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#Old is defo an exaggeration
all-things-de-niro · 11 months
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Which child though? We can defo rule out Gia and I doubt it would be Helen or Elliott.
That leaves Drena, Raphael, Julian & Aaron in the suspect pool for this one.
I understand their anger but this is neither a good idea nor is it an example of good optics.
However I still say this case has got as far as it has because Chase is clout chasing and wants to humiliate Bobby D. Bitch should have quit the job years before instead of plotting and waiting for opportunities to gather petty bits of evidence. None of this should have happened and it should have been sorted privately.
I do think that Chase has exaggerated a great deal in a lot of her testimony (and her deposition) just as she used to take on chores bon asked her to do, pass those chores on to other people the. Take the credit for those chores being done.
All 3 of them, Bob, Tiffany and grace are going to come out of this trial with egg on their faces in some way or other.
They all handled this situation badly from the get go. And they are all to blame for the way things have turned out. But I was to god Chase’s incessant whining about her mistreatment and how creepy she found Bob’s requests for back scratches is really getting on my tits.
Bob mi old mucker, for £1000 a week I’ll scratch your back any time you want
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kentolove · 2 years
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omg do u listen to kpop
I do! But not as much as I used to… these days I only listen to the kpop gg hags™ n txt lol
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xiaonesis · 3 years
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Anime Rec: Daiya no Ace
if ya’ll like Haikyuu but never watched Daiya no Ace...you need to go watch it now.
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artificialqueens · 4 years
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Take You to Heaven (And I'll Show You All Around It), 1/2 (Rosenali) - Mattels
summary: rosé is sure the woman who orders coffee under a different name every morning is trying to fuck with her (not, as jan put it, trying to fuck her.)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29601828/chapters/72762987#workskin
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It’s a Monday and Rosé feels like death.
She’s sure she looks it too, if she’s being honest. She woke up early– like five-o’clock-sky-still-dark early– nursing a spectacular hangover and then promptly rolled out of bed to throw up in her and Lagoona’s shared bathroom. She has a killer bruise on her shin from God knows what last night, and her head is still fucking killing her despite the off-brand Advil Crystal had handed her, whilst pretending she wasn’t laughing at her state.
Don’t let Lagoona convince you to go out on a Sunday, she thinks to herself, rubbing her under eyes to find pieces of glitter stubbornly clinging to her skin.
“Are you okay, hun?” Gigi asks her when she arrives at her job in their seemingly perpetually-empty café, arranging delicate cakes in the fluorescently lit pastry case.
Rosé groans slightly in response, lowering her forehead to rest on the cool metal of the cash register.
Gigi laughs, “and remind me again why you decided clubbing on a Sunday was okay…?”
“Fucking ‘Goona.”
She barks another laugh at this, reaching behind her for a pile of croissants Jackie had baked earlier. “Getting old?”
Rosé lifts her head to glare at Gigi, who, of fucking course, looks perfect as ever. Her ginger hair is pulled into a sleek ponytail, bangs neatly straightened into uniformity. Gigi is easily one of the prettiest girls Rosé’s ever seen, even in their decidedly unfashionable company-branded aprons. She only works at the café part-time, spending the rest of it at one of the best fashion schools in the city; her designs are always executed with excruciatingly minute details, Rosé knows she wouldn’t have the patience for.
“We open in ten, girls!” Jaida calls from the back, where she counts inventory with Jackie on her heels, writing everything down neatly in a notebook.
“Geege, are you nearly done?” Crystal, who’s wiping down tables at the front with disinfectant, asks. “Can you help me with chairs?” She asks when Gigi responds with an affirmative.
Gigi wanders around to the front of the shop, planting a chaste kiss on Crystal’s cheek when she passes her to grab the chairs stacked in the back. Rosé mimes stuffing her fingers down her throat with an exaggerated gag to Jan, who’s refilling bottles of flavoured syrup behind the espresso machine.
“Fucking ew,” Jan says rolling her eyes in mock-disgust to Rosé. “You hear that guys?” She says loudly, and Gigi and Crystal both turn to look at her, “your love is fucking disgusting.”
Crystal laughs loudly, tipping her head back so Rosé can see into her mouth. “Okay homophobe, whatever you say.”
Jan rolls her eyes, flipping the pair of girls off, who both laugh lightly. “First of all, Crystal Elizabeth, I’ve slept with more women than you have fingers, so fuck off, thank you very much.”
Crystal coughs loudly, which sounds suspiciously like dry spell, leaning over to Gigi and planting a kiss ending with a resonant smack, snickering when Gigi blows an equally obnoxious kiss in Jan and Rosé’s direction.
“This is a workplace, sluts!” Rosé sighs, “if I have to clean ass prints off those tables one more fucking time, I’m sending HR a very strongly worded email!”
Crystal roars with laughter at a red-faced Gigi, who ducks her head and tries to bury herself into Crystal’s shoulder. “It was one time!” She squeaks.
“And that’s one time too many,” Jan says with a pointed look at Crystal, who gives her a shit-eating grin in return.
Crystal holds her hands up in mock-surrender, “sorry mom.” 
Rosé cracks a smile at Jan’s outraged face, busying herself with filling a plastic cup with tap water to avoid being on the end of Crystal’s razor sharp tongue. Her head throbs as she downs the liquid, filling it up again as she swallows.
She checks the time on her phone, cursing under her breath when she realises they open in two minutes. Already she can see a woman standing outside their glass doors, clearly waiting for Jaida to flip their sign to Open.
“Opening up!” Jaida calls, coming out of their back storage room to open their door. 
Rosé shoots Jan a look that screams help me I’m going to kill myself, to which Jan chuckles, moving over so Gigi can dart behind the bar and work their espresso machine.
The woman walks in, bell tinkling as the door pushes open, a pair of dark sunglasses obscuring her features. Rosé plasters on her best I’m approachable, please give me a tip! smile, flashing her perfectly straight teeth, (thank you, several years of braces).
The woman doesn’t stop to look at their neatly displayed array of pastries, instead parking herself straight in front of Rosé.
“Hiya, what can I get for you?”
The woman flips her glasses so they perch on the top of her head, and Rosé feels like she’s taken a punch to her stomach. 
She’s unbelievably beautiful, even with slightly messy eyeliner and already smudged lipgloss. Her icy blonde hair is french braided loosely, and is curved over one shoulder. When she politely smiles at Rosé, twin dimples are embedded into her tan cheeks.
“Good morning,” she says with a smile. “Could I get a medium americano to go, please?”
Rosé can’t stop her nose from wrinkling at the thought of black coffee. Ew, she thinks to herself, grabbing a takeaway cup from the stack to her left.
“What? Not good?” The woman cocks a perfectly manicured eyebrow at her. 
Rosé looks up at her, in surprise. “Huh? Oh, shit, no, no, I just–”
“–Oh no, you’re good honey, I’m only joking!”
Rosé can feel the tips of her ears burning red at the pet name, a tiny thrill running up her spine. “Can I get a name?”
“Julie,” she says with another smile, the dimples in her cheeks making Rosé’s palms slightly clammy, as she grips the thick marker to write the name in her loopy handwriting.
The woman pays, thanking Rosé and going to stand by the pick-up point to wait for the drink Gigi makes way too quickly, leaving before Rosé can snap out of her daze.
“Julie,” she murmurs under her breath when their door swings shut.
Jan turns to her with a grin, “alright there Rosie? Looking a little flushed, doll.”
Rosé rolls her eyes, pulling her phone out of her pocket, opening the camera to use as a mirror. Her stomach drops; she looks just as bad as she feels, she realises with a loud groan.
“Are you kidding me?” She groans to Jan, “I just met the hottest woman I’ve ever seen, and I look like this?”
Jan shrugs, leaning against the counter behind her. “You went about as pink as your hair too, so…”
“Fucks sake.” She swears, running her fingers through her greasy pink roots. She’d sprayed dry shampoo in it this morning, when she couldn’t be bothered with washing and blow-drying it, but clearly it hadn’t much helped the situation.
She stares at her image in the camera, trying to wipe the already-flaking mascara from her lower lash line. It could be worse, she thinks to herself, at least she didn’t try and blend out last-night’s makeup again. 
“Babe, I think that’s not gonna help.” Gigi says, watching as she tries to fix her appearance. 
“Shove off, little miss perfect,” Rosé all but growls, irritation running high. Her head is still pounding, despite being momentarily distracted by the pretty woman.
Gigi pretends to busy herself, dusting non-existent coffee grounds from her pristine work surface. She’s smart, Rosé begrudgingly admits, knows when not to push it. The same, however, can’t be said for Jan, who’s already texting Jan about it on their Stephanie’s Child groupchat.
goona: bahaha sorry rosie <3
goona: defo my fault shouldn’t have dragged u out last night babes
“Can you not?” She whines at Jan, “this is so embarrassing!”
Jan shrugs, “it’s so funny though.” She teases, mimicking Rosé’s drawn out inflections. “It’s fine, Rosie, she’s bound to come back at some point.”
“Will she?”
Jan stands, leaning over Rosé to pick up their tip-jar just in front of the register. “She left a nice tip.” She says, pulling out the ten dollar bill. “That’s pretty hefty for a three dollar coffee,” she notes, putting the jar back down. “Must be for our impeccable service.” She says, flashing a teasing grin at Rosé, who groans again, dropping her head in embarrassment.
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Rosé can’t pretend she isn’t a little surprised when the woman appears again at the same time the next morning. 
Jan nudges her in the ribs as she walks in, laughing a little at Rosé’s whisper to fuck off, please and thank you. But she says it with a smile, happily remembering how even her winged liner came out this morning, and makes sure to smooth any fly-aways from her curled ponytail.
She’s sure to give her the best smile she can muster for seven in the morning, butterflies happily swarming in her stomach, as the woman approaches her.
“Hiya,” she says, pretending not to have remembered her from the day before.
Her hair is down today, falling prettily in soft waves around her face. “Good morning,” she smiles; it’s all white teeth and dimples. “Could I get a medium americano to go?”
Rosé nods, grabbing a medium cup, “can I get a name?” She asks, despite already writing Julie on the cup.
“Naomi,” she says.
Rosé’s brow furrows slightly in confusion, staring at the cup she’s already written on. “Naomi?” She cocks an eyebrow, waiting for the woman to correct herself.
She nods, “N-A-O-M-I.” 
She reaches for another cup, writing Naomi on it, instead of the expected Julie. The woman pays with a smile, and Rosé is still too confused to notice the wad of dollar notes she slides into their tip jar.
Gigi makes the coffee, what feels like much too quickly again, and Rosé finds herself watching the door shut after the woman.
“I thought you said her name was Julie?” Jan asks when she leaves.
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By the end of the third week, Rosé’s figured it out. It was, in large part, thanks to Jan, rolling her eyes and telling Rosé how it was oh so clearly a game, Rosie, followed by both Crystal and Gigi’s insistence that she’s flirting with you!
She’s cycled through Kristen and Tracy and Laura and Rebecca and Violet, introducing herself as a new person every morning. Rosé started having a medium cup at the ready every morning, marker poised to scrawl whatever name she picks for the day.
“So,” Gigi says in the late afternoon, leaning her head against Rosé’s shoulder. “When are you gonna ask her?”
Rosé turns her head to look at her, “ask her what?”
Jan, who’s cleaning their blender, sighs loudly, putting her cloth into the sink and looks over at them. “Her name, dipshit.”
Rosé shrugs noncommittally,  “I like our dynamic.” She lies. She doesn’t want to admit how flustered she makes her– the butterflies at the pit of her stomach have only seemed to multiply, taking flight even at the mere thought of her bleached hair. 
Rosé never considered herself to be anything less than straightforward; she’s never had any sort of problem coaxing pretty women in bars to come home with her, and she’s definitely never had any trouble telling them exactly how to curl their fingers inside her to make her see stars. But The Woman, as they’ve dubbed her with a capital T and W, makes Rosé feel like she’s a middle-schooler, desperately trying to hide her first crush from everyone.
“I’m just saying maybe you could… y’know…” Gigi starts.
“I could what?”
“Get some pussy?” Jan suggests with a laugh, “Lagoona says it’s been a while.”
Rosé blushes high in her cheeks, “Lagoona doesn’t know shit.” She lies again, thinking back to the last girl she brought back with her seemingly months ago.
Jan arches an eyebrow at her, but doesn’t say anything, choosing to turn back to her sink instead. 
“How’s school?” Rosé asks Gigi, trying to casually change the subject whilst opening their register and grabbing a sticky note to note down their cash.
Gigi starts a long spiralling story about her midterms and the designs she’s trying to get Crystal to model for her, interjecting her speech with explanations of her school’s system of grading, coupled with descriptions of their intense assignments. It makes Rosé’s head spin, and for once she’s glad to have finished at her theatre school a handful of years ago.
Somewhere during Gigi’s tirade, the bell at the door goes off, welcoming in a new customer, unbeknownst to Rosé, until someone is awkwardly clearing their throat in front of them.
“Hi, sorry, how can I–” She stops mid sentence when she realises it’s her. “Oh, it’s you,” she says with a laugh that’s much too breathy. Calm down, she tells herself in an attempt to stop her palms from sweating.
“It’s me,” The Woman says with a smile. 
“You’re not usually– erm, it’s, uh, afternoon, and you’re usually, uh, y’know, morning.”
“Yeah,” she laughs, “I know. I just, er… wanted a coffee.”
“So, uh, what can I get for you?” She asks, already reaching for the medium takeaway cup.
“Can I get an americano? Having here?”
“Oh,” Rosé puts back the takeaway cup, “yeah of course. Can I get a name?”
She smiles, and Rosé wants to drown in her dimples, “Karen.”
Rosé snorts as she plugs in the name on the order, “Karen huh?”
The Woman gasps loudly in a mock-protest, placing a delicate hand over her chest in disbelief. “You don’t think I could be a Karen?”
Rosé grins, letting her eyes pass over her once. No fucking way was she a Karen of any sort. “So sorry ma’am, let me grab my manager for you,” she says with her eyes twinkling, beginning to turn around in an act of looking for Jaida.
“Denali.” 
She spins back around on her heels, eyebrows raised quizzically. “Sorry?” 
“That’s my name,” The Woman smiles softly,, “Denali.”
“Denali? Like the mountain?”
“Like the mountain.” She looks at Rosé, “why don’t you ever wear one of those, uh, nametags?” Rosé looks down at her apron with a shrug. “Y’know,” Denali continues, with a shy smile, “so I’d know the name of the pretty girl who takes my shitty coffee order every morning.”
Rosé’s face burns red– she can practically feel it radiating heat. Pretty girl. It reverberates around in her skull, making her feel a little dizzy for a second. “Rosé.” She stammers out, waiting a beat too long to reply. “It’s Rosé.”
“Like the wine?”
"Like the wine.” She confirms with a smile, her face still as pink as her bubblegum hair.
“Two dollars right?” Rosé looks at her dumbly, “like, erm, for the coffee?”
“It’s on the house!” Jan says over her shoulder, shooting a shit-eating in Rosé’s direction.
“Oh! Uh, are you sure?”
Rosé nods awkwardly, and Denali responds with a thank you so much , before wandering off to find a seat in the fairly empty café.
Denali. Rosé lets herself roll around the sound in her mouth for a second like it’s a caramel. Denahlee, she thinks to herself, stretching each syllable like taffy. She thinks it might be the sweetest sound she’s heard in a while. If she leans forwards, she can see her (Denali, she thinks to herself, Denali) sitting up on their bar that faces the window, a book held open in front of her.
Jan sidles up to her side with a knowing smile. “You’re welcome Rosie.”
“For giving her a free coffee so we get no commission?” Rosé jokes, trying to play it cool even though her heart is still beating like she’s just run a marathon.
“She clearly came in to see you, dumbass,” Jan says with a smile, watching Gigi click the grounds-filled portafilter into the basket.
“She told you her real name!” Gigi adds as they wait for the espresso shot to fill. “That’s, like, something, y’know.”
“She called you pretty!” Crystal reminds her from the pastry case she’s doing a half-hearted job of rearranging. 
Rosé sighs, “okay guys, I really don’t need this whole peanut-gallery thing– can you please get your big noses out of my life.” 
“Oh puh-lease, not a chance diva!” Jan says, already typing furiously on her phone.
Rosé feels her own phone buzz in her pocket, pulling it out to read the handful of texts Jan’s already sent to Jan through their groupchat. She groans at Jan, who gives her a nonchalant shrug in response.
“Do you want to take it to her?” Gigi asks as she pushes the steaming coffee mug towards her. 
“Please just fucking take it to her, Rosie.” Jan whines. “Let me live vicariously through your love life!”
Rosé laughs, rolling her eyes as she picks up the saucer the mug is on, careful not to touch the hot ceramic. She walks it over to Denali, putting it down in front of her with a smile. Denali thanks her with a grin, turning back to her book and letting Rosé sulk back to her job, trying to come up with witty conversation starters in her head.
☆☆☆☆☆
Denali sits in the café for a half hour before she gets up again to order another americano from Rosé.
“Can I get one of those little cake things too?” She asks, pointing at a miniature cake Jackie had neatly piped pink rosettes onto. Crystal pulls it out of the case onto a plate for Rosé to pass to her. “How much?” She says pulling out a wallet from her bag.
“On the house,” Rosé says, offering her a smile.
“No, c’mon, you have to let me pay for something–”
“–It’s fine, it’s on the house–”
“–I feel like I have to give you something,” she opens her wallet, “please?”
“You could give her your number,” Jan pipes up from the back with a laugh.
Rosé doesn’t believe in God, but if she did, right now would be just the time to pray for the ground beneath her feet to split open and swallow her up. Please God, just take me.
“Do you have a napkin?” Denali asks, snapping Rosé out of her momentary prayer. “And, like, a pen?” When Rosé doesn’t move to get one, Denali gives her a look that Rosé is sure is asking her if she’s hard of hearing. “For, uh, my number…?” She trails off, looking a little embarrassed.
Rosé’s mouth goes completely dry, and her hands reach for a napkin and a pen on their own accord. Before she knows it, Denali’s handing it back to her, a phone number written on it in chicken-scratch handwriting.
“Maybe you could take me out sometime?” She says with a laugh bubbling in the back of her throat, throwing Rosé a playful wink. “Thanks for the coffee, gorge.”
Rosé’s heartwhiz-bangs in her chest, and she’s sure she’s gone to heaven.
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sammygiddings · 4 years
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I also have an UD question. So we see Emily pushing Ashley into the wall when they run away from the wendigos in the last chapter, which was probably a reaction to her anger towards Ashley, because Ashley supported Mike's idea of shooting her. How would their relationship work after all? Emily's and Ashley's. We know Ashley feels sorry for reacting that way, but could Emily ever look her in the eyes without wanting to slap her? Ok, I exaggerated, but you know what I mean.
Honestly, I wish i could say that there was some obvious, answer like “Of course they’d make up one day” but I don't see it like that. To be frank I don’t think Emily was in the wrong in any way towards Ashley following the bite. Even the push, I mean its basic instincts to do something like that when you are panicking and believe you are about to die (see drowning victims trying to drown the people trying to help them). Ashley clearly acted out of a place of panic and didn't actually want Mike to shoot Emily, she just wanted Emily gone to keep the group safe (see how Ashely’s friendship with Mike falls to zero after he shoots her). Neither are in the wrong with how they acted, which make the deterioration of their friendship even sadder. (This got long Meta so we doing a read more lol)
I, if I were Emily, would probably never trust Ashley again following that, and I would avoid her at all costs, cause she’s shown that when push comes to shove, she’d pushed me into death just to save herself. I think the gang will all stay together and will just always be connected due to their trauma and knowledge of the supernatural. So I do believe Emily would be very angry for a long time and refused to speak to Ashley when they are in the same room, but I think eventually she will get over it and they will be on better terms later. 
I don't know if they’d ever become friends again. I do think it's more likely than Emily becoming friends with Mike again after though. Even if they do, it won't be the same friendship as before, but I could see them finding a way to look past their issues if only to keep conflict outta their little friend group of traumatized kids. 
I think mostly why I feel this way is because if we look at Emily in the start of the game (chapters 1-2) I think it’s pretty obvious Emily has some form of trust issues going on. She demands absolute trust from others (ie Matt) but at the same time is struggling with the fact her best friend is now dating her ex BF (who i think Emily still loves but that's a me opinion). She might be cheating with him (we actually never get confirmation on this. It’s implied but a hug isn't cheating fam so like.... yeah? what was going on there). And THEN Ashley turns on her and the MAN SHE LOVES pulls a gun at her and threatens to shoot her in the face. 
Even if you think me thinking Emily has trust issues in the beginning is BS she definitely does at the end (X). So she will defo never fully have the trust again with Ashley. I could see Ashley trying really hard to make it up to her and apologize and TRY to fix things out of guilt, but I think eventually Ashley would realize she did all that she could to fix it and its Emily’s job now to decide if she will forgive her or not. 
Its sad cause while trauma can bring people together (Like Josh says lol) it also can cause people to do things they would never normally do. This Life or Death situation showed Mike’s true colors (an overall good guy who wanted to protect others) but it also causes people like Ashley to become something they would never become in any other circumstance. Its not fair for us as outsiders to judge Ashley’s actions as an 18-year-old girl who thought a psychopath was after her, and then it turned out to be a wendigo. But it is Emily’s place as a victim of her actions to judge Ashley. So please don't have anyone bashing either in the tags or on comments, please.
tldr: They’d probably get to a better place where they can be civil and maybe even have fun again together, but that trust is long gone, and that’ll stop them from ever TRULY being good friends again.
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cherryyharryy · 5 years
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I’ll Be Okay
WC:1k
Warnings: Smut
The interpretations of Dreams, Sigmund Freud. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Henry Miller. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck.
It looks like the books are moving. The bed is creaking, an awful, rusted squeaking sound that I’ll remember for years. Sweat is building up in the same places as when I wake in the middle of the night in August. But I can’t get up to stumble across the room to turn the fan on. It looks like the books are moving, but it’s just me.
When I look down I can hardly see my body; he’s covering up so much. I wonder if my sweat bothers him. I guess not, because then he might get off.
Moby Dick, Herman Melville. The Order of Time, Carlo Revelli. A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe.
It’s like the books are shaking now. And he’s grunting now. When he stops and pulls out, I realize how dehydrated I am, because it takes too long for relief to register in my brain. And then once it does, it’s too late. I’m flipped over like a doll.
It’s almost two AM. I watch the second hand for an entire revolution. What time was it when I got here? How did I get here?
He said, “I’ve been watching you all night.”
I said, “I just got here.”
I remember the drink he gave me. I poured it out. I pretended to take a sip and then poured it out. And you might think I was being too nice to a guy who thought complimenting my eyes was enough, but it was done out of habit. He couldn’t even see my eyes.
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, Peter Weiss. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle. The Holy Bible.
He’s good at what he does. He’s patient. He starts with sweet names. Then it’s a hand on your knee. And you think, it’s just my knee, I’m okay. Then a hand on your back, rubbing your neck, thumb on your cheek. I’m okay, I’m okay, I’m okay.
He brought up his apartment like it was a new idea. Like people didn’t visit other people and he’s the first one to think of it. He tugged me off my stool, and I forgot how to say no.
The wallpaper is torn by the door. It’s some God awful print from the 70’s. I smell alcohol. His mouth is by my ear. No, I don’t like that you bastard. I’m okay. I’ll be okay.
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. History of the Rain, Niall Williams. Eleven Poems, Seamus Heaney
The lights are off and there’s a lava lamp on his desk. All my clothes are on the floor. His are still on. My arms are weak, and I fall onto his bed. My face is pushed into the sheets. Not even the pillow. I don’t even get a pillow.
More sweat, accumulating on my skin, like swarms of mosquitoes landing and sticking to me. More and more. I can’t breathe. It hurts. I hate him. I want to die.
He studies English. He wants to travel. He went to Japan three years ago and he’s never been the same. He’s thinking about going vegan. It’s amazing how many facts a man will tell you about themselves when they can’t take their eyes off your breasts. And apparently, I feel so fuckin’ good. I wouldn’t know
I like to read too. Why did I tell him that? Why did I offer anything up? Checkmate. He had me. I opened the door for him. He plowed through before I could step out of the way. You should come over and see my collection. I think you’ll like it.
The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.
A very boring city sits outside the window; I have a view now. I’ve been placed ever so delicately on the edge of his bed. The squeaking is worse now. And the headboard bangs against the wall. It’s an old, chipped gold railing type. I’ve hit my head three times so far. I said shit each time and he said nothing.
It’s so dark out I can pretend I’m anywhere. Just a skyline of buildings. New York, London, Paris. I’ll be okay. Paris. I’m in Paris. If I squint, the water tower can be the Eiffel Tower. The power plant...the Leaning Tower of Pisa. I’m in Italy now. Maybe—
“I’m so close.”
Nevermind.
The sounds he makes when he’s finally finishing, are, without exaggeration, revolting. And then as he’s zipping his jeans he’s humming. Rocket Man. I’ll have to remember to delete it off my playlist. I’m surprised—dumbfounded—when he tosses the condom in the trash. I hate that I can’t remember him ever putting it on.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman and Andrew Postman.
I pick up my clothes piece by piece. They burn when I slide them on.
Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless, Alfred Dinsdale. Watership Down, Richard Adams. The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian, David Dyer.
“You weren’t lying,” I say, scanning the bookshelf now that they’ve stopped moving.
“‘Course not.”
The Stories of Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce.
He moves past me, the bathroom door shutting a moment after. I step back to see the top shelves.
The Odyssey, Homer. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri.
I said yes. To everything. I can’t really blame him for hating myself. I reach up and slip Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, off and fan the pages under my nose. The bathroom door starts opening, and I shove the book into the waistband of my pants.
“You wanna stay? Smoke a little?”
“No, I’m just gonna go.”
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee. The Trial, Frank Kafka.
He says something else, but I’m already passing by his couch. “Thanks for the book,” I whisper. “I’ll add it to my own collection.” You should come see it sometime.
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legacykills · 2 years
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FELIX/LEE YONGBOK. CIS MALE. HE/HIM. presenting PRINCE CHAEHWI, TWENTY-ONE YEAR OLD FIREBENDER and SECOND IN LINE to the throne. ASTUTE yet GUARDED, they find themself APPREHENSIVE of fire lord chaesan’s reign. will this be their salvation or their undoing ?
hewwo audie here just reposting with some quick updates given the latest plot drop (i figure fleshing it out will help me better place hwi’s headspace!!) per usual, like to plot :D you can also ref the old intro here
tldr: hwi essentially grew up babied as the youngest in his family (+weak body and all), his health took a turn for the worse in his mid-to-late teens and his freedom was greatly restricted, even more so when the fire lord crowned him crown prince and assigned him his own bodyguard/retainer (hate that), really struggled with the responsibility but toughened up b/c he Had To and now :))) And Now he’s being booted out of the spot (hate that more(?)) 
cue disaster:
ok disaster is an over-exaggeration
he’s not lashing out (where it’s obvious anw), but hwi 100% dnl this turn around,, still he has to keep up with pretenses so if anyone’s asking he’s :) oh well whatever teh fire lord thinks is right :) ((which further fuels people’s opinions of him being some spineless puppet if you ask me))
anyway hes defos mad and tearing his room apart like a child and he’ll likely yeet outta there with blue first chance he gets
im not sure what kinda turn this’ll take w his personality/views/attitude toward the royal family but essentially he’s really not on chaesan’s side rn 
probably on his way to his rebel emo period lmaoOO 👊👊
im really tryna figure out possible plots/etc but since i’m not sure where the last plot drop going yet i’ll just play things by the ear !!!
anw plsplspls plot thank u
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hetmusic · 5 years
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UNSIGNED: THE KTNA | The Most Radicalist x BBH Global
In this interview feature, we get to know the most radicalist up and coming stars on the planet. This time we caught up with the Kenyan-born, Manchester-bred and now London-based duo The KTNA. Most of us will be familiar with the inevitable descent of disillusionment with our hometown. It’s a universal experience that The KTNA captures to other-worldly effect in their most recent single ‘OWT’, short for ‘One Way Ticket’. Their music is a captivating combination of R&B, trip-hop and future-soul, all glued together by pure grit, determination and an unparalleled love for their craft. As you’ll discover in the interview below, sisters Hope and Millie Katana don’t cast off their Northern roots, in fact they owe a lot to their childhood in Manchester. It’s more the case that growth sometimes calls for upping those roots and planting yourself down somewhere new. The song and video for ‘OWT’ was written around a pivotal time for the sisters, living in Manchester, lacking inspiration and selling their furniture for extra income. As the old adage goes… should they stay or should they go? In case the answer wasn’t already apparent, the pair upped sticks and left for London. However, the trials of The KTNA wouldn’t be over just yet. With little money and no place to live, a friend of the band offered them a studio to record in for free, one that doubled up as a place to live. What ensued was a year of sleeping on the floor of a windowless studio with their respective twin sister. It was throughout this particularly testing time that they finalised and recorded their soon-to-be-released Life Under Siege EP.   It’s safe to say that The KTNA has been through the fire over the years, as is the experience of so many unsigned artists. Now, these flames have been lit under their project which has the explicit aim “to break all the boxes that have been handed down to us by no faults of our own. As overly sexualised, dual heritage, working class women from the North, we want to show the world that anything is possible.” In closing, they impart yet more refined wisdom: “We can be whoever we choose to be. You can change the world no matter how small you THINK you are.” It’s at our core to continue supporting the rising, the unsigned, the names we believe that are on the cusp of greatest, The KTNA clearly being one of them. Get to know Hope and Millie a little better below.
TMR: Let’s dive right in and talk about the new Life Under Siege EP. What does this release represent for you? This release is the freedom we’ve been seeking for many years now. It marks the end of a very long chapter in our lives and we hope it is a good introduction to the world we’re trying to create, through music. TMR: What are some of the themes that run through the EP? Life Under Siege is about the struggle and hustle of this crazy human experience we’re all currently living. We’re as brutally honest as possible with our writing, especially when discussing our own mental health throughout. We don’t really class ourselves under any genre, so we tried to keep the subjects of the songs as real and consistent as possible. TMR: We recently shared the apocalyptic video for ‘OWT’, which appeared to be an exaggerated retelling of living through tough time and wishing to be elsewhere? Absolutely. I’m sure everyone’s had a moment in their lives where they wished everything was different, that you could weather the storm and end up somewhere  completely different. Yeah, that was our lives daily for a long time. So we thought we’d make a visual with that thought in mind, and honestly with the help of a small village, we made it come to life. TMR: Has music always managed to provide an escape? Definitely, for as long as I can remember. One of my first ever musical “experiences” was whilst watching The Prince Of Egypt as a young kid. I remember the minute the music and film started it swept me far, far away. Even as a kid. So yeah, I think you can say we’re still chasing that high. TMR: Growing up in Manchester with its rich music industry and multicultural population, what music and other forms of creativity were you exposed to? Growing up in Manchester 100% enhanced us as creative beings. When we were growing up we’d go to an organisation called GMMAZ (Greater Manchester Music Action Zone) where we’d meet people from every borough of Greater Manchester and get together and make music. People from every race and religion got together put our differences aside and made beautiful (sometimes strange) music together. That experience definitely had an impact on the way we made music going forward. TMR: Looking forwards, your music takes genres like trip-hop and R&B and transforms them into something distinctly KTNA. Is this an active choice through the songwriting process or does it come naturally? Haha well our motto is “don’t do too much, just enough.” So we try not to force anything creatively. If it’s not coming naturally we tend to end the session pretty quickly and start something new. In respect to genre we grew up on - so many different amazing artists from probably every genre imaginable. We just try to incorporate a little of our favourites in everything we do regardless of being put in a genre “box.” TMR: When it comes to songwriting duties, does one of you take point with the lyrics, and the other composition or visuals or production? Or is it an entirely shared process? Our process is based off of team work. It depends on the day, or how we’re feeling, or what we’re working on. However, most of the time we work on a 50/50 basis.. it’s the best way we find (No cat fights.) TMR: The French duo Ibeyi cite the special, and often sacred, connection between twin sisters. Is this something you relate to? And does it influence your music? We defo relate, it is SO special. Our twin bond definitely influences our music a whole lot for sure! There’s something about when voices blend together as siblings that we just find so beautiful and satisfying. Above all though we just love singing together it’s life joy! TMR: Did you find the tightness of your relationship was tested while recording the EP in the windowless studio that also doubled as a shared bedroom for a year or did it bring you even closer together? Hahah both!! We’re not going to lie, it’s very difficult! When you live and work with a person non stop, especially in that environment, it’s very hard for you to turn off and think about anything other than work (making us HIGHLY irritable at times..) It truly tested our bond, but honestly we made the most beautiful music of our lives in that studio and even though it was very hard we had so many beautiful times there, so many beautiful songs and memories were made in that period... we wouldn’t change that time for anything in the world!! It was a life changing time for us. TMR: What’s next for The KTNA? LOTS of music!!! (Like sooo much) LOTS of shows !!!! AND LOTS OF HAPPINESS!!
http://www.themostradicalist.com/features/tmr-talks-to-the-ktna/
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cheznieba2b · 5 years
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I’m doing research?? (RRP)
Listen, I have literally no idea what I’m doing here so this is just a kicking a ball near the goal and hoping it works kinda scenario??
My tactic was to just hit up google and try to prove my point that I sorta brushed on in the post about my meeting with Lynsey. First up was kids animated films!
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And damn, I was right! If you ignore the one old school Disney 2D animated film, they’re all SUPER bright 3D. My theory is that it looks the most real, like a small child could fully believe that there’s a bunny police officer out there. Also, 3D is (in my uneducated needs-more-research opinion) the easier media to create the real whimsical and craziness that kids love. Just imagine how difficult it would be to do Zootopia in stop motion?!
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I’m on a roll baby, look at these teen orientated 2D animations. There’s also all the new TV shows coming out on Netflix nowadays: 
Big Mouth
Bojack Horseman 
Rick and Morty 
F is For Family
Paradise PD
You’ve also got the classics:
Simpsons
American Dad
South Park
The Cleveland Show
I felt like my google image search didn’t do the teen animation enough justify and I just really wanted to prove to you that I’m not just making this nonsense up.
My thoughts on this are that you can get a bit more gritty with 2D because it’s less realistic. I mean, just think how much gross stuff is shown in any of these shows - it’s a lot
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Something I didn’t think of somehow is that stop motion is used sooo often for the creepier kind of stuff. Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, Corpse Bride, Paranorman, weird indie short films. It’s probably because stop motion has the most texture, and you know it’s actual real-life puppets being moved from frame to frame, it’s so close to being real. From just general conversation with family and mates, this medium seems to have the biggest effect on people, but I feel like that’s defo something I need to do actual research on.
Let’s take a trip to IMDB
I’ve just discovered this really fun thing on IMDB that puts the films in nicely organised lists for a variety of things and it’s actually rather useful to me.
First up, let’s take a look at the current top 3 in the popularity scale
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Woooo, stop motion got on there, thank Christ.
Numero uno is a heavy CG film, no shock there, followed by a film that is mainly 3D but it’s got some variety, and finally, stop motion! This just goes to prove that 3D/CGI is defo the most popular nowadays, but at least there's still a hint of the most beautiful form poking through.
Now for box office hits
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The top 3 are 3D, and I’m so not shocked. HOWEVER, what you are about to see is one of the greatest tragedies I have ever witnessed.
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Coraline was the first one on the list AND IT’S AT 147th. It fully hurt me, no exaggerations. 
Conclusion
I’m hoping this research will actually be useful to me. To be honest, I’m still not entirely sure what exactly I should be researching so cut me slack, I am seriously trying here. At least I know that if I need it and some point in the future, it’s here just chilling. 
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facelessdreamer · 5 years
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I hate that there’s
not enough time in the world to do everything.
Theres not enough hours in a whole day to do all things I want to do man. It’s sucks extremely. Everything’s just lined up and I wanna do all them things I can and want to do but I can’t because of me ultimately minus the other factors in life. It’s me. Now I have a job. Finally. But it’s taking up all my time even on my scattered couple days off I relax because it’s literally needed and it goes by so quick like my do nothing days. I don’t know how to go about it. How shall I do things? And what the fuck on Earth are these feelings man. Gotta find a way to pause them but it’s fucking relentless and the off buttons mia. There’s vibes at work, people everywhere, mindless heavy work and sad little me walking about making mistakes and fixing them and putting in work and talking to people without wanting to really and i just can’t tell if I’m putting up a front or not. I don’t know if that’s the jolly me I brag about and that I know myself as or if I just do it because I don’t know how else to behave but nicely and highly energetic and enthusiastically. Just honestly what the fuck do I do with all this life? Shit its 7 minutes past midnight. And it’s clicked. Happy fucking birthday to my ass. God I can’t say in words how this day coming around makes and has made me feel for months. The big ass bitchin 20. Idk why I’m complaining like it’s a fat three zero bc to most people my life’s just started. To me it literally really and truly is dooming and I hate the whole idea of it. When I was 17 I wanted it to last longer. When I was 18 I wanted it to be permanent. When I was 19 just moments ago I wanted to settle for it. I didn’t want to be an age I was no longer a teen. When you’re not that people expect you to act your age and it’s a serious thing then. It’s still expected at teen years but not as surprising bc your still in your adolescent years doing dumb and reckless shit. And yes I spent 19 doing just that. For multiple reasons going as me being a natural fuck up to just not caring with what ever I do to actually wanting to also do dumb shit. 18 was a good age to stay permanent because I was legally an adult and could accounting the law roam with a piece of ID and qualify myself as my own person. 17 was just a golden age to be. That was the mid point of comfort. Dumb and smart and old enough and young at the very same time. Immersing into adulthood yet equivalently latched to the past 16 years of innocent youth. As you get older youth stays but increases with some venemous symptoms. It is no longer sunsets and rainbows full of more laughter and ignorant bliss. It gets darker, wilder, mature, things like welcome to the real world, make do and diy. You start to get your hands dirty and make real messes out of things and be the people who are parents taught us not to be. We become the inevitable damage content of this world like every other adult who was also once young and carefree. We’re all so innocent then boom as we get older we become dangerous. Every age shapes us and makes us a version of ourselves we were once different to not long before. Mad that. We also become smarter each passing year so what makes us a danger is exactly that. We know what to do, how to go about things, we are sane and have sense and real firm control of our words and manoeuvres and with that we purposely cause problems even through subliminal moves. That is being older. Being an adult. It’s where “act your age” kicks at you. Bc you’re no longer futile and brainless. You’ve now officially become something artificial like anyone else is. Nothing new, nothing special. Just older.
I’ve said this before but I’m gonna say it again.. I tend to usually drift of topic and continue into a subject of something relative but not the point I should be sticking to. I always do this and I get more ongoing content out instead of what else I might have wanted to say regarding my original point. I jump from one thing to another and I can’t help it but at least I say things that are real right? Whatever comes to mind it just spills on here despite the point. That can be talked about if I remember it again or not
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Rn I’m tired mixed with shitty feelings and watching some Justin timberlake movie on tele. (This is me coming back to say it wasn’t that great and dad pestered me to go up to bed so I never saw the end, wasn’t worth it then) God it’s always been forever when I come back to watch tv. It’s like I got to make time for it even though I don’t really. But when I want to it’s usually at night at a time like this and I hope anything is on from a good block buster movie down to anything like gogglebox even. Just want some of that tv nature to bring me back to something normal (I think I meant to say that as the reason idky it just got typed). I love tv or so I did. I barely spend time with the sofa and the big screen in front of me since I got lazy and sad over a year ago. Funny how among all the hundreds of interlinked factors does it shape a new lifestyle. Every facet of life and me and exisitance plays a harmless yet powerful game. It’s mad how I used to be not a year ago and how I am months down a line compared to the old me. It feels like years and years in between but it’s not. This is me. Everyday it’s a new me. Everyday I change exponentially with my moods and infiltration of hella sadness. I can’t get away from it. I’m immersed into this new me whose no longer definitive to the new term anymore. It’s quite old now but always the latest version seeing as I haven’t changed the persona of me since it came forward and consumed me. Let’s talk about consumption? Kay lets. Like I always say I know myself. Knowing yourself doesn’t mean shit to nothing else alive but to you. You’re a different you in every other mind of every pair of eyes that’s seen you. Even if it was a stranger walking by. They saw you. Mindlessly they saw you in mere sight and that’s it. Quick glance and take in of appearance or sometimes a little more with a minor thought upon you. You’re seen nevertheless as versions you will never know yourself and never of the version you really are. You don’t even know the real version of you. You only know most of you bc you know your interest and hobbies and things like that. Other people say won’t know all of that but only some and the way they see you because they’re literally outside of your body and seeing you through their eyes and not from your own mind. So yeah me knowing me I can’t say why I’ve allowed myself to get like this and be so caught up in feelings that are unpleasant and disturbing. My reasons would simply be things like bc I wanted to bc I didn’t care to close any doors I was meant to close in my head. Bc I wanted to be sad really. Bc I’m also alone but that’s minor bc I only figured that out recently. Other pointless reasons may occur too like not taking care when I really was being pushed to help myself but I don’t take growing hands. I have a problem with saying yes to things that’ll harmlessly benefit me. I just say no politely like don’t trouble yourself for me. Like I don’t want that. Who am I? I mean I know who I am and my worth. It’s fucking up there bro. But people don’t see me and shouldn’t see me as worthy of taking help. Like I can’t put it in words so I’ll give up on that. But my pint is I can’t justify in explaining as to why I say no to any simple help. A guy offer me a bag to carry two heavy bottles of coke? Na it’s alright really fast and I zoom out and away like what was the reason for a mini nervous breakdown and say no for? Am I okay? It’s really like I cba you should never have opened your mouth bc really and truly it would be a great help if these bottles can be bagged and carried instead of it cradled in my arms but I cba for the excerion. That’s it! Mental and physical effort. Like without even thinking this. It’s just a feeling and I literally can’t deal with that. So I automatically say no. I’ve gone off topic agains nd forgot my point smh
Next thing I wanna put out here is that my music hasn’t been very obliging past three nights. Two nights I dunno I didn’t even put in and sleep bc I really wasn’t for it them couple nights and I felt like it was causing my head to feel some way. So I left it and slept freely when the moment came. The third night and a night after also too which was last night I plugged in my earphones at some point bc I could not not do it, it being such a habit. It still wasn’t gratifying as it usually is. The music was fine and great with what played. I was entertained nonetheless but my body and head was more worked out and tired than the past three months and I’d been drinking and smoking so I feel that also defo had some affect and influence on whatever I was feeling. It wasn’t good I tell you that. Aaaaaand I keep waking up incessantly every morning for time now. I can’t even remember when there was a time I woke up feeling good. These days and last year I’ve been waking up not pleasantly. It’s always something man. Literally. I have no soul to exaggerate any of what goes on with me on here. Here lies the truth. My blog. My sweet pretty blog. So yeah I wake up and it’s an ache in my head, remnant music echoes which are fine but make me wonder am I causing something in me? Things like bad dreams and I have like 50 in one night and the bad ones make me unhappy as I wake. There also this weird weird feeling I get just as I’m waking and it’s one I really can’t explain. It’s so bad like I’m half way conscious and half way not at all awake. I’m literally both and I get this feeling, it’s heavy and I wouldn’t say painful but it causes some kind of light hurt? Idk but I feel it immensely and it does come to my attention in the moment and I am not okay as to why this happens many mornings of when I wake. Like after it is over not that I pay attention but it does go away and I am either gone back to sleep or have woken up somehow now I just am not happy bc of the wake. Like your/my wake literally matters. I don’t like these numerous sensations I feel in my moment of waking. I want to be woken with ease and calmness and slowness like just how a breeze comes pleasantly on a hot summers day. I wanna be woken softly and beautifully like that.
Okay I’m not done talking but I’m tired so gonna tap out now (02:59)
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landscape-atlas · 5 years
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Alfred Crosby
The Columbian Exchange: Biological Consequences of 1492 Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900,
on american indians:
But in agriculture they handily outstripped the children of Sumeria. Every tomato in Italy, every potato in Ireland, and every hot pepper in Thailand came from this hemisphere. Worldwide, more than half the crops grown today were initially developed in the Americas.
Back home in the Americas, Indian agriculture long sustained some of the world's largest cities. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán dazzled Hernán Cortés in 1519; it was bigger than Paris, Europe's greatest metropolis. The Spaniards gawped like hayseeds at the wide streets, ornately carved buildings, and markets bright with goods from hundreds of miles away. They had never before seen a city with botanical gardens, for the excellent reason that none existed in Europe. The same novelty attended the force of a thousand men that kept the crowded streets immaculate. (Streets that weren't ankle-deep in sewage! The conquistadors had never heard of such a thing.) Central America was not the only locus of prosperity. Thousands of miles north, John Smith, of Pocahontas fame, visited Massachusetts in 1614, before it was emptied by disease, and declared that the land was "so planted with Gardens and Corne fields, and so well inhabited with a goodly, strong and well proportioned people ... [that] I would rather live here than any where."
Smith was promoting colonization, and so had reason to exaggerate. But he also knew the hunger, sickness, and oppression of European life. France—"by any standards a privileged country," according to its great historian, Fernand Braudel—experienced seven nationwide famines in the fifteenth century and thirteen in the sixteenth. Disease was hunger's constant companion. During epidemics in London the dead were heaped onto carts "like common dung" (the simile is Daniel Defoe's) and trundled through the streets. The infant death rate in London orphanages, according to one contemporary source, was 88 percent. Governments were harsh, the rule of law arbitrary. The gibbets poking up in the background of so many old paintings were, Braudel observed, "merely a realistic detail."
I asked seven anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians if they would rather have been a typical Indian or a typical European in 1491. None was delighted by the question, because it required judging the past by the standards of today—a fallacy disparaged as "presentism" by social scientists. But every one chose to be an Indian. Some early colonists gave the same answer. Horrifying the leaders of Jamestown and Plymouth, scores of English ran off to live with the Indians. My ancestor shared their desire, which is what led to the trumped-up murder charges against him—or that's what my grandfather told me, anyway.
As for the Indians, evidence suggests that they often viewed Europeans with disdain. The Hurons, a chagrined missionary reported, thought the French possessed "little intelligence in comparison to themselves." Europeans, Indians said, were physically weak, sexually untrustworthy, atrociously ugly, and just plain dirty. (Spaniards, who seldom if ever bathed, were amazed by the Aztec desire for personal cleanliness.) A Jesuit reported that the "Savages" were disgusted by handkerchiefs: "They say, we place what is unclean in a fine white piece of linen, and put it away in our pockets as something very precious, while they throw it upon the ground." The Micmac scoffed at the notion of French superiority. If Christian civilization was so wonderful, why were its inhabitants leaving?
When scholars first began increasing their estimates of the ecological impact of Indian civilization, they met with considerable resistance from anthropologists and archaeologists. Over time the consensus in the human sciences changed. Under Denevan's direction, Oxford University Press has just issued the third volume of a huge catalogue of the "cultivated landscapes" of the Americas. This sort of phrase still provokes vehement objection—but the main dissenters are now ecologists and environmentalists. The disagreement is encapsulated by Amazonia, which has become the emblem of vanishing wilderness—an admonitory image of untouched Nature. Yet recently a growing number of researchers have come to believe that Indian societies had an enormous environmental impact on the jungle. Indeed, some anthropologists have called the Amazon forest itself a cultural artifact—that is, an artificial object.
For many millennia the cave's inhabitants hunted and gathered for food. But by about 4,000 years ago they were growing crops—perhaps as many as 140 of them, according to Charles R. Clement, an anthropological botanist at the Brazilian National Institute for Amazonian Research. Unlike Europeans, who planted mainly annual crops, the Indians, he says, centered their agriculture on the Amazon's unbelievably diverse assortment of trees: fruits, nuts, and palms. "It's tremendously difficult to clear fields with stone tools," Clement says. "If you can plant trees, you get twenty years of productivity out of your work instead of two or three."
Planting their orchards, the first Amazonians transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings. In a widely cited article from 1989, William Balée, the Tulane anthropologist, cautiously estimated that about 12 percent of the nonflooded Amazon forest was of anthropogenic origin—directly or indirectly created by human beings. In some circles this is now seen as a conservative position. "I basically think it's all human-created," Clement told me in Brazil. He argues that Indians changed the assortment and density of species throughout the region. So does Clark Erickson, the University of Pennsylvania archaeologist, who told me in Bolivia that the lowland tropical forests of South America are among the finest works of art on the planet. "Some of my colleagues would say that's pretty radical," he said, smiling mischievously. According to Peter Stahl, an anthropologist at the State University of New York at Binghamton, "lots" of botanists believe that "what the eco-imagery would like to picture as a pristine, untouched Urwelt [primeval world] in fact has been managed by people for millennia." The phrase "built environment," Erickson says, "applies to most, if not all, Neotropical landscapes."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/
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Gone
31.1.2019
Hmm where should I start?
Some might read this off my feed and consider the following dramatic but allow me to elaborate cuz somehow I do feel emotional over this seemingly-trifling matter. Little did u realise how much it entails. And it’s precisely occasions like these that made me ponder what if the separation isn’t temporary, which I’m afraid, might be so unless mercy n grace are lavished upon.
Since I’ve been born, the figure has already been here. Despite hiccups here and there, with person upon person being replaced, somehow they fit the role of looking after us in their own ways—and to me, on top of that, they have been a genuine friend—or perhaps the person to talk to when everyone else is occupied with their own lives or just limited by different external factors. And each one of them somehow just presented themselves as available listeners and I’m honoured to have a chance to be theirs. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not subtly throwing shades here for people who have their responsibilities to tend to—in fact realist would suggest that it’s precisely of that and the expected returns, that I had ignorantly fallen for.
Tbh, I don’t know and I’m not sure whether that’s true. All I know is that all of them have their own stories that made them who they are today, just like all other human beings on this earth. And often, you are almost defeated by this sense of helplessness (yet again) when you know you can’t do much to change that, not changing who they are but perhaps what they’re going through. On top of that though, one thing I’m more concerned, is the fact that all these suffering (from physical pain to emotional distraught, or really just day-to-day miscellaneous issues) are afterall, temporary—but this coming wrath from the just one is eternal. I’m concerned, thereby, whether they’ll be out of the loop about all this.
You see, geographical boundaries can often easily be bypassed, especially with technology nowadays; (Obviously, there’s the sense that the interaction might no longer be the same, and it’s quite saddening to know that the reason behind is exactly what you’ve been told, for deep down, part of you is telling you that you have to have been right at some point—whoops, just got off the tangent, back to the separation) but not so much so for the eternal segregation, because of what we’ve done, fr the little evil thoughts we once had to the self-serving desires, that the just God would have to take us accountable for accordingly. And by this I mean, our judgement is either paid on the cross or in the place with gnashing of teeth and eternal fire called “hell”. I’m not trying to terrorise anyone by exaggerating things here, but instead speaking it as God has described it.
Pause, if at this point you thought God is merciless than you thought wrong. FYI, He didn’t just hang us out to dry, but rather He became flesh and “endured for us Himself His own wrath and brings us into Himself in everlasting joy”. And by doing so, both God and us are genuinely satisfied. God received the glory and we the true happiness—that came not just from being saved, but also, fr bring fellow citizens n heirs of the eternal inheritance, fr bring members of one body in Christ who function best as each plays their roles, fr sharing in a promise that bring so much hope and to have this unfathomable relationship with God, when He’s not only fearful but shepherdy and fatherly . For someone who took the blame for us and giving us all this, I call that love tbh. True love.
Now here comes the separation. You see, heaven and hell are two different places (in case you don’t know that already). And so one can end up in one place or another—unless ofc they made the decision to proclaim Jesus as Saviour (the one who saves) and Lord (sovereign over their lives), basically proclaiming Him as who He is.
How much easier is it for thoughts to just casually float in ur head and allow it to bug you form time to time, as supposed to apologising for your mumbo jumbo everytime.
I guess I could have taken an easier route to just type up a passage about how much I’m gonna miss this, then put together a para that is deceivingly filling. Tho what good would that do? For deep down one knows, it’s not a goodbye to just a person, but potentially to everything that the vacancy is entitled to—at least in this case, my life.
If you think us Christians have figured out all things, then allow me to speak as a 19-year-old, that I haven’t, and I’m guessing I won’t till the day I die. Yet what makes us different is this hope and assurance I have that everything would be fine, that perhaps happen for a reason that only my Father would know, for He knows better.
P.S. I hope this post didn’t come off self-serving tho I have a feeling it might—in that case I seem to have fallen into the societal norm of egotism. But I guess, I didn’t mean it this way and this is a part of story that I wanna share. Perhaps not to all, but a few.
P.P.S. I guess that made leaving a tad bit easier. For one thing I didn’t mention earlier, was knowing that I always have a bolthole is more than great, it’s like this satisfaction you get when you get home with someone welcoming you after a long day of work (ensuring ur best welcomed and feel loved). I reckon this all the more suggests the contentment we get from temporary things might last a lifetime but defo an eternity—except from the one that comes from Christ and Christ alone.
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I was driving straight down a one way with three friends in my car when a truck full out ran a stop sign and crashed into the front driver's side (i was driving) of my car. I'm pretty sure my car is totaled now. Anyways, a few hours after the accident I started getting neck pains. They got worse over the next two days, and I ended up going to the doctor who sent me to the ER for a CT scan and I have slipped vertebrae in my neck. Now yesterday we found out that the guy's whose car it was (a friend of his was driving, he wasn't in the car) doesn't have insurance on it. So what does this mean for my medical bills? Will this make the amount I get for my car lower? Will my insurance company raise my rates if they pay? (I have full coverage on a '98 VW Jetta)""
How much does scooter insurance cost in Ontario?
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Car insurance help...please?
im 17 and im about to get a car from a friend but i wanted to know if my mom can just add the car to her insurance and not say anything about me driving it. then i can drive it and the car will still be insured right? thats basically what im doing right now anyway. i have my permit and im driving my mom's car to practice in, but the insurance company doesnt know that. my friend has his liscense and his parents gave him his own car, but the insurance company doesnt know hes driving it. if he got into an accident, wouldnt his parents insurance cover it since the car is in their name?""
What laws in California can a doctor use against me for spending insurance check?
What laws exist in California that a doctor can use against me if I spent the money the insurance sent me for medical services he performed?
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David Moyes looks to Jordan Pickford to boost Sunderlands survival hopes
David Moyes looks to Jordan Pickford to boost Sunderlands survival hopes
It is little exaggeration to say that the 34-year-old Defoe’s goals have kept the Black Cats in the top flight for the last two seasons, and he remains their best hope of escaping the drop for the fifth successive campaign. However, Moyes believes the return of 22-year-old Pickford from a knee injury could be just as crucial given his fine displays before misfortune struck. Asked if that was the…
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Lessons to Learn | Where Klopp Still Must Adapt
Liverpool’s squad admittedly looked fairly strong at the start of the current season. There was never the depth that teams like Manchester City, Chelsea or even Manchester United could boast but there was a feeling that it was a side that had options. Hell we even had Daniel Sturridge watching on from the bench most weeks as a front three of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho wreaked havoc on any opponent that stood in their way. 
Baffling then that now that we’ve arrived in January, the overriding feeling is that Liverpool need to strengthen… and fast. I read a fairly frustrating article this morning - here it is - on the Mirror comparing Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho ahead of the huge clash at Old Trafford this Sunday. Now, while the article in truth pissed me off due to it’s clear bias against Klopp and branding him as nothing but an overachieving motivational speaker, I did agree on one thing. Our squad is just not good enough. 
With Joel Matip, Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson unavailable, Liverpool faltered against third from bottom Sunderland, snatching at chances and tossing away a lead on two occasions by gifting Jermaine Defoe a pair of spot kicks. They followed this up by fielding the youngest Liverpool team ever and failing to breach a League 2 side’s defence before what was probably our worst performance of the season at Saint Mary’s, that needed some smart work from Loris Karius to save the scoreline from becoming embarrassing. 
Then there’s earlier falters in the league. The Reds loss to Burnley came with Matip and Mane out injured, while the capitulation at Bournemouth came with no Matip or Coutinho and occurred just minutes after Mane left the field. Simply put, our first choice starting XI aside, we do not have the overall quality in our squad to compete across an entire season in the same way as the rest of our top 4 rivals. 
Now, I’m probably over-exaggerating a little here and admittedly, I am still in a little bit of shock at our abysmal start to 2017′s calendar year. That being said, look at our rivals for top four. Manchester United’s second XI includes the likes of Luke Shaw, Daley Blind, Wayne Rooney, Memphis Depay and Marcus Rashford. First place Chelsea have the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Willian, Batshuayi and Ivanovic failing to get into their starting XI while Manchester City seem to have the luxury of not needing to start Aguero every week. 
I’m not saying our side is bad and when we have a fully fit first choice XI our bench isn’t exactly poor. However, the issue lies in the form and current ability levels of our substitutes. Emre Can seems to have regressed alarmingly in recent weeks, Lucas Leiva is half the player he was when he joined, Daniel Sturridge looks like a scared tadpole in a pond of sharks while Divock Origi is as frustrating as he is talented. Then at the back you have a pair of centre backs in Ragnar Klavan and Dejan Lovren who look like a brick wall one week and a sheet of tracing paper the next. Alberto Moreno is unpredictable in all the wrong ways while our back up right back is a 17 year old. 
I fully applaud Klopp’s emphasis on not overspending and choosing to put in time and effort on the training pitch instead, I do. I would much rather he brought in players that he wanted and I think you can see in the players we brought in during the Summer that when he’s able to bring in targets that he identifies they become a success. That being said, with January being such a huge month and containing such huge fixtures, it’s fairly worrying that our attack is starting to stagnate, one of our best forwards is playing in AFCON and our defence looks a shambles as our best centre back can’t keep himself fit yet Klopp does not seem to see these problems as big enough of an issue to act.
While Jurgen Klopp’s methods are a breathe of fresh air in comparison to the likes of Mourinho or Guardiola who will throw money around whenever they feel it’s mildly necessary, if he wants to win the league he needs to make exceptions. The Reds need reinforcements to cope with the rigours of a long season and allow Klopp more reliability when he chooses to rotate. Playing the kids against Plymouth Argyle is one thing but potentially having to do it in a league game is a far too worrying prospect. 
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