#penny stv

[roomtemperatehumor]

My girlies. My beautiful girlies

Not my art

SOURCE: https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/agmvk4/bachelors_bachelorettes/

[its-a-hare-pom-pom]

Omg I’ve finally moved on from my Simpsons hyperfixation and am now in a Stardew Valley hyperfixation. It’s a good thing the characters are so different. Oh wait…

[norwegika]

Stardew valley rant:

I’ve recently been really getting into the life of spouses after you marry them, because for the majority of them, they kinda just stick at home, occasionally visiting family or friends. And those who do still do stuff, it never changes. Maru always works with Harvey at the clinic, Emily always works for Gus at the saloon, nothing really changes in their lives besides a new, much more sedentary lifestyle. I really would like for the spouses to get new hobbies and stuff when they marry you, so here’s my little ideas/headcannons, bachelorettes first!

Abigail: She begins to work on her adventuring skills in the mines and you’ll find her on every fifth floor, going further and further. She’ll give you gems from her travels, and eventually, when she reaches the bottom of the mines, she’ll start going to the skull caverns where she’ll give you iridium and the occasional prismatic shard. Something cool that could happen would be the addiction of an elevator to the skull caverns as she travels further down, every 25 floors. She would also become a member of the adventurer’s guild and serve as Marlon’s apprentice, taking over the guild on some days or opening a branch in the Calico desert that she mans sometimes.

Maru: Maru never really branches out beyond her personal inventions, so I think there could be a quest where she asks you for a new wing of the house that she could use as a workshop. This wing would be constructed by Robin, would be unlocked at 20 hearts, and would cost 750,000 gold, 250 hardwood, 10 iridium bars and 10 battery packs. Then, you could accept quests from Maru every once in a while and unlock new inventions that she made that would increase qol. Maybe she could give you a crafting recipe for auto-petters, she could make a device that automatically plants grass in meadows for your animals, a machine that can increase the quality of items by using a resource or something, the possibilities are endless!

Penny; Penny is always caring for the children of the valley, and I think it would be great if when you marry her, like Maru, you eventually get a quest that allows you to build a school for the kids, possibly utilizing the space to the left of the community center. Maybe then we could have another mini-festival where you can see the children of stardew valley show off their work, maybe unlock a “Talent Show” cutscene where Jas, Vincent, and Leo show off their skills fr. This idea is more underwhelming than my first two and could definitely be improved.

Emily: I think as you progress your post marital relationship with Emily you could help her convince Sandy to move to the valley and have someone else take over the Oasis, learning Sandy’s real name, unlocking special cutscenes with her, etc. I also feel like Emily would have a little workshop where she makes clothes and you could unlock a system where she takes your gems and a clothing item and combines them, giving your clothes a buff, like combining Topaz with a shirt gave the shirt a +1 defense buff, etc. Emily could even start a clothing line and you could gift these clothes to townspeople and get new sprites and portraits for them :D

Haley: After marriage, Haley does literally nothing but see Emily once a week. This needdsss to change, so I think she could discover her passion for photography again and start a blog about the valley, which would unlock a building to the right side of the Bus Stop: the Tourist Center. You could open a tourist center with Haley and occasionally get tourists that come to the valley, similar to the tourists at the Stardew Valley Fair. These tourists could roam around the town for a bit, and you could unlock new dialogue with the townspeople about the tourists, like “These tourists are really boosting the community economy!”

(Cc specific) Leah: Leah would start hosting art classes in the community center every Wednesday! Every month, the group of people who decided to attend could make a new painting that could be hung up in the community center, orrrr you could unlock a new building between the Blacksmith and the Movie Theater/JojaMart, where you could see the different art pieces and could have a new festival, the stardew valley fine arts conference, where the Famous Painter Lupini could host a talk with the artsy people from the valley and Zuzu City, and you could get new clothing items, a cutscene, dialogue, new paintings and sculptures, etc.

I hope you liked my insane Stardew valley yapping session, I’ll do bachelors tomorrow probably :3

[three-penguins-in-a-trench-coat]

Ranking Stardew NPCs by how likely they are to commit a felony

The Dwarf. Upon entering custody of the CIA, his only public statement was “It was just a prank bro.”

Sandy. She definitely has a shady past, why else would she change her name and work in the desert? My bet is she killed 14 men and was a professional con artist.

Morris. Profits is profits. If he has to enslave a work force to get that bigger payday, there is nothing stopping him.

Leo. Doesn’t know what laws are, would commit grand larceny on a regular occurrence.

Mr Qi. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing for the right reason. He would know what those reasons are, but no one else would.

Shane. If his alcoholism went any further, then perhaps something may have gone wrong. He would regret it immensely, but it doesn’t change the fact that it happened

Kent. He would do anything to protect his family.

Maru. Experiment gone wrong. Dozens wounded, possible fatalities.

Clint. 20 dollars is 20 dollars

Haley. Does being an asshole count?

Marnie. I think she would rather take her own life than hurt someone else's

Penny. Penny would never commit a crime. She wouldn’t take a dollar if it was laying on the ground.

[elliotts-pocket-crab]

Hear me out about this rarepair

Penny and Sebastian could be interesting. Seb seems to like a girl who'll sit in comfortable silence with him while he works, and penny seems to crave family togetherness, something seb pretty much has, whether or not his family has problems they still come together at the end of the day.

[omalahsocs]

It's so pretty and dumb but I'm tempted to romance Penny in STV and then refuse to have kids anytime she asks about it.

[phoenixmaiden-gaming]

I went to the Director’s Office to see what Clavell wanted. He just thanked me for my help in finding out more on Team Star. While I was there, Penny arrived and she agreed to work on the STVs with the rest of Team Star. Clavell was glad to hear it.

[cl0wn---cat]

My opinion on stardew valley bachelorette's

Abigail

Rock muncher

She probably has a few fake teeth bc of eating gems and chipping them so badly

I thought her name was aubrey for like 3 months, I blame omori

I love her hair so much istg

She likes amethyst so I she has no flaws

Will be my wife

Emily

At first I didn't like her but I changed my mind

Mostly out of pity

I just know Haley is mean to her for her interests

Cute

Probably made everyone in towns clothes

I really like her

Haley

Drop dead gorgeous

But I don't care because she hurt my feelings :(

I greeted her after moving in and she insulted me

Like ma’am my grandpas dead and I just moved leave me alone

Angers me

Leah

MARRY ME RN

Excuse me, but she is perfect

There is nothing bad to say about her

So nice

She's probably got very strong arms

She and elliot always arm wrestle, she will always win

I love her

Maru

I don't know much about her

Ik she makes like- machines?? 

She seems really nice

She helps at the clinic but I hardly ever see her there

I feel completely neutral towards her

Penny

Kind basic but in a good way

SO SWEET AAAAHH

Would give me book recommendations so I automatically like her

I just know she loves cheesy romance novels

10/10 wonderful 

[mikeyfuckinway]

[choco-minto]

I wanted a new mug for myself! It took me SO LONG to finish it...partly because I had to keep the game open for reference and I kept playing instead of finishing the drawing lol XD

Available on RB and S6 

[moved2radiationvibe]

top 3 favourite and least favourite stv character?

fav: SAM, penny, krobus

least fav: sebastian, pierre, and clint

[mothsoda]

🎵STV Penny

Wearing our vintage misery

No, I think it looked a little better on me

I'm gonna change you like a remix

Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

[shadyfacewolf]

Dipper Pines y Jake el perro (c) Alex Hirsch y Disney,el otro es propiedad de Pendleton Ward y Cartoon Network 

Penny Fitzgerard,Masami y Darwin Watterson (c) Ben Bocquelet y Cartoon Network

Krypto,el súperperro (c) Warner Bros

Star Butterfly en otro diseño (c) Daron Nefcy y Disney

Mushi Kiut,la hermana de Kuki Kiut (Número 3) (c) Tom Warburton y Cartoon Network

Billy O´Toole (en nuestro doblaje latinoamericano es Pepe) de la escuela del rino volador (c) Ray Nelson,Douglas Kelly, Nelvana y STV Productions 

Tía Grandma y Morbidia (las dos chicas que son de Tío Grandpa y Magiespadas son propiedad de Cartoon Network)

Miffy (c) Dick Bruna

Amy Gillis (debe ser la novia de Clarence) (c) Skyler Page y Cartoon Network

Penny de la peli Las aventuras de Peabody y Sherman (c) 20th Century Fox y Dreamworks

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

LGB ALLIANCE SUMMER NEWSLETTER

LGB Alliance only started up in October 2019. We hope you agree we’ve played our own small part in helping to change the terms of the debate in the UK and elsewhere about sex and gender, gender identity, and the threat to LGB rights and to women.

We’re so grateful to everyone who follows us on Twitter and Facebook. We know that social media isn’t where this debate will be won. We’ll only win the debate if we all take the points we make and share on social media, the arguments we construct, the information we try to highlight and present them to our families and friends, to work colleagues and our schools, as well as the other institutions that have been captured or are in the process of being captured by … our good friends the trans lobby.

A special word of thanks must go to our donors. We are an organisation of volunteers. None of us get paid and we are determined to put every penny to good use.

You probably know already that we also have a shop selling a veritable array of customised must-have summer items – V necks, T-shirts, pens, mugs, bags – oh and beanies and hoodies for chilly evenings. https://lgballiance.org.uk/shop/

Check it out and please post photos of you wearing any of the stuff on our Twitter or FB pages.

Here is lifelong LGB campaigner (present at the Stonewall riots) Fred Sargeant being out and proud.

So, what’s been keeping us busy? First, we were delighted if a little overwhelmed by the enormous interest in LGB Alliance soon after the first meeting – both positive and negative responses poured in. As far as we know, we are the only LGB group in the world to push back against gender identity theory, and the lines were drawn almost straight away.

Allison Bailey, who has now publicised her case suing Stonewall, and Paul Twocock, then acting CEO of Stonewall, sent us into the Twittersphere. First Allison Bailey and the tweet that launched us in a good way: This led to a report in the Telegraph, 23 October 2019:

“Europe’s biggest LGBT rights organisation has split after being accused of promoting a ‘trans agenda’ at the expense of gay and lesbian rights.”

Then, Paul Twocock, acting CEO of Stonewall, responded by tweeting out the same day, 23 October 2019: “There is no truth to reports of Stonewall ‘splitting’, so please ignore the alarmist headlines.”

It was kind of Paul Twocock to alert Stonewall’s 200k Twitter followers to our existence. The reaction was immediate and global. On the one hand, we were showered with messages expressing enormous relief and support: “Finally you are here!” “Please help us in Canada!” “When are you setting up in Australia?” “Your organisation is so necessary!”. On the other hand, some people thought our mere name expressed hostility and set about defaming us rather than listening to our message and engage with us.

We have tried to strike a balance between pursuing our goals and taking action against those who defame us and try to bring us down.

However many times we explain that we are not anti-trans, that we believe it has become necessary to form a group specifically around sexual orientation, the concerted efforts to misrepresent us and stop our work have continued

Organisation

After the initial wave of attention and enthusiasm, the challenge was to organise ourselves quickly. LGB Alliance had only been our working title – but suddenly we were in the public arena and the name stuck.

Our two founders Kate Harris and Bev Jackson asked five strong people to join them in a steering group. The seven of us (majority lesbian) come from very different backgrounds but we soon forged a unified and effective group. We registered as a limited company, hired a brilliant designer for our logo, GIFs and other visuals, and set up a JustGiving page (yes…THAT JustGiving page)

Messages

We then set about communicating our message. Over just a few months we found ourselves name-checked in numerous pieces by major journalists from Janice Turner (the Times), James Kirkup (the Spectator) and Gina Davidson (in the Scotsman).

Here’s the Janice Turner piece:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stonewall-has-lost-its-way-on-the-trans-issue-hd3lw08wb?shareToken=0bdb8271417eadb4f00919a4c1c87cf9&fbclid=IwAR1Bq_52hTQ-nz0p_RTfl1QpgqGU1vGVjWfYW8e3zeLDJVRgbI8PcbYTXA

Funding

JustGiving was our only source of funding until it was taken down in May after several thousands of pounds were donated in the name of John Nicolson MP, who has taken a mysterious dislike to us. Now we can accept donations via our website. Once we gain charitable status we will start to apply for grants from charitable foundations.

Press, radio & TV

Our campaign against the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland helped break down barriers. As a leading force in the opposition to the Bill, we were harder for the press to ignore. We were quoted in everything from the Sun and the Herald in Scotland to the Guardian (in the latter case we should say misquoted since our activities prompted one of many outbursts by the Guardian columnist Owen Jones). We were interviewed on TV on both STV (the Nine) and the BBC’s Daily Politics. We broke radio too with an interview Kate Harris did on the Jeremy Vine show (one of Radio 2’s highest rated shows) and one Malcolm Clark did on BBC Radio Scotland’s John Beattie show.

Our most recent radio interview was with Bev Jackson on Talk Radio. You can hear it on our YouTube channel.

Twitter and YouTube channel

We have focused a lot of effort on how to get our message out on social media. We started with Twitter, where we tried to develop and cultivate a brand of reasonable messaging largely led by Bev Jackson: never personal, never abusive, always reaching out and seeking dialogue. Thanks to all of you we now have almost 27k followers – a fantastic result.

Later we set up our website and Facebook page, and a YouTube channel on which we started recording interviews with historical LGB rights activists.

Allison Bailey, Kate Harris and Bev Jackson gave several talks in addition to those at our Glasgow launch in January: Allison introduced the WPUK event “A Woman’s Place is at the Lectern” and chaired the panel of leading female academics. She also spoke at the Hackney Resisters event “Women & Girls Under Attack”. Kate spoke on “Stonewall Law” at the “Make More Noise” event in Manchester and Bev at the London event “Defend Us or Expel Us” just before the lockdown. All these talks are either on our YouTube channel or are available through a link to our favourites there

Defamation and sabotage

From the first day, we set up, fake Twitter accounts and web domains were set up to impersonate us and mislead our followers. We reported them and received a Nominet ruling against a mischief-maker in March 2020. Some of the domains were linked to Stonewall. Eventually, after we sent a warning letter to Stonewall about accepting this unlawfully redirected traffic, Stonewall stopped accepting this redirection.

LGB History

Like all of you, we are tired of our history being rewritten. We are particularly glad that we have the ongoing support of Fred Sargeant and other pioneers of the LGB movement in the US. Have a look at Bev’s interviews with Fred and with Martha Shelley on our YouTube channel. And there’s another one with Allison Bailey interviewing the British lesbian champion Linda Bellos.

Pink News

Early on, Kate Harris gave an interview to Pink News, which then misrepresented her words and defamed us. Since then we have declined every request to give comments to Pink News, which has escalated its campaign of lies about us. Hilariously, now every time they attack us they seem to fall over themselves or come a cropper. Maybe they’re getting desperate.

Application for charitable status

This has been a long process – made longer by a serial petitioner posting a petition full of defamatory lies set up with the intention of trying to block our application for charitable status.

Despite this, we are confident that we will become a charity in the next month or two.

When LGB Alliance is a charity

Once LGB Alliance is a charity, we will appoint head-hunters to seek LGB trustees representing protected characteristics in the Equality Act and all areas of the UK. The job descriptions will be written to ensure that we have a full range of qualified individuals to run the organisation and its campaigning work.

Labour Party

During the leadership campaign, we saw one of the most bizarre examples of prejudice against us. It is said that some candidates now regret this, but at the time Lisa Nandy, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Dawn Butler and Angela Rayner all endorsed a “trans rights pledge” describing us as a hate group. None of them has apologised or responded to our requests for a meeting.

No Labour party MP or Peer has agreed to meet us despite our requests.

Conservative Party

We’ve had more luck with the Conservatives both in the Commons and the Lords. We feel certain our influence and our arguments are finally beginning to percolate into the corridors of power. But this is just a start.

Allison Bailey

There were also shocking personal attacks, especially on Allison Bailey, who, as one of our most outspoken representatives and as a barrister, was in a particularly vulnerable position. As you probably know, Allison is now suing Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers. See @BluskyeAllison

Police

We met with senior Met officers to highlight the common misinterpretation of the Equality Act by the police and the peculiar LGBT activism of groups within the police force, which focus on protecting trans rights at the expense of the rights of lesbians and women in general. We are meeting DCC Julie Cooke, the national police lead on LGBT matters at the end of July for further discussion.

EHRC

We submitted a detailed complaint to the EHRC arguing that Stonewall is in breach of the 2010 Equality Act and will be following this up in due course. A copy has been forwarded to Liz Truss via Baroness Nicholson.

FOUR GOALS FOR 2020

Press Pause on Gender Recognition Reform Bill Scotland

Stopping the teaching of gender identity in schools

Get fair representation in all government discussions on LGB issues

Highlight the dangers of medicalising “gender non-conforming” children

GOAL 1 Press Pause on Gender Recognition Reform Bill Scotland – success!

In December 2019 the Scottish government introduced its Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which would have introduced gender self-ID in Scotland. We turned all our attention to raising public awareness of the damaging consequences of self-ID to the rights of women and LGB people.

We organised a coordinated programme of events, ads, interviews and lobbying of Scottish parliamentarians under a campaign logo of “Press Pause” on this Bill. The idea was that the bill was too dangerous to rush through and lawmakers would need to think again.

The campaign kicked off with the launch of the LGB Alliance Scotland at Oran Mor, Glasgow, in January with over 150 people hearing speakers ranging from our supporter Simon Fanshawe to a range of feminist organisations and our own Rhona Hotchkiss and Malcolm Clark as well as Kate and Bev.

We took out a number of full-page ads in Scotland’s opinion-forming papers, the Herald and Scotsman in our trademark powerful graphic style and branding. These instantly became the subject of heated debate, raising public awareness, not least among our opponents, a motley crew of well-funded LGBTQ+ organisations and B-list celebrities, who were so incensed they complained to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaints were roundly rejected, which gave us absolutely no satisfaction. At. All…

As part of the campaign, we presented evidence at a major seminar at Holyrood on the dangers of reducing the age of consent for a Gender Recognition Certificate from 18 to 16 (one of the provisions in the proposed reform) as well as the dangerous practice of treating children with puberty blockers. Many Scottish parliamentarians attended and expressed dismay that they had not heard this side of the argument before (something we hear almost every time we do get to speak)

Eventually the Bill had to be shelved: partly due to rising dissent among SNP members sparked by the increasingly negative press, partly due to the efforts of LGB Alliance and women’s groups in Scotland). COVID-19 also meant there would be less parliamentary time to devote to such a controversial bill.

GOAL 2. Stopping the teaching of gender identity in schools – postpone introduction of Stonewall’s “Creating an LGBT-inclusive primary curriculum” and other resources for relationship and sex education (RSE) – work in progress

We are very busy lobbying to stop some weird stuff going on in schools. First, we want the doctrine that there are over 100 “genders”, as taught by the BBC no less, in its so-called education programme for KS2 (age 7 to 11), to be taken down. Who is teaching this stuff and why is it being allowed? Second, we want to stop the introduction of the “LGBT-inclusive primary school curriculum”, written by Stonewall. Despite its pleasant-sounding name, it is a doctrinal curriculum that teaches young children that everyone has a gender identity and that kids who do not conform to gender stereotypes may have been born in the wrong body. It clearly needs to be replaced by a more sensible LGB curriculum, and that is what we are seeking to achieve. Third, we want to stop a whole series of groups going into schools and filling kids’ heads with nonsense. If a little boy comes home in floods of tears because he’s a bit “girlish” and thinks that he is suddenly going to change into a girl – just one of the stories that we heard – something has gone seriously wrong

In later editions, the Government Equalities Office logo no longer appears on the cover

Our campaign is underway right now. We started with an article in the Daily Mail by Andrew Pierce. We wanted to move outside the Twittersphere, and the Mail is now the UK’s top selling paper. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8457587/One-four-parents-aware-controversial-curriculum-11s-emphasising-transgender-rights.html

If all goes to plan, we will be following with a half-page ad drawing attention to what is going on. We will then ask all of you to write letters, tweet, ring up radio shows and generally lobby for the use of these resources to be suspended (some are already in use) while the Department for Education conducts a thorough review of curricula and materials put out by groups like Stonewall, Gendered Intelligence, the Proud Trust and others. We believe their materials encourage gender stereotypes and cause confusion in children from age five and up. No child should be given the idea that he or she may have been “born in the wrong body”.

GOAL 3 Get fair representation in all government discussions on LGB issues – work in progress

The great news is that we have been invited to have a call with Kemi Badenoch, Minister for Equalities next week. We have several discussion points for her, including our request for all government departments and the EHRC to ensure the correct use of the words sex and gender.

We are working to achieve representation in every institution that is involved in decision-making about LGB issues: we have applied to alter the composition of the so-called “LGBT panel” at the GEO, which consists solely of people who believe in gender identity

GOAL 4 Highlight the dangers of medicalising “gender non-conforming” children – work in progress

Following the 18 June exposé of the culture of “transing away the gay” at the Tavistock GIDS Gender Clinic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTRnrp9pXHY

LGB Alliance has written to Nadine Dorries, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Mental Health and Inequalities). We are asking for a full inquiry into what is happening under the current leadership of the Tavistock GIDS.

In addition, we are working with some former GIDS mental health clinicians and other professionals to draw up a recommendation for a new NHS funded service for detransitioners.

There are many other areas on which to update you but that’s it for now. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all for your support – you give us the energy to keep going. Follow us on @AllianceLGB for all the breaking news.

We hope you all have a safe and healthy summer.

Best wishes from Kate Harris and Bev Jackson and the entire team at LGB Alliance

[I AM NOT ASSOCIATED WITH OR REPRESENTING THE LGB ALLIANCE]

[kwebtv]

Life Begins  -  ITV STV UTV -  February 16, 2004 - October 9, 2006

Drama (19 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Caroline Quentin as Maggie Mee

Alexander Armstrong as Phil Mee

Elliot Henderson-Boyle as James Mee

Ace Ryan as Rebecca Mee

Anne Reid as Brenda Thornhill

Frank Finlay as Eric Thornhill

Claire Skinner as Clare

Stuart McQuarrie as Guy

Ellie Haddington as Kathleen

Sarah Ozeke as Karen

Beans El-Balawi as Freddie

Roy Dotrice as Frank

Alan Williams as George

Naomi Allis Stone as Anna

Nicholas Boulton as Kieron

Chloe Howman as Helen

Paul Thornley as Jeff

Danny Webb as Paul

Abby Ford as Samantha

Michelle Holmes as Genevieve

Finlay Robertson as Kevin

David Westhead as Brian

Suzanne Burden as Penny

Laura Patch as Tina

Alexandra Gilbreath as Mia

Matthew Cottle as Nick

Jon Newman –as Simon

Lewis Rose as Tom

Kelly Hunter as Mrs Lane

[peakindie-blog]

AnCo Were Both Worse and Better Than We Remember

Animal Collective was one of those bands that you had to like. You HAD to. You were not “into indie music” if you didn’t swear by Feels, if you didn’t obnoxiously lecture people about how Sung Tongs was actually a far superior album to Merriweather Post Pavillion (it isn’t), or if you hadn’t ever seen them live on 4 different drugs then you were a poser. But were they actually good? Well, yes, obviously. Were they the band that the music journalists wanted them to be, the new mixture of The Beatles/Beach Boys/Jesus that they sometimes made AnCo out to be? Read on to find out! (Or don’t. The answer is no)

Relistening to Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished, I was struck at how Animal Collective managed to break through with this release of all releases. Opening with genuinely one of the worst things ever classified as “music”, “Spirit They’ve Vanished” is one of the few songs I know that physically cause you pain. It’s not the lyrics, but rather an ear-piercing tone that they are generous enough to have throughout the entire song. One of the greatest indie bands of the Aughts opens their career with an actual, unlistenable song. I understand that there are edits of the song to make it not be painful, but I wouldn’t know. I’ve accepted that I will never hear “Spirit They’ve Vanished”.

Of course, after that song they hit their stride and, if you skip that first track, you’re rewarded with a string of largely enjoyable music. I say largely, because they (they being Avey Tare and Panda Bear, the Only Good Parts of Animal Collective) still apparently believed in the “painful tones make your music experimental” school of indie music, and the squelches and burps on “Untitled” and the once-again-painful “Alvin Row” may make you hit that skip button. But each time your ears cry out “enjoy your tinnitus, moron” you keep listening because there are moments that actually rank among AnCo’s best. “Penny Dreadfuls” through “Someday I’ll Grow...” is more or less all lovely, and, in retrospect, much more conventional than it was probably given credit for.

Then, “Alvin Row”. Once again, they decide to break your ears with tones of noise that should be permanently banned from music in general. But... then it opens up. And gets better, and better, and better. And I think it’s a perfect summary of where Animal Collective started: songs that are largely lovely, inventive, and beautiful, mixed with garish noise specifically designed to annoy. No, STG, STV isn’t a masterpiece, and no, it isn’t a disaster. It is an early portrait of a band that would go on to veer wildly back and forth between beauty and noise with varying results for years to come.

Also, an important note: no one likes Animal Collective when people other than Avey Tare and Panda Bear are involved, and you need to stop trying so hard if you’re the kind of person who “gets” Deakin or Geologist. Nah, you don’t, poser.