#fat freeze review

[resi4skz]

Title: Breakfast & Pancakes

Pairing: Chan x chubbyReader

Words: ~3k+

Warnings: slight nsfw, slight fluff, kitchen s*x

Placing the last plate on the table and arranged the flowers in the vase, I stand back to review my work. Will she like this? Satisfied, I walk into my room when I'm struck by the beauty sleeping on my bed. God, I want to take this picture and forever carve it in my mind. It had been 6 months into our relationship and last night, I made her mine. Officially anyway.

I take a few steps closer and stop just as she turns in her sleep, exposing her pretty face to me. My eyes travel down to her arm and hand. Smiling, I gently grab it and start drawing small circles on the back of her hand. It makes her stir in her sleep but opens her eyes and gives me a sleepy smile. "Morning."

"Morning baby," I say as I lean down, planting a kiss on her forehead. "Sleep well?"

She nods her head, smiling. "Yes."

"Hungry?"

"Starving."

When she's a bit more awake, I lead her to the dining table. She gasps and blinks at me. "Channie, did you make all this?!"

I chuckled, pinching her cheek. "Yes. Now come. Let's eat."

We eat in peace. But mostly, it was me watching her eat as her eyes sparkled when she saw her favorite breakfast. Pancakes. She told me they were the best pancakes she's had. We talked about our work and friends, you know the usual. And when it came to clean up, she stood up with her hand waving at me as if to dismiss it.

"You cooked. I clean."

Fuck.

I'm absolutely entirely and over the mountains and hills full time fucked.

Each day she gives me a reason to fall for her more and more. I sit back and watch her start to wash the dishes while humming a song.

God. If time were to stop now, I wouldn't even complain.

Standing up, I slowly walk over to her till I'm standing behind her. I give her a look from head to toe, stopping at her mid-riff. I inwardly groan as I make my presence known because she freezes mid-wash and stops singing. "Channie?"

I hum in response as I move closer and change the position of her hair, completely moving to the left side. Next, my lips attach to her shoulder then her neck as I feel her shiver. "You know you're mine, right?" I whisper-ask.

She nods, letting out a whimper.

"Use your words, babygirl."

"Yes."

"Good," I lean over her ear. "You're fucking mine."

"Channie, why do you find me attr- ah!" She yelps when I smack her plump ass cheek.

"Baby, you don't know what you do to me. What these," I grab her ass and squeeze. "What these do to me, fuck, you're perfect."

"But I'm fat."

I stop everything and she whimpers at the loss of my touch. But I place my hands on her hips and buck my hips against her ass, letting her feel the evidence. "This, this is your fault. Feel what you do to me. I'll fuck this, YOU, everyday if I have to so you know you're beautiful."

"Channie," she moans.

"I'll remind you every day and night, that you're the only one that makes me crazy for you," I frantically lower her panties and find her ready for me. "Fuck, baby. You're so good to me."

Then she turns the tap off and turns around. I blink down at her as she jumps, my arms going around her curvy thighs and hips curving around her ass. "Chris."

I groan as I clear off the kitchen island before setting her on top of it. I waste no time as I dive right for her lips. Taking off my sweats, I settle between her legs. Fuck, my cock was hard and leaking. I pepper kiss my way down to her chest when I push in making her silently cry out in pleasure.

That day, I showed her just how much she meant to me, how much her curves made me feral. I couldn't get enough. I don't think I will ever get enough of her. Because she's mine.

"You're mine," I whisper, kissing the back of her head before wrapping my arm around her, spooning her from behind under the blankets as we soon fell into a deep slumber.

A/N: a little drabble but i hope it's okay? Lol enjoy ^_^

[yin-shimo]

RATING CC SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

DECAYED "Easy Access" ed.

RATE LIST:

poly count

mesh visuals

weights

UV texture

universability

1. POLY COUNT

Lets get the biggest possible problem out of the way first. There's four items.

Open Jeans: 71,856

Jeans: 34,080

Softie Top: 32,036

DDG String: 21,776

How does this compare to Maxis clothes?

I didn't go through every clothes they've made, but crop shirt, short sleeve wise, the largest poly count i saw was 4.2k That's a ratio of 160: 21 or 8: 1 if we make 4.2k into 4k.

for jeans, the largest i saw was 1,270. That's a ratio of about 85: 3 or 28.33333...: 1 if you want an easier number.

For bikini/under/etc the average was 1000~ so for ease sake, we'll use that. That's a ratio of 22: 1.

**Disclaimer: ratios are based on averaged numbers for simplicity's sake

Rating: 0/10

reason: the numbers are answer enough BUT in addition it literally made my game glitch/freeze up when first selecting them, playing with sliders, AND exiting CAS.

2. MESH VISUALS

This covers as stated... mesh visuals such as clipping or just looking nothing like it's advertised.

Problems 1 & 2:

for simplicity's sake, I'm using CAS poses. I think if it fails to look good in CAS it definitely won't look well in game.

Texture Type: 100% alpha, could not be mistaken for maxis.

Texture Quality: the texture is rather blurry and over-saturated in comparison to more higher quality CC clothes.

**Disclaimer: I don't play with the HQ mod so idk if it looks better with it.

Rating: 4/10

3. WEIGHTS

This section kind of overlaps with #2 so look back up for review.

Aside from what was shown up there, when walking (for the open jeans) the crotch area again clips between itself as well as ankle seen in the left leg.

for the unopened jeans, no immediate issues seen when walking (same for the shirt & thong)

Rating: 6/10

reason: clipping could be fixed by simply deleting unnecessary body mesh/ possibly minor weight tweaks

4. UV TEXTURE (mapping)

This section is meant to answer the question, "Will any conflict with other parts such as shoes, hats, etc?" Using the sims 4 UV map template as my guide, here are the results:

All four correspond to their proper sections and shouldn't conflict texture wise with other CAS parts

Rating: 10/10

5. UNIVERSABILITY

This section covers questions like, "Does this work for large muscular and/or fat sims? Does it work if my sims are the lowest body mass?

TLDR; answer: Yes.

Answer: I only checked the top and opened jeans (as it's the worst mesh of all 4) and with muscles and fat at the max both simultaneously and respectively, there were no additional clipping or issues such as it not following with the body changes. The same could be said when both (or one) was dropped to the lowest.

Rating: 10/10

and lastly:

Questionnaire:

Would you recommend to a friend: NO. Would you use this item yourself: NO. Paywall Status: PERMA-PAYWALLED. Additional Info: $5 USD for current month, $10 2months prior + blender cc, $25 access to lifetime cc. Additional Info #2: They have a free sample of the closed jeans...(yay SL behavior [sarcasm])

OVERALL RATING: 30%

[sirthisisa-wendys]

I’m the one who asked about the flashback for Ran! Just sending it back as you asked :) I’m so excited to see what you came up with, I was racking my brain for something and I couldn’t come up with an exact scenario. I just love the way you write his raw emotions and how much he loves the reader, and is tortured by what happened to her, and them suffering through the aftermath even though Mikey’s gone.

I actually found a plot point I missed when reviewing the old parts of the story! FLASHBACK FLASH BACK (you'll get another "flashback" after this one that rounds them out. I'm taking this concept and running with it.)

Hand Her Over (Part 7 - A FLASHBACK): Ran Haitani x Fem!Reader

wc: calculating...

tw: flashback, angst, drinking

masterlis

Hand Her Over Megapost

The cap to the wine bottle comes undone with a loud pop. Ran tilts the glass just so, intent on catching every single drop left in the almost empty bottle. He's not sure when he started drinking again, but on nights like these, he doesn't give a shit.

No, he knows when he started drinking again. He remembers the exact moment the bottle reappeared in the fridge. That morning, he found you standing in the front yard, letting the freezing breeze and snow into the foyer.

"Sleepwalking," Ran had said at the time, excusing your behavior as a machination of your nightmares. He wasn't sure how long you'd been out there or how many times you'd done something like this. But it startled the shit out of him so bad he had to drink to ease his nerves.

Ran waits for some semblance of the dulling effect to take over. He needed to forget how you stood there, feet covered in snow, cheeks flushed bright red, and shivering. You'd been so cold and--

Ran's grip on the bottle falters. He watches in slow motion as the bottle crashes to the floor, resulting in shards of glass skittering about the wine-slicked tile. Ran feels his head loll, and he stares at the mess, wondering how he'd pick it up now. His feet are bare, too.

You come ambling toward the kitchen moments later, your eyes taking in the scene with alarm. But you don't say anything. Well, save a soft "ow".

"Shit," Ran bites out, finally reacting to the scene, spurred into action due to your injury.

And that's how things started, isn't it?

He knew Mikey was no good. He knew things had gone too far. He knew... he fucking knew and yet... He hadn't done shit about it until you'd gotten hurt.

"Piece of glass in your foot?" Ran wonders, still stuck to his stance in the middle of it. You nod. Ran picks his way around the mess, narrowly avoiding a shard himself, and scoops you into his arms. His senses are slowly dulling, but he had enough time to get you some help before he crashed.

The trip to the bedroom is short, and Ran sits you on the bed, whispering, "Don't move." You don't, and he pads toward the bathroom where the first aid kit awaits him. As he rifles through the box, memories come back to him of you doing the same thing: patching up his scrapes, putting ice packs on his bruises, disinfecting the scabs and gross knife cuts...

When had he ever done that for you?

Never.

He reappears with tweezers and a few large band aids, placing them on the floor before sitting down. He spots the offender almost instantly, though it's not large. Ran takes the tweezers and gently pulls the shard free without much difficulty. You whimper in pain, but it's momentary. Fingers work at patching your wound up with two band-aids and then Ran pats your leg with as much affection as he can muster.

"All better." The statement is punctuated with a gentle kiss against your ankle, and when he rises, he sees the fat tears that have rolled down your face. You wipe them away just as Ran feels the effects of the wine take hold. Things are a little hazy, but he has just enough strength to put you back in bed comfortably.

"I'm going to pay for this for the rest of my life, aren't I?" he whispers to no one, his mind rolling with scenarios as he stumbles into the recliner nearby.

The world is swimming but Ran grips the edges of the recliner before easing himself into it while gritting his teeth. All of his life he'd been the one to watch as someone else handled the messes, handled the delinquents, handled the repercussions of his own actions. Hell, until he raised his gun and fired six bullets into Mikey's chest, he hadn't handled shit for himself. Not really.

Bonten's undoing came as quickly as Ran had told Mikey to fuck himself, to which Mikey's haunted face replied, "You wife would know something about that, wouldn't she?"

The squeezing in Ran's chest started just as soon as he pulled the trigger, clickclickclickclick-ing until the gun itself was empty, and then some more for good measure. By the time Rindou had found him slumped against the desk beside a very dead Mikey, Ran had fired seven blanks and sixteen shots.

Money had changed hands, faces disappeared, people forgot who they were and where they lived and who Ran was, the news ran only one cycle talking about Mikey's death. The rest had been lost to time. And yet, here he is, sitting and stuck in that same spiral he'd allowed himself to get stuck in.

All for you.

Ran's eyes slide to his prize, your face turned towards him and eyes blinking in the dim light of the bedroom. "Hey," he whispers softly, trying for a gentle smile. "I'm alright. Get some sleep." You continue to stare at him and Ran knows instinctively that he's drunker than he ought to be.

"I'll get off the bottle soon," he murmurs, looking away in shame. "Promise."

You turn over to the other side and sigh but Ran can't bring himself to promise you anything else. He'd already brought so much pain into your life, and here he was, doing it again.

The image of you standing in front yard catches him off guard again. Maybe you were trying to get away from him. You'd walked so far--

Ran looks back over at you and feels the black hole in his chest yawn. It stings. The thought of you trying to escape from him burns like hell and he can't--

Ran stifles a gasp for air.

He can't bear the thought of you trying to leave. You had every right - you really did - to run away and find someone who would make you happy. He wouldn't blame you if you did want a divorce and wanted to leave his name. He killed for you, but that meant nothing in the face of your happiness.

It meant--

Ran's mind slips.

He'd count it all up to his payment for so many years of shit and terror and chaos. Surely--

The black hole opens a little wider and the world tilts.

You would be happy.

Ran grips the chair with both of his arms, hearing Mikey's voice in his ears.

"But you don't really love her, do you?"

I do, he wants to shout back at the ghost, challenging it.

The wine... it's the wine that's addling his mind. He's not normally like this - not so insecure, not so needy, but--

She'd be better off without you.

Ran jolts up and hurries out of the bedroom, running his hands through his hair and feeling the panic rush through his veins. There's only one way, one way to alleviate this.

This crushing guilt, the shame, the damn agony he feels at having to do all of this over and over and over again. Reliving his worst nightmare is like driving a stake through his skull, and he can't fucking take it anymore.

The front door swings wide and Ran bursts through it, his body propelling him to run. The urge rages through him, and his breath comes out in bursts of white air. If he had asthma like Rindou, he'd already be winded, but he's got tears freezing against his cheeks, the wind biting at his skin, and--

Ran comes to a stop at the end of the street.

What the hell is he doing?

He bends over, trying to catch his breath, and sees himself through his neighbor's eyes. Here is Ran Haitani, in boxer shorts and a t-shirt, running in the dead of winter with no shoes on. And he laughs.

Ran laughs and laughs and laughs.

He laughs so hard he has to sit down in the snow and hold his sides like a maniac.

Suddenly, he understands Sanzu. He understands the way he copes with things. He can't run; not now. Not when you're at home, needing protection. Ran ambles back up the driveway, still chuckling to himself out of disappointment more than humor.

He couldn't even outrun his own problems. A shame, he thinks, shutting the front door and latching it. What a shame I've turned out to be.

[centi-pedve]

This wretched device and everyone within it is conspiring against us. At home our phone is very well behaved, no naughty things. We go to our humble high school and suddenly we get blasted with a notification from YouTube for a video titled "ULTRAKILL SEX TOY REVIEW" and another from Snapchat about how someone we've never met named COKE WHORE LOVER updated their story. We open Tumblr and one of our mutuals reblogged fat fetish furry art seven times in a row. Looking to escape the unpredictability of the Internet, we open Ibis Paint X to do some nice art. We begin cleaning up some of our files, and as we delete images that just take up space, Ibis automatically places us on extremely indulgent art of our own. No biggie, we can exit out in milliseconds. Except Ibis freezes. It makes us stay on Moralism tummy art for fifteen seconds. All we can do is place our phone screen-down upon the table and contemplate this horrible world. But the time it took to realize it was frozen and know to place it down was too long. People definitely saw. And they know.

[nelapanela94]

TW: MDNI. Cockwarming. Mild clit pinching.

“Levi…” whiny and squirmy you try to move, but he snakes an arm around you and holds your firm in place, impaled in his hot fat cock as he finishes signing the stack of reports. On a regular day, he wouldn’t take more than two hours to go through the heap of documents; but today, in the middle of a January freezing evening, he is deliberately dipping the tip of the quill in the ink tank, the scratch on the paper scraping the chalkboard of your nerves. His smile curves on the wool clad line of your shoulder. “I’ll give you what you want when I’m done with all this.” He motions his head to the edge of his desk where the foot tall pile urges to be reviewed and signed. “Now now, give that pretty tight pussy of yours a good use and keep me warm.”

“My legs are freezing, you know?”

“I’ll warm you up la—“ he grunts, staining the paper at the last stroke of his name. “Stop doing that.” He growls. But you squeeze your walls even more.

“Y/N.” He scoffs, pinching your clit I’m his thumb and forefinger. He rolls and peaks, gagging you with two fingers as you mewl in despair.

“Ah!!! Ah!!!” You writhe at the pain, he’s not being gentle, he brutally tweaks it. “Don’t make me repeat myself or I’ll clamp your clit with a clothespin.” His tone is deep and scourges your insides.

“Now, be a good little girl and stay still until I finish my work. Erwin is such a nag.” He presses you down, nestling himself impossibly deep, the tip of his cock whisking your cervix, threatening to push past the donut like hole.

If only you knew how bad he wants to ram into you. Having his cock buried deep in you only stokes the fire. You better be ready for what is yet to come.

[copperbadge]

Hi Sam. I have a rump roast I want to use and it's apparently very popular for French Dips, Italian Beef sandwiches, and roast beef deli meat. You've made a version of Italian Beef before as and have posted pictures of it plus a general method of what you did. Do you have a specific recipe you use? (I mostly need it for measurements. I've made BBQ briskets and Mississippi Roast enough to wing it, but it's~ 4lb of beef and I don't want to mess it up.)

Thanks!

The recipes I've found online for italian beef are pretty vague, I'll be honest, so I've developed something closer to a widely-applicable technique, because really you're just doing a steam-braise that also creates a jus. So, my advice for cooking about four pounds of rump roast for sandwiches is as follows, a lot of it may be review for you :D

Trim the roast to a thickness that you'd be comfortable slicing, and a width and length that will fit in your slow cooker. I also trim off large chunks of fat. I usually do three pounds of beef, cut into 1lb segments that are roughly 1" thick, piled atop one another.

Use enough beef broth to cover the bottom of the slow cooker. I use 3 cups in an instant pot slow cooker, which is tall and narrow. You probably don't need more for 4lbs, just make sure it covers the bottom of the pot decently. If you don't have beef broth, chicken broth will work, or even water in a pinch; the beef will drain a lot of fat/flavor into it regardless. You can boil trimmings to get a decent broth, though that takes time. At this point I just have a "mother broth" of leftover jus that I use for the next batch, I just add some water or beef broth each time to make up 3 cups.

Put some kind of rack or platform on the bottom of the slow cooker. It doesn't have to raise the beef much, just keep it mostly out of the liquid.

Season the beef as you like (I use a steak seasoning blend). Place the liquid in the pot first, then layer the beef into the slow cooker on top of the rack or dish. It can touch the liquid, that's fine, just shouldn't fully immerse in it.

Slow cook on high for 3-4 hours or until the beef is fully cooked through. If you take the temperature it should be at least 145F, and should not be pink at all in the middle. Remove and let cool; refrigerate before slicing. And that's it really, no special trick.

For jus, boil the liquid left in the slow cooker for minimum five minutes at a full boil. After boiling, strain it, cool it, and store it. It should still be somewhat cloudy, that's flavor baby!

I slice the meat very thin and of course across the grain to keep it tender, but you can slice it any thickness you like. Once sliced, I store the meat packed in jars and covered in jus; it freezes well (just don't tighten the jar lid until it's frozen) and reheats best when heated in liquid (I microwave, but it heats as well, just slower, in a pan on the stove top). Then just pull the beef out of the liquid, toss it on a crusty roll, and dip the roll in the liquid for extra flavor if desired. Or eat it cold, it's good that way too.

For the best possible italian beef, I've found that it's ideal to take the roll, stuff it with warm-to-hot beef, dip it thoroughly in the jus (doesn't have to be hot), wrap it in lightly greased foil, and bake in a toaster oven at 450 for about 5 minutes. I've been experimenting with mine and have enjoyed adding a variety of cheeses before baking, and I've also found a sliced hard-boiled egg a nice addition.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Skyloft headcanons

I’m a dweeb and I did a bunch of science review on stuff and got this.

1. The cloud barrier is at 10,000ft/3km elevation. I went skydiving at 13,000ft (it was awesome) and it seemed appropriate to put Skyloft at that height, so the area that people can freely fly their loftwings ranges from 10,000--25,000ft, or 3--8km, and Skyloft is around 13,000ft/4km elevation.

2. Typically riders fly up to 20,000ft and only the really experienced ones climb the extra 5k because this area approaches the “Death Zone” - this is the point where you cannot survive here for more than a few hours because of such a lack of oxygen in the air. This is a real thing, it’s at 25,000ft or 8km elevation, and this is the elevation where many hikers die climbing Mt Everest. So it’s a thing in The Sky too.

3. It’s naturally colder the higher you go because the atmosphere is thinner. This is a fact. Technically, this means the people of Skyloft would likely be physiologically adapted to the cold. They would have more brown fat on them, which is fat that is designed to retain heat without creating shivering and energy consumption in the body - so Skyloftians might be a bit stockier, though not looking overweight. Another real adaptation that is possibly noted in humans is an increased metabolic rate. In the context of my headcanon, then, that means Skyloftians are stockier and eat way more than the average Hylian.

4. There are seasons in The Sky since the earth’s rotation still affects them. They’re called Cold Season and Warm Season. Because they need to be able to survive off the vegetation and water, Hylia blessed the sky islands to remain within a certain temperature range rather than plummet into freezing temps in the Cold Season. The average Skyloft temperature is 40-65 F or 4-18 C.

5. They’re too high for rain, unless you count the thunder cloud, so on the Surface when it rains they don’t have a word for it. They call rain “tears from the sky.” Instead of saying “it’s raining,” Link would say “the sky is crying.” It was extremely alarming the first time it happened during his journey.

6. At their elevation, Skyloft is exposed to more sunlight (less protection from the atmosphere and clouds). As such, they produce more melanin and all have a good tan. Also, the air is dryer up there, so their skin is naturally oilier than a Hylian.

7. Thinner atmosphere = less oxygen. As such, these guys adapted just like anyone who lives at a higher elevation: they produce more hemoglobin in their blood to capture as much oxygen as possible to make up for everything their body needs, especially if they’re running at a higher basic metabolic rate due to cold adaptation. When Link and Zelda go to the Surface, then, they have more hemoglobin than they need, which means their body absorbs more oxygen than it needs, which means they get this lovely syndrome called hyperoxia, or oxygen toxicity. Signs and symptoms include headache, dizziness, confusion, coughing, seizures, and eventual death if untreated. Impa had to help Zelda adjust, which she did quickly when she noticed Zelda was ill the first day or two. Link, however, being in a hurry, did not notice when he started having headaches, didn’t think twice when he’d have coughing fits, until he collapsed into a full on seizure in the sacred spring at the Forest Temple and Fi had to get him out of there. Since then, Zelda and Link christened it Surface Sickness, and the way they and everyone else handles it is by taking it easy their first day or two on the Surface with occasional flights to higher elevations to help their bodies adapt. Eventually the body realizes it doesn’t need all this hemoglobin that it produced and it adjusts accordingly.

8. Skyloftians naturally adapt to higher elevations like Skyloft far faster than they adapt to the Surface. If Link and Zelda visit Skyloft for a day, they get Surface Sickness when they go back to their settlement even though they spend more time on the Surface as a general rule than in Skyloft post-adventure.

[elvis1970s]

On February 14th, 1977, as part of a ten-day winter tour, Elvis played the Bayfront Arena, St Petersburg, Florida. A part of the show was captured at the soundboard and bootlegged.

The St Petersburg Times;

“…A packed house - 8355 strong - probably set a Bayfront Arena gate receipts record Monday night because of the prices. Money means nothing when The King is in town. For Elvis Presley's righteously dedicated fans, Valentine's Day 1977 was special in St. Petersburg. Only five months after his last visit to the Bayfront, The Big E proved (as if he needs to) that he is a top draw at any time at any price…”

The reviewer conceded that tickets hadn’t sold out quite as fast as they had for Elvis’ previous event, but described his showmanship, self-assurance and rapport with the fans as ‘as powerful as ever’. The report noted that it was the same show as on the previous occasion, and observed that intermission seemed to be extended to allow maximum time for the hawking of merchandise. Elvis’ weight, often cause for commentary around this period, was also addressed, but not unkindly;

“…Is he fat? A question asked too often about the world-famous and once-skinny pelvis-shaker. Answer: A little, but not enough to discredit his amazing talent and accomplishments. Elvis carries himself well these days, better than he did on his tours in 1975 and 1976, when the paunch was a bit larger and the singer a bit subdued…. Certainly he is no longer the duck-tailed shaking kid who dominated an entire generation of pop music lovers. But he is a charismatic, polished and confident show-biz phenomenon to this day. Elvis is a benevolent king, who did not disappoint those who paid to see him smile, sing and hand out scarves…”

Elvis himself conceded that the freezing weather was presenting challenges, but promised to give the best show they could. He had a little fun with Tony Brown at the piano before an improvised Blueberry Hill, and there is a very nice vibe generally with an enthusiastic and responsive audience.

[fizzycherrycola]

8&34 for the NA bros?

8: Favorite indulgence and feelings surrounding indulging?

Both of America and Canada love food. Pancakes, cheeseburgers, BBQ, s'mores, doughnuts, you name it! They enjoy tampering with recipes, creating odd combinations, fusion cuisine, and then taste-testing whatever they've cooked up. Of course, their eating habits have consequences, and they both have different feelings about it.

America tries to maintain the image of a Greek statue while also refusing to cut back on the calories, and he does this by working out a lot. Sometimes it isn't enough, though, and when he gains weight, he hates it. He'll hide his body under baggy clothes and make excuses to avoid trips to the beach. Meanwhile, he'll start dieting and exercising beyond what's considered normal, the kind of regiment that'd put a normal human at risk, and he'll keep at it until he feels comfortable in his own skin again. It's an unfortunate cycle, and despite loving support from Canada and others, in the end, no one can break him out of it except himself.

Like a hibernating animal, Canada puts on "winter weight", and to this day, he isn't sure if he does it consciously. But the extra bit of belly fat doesn't bother him much, because as a child, he was very thin and sickly. Winter food was difficult to find. Blizzards and below freezing temperatures were a death sentence to the unhealthy, and those terrible memories, shivering and starving under a heap of furs, have stuck with him. Under the fat, he's built up muscle; not as much as America, but a sturdy amount, and when combined with the comforts of modern life, he feels much more secure about his body than he used to. Indulging, to him, is a privilege and a sign of safety.

34: Thoughts on privacy? (Are they private people, or are they prone to ‘TMI’?)

Neither of them are prone to TMI, but Canada is more open to sharing details about his life than America is, and this is for a few reasons. For one, he's a bit lonely and self-conscious. He will put anyone who appears mildly interested in him on his potential friend list. More trusting of others and more forgiving of wrongs, sometimes to to his detriment, Canada likes to chat about himself, his people, and his land, but because he lives in the shadow of his brother, he doesn't often get the chance. He's quieter, less noticeable, and on a bad day, he may think that no one is interested in whatever he has to say. Of the brothers, he's the less private one, but you wouldn't know it until you actually get him talking.

About America... I once read a comment from a non-American on a forum that said, and I'm paraphrasing, "It's easy to find an American that's friendly, but it's difficult to actually become their friend." What he meant was that Americans can be very welcoming and hospitable, but those actions are surface-level and do not indicate that they completely trust you. Fair enough. Now, YMMV, and I haven't done any peer-reviewed research to check if his statement is true, but it did stick with me, and it's become one of my headcanons for America. I think, despite his Hollywood smile and fun-loving exterior, he likes to play it close to the chest. If you aren't part of his close circle of friends (and that circle is surprisingly small), then he won't give you anything more than casual conversation, like what he ate for breakfast or who won the Super Bowl. The intimate details of his life are private and his trust must be earned.

Thanks for asking ❤

Excessively Detailed Headcanon Meme

[b33t-r00t]

I'm really interested in Cai's story, and I love whenever you post art of xem -- xe has a really cool design! Could you tell us more about the "unique living style" of Point Hibernation that xe's writing about?

I must thank you for asking a world building question, gave me something fun to think about on my morning walk~

The Point Hibernation plot idea and some doodles of it can be found via these links.

As a preface, I should say that all the various stories I come up with (culinary emissary, the bakery comic, etc.) all exist separate from each other. So instead of being a restaurant reviewer, in this story Cai is a well credited journalist!

The planet designated Brak-1577-b has been of some interest to researchers (in particular, intergalactic archaeologists) for a couple of centuries now. At some point in the planet’s history, it’s climate dropped to freezing temperatures, and in the process managed to preserve artefacts dating back thousands of years. Naturally, this gained Brak B a lot of intrigue in the form of excavations and research projects. Funding saw the establishment of several outposts for human habitation (the main outpost being known as ‘point hibernation’) with all the latest technology and equipment, which was essential for braving the frigid temperatures.

That was all about 100 years ago though. Brak B’s surface was explored, a few acclaimed papers were written on the findings, and interest moved on to other discoveries and projects. These days, funding for studies on Brak B is almost non existent. However, research does still continue on the planet, mostly by groups made up of particularly dedicated individuals who believe that Brak B still has knowledge to offer them.

Of course, these groups face the challenges posed by a lack of funding. Their equipment has barely been updated since the height of Brak B’s popularity decades ago, and as such, the team have come up with some… creative, work arounds.

The most prominent of these being the problem of Brak B’s famous freezing temperatures. Colloquially dubbed ‘Brak’s Bite’, the cold has a habit of… seeping into your bones. Heating for a sub zero outpost isn’t cheap, and neither is your modern day, high tech insulation suits. They do have a lot of food, though…

Eventually, researchers worked out a fairly reasonable plan for keeping themselves well insulated during a term on their outpost. They would make sure to have at least one dietician on staff at all times, whose job it would be to make sure that the crew were following a set diet and activity regime to keep them above a certain body fat threshold.

To put it bluntly, when you start a rotation on Brak B, you are required to get fat.

[xardoth]

Battery Zine (1990) | Pelle Ohlin

Hello!! Here's another decently long interview with Pelle (5 pages in the zine) for ya'll. Also: I'm trying to post everyday, whether it's a photo or an interview, however I don't always have time. :-] Again, Pelle's answers are in italics and the questions are in bold.

"Hello Deathmetallunatics! Here's Werner again, presenting you an interview with one of the best Deathmetalbands that exist on earth, the true MAYHEM from Norway! (Huh, that sounds like a big hyper but what I wanted to tell you is that they fucking rule, ok?). Really, the stuff they create is so godly, I have to listen to it again and again and again... every day! Everybody into serious Deathmetal should this + of course the review somewhere else in this zine and of course write to these guys. Let us waste no more space with this stupid intro, just read what dead (voc) answered to my questions...

Has anything been released after "Deathcush"? If not, when can we expect some more stuff from MAYHEM, and what (LP/EP)??

- Not really.. well we've recorded a few rehearsings (which we never released). What we've done is doing new material all the time and dropping them for better songs. We have very different ideas of how we shall sound like and it's hard for us to make songs that we are satisfied with. These shall not sound like anything else and not be bounded to the moment of now. What I mean with that is that we first have to forget of how all the other bands sound like and not to be bounded to any time to avoid trends and to find originality. Yeah, it's now been a time since "Deathcrush" was released and we've got many requests of a new vinyl but it's hard to make new material that doesn't become ordinary or usual after a year. However, in the latest time we have released two songs for a compilation LP that will be released by Chicken Brain Records in this summer. The songs are "The freezing moon" and "Carnage". "The freezing moon" is a new one while "Carnage" is from the first demo. "Pure fucking armageddon" that we did the mistake to limit only to 100 copies and it's not available now. But we thought the song "Carnage" was worth to be picked up again (you're completely right, Dead -W.). We haven't signed anything (of course) for CBR and we'll not get anything of the profits for the selling records later. I don't think we'll let any other label give out something with us in the future cause there's no reason to do that and we'll never sign any contract neither sell our band to fat multi-labels who don't give a fuck about the music. Fat deals ain't no investment as some believe, only a bad try to get rid of the job behind everything that's necessary to do but not impossible to do by one self. We got the idea of that we have to use the so Darkened Black name DE MYSTERIIS DOM. SATHANAS for something a long time ago. That title comes from a story of a book with that name, which is Latin for "Lord Satan's secret rites" and it's thought to exist in only one copy and I won't give up searching for it... we had a finished lyric for that song and the music to it was almost complete also. By then we had to drop all the new songs we were onto making cause of a festival in Poland that was supposed to be then.,, it fucked and we later should pick up those songs, more or less finished, we'd forgot about them but we have to use that song DMDS by all means.,, it'll be the most complicated thing we ever have been involved in. That is also what the LP, that we hope will come out soon, will be entitles.

And then you'll play in Russia. When will this take place and in which part of the country will you play? Only in the European part or also more in the eastern part?

- Yes, but I wonder of when this will be.... their tour agency, that is government owned, want us to wait and that's all we have heard about them. It all begun with that Euronymous asked a pal there of the possibilities to set up about 3-4 gigs there and then answered that thought of put us together with two other band there, ACCENT and SYZORYE, and make a tour containing 20-30 gigs sometimes in the future that for us seems to be far. Later one guy of SUZORYE kind of took over that and now we just don't have any idea of how and when it'll be.

Do you really think you're ready for a Russian tour? I mean, does anyone know you over there?

- Of what we've heard of the people we know there, we are well-known by radiostations and music mags (I don't think there are any zines there) and those guys have arranged for tours before, but only with their own local bands. 

I know of Euronymous that he is a communist, so is that one reason why you wanted to tour over Russia?

- He's mentally addicted to countries he finds sicks or as communistic as possible, preferably totally enclosed with iron borders and everything and with a language none else can understand. He wants Norway to be in conspiracy with Albania or Cuba and also that a "Commogrey" wall shall be risen and the borders closed... we other don't share his ideas of that, Necrobutcher is only into crimes and drugs and he's a kinda rightwing, Hellhammer wants to be a dictator and he's seriously into fascism and Nazi stuff. I think everything politically involved is CRAP and I don't think any political involved things mean anything and I keep away from it. The countries and republics and places Euro has "planned" that we shall tour are - Albania, North Korea, China, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Mongolia, South Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Angola, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, Libya and Cuba. My thoughts of these countries that we can never visit them & especially cannot play there. Out(?) there's a guy in Cuba who tries to set up a gig for us there and also in the (lesser sick) Philippines there might be something as well as Malaysia. I think it all will end with that Euro will tour there by his own.. there will be too music hassles with the stage show I think, and in Iran it's no possibility to bring any instruments. Places like for example Romania that are losing the communistic involvement also lose Euro's interest. But I'm madly into Romania instead and that's cause the main part of Transylvania is there. So that's why Euro wants us to play in Russia, even if they now have "too much" Glasnost and everything. Euro reads books of Mao and he wishes to live in South Yemen or North Korea and go also to Kampuchea to join the Red Khmer. 

I heard that in a communistic country, only guys with privileges are allowed to go to gigs of Western bands, and not always the real fans, so will this be the case with you, too? Or won't you have such problems over there?

- At least we think that was the case many years ago but that it has changed pretty much since then. The real problem is that there exists NOTHING of an underground there and they don't even know of what it is. There ARE Deathmetalbands there, even if the're very rare, and the same guys who listen to them also like Hard-Heavy-Speed- Pop. VENOM is really widespreaden and well-known there but they haven't heard of METALLICA (or not many of all know of them) which I think is great...

Do you think that you'll earn money (or at least don't lose it) or are you going to pay for it?

- The reason of why it'll be so easy to set it up and why that agency is into us is that we don't want dollaers. They'll pay by a cheque instead an we can get that money froma Norwegian bank in what currency we wish to have it in. The problem that can appear is to get them into giving such a cheque afterwards but our Russian friends talked them (in the agency) into it.

Talking about live shows, judging from what you have told me about your show (impaled pigheads and such stuff), you seem to have a very brutal stageacting. So aren't you afraid that perhaps some moron takes it too seriously and beats up someone (or hurts him seriously)?

- There's always some fuckheads that do not understand what it's all about and cannot understand others who are there for the music and that problem is at almost every concert not depending of what band is playing I think. If someone's diving or something there's often some asshole who cannot see what that is and then wanna start up a fight of that reason. Idiots that go to concerts only to throw bottles and destroy for both the band and the crowd shouldn't be there. We haven't had many liveshows and that one we could have hose "effects: there were many into Speedmetal and glam-fag-rock and they left as soon as the pigheads begun to fly around in there... but something I do hate indeed is mosh! I can't accept it exist children that think of themselves funny & noisy recording demos demos after a couple weeks after one more trendy band has formed. A kid of 11 years or so has listened to CARCASS and the day after he finds out he shall form a band along with plas from school. It's like that these bands get created and they never care or know of, they only fuck with the scene by their hundreds of demos  that are teeming everywhere and it sounds all the same! I REFUSE to listen to that! And especially never laugh at their fun-pix, fun-lyrics or fun-noises they make.. to all those things are supposed to be so childish and non-seriously funny, it's only themselves that manage to alugh but no one else does! I think it was necessary to tell of that, too.

Do you use any other effect than impaled pigheads on stage?

- Pigheads, as well as other heads, is what we try to have at all gigs. But also other things are kind of planned at future shows. It needs sick ideas and also money as well as it gotta suit to the place we're playing at.. for example if we use impaled pigheads in one (of Euro's) Islamic countries we'll surely get killed then. Another thing is that what's the most disgusting thing to do right here to fuck with the wimps might not be the same effectful somewhere else and if we ever come to for example India, the most evil thing that we can do there I have in mind will be to sacrifice a "holy cow" on stage. I wanna have stage equipment at our shows of Transylvanian landscapes, instruments of torture that are from the 12th century, real trees from a dead forest, spotlights that are used to "paint" dark colors of dust and later moonshine... different animalheads and human craniums hanging in meat hooks by chains from the dead trees and the heads have huge screws in their eyes... that's what I think would make the perfect mood. But if we can build such things by ourselves pay for the giant expenses it surely will include and make it portable also, I can't imagine if we will ever be able to make. But to tell of what else we have as the show or effects is when I cut myself up. Something I study is how people react when my blood is streaming everywhere but that's not why I do it. I like to cut, in others preferably, but it's mostly in myself. That I can't do too often which makes me a bit mourning.. the nearest thing is three gigs in Sweden which will probably be in the end of May and I think of if I can take a highly tunes kitchen saw machine that's cutting and sawing faster than it's possible to control it..... that would be a nice thing to have there I think. Another band there, that's the one the guy that'll set this whole thing up by the way, will try to get a goat that they shall sacrifice on stage by a fireman's axe but I just can't remember that bandname. Another Blackmetal band that'll play there is GROTESQUE (from Gothenburg) + some other Deathmetals. If it shall be "gore" then it gotta be REAL effects and only snuff is real! 

Is MAYHEM still trying to play as fast as possible, or is that something of the past?

- Hard to say yes or no. Maybe I shall add here I wasn't in the band in the beginning and I didn't join MAYHEM till after "Deathcrush" was recorded, and we got a new drummer straight after that's called Hellhammer. What I can of by my experiences of early MAYHEM is only when I first heard the band. That was when the first released demo "Pure fucking armageddon" that suddenly appeared in five copies in a record shop in Stockholm called heavy sound.. that record shop is really commercial and their prices stink! But anyway that tape was the most brutal, fastest and unbelievably evil than what I had ever heard since VENOM! That first released tape, which was a reh/demo is not available any longer, it was given out in only 100 copies. I could har then, and they told me of it also, that it was a sharp contrast to most of the bands that were in '86 and as for that time it was really something very fast. And as for my experiences in about that time, which was outside of MAYHEM then, when we played most of those who watched thought it sounded chaotic and they simply couldn't understand us... but the speed is not exactly what we think is the view of our sound. It's not necessary to play as fast as it's possible for a band neither the heaviness as some call it in doom shall not make the sound of a band. I fell that it's necessary to add that I'm neither into noise nor techno. When we make something new of material for a song we don't think like "it gotta be 100 times faster" or "no, we can't use such a guitar-riff 'cos it's not doomy enough". When we first make it as well as when we improve it we only are working on what's necessary for that track and try to find out of what makes it that we think we like that one. Then it's not depending on how fast it goes but the rhythms and sound itself. To express brutality and the matter in the lyrics is not not done by breaking the soundwall with drumpounches. What I think the most Doomband can't make so well is that they wanna be Deathmetalbut at the same time they try to get that heaviness of BLACK SABBATH. Nothing wrong with BLACK SABBATH (the early...) but it can't be mixed with Death, then it turns out to be something between these and that's Heavy-Speedmetal and that's not acceptable! 

Will you always play Deathmetal, or can we expect a change of the style?

- Maybe we now have learned a bit more of our instruments since the start... of the present time the only we have to compare with of a new recording are the two track that'll be on the Swedish compilation LP. I have no idea of what responses it'll be from it. But yes, we have changed a bit, but not more than what can be expected after almost three years since last recording and two new members. And it is a difference between the first PFA demo and "Deathcrush". I can't tell much more than my own thoughts of how a band shall hopefully sound like. That is to keep the sound and spirit that once existed in the time of what now is "old fashioned Blackmetal: of VENOM and the earliest bands that came by then like POSSESSED, DESTRUCTION, SODOM, POISON (German of course!!), BATHORY, DEATH and so on before they either vanished or wimped out to get big bucks and groupies. What has happened after that is hard o ignore when one got reminded by totally unserious and senseless demos of noise with either vegetarian or anti-everything lyrics or no lyrics at all - can they never realize they;re all fuckheads and should never form those fun-bands that each such dude is in 30 or 50 dofferent crap bands with thousands of half-second songs? But they can eat their fucking (polluted) salad believing they do the scene a big favour while I stick with what I worship and that so many others seem to be indeed scared of - BLACKMETAL! Once there was something illful that ordinary wimps feared and never understood. Something none had heard anything like of ever before. There were less numbered bands and the scene was new and not big but there was a friendship, so limited but strong. In leather and spikes.

What do you think of bigger bands like METALLICA that become more wimpy and slower with every album?

- What happened with METALLICA can never be forgiven, they died after "Kill em all" although I can listen to some of the songs from "Ride the lightning". Their sound of aggressive power is totally lost and there is no reason for such a band to continue. Bands that appear on such crap as MTV (get off the air - W.) and commercial lists should never exist!!!! They're too damn technical with only harmonies and tight rhythms to pose as rutinated superstars.

Do you listen only to Deathmetal, or also to something else? In America it seems as if many people listen to many different musicstyles, not only metal, so what do you think of it?

- Each place seems to me having an own scene. And mostly it can be noticed if a band is American by their sound. I've never been there, only heard lots of strange comments by friends who visited it. I think I better keep these comments untold.... Do you believe me when I say that I don't listen to anything else than Black/Death? (We do believe you lol - me) To me that's what exists and nothing else. I listen to what I find to be evil or black for the evil's sake. That's why I begun listen to it. Satanic sound of pure evil illful brutality that I couldn't get out of my grey matter! I still like it that way and that's why I continue having about the same idea of it. In lyrics I try to express various evil thoughts and the same in for example drawings. That's one reason why I think effects as stage show is of such importance.

On the rehearsal tape you've sent me, it's you who's singing, or am I wrong? Well, Most Deathmetal bands prefer a vocalist with a very deep voice, so why is it different with MAYHEM? Do you do that on purpose to sound different than other bands?

- Yeah, it's me on vocals and Hellhammer on drums 'cos that tape was pretty new. If my voice is different from the most bands I take it as a compliment. Each singer has got an own voice and an own way to use it. But mostly there's only one particular way of singing that suits on singer's voice. I use to sing in that way and how we think fits to the music, too. I have no purpose that I necessary have sound completely different than anything else do or create something new. Neither to copy from anyone. No, it's simply our sound.

Your voice reminds me a bit of Quorthon from BATHORY and that brings me to the next question. I read that you and Quorthon aren't what one could call friends, so could you tell me what's up with that or don't you want me to talk about that? 

- Why is Quorthon talked of so often? (I don't mean by you but from so many..). I don't think he invented Occultism or the deathway of singing. I can listen to the early stuff by BATHORY only. Like the first LP and the compilation LPs, but later he lost all the ability to crush and kill. I don't think so many outside of Scandinavia have him but I can tell you it's not worth the try. Some dudes I know more or less know that guy, but I've met him only once. He's one of the worst motherfucking wimps I've had the misfortunate to meet! Do you by the way know it's his dad who's "the boss" and he runs his record label and Quorthon goes nowhere without his daddy.. "Quorthon" has changed his real name now to Ace and he doesn't have have to slightest idea of any Occultism and especially not of the black arts his lyrical stuffs content! I just don't understand who makes the lyrics.. could it be the Boss? The only interest Quorthon has is to fucking around at the London's rockclubs and the so-called Vvornth, the drummer he picked up from a GLAMROCK band!!! How strange how everything he says in interviews is changing completely all the time... in the earliest days of BATHORY he explains how important it is with the darkness in songs and he's writing of the satanic influences he has 'cos that's his greatest possession. He also explained of a gig that fucked in the earliest line-up of BATHORY befre he became an one-man band for two LPS - the reason why that gig wasn't possible to set up was 'cos of the extreme stage-show they were supposed to have then. Things as for example sacrifice a lamb.. that's NOT how he's talking now at all. He became for a while so totally against satanism, black magic and so on to change again to "nothing is wrong with satanism, black art, the evil etc., but what I hate is the satanists"..more amazing than ever I think! He's a fuckhead and he's too much of a superstar and he "can't" talk to normal people 'cos he is far too fucking famous for that! Haven't seen any likely case of wimpism before! WOE! And he didn't like the sacrificed guineapighead impaled on an upside-down cross with nailed eyes that I thought smelled so nice....

Is there a special way to get such a voice or were you born with it?

- In fact I sound different on the demo I sung at with m old band in Sweden - MORBID. Which is the only demo I am on by the way. I've learned some more of how to sing I guess, but I hope people won't thing of it as a negative...? That demo of MORBID "December moon" that we'd recorded in Dec. '87 isn't much of spreaden out so I guess not many have heard it that are reading this interview. We split up about a month after that recording. I can't think of if I have any technic or a special method, I just sing.

Are you "only" a singer, or do you also play and instrument? If not, don't you find it a bit frustrating that you can't write music?

- I'm "only" a singer. I once tried to learn playing guitar but with no success at all so I gave it up after a short time. That was years ago...... I joined for a short moment a very stupid band and we tried without any success to make music but it was too disturbing for all of us so we quit that almost immediately. In that "band" I tried to play bass which went shit and by that short existence I found it did sound kind of better when I tried to sing.. strange, I just thought of if we had done that right now instead of about six years ago we had probably been one of these noise bands of the thousands of inscrutable demos and working on ruining the scene I suppose. I don't think of myself as a musician.

Normally singers have to take care of their voices, like no smoking, no drinking and much sleep, so how do you treat your voice? Is drinking and smoking the best way to get a Deathmetal-voice?

- I guess I should take care of the voice more than I do. But I can tell you that I don't smoke and don't drink very often either, and as for drinking, that's 'cos of lack of money and time...

Why do you have these pseudonyms? Just cause they sound cool? 

- I got many nicknames and usually when I visit somewhere they start to call me something strange of a name. We think there's nothing wrong with our names that we have chosen and we think those pseudonyms reflect our personality. If we had used our "real" names, none outside Scandinavia surely couldn't say them. We use these names 'cos they sound best! 

How do you react when someone makes fun of you cause he thinks your names are stupid?

- That doesn't happen often, but if some shithead does it's too stupid that I shall care of!

Sweden seems to be a land of Deathmetal, while I can't think of too many good Norwegian Deathmetalbands, so how is the Deathmetalscene in Norway? Which bands are good?

- Firstly, I don't think Sweden is a Deathmetalcountryand the most of the bands there are just shit. Many of them are "into" Deathmetal right now 'cos every one else is. I don't like the scene in Scandinavia at all. It's true there are not many of the Norwegian bands but to say some that I find OK - DARKTHRONE, VALHALL, ISENGARD, AMPUTATION, and CADAVER.

Are there plans to release more stuff on DSP (the label which the guys from MAYHEM founded) in the next future?

- It'll be a couple of released MERCILESS editions before any further band on DSP will come along. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to pay for the studio expenses for the bands. The next band will be IMPERATOR from Poland and then MASACRE from Columbia. They are the only ones that are certain yet. IMPERATOR is ready to go in studio now and it'll be 8-10 songs on their LP (depending on if they will use two old songs or not), they've got a new drummer and they now got lyrics in English. We'll let the next release of our band be on DSP also, which probably will be that "De mysteriis dom. sathanas" LP. But when ever that will be I don't know...

How are the sales of "The Awakening", or is it too early to say something about it?

- The first edition of "the awakening" sold out as fast as we could manage to pack the records. Of an edition of 1000 copies it's hard to be fair to everybody by who shall have the record when the orders are more than what we have records to send out....

Karlen from MERCILESS told me of a tour with MAYHEM, so is it merely a wish, or will something like this happen?

- I don't know about actually a tour, but we thought of having some gigs around somewhere in Scandinavia.. I just can say we hope a such thing will be. A guy told us for a long time ago he wanted us down to Portugal to play there and that he will pay in advance for that trip expenses. We think of that when it'll be we'll bring also MERCILESS there, but when that thing can be done I just don't have an idea of.

When I listen to "Deathcrush", I hear that the guitarsound has not much bass in it, so is this the way you want th guitar to sound or just how it came out in the studio, or are my ears cheating me?

- I guess you're right about th sound might be lighter than ordinary. But in fact it is down-tuned but with a bad speaker, the distortion makes it that way. I don't play guitar by myself and once again I'm not musically talented so I don't know of the particular reason for that sound...

In this interview with F.E.T.U. Euronymous said that in some occasions, he reached up to 50 hits per second...??? Is this really true? It's hard for me to believe it...

- In fact that's not really so fast with 50 hits/second, huh.... with the thought of it's one up and one down. It might sound faster than it is.

Do you think that a distorted bass and doublebassdrums are necessary for Deathmetal?

- Definitely yes and with our sound it fits perfect. As for the distorted bass it makes it possible to tune up the bass, but Necrobutcher doesn't in fact actually play bass, it's like a rhythmguitar played on a bass. And the main reason for having doublebass on the drums is that it ca be to play with the pedaldrums not only doing it faster by them. A bass with no distortion sounds too funky and a single-bassdrumkit is for pop or discobands which I don't give much for!

Compared to Manheim, Hellhammer seems to play much more technical and complicated, so do you think that this drumming style is better for Mayhem? 

- You're right about it's more technical on the drums. He may do it too technical sometimes, I think, instead of having aggression and brutality in the sound and I don't think much about techno. Technical playing mostly doesn't give anything at all in the sound, instead it's a risk that the power in it and that the Evil Black sound got wasted by that. Something I HATE by technical styles is when it is to show how good one is at some instruments but it's mostly the guitar players that do that. It ruins only.

Uh, I must come to an end, so instead of another boring "last comment", could you tell which zine you think is the most stupid/shitty one?

- The very worst one ever done that we've seen is the "Shit mag" from Chile that only uses one sentence of each answer of the interviews by all bands, not depending on how long or what the answers are. But it's hard to say exactly what zines are the worst crap when so many of them are... some rite in a totally "impossible" English in both the letters and interviews to us and sometimes not even in English... we really don't know what to do with the 25 or more questions in for example Spanish but mostly their letters are the worst and what do you do with many pages written in Hungarian, Polish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German (from Eastern Europe) or Italian????? All we can do is to write back in English and if there is any possibility for us to translate their letters so we know of what to answer and we of course do that. Otherwise I use to answer in Swedish or Japanese. (Pelle knew Japanese?? Or am I misunderstanding??? - me) It is really weird how zines can exist in the most strangest places... and once we got a letter in pretty good done Swedish from Hungary. It's hard for me to see how it can be a scene (or a kind of) in places like Cuba, GDR, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Israel and Scandinavia. It sounds really strange to us but it is bands and sometimes zines at such places and we try to contact them. But to give a more proper answer on that question but not to put shit, eh, the place of really many shit-zines and also much of rip-offs is Poland. No place is totally free from rip-offs neither only shit-zines existing. But Chile and Greece also got much of that kind but not as much as Poland. What I really hate of rip-offs is when someone buys a demo and then sell it like bootlegs when it's no even cheaper to buy a such one or when they print t-shirts of our band and never even tell us us of that. It's ok when we receive one shirt-each member and then they can sell and print as much as they want to. It's the same with some zines, they either send interviews and after that we never hear from them again or they don't even write us up at all, only copy other stuff from various zines and later we can receive letters from people telling of our reviews or bio in zines we thought those didn't exist... that's the worst zines I think!

Oh my god, this was a pretty long interview, wasn't it? I hope you enjoyed the questions and especially the answers as much as I did, so you can be sure that I'm deeply proud to have that interview in Battery. If you wanna contact the band, you can write to the following address: MAYHEM, Box 75, 1405 Langhus, NORWAY, but please include an IRC or something like that. You can also ask about the label DEATHLIKE SILENCE PRODUCTIONS and the MERCILESS LP which fucking kills - read my review!! OK, that's it and thanx to Dead for such long answers!"

[greaterbalrogcat]

Would it be cool if we got a Bora unit review?

UNIT REVIEW: BORA/BAZIBASTRA

stats are at level 50 because i have decided that using stats at level 60 was kinda cringe of me, y'all ain't spending 15 dark eyes on catman lmao

bazibastra, henceforth referred to as bora (due to first form being named bora and i hate typing out bazibastra), is an alien nuker and part of the nature's guardians elemental pixies uber banner, commonly referred to as elemental pixies or just pixies. this is one of the most straightforwardly good units in the game.

bora's 8k dps (66.9k dph) and 85.6k health outside of its target trait are decent enough to survive in mixed stages, and against aliens, these quadruple and quintuple respectively to 33341.08 dps (267840 dph) and 427950 health. it also has 100% barrier breaker, as is consistent across all elemental pixies (as of 13.0) and warp immune, both to make it viable against starred aliens. its three knockbacks are standard, giving it decent survivability without sacrificing too much durability, and 390 range allows it to outrange a solid amount of aliens while being able to tank anything it can't outrange. speed and cost are roughly average, with cost being slightly lower than the typical uber but about standard for a pixie, and cooldown is decently low, giving it very solid mobility.

bora, as with most pixies, is at its best in into the future (itf) and cats of the cosmos (cotc). both itf's common aliens (hyppoh, maawth, helmut krabbe, lemurr, mistress celeboodle) and major threats (cyberhorn, imperator sael, ursamajor, nimoy bore, bun bun symbiote, all three moon bosses) will either get outranged or tanked by bora and then murdered. cotc's aliens tend to have warp or barrier, both of which bora nullifies, and the threatening itf enemies brought back to cotc continue to get crushed. cotc's high pushing power and reliance on CC to stall big threats don't exactly help bora, but its low cooldown helps a lot with getting another out after the first goes down, and the only real issue with bora in cotc is the rare non-alien threat and restrictions that deny you the use of bora.

bora's relevance continues into UL and advent stages, where its high stats make it more useful in a less CC-based meta. while alien threats are much rarer than they were in the alien-based story chapters (obviously), starred aliens tend to have much higher stats than the average enemy (increased to counteract cotc treasures), and the high stat fast pushers of star peng and mesocosmocyclone can be countered by bora fairly easily, as long as you meatshield them enough. the occasional overbuffed cyberhorn or nimoy bore will go through the same. advent bosses such as wanwan, queen b, and puffsley are made much easier by bora, and some advent stages (such as wahwah revenge and zonel) have use for bora despite the boss not being an alien, due to problematic alien peons. ZL consistently bringing back advents may lead to bora seeing increased use in endgame as well.

bora is arguably the best elemental pixie. in a set where only two or three ubers can be considered "bad" (aer, bliza, tekachi (the new pixie that's fat and turns into a thwomp, posted a video of him here)), this is pretty damn impressive. the only three units that can challenge this title are lumina, the legend rare, gravi, an incredible tank with great waving ability, and voli, a 100% freeze anti-alien with solid uptime and low cooldown. thing's busted

tl;dr: great anti-alien nuker, good compatibility, will carry through itf and cotc, keeps working even into lategame

[australianwomensnews]

Charlotte Jerrim was just 19 when she decided upon breast implants.

The now 28-year-old said there were no checks of her physical or mental health beforehand, nor was she properly warned about the risks.

“I was young and I purely wanted them for cosmetic reasons,” the Canberra woman told this masthead. “At the time, a lot of my friends had them and there was social pressure to have bigger boobs.”

It was not long before she started to experience issues with her health; brain fog, a rash that would come and go, migraines, chronic fatigue and changes to her menstrual cycle. She battled the symptoms for six years before being diagnosed with Systemic Symptoms Associated with Breast Implants (SSBI) and opted to have an explant.

“If I had been counselled about why I wanted the surgery and properly made aware of the associated risks, I don’t think I would have got them,” she said.

Anyone considering cosmetic surgery is now required to have a referral to the surgeon from a general practitioner who will assess the mental and physical health of patients before recommending them for any procedure.

The requirement is part of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) new National Safety and Quality Cosmetic Surgery Standards (Cosmetic Surgery Standards), to be implemented alongside every service where cosmetic surgery is performed, from small day procedure clinics, through to large health organisations and builds on rules announced by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) in July.

Along with patient suitability, cosmetic surgery advertising must now comply with legislation and national codes and guidelines to avoid manipulating or deceiving customers.

Clinicians must obtain informed consent from patients about expected outcomes, potential risks and possible outcomes, and the costs associated should complications arise. They must also establish a complaints service and seek feedback from patients about their experiences and outcomes or care.

Services are now required to have credentialing processes to verify the qualifications and experience of all practitioners performing cosmetic surgery. Meanwhile, post-operative care instructions must be provided to patients, including what to do in case of an emergency, with clinicians to ensure comprehensive post-operative reviews are undertaken.

The standards do not include non-surgical procedures such as cosmetic injectables and thread lifts and fat freezing.

Since September 2022, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has fielded 179 formal complaints and 428 calls to the Cosmetic Surgery Helpline. It is estimated that $473 million has been spent in Australia this year on cosmetic surgery, according to IBS World research.

[faustocosgrove]

Mwah-ha-ha-ha!!!! You thought you escaped didn’t you! you thought you’d be free but no, it’s time for another episode of: Fausto! reviews! things! *uproarious applause from me and no one else*

and on the sixteenth day of reviewm-

nah, fuck that christmas shit. i’m so fucking sick of christmas.

anyhoo, today’s review is, surprisingly, not of a poorly animated children’s cartoon, not a cheesecake filled anime, and not a book. it’s a review of my experience being off tumblr and all social media for 3 months after unwillingly having my brain rewritten to associate being on tumblr with getting fat by an ed tumblr post from the trending page.

i was avoiding making this post because i didn’t want to jinx myself, but since i was banking review posts i thought i might as well cram this one in there too.

my anxiety is gone.

it’s honestly kind of scary how not anxious i am. fortunately it’s scary and not anxiety inducing, lol. feels dumb to find out the endless stream of comedy and memes was affecting my health but eh, it is what it is.

i also noticed at one point that i was no longer waking up hungry or needing to snack between meals to make it through the day. gone are the days of eating then immediately brushing my teeth and going to bed and being hungry again before i was able to fall asleep.

so i guess tumblr was making me anxious, anxiety makes me excessively hungry; so no tumblr equals no anxiety equals normal hunger. basically the worst part is, the stupid idea that “tumblr is making me fat” was correct.

golly gee whizz, i think i found a solution for the ed side of tumblr.

it’s also like my executive dysfunction is better, somewhat. instead of thinking “i need to do X” and finding out that there’s 13 steps between me and doing X and freaking out over each and every step and how each step could go wrong i’ll either think “whelp, i’m not doing 13 steps fuck it.” and then i stop worrying about it or else i go “god damn it have to do 13 god damned steps fucking step 1 stupid god damned thing to do and here’s 2 and 3…” etc etc etc. basically i can muscle my way into getting up and doing the steps if i throw profanities at it the entire time. so still a coping mechanism but i am getting more shit done.

also tumblr is still crashing on me. it’s a gamble whether or not the next dash page will load. sometimes it just freezes up. fucking crashed on me a few minutes ago when i reported a bot that was in my inbox during the reporting of said bot. was crashing on me back in september/october. was crashing on me during my brief returns during the hiatus. i had hoped it would have gotten better but who am i kidding this website only gets worse not better. unsurprisingly, not knowing whether or not clicking the next page button will take me to the next page or crash is anxiety inducing. so the cards are stacked against me for coming back with any regularity. got some stuff in the queue, hopefully see y'all at valentines day. toodles!

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I posted 2,134 times in 2022

That's 2,094 more posts than 2021!

7 posts created (0%)

2,127 posts reblogged (100%)

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@everythingfox

@radiant-sunlight-blueberry

@nocompromise-noregrets

@muri-chan

I tagged 32 of my posts in 2022

#podfic - 12 posts

#fanfiction - 12 posts

#ao3 fanfic - 9 posts

#youtube - 8 posts

#the silmarillion - 8 posts

#ao3 - 6 posts

#archive of our own - 5 posts

#podficsgalore - 4 posts

#lord of the rings - 3 posts

#maglor - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 52 characters

#the lack of understanding of how life and death work

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Oh...

Saw a cosplay photo contest in my birth town.

Perked up.

Looked down.

*is fat*

Oh fuck.

Sasori it is again.

Knockout takes time.

Too fat for Shelke.

No funds to finish any cosplays.

No stuff ready for Nate Adams either.

*depressed*

0 notes - Posted May 25, 2022

#4

I will never be a morning person... -a rant.

I went to bed before midnight, maybe around 10 or 11 pm, we were exhausted, only to end up waking at the ungodly hour of 3 motherfucking AM. Wife even earlier.

Our eldest cat, the clingy but lovable butthole that he is, started to scratch at the door after I was trying to sleep some more. I let him in, he purred, bonked, and kneaded me, then proceeded to plonk himself on my foot and start licking his balls like a maniac (he might be addicted to it). I yanked my foot off and started to nudge him and he proceeded to go scratch to be let OUT of the bedroom.

Why bother going back to bed, I was again close to rage tears. I was tired, half of which was the melatonin I took and frustrated since he's been a goddamn alarm clock for me the past week. Not a fan of the sounds of a cat trying to claw its way into a room through the door.

Been to the shower, eaten, read a fic, trying to do a comic, but everything is just building frustration because I just wanted a good, long sleep. Nope. Now things like tripping over the cat, a blurry pic, overly wide pics, missed photo op (looked like the eldest had yeeted the pillow AND the kitten out of a box), and a cat that will never stay still is just building up my frustration.

And since I had some hair in my eye, I've rubbed it and now it's dry and itchy and feels like a ton of sand is in it. ...also almost choked on a droplet of spit. Seagulls have shat on the roof of my car... This just ain't my day, can I go back to bed?

0 notes - Posted May 12, 2022

#3

So far, the only good Tf lofi we have found. Others run into total dealbreakers quite soon. Shame it's so short.

1 note - Posted May 12, 2022

#2

I can't wrap my mind around this...

Tol Himling used to be Himring, if that one map is correct, the isle now has about 40 miles of water between it and the coast of Lindon... how long would it take to row there? Or if it freezes in the winter, walk across the ice? Research purposes.

4 notes - Posted January 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

396 notes - Posted July 1, 2022

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I never tag, why? too much work.