#jumping in the bandwagon i LOVE divorce

[autisminfinite]

[radiant-reid]

hopping on the hot wife bandwagon… can you reason a blurb of when it’s y/n and spencer’s wedding day and while they’re having dinner the team finally decided to ask the question they’ve been dying to ask forever, “so how the hell did you to get together?” and they all found out little spencer is actually smooth and flirty

yessss. also this is meant to have the same vibe as JJ's wedding

HIM ^^ always him

Sitting around a large table in Rossi's backyard with the BAU family is exactly where she wants to be for her first meal being married to the love of her life. It's peaceful, personal and nice to see all of her husband's colleagues relaxed for once.

Spencer's as perfect as the day they met, hair parted down the middle and held in place with gel rather than curls messy on top of his head. A thing that's never changed is how in awe of her he is, speechless whenever he looks at her for too long and constantly wondering how he'd ended up with everything he ever wanted sitting next to him.

"You doing okay, handsome?" She whispers, touching his shoulder as she leans over.

He's literally never been better. "Yeah, of course."

"No regret yet?" She jokes.

Spencer grins widely, shaking his head. "Never."

Before they can continue having their moment of intimacy, Emily draws their attention away from each other. "So I've got to know, how did Spencer actually manage to get with someone as hot as you?" She's definitely had a few too many, judging by her slurred speech and bluntness, but the team can't deny they're all thinking it. "No offense, Spence. She is way out of your league, though."

He scoffs playfully. "Thanks." He knows it's true, too, no one has the warm glow and gorgeousness that she has, but he's more than reassured that she's only in love with him.

"Tell us the story." Penelope insists also.

Y/n frowns. "I'm not sure there's much to tell." She admits. It had been one of the best days of her life, of course, but it was also probably the most ordinary day she'd ever had in her time knowing Spencer Reid.

"There's got to be something." JJ tries to nudge her to spill because none of them can imagine how it happened.

"Well, it was at a bar." Y/n starts, immediately stopped by the confused looks on everyone else's faces. "What?"

"Spencer at a bar? Without one of us dragging him there?" Morgan asks incredulously.

Spencer laughs, jumping in to explain that night from his perspective. "You did drag me there." Spencer points out. "You just left early... Jasmine, I think her name was?"

Everyone laughs at that, knowing Morgan's tendencies to be a ladies' man. "Spencer was, I don't know, suave, charming, smooth." She's looking for the right word, but each one doesn't seem impressive enough to describe him.

He's looking at her with puppy dog eyes, totally love-sick. "And handsome." He adds.

"The most handsome." She amends, but when she turns to see the team's reaction, she's shocked by how shocked they look.

"Did you just use the word suave to describe Spencer, or did I imagine that?" Penelope asks, her mouth lingering open. None of them can imagine it. Sure, he's endearing with his awkwardness, but he's terrible with women he's attracted to, to the point of aversion.

They also don't imagine her standards were low, not when she's so immaculate, which makes it even more puzzling that Spencer managed to land her.

Y/n nods. "Yeah." She answers. "He totally charmed me. Honestly, I worried he was a playboy, but I don't think I had any reason to worry."

"You definitely did not." Morgan agrees passionately before he can help himself. "I saw him flirt with a girl in a bar once, he sucked." He exposes Spencer.

"What?" Y/n asks, tipping her head to the side to look at her husband. "What happened to I never do this?" She presses him, voice dropping lower to mimic his from that night.

He holds up his hands defensively. "Technically, I was only successful once."

"When you divorce," Emily interrupts the playful retort Y/n's about to make. "Can I take you out, Y/n?"

Spencer giggles with Y/n at that, and the whole team joins in on the laughter when Morgan jumps in with his offer. "Nuh-uh, if she were going to date anyone else here, it would be me."

While they argue, she rests her head on Spencer's shoulder and whispers that she loves him and his smile only grows bigger.

[vigilskeep]

a drop in the bucket for insane worldstates, but did you have any thoughts on the entirely possible marriage of the divine and the queen/prince consort of ferelden?

well, they’re not married. the queen/prince consort is taken. that was a pretty significant thing that happened

otherwise, politically completely insane. she’s an ORLESIAN BARD. she’s the DIVINE. she’s SLEEPING WITH YOUR MONARCH’S SPOUSE. i love it. no notes. i love couples who can’t say a word to each other about their lives because they would be obligated to use that information for their own ends. as always i am in favour of divorce because if anora and the prince consort ever fall out and his best backer is his gf the divine, you guessed it, it’s SCHISM TIME. ugliest fate for the chantry of ferelden, actually, because in this case it’s going to be the opposition to leliana that jumps on the bandwagon. i digress. love it. they announce this stuff in public. fucking unmatched

[zukkaart]

Okay LISTEN

I don’t jump on the divorced Zukka bandwagon- not because it’s stupid or invalid but because it makes sense and I hate it because I want them to be domestic and happy until they’re grey and old okay???????

That being said

“Bleach” from 5sos5 gave me a thought-

So we know that cutting your hair is generally seen as a formal act of losing a part of yourself or your nation. Seen very clearly here- Iroh and Zuko cut their hair off when they realize they no longer have a home to return to.

A little more indirectly when zuko shaves everything except his top knot after being banished as a sign of his exile and dishonor but still tied to the fire nation.

And even a little MORE indirectly when we see Azula cut her own hair- not out of solemn realization or dishonor but because she is LITERALLY losing pieces of herself to her madness

All this to say

(Sorry I went on a bit of a tangent there)

And IF Sokka and Zuko DID break up or get a divorce it would be seen as improper for the fire lord to cut his hair over something so “trivial”

After all Ozai didn’t alter his when Ursa left

SO I think Zuko would probably try everything possible to alter his hair without actually cutting it. I.e. braiding, hiding under hoods, etc.

I think he would even go as far as to bleach his hair- especially if they really did get divorced because even though there was no love lost- their lifestyles of being leaders of separate nations just couldn’t cope. He’d start a little at first- just a few strands on the underneath where no one could see done by himself late at night.

Little by little he realizes “cleansing” little pieces of him makes him feel the slightest bit better because the man in the mirror is starting to look less and less like the man who Sokka loved, who loved Sokka…

Obviously he couldn’t bleach all of his hair but imagine Sokka comes to the Fire Nation as his Ambassador and Chief status requires to find Zuko with one stark strip of white cutting through the right side of his hair, he looks closer and finds the smaller- subtler ones in the under layers, some obviously more well done than the others, some faded with time.

Imagine Zuko finally turning to lock eyes with him- but before he can get a word out to explain Sokka reaches up and brushes the light strip that leads into his topknot.

“What’s this?” He asks, dangerously closer than most Ambassadors should be to their hosts.

“An experiment” Zuko says quickly, unsure why he chose those words in particular, but Sokka is a scientist right? He’ll understand.

“Oh,” The playful smile drops from the darker boys features, although Zuko is unsure why.

“Does it bother you?” The words came out more defensively than Zuko meant. Why should he care now anyway?

“Not at all it’s just…” nothing. Everything.

All the words Sokka left unsaid somehow came down to this one white strip of hair, as white as Yues. The truth was that he had hoped Zuko would tell him that he had no idea where it came from, letting Sokka come to the logical conclusion that it was in fact Yue who had blessed him, and he could take it as a sign that he and Zuko were meant to be together. That they could make it work this time if they really tried. Spirits knew that stuff right?

It doesn’t matter now. The hair was fake. For whatever reason Zuko had done it on purpose. It unsettled Sokka in a way he didn’t expect.

“Sorry” He snapped out of his own thoughts. “It just looks so different from the pictures I have, it looks good though.” Sokka offered a timid smile.

Zuko stiffened imperceptibly at that but still responded in kind. “Thank you, I should go. I have others to greet before dinner.” His voice did not waiver but his mind raced. He still has pictures of me? Of us? And he looks at them? Zuko hadn’t been able to do that for months.

“Of course” And when Sokka turned to leave Zuko noticed something. A thin strip of leather braided in to the underside of Sokkas wolf tail, dyed such a deep shade of red that it almost blended in to his hair, but Zuko noticed, because Zuko always noticed.

It was the same strip of leather that Zuko had used to tie his topknot with on his first visit to the South Pole. Deeper in color than his usual choice because he didn’t want to stick out too much, but Sokka had protested anyway, gently pulling it out of his hair and replacing it with one of brilliant blue, a color as deep as the ocean but somehow still as alluring as a familiar set of eyes. At the time, he would have gladly drowned in both.

That was 15 years ago now, when Zuko hadn’t even been brave enough to hold his hand.

Sokka had kept it. All this time. And now he was even wearing it - subtle as it may be. And Sokka was just the same, just the same, same blue eyes, same genuine smile, same gentle brush of fingers against his hair, the exact same Sokka. His Sokka.

Zukos hair was back to its natural color by morning.

[dreamcaught]

I saw your long post about domesticity in tenrose vs doctordonna and oh my god it's like you've taken my thoughts directly from my brain and put them into words! THANK YOU! I've been so frustrated since the 60th specials came out with the massive flood of doctordonna shippers like ?? they are SIBLINGS. they are NOT romantically attracted to one another in the SLIGHTEST and insisting that they ARE is disingenuous and insulting to Donna and the Doctor (not to mention the Doctor's previous romantic relationships).

Donna does not love the Doctor romantically. The Doctor does not love Donna romantically. there's nothing WRONG with that, either, why do we have to enforce a romantic subplot to make their relationship "worthy"? People trying to claim that the Doctor is only staying with her because they're in love romantically, as if platonic and familial love isn't just as important - if not MORE SO - to a character like the Doctor, who FREQUENTLY loses friends and family to time or death or just circumstances. they don't need to be In Love to be able to love each other and find peace in each other's lives.

(Not to mention it's a little fucking Sketchy how quickly people are jumping on the "oh and Donna divorces Shaun to be with Fourteen instead!" bandwagon. Hmm.)

This is getting long but I just had to get this off my chest because oh my god it is SO frustrating seeing so many people deliberately misinterpret a very very obviously sibling-coded relationship, so it's a relief to see I'm not alone in that opinion.

Hey, cheers!

Platonic/sibling coded Doctor Donna relationship for the win! I mean, this is very clearly the intended way we're meant to see it -- there is enough evidence in enough episodes throughout their run in RTD era 1 and 2 to prove that, so it shouldn't be a Big Revelation.

Fanfiction/fandom/shippers etc. can do whatever they want outside of canon to suit their own little fantasy desires, but trying to claim that it is canon is where I get annoyed. Alas, there is no point in arguing with a shipper whose mind is set - and that goes for every fandom.

[subzeroparade]

jumping on the bandwagon of everyone sharing their feelings about your art, i'm popping in to say that before i knew it i started to regard your art and fic as part of canon somehow

welp i guess starting from today moon divorce is canon for me anyway i am also both amazed and concerned at your productivity

like on the one hand, your updates give me the will to live another day on the other hand pls dontburnoutdontburnoutdontburnout pls take care

Omg, adorable, thank you for this. Nice to know my headcanons are capable of infiltrating other people’s brains - but the credit is for @bornetoblood for tirelessly proliferating moon divorce. Tbh I am still a staunch Ludwig/Laurence shipper, but I love the idea of Laurence having a real, messy, complicated history with Gehrman - it just makes for more interesting storytelling. I think Laurence made a point of surrounding himself with morally upstanding people susceptible to his charisma who would also, conveniently, do anything for him. 

Also thank you for your concern?(!) I keep very weird hours but I do sleep a lot, ha. And writing takes way more out of me than drawing - I will agonise and nitpick over my writing for weeks and keep making little fixes long after posting; whereas with drawing I just do unpolished shit to unwind and then post like here’s some colours and lines ok goodbye. I recently came out of a corporate environment that just sucked the creativity right the fuck out of me during which I made almost no art of any kind, so I'm making up for lost time I guess. But thank you for the sentiment - please take care of yourselves too, folks.

here's a little warmup I did the other day for your newfound moon divorce fix -

[galaxyofender]

HI I AM HERE NOW! I AM ABSOLUTELY DOWN TO JUMP ON THE BANDWAGON HERE LETS GO

galaxyofender Good. good art. good friend. really fucking funny. 11/10 people overall you should all follow them immediately!! also read their writing for the love of god they write some of the most epic shit and english isnt even their first language like spare some Talent for the rest of us jeez. love ya

-divorce anon 2

you're fenix most probably? second thought is the keys? i am a bit more doubtful that this anon is the keys, because most of my fics are shippy ones and the keys don't do shipping/makes them uncomfortable

that or. twelve? but twelve has not read my fics, as far as i know?

hmmm

[liaromancewriter]

You mentioned a few times that once Valentines fall in love its for life. Does Max subscribe to this theory or is he less of a romantic?

I think Max is more skeptical of the concept, but even he can’t deny that their family history supports the idea. He heard the same stories that Cassie did about Valentines that fell in love, stayed in love.

The only time there has been a divorce is when someone married for more practical reasons like money or business. But those instances are so rare that most Valentines have forgotten about them.

He can’t say he doesn’t believe in it, but he’s not jumping on the bandwagon just yet.

[piracytheorist]

So I was thinking that The Right Stuff takes place around the time when the "I hate my wife" type of jokes were a thing, enough for people who were born around that time to still think the solution of a bad marriage is to make jokes out of it instead of having a divorce - or not getting married in the first place before you're certain you will be okay after ten years together. 

So, you know, I'm wondering how many men at the time actually loved their wives and had great relationships with them, but simply jumped in on the bandwagon because it was the trend but were otherwise great husbands. I mean, there had to be some.

Because I connect this to "women are like monkeys" joke Gordo made, and how we saw that despite all his problems expressing himself, we're still meant to understand that he loved Trudy. I mean, he didn't mean the joke, he just did it because he was forced to choose between being called a feminist (the horror!) and making a joke that, I mean, come on, everyone does it, they don’t mean it, surely not everyone who makes jokes about hating their wives actually do hate them, right?

And I mean, he knew Trudy wouldn't like it. He tried to call her immediately afterwards, and though he tried to justify his actions, he understood immediately why she was angry, and why she was leaving him.

Still, that one little line cost Trudy her dreams of becoming an astronaut. Women still face troubles getting into high positions (and being respected the same way men are when in them) even in the most progressive countries. The “I hate my wife” type of jokes distract from the problem being bad communication in a marriage and into the “women are bitches lol but we marry them anyway because that’s how things go” thing, making a lot people marry because “it’s the norm” without sitting down and thinking whether they should marry in the first place, and what person if they do.

So, you know. Some thoughts.

[tayley]

We always talk Tayley stuff and I LOVE IT, but I'm curious, what made you start this blog in the first Place? It looks like you really spend your time in It and It shows and you should know that I truly aopreciate it, like so much. And @officialtayley Is awesome too! Can totally imagine tour friendship! Love you

aww thank you!!!! well, i’ve shipped tayley for literal years, but i never jumped on the social media bandwagon. i used to peep insta accounts on my personal for way too long, as well as my other tumblr which i had for YEARS, but never posted anything tayley because it was related to tv shows etc. i used to stalk ash’s tumblr, a lot so honestly she was the main reason i even got a tumblr for this ship.

i didn’t want to turn my tv show tumblr into tayley, because i have an iconic username within that realm, so i went with this. i mainly wanted to discuss theories, post updates on them. when she announced her divorce, this blog took a different turn, and i really started posting anything and everything that could eventually be lead to as “proof” because i am v analytical like that. i like to analyze things, process it, study body language. and this blog blew up from there. i’m thankful for it.

that was an extremely long answer but there you go. thank you for being here 💛🌺

[candiceaccolarps]

Hannah Cartwright

33 . Frostford Native . Momma of 3 (2 more on the way) . Houseflipper

Gonna jump on the bandwagon and introduce my pumpkin Hannah

Hi Everyone! I’m Kaisi and I am so excited to roleplay with all of you in Frostford and I hope you come to love Hannah as much as I do. I picked her up the last time Frostford was open and she’s become one of my favorite babies. 

Short version, Hannah is a frostford native she a wine drinking momma who loves pinterest, jesus, and her momma. She’s super down to earth and all around girl next door type and I would love all the plots with her. Please give me all the parent friends to bond over the kiddos and childhood friends she grew up with. I would really love to plot with all of you if something stands out to you please hit me up I am so open to building out Hannah’s life even more!

If you want the long version here is her full intro:

Daddy was a local football hero who married a Southern Belle from Alabama football royalty. Today, her father owns a car dealership in a town over and likes waxing poetic about the glory days and her mother is woman with her hand in every charity she can

She’s a Heine. With two older brother and a younger sister. Family is everything to her.

Hannah was the proper southern belle daughter, polite, charming, she was everything a good southern woman would turn out to be. Her high school days, she was a cheerleader and a member of the honor society. She truly had it all.

It was during her Junior year that she finally said yes to a date with Tanner Cartwright, a star running back on the Football Team. They were the picture perfect couple and by graduation they were both so star struck that Hannah abandoned her dreams of going to school in New York City to follow him to the University of Alabama, where she was a legacy, and Tanner had a football scholarship.

Tanner’s football dreams were crushed his senior year when he was injured during a game and Hannah was resilient staying by his side through it all. Saying good bye to his dreams of going pro, he proposed to Hannah with plans to move home to Frostford and settle down with the girl of his dreams.

Barely 23 years old Hannah found herself a wife settling into life Frostford, and while she picked up a job helping out her dad’s dealership the moment she found out she was pregnant Tanner was insistent that she stay home.

Hannah and Tanner built a life for themselves in Frostford, welcoming their first child and second a few years later. They picked up a love of flipping houses. Using their free time to buy new properties and work on making an HGTV dream. 

They were the picture perfect couple to the outside world but with each passing year they grew further a part.

Until four years ago when Hannah finally got pregnant with their third child. Having Tommy seemed like a blessing but Hannah struggled afterwards with Postpartum depression and the distance between her and Tanner grew even more. It became apparent that they’d spent 9 years of marriage focusing on everything but each other.

Feb 2019, after months of fighting, the two decided to separate. Tanner moved out and the whole town was in tizzy trying to figure out how the golden couple of Fostford had fallen apart. Rumors of infidelity run wild as Hannah has been adjusted to life as a single mom and pending divorce. 

All hope felt loss as they both struggled to find their way back to each other but after agreeing to a family costume for Halloween the two won the couples costume during a town event winning a weekend to the local bed and breakfast. After a weekend reconnecting Hannah found herself pregnant and she and Tanner made the decision to work things out just before Christmas. Tanner has moved back home and the two working to put their family back together while preparing for the arrival of twins. 

[supertodd5000]

Mono? Stereo? Both?

Admit it. You’re flummoxed, fried out and forlorn. And it’s not because your baby left you. No, it’s because you woke up one day and realized you’re a record collector. With a serious problem. And not just the physical kind. It’s true that record collectors suffer from a host of very real problems – lack of social graces from dealing with heavy-handed and judgmental record clerks, bad breath from breathing in mold spores wafting up from water damaged records, plumbers butt, and a scoliosis-like malady called “crate-diggers hump” (not as sexy as it sounds) acquired from years of slouching, sagging and stooping over anything and anyone just to fat-finger a copy of that one record that makes your heart flutter, your spleen ache and your bowels tremble.

No, your current dilemma is a horse of a different color. Which version of your favorite records sound best? The mono or stereo copy? Which one should you buy? Should you buy both? Neither? Your mind is melting. 

These days there’s something akin to “Mono Mania” going on in the world of record collecting. To many of us it’s quite welcome. Especially if we’re one of the poor bastards not old enough to have purchased The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society in mono when it came out and we don’t have enough cold, hard cash to buy a minty fresh original flip-back gatefold copy for $425. To us, a sealed mono reissue is just what the doctor ordered.

To others, this mono vs. stereo issue is as baffling as watching your grandmother cut chewing gum out of her dog’s hair. What’s with all these monophonic reissues? To a cynic it seems like it’s the well-orchestrated and profitable reissue of every single recording ever made in a unique mono mix. You’ve seen them poking out of record bins everywhere. They’re typically pressed on 180g vinyl, tucked gently into nice inner sleeves hidden within tip-on covers and created lovingly and painstakingly (note: these are words that usually mean “expensive”) using “the original mono mixes.” But are they better? Sometimes. Sometimes not. Sometimes they’re just different.

This next bit of quasi-intellectual, ponderous gibberish is purely subjective. More so than everything up to this point in this pointless essay. Back in the mid-1960s there were primarily three reasons for buying a mono recording when a stereo recording was also available: you had a hi-fi system with only one speaker (more common that you think), you were deaf in one ear like Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys (look it up) or you were a cheapskate (mono records cost about $1 less per album). Sometimes you were all three. Sad.

Why jump back to the mid-60s? Because that’s a period of time when record buyers had a real choice to make. In most cases you could amble into any record store in the world and buy a great sounding, thick pressing of your favorite record in mono or stereo. Sometimes fake stereo. More on that later. Before the mid-60s, stereo records were a bit of a crap-shoot if you were into rock, blues or jazz. They might sound goofy. With instruments and vocals haphazardly panned left or right. It took a while for engineers to figure out how to make the most of stereo, and at the same time artists were figuring out how they wanted their music to sound.

Classical music is a bit of an exception to this. Conventional wisdom is that stereo recordings of classical music tend to sound better earlier on. And as far as jazz goes, producers and engineers like Rudy Van Gelder, Orrin Keepnews, Creed Taylor and Teo Macero were also a bit of an exception. They got into stereo early on and figured out how to make stereo sound cool with very few microphones. You can read on and on about this (and should) from many sources that are far more expert on this topic than your lazy, stoop-shouldered author. 

Speaking of jazz, the jazzbos tend believe that mono is best no matter what. Original 1950s and early 60s pressings of anything on Blue Note, Prestige, Riverside, Impulse and Columbia are more valuable. And it’s true that these mono records often do sound best. To my ears they can sound louder, with clearer sounding instrumentation and, in the very best cases, the sound can seem to pounce out of the speakers. But how much better are they? I used to avoid stereo pressings of jazz records from the mid-60s and earlier. I was under the impression they were “fake stereo” created in dimly lit back rooms in order to jump on the stereo bandwagon. Some are. Some aren’t.

Let’s push on.

Stereo vs. mono. Which is best? It depends on the recording, the vinyl pressing and your personal taste. Sure, there are albums that everyone says are amazing in mono – the pre-1967 records by The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, etc. The list goes on and on. But there are recordings that sound more eventful and interesting in stereo (Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd comes to mind). Rock records released between 1967 and 1970 tend to be the ones that are far more subjective. And you’ll find plenty of beard-scratching know-it-alls with strident opinions who’ll tell you what to think. Some of these guys are right. But many of them also live in their divorced mom’s basement and only emerge from their listening lair to attend a record fair or to run out to buy mom a carton of Benson & Hedges cigarettes. Occasionally, they come upstairs to rub their mother’s bunions. 

People tend to crave the mono releases in part because they’re so rare. I know I’ve got my faves. I prefer the mono pressing of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles because (to me) it sounds more like a rock band and less like studio frippery. But the songs themselves are not that different. It’s not like hearing the record in mono for the first time could convince you that the stereo record you’ve been listening to your whole life sounds like a Jim Nabors Christmas album. Sometimes the performances are different or mixed peculiarly (the mono mixes of Don’t Pass Me By and Helter Skelter from the Beatles White Album come to mind).

For the purposes of this stupefyingly silly essay, I went back and did some side-by-side listening tests to confirm all my preconceived notions of what I like and don’t like in some hallmark recordings yanked from the overloaded racks in my fantastically disorganized music room. Stereo vs. mono. Which is it?

  The Who Sell Out (US mono reissue vs. Japanese stereo reissue):

From memory I thought I preferred the stereo pressing of this. Armenia City In The Sky is a fave of mine and I thought stereo was the only way to hear this tune. Wrong. Not by a crazy wide margin in my case but wrong still. The mono pressing sounded heavier and punchier yet still retained the fun frippery of the studio trickery baked into the tapes on this record. Mono wins. 

The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (Japanese stereo reissue vs. UK mono reissue):

I already tipped my hand on this one. As a kid I only heard the stereo copy. Loved it. No issues whatsoever. But, ever since hearing the mono copy of this record in college (several semesters ago) I became a monomaniac. Fact is, this might be the very first record where I became convinced of the majesty of mono. Mono wins.  

The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Are You Experienced” (Reissues of US stereo, US mono and British mono pressings):

Ok, read anything about this record and the experts will tell you the British mono pressing is the only one worthy of a spin on your turntable. I don’t own an original mono pressing. Who’s got that kind of dough or good fortune? I DO own a mono British reissue. A US mono reissue. A few stereo copies including a stereo reissue (the double LP Hendrix Family version) I used for this test for a couple reasons (it’s readily available at record stores and my copy was also readily available). To my ears the stereo copy is the clearest, coolest sounding and has effective panning and the sort of soundstage tomfoolery that makes stereo fun. To me it’s the best-est. Stereo wins.

Bob Dylan “Bringing It All Back Home” (US stereo original vs. US mono original):

Here’s another one that the professional listeners with hyper-tuned ears say should ONLY be heard in mono. I remembered liking the mono best years ago. Then I listened today. I compared a mono original to a stereo original. The mono copy was snagged by me only a couple years ago. It had been (mis)priced by someone at a national used bookstore chain. The price was too good to turn down and the record is so clean I sold my mono reissue. The stereo copy I got from my wife’s uncle who owned about 300 records. 290 of those were Irish music except for a few Greenwich Village favorites like Dylan, Baez, Seeger et.al. Despite being a well-loved copy with plenty of tiny hairline scratches and marks, I prefer the stereo copy. To my ears it’s the opposite of what I said about The Who Sell Out. In this case, I thought the stereo had more punch. Stereo wins.

Horace Silver “Blowin’ The Blues Away” (US mono original vs. US stereo reissue):

Ok, one of these is a pricey collectible and the other isn’t. Bet you can guess which is which. I fully expected the expensive mono original pressing to blow away the 70s “black b” pressing. And it is better. Louder. Hotter sounding instruments. In some cases Blue Mitchell’s trumpet is positively piercing. Right up into the red in the mix (God bless Rudy Van Gelder). Same way with Junior Cook’s sax. But, the stereo reissue from the 70s is not bad at all. Nice and punchy. It’s a real stereo recording too. Nothing fake about it. Rudy Van Gelder recorded this session in stereo and mono in 1959 and he’s one of the few cats who knew what he was doing in the late 50s. Make no mistake, the mono is better. But if I found these two records cozied up together in a bin at my local record shop and the mono OG was $150 and the stereo reissue was $10 I’d buy the stereo copy in a heartbeat and spend the rest of the money on elocution lessons so I could sound smarter. Mono wins.

Note: I’ve found that most of these “black b” Blue Notes sound pretty good. I also love corduroy and canned beer so take that with a grain of salt.

Bottom line? It turns out the ears are the best test. Do YOU like how the record sounds? That’s what matters most. I prefer some mono records and some stereo pressings. I’ve even dabbled in fake stereo from time to time. I happen to love some records that have been “electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo.” After all, in many ways, life is a simulation. I can’t say I love tons of fake stereo records but I do love a few. In fact there are a few country music titles that fall into this sadly maligned category that I hold dear to my heart.

Here’s the insidious thing. Record collectors often have mono and stereo copies of their favorites. Sometimes the really sick bastards have multiple copies of pressings from all over the world. These people should be celebrated or pilloried. I’m not sure which. Perhaps a little bit of both?

Records. In the end I feel like we’re living and breathing in the promises and perils of records at the same time. Plumbing the depths of the dollar bin and scaling the heights of a pricey wall of record store collectibles. Sometimes on one dirty, dimly lit Saturday afternoon. And I loathe hyperbole. Sort of. 

Mono. Stereo. Both. Indeed.

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send us to perfect places

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by nap_princess

And he laughs, maybe to get on her good side. Maybe so she's comfortable to let him know what she has and what she lacks. He's clever, he knows what to talk about and what not to

– HansElsa(-ish), modern AU

Words: 12463, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of I love crazy

Fandoms: Frozen (2013), Disney - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, Gen

Characters: Elsa (Disney), Hans (Disney), Anna (Disney), Charlotte La Bouff, Merida (Disney), Ariel (Disney), Hercules (Disney), King of Arendelle (Disney)

Relationships: Elsa/Hans (Disney)

Additional Tags: Modern AU, I know what the summary sounds like but I write tragedies not sins, fever-me wants to talk about tradition and money and the environment, I can't explain myself, my fever brain is like 'speak even if you make no sense' and I’m doing that, sprinkles angst on fic like that salt meme, Angst, I wrote this fic for me but y'all can read it if you want, everyone. needs. therapy, Vroom vroom bitch, Car-owning Hans is my aesthetic, Lottie is a Disney princess and you can't change my mind, Rain, Trees, I'm ... sorry?, Adult fiction be like 'im bored let's get divorced!', Man I really like the word 'really' in this fic, Arranged (read as 'forced') marriage AU, Bad Ending, Oh and im jumping on the bandwagon that Adgarr is a bad dad

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[thesportssoundoff]

“A welterweight main event pitting a big 170-er against a 155er that actually makes sense” UFC Fight Night In London Preview

Joey

March 13th

WHEW! The UFC often is very hit or miss when it runs a show in England as evidenced by some real clunkers (the Corey Anderson vs Jimi Manuwa card) and some really damn good shows (Bisping vs Akiyama, Bisping vs Anderson) and mostly a ton of soft stuff in the middle. This journey to London is actually really deep if somewhat light on name value. Granted the idea of seeing a guy who headlined a PPV (Darren Till) vs a 10+ year veteran of the sport who happens to also be popular (Masvidal) is a solid headliner but the rest of the show is really just a bunch of damn good well put together fights. Volkan Oezdemir tries to snap a two fight losing skid vs LHW's most well rounded prospect in Dominick Reyes, Gunnar Nelson vs Leon Edwards is a FANTASTIC fight with a slight snoozer potential behind it, Nate Wood vs Teco Quinones is a fantastic bantamweight tilt and the prelims are loaded with good fights like Tom Breese vs Ian Heinisch, Dan Ige vs Danny Henry, the debut of well known prospect Mike Grundy and the return of Arnold Allen.  An early start time + a lack of superstars means you'll probably forget about this one before the weekend is through BUT I can think of worse ways to kill a Saturday morning.

Fights: 13

Debuts: Nicolae Negumereanu, Mike Grundy

Fight Changes/Injury Cancellations: 3 (Alessio Di Chirico OUT, Cezar Ferreira IN vs Tom Breese/Carlos Diego Ferreira OUT, Ian Heinisch IN vs Tom Breese/Gokhan Saki OUT, Nicolae Negumereanu IN vs Saparbek Safarov)

Headliners (fighters who have either main evented or co-main evented shows in the UFC): 6 (Darren Till, Jorge Masvidal, Gunnar Nelson, Leon Edwards, Volkan Oezdemir, Priscila Cachoeira)

Fighters On Losing Streaks in the UFC: 6 (Jorge Masvidal, John Phillips, Jack Marshmann,  Volkan Oezdemir, Marc Diakiese, Saparbek Sarafov)

Fighters On Winning Streaks in the UFC: 9 (Dan Ige, Danny Henry, Leon Edwards, Dominick Reyes, Jose Teco Quniones, Nathaniel Wood, Danny Roberts, Claudio Silva, Arnold Allen)

Main Card Record Since Jan 1st 2017 (in the UFC): 27-12

Darren Till- 4-1 Jorge Masvidal- 1-2 Gunnar Nelson- 2-1 Leon Edwards- 4-0 Volkan Oezdemir- 3-2 Dominick Reyes- 4-0 Nathaniel Wood- 2-0 Jose Quinonez- 2-0 Claudio Silva- 1-0 Danny Roberts- 3-1 Jack Marshman- 1-3 John Phillips- 0-2

Fights By Weight Class (yearly number here):

Welterweight- 3 (18) Featherweight- 3 (11) Middleweight- 2 (7) Light Heavyweight- 2 (10) Lightweight-  1 (15) Bantamweight- 1 (13) Women’s Flyweight- 1 (8)

Heavyweight- (7) Women’s Bantamweight- (2) Women’s Strawweight- (6) Flyweight- (4)

2019’s Records We Keepin Track Of:

Debuting Fighters (6-13): Nicolae Negumereanu, Mike Grundy

Short Notice Fighters (6-5): Nicolae Negumereanu, Ian Heinisch

Second Fight (18-5):  Ian Heinisch

Cage Corrosion (Fighters who have not fought within a year of the date of the fight) (5-8): Priscila Cachoeira, Jorge Masvidal, Saparbek Sarafov, Joseph Duffy, Jose Quinones

Undefeated Fighters (7-8): Nick Negumereanu, Dominick Reyes

Fighters with at least four fights in the UFC with 0 wins over competition still in the organization (4-4): Jack Marshman, Joe Duffy

Weight Class Jumpers (Fighters competing outside of the weight class of their last fight even if they’re returning BACK to their “normal weight class”) (7-5):

Twelve Precarious Ponderings

1- This main event is tricky and I'm wondering if the UFC are maybe expecting a bit too much from Darren Till. Till's 2018 was complicated; he struggled with a weight cut in a spotlight show designed to make him into a big star, beat Wonderboy in a very close fight and then made a quick-ish turnaround to fight Woodley in September, getting smelted in the process.  Till has said all of the right things, he did wind up jumping back in at welterweight (after talking about middleweight) and he's fighting a guy who you have to be REALLY special to make look bad. Masvidal is the king of the close decisions and while he's taking yet another road game fight, he's fighting a guy who is prone to lapses in activity who also is coming off his first career loss and in dominating fashion. Stylistically Till should be able to do whatever he wishes against a bloated 155er coming off a 15 month layoff but I think Masvidal is a more than live dog here. There's also a damn good chance this doesn't happen because Till whiffs on weight and comes in at like 174 and Masvidal passes.

2- So we're 100% sure that Askren vs Till is next if Darren wins, right?

3- Often times I'm reminded of an important quote in sports twitter when it comes to prospects. It has many variations but the most common prospect joke is "Learn 'em on Friday, fall in love by Saturday and ready to divorce them by Monday." MMA prospecthood is often a journey of learning, falling in love, violently falling out of love at the first sign of trouble then getting to say "I was in all along!" if it ends positively. It feels like Dom Reyes is currently somewhere between Saturday and Monday. Dominick Reyes has had rarely any trouble in his stroll through the undercurrent of 205 lbs, walking through the likes of Jared Cannonier and Jeremy Kimball before getting a big test in OSP. He pretty much dominated the fight although he couldn't leave with the finish (essentially robbed from a magnificent buzzer beater). Fans aren't judging Reyes by whether or not he can be a sizable contributor to the middle of the division, they're judging by him by whether or not he can beat Jon Jones. As such, there are some folks who think he's going to be amazing and some off the bandwagon entirely. The journey is dependent on what you seek. He gets Volkan Oezdemir in what is the next major test.

4- Why is Jack Marshman vs John Phillips on this main card? I mean I know all of these fights are on the same network and nothing matters but come on now.

5- If I told you that Claudio Silva was undefeated in the UFC spanning nearly five years now, would you even believe me?

6- Leon Edwards is one of those dudes who seems sort of stuck in no man's land at 170 lbs. He isn't a violent finisher, he's not a big talker and he's not a guy who is going to draw a ton of attention in any sort of a fixed market. As such, he's just running through a lot of guys and not getting anywhere a la Santiago Ponzinibbio minus the Ponz finishes. As such, this Nelson fight is BIG for him. Gunnar still has plenty of clout at 170 lbs and while Edwards SHOULD in theory be bigger by virtue of beating Cowboy Cerrone, that fight took place at 6 AM on Fight Pass which is pretty much like running your show on incognito mode. Gunnar is also a really odd stylistic match up for Nelson; the kind of guy he hasn't struggled with in the past but the sort of athlete he hasn't had to face in a run with dudes like Peter Sobotta and Bryan Barberena. It's a risky venture either way for two very good fighters.

7- Even though she lost in her debut, I'm not giving up on Molly McCann. She missed weight and was in her debut which are normally two tough factors to overcome. Keep an eye on her on the prelims.

8- Jose Quinones vs Nate Wood is going to be a ton of fun as Quinones is activity and accuracy over power and pacing while Wood is all pacing, incredibly active with his hands and developing even more of a ground game. This one has some spoiler-ish tendencies to it with Quinones a more than live dog in my estimation.

9- This show feels so naked without a HW fight. Like why even have a show?

10- If Saparbek Safarov can not beat a Romanian can crusher on like two weeks notice then I honestly don't know what you do with the dude.

11- Ian Heinisch vs Tom Breese is a great fight that has some snoozer potential. Heinisch cut his teeth in LFA (and the DWCTS) before upsetting Cezar Mutante in his debut and Tom Breese was a good WW prospect who has all the potential in the world at 185 lbs. Keep a real close eye on this one.

12- Are we going to FINALLY find out the elusive 5th main card fight for UFC 236?

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