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Des concerts à Paris et alentour en gras : les derniers ajouts :-: in bold: the last news Mars 02. DIIV – La Gaîté lyrique ||COMPLET|| 03. Napalm Death + EYEHATEGOD + Misery Index + Rotten Sound – La Machine 03. Scorpion Violente + Air LQD – Quai de Bourbon 03. Handle + CIA Debutante + David Fenech – Espace B 03/04. The Mission – Petit Bain 04. David Fenech & Laurent Perrier + Phanes – Quai de Bourbon 05. Dorian Pimpernel + Mooon – Supersonic (gratuit) 05. TZII + Sacrifice Seul – Quai de Bourbon 05. Instant Voodoo + Laurence Wasser – Le Zorba 05. Orange Blossom : “Sharing” avec les machines de François Delarozière – Élysée Montmartre 05. King Dude + Biere noire – La Boule noire 06. Frustration + Italia 90 – Le Trianon 06. Electric Fire + Fantazio et les Turbulents (Sonic Protest) – Les Voûtes 06. UVB76 + Gaël Segalen – Café de Paris 06. France + Autrenoir + Aho Ssan + Astrid Sonne + Keki + Janomax – La Station 06. Violent quand on aime + Officium + Matière danse – Espace B 06. Chris Liebing + AZF – Dehors Brut 07. Sourdure – La Lingerie|Les Grands Voisins (gratuit) 07. L’atelier d’éveil musical du centre social Raymond-Poulidor + Foudre rockeur (Sonic Protest) – Les Voûtes 07. Substencia + Eastel + MZA – tba 07. Dave Clarke + Kuss + Murd + Toscan Haas – Dehors Brut 07. ABSL + Mind Matter + NN aka Primitive Tribe – Caves Lechapelais 07. Alcest + Birds In Row + Kælan Mikla – La Machine ||COMPLET|| 07. Ensemble intercontemporain joue Steve Reich : cinéconcert sur un film de Gerhard Richter – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 10. Tempers + Alessio Peck + Josee Laïka – Supersonic (gratuit) 10. Jerusalem in my Heart + Méryll Ampe et les élèves de l’Ensapc + Lucretia Dalt (Sonic Protest) – La Dynamo (Pantin) 10. Arnaud Rebotini : live pour “Fix Me” d’Alban Richard – Centre des Arts (Enghien-les-Bains) 11. Mopcut + F-Space + We Use Cookies + Astra Zenecan (Sonic Protest) – La Station 11. Morrissey – Salle Pleyel 11. Nada Surf + John Vanderslice – La Cigale ||COMPLET|| 12 Thomas Bégin + JD Zazie (Sonic Protest) – La Muse en circuit (Alfortville) 13. Russian Circle + Torche – Bataclan 13. Jean Jean + All Caps + Quadrupède – Quai de Bourbon 13. Bernardino Femminielli – Le Zorba 13. Emptyset + Hair Stylistics + Méryll Ampe (Sonic Protest) – L’Échangeur (Bagnolet) 13. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal – Le Colombier (Ville d’Avray) 14. Panico Panico + Tabatha Crash + Cosse – ESS’pace 14. Lonely Walk + Tamara Goukassova + Shock – Espace B 14. Why The Eye + WAqWAq Kingdom + Maria Violenza + Fleuves noirs + Jean-Marc Foussat + Julia Hanadi Al Abed + Pierre Gordeeff (Sonic Protest) – L’Échangeur (Bagnolet) 15. Nosfell (Mondial du tatouage) – Grand Halle de La Villette 15. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe & Anla Courtis + Ricardo Dias Gomes & Loïc Ponceau + Seijiro Murayama & Florian Tositti + Phanes – Les Pianos (Montreuil) 16. Hällas + La Secte du Futur + Meurtrières – La Maroquinerie 17. Chelsea Wolf – La Gaîté lyrique ||COMPLET|| 18. Pelada + Eye + Fiesta En El Vacio (Ideal Trouble) – Petit Bain 18. Lee Scratch Perry & Adrian Sherwood + 2Decks + Zaraz Wam Zagram (Sonic Protest) – Église Saint-Merry 18. This Quiet Army & Tom Malmendier + John Robin-Bold – Quai de Bourbon 19. HP (Haswell & Powell) + Inga Huld Hakonadrottir & Yann Legay + Asmus Tietchens + Regreb “2 Cymbals” (Sonic Protest) – Église Saint-Merry 19. Boubacar Cissokho (Paris Music) – Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris 19. Maulwürfe – Musée d’Orsay 20. Bleib Modern + Order 89 + Blind Delon + IV Horsemen + Paulie Jan + Codex Empire + Opale + Panzer + DJ Varsovie (fest. des souvenirs brisés) – Petit Bain 20. Jon Hopkins – Salle Pleyel 20. Martin Kohlstedt + Manu le Malin joue Barbara (Paris Music) – Musée des Arts et Métiers 20. Yan Wagner + Madben (Paris Music) – Cathédrale américaine 20. Monolithe noir + Paulie Jan – Quai de Bourbon 20. Senyawa + Bonne humeur provisoire + Black Trumpets (Sonic Protest) – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 20. Paula Temple + 16H07 b2b Ket Robinson + Ma Čka – Yoyo|Palais de Tokyo 20. Ellen Allien + Shlømo – Dehors brut 20. Ensemble Dedalus : "Occam Ocean" d'Éliane Radigue – Le Studio|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 21. Stephen O’Malley – Médiathèque musicale de Paris (gratuit) 21. Mind/Matter + Die Orangen + Mitra Mitra + Qual + Rendered + Verset Zero + Years of Denial (fest. des souvenirs brisés) – Petit Bain 21. Container + Muqata’a + OD Bongo + Diatribes & Horns + Jealousy Party + Urge + Wirklich Pipit + Me Donner + Cancelled + FLF + 2Mo (Sonic Protest) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 21. GZA – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 21. ABSL + Anetha + Hektos Oaks + High Future + Randomer + Sugar – tba 21. Front 242 + She Past Away – Élysée Montmartre ||COMPLET|| 21/22. Laurie Anderson : "The Art of Falling" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 22. Mike Cooper + Yann Legay + Will Guthrie & Ensemble Nist-Nah + Cheb Gero (Sonic Protest) – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 24. Skemer + IV Horsemen + Silly Joy – Supersonic (gratuit) 24. Joe Gideon – Espace B 24. I’d M Theft Able + Teenage God + Suicide Motorhead + Notre Travail bénéfique – Le Balto Otlab (Montreuil) 25. Low House (Eugene S. Robinson & Putan Club) + Moodie Black – Petit Bain 25. Wrekmeister Harmonies – Espace B 25. Buzzkull + Kontravoid + Crystal Geometry – Badaboum 25. Kumusta + Crash Normal – L’International 25. Li Li-Chin + Onceim & Li Li-Chin – Église Saint-Merry 25>28. Èlg + Vincent Epplay & Timo Van Luijk + Dominique Petitgand… (Fest. Interférences) – Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (gratuit) 27. Lebanon Hanover – La Gaîté lyrique 27. Baston – L’International 27. Maggy Payne : « Crystal » (diff.) + 9T Antiope + John Wiese + Matthias Puech + Nihvak (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 27. Mongolito + Biere Noire + Bisous De Saddam + Léa Jacta Est + Club Passion (Croux fest.) – Café de Paris 28. Ensemble Links : "Drumming" de Steve Reich + Cabaret contemporain joue Kraftwerk – théâtre de la Cité internationale 28. Iannis Xenakis : « Mycenae Alpha » (diff.) + Marja Ahti + Rashad Becker + Nina Garcia + Kode9 (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 28. Cut Hands + NAH + Shit&Shine + France Sauvage + Burris Meyer + UVB76 (dj) – Petit Bain 28. Satan + Noyades + S.O.L.A.N + Traitors + Accès de faiblesse (Croux fest.) – Espace B 28. Denis Frajerman + David Fenech – Plateforme 28. Balladur + Bracco + Coeval + Bajram Bili (dj) – La Boule noire 28. 14anger + Brecc + Oguz + Fuerr + Draugr + Atim – tba 29. Ivo Malec : « Recitativio » + Eve Aboulkheir + Richard Chartier + Lee Gamble + Will Guthrie & Mark Fell (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 31. M!R!M – Espace B 31. Leandro Barzabal + AVC + Vulcanizadora – Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) Avril 01. Lea Bertucci – tbc 02. The Futurians + CIA Debutante – Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) 02. Shannon Wright + Melaine Dalibert (Piano Day) – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 03. Kuniyuki Takahashi & Henrik Schwarz + Hugo LX & DJ Nori + Akiko Nakayama (Japan Connection fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 03. Tamara Goukassova + Constance Chlore – Le Zorba 03. Victoria Shen + Meryll Ampe + Golem mécanique – Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) 03. CocoRosie – Le Trianon ||COMPLET|| 04. Hiroaki Umeda + Nonotak + Aalko + Make It Deep Soundsystem (Japan Connection fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 04. Satoshi Tomiie & Kuniyuki + Hiroshi Watanabe + DJ Masda + Akiko Kiyama + Daisuke Tanabe + Intercity-Express (Japan Connection fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 04. Ash Code – Espace B 04. 2kilos &More & Black Sifichi + Plurals – Le vent se lève 04. OOIOO – Lafayette Anticipations 04. Katie Gately – Sacré 04. Wow + Laura Palmer – L’International 06. Julie Doiron – Espace B 06. Bauhaus – Grand Rex 08. Föllakzoid + UVB76 – Espace B 09. Will Samson + Northwest + Lyson Leclercq – Le vent se lève 09. The Chap + Rubin Steiner Live Band – Badaboum 10. Ventre de biche + Badaboum + Videodrome + A Ten Year Later + Paolo Tecon + Le Compas dans l’œil – La Station 10. Manu Le Malin + Popof + Nout Heretik + Noisebuilder + Electrobugz + Krïs Heretik + Broke Heretik + Aness Heretik + Split Heretik + Tom Buld'r.Heretik + Limka + Le Jall + Boubou Antinorm17 – tba 11. Infecticide + Astaffort Mods + Mono Siren – Supersonic (gratuit) 11. IAMX – Café de la danse 12. VTSS + Hadone – tba 14. Lucy Railton & Joe Houston jouent "Patterns in a chromatic field" de Morton Feldman – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 14/15. Metronomy – La Cigale 16/17. Metronomy – La Cigale ||COMPLET|| 17. Facs + ISaAC – Petit Bain 18. Siglo XX – La Boule noire 19. Rome + Primordial + Moonsorrow – La Machine 20. Big ‡ Brave + Jessica Moss – La Boule Noire 23. Volkor X + ToutEstBeau + Aphélie – Supersonic (gratuit) 23. Health + Pencey Sloe + Dead – Petit Bain 24. Parade Ground – L’International 25. Selofan + Jupiter Jane – Supersonic (gratuit) 25. Tim Tama + Vladimir Dubyshkin + Trym + Regal + Parfait – tba 26. Pharmakon + Deeat Palace + Unas (Ideal Trouble) – Petit Bain 26. Igorrr + Author & Punisher + Otto Von Schirach – La Cigale 27. Dean Wareham joue "On Fire" de Galaxie 500 – Petit Bain 27. Caribou – L’Olympia 27. The Foals + The Murder Capital – Zénith 28. Ulver – L’Alhambra 29. Protomartyr – La Boule Noire 29. Movie Star Junkies + Sam Fleisch + Tibia – Gibus 30. Conflict + The Filaments – Gibus Mai 02. Richie Hawtin – T7 05. The Sonics + Messer Chups – Trabendo 06. hackedepicciotto + Laurence Wasser – Espace B 07. Laurent Perrier & David Fenech – Souffle Continu (gratuit) 07. Trrmà – Le Zorba 08. Max Richter : "Infra" + Jlin + Ian William Craig – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 09. Max Richter : "Voices" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 09. Jonas Gruska + Leila Bordreuil + Jean-Philippe Gross + Kali Malone (fest. Focus) – Le 104 09. Extrawelt + Oxia + Popof + Wuza + O'Tawa – Le Kilowatt (Ivry/Seine) 10. Iannis Xenakis : « La Légende d’Eer » + Folke Rabe : « Cyclone » et « What ??? » (fest. Focus) – Le 104 10. Max Richter : "Recomposed" & "Three Worlds" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 11. Cannibale + Frankie and the Witch Fingers + Euromilliard – La Maroquinerie 11. The Electric Soft Parade + Tim Keegan – Petit Bain 13. Wire – La Maroquinerie 13. Austra – Badaboum ||COMPLET|| 14. Aksak Maboul + JFDR + Powerdove (Le Beau festival) – La Boule noire 15. Palberta + Michelle Blades + Good Morning TV (Le Beau festival) – La Boule noire 16. Tops + Corridor + Polycool + Myriam Stamoulis + La Veillée Pop (Le Beau festival) – La Station 16. Black Midi – Carreau du Temple 19. Swans + Norman Westberg – Le Trabendo 16. Hermann Kopp & Lorenzo Abattoir + Fusiller + Sang-Foutre – Quai de Bourbon 20>24. Giant Swan + Otoboke Beaver + Sinead O’Brien + Kills Birds + Vanishing Twin + Kit Sebastian + Jardin + Rouge Gorge + Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek + Holy Fuck + Gabber Modus Operandi + Balladur + Crystallmess (dj) + Squid + Glitter + Black Country, New Road + Murman Tsuladze + Tôle froide + Sorry + Donny Benet + La Créole + La Récré + Lewsberg + Lido Pimienta + Moesha 13... (Villette sonique) – La Villette 20. The Jesus & Mary Chain jouent “Darklands” + Carla Del Forno (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 21. Yves Tumor + Pottery + Disq (Villette sonique) – Trabendo 22. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe + Kristin Anna (Carte blanche Stephen O’Malley/Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 22. Kim Gordon (Villette sonique) – Cabaret sauvage 22. François Bayle : « Le Projet Ouïr » + Marco Parini : « De Parmegiani Sonorum » + Yan Maresz (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 23. Tout Est Beau (Villette sonique) – parc de La Villette 23. Julien Négrier + Hans Tutschku : « Provenance-émergence » + Félicia Atkinson : « For Georgia O’Keefe » + Warren Burt + Michèle Bokanowski (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 24. Philippe Mion + Pierre-Yves Macé : « Contre-flux II » + Daniel Teruggi : « Nova Puppis » + Adam Stanovitch + Gilles Racot : « Noir lumière » (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 23/24. Damon Albarn – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 25. The Church – Petit Bain 26. Minimal Compact – La Machine 30/31. Paula Temple + Dave Clarke + Ben Klock + Len Faki + 999999999 + VTSS b2b Shlomo + DVS1 + François X… (Marvellous Island) – île de loisirs de Vaires-Torcy Juin 01/02. The Dead C – Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) 03. Bambara – Espace B 04. Phill Niblock + Tim Shaw – Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) 05. And Also The Trees – La Maroquinerie 06/07. Four Tet + Nils Frahm + Park Hie Jin + Modeselektor… (fest. We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 12. The Breath of Life + Box and the Twins – Gibus 13. Flat Worms (Ideal Trouble) – Gibus 14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Bercy Arena 18. Acid Mothers Temple – Espace B 27. Meryem Aboulouafa + Nicolas Godin (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 28. Ensemble Social Silence joue “Music for Airport” de Brian Eno (Days Off) – Studio|Philharmonie 28. Wooden Elephant joue “Kid A” de Radiohead (Days Off) – Amphithéâtre|Cité de la musique 29. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto + Echo Collective joue “12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann” de Jóhann Jóhansson (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 30. Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra + Agnes Obel (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie Juillet 01. Apparat – Le Trianon 01. Arandel : “InBach” (Days Off) – Amphithéâtre|Cité de la musique 02. Orchestre de Paris : “Symphony No. 1 "Low"” de Philip Glass + “Music for Ensemble and Orchestra” de Steve Reich (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 03. Perfume Genius + Anna Calvi (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 04. Nicolás Jaar : musique pour la pièce chorégraphique “¡miércoles!” de Stéphanie Janaina (Days Off) – Studio|Philharmonie 04. Kevin Morby + Andrew Bird Symphonique (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 04. Boy Harsher + Partiboi69 + Otim Alpha + Jonny Rock + La Famille Maraboutage + Catu Diosis… (Macki Music) – Parc de la Mairie (Carrières/Seine) ||COMPLET|| 05. Ben UFO + Jamie Tiller b2b Orpheu The Wizard + Murman Tsuladze + The Pilotwings + Flegon�� (Macki Music) – Parc de la Mairie (Carrières/Seine) 05/06. Suzanne Vega, Ensemble Ictus & Collegium Vocale Gent : “Einstein on the Beach” de Philip Glass (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 07. The Rapture + Sons of Raphael (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 17. Björk – Seine Musicale (Boulogne-Billancourt) 17/18. Grim + Galerie Schallschutz + Am Not + Linekraft + Deathpanel + Detrimental Effect + African Imperial Wizard – Les Voûtes 18. Oh Sees – Cabaret sauvage 20. Björk – Seine Musicale (Boulogne-Billancourt) Août 29. Massive Attack (Rock en Seine) – parc de Saint-Cloud Septembre 27. Mudhoney – La Maroquinerie 30. Peter Hook & The Light : Joy Division. A Celebration – Bataclan

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soulbranded · 5 years

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fight - from @sgtjamesbbbarnes

@sgtjamesbbbarnes – one word prompts

fight : my muse stops your muse from getting into a physical fight with someone else. (I’m flipping the script a little bit here)

Before the Accords fiasco, the farthest she’d been from home was a few trips down to New Orleans with Pasha. But now Rachel was traveling all over the place, and not just in the continental US. It made her feel very much the small-town girl, and not in the cutesy, romcom sense. It was fucking overwhelming. Languages she didn’t understand, unfamiliar customs, police, not to mention each country’s own thriving extra-human population. She was striking deals, making alliances, tracking people down–all things she should in theory be good at, but every time her throat went dry and her stomach squirmed. When she’d caught Steve looking over a classified file and finally coaxed the truth from him, it was almost a relief. He was looking for somebody. Tracking spells were cake.

Except they had no DNA. Why was nothing ever easy?

She’d thought about the problem for a solid three weeks. The dude they were chasing–Steve called him Bucky–had quite the reputation. She’d looked him up in what remained of the Council database. His arm seemed the key. It was unique. An energy signature, mechanics, something. The answer was right there, itching at the edge of her mind, until she finally latched on to something. As she was wont to do, she went chasing after it, meaning she dropped off the face of the earth for a while with just a scrawled note that said Got a plan, be back later, don’t break any walls.

She’d traveled to Europe on a glamoured passport. Magic made fake IDs so much easier. Her theory was a little sketchy, but it wasn’t without legs: the Winter Soldier was practically an underworld boogeyman, as old as Steve. Unless it was a Bond-esque reincarnation, some kind of enhancement had to be at work, and from what she’d read in her research–because despite her temperamental attitude, Rachel was fucking thorough–HYDRA had to be working on a serum similar to what Steve had received. If it was similar enough at the molecular level, it could provide her with at least a direction, if not an exact location. Europe was her hotspot based on her latest intel and gut instinct; Europe was familiar, the proverbial fortress on the hill, and snipers sought the high ground. Worst case scenario, she was on a wild goose chase. But hey, at least she got to play with some possibly mind-melting magic.

In Romania, she rented a small apartment and slept the jetlag off for a few hours before starting her ritual. Oh, how she missed her metal rings in her cabin. They made it so much easier to hold a circle. But chalk was going to have to do. She drew a wide circle and put her herbs and copper bowl in the middle of it, along with a small vial that she had paid an obscene amount of money for and on which all her hopes were riding. Like called to like, so if they were even remotely the same…well, she just had to hope. And hope the spell didn’t reveal her to anyone. Or kill her. Nobody said the plan was perfect.

Mugwort, cowslip, and iris root went into the bowl, along with a few extra ingredients. Rachel held the vial up and looked at it, then exhaled a long breath. Here went nothing. She dumped the vial–blood–into the bowl and then picked up a small knife and pricked her thumb, massaging her own blood into the mixture. A match to set the spell aflame and she was breathing in the earthy smoke. For a second, nothing happened. Then she saw a face, contorted in pain, some kind of machine attached to his head. She saw experiments. The whirred past her vision like a malicious tilt-a-whirl. She saw years of torture, of death, of pain. Memories that weren’t her own flickered like a movie reel, and above it all, it was cold. So, so cold.

This was not her usual tracking spell. She was getting this man’s life. And she couldn’t stop it. Her mind recoiled, trying to push the horror away, but it stayed with her, an avalanche that buried her own thoughts and emotions. As suddenly as it started, it abruptly shifted. A street. Modern times. A small cafe and a man hunched over a cup of coffee like it held the elixir of life. He looked up.

Bucky.

The spell broke, and Rachel fell backwards onto her elbows, panting. Well, her brain hadn’t dissolved, but she had this weight. Everything she’d seen and felt sat on her chest in a writhing mass, incapable of being separated, just one huge jumble of misery. This was who Steve wanted to find?

This was the fabled Winter Soldier?

As soon as she collected herself, she grabbed her bag and gun and dashed out the door. She knew that street. It was fresh in her mind and it wasn’t far away. Her gut said the spell had ended in real time. She could make it. And she could–do what, exactly? Walk up to a deadly assassin and say Hi, wanna go to New York?

Great, Rachel. You flew halfway around the world, cooked up some sketchy ass magic, and ended it with no plan. What was that about being thorough?

But those memories stayed with her. This man, this Bucky, to say he’d been through hell was an understatement. It made her remember a grey windowless room with a chair bolted to the floor, and an emotionless voice telling her she must have faith. Steve had faith in this guy, and she had faith in her gut, so she plowed ahead. What was he gonna do, shoot her in broad daylight?

Maybe. Well, it wouldn’t be the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. One day she was going to learn to improve her life choices.

She rounded a corner and saw a faded red awning above some black metal chairs. The cafe. In the corner, tucked as far away from others as he could get and with his back to the building–the Paranoid Chair, as she liked to call it, which also happened to be her favorite–was Bucky. He looked like he’d gotten his clothes from a lost and found and had a baseball cap pulled down low over his eyes, but it was him. Rachel almost laughed in satisfaction. It’d worked. She hesitated for a moment, keenly aware of the gun in her shoulder holster beneath her jacket. Her gut said she needed to come at this with those memories in mind. Put the Soldier aside and remember the man. Christ, wasn’t that poetic, coming from her.

She started walking toward him when a throng of men entered her vision, approaching from the south. They were heading straight for Bucky too, and they did not look like they’d chosen the Friend Route RPG option. Rachel sped up, but she was farther away, and had to cross a busy thoroughfare. The men reached Bucky first, and she almost got hit by a car due to her fixation on his reaction. She knew that body language. It was defensive, reluctant. Dangerous but unwilling.

She slapped the hood of another car as she ran across the street. Bucky’s fists were clenched and the men were shouting at him in a language she didn’t understand, their faces hard with rage. The man at the front, who was approximately the size of a small mountain, drew back his fist, but she saw it first. Bucky was countering already, his left arm, the enhanced arm, ready to fly up.

Without thinking, Rachel flung her hand out and sent a spell flying. It hit the man in front and knocked him into the wall so hard it cracked. “Stop!”

The men turned in unison to look at this little redhead running up to them speaking a foreign language. Rachel drew to a halt, putting herself between them and Bucky. He towered over her, almost as tall as Steve, but she’d taken bigger fish.

“I said stop.” She panted, more from adrenaline than the run, and magic crackled along her skin. Another roll of her wrist and she cast a glamour over Bucky. “He’s not who you think he is.”

Mountain Man eyed her. “Cine dracu esti tu?”

Rachel blinked. “Listen, just… shoo.” She made a flapping motion with her hand. She could amp up the magic and scare the hell out of them, but that risked attracting even more attention, and she actually was trying to deescalate the situation.

“Nu este nimeni. Lasă-o din ea,” Bucky said. Rachel looked behind her at him, and he deftly sidestepped her so that he was now shielding her. She had to duck to the side to see what was happening. Goddamned tall guys.

They exchanged a few more words that Rachel didn’t understand, and their postures grew more threatening. Her interference seemed to have caused a shift in Bucky. He was trying to protect her. He pulled his arm back again, and this time she hit him with a spell, although it wasn’t nearly as strong—just enough to knock him off his balance.

“Look,” Rachel said, exasperated, and gestured to Bucky. Her glamour came off him in strong waves, but unless she was the unluckiest person on earth, these guys would see an old man instead of the true Bucky.

They looked between each other, looked at Bucky, looked at her, back at Bucky, and after several eternities, turned around and stormed away. Bucky was leaning against the wall, holding his arm. Rachel winced. She really hoped she hadn’t just given him cause for another punch.

“I’m sorry about that,” she said. “I just didn’t think it was a good idea to draw attention with a fight.”

He looked at her with haunted eyes. Rachel was suddenly freezing. “Who are you?” he asked, his voice rusty as if from disuse.

“Would you believe I’m a friend?” His face said no. “Okay, friend of a friend? I’m a friend of Steve’s.”

Now it was Bucky’s turn to blink. His eyes darted back and forth as if he were sorting through information. “Steve Rogers?”

“Yeah.” Now that the immediate danger was gone, she went into damage control and looked around. A few people were staring, but nobody had stopped and she didn’t hear any sirens, but it was probably better to get the hell out of here. “Why don’t I buy you a coffee somewhere else and tell you all about it?”

He hesitated. “No.”

Oh, how the turns had tabled. She knew that look. It was paranoia, the kind that comes when they really are out to get you. And she knew, oh she knew, that it was the kind of paranoia that wouldn’t budge.

“Bucky,” she said. “I know you got no reason to trust me. But I swear I come in peace.”

The name got his attention, and he gave her a tortured look. “What did you do to me?” He let go of his arm and rotated it, but the movement was off. It was less like working a muscle and more like realigning a transmission.

“Magic. I’m… not normal. And we’ve got some things in common.” She offered him a wan smile.

He stared at her for a long moment, and she swore he could see straight down to her bones. “Why are you here?”

That was the question wasn’t it. Ostensibly, she was there because of Steve. But after what she’d seen in the spell, she had absolutely no desire to make this man do anything he didn’t want to do. There were days she could still feel the spelled iron around her wrist. She wasn’t going to take away anyone’s will, come hell or high water.

“I’m here to talk. To give you some options, and then to do what you want. If you want to come with me, you can. If you want me to get lost, I’ll never bother you again. Either way, it’s your choice.”

His eyes cast downward for a moment, and then he sighed. “Are you okay with a bit of a walk? There’s another cafe far enough away from here we should be safe.”

Rachel smiled, and there was warmth in it. “Lead the way.”

#memes: answered #re: I never knew daylight could be so violent; bucky #v: heroes fall with broken hearts;#sgtjamesbbbarnes #OH MY GOD #IT'S SO LONG #I'M SO SORRY #i have a lot of commentary about this fic #rachel stories #illfatedvoyage #asks: answered

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magickmoons · 6 years

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Long Night

a Destiel AU fic cross-posted to AO3

Cas looked at the clock and groaned. Late again. He would be so glad when tax season was over. With one hand, he grabbed his phone and opened a call to Dean, while he used the other to hastily shut down his computer. He started speaking as soon as the call connected. "Babe, I know I'm late again. I'm so sorry. It's just a few more weeks. I'll pick up Chinese from that place you like on my way home."

"I'm gonna stop you right there."

Cas froze at the unfamiliar voice. He checked the display to make sure he'd dialed his boyfriend's number. He had.

"Who is this? Where's Dean? Is he all right?"

"Well, that all depends ... " The voice trailed off tauntingly.

"Depends on what? Where's Dean?" Panic was starting to set in, each breath a stabbing pain in his chest. "Is he okay?"

"Cas, baby --" Dean's voice shouted from somewhere in the background. "It's gonna be fi--" There was a dull thudding noise and Dean let out a pained moan and fell silent.

The call disconnected, leaving Cas standing in his office doorway, staring numbly at his useless phone, willing Dean's voice to come back. He pulled in a slow breath, trying not to think of all the nightmare scenarios he had imagined over the past few years. Being involved with a cop, Cas always knew one day he might get The Call. And yes, this was bad, but not as bad as it could be; not the worst -- he'd heard Dean's voice, he was alert and strong. He held onto that fact as he flipped through his contacts for Benny's number.

"Officer Lafitte," Dean's sometime partner answered abruptly.

"Where is he?"

"Cas? That you, buddy?" There was a pause, where Cas could hear the sound of people moving around, speaking. "Dean can't talk right now. I'll have him call you soon."

"I know he can't talk, Benny. I just spoke to whoever has him."

There was a second of heavy silence.

"Well, shit. Cas, it's going to be okay. We're gonna --"

"Where. Is. He?"

"I can't tell you." Beny sounded sincerely apologetic, if distracted.

"Where the fuck is he, Benny?"

"You can't be here, Castiel."

"LIke hell I can't." Cas was gripping his phone so tightly, he was afraid it might crack in his hand.

Benny's voice was heavy. "Cas, it'll be harder for people to make the tough calls if you're here, right in their faces."

A cold wave washed through him. "Are they going to have to make tough calls?" he asked haltingly. Benny's silence was answer enough. "Benny, please, I have to be there if something happens."

He couldn't sit at home and wait for a call, not when he knew something was happening right now. And if the worst did happen... well, he'd rather be there than not -- maybe get a chance to say goodbye, at least one last 'I love you.'

"All right," Benny relented with a sigh. "But you're not driving like this. I'll send Kline to get you."

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The wait for Officer Kline (a barely post-pubescent, overly-energetic patrol officer -- "Call me Jack, Mr. Novak") had been interminable, the trip back worse, even though Jack ran the cruiser with lights and sirens; somewhere in his mind, Cas was pretty sure this situation didn't warrant that, but he'd thank the rookie later.

They parked in the downtown shopping district and walked about a block to the 'scene' -- an innocuous stretch of storefronts, made notable to Cas only by the presence of a '67 Impala on the street; and of course the dozens of officers, patrol cars, and floodlights. Jack wouldn't let him past the perimeter carefully marked with police tape. He radioed to Benny, who raised a hand and nodded at them, but stayed where he was, deep in conversation with Cole Trenton, head of SWAT.

With a shrug, Jack led Cas to where several ambulances were parked, waiting to see if they would be needed.

"Might as well make ourselves comfortable," he said hoisting himself onto a tailgate.

Jack turned out to be quite enamored of Dean -- "the Sarge" -- and was more than happy to ramble on about him with almost no input form Cas, until he said:

"He doesn't really seem to like me that much."

Cas wrenched his eyes away from the activity to see Jack looking kind of dismayed. "It takes Dean a while to warm up to people," Cas said wryly, thinking of their own disastrous first meeting.

"Hazard of the job, I guess," Jack mused.

Cas shrugged noncommittally. The job sure didn't help, but Jack didn't need to know all the shit Dean had gone through before he'd ever enrolled in the Academy.

His eyes searched Benny out again, and he tensed when he found him in an unmistakable argument with Trenton.

"Are there other hostages?"

"Well, I'm not really allowed to tell you any specifics," Jack replied, nodding once, definitively.

"I understand."

Just out of the line of sight of the jewelry store that seemed to be at the center of everything, Cas could see Trenton's men gearing up. They would be cautious with one of their own in there, he knew, but he also knew when SWAT went in, things could get messy. Dean had always said Cole Trenton was too eager to throw his men into the fray. And Dean would surely do everything he could to protect the civilians inside with him; he'd throw himself on a bomb to save an innocent life.

Cas felt sick. He thought of all the times he had listened to Dean recount his day in sanitized summaries that still gave Castiel nightmares, but this -- this waiting, helpless, while it all played out in real time -- this was agonizing.

"Why was Dean sent in on his own?"

Jack shrugged. "He wasn't. Far as I know, he wasn't even on duty. Don't know the whole story, but he just was there, I guess, texted Benny when he saw something going down."

The SWAT officers were arranging themselves. Cas could see the worried expression on Benny's face. He clenched his fists, bit his tongue, trying not to interfere.

Benny glared at Trenton, who raised his radio defiantly. There was an expectant tension in the air when the front door of the shop suddenly opened. Every gun went up. Cas jumped to his feet Jack smoothly moving to stand between Cas and the scene.

For a long second, nothing happened. Everyone's eyes were glued to the dark doorway. Cas couldn't breathe.

Then Dean's voice rang out across the empty space. "Hold your fire! Hostages coming out. Hold your fire."

After a hurried conversation with Benny, Cole spoke into his radio and everyone settled into a slightly less aggressive posture. Benny's voice echoed through a portable amp.

"Well, come on out, then."

A few seconds later, a young couple came scurrying out of the store, followed by an older woman, then a middle-aged man. They were all ushered quickly over to the ambulances, where the EMTS started checking them over, an officer standing by each of them.

Cas strained to hear what they were saying.

".... so brave. He saved us."

"--didn't even know he was an officer at first--"

" -- thought he was just crazy, man."

"-- like a movie--"

Dean's voice shouted through the door again. "Okay, we're coming out now. Armed officer following subject, subdued and unarmed. I repeat, the subject is unarmed. Hold your fire!"

Again he waited for Benny's verification before proceeding. Cas shifted so that he was standing next to Jack, straining to see Dean.

First through was a sullen-looking man, probably around Dean's age, walking slowly, his hands raised above his head. Dean followed behind him, gun held steady until they were in full view of the other officers. He said something and the other man stopped and knelt with his hands behind his head. Dean holstered his gun with a visible sigh as other officers approached, covering the scene. Even from this distance, Cas could see the blood and bruising on Dean's face, the careful way he held himself, speaking to possible further injuries.

Cas started toward him, but Jack held him back with a tight grip on his arm.

"Sorry, Mr. Novak, not until we've got the scene secured."

Officers were approaching, lifting the suspect and leading him to a squad car. As soon as they closed the door behind him, Cas shook out of Jack's hold and ran forward.

"Dean!" he shouted.

Dean whipped around, shocked. "Cas, baby. What are you doing here?"

Cas wrapped his arms around Dean, held him tightly. "I couldn't stay away. Just wanted to be near you." Dean let out a shaky breath as his arms circled Cas's waist.

"Excuse me, Sgt. Winchester. I need to get your statement," came a deep voice approaching from behind Cas.

"Aw, cut 'em a break, Henricksen. You gotta have a heart in there somewhere." Benny appeared, clapped a hand on Dean's shoulder. "Good to see you in one piece, brother."

"Five minutes." Henricksen stepped to the side a few paces, looking like he was mentally counting the seconds.

"Victor Henriksen. He's I.A.," Dean clarified for Cas. "Wants to know what I was doing here."

"What were you doing here, Dean?"

He shifted uneasily, winced, then shrugged.

"Uh, this was not how I planned on doing this," he muttered. He pulled a small box out of his pocket and opened it. Cas's eyes widened at the ring shining against a dark velvet lining. "After the last few hours I can't even imagine why you would consider it, but ... you wanna get married?"

Words failed him. Marriage .... They had talked about it -- casually, he had thought -- but he knew how much it meant to Dean: marriage, family, commitment. He looked up at Dean, who was simultaneously looking hopeful, embarrassed, and resigned.

Why wouldn't he consider it? Official or not, Dean was it for him; he'd known that for a while now. He wouldn't have been any more -- or less -- worried with a ring on his finger. He touched the ring reverently, a tangible symbol of what Dean had to fight for, to come home to each night.

He nodded, still unable to speak past the emotion, then pulled Dean tightly to him and kissed him, dimly aware of cheers and catcalls around them as the kiss quickly turned from sweet to desperate and needy.

They broke apart to the sound of a throat clearing. Henricksen gaved them a curt nod. "Just drop by my office tomorrow, Winchester. For now, get checked out by the EMTS and get out of here."

"See, he's not that bad!" Dean yelled over to Benny, who rolled his eyes. "Henricksen, you are definitely invited to the next poker night!"

Henricksen shook his head, bemused, and walked away. Around them, people moved around them, documenting the scene, and offering brief congratulations as they passed.

Dean took Cas's hand and gently slipped the ring onto his finger. He chuckled. "Well, I think this proposal story is definitely going to be the winner at all those boring business dinners you keep dragging me to."

Cas huffed a nervous laugh. "After today, I'm not convinced I'm letting you out the door ever again."

Dean's face fell. "Cas, man, I ..."

He leaned in to kiss Dean gently, then tilted his forehead to rest against Dean's. He sighed. "No, I know. I didn't mean it. Just ... joking, venting." He looked back at the civilians by the ambulances; at the criminal in the squad car, apprehended without a shot fired; at Jack Kline with his hero worship and Benny Lafitte who claimed to owe his life to Dean on more than one occasion. He looked back to Dean, who was biting his lip nervously.

"Dean, what you do is so important. And you're good at it. Very good." He swallowed around the adrenaline pinging through his system with no focus anymore. "I could never take you away from this."

Dean's eyes glistened briefly before he shook it off, clearing his throat. "What do you say I get cleared by the EMTs, then I take you home and remind you how important you are to me?"

Cas nodded fervently, threading his fingers tightly through Dean's as they walked through the organized chaos.

A day might come that didn't end as well as this one, but the unaccustomed pressure of the ring beneath Dean's grasp reminded him that today had ended well, that they had a future to plan together ... and that Dean's emotional control was kind of on its last legs. Cas barely grabbed his arm in time to keep him from swinging a fist at Cole Trenton as they neared the SWAT commander, silently fuming in the shadows.

"Oh, come on, Cas. Just one punch. The guy was gonna breach, even without imminent threat to the hostages. Coulda gotten us all killed."

Cas stared at Dean and shook his head slowly. "With I.A. right over there, Dean? No. We are celebrating our engagement at home tonight, not in a holding cell."

Dean rolled his eyes, but calmed down enough to just glare daggers at Trenton. As they approached the waiting medic, Dean squeezed Cas's hand. "See what a good fiance I am?"

"The best, babe. You're the best."

Dean threw him his best cocky grin. Cas let himself rest against the side of the ambulance while the medic examined his fiance, waiting patiently until they could finally head home.

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gabidrake · 2 years

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Y : YOURS.

Y : YOURS. does your muse get protective easily?

Yes, Gabi is incredibly defensive of those that she cares about. If she has decided that you are important to her, or even if you are any siren in the Caribbean Sea, she will probably fight tooth and nail for you. It's amped up even further if you're her lover or close friend.

#answered

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cordemaris · 6 years

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🌌 🌌 🌌

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non-est-sanctus · 4 years

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Trope - Nivvy

For every “Trope” I get, I will post a TV trope for my muse.

Trope - Enthralling Siren

Nivvy, in contrast to her reserved phoenix momma (Who can sing in her own right), actually has the ability to lure in men with her singing (for both good and bad reasons, unfortunately), courtesy of the teachings of her second-oldest sister, Nereida. Like most angelic beings, it was vital for Nivvy to know her to sing as part of the arts; she only amped it further by being a legit water-type that trained under Nereida (An actual water nymph) who uses magic to transform into a mermaid at will.

#|| Her headcanons ||

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xottzot · 6 years

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2018-01(JAN)-10th--Wednesday--in pain--and motorbike rushes to pedestrian walkway and rushes through at 6_68pm.

2018-01(JAN)-10th--Wednesday--in pain--and motorobike rushes to pedestrian walkway and rushes throught at 6_68pm.

In a LOT of pain.

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Around 6:58pm, a road? motorbike came rushing along the Kalara Way street then went illegally through the pedestrian walkway at the end of Kalara Road...AGAIN for the billionth time.

I don't know if it was registered or not, stolen or not, but it was in a LOT of hurry and chose to deliberately and actively NOT ride on the main roads but to dart in and illegally use the pedestrian walkway(s).

This goes on ALL the time.

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Then false calm.

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HOWEVER.......

Earlier today, I think it was the aboriginal screaming woman of recently came along and went into Fatguts abo criminal household around sometime 3pm today.

Also, at around almost 7pm, an abo youth came out of the same place wielding a long wooden? white pole (the one that was used against the crazed abo woman recently by a crazed male adult abo in the streets? who came out of and went back into the main abo criminal household of Kalara Way)...well this early evening in late daylight, one of the VERY criminal and VIOLENT male abo youths came out of Fatguts front yard and was wielding the same? thing as a spear weapon just like the abo adult thug had ben doing on that other night trying to attack the abo woman with it and wielding it like an abo spear in the Kalara streets.

This evening that youth was walking about wielding it like a spear, and he came out of Fatguts abo criminal household place, walked across Kalara Way street and was amking his way loosely across the road to to the main abo criminal household of Kalara Way street. He was prancing about and doing 'abo dancing' with the shaft of wood before suddenly hurling it at a white picket gate of the criminal household next door to the main abo criminal housheold of Kalara Way. Then he sauntered across, seemingly then gave up about the spear and just wandered ito the yard of the main abo criminal household of Kalara Way.

Thia 'wandering about' and being brainlessly violent is a constant trademark hallmark of the violent feral criminal abos of all ages, males & females, of Kalara Way, Koongamia, Western Australia and has been going on for well over 10 years.....

Earlier, there was several abo older youths congregating on the footpath right outside Fatgits criminal abo household. There also happend to be 2 younger abo criminal kids on the roads, one on a foot-scooter, the other on a small pushbike that had been painted over with solid white paint to conceal its identity of origin. (THAT criminal shit has been going on for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS too....and countless stolen bicycles and other bikes have 'vanished' only to become 're-birthed' and used by the criminal aboriginals of all ages and also can be made up of odd parts cobbled together of several bicycles.)

An innocent car came along on the road and took a VERY wide berth around them (onto teh OTHER side of the road) because AS USUAL they refused to get off the road and in fact raced towards the vehicle in an intimidating manner making the young woman driver speed up and move off faster to go to the Koongamia shops area and get away from them. - Again, this is another hallmarkof the criminal abo's of the Kalara Way street and has been for YEARS AND YEARS.

ALL THE ABOVE is so VERY VERY typical and CONSTANT, even during ANY SCHOOL DAY and within SCHOOL HOURS, especially since the criminal younger aboriginals refuse to got to school, (depsite a lower school being across the road from where they live) and when they get old enough they are young criminals still young enough to evade arrests as 'adults' by Police and authorities, a state they use, and other abo criminals use, to all their criminal advantages.

The abo toddlers-in-diapers are of course being brought up in teh same criminal environment and will be exactly the same, to perpetuate the abo criminality forever.

Depsite EVERYONE having to wear bicycle helmets because it IS THE LAW, the criminal aboriginals of all ages NEVER EVER EVER wear them. - The ONLY time they would wear any helmets is to disguise their identities on motorbikes, stolen or whatever, or being 'passengers' on the backs of such illegal motorbikes doing illegal shit or on their way or back from doing illegal shit. - They do NOT ever wear helmets because it's so much easier to just get off any stolen bicycle or motorbike and then claim to any pursuing police who may be about that they are just 'walking about and are completely inncoent'....oh the bullshit and outright utter lies that gets accepted all the time.....even when you see it in front of you occuring you cannot believe how they CONSTANTLY get away with such shit.

Another reason for not wearing any helmets on illegal motrobikes is so they can go out walking in darkness or riding pushbikes and then retrieve stashed illegal motorbikes when it becomes dark, and use the same tactics again, illegally going through pedestrian walkways where Police cars and unmarked Police cars cannot follow them. -- AGAIN, this and these are common tactics that has been going on for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS and has increased the last few years....

So far...its winding up to all that again.....alraedy had the 'traditional yearly out-of-control bushfire in late 2017.......but maybe it's grown back again and if it hasn't then perhaps a little bit of rain (we've had NOTHIG AT ALL SO FAR) despite the weather department bullshit reports and media bullshit we have had rain, there has been nothing, not a dop, just dust in the air all night and falling down in the day as well, but there's SUPPOSED to be rain AGAIN forecast to land here in the next several days...and once again weather forecasts for this hellhole can ever be relied upon one way or the other.

Hence perhaps, a reason for some of my great pain lately as well, but NO RAIN.

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There has been a couple of Police sirens heard briefly today very closeby. They may be unmarked Police cars I suspect and not marked Police vehicles.

But despite Western Australian Police patrolling (a rarity in itself) in school hours even on school days (it's currently school holidays still), the Police usually (always) turn a huge blind eye to roaming abo kids who should be in school. And they totally believe any make-believe shit the abo criminal kids tell them to explain anything if they ever do stop and ask them anything. I've seen that with my own eyes. Even when the Police had a solid description of a criminal abo youth and had stopped them in the street in a patrol. They just accepted what the shithead lied to them about and drove on, not even bothering to get out of their Police vehicle despite the abo matching the description given to them earlier. - Utter madness abounds at this hellhole area.

Hence the criminal kids become even more bold as they grow up. They've been that way ALL THEIR LIVES.

It seems that only when they become older and adults, do Police actively take a role in apprehending them because it makes the Police 'look bad' in the media. So many times you will hear how abo kids/youths/young adults have been arrested on very serious criminal charges and then it might become known to the public JUST HOW CRIMINAL the individal has been ALL THEIR LIVES and HOW MUCH CRIME that criminal has been allowed to do and get away with for so very long. - And Police wonder why innocent people muse upon the idea that Police might be corrupt and so Police should not be trusted?

If an abo is arrested, esepcially younger ones, this is then the point where a well-paid for army of departmentals suddenly jump in and proclaim the aborigial is just a 'poor dear result of X'.....'X' being any number of amorphous bullshit they use to try to totally absolve YET AGAIN the criminals, just as they have been absolving them all their lives....and if all else fails, they ALWAYS draw on the get-out-of-jail-free cars of race issues, which scares authoroties into deciding always in the criminals favour, just as it has been doing so all their lives....just as it continues to do.....

Add in useless politicians and authorities who's self-serving actions destroys everything....and you have a state of utter shit.......

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As it becomes dark......there is false calm........

Then it's now become dark.

In a lot of pain.

Letting out poor dear Sam & dear Max for their nightly absolutely needed ablutions, (one of several), trying for us not to get bitten by hordes of swarming mosquitoes, and going with them to kep them safe from criminals and diseased utterly feral cats and their cat shit everywhere, fed by idiot people and abo's who lay out bowls of animal food as if they 'own' the feral cats and of course they do not, nor do they corral them or control them, and so the damn things wander all about day & night and kill helpless creatures, endangered Australian widlife, and foul all the area all about..........all exactly like the criminal abo's......and the non-abo criminals....and the abo crimnals who often call themselves anything but abo unless there is free money to be had and then suddenly they're magically calling themselves aboriginals all of a sudden.....get money, get ANYTHING they can....but carry on just as they have always been doing.......and authorities wonder why the 'aboriginal populations' suddenly increase upwards in census statistic populations without explanations too.........and all the government welfare money that was previously there to be used for so much and so many is suddenly decreased and nobody gets anything hardly, and so the needy struggle, the shitheads laugh and carry on just as they have always been doing, and the crime rates just forever are rising that has to to be lied about decreasing by authorities by any way they can....and all this is forced unto me to be considered 'normal'........

This is Western Australia.

This is Australia.

This is hell.

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I love you dearest Fliss and want to be with you. - Poor Max got a bit vicious today. He was unharmed of course but he is in hell too. So is Sam. Sam was growling today too. There ARE reasons, some of which was the sounds of criminal aboriginals from Fatguts place today roaming about and more. - I love you dearest Fliss and so want to be with you just as you promised me. Take care dear Fliss. But do not wipe out your memories of what you KNOW is real and replace them with your terrible delusions and such. - If I drop dead one day, you will KNOW I have always been telling the truth no matter how much you lie to yourself and to others. - I love you dearest Fliss and forever want to be with you just as you promised me.

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uneminuteparseconde · 4 years

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Des concerts à Paris et alentour en gras : les derniers ajouts :-: in bold: the last news Février 25. Paint Fumes + Os Noctàmbulos – Le Zorba 26. Emily Jane White + Jim Rosemberg – La Cave (Argenteuil) 27. Laurent Perrier & David Fenech + Fantasia Nel Dessert – Le Zorba 27. Sofy Major + Membrane + Pord – Espace B 27. Jessica93 + Ddashband + Absolute Never + Osage + Team PC + Pap’s Club – Le Cirque électrique 27. Deeat Palace + Elek Ember + Philémon – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 27. Zombie Zombie + Kreidler – Petit Bain ||COMPLET|| 28. Vindicatrix + Extractor Fan + Meryll Ampe + Axel Larsen – Les Nautes 28. Bosco Mujo + DST + Dress Rehearsals + Gerard Jugno 106 + Françoise Pagan + Amosphère + Siink + Thi-Lea (Offnoise) – La Station 28. Shlømo + A Strange Wedding + Adar + Azamat B. + Eastel + Belafa aka Corbeille Dallas – Sierra Neon (Saint-Denis) 29. m-O-m – théâtre Le Montfort (gratuit) 29. Nylex + Plomb + Hélice Island – Le Zorba 29. 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France + Autrenoir + Aho Ssan + Astrid Sonne + Keki + Janomax – La Station 06. Violent quand on aime + Officium + Matière danse – Espace B 06. Chris Liebing + AZF – Dehors Brut 07. Sourdure – La Lingerie|Les Grands Voisins (gratuit) 07. L’atelier d’éveil musical du centre social Raymond-Poulidor + Foudre rockeur (Sonic Protest) – Les Voûtes 07. Ensemble intercontemporain joue Steve Reich : cinéconcert sur un film de Gerhard Richter – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 07. Dave Clarke + Kuss + Murd + Toscan Haas – Dehors Brut 07. Alcest + Birds In Row + Kælan Mikla – La Machine ||COMPLET|| 10. Tempers – Supersonic (gratuit) 10. Jerusalem in my Heart + Méryll Ampe et les élèves de l’Ensapc + Lucretia Dalt (Sonic Protest) – La Dynamo (Pantin) 10. Arnaud Rebotini : live pour “Fix Me” d’Alban Richard – Centre des Arts (Enghien-les-Bains) 11. Mopcut + F-Space + We Use Cookies + Astra Zenecan (Sonic Protest) – La Station 11. Morrissey – Salle Pleyel 11. Nada Surf + John Vanderslice – La Cigale ||COMPLET|| 12 Thomas Bégin + JD Zazie (Sonic Protest) – La Muse en circuit (Alfortville) 13. Russian Circle + Torche – Bataclan 13. Jean Jean + All Caps + Quadrupède – Quai de Bourbon 13. Emptyset + Hair Stylistics + Méryll Ampe (Sonic Protest) – L’Échangeur (Bagnolet) 14. Panico Panico + Tabatha Crash + Cosse – ESS’pace 14. Lonely Walk + Tamara Goukassova + Shock – L'Espace B 14. Why The Eye + WAqWAq Kingdom + Maria Violenza + Fleuves noirs + Jean-Marc Foussat + Julia Hanadi Al Abed + Pierre Gordeeff (Sonic Protest) – L’Échangeur (Bagnolet) 15. Das Synthetische Mischgewebe & Anla Courtis + Ricardo Dias Gomes & Loïc Ponceau + Seijiro Murayama & Florian Tositti + Phanes – tba 16. Hällas + La Secte du Futur + Meurtrières – La Maroquinerie 17. Chelsea Wolf – La Gaîté lyrique ||COMPLET|| 18. Pelada + Eye + Fiesta En El Vacio (Ideal Trouble) – Petit Bain 18. Lee Scratch Perry & Adrian Sherwood + 2Decks + Zaraz Wam Zagram (Sonic Protest) – Église Saint-Merry 19. HP (Haswell & Powell) + Inga Huld Hakonadrottir & Yann Legay + Asmus Tietchens + Regreb “2 Cymbals” (Sonic Protest) – Église Saint-Merry 19. Boubacar Cissokho (Paris Music) – Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris 20. Bleib Modern + Order 89 + Blind Delon + IV Horsemen + Paulie Jan + Codex Empire + Opale + Panzer + DJ Varsovie (fest. des souvenirs brisés) – Petit Bain 20. Jon Hopkins – Salle Pleyel 20. Martin Kohlstedt + Manu le Malin joue Barbara (Paris Music) – Musée des Arts et Métiers 20. Yan Wagner + Madben (Paris Music) – Cathédrale américaine 20. Senyawa + Bonne humeur provisoire + Black Trumpets (Sonic Protest) – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 20. Paula Temple + 16H07 b2b Ket Robinson + Ma Čka – Yoyo|Palais de Tokyo 20. Ellen Allien + Shlømo – Dehors brut 20. Ensemble Dedalus : "Occam Ocean" d'Éliane Radigue – Le Studio|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 21. Mind/Matter + Die Orangen + Mitra Mitra + Qual + Rendered + Verset Zero + Years of Denial (fest. des souvenirs brisés) – Petit Bain 21. Container + Muqata’a + OD Bongo + Diatribes & Horns + Jealousy Party + Urge + Wirklich Pipit + Me Donner + Cancelled + FLF + 2Mo (Sonic Protest) – Le Générateur (Gentilly) 21. GZA – La Marbrerie (Montreuil) 21. ABSL + Anetha + Hektos Oaks + High Future + Randomer + Sugar – tba 21. Front 242 + She Past Away – Élysée Montmartre ||COMPLET|| 21. Laurie Anderson : "The Art of Falling" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 22. Mike Cooper + Yann Legay + Will Guthrie & Ensemble Nist-Nah + Cheb Gero (Sonic Protest) – théâtre Berthelot (Montreuil) 22. Laurie Anderson : "The Art of Falling" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 24. Skemer + IV Horsemen + Silly Joy – Supersonic (gratuit) 24. Joe Gideon – Espace B 25. Low House (Eugene S. Robinson & Putan Club) + Moodie Black – Petit Bain 25. Wrekmeister Harmonies – Espace B 25. Buzzkull + Kontravoid + Crystal Geometry – Badaboum 27. Lebanon Hanover – La Gaîté lyrique 27. Baston – L’International 27. Maggy Payne : « Crystal » (diff.) + 9T Antiope + John Wiese + Matthias Puech + Nihvak (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 27. Mongolito + Biere Noire + Bisous De Saddam + Léa Jacta Est + Club Passion (Croux fest.) – Café de Paris 28. Ensemble Links : "Drumming" de Steve Reich + Cabaret contemporain joue Kraftwerk – théâtre de la Cité internationale 28. Iannis Xenakis : « Mycenae Alpha » (diff.) + Marja Ahti + Rashad Becker + Nina Garcia + Kode9 (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 28. Cut Hands + NAH + Shit&Shine + France Sauvage + Burris Meyer + UVB76 (dj) – Petit Bain 28. Satan + Noyades + S.O.L.A.N + Traitors + Accès de faiblesse (Croux fest.) – Espace B 28. Denis Frajerman + David Fenech – Plateforme 28. Balladur + Bracco + Coeval + Bajram Bili (dj) – La Boule noire 28. 14anger + Brecc + Oguz + Fuerr + Draugr + Atim – tba 29. Ivo Malec : « Recitativio » + Eve Aboulkheir + Richard Chartier + Lee Gamble + Will Guthrie & Mark Fell (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio Avril 01. Lea Bertucci – tbc 03. CocoRosie – Le Trianon ||COMPLET|| 03. Kuniyuki Takahashi & Henrik Schwarz + Hugo LX & DJ Nori + Akiko Nakayama (Japan Connection fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 04. Hiroaki Umeda + Nonotak + Aalko + Make It Deep Soundsystem (Japan Connection fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 04. Satoshi Tomiie & Kuniyuki + Hiroshi Watanabe + DJ Masda + Akiko Kiyama + Daisuke Tanabe + Intercity-Express (Japan Connection fest.) – La Gaîté lyrique 04. Ash Code – Espace B 04. 2kilos &More & Black Sifichi + Plurals – Le vent se lève 04. OOIOO – Lafayette Anticipations 04. Katie Gately – Sacré 04. Wow + Laura Palmer – L’International 06. Julie Doiron – Espace B 06. Bauhaus – Grand Rex 08. Föllakzoid + UVB76 – Espace B 09. Will Samson + Northwest + Lyson Leclercq – Le vent se lève 09. The Chap + Rubin Steiner Live Band – Badaboum 10. Manu Le Malin + Popof + Nout Heretik + Noisebuilder + Electrobugz + Krïs Heretik + Broke Heretik + Aness Heretik + Split Heretik + Tom Buld'r.Heretik + Limka + Le Jall + Boubou Antinorm17 – tba 11. Infecticide + Astaffort Mods + Mono Siren – Supersonic (gratuit) 11. IAMX – Café de la danse 12. VTSS + Hadone – tba 14. Lucy Railton & Joe Houston jouent "Patterns in a chromatic field" de Morton Feldman – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 14/15. Metronomy – La Cigale 16/17. Metronomy – La Cigale ||COMPLET|| 17. Facs + ISaAC – Petit Bain 18. Siglo XX – La Boule noire 19. Rome + Primordial + Moonsorrow – La Machine 20. Big ‡ Brave + Jessica Moss – La Boule Noire 23. Volkor X + ToutEstBeau + Aphélie – Supersonic (gratuit) 23. Health + Pencey Sloe + Dead – Petit Bain 24. Parade Ground – L’International 25. Selofan + Jupiter Jane – Supersonic (gratuit) 26. Pharmakon + Deeat Palace + Unas (Ideal Trouble) – Petit Bain 26. Igorrr + Author & Punisher + Otto Von Schirach – La Cigale 27. Dean Wareham joue "On Fire" de Galaxie 500 – Petit Bain 27. Caribou – L’Olympia 27. The Foals + The Murder Capital – Zénith 28. Ulver – L’Alhambra 29. Protomartyr – La Boule Noire 29. Movie Star Junkies + Sam Fleisch + Tibia – Gibus 30. Conflict + The Filaments – Gibus Mai 02. Richie Hawtin – T7 05. The Sonics + Messer Chups – Trabendo 06. hackedepicciotto – Espace B 07. Laurent Perrier & David Fenech – Souffle Continu (gratuit) 08. Max Richter : "Infra" + Jlin + Ian William Craig – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 09. Max Richter : "Voices" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 09. Jonas Gruska + Leila Bordreuil + Jean-Philippe Gross + Kali Malone (fest. Focus) – Le 104 09. Extrawelt + Oxia + Popof + Wuza + O'Tawa – Le Kilowatt (Ivry/Seine) 10. Iannis Xenakis : « La Légende d’Eer » + Folke Rabe : « Cyclone » et « What ??? » (fest. Focus) – Le 104 10. Max Richter : "Recomposed" & "Three Worlds" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 11. Cannibale + Frankie and the Witch Fingers + Euromilliard – La Maroquinerie 11. The Electric Soft Parade + Tim Keegan – Petit Bain 13. Wire – La Maroquinerie 13. Austra – Badaboum ||COMPLET|| 14>16. Tops + Aksak Maboul + Corridor + JFDR + Palberta (Le Beau festival) – La Boule noire & La Station 16. Black Midi – Carreau du Temple 19. Swans + Norman Westberg – Le Trabendo 20. The Jesus & Mary Chain (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 21. Yves Tumor (Villette sonique) – Trabendo 22. Stephen O’Malley (Villette sonique) – Grande Halle de La Villette 22. Kim Gordon (Villette sonique) – Cabaret sauvage 22. François Bayle : « Le Projet Ouïr » + Marco Parini : « De Parmegiani Sonorum » + Yan Maresz (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 23. Julien Négrier + Hans Tutschku : « Provenance-émergence » + Félicia Atkinson : « For Georgia O’Keefe » + Warren Burt + Michèle Bokanowski (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 24. Philippe Mion + Pierre-Yves Macé : « Contre-flux II » + Daniel Teruggi : « Nova Puppis » + Adam Stanovitch + Gilles Racot : « Noir lumière » (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 23/24. Damon Albarn – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 25. The Church – Petit Bain 26. Minimal Compact – La Machine 30/31. Paula Temple + Dave Clarke + Ben Klock + Len Faki + 999999999 + VTSS b2b Shlomo + DVS1 + François X… (Marvellous Island) – île de loisirs de Vaires-Torcy Juin 01/02. The Dead C – Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) 03. Bambara – Espace B 04. Phill Niblock + Tim Shaw – Instants Chavirés (Montreuil) 05. And Also The Trees – La Maroquinerie 06/07. Four Tet + Nils Frahm + Park Hie Jin + Modeselektor… (fest. We Love Green) – Bois de Vincennes 12. The Breath of Life + Box and the Twins – Gibus 13. Flat Worms (Ideal Trouble) – Gibus 14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Bercy Arena 18. Acid Mothers Temple – Espace B 27. Meryem Aboulouafa + Nicolas Godin (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 28. Ensemble Social Silence joue “Music for Airport” de Brian Eno (Days Off) – Studio|Philharmonie 28. Wooden Elephant joue “Kid A” de Radiohead (Days Off) – Amphithéâtre|Cité de la musique 29. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto + Echo Collective joue “12 Conversations with Thilo Heinzmann” de Jóhann Jóhansson (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 30. Emilíana Torrini & The Colorist Orchestra + Agnes Obel (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie Juillet 01. Apparat – Le Trianon 01. Arandel : “InBach” (Days Off) – Amphithéâtre|Cité de la musique 02. Orchestre de Paris : “Symphony No. 1 "Low"” de Philip Glass + “Music for Ensemble and Orchestra” de Steve Reich (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 03. Perfume Genius + Anna Calvi (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 04. Nicolás Jaar : musique pour la pièce chorégraphique “¡miércoles!” de Stéphanie Janaina (Days Off) – Studio|Philharmonie 04. Kevin Morby + Andrew Bird Symphonique (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 05/06. Suzanne Vega, Ensemble Ictus & Collegium Vocale Gent : “Einstein on the Beach” de Philip Glass (Days Off) – Cité de la musique 07. The Rapture + Sons of Raphael (Days Off) – Salle Boulez|Philharmonie 17/18. Grim + Galerie Schallschutz + Am Not + Linekraft + Deathpanel + Detrimental Effect + African Imperial Wizard – Les Voûtes 18. Oh Sees – Cabaret sauvage Septembre 27. Mudhoney – La Maroquinerie 30. Peter Hook & The Light : Joy Division : A Celebration – Bataclan

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Every Song on Taylor Swift’s reputation

As analyzed by Time Magazine

1. “…Ready For It?”: Starting things off with a thumping bass line and rallying cry, “…Ready For It?” also offers one of Swift’s prettiest melodies. “In the middle of the night, in my dreams, you should see the things we do,” she sings sweetly before switching into her new-era rap-singing. “He can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor,” she insists, name-checking a famous — and drama-filled — pairing, and setting the scene for the rest of the album’s investigation of the perils of stardom.

2. “End Game” (featuring Ed Sheeran and Future): Swift tapped her good friend Sheeran for this slow-jam-style track, a self-reflective — and self-aware — plea to both the listener and a lover. “I wanna be your end game,” Swift sings off the top, allowing in a little vulnerability — before jumping into a rap-sung chorus. “Big reputation, you and me we got big reputations,” she chants, recognizing the baggage that her stardom brings (and name-checking the album’s title, of course). Of-the-moment rapper Future of “Mask Off” success adds in a slick verse, sticking to the love-against-the-odds theme. Swift goes on to sing she doesn’t want to be an “ex-love” and that she isn’t into the drama; it’s just her burden to bear. This is peak Swift: emotionally open, but ready and willing to have some fun with the hype around her own persona. Sheeran’s contribution comes in the form of another rap-sung verse in the same vein, seeming to reference his own relationship and the pitfalls that fame has placed in his path to love. His advice? Ignore the rumors.

3. “I Did Something Bad”: Swift knows that her critics have strong opinions about her; after all, the album is called Reputation. And in the bombastic “I Did Something Bad,” she appears to address some of the narratives that have surrounded her. “I never trust a narcissist, but they love me / So I play them like a violin, and I make it look oh so easy,” she opens this one over a sharp string pluck. “If a man talks s–t then I owe him nothing.” Here is new-era Swift: holding her head high, unapologetic and fiercely protective of her own success. Then, a funky dubstep drop brings shades of her mega-hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” into the mix. Heavily electronically manipulated, and punctuated with a strong beat, it’s a banger of a track — and her defiant response to her detractors. “I never trust a playboy, but they love me,” she insists, stating matter of-factly that it’s best to “leave before you get left,” and hinting that maybe her splashy former relationships weren’t all they might have seemed. And then there’s the kicker: “They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one,” she croons on an auto-tuned bridge. “Go ahead and light me up.” Of all the quotable lines in Swift’s oeuvre, this one is right up there at the top for its blazing imagery.

4. “Don’t Blame Me”: If you’re a fan of Avicii or Kygo’s brand of un-rushed atmospheric electro-pop, you might like the rich, vibey notes Swift brings together in “Don’t Blame Me,” a moody, dark song that starts out swinging and pretty, and builds into a gospel-backed EDM anthem. “Don’t blame me, love made me crazy / if it doesn’t you ain’t doin’ it right,” she sings emphatically. “Lord save me, my drug is my baby, I be using for the rest of my life.” Swift has endured criticism for her relationships: the fact that she’s in them, the fact that she sings about them. “Don’t Blame Me” could be a clapback to that criticism, reminding listeners that the heart simply wants what it wants, as her friend Selena Gomez once said.

5. “Delicate”: Swift is, appropriately enough, at her most fragile on “Delicate.” Refreshingly honest, it’s a melodic electro-ballad with a resonant refrain. “My reputation’s never been worse so, you must like me for me,” she muses, her voice a light wisp, in a wry nod to her year in the spotlight before breaking down her insecurities: “Is it cool that I said all that? Is it too soon to do this yet?” Like pretty much anyone dealing with a new crush, Swift sings of moments of doubt. Perhaps even superstars have their sore spots. She couches this sweetly uncertain song in snippets of dates — at a dive bar, in her apartment — but keeps it about her circular internal monologue, always questioning just how much her feelings are being reciprocated.

6. “Look What You Made Me Do”: Swift’s lead single — and immediate chart-topper following its release — “LWYMMD” was a shocking reintroduction to the Swift of Reputation: hard, unapologetic, focused on retribution. Step aside, “Bad Blood,” this song is much more cutting. “I’ve got a list of names, and yours is in red, underlined,” she reminded her haters over a Right Said Fred sample. The propulsive beat and insistence that the old Taylor was “dead” only sharpened her point.

7. “So It Goes…”: Here, she switches things back to romance, reflecting on just how a new love interest might help her out of her fixations: “you make everyone disappear,” she explains in the moody, murky opening segment, which opens into a trap-lite chorus about getting caught up in the moment (and, of course, leaving some signature lipstick “on your face”). But for life with Swift, that’s just how it goes. “I’m yours to keep, and yours to lose. You know I’m not a bad girl, but I’ll do bad things with you,” she adds with a wink; this version of Swift has made a marked departure from her squeaky-clean roots as America’s Nashville sweetheart.

8. “Gorgeous”: Yes, that’s Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’s baby daughter James opening up “Gorgeous” with a gurgle. But the rest of the song deals with adult topics. Over a bubbling, chime-like beat, Swift sings about the irresistible power of attraction — even when it’s not the best idea. “You’re so gorgeous, it actually hurts,” she sings with frustration. “There’s nothing I hate more than what I can’t have.” Despondent, she talks of heading home to hang out with her cats — and then, with a wink, invites her object of attention to join her.

9. “Getaway Car”: Told as a dramatic story of a heist and an ill-fated love adventure over shimmering 80s-style production, “Getaway Car” is one of Swift’s most metaphor-driven tracks on the album. “We never had a shotgun shot in the dark,” she sings with a rebellious twang. “Nothing good starts in a getaway car.” Swift’s has often had its fair share of melodrama; remember “Into the Woods”? In “Getaway Car,” though, she calls herself a “traitor” who turns in her erstwhile partner in crime. Looks like Swift might be willing to flirt with the dark side, but she’s no good at following through with crimes — of the legal kind, or of the heart. Instead, she says, she takes the keys and leaves the guy stranded at a motel. It’s no happy ending, but it’s a reminder that Swift isn’t afraid to assert her independence.

10. “King of My Heart”: Taylor Swift has always been good at love songs. In “King of My Heart” she hits her sweet spot, over a synth-heavy track and strategic auto-tune assist. “I’m perfectly fine, I live on my own, I made up my mind I’m better off bein’ alone,” she starts off. But it doesn’t stay that way for long; after meeting a (evidently non-American) paramour who pursues her, the story (and the song) go straight into the romance. “You’re the one I have been waiting for,” she gushes, dissing some other guys with “their fancy cars” who didn’t quite measure up to this new interest. And yes, the character in the title is indeed the king of her heart — and body, and soul.

11. “Dancing With Our Hands Tied”: Although it starts off as a down-tempo, melancholy kind of tune, “Dancing With Our Hands Tied” adds in Swift’s now-rote trap-lite drop to amp up the drama on this will-we-won’t-we tale of star-crossed lovers separated by an unkind fate. “I had a bad feeling,” she suggests about the romantic interest, but she goes on to dance with him anyway; some chemistry just can’t be denied.

12. “Dress”: “I only bought this dress so you could take it off,” Swift sings slyly on “Dress,” her most overtly sexual work yet. She wants her lover to carve his name into her bedpost; her hands shake in anticipation. A breathy, synth-y track with lots of whispery vocals, Swift is unequivocal about her interest in this person as much more than a friend. “Made your mark on me; a golden tattoo,” she sings cryptically. It’s a departure from her usually PG approach to love songs, emblematic of a Swift who’s claiming her maturity more than ever.

13. “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”: Kicking things off with a siren sound, Swift strips it back to a stomping call-out of the haters, a giddy sister of sorts to dark lead single “Look What You Made Me Do.” “Why’d you have to rain on my parade?” she asks, her voice petulant, sneering with humor and attitude. “This is why we can’t have nice things, darling: because you break them, I have to take them away.” When she tries to go diplomatic — “forgiveness is a nice thing to do” goes one line, sung in an angelic lilt — she breaks the fourth wall with a burst of sharp laughter. Swift is no longer willing to “Shake It Off,” as she once tried to do.

14. “Call It What You Want”: Maybe the most by-the-book Swift song on Reputation, “Call It What You Want” is a slow-burning meditation on the transformative power of relationships, filled with lyrical puns: “All the liars are calling me one,” she sighs at one point. “All my flowers grew back as thorns.” But this is still a love letter, and a reminder that Swift has moved on from the fray around her so-called “reputation.” “My baby’s fly like a jetstream, high above the whole scene,” she sings proudly, making it clear that the baby in question has taken her along for the ride.

15. “New Year’s Day”: Her one acoustic piano ballad on the album, “New Year’s Day” is a tender and intimate love song. The snapshots are sweet and evocative: glitter on the floor after a party, candle wax and polaroids on the hardwood floor, holding hands in the backseat of a taxi. “Hold on to the memories,” she repeats in the chorus, “and I will hold on to you.” Nostalgic for the moment even as it’s happening, it’s a lovely, effecting closer, letting Swift’s voice and earnest message shine without the complications of over-production. She may get her kicks with big pop anthems, but vulnerable ballads like this one are just as much a part of her musical DNA.

Lifted from Time Magazine

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