, and sighed, looking at his brother, whose anger began to melt into genuine worry. “I don’t know, Septimus. I don’t know.”

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 4 years

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Aniplex Fugou Keiji Livestream | Fugou Keiji 2 | Kitsutsuki 2 - 4 | Arte 3 - 12 (FINAL) | Fruits Basket 27 - 32

During the Millionaire Detective: Unmissable livestream (part of FunimationCon and Aniplex Online Fest), I watched and took notes, so you might find these handy upon retrospect. To be honest, this is how I do the posts for magicalgirlsandcerulean’s livestreams as well, but there hasn’t been one of those in a while...

Otherwise, these are all normal notes.

Aniplex Fugou Keiji Livestream

Look out for the dancer from the OP

Onuki was the model for the dancing for the anime – he was told to do it out of the blue

Episode 11 might have one of these^ be relevant

Daisuke’s cup ramen has shark fin in it and he made the packaging from scratch – that’s why it’s so expensive!

The director Tomohiko Ito omits important information, allowing people to decide for themselves what happened. (Miyano) – This might be why the series is stylish. (MC)

Attractiveness of character design is important! (for adapting Fugou Keiji to modern day)

I’ve never watched a livestream where the stars were so conscious of their English and Chinese audiences! This was interesting, especially because Onuki is not normally known as a VA!

“We still have a little bit of recording to do.”

Fugou Keiji 2

I keep misunderstanding my own instructions…this starts again in July after ep 2.

Todai = Tokyo Daigaku (Uni).

I believe this is the 2nd time I’ve seen a rich person like commoner’s instant noodles, although I forget where I saw the 1stinstance.

Kambe switched to the back seat now, huh?

Ah! Now I remember! The first time was seeing spoilers for this episode on Twitter! (LOL)

I see Suzue has a sensible naming scheme for her data.

Hmm…judging by the Google hits, the name visible in the background (Betbeto bin Abura) is the Arabic prince from last time.

SYN-ACK. I see these guys did their work – that’s the final stage of the 3 stage handshake required for things like internet sockets (used to send “packets” of data).

Way to crash a party, Kambe siblings…(LOL)

I really wanna see someone draw Kato slapping (Daisuke) Kambe in the face with a wad of cash…or a “shut up and take my money” meme with Kambe in it.

I like how “special cup ramen” is on the purchases list and it costs 100000 yen. I also like how the reporter Mita was bought out for 5000000 yen (bigger than all the other individual costs except for buying out the Tower)…that’s how he showed up.

Kitsutsuki 2

I gotta finish this show and then pause it…3 shows in my normal lineup are safe.

Did Kindaichi take the bones of the fish out for Ishikawa…? Like a child would have had done for them?

Why is Ishikawa being referred to as “Hajime”…?

Draw this prostitute like one of your French girls…(LOL?)

Ishikawa clearly dropped those coins into that book earlier.

Way to diss the potential asexuality/celibacy in the house. I mean, it’s the 1800s – early 1900s, so there was less LGBTIQ+ stuff then and certainly the further back you go, the more sexual prowess becomes a sign of masculinity, but still, if the guy doesn’t want to go through with it, don’t force him.

Notice how the borders were pink for Ishikawa’s version and blue for Kindaichi’s.

Notably, Otaki didn’t seem to have that hairpin…but maybe that’s because we saw things from Ishikawa’s perspective.

Ooh…who are these bois? Also, crab.

Kitsutsuki 3

…cat? Now there’s a new perspective. That’s like saying the butler did it.

Yay! Hagiwara is Ume!

Notice Hagiwara’s version has a purple frame, while Yoshii (?) has yellow and another person has dark blue.

I think “consumption” was tuberculosis, once upon a time.

I love how the crowd is fed up with Ishikawa’s bulls***.

Ooh, chuuni Akutagawa…

In a Grove is the Rashomon story.

Tarou Hirai = Rampo Edogawa.

You stalker, future Rampo!

I kinda suspected Otaki when I thought through the possibilities…Ishikawa, Kindaichi, an outsider, Otaki (and as of this ep, Rampo too).

Gaiheikan? Is that Ishikawa and co.’s lodging?

Did they have pencils back in that day?

Kitsutsuki 4

Humouresques.

Kabayaki.

I think it was in Detective Conan that I learnt (one of) the only way(s) a man can get his nails done is by his wife doing it for him, possibly as a prank or to indicate he’s “taken”. Note this was early Detective Conan, so it’s very much a 90s attitude…considering the widespread acceptance of drag queens and the LGBTIQ+ movement these days.

Kozukata.

Lace flower.

Maichou seems to be a hybrid of Asahi Shinbun and Mainichi Shinbun.

[Monkfish/dictionary/going home] - Is this how Ishikawa shows consideration…?

The purple letterrboxing is back but this time with Ishikawa…meaning that’s just an aesthetic thing for all flashbacks after all.

Just from vaguely hearing it (I’ve got the volume on low), the words are nodo tsuki/nodo zuki. “Throat moon/throat wound” works just as well, if not better.

Balsam flower.

Update: Since enough anime fulfilled the special COVID-19 criteria, Kitsutsuki was put on hold after this.

Fruits Basket 2 2 (27)

I’ve read Another, remember?…so I kind of know what happens.

Uo’s got purple nails…that’s surprisingly cute of her.

Aw, Kureno! Another Ume role!

Why is “shisho” (master) not translated…? A weird Tokyopop-era translation quirk?

Aw, Shisho cut his hair…? Bummer.

Who was that? Shigure…?(!) Update: We find out his name later in this ep.

“If you continue to change, I’ll continue to protect you.” – Another quote for the archive.

Great…I feel personally called out by this ep.

Fruits Basket 2 3 (28)

It seems all male designers wear their designs if they have no one else to wear them…at least, that’s what I’ve gathered from Hajime (Runway de Waratte) and Ayame.

I remember Ayame stood in for Yuki’s parents in the manga at one point. This must be it.

(Spoilers for later!) I also remember Mine and Ayame get married at the end…This is the prelude to that.

Dang, Ayame, you moment-ruiner!

Fruits Basket 2 4 (29)

Did anyone in the doorway hear about Hatsuharu turning into an ox?

To quote Sailor Mercury, “Douse yourself in water and repent!”

Ooh, window splitting Yuki and Haru. Nice cinematography going on here.

I bet all people think they only think about themselves, in one way or another.

Arashiyama tofu.

Yatsuhashi are great. They’re these sweet triangle things like samosas that come in various flavours. Mitarashi dango are sticky brown skewered balls of glutinous rice…which I’ve never had, but I’ve seen them in enough anime to know what they are.

I only just realised this, but Yuki’s hairstyle isn’t even on both sides, like Atsushi from BSD’s.

Huh…you can see a copy of Mogeta and Ari (as it turns out, “Ari” is the name of a character and not “ant” at all in this case) on Haru’s bed. There’s also an article in one of the magazines discussing how denim is the popular thing now and which types are in right now.

Fruits Basket 2 5 (30)

I realised Yuki isn’t calling Tohru by her first name – he’s going against Haru’s advice.

Hmm? Why should anyone ask a rabbit to hold their horses…? (LOL)

CGI cars…*sigh*

Tororo is grated yam, IIRC.

I learnt recently that nanban means “savage” or “uncivilised”…for a potato and chicken dish, the name and the contents don’t really match…Update: Nanban means “savage” (noun) or “barbarian”. Close enough.

17-26…age gap 9 years…yikes…

The words “(a happy, yet) caged bird” come to mind when Kureno describes himself. Also, Kureno is an Ume role! Yippee!

Ahh…young love…even if it has a bit of an awkward edge to it. Mind the (age) gap!

Me being the Ume stan, of course I want to hear those sweet nothings in his voice, even if it has to be via a proxy like Uotani…I wouldn’t be an Ume stan if I didn’t.

…Ah, I see. Uotani reminds me of Minare from Wave and vice versa.

Oh, I just remembered Akito is 20 or thereabouts. Kureno/Akito is only a bit more legal than Uotani and Kureno.

Arte 3

Notice Leo never once uses Arte’s name in the lady’s presence. Her name does have some infamy to it, after all.

“She’s got some guts.” – You say that at a live dissection…LOL.

Is this love~? What’s the age gap between Leo and Arte, anyway? Update: We know for sure Arte is older than 13…that’s it.

Make the things you want prominent with perspective and such. I thought that much was obvious, but for someone straightforward like Arte, I guess it ain’t so. (Maybe it’s because I’m self-taught to some degree when it comes to art.)

*sketching by candlelight* - You’re gonna ruin your eyes, Arte!

Arte, ma girl! You’re getting’ a raise! Good job!

Arte 4

Anime makes this courtesan stuff sound like a host club…(?)

I thought Leo was saying “Aria” for a second instead of Arte, LOL. I’m getting too used to that being my alias…

Arte 5

The speech bubble said “so annoying I could die”.

Arte 6

The video’s gone all pixelated…at least, the subs have…

I bet she’s going to fall over…Update: Nup, she didn’t.

Arte 7

I thought Yuri was a Russian name…or a Japanese one.

This is basically Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine all over again! (LOL)

I thought Yuri would be pushy…like, “Here’s an offer you can’t refuse.” That kind of thing. Likewise, I didn’t think Arte would refuse.

Leo? *dun-dun-DUN!*

Siena is apparently in Tuscany. Also, I did see the Silent Manga Audition page had a chapter on a pregnant woman, so this is ch. 17 or thereabouts.

Is Ruthanna not getting the money because she’s pregnant…?

Epidemic? The Black Death?...Speaking of which, Arte is very much of that ganbaru spirit. By being progressive for her time, she becomes ordinary in our time.

Ohhhhhhh! It’s a reverse harem in progress here!...This would be a good otome game, come to think of it. It’s framed the same way.

Leo can be surprisingly childish at times, don’t you think?

Arte 8

…Really? She fell overboard? *raises eyebrow*

Ooh, china (with and without capitalisation).

Is this another sarcastic child…? Oh, bother. Still, I can see why Hamefura crossed over with Arte now…Katarina vs. Catarina!

Arte 9

Bigoli is a type of pasta, as can be guessed from context.

The kanji for the episode title literally translate to “bad child”! Like the Tones and I song, LOL!

Mikata (ally).

Arte 10

This episode is giving off a Katarina x Gimo ship vibe…but with how young they are, I’m not sure I should ship it. They’re 6, aren’t they…?

Oh, you can see Katarina and Sofia’s hug in one of the ED frames.

Arte 11

Arte’s let her hair grow out…

An Italian man…bowed. In Renaissance Italy. Now I understand what all the ANN complaints are for.

What’s up with that kid’s face…? *grumbles*

Leo’s just being Leo, I see.

That’s right, Angelo and Leo never met.

Instead of a father or a brother overly cherishing his daughter, it’s the uncle…I never thought I’d see the day I saw something like that.

Arte 12 (FINAL)

Is this like Orientalism, but with gender…? (What would you call that?)

Lemme guess…Leo is working on the church mural and so he’s away?

Was that Leo, in the middle of the mural somewhere…?

Another Japanese bow in this anime, which is set in Italy.

But where is Arte herself in that mural?

Fine = end.

Fruits Basket 31

The word Momiji is using is “hisso” or something like that. Hissho is secretary, so the translator made it “secret getaway” to make it work.

That hat! *laser stare*

*one of the textbooks has “high school chemistry” on it* Tohru can do chemistry?! I suck at chemistry!

The episode title is translated as “Are you really this stupid?” It seems the real line for that was “Are you an idiot?”

Something about high school girls appeared in my head when Haru mentioned Shigure wanting to see Tohru in her tight swimsuit…*mumbles grumpily about pervs*

Kyo’s not wet, even though he got in the water! Amazing!

I think it’s sad that Tohru responds to “stupid girl” like it’s her own name.

“…that makes you suspect me?” seems better.

The Akito and Shigure age gap is somewhere between 6 and 8 years, IIRC.

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Tohru switched from okaasan (mother) to okattekita (a formal past tense verb meaning either “bought”, “lent” or “won” based on the characters…which I don’t have a reference for). I assume because it was so off the mark, the subbers chose a similarly off the mark word.

“When I was a kid, I thought watermelons would sprout in my stomach if I ate the seeds.”

We only know about Kyo’s dad so far…hmm…what about the mother? Update: (TW: suicide) I think it was at this point we already knew that Kyo’s mother didn’t love him and committed suicide, but it’s not certain until later.

Why do doctors always use scalpels and syringes as weapons…? I mean, even Jakurai’s symbol in ARB is a syringe!

I’ve been wondering…how big is the Sohma family? Is it diluted enough that Haru and Rin can love each other without genetic problems for their child/ren? (From Another, I would say the answer is “yes”, but shoujo normally doesn’t care about this sort of thing, which is why I ask in the first place.)

Shigure seems like the type to say, “U mad, bro?”

The mansion looks like the one in Haruhi Suzumiya, if I remember the appearance of that one correctly.

#simulcast commentary #fugou keiji: balance:unlimited #Millionaire Detective: Balance: Unlimited #Fruits Basket #arte #Kitsutsuki Tantei Dokoro #Woodpecker Detective's Office #Chesarka watches Arte #Chesarka watches Fugou Keiji #Chesarka watches Furuba

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plattenaufleger-perigo · 4 years

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New Reehl finally out on Privat Persons Records

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adlhomestudy · 6 years

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The Decline Of The Angel Shark In Europe

The angel shark (Squatina squatina) is a flattened kind of shark which looks a bit like a sting ray. It usually grows to about 1.8 m long (about as long as a human is tall) and it lives in sandy and muddy areas. It specialises in ambushing fish at night while buried on the seafloor (Ellis, Pawson and Shackley, 1996; ICES Advisory Committee, 2017). It’s also one of the most severely endangered species in the UK right now, although you aren’t likely to know much about it. From Common To Critically Endangered

The angel shark is now critically endangered, which means it is in the category of species with the highest likelihood of becoming extinct in the wild soon. It’s actually already locally extinct in the North Sea (Ferretti et al., 2015). That’s quite a shock, because it used to be common from Scandinavia to north-west Africa (Rogers and Ellis, 2000; Ferretti et al., 2015; Raye, 2018). In the eighteenth century Thomas Pennant of Britain (1776, p. 86) said it was ‘a fish not unfrequent on most of our coasts’. Back when it was common, the angel shark was eaten and its skin was used in manufacturing. The fish was well liked enough to get local nicknames like ‘kingstone’ (first attributed in Merrett (1666, p. 186). One of its nicknames ‘monkfish’ was actually transferred to another species (the anglerfish, Lophius piscatorius). This generally happens when people carry on talking about a species after it becomes rare, and the listeners end up converting the name to a new species (like how people today call herons ‘cranes’ (Yalden and Albarella, 2009)), so we know that the angel shark has been an important fish for a long time. But just like with the barn owl and the wryneck, it wasn’t direct human exploitation which led to the decline of the angel shark. There is no market for the angel shark anymore, and no-one means to catch it. The angel shark is going extinct because of industrial fishing methods. In the 1890s, humans started using steam-based trawler ships, which pulled a net along the seafloor to catch as many fish as possible (this is still the most profitable method of fishing used today). This method of fishing results in angel sharks being frequently accidentally caught, and has led to some serious changes to species presence and local abundance around Britain (Rogers and Ellis, 2000; Ferretti et al., 2015). Angel sharks also can’t repopulate areas very quickly because they stay in a similar area through most of their lives, except possibly when they breed, and they have comparatively small numbers of offspring (ICES Advisory Committee, 2017). At present they are commonly found only in the Canary Islands. Is There Any Hope For The Angel Shark?

However, there are some hopeful signs that the angel shark might be able to recover from its current situation. Regulations on the fishing industry in Europe have meant that angel sharks are discarded back into the sea when they are accidentally caught, and angel sharks have a high survival rate when going through this process (ICES Advisory Committee, 2017). The Angel Shark Project has been seeking out and analysing records of angel sharks in the Canary Islands, and this raises the possibility of restricting fishing in sensitive areas during the breeding and pupping seasons (Meyers et al., 2017). There is also a growing number of sightings being made in Wales and last month Zoological Society of London and Natural Resources Wales launched the Angel Shark Project: Wales, to educate anglers about how to safely handle and survey angel sharks, and to seek out records and stories of angel sharks from those who have seen them. List of References

Ellis, J. R., Pawson, M. G. and Shackley, S. E. (1996) ‘The comparative feeding ecology of six species of shark and four species of ray (Elasmobranchii) in the north-east Atlantic’, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press, 76(1), pp. 89–106.

Ferretti, F. et al. (2015) Squatina squatina, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-1.RLTS.T39332A48933059.en (Accessed: 28 August 2018).

ICES Advisory Committee (2017) Report of the Working Group on Elasmobranchs (ICES WGEF REPORT 2017). Lisbon.

Merrett, C. (1666) Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum. London: T. Warren. Meyers, E. K. M. et al. (2017) ‘Population structure, distribution and habitat use of the Critically Endangered Angelshark, Squatina squatina, in the Canary Islands’, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Wiley Online Library, 27(6), pp. 1133–1144.

Pennant, T. (1776) British Zoology, vol. 3: Reptiles & Fish. London: Warrington.

Raye, L. (2018) ‘Robert Sibbald’s Scotia Illustrata (1684): A faunal baseline for Britain’, Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science, 72(3).

Rogers, S. I. and Ellis, J. R. (2000) ‘Changes in the demersal fish assemblages of British coastal waters during the 20th century’, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57(4), pp. 866–881.

Yalden, D. W. and Albarella, U. (2009) The history of British birds. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

#angel shark #shark #enviromental #conservation #endangered #study online #online learning #ADLCourses

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thelanternwielder · 7 years

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Too Late - Part Eight

Author’s Note:

Although this chapter isn’t too lengthy, you might notice the “keep reading” link below. I have gone back and put the link on all of the chapters because, originally, I was ignorant of the ediquette of posting fanfiction on Tumblr. Forgive me; it is my first attempt at this sort of thing!

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The Start: >Here<

EDIT 2018/07/05: Part Nine is >Here< finally!

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It was morning time. The cafeteria was quietly buzzing with the chattering of S.T.O.R.M. personnel while they grabbed their breakfasts and took them to their tables on trays.

X-Ray had collected his meal and was lethargically walking towards the cluster of tables at which his teammates sat.

He reached them. His friends turned to greet him.

Bravo said with a smile, “Hey –“ it was dropped in shock, “Whoa…you look wiped out, dude.”

The others were just as surprised.

X-Ray regarded them with incredibly tired eyes that he battled to keep open. He was losing. He wandered over to the seat next to Alpha and placed his tray on the table. He clumsily slumped onto the chair.

Alpha frowned at the bespectacled boy, “What happened to you?”

He weakly replied, “Couldn’t sleep.”

Tango remarked, “What? Too much screen time again?”

“No,” the boy explained with groans, “Nightmare. Woke me up.”

He slid his fingers under his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

Kilo had a mouthful of toast as he spoke, “That must’ve been some nightmare to keep you awake.”

X-Ray gazed at his friends as his eyes filled with fear thinking about last night.

Alpha nudged the boy with his elbow and reassured, “Hey, it’s only a bad dream.”

“But it felt so real.”

X-Ray saw his comrades’ faces of concern. It prompted him to describe the dream.

“I was strapped down on my back. Couldn’t move. There were these…glowing figures. They were green and made out of slime. One of them approached me and grabbed my head. The slime creeped across my face and into my mouth and nose. I couldn’t breathe. I thought I was going to die. The last thing I remember was the grin that monster had while I struggled.”

He shuddered, “Brrrr!”

The feeling of second-hand horror had spread around the table and leached into the children as they listened to X-Ray’s recount.

Tango’s eyes flickered to the side. Those creatures sounded familiar.

“That is so eerie,” she commented, leaning towards X-Ray, “I’ve seen those monsters in one of my dreams that I had last week.”

“Really?” Bravo’s eyebrows were raised.

Kilo crunched on his toast quizzically, bending his ears to the girl.

“Yes,” she said, “Although, I was able to fight them off with my Monsuno. I ended up flying away. They couldn’t catch me.”

Alpha’s eyes sparked with realisation.

“I’ve seen them too,” he smugly smirked, “but they weren’t able to touch me. I was wearing impenetrable steel. I was slicing through them with my sword.”

The girl of the group snarked, “Let me guess: you were a knight.”

“Yeah,” Alpha was serious.

Bravo pretended to cough to disguise his mocking words, “Knight kink.”

“What? Hey!” Alpha slammed his hands on the table as he shot up.

Kilo began to snicker, trying his hardest not to choke as he swallowed.

Bravo held his open hands to the standing boy, slouching back, “What’s wrong, Red? I just coughed.”

Tango was infected by the giggles. It would have claimed X-Ray as another victim, but he was too exhausted to pick up what Bravo had said.

The ginger boy glared at them, “Unlike you knuckleheads, I have an appreciation for a time when people were bold, daring and proudly fought with honour! And none of this tech that we use existed either, so you were relying on your strength and fortitude to win.”

The group’s laughter had calmed as he sat down again. The commotion had caught the attention of another person as he was collecting his breakfast: Chase. The boy in blue began to dawdle past Strike Squad’s seats, eavesdropping.

Kilo gestured to Tango, Alpha and X-Ray with his piece of toast, “So, y’all have seen these weird slime monsters in your dreams?” Chase’s ears pricked, “The same slime monsters?”

Tango shrugged, “Looks like it.”

Chase approached one end of the tables. Strike Squad noticed.

The boy was polite, “Hey guys. I was going to sit with the rest of the team,” he pointed behind himself with his thumb, “You wanna join us today?”

Strike Squad were somewhat suspicious. The two groups never really sat together. They were also still fierce rivals, despite working on the same side.

Chase tried to persuade them into the truce, “C’mon. A change is as good as a holiday, am I right? Eh? Eh?”

“Alright, I’ll bite,” Alpha said, standing up with his tray, “but just this once, Suno.”

“That’s the spirit, Alpha,” Chase smiled, “Any more takers?”

The rest of Strike Squad glanced at each other. They relaxed their scepticism.

“Only for one day. Can’t hurt,” Kilo mentioned as he got up.

The rest followed him, picking their trays up. X-Ray was a sloth in comparison to his friends, lagging behind them.

The boy in blue beamed as he led Strike Squad to Team Core-Tech’s table cluster.

At one of them, Bren saw Chase approaching. He then spotted Strike Squad. The boy with glasses had an expression that was a cross between bemusement and amusement.

“Uh, hi Chase,” he greeted.

Chase sat next to him, grinning back. Alpha sat opposite Chase, next to Jinja.

Jinja regarded the red-headed boy carefully.

“Deciding to sit with us today, huh?”

He looked back with a half-smile, nodding slightly, “Yeah.”

Dax and Beyal paused from their eating and glanced down the tables. Strike Squad had definitely joined them for breakfast. They were not imagining anything.

Dax waved mutedly at the people at the other end, mouth still full of cereal. Bravo waved back.

Before commencing his meal, like the others had already done with a clatter, Chase turned to the boy with the buzzcut, “Hey Kilo. There was something that you said that caught my attention, something about seeing green glowing slime monsters.”

The S.T.O.R.M. specialist was about to take another bite of his toast before he was addressed.

He answered, “Er, yeah. I did. Some of us have been seeing them in our dreams.”

Bravo added, nudging the tired boy in between he and Alpha, “Little dude over here had a nightmare about them.”

X-Ray grunted in confirmation, chewing slowly.

Tango asked, “Why are you interested, you snoop?”

Chase glanced at his team before replying. Both Jinja and Beyal were in reflective states.

“I’m only curious because I’ve seen them in a couple of my dreams recently.”

He took his first bite.

Beyal spoke up with a revelation, “So have I.”

Jinja was the same, “Me too.”

“Whoa…” Bren’s words were trailing off with unease, “That’s so spooky…”

Jinja turned to Strike Squad, “Were they attacking you in your dreams? They were in mine.”

“Attacking?” X-Ray whimpered, “They were trying to kill me!”

Chase gave a troubled look to the boy.

He hesitantly replied, “They were trying to murder me too. They seemed to really despise me, but I was able to retaliate in my dreams.”

“Same,” Tango was beginning to see the similarities.

Alpha nodded, “Yeah, ditto.”

Dax looked at Beyal, “What about you, Monkfish?”

“They tried but they could not land a sludge-coated hand on me.”

Dax turned his gaze to the rest of the group.

“And it’s just been you three,” he gestured to Alpha, Tango and X-Ray, “over there that have had these dreams.”

Kilo responded, “Bravo and I haven’t had those dreams.”

The blond boy shook his head.

Chase added, “And it’s Jinja, Beyal and I who have seen these ghouls too.”

“This can’t just be a coincidence,” Tango stated.

“My thought exactly,” Jinja concurred.

Dax glanced at Beyal again. The monk was pondering deeply.

“Monkfish?”

Beyal blinked out of his brief trance.

“I have realised something,” he said in his neutral tone, “It did not feel like a normal dream whenever those creatures appeared. They felt like visions.”

Everyone stopped eating upon hearing the last sentence. The clanks of cutlery on trays served as a sort of record scratch. There was an astounded silence at the tables.

Bravo was the one to break it, turning to the opposite end at where the monk sat, “Visions.”

“Yes, and every time those otherworldly beings appeared I have also seen the symbol of an X with a line through it.”

Bren’s eyes widened, struck with recognition, “Hey, I remember seeing that symbol at those ice caves.”

X-Ray gulped.

The monk continued, “I do too, before I was kidnapped.”

Alpha added, “And I remember seeing the symbol in my dream. It was on the armour of a knight that I was versing, except it was actually one of the monsters inside it.”

Chase gave the red-headed boy a mystified look before turning to Beyal.

He pointed out, “Isn’t that symbol the one you saw in your vision when you were captured?”

“Yes,” Beyal’s eyes grew as he began to slot the pieces of the surreal puzzle together.

He regarded his peers, “The eight glowing figures…I think I know who they are.”

Team Core-Tech were more familiar with the monk’s vision than Strike Squad, but everyone had a rough idea of what he spoke of.

“Who?” prompted Chase.

“The blue ones are you, me and Jinja. The yellow ones are Alpha, X-Ray and Tango.”

The monk hesitated. Alpha’s eyes narrowed.

“I thought you said eight. That’s only six.”

“The other two, the red ones, I am unsure,” Beyal’s voice was full of uncertainty, “but I believe they were meant to be Dom Pyro and Hargrave.”

The others, who were following the monk’s train of thought, had become derailed by his perplexing remark.

Bren’s eyebrow was cocked, “Uh, what brought you to that conclusion?”

The monk elaborated, “Those dreams that we have had were, in fact, visions.”

Chase stated with scepticism towards his friend, “But I thought you could only get visions if you had the Monsuno voice.”

Amazement began to swell among some of the group at the implication of the boys’ words.

Bren dampened the swell, “Hey, I was able to have a vision…once…and I haven’t been visited by these monsters.”

Chase recalled that moment, “B, you were holding my head while I was meditating. I projected that vision onto you.”

“Yeah,” the spectacled boy crossed his arms stubbornly, “but it still was a vision.”

Kilo had a look of envy flash upon his face.

Dax turned to Beyal, pointing his spoon at him, “Didn’t you do that to Mr Deranged and the Creepy Butler when you were tied up?”

“They did see my vision,” the monk responded, “and were able to do so without touching me.”

Dax’s spoon drooped as his eyes popped.

“That’s not possible,” he declared.

“Not unless they have the Monsuno voice.”

The boy with dreads banged his hands on the table, “You’re bleazing kidding me!”

Beyal reservedly replied, “I am neither bleazing nor kidding.”

Dax had an immense feeling of injustice towards the truth. The others were still attempting to digest all of the new information on top of their meals.

“So, we have this psychic power,” Alpha had a wily grin stretch across his cheeks, “and we didn’t even know it.”

“So do our enemies, apparently,” Chase observed, “And those slime monsters that keep appearing,” he glanced at Bren and Beyal, “are connected, not only to all of us, but to the mountains.”

X-Ray hunched his shoulders, “I don’t wanna go back there.”

Tango commented, “Something tells me that’s where we’ll end up.”

The two unified teams continued their breakfasts, clanking and crunching, reflecting on their discussion and what it could entail for the future.

However, Beyal still had a question left about his enigmatic vision: who was the ninth figure that burst through the floor meant to be? Its crimson colour suggested that it was someone who was associated with Eklipse. But there couldn’t possibly be another member of that team that possessed the Monsuno voice, he reasoned.

The monk mulled it over, munching away.

Meanwhile, in the Eklipse Resistance ship, another mystery was unfolding: The Curious Caper of the Missing Madman. Nobody had seen Dom Pyro get up that morning. He had vanished, it seemed.

Hargrave was the self-appointed detective on the case, determined to solve it as quickly as possible. He was heading straight towards the control room to review the security footage of the last twenty-four hours.

He marched down the hallway that led to the room and abruptly halted when he entered.

Before the butler was Dom Pyro, still in his pyjamas, sleeping awkwardly with his head on one of the chairs in the middle of the room. The rest of the slumbering man was draped along the ground.

Hargrave wandered up to behind the chair, regarded the man for a second and placed his hands on it.

Taking a step back, the butler yanked the chair from underneath the man’s head.

Bang!

The man awoke with a jolt from smacking his head on the floor. The butler contently pushed the chair to the side. He stood in front of the man with his hands behind his back, watching.

Dom blinked, powering up. He lifted himself drowsily to his hands and knees. His eyes met dress shoes. He followed the figure upwards.

“Oh, hello Clockwork Man,” he was dazed, “What are you doing in my bedroom?”

The butler corrected him, “You’re in the control room, Dom.”

“Hm?” the man sat up, gazing around.

He looked back at the butler, “How did I get here?” he clutched his head, “And why does my head hurt?”

“I was sincerely hoping you would be able to tell me but clearly not,” the butler raised an eyebrow, “Perhaps you were sleep-walking and fell, which would explain the sore head.”

Dom shook his head, “But I don’t sleep-walk.”

“How peculiar.”

The butler went to the console and switched the computer on.

The man in pyjamas got up, “I thought I went to bed after what happened last night.”

The butler’s fingers began to rattle the keyboard as he accessed the security footage.

He queried, “Was there some sort of incident?”

“You didn’t hear the squelching sounds?”

He turned to the pyjama-clad man with a furrowed brow, “No.”

Dom pointed to himself with his hand, “Well, I heard this squelching, along with growling, outside my door. It was keeping me up,” he folded his digits into a tight fist as his eyes widened with excitement, “So, I decided to get up and track it down, whatever it was.”

The butler faced the massive screen again, “Why am I not surprised?”

He summoned the footage of the area in front of the bedrooms during last night. He began to speed through it, searching for any movements. The cameras had a night-vision setting so darkness wasn’t an issue.

He paused it when Dom suddenly popped out of his room.

“There I am!” the man recognised himself, “I told you that I got up.”

The butler scrutinised the man in the footage. He noticed something baffling about him.

“Your eyes are closed.”

“Huh?!” Dom’s jaw dropped, “But I was awake! I swear!”

“Our cameras do not lie; those eyes are shut tight.”

Dom was quite bewildered. He was certain of what was real before seeing the contrary on screen.

The footage was played at normal speed. The man in the video was striding down the hallway, as if his eyes were open.

Dom began to narrate, noticing that his movements mirrored what he had experienced when he believed he was awake, “After poking my head out of my room, I spotted this light at one of the ends of the corridor. I approached it. That was where the sounds were coming from.”

As the man in the footage drew near the corner of the hallway, he began to sneak.

But there was no light. In fact, he crept towards nothing.

The butler asked, watching the footage with disbelief, “What colour was the light?”

“Green.”

The butler’s pulse seemed to hasten at that moment. The man in the video suddenly froze and regarded the emptiness with what appeared to be fright.

Dom commented, “I discovered this slimy monster slinking in the hallway.”

The man in the footage began to back away, “It was snarling at me, reaching towards me with its sticky tentacles. It was staring at me with all those eyes. So many eyes!”

The man bolted away, down the corridor and around the corner. Hargrave rapidly threw onto the screen the footage of the camera that would have seen the man. He began to track the man in this manner.

The butler was trying to make sense of the madness, “So, you found this…slime monster and it proceeded to chase you.”

“Yes,” Dom crossed his arms, “I was meant to be the one hunting it, not the other way around!”

The man abruptly skidded to a stop at a corner and tried to go the other way. He was impeded by some invisible force. He glanced at both ends.

Dom said, “At this point, there were these two humanoid figures in front of me, coming towards me. Behind me were three more.”

“There were five of them?” the butler was now horrified, recognising the type of monsters the madman described.

Dom smirked, “Silly slime people! They thought they could trap me,” he chuckled, “Oh, how wrong they were!”

The man in the footage suddenly charged towards the corner, seemingly dodging the obstacles that stood in front of him. He banged against the wall with his back before slipping away.

The man was running so fast that Hargrave had some trouble keeping up with him. He gave up trying to make the footage flow seamlessly.

“For someone who is meant to be asleep, you are awfully rapid!”

The madman chortled again.

Eventually, the camera for the control room was reached. The shut-eyed man slid into the room, head twitching about as if his eyes were seeking something.

Dom’s smile disappeared, “This time, they really did corner me. I could hear them, shouting, calling out to me.”

The butler wondered if the monster with the red streaks under its eyes was one of the beings that pursued the madman.

In the video, the man approached one of the chairs and picked it up. He held it in a weaponised way. He then flattened himself against the wall next to the entryway.

The butler’s eyes narrowed. Another stupid smile appeared on the madman’s face, knowing fully what was about to happen.

The man in the footage, all of a sudden, began to wave the chair violently at his invisible foes. He swung with such force that the swishing that it generated could be picked up by the camera’s microphone. It would have been enough to permanently knock out someone.

“Oh, my giddy aunt!” the butler exclaimed, “What are you doing?”

“Defending myself,” the madman’s teeth gleamed.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Eventually, the man in the video put the chair down.

Dom explained, “Those slime monsters ran away,” he hid his teeth, “but I chased after them with the chair.”

The man began to sway while facing the front of the chair. He collapsed forwards, chair sliding as his head landed on it. The footage then paused.

Dom frowned, “I tried to catch the monsters, but they were too slippery and escaped. Then I went to bed afterwards. Why didn’t I act that out?”

He looked at the butler who was in a state of contemplation as he cupped his chin with a finger and a thumb.

“Clockwork Man?” he tilted his head to the side.

The butler faced him, “Those monsters that you speak of are the same ones that appeared in my last vision,” he gestured to him, “an elaborate dream. However, there were only three in mine.”

Dom glanced at the screen, “A vision. I was enacting a vision,” he began to lean on the terminal, body more angled towards the butler, “So, you reckon that I should’ve only seen three of those things.”

The butler suggested, “Maybe your vision is to inform us that there are actually five of those hideous creatures out there. I hope not,” he sighed, “but visions normally come true, don’t they?”

“Normally.”

The butler turned back to the computer and closed the application for accessing the ship’s security footage.

He briefly regarded Dom from head to toe and remarked, “I recommend that you get dressed. You don’t want to keep the Doctor waiting, do you?”

“No,” the madman began to wander towards the doorway, “I hope we do something today. That dream has put me in the mood for a hunt.”

The butler soon followed suit and departed from the control room, now satisfied that he had closed the case on the morning’s mystery.

As for Dom’s wish, it was never granted. For the entire day, everyone was stuck inside the metal ship recuperating from the last expedition to the ice caves.

Evening fell on the frigid mountains and nothing eventful had happened.

In the steely halls of the Eklipse Resistance ship, Charlemagne had wandered up to one of the bedroom doors and opened it. The light from the hallway silhouetted her figure in the room.

She entered and scanned the bedroom. Large, dark, unoccupied.

She spied the wardrobe. She approached it and slid the door open. Her hand brushed against the garments as she attempted to identify each one.

She snatched one from its coat hanger: a thick dark jacket with a hood.

She turned to the light to see if she had plucked the right one. It was black with red trimmings.

She smiled, electrified with spite. Alternating hands that held the jacket, she slipped her arms into the sleeves of her long white coat. She then draped the jacket over her shoulders while exiting the bedroom.

She reached to the side to pick up a black forked gun that was propped against the wall. It was the same one that she stole from the incapacitated S.T.O.R.M. soldier when she escaped the flying fortress. It still had a few shots left.

She closed the door and trotted down the corridors, keeping an eye out for anyone else. Vengeful electricity was building up deep inside her, like dark menacing clouds on an overcast day.

In her mind, she had escaped one prison just to end up in another. She wanted true freedom, not to be transferred from cage to cage.

She was soon to discharge herself from the ship, to bust out of there. And there was nothing anyone could do to stop her treacherous storm.

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Episode 134 : Keeping Our Heads Up

"If you not at the table, then you on the menu."

- Jahi

This is not the summer we thought we were getting, but I'm going to at least partially overlook that and put some tracks in the mix that are perfect rolling music...even if we're only going to pick up essentials at the supermarket! There's some old(ish), some brand new, and plenty in-between. Oh yes - if your system has the bass turned up, turn it back down, or the third track up is going to destroy it...

The sad news came in after the music was already recorded, but Rest In Power to Malik B, best known for his work as a founding member of The Roots.

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Playlist/Notes

Mistah F.A.B ft. Bun B, Slim Thug, Paul Wall, & Z-Ro : Commin' Down

From Oakland to Houston! The Bay Area veteran reaches down south for this driving anthem from "Son Of A Pimp, Part 2", and the respect is returned in spades. For me, Z-Ro steals the show right out of the gate on that first verse, with his trademark combination of humourous imagery, vocal range, and casual misanthropy! I expected the production to have come from a southern beatsmith too, but S.E. Trill is from Wichita in Kansas, firmly in the midwest.

Sitting Duck, otaam : Nights At The Beach

Bandcamp must have been reading my mind when it put "Chillhop Essentials Summer 2020" in my face, so I put a few quid in figuring that I'd like at least a few of the 25 tracks. That was definitely true, and this was one, produced by a duo that I've not yet found much info about...but I'll keep looking!

Le$ : Duckin'

Big tune out of Houston, with some of the most ridiculous bass I've heard in a while! Mr Rogers rolls together a classic R&B sample and as much low-end as he could find into a heavy backing for Le$ to work with. Not exactly a romantic anthem, but he does it well! The "Summer Madness" LP is well worth having a good listen to, it's almost like the more down-to-earth version of Curren$y's lifestyle content.

Beyonce ft. Jack White : Don't Hurt Yourself

Until trying to mix this, it wasn't obvious to me that the tempo wanders a little bit! It's low-speed but has sections highlighted by stripped-down double-time drums, followed by those heavy rocked-out segments - not the kind of sound many would associate with Beyonce, but she's always been versatile. The "Lemonade" LP is a great demonstration, with stuff ranging from this to straight R&B, to country! This is a great track with her clearly not here for the nonsense, taking her vocals to a really raw place.

Run The Jewels ft. Danny Brown : Hey Kids (Bumaye)

If you're looking for rappers to be jumping out there defending Elon Musk and the likes, you'd better look elsewhere! Killer Mike goes at the billionaire class in the first verse, and every MC keeps the intensity level up regardless of the specifics of their content. El-P on the beat, of course, on this selection from "Run The Jewels 3".

Mega Ran ft. Richie Branson & Storyville : O.P.

Mega Ran's career continues to grow, which is a testament to his skills and a karmic reward for how nice he is to everyone! That said, this track from 2015's "RNDM" has him and his crew going at the haters in fine style. His second verse is definitely the best of the three, and features one of the best breaks of the fourth wall I can remember in I don't know how long! Ran's longtime musical partner Lost Perception contributes the banging video game-inspired beat with crazy low end.

Agallah : Power Boats

Kind of grimy, despite the title making you think of open waters! Brooklyn's own Agallah produces the vast majority of the stuff you hear him rapping on (with good reason), and this particular beat is on "Propain Campaign Presents Agallah - The Instrumentals Vol.1".

OutKast ft. Cool Breeze and Big Gipp : Decatur Psalm

Taking it to what is still my favourite OutKast LP, "ATLiens", with the only track not to include Andre. Bracketing Big Boi's verse are two other members of the Dungeon Family, telling tales of the streets of the ATL. Organized Noize on production, of course.

State Property : It's Not Right

It's been a long time since the breakout days of Just Blaze and Kanye at Roc-A-Fella, and this track definitely brings back memories of that era. Just Blaze did a great job conjuring up the right level of melancholy for this track from the self-titled LP/soundtrack from this Philadelphia-centred crew. On the mic are Freeway, Young Chris, and Sparks, with Beanie Sigel bringing it home.

Meyhem Lauren & Harry Fraud ft. $bags : Brunch At The Breakers

The 2018 "Glass" EP had some great tracks on it, but left me wanting to hear more - clearly, they were holding out on us a little, because the recent "Glass 2.0" is built from tracks that didn't make the initial release! It was a tough choice between this and "Steamed Monkfish (Remix)" to see what made it onto the episode, but the gliding sample and overall feel of the beat ended up being the decider. I won't give away the sample, but as familiar as it seemed on listening here...I don't think I've ever heard the record before.

Above The Law : My World

The 1996 "Time Will Reveal" album was the fourth straight gem from Above The Law, and this track is one of my favourites. The late KMG takes the first verse, and Cold 187um the second, as well as showing out on the production in a major way. The female vocal on the hook is uncredited, but definitely adds onto the flavour. This is a track to roll slow to.

Massive Attack : Weather Storm

This nice instrumental cut from "Protection" is not one often talked about, but it's so good. Taking a great sample, letting it breathe, and working around it just enough is an art and one that this Bristol crew definitely mastered.

Matteo Getz & Termanology : Summer In The City

Massachusetts connection here with the producer and Lo-head Matteo Getz cooking up a beat for Lawrence's Termanology, an MC I feel is often underrated. This is taken from last year's release "The Getz Collection", which I think might have to be a pickup based on this.

Gang Starr ft. Jeru The Damaja : From A Distance

Still can't believe we got another Gang Starr LP last year, and to have Jeru as a guest takes it back to the "Daily Operation" days! Like most tracks on the album, this is fairly short, but both Guru and Jeru get the job done over a signature Preemo beat - check the contrast on alternating bars between the lush strings and the almost white-noise stabs.

Timeless Truth : Wavelength

Nothing but the raw boom-bap on this! Large Professor is responsible for the beat (the very sharp-eared would have picked that up without me even saying anything), while Solace and OPrime39 share mic duties, culminating in splitting the final verse down the middle. "Cold Wave" is an album for those who want the uncut.

Enemy Radio : 2020

If you hadn't heard, Enemy Radio is the stripped-down, sound system version of Public Enemy, with Chuck D joined on the mic by Jahi and long-time PE DJ Lord Aswod on the turntables. Their new LP "Loud Is Not Enough" is out in parallel with material from their original lineup, but allows a different emphasis. This year has often felt like the world is ending, and Chuck D is the #1 MC for that time! Notice how short the actual verses from he and Jahi are on this C-Doc-produced track - they not only paint a picture of the darkness of 2020 but do so with incredible lyrical efficiency.

[Kev Brown] DJ Jazzy Jeff : Da Rebirth (Instrumental)

It's been a long time (almost 100 episodes) since I played the vocal version, so here's the instrumental in case you forgot how ill the beat is :) Fairly early work by Kev Brown, in his days collaborating with the A Touch of Jazz camp - this is on "The Magnificent EP".

KinKai ft. Children of Zeus : Top Down

There hasn't been as much road trip time as we'd like in the COVID reality, but Mancunians are nothing if not appreciative of good weather when it comes! KinKai's new LP "A Few Pennies Worth" is a great release for the season, and this single was a hell of a way to precede it - bringing in Manchester's own Children of Zeus for a summer anthem produced beautifully by Paya.

Please remember to support the artists you like! The purpose of putting the podcast out and providing the full tracklist is to try and give some light, so do use the songs on each episode as a starting point to search out more material. If you have Spotify in your country it's a great way to explore, but otherwise there's always Youtube and the like. Seeing your favourite artists live is the best way to put money in their pockets, and buy the vinyl/CDs/downloads of the stuff you like the most!

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