#rm annotations

[stranger-rants]

Runaway Max Annotation Series

This is part of a series I am doing on Runaway Max by Brenna Yovanoff. To see previous posts including the annotation guide, check the [#rm annotations] tag on my blog. These posts will follow the general formula of summary, annotations, quotes, and any thoughts or analysis I want to provide based on my own interpretation of the text. You can use my posts as references in fandom discussions.

Runaway Max Chapter Two

Max and Billy experience their first day of school. Max talks about her life back in San Diego, and why she tried to run away to L.A. to be with her dad.

Annotations:

1) Background

Their first day of school was "a Tuesday, more than a month after school already started," which means they started school mid-October. Max had friends in San Diego named Ben, Eddie, and Nate. She didn't have female friends.

2) Family Context

Max ran away to stay with her dad in L.A. after she had been told that they were moving to Hawkins. Susan views her ex-husband as wasting his smarts on irresponsible things and inconsistent work. He did some illegal jobs here and there, and he lives in a dingy apartment.

3) Unreliable Statements / Limited P.O.V.

Max says that she thinks having Billy around is making Susan crazy, but there's little to no context explaining why she thinks this. Susan is getting them ready for school, and Billy doesn't say or do much of anything to combat this.

4) Evidence of Abuse / Neglect

Neil is the one making them move. Max thinks that Susan is just going along with it. Max's father is not a responsible parent. He is often late in picking her up and frequently falls asleep in front of the T.V. Susan doesn't trust him to take care of Max, which begs the question - why would she trust Billy to take care of Max?

6) Max & Billy Relationship

There isn't much antagonism between them in this chapter which is odd given the supposed circumstances that lead to the move not yet revealed or even hinted at early in the novel. Instead, there is an attempt at solidarity in being pissed off about the move - Billy says Hawkins sucks and says, "I bet you're already planning your next jailbreak right?"

7) Valuable Insights

Susan and Max disagree greatly on how a young girl should dress and act.

8) Billy's Characterization

Billy is enraged by the move. Max says he "lost it" when he found out, but he expresses this mostly by keeping to himself. He blasts his music in his room and refuses to eat dinner with the family. Billy is told by Susan to drive Max to the middle school and walk in with her to make sure she gets what she needs. Billy drops her off, refusing to go in.

Quote(s):

Billy rolled his head sideways to look at me. "But I don't want to, Max. They're not paying me to babysit you. If you don't like it, maybe tomorrow you can walk."

This chapter reveals just how poorly planned this book is because there's not a drop of a hint of a piece of evidence as to why the family moved to Hawkins, even though fans adamantly use this book as evidence that the move was all Billy's fault. There is no hint that Billy blames Max or that Max blames Billy for it.

I know that later information contradicts this by putting blame on Billy's violence, but information that is revealed later on isn't meant to contradict the entire tone of a chapter but rather enhance it. The feeling the reader gets from this chapter is that Max and Billy didn't want to move, and they're unhappy in Hawkins.

Not that they're ready to kill each other over it.

I am endlessly fascinated that Max's mom doesn't want Max around her father because he's "irresponsible" but then turns around and expects her step son to babysit Max for free. It's his first day, too, and she expects him to not only drive her to school but check her in when he has to do that for himself when he gets to the high school.

Billy explains himself clearly and logically to Max as to why he's not going to do what Susan wants him to do, and you know what? He's right. Not only that, but Max is perfectly capable of checking herself in. The statement that Billy is "driving Susan crazy" is also random and lacking context, making Billy out to be the "bad guy" for being an annoyed teenager.

This doesn't mean that Billy hasn't done anything to piss her off or drive her crazy, but there is absolutely no context for the statement that explains what he's saying or doing that's so wrong. I cannot emphasize enough that statements are just made about Billy with little to no detail backing them up, so the reader is just expected to believe Max.

Max was also unlikeable in this chapter for one main reason - the "I'm not like other girls" attitude she carries. It's fine that she doesn't vibe with femininity in the way that her mother expects her too, but she puts herself above other girls in many ways to make herself "different" from them. She is a child, though, so this can change over time.

Back to Susan... Again. I have to say this again.

If Susan really doesn't trust Max's father to take care of her, it makes no narrative sense to expect Billy, her step son who she supposedly can't stand, to be Max's babysitter. It's irresponsible. If she wants Max checked in at school, she can do it herself because that's certainly not Billy's job when he also has school to go to.

The main thing we learn about Billy is that Billy is basically parentified and somehow that makes him the bad guy.

[harvardfineartslib]

Photography had always been a part of Frida Kahlo's life since she was born. Her father Guillermo Kahlo was one of the great Mexican photographers at the beginning of the twentieth century.

When Kahlo died in 1954, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicer to turn her family home, the fabled Blue House (La Casa Azul), into a museum. Pellicer selected some paintings, drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the space just as Kahlo and Rivera had arranged it to live and work in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documents, drawings, and letters, as well as over 6,000 photographs collected by Kahlo over the course of her life, were put away in bathrooms that had been converted into storerooms.

This incredible trove remained hidden for more than half a century, until just over a decade ago when these storerooms and wardrobes were opened. Among these finds, Kahlo's photograph collection was a major revelation, bearing testimony to the tastes and interests of the famous couple not only through the images themselves, but also through the telling annotations inscribed upon them. (Summarized from the publisher’s notes)

Today is Frida Kahlo’s birthday. She was born inCoyoacán in Mexico City on July 6, 1907, and died in Coyoacán on July 13, 1954.

Frida Kahlo : her photos Edition and page layout by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. 1st ed. México, D.F. : Editorial RM, 2010. HOLLIS number: 990125850460203941

[fashionbooksmilano]

Frida Kahlo   Her Photos

Pablo Ortiz Monasterio

Texts James Oles, Horacio Fernandez, Masayo Nonaka, Laura Gonzalez, Mauricio Ortiz, Gerardo Estrada, Rainer Huhle, Gaby Franger

Editorial RM, Barcelona 2021, 522 pages, 460 photos,17.15 x 24.13 cm, English, ISBN 978-84-92480-75-3

euro 52,50

orders to:     booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

When Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicerto turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer selected those of Frida's paintings which were in the house, along with drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the spaces just as Frida and Diego had arranged them to live and work in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documents, drawings, and letters, as well as over 6,000 photographs collected by Frida in the course of her life, were put away in bathrooms converted into storerooms. This remarkable collection remained hidden for more than half a century. A few years ago the storerooms, wardrobes, and trunks that safeguarded it were opened. The collection of photographs is a treasure that reveals the tastes and interests of the famous couple, not only through the images themselves but also through the annotations made on them. The collection allows us to speculate about Frida's and Diego's likes and dislikes, and makes it possible to document their family origins. Photography had always been a part of Frida's life. Her father Guillermo Kahlo was one of the great photographers of Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century, whose images of colonial architecture and numerous self-portraits have been preserved. Frida's collection constitutes a roll call of great photographers: Man Ray, Brassai, Martin Munkacsi, Pierre Verger, George Hurrel, Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Manuel and Lola Alvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, and many others, including Frida Kahlo herself. It is likely that many of the photographs in the collection were taken by her, though we can only be sure of the few that she decided to sign in 1929.

orders to:     booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

twitter:                @fashionbooksmi

flickr:                  fashionbooksmilano

instagram:          fashionbooksmilano

tumblr:                fashionbooksmilano

19/02/23

[rigelmejo]

@eirenical I looked up gyadl difficulty ToT. Looks like it IS same difficulty level to dmbj. Though I'd personally add that it being a romance makes it slightly easier, since romance genre stuff is typically always more words that are learned earlier (daily life and I like X I hate X words tend to be earlier words learners focus on). Dmbj has very few unique words per chapter (~2000 hanzi per chapter but usually only ~500 unique hanzi per chapter) which makes it less daunting to read with click-dictionary word lookup just because it has more limited unique words per section.

Granting You a Dreamlike Life novel is 1.922 in zhtoolkit for difficulty rating. Smaller number is harder, bigger number is easier. So 1.5 is hard, 2.0 is easy. This puts gyadl closer to the easy range.

Dmbj is also on the easier side, chapters usually falling into the 1.9 range.

Stories like 小王子 are 2.0, which are doable to extensively read in 1-2 years and read with a click-dictionary tool (like Pleco, Readibu, Mandarinspot.com, Zhongwen Chrome extension etc) in under 1 year. (In this comparison I'm using 1 year to mean about ~2000 common words learned and maybe 1200-1500 hanzi recognized since that was my level at the time, so around HSK 4 level knowledge).

So dmbj and gyadl would be doable to read with a click dictionary at the end of study year 1 to the beginning of study year 2. Readable extensively at year 3 or a bit before (this was just my personal experience). ALSO worth noting: gyadl is mainly romance genre, which significantly lowers its reading difficulty as romance genre tends toward more romance and daily life oriented conversations. The drama gyadl was watchable without English subtitles or word lookup in about 6 months of learning for me (so around ~1000 words I at least recognized and ~500 hanzi I at least recognized), I think partly that was because it's romance genre and those tend to be easier to follow. Dmbj is action horror, so it's difficulty depends on how familiar one already is with those genres common words... if you watch/read other Chinese horror action then the vocabulary will be less of a hurdle, if it's a new genre for you then initially there will be a new genre vocab chunk to learn before it gets easier. (Similar with SVSSS which is also around 1.9, and has an initial difficulty spike due to xianxia and transmigration genre words then eases in difficulty).

Zhtool site is nice for gauging overall difficulty, paste in text to get a difficulty score: http://www.zhtoolkit.com/apps/wordlist/create-list.cgi?rm=makevocabform

Gyadl is on webnovel sites, available for physical copies (I got a physical book for this baby <3) and my hero zhenhunxiapshuo has it backed up if it ever gets deleted or portions get censored (also backs up a huge amount of bl novels and priest novels including extras which may be hard to locate elsewhere): https://www.zhenhunxiaoshuo.com/9604.html

Daomubiji.org is back up, wooh: http://www.daomubiji.org/42.html

Additionally, daomubiji.com seems to be a mirror site with significantly less dmbj stuff on it: http://www.daomubiji.org/38.html

You may like Mandarinspot.com's annotation bookmarket tool (to change a page to click definitions with pinyin above): https://mandarinspot.com/bookmark

or it's copy paste page that does the same thing, if pinyin is helpful: https://mandarinspot.com/annotate

[tittasale]

Imagej for windows

#Imagej for windows mac os

#Imagej for windows update

#Imagej for windows software

#Imagej for windows code

Labs supporting Ukrainian Scientists is an expansive list of labs and PIs offering support at this time.Science for Ukraine provides an overview of labs offering a place for researchers and students who are affected to work from, as well as offers of employment, funding, and accommodation:.It has always been, and continues to be, a project of Wayne Rasband, with the help of many contributors. The original ImageJ has been under continuous development since 1997.

#Imagej for windows software

Personally, I have found the messages of support from scientists everywhere to be truly heartfelt, and I would like to highlight some of the community initiatives I’ve seen here: ImageJ is public domain software for processing and analyzing scientific images, with many derivatives and variants, including ImageJ2, Fiji, and others.

Example data for User Guide Chapter 10 tutorial (4.5 GB tar.We also want to use our platform to highlight the response from the scientific community.

Release notes for the latest version and updates of AIJ.

To latest version and features after download with Help->Update

#Imagej for windows update

Download an installation package of AstroImageJ - then update.Expanded version of the AIJ article on astro-ph with explanations of many functions.Open Access article from the Astronomical Journal (2017) - AstroImageJ: Image Processing and Photometric Extraction for Ultra-Precise Astronomical Light Curves.

#Imagej for windows code

The User Guide may be downloadedĬomments, requests for help and new features, and bug reports should be posted to theĪstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed.īecause it was necessary to modify the original ImageJ code to enable some of these features,Īnd is distributed under the terms of the some problems with antivirus software under Windows, especially when launched from ImageJ.

Utility programs for use with TESS dataĪdditional details on the user interface are available through astro-ph in referenceġ701.04817v1. NDPITools, software to convert NDPI files into TIFF images.

Annotations are retained when placing apertures.

Nearby eclipsing binary star identification from expected depth versus light curve RMS table for TESS follow-up.

Recently added when you update to the daily build after installation.

Optionally create Minor Planet Center (MPC) format for direct submission of data to the MPC.

Optionally enter reference star apparent magnitudes to calculate target star magnitudes automatically.

Creates color images and with native ImageJ processing power.

Exports analyses formatted as spreadsheets.

Provides a time and coordinate converter tool with capability to update/enhance FITS header content (AIRMASS, BJD, etc.) ClassLauncher -ijjarpath jars -ijjarpath plugins Using JAVAHOME C:UsersDesktopFiji.app/java/win64/jdk//jre Opening Java.

Allows non-destructive object annotations/labels using FITS header keywords.

Includes an interactive light curve fitting interface with simultaneous detrending.

Provides an interactive multi-curve plotting tool streamlined for plotting light curves.

Allows comparison star ensemble changes without re-running differential photometry.

Interactive time-series differential photometry interface with option to run in real-time.

Image calibration including bias, dark, flat, and non-linearity correction with option to run in real-time.

Aligns image sequences using WCS headers or by using apertures to correlate stars.

Provides object identification via an embedded SIMBAD interface.

Displays astronomical coordinates for images with WCS.

Plate solves and adds WCS to images seamlessly using the web interface.

Reads and writes FITS images with standard headers.

Provides an interactive interface similar to ds9.

After installation, the built-in Help->Update option keeps your version current.

#Imagej for windows mac os

It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux byĭownloading an installation package. These includeĪ versatile image display, time-series stacks, a link to for adding coordinates, built-inĪstroCC to set and time and place, links to Simbad for object identification, and exoplanet model fitting. The latest version has many features to enhance astronomical image processing, especially for photometry. Click for other screenshots of AstroImageJ in use

[dritabuddy]

Qview qd700 cheat sheet

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET FULL SIZE#

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET PORTABLE#

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET BLUETOOTH#

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET SERIES#

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET BLUETOOTH#

Presentation equipment includes interactive whiteboards, electronic copyboards, interactive panels, interactive plasma displays, educational tools and software, bluetooth and USB tablets, multimedia projectors and document cameras.ĪVerMedia, 3M, Epson, Boxlight, eBeam, Elmo, Hitachi, Lumens, Mimio, NEC, NextWindow, Numonics, Panasonic, Plus, PolyVision, QOMO, Quartet, Qwizdom, RM EasiTeach, Samsung, Teamboard and Wacom specialize in presentation tools. Presentation tools assist in conducting presentations. It remains focused on creating strong and successful products that are recognized worldwide as market leaders. It looks into the future with a new era of quality, innovation and growth. Hitachi continues to thrive and remain a successful company for its quality products and services.

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET SERIES#

ZP05 series in Flat Panel TV, XP05 in HDTV and LCD projectors are the favorites. Flat Panel TVs and LCD projectors of Hitachi are mostly popular among customers. Consumers are offered home appliances, AV products, personal computer, mobile phones, home equipment and life services. Its manufacturing line includes Power Systems, Rail Systems, Industrial and Social Infrastructure Systems, Urban Planning and Development Systems, Information and Control Systems, Information and Telecommunication Systems, Defense Systems, and Battery Systems.īusiness customers are offered IT products, security products, electronic devices/materials, public and urban transportation, medical, biotechnology and environmental products. Hitachi started in 1920 and is now a leading manufacturer.

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET PORTABLE#

Hitachi StarBoard DCHD-5M document camera visual is highly portable and comes with a remote control. Features like Google integration, handwriting recognition can then be utilized to maximize the user experience. When connected with an Interactive Whiteboard, the e-learning experience gets even better the user can interact with the content in real time by making handwritten notes, annotations, adding pictures etc. The base of this StarBoard DCHD-5M contains a button panel and a 3 inch LCD viewfinder for reference. The mechanical arm of this visual presenter can be rotated at 180 degrees for flexible viewing. Live videos or still-images of any moving target can also be saved in its internal memory or your computer. Hitachi StarBoard DCHD-5M features a 5 mega pixel CMOS camera (manual/auto focus) having an optical zoom of 3x and a 4x digital zoom. QOMO has a long and growing list of achievements and has proved itself in being committed to innovation, leadership and customer satisfaction.Hitachi StarBoard DCHD-5M document camera leverages advanced classroom communication with state of the art features. The company’s main goal is to serve the customers in a better way by transforming the company into an innovation machine fueled by consumer insight. QOMO has won various awards and has been selected as the exclusive distributor of Hitachi and Mitsubishi products for various territories.

#QVIEW QD700 CHEAT SHEET FULL SIZE#

The QD8000 full size document camera, QPC30 portable document camera and QRF900 audience response system are popular due to their improved image quality and affordable prices. QOMO’s products include interactive whiteboards, interactive panels, document camera, audience response and digital signage software. It’s a visionary, innovative and energetic manufacturer whose aim is to provide effective and efficient presentation technology. QOMO HiteVision owns more than 26 subsidiary companies and partners with hundreds of dealers and integrators worldwide. QOMO started in 1990 and is a subsidiary of QOMO HiteVision.

[platform9-75]

Who is extra sad and rereading a little life?

[stranger-rants]

Runaway Max Annotations

This is part of a series I am doing on Runaway Max by Brenna Yovanoff. To see previous posts including the annotation guide, check the [#rm annotations] tag on my blog. These posts will follow the general formula of summary, annotations, quotes, and any thoughts or analysis I want to provide based on my own interpretation of the text. You can use my posts as references in fandom discussions.

Runaway Max Chapter Three

Max recounts the time she began to see Neil's true colors as she prepares for Halloween in Hawkins.

Annotations:

2) Family Context

Every Wednesday, Susan would make rigatoni and meat balls. Then, Max and Susan would sit on the couch together and watch Family Feud. Neil breaks up this routine and after three weeks of marriage, he makes the family go out to dinner.

4) Evidence of Abuse / Neglect

Neil is abusive towards Max when he perceives Max giving her mother attitude their first dinner out after Susan and Neil have been married three weeks. He says, "You answer your mother," "I'm warning you," "If you don't get that mouth under control, you're going to be one sorry little girl," "You need to learn a thing or two about how to talk to your father," and when Max mutters that he's not her father, Neil sends her out to the car before she can finish her dinner. In Hawkins, he says that Max is getting too old for Halloween and that Susan shouldn't encourage her to dress up.

Max & Billy Relationship

After Neil sends Max out to the car, Billy checks on her. He says, "you really did it this time, declaring war on Neil." Max tries to explain that she doesn't want to consider Neil, "her father" and Billy tells her not to worry about it. He says, "It's not like he's my dad either." Max is confused, but Billy clarifies this by saying Neil is a horrible guy and he's not like a real father should be. In Hawkins, Billy also judges her for dressing up for Halloween. However, he reasons that she can do what she wants but people will think she's "a baby" for still dressing up.

7) Valuable Insights

Max loves Halloween, but more importantly she loves monsters. She loves Michael Myers because he was a "real" kind of monster.

8) Billy's Characterization

Billy is seemingly bored or checked out during their first dinner together. Max says he spent the entire time "leaning back in his chair and staring at the ceiling." Billy does go to check on Max after Neil punished her, and he does validate Max's feelings about Neil. He says Max's name in a "sing song" voice whenever he's annoyed with her, and in this chapter it was in the context of waiting for her to get ready for school so they could leave.

Quotes(s):

"He's a horrible guy, Max. Haven't you figured that out? You really think a guy like that could be a father? Not to me, and not to you."

This chapter shows us when Max really began to realize that Neil was a bad person, and in a way she has to be told this by Billy. She hates Neil, but she doesn't fully understand yet what he's capable of doing.

Billy's behavior is somewhat... protective. In the capacity that he can be. Max thinks that Billy is about to hug her when he reassures her that she doesn't need to think of Neil as her father. However, Billy doesn't hug her. His expression is flat. His eyes look heavy to her, before he explains that Neil is a horrible person. I don't think Billy can show that kind of comfort or affection to Max even if he wanted to because of the abuse we know he experienced, but he is trying to warn Max about what to expect. That shows a level of empathy and kindness that I think many people argue he doesn't have.

Even when it came to dressing up for Halloween, his reasoning for it was almost protective. Neil says she's too old for it, but he's been trying to control what Max says and does for months. Billy tells her to "go ahead" with it, but to not be surprised if she's basically bullied for it. In a twisted way, he's looking out for her. Again, I don't think he's got the capacity to give comfort or affection to Max with the way he's just been surviving under Neil. In a better time and place, it does give us a glimpse as to what their relationship could look like.

Neil is Billy's own father, so it catches Max by surprise when Billy insists that Neil isn't his father. This isn't meant to be taken literally. It means that Billy doesn't think Neil fits the profile of a father, and he fully recognizes that Neil is a horrible person. This is both very interesting and concerning to me. It's interesting to me because often abuse survivors have a hard time recognizing their abusers as abusers while they're surviving, especially if their abusers are their parents. That's why it's also very concerning to me, because if Billy can recognize that Neil is so horrible he can't possibly ever be considered a father... then what has Billy really experienced up until this point? The implications aren't good - almost like what happens to Billy after meeting Max is tame in comparison to the past.

[lovlettres-moved]

had a dream about making friends with so many random people i haven't ever even seen, skidding down a slope which went upwards? and.... wearing bangles as earrings... what happens in my brain

[crinklyhatesyou]

DISCLAIMER:

I’m aware that this is merch art. This analysis is just for fun, and there’s a lot of interesting little observations to be made here.

The original:

Let’s zoom in:

Hmm. Super blurry, plus there’s a giant shine going diagonally across the frame. However, we can see that there’s two people with dark colored hair in this photo.

Annotated:

I thought I was crazy at first, and maybe I am. I will gladly succumb to my RM brainrot. OOPS. But @carmenlee sees it too. And if I trust anybody’s sharp eye, it’s hers.  XOXO

Also um, they’re definitely in Levi’s flat. If I am correct, showering at others’ apartments is not a common thing when living in Japanese society. Meanwhile, our mans’ hair is wet and there’s a towel around his neck. @rivaille-13 has channeled her RM brainrot and noticed that there are also some personal affects of his lying around:

And then from Yams’ official AU:

In which Levi is the only one there to actually wear a damn cap.

I’m not even gonna go into how they’re both eating ice pops.

Also, Mikasa is sitting awfully casual for not her flat, don’t ya think? Reading a book and eating her little ice cream. I find it interesting how there’s also one book missing from the shelf.

I guess you can also say that Armin is sitting super casually, too. Maybe he lives there, idk. It’s a bit informal otherwise, at least outside of the states. Thankfully we have @sadaakirah​ who, ever the detective, noticed that he’s wearing socks.

Signifying that perhaps he took his shoes off beforehand. He’s just visiting his favorite ackercouple obviously. ;)

In conclusion, RM end game and babies everywhere

lol jk. Take it how you will, again this is just something fun and interesting to look at.

[universallovebot]

u should listen to “trivia love” by rm, the lyrics are soo pretty and include some clever wordplay + imagery!! u can read the english translation and all the annotations on genius :*

hiii love, as luck would have it i have loved this song since it came out <33 thank you for the lovely rec though, it made me smile

[thirstybtsthoughts]

What do you think are bts' sexiest (horniest😂) songs, lyric wise? 😃

There aren’t many, and some of these can be interpreted differently or more innocently, but allow me to provide a list with examples (and some of my silly annotations, sorry!) 😏:

Pied Piper

You're not being punished - oh am I not? Okay sir 😈 Come here, I'm your paradise - sure I will  Can't close your eyes Can't close your eyes You can throw a fit but it's no use (Don't reject me)

It's a bit dangerous but I'm so sweet - I’d like a taste of that sweetness I'm here to save you, I'm here to ruin you - this line ughhhh 🥴🥴

My pipe awakens everything - ‘pipe’ huh? 🍆😏 That sound burns you up even more You're pulled by it, you react I'm endlessly blowing - ‘blowing’ 😏 I'm your guilty pleasure - yes you are indeed You can't escape Never

Yeah, I'm a bit dangerous I can't even handle myself Don't worry, my hands They're only warm for you - UMMMM HELLOOOOO, Jungkook, I will take your warm hands all over me please and thank you 😁

War of Hormone

Girls are like an equation, us guys just do them... - Yep, this one line says it all, the fact it was 18 year old JK’s line too adjhjfldjk 🥴

I don’t care about girls I’ll play with once and say goodbye - Oop, enough said 🤭

But I learn when I see you, Body 101 

My testosterone heavily shows up...

Her hair, body, waist, legs, even her other unspeakable parts 

Saying I don’t care would be ridiculous as a guy 

I lose it just at her tiniest gestures... - Okay so yes the whole point of this song is about teenage guys hormones being all over the place when they see a hot girl, but you asked for sexy lyrics, and here’s a song that provides 😁

Cypher Part 3

Suga - Like you all know my voice turns people on Whether it be men or women My flexible tongue movements will send them to Hong Kong with my raps - fun fact, the phrase ‘send them to Hong Kong’ means to make a person climax. Therefore, Yoongi is saying he can make people cum with his tongue 😁.  

Cypher Part 2

Suga - My voice even bewitches your girlfriend - yep, I’m bewitched 

Miss Right

RM - Your sexy mind and your sexy body - yesss You were even born with sexy brain wrinkles - YES Just in jeans, a white tee and converse high tops That makes me wanna party on your body -YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS At the end of of your long, shiny hair Your gentle hips sing 

Suga - With you, I draw out my future,  In between our couple shoes are a pair of baby sneakers - I LOVE this line, makes me swoon so hard 🥰. The implication that he wants babies (in the world of this song) just sets my heart racing 🥰🥰

Converse High

When you look all flashy with your black stockings - he’s thinking about a girl in stockings 😏 And your high heels, that’s just a lie But you look better with Jordan numbers Ha, don’t you know? Converse kill your charms Anyway, when you meet me, don’t wear Converses It’s too hard to take them off of you - Oh really Min Yoongi???!!! hmm😏😏

Agust D

Sending listeners to Hong Kong with my rap My tongue technology - ICONIC (see Cypher Pt 3 above)

I Like it Pt 2

The memories draw me back, your hair from behind - this is likely far from dirty, but to me and my dirty mind it drew the image of him remembering fucking the girl from behind, he’s thinking about the way her hair looked during it 😏

(Honourable mentions to Trouble and Expensive Girl 😁, also Filter and Blood, Sweat and Tears😁)

Side note: I love how most of the above are Yoongi lines 🥵

Also note that this ask was about sexy lyrics, not song/beat, hence why there is no Singularity or House of Cards here 🥺😂

[queerchoicesblog]

Epilogue: Underwater (SC Titanic, Zetta x Adele Series)

As promised, here the epilogue of the Zetta x Adele Series, folks. 

This is the very end of a project that meant me quite a lot to me and got me through the last terrible year. Thanks to all those who supported it: hope you enjoyed it and will enjoy this ending.

In case you were wondering, this song inspired the whole series, particularly the last chapters:

I will skip the tag list for once since it’s pointless anyway. 

➡️ Ch. 1, Ch. 2/1, Ch. 2/2, Ch. 3, Ch. 4, Ch. 5, Ch. 6, Ch. 7, Ch. 8/1, Ch. 8/2, Ch. 9, Ch. 10/1, Ch. 10/2, Ch. 11/1, Ch. 11/2, Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 14, Ch. 15 , Ch. 16, Ch. 17

_________________________

Almost a century after the sinking of the RMS Titanic and to celebrate Canada becoming the first country outside Europe to legalise same-sex marriage, the Canadian Film Institute decided to work side by side with several LGBTQ+ organisations across the world to put together an exhibition focused on the early queer cinema and the many queer stars who were forced to hide their true selves in the Golden Age of cinematography, spanning from 1890s till the aftermath of Second World War. "A testament to the role the LGBTQ+ community played in the history of cinema and that we have always been here, even if people hardly saw us" as a journalist wrote on a queer magazine. After the recent discovery of some private documents, the curators were overjoyed to include an icon of the 1900s - 1910s cinema like Zetta Serda into the retrospective and cast a new light on her extraordinary career sadly soon forgotten after the advent of the sound era. Yet, the silent picture star was mentioned as a model and 'endless source of inspiration" by many queer movie stars like Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Greta Garbo all part of the retrospective. Rumor has it that as soon as she landed in America, Marlene Dietrich demanded his agent a meeting with Mrs King.

A curator drove all the way to Montreal to meet the last known heir, a certain Mrs. Julia Nowak, who greeted him on the threshold of a cosy downtown apartment. She offered him a coffee and a slice of a Polish sweet bread: the recipe was a family heirloom, she explained, beaming. She was in her late fifties, a therapist, she said. Her hazel eyes gleamed when she added, in a pleasantly soothing voice that betrayed a hint of excitement: "I must confess I am so incredibly happy that you contacted me about the retrospective. I adore the idea and I will make sure to attend it. Also" she nodded to a wedding picture hung to the wall "did you know that my wife is in politics? She campaigned for the legalisation...yes, Madeleine Fournier: see, you know her! We got married right after the law passed. If anything, your call and project made me twice as happy". She took a pause, smiling over her coffee in remembrance. "Anyway, back to the matter of your visit...yes, as far as I know, I am Zetta's last heir. As you probably know, my family wasn't officially related to her but she stated otherwise in her will". She moved to the couch and gestured the curator to follow her as she opened up one of the boxes and chests piled into the living room and picked out an old album, the leather cover worn at the edges. Dust waltzed in the air as she opened it with caution and gentle care. She showed him a slightly discoloured black and white picture of a young couple kissing for the camera in front of a church. Another wedding picture, from a different era. "Nana Hileni and Papa Maciej's wedding picture. I still remember them even if they both died when I was barely a teen...as if one couldn't bear to live without the other. Or so I like to think. She would help me with the homework, mathematics particularly, and he baked this bread for me till he was too weak to do so. He always claimed that he won Nana's heart with his pastries but she always denied it laughing". She passed another picture of the same couple proudly standing in front of the Nowak family bakery in Hoboken. "Frankly, I believe that Papa's broad shoulders and Marlon Brando smile are more likely to blame for this coup de foudre" she laughed. "And he knew how to deal with her no-nonsense attitude and vice versa. They...balanced each other, if you wish". She picked another picture and handed it to him. A woman was looking down in tender adoration and awe to a baby nestled in her arms looking up at her, outstretching a tiny arm in an attempt to touch her face. "There! This is Dad" she pointed at the baby before turning the picture where someone wrote 'Alex meets Auntie Adele'. Turning it again, she pointed at the woman. "This is Adele Carrem. Or Auntie Adele as I've always heard calling her. Nana's sister and Zetta's publicist and companion" Putting it back into the album, she carefully picked a bunch of other old pictures. "You surely know who this one is" she smiled, handing out the one on top. The photo was rather grainy but you could still recognise the same kid, slightly older, around two, sucking his thumb, cuddled up in Zetta's lap. The actress had aged a little but her features were unmistakable and it was endearing to see her sitting by the fireplace to read that kid with the sleepy face a bedtime story. "Sadly, I have never met them. I wish I did, oh you have no idea...but stories of them lived through in our family" Julia continued. "My Dad loved his Aunties - as he called them - dearly and by what I've heard and read, they loved him in manner as if he was their own. He knew little of them or Zetta's career back then...to him they were just the sweet ladies who would buy him ice-cream in Central Park or take him to see his favourite pictures over and over again at the movie theater. He said he will never forget the afternoons he used to spend with them in a Manhattan cafe that no longer exists around Christmas: Nana and Papa worked like crazy as the festive season approached and the glorious cup of hot chocolate with an elegant puff of cream on top with the Aunties became a tradition to him. He kept it alive somehow as he did the same with me". She handed the curator a bunch of other pictures: Zetta cleaning up Alex's face smeared with jam, the both of them laughing; Zetta posing with Maciej and her Dad at a table in the Hoboken bakery. He eventually mirrored her smile seeing a five years old Alex at the beach all engrossed in building a sandcastle with Hileni and Adele, and he standing at the water edge hand in hand with Miss Carrem, looking out into the distance. "These are family pictures. I'll show you the Zetta's private memorabilia we cherished". Julia searched a little, opening an old chest and handling every item inside with tender care. When she found what she was looking for, she showed the curator an elegant set of smaller boxes containing letters, dried flowers and photos. "I have already received an offer to get these published. I'm still pondering it. Before agreeing, I want to consider throughly if this is a thing they would have wanted, even if they're no longer here" The curator nodded as she kept searching. He skimmed a few letters and smiled as his eyes fall on the photos hidden away in those boxes: the two women sitting together and chatting at Hileni's wedding, Zetta's reading a script, lazily sprawled on a chaise long in her apartment. Some had short lines handwritten on the back, like a promotional picture with "Missing you" written by Zetta herself. The curator showed another to Mrs Nowak: a visibly excited Miss Carrem proudly showing to the camera a document announcing her voter registration. On the back, in Zetta's penmanship: "On the way to vote...my sweet Adele won!". "Oh you didn't know? Auntie Adele was a suffragette! I couldn't believe it when I first heard it! Nana told me that she was in and out jail when they lived in London because of protests. You know, like those suffragettes you read about in history books but less famous. Yet she fought for women's rights and kept fighting for them even in America. She was quite disappointed though by some major decisions of some feminist movements and eventually joined a socialist Union 'more rightfully welcoming working class individuals, immigrants and black brothers and sisters'. It's all in those letters but yeah, you couldn't possibly know. So little is known about her outside family". A little smile drew on her face as she put back the photo. "That photo was taken the day of the first election open to women. I checked the date. I suppose Zetta wanted to immortalise the moment...it was sweet of her, huh? Auntie Adele must have been so proud and overjoyed that day! You know, my Dad was born in 1920 when women's right to vote was legalised nationally and Nana once told me that Auntie commented the lucky coincidence saying she was incredibly happy her nephew would get to live in a fairer world. She was a true force of nature...she never talked much of the sinking of the Titanic just like Zetta and Nana actually but when one day Dad asked...he was barely a child and probably found an old article about the tragedy...Auntie Adele minimised but Nana assured him that her sister saved her life that night, risking her own to go down to the belly of the sinking ship to bring her to safety. Auntie simply shrugged, saying that it was what sisters do and that they made it to the lifeboats only thanks to Zetta, who shouted protests to stubborn officers and eventually found them a spot on a boat. I cannot even bring myself to imagine how scary that must have been: I cried so much when Madeleine took me to see Leo and Kate...to think they were there and it was all real!" She picked a few other objects out the box: a Shakespeare Sonnets book in a leather cover with golden engravings, with a little handwritten dedication 'To Adele, my sonnet 116. Happy birthday! With all my love, Zetta'; old scripts with annotations, a framed photograph of Adele and Zetta slow dancing barefoot in the living room of a gorgeous Long Island mansion. "These have a sentimental value" Mrs Nowak noted, her voice betraying the flicker of emotions as she picked it up. She took a deep sigh and continued. "I remember the day I told Dad I was gay as it was yesterday. We had always been quite close so it came natural to tell him first. We were in his car, he had come straight from college to pick me up at ice-skating practice. I..I dropped it in the middle of a conversation, bracing myself for the worst. I heard so many bad stories about coming out to your parents I was terrified of the consequences but I couldn't hide it anymore. I mean, yes, in public: bullies get even nastier if they know and I didn't want people shouting me "dyke" at school. But I needed to get it out of my chest...with someone at least. He kept quiet for a moment and I felt like drowning in shame. But then he spoke". A nostalgic tender smile formed Julia's lips. "He said he had two amazing Aunties that contributed to make his life a wondrous adventure. It was thanks to them that he, the son of a baker, could attend a prestigious college, for instance: they offered to pay for it without asking a penny back. They also helped him write his first romantic letter to his childhood sweetheart and consoled him when the little girl turned him down. But his Aunties had a secret, he added. He said: to my kid eyes they were no less a couple than Mom and Dad and at home we all treated them in manner but one day Mom made me promise to behave differently when we were in public. In public I would refer to her sister as 'Auntie Adele' but call Zetta by her name. He didn't get it and it took some getting used to. He soon noticed that even the Aunties behaved a bit differently out in the sun: they wouldn't hold hands or use endearing words in the street or when other people were around. They simply behaved like good friends did. He understood it later when he, as stubborn as a mule, asked them directly". Julia gently grazed her fingers on the glass of the framed photograph, caressing it. "And they told me everything, he said. That they were in love, just like mom and dad were, but people out there could be uncomfortable and extremely rude to women loving other women and men loving other men. That they kept their companionship a secret in public because those people had no problems with women being friends and they didn't want to have bad words or worse happening to them. I remember asking him what he thought about it. He smiled. 'I cried. Since Auntie Zetta mentioned people claiming that women like them were sick and would burn in hell, I actually started crying. I sobbed desperately in her arms, crying that I didn't want them to burn in hell, I loved my Aunties and I was happy they loved each other. Eventually they explained me it was just a vile lie spread my malignant people. But I got quite a scare and kept staring at them with puffy red eyes and my face wet with tears for a while. It required lots of cuddling to bring a smile back on my face'. He shook his head, laughing of his endearing naivety. Then he pulled over and looked at me. He continued: 'I still don't get why people keep spreading those mean lies but I know for sure that my Aunties weren't sick and didn't end up in hell and so won't you. Don't believe bullshits like that for a split second, okay? And I also want you to remember that it doesn't change a thing for me and mom too. You will always be my little girl, our little girl and we love you'. We shared a long hug before driving back home. On the way back he insisted to buy my favourite chicken and waffles for dinner, saying mom's veggie soup could wait. For my birthday, a month later or so, he asked me to follow him to the attic and showed me this chest. To meet the Aunties that 'would have surely been there for me'". She tipped away a tear. "I told you I married Madeleine right after the legalisation of same-sex marriages. My wedding was also the last public event Mom and Dad attended together before his health worsened irremediably. He passed away last year". For a moment she looked on the verge of tears but she recovered quickly. "Sorry...anyway, that day Dad insisted on walking me down the aisle even if he was getting weak. He beamed with pride when a friend fixed a rainbow ribbon to his jacket. Later at the lunch he read a speech he had written for the day, his hand shaking. He shared the story of his Aunties. He said that despite the hardships their situation forced upon them, they had quite a happy life together, a happiness carefully hidden from the world. He wished us to find something similar to what they shared without needing to hide anymore. He said Adele and Zetta would have been so happy and proud to celebrate with all of us that day" Mrs. Nowak picked the Shakespeare Sonnet book and gave him a fond look. "He brought this to the wedding. And he read for us the sonnet 116, the one Zetta mentioned in her dedication. You know, the one that starts with 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments..." ----------------------- A few months later the exhibition on old Hollywood queer cinema and artists opened. Each artist had a room that soon filled with a crowd of enthusiastic visitors. In the first half, in a room arranged as a turn of the century nickelodeon with velvet chairs, all the memorabilia of Zetta Serda's public life: panels explaining the various stages of her career and the birth of her myth, promotional pictures of her performances, articles about her and a copy of a gazette announcing her wedding with the director Richard King. On the wall, on a screen her entire filmography rolled up in loop, bewitching spectators after a century. In display cases: the gorgeous sapphire necklace she wore on her last night on the Ship of Dreams and at the movie party of Surviving the Titanic, and a replica of her Cleopatra costume. The aging Queen of Egypt with a tragic love and destiny immortalised by Shakespeare was her last role back on the theater stage before retiring from the scenes. Old scripts with her personal annotation were displayed with photographs taken on sets and mundane events. The wall hosting the motion-picture screen cut the room in half. On the other side, the hidden half of her life. Her life with Adele no one suspected back then. A life kept secret that now unveiled in front of the eyes of the visitors. The curators discovered that finding public pictures of Miss Carrem was nearly impossible, true to the nickname she acquired as time went by: The Shadow. She stayed at Zetta's side until and even after she stopped acting, showing rare loyalty and devotion, but ever surrounded by this mystery allure. No one, even the most stubborn reporters managed to know anything about her and she was soon dismissed as a Titanic survivor, possibly a fan, who worked as Zetta's secretary and somehow gained her respect. Little they knew about the depth of their relationship and what stacks of secret letters and family memories revealed of the life of Miss Carrem. A panel finally told her story and her secret achievements: Adele, or better Adal, kept fighting for a fairer world and society her whole life and marched for women's right to vote on the famous parade in 1915. She also passed the teaching of Edith Garrud to her American sisters. The only pictures of her came from the Nowak family, except for one. The only photograph of a public appearance of Miss Carrem as well as the only known public appearance of Zetta and Adele. An old grainy photo accurately framed showed Adele shaking hands with The Unsinkable Molly Brown on a podium. In her free hand a shiny medal and a few steps behind the mayor of New York. According to the panel, the survivors' committee founded by Mrs. Brown decided to award Miss Carrem a medal for bravery and a generous check "to help her and her sister starting a new life in America". With great surprise, Miss Carrem received the medal and the check, thanked the board but refused the honors. Instead, she asked to deliver them both to the family of a certain Charlie Stoke, a stewart that lost his life in the sinking to save her life and those of many passengers. She added that her friend expressed the desire to study naval engineering one day and she wished that the money kindly offered to her would be enough to establish a scholarship for boys like him across the ocean. In another picture, Miss Carrem and her sister chatted with Moll Brown in company of Zetta. Eventually, other philanthropists and wealthy socialites signed checks for her cause so that the Stoke family received a generous contribution too. And today, as another picture confirmed, the faculty of naval engineering of the University of Newcastle hosts a marble engraving of Charlie Stoke: to his memory a scholarship had been instituted one year after on the anniversary of the sinking. Since 1913 it has been helping students of poor background to get an education and improve their life. Zetta herself became a philanthropist during her Renaissance and ever since. The first act of her new phase of her life was joining the Moll Brown survivors committee to provide help to the second and third class passengers families and survivors. Some said that the tragedy she witnessed touched her heart, other claimed that it was to be attributed to the influence of her publicist. Jokingly, she used to say that after all, she had too much money yet all she could have wished for in her life, so why not doing some good with it? A considerable donation under her and Mr King was received by the main hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic; she was particularly active in providing financial help to struggling neighbourhoods and female education institutions. In the middle of the room, a long glass display hosted the Shakespeare Sonnets opened at sonnet 116 and a selection of the private correspondence between Zetta and Adele. My darling, You will receive this letter tomorrow morning when I'll be already off to Chicago. The suitcases are ready and packed, this is a goodnight note scribbled the night before leaving you to remind you how much I love you and care about you. How much I'm going to miss you even if - thank God! - we won't be parted for long... Do not forget you promised me to write every day! Write to me, Adele, write to me whatever thought crosses that gorgeous mind of you: you know I could you rambling for hours without getting tired of the sound of your voice, of your sparkling wisdom. I wanna know everything. So don't be shy: I'll be waiting your letters with tender impatience. Can't wait to be in your arms once more. Adoringly yours, Zetta - Dear, dearest Zetta, I went to Central Park today with Hileni. It was a gorgeous spring day, sunny, a gentle breeze blowing: 'simply too beautiful to be wasted inside' as my sister put it. Did I tell you that she's still exchanging letters with the delivery boy from the hat shop? I thought they were over but apparently he invited her to the nickelodeon next week. Anyway, walking in the park with her I suddenly realised how I wanted to share that spring wonder with you. When are you coming back to New York? Tell me soon, please. And even 'soon' won't be soon enough: you're always on my mind since you left. But yes, tell me soon so I can make you promise we will go for a walk before the weather becomes too hot. Do you think I can wrap my arm with yours? Is it professional enough for a publicist? Even just for a few steps: oh you have no idea how I would love that! Or maybe you have? I hope so: it'd mean you miss me as much as I miss you when we are apart. Oh, I almost forgot: all settled with that magazine you mentioned before your departure! I negotiated a two pages long interview, plus pictures. And a cover mention. Hope I did well: you have already fired me as your secretary, I must prove you I am just what you're looking for in a publicist... Can't wait to see you again! Loving you always, Adele Only one letter was copied on a panel of its own on the main wall side by side with a blow-up of the picture of Adele and Zetta slow-dancing barefoot and free, for a blessed moment immortalised in a discreet shot. Adele pressing a tender kiss on Zetta's forehead, drawing a soft smile on the acrtress' lips. Many visitors commented it was heartwarming to see such a photograph that conveyed the intimacy and the warmth of affection radiating from the dancing couple. Some said that Zetta was even more beautiful like that: free, hair slightly askew and genuinely happy, loved. What stole their hearts away though was the letter attached to it. It was no surprise that the curators decided to name the retrospective Underwater. Dearest Adele, Forgive me for the tone of this letter. I am writing it down in bed while I cannot sleep and my mind runs back to you as if we could meet halfway between the miles separating us, in a world of fantasy of our own. It's ridiculous how much I miss you! I want you near, I need you near all the time. Take tonight: if you were here with me, I would be heavenly sleeping in your loving embrace. Most unfortunately, you are not and I'm lying here, insomniac, thinking of you. And about my life. No, don't frown. I am not getting all sad again. It's...bittersweet. And - I'll spoil you the ending so you will stop worrying, hopefully - it gets better the more you proceed. Have you ever felt trapped underwater? I did, my whole life. Always hiding, always measuring words, gestures, gazes not to let them see, not to let them know...so little time to go up and break the surface. Drop the mask and breathe. In, out. Once, twice. In my lowest moments I repeated to my myself: how are you gonna survive? One day an acquaintance with a remarkable passion for the sea explained me and the other bored commensals that you can keep someone alive by breathing oxygen into their mouth underwater. Pretty much like mouth-to-mouth resuscitation helps an unconscious person to regain consciousness. I found it interesting but doubted his words. Then I met you, Adele. My dearest, wondrous Adele. And I learnt that yes, you can't breathe if you're constantly underwater...but you won't drown if you have the right person swimming by your side in those deep waters. Put your lips on me, Adele. Touch me, hold me in your arms. And I can live underwater. With your love, I can live underwater. We can live underwater. I love you. I want to cover a full page of these three simple words: I love you. I want to cry them out and entrust them to the winds, to the night. But what for? Who cares if the world knows or not? I'll whisper them over your lips when we will be reunited. So you can breathe underwater. Counting down the hours separating us, my love. Eternally yours, Zetta

[tanda-soal]

I’m finally done with my semester so cheers to the start of a long summer break!

📑 Bookmarks

Book-related recommendations

Episodes from my favourite bookish podcast, Annotated (specifically this one about Belle da Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan's librarian, and this one about Agatha Christie's revenge plot gone wrong)

An interactive vintage-looking map of books by Google

An article about Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster's merger

BTS RM's book recommendations (!!)

Penguin Random House's rewards program

A tour of Chelsea Handler's personal library

📚 Book Challenges

Shelf-Confidence BPC

March 5: Educate

March 11: Kill

March 12: Laugh

April 12: Be Our Guest

April 25: Under the Sea

JOMP BPC

March 2: Currently Reading

March 6: Writing in a Book

March 26: Favourite Illustrator

April 7: Read More than Once

April 11: Books by the Window

April 13: Favourite Place to Read

April 16: Books and Flowers

April 23: Spring Time

🐱 Other

If it wasn't obvious from this section's header, I'm obsessed with cats so here are some from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Got myself two free books from the aforementioned Penguin rewards program

🌸 Personal Notes

Guess who's got four whole months of no classes?? My summer plans consist of exploring coffee shops around town, reading on grass fields, hunting for Little Free Libraries and browsing thrift store bookshelves (oh and I guess working two summer jobs...)

I've also officially completed two more English courses so look forward to more reading lists! On that note, reading for school put me way ahead of my reading challenge this year. I think in January my goal was a humble 15 books (slow recovery from years of reading slumps), but now we're already at 24 👀

[2022-504-rubybird]

Week Three - Type Specimen Research

To help me start planning for my own type specimen booklet, I used Behance to find some existing examples that I thought were very successful. I will include some images and annotations of specimens here.

Cirka - Nick Losacco

This type specimen uses a simple colour pallet of off white, black, and bright green. The green is very bright and bold, and is a colour I hadn’t seen much in other specimens. I really like the typeface characteristics page, showing the baseline, x height, ascender, descender, and cap height. This is something I would definitely be interested in creating something similar for my own specimen book, as it shows important characteristics of a typeface. I liken how the text runs off the page in the first image, and how words are highlighted with white against the green.

RM Pro - Mash Creative

This type specimen uses a colour pallet similar to what I would like to use. I really like the simplicity of the layouts as they really allow the typeface to stand out. I also find it interesting how some page layouts extend over the join of the spread, creating more variation in the booklet as a whole. The use of point sizes to show off the numbers and create a visual comparison of the sizes is a really nice spread and is different to other specimen booklets I have seen previously. I also really like the consistent use of the line and type information at the top of the pages. This is also something I want to experiment with to create some continuity between pages.

Telegraf, Nick Losacco

This type specimen uses high contrast with black and white and simple layouts to really hero the Telegraf typeface. I really like the simplicity of some of the layouts, especially the lower case g page which shows 3 weights. The use of shapes in the rounded rectangles is another feature I hadn’t seen in my research and is something else I could look into further.

Tekla Font, Hanna Burucz

This specimen uses a large variety of different layouts that incorporate a range of glyphs and shapes. I like the idea of accented lowercase and uppercase alphabets, as these are very important aspects of a typeface to present. I really like the first image, which incorporates glyphs and words in varying weights toi create an almost abstract layout, which is very playful.