#but its fascinating how it was a time of truly the peak of excess

[orionsangel86]

I've always been a bit obsessed with the 18th century - the lavish costumes, the excessive wealth, the huge class divide and ordinary people rising up against the ruling class (US and French revolutions, Golden Age of Piracy, etc) but I realised that its not just me. TV seems to be having a bit of an 18th century obsession as well atm. All my fave shows are either set in the 18th century or at least have scenes, flashbacks, or short stories set during it.

For example:

Outlander

The Great

Harlots

Our Flag Means Death

Marie Antoinette

Even Good Omens, The Sandman and BBC ghosts have 18th century based scenes.

Plus there are two exhibitions in London this summer based around 18th century fashion and Georgian art which I am visiting.

All in all a good year for an 18th century fan!

[misscammiedawn]

thoughts on umineko 👀?

CW: this post is written with no aim to hide spoilers. It doesn't reveal any twists but speaks candidly about characters and events all the way until the end of the game.

Ah, I am delighted to be asked. It's been just over a week since we finished episode 8 and it's been rattling about as a slow digest.

The short version is that I loved it. It is the most I have felt moved by a piece of comprehensive genre fiction (I shall avoid the term "deconstruction", I feel that is only an aspect of what's at play here) outside of Twin Peaks, which remains the all-time champion in my world.

We're going to be writing a far more comprehensive post about it in the coming weeks, so consider this a preview before I give my thoughts.

The issue with commenting on Umineko is that you have to approach it a number of things.

It is a story of generational trauma and the relationship between a trauma survivor and the memories of an estranged family, which is something I resonated with deeply.

It is a genre piece that communicates with the mystery/detective novel genre in a manner that simultaneously interrogates its conceits via multiple famous author rule-sets, criticizes its conventions via parodies (most famously Erika, the sociopath detective who literally debates a 9 year old on how sleight of hand magic tricks are performed) and attempts to be itself one by the constant refrain of "keep thinking" and the beautiful innovation of red truth.

It is also an excessively Anime piece of media that has all the hallmarks of the genre that truly make me unable to actually recommend it to people who aren't familiar with and comfortable with the little things that anime fans have just had to adapt to in order to enjoy anime.

Oh and it's a meme fountain. I legitimately believe that 150 hours of reading was worth it in the end so that I could watch and enjoy this video, which is objectively the most high effort shitpost on the internet:

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I enjoyed a mystery novel that actively engaged in communication with the audience, asking them to play along. I deeply admired the fact that Wilard Wright answered to the core mysteries of the saga with the same grace that Penn and Teller would tell a magician on Fool Me how their trick worked without those who do not know being spoiled.

In fact that is the best way to engage with the mystery in the book from my experience. It's simply a matter of how one engages with stage magic and as someone who is quite obsessed with stage magic it was wonderful to see the entire mystery novel genre treated like a magic trick that one could either admire the craft of, engage with as a piece of intricate skill or try to tear apart heartlessly.

Ryukishi is very much a magician putting on a heartfelt show and magic represents love, trust and an agreement between the author and the audience. He will create a story for you to engage with but you must engage with the story. To try and peel apart the mystery without engaging with the heart is tantamount to being a drunken heckler at a stage show who removes the cloth from a table to reveal the beautiful assistant hiding beneath. Congratulations, you have proven magic doesn't exist. But everyone in the audience knew that going in. We were here for a show and whether you turn your brain off and watch and believe in magic for a little while or are fascinated by the craft and inspired to join in the magic yourself, if you engage with the heart of it then you are respecting the passion being put on stage or on paper.

Basically do not be Furudo Erika and ruin a 9 year-old's sense of wonder.

In that regard, this book truly felt like it was something I was always destined to get to.

The core theme "Without love it cannot be seen" is a beautiful one and something that will cause me to reevaluate how I regard my emotional attachments to my memory.

I'll get into it in more detail with the long post later, but there's a level of nuance of the sentiment that isn't fully embraced by the story as Ange's quest ends with a binary choice and that meant the two sides of the argument were displayed in extremes, something which Ange is fully aware of, but it gives a lot to talk and type about that isn't spelled out in the text.

Suffice to say, I am firm in my belief that trusting other people, thinking well of them and accepting their reality into your own is a good thing.

Maybe don't go as far as Battler does and erase all the uncomfortable truths of a person just because your personal relationship with them is positive. But then again I think the Fight Man approaches his recollection of events with the lens of "I just spent 6 years not talking to my parents and I wish I could get that time back" having him decide that if he had ignored Rudolf's flaws then he could have had more time with him.

It's a complicated narrative and I'm no way near done dissecting it yet.

Regardless. That will all wait until the large post.

It's a fantastic game with wonderful themes and speaks directly to me in many languages that I already speak fluently.

When I do my Media, Myself and I analysis of it I'll likely do full game spoiler deep dive.

For now, I loved it. It's a remarkable tale. I think I'm a bit too old for the type of anime nonsense it stylizes itself as but the prose is pure. I wish Ryukishi had an editor, though.

I am deeply sad I did not get to it sooner. When it was first introduced to me in the early 2010s the international release was not yet out. I couldn't find a way to engage with it and I had forgotten about it largely by the time I had access. A shame as Ange is the exact type of character we would have projected onto back in our pre-transition days.

I would have loved to have told the person who got me interested in it how much I adored it.

Oh and for the record, I am an original sprites purist.

[lazywonderlvnd]

Imagine Harry learning to play the guitar after the war and Draco finds out when they start dating and is obv a slut for it. Anyway what I'm here to beg for is sexy-guitar-player-Harry smut please and thank

first of all nonners I’m so sorry this took me lit rally 59 years to answer!!!! when I saw it in my inbox last week I was abt to answer n be like yes. this. And then realized it needed to be written and got sidetracked w the first himbo harry installment but here it is now and let me just SAY this trope is my new FAVORITE thing in the world oh my goddddd when I tell u the way I’ve been yelling to glows and cielia abt it 👁👄👁

highly recommend listening to wonderwall when it comes up to Complete the Experience. hope u enjoy ❤️

“I’m sorry, he what?”

“Yeah, he’s really good,” said Weasley. He nodded towards the acoustic guitar hanging on the wall; Draco had taken notice of it the first time he’d seen Harry’s flat but never paid it much mind after that, taking it for decoration, or perhaps an unused gift. “He’ll play if you ask him. He doesn’t like showing off.”

“Which is silly,” Granger said, rolling her eyes. “I’ve told him, just because he’s good at it doesn’t make it showing off. I wish he’d play for people more often.”

“He has literally never mentioned this to me.” He felt utterly stunned and completely cheated. He tried to picture it and couldn’t. “How long’s he been playing?”

“Picked it up after the war. It was kind of funny, actually  --” Weasley started saying, but Harry came back into the room -- still pulling his shirt on -- and he broke off, giving Draco a significant look that told him to bring it up.

“Harry,” said Draco imperiously, to which he received two raised eyebrows as Harry fell into his favourite armchair and pushed a hand through his still-damp curls. Draco matched his expression and glanced at the guitar. Harry followed his gaze, looking genuinely confused.

“What, what is it?”

“When were you going to tell me you play?”

“What, guitar?”

“Yes, guitar.”

He shrugged and grabbed for one of the beers on the table, wandlessly magicking the cap off. “I dunno. When it came up, I guess.”

“The way your friends tell it you’re quite good.”

Harry gave Weasley and then Granger a sour look; both of them gave it right back to him, which was, admittedly, amusing.

“I can play all right,” he said vaguely, and took a swig of his drink. It did make some sort of sense, now Draco thought about it -- the tips of Harry’s fingers were far, far too calloused to have been just from casual Quidditch and Auror training. 

“You know, Harry, it actually comes off as more pretentious when you act like this,” said Granger. Weasley snorted. Harry glared at her. “Just play for him, won’t you? And us too -- it’s been ages.”

“Yeah, what’s that Muggle song you play sometimes that I like?” said Weasley.

“I dunno, I’ve played a lot of Muggle songs.”

“He means Wonderwall, Harry,” said Granger, grinning. Harry finally smiled too, and although their little Muggle joke was lost on Weasley and himself he was glad to see that it had apparently been the prodding Harry needed to give in. He set his beer back down and went to get the guitar; something about the way he threw the thin and fraying strap over his head, the way his hands went effortlessly to their places, was unexpectedly attractive. The left one curled easily around the neck of the instrument, heavily-roughened fingers finding their odd positions on the strings, something Draco had always thought looked very painful.

He plucked a few chords and then began fiddling with the knobs at the head of the guitar, tuning it in what was clearly the Muggle fashion, which against his will left Draco completely fascinated. Having no musical inclination himself, he could make nothing of the process except that Harry apparently heard the discordant notes in there well enough to be able to fix them, and finally when he brought his thumb down across all six strings it sounded as sweet and clear as if it had been done by magic.

“Course he likes Wonderwall,” Harry said to Granger even as he began playing, fingers shifting and moving and contorting to create the notes while he strummed softly, effortlessly, and the music crawled over Draco’s skin and inside of him. “I remember Dudley listening to it, like, what … summer before sixth year? On the radio constantly.”

“Sounds about right,” said Granger. 

 Draco had stopped paying attention to what they were saying, though. Either because the music itself had something haunting about its melody or because it was Harry playing it, or perhaps a combination of both, Draco felt a pit of emotion form in his chest to round off the edges of his growing arousal.

And then he started singing, and Draco swallowed very hard. Granger dropped a head onto Weasley’s shoulder and watched with a tender expression, Weasley similarly enamored. Harry had his eyes on his hands for the most part, closing them a few times throughout, looking as comfortable now as he did on a broomstick.

Only three months of official dating had not prepared Draco for the flood of emotions he now felt, yet the most pressing matter had become the semi trapped uncomfortably in his trousers. He wanted those talented fingers in his mouth, to feel the callouses on his tongue and taste Harry on them; he wanted to feel them on the sensitive skin of his inner thighs and hip bones, to have them buried so deeply in his arse that he forgot where he ended and Harry began. 

Of course, he had to keep this to himself for the next hour, until he was able to get Granger and Weasley out of the flat. And once he did, he didn’t bother dragging Harry to his bedroom -- Draco pushed him up against the front door that had just closed behind his friends and hauled him into a kiss that he felt Harry grinning into.

“I thought you seemed tetchy,” he muttered, hands dropping to Draco’s hips. “Oasis really does it for you, huh?”

“What the hell is oasis?”

“The band who does the song.”

“Yeah, I don’t think it’s the band who does it for me.” He kissed Harry again, maybe a little too hungrily, and dug a fist into his side when he started laughing. “Shut up, why the hell didn’t you ever tell me you played?”

Harry pulled his head back, looking at Draco with an arched brow and an infuriating smirk. 

“What do you mean, ever? We’ve only been together three months, it didn’t come up.”

“God,” Draco muttered, and now he reached down and pressed his palm against Harry’s cock, pleased to feel how hard he was in spite of his ruthless teasing. “You’re so annoying.”

“Well if I’d known how randy it would make you I might’ve played for you a long time ago.”

Having had quite enough of Harry’s particularly sarcastic brand of wit, he ignored this last and reached for one of his hands, removing it from his own hip and bringing it to his lips. It was extremely satisfying to watch the smirk disappear from Harry’s face when he sucked one of his fingers into his mouth. 

“Bit fetish-y, isn’t this?” Harry said breathily, eyes wide as he watched, looking half amused and half awed. In retaliation, Draco took another finger into his mouth and slid his tongue between them, tasting soap and salt, feeling the callouses on the tips of his fingers and letting that sensation grip his insides like an iron fist. “Jesus Christ,” Harry groaned; his free hand went to Draco’s jaw, holding him steady, and with a truly outstanding audacity began fucking Draco’s mouth with his fingers.

They dipped bluntly past his uvula, scraping the back of his throat so he gagged around their intrusion. Saliva built with an excessive speed that had it drooling out of the corners of his lips and coating Harry’s knuckles. Draco closed his eyes and let it happen, opening his throat against the relentless assault and curling his hands in Harry’s shirt just to steady himself. 

They were gone too soon and Harry’s mouth replaced them, much gentler but still with a tangible sense of urgency about it.

When he broke away, he said against Draco’s lips, “Like my fingers, do you?”

Draco merely nodded, feeling their wetness against his cheek. 

“Then turn around,” said Harry, “and I’ll fuck you with them.”

Draco let out a soft, embarrassing whimper and let Harry spin them around and press him against the door, cheek-first. He undid his flies himself and Harry tugged them down his legs and off his feet, allowing Draco to spread them slightly. Harry’s fingers were there immediately, sliding slick between his cheeks and over his hole. The memory of Harry’s hands on the guitar was still so fresh, his fingers changing chords effortlessly, sacrificing them to blisters and callouses and roughened skin for the music they created, and Draco closed his eyes against a fresh wave of arousal and another pang of emotion.

“You really are incredible,” said Draco, biting back a moan as two of those dexterous fingers slipped inside of him. Harry fucked him with them slowly, carefully, seeking out his prostate and angling for it each time once he’d found it. Draco turned his face to press his forehead against the door, eyes still closed, nails scraping wood. “And I like that song.”

“It’s a good one,” Harry agreed. His hot breath caressed the back of Draco’s neck, fingers pumping, his other hand back at Draco’s waist. “I have a million more I’d love to show you.”

Draco didn’t bother trying to find his voice again: instead he pushed back against Harry’s driving fingers, everything that wasn’t the relentless stabbing against his prostate driven from his mind. His neglected cock slapped against the door with every thrust, the red and irritated head dripping pre-come against the wood. Only half conscious of the decision to do so, he wrapped his hand around it and pulled and squeezed and zeroed in on the bursts of pleasure radiating outwards from inside his body until it all spilled over and he came in great pulses, gasping for breath while Harry kept at it. 

The fingers slowed as he reached his peak and began coming down but they didn’t stop, nor was his prostate given much of a break. Harry reinforced his grip on Draco’s waist and kept pumping, a steadier rhythm that nevertheless rubbed and prodded at that little bundle, making his nerves tingle and fizzle and scream out their overstimulation.

“Harry,” he said weakly, knees buckling. “Please …”

It could have been comical the way Harry followed his movement as he slid down the door to the ground, except it wasn’t. It was infuriating, actually, and felt at once like more than he could possibly handle and exactly what he needed. His forehead and his hands went back to the wood, bracing himself as Harry, kneeling behind him, continued fucking his beautiful, merciless fingers and stimulating Draco’s overworked prostate. 

He pushed a third one in alongside the other two and Draco was shocked to feel a hot tear leak out of the corner of his eye. Harry crooked them expertly, with all the confidence and surety of someone who had done this a million times, could do it in their sleep, as if it was not the guitar strings but Draco’s body he was strumming now, an instrument fine-tuned to his own particular cadence and rhythm, which he and no one else could play quite right.

Lips parted, hot breath echoing off the door and back into his face, Draco allowed himself to be taken apart with the same ferocious intensity he’d seen Harry use on the guitar. Each stroke brought him back to full hardness, each stab against his prostate made his nerves sing a tormented chorus, drowning out the pain of the wooden floor against his bare knees. 

“Shit,” Draco choked out, “I’m gonna come again …”

“Well that’s the idea,” said Harry. His voice was full of that same witty and well-meaning sarcasm Draco liked so much, even when it made him feel like punching him. Snatches of the song came back to him, Harry’s voice when he sang it, the expert shifting of his fingers where they pressed and plucked at the strings like he was making love to them. It was all so very much. 

He came a second time without even bothering to touch his cock, because he just didn’t fucking need it. His body thrummed and vibrated like a snapped rubber band while Harry coaxed him along his high and back down again. When he finally pulled his fingers out he leant forward over Draco’s back and kissed the side of his neck, then the corner of his jaw. 

“You know you make much lovelier sounds than the guitar, just so we’re clear,” he said, and Draco, with what strength he had left, shoved Harry and watched him fall sideways laughing. 

[cyokie]

Jack Vessalius as a Symbol for Depression

Ever since I first read PandoraHearts, I have interpreted Jack Vessalius as at least a partial symbolic representation of depression, especially in his relationship with Oz. 

(Skip to “keep reading” to go straight to the analysis; this beginning portion is little more than a disclaimer.)

Jack is a complex, fascinating character, and it is precisely due to this that I believe any number of interpretations regarding him contain merit. Whether you view Jack as an abuser, a manifestation of mental illness, or an extraordinarily-written character that does not require a figurative understanding to be interesting, I think this is valid. 

I am saying this first and foremost because I want to be clear: this is not a persuasive essay. I am not trying to change anybody’s minds about liking or disliking Jack Vessalius, nor am I trying to devalue any other interpretations of this extremely nuanced character. Some points may be a bit vague and connections disjointed, though I attempted to minimize this. Any discussion of mental illness and abuse is based on either my personal experiences or those of people I know. I do not intend to offend anybody. 

This post is simply the product of years of disorganized yet in-depth thoughts about this concept. I hope some of you will be interested.

Major spoilers for the entire manga below the cut. Manga panels are from the Fallen Syndicate fan translation. This...is going to get very long.

Emotional Abuse

Jack exists within Oz’s mind. When these two interact, it almost always occurs within Oz’s head, providing every conversation with an inherently emotional and symbolic element. 

Jack initially appears to Oz as an unknown but crucial figure. Whether he is trustworthy or even harmful remains to be seen, but his input is necessary. He is the only insight Oz has into his lost memories; he knows something Oz does not. Oz is suffering an identity crisis, realizing he has endured something he does not completely understand, something that could potentially change his entire life once he does understand it. And yet, this mysterious voice within his head understands it.  

This desperation makes it almost irrelevant whether Jack is credible, whether his advice is well-intentioned. Normally a rather cynical and distrusting young man, Oz follows Jack from the beginning despite wanting answers. He does indeed receive answers, but they are perhaps not quite what he bargained for, in more ways than one.

Once Jack’s true nature is revealed, the extent to which he has used Oz’s memories and emotions against him becomes apparent. Jack does present Oz with new insights into his experiences, but he only ever provides Oz with enough information to convince him to act a certain way. He never willingly gives a fair, all-encompassing portrayal of an event from Oz’s past. He manipulates Oz’s perceptions of his memories to fit a particular emotional narrative, one that is inevitably perplexing and demeaning to Oz. 

This bears a resemblance to the way depression warps how we view past events. When we look back at our experiences, we don’t see the entire picture--though we are convinced that we may. We see a skewed version of an incident that actually occurred. Perhaps this incident proves little to nothing about ourselves in reality, but viewed through the lens of depression, everything about it seems to scream that we are useless. And it is nearly impossible to try and perceive these events any differently, because when depression overtakes our minds, this perspective appears to be the only one through which it is possible to examine any of our pasts. 

By the time Jack’s intentions have been exposed, he is also explicitly emotionally abusive towards Oz. It is easy to recognize Jack’s statements as not only psychologically damaging, but disturbingly similar to what we hear in our own heads when suffering depression. Think about these assertions without the very literal plot elements that support them: Jack declares Oz less than human, insists that nobody loves him, and claims that he has no future because the only thing he’s good for is hurting those around him. He convinces Oz that he is useless, hopeless, and worthless. 

Jack drills these ideas into Oz’s head when he is at his most vulnerable. This is when Oz breaks down and becomes convinced that all of Jack’s statements are true. He is not who he thought he was; he never has been, and so his life is meaningless. 

This is arguably when Oz reaches his all-time emotional low. While it was already addressed that he had been struggling intensely with his mental health and was probably suicidal, up to this point, he always retained some level of self-preservation (however slight). Now, he silently accepts that the world would be better off without him and offers no physical or emotional resistance to his own execution. Jack’s words worm their way into his heart and corrupt his self-image to the point where his only reaction to Oswald’s sword swinging towards him is a blank, unflinching stare. 

Trauma Response

It’s not uncommon for Jack to manifest during catastrophic moments--that is, whenever a situation triggers (or comes close to triggering) overwhelming memories of Oz’s trauma. When Oz is losing control over his emotional and physical faculties, Jack often encourages him to make the trigger disappear using the quickest and easiest method available. Unsurprisingly, this method generally takes advantage of Oz’s extraordinary powers. In other words, the “tactic” Jack advises Oz to use is simply mindless destruction.

In the second half of the manga, Oz is at his least emotionally stable. It is not a coincidence that this is also the point during which Jack gains the ability to completely hijack Oz’s body. This development allows Jack to commit impulsive acts of aggression through Oz, while Oz himself retains little to no control.

Jack overwhelms Oz with unnecessary flashbacks to traumatic events and makes an excess of harmful connections between past and present circumstances. Oz’s panicked, distressed responses to this are tools he uses to further coax Oz into acting in a self-destructive manner. These tendencies may not only connect Jack to the concept of depression, but the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder as well. 

Identity Crisis

Although Jack is introduced extremely early in the manga, one of the story’s main mysteries is the exact nature of his connection to Oz. This relationship shifts several times, especially with regards to who is “in control” and who is the true “owner” of the physical body. 

Once it becomes public knowledge that Jack is “within” Oz, the identity of the former overcomes the identity of the latter in the eyes of the general populace. Figures who never before gave Oz a second glance begin to pay incredibly close attention to him; many directly address him through his connection to Jack rather than as a separate entity. 

Oz is deeply troubled by the way others ignore him in favor of an aspect of his identity that he feels does not truly represent him--an aspect of his identity that is at least partially out of his control. However, he is also relatively resigned to being judged in this manner. He lacks knowledge of how to change this circumstance because even he does not truly understand the extent to which he and Jack are connected. 

It is true that at this point in the story, Jack is practically worshipped. His destructive actions and devastatingly selfish nature have not yet been exposed. Because of this, Oz as Jack’s “vessel” is typically viewed through a positive lens. Still, this situation reflects how people with depression are sometimes reduced to nothing more than a mental illness by their peers. Because others do not understand (and mental illness is stigmatized), they start to see us as “different” in some indefinable but undeniable way, and our existence becomes that particular part of ourselves in their eyes. 

As time passes, the line between Jack and Oz becomes more and more blurred. Questions are raised about whether they are the same person or, on the contrary, whether they are similar at all. At what is arguably the climax of the manga, Jack declares that Oz’s body is, was, and will always be his possession; he claims that in reality, there is no “Oz,” only “Jack.” 

This thought haunts Oz intensely and sends him into a rapid downward spiral. Like the sentiments expressed near the end of the “emotional abuse” section of this analysis, the idea that Oz’s body belongs to Jack is backed up by rigid, literal plot elements. However, if we view this emotional catastrophe using a symbolic perspective, it is a representation of yet another common struggle endured by those with depression.

We come to ask ourselves who we really are. Was there truly a time when we weren’t “like this?” Could we truly escape this misery in the future? Who would we be if we were to stop feeling this way? Do we even exist without depression? Does Oz even exist without Jack?

Visual Symbolism

It is a classic literary device to represent hope through light and despair through darkness. The manga is rife with this exact type of symbolism, utilizing it to describe how the Abyss has changed throughout time, Break’s dwindling eyesight, and the oscillating emotional states of various characters. 

As I stated previously, Jack and Oz interact almost exclusively within the latter’s mind. The landscape drawn in the background of these conversations initially possesses a watery, clear appearance. However, as it becomes increasingly clear that Jack’s presence is deeply damaging to Oz’s psyche, this same landscape becomes overwhelmingly tainted by dark, ink-like shadows. 

Closer examination reveals that this “pollution” originates directly from Jack--and it reaches its peak once Jack’s intentions have been fully disclosed. Not only is Oz’s mind visibly corrupted by darkness, but Jack himself appears as an almost inhuman figure composed of these shadows. 

There is another level of visual symbolism as well--namely, the fact that Jack becomes increasingly physically aggressive and disrespectful towards Oz. In the first half of the manga, he primarily speaks to Oz from a distance, occasionally reaching out a hand in his direction. This is clearly not so in the second half of the manga, at which point Oz begins to defy his influence and it becomes vital that he subjugate him as quickly as possible.

By this time, Jack is almost always seen either restraining or caressing Oz. Even in the latter situation, when his touches are lingering and vaguely affectionate, they are possessive and constraining. In other words, though they appear different on the surface, both actions are ultimately methods of forcing Oz’s submission. It can be said that this represents his desire to gain complete control over all aspects of Oz’s being, as well as his total lack of respect for Oz’s physical and emotional autonomy.

It can be argued that both of these aspects of symbolism reach their pinnacle even before this point. Oz realizes his own worth when Oscar says he loves him and reveals that his greatest desire is for him to be happy. When Oz is at last able to grasp that he is loved and there is hope within his life, Jack immediately reaches out to grab him. And in one of the manga’s subtlest but most poignant moments, his hand crumbles to dust upon touching Oz. 

What follows is an extremely impactful display of Oz’s character development. He recalls Jack’s previous statements declaring his achievements worthless, denouncing the love he received from others as fake, and degrading his worth. Then he furiously rejects all of them, thrusting out a hand to push Jack away from him and consuming Jack in an explosion of light. 

The conclusion to be drawn from this is that Jack essentially lives off Oz’s misery. When Oz understands and is able to accept that he is not worthless, Jack is suddenly rendered utterly powerless. 

The manga culminates in a scene that coincides with this symbolism. This late into the story, Oz has succeeded in transcending Jack’s influence almost entirely, but Jack is not quite ready to let go. Though they stand together within a void, glimmers of light linger around Oz--despite everything, his life has come to be surrounded by hope and love. 

As Oz floats towards the path of light above, Jack reaches out and takes hold of his wrist. But his grip is feeble and hesitant, representing how little control he truly holds over Oz at this point. Perhaps attempting to provoke guilt or regret, Jack asks Oz if he is certain that he is prepared to move on without him, but Oz has grown too much to succumb to this manipulation. 

Without delay, Oz replies that there is no reason for him to stay, and Jack finally releases him. He escapes into the light--into a world full of people who care about him, into a life where he is happy to be alive. 

[land-of-classpects-and-analysis]

Hiya, might I get a maid of time analysis? Please and thank you! ^v^

As always, I can only give a little sneak peek! ;3c But I always make sure to cover the most important and/or big parts of it!

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Now, the Maid of Time is a fascinating Classpect; and is one that many are aware of! It is a person who embodies so many things all at the same time, that their presence is one not short of being highly magnetic and electrifying. They are made of Time and all of its forms; literal, metaphorical, and emotional. For the literal Time, they are someone who most likely is highly attuned to the ever forward march and flow of time. Not a moment passes them by where they are not aware of their present moment, but also of their past decisions and the ones to come in the future. They are the most aware of Time when it comes to their friend group, and as such will often make sure that events to come will be seen through. Making sure appointments, dates, destinations, and other important events are met; they help to usher everyone to their places on the universe’s stage before the curtain has a chance to be pulled back. They are not the playwright, but more so the director who holds the script.

They are also someone who is drawn towards the macabre; of death, decay, and all that comes after it. When they see a skeleton on the road, they do not see tragedy, but instead a creature’s cycle come to a close. They find solace in two words; The End. Because although everything around them is always changing, for better or for worse, there is that certainty that it will eventually come to a stop. And with it, a new cycle shall begin. Maids of Time are surprisingly philosophical people, sometimes giving a few Mind-bound a run for their money when it comes to their logic and philosophies. They see the beauty that comes in death, because they know that every end creates room for a new story to start. One could argue that the Maid of Time is one made of death and/or decay; perhaps they themself have experienced a tragic loss of some kind, but did not go through a normal journey of recovery and grieving. Perhaps in that tragedy, they saw a grace that so few people are capable of comprehending. Not that the Maid of Time cares what other people think, of course.

Of course, the Maid of Time is also one who is made of a fiery, fighting spirit. They are one of the first people to spring into action when injustice is brought to their attention, and they are the most likely to see to it that such a thing is fixed. After all, they are trying to make sure that everyone is at their peak performance; if one person is slacking, or making it difficult for others to perform, then they would surely be one crummy director to simply ignore these problems.

However, don’t let this fool you; this attitude is one that the Maid of Time carries, but they also are still one who is greatly at war with their Aspect. They are aware of the passage of time and as such make sure everyone is where they need to be, yes, but they are one who constantly lives in stress because of it. They love the macabre and fawn over death, but only because they are not a stranger to it. The Maid of Time is one covered excessively in scars from wounds long since past, but will surely have many more to come. They seek out ways to fix injustice, yes, but rarely do they ever pay attention to or care to the injustices dealt to them. They are still fighting against their Aspect, and they still hold a sense of wariness towards it.

During the Maid’s journey, they may try to neglect their duty as a director, or leave it up to someone else to fix and create. The reason why this plan cannot be sustained is because no one can do it like the Maid of Time can. Their Classpect is unique, and so nothing could ever completely replace them and their place in the story. Therefore, something drastic needs to happen in the Maid’s life that would bring them closer to their Aspect. Perhaps a loved one is in danger or experiencing an injustice so harsh that only the Maid can fix it, or they themself are in dire need of their Aspect and its functionality to remain intact.

No matter what, as much as some Maids of Time may desire to see their Aspect be torn apart, and the sands be free of their glass prison, they would have to learn that there is a time and a place for allowing such things to happen. By the time they would come to this epiphany, though, Time would already be left in quite the state of disarray. Timelines would be a mess, the order of events would be wrong and all over the place, and the morale of all their friends would be quite low. Because of this, the Maid would have to work towards learning how to create their Aspect.

Creation of Time is a power very many wish to achieve, yet very few are actually granted it or are even able to handle it. This is actually for good reason, as Time is a surprisingly delicate Aspect. Too much of it, and it all is put at risk of collapsing in on itself. Too little, and everything will slow down to a standstill, as well as feeling extremely one-track. The Maid of Time is meant to help keep Time in check, making sure that there is not too much but also not too little.

They are someone who can create timelines on a whim, as much as they so desire. They can also create Time in small pockets of existence - making the flow of time slow down to a complete halt in one place, while speeding things up in another. In order to do this, the Maid of Time would have to be quite the chaotically organized individual, with levels of knowledge and awareness that may rival even the greatest Mind-bounds, Light-bounds, and Void-bounds.

As for more realistic powers of creating Time, the Maid is one who would seemingly always have the chance to sit down and talk with someone or even multiple people! They always have time to spare in their schedule, or at the very least are good at making a bubble of respite amidst the rush of life. A Maid is very capable and excellent at starting something, stopping it, and then starting it back up again. They are near masters of rhythm and beats, one might even say; always remaining on the key they need to reach and the page they need to be on.

There are many other ways for a Maid of Time to create Time, but that will be saved for the much more official analysis!

Now, creating through Time is when one is when the role of Stagehand and Director truly come into play for the Maid. By creating through Time, they are setting up the dominoes needed in order to create a massive, narrative chain reaction so that order is maintained throughout the flow of time. If someone needs to check the mail at a certain time, the Maid will do all they can to ensure that the mailman gets there on time.

More realistically, a Maid of Time who creates through Time is one who creates through perseverance. Which is to say, once a Maid of Time begins a project, they are most certainly going to see it through to the end; even if it’s all on their own. Every moment counts when it comes to a Maid of Time’s creation process, and while they certainly are capable of messing around with their schedule, it’s something they find quite disruptive to their very own wants, needs, and flow. When that inspiration starts to die out, the Maid may feel very guilty for not being creative; but what’s important for them in this moment is to allow their Aspect, and themself, to recuperate. Even though they are made of their Aspect, it is and always will be a finite source - no flame can burn forever.

The Maid of Time is a fiery, passionate, and justice-bringing friend and ally to have. They are full of life, and also a love for death and all things macabre. They can see the beauty in a bakery full of sweets as much as they do the moss and flowers blooming through the skull of an animal. Mystery, yet often alluring, people find the Maid of Time fascinating and off-putting; the two often going hand-in-hand to draw people closer to the Maid. Yet no matter how many people surround them, the Maid ultimately cares more about their own personal projects than anything else. They strive for completion of cycles, for the story to have an ending, for the curtains to be drawn on a story in which they put their hands in.

The Maid of Time is a force to be reckoned with, and an ally - perhaps even friend - to be had.

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This has been in my drafts for a WHILE oops jdfnvjdn sorry about the very late response, nonnie!! But I do hope this does help to give a better understanding on the Maid of Time!

[hecohansen31]

In The Garden of Evil

Borgia! Michael Langdon+Servant! Reader

(A/N): Hello there, lovelies!

I am not going to deny that I am Ari’s bitch and I write any fic that comes to her mind, but this was just TOO FUCKING GOOD TO PASS UP!

If you didn’t know I am studying th Renaissance for an exam, HENCE I FUCKING HAD TO PUT IT IN A FIC, PLEASE ENJOY THIS LITTLE SELF-SERVING SHIT AND HAVE FUN!

(Also the entire Lucretia-Cesare is only fictional, because people are pretty sure they didn’t fuck, but hey...).

As always: feedback is welcomed and ecnouraged, knowing that you like what I write is a truly beautiful things for me and make me want to write more.

WARNINGS: Male Masturbation, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Mention of Sex and Incest, Blasphemy and Renainssance mentions.

Attending to every little need of Lucretia Borgia was a truly magical experience.

It was such a hard work that you could barely blink without being called over by your ‘domina’ because she needed something and couldn’t wait for you to finish the previous chore.

You had learned this way to be fast and barely noticeable, guarding your steps against making any noise in order to alert the Borgias of your presence beside them.

Sometimes because you were scared by them and some other times simply because you didn’t want to be bothered with any other chores.

And because of your wonderful ability, you had been able to set yourself up in such a situation.

You had been asked by Lucretia to drop some clothes to her brother, since she had them specifically made simply for him.

And you had been drawn in the bathroom by some soft and low mewls coming from it, and expecting your ‘domino’ to be at unease, probably the water being too cold or too hot, you felt the need to help him as every servant in the Borgia residence would have, as you carefully and slowly approached the door of the room.

But as you had walked in, you hadn’t found the second eldest son of pope Alexander VI having trouble with the water.

It was quite the opposite.

He was taking pleasure from it, lazily bringing his hand up and down on himself in a vulgar movement you had seen in the streets and whenever men tried to impress you.

You had been taken aback by that.

Michael Borgia was an example of beauty and grace through the entire cardinal board, although nobody could deny that his place there was due to his infamous father, the pope.

But unlike Cesare, who was ruthless in following every plan he had, completely showing no interest in his position as a cardinal, just wanting war and power, Michele, his golden twin, although he was a bit younger, was a good cardinal, pious and just, even in the face of his family’s scandals.

So, to find him in such a… ambiguous position… it gave you much to think about.

Men were all made of flesh, in the end.

Just because Michele didn’t show his appreciation for flesh in such a visible way as Cesare did, it didn’t mean he was less involved in the throes of pleasure.

You had tried to get your body to move, to spy away from that scene, leaving him to his own… ‘hand’, but suddenly… you were stuck onto your feet as if you were suddenly pasted there with black pitch behind your feet.

You were just too much fascinated by the anatomy of his body, revealing itself to you by the elegant marmoreal bathtub he was drowning in, beautiful drawings on it, matching what the painters of that age called ‘grotesque’, although to you it was simply a mix of strong colors, staining the purity of the white marble.

You tried to move your eyes away from the sinful sight, sure that God would have soon struck you down for your curiosity.

But God didn’t seem to witness the beautiful show that cardinal Michael was putting up, almost as if it was solely for your eyes.

And quickly they shifted from the scenery mimicking a garden to the man himself.

You had never been able to properly stare at him, being more accustomed to Cesare’s antiques, the man not being shy of sending languid glances to any maid that accompanied his sister and even less when he sent those same glances to his own sister.

You tried in those moments to lower your gaze and fake of having never witnessed such an exchange.

But with Michele it wasn’t so easy to simply turn your head and look at anything else, your eyes immediately  tracing the fine golden hair usually styled in perfect curls he owned, although there was no sign of such a blessed hair anywhere else, in a trait that brought his body to seem both younger and masculine, with the way it was lean but strong.

He certainly didn’t own Cesare’s brutality or roughish looks, neither he had the consuming but fascinating age of his father, but he certainly did own a beauty that was timeless in the way it shone.

Your eyes graced lower onto those plump lips he owned, and you wondered whether they would have felt heavy or light on your skin, such a thought making you shiver in your stead.

God would have seriously punished you for such thoughts

Against His own servant, even!

You could feel the flames of hell already enveloping you as a sudden warmth enveloped you, not spreading from any external source, but from inside of yourself.

More precisely your most secret part, the one between your legs, which would lightly brush against each other, making you whimper softly at the pleasure of such a small gesture created coating the inside of your thighs with a wetness that made you wonder whether it was sweat for the burning that was slowly consuming you, or something else.

Being a maid raised in a private palace of clericals made you naïve in many departments, although sometimes your older friends would mutter about the vice that sex was, the more libertines ones even whispering at each other’s ears about the beauty that being taken by a man was…

… and how many men didn’t know how to take a woman properly.

All you knew from their suggestions was that women bleed a lot on the first time was rarely pleasurable for a woman as much as it was for a man.

‘They’ll fill you with their seed and then turn back in their bed’ had once muttered Rosina who was the lover of a smaller cardinal, the distaste of such a situation evident in her tone, and you had always kept yourself away from men.

But, again, you weren’t able to take your gaze away from the elegant way Michele Borgia moved his hand onto his exposed member.

Your eyes didn’t drift there directly, although you took a sneaky look at it, making you blush at the realization that a bit of golden hair coated lightly his lower stomach, in a trail that would have brought you to the road to perdition, had you followed it.

His body was muscled in a way that was unusual for cardinals, no sign of excessive fat or laziness of any kind in a lean body but with lightly highlighted muscles, as Bramante’s creations in a way that made him seem a marmoreal statue, as if he was as marmoreal as the bathtub in which he was steaming, easing off the pression of the cardinal toga with the pleasure of flesh.

At a particular harsh thrust into his hand, his muscles contracted in an harmonic way that immediately tensed his stomach, pushing them up against the surface of his immaculate skin, but the immediately became taunt again as he let out a soft trembling breath, the sound without a doubt catching you off guard, and you admired its gentle tenderness.

A shiver of pleasure went through your body as you felt your nipples grow hard under the coarse fabric of your uniform, a sensation which quickly travelled from pleasant to unpleasant, and you wanted nothing more than relieve it, pushing the hold of the fabric away from your sensitive pebbles.

And some even dirtier thought wanted for you nothing more than to pinch them, feeling as if it would have brought you more pleasure than the way you sought friction between your legs, letting the fabric catch and pass onto a part that brough you pleasure in waves of warmth.

You wanted to run away, but your curiosity kept your eyes linked to discover more.

You promised you’d stay another minute, and then another… and then another, till your eyes reached out for more and found the barrier of the bathtub completely blocking your view, having to risk more as you stepped a bit on your toe so that you could peak in the bathtub.

And finally witness that unholy spectacle.

And it was completely worth the risk of being caught.

Michael’s hand moved onto his length, pushing and pulling on it, getting his manhood to grow and throb under his careful ministration, graceful exactly as the rest of his body which throbbed aching for more, but he kept a slow rhythm that allowed you to completely see each of his movements as he pushed and pushed onto himself, tracing his length.

And you couldn’t help but open your moth as his length was revealed to you, his big hands making a show of his true greatness, which astonished and scared you.

The sole thought of such a beast fitting inside you, made your cheeks red with embarrassment and worry, remembering Rosina’s words and thinking about bleeding onto such a strong length.

He kept on pushing between his legs, moving easily between his hands, some liquid other than water and with a sticky consistence helping in the act.

But you were again curious and shameless, maybe having been made arrogant by the thought of not having been caught yet, and part of you wanted to know cardinal Michael carnally, as the Bible said about husband and wife.

Would Michael’s length have fit inside you?

Would he have assumed a similar rhythm to the one his hands used, or would he have had you in the most ruthless way, as you had seen only animals do?

And you were inclined to believe your latter thought with the way Michael’s body suddenly spasmed, the rhythm of his hands becoming faster, in a chase and an hunt for his own pleasure that made him savage to the brink, as he buckled without even realizing it into his awaiting hands.

His hips lean and taper were the one in control of his body and allowed him to push himself a bit closer and closer, to that ecstasy that only saints knew and welcomed and as his mouth opened in a perfect ‘o’, such as the saints you had seen being pictured in the beautiful churches being tortured to bliss in the knowledge of Gods.

But what Michael had just done wasn’t godly or such.

He kept onto buckling mindlessly in his hand, as his stomach spasmed more, in a way that brought his breath to come out chaotically, as he tried to regain a rhythm, and follow the last drops of pleasure.

As your eyes kept onto following the droplets of the white liquid coming out of his member, sticky and sticking onto his hand as he made quite a mess onto his length, almost playing with it in a languid way that made you even more feverish on that infernal warmth that almost made you feel weak on your knees.

And then Michael’s eyes snapped open.

You had exposed yourself far more than you had expected and immediately tried to hide behind the door, hoping that you had been enough silent not to be caught in your quick shift.

Apparently, you hadn’t.

“… little mouse don’t get shy on me now” he mumbled, his voice being suddenly roughed up by pleasure as he slowly adjusted in the bathtub, pushing himself onto his elbow to hold himself up and stare at you, although you kept on hiding yourself behind the door “… I let you see me, you aren’t going to deny me at least to see you”.

Of course, you were!

To expose yourself would be a direct acceptance of blame.

And although you had been able to spy on the beast when he was asleep, you weren’t able to, now that he was awake and looking around the room.

“That isn’t very kind, ‘madonna’ “ he mumbled lightly, but his tone immediately moved to become more threatening and darker, something you didn’t link to the cardinal “… expose yourself or I’ll ask the guards to search for an intruder”.

You were half thinking of running away, maybe the guards wouldn’t have found you, but you were sure that, by Michael’s tone he would have put the entire palace through the pains of hell, hadn’t he found who had spied onto him.

And some part of you wanted to be caught.

You moved slowly, opening the door and trying not to face him, your eyes pointed to your feet in a desperate attempt to avoid his gaze, as if this could show your penance through the unproper act you had done (and spied upon).

Maybe cardinal Michele just wanted to make sure you wouldn’t take about his ‘fall from grace’.

But by the smart look in your eyes you spied, you knew he would ask you something more devious than to keep your mouth shut.

“My lord I just came here to leave you some clothes on your sister’s order” you spoke fast, in order for yourself to be soon out of the cardinal’s hands “… I didn’t spy on anything, my lord, I just…”.

“Don’t even try to lie, little mouse” he muttered softly, pushing himself into a seated position, which showed you much more than before, making you blush and push your gaze onto your feet again “… I heard your presence since I started”.

The admission that he had known of your presence shocked you, alongside the sequential knowledge that he had wanted to watch the scene.

What sick game was this?

“… you thought you were being so smug, didn’t you…” his question didn’t seem one, but his tone softened from the threat that had lured you out of your hideout “… a pretty mouse wandering on the finest of cheeses, isn’t it what it seems?”.

You would have wanted to argue that he was utterly insane for comparing himself to cheese, but didn’t mutter anything, in fear of the awaiting punishment you would have been subjected to, soon, for trespassing a cardinal’s privacy.

“I gave you quite the show, didn’t I?” his question demanded an immediate answer and you didn’t make him wait, nodding lightly your head, as a smug smirk appeared on his face “… then I think it is only fair that you give me something in return”.

You scrambled nervous, your eyes meeting his in a silent plead: you hadn’t anything that might interest a cardinal and you didn’t understand what he might want from you.

He must be teasing you, as a cat played with a little mouse indeed.

He seemed to love your confusion and lightly shook his head, the water that had drenched his hair leaving in it in small droplets that formed, as light hit it, a small halo.

Unproper for such a devil in disguise.

“I showed you mine, so you’ll have to show me yours”.

You were indignant, not simply scared anymore at his indecent proposal: it was true that you had been noisy and hadn’t acted properly, but what he was asking you went against any of your belief.

“I can’t…” you stuttered, rage and embarrassment clashing in you, meanwhile you tried your best to still your breath to properly speak “… it isn’t proper for you to ask me such a thing!”.

“What isn’t proper, little mouse, is you spying a high cardinal, the son of a pope” he smirked, as his eyes held some kind of angelical madness “… I could easily have you thrown out”.

The thought of such a shameful exit made you shiver and sweat, and you thought that it would be a less humiliation the thought of doing what your body secretly ached for, to satisfy the ask of the cardinal, although you couldn’t help but blush, as you lightly moved closer, Michele’s eyes upon you.

“Good girl” he praised your movements, as he pushed his chest out of the bathtub adjusting himself to properly take a good look at you “… raise that awful gown and show me”.

And you, with trembling hands, meanwhile you tried to lightly raise your skirts, as you showed him the cotton underwear you wore under it, extremely modest and enough covering that although you were blushing more for the situation, you didn’t feel at unease.

“… push away that underwear, now, little mouse” he sang to you, and almost enchanted you did as he told you, without even thinking, as your eyes met his blue ones “…I said I wanted to see what you hid all day, I can already feel the smell of your wetness”.

This was enough to break your movement, as you were made aware of an even more embarrassing situation.

You stilled in your movements, but Michael tutted his tongue and you were brought back to the knowledge you didn’t have much choice.

You tried to close your eyes, shifting them away from Michael to focus onto keeping your eyes closed in the degradation of your body the cardinal was subjecting you to.

You expected him to make fun of you, but there was simply silence and as you opened one eye to catch onto what he was doing, you found him looking intensely at you, examining both your nakedness and rest of the body, in a show that brought shivers to run down your spine.

His eyes held a devilish desire that made you hot again and your knees threatened to buckle under you.

“… you look like a fucking painting, sweetheart” he mumbled, making you blush at his course, but you weren’t unable to stop the little smile on your face at that injurious compliment “… keep that skirt up, no… actually… actually push it away, we won’t need it, anymore”.

And you did as you were told, letting the skirt push away from your legs, detaching the places where the gown was linked to your bodice, in a successful attempt not to be clumsy, meanwhile you did it.

The aroused tone of the cardinal didn’t ask for any mistake.

Or slowness.

Once also the skirt was discarded the devilish smirk had returned on top of cardinal Michele’s meaty mouth and he pushed you to come closer to him with a ‘come hither’ motion of his fingers.

And you did come closer to him, till your legs lightly brushed against the bathtub.

And there you opened your eyes lowering them upon the cardinal who looked sympathetic at you, a devious smile on him, meanwhile his eyes took you in, again and again, drinking the sight of you till he got himself drunk.

“Now touch yourself” he commanded, and a blush and shiver went through your body “… and if you are good, I’ll ask Cesare to join us, next time”.

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[fulgensun]

; about Spira - through the Fiends Tales

I said I would have done it, and here it is. While not being a very good in-game mechanic, one which can even be soft-locked in case YRP level up too fast, the Fiend Tales in FFX-2 aren’t completely silly, or useless in my opinion. They offer much to think about, mostly because they do reflect a non-idealized vision of Spira -- contrary to what Tidus’ POV may offer us, before shifting into something else, something bigger and closer to reality. The Fiend Tales are, in fact, stories of Spirans, people who died somehow and turned into monsters -- some before, some during and some other even after the events of both FFX and FFX-2.

They narrate their tales to Yuna, presumably (she has to catch them, after all), and find a way to either ascend to the Farplane or to avenge their death, if violent one. They are common folk, priests, heretics, Al-Bheds, elders, children even -- !  What I found fascinating was that their tales did offer slices of common life of all major Spiran cities, routines, dangers for certain workers and habits, even traditions... all part of a Spira we haven’t really seen in-game; for what use is a firework festival in Besaid to a future Summoner or their Guardians ready to eradicate Sin, for example hmm ?  Yet it exists, in the FFX universe. SO. I decided, for rp sake and to also make things a tad tidier, to list and explain here some of the things about these Spiran Tales that I consider cute, funny, important or worth some more thoughts. I’ll leave the specific Tales next to the info, too.  

   --  Children in Spira attend a school, the Temple School. Obviously founded by the Temple, it makes sense it provides a basic education while indoctrinating them to Yevon -- which isn’t hard to do anyway, before and during FFX; orphaned children are also taken by the Temple / Temple schools, most likely trained to either become priests or warrior monks in adulthood. Monks, specifically, are trained to what gets called ‘Yevon Academy’, which prepares them for military life; its volunteers move to this academy and don’t see their family till they graduate, but can write them letters.  [ Doggo the Coyote, Big Mama the Protochimera, Jaws II the Xiphactinus, Happy-Birb the Peregrine ]

   --  The Tale of Happy-Birb is very sad, and refers to children and temple. I feel it gives us a good example of how hard life could be, for... a rather gifted kid.        “ I always kept to myself in a tiny room in the temple, staring outside my window. I had no friends, no family to look out for me. If I were to suddenly vanish one day, would anything be different? Since I was supposedly orphaned after an attack by Sin, I was raised in the temple of Kilika. They tell me my parents were killed by Sin, but I know it’s a lie. Why would I be the only one to survive? The monks told me I had to be strong to provide hope for the future of Spira. I didn’t want to go on living in such a sad world. So I decided to take a gamble. One night, I fled the temple. [...] But when I encountered a fiend in the woods, I froze. I don’t want to die, I screamed. I truly wanted to live. ” Don’t the monks’ words sound familiar, to you? It’s speculation, but it sounds like this child exhibited the potential to become a Summoner, his family refused to let him train as one and they were disposed of -- so that the child could come into the “custody” of Yevon and ‘provide hope’. Summoner potential isn’t hereditary, mind that, but you kinda get the mentality that might have made Braska think Yuna wasn’t safe in the religious capital of Spira. The boy, here, was just ten years old.

   --  Spira has a considerable amount of criminals, for a world that should - utopically, be united by the tragedy Sin represented for everyone. Thieves considering burglary their very ‘grand career’; killers having no remorse in deceiving old people to obtain their inheritance; Al Bhed hitmen sent to kill Yevonite children in temples or wandering priests, children kidnappers, kids thieves in Luca killing one another for money, etc.  [ Bulbasaur the Purpurea, Mittens the Couerl, Brick the Bicocette, Bolt Josh ]

   --  Engagements are a quite serious thing, considering a family could not bless the union if the suitor was of a lower class (even between relatively common people), or just too poor to be deemed worthy. A refined girl from a well-to-do family in Bevelle was forbidden, for example, to love a young sailor. Engagement rings are also a thing, and the Moonflow riverbanks are lovers’ favorite dating spot.  [ Frosty the Flan Pallido, Boko the Chocobo, Venom the Gucumatz  ]

   --  So many Tales from children, it kinda gives off a very sad vibe considering they too can turn and not reach the Farplane. Many are attacked by monsters, some lost in the desert, way too many others have drowned by the Moonflow when left unsupervised. One Tale tells even of a young thief, a child, who died in jail. Being Spiran kids seems dangerous.  [ Lesser Josh, Squelch the Amorphous Gel, Scooter the Vespa, Nexus the Dark Elemental, Widow the Black Elemental ]

   --  The Tales narrate of children’s stories and legends. To make their children behave, tell them to stay put and be good, else ‘they will turn into fiends’: the more they misbehave, the uglier their monster form will look. Another old legend says spirits of people who died a violent death make their way to the Moonflow to bloom with the moonlilies. I found this last one is very similar to the old bedtime story in the FFX novel, where Old Spirans believed the souls of the dead bloomed as flowers in the Farplane. With the advent of Sin, though, and the spread of religion, this tale was forgotten.  [ Petal the Ochu, Cyanide the Assassin Bee ]

   --  The Temple of Macalania is sinking, as Shiva’s Fayth is no more and there is nothing to freeze the lake now. Many people remained trapped in their rooms inside and died during the sinking, like some wives and children of Macalania priests, for example. The few survivors performed their funeral .  [ Mayo the White Elemental ]

   --  Apparently, people living near Gagazet have a rite of passage for adulthood, which takes place as a boy reaches 20 years of age. He must climb the peak of the mountain alone in the dead of the night and bathe in the first morning lights. Needless to say, it’s quite dangerous, but the Tale is pretty funny.  [ Wuff the White Fang ]

   -- The excessive usage of machina, by the time of FFX-2, is starting to pollute the water and air. It is said fish and birds are starting to suffer because of it.  [ Daisy the Haize ]

   --  The punishment for murder, in Spira, is execution. Hissss the Kukulkan was sentenced to death, mistaken for the killer when he was a mere witness of said murder. He spent one year in the cell of Bevelle -- most likely Via Purifico ones (all monsters in Via Purifico are people who were executed nearby -- aside from Omega who was taken to the ruins), to then being sent to the gallow.

   --  Malboros have very long lifespans. Their average one is about 300 years, and a legend says the insides of a Malboro over 500 years old are linked to the divine. There’s a legend of a monk who was swallowed by a 700-years-old Malboro, survived the digestive fluids and returned to his people with his battle garb still on.  [ Vape Nation the Malboro ]

   --  In Luca, if the Goers win Blitzball matches, pubs and bars offer everyone free drinks. In Kilika, instead, barmaids also dance, which is seen as quite the spectacle. Men usually flock to those bars to drink and also bring gifts to the most beautiful dancers, even ending up in fights for their attention.  [ Jub Jub the Archaeothyris, Venom the Gucumatz ]

   --  Religious Spirans believe in reincarnation. Yuna mentions it in the Ultimania too, referring to her father, and theorizing if, one day, she’ll ever have the chance to meet his soul again, born anew somewhere in Spira. It kinda goes against the principle of souls dwelling in the Farplane, but it’s useful to remember those are mere illusions anyway. A tale says that ‘when looking into the water of an oasis after a sandstorm, you can see yourself in a past life’.  [ Venom the Gucumatz ]

   --  Footage of Zaon becoming a Fayth exist, and are stored inside long-gone and deactivated machina still found near Zanarkand Ruins, which once served to protect the couple during the Machina War. One of these footages shows Zaon embracing Yunalesca, and her promising him her love and to return safely.  [ Punt the YAU71 ]

   --  Music seems important in Spira. Yevon Maesters hire musicians, since the most popular music seems to be Yevonite one -- religious, solemn type, played with harps, horns and strings. There seems to be an annual Yevonite concert for the Maesters too. Still, Spira’s most rebellious teens have started rejecting such old-fashioned music and guitars are spreading among youth nowadays. [ Casper the Lich ]

   --  At some point in Braska’s pilgrimage, the trio arrived in Bikanel and got separated. A Cactuar and Jecht met at the oasis; the man taught the friendly fiend how to play Blitzball and signed its ball.      “ A guy with a huge sword wandered into the oasis. He had strayed from his traveling mates, and he stayed with me for three days. He taught me how to blitz! We didn’t speak the same language but I had fun. I’m clumsy, so it takes a lot of practice to get better. He used to say ‘The only thing the untalented can do is practice!’ with a big laugh. [...] I heard a rumor that said he was dead, but it’s just a rumor, right? ”  [ Needler the Cactuar ]

   --  A Besaid Festival exists, and it includes a fireworks moment. While Luca has a Eating Contest, where the competitors have to eat 200 crispy-outside, juicy inside Luca sandwiches. The local champion was poisoned before the contest started. [ Akao the Sahagin Prince, Mr Creosote the Anything Eater ]

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15 SNES Games That Deserve a Sequel

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The SNES isn’t just the greatest Nintendo console of all-time: it’s the home of a truly impressive collection of classic games, underrated gems, and, for our purposes today, a shocking number of games that never got the sequel they deserved.

While you can usually list the business reasons why certain games don’t get sequels, that does little to diminish fans’ desires for more of a particular experience or even a second chance to get things right. In the case of some of these games, fans have been holding their breath for quite a long time.

Before we dive into this look at SNES games begging for a sequel, please note that while we will mostly focus on games that never got a sequel, a few of these titles did get underwhelming sequels that missed the mark or otherwise haven’t been revisited in over 20 years.

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15. The Adventures of Batman and Robin

While I actually slightly prefer the Genesis version of this game, this underrated SNES gem was still a Konami beat-em-up made at the peak of that studio’s efforts in that genre. Even better, it was based on arguably the best Batman adaptation of all time: Batman: The Animated Series. 

So why did this never get a sequel? It certainly wasn’t perfect, and Konami may have struggled to retain the rights, but given how much the company’s TMNT games improved over time, it’s hard not to wonder what Konami could have done if they had been allowed to expand upon this brilliant marriage of an expertly adapted world and nearly airtight gameplay.

14. Saturday Night Slam Masters

This game did technically get a sequel, but that title never officially made it out of Japan and also made some drastic changes that made the series more of a 2D fighting game. It was actually quite good, but it didn’t reach the heights of the original.

After all, Saturday Night Slam Masters balanced a fascinating mixture of fighting games and wrestling games that was compelling enough at the time but may bring a generation raised on increasingly stale WWE games to tears. This is quite simply one of the most entertaining wrestling games ever made. 

13. Super Star Wars Trilogy

This entry is a bit of a cheat since it not only combines three games in one entry but arguably ignores the fact that we’ve obviously gotten quite a few Star Wars games since these were released. Still, what I really want is a new trilogy of games that mimics the gameplay and style of these brutally difficult classics. 

Whether they’re based on the prequel trilogy, sequel trilogy, or tell entirely original stories, I’d love for a modern developer (probably someone in the Devolver Digital family) to make a modern Super Star Wars game that leaves you wanting to throw your controller through the window and enjoying every minute of it. 

12. Mario Paint

While Nintendo has made other strange games that emphasized player’s creative input (Mario Maker is probably the most notable recent example), they’ve never really properly revisited this Super Mario spin-off that showed Nintendo fans everywhere there was an artist inside of them.

Mario Paint may be simple by today’s standards, but that’s all the more reason for Nintendo to upgrade what was essentially an educational game that mastered the “gamify” concept long before that really became a talking point in the industry. 

11.  U.N. Squadron

The SNES wasn’t exactly lacking in worthwhile shooters, but there was always something special about U.N. Squadron. Granted, it was tough as nails, but the game’s upgrade system, visuals, and incredible level design typically made it easy to put up with the frustrations. 

Capcom is always talking about revisiting and reviving its back catalog, so why not release an “indie-style” sequel to this cult classic that’s always deserved another look?

10. Skyblazer

This largely forgotten gem from the SNES era shows just how spoiled we were at that time for these kinds of experiences. 

After all, Skyblazer was a game that combined great visuals, a killer soundtrack, puzzle-solving, platforming, and intense side-scrolling action, and few people ever actually played it. A simple re-release of this underrated classic would be more than I could hope for, but truth be told, my heart cries out for an admittedly unlikely sequel.

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9. Sunset Riders

Long before Red Dead Redemption offered arguably the definitive Western gaming experience, one of the most enjoyable ways to take a trip to that era was this run-and-gun side-scroller shooter that failed to really make a name for itself despite having so much going for it. 

Sunset Riders‘ old west setting carries a lot of this game’s weight, but it’s really this shooter’s gameplay (which feels like a combination of Contra and a light gun shooter) that makes you wonder how it spent so many years in relative obscurity. A sequel would go a long way towards helping to ensure this game gets the love it deserves. 

8. Weaponlord

It felt like every developer was trying to make the next great fighting game in the ‘90s. While most of those efforts fell well short of being the next Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, the decade’s onslaught of subpar efforts meant that a few fighting games never got the chance they deserved. 

Weaponlord was one of those games. Sometimes referred to as the spiritual predecessor to Soul Edge/Soul Calibur, this weapon-based fighting game complemented its shockingly deep gameplay with a unique art style that stands out to this day. It wasn’t perfect, but it’s so easy to imagine how a sequel could have fixed nearly all of this game’s flaws.

7. Uniracers

A racing game about unicycles is strange enough, but what really sets this game apart is its surprising speed and wacky courses that emphasize almost “stunt-like” racing and tricks. I even kind of love this game’s weird ‘90s attitude. 

There was just so much more that could have been done with this concept had Uniracers gotten the sequel it deserved. Since its developer DMA Design (now known as Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar North) clearly isn’t doing anything these days, I don’t see why they wouldn’t revisit this one. 

6. Secret of Evermore

It’s easy to get this game confused with Secret of Mana and some of the other titles of this era, but Secret of Evermore truly was a special piece of action RPG design that has been tragically overlooked over the years for reasons that have little to do with the game’s quality. 

At a time when many fans were looking for a Secret of Mana sequel, Secret of Evermore offered a somewhat similar but distinctly different gaming experience that was a little slower, a little stranger, and a little more complicated, but arguably never got the chance it deserved to really carve its own identity and find an audience. I think modern gamers would be more receptive to this title’s ideas, though it would be a lot easier to confirm that theory if we got a sequel.

5. Kirby’s Dream Course

Kirby’s Dream Course is one of those games that I feel was both hurt and helped by its license. While this project’s association with Kirby probably inspired more people to play what essentially amounts to a combination of golf and puzzle games (think Marble Madness), a lot of young gamers who took a chance on this thinking it was closer to a traditional Kirby game were left throwing their hands up in the air. 

Years later, though, it’s easier than ever to appreciate what Dream Course is going for. This almost zen-like experience challenges you to use your brain to solve its most fiendish puzzles but keeps things light enough to encourage you to progress even when you hit a wall. Even if an eventual sequel was nothing more than a mobile game, Dream Course is more than worthy of another look.

4. Illusion of Gaia

Illusion of Gaia was one of those SNES games that not everybody owned, but those who did own it typically wouldn’t shut up about it. To be fair to those sometimes persistent gamers, it’s kind of hard to forget about Illusion of Gaia once you’ve given it a chance. 

Though perhaps best described as an ARPG, Illusion of Gaia is actually sometimes closer to a more complicated take on a classic Legend of Zelda game. Its incredible world, surprising plot, fun action, and unique action/adventure concepts made it easy to love, hard to forget, and surprisingly difficult to play. While part of an unofficial trilogy of games, this one has always deserved a proper sequel. 

3. Super Mario RPG

While the Paper Mario series and some of the Mario & Luigi games eventually carried on Super Mario RPG’s legacy, you’ve got to forgive fans who still cry out for a “proper” Super Mario RPG sequel to this day. Maybe that’s because there’s really not another game quite like Super Mario RPG. 

Developed by SquareSoft during their 16-bit peak, Super Mario RPG combined the better elements of a Final Fantasy game with the more lighthearted nature of a Mario title. The result was an RPG that was much more “accessible” than other notable RPGs of this era but never left you feeling like you were playing a lesser game. At the very least, a Super Mario RPG sequel may be the only way that we get more Geno adventures. 

2. Demon’s Crest

There’s a loose rumor that Demon’s Crest‘s sales were so bad that it actually registered negative sales at one point due to an excessive number of returns. It may be little more than an urban legend, but it kind of goes to show you just how poorly this game performed when it was released. 

To this day, I’m not sure why Demon’s Crest wasn’t an instant hit. It was a bit short and some of its design elements were somewhat confusing, but this lovely gothic action title combined Castlevania and Mega Man in a way that is so easy to fall in love with. It’s the kind of game that practically begged for a sequel that it just never got. 

1. Chrono Trigger

While I’m actually a fan of 1999’s Chrono Cross, I understand why many fans don’t like it. I believe Kotaku once called it a great game and a bad sequel, which really kind of sums up some of the ways that game distinguished itself while seemingly ignoring so many of the ways the classic original made a name for itself as one of the best RPGs ever. 

So yes, count me among the many who still wants a “proper” Chrono Trigger sequel to this day. While there are plenty of reasons to doubt that a modern Chrono Trigger game could replicate the ways that this game’s “dream team” of developers made it arguably the best JRPG of the golden era of JRPGs, it’s almost impossible to walk away from this one and not be left wishing for more. 

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Highschool Wrestling Turning into A Super Wrestler

High School Wrestling- Turning into an excellent Wrestler

Steve Austin, astronaut, a person hardly alive. Gentlemen, we could rebuild him, we possess the know-how. Now we have the aptitude to help make the entire world's to start with Bionic man. Steve Austin will be that guy. A lot better than he was right before. Much better. More powerful. More quickly. - through the opening sequence of The tv show The Six Million Dollar Person

Can we build a wrestler that is best, much better, and more rapidly?

What is the best sort of conditioning for just a wrestler? Regardless that I am not aggressive, I nevertheless grapple with this question. The knowledge I obtain looks complicated and contradictory sometimes.

Although my aggressive days are possibly at the rear of me, I've continued to have an interest in wrestling system As well as in wrestling conditioning. I nevertheless questioned for the duration of my adult everyday living what conditioning could produce the last word wrestler. I did a lot of study on-line and in guides and began to piece factors alongside one another.

What insights did I get? Let's explore.

Periodization

I was to some degree accustomed to the idea of periodization way back to the nineteen eighties. I feel that I initial examine periodization inside of a bodybuilding/Conditioning magazine. I do not bear in mind the exact specifics of the short article, however it left an impression on me.

I didn't start applying the web routinely till across the change of The brand new millennium. By way of some studying I came upon two content which were specifically about periodization for wrestling. I believe the 1st report was basically entitled Periodization and was prepared by Ethan Bosch.

The second report was entitled Year Long Periodization Routine and was published by Richard Fergola. These article content fascinated me a great deal. The articles or blog posts described which kind of instruction to try and do at each phase with the calendar calendar year. It was incredibly fascinating to search out an real blueprint of how you can practice year round to get in the very best situation to wrestle.

Toughness and conditioning mentor Mark Ginther contends that peak issue is unattainable to keep for in excess of a number of months at the longest and, therefore, some kind of periodization is important to prosperous conditioning.

Basic linear periodization usually consists of 3 phases: preparatory, Competitiveness, and changeover. Having said that, there are numerous other kinds of periodization.

Strength Units

Throughout highschool I browse an post outlining how different types of weight lifting could lead to energy. electrical power, or muscular endurance. This perplexed me a bit, for the reason that I figured that a wrestler desired all three attributes. I am undecided After i learned concerning the distinction between aerobic and anaerobic sports. That concept was a tiny bit baffling also, mainly because I could remember breathing tricky and experience my heart pound following a wrestling match. And however, wrestling was not definitely like running a few miles. It involved strength and electricity. Over the early A part of the new millennium, I also discovered bout the a few Electricity methods and how to prepare them.

The ATP program gives enwergy for about 0-fifteen seconds. The glyco-lactic method delivers Electricity for about fifteen seconds to two minutes. The aerobic program presents Vitality for two minutes and past. I had been still somewhat baffled since a high school match lasts for 6 minutes. But, All those aren't 6 minutes of continuous continuous point out action. A wrestling match is punctuated by lots of highly effective bursts of action. So, wrestling works by using extra Strength from the first two units and is without a doubt aerobic. And, knowing that helps you to teach appropriately.

A very good report I came upon by Mike Frey was Cardiovascular Education for Wrestlers. Partly two of that short article he writes, "The whistle has blown marking the end of the primary duration of your match. Your heart is racing and you will rarely breathe. You have been working two miles each day just like your coach and father explained to you to definitely. So why are you presently worn out just after only 2 minutes?"

"Indeed, why is usually that?" I thought.

The Frey writes, "Jogging long distance conditioning performs the body's aerobic Electricity process to make use of Vitality over a protracted period of time, wherever with wrestling we are required to maintain substantial levels of Electricity very quickly and Recuperate in a brief length of time."

You see a wrestler requires not merely aerobic endurance, but anaerobic endurance. Mike points out many ways to further improve just one's wrestling endurance. It really is an exceedingly enlightening short article and made rather an perception on me.

Mike concludes portion two from the report by stating, "Cardiovascular coaching for wrestlers is a lot more that just managing two miles or riding your bike within the block. As you are beginning to see, wrestling is about anaerobic conditioning. Aerobic conditioning performs An important part in providing a fantastic good Basis for cardiovascular coaching but it's the anaerobic bodyweight education and conditioning that could carry you to the very best with the podium."

GPP/Operate Ability/Strongman Instruction/Olympic Lifting/ DensityTraining/Kettlebells/Plyometrics/Miscellaneous

I grew up over a farm. I utilized to hold bales of hay and pails of corn every day. I lifted and carried bags of lime and feed. I dug fence submit holes. Quite simply, I did lots of Actual physical labor. This was my strategy for setting up normal physical preparedness (GPP). A concept intently connected with GPP is do the job capability.

I feel it was article content written by Matt Wiggins that 1st brought my interest on the strategy of work capability.

With higher work capability, you can do a better volume of conditioning. Obtaining greater get the job done capacity is like using a bigger"gasoline tank." If you have excellent perform ability, then you will not gasoline out toward the top of the wrestling match.

A wrestler will Definitely reap the benefits of improved operate ability. He might be ready for rigorous get the job done and can Get well extra speedily.

Energy and conditioning expert Ross Enimait states, "All athletes can reap the benefits of enhanced do the job capacity. This is particularly true for combat athletes." Also he writes, "Enhancing function potential is one vital action to enabling the body to prepare more challenging and a lot more generally."

Strongman education involving pulling weighted sleds, swinging sledge hammers, and flipping tires is now quite preferred among the beat athletes. Take a look at it.

Some trainers feel that Olympic lifting (e.g. electrical power cleans) is beneficial for the battle athlete while some You should not. A similar could be reported of plyometrics.

I've heard excellent items about kettlebells, clubbells, and Indian clubs.

Density instruction frequently entails looking to do additional perform in exactly the same length of time or exactly the same degree of function in fewer time. How many push ups can you do in 10 minutes? Try to double the amount of press ups you can do in 10 minutes. Assume you will not be in far better problem? Or, you can continue to keep performing the same range of press ups but reduce the amount of time you rest involving sets.

You'll want to examine up about density coaching.

I guess The underside line is there are some ways to affliction Your entire body and various instruments and approaches you can use.

Conventional Cardio/Intervals/Sprints

Aerobic base instruction has long been a principal component of training packages (which include Individuals for wrestling) for many years. This type of education (Feel extensive gradual bouts of jogging) is purported to boost mitochondrial size and density and also muscular capillarization, which leads to improved blood flow into the muscles and enhanced muscular endurance.

Sounds superior, appropriate? However, a escalating number of conditioning industry experts are professing aerobics (standard cardio) is useless and maybe even risky.

As an illustration, some declare that aerobic training will make you slower, lead to adrenal worry, and worsen one particular's testosterone/cortisol ratio.

Interval teaching is recommended in its place. Interval coaching includes alternating bouts of superior-intensity physical exercise with that of minimal to moderate-depth physical exercise. For example, a single may possibly dash for 40 seconds and afterwards jog for two minutes and repeat this for quite a few sets.

Alternatively, in his posting A Standard Primer on Endurance Coaching Charles Staley writes, "Note: Many conditioning specialists eschew the strategy of producing an aerobic base, emotion that a extremely produced aerobic ability is counter-productive to your attainment of pace and energy. However the anaerobic system relies to the aerobic technique, so at the very least in theory, It appears reasonable to create the procedure that may promote lactic acid clearance during higher intensity training endeavours later on inside the cycle. As in all things, it truly is a difficulty of the amount aerobic operate is done, and in which it can be put from the coaching cycle."

Various conditioning professionals are advocates of sprinting (such as hill sprints).

From the journal post Physiological and Efficiency Alterations from your Addition of a Dash Interval Plan to Wrestling Coaching, Farzad et al. (2011) point out, "Our success indicate that recurring dash-interval runs with quick passive recovery periods, more than a 4-7 days time period are helpful in raising each aerobic and anaerobic performances. The coaching period also drastically influenced serum hormone concentrations."

The total testosterone of the participants carrying out the dash protocol improved noticeably. Rather great, huh?

Lactic Acid Instruction

Wrestling is thought to be largely an anaerobic Activity. Earlier I mentioned the a few Vitality methods. Among the list of Electricity techniques that wrestling relies closely on is called the lactic acid or lactate technique.

The lactate method can be joined With all the burning sensations felt throughout high intensity activities. Consequently, if a wrestler can practice his overall body to tolerate and proficiently use lactate he will turn out to be less fatigued and should be able to wrestle at the next depth for a longer period.

In accordance with Toughness and Conditioning Specialist Jonathan Siegel, "Concerning improving upon the use and re-usage of lactate inside our muscles, lactate threshold (LT) intervals inspire rapid-twitch muscles to make an enzyme (MCT-one) which is important to move lactate into muscle cells where it is transformed into pyruvic acid for even further exercise. The more MCT-1 you've got, the larger the rate of lactate conversion along with the greater the muscle mass endurance. LT intervals also increase the quantity of mitochondria (mobile Strength electrical power plants) and capillaries (blood highways)."

In line with Owen Anderson, creator of Lactate Carry-Off, one method of expanding one particular's lactate threshold and ability to crystal clear lactate is always to execute an exercising he refers to as lactate-dosers.

The lactate-doser includes alternating two minutes of close-to-max-velocity running with 4 to 5 minutes of easy jogging right until you might have concluded 5 to six of the 2 moment bursts.

The blasts bathe muscle cells in lactate, as well as Restoration jogs allow muscle fibers to distinct the lactate that has been produced. Over time, this kind of exercise session need to radically enhance MCT concentrations, lactate clearance, lactate threshold, and general performance capability.

Within an write-up with the Science Daily Web-site entitled Lactic Acid Not Athlete's Poison, But An Electricity Source -- If You understand how To make use of It, workout physiologist George Brooks and his UC Berkeley Exercising Physiology Laboratory colleagues Takeshi Hashimoto and Rajaa Hussien are described as well as their exploration about lactic acid is discussed.

In accordance with the article at Science Every day:

"The entire world's best athletes remain competitive by interval coaching," Brooks claimed, referring to repeated small, but rigorous, bouts of exercise. "The powerful physical exercise generates huge lactate masses, and the body adapts by building up mitochondria to obvious lactic acid speedily. If you employ it up, it would not accumulate."

In the journal short article entitled The Physiological Basis for Wrestling: Implications for Conditioning Courses, Kraemer, Vescovi, & Dixon (2004) propose circuit resistance teaching as 1 part of a wrestling conditioning system. They condition, "The most crucial reason for circuit resistance teaching would be to produce a toleration of higher hydrogen ion and lactic acid concentrations, that can subsequently improve the acid-buffering mechanisms inside the physique."

Circuits are only a series of workouts carried out in the style by which one moves from one particular exercising to the following with little or no rest. A great description of circuit resistance education distinct to wrestling are available inside the journal report pointed out over, in on line posts, and inside the book entitled Handbook of Sporting activities Medication and Science:Strength Schooling for Sport.

Pavel Tsatsouline/Energy

Pavel Tsatsouline, Grasp of Sports, is a former Soviet Specific Forces Bodily education instructor as well as the writer of Energy on the People today: Russian Strength Instruction Tricks For each American and several other other guides and posts.

Pavel believes in lifting weighty weights for small reps. Bodybuilding has no put for most athletes teaching in his belief. He states, "The punch bag who came up with The sunshine weights/significant reps formula for martial artists did not hold the slightest clue about possibly toughness coaching or martial arts."

He also states, "The best toughness schooling formulation to get a fighting person is heavy, 80-95% 1RM, weights, and reduced, one-five, repetitions."

Any beat athlete, such as wrestlers, can become worn out and sore from adhering to a significant rep excess weight training system. Should you have no Electrical power left for follow, what is the level? Pavel concludes, "When they go to low rep, hefty, non-exhaustive coaching--a few sets of 3 or 5 sets of five--they might not get sore."

Toughness education should hardly ever interfere along with your wrestling follow. If follow alone tends to make you weary and fatigued which is okay. You can not apply your wrestling skills perfectly in case you are sore from fat training. You can't shoot good takedowns for anyone who is fatigued and sore.

If wrestling apply alone tends to make you exhausted and fatigued that's alright. Even so, your power education shouldn't. Toughness teaching isn't for conditioning. You need to get plenty of conditioning during wrestling apply from drilling, Reside wrestling, calisthenics, and so forth.

Power teaching can be not a way for you to establish how tough you're. Put it aside with the mat. No one cares exactly how much you may bench press in the event you wander out and get pinned. Lift heavy weights, but preserve the overall quantity of energy coaching low.

Strength education is basically there to provide you with a feasible edge about an Similarly expert opponent.

Barry Ross/Power and Pace

Energy and conditioning mentor Barry Ross is mainly recognized for his do the job in the area of track and discipline, Primarily sprinting. Ross helped coach sprinter Allyson Felix in highschool. Allyson Felix has long gone on to be an Olympic silver medalist and environment winner sprinter. You might marvel what this has to do with wrestling.

Properly, the fascinating point about Ross is the fact that he stumbled on a study by study physiologist Peter Weyand. In line with Ross, "Weyand and his associates proved that merely gaining toughness is not enough. Their review confirmed that the essential to faster managing was mass-distinct power. 'Mass-distinct force' is just yet another way to say that it isn't basically the amount of power placed on the bottom that improves stride size; It is really the amount of power in relation to bodyweight."

Ross realized that raising mass-distinct drive meant finding stronger without adding bulk. Really don't most wrestlers choose to get more powerful without having gaining bulk? I do think so. So how exactly does a single make this happen? Ross experienced his sprinters raise heavy weights for minimal reps and focused primarily on the deadlift. In his post The Holy Grail in Pace Teaching Ross writes, "The deadlift was not a favorite in our eyes both until eventually we seen a fascinating and powerfully motivating truth: Globe and European powerlifting documents exhibit which the deadlift plus the squat documents are inside ten% or significantly less of each other throughout all body weight classes, both equally for guys and ladies. Still the deadlift is effective a noticeably higher share on the muscles and includes a number of joints; why waste time and energy on squats or leg push equipment? Knowing the efficiency from the deadlift triggered the whole restructuring of our toughness training."

Ross under no circumstances has his athletes practice to failure (exhaustion). He simply just gets his athletes really potent. He believes from the philosophy, "Do as minimal as essential, not just as much as is possible." This is analogous on the philosophy of energy and conditioning mentor and coach to boxers and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7p5R3w3I2TvYqEpEq-_sgA/ UFC fighters Steve Baccari. Interstingly, Baccari is additionally a admirer of deadlifts. Baccari states, "In my view, straightforward strength teaching is the only real productive way a competitive fighter can strength train. But plenty of people Consider if you do not break a sweat it should not do the job. This utilized to trouble me quite a bit, but not anymore, since I do think it truly is a person cause why my fighters get a great deal of." Baccari also says, "Reduced rep sluggish power operate is like putting funds during the financial institution to collect around the battle night."

I feel the lesson for wrestlers is you should not wear you out by lifting weights to The purpose of exhaustion. Raise weighty weights for lower reps (under no circumstances much more than five) and have really strong. Lactic acid teaching and conditioning have their put, but Never forget about the significance of pure energy.

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Dan Gable won't really want an introduction. He was among the greatest American wrestlers to ever established foot within the mat and maybe the best collegiate mentor in background. Gable's function ethic and conditioning was famous.

Gable relished hard work from the youthful age. For the duration of his highschool years he experienced the stamina to exhaust his teammates.

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Market Your Company without Alienating Customers

There's something that most exceptionally amiable individuals share practically speaking: They don't invest especially energy discussing themselves. Rather, they tune in and love to pose inquiries. The majority of all, they truly care about what you need to state.

This is really fundamental stuff. However organizations chatter endlessly about themselves and how extraordinary their items are and anticipate that individuals should follow, as, and purchase.

Reality: If potential clients couldn't care less about you, they won't care about your items or administrations. What individuals do think about is the means by which you can help or engage them.

"At the point when you offer some benefit and are fascinating all the while," says David Meerman Scott, creator of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, "individuals will arrange to get familiar with what you bring to the table."

Take HubSpot, an advertising mechanization programming organization that opened up to the world eight years in the wake of propelling. A tremendous supporter of its development is a free instrument called Website Grader.

Type in your URL, and Website Grader produces a free, modified report that not just rates your web based showcasing (web based life makes reference to, blog entry shares, fundamental SEO, etc) yet additionally furnishes you with significant hints on the most proficient method to improve. The apparatus is free, and it's amazingly important for HubSpot's target fans, which is the reason it works. Furthermore, it creates countless business leads for HubSpot consistently.

Create Truly Phenomenal, Unique Content

Your central goal is to make 10x substance for your site. That implies content that is multiple times better than the best outcome that can at present be found in Google indexed lists.

To do so, it’ll have to meet the following criteria:

It's outwardly engaging on any gadget.

It's a mix of high-caliber, reliable, helpful, fascinating, and surprising.

It's extensively interesting in scope and gives more data than what's at present out there on the theme.

It evokes feeling, for example, deference, happiness, or appreciation.

It tackles an individual's concern or answers a searcher's inquiry in an exhaustive, precise, and extraordinary way.

It's introduced in a sudden manner.

This sounds like hard work because it is. But it’s the only way to win in the era of peak content.

Sell Products, Not Solutions

As per Chartbeat author Tony Halle, you have 15 seconds to get the normal site guest's consideration. Possibilities need to find out about how you will tackle their concern, not about your history or the administrations you give.

"Regularly, clients don't have a clue what they need," says Kelsey Jones, official manager of Search Engine Journal. "All they know is they have this issue they need somebody to fathom."

The best deals pages once in a while notice the item, and when they at last do, it's around the end. At the outset — or during those underlying 15 seconds — your lone objective ought to get guests to continue perusing. You do this by portraying the issue your guest is encountering.

After you show that you "get them," portray existence without this issue — one that makes them continue looking to get familiar with the advantages they could understanding in the event that they had your answer.

Gaming the System

Need to know the distinction between a decent advertiser and a terrible advertiser? Morals.

A decent advertiser wins supporters. A terrible advertiser scratches them.

A decent advertiser composes 10x substance that underlines their aptitude and produces quality leads. An awful advertiser composes a misleading content feature that prompts a catchphrase stuffed post that gives little worth or diversion.

Whenever another showcasing strategy appears, organizations hurry to misuse it. This makes an unavoidable race to the base, which frequently pulverizes the strategy, says Shane Snow, originator of Contently and creator of Smartcuts. Take those "around the web" joins you see at the base of pretty much every article on the Internet.

When advertisers found those got high navigate rates (CTRs), we got an excess of deceiving features, obscene photographs that don't coordinate the substance being publicized, and advertisers camouflaging item pitches as genuine news. What's more, presently distributers are disposing of those connections, Snow says.

Also, before advertisers abused distributers' locales, dark cap SEO con artists misused Google itself until the web index found and erased its whole system of destinations.

Focus on the Human

You won't fool Google — in any event not for long. So your play is to compose acceptable stories with genuine features that advertise non-tricky items, says Snow.

As it were, meeting purchaser desires plays well on Google. No, you won't land on page one short-term, yet your endeavors will be remunerated over the long haul.

At the point when you produce wonderful substance, individuals distinguish your image as significant, supportive, instructive, certified, and straightforward. Additionally, on the off chance that you do things the correct way, you won't need to stress over how Google or Facebook is tweaking their calculations, upsetting your business short-term.

Master the key channels

The smartest business owners hire good marketers, and trust them to do what is best for their company. This includes letting marketers tell you which channels to focus on. 

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As of late, a troubled entrepreneur contacted me after the SEO organization he employed landed him a Google punishment. His site was cleaned from the main page of query items short-term. Poof.

He was walloped, in light of the fact that the organization's pitch sounded marvelous. They had within scoop on how the Google calculation functioned, they asserted, and would streamline substance to ascend to the head of list items. What's more, it worked, until it didn't. He asked me what I would do another way.

"Do you have incredible items and administrations that are valued reasonably?" I inquired.

"Truly."

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"Obviously," he reacted.

Indeed, even the best showcasing method will miss the mark if the center contribution isn't there. Never depend on SEO or some other promoting as a silver slug — and that is actually what I told the entrepreneur I would do.

"At that point what I will do any other way," I clarified, "is let your items, administrations, and character represent themselves."

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For him, clear writing was not more or less style. Writing effectively by making a skilled content is a significant action to do so as to pass college essay writing questions. By accentuating your strengths by your writing, you will have the ability to effectively communicate that you’re a deserving candidate for their award.

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Subject pronouns in Spanish are just individual pronouns. You should read whatever you’ve written twice before you submit this, and keep an eye out for more mistakes linked to English Grammar. Improving your written English can also incorporate practicing the various ways to compose a specific word in both styles.

Fantastic solution is to cover essay. If you’re given the subject, you ought to think about the sort of paper that you need to produce. If you’re fighting to finish your academic paper all on your own, don’t hesitate to use our advice.

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If you would rather make an outline, write your topic at the peak of the webpage. A paragraph can be quite long or very short, based on the job it does. An excellent paragraph is often connected to the remainder of the text in ways which make it tricky to appreciate alone.

In the conclusion section, you should summarize your ideas and prove how you evolved. Also, because it is a description, imperfect is used. Have Spanish grammar book that will help resolve any sentence structure problems.

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Like every turning point, it’s a test. All we could do was listen, 24 hours per day, 7 days weekly. You shouldn’t jump from 1 point to another.

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Dont write a narrative essay solely for the interest of describing a particular event in your life. Dance in the USA is greatly varied from area to area. Morality hasn’t been invented occasionally.

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Moisturizing on a regular basis should help lessen unwanted wrinkling and various indications of ageing that come into view on our skin.  You desire to choose a moisturizing regime that may hold the skin hydrated.  Verify using a skin doctor to discover what's going to be just right for you the most beneficial and make sure to use it regularly.  They do not do much good while in the bottle.

Ascertain the amount slumber your whole body demands an evening and then be sure you get it. Deficiency of superior typical slumber is a attainable result in of premature growing old. Just because you happen to be acquiring older will not mean that you choose to have to have a lot less snooze. Our bodies operate far better if they have experienced a full evenings rest. Research have proven that it's incredibly hard to recuperate from a snooze deficit so preserve to a pattern just as much as feasible.

Skip the major make-up and powders once in a while.  Even though they make us search lovely with the short term, they are really contributing into the getting old of your skin.  Makeup generally hurts the skins potential to hydrate and stay elastic.  Give the skin a crack and take a several times off weekly from in excess of simply a slip of lip gloss.

You could assume grabbing an afternoon cup of tea is only for outdated people, nevertheless it actually works to help you maintain you younger.  Tea is very full of people, oh so useful, antioxidants which enable guard our cells from aging.  The exercise of having a cup of tea can also be a terrific tension reliever, so go ahead and sip away.

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Hold one's body in good shape and functioning at its peak, even even though escalating older.  Performing exercises isn't only for pounds decline, it really is also very significant for keeping one's body young and dealing at its ideal stage.  Cardio workout is extremely vital in your heart health and fitness, so maintain your whole body relocating to keep the years away.

Transform from the tv set and acquire off in the sofa.  Every one of us have to have our vices, but if you happen to be paying out each individual night within the sofa then something is wrong.  We've got to help keep our bodies and brains energetic as we age and looking at tv isn't really accomplishing any of those.  Restrict your television looking at to just just one or two evenings weekly and do anything energetic or attention-grabbing in your nights off.

Totally free radicals are destructive by-products shaped as your whole body turns food stuff and oxygen into vitality.  Because they safeguard against those people cost-free radicals, anti-oxidants may assist you to take care of the consequences of getting older.  Sources of anti-oxidants are fruits, vegetables, and total grains.  Blueberries, blackberries, broccoli, and spinach are specifically fascinating, as darker food items tend to possess a greater volume of anti-oxidants.

A fantastic idea to handle ageing will be to end worrying about quantities. It truly is simple to travel yourself to distraction specializing in all of your quantities: your age, your peak, your bodyweight. You fork out your medical professional to worry about your quantities, so toss them away from your head and concentration on items which can be more entertaining as an alternative.

Lower your calorie intake. Scientific scientific tests present that what and exactly how substantially you eat may affect the many years and high-quality of one's life. Specifically, animal investigation indicates that limiting calories around forty p.c fewer than normal use a useful effect on the markers of aging and ailment. Have in mind that not each species has demonstrated this advancement and experiments on people, together with other primates are still ongoing.

Building and keeping healthier interactions is very important to healthy aging. Active involvement from the local community has been tied to equally a longer and much healthier lifestyle. So that you can obtain the finest advantage of your social interactions, you ought to concentrate on individuals which require intimacy with individuals you are able to pour your coronary heart out to. 

Take the time each day to get pleasure from the simple things in everyday life. It could be a straightforward flower expanding while in the yard, or even a smile on a child's encounter. These items provides you with pleasure plus the a lot more joy you have inside your everyday living, the greater youthful you are going to feel throughout it. 

To be able to seem youthful and slow down the growing older method, it's important you consume fantastic quantities of fruits, each day. Like vegetables, fruits consist of anti-oxidants that support one's body with hydration. An additional issue that fruits have is vitamin C, which helps you to preserve pretty radiant wanting pores and skin.

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Real Estate - The "Nightmare Scenario" For Beijing: 50 Million Chinese Apartments Are Empty

Real Estate - The "Nightmare Scenario" For Beijing: 50 Million Chinese Apartments Are Empty

by Tyler Durden   Real Estate - Back in 2017, we explained why the "fate of the world economy is in the hands of China's housing bubble." The answer was simple: for the Chinese population, and growing middle class, to keep spending vibrant and borrowing elevated, it had to feel comfortable and confident that its wealth would keep rising. However, unlike the US where the stock market is the ultimate barometer of the confidence boosting "wealth effect", in China it has always been about housing as three quarters of Chinese household assets are parked in real estate, compared to only 28% in the US, with the remainder invested financial assets. Beijing knows this, of course, which is why China periodically and consistently reflates its housing bubble, hoping that the popping of the bubble, which happened in late 2011 and again in 2014, will be a controlled, "smooth landing" process.  For now, Beijing has been successful in maintaining price stability at least according to official data, allowing the air out of the "Tier 1" home price bubble which peaked in early 2016, while preserving modest home price appreciation in secondary markets. How long China will be able to avoid a sharp price decline remains to be seen, but in the meantime another problem faces China's housing market: in addition to being the primary source of household net worth - and therefore stable and growing consumption - it has also been a key driver behind China's economic growth, with infrastructure spending and capital investment long among the biggest components of the country's goalseeked GDP. One result has been China's infamous ghost cities, built only for the sake of Keynesian spending to hit a predetermined GDP number that would make Beijing happy. Meanwhile, in the process of reflating the latest housing bubble, another dire byproduct of this artificial housing "market" has emerged: tens of millions of apartments and houses standing empty across the country. According to Bloomberg, soon-to-be-published research will show that roughly 22% of China’s urban housing stock is unoccupied, according to Professor Gan Li, who runs the main nationwide study. That amounts to more than 50 million empty homes. The reason for the massive empty inventory glut: to keep supply low and prices artificially elevated by taking out as much inventory off the market as possible. This, however, works both ways, and while it helps boost prices on the way up as the economy grow and speculators flood the housing market with easy money, the moment the trend flips the spike in supply as empty units are offloaded will lead to a panic liquidation of homes, resulting in what may be the biggest housing market crash ever observed, and putting the US home bubble of 2006 to shame. Indeed, as Bloomberg notes, the "nightmare scenario" for Chinese authorities is that owners of unoccupied dwellings rush to sell when cracks start appearing in the property market, causing a self-reinforcing downward price spiral. Worse, the latest data, from a survey in 2017, also suggests Beijing’s efforts to curb property speculation - which alongside shadow banking and the persistent threat of sudden bank runs (like the one discussed last week) is considered by Beijing a key threat to financial and social stability - have failed. "There’s no other single country with such a high vacancy rate,” said Gan, of Chengdu’s Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. “Should any crack emerge in the property market, the homes to be offloaded will hit China like a flood.” How did the Chinese researcher obtain this troubling number? To find the percentage of vacant housing, thousands of researchers spread out across 363 Chinese counties last year as part of the China Household Finance Survey, which Gan runs at the university. Gan said that the vacancy rate, which excludes homes yet to be sold by developers, was little changed from a 2013 reading of 22.4%. And while that study showed 49 million vacant homes, Gan puts the number now at "definitely more than 50 million units." Meanwhile, Beijing - which is fully aware of these stats, and is also aware that even a modest price decline could be magnified instantly as millions of "for sale" units hit the market at the same time - is worried. That's why Chinese authorities have imposed buying restrictions and limited credit availability, only to see money flooding into other areas. Rampant price gains also mean millions of people are shut out from the market, exacerbating inequality. In fact, China's president Xi famously said in October last year that "houses are built to be inhabited, not for speculation", and yet a quarter of China's housing is just that: empty, and only serves to amplify speculation. While holiday homes and the empty dwellings of migrants seeking work elsewhere account for some of the deserted properties, Gan found that investment purchases have been the biggest factor keeping the vacancy rate high. That’s despite curbs across the country meant to discourage buying of multiple dwellings.

There is another economic cost to this speculative frenzy: the drop in supply puts upward pressure on prices and crowds young buyers out of the market, according to Kaiji Chen, who co-authored a Fed paper called “The Great Housing Boom of China."  And, as Americans so fondly recall, the result of chasing unaffordable homes for the purpose of price speculation has resulted in yet another unprecedented debt bubble: according to Caixin, outstanding personal home mortgages in China have exploded sevenfold from 3 trillion yuan ($430 billion) in 2008 to 22.9 trillion yuan in 2017, according to PBOC data By the end of September, the value of outstanding home mortgages had surged another 18% Y/Y to a record 24.9 trillion yuan, resulting in a trend that as Caixin notes, has turned many people into what are called “mortgage slaves." It has also resulted in yet another housing bubble: home mortgage debt now makes up more than half of total household debt in China. As of the third quarter, it accounted for 53% of the 46.2 trillion yuan in outstanding household debt. For now, few are losing sleep over what will be the next massive housing bubble to burst. An example of a vacant home is a villa on the outskirts of Shanghai that 27-year-old Natalie Feng’s parents bought for her. The two-story residence was meant to be a weekend escape for the family of three. In reality, it’s empty most of the time, and Feng says it’s too much trouble to rent it out. "For every weekend we spend there, we need to drive for an hour first, and clean up for half a day," Feng said. She joked that she sometimes wishes her parents hadn’t bought it for her in the first place. That’s because any apartment she buys now would count as a second home, which means she’d have to make a bigger down payment. What is troubling is that despite relatively stable home prices, the foundations behind the housing market are cracking. As the WSJ recently reported, in early December, a group of homeowners stormed the sales office of their Shanghai complex, "Central Washington", whose developer, Shanghai Zhaoping Real Estate Development, was advertising new apartments at a fraction of the prices of the ones sold earlier in the year. One apartment owner said the new prices suggested the value of the apartment she bought from the developer in March had dropped by about 17.5%. “There are people who bought multiple homes who are now trying to sell one to pay off the mortgage on another,” said Ran Yunjie, a property agent. One of his clients bought an apartment last year for about $230,000. To find a buyer now, the client would have to drop the price by 60%, according to Ran. Meanwhile, in a truly concerning demonstration of what will happen when the bubble finally bursts, last month we reported that angry homeowners who paid full price for units at the Xinzhou Mansion residential project in Shangrao attacked the Country Garden sales office in eastern Jiangxi province last week, after finding out it had offered discounts to new buyers of up to 30%.

Hao Hong 洪灝, CFA@HAOHONG_CFA Country Garden cut the selling price at one of its residential developments by 1/3. Those who paid full price smashed the sales office. Similar incidents had happened before, and will again. It’s impossible to remove “the guarantee of principal”（刚性兑付）in China. "Property accounts for roughly 70 per cent of urban Chinese families’ total assets – a home is both wealth and status. People don’t want prices to increase too fast, but they don’t want them to fall too quickly either,” said Shao Yu, chief economist at Oriental Securities. "People are so used to rising prices that it never occurred to them that they can fall too. We shouldn’t add to this illusion," Shao added, echoing Ben Bernanke circa 2005. But the biggest surprise once the music finally stops may be that - as a fascinating WSJ report revealed one year ago - China's housing downturn is likely far, far worse than meets the eye, as under Beijing’s direction more than 200 cities across China for the last three years have been buying surplus apartments from property developers and moving in families from condemned city blocks and nearby villages. China’s Housing Ministry, which is behind the purchases, said it plans to continue the program through 2020. The strategy, supported by central-government bank lending, has rescued housing developers and lifted the property market.

In other words, while China already has a record 50 million empty apartments, the real number - when excluding the government's own stealthy purchases of excess inventory - is likely significantly higher. It is this, and not China's stock market, that has long been the biggest time bomb for Beijing, and if Trump and Peter Navarro truly want to crush China in their ongoing trade war, they should focus on destabilizing the housing market: the Chinese stock market was, and remains just a distraction. To summarize: China has more than 50 million vacant apartments Mortgage loans have grown 8-fold in the past decade Prices are kept steady thanks to constant government purchases of surplus inventory Home prices are already cracking, with some homebuilders forced to cut prices by 30%. Homebuyers revolt, forming angry militias and storm homesellers' offices when prices dip For now, China has been able to maintain the illusion of stability to preserve social order. However, should the housing slowdown accelerate significantly and tens of millions in empty units suddenly hit the market, then the "working class insurrection" that China has been preparing for since 2014... ... will become an overnight reality, with dire consequences for the entire world. Read more https://global.goreds.today/real-estate-193/   Read the full article

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