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piedpiperslists · 3 years

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Seokjin One Shots (VII)

* s - contains smut

Pride and Fidget Spinners by @kpopfanfictrash s wc~18.6k / enemies to lovers Summary: Seokjin has always prided himself on being the top mall kiosk salesman. His turf, the spot nearest to the fountain, is due to him being the undisputed best in the game. At least, until you arrive and throw his world into chaos.

Take A Picture (It’ll Last Longer) by @bangtaninink s wc~2.3k / established relationship, idol au, PWP Summary: Six pairs of curious eyes can’t seem to look away.

Float like a Butterfly, Swim like a Fish by @bangtaninink s wc~2.9k / college au, PWP Summary: Pool sex with college senior and captain of the swim team Jin.

With You by @yoonpobs s wc~22.1k / established relationship, divorce au Summary: Marrying your childhood best friend was not the love story that most painted it to be. You knew that better than anyone else.

The Snuggle is Real by @chimoona s wc~3.1k / established relationship, idol au Summary: For years your boyfriend has struggled to sleep soundly with empty arms. Anything soft and comforting will do: a pillow, RJ, his favorite plushie, or you. Definitely you. After weeks of separation, he’s finally home and jet-lagged. All he needs is a good night’s rest.

Thank You, Daddy by @ktheist s wc~19k / CEO!Seokjin, sugar daddy au Summary: The last time you saw Seokjin was when he went off to college and never looked back. Uncle Kim, a friend of your father who treated you like his own daughter, would complain about his estranged son whenever he came to visit in the new year and got drunk and turned into a pathetic sobbing mess. That scared the fuck out of you because who knew old people could look so ugly when they’re crying over their child whom they neglected for the most part of his life? Well, that child grew up into a fine young man. Fine enough to afford a sugar baby.

Kairos by @luffles424 s wc~25k / CEO!Seokjin, strangers to lovers, A/B/O dynamics Summary: When your financial aid falls through for your last year of school, you fear you’ll have to drop out and postpone your degree. Until Taehyung gives you a suggestion to make a lot of money, quick. His idea can’t possibly end well, can it?

Perfect by @btssmutgalore s wc~12.4k / roommates au Summary: Your roommate seems to have it all - great grades, amazing friends, good job, beautiful girlfriend. However, after a bad breakup and a long recovery, you realize there’s one thing he’s missing.

Jinsik by @itskimtaehyung s wc~12.7k / exes to lovers, chef au Summary: It has been three years since you were last in Seoul, and it has been just as long since you saw Seokjin. In that time, since graduating culinary school, you toured Europe, learning as much about the culture and cuisine as you could. Jin went on to open the most successful restaurant in Korea. When you return home, you just know that this restaurant is where you’re supposed to be.

Kiss It Better by @ppersonna s wc~3.7k / friends au, PWP Summary: Your best friend Kim Seokjin makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

#ksj list #seokjin oneshot

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bish-0-p · 2 years

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Pinned Post

I just realized I have never made a pinned post, so here we go! I’m Bishop and I use he/him pronouns. I’m neurodivergent and thus there will be random bouts of certain fandom posts out of nowhere. I’m bish0p on AO3. I am always open for asks on my OCs and my writing, so please send something in my inbox!

Below is a short list of all of my tagged OCs, in case you run across a post of them and want to know a little bit more!

Dragon Age

Amaara Adaar (She/Her) - Amaara is my Inquisitor, and she is a qunari mage (specifically a knight-enchanter). She was a healer for the Valo-Kas, taken in by Shokrakar after her parents, Hissera and Kost, feared for her life during the Mage-Templar War. She is a 19 year old lesbian and “romances” Lace Harding. Amaara is close with pretty much all of her Inner Circle, as they are her disaster found family. Amaara is also a botanist, and keeps a journal of plants she has come across in the world. She tends to use diplomatic or thoughtful options, but also uses sarcasm when it calls for it. Her favorite party roster is Varric, Iron Bull, and Solas or Dorian.You can find her playlist here.

Elyce Hawke (She/Her) - Elyce is my Champion, and is a duelist rogue. She is bisexual, romances Fenris, and is 31 by the events of Inquisition. She uses a pretty even mix of sarcastic and diplomatic dialogue options. Elyce has ADHD and is a compulsive lair; she wears mask upon mask to protect herself, and rarely lets anyone she the true her. Her favorite party roster is Fenris, Varric, and Merrill.

Mirwen Tabris (They/Them) - Mirwen is my warrior Hero of Fereldan, and they were only 18 at the time of the Blight. They are pansexual and in a polygamous relationship with Zevran Arainai and Leliana. In the first half of the game, they mostly use aggressive or sarcastic options, as their childhood issue with anger issues resurfaced after they saved Shianni from the humans. Their favorite party roster is Alistair, Zevran or Leliana, and Morrigan. They did the ritual with Morrigan, and so they have a son as well! They see Kieran on the weekends /j

Silvhen Lavellan (He/Him) - Silvhen is a hunter from Clan Lavellan. He started using his bow at a young age and became a prodigy among his peers, though struggled with learning close quarters combat. He is transgender, and began transitioning when he was a teenage with the help of his sister, Emith, who is the Second of the clan by the time of Inquisition. Aside from Emith, Sil also has a younger brother, Inaene. When he doesn’t have the role of Inquisitor, he joins as a scout. He is in his mid 20s and romances Dorian. Sil’s favorite party roster is Dorian or Vivenne, Iron Bull, and Varric.You can find his playlist here.

Fallout

Kieran Brooks (He/Him) - Kieran is my Sole Survivor. Before he was drafted, he was working on his computer programming degree. In the military, he was a sniper. He is bisexual and romances MacCready. He is also the General of the Minutemen and an agent of the Railroad. For companions, he most often takes out Preston, Piper, and Nick Valentine. You can find his playlist here.

Molly Brooks (She/Her) - Molly is the twin of my Sole Survivor, and the second half of my Two Soles AU. She did one tour in the war, mostly piloting Power Armor. She was also an engineer for RobCo, though she was unaware of the company’s practices. She is an agent of the Railroad and spent some time in the Brotherhood of Steel, mostly spying for the Minutemen and the Railroad. She is a lesbian and I like to think that she’s in a relationship with Glory. She is also in a QPR with Deacon, though it is strictly platonic. Her most frequent companions are Deacon, Hancock, and Cait, though she often joins Kieran and his friends as well. You can find her playlist here.

Wanda Soriano-Li (She/They) - Wanda is my Lone Wanderer. She is aroace so I don’t ship them with anyone, but she is very close with Charon and RJ MacCready. In fact, she’s watching Duncan for him during the events of Fallout 4. Wanda became a ghoul after they sacrificed themselves at the Purifier, and was consequently kicked out of the Brotherhood of Steel as soon as she was well enough. She uses a modified baseball bat and an assault rifle. Her mother, Catherine, was the younger sister of Madison Li. You can find their playlist here.

Ynes Najera (They/Them) - Ynes is my Courier, and they were 17 when they were shot by Benny. Like Wanda, I don’t ship them with anyone. They most often use Arcade Gannon and Craig Boone for companions. They are an independently-aligned Courier, and help New Vegas stand on its own. They are talented with repair and pretty good with science, and use a hunting rifle. You can find their playlist here.

Eliazar Najera (He/Him) - Eli is Ynes’ older cousin by twelve years, and he helped raise them. He’s not a courier but is instead a companion character. He has major hatred for the Legion and the NCR, and prefers an independent New Vegas or one run by Mr. House. He’s a little but of an idiot, but his heart is in the right place. He runs into Ynes again at the Strip and is pissed that they got hurt so bad that they don’t remember most of what happened in their life. Eli doesn’t really act as a cousin to Ynes, but more of an older brother. I think he’d get along best with Cass and Raul Tejada. He’s very stealthy and good with weapons, but he sucks at talking to people. He’s also very risk-prone and impulsive.

Skyrim

Gruumsha gra-Dushnikh (She/Her) - Gruumsha is my main Dragonborn OC. She is an orc barbarian, and pretty much only uses greatswords. With her, I did the Companions questline. She adopted Blaise and Lucia, married Marcurio (though she had a fling with Lydia at one point), and was on the Imperial side of the Civil War. Her main companions are Farkas, Teldryn Sero, and Lydia.

Marth the Bowman (He/They/She) - Marth is a bosmeri archer, and is a non-Dragonborn OC. I did the Thieves Guild questline with them, as well as part of the Dark Brotherhood. They don’t really use travelling companions often, but when they do they travel with Erandur. They don’t get married or have kids, but make frequent donations to the orphanage in Riften. Their main companions are Erandur, Cicero, and Mjoll.

Dungeons and Dragons

Irein Flenn (She/Her) - Irein is a half-elf, and is both a bard and a sorcerer. She was raised by her older sister, and after she was murdered by an anti-mage crowd, was taken in by a tavern singer.

Azrael (They/Its) - Azrael is an archangel in my D&D universe, but I also play them as a paladin. They are known as the Archangel of Justice, and was gifted with an all-seeing eye of truth by the king of the gods.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Shu Ling (She/They) - Shu Ling is my ATLA OC, and the sister of Longshot. They were apart of Jet’s Freedom Fighters for years, becoming an expert marksman just like their brother. They left the group after Jet blew up the dam; in some universes they join Team Avatar, in others they wander around. Shu Ling is 16, autistic, and is selectively mute. They are bisexual, but I don’t ship them with any of the characters in the show.

The Walking Dead

Cassandra Torres (She/Her) - Cassandra is a 43 year old survivor of the zombie apocalypse. She worked as a pediatrician before the end of the world, sharing custody of her daughter, Claire, with her ex-husband. In the first few months, Claire was killed during a confrontation with another survivor. Since then, Cass has avoided groups as best she can. Cassandra is withdrawn in herself, and when surrounded by others she can be combative and stubborn. She is also very loving, and fears getting attached to someone when she knows they'll probably just leave her too.

#pinned post #amaara adaar #elyce hawke #gruumsha gra-dushnikh #marth the bowman #irein flenn #azrael #shu ling #silvhen lavellan #wanda soriano-li #molly brooks #kieran brooks #ynes najera #eliazar najera #mirwen tabris #cassandra torres

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uardito · 3 years

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In defense of taking and sending nudes

Big budget pornographers and pretty much all advertisers have oddly similar and narrow views on sexy.

These kinds of muscles in these places. These skin colors. These eye colors. Unless we’re doing one of the exotic angles: Can you do the bear? The I-swear-this-isn’t-pederasty twink? (No judgments.) The submissive Asian? The aggressive Black top? Can you do Latin heat, papi?

And honestly, I never could.

As a kid, this would really bother me. I’d beat off to Corbin Fischer-type crap that left me feeling sexually inert, incapable of creating a sexual response in someone. I’m too dark for mainstream stroke material, not Latin enough for the fetishists. Plus, I was never in as good of shape as them. While acne and life’s other peculiarities left their marks on my skin, they somehow never touched theirs; how could I possibly think I was sexy?

I wondered how to find other young gay guys and Corbin Fischer filled the boy I was with such fears of isolation. If that’s who I was looking for, I knew they were nowhere to be found, nowhere within my experience anyway.

If you think about it, that’s a weird place to be in: desexualized, filled with sexual desire and nowhere to put it. I wonder what the fallout from that might be?

The Fall of the Power of Porn

Today, pornographers are going out of business “No one wants to pay for porn anymore.” Honestly, for me, money has less to do with it; I’m just not beating off to their videos. I don’t think they’re hot. I’m not feeling their models. I’m not feeling their videos’ shallow, surreal sexual hookups. It fetishizes sex that’s impossible to have with people who barely exist.

More shallow than Grindr? Yes. Much. Next to porn, even next to the normalizing and desexualizing mainstream gay political discourse, online dating or cruising in general is a thought-provoking and radical reclamation of sexual power.

It starts with writing our profiles. It starts with taking sexualized pictures of ourselves. It becomes dangerous and radical when we send those pictures.

They often play a role in how we negotiate sex with each other. And suddenly we’re not looking to unreal and exaggerated bodies of porn–we’re sexualizing the people we’re actively trying to have sex with as opposed to trying to push our sexual partners and sex to look more like porn.

Randall Munroe, https://xkcd.com/598/

Outside that, it empowers us to see ourselves sexually and have that reaffirmed by other people’s sexual attraction, even if we have no intention or even ability to touch those enjoying our digital depiction. Don’t think for a moment that I’m above this. People have either seen me naked or masturbated with me, people as close as down the street to some on the other side of the world. The latter case was particularly important when I was living in a part of the country where I wasn’t seen as that attractive. I could hop online and be reminded that I had sexual power, though I felt mostly powerless at my digs in Georgia at the time.

Cock blocked by sexual panic

Of course, abandoning the sexual institutions of old doesn’t mean that they’ve abandoned us. Respectability, fear, modesty, shame: they’re all hallmarks of this discussion.

Watch, by way of an example, RJ Aguiar’s Dick Pic Etiquette which in the course of only seven minutes manages an advertisement for a new dating platform AND provides a tour of heteronormative sexual pathology and anxiety. (I pick on RJ here only because I’m a big fan of his work, but what he says there echoes idiotic stuff said on national and international television by every other reputable person in news.) He alternates between classist tropes — like the idea that our sexual propositions not be exclusively sexual but also include some bourgeois notion of artistic value — to cataloging every way sexualizing ourselves could lead to disaster, including legal peril and the fear of exposure should any of our pictures stay on any networkable devices…

Me impersonating RJ safeguarding his erotic self-portraiture in one of the only non-networkable devices in my apartment.

Listening to him and other pundits go off, I’m reminded of the history of hysteria regarding sex that’s haunted us for centuries: The sometimes comical, sometimes downright horrifying efforts to prevent children from masturbating in the 18th and 19th century (Buzzfeed article, MentalFloss article); various sexuality-inspired hysterias in the 20th century like the McMartin trial (about sex abuse in education at the end of the 20th century); and the modern day paranoia about transfolk who need to pee.

Not to say that the anxieties of RJ and his hysterical kin are entirely unfounded, but it’s so easy for him and other people doing the committed monogamy thing to be terrified by the lives of people who are doing things differently. They have no skin in the game. They don’t have to cruise for sex or love when they’re horny or lonely. This fear mongering justifies decisions that they’ve already made and distances themselves from parts of their lives they’re eager to forget. Their hysteria encourages heteronormativity, encourages traditional values, encourages pursuing relationships just like your probably-miserable straight parents did and protects boring porn and a hateful ad industry.

Rejecting this sexual morality and hysteria is not always easy. That rejection threatens pillars of American society (probably only nominally). But by rejecting that we gain power over our sexual fantasies and capacities.

If you’re capable of sexual fantasy, you’re capable of sex. If you’re capable of sex, you’re capable of being sexy, of being seen sexually by yourself and others.

If you’re this far and have a camera phone, you’re a few short clicks away from me and a bunch of other deviants masturbating to you.

Relish that power.

And with it, find sex and love on your own damn terms.

-Santi

Santi fell in love for the first time as a child in Georgia and for the second time as a young man in Brooklyn. Today, he lives in Miami where he’s convinced that derechistas are ready to run him out of town. Santi continues his love of photography, both in the area of auto-erotic portraiture and otherwise, on Twitter and Instagram at @uardito.

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nako-doodles · 4 years

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bts tag

tagged by my lovelies @houseofarmanto & @mainvocaljin 💖💖

when did you first get into bts? right when bts were at the end of their INU promotions and i unbent myself enough to stop thinking bts as that One Problematic Group that has Scary Feral Fans (oh how the tables have turned)

why or/and how did you get into bts? my roommate heard my opinions and went bitch LET ME BLOW YOUR MIND (sorry wrong group reference) and then hyyh2 dropped and the rest is history

first bts song: No More Dream

favorite bts song? how the fuck does one simply have ONE (1) singular fave BTS song? purely ot7: run, autumn leaves, sea, tomorrow, spine breaker, spring day, rain, let me know, best of me, young forever, save me, fire, dope, answer: love yourself and many many more

first official comeback: run

favorite bts era: the ones that really stuck w me: hyyh3, wings, woh, on, lytear

bias(s): yoontaejin

bias wrecker: might as well just say it: all of them wreck me mind body and soul

first concert: wings tour newark day 1

do you own any merch: i have my army bomb and fan signs from the concert, wings album ver n and a couple young forever posters bc my friends got it for me on my bday, and an oversized suga 92 hyyh varsity jacket. i know deep down in my heart all my problems would go away if i had a giant rj to cuddle into.

what member would you say you are most like? hmmm i always get namjoon on those bts member quizzes but personally i think im a mix of namyoonjin?

favourite bts lyrics:

i don’t give a shit i don’t give a fuck like i always said hundreds of time every day, “never mind me” i can have a taste of failure and frustration and bow my head we are still young and immature, don’t even worry about it moss surely grows on a stone that doesn’t roll if you can’t return, go straight through your mistakes and forget them all never mind it’s not easy but engrave it onto your chest if you feel like you’re going to crash then accelerate more, you idiot

-intro: never mind

favourite music video: how is this question in the singular excuse me? save me, bst, inu, woh, run, fire, on (kinetic film), black swan, intro: boy with evil

1 thing you love about bts: i really admire how they are not afraid to be vulnerable with their music. they are conscious of their influence and they use it to soothe and heal. they try their best to do good in a world that feels like it’s full of thorns and evil. thank you bts.

and to finish off wholesomely, do you have a favourite bts group photo, if so share it here (if not, what is your fav concept photoshoot and share picture):

this moment right here :’)

i tag my loves: @cafejoon @jincentvangogh @stargazingjin @cultleaderyoongi @seokjinssi @wabisaba @suggable & anyone who wants to come cry w me 🌸🌸

#im sorry this took me a literal eon to do aeiogjiaeorg #this made me emotional answering these questions so if this post seems a little incoherent its bc I am incoherent #anyways im tagging this while looking at the gif of yoongi jumping on top of his bras and im 😭😭😭#anyways thank you for tagging me loves #hash tag

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newleasemusic · 2 years

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Rosewood 2055 Taps Boldy James, Slum Village And More For New EP 'When The Night Calls'

@Rosewood2055 Taps Boldy James, Slum Village And More For New EP 'When The Night Calls'

After rappers MarQ Beyond and Rebel Kuzco spent the better part of the 2010s touring the world with Slum Village, and contributing to the group’s Dirty Slums 2, Evolution, and Yes! albums; the two collaborated with Statik Selektah as ROSEWOOD 2055 for their 2015 debut EP Hey! Now a trio with the addition of Detroit producer Sensei Cam (the nephew of Slum Village’s Young RJ), Rosewood 2055…

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#hip-hop #indie group #indie music #MarQ Beyond #Miami #Music #Ne&039;Astra Music #new ep #new releases 2022 #Rebel Kuzco #Rosewood 2055 When The Night Calls #USA

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kickmag · 2 years

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Young RJ Shares Lyric Video For World Tour Feat. Pete Rock & Rebel Kuzco

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Young RJ returns with his World Tour album and a video for the title track featuring Pete Rock and Rebel Kuzco. The reflections on the ups and downs of a romantic relationship has the same sonic feel as his work with Slum Village honoring all the things he learned from his mentor J.Dilla. He previously shared "Lucky" featuring fellow Detroiter Boldy James. The rapper and producer revealed the motivation for his third studio album in a statement:

“I missed being out there with the fans performing. It felt right to title [the album ‘World Tour’]. There were so many things going on all over the world while recording, it was hard to focus... To take my mind away from the news of everything that was going on around me – capitol riots, missing family members, not being able to see them, etc.--I put all my focus into being creative... [This album] captures everything I was dealing with (good and bad) between 2020 and 2021... it was therapy for me.”

World Tour has guest appearances from Pino Palladino, Blu, Mega Ran, Eric Roberson, Pete Rock, Boldy James, Rosewood 2055, Abstract Orchestra, Kezia and Dankery Harv.

#young rj #slum village #Youtube

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theinsanecrayonbox · 4 years

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well it was supposed to be FCBD (yes i know “postponed”), and it’s been a terrible day thus far, so how’s about my plot outline/list for what was going to happen in Superverse before it went on hiatus...because at this point it would either be another time skip past all/most of this or a full on hard reboot if we went back to it at this point

to start off, the STT was going to continue with Chloe struggling to be leader since Tim’s around, and everyone keeps going to him a bit more than her...well half of everyone. it culminates with Time leaving to go restart the Power pals, since well, he’s nearing 20 at this point. and the STT was getting quite a large roster, so the older members went with him, while the younger stayed and Chloe once again could be the leader.

Kevin would’ve met Junior at some point (because who doesn’t like amophus daemons). Trudy also got herself a girlfriend in the form of Susan C. Anthony, a bank heiress, who does not have powers.

Tootie was going to eventually come back (idk when or how) as Shadow Stalker. again, her return was farther down the line, so i don’t have the details that well ironed out...

Chester had already left Star Investigations because Mari had called him to a reading of Catman’s will. he did indeed inherit half of West Industries, as the young Adam was posing as a long lost son and thus was legally entitled to half the company too. Chester took over as Catman, while Mari stayed on to help Adam deal with the company. Chester would join Tim’s new Power Pals, thus finally fixing their broken friendship.

Trixie and Trini were going to head to Glamazon Island after they defeated Hair Razor. Trini’s lasso was destroyed in the fight, so they figured maybe she could use this reality’s lasso. Trixie’s powers were also starting to flare up, so they were also hoping to get some answers to that. once there they get to see that Goldenlocks has had her son, and they get to meet Hermia (whom Dwight was dropping off). they both end up going through a mystical trial of sorts that ended with Trini not getting the golden lasso of this universe, but her own silver one forged for her; Trixie on the other hand gets flashes of Cel’rey and Trisha, and the mystical voices tell her that she needs to go to England, leading into a Star/Sonic crossover event

over with Sonic and Paladin, it’s business as usual. however, CHATTY is starting to get hyper aggressive since Sanjay and Francis are starting to renew their romance.the team has to take her out, but in the ensuing battle their complex looses power for some time. this leads to 1) Sanjay learning that Britannia has blackmail over every member of Paladin and 2) it jump starts Molly out of her coma. Molly goes full Phoenix force though, as she absorbed the Light from Trixie at the end of Civil War (thus leading to her coma). this is when Trixie and Trini arrive more or less, so they help Paladin wrangle Molly back in and Trixie is able to reabsorb the Light, getting her powers back, and becoming Star-Gal once more. this also leaves Molly awake and permanently able to fly.

it would soon become revealed that BRAT, headed by Doombringer (the life hopping sorceress from King Arthur’s time), had been bankrolling Paladin (she also had a hand in funding Shallowgrave’s Civil War, and had the Summers killed, among other things). how is it revealed? because Crimson Lightning comes back into play once Sanjay and Francis are together again as the annoying jealous ex that he is. they manage to get him under control thanks to Molly’s help, but Alyssa ends up with the demon sword, becoming the Black Knight.

Trini goes and joins Tim’s Power Pals, while Trixie gets called back into space. First she finds and frees Hawkgal, then the two go out into space. Remember the ice guy Star Investigations helped out? well he sends a distress call to Trixie; her mentor Killgala is back some how...and the Darkness is also en-couching. Mark and Starfury also join up with them, ad they would in time find a version of Crash Nebula. the whole Light/Darkness mythos was also better explained, about how at the time of creation the cosmos split, thus leading to the Darkness and the Light; both energies became corrupted in different ways (the Light Corp imprisoning and using the Light, the Darkness going power hungry and creating the Eliminator drones, etc) and only by genuinely reuniting them could there be balance or something. that’s all cosmic stuff that i hadn’t fully fleshed out, since we needed to get past the Cosmic Cat stuff...

of course one minor subplot; Hermia would use Trixie and Trini’s existence as an excuse to escape Glamazon Island, claiming to go back to the mainland to go live with them, only to instead go shack up with Liam (the young Wet Willie). Trini, since she joins the Power pals, is the one to find that out, and gets royally peeved. but Hermia eventually takes over her spot on the team.

over in Eraserz, the team was going to get stuck going on a World Tour, being cut off from the Nexxus because some force was screwing up the multiverse. they would end up in a Mojoverse-like setting where they’d meet a half-editor entity (i forget who it was, might’ve been the April Fool or Puck). they’d pick up some temporary members, like the Franklin West Catman (who ends up staying in his reality), Charlie Hampton, the young Crimson Chin (who ends up on an alternate earth where the Power pals and STT had tehir age roles reversed, but there was no Chin, so he stays with that earth’s teenage Goldie) and some more permanent ones like RJ; specifically when they recruit RJ, Shirely stayed out of the Primeverse to do so (this was plot important) but so did Tony because he didn’t wanna risk running into Trini; RJ was recruited BEFORE Trini joined the Power Pals though. Tony would end up going missing while the team was hunting for an entity that was killing off alternate Trixie tangs, so they called in Trini to rejoin the team. somewhere along the line, RJ got stuck in a time displacement, and wound up on Earth 0 (the world that Shirely was exiled to) in the past; see, since RJ joined up, Shirely had been half avoiding, half flirting with him, and he was just starting to come around to it, but now he understood why, because from Shirely’s perspective they'd already dated. so RJ spends time with the past Shirely, is the one that convinces him not to be a prick and help the Eraserz when they come to him to take down Dark magician and co, and he ends up going back to his proper time, and the two of them pick back up tehir relationship where it left off. (this is all every important because as it would be revealed, Shirley and RJ are actually Tru Turner/Double T/FTT’s Masked Magician’s parents. Tim and Toot adopted her to keep her safe. that’s why she has such cosmic power, because she’s half Editor).

we were also going to learn more about Maggie’s backstory, since on the surface she seems like the only Eraserz member without a horrible tragic backstory, but as the plot progressed we’d keep getting hints to something. yeah, she has a Winter Solider!Kevin on her earth, and she kinda had to kill her cousin to save lives. but turns out she didn’t really kill him or something, because they end up on her world at some point and find out that she was manipulated to think she had?? something like that...i also had no intention to ever bring Kore back, so yeah, he’s dead-dead.

anyways, the Trixie hunting entity; that’s the Dark Star-Gal from that one special. she’s the Trixie that merged with the Darkness (since the Darkness wants to consume the Light, that we know she was the vessel for) and became self aware of the multiverse and started reality hopping to consume all Trixies. the Eraserz stop her...only to discover that the reason that Dark Star became aware of the multiverse was because the Showrunner gave her access...the Showrunner that has been MIA since the Eliminatorz were stopped.

the Showrunner was the one now causing the multiverse to start collapsing and breaking down because, to him, “this isn’t what the universe was supposed to be like”. he created one canon, and then another entity (the fandom) came in and started breaking it up, making spin offs, AUs, different versions, creating the multiverse. so he broke that entity up into pieces and scattered them across the multiverse, then created the Editors to police the multiverse to make sure the pieces couldn’t get back together (thus the universe rule of only 1 version of a person can exits there at a time) and slowly try to correct and remove the “wrong” universes. but the Editors grew out of his control as they evolved, so he created the Eraserz to, well, “erase’ the mistakes. but even they went against his plans, so he decided to just leave and just erase everything. but the pieces of the greater entity did find a way to come together, (a fragment of?) Omegus managed to hitch a ride with RJ when the Eraserz recruited him. Omegus then overtook Tony who bore the mark of Beteal, who went to Dark Magician to take the powers that Anosmotic, aka Zethran, had given him away, undoubtedly found a way to the Nega-verse to confront Alphane, and so on and so forth (if you hadn’t noticed, each reality that had an Omegus equivalent had a different name, and now you know why)...until all the pieces could be reunited, possibly in the body of CoT!Saber actually, into one being called Omnicron.

and the final confrontation of the Showrunner and Omnicron would be in the vast void as the multiverse was set on pause as it crumbled. the Showrunner claiming that Omnicron had destroyed the thing he had created, only for Omnicron to be all “i saw what you created and wanted to create my own. you helped me flourish, and then i helped others flourish. how can growth and creativity be the wrong thing to do?” because no, Omnicron did not destroy the multiverse, it was indeed the Showrunner; Omnicron took what the Showrunner had made and let it flourish on its own, while he just tried to contain it back into what he made it to be to begin with.

and so yeah, that’s what i had planned for Superverse. some thing were far more fleshed out than others, but those were the parts i’d had planned for YEARS. i had the Omnicron stuff planned before Civil War, while the Cosmic Cat i had planned since Civil War

#superverse #My writing #long post

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dulwichdiverter · 5 years

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The life of Leslie Howard

Words Mark Bryant

The actor Leslie Howard, who went to school in Dulwich and who lived in the area for nearly two decades, is probably best known as the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes in the Hollywood blockbuster Gone with the Wind, which celebrates its 80th anniversary this year.

But he was also a wartime radio broadcaster of British propaganda and the director and star of a number of patriotic wartime films, notably The First of the Few, about the designer of the famous Spitfire fighter plane – which itself has links to Dulwich.

He was born Leslie Howard Steiner at 31 Westbourne Road (now Westbourne Drive), Forest Hill, on April 3 1893, the first child of Hungarian-born stockbroker’s clerk Ferdinand “Frank” Steiner, and his English wife Lilian.

Shortly after his birth the family moved to Vienna, where a sister Dorice and a brother, Alfred, were born. Dorice later founded Hurst Lodge School in Ascot, whose pupils included the actress Juliet Stevenson and the future Duchess of York.

On their return to London, Frank anglicised his surname to Stainer and soon afterwards Leslie and his two siblings were baptised at St Chrysostom’s church in Peckham.

In 1903 another sister, Irene (later a celebrated casting director for MGM and others) was born and, in 1904, Leslie attended Belvedere House preparatory school in Upper Norwood.

The family eventually settled at 45 Farquhar Road by Crystal Palace Park – only a short distance from Dulwich – and lived there from 1907 (when Leslie was 14) to 1910. It was a convenient location as Leslie’s widowed maternal grandmother ran a lodging house at “Woodbury”, 2 Jasper Road, close by.

In September 1907 Leslie was sent to Alleyn’s School. Here he was a near contemporary of the future novelist CS Forester (1899-1996), who was at Alleyn’s around this time.

As his daughter, Leslie Ruth Howard, says in her book A Quite Remarkable Father (1959): “The young Leslie went to school, which he loathed and at which, due to shyness and his afflicting near-sightedness, he was never much good.”

However, he began to write short stories and one-act plays and dreamed of becoming a writer. He later said: “As a boy the possibility of being an actor never even occurred to me... I wanted to write.”

Unfortunately, when he announced that he wanted to be a full-time writer his father had other ideas. Unlike fellow Old Alleynian CS Forester, whose father supported him for six months to get him started, Frank wanted Leslie to get a proper job and took him out of school in April 1910, shortly after his 17th birthday.

As a result, after a brief spell as a junior clerk in the purser’s office of a Thames steamboat company, he commuted daily by train to central London to work as a bank clerk for Cox & Co.

By this time the family had moved to “Allendale”, 4 Jasper Road, next to Leslie’s grandmother. Leslie’s uncle Wilfred Noy, a film director working for the Clarendon Film Company in Croydon, lived next door.

According to Leslie’s daughter, “It was a peaceful neighbourhood of large, ugly red-brick Victorian houses mostly set back from the road, with short carriage drives and pleasant gardens.

“Jasper Road, where the family found themselves, looked over a green valley where trees hid similar houses, and circled a hill on whose summit stood the Crystal Palace.”

Leslie’s mother, who had always been interested in the theatre, set up the Upper Norwood Dramatic Club (UNDC), for which Leslie was honorary secretary as well as playwright, actor and musician. By 1912 the UNDC was appearing regularly at Stanley Halls in South Norwood.

While working at the bank, Leslie continued writing and performing in his spare time with some success. In 1913 his story The Impersonation of Lord Dalton appeared in The Penny Magazine, and his play Deception was reviewed in The Stage. The following year, after the outbreak of World War One, he appeared in a crowd scene in his first film, The Heroine of Mons, directed by his uncle Wilfred.

When he was 21, he volunteered for the army and was commissioned in 1915 as a second lieutenant in a cavalry regiment stationed in Essex. Here he met and married a local girl in the spring of 1916 and was dispatched to France shortly afterwards. However, in May that year he was sent back home suffering from shell-shock.

Deemed unfit for military service, he decided to become a professional actor and changed his name to Leslie Howard. His uncle Wilfred also helped him get a role (his first credited film part) in The Happy Warrior and after acting in various provincial theatres he made his first appearance on the London stage in February 1918.

At about this time his parents and siblings left south-east London and settled in a large house in West Kensington. As a result, Howard, his wife and their young son, Ronald (who was born in Norwood in April 1918), also left and moved in with them.

In the 1920s Leslie went to the USA and began appearing in films, notably Berkeley Square, which earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor. In 1934 he was in an NBC radio play, Without Benefit of Clergy, with another Old Alleynian, Clive Brook, and starred in The Scarlet Pimpernel and Of Human Bondage.

Two years later came The Petrified Forest with his friend Humphrey Bogart (Bogie and Bacall named their daughter Leslie Howard Bogart), followed by Pygmalion in 1938, which earned him another best actor nomination. Leslie’s youngest brother, Arthur also appeared in this film.

Leslie’s last Hollywood film, Gone with the Wind (1939), was ironically greatly admired by Goebbels, and Hitler himself was a fan of Leslie’s co-star Clark Gable, later even offering a reward for his capture and transportation to Germany alive.

With the outbreak of World War Two, Leslie returned to the UK. He joined a Ministry of Information “ideas committee” for propaganda projects and made National Savings films with Noël Coward.

He also bought a house in Surrey and, helped by his friend and neighbour Jonah Barrington, the radio correspondent of the Daily Express, he listened to radio broadcasts from Poland as the Nazis invaded.

By coincidence it was Barrington who coined the nickname “Lord Haw Haw” for the infamous former Dulwich resident William Joyce, who by this time was broadcasting Nazi propaganda to the UK.

By a further coincidence, not only was Leslie later mentioned by name in some of these broadcasts, but the house he lived in when at Alleyn’s School (45 Farquhar Road), was only two doors away from Joyce’s own home (41 Farquhar Road) before he left for Germany in 1939.

Leslie broadcast propaganda himself, notably appearing on the novelist JB Priestley’s popular BBC weekly programme Postscripts, and later alone on Britain Speaks. These talks were broadcast to north America throughout the London Blitz, in an effort to persuade the (then neutral) USA to support the Allies.

In addition, he acted in the Ministry of Information’s first full-length feature film, 49th Parallel and produced, directed and acted in a number of patriotic anti-German propaganda films himself.

These included “Pimpernel” Smith, which was set in Nazi Germany and allegedly inspired Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to mount his real-life rescue operation in Budapest that saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi concentration camps. The casting director was Leslie’s sister, Irene, and his son Ronald, by then 23, also appeared in the film.

Another film, regarded by many as his best, was The First of the Few, whose title (suggested by Leslie) refers to a line in Churchill’s famous speech about the RAF’s role in the Battle of Britain: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”. In the film, which has a number of Dulwich links, Leslie plays RJ Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire fighter plane.

Mitchell’s wife is played by future Dulwich resident Rosamund John (1913-98) who, from 1950, would live in Alleyn Park with her second husband, Old Alleynian politician John Silkin (the third son of Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin, and a younger brother of another Old Alleynian politician, Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich).

In addition, one of the real-life test pilots involved with the development of the Spitfire (and on which David Niven’s role as the fictional RAF squadron leader Geoffrey Crisp was partly based), was Old Alleynian wing commander George Hedley Stainforth (1899-1942). Sadly Stainforth was killed on active duty the year the film was released.

Leslie started shooting The First of the Few in the summer of 1941. The following year the Ministry of Information commissioned him to direct a recruitment film, The Gentle Sex, about women serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). Leslie was also the narrator.

Once again future Dulwich resident Rosamund John starred, as one of seven girls from different walks of life who join the ATS. In Leslie’s final film, The Lamp Still Burns, John was cast in the lead role as an architect who becomes a nurse.

In April 1943, shortly after his 50th birthday, Leslie was sent to Lisbon on a British Council lecture tour of neutral Spain and Portugal, which some claimed later was really a top-secret mission for Churchill to dissuade General Franco from joining the Axis powers. Some even thought that he had been mistaken for Churchill himself.

Whatever the truth, when flying back to Bristol from Lisbon, the civilian airliner he was travelling in was shot down on June 1 1943 by Luftwaffe fighters over the Bay of Biscay, and he and all the other people on board were killed.

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Dr Mark Bryant lives in East Dulwich and is the author World War II in Cartoons and other books.

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sweetsmellosuccess · 2 years

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Sundance 2022: Day 1

Number of Films: 2 Best Film of the Day: Emergency

The Princess: Ed Perkins’ doc about the late Princess Diana may not have a narrator, but it is far from voiceless. Composed entirely of archive footage, There is the cacophony of opinion from coronation to outright condemnation from countless news pundits, along with the breathless commentary by person-in-the-street interviews. There is the uncertain,wooden delivery from Prince Charles, forced into a marriage of convenience with a stunning 19-year-old Di by the Queen, who wouldn’t accept the true love of his life, Camilla Parker Bowles, as she had been married, and therefore wasn’t considered “pure.” And, of course, there is the dulcet voice of Lady Diana herself, from shy teenager, blushing when asked about Charles’ intentions, to the harrowed mother of two young boys in her mid-30s, having been under constant and brutally ruthless public surveillance since Charles first began courting her. The cameras, both still and video, are literally everywhere she goes, whatever she does. Thus, when Charles’ continuing infidelity comes to light, her greatest humiliation is broadcast to the world. The presence of these cameras was so overwhelming and unrelenting, she tried to take her own life several times in the course of her cursed marriage. Perkins’ film follows this tragic rise and fall — the film begins with footage of Diana leaving a hotel in Paris with her current boyfriend on the fateful night of the car crash that ended up killing the both of them, taken by some gawking onlookers, hoping to get a glimpse of her — resolutely portraying the intense pressure of her private and public life, without framing or context in a way that indicts all of us. Craven paparazzi knowing every shot of her, stolen from any angle and by any means necessary, meant their meal ticket; shallow, heartless news pundits, whose cruel opinion of her served as an indictment of the individual to the royal order; and her legions and legions of ardent supporters (who lovingly call her “the peoples’ princess”), along with the film’s own audience, unifying all of us with its searing indictment. We all took part in her demise, it suggests, by consuming the volume of media centered on her, creating an ever-more desperate and lonely woman, whose only real sin was believing, if for a moment, a royal prince would actually deign to love her, as she adored him.

Emergency: A film by Carey Williams that begins as a kind of campus comedy about a pair of friends wanting to complete a “legendary tour” of campus frat parties in a single night, and eventually becomes a meaningful interrogation of racial politics, and the wildly different sets of rules for POCs in this country. Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins), a hardworking science major on his way to graduate studies at Princeton, and his best friend, Sean (RJ Cyler), less driven, but with a better sense of cultural reality, have long planned this multi-stop campus party crawl — Sean hopes they become the first POCs in school history to complete the entire circuit, earning themselves a plaque in the college’s “Hall of Firsts” for black people. Heading back to their off-campus apartment for the “pre-game,” however, they discover a young, passed out white girl, Emma (Maddie Nichols), lying on the floor of their place. Unsure of what to do — Kunle wants to call 9-1-1, Sean, fearing what the police would assume, doesn’t want any part of it — the pair eventually link up with their other roommate, Carlos (Sebastian Chacon), a sweet-tempered “mechanical aerospace engineer” major, when not playing multiple video games at once, and head off in Sean’s van to take Emma to a local hospital. Meanwhile, back at one of the aforementioned frat parties, Emma’s older sister, Maddie (Sabrina Carpenter), is searching in vain for her. Grabbing her friend (Madison Thompson), and a random boy (Diego Abraham) they just met, the trio goes in search of Emma via the enabled tracking on her cell phone. There are the makings of a perfectly fine comedy caper of misunderstandings, here, to be sure, but Williams, working from a strong script by KD Davila, is after more than broad laughs and gross-out jokes. As Kunle and Sean debate how to handle this situation, we understand the danger implicit in their decision within a culture in which young black men have to be ever wary, lest their intentions — even the most decent and well-meaning — become “misunderstood” by the authorities. Somehow, Williams deftly connects both the comic, and the political, synthesizing genre tropes in a way that feels deftly organic. What seems at first to be unfounded cynicism by Sean, who warns his friend what will happen if they get involved, turns out all too prescient by the time Emma is actually taken to the hospital. The discourse is never didactic — even during an early scene with the pair of friends suffering through a class on taboos that has their white professor repeatedly using the n-word — which makes it all the more compelling. It’s a standout, using the form and style of the campus comedy in order to present an image of prevalent, modern race disparity in a way that’s both comic and cogent.

The Sundance Film Festival has returned, albeit in virtual-only format. We might not be skating on the ice and snow of Park City, but we’re still going to take in a whole bunch of independent films, some of which might be the best things we get to see this year. Let’s see how it goes.

#sweet smell of success #piers marchant #ssos #movies #films #sundance film festival 2022 #park city utah #indie #virtual film fest

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Best rap, 2017

In 2007, I thought I was very fast. That fall, I was one of the top sophomores at the Minnesota high school cross country state championships, which, believe it or not, are very competitive as far as high school cross country state championships go. Then it was winter. There’s no indoor track season in Minnesota; I played hockey, like I had for my entire life to that point, but I also ran 60 miles a week in toques and gloves and terrible things called “wind briefs.” I got ambitious and decided that in the spring, I wanted to be the fastest 15-year-old in the state, the Midwest, maybe the country.

But in the first week of outdoor track, in the middle of a mile repeat workout we were running on the sidewalk (there was snow on the track), I felt bones splinter. There were stress fractures up and down my left tibia.

Every afternoon for the next twelve weeks, I had to find a ride from my high school down to a suburban YMCA, chosen because it had a reliably deserted pool. I needed to get in some sort of cardio with zero impact on my bones. If you’ve never seen someone water run, it looks like a recurring nightmare playing out under fluorescent lights: a skeletally thin person in the water, upright, making all the movements he or she would make on the track, but moving impossibly slow, back and forth, end to end. It’s like quicksand. I would sweat and strain and grit my teeth, but I was barely moving.

A couple weeks into my muggy purgatory, my friend Collin burned me a CD of an obscure album he’d found on a Wordpress blog. It was called Brokelore and was by someone named Grip Grand––clearly from the Bay, but we couldn’t find anything else about him.

It blew me away. I listened to it every day, to and from the Y, in headphones or out of those primitive aux hookups that plugged into the cassette decks in my friends’ cars. He sounded gruff and grizzled, but we had no idea what he looked like. (Eventually, Collin found a short interview Grip had done with a blog, but we assumed the press photo was of the blogger, not the rapper. Sorry, Grip.)

The record’s mostly self-produced; the beats have a little grit and a lot of warmth. Grip’s voice is tough, but elastic enough to bounce and bend and let the humor through. Grip is quick and witty, but threads the record with these incredibly earnest love letters to rap: "96 Tears” is an extended lyrical exercise, “Hip-Hop Classic” is the sound of someone pounding his fist on a computer desk, searching. There’s a song with Percee P (”Paper Cup”) and a song where Grip thanks Percee P for dropping that verse (”Showtime (That’s Entertainment)”). There’s “Handle That,” which was probably conceived as a parody of popular rap styles at the time but got mutated along the way and sounds like a good-faith alien transmission; there’s distortion and vocal modulation and lines like “While you pretend to be sick like Ferris Bueller / Grip Grand drop gems like a careless jeweler.”

But it’s called Brokelore. This was a few months before the financial collapse; this was Oakland and San Francisco and the shadow of the early tech boom. Sometimes Grip and his Rec League comrades broach this with a light touch, cashing bad checks and skirting tax forms. (One of the album’s highlights is the remix of “Poppin’ Pockets,” where Grip and A.G. (!) rap joyously about having absolutely zero money.) Then there are the graver moments: “Out of Service” is a half-dreamed conversation with a factory worker who’s in limbo at a bus stop; it’s tearjerking but never treacly. “Tomorrow” is sorrowful.

And then there’s “Love/Drama” which––this is not an exaggeration––is one of the most deeply felt rap songs I’ve ever heard. It’s structured as a letter back to a writer who ripped his last record, Welcome to Broakland. An artist responding to criticism looks defensive––and that’s the point. In the space of a few bars, the song unspools into a catalog of Grip’s deepest fears as an artist.

“My whole albums’s a jack: “Impeach the President?” Yo, how done is that? Tribute to early rap? DIY ethic? No, a piss-poor producer—take my name off the credits.”

The song wraps up with a venomous couplet:“You’re so astute brah, every minute flaw, you heard it / Can’t wait to hear your album, it must be perfect.” But he’s not brushing off the critic. “Love/Drama” isn’t about brushing off a detractor, it’s about scratching and clawing and stretching $10 in groceries for a whole week, pouring yourself into a record only for it to be...fine. The kicker, then, is that Grip Grand internalized all of that and made a masterpiece.

I say all that to say this: I don’t know if I would have found Brokelore today. Ten years after the fact, it’s ostensibly my job to find and write criticism of rap music, including obscure releases like this. But the economics of the media industry are strange: while it seems clear that people still want to discover new music, it’s difficult to get anybody to click on articles that present it. Music discovery has moved mostly to the curated playlists at streaming sites (so, radio) and there are fewer and fewer places willing to publish full-scale album reviews for artists who are untested or unsigned. I don’t spend enough time in pools.

Of course, there are still massive communities of rap fans who dig for new material. But as it becomes more difficult to make a living covering it––and with the collapse of the blog world, which was invaluable for fans and artists in the mid- and late-2000s––there’s less time and attention given to smaller artists. Especially the kinds of time and attention that can be turned into money. (On that count, I physically recoil imagining how much bleaker the Bay Grip rendered on Brokelore has gotten.)

The good news is that rap is in an exceptional place right now. There are vibrant underground scenes in cities across the country. In 2018, I’m resolving to take time, stay still, and appreciate rappers who would otherwise go uncovered.

Notes/methodology: This list, obviously, includes both songs and albums. In most of the cases where either an album or a song from it could have made my top sixty, I chose whichever entry would rank higher, i.e.- I think “The Story of O.J.” is one of the ten best rap things from this year, while 4:44 as an album would rank a couple dozen spots lower. There are exceptions. “We Ball” would probably be among my top ten entries, but I wanted to give a nod to Meek Mill’s album because it hasn’t left rotation since it came out. Similar case with Boosie: “Webbie I Remember” could easily be in my top five, but BooPac should be on everyone’s radar, even if it’s ninety minutes. Slow down.

60. YG, “Pop It, Shake It” 59. Smooky MarGielaa, “Stay 100” 58. YBN Nahmir, “Rubbin Off The Paint” 57. Freddie Gibbs –– You Only Live 2wice 56. Muja Messiah & Roc Marciano –– Saran Wrap 55. Frosty Da Snowmann, “Oh My Gawd” 54. Wiki –– No Mountains in Manhattan 53. Greg Grease –– Down So Long 52. Chris $pencer, “Shark Wrestling” 51. Chief Keef, “Can You Be My Friend” 50. P.O.S –– chill, dummy 49. 2 Chainz –– Pretty Girls Like Trap Music 48. Young Dolph, “100 Shots” 47. Roc Marciano –– Rosebudd’s Revenge 46. Bbymutha, “Roses” 45. Sahbabii, “Pull Up wit ah Stick” 44. Nef the Pharaoh, “Bling Blaow” 43. J Hus –– Common Sense 42. 21 Savage –– Issa Album 41. Cardi B, “Bodak Yellow” 40. Deniro Farrar, “Can’t Touch Me” 39. Lor Jugg & Bandhunta Izzy, “Back At It” 38. G Herbo –– Humble Beast 37. billy woods, “Police Came To My Show” 36. French Montana, “Unforgettable” f/ Swae Lee 35. Rich Homie Quan –– Back to the Basics 34. Lil B –– Black Ken 33. Nipsey Hussle, “Rap Niggas” 32. A$AP Ferg, “Plain Jane” 31. Young Thug –– Beautiful Thugger Girls 30. Migos –– CULTURE 29. Playboi Carti, “Magnolia” 28. Why Khaliq –– The Mustard Seed 27. Snoop Dogg –– Neva Left 26. C Struggs, “Go to Jesus” 25. Lor Choc, “Fast Life” 24. RJ, “Blammer” 23. Tee Grizzley, “First Day Out” 22. OMB Peezy, “Lay Down” 21. Boosie –– BooPac 20. Meek Mill –– Wins & Losses 19. Kodak Black, “Patty Cake” 18. Drakeo –– Cold Devil 17. Don Trip & Starlito –– Step Brothers THREE 16. milo –– who told you to think??!!?!?!?! 15. 03 Greedo –– Money Changes Everything; Purple Summer 03; First Night Out 14. DJ Quik & Problem –– Rosecrans 13. Nocando, “1998″ 12. Goldlink, “Crew” f/ Shy Glizzy & Brent Faiyaz 11. Mach-Hommy –– Haitian Body Odor 10. Lil Uzi Vert, “XO Tour Llif3″ 9. Jay-Z, “The Story of O.J.” 8. G Perico –– All Blue & 2 Tha Left 7. Kendrick Lamar –– DAMN. 6. Tay-K, “The Race” 5. NBA Youngboy, “No Smoke” 4. Future –– HNDRXX 3. Armand Hammer –– ROME 2. Creek Boyz, “With My Team” 1. Open Mike Eagle –– Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

#rap #hip-hop #hip hop #best rap #best rap 2017

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wearecounterfeit · 7 years

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CelebMix caught up with Counterfeit. at Leeds Festival.

CelebMix: How was yesterday for you?

Jamie Campbell Bower: It was awesome! It was a blur, but it was a wild 35 minute rock show. We had a wicked time.

Roland Johnson: When I was a kid all my friends would come to Reading Festival but I was always on a family holiday so I always missed it. I said to myself you know the first time I go is when I play it, and this is the first time we’re playing so it is nice to tick that off from when I was young.

CelebMix: Do you have any festivals left on your bucket list to play?

Tristan Marmont: Download Festival and Rock am Ring.

RJ: And then Coachella.

JCB: I’d like to do a big Counterfeit free festival, so a Rolling Stones-esque show with all of our favourite bands, and just screw up Hyde Park.

CelebMix: So you’ve been on the European festival circuit this summer—what’s been your favourite so far?

Sam Bower: We played a festival called Woodstock Festival Poland, which is a free festival just like Woodstock. It’s like it all just carried on in Poland, they kept the spirit alive. I think that’s the idea of it, and that was mental. It was ridiculous.

RJ: It’s Europe’s biggest festival—Europe’s biggest overnight festival—and we got an 11 o’clock slot on the second day.

JCB: That’s PM not AM, so PM’s good you know. We like PM.

SB: Yeah, so that stood out for me. But we’ve been to some amazing places and played some amazing shows.

RJ: We went to Romania for a festival, you know, none of us had ever been to Romania, so it’s cool to tick new places off the list. There were some great festivals in Germany too, Hurricane Southside was great, so many amazing bands. I mean I look at the line up and I’m like “holy shit, we’re playing alongside these guys?”—some bands that are infamous basically.

CelebMix: Do you get much time to explore the cities that you’re in?

SB: Yeah, we try to. I think we always try and seize the day, as it were, if we’re not doing anything and we’ve got a bit of time going. We try and explore a bit—I think you have to always have a look around.

RJ: Some of the festivals though it’s like we get in, play the set, then we’ve got to leave straight away to make it to the next one. We did a festival recently that Blink-182 were headlining, and we were kind of pulling our hair out that we had to miss it, but hopefully we’ll see them soon.

CelebMix: You’ve been on the road quite a while now, do you guys get much time to write when you’re away from home?

JCB: It doesn’t really happen for us. I mean, I think the shows that we play and the way that we play is that we have to give everything. This means when we’re not on stage and when we have travel days or whatever, the time is rest and recuperation. Not only are we physically fucked but we’re mentally on the brink as well, and it doesn’t necessarily lend itself to what I would describe as the most beneficial creative process.

RJ: I also think that we’re a relatively new band, and we’ve been touring now for a year and a half, so we haven’t been on the road for such a long period that we need to be writing new material. We tour, we come back, things happen in between, maybe in the future if we’re on tour for ten months of the year, you then have to force yourself to write on the road—we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

CelebMix: You guys played a headline tour earlier this year, how was that?

JCB: It was amazing! We started in Europe and then we came home and it was wild, you know.

We’d just released a record and we went out to Germany and played these big shows, and it’s all of a sudden—I wasn’t really thinking about it at the time, and then now I look back and I think—it wasn’t a festival, it was an hour show, and people were coming to watch our band. That’s a difficult thing to wrap my head around really, but it was sick.

I think we had a wicked time. It was long, it was hard, it was everything that we wanted it to be and more. Difficult, which is good.

CelebMix: Do you have to approach things differently at festivals than you do at your own headline shows?

SB: I don’t have any switch, I don’t have a decision to make really.

RJ: I’ve just got to play every show better than the last.

SB: Yeah, I never really decide what it’s going to be like before I go on, it just happens.

JCB: You’re only as good as your last gig.

CelebMix: Do you have a favourite city to play in the UK?

JCB: I’ll tell you what, I’ve got a massive soft spot for Birmingham. Every time we play Birmingham it’s just wild.

TM: That’s like Glasgow as well.

JCB: Glasgow’s always a riot, it always goes off in Glasgow.

RJ: London as well, obviously.

JCB: Manchester too! Jimmy lives in Manchester, so it’s always an important gig.

Jimmy Craig: Manchester’s got an amazing music scene, and there are so many great venues as well. It’s quite a big city, so it’s always good.

CelebMix: Is it ever weird to play venues you grew up going to?

JC: It’s not so much strange it’s just a good feeling to have been able to achieve what you wanted to, to be able to play stages that you’ve seen shows on your whole life. It’s amazing, and you always feel lucky that people come and see you.

TM: We played The Underworld in London really recently, on our last tour actually, and that was pretty special for me because I’ve been there about 30 or 50 times to see other bands that I love. It was very weird being on stage for me there, but it was amazing, an amazing feeling.

JCB: Yeah it is an amazing feeling. I mean, if you want brutal honesty, when I was a kid and I was going to shows, I would try to imagine myself up there. So to be up there all of a sudden is a realisation that actually if you are that kid, it is 100% possible and 100% doable.

I remember standing at those shows being like “I cant wait to do this”—it was never a question of if, it was more of a question of when, you know, and I know that might sound odd but that’s the truth.

CelebMix: So music’s always been the goal for you all?

TM: It’s not really a goal, music has just always been a part of my life, so playing music is just an absolute bonus.

JCB: For me it’s where I feel most comfortable, it’s where I feel most like me. In that sense, it’s the most organic thing that I could possibly be doing. When I was a kid I wasn’t going to be a scientist, it just wasn’t something that I was good at, so this is 100%, it’s like music or jail.

CelebMix: Do you have anything in the works at the moment?

SB: There are a few things, yeah. We’re plotting also at the moment. Plotting world domination.

TM: There’s a short moving picture that should be arriving shortly, and also a new territory that we might be visiting.

JCB: That we’ve never played. I don’t think, apart from Jimmy, I don’t think any of us have even been to it before. And we’re playing the Don Broco show at Alexandra Palace.

RJ: That should be exciting, and then it’s just pre-production for the new album, which involves all of us getting in a creative space.

JCB: Getting weird—weirder than we already are.

CelebMix: Is there anyone that you’re excited to see play today?

JCB: I just watched Deap Valley, who I love, and I was just blown away never having had the opportunity to see them before, I’m just so stoked by that band. I clocked on to those guys maybe two and a half or three years ago, I think it was through an online magazine actually, and then I just loved the sound, so I was really happy to see them.

We’re all actually going back to Reading tomorrow, on Sunday, so we’re going to try and catch Architects, and Muse are on tomorrow.

CelebMix: So you’re playing The Pit stage later on today, what should we expect from your show?

JCB: Mayhem.

TM: A lot of sweat, a lot of sweat. There was a lot of sweat yesterday.

SB: If you want to see sweat, come to a Counterfeit show. See five guys sweating on the stage.

JCB: Uncoiling cables… Yeah, just carnage I guess, we sort of just go in there and we always do our thing. People tend to ask us “what is it that you do” and I don’t tend to know. I just tend to walk out there and sort of black out.

#interviews #leeds festival #counterfeit

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99sshithouse · 4 years

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Dr. Rocco Jr. Gallavan

Jeff Goldblum

Age : 46

Alias(es): Rocky, RJ

Place of Birth: Dalitica City, USA

Eye & Hair Color: Amber, Dark Brown

Height & Weight: 6'2" | 185lbs

Sex & Gender: Male and Identifies as Such

Orientation: Heterosexual

Marital Status: Single

Personality

Adventure Is Out There, You May Just Have To Swim To Get There

Rocco is a kind, patient, sweet man who is both extremely driven but also very fulfilled just by doing what he loves and being around those he cares about. Rocco always has a smile on his face, a twinkle in his eye, and a general warmth that comes off of him in waves. He is happy to be around people, but also just as content to sit alone and think to himself for a little while. He usually spends time alone whenever he gies back out on the ship, and finds it relatively soothing to be together with only his thoughts and his work. He is loyal to a fault, finding it physically difficult to go behind someone's back or to cheat someone of what they deserve. He secretly hopes the best for everyone, though sometimes being so openly sentimental can cause him problems because he looks soft and that isn't what he should be when apart of the crime world.

He enjoys contributing to history, and finding objects from an old world now passed really has an effect on him. He wants people to learn all the amazing things he does with every new discovery, which is why in his "spare" time, he works at the museum. He loves to see the wonder that passes through people when he explains an art piece or historical object. He has always had a love for art and music. While it's not his profession, he could sit down and talk about music <i>all damn day</i>. He will immerse himself in new styles and artists all the time. He likes everything, old and new, and loves getting new recommendations.

With his age and experience, a sort of pacifist nature has taken over Rocco. He feels most comfortable speaking and talking things out over letting things get violent. Part of it is because he doesn't like to see others in physical pain, but the biggest reason is because he has learned that violence really does breed only more violence. He has taken a lot from his previous experiences how people all effect one another, and he hates to watch people succumb to that feeling. He has learned all too well how much power it makes you feel you have, but how empty it leaves you at the end of the day. He has taken a lot experience from his family. He learned all he knew about kindness and happiness from his mother, but didn't put it into effect until after she had passed away. When he was young, he was always told he had his father's hands and spirit.

Employment

Marine Archeologist | Museum Curator

Half of the year, Rocco works as a curator at DC's local discovery museum, explaining exhibits with a wide variety of knowledge on several different topics. He helps organize when the director can't, and he sets up new tours in his spare time. The other half of the year doing his true passion, underwater archeology. He spends months at a time at sea, pulling up lost artifacts, investigating sunken ships and planes, investigating objects that either can't be pulled up because it's too heavy or because it'll break if a team tried. He has a small bit of notary, and people trust him with the more difficult jobs.

Criminal Specialty:

Smuggling of Artifacts | Black Market Art Sales | Selling Information

The pleasant thing about pulling something old from the ocean that no one has seen for hundreds of years, is that there isn't any real inventory. No honest to goodness guarantee that he'll find all that is missing or even things that might not have been known to be missing at all. That's where Rocco's craft becomes extremely useful. Taking old artifacts, turning around, and selling them is where he makes the most of his money. But if the dive is to retrieve more resent ships or planes, and he happens to find some interesting information somewhere, he'll turn around and sell that too.

Skills & Abilities

Trained Scuba Diver | Able to hold his breath for long periods of time | Excellent Swimmer and Athlete | Intelligent and Passionate in his Field | Doctorate in Marine Archeology as well as Oceanography | Can Captain, Steer, and Fix some boats | Decent Cook | Trained in Several Languages : Fluent in English, Spanish, French, Dutch. Conversational in Swahili, Arabic, Hindi, Samoan, and Portuguese | Religiously watches the weather | Street Fighter

Kind and Patient | The man is a saint. Aside from his dealings in the black market, the guy is more likely to injury himself trying to protect someone than he is actually hurt someone. He's an educator by heart and mind, takes the time to learn about people and help them whenever they need it

Audiophile | You've heard it, he either knows it or will be suddenly very very interested in hearing it. He likes music from all over the world, has an extensive music library, and loves showing people new music.

Pacifist | He prefers a gentle touch to get people to see it his way. Will use a gun if he has too, but he would rather not kill anyone unless there is no other way to handle a situation. Some may see this as a weakness, but he prides himself on not being a rabid animal that kills for no reason.

Experienced Gang Member | Has been in his gang since his teenage years.

Disabilities & Disorders

Greed | The man has been known to spoil the ones he loves and lavish them with gifts, but that is because he has always been money orientated. He can sometimes get too eager or price something he is selling too high to be sold right away.

Nicotine Addict | Usually smells like cigarette smoke. Enjoys a beer everyday to unwind but typically doesn't get drunk.

OCD | Things need to be perfect or else they go wrong. For both of his positions, this statement rings true, but he can sometime nitpick to the point of being unnecessarily stressful on himself and others.

Can get immersed in his work | He does his best to make personal time, but it feels like he is always on and always working.

Past Violent Streak | When he was younger, he wasn't exactly known, but he had a reputation of being stone cold, heartless fighter. The man knew how to throw fists and had an ego about it. He still hears people ask about why he quit while he was walking in his father's footsteps. While he can usually make the situation, he had caused people a lot of pain when he was young and it still bothers him deeply.

Crime

Assault

Charged with assault after getting into a fight with his step-dad and step-brother at the age of nineteen

Illegal Fighting Ring

Spent time in his early twenties, he spent a lot of his time fighting in an illegal ring. People would bet on him or his opponent, so illegal gambling was involved.

Gang Initiation: He had joined the gang under the guidance of his mother, who was a lifetime member. While he does regret not leaving DC as soon as he was eighteen, he has remained loyal to his gang for the last 30 years.

Parents

Janis Gallavan - Mother [Deceased]

Rocco Gallavan - Father [Deceased]

Sid Montello - Step-Father [Deceased]

Siblings

Uri Montello - Step-Brother - Currently resides in Brooklyn, NY

Friends

Plenty. He's been in DC a long time and has collected a lifetime of friends and acquaintances the entire time.

Affiliation | Wolves

#Rocco Jr. Galavan #99s characters #Wolf

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concordiairvine · 5 years

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Enactus Philippines Trip: Day 4

Today started out like any other day in the US for me. I slept through my alarm and made it just in time to eat some French toast before heading to class.

Our class was for next year’s loan recipients. It was the first time we have interacted with potential candidates before they have gone through the DBA class. For all of us, it was very eye-opening to see just what level these Filipinos are on as far as creating business plans. After learning about rudimentary business ideas, like competitors and markets, we took a lunch break.

Today’s lunch was at Jolibee, Filipino fast food similar to McDonald’s in the states. We learned that when you get a meal with fried chicken and rice, the gravy goes on the rice and not on the chicken.

After our break, we went back and had the opportunity to walk the streets of Cebu and learn more about local businesses. Again, we saw how even those who have much less than we could imagine in the states are always quick to offer a smile.

After class, on our car ride back to the hotel, we stopped at a red light next to a man selling ice cream. Ashley decided to buy a scoop, costing her 10 pesos (about 20 cents). We all tried it and agreed that street ice cream was not something we needed to experience again. Henry dropped us all off at the hotel and we dispersed to shower and change for a night out.

RJ, who works for DBA and who we consider our personal tour guide, is only a couple years older than us so after some persistent begging, we convinced him to take us to experience Cebu from a young adult’s standpoint. First, we went to karaoke. We were pleasantly surprised by the songs offered and belted our hearts out. I’m not sure Jim will be too excited when we don’t have voices tomorrow to teach the DBA class. We ended the night with RJ showing us where local kids our age hangout on Friday nights. (We later found out he was headed back there to meet up with his friends and we came to the consensus he just didn’t want to be embarrassed by us and did not invite us). We walked the streets filled with all different kinds of foods from all over the world. We could not find the specific dish we were looking for so we decided to call it a night. All in all, it was a very successful day here in the Philippines.

*Please excuse typos as we are writing while on the road.

#concordia university irvine #enactus #philippines #students abroad #travel

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