#if sam gladiator has 1 fan that fan is me

[kingoftheladybugs]

The rest of the yhs cast about Sam

[mwapollo]

pre-hermitcraft grian (the reason he's a watcher)

WARNING: TW BULLYING MENTIONS! I haven't watched the entire YHS (how is one even capable of doing that) and I'm only in the process of wathcing the EVO series. this is a pure fanon-ish speculation about c!Grian based on some visible facts in these series/other videos. I don't mean to offence fans of other creators mentioned here! also, Grian is a grown man and (I'm sure) he is able to manage his social life as he wants. this is just a contribution to the lore that I wholeheartedly love.

tumblr is against me giving you a lot of videos with lore, so every screenshot has a link with a timecode for the essential moment.

also, grumbo ahead.

now, let me begin by saying:

I'm terrified of Yandere High School. I feel too bad for Grian.

(if you can't reach the link in the picture, it's here)

he had been a target for awful and hurtful jokes from his first YHS entry. you can sense the same dynamic in pretty much every interaction of Sam, Taurtis and Grian: 1. Sam is always in the position of the most attractive, the most the powerful, the most popular. Whoever and whatever he wants -- girls or attention -- he'll get everything, just because he's the Sam Gladiator, the protagonist, the hero. No one is allowed to steal his spotlight even for a slight second. He'll do anything to keep his throne. 2. Taurtis is pretty much Sam's silent side-kick. He's always around; as a side-kick, he always gets the girls and whatever, but only if Sam is indifferent. While Sam is leading the action, Taurtis is needed to support whatever joke/discussion is going on.

3. Grian is… a friend -- formally, but a whipping boy -- in fact. He is accepted into this trio, but never gets to be in the role of an 'equal'. I've watched several 20-30min long episodes, and there is no kind or even neutral attitude to Grian. Your appearance sucks, your jokes are stupid, you are ridiculous, you do everything wrong, you're not allowed to be with these girls because they're mine, you're not allowed to do this and that becuase only I am.

and this is. every. single. freaking. episode. of. YHS. I've. seen.

these are not silly hermitcraft jokes, this is pure shit.

I have a few ideas to speak about at this point.

-- this is where it all started. the social experience Grian got from YHS affected many situations in the future, I'll write about this below. -- Taurtis became a close friend for (c!)Grian not nesessary because he was a good friend. but he wasn't bullying him direclty. he was only ment to watch. so they got close -- because Taurtis was somewhat respective of his boundaries. and, between Sam and Taurtis, the obvious 'good' was the latter.

-- the Grian's lesson from this was: be powerful. do not let them push you down. be in charge. and -- he invented his own method for it.

the EVO series was the desired spotlight for Grian and his opportunity to be The Chosen One.

(the link for video is here)

in the first episodes, Grian mentioned several things:

as he mentioned in the e1 of EVO and e1s6 of HC, the EVO was his comfort zone since the first versions of Minecraft were truly his element (unlike for Netty or Jimmy Solidarity, who Grian said would die a lot (LMAO)).

he was actively looking for the weakest people on the server. he made a trap near the spawn (what made it unintentionally unescabaple) first -- because he wanted to see who wouldn't be able to resist the temptation.

--but it was not a YHS case from the very beginning. Grian let viewers know that rudeness and bullying others is unacceptable, and the participants are all good friends that are aware of pranks being silly jokes.

so he wanted to be in charge, from my point of view it was traumatic for him not to be -- and then he always tried to be sure he won't harm anyone.

but at this point, as watchers noticed him, becoming one was inevitable.

he was the perfect one for being a watcher. he analyzes people around him, he uses traps and tricks to find their vulnerabilities, and then he uses their vulnerablilities to his emotional needs. gently, in a human-like way; but Sam forged him the way watchers needed, and they happily accepted the broken being of Grian.

and you know who put Grian down on earth, made him stay?

Mumbo.

(once again, the link is here)

the EVO series started after the first collab of Mumbo and Grian and not long before the second (build swap). the behaviour I described in my beloved post about the first collab, the irritation and passive agression from Grian could also be the effect from YHS. Grian expects the worst from the unknown: he tries to build his social comfort zone boundaries and never cross them when it's unnecessary. he's anxious, he's learned his lesson -- do not trust, do not be weak, that's why he had to react so harshly, and yet-- mumbo managed to soften him. he treated him like not a single friend did before: he was sparkling with happiness and joy from every build Grian had, from every time they met. Mumbo adored him from the first sight of Grian's creations, and the first thing Mumbo said after seeing Grian's re-build was that he wants Grian's builds on HC. and -- as I can assume -- it was grumbo's friendship that made Grian change his decision and join Hermitcraft after all. as he mentioned in s6e1, he recieved plenty of invitations on the server but declined every time before s6. but then, he finally got a friend.

the best one.

after Grian joined, he couldn't help himself anymore, he couldn't hold back -- he needed being around Mumbo. pranks transformed from being a weapon to being the reason to... visit Mumbo's base and be around a little bit longer. in s6, after Mumbo's irl trip to Italy (sorry for breaking the 4th wall), Grian sincerely told him that he missed him very much and his favorite activity was just being around.

Grian became a watcher at the end of EVO, ~ 11 of September, 2018. at this time, he had already joined HC. so... it can be said that Mumbo saved him from turning into a cruel creature, from falling into the void of his past.

Mumbo saved him. And Grian stayed.

and the final note, to break you all completely.

do you know when did the first iteration of the watchers' deathloop, 3rd life, happened?

after Mumbo had lost the election for mayor, turned to Scar's side, and they stopped keeping in touch.

oh boy. I have much more about the further lore.

[foxgloveinspace]

Little things in Tron: Legacy that fuck me up:

-Sam's bittersweet smile when Alan tells him that Kevin told him to sleep with his pager, and how the smile immediately falls off his face when Alan tells him that the page came from the arcade.

-The program* who tells Sam 'be quiet if you wanna live' is seen in End of Line later, confirming that derezzing a program isn't the same as killing them, which is why the other program jumps off into the fan when he is told he's going to the games, cause it destroyed his disc, and why he screams erase me.

-The way the sirens are hesitating when outfitting Sam, knowing they are about to change everything. They know he's not a program. The hesitation and the nod when they put the disc on his back.

-The fact the the punishment from Tron 1 has become a Roman Gladiator Sport for Clu. The fact that Clu is a mirror of Master Control, the thing that Flynn hates.

-when Clu says 'just you?' implying he was not expecting Sam, but expecting Alan, and he was expecting him like a few months ago in grid time.

-Quorra sitting on the roof alone watching the Games, having seen the Beacon, knowing Someone was there, but not knowing who. Not knowing she'd be rescuing the son of her Father figure. Probably someone who's shoes she'd been wanting to fill but not being able to.

-'There are no guests Kiddo' 'Sam...' 'You're here!' 'I'm here'

-Quorra's confused face when Kevin walks away.

-the fact that Kevin just happens to have extra rooms in his house. Why does he have so many empty rooms. Did he have hope for more ISOs?

-Tron immediately knowing Something is up when he see's Clu in orange in the flash back.

-'Tron. He fought for me.' 'why didn't you fight' 'he did'

-'I didn't send a page'

-The fact that Sam's plan would have worked if Zeus hadn't betrayed him. If Sam had gotten out on his own, he'd have deleted Clu and everything would have been fine. But Tron: Legacy is a tragedy

-the fucking. Above program * being IN THE END OF LINE CLUB. The way he looks at Sam as Sam walks by with Castor.

-Did Gem know Zeus would betray Sam? did she plan that since she met him?

-DAFT PUNK. I miss Daft Punk, and I love them in this movie for the three seconds you see them.

-'Thank you for bringing my son to me' Kevin coming to terms with his death, knowing he'll have to get Sam out and then reintegrate with Clu before Sam sees.

-The whole conversation between Kevin and Sam on the light rail, but especially knocking on the sky.

-Kevin recognizing Tron cause of the way he does a back flip and holds two discs. No one else can back flip like Tron, canon.

-'She's gonna wind up like one of them' 'Keep moving Sam' cause Kevin knows that Quorra will die, not be turned.

-'I have special plans for you' What does Clu have planned for Quorra? is he gonna SA her? He's so creepy toward her that's the vibes I get, but maybe he's just gonna torture her. This is a small thing that fucks me up cause this doesn't need to happen? Rinzler could have just taken her up to the tower without this interaction. Unnecessary plot hole right there.

-the fact that Clu's speech is an exact copy of Kevin's from the beginning of the movie.

-'I was afraid you where gonna say that' Kevin coming to terms with how Sam is gonna have to see him die.

-'radical man' 'it's all in the wrist'

-Rinzler taking himself back over 'I fight for the users'.

-'NOT WITHOUT YOU' 'it's what he wants' ‘goodbye kiddo’

-ALAN AND SAM AT THE ARCADE

-Sam and Quorra driving through Center City in the sunrise, a parallel of the sunset over Center City in the credits of the first movie.

-this one doesn’t really have a Place on the list so here works: Rinzlers purr.

[samantitheos]

Tag Game Wednesday

Thank you @juliakayyy @jrooc and @skylerwinchester for tagging me. <3

Name: sam.

Age: older than cam, younger than noel—that perfect sweet spot.

star sign: capricorn.

your first language: english.

second language: the education system (and my parents) failed me. i can kinda read latin,  i guess.

favourite lip product: blistex or maybelline baby lips.

the best food dish you can make without a recipe: sicilian meatloaf or this bacon-wrapped chicken breast dish with cream cheese filling.

If you drink tea, what kind?  black tea with a bit of honey.

If you drink coffee, what roast do you usually get? medium.

favourite thing to watch on youtube right now:  nothing? tho i do use it to play the lord of the rings trilogy soundtrack or best of hans zimmer when i’m working. 🤓

favourite thing to watch on youtube in 2012: guns n’ roses music videos probably lol.  

favourite item of clothing right now: since starting to work from home, definitely my mint green sweatpants and fuzzy slippers.

favourite item of clothing in 2012: based on my pictures from that year i wore this electric yellow tank top A LOT.

[please enjoy the super grainy quality and raging phallic energy]

fandom

three movies you recommend: life as a house, gladiator, the girl with the dragon tattoo (original swedish version with subtitles).

your favourite concert: i’m gonna cheat and say warped tour 2004.

have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion? lmaooooo the great mickey crop top controversy of 2019 (yes).

have you ever left a fandom because of the fans? i’ve only really been involved in the shameless fandom, but hearing about the fans in other fandoms (e.g., ofmd) has discouraged me from trying to get involved in them.

the best tv show you watched last year: daisy jones and the six, interview with the vampire, ted lasso.

do you have a fancasting you just can’t let go of? would loved to have seen tom hardy as james bond and would still love to see cam in a live-action hercules.

a ship you’ve abandoned: well this is before i knew what “shipping” was, but kate and sawyer on lost (he deserved better—and got it).

on a scale of 1-10 how willing are you to share your ao3 history? “ok, but just let me explain…”

do you have a fandom tattoo? (do you want one?) no, and if i got anything i would want it to be very subtle. i’ve thought about getting a serif dash on my left middle finger…

what fandom do you wish was bigger? i don’t really wish the shameless fandom was bigger, but i do wish the fic writing community was as big as it was a few years ago.

has a finale ever ruined a show for you? how i met your mother. absolute trash ending.

have you…

swam in an ocean? yes! and scuba certified. i did underwater archaeology for a few years. ever been vegan/vegetarian? no. gone skinny dipping? once. gone skiing? yes, but not since high school. been to a convention? only the boring academic kind.

Tagging @astaraels @crossmydna @deathclassic @darlingian @ian-galagher @krysmiss @lonelygallavich @palepinkgoat @sickness-health-all-that-shit @transmickey @heymrspatel @stocious @callivich @gallawitchxx <333

[patientfocusly]

+ illness?

[      meme      forever accepting tbh !      ]

~I just want to forewarn everyone that I am no medical expert and this headcanon is based purely on what the show has given us, and my own research. I also could never claim to know what it’s like living with a chronic illness. If this headcanon (or anything in my writing ever) disrespects or falsely portrays how chronic illness is felt and impacts life, please reach out to me and correct me~

Shiro is six months into his first year at the Galaxy Garrison, fresh faced, eager as all hell when he first starts noticing pain during drills and training. He bites through the pain in his hips and lower back and keeps going, pushing harder when he notices that he’s starting to fall behind in the class. It’s his bunkmate who rats him out to his father and sister two months later when they’re visiting in town. It’s four months after that that his doctor diagnoses him with Becker muscular dystrophy, and a week later that he’s sitting in Commander Iverson’s office, medical reports spread across the desk, on his feet spewing out reason after reason for why he needs to stay in the program despite the report concluding an eventual decline of his physical fitness that would render him Earth-bound. Iverson tells him he’ll think about it, the way adults say maybe because they don’t want to crash your hopes by telling you no while you’re still emotional.

That night, Commander Holt comes to see him. They’re close, outside of class, too and Sam likes Shiro not because he’s besotted with Shiro’s simulator scores like the other instructors are, pushing him to succeed because if Shiro succeeds, then the Garrison succeeds. Sam likes Shiro because he sees something special in Shiro and knows that it can’t be held back. Something almost as special as he sees in his own two kids. The next time Shiro is called into Iverson’s office, Sam, Shiro’s father, and Toshiko*1 are all there. Iverson hands him a new uniform, with two stripes each on the shoulders. “You made your case, cadet Shirogane. And you have some friends in high places who believe in you. Don’t let them down.” Shiro looks at Sam with tears in his eyes, and nods back at Iverson. “I won’t,” he promises. ( ~flash forward 6 years, Shiro watching Sam getting taken away by Galra soldiers and knows that he’s failed him, aNYWAY………………. )

When he’s 18, the Garrison fit him with wrist and ankle bracelets that administer a set of steroids and inhibitors that work to prevent overworking of muscles (which is the main cause of muscle weakening in MD patients)*2. This technology negates the need for Shiro to make trips into town every two months to see his doctor. When he launches for Kerberos, Shiro has enough medicine with him to the last the trip, plus a buffer. When he’s taken by the Galra, his bracelets are stripped from him. The only way Shiro knows to manage his disease without them is to go back to the first piece of advice his doctor gave him when he was 16, “Stay active.” Eventually, he loses the ability to tell the difference between pain in his muscles and pain from the gladiator trials. He has to accept that, one way or another he’s going to die on this Galra entertainment hub of a cruiser – either through a strike straight through the heart, or his own body finally giving up on him.  

~flash forward a couple and I know all hints from the show point towards Shiro’s disease going away either because Galra/Altean science is so advanced that it surely would’ve cured him (re: Haggar declaring that she made Shiro strong, also re: Shiro claiming “I feel great,” after Allura embeds the Altean crystal in his arm) HOWEVER, I’m not a huge of fan of magic fixes and so prompts the following: The clones of Shiro are exactly that – clones. BMD is an x-linked recessive genetic disease and since the clones’ bodies are an exact genetic copy of Shiro’s, they also contain the mutation in their DNA. Haggar’s plan for Operation Kuron is not planned to go on long enough for her to be concerned that Shiro’s disease would interfere – and so she doesn’t bother with the painstaking task of literally re-writing a human genetic code to cure Shiro. The clone’s body is identical to Shiro’s body at the time of gene extraction*3. Time in the Altean healing pods slows down the workings of BMD, but does not heal damage already done. To be fully cured, Shiro would need to pretty much exist in a healing pod, which --- wouldn’t be a life at all. His disease still exists, and will noticeably catch up to him within five to ten years after the end of Voltron season 8. Heart failure is still in his projected future.

*1 Shiro’s sister is a carrier of the BMD gene (like Shiro’s mother) and suffers very mild symptoms into her late 20s-30. *2 reference 1 and 2 *3 Please see Operation Kuron headcanon ( tba ! )

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I was tagged by @andrea-lyn for my 10 Favorite Male Characters, and ohhh boy, I am reaching deep back in my personal archives for some of these! In no particular order:

1. Quinn Mallory (Sliders). Picture young little me, enraptured by this shitty show about parallel dimensions.

2. Ethan Hunt (in the first Mission Impossible movie, specifically). This was one of the first PG-13 movies I ever saw in the theater, and it really stood out to me.

3. Indiana Jones (of the Indiana Jones Series). Looking back, certainly some problematic moments in this series. Still, I almost majored in archaeology solely because of this.

4. Dr. Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap). Upstanding Sam Beckett, who just wants to leap home, but keeps helping strangers along the way!

5. Jim Kirk/Spock (Star Trek). I’m not even separating these two out, which is as it should be. Love every iteration of these two.

6. Michael Guerin/Alex Manes (Roswell NM). Not separating these guys either, ha. Love the combination of them - they’ve collectively occupied quite a bit of my mental real estate this last year, so they deserve a spot on this list.

7. Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice). Colin Firth’s interpretation is my favorite filmed version.

8. Jack Kelly (Newsies). Again, little me and my cousin LOVED this movie and this character. Can’t hear Santa Fe mentioned without an internal song beginning. I still maintain that my cousin’s personal self-insert fan fiction writings from our youth were somehow seized to make the musical version (she’s a journalist).

9. Peeta Mellark (Hunger Games, book version). He just wants to bake! And love Katniss!

10. Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables, etc.). Again, little me just swooned.

Honorable mentions include Conor (Roar - there were like 5 episodes of this show, and this character was played by a very young Heath Ledger, but this was one of the first shows and characters that ever made me want to write something), Maximus (Gladiator), Christian (Moulin Rouge), Tyrion Lannister (first few seasons of Game of Thrones. Less said about the last few seasons, the better), and Lucas Wolenczak (Seaquest DSV... I was young, ha). And if TK Strand and Carlos (9-1-1 Lone Star) keep doing... whatever they’re doing, they may make this list eventually, too.

Tagging @lambourngb @ninswhimsy @emma-arthur @daffietjuh @insidious-intent @lire-casander and @usbournejez

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Music questionnaire/tag game

@centaine tagged basically anyone/everyone and why not? I know I’ve done this several years ago (or at least something similar), so gonna try to throw in some more recent loves. And not do it in any kind of order to maybe shake things up in the questions… and you know what, I had a bit of a hard time thinking of bands/artists I really like right now, so threw in some composers.

Also, after answering what I copied form Samy I noticed that I never answered anything for 4, so I googled and found a longer version, including the same questions I answered + more. So I added those where they are in the other versions I found!

Music Questionnaire

List 10 artists you like before answering the questions below.

Josh Groban Ruelle PTX Bear McCreary Hozier Bruce Springsteen First Aid Kit Superfruit Hans Zimmer Tom Waits

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?

Absolutely no clue. Cause I was a kid. What I do vividly remember is lying on the floor in the living room, listening to the Born in the USA LP.

What is your favourite song of 8?

I think the choir remix of Future Friends. Closely followed by GUY.exe

What kind of impact has 1 left on your life?

Not sure. One of the very few I’ve seen in concert, and twice. And I guess that has opened my eyes to what concerts can be like with popular artists and how they don’t have to be like maybe I once thought? And I guess helping me stay in contact with one of my classmates, through shared appreciation for his music (she’s pretty much a hardcore fan. I’m a more casual one)

What are your favorite lyrics of 5?

That is… super hard. I love his creepy romantic stuff, so lets go with:

And they'd find us in a week When the cattle'd show fear After the insects have made their claim After the foxes have known our taste I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you

How many times have you seen 2 live?

None. Don’t know if I care to tbh.

What is your favourite song by 7? (need to mention that I haven’t listened to their latest album yet due to being too deeply into other music. But I will eventually. Just saying that those songs were not included when considering this)

Maybe Emmylou? Or This Old Routine, or Wolf. I also really love their covers of Red Dirt Girl and Universal Soldier.

Is there any song by 3 that makes you sad?

Just the other day Standing By made me cry sooooo. But in general no, their music doesn’t make me sad. Standing By is a beautiful song that in itself shouldn’t make me too sad, but I just remember the stuff from the documentary, and then everything with Avi. And it also makes me think of my gf now cause it’s a perfect long distance relationship song.

What is your favourite song by 9?

It depends a bit on my mood. Time is great (and omfg that Scott Hoying and Mario José cover of Lost On You combined with Time… what a brilliant idea), but no wait… Duduk of the North has to be it. It’s one of my favourite pieces of music ever. And pretty much everything else from Gladiator really.

When did you first get into 2?

Aha! Easy question for once. It’s all due to Shadowhunters, so it was last fall.

How did you get into 3?

I am such a newbie pentaholic, but I got in deep once I properly tried. See, I don’t really know why I resisted so many years. I love musicals, and I’ve realised part of that is cause I really like duets and choirs and stuff (and stories but that doesn’t have anything to do with PTX). But there was something with the whole a cappella group thing that just didn’t work for me, I thought. And tbh I think a big part was also the beatboxing thing, cause I generally find beatboxing kinda cringy? Also Scott is a bit too much when you’re not used to it with all the riffing and running. I’m not a big fan of that in general. Aaaanyway. I never properly tried even if I knew of them of course. I think the first thing I heard/watched was Radioactive back in the day, which I think introduced me to Lindsey Stirling as well, whom I have listened way more to. So anyway, a few months ago (I said newbie did I?) I was watching GMM, which I have been a fan of for many years, and used to watch every single ep of but haven’t with the new format. But Duo or Don’t-o style stuff is always fun, so definitely gonna watch that. I did recognise the guests, at least Scott, and made the PTX connection (probably not Mitch tbh considering how much he changes all the time). I thought they seemed really fun and cute and everything and knew I had to watch some Superfruit stuff on youtube. Well I fell in love right away, and watched everything, and listening to Future Friends. But somewhere along the way of that massive binge (we’re just talking like a week of inhaling everything) I thought I really should give PTX a good and proper try. First I put a few songs on a Spotify playlist and played at work. Then I expanded a bit. And then I just went into a full soundbath that included all their music, minus classic christmas songs (cause we were past the holiday season). And I do mean listening to their stuff pretty much non-stop for 24-48 hours. Okay did stop for sleep. And it worked. I realised that the beatboxing wasn’t cringy at all cause Kevin isn’t human and you can’t even tell (I listen to the mashup from Bones, with the somewhat subpar beatboxing and… yeah still a lil bit cringy tbh, but not as much as it used to be cause I am used to the art form) and I got used to all the running. Ask me my favourite band now and… tbh I will probably say PTX.

What is your favourite song by 4?

It will have to be something from BSG for sure (I do love the Outlander score too though, and other stuff he’s done, but BSG will always be my favourite). Violence and Variations, Goodbye Sam, or Roslin and Adama probably. The last one there is what I think is the reason I finally watched the show. See, I had tried twice and never even got through the mini series. A friend sent me that song (I think) saying that she knew I don’t watch the show, but that I appreciate a good score and knowing I love Gladiator I might really like the music from BSG. And I was like sure, why not. Give me some nice sweeping score! And she was right, I did really like it. And the timing was just right. I must’ve been ready for a new sci fi show, and the music made me open up to it again. I skipped the first half of the mini cause I remembered it well enough and started with the second half, which I guess got me past that first speed bump, and oh boy and I glad I gave it a third try. One of the best tv series I’ve ever watched. And excellent score. Bear McCreary is for sure one of my favourite composers. How many times have you seen 9 live?

Never. How often does Hans Zimmer do live stuff though? Wait didn’t I see some kind of recorded live thing with him somewhere? Netflix maybe? I should watch that. I have heard some of his stuff performed by a symphonic orchestra in Prague though! Not a pure Hans Zimmer show by any means, but I finally got the Gladiator Suite live. What is a good memory concerning 10?

I don’t have a specific memory tied to Tom Waits I think. Skip to the last question for one story about getting into his music as an adult, which I guess is a good memory. But in general his music just reminds me of my dad. Which is also nice. Is there a song by 8 that makes you sad?

Haha both the sad questions are for very closely related artists… anyways, not really? Cause even the properly sad songs like Deny U and Goodbye From Lonely have some kind of energy that just makes them… less sad. Now, if they would do some kind of like outdoor acoustic thing like artists tend to do for some reason (hey boys, look at kirstin and do the same!) I’m sure they would become way more sad. Tbh I’d really like that. We got a taste of Goodbye From Lonely from someone’s cute party (who was it? Damn, I can’t remember. One of their friends anyway. Wait, was it Luke?) where they did it acoustic, and what I heard was beautiful. What is your favourite song of 1? I can’t say Gold Can Turn To Sand right? Simply cause I adore the original xD Cause it isn’t really my favourite when just looking at his stuff I guess. Hmmm, you know what comes to mind? Vincent (Starry Starry Night), that one is beautiful. Actually a lot of the songs from his debut album are among my favourites. Like Let Me Fall or You’re Still You. Like the big sweeping ballads.

How did you get into 10?

Dad. The end. No but I grew up with the music of Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton… assorted blues as well. Many years ago I think one of his songs played in something on tv, maybe even a cover. I feel like it might’ve been I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You? Or someone used lyrics for something on LJ maybe? I don’t know. Anyway, I felt like I recognised the song and liked it. And I looked up which album it was on (his debut album from 1973 in fact) and assuming dad had it, went to find it in the living room (cause I was right). Put it on in the kitchen while doing something, and realised I knew all the songs on the album. I had never listened to it actively. But it must’ve played so many times during my childhood. And I thought “damn, this is good”. And it still is. I think that album will always give me a cozy safe feeling.

Tagging: uuuh, whoever feels like doing it. @kimmyhunter you said you had some tag games to do, have another! the rest of you... do it too!

[wivibook]

10 Question Writing Tag

Thanks to @toboldlywrite for the tag! It took me a day or two, but I’m on the case!

The Rules: Answer your ten questions, then write ten more for your ten tags!

1. Is there a story idea/OC you thought up when you were younger that you keep thinking about and have a secret fantasy to go back to some day?

For me this was the entirety of Wild Imaginations and Vague Ideas. I had the concept and characters in mind sometime in late high school, but it’s taken me years to actually act on writing it.

2. What is your favorite and least favorite POV to write in?

Favorite: 3rd person, omnicient/objective (I like showing off the occasional character thought, but other times I try to let the action speak for that), past tense

Least Favorite: 1st person, present tense (Unless said character is selectively relating an event to me in this way and it is framed properly, I don’t think said character has the freaking time to narrate something to me as it is happening to them).

3. If you had to pick one of your OCs to get stuck on a deserted island with, who would you pick and why?

Sharon, because I’d like to survive the experience.

4. What is the first story you remember writing down, no matter how silly it seems now?

An early EARLY version of the fist chapter of WIVI back in high school. Lost the file, but, surprisingly, some ideas made their back to the current draft.

5. Would you consider writing in a different tense than the one you usually write in?

I’ve writing in both first (past tense) and third person varieties. I’m actually quite interested in doing something in second person, despite the fact that that style is hard to pull off. I’d probably take a lot of cues from visual novels since I’m a fan of that medium and experiment with the style before producing something concrete.

6. Is there a scene in your current wip that you are particularly proud of?

There are a few, so I’ll pick one of Hayley’s favorites with add a dialog tag as it comes from the middle of a big section--

Alan was getting long winded and into a full on ramble but didn’t care.  HE continued, determined to finish his story in one breath, “On day one of being in the woods, I lost our map, our food, and our compass [HM1] by leaving my bag with them in it on the edge of a bank of a deep and fast creek while I went to piss. This left me with just what I had on me, which was nothing but a pack of matches. By day two, we were hungry and disoriented, obviously because of my stupidity on day one. On this day, our third day, I learned I can’t climb trees, Sharon learned she doesn’t know which way north is, Sam learned he spent too much time researching The History of Mor’s Gladiators to have learnt how to identify berries, and I start talking about feeding the berries to a rabbit we might catch to see if they’re safe to eat instead of just eating the rabbit, which probably would have occurred to Sharon to hunt with her bow if I had thought to put her on food duty, and you know why I did all that last part?”

“I would assume because you were hungry and disoriented,” Oliver guessed lethargically.

"Because I’m starting to think I’m just low-key stupid!”

A muffled noise came from Oliver that sounded like he might have choked on it.

“Did you just laugh a little?”

“It appears so and has surprised me too.”

Alan smiled, “Well, I’m glad you had faith in the hungry and disoriented theory. That gives me a bit more confidence. I was sure you’d say stupid. You know, you’re actually really nice.”

“I’m trying to get you to leave.”

“I have a suggestion.”

“Oh-no.”

7. Is there a scene in your current wip that you are really excited to write?

Erm, not really because my WIP in the editing stages (which trust me is a big part of “in progress”).

8. Do you have any “writing rituals” (like needing to make a certain type of tea, putting certain music on, etc.)?

Every time I sit down to write anything, without fail, I have to pee. This has been a share from the Captain of Oversharing.

9. Would you ever write or read fiction in second person or is that an absolute no-no for you?

I love second person when it’s done well!

10. Do any of your OCs have theme songs?

Alan: “Dancing Through Life” from Wicked

Sharon: “Shut Up and Dance” by WALK THE MOON

Sam: “Birdland” specifically the Maynard Ferguson version (I have no logic to this other than it feels like it’d be a happy-place song for him)

And now for ten questions from me, and I’m going to shameless steal some from @toboldlywrite because they were great...

1. Do you have any “writing rituals” (like needing to make a certain type of tea, putting certain music on, having to pee, etc.)? 

2. What’s your favorite OC if you can pick?

3. What does your writing space normally look like?

4. Do you multitask writer, or do you have to shut things out to focus?

5. What is your favorite and least favorite POV to write in? 

6. At what point do you feel comfortable with having people start to read your work?

7. Do any of your OCs have theme songs? 

8. Do you have a “writer’s Easter egg” you like to put into your works?”

9. What’s a writing habit you can’t stand (whether it’s one of your own or something you see others do)?

10. Beginnings, Middles, or Ends? What is you favorite part to write?

Annnnd ten tags (oh boy): @hayleybot @vitalpen @s-the-dragon @storysparksblog @munificence-maleficence @flannelandsarcasm @janeapricity @thelonelyauthor @kingbetamaxx @emweaver

Some of you might be tired of tags and some of you new tags I’m trying to give some love, so just ignore me if you’d like!

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Sensor Sweep: Michael Whelan, Sea Horror, Solar Pons, World of Tanks

Tolkien (Sacnoth’s Scriptorium): The Next Tolkien Book: THE NATURE OF MIDDLE-EARTH. So, news is now out that there’s a new book of J.R.R.T. material due out next year (May 27th 2021).  Edited by Tolkien linguist Carl Hostetter, it’s called THE NATURE OF MIDDLE-EARTH, and its four hundred pages gather together many of the short essays Tolkien wrote about his legendarium in the post-LotR period.

  Gaming (Jon Mollison): For those of you interested in the hobbyist portion of this blog, allow me to point you to the thing that has been keeping me too busy to throw write-ups on gaming thoughts onto this page:  The Joy Of Wargaming.  With new videos up every other day, it’s been gathering steam every since it first went live back and the end of May.  The example video is a quick unboxing showing a small piece of a larger table of Egyptian terrain, but I’ve got a lot of actual-plays, painting sessions, and game reviews up already with more scheduled through most of July, including some hex-and-counter style wargaming for the diehard grognards.

Art (DMR Books): Michael Whelan, a colossus in the realm of SFF art,  turns a venerable seventy years old today. In honor of the occasion, I considered covering Michael’s incredible run of Barsoomian covers or perhaps picking a “greatest hits” from his forty-five year relationship with DAW Books or maybe even going through the surprising number of Howardian artworks that Whelan has painted over the years. However, I finally settled on a retrospective looking at Michael’s unparalleled body of work devoted to Elric of Melnibone.

D&D (Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog): The previous session introduced developments that completely destabilized what passes for a status quo in this campaign. How to prepare for this? Well, Gygax has numerous examples of this sort of thing scattered about the AD&D rules. Imagine the situation. Determine the odds for each particular occurrence. Roll percentile dice and keep moving! As far as prep goes, that was about all that could be done, though I couldn’t help ponder what is just around the corner in the various dungeons I’ve introduced.

Classic Science Fiction (Adventures Fantastic): So the next few Retro Hugo posts are going to be focusing on the short stories that I haven’t already looked at.  I covered “Far Centaurus” for A. E. van Vogt’s birthday, and a scheduling slip-up resulting in my post on “The Wedge” by Isaac Asimov going live before I finished the novelettes.

  Art (Goodman Games): TSR artist Jim Holloway recently passed away. He will be missed.  Why do you play D&D? Because it’s a social experience that brings smiles, laughs, and camaraderie built around the spirit of adventure. While the wargames that preceded Chainmail and D&D were strategic and serious, D&D has drifted steadily into the realm of “social entertainment.” Now in the year 2020, we’ve fully accepted D&D as entertainment. Heck, you can even watch D&D be played by professional actors on Twitch who are just there to make you laugh. In 2020, we know this. Way back in 1981, there was an artist who figured it out before the rest of us. That artist was Jim Holloway.

Games (Table Top Gaming News): World of Tanks Tabletop Gaming Coming in September.  Many of you have hopped into your Panzer or Tiger or Patton and headed across virtual landscapes, looking to take out enemy tanks. Well, soon, you’ll be able to do the same on your tabletops. Gale Force 9 has announced that they’re coming out with a World of Tanks tabletop game this September.

Weird Westerns (Dark Worlds Quarterly): The creation of the new sub-genre of Weird Westerns is not a recent thing. The first Western is considered to be Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902). The Horror story dates back to the caves and prehistoric man, so we will begin at the turn of the 20th Century. Novel publishers and the weekly magazines produced countless Western stories with authors like Zane Grey, Max Brand and Clarence Mulford being top-rate authors.

Advice (Amatopia): Ten Easy Life Hacks to Not Be a Total Creep! (Sci-fi Author edition).     Hi there, sci-fi and fantasy writers and fans! Are you tired of being accused of inappropriate conduct towards women? Are you sick of constant allegations of being a “creep”? Lucky for you, I’m here with ten life hacks to help keep you from being metooed like Myke Cole, Sam Sykes, Warren Ellis, and Paul Krueger, among others. There’s also Elizabeth Bear and her husband Scott Lynch who are accused of all sorts of horrible stuff.

Fiction (Adventure’s Fantastic): So, why on Bierce’s birthday am I going to talk as much about Robert E. Howard as the birthday boy? Simple: Ambrose Bierce had a big influence on some of Howard’s weird western stories. Bierce was one of Robert E. Howard’s most favorite writers. Howard even has Bierce appear in three of his humorous sketches, and a name check in a fourth that Howard wrote in his letters to Howard’s best friend, Clyde Smith

Life (Wasteland & Sky): Friends are not merely allies. They can be allies in causes, and they can even be support during the darkest times, but friends do not exist to be tools to achieve a common goal. They are not to be thrown away when they lose usefulness, or when they disagree with a certain belief you have that they do not. The only people who believe in such a thing as weaponizing friendship are those who have no idea what friendship is.

Appendix N (Swords and Stitchery): Colours Of a Darker Appendix N – Robert W. Chambers, H.P. Lovecraft, & Jack London. “The Mask” is introduced by an excerpt from Act 1, Scene 2d:

Camilla: “You, sir, should unmask.”

Stranger: “Indeed?”

Cassilda: “Indeed it’s time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.”

Stranger: “I wear no mask.”

Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) “No mask? No mask!”

It is also stated, in “The Repairer of Reputations”, that the final moment of the first act involves the character of Cassilda on the streets, screaming in a horrified fashion, “Not upon us, oh, king! Not upon us!”

SFWA (Cirsova): SFWA is a terrorist organization. For several years, we have remained agnostic on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. While we have had a few friends who have had “beef” with SFWA, we have also had a number of authors and friends who have been members of the SFWA.

H. P. Lovecraft (Tentaculii): Derie’s comment on Lovecraft “approving as he did of Nazi Germany’s ultranationalism” could be be misunderstood, though. Firstly one has to know that “ultranationalism” has a specific political-historical meaning: ‘the arrogant belief in the complete superiority of one’s nation over others, and the placing of its interests above all other nations at all times’. In the cases of Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia etc this was accompanied by variations on the ‘cult-of-the-Emperor’. Ultranationalism has also spawned an equally perverse leftist flipside, which despises any pride in the nation and seeks to constantly denigrate it at every opportunity.

Fiction (Rough Edges): I meant to get back to this series of historical action/adventure novels set in ancient Rome sooner, but other books got in the way. However, I’ve now read BLOOD ON THE SAND, the fourth novel in the Gladiator series (originally published in England under the series title The Eagles). The author behind the Andrew Quiller house-name this time is the prolific Laurence James, who also wrote the first book in the series, HILL OF THE DEAD.

Sherlock Holmes (Digital Bibliophilia): I’ve seen a lot of articles over the years regarding the character of Solar Pons. Most recently my involvement in Kickstarting some of the MX Sherlock Holmes books by Belanger Books meant I was included in the notification that they were also looking to republish the complete Solar Pons series as originally authored by August Derleth. At the time I didn’t join in on the project, I’d already committed to a number of other products, and thought that these were a little out of my interest range.

Horror (DMR Books): Since the beginning of time the sea has inspired fear. It covers most of the earth and what lies beneath it we may never truly know. Anything can reside beneath the waves. Men have gone forth on it and discovered new lands, but these journeys are often costly in human lives. Horrors and dangers of the sea have made the way into mythology and legend. Creatures like the Norse Kraken and the Japanese Umibozu were said to attack ships.

RPG (Goodman Games): Skull & Crossbones Classics is the new zine from the one-and-only Bob Brinkman. Bob is not only one of the main forces behind the Sanctum Secorum podcast, but he’s a frequent contributor to many of our lines. You’ll find Bob’s name on products for Mutant Crawl Classics, DCC Lankhmar, Fifth Edition Fantasy, and much more. Now Bob has turned his eyes to the high seas and the golden age of pirates. And Bob is no stranger to the pirate genre, as anyone who has met him knows well. So we know this ship is in good hands!

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Another year of college football is in the books, which means it’s bowl season baby! Truly one of the greatest times of the sports year, but honestly, this year feels a little underwhelming. Maybe it’s the matchups, or maybe we put too much emphasis on the College Football Playoff. Don’t worry, I’m here to spice it up.

We all know the matchups, but let’s look at the games in terms of mascot matchups. The rules of the game are simple: I’m going to look at each game like both mascots are battling to the death, Roman gladiator style. Here are my Top Ten mascot matchups(with a couple honorable mentions).

10. Georgia Southern Eagles vs. Eastern Michigan Eagles

We are at number ten on the list and this might be the most unique matchup we have this season. It’s Eagle vs Eagle, brother vs brother. So which eagle is superior? We have redneck eagles against, well… midwestern eagles? I’ve never watched Eagles fight, but I imagine it’s watching two eagles fly in a circle over and over again. If I’ve learned one thing from living in the south, you never underestimate a redneck in a fight, give me the Georgia Southern Eagles.

9. Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. Iowa Hawkeyes

I don’t know if any have ever owned a bulldog, but my dad had a pug for 7 years, and to me that’s close enough. This dog didn’t do a damn thing, you’d be lucky to get him to go outside for a little while. That being said, how would a bulldog stand a chance against a hawk? Hawks can lift up to 60 pounds, which seems hard to believe, but I watched YouTube videos on it so it must be true.

Bulldogs would have to use the buddy system so that with their combined weight, it would be really difficult for the hawks to scoop them up. Here’s something else, bulldogs aren’t very smart. You think they’d stick to the buddy system? No. They’d get a sniff of something and be off and running alone. That’s why I’m taking the Hawkeyes here, just not a fair fight.

8. West Virginia Mountaineers vs. Syracuse Orange

On NCAA 14, I always loved playing as West Virginia. Let me take a break from this regularly scheduled programming to bring you the following announcement…BRING BACK NCAA 14 YOU COWARDS. And we’re back, the real puzzling aspect with this matchup is what to do about the Syracuse mascot. They’re called the Syracuse Orange, but what is “Orange” //hits vape.

To me, we can look at this in one or two ways” the Mountaineers are going to be battling literal oranges, as in the fruit, or they are going to fight a bunch of men in the Orange mascot suits, which is what I am going to believe. So now we have rednecks with old time rifles, fighting against people dressed up as oranges with eyes. As much as I want to take Syracuse, because nothing gives me more joy than imagining a stampede of oranges running up on mountaineers, I have to take West Virginia here. I’m sorry Syracuse fans, I’m not strong enough.

7. UAB Blazers vs. Northern Illinois Huskies

My wife has always wanted for us to get a Husky. It would be great, they’re smart, loyal, and they look freaking majestic. I would love to have a bunch of huskies following me around all the time. And the huskies are going to need more than their smarts to defeat a dragon, technically a blazer, but I’m going to call it a dragon.

Now what do we know about dragons? They’re highly dangerous, often the villains in movies, and very powerful. But they do have weaknesses. It depends on what type of dragon we are dealing with, if it’s a dragon from Shrek, you just give it a few compliments. Dragons from The Hobbit love gold, so that seems easy enough. Unfortunately, dogs can’t speak, and have no sense of money. Give me the blazers in just not a fair fight.

6. Michigan State Spartans vs. Oregon Ducks

This isn’t the best matchup on my list, but this one is my favorite. It provides my favorite mental image of them all. Imagine, if you will, we are back at the coliseum, the Spartans come out first, dressed in their armor with their swords and shields. They’re getting themselves pumped up in whatever fashion Spartans pumped themselves up.

And then, out of the other door, ducks come out. Surely those Spartans didn’t train their whole lives to take on a flock of ducks, right? But what they don’t know is that these ducks have a plan. Ducks can’t fight, but they can poop. That’s their play, flying in formation and pooping all over the Spartans until they can’t take anymore. Sure, it’s not a great plan, but it’s ducks! Give me the upset, I want the ducks.

5. Kentucky Wildcats vs. Penn State Nittany Lions

Actual underrated game in terms of football, and underrated in terms of mascots. Two different species of cats, big cats, going at it. If you’re wondering what the difference is between a Wildcat and a Nittany Lion is, I did some research for you. Wildcats are a species of small cats, mostly found in Europe and Africa. Nittany Lions on the other and is, well, not even a real animal, it’s just a mascot.

For these purposes, we are going to see a Nittany Lion is smaller than normal African Lions. Nittany Lions have the size advantage, but Wildcats are faster and more agile. It really depends on the style you prefer: big and strong, or agile and fast? It’s like that scene in Dark Knight when Christian Bale asks Morgan Freeman to make him a new suit because he needed to be faster. I prefer being fast, that’s why I’m going with the Wildcats in a close battle.

4. Florida Gators vs. Michigan Wolverines

Now that we are entering that top 4, you could talk me into rearranging numbers 2-4 in any order. It really was splitting hairs trying to decide where to rank these matchups. A wolverine, as in not Hugh Jackman, but if it was Hugh Jackman fighting a bunch of gators, you’d best believe that would be in the number 1 spot.

An actual wolverine is a carnivore that resembles a small bear. An adult wolverine only weighs between 20-55 pounds. The gators would have a clear advantage in terms of size. Wolverines tend to hunt Wolves and Lynxes, and they usually hunt in packs. Gators tend to keep to themselves, unless they feel threatened, or are hungry. The wolverines would have to surprise the gators in order to have a chance of winning. I don’t think they would have much luck, and that’s why I’m picking the Gators in a close fight.

3. Baylor Bears vs. Vanderbilt Commodores

This might be one of my spiciest takes, but I didn’t like the movie The Revenant. Yeah, thought it was overrated. That being said, the bear scene was just really well done. Before that movie, I didn’t really think of bears as being overly threatening. Now, if I ever go hiking, I’m taking at least one person that I know I can outrun.

Commodores are a rank in the military, specifically in the Navy. So, I could plop down someone from today’s world, but that’s not what Vanderbilt’s mascot portrays. They portray someone from a couple hundred years ago, and that’s what the bear has to fight. I’m imagining someone with a pistol and a sword going up against a bear. I feel like the commodore would get the first attack in with his pistol, and that would slow the bear down for a second, before it recovers and comes on a hate fueled rampage. The commodore can’t climb because of all the heavy equipment, and there’s no way they can outrun a bear. I predict the bears start slow, but come out and maul the commodores later in the fight.

2. Clemson Tigers vs. Notre Dame Irish

Hey, the Tigers are back! And this time they get to fight more humans. But, not just any humans, drunk, Catholic Irishmen. This battle goes in one of two ways, and there’s no in between.

Scenario #1: the Irish drink as much as they can handle, gaining powers such as super strength and durability, and go toe-to-toe with the tigers. Scenario #2: the Irish drink, and fall over in an alcohol-induced nap while the tigers maul them as they sleep.

There is no middle ground here. It’s just a manner of which scenario you choose to believe will happen. I’ve never personally met an Irish person before, but I have heard rumors about them, and I want to believe they are true. I’m picking the upset, and hoping the drunk super-powered Irish can pull the upset against the confused tigers.

1. Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders vs. Appalachian State Mountaineers

The number 1 spot, king of the hill, best matchup of the year is the Blue Raiders vs the Mountaineers. We have multiple factors in play here: both parties are from the South, which means both qualify into the redneck category. What do you do when two sets of rednecks are fighting? Sit back and enjoy the show.

As I’m writing this, I’m only about 70% sure I know who would win this fight. I know Middle Tennessee’s mascot is a horse, so let’s imagine the Blue Raiders are from the Old West, makes it a fair fight. Mountaineers have already won one matchup today. Can they make it two?

I’m giving the edge to the Mountaineers, and here’s why: mountain men know the terrain better, they grew up in the woods, and know how to use it as an advantage. I think it’s a really close fight, but the Mountaineers come out on top.

Honorable Mentions

Purdue Boilermakers vs. Auburn Tigers

Come on, you thought we wouldn’t have something about Auburn in this? Even though I am a homer, this matchup is interesting in terms of a mascot battle. When doing research, I honestly thought Boilermakers were a type of trains. According to the Google machine, a Boilermaker is someone who works on and repairs boilers. So now we have a group of tigers (which is called an ambush or a stealth) against men who work with heavy equipment. It took me fifteen minutes to try and come up with a reason why boilermakers would win in a matchup against tigers, but I can’t, unless it was just an army of buff sweaty men against a few tigers. However, in a surprising move, I’m taking the Tigers.

Iowa State Cyclones vs. Washington State Cougars

You might be asking yourself why I think Cougars stand a chance against Mother Nature. And that’s a fair point, on the surface, cougars should not be able to even damage a cyclone. But these aren’t normal cougars, they are cougars that are trained by Mike Leach himself. If anyone can figure out how to defeat an act of nature, it’s that man. I think the key to defeating a cyclone is misdirection, you can’t stay in the same place. Eventually, the cyclone will just get tired and give up chasing you, like your dad in the family backyard football game. All that being said, I’m taking the upset. Go Cougs!

from WarBlogle.com http://www.warblogle.com/2018/12/10/football/top-10-bowl-game-mascot-matchups/

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MAD MONDAY EDITION

THE SEA EAGLE

MAKING RUGBY LEAGUE GREAT AGAIN!!!

MAD MONDAY – SPECIAL EDITION

Despite the best efforts of the NRL Integrity Dept, leftie do-gooders, social media gibberers and most Fox Sports Rugby League denigrators, the Director of Controversy has triumphed again delivering yet another Mad Monday scandal.

Not surprisingly, again it is the Dogs leading the way with their well-documented booze fest and naked orgy during the club's end-of-season function at the Harbour View Hotel in the Rocks. Shock horror, one player was even photographed vomiting in the street.

The Dogs have plenty of form when it comes to Mad Monday (and other off-field atrocities).

In 2012 coincidentally when headed up by Todd Greenberg, the Dogs were fined $30,000 after players behaved inappropriately in the presence of female media on the Monday after the club's 14-4 grand final loss to Melbourne making comments to the effect of "There are some ladies here to stick their heads in your pants”, “S . . k me off, you dumb dog” and “I want to go and punch you in the face”.

And in 2004 who could forget the season bonding session in Coffs Harbour where there was a very fine line between a gang-bang and a gang rape!

As a consequence of this current scandal, NSW Police have charged 2 Dogs players with willful and obscene exposure and another has been fined for offensive conduct.

Not surprisingly and bowing to the avalanche of pressure exerted by the aforementioned leftie do-gooders, social media gibberers and Fox Sports Rugby League denigrators, the NRL has come down on the Dogs like a ton of bricks issuing the club with a breach notice imposing a $250,000 fine. In handing down the fine NRL  CEO Greenberg indicated that the punishment was influenced by the fact the club organised the event, senior club officials were present, and the players' actions took place in view of the general public.

Add to this and again bowing to the avalanche of pressure exerted by the aforementioned leftie do-gooders, social media gibberers, Fox Sports Rugby League denigrators, and the NRL, Dogs Management have dished out fines totaling $70K to a number of the players involved.

As far as the Sea Eagle is concerned there is very little to criticize in terms of the behavior of Dogs players in this instance. Let’s face it, these are NRL players and such behavior should be expected. Where the Dogs failed here was that there should have been an industrial strength crowd control fence erected around the Harbour View Hotel with warning signs to the effect of “NRL Mad Monday Event – Enter at Own Risk” or simply in this case “Beware of Dogs”.

In terms of previous Mad Monday atrocities this “incident” is a fairly lame offering. At this juncture it is fitting to recall some of the more creative and controversial Mad Monday efforts from recent year years including examples of some of the Director of Controversy’s finest work.

Sharks - 2014

Prior to winning a premiership in 2016, Mad Monday was all Sharks players had to look forward to at season end. The above photo barely touches the surface of the true nature of what Mad Monday really is as Sharks players were photographed in the company of a topless female waitress. This led to both outrage and public condemnation of the Sharks and threats by leftie do-gooders, social media gibberers, Fox Sports Rugby League denigrators, and the NRL to ban the Mad Monday concept.

Jason Taylor

A drunken Taylor was out partying with his players when he was alleged to have playfully punched back rower David Fa'alogoin the stomach. This prompted the New Zealand forward to retaliate wherein he king hit Taylor virtually rendering him unconscious. Taylor was subsequently sacked from his position. The moral to this story is that coaches should never be invited to Mad Monday (perhaps Dean Pay should have taken note).

Robert Lui

When your Mad Monday celebrations start on Saturday, things are unlikely to end well.

The West Tigers’ post-season was thrown into turmoil in 2011 when halfback Robert Lui was charged with assaulting his pregnant girlfriend.

Lui was stood down from the Tigers, however the charges were eventually dropped.

And Mad Monday atrocities are not just confined to the NRL with the AFL having their fare share over the years.

Brendan Fevola

For those unaware of the exploits of Brendan Fevola, he is to the AFL what Todd Carney is to rugby league. Brendan’s exploits at Mad Monday (and for that matter any event involving the consumption of alcohol) are the stuff of legend.

In 2008 Fevola was on a boozy outing with his teammates on Monday when he was spotted in Fed Square about 5pm wearing a pink nightie with the sex toy strapped around his waist. “Fev had a foot-long dildo hanging out of his pink muu-muu in full public view outside the bar,” said a witness who asked not to be named. “I saw him hit a couple of girls on the head with it. It was a bit off-putting”

Jason Akermanis

Jason Akermanis was a sore and sorry man after a Mad Monday blowout meant he was too drunk to attend the Brownlow Medal count.

But not nearly as sore and sorry as he probably was the next morning when his wife - who was supposed to attend the Brownlow with him, had planned her outfit for weeks and had driven to pick him up from the Yarraville watering hole where he’d written himself off - was done with him.“I had planned to go (to the Brownlow), and I had a really good plan in place to get there. But it’s fair to say I miscalculated a few things, and as such didn’t execute the plan all that well.”

St Kilda

The Saints added to the long list of Mad Monday indiscretions when a player allegedly set a dwarf alight during the club’s revelry. 

The situation was exacerbated when then, AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou laughed uncontrollably when told of the incident during an appearance on Channel 7 panel show Talking Footy. Check out this link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwzEMjIdrwU

And finally, the mother of all Mad Monday atrocities.

Joel Monaghan

Poor old Joel failed to follow the 2 key Mad Monday no no’s.

Mad Monday Rule No.1: Do not engage in lewd sex acts with a dog.

Mad Monday Rule No.2: If you simply must break Rule No.1, ensure no one photographs it.

Former Canberra Raiders player Joel Monaghan helped re-write the textbook on what not to do on Mad Monday when he was photographed in an extremely compromising position with a Golden Labrador Retriever during his team’s post-season celebrations in 2010.

The alcohol-fueled stunt quickly made its way onto social media, the RSPCA and animal activists got involved and Monaghan left the club, fled the country never to play in the NRL again. 

 SEA EAGLE SUMMARY

Who doesn’t love Mad Monday.

What’s more, why is Mad Monday confined just to NRL and AFL players.

We have a well-documented Bank Holiday in August. The Butchers picnic, and various other industrial relations type Mondays off.

The Sea Eagle call on governments of all persuasions in Australia, to simply make Mad Monday the first Monday in September, and each and every fun loving Australian should be let loose to get well and truly on it, and let off steam.

As the man on the fat, aka Sam Kekovich eloquently put it, you know it makes sense.

As for the Dogs 2018 Mad Monday debacle, what an absolute beat up.

No dogs were sexually assaulted. No women were attacked. No violence was perpetrated on anyone. All we got was a few nude NRL players and some vomiting.

You can see nudity of all sorts of descriptions on the internet for free. So how is it that what these blokes did, was in any way lewd? Stupid yes. Unnecessary maybe. But lewd, or willfully obscene???  What is obscene is how much the NRL has spent on head office costs over the years, adding nil value to the game.

And drunks have been vomiting publicly since Jesus was a young bloke playing 5/8 for the Jerusalem Jets. No surprises there.

Then we had the so called sponsorship cancellation by Jay Car Electronics, the Dogs sponsor. Frankly, if an NRL club sponsor is going to be as spineless as that, over an incident as meaningless as this, the Sea Eagle calls on all rugby league fans to boycott this half strength latte sipping organisation, FOR LIFE.

The Sea Eagle stands ready to run the NRL if asked. Frankly those running the game take themselves and the game far too seriously. This is rugby league. The NRL is a simple game played in the main by simpletons. People don’t follow rugby league because of its clean fun loving nature. They follow it because they know deep down, there is no way they could do what these NRL blokes get asked to do for 26 rounds plus finals and rep games.

It is its simplicity, brutality and unpredictably of those involved that is at its very essence. Player misbehavior is part of the package and should be embraced. The best way to deal with player misbehavior is trot out the line, “the NRL integrity unit is investigating”. Then wait a few days where it will be forgotten anyway, as the news cycle moves on to its next beat up. Or as the US President Donald Trump puts it, fake news.

If given said role of CEO of the NRL, then when questioned about this week’s events, the Sea Eagle’s answer would have been simply this: Is this not front and back page news on the Telegraph and other leading news outlets? Isn’t rugby league yet again at the forefront of conversation? Are you not entertained (to quote Souths owner Russell Crowe in the Gladiator)? As far as we are concerned -Assignment Completed.

Sure such a response would generate social media outrage and even more controversy. That’s is the very point. QED.

As Mike Myers said in Wayne’s World- A sphincter says what? When the answer comes back what ?, the reply is “exactly”.

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