#roses are. not. flamable

[black-rose-writings]

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Thank you for answering my question! I was also wondering what type of grisha are there? And what powers and abilites do grisha have?

I have only seen the show and I'd like to know more about grisha and their abilities!

So, firstly, there are three "Orders" of Grisha

Etherialki (aka Summoners) - control "liquid" elements. Powerful etherialki can create the Cut (impossibly thin and powerful "blade" made out of their element which can cut through basically everything with ease).

Materialki (aka Fabricators) - control solid materials, including plants

Corporalki - control living matter

Then, each other separates into different types. It should be noted that the types are not completely exclusive and it is possible for a Grisha to learn the abilities of a different type or order. It is however done relatively rarely in modern times.

Etherialky sub-types:

Tidemakers - control water in all states (liquid, vapor, ice)

Squallers - control the air - they can manipulate air pressure, create wind and control temperature around them (Squallers are known to work as living air conditioners in Kerch). With some skill, they are also able to create lightning, though this ability is rarely taught in the Second army as it is considered too volatile and hard to control once created. Powerful Squallers (or groups of them) might also be able to manipulate weather for the reasons mentioned above. They might also be able to teach themselves how to levitate. Anything beyond wind and temperature manipulation is considered advanced and only very powerful and skilled Grisha will be able to do it safely (meaning with a reasonable elvel of control)

Inferni - control fire. Or, more specifically, flamable gases. They still need something to ignite those gases, so many Inferni in the book carry around a lighter (or whatever it's called) and in teh show, they appear to have special gloves that give can create sparks with certain movement, allowing them to create fire more quickly (the gloves might also provide a level of insulation from fire, as I think we don't know for sure how fire resistance Inferni actually are).

These are fairly common. But there are also two "special" types of Etherialki.

Shadow Summoners - they control shadows. There has only ever been two known Shadow Summoners, Baghra and Aleksander. Baghra is the daughter of Ilya Morozova (cringe) and it is possible her powers are the result of his meddling with Merzost. Shadow Summoners are extremely powerful and do not appear to age significantly once they reach maturity (in the books), as Aleksander is described as looking to be maybe 20-something and while Baghra trips everyone's "ancient" alarm, she physically looks to be maybe in her 30s. (more on Grisha aging at the end)

Sun Summoner(s) - control light. There has only ever been one known born Sun Summoner (Alina). It is up for debate whether the Sun Summoners created at the end of R&R are real Sun Summoners. Sun summoners are able to conjure beams of light and bend it to make themselves or things around them invisible.

Types of Materialki

Firstly, Materialki types are more akin to specialisation than hard(ish) division like for Etherialki. There is a huge overlap between the two types. But in short:

Alchemi are magical chemists. They manipulate matter on molecular level. In practice, they make things like explosives, salves and drugs. They can also do thing like removing poison from water.

Durasts primarily work with solid material - bones, wood, stone, metal, glass etc. They are effectively telekinetics. They can also change shape of those things and mold them together. Skilled and powerful Materialki can also affect elements on a subatomic level, changing one element into another (though without further help, such as parem, the resulting material will be radioactive).

They can also leech color from things (such as plants), force plants to grow/flowers to bloom.

Types of Corporalki

Again, Corporalki types are specialisations. In fact, we are told that there is a great degree of choice in which path a given Grisha takes and there's a great overlap between what they do (A Healer can do basic Heartrending and Heartrender can do basic Healing.)

Healers are exactly what it says on the tin. They can heal people - speed up healing of skin and flesh, fix broken bones etc. Resulting scarring, residual pain and speed of the healing appaears to be based on the Healer's power and experience.

Heartrenders, on the other hand, manipulate the body in "damaging" ways. They can damage internal organs, cause pain etc. They can also sense heartbeats of the people around them and can manipulate the speed of the heart and blood pressure of themselves and others. Some heartrenders can also learn to manipulate people's emotions by making their brain release certain chemicals (this is Nina's specialisation in the books).

Special Grisha

There are also Grisha, who don't really fit into any of these boxes.

The only one of these types we meet in the books (or show) are Tailors (like Genya), who are between Corporalki and Materialki. In later books, any Corporalnik can learn Tailoring, but their results are going to not be as high quality or last as long.

You might also count "Zowa" as their own separate thing. Generally, "Zowa" is a Zemeni (people from Novyi Zem, Grishaverse's black ethnicity) term for Grisha, however, as they learn and teach their powers differently from "mainland" Grisha, they do and up not being as closely confined to their orders/types.

(Spoiler) Jesper's mother, who taught him how to use his powers, is mentioned having abilities, that might reach into healing or water manipulation, despite being classified as a Durast. I have an old post, where I go deeper into the Grisha/Zowa thing.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, just what I can come up with from memory.

[evepack]

My Dream SMP OC!

Were should i start?

Well her name is Ema Berlin.

I have her for a LONG time but the only place that i mentioned her and showed her is in my youtube channel

Her backstory is ready its a mixture between fanon lore and canon but i will talk about that later for now only facts about her

#1: She is in the SMP since the start she was teleport there and fell into the lake around the comunity house and c!Dream help her when he noticed Ema strugling to get out of there (she was 8)

#2: She is a walking rose bush and was created in a cauldron by her mother (a witch) and her father (a human) she was meant to be a human but the first rose that her father giver to her mother somehow fell into the couldron and the she was born with a flower crown that if someone tried to take of would hurt Ema and vines in her arms and in one her legs that after some years would grow roses

#3:XD saved Ema and make her a Timetraveler and decided to throw her in the SMP he heal her eye but never take away the huge burn mark on her face. He wants her to be scarred forever (also the inbetween is not taking away her memorie it's taking away her sanity)

#4:Ema is a Timetraveler and she hates that

#5:Some of Ema's duos names are:

Potion Duo(she and c!Erin, they both were created using magic i was surprise when i see c!Erin's backstory and realise that they were created in the same way)

The pet owners (Ema and c!Techno, she has A LOT of pets that she hide's from c!Sapnap and Techno is self-explanatory)

Photography Duo (Ema and c!Ranboo, they created a photo album together and are good friends)

And the last one that i gonna mentioned is Attachment Duo (Ema and c!Dream, she is not gonna abandoned her first attachment in SMP and Dream is not gonna hurt the only person that is gonna be with him to the end of the world)

There's more but lets go to next fact

#6:Ema hates and fears fire (she is a walking plant and is easiely flamable)

#7:Ema relasionship with the 8 og SMP members;

C!Alyssa:she miss her, she wants her back

C!Callahan: she likes him, he likes her. Ema likes to follow him around when she can like a duck.

C!Awesome dude: She doesn't know. She hates that he cut off Ponk's arm, she hates that he let Quackity turtered Dream, she hates that he kidnap Micheal but... She can't hate him.

C!Ponk:she always likes to spend time with him. Everytime she gets hurts she hides it from anyone but not from Ponk

C!Sapnap:she was afraid of him when she got in the SMP and he didn't care about her when she first but 1 hour later he was like "If anyone hurt her i will fight you", of course their relasionship has ups and downs because he is part blaze and she is part plant like the times that Sapnap gets to excited his hair transforms into flames and made Ema run for at some corner in the room.

C!George:They're good friends. She used to feel sleep on him a lot as a child he didn't mind after its a excuse to him to do nothing while wating to her wake up but now she is the one waiting to him to wake up, waiting to XD free him from his dreams just to not even 1 day later to lock him in the dream world again

C!Bad:she miss his muffins, she miss his hugs, she miss to be with just singing little songs that come out of nowhere but after the Red Banquent she couldn't look at him. Bad wanted to kill her.Bad wanted to kill her with fire.

C!Dream:the first person that she care about in the SMP, she will do anything for him.

#8: Her personality: Ema is quiet and does not like loud noises unless its music, fireworks or just her friends having fun, her loyaty is endless if you dont hur her she will trust you forever. She is impatient and doesn't know how to express herself. She in honest most of the time and knows how to lie very well (thanks, c!Dream).

#9: Ema's appearence (in gacha and in minecraft because i can't drawn)

I like to imagine Ema i her minecraft clothes and roses wrapped in her arms and leg but with the burn mark and the scar in her shoulder and the glove in her hand and yes Ema doesn't wear shoes only if its armor or she visinting c!Techno

#10: She hates c!Tommy she was intrested in him when he got in the SMP now she only wants him to dissapear

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And that is what i gonna talk about her i gonna talk more about her later but for now tell me what you think of Ema my self-insert on the Dream SMP?

(I sorry if the descripiton of her personality is not clear enough im terrible at describing character's personality and sorry for any english mistakes)

[enigmaticy]

have another AvA oc! This is Merian. He has powers relating to vines and roses. Or anything nature. He's highly flamable, he's scared of TCO and TDL.

@/aknowny.mous is my insta

[keroseneinhalers]

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i chug that shit like bang energy my blood is rose gold and flowery IM SO FUCKING FLAMABLE

[wrench-o-rama]

“Shit! Shit! Shit shit shit shit shit!” One by one, the zombies poured into the building which Nick was so desperately trying to keep held down. Terrifying howls and raspy growls and hungry jowls flapped against the fortified door, the last barrier between life and death.

The garage had been breached, and the twin metal doors and wire mesh protcted glass were beginning to wear down. With every last ounce of his strength, the mechanic in distress pushed a wooden crate against the doors and cried out for dear life, “Help! Help, somebody! I can’t hold out much longer!” Panic and fear filled Nick’s eyes as they spotted hands beginning to break through the strengthened glass. “Shit,” he cussed again as the gears in his head began to spin. There had to be something in the garage that he could use as a weapon to take out all of the famished zombies. A wrench... A lead pipe... A gasoline canister... A few boxes of nails... A propane tank... It was useless. His eyes tightly shut as he pushed harder against the crate. “C’mon! Think, Nick, think!” That was when he had an idea. There was a chance that it could get him out of his predicament, but it would be extremely risky. His gaze lifted to the potential safety of the office just above him. There was no time left, dead flesh was being sliced by the glass and wire mesh as it broke through the windows. Without a second thought, Nick took off as fast as he could, and darted straight to the stairs.

All that he could manage to grab on the way there was a box of nails. He was safe, but he did not know how long for. It was only a matter of tim befor th clumsy zombies would figure their way up the thin set of stairs and make an appetizer out of him. With an aggitated grunt, Nick threw the nails on the ground then clenched his fists. He stared at the sharp bits of metal, rolling out of th cardboard and onto the floor. He stared at them, in thought of what he could do, until a lightbulb went off in his head. His head rose to his surroundings. There wasnt much, but he had the will to get out of the building, and not as a zombie. Nick knelt down and picked up one of the nails and looked at it quizically, then looked over the room at what he had at his disposal.

Nick popped the jug off of the water machine and emptied its contents right onto the floor. Once it was empty, he stabbed nails all throughout the jug and tore off the flat heads so that the outside was dangerously prickly. Once that was done, he went through a cabinet and poured in as many chemicals as he could, hoping that it would be enough to be deadly. Once it was full, he began to tear apart the office chair, then stuffed the fabric down the neck of the bottle. Once the material was nice and soaked, he glanced out of the door window. The zombies were surely approaching, but they were doing so just as slowly as he had anticipated. With a grunt, he kicked open the door and hurled the remains of the chair at the zombies. It was enough to cause them to tumble down the stairs, and it was just as he had hoped. Once they were back at square one, he lifted his improvised oversized molotov over his head, lit an ready to kill, and yelled, “hey, you assholes,” before tossing the jug out to them.

When the bottle hit the ground, some of the nails popped out since there wasn’t anything to prevent them from doing so. Some of the flamable cocktail poured out of the jug and over both flesh and floor. The flame from the plug hit both the contents and the spill, causing it to blaze suddenly with an eyebrow searing ferocity. Nick covered his face with his arm as the explosion lit up the room and zombies screamed for what one could assume to be mercy. When the intense heat began to die, Nick lowered his arm only to see before him a gory scene of burnt flesh and bones. Despite the disturbing scene, Nick was relieved beyond words. He decided that he would rest for a bit before taking any further action.

Water Cooler + Chemicals + Nails + Office Chair

[travelblogthingy]

Southern Peru (2 weeks and 60+ hours of buses)

My glorious pal Matt arrived in Lima to a slightly manic day of last minute trip bookings, city and extremely ancient ruin exploring and sunburn. The day ended with us eating dinner in an old train carriage in Barranco, things were off to a good start.

The next morning we were finally leaving Lima, with our (thankfully painless) 4 hour bus to Ica to stay in 'Banana's Adventure', a hostel we'd been recommended. It did not disappoint, with an amazing sandboarding tour included, a hostel pool and some really great food. The following day we headed to Paracas for a tour of the Ballestas Islands where we saw a dolphin, sea lions, starfish and a whole load of birds, including penguins and pelicans. We then headed back to Ica for our long night bus to Cusco.

18 hours of sitting next to some awful smelling toilets while hurtling round corners when we already felt ill was not fun but the scenery when the sun rose in the morning was incredible. The bus wove right through the Andean mountains, with every turn (and there were a lot of them) giving way to more breathtaking views.

We finally arrived in Cusco on New Years Eve and after a minor mishap with our accommodation (we'd booked for January instead of December) we headed to bed to catch up on as much sleep as possible. In the evening we met some Danish friends from Lima who taught us a weird drinking game and then headed on to the main square to witness the most chaotic fireworks display I have ever seen. Large and small fireworks were let off by the crowd all around us, which once you were over your terror, had the most incredible atmosphere. After an obligatory walk around the square in our yellow underwear (it's meant to give you good luck) we headed to bed.

The next morning we headed to our Air BnB and met some American friends from Lima for some exploring. After a short walk up hill (an absolute marathon at altitude) we decided to do a horse ride round some of the main attractions. Unfortunately, about 15 minutes into this ride we were caught in one of the most torrential downpours I have ever witnessed, which pretty much instantly left us completely soaked and freezing. We bailed on the tour, heading home for showers and then meeting back up for pizza. Later we headed round the shops and ended up stumbling on another entirely chaotic fireworks display in the middle of a market, with explosions barely above our heads and sparks landing perilously close to some very flamable looking stalls. It's a miracle to me that Cusco is still standing.

Our Rainbow Mountain hike had a 3am pick up the next morning. A mediocre breakfast was improved by a beautiful 4 hour drive through the countryside, despite several very close calls as our bus hurtled round cliff faces with huge sheer drops beside. We'd been warned a lot about altitude and proper hiking equipment, but after the days before rain we were left to hike at 4900m in trainers. The climb was really tough, especially on the tight time limit we were given but well worth it. Lunch was a far better buffet of traditional food and by the time we got home around 8pm we were very ready for bed.

We were up at 3 again the next day, this time for our day trip to Machu Picchu. We were picked up for a 2 hour drive to a 2 hour train ride which got us to Aguas Calliante in time for a wander round before catching the bus to meet our guide at Machu Picchu for 10am. We were super lucky with the weather all day, with the clouds having already cleared by the time we arrived and barely any rain until we hiked up to the 'Sun Gate' late in the day. We headed back to Aguas for dinner in the evening and finally got home around 1am.

Seemingly enjoying not sleeping we were up at 6am for a 6 hour bus to Puno, a town next to Lake Titicaca. On arrival we wandered around the friendly feeling town and booked a lake tour for the next morning. We had an amazing 3 course dinner for about £3.50 and drank some fancy alcohol in a mixology bar. The Lake tour took us out to the Uros Reed Islands to learn about how the islands were made and the lives of the hundreds or so families who still live there. We then did a beautiful 2 hour kayak trip before heading up to a local house overlooking the lake for a delicious homemade lunch. We pretty much crashed out all evening in preparation for our final bus together.

At 7am we headed for the 6 hour bus to Arequipa, booked a Colca Canyon tour through our hostel and headed off to find dinner, stumbling across a Christmas parade in the main square. The Cola tour took us through more gorgeous mountain scenery and beautiful small towns. After checking in to our hostel at the edge of the canyon, Matt and I and 2 American girls we'd made friends with headed to the nearby natural hot springs. In the morning we headed further into the canyon to look for Colca Condors, which despite the season we were lucky enough to see a few of, even if from a distance.

Back in Arequipa we lost a day to feeling grim and eating rubbish food to try and comfort us. On Matts final day we met up with the American friends from Lima and Cusco and wandered round the city before stumbling upon a climbing center where we spent the afternoon.

As Matt left for the airport, I headed for a bus back to Puno and on to Copacabana in Bolivia.

I apologise for the very list like form of this post but it's hard to fit in just how much we did in the 2 weeks we had together. Travelling with Matt was an absolute dream and I'm going to miss him and Peru a whole lot.

[lcstpaths-a]

EDWARD CHRISTIAN CULLEN, JR. ; the fire eater. — he’d stuck out from his family for most of his life. always seeming to be refined, poised- they’d been picture perfect, wealthy, and nothing like chris. he caused more trouble than the rest of them combined, and the only thing saving him from spending a night locked in jail most times was the cullen family name. he’d stand on street corners, his hands blurred with red flames for the simple fact that he’d taught himself the craft because of his fondness of fire and the fact that it’s destructive nature seemed to mirror the way he felt internally, and at times he would swallow it just because he’d learned how. coins would be tossed into the hat at his feet, but he’d never paid much attention to them- when he grew bored, he’d give the money to any number of homeless people on the streets simply because he didn’t need it.

and that’s how tim found him. offering him a job that seemed almost too good to be true, chris left his family behind in search of an adventure, and he’d never once turned back. his parents had never felt like his parents, and his twin sister was only bearable some of the time- there was nothing holding him there when he had opportunities awaiting him.

NOTABLE ATTRIBUTES:

he’s known for walking the grounds of the circus while juggling fire- ducking between tents and almost scaring patrons as they see him get close to the canvases, worried he’ll set them alight. the MAJORITY of his act is real- clever tricks, like when he almost appears to make fire dance over his hands, “juggling” it per say, it’s really flames burning cleverly hidden bits of flamable jelly, and not him actually making the fire dance. HOWEVER, shortly after joining the circus, he met adrienne sweetmeadow, and she attempted to teach him pieces of illusion, which was her specialty. now, he’s rumored to be a bit of a heartthrob- every once in a while, he’ll end his fire juggling act ( which typically merges into a fire eating stunt ) by making the flames die down into a fire-orange rose, which he’ll hand out to a pretty girl ( or boy ) in the front of his audience. it’s the ONLY piece of magic he’s ever been able to manage, so most assume it’s another clever trick, but it’s really not.

eternally lost; flirty; rebellious; can usually be found at speak-easies on nights off; he does a bit of heavy lifting behind the scenes, helping pack the train back up when it’s time to move to a new location, etc.

while he’ll flirt shamelessly with just about anyone, chris has never had any sort of relationship with anyone in the circus. there was a time when there were rumors flying around that he was seeing adrienne, but she’s always just been his best friend, and though he finds her beautiful, he has no desire to change that.

he doesn’t speak of his family. most ( if not all ) of the time, you’d think he had some sort of falling out with them, but if you pay close enough attention, you’ll notice that he buys just about any newspaper he can get his hands on, and sometimes he’ll save pieces - he’s got a book of snipped-out newspaper clippings, any article that even so much as mentions the names ‘cullen’, ‘hale’, or ‘whitlock’. he acts like he doesn’t care, but he does love his family.

while in his canon / normal bio his name is chris because of his chosen name, his name is chris here because his middle name is christian ( not jacob ). he goes by chris because he hated the way being a “jr.” made him feel- as if he had to be just like his father, when all he wanted was to forage his own path.

RELATIONS:

renesmee carlie cullen ( NPC - currently ) – his twin sister. he loves her because they’re twins, but he’s never felt any real attachment towards her. at times her personality was grating on his, and he never really wanted to spend time with her, but at the end of the day, she is his family.

adrienne sweetmeadow ( @bloodmirrored ) – the closest thing to a true friend he’s ever had. she found him a few days after he joined the circus, keeping to himself and toying like fire how he usually does when he’s entertaining himself instead of mingling with the rest of the performers, and she more or less took him under her wing. offered to show him little bits of magic because he almost seemed to need it to cheer him up, but he was terrible at all of it- until she showed him how to conjure items from his fire. he can only manage to make roses, but it’s enough for him, to make him feel closer to his best friend.

more to be added.

[cjb58]

Numeraciones

Hola.

El concepto de micro-relato es ser breve, ojalá yo pudiera hacer algo así

Siempre digo demasiado, llego temprano pero tarde,

Llego tarde y es demasiado tarde, ¿me sigues?

El cuerpo me arde, mi nariz ha sangrado en los últimos días

Y mis pies me duelen como si hubiera caminado por cien días

Días, días, días, ¿cuántos días debería esperar para escribirte?

Te diré una cosa importante, si quieres seguir en contacto de alguna forma

Solo con la verdad.

A cualquier cosa, ¿de acuerdo? haré lo mismo.

Y no importa que solo digas hola, escribiré mil palabras para ti,

Tomaré en cuenta los millares y las horas, a Rihanna en Anti

Y a ti como inspiración en este texto para que sea breve.

Te sorprenderá saber que puedo escribir mucho con poco,

Sí estás en tu habitación apaga el foco,

Transportate a esos juegos en los que quieres una nueva foto

Tengo visiones hacía adelante y puede que esto no acabe muy bien,

Pero la cordura no es algo que me persiga,

Soy impulsivo y tengo un "fuck it, carpe diem"

Es un 10/90 inclinado al noventa como fracaso, ¿pero no es siempre la vida así?

A donde vamos, lo que hacemos, lo que decidimos, supongo que sí.

No sé cuánto más tardemos en coincidir en la escuela, si ya te re-inscribiste

O si en lugar de universidad, debería llamarle mundo, es refrescascante.

Casi alucinante, un dulce sueño que se avecina en la tambaleante noche

El hecho está en el rose de tu ser con el mío, una leve vibración

Podemos hablarlo bien, tomar el tiempo del mundo y sacar una nueva ecuación

Saca los subtextos de todo esto y tendré cuatro conversaciones en una moderna mensajería

Mi cabello hoy no se movía, el viento sopla muy fuerte ¿te has abrigado bien?

Descuida, sé lo que hago por extraño que se lea eso.

Sé lo flamable qué eres, que tienes esa visión de que dañas todo lo que tocas

Pero aquí un secreto: Ya estoy totalmente jodido, solo amo a dos personas

Ambas son niños, no entienden mi adicción a las letras, mi música la cambian al pasar

Baby Shark está en mi número uno de reproducciones y no puedo ver pornografía

Baby Shark y pornografía en la misma línea ¿demuestra lo raro que soy?

Creo que sí, y sigue porque estoy expuesto, no tengo grandes secretos

Solo veinticuatro secretos, y no me importa mucho lo que pase, lo que pase en la mente de los demás

Estoy absolutamente dormido en mis pensamientos.

Piensas que eres la autodestrucción que aleja a los demás, vive sin más.

Explotarás y te llevarás mi rostro, no soy tan atractivo, no me preocupa

Quizá hasta endereces mis dientes chuecos o me levanten de la acera con una lupa.

Quiere de forma divina a los demás, pero a mi no me alejarás.

No sé qué tenga que hacer, cuánto tenga qué escribir

Tampoco sé si escriba seguido, ojo con eso, no voy a mentir.

Casi comienzo mi nueva vida, cada día lo es,

¿En tu mente los días felices los puedes repetir?

Busca referencías de mí, pregunta en el campo si alguna vez le falle a alguien

Es una carga pesada, pero se hace ligera al cumplirla,

Puedes ser un espejismo, hablarme un día del año y desaparecer, deje de entenderla

Tu mente, claro está.

Escribo con precaución, mis reservas están altas, ardiendo como el carbón

En los últimos meses he comido las hamburguesas que no te has comido, maldición.

¿Seré un obeso al final de mes?

Busca las numeraciones, saca tus teorías y conspiraciones, que el mensaje es claro.

Espero estes riendo de todos los chistes, he trabajado en ellos.

Apunto al cielo como Galileo, me gustan más los planetas que las estrellas

Aunque me encanta la explosión que deja una SuperNova, busca un poco más

Escucha Over It de Macklemore, existe una versión de GreenRoom sessions

No es su mejor álbum, pero es honesto, aprecio eso en otros.

Vuelvo a ti, como si fueras una vampireza de negro, ¿escuchaste esa versión de The Hollies?

No creo ni un segundo que eres eso, creo que eres más "Sweet child on mine" pero no de Guns and roses

La versión del capitan fántastico, esto es demasiado, ojalá pudiera cerrar el grifo

Callar todo lo que pienso sobre ti, podría escribir cuatrocientas páginas

Pero me detengo ahora, dejandote con ganas de más.

No pienses ni un momento que eres mi proyecto de "quiere salvarla", no eres un proyecto

Eres una persona que conocí, que está sumergida en la luz y en la obscuridad

Como todos, solo soy un apoyo, como el pilar que no reconocen de la torre Eiffel, todos quieren la cima

Sin embargo nadie nota la construcción, lo que se tuvo que hacer y decir para llegar hasta arriba.

Porque tu Gio, llegarás hasta arriba con tu sonrisa impulsada como Bing-Bong

Con suerte a la luna, improvisando todo como en song to song.

Espero esto no sea demasiado complicado para ti y leas entre líneas.

Lo hice de está manera en el caos en mis ideas, sonríe sin más, cuentame tus sueños, tus metas.

Sonríe ahora, ahora, ahora, mañana, mañana, mañana, siempre, siempre, siempre.

Por sobre todo, por sobre todo, todo.

Mirada arriba, a los rastros del cielo blanco, sonrisa firme y cuídate mucho.

Pd: Lamento que no haya sido nada breve.

Con cariño Jimmy Smith Jr.

[roleplay-pal]

Rose tried to think, licking her lips before having another sip. She didn't think the drink was that bad. Kat took notice of Anti moving his jaw and decided to ask, figuring it might help him. "Um... the muzzle.. is it flamable?" she asked. "I-I know you don't like them.. so maybe we could burn it. That way you don't need to see it any more."

Scream || OPEN

[Well this was modified like twice. More vent RP wow surprise]

Anti was stuck. Back in the closet. He didn’t know how he got there; was it the Council? Possibly. He hadn’t exactly been responsive lately.

He was back in that closet, strapped, unmoving, the muzzle locked in his mouth. No sound would come in, no sound could come out. The voices screamed in his mind and he sobbed helplessly, voice muffled. He was stuck in this Hell of a closet, no one able to hear his cries for help.

In reality, Anti was asleep. His body was thrashing, tears rolling down his cheeks as he cried and called for help.

A nightmare.

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The Toxic Vice Doctrine – Affinity Magazine

In a world so PC, so misbehaved and so unpredictable, a world where comedians and reality TV stars turn out to be world chief and moms don’t consider in vaccinating their youngsters, I find that we’ve arrived at the entrance door of the beloved quirky Vice media and have had the welcome rug pulled from underneath our ft.

Vice media, at first, was unique, bold and a refreshing concept. It had a chew and it was provocative. It narrated the actions of our on-line world towards the establishment and for the individuals and it narrated it nicely. It was the zeitgeist of all things anti-fashion, anti-media and anti-society. Vice media shortly turned a channel for the millennium, for you might read about consuming and drugging while reading about George Bush and it was a protected place. For it was the brand new approach of media criticism. It was about culture and it was cool. It was founded in 1994 by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes. Now it’s’ made from a variety of buyers from The Walt Disney Firm, A&E Networks, and Twentieth Century Fox.

I asked others what they considered Vice. I felt like my emotions in the direction of Vice made me appear to be an indignant baby. My first indication that Vice Media was dropping its Messiah impression was once I interviewed Nimrod Kramer, former Vice author and Gonzo journalist. “Vice is like ISIS,” Kramer stated. “Vice is going down! Rupert Murdoch owns 5%, and they will send more to him. His son is on the board. People don’t like that they portray themselves as this millennial thing then take money from Murdoch. I prefer the Onion. Vice will never challenge say Adidas, it is not real journalism.”

“Vice Media is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma to paraphrase Winston Churchill commenting on Russia in 1939. From hipster to part of the largest most effective disinformation organization [Murdoch] in the world,” Steve Oklyn of NOT VOGUE, the mysterious style and media critic who research plenty of cultural principle and artwork, stated.

Picture from: iTV.com

In 2013, Vice Media bought elements of itself to Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Media Corp. for $70 million. As far as its’ independence goes, and being that ‘for the people’ outlet, Vice’s independence died that day. It’s exhausting not to object or perceive such happenings for I might promote each challenge I have ever accomplished for a quarter of what Vice obtained, however my disappointment stems from what Vice turned when it acquired its corporate crown and the taste that it has left in my mouth.

The Murdochs of the world saw potential in this rise in ‘ANTI’ the whole lot treated it like a development to be cashed in on. Similarly to the article within the Economist about pop singer Billie Eilish being ‘a focus-grouped, committee-driven idea of today’s pop’ (fashionable tradition particularly) and how the ‘being depressed’ turned capitalized within the pop business after researching what millennials have been discussing on social media.

This was the first time that counterculture and capital criticism turned a selling level to the mainstream media and its third get together, along with different industries who saw this as a development to be marketed, the group invested major cash into this media mogul referred to as Vice, and this was the beginning of the Vice Shock Doctrine. A motion you, like me, assume you’ll stand behind till you’ve realized that you simply’ve fallen right into a lure. Even after studying Marshall McLuhan’s media principle, I still fell for Vice. I still thought that it’s evaluation was unbiased (properly as unbiased as things can actually get today & age) and for my era. But with these most up-to-date headlines and happenings, I feel like Vice doesn’t cater nor symbolize us millennials, but exploits us. It does the complete opposite of what it preaches.

My first finding is the best way during which Vice treats ladies. “Vice has always displayed a disregard for women,” Oklyn stated. There’s the explosive sexual harassment scandal inside the firm itself that led to the company suspending two prime executives in an try and brush the scandal underneath the rug. Extra lately there are many accusations that Vice does not pay feminine employees merely as much as they do their male employees.

Image from: NYmag

“Vice Media might be a rapidly sinking ship,” writes Julie Zerbo of the Style Regulation [if you are going to cite a quote from an article, please include the title of the article] in February 2018. A narrative that came from the New York Occasions revealed in December 2017 that Vice, i-D, Noisey and other retailers have been patrons of ‘ugly corporate culture.’ The Occasions revealed 4 particular settlements involving sexual harassment allegations and defamation towards Vice staff, shortly after the corporate announced that chief digital officer, Mike Germano would not be returning to the company.

Two months after that NYT story, a Wall Road Journal story reported that Vice missed its income target in 2017 by more than $100 million. Then got here a new lawsuit about equal pay. Elizabeth Rose labored at Vice in management from 2014-2016 and filed a lawsuit towards the media mogul alleging that it engages in pay discrimination towards feminine staffers. In line with Zerbo, a lawyer in New York who particularly appeared at the Elizabeth Rose v., Vice Media Inc., et al, BC693688, Superior Courtroom of California (Los Angeles) case, Rose accused Vice of violating the Federal Equal Pay Act. The grievance details that male subordinates she hired made about $25,000 more per yr then she did. After reviewing inner memos, Rose found that lots of female staff at Vice have been being paid lower than their male counterparts and that they have been aware. This lawsuit will give other Vice staff the opportunity to share the monetary damages. Zerbo writes that Rose described, “That class of ‘similarly situated’ individuals include ‘hundreds of employees’ subjected to Vice Media’s “systematic, company-wide, unlawful treatment.”

Vice discretely ended the ugly lawsuit with Rose this yr and paid $2 million to settle towards the systematic pay discrimination accusations. Virtually 700 feminine present and former staff from Vice are eligible to share the settlement sum. That is considerably lower than $7,000,000-9,740,000 which is a figure an professional from the courtroom of regulation decided to be the complete quantity of underpaid wages to the feminine employees of Vice. Zerbo writes, “Of the near $2 million sum, $650,000 is earmarked for lawyers, $15,000 is going to service fees. The average payout that each woman will actually recover is expected to be about $1,600 (minus taxes).”

My second drawback is about vaping. Vice Media entered into a $6.5 million cope with Philip Morris Worldwide, to ‘promote e-cigarettes’ to their 18+ audience based on the Financial Occasions in March. The report detailed how Vice has agreed to supply sponsored content endorsing e-cigarettes – amid international concern, an try and clamp down on cigarette advertising of any variety. Despite Vice reporting on the uncanny concept of vaping amongst teenagers, calling it ‘embarrassing’, Vice is all of the sudden endorsing vaping. The worst a part of this endorsement and report is that a spokesperson for Vice said to the FT that the mission behind this deal is to ‘quit cigarettes.’

It is a recognized incontrovertible fact that cigarette endorsing is totally illegal. So, these Vice vaping adds quintessentially usually are not competing or changing any kind of ‘unhealthier’ or ‘deadlier’ choice. There have been no cigarette advertisements in publications targeted to teens, to begin with. When cigarettes themselves first came available on the market, it was the capital and the shortage of morals that snowballed smoking into a public well being concern. Docs, athletes, movie starts – no one knew the truth of smoking till it was too late. I’d wish to assume on this era nevertheless it isn’t too late. I want to assume that Vice Media isn’t making an attempt to kill me and my associates. I attempted to succeed in out to Vice, but I didn’t get a lot response. I made a decision that I needed to talk to Philip Morris about this hypocritical dangerous mess as an alternative. My query was easy really, is this really occurring?

Philip Morris wrote to me:

“We do have applications pending before the FDA seeking authorization to commercialize our heated tobacco product, IQOS, in the U.S. With respect to Vice, which has only been launched in the UK, the Quit Cigarettes” mission by Vice’s “Change Incorporated” matches squarely within PMI’s commitment to creating a smoke-free future. PMI’s goal is to modify our enterprise utterly out of flamable cigarettes to products that do not burn or don’t include tobacco. We first announced our smoke-free future in January 2017. Vice’s “Change Incorporated” will deliver editorially-independent content material, which we consider is uniquely positioned to encourage adult people who smoke to give up and make the absolute best decisions for their lives.”

“To be clear, No PMI (or competitive) products or brands will be advertised or promoted within the content. This project is about helping people quit cigarettes. That is the only measure of success. VICE/Change Incorporated will retain full creative and editorial control over the content they produce as part of this initiative. All Quit Cigarettes content will acknowledge funding from PMI.”

‘Success’ and ‘Change Incorporated’ sounded a bit off-putting and questionable. Nevertheless, I didn’t really feel like being sued by Philip Morris or challenging them in any respect actually given their energy over mine so I retreated. I knew the details. I knew that smoking rates have hit an all-time low (even in the UK), nevertheless, I knew that it was the youthful crowds who vaped without any information to its’ results on your health. I knew that the majority youngsters who vaped weren’t people who have smoked for years who have been making an attempt to give up, however youngsters who picked up a brand new normalised behavior. I knew that vaping increases the probability of smoking cigarettes. All a behavior through which Vice will now allow, or promote as wholesome.

“Just research Shane Smith’s personal real estate portfolio and my answer to this question becomes evident. Shane also seems to have a gambling addiction. Gavin McInnes is an alt-right propagandist,” Oklyn stated relating to the matter.

Frustration with political correctness and making an attempt to make everybody equal has grow to be pessimistic. The capitalist system has grow to be such a normalized idea that we can’t even recognize it and we use it to switch our morals with our needs. In design, creation and criticism we are so engulfed by it. The fascinating nature of Vice and its uncanny means to cater to younger individuals and dominate at doing so is the query of whether or not this can be a reflection of the Occasions through which we find ourselves. How is Vice capable of pull this off?

The answer may be so simple as provide and demand. We demand PC friendly, edgy, anti-everything quick fixes in all features of our lives. We are millennials, we love Smartphones, MacBook’s, Nike, sushi takeout and $10 greenback drinks at mediocre nightclubs. Our era isn’t placing away their cash for issues like mortgages anymore– this can be a recognized reality. The challenge lies inside, as our current tradition has such quick access and entitlement to be marketed to, mainly because there’s a luge lack of schooling and understanding why we see what we see, why we learn what we read and the place all of it comes from.

Featured Picture from: Bustle.com

The post The Toxic Vice Doctrine – Affinity Magazine appeared first on Techno Crats Blog.

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The Toxic Vice Doctrine – Affinity Magazine

In a world so PC, so misbehaved and so unpredictable, a world where comedians and reality TV stars turn out to be world chief and moms don’t consider in vaccinating their youngsters, I find that we’ve arrived at the entrance door of the beloved quirky Vice media and have had the welcome rug pulled from underneath our ft.

Vice media, at first, was unique, bold and a refreshing concept. It had a chew and it was provocative. It narrated the actions of our on-line world towards the establishment and for the individuals and it narrated it nicely. It was the zeitgeist of all things anti-fashion, anti-media and anti-society. Vice media shortly turned a channel for the millennium, for you might read about consuming and drugging while reading about George Bush and it was a protected place. For it was the brand new approach of media criticism. It was about culture and it was cool. It was founded in 1994 by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes. Now it’s’ made from a variety of buyers from The Walt Disney Firm, A&E Networks, and Twentieth Century Fox.

I asked others what they considered Vice. I felt like my emotions in the direction of Vice made me appear to be an indignant baby. My first indication that Vice Media was dropping its Messiah impression was once I interviewed Nimrod Kramer, former Vice author and Gonzo journalist. “Vice is like ISIS,” Kramer stated. “Vice is going down! Rupert Murdoch owns 5%, and they will send more to him. His son is on the board. People don’t like that they portray themselves as this millennial thing then take money from Murdoch. I prefer the Onion. Vice will never challenge say Adidas, it is not real journalism.”

“Vice Media is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma to paraphrase Winston Churchill commenting on Russia in 1939. From hipster to part of the largest most effective disinformation organization [Murdoch] in the world,” Steve Oklyn of NOT VOGUE, the mysterious style and media critic who research plenty of cultural principle and artwork, stated.

Picture from: iTV.com

In 2013, Vice Media bought elements of itself to Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Media Corp. for $70 million. As far as its’ independence goes, and being that ‘for the people’ outlet, Vice’s independence died that day. It’s exhausting not to object or perceive such happenings for I might promote each challenge I have ever accomplished for a quarter of what Vice obtained, however my disappointment stems from what Vice turned when it acquired its corporate crown and the taste that it has left in my mouth.

The Murdochs of the world saw potential in this rise in ‘ANTI’ the whole lot treated it like a development to be cashed in on. Similarly to the article within the Economist about pop singer Billie Eilish being ‘a focus-grouped, committee-driven idea of today’s pop’ (fashionable tradition particularly) and how the ‘being depressed’ turned capitalized within the pop business after researching what millennials have been discussing on social media.

This was the first time that counterculture and capital criticism turned a selling level to the mainstream media and its third get together, along with different industries who saw this as a development to be marketed, the group invested major cash into this media mogul referred to as Vice, and this was the beginning of the Vice Shock Doctrine. A motion you, like me, assume you’ll stand behind till you’ve realized that you simply’ve fallen right into a lure. Even after studying Marshall McLuhan’s media principle, I still fell for Vice. I still thought that it’s evaluation was unbiased (properly as unbiased as things can actually get today & age) and for my era. But with these most up-to-date headlines and happenings, I feel like Vice doesn’t cater nor symbolize us millennials, but exploits us. It does the complete opposite of what it preaches.

My first finding is the best way during which Vice treats ladies. “Vice has always displayed a disregard for women,” Oklyn stated. There’s the explosive sexual harassment scandal inside the firm itself that led to the company suspending two prime executives in an try and brush the scandal underneath the rug. Extra lately there are many accusations that Vice does not pay feminine employees merely as much as they do their male employees.

Image from: NYmag

“Vice Media might be a rapidly sinking ship,” writes Julie Zerbo of the Style Regulation [if you are going to cite a quote from an article, please include the title of the article] in February 2018. A narrative that came from the New York Occasions revealed in December 2017 that Vice, i-D, Noisey and other retailers have been patrons of ‘ugly corporate culture.’ The Occasions revealed 4 particular settlements involving sexual harassment allegations and defamation towards Vice staff, shortly after the corporate announced that chief digital officer, Mike Germano would not be returning to the company.

Two months after that NYT story, a Wall Road Journal story reported that Vice missed its income target in 2017 by more than $100 million. Then got here a new lawsuit about equal pay. Elizabeth Rose labored at Vice in management from 2014-2016 and filed a lawsuit towards the media mogul alleging that it engages in pay discrimination towards feminine staffers. In line with Zerbo, a lawyer in New York who particularly appeared at the Elizabeth Rose v., Vice Media Inc., et al, BC693688, Superior Courtroom of California (Los Angeles) case, Rose accused Vice of violating the Federal Equal Pay Act. The grievance details that male subordinates she hired made about $25,000 more per yr then she did. After reviewing inner memos, Rose found that lots of female staff at Vice have been being paid lower than their male counterparts and that they have been aware. This lawsuit will give other Vice staff the opportunity to share the monetary damages. Zerbo writes that Rose described, “That class of ‘similarly situated’ individuals include ‘hundreds of employees’ subjected to Vice Media’s “systematic, company-wide, unlawful treatment.”

Vice discretely ended the ugly lawsuit with Rose this yr and paid $2 million to settle towards the systematic pay discrimination accusations. Virtually 700 feminine present and former staff from Vice are eligible to share the settlement sum. That is considerably lower than $7,000,000-9,740,000 which is a figure an professional from the courtroom of regulation decided to be the complete quantity of underpaid wages to the feminine employees of Vice. Zerbo writes, “Of the near $2 million sum, $650,000 is earmarked for lawyers, $15,000 is going to service fees. The average payout that each woman will actually recover is expected to be about $1,600 (minus taxes).”

My second drawback is about vaping. Vice Media entered into a $6.5 million cope with Philip Morris Worldwide, to ‘promote e-cigarettes’ to their 18+ audience based on the Financial Occasions in March. The report detailed how Vice has agreed to supply sponsored content endorsing e-cigarettes – amid international concern, an try and clamp down on cigarette advertising of any variety. Despite Vice reporting on the uncanny concept of vaping amongst teenagers, calling it ‘embarrassing’, Vice is all of the sudden endorsing vaping. The worst a part of this endorsement and report is that a spokesperson for Vice said to the FT that the mission behind this deal is to ‘quit cigarettes.’

It is a recognized incontrovertible fact that cigarette endorsing is totally illegal. So, these Vice vaping adds quintessentially usually are not competing or changing any kind of ‘unhealthier’ or ‘deadlier’ choice. There have been no cigarette advertisements in publications targeted to teens, to begin with. When cigarettes themselves first came available on the market, it was the capital and the shortage of morals that snowballed smoking into a public well being concern. Docs, athletes, movie starts – no one knew the truth of smoking till it was too late. I’d wish to assume on this era nevertheless it isn’t too late. I want to assume that Vice Media isn’t making an attempt to kill me and my associates. I attempted to succeed in out to Vice, but I didn’t get a lot response. I made a decision that I needed to talk to Philip Morris about this hypocritical dangerous mess as an alternative. My query was easy really, is this really occurring?

Philip Morris wrote to me:

“We do have applications pending before the FDA seeking authorization to commercialize our heated tobacco product, IQOS, in the U.S. With respect to Vice, which has only been launched in the UK, the Quit Cigarettes” mission by Vice’s “Change Incorporated” matches squarely within PMI’s commitment to creating a smoke-free future. PMI’s goal is to modify our enterprise utterly out of flamable cigarettes to products that do not burn or don’t include tobacco. We first announced our smoke-free future in January 2017. Vice’s “Change Incorporated” will deliver editorially-independent content material, which we consider is uniquely positioned to encourage adult people who smoke to give up and make the absolute best decisions for their lives.”

“To be clear, No PMI (or competitive) products or brands will be advertised or promoted within the content. This project is about helping people quit cigarettes. That is the only measure of success. VICE/Change Incorporated will retain full creative and editorial control over the content they produce as part of this initiative. All Quit Cigarettes content will acknowledge funding from PMI.”

‘Success’ and ‘Change Incorporated’ sounded a bit off-putting and questionable. Nevertheless, I didn’t really feel like being sued by Philip Morris or challenging them in any respect actually given their energy over mine so I retreated. I knew the details. I knew that smoking rates have hit an all-time low (even in the UK), nevertheless, I knew that it was the youthful crowds who vaped without any information to its’ results on your health. I knew that the majority youngsters who vaped weren’t people who have smoked for years who have been making an attempt to give up, however youngsters who picked up a brand new normalised behavior. I knew that vaping increases the probability of smoking cigarettes. All a behavior through which Vice will now allow, or promote as wholesome.

“Just research Shane Smith’s personal real estate portfolio and my answer to this question becomes evident. Shane also seems to have a gambling addiction. Gavin McInnes is an alt-right propagandist,” Oklyn stated relating to the matter.

Frustration with political correctness and making an attempt to make everybody equal has grow to be pessimistic. The capitalist system has grow to be such a normalized idea that we can’t even recognize it and we use it to switch our morals with our needs. In design, creation and criticism we are so engulfed by it. The fascinating nature of Vice and its uncanny means to cater to younger individuals and dominate at doing so is the query of whether or not this can be a reflection of the Occasions through which we find ourselves. How is Vice capable of pull this off?

The answer may be so simple as provide and demand. We demand PC friendly, edgy, anti-everything quick fixes in all features of our lives. We are millennials, we love Smartphones, MacBook’s, Nike, sushi takeout and $10 greenback drinks at mediocre nightclubs. Our era isn’t placing away their cash for issues like mortgages anymore– this can be a recognized reality. The challenge lies inside, as our current tradition has such quick access and entitlement to be marketed to, mainly because there’s a luge lack of schooling and understanding why we see what we see, why we learn what we read and the place all of it comes from.

Featured Picture from: Bustle.com

The post The Toxic Vice Doctrine – Affinity Magazine appeared first on Techno Crats Blog.

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The Toxic Vice Doctrine – Affinity Magazine

In a world so PC, so misbehaved and so unpredictable, a world where comedians and reality TV stars turn out to be world chief and moms don’t consider in vaccinating their youngsters, I find that we’ve arrived at the entrance door of the beloved quirky Vice media and have had the welcome rug pulled from underneath our ft.

Vice media, at first, was unique, bold and a refreshing concept. It had a chew and it was provocative. It narrated the actions of our on-line world towards the establishment and for the individuals and it narrated it nicely. It was the zeitgeist of all things anti-fashion, anti-media and anti-society. Vice media shortly turned a channel for the millennium, for you might read about consuming and drugging while reading about George Bush and it was a protected place. For it was the brand new approach of media criticism. It was about culture and it was cool. It was founded in 1994 by Suroosh Alvi, Shane Smith, and Gavin McInnes. Now it’s’ made from a variety of buyers from The Walt Disney Firm, A&E Networks, and Twentieth Century Fox.

I asked others what they considered Vice. I felt like my emotions in the direction of Vice made me appear to be an indignant baby. My first indication that Vice Media was dropping its Messiah impression was once I interviewed Nimrod Kramer, former Vice author and Gonzo journalist. “Vice is like ISIS,” Kramer stated. “Vice is going down! Rupert Murdoch owns 5%, and they will send more to him. His son is on the board. People don’t like that they portray themselves as this millennial thing then take money from Murdoch. I prefer the Onion. Vice will never challenge say Adidas, it is not real journalism.”

“Vice Media is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma to paraphrase Winston Churchill commenting on Russia in 1939. From hipster to part of the largest most effective disinformation organization [Murdoch] in the world,” Steve Oklyn of NOT VOGUE, the mysterious style and media critic who research plenty of cultural principle and artwork, stated.

Picture from: iTV.com

In 2013, Vice Media bought elements of itself to Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Media Corp. for $70 million. As far as its’ independence goes, and being that ‘for the people’ outlet, Vice’s independence died that day. It’s exhausting not to object or perceive such happenings for I might promote each challenge I have ever accomplished for a quarter of what Vice obtained, however my disappointment stems from what Vice turned when it acquired its corporate crown and the taste that it has left in my mouth.

The Murdochs of the world saw potential in this rise in ‘ANTI’ the whole lot treated it like a development to be cashed in on. Similarly to the article within the Economist about pop singer Billie Eilish being ‘a focus-grouped, committee-driven idea of today’s pop’ (fashionable tradition particularly) and how the ‘being depressed’ turned capitalized within the pop business after researching what millennials have been discussing on social media.

This was the first time that counterculture and capital criticism turned a selling level to the mainstream media and its third get together, along with different industries who saw this as a development to be marketed, the group invested major cash into this media mogul referred to as Vice, and this was the beginning of the Vice Shock Doctrine. A motion you, like me, assume you’ll stand behind till you’ve realized that you simply’ve fallen right into a lure. Even after studying Marshall McLuhan’s media principle, I still fell for Vice. I still thought that it’s evaluation was unbiased (properly as unbiased as things can actually get today & age) and for my era. But with these most up-to-date headlines and happenings, I feel like Vice doesn’t cater nor symbolize us millennials, but exploits us. It does the complete opposite of what it preaches.

My first finding is the best way during which Vice treats ladies. “Vice has always displayed a disregard for women,” Oklyn stated. There’s the explosive sexual harassment scandal inside the firm itself that led to the company suspending two prime executives in an try and brush the scandal underneath the rug. Extra lately there are many accusations that Vice does not pay feminine employees merely as much as they do their male employees.

Image from: NYmag

“Vice Media might be a rapidly sinking ship,” writes Julie Zerbo of the Style Regulation [if you are going to cite a quote from an article, please include the title of the article] in February 2018. A narrative that came from the New York Occasions revealed in December 2017 that Vice, i-D, Noisey and other retailers have been patrons of ‘ugly corporate culture.’ The Occasions revealed 4 particular settlements involving sexual harassment allegations and defamation towards Vice staff, shortly after the corporate announced that chief digital officer, Mike Germano would not be returning to the company.

Two months after that NYT story, a Wall Road Journal story reported that Vice missed its income target in 2017 by more than $100 million. Then got here a new lawsuit about equal pay. Elizabeth Rose labored at Vice in management from 2014-2016 and filed a lawsuit towards the media mogul alleging that it engages in pay discrimination towards feminine staffers. In line with Zerbo, a lawyer in New York who particularly appeared at the Elizabeth Rose v., Vice Media Inc., et al, BC693688, Superior Courtroom of California (Los Angeles) case, Rose accused Vice of violating the Federal Equal Pay Act. The grievance details that male subordinates she hired made about $25,000 more per yr then she did. After reviewing inner memos, Rose found that lots of female staff at Vice have been being paid lower than their male counterparts and that they have been aware. This lawsuit will give other Vice staff the opportunity to share the monetary damages. Zerbo writes that Rose described, “That class of ‘similarly situated’ individuals include ‘hundreds of employees’ subjected to Vice Media’s “systematic, company-wide, unlawful treatment.”

Vice discretely ended the ugly lawsuit with Rose this yr and paid $2 million to settle towards the systematic pay discrimination accusations. Virtually 700 feminine present and former staff from Vice are eligible to share the settlement sum. That is considerably lower than $7,000,000-9,740,000 which is a figure an professional from the courtroom of regulation decided to be the complete quantity of underpaid wages to the feminine employees of Vice. Zerbo writes, “Of the near $2 million sum, $650,000 is earmarked for lawyers, $15,000 is going to service fees. The average payout that each woman will actually recover is expected to be about $1,600 (minus taxes).”

My second drawback is about vaping. Vice Media entered into a $6.5 million cope with Philip Morris Worldwide, to ‘promote e-cigarettes’ to their 18+ audience based on the Financial Occasions in March. The report detailed how Vice has agreed to supply sponsored content endorsing e-cigarettes – amid international concern, an try and clamp down on cigarette advertising of any variety. Despite Vice reporting on the uncanny concept of vaping amongst teenagers, calling it ‘embarrassing’, Vice is all of the sudden endorsing vaping. The worst a part of this endorsement and report is that a spokesperson for Vice said to the FT that the mission behind this deal is to ‘quit cigarettes.’

It is a recognized incontrovertible fact that cigarette endorsing is totally illegal. So, these Vice vaping adds quintessentially usually are not competing or changing any kind of ‘unhealthier’ or ‘deadlier’ choice. There have been no cigarette advertisements in publications targeted to teens, to begin with. When cigarettes themselves first came available on the market, it was the capital and the shortage of morals that snowballed smoking into a public well being concern. Docs, athletes, movie starts – no one knew the truth of smoking till it was too late. I’d wish to assume on this era nevertheless it isn’t too late. I want to assume that Vice Media isn’t making an attempt to kill me and my associates. I attempted to succeed in out to Vice, but I didn’t get a lot response. I made a decision that I needed to talk to Philip Morris about this hypocritical dangerous mess as an alternative. My query was easy really, is this really occurring?

Philip Morris wrote to me:

“We do have applications pending before the FDA seeking authorization to commercialize our heated tobacco product, IQOS, in the U.S. With respect to Vice, which has only been launched in the UK, the Quit Cigarettes” mission by Vice’s “Change Incorporated” matches squarely within PMI’s commitment to creating a smoke-free future. PMI’s goal is to modify our enterprise utterly out of flamable cigarettes to products that do not burn or don’t include tobacco. We first announced our smoke-free future in January 2017. Vice’s “Change Incorporated” will deliver editorially-independent content material, which we consider is uniquely positioned to encourage adult people who smoke to give up and make the absolute best decisions for their lives.”

“To be clear, No PMI (or competitive) products or brands will be advertised or promoted within the content. This project is about helping people quit cigarettes. That is the only measure of success. VICE/Change Incorporated will retain full creative and editorial control over the content they produce as part of this initiative. All Quit Cigarettes content will acknowledge funding from PMI.”

‘Success’ and ‘Change Incorporated’ sounded a bit off-putting and questionable. Nevertheless, I didn’t really feel like being sued by Philip Morris or challenging them in any respect actually given their energy over mine so I retreated. I knew the details. I knew that smoking rates have hit an all-time low (even in the UK), nevertheless, I knew that it was the youthful crowds who vaped without any information to its’ results on your health. I knew that the majority youngsters who vaped weren’t people who have smoked for years who have been making an attempt to give up, however youngsters who picked up a brand new normalised behavior. I knew that vaping increases the probability of smoking cigarettes. All a behavior through which Vice will now allow, or promote as wholesome.

“Just research Shane Smith’s personal real estate portfolio and my answer to this question becomes evident. Shane also seems to have a gambling addiction. Gavin McInnes is an alt-right propagandist,” Oklyn stated relating to the matter.

Frustration with political correctness and making an attempt to make everybody equal has grow to be pessimistic. The capitalist system has grow to be such a normalized idea that we can’t even recognize it and we use it to switch our morals with our needs. In design, creation and criticism we are so engulfed by it. The fascinating nature of Vice and its uncanny means to cater to younger individuals and dominate at doing so is the query of whether or not this can be a reflection of the Occasions through which we find ourselves. How is Vice capable of pull this off?

The answer may be so simple as provide and demand. We demand PC friendly, edgy, anti-everything quick fixes in all features of our lives. We are millennials, we love Smartphones, MacBook’s, Nike, sushi takeout and $10 greenback drinks at mediocre nightclubs. Our era isn’t placing away their cash for issues like mortgages anymore– this can be a recognized reality. The challenge lies inside, as our current tradition has such quick access and entitlement to be marketed to, mainly because there’s a luge lack of schooling and understanding why we see what we see, why we learn what we read and the place all of it comes from.

Featured Picture from: Bustle.com

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So I did a thing

PS I have an obsession with roses.