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#Day 17#1 Hour 29 Minutes#Day 18#1 Hour 57 Minutes#Total: 6 Hours 26 Minutes#Fews#-watches the colors pop to something duller before my eyes-#browsers war on red continues.....#Anyways I wanted to try and do something weird so here we are#Maybe I will work on this again later and someday even finish it but idk
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Teen Titans Masterpost And Reading Guide -
This is mostly a passion project of mine about my favourite team in DC Comics The Titans ! The general consensus I have seen on this website is that their history is confusing and people don’t know where to start so …. This guide includes ALL ( worthwhile ) pieces of Titans Media .
Ok so this is heavily inspired by @bitimdrake ‘s guide so check that one too !
Just to preface this is all my opinion and you can really start wherever you feel like it if you want to ! Sound Good 👍🏻 Good
TEEN TITANS
Ok so before you begin the og TT series you should read
- Brave and The Bold ( 1955) #54 and #60 if you want to read right from the start chronologically!
The Original Team of the TEEN TITANS was a series that ran through the 60s beginning in 1966 - 1973 and having a comeback in 1976 .
The OG series consisted mostly Robin Wonder Girl Kid Flash and Aqualad with many a cameo from other teens.
You can either read the OG Series but its completely optional it’s pretty outdated and silly but it’s a fun ride even then . In my opinion its best to leave for after you have been endeared to the characters .
If you really enjoy the Silver Age Teen Titans there’s also Showcase #59 before Roy joins and a story in the 80 page Flash Giant ! And after reading issue #20 you can also read #83 of Brave and The Bold.
After #31 theres TBANB #94 and after #34 theres World Finest Comics #205 ( read at your own discretion - totally optional)
Aswell as BANTB #102 and #149
And the utterly delightful Teen Titans lost annual & A story ( worlds oldest teenagers ) in the 80 page Flash giant.
All optional ( they get really weird)
Alternatively just read TEEN TITANS : YEAR ONE .
Some Issues I recommend from the OG Series
- #1 #2 #12 #53 ( last issue )
\ The series continues on from 1966-1976 \
NEW TEEN TITANS
NTT is arguably the seminal run and its best an absolute mustread . ( at it’s worst ….)
- DC PRESENTS #26 ( totally optional)
- THE NEW TEEN TITANS Vol.1
#1-40
- BEST OF DC #18 ( optional again.)
- Tales of The New Teen Titans ( miniseries #1-4 included in the NTT Omnis)
- read the 1st annual after issue #25
- By Issue 40 the series rebrands To TALES Of TEEN TITANS
This continues on from issues #41 to #58 it runs alongside NTT VOL.2 but is set 6 months before .
Read annual 3 as Part of Judas Contract !
- NEW TEEN TITANS VOL.2
#1-49
- TT Spotlight Miniseries !! ( SO GOOD SERIOUSLY)
- There’s also a drug awareness special at some point ( it’s its …. Certainly something)
NEW TITANS
By this point they remembered that “hey these guys aren’t teens anymore ” and thus renamed it to NEW TITANS . This series started off well enough and quickly devolved into arguably one of the worst runs EVER.
New Titans #81 is part of War Of The Gods and Annual 7 is part of Armageddon 2001 ( don’t bother ) annual 8 is part OF YET ANOTHER EVENT . Again don’t bother .
It’s pretty much highly recommend giving it up at #70 regardless .
-THE NEW TITANS
#50 - 100
ECTERA -
- running alongside NEW TITANS by 1992 was TEAM TITANS a series so awful I cannot recommend to you in clear conscience but if your a completetionist ( trust me I get it ) It’s there and Donna shows up alot !
- TITANS SELLOUT SPECIAL (1992)
NEW TITANS : MELTDOWN
The last decaying remains of NT walks on like a zombie on acid but by #100 all of the NTT crew is gone ( well most Mirage Donna as a Darkstar ect ) and leave to be replaced by an all new government sponsored Titans team lead by Roy .
- NEW TITANS
#0 / ZERO HOUR don’t worry about it/- 130
( IF YOU WANT CONTINUITY FOR KORI Showcase ‘94 #11 )
NT end’s with a whole 11 annuals
Ok so I am aware that they aren’t strictly Titans series BUT PLEASE TAKE a minute to read
The Arsenal Special!! Its a short single issue and BRILLIANT !! It informs a-lot of his character later on as well as of course the actual Arsenal Miniseries.
ALSO THE TEMPEST (1996) a absolute must read also informs basically everything about Garth and arguably his best story ever … just take a minute and read these if you want !! Before the Titans (1999)
TEEN TITANS (1996)
Ok so in the 90’s DC decided to start the TT from scratch ( huh see how long this’ll last )
This all new team was comprised of 4 half alien teens and a freshly deaged Atom. It didn’t last very long and while I am fond of it AGAIN you don’t HAVE TO read it
TEEN TITANS (1996)
#1-24
Also a few specials ! And 1 annual
Titans Beat #1
Impulse/Atom DoubleShot #1
Robin/Argent DoubleShot #1
Superboy/Risk DoubleShot #1
Supergirl/Prysm DoubleShot #1
New Year’s Evil : Dark Nemesis #1
JLA/TITANS : THE TECHNIS IMPERATIVE #1-3
Absolute MUST-READ . Literally one of my favourite comics of all time . Also essential because it kickstarts a certain run..
TITANS (1999)
One of If not the best run on Titans ( don’t @ me ) It slowly loses momentum after #26 but I still generally LOVED it . Stellar A++ Titans content !!
( you can also read the Beast Boy #1-4 miniseries prequel . But uh unless you really love Bette it’s not worth it )
TITANS (1999)
#1-50
Also TITANS Secret Files and Origins !!! ( ♥️♥️♥️ )
After #14 you can read Titans/Legion Of SuperHeroes : Universe Ablaze (2000) crossover as well as #1-4 - Silver Age Teen Titans (2000) #1
YOUNG JUSTICE
OK OK NOW IK THIS ISNT A TITANS OR TT RUN but this gen WILL eventually become TT 2003 ( 😒 ) and honestly ……
READ YJ 1998
It’s GREAT.
YJ/TITANS : GRADUATION DAY
Oh brother. Ok so I am pretty salty about this whole comic but it’s essential and has some good moments soo yeah read Graduation Day .
OUTSIDERS/TT SECRET FILES AND ORIGINS ♥️☝️ please read this after Graduation Day It’s heartbreaking and I love it !
TEEN TITANS 2003 - ( until OYL )
After the unfortunate events of graduation day the aforementioned YJ Gen ( - Anita and Greta 😞) and the OG NTT Crew ( Vic Kory Deaged Raven ) join to become …..
TEEN TITANS ( 2003)
( I have mixed opinions on this run some think it a masterpiece some think it awful I generally think it’s…. Fine ? Well “sigh” not fine but give it a go I guess ) I recommend #2-26
- #1-33
After #33 OYL hits
OUTSIDERS 2003 - ( until OYL )
Ok so this run isn’t really…. A titans run but it has fantastic Roy and Dick characterisation and KORY JOINS LATER AND SO TECHNICALLY-
#1-33
Read Annual 1 before #46
Don’t bother after #
POST - OYL TT 2003
Ok so I basically consider post OYL TT ‘03 to be a totally different team because… well it is . All of the NTT crew leave and are replaced by a handful of cameos and eventually like Rose Wilson and Kid Devil and because at this point half of the YJ gen is well…dead . It was pretty awful at this point though I find the character interactions endearing. This series remains like that until N52 .
They have crossovers with Red Robin aswell as Wonder Girl Vol.2
#33-100
OUTSIDERS/TT 2003 ECTERA
- DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES READ TERROR TITANS . Unless you really love Rose..( like me..)
- RETURN OF DONNA TROY ♥️♥️♥️ !!!! Excellent MUST READ !!!!
- TEEN TITANS : COLD CASE - seriously don’t read this if you don’t have too .
- TEEN TITANS : Spotlight on Wondergirl - awful . Seeing a pattern ?
THEN - TITANS EAST SPECIAL !!
DC SPECIAL CYBORG #1-6 ( optional)
TITANS (2008)
After all the bullshit THEY ARE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN YAY !!!! To bad there’s so much shit going on OUTSIDE of the Titans that ends up fucking over the characters. E.G Bruce dying so Dick has to go be Batman and …. Hell . Fucking Rise Of Arsenal. If you know what happens in that book well yk that Roy ends up relapsing and going down a much darker mindset .
Series swings between being really good and being a mischaracterising MESS.
TITANS ( 2008 )
#1-23
By Titans #12 the Deathtrap crossover starts it goes like this
TITANS #12
Vigilante #5
Teen Titans #70
TITANS #13
Vigilante #6
But Amanda why did you put it’s end at 23 when Ik for a fact that goes on for #38 issues ????
Oh boy .
Titans : Villains For Hire Special #1 before #24
TITANS ( 2008 ) : VILLAINS FOR HIRE
So at issue 23 DC had the genius idea of taking the Titans and …. Turning them into a mercenary and hitman group lead by Deathstroke himself ( why ? I wish I fucking knew.) Filled out with hitman and villains and …. Roy who was now really dark and #edgy . Whatever It was bad and a wannabe secret six .
#23-38
However they’re was almost light at the end of the tunnel …. Jericho ( Joey Wilson yes he IS ALIVE ) seemed to have plans to assemble a new TITANS team and reunite their family and Roy well it seemed he was on a path to redemption he was almost there close to moving to recovery and healing and he could do it with—
N52 . POST FLASHPOINT TITANS.
The N52 was bad isnt a particularly outrageous statement but IT WAS EXTREMELY fucking bad in relation to the Titans . Bluntly put None of it ever happened and the only titans ( TEEN TITANS ACTUALLY) that had ever existed were the TT2003 guys . Just them. Fab Five never existed. NTT never existed.And all of the other og TT guys were …… WALLY never existed. Donna was a one note villain Garth never existed Dick was …. There I guess.. ROY was a dumbed down alcoholic with no purpose other than to gawk at how cool and oh and ahh at Jason Todd . ( KORY …… truly just awful what happened to her )
You can read the TEEN TITANS N52 . I guess .
They have 2 series . Read at your own peril they’re better if you pretend that the characters aren’t supposed to be … like the characters that they are . ( scott lobbell shouldn’t of been allowed to touch a pen )
REBIRTH
- TITANS HUNT ! - WALLY IS BACK
-TITANS VOL.3 is exactly what I wanted in the first half and then falls on it’s ass and burns like a trash fire . recommend stopping at #20
TITANS VOL. 3
#1-40
Justice League : No Justice- happens around this time and it was trying to create a new status quo ( uh-huh DC AGAIN ..) soo
Teen Titans Special #1 before
TEEN TITANS VOL.3
( also as your reading this read #54-55 for context in TT #27 )
“Yeah sure put the 11 year old in charge ”
Do not read this comic . And if you do ? THAT IS NOT DAMIAN . The series starts with Damian leading alot of the OG NTT guys like Kory and Vic + Ace and then it later just becomes Damian + Emiko + Ace and a couple other guys like Crush .
Drowned Earth happens ( not important) but it happens at #28 . And they have a crossover with Deathstroke in
TEEN TITANS / DEATHSTROKE : Terminus Agenda ( it’s vol ) optional though
But
- TITANS : Burning Rage
Slots in at this point so !!
A more obscure pick but no half bad
- #1-7
- Titans Academy
Haven’t actually read this one . Art looks gorgeous though
AND …
It leads too
- TITANS United
And
- TITANS : BLOODPACT
I love both of these Bloodpact in particular and it gives me Dickkory back aswell !! Good story and stellar art !!
NIGHTWING #100 - 104 to explain what is going on in …
- TITANS BY TOM TAYLOR ( Ongoing )
Also BEAST WORLD I guess 🤷♀️
Mid at BEST . #1-4
- Tales Of The Titans
A miniseries but so far the best Titans content we have gotten IN A WHILE . ♥️ ( sorta )
#1-4
ECTERA -
- NTT GAMES !
Fantastic and stellar art an standalone (?) dubiously canon graphic novel by Marv Wolfman and George Perez !
- TITANS AND NTT CONVERGENCE
- worthwhile and exactly what’s on the tin ! Love these gave a happy ending to the Post Crisis universe !
- Teen Titans WORLDS FINEST
- wonderful art by Dan Mora . Story is fine
- DC PRESENTS THE UNCANNY X-MEN AND NTT CROSSOVER.
SOOOOO GOOODD
- TITANS : Paper Scissors Stone
Okok elseworlds Titans book but I remember liked it !
OTHER MEDIA -
- TEEN TITANS ( 2003 THE TV SHOW )
A solid adaptation of … most of the characters please don’t go into this show and come out expecting the same from the comics . Did a lot of good for Terra’s character and influences ALOT of public perception. Just … don’t be annoying about the comics after watching this .
- TEEN TITANS GO
YES IK IK BUT ITS AN ADAPTATION AS WELL DONT JUMP ME
- TITANS ( TV SHOW)
….I wouldn’t recommend this show too anyone EXCEPT Titans fans who want more content of the team it’s it’s an experience. ( FUCK YOU FOR DOING THAT TO DONNA )
SO YEAH . Feel free to question me if I have forgotten any I don’t have spectacular memory lol
Happy reading ! !
#dc#dc comics#new teen titans#teen titans#god i love titans#titansfam#titans#dick grayson#roy harper#donna troy#garth of shayaris#wally west
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Palestine summary for April 24 to April 26, 2024 from LetsTalkPalestine.
[Lets Talk Palestin Link Tree, with ways to help and sources.]
April 24, 2024.
Day 201:
• 79 Palestinians killed, 86 injured in Gaza in last 24 hours
• IOF bombed home in Gaza City, killing a mother & her child and injured 6
🇪🇬 Egypt detained 10+ women, among them lawyers, journalists & civil society leaders, protesting in solidarity w/ Gaza & Sudan
• Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoon & Jabalia in north Gaza under continuous Israeli strikes since ordering evacuation in Beit Lahia, giving them minutes to flee
🇯🇲🇧🇧 Jamaica & Barbados officially recognize a Palestinian State
• Israel built 6 new military outposts since Jan, totaling 9 outposts each within 3 miles of Gaza + plan to transfer 2 combat brigades (4-10 thousand soldiers) from Lebanon’s border down to Gaza — fueling fears of a looming Rafah invasion
🇩🇪 Germany to soon resume coordination w/ UNWRA after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s employees
🇺🇸 Biden signed to law aid bill giving $26bn to Israel
• IOF abducts 15 Palestinians including former detainees overnight in West Bank
April 25, 2024.
Day 202:
• 43 Palestinians killed, 64 injured in the last 24 hours
🇺🇳 UN to investigate Nasser Hospital mass graves as Israel denies reports of 392 bodies showing severe signs of torture and mutilation
• Hundreds of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Compound under IOF protection as raids across West Bank cities intensify
🇧🇪 Belgian aid worker & his 7-year-old son killed among 7 others in targeted bombings on Rafah despite disclosing his location to Israeli forces; 6 aid groups affected by recent attacks
🚢 Freedom Flotilla Coalition delays from departing Turkey due to Israeli pressure on Guinea Bissau in an effort to prevent aid delivery to Gaza
• Israeli forces abduct three 13-year-olds from Ramallah, West Bank as 200 children remain captives in Israeli jails
🇫🇷 France to expand sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinians, with recent EU sanctions imposed on settlers and organisations for similar reasons
April 26, 2024.
University encampments going global 🌍🔥
🎓 Encampments for Palestine which started in US universities have now spread to France, Australia, and the UK, advocating for divestment from companies & arms manufacturers complicit in the Israeli occupation.
The 42 encampments are mostly in the US, but include 2 in Australia, 1 in France, and 1 in the UK, with more expected.
🤐 Arrests at Columbia (100+), Yale (50), Emerson (100+), NYU (dozens), USC (93), Uni of Texas in Austin (55) & more as US political & corporate elites fear the surging power & popularity of the Palestine solidarity movement.
Columbia canceled in-person classes, NYU built a wall around the encampment.
👩🏫 Many faculty have joined in protest of their administrations’ Zionist stances.
Biden admin. & Netanyahu, a foreign leader, released statements condemning the students.
🔥 In 1985, students forced University of California to divest $3.1bn from South African apartheid
Inspired? @ pal_actionus posts advice on starting one 🫡
Day 203:
• 51 Palestinians killed, 75 injured in the last 24 hours
• Rising temperatures in Gaza worsens condition of displaced Palestinians in tents, UNRWA added 2 kids so far killed by the heat
• Former head of HRW accuses Israel of obstructing investigation into Nasser Hospital mass graves
🇳🇱 Netherlands to consider resuming UNWRA funding after Israel failed to provide evidence on its allegations against the agency’s staff’s complicity in Oct 7
• Eastern Rafah under continuous Israeli shelling, targeting homes, injuring at least 2 Palestinians
🇺🇸 US puts halt on potential sanctions against 1 Israeli military unit, despite allegations since before Oct 7 of severe human rights abuses in West Bank
🇱🇧 2 killed in Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon
🇪🇺 EU announces $73m in essential aid to Gaza despite refusing to sanction Israel
⚖️ ICJ to soon announce ruling on Nicaragua’s case against Germany, seeking emergency measures to halt German military assistance to Israel
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PSA: if you wear a bra
You're probably wearing the wrong size. Most people are.
This is a screenshot of the bra company Pepper's size guide. Let's take a look at this, shall we?
Hmm, a 25-26" underbust and a 29-30" bust... sized as a 30A.
No. This is not how bra-sizing works. The band ought to match or be fairly close to the underbust measurement. It HAS to be, to provide any support and to be comfortable. Because, yes, bras can be quite comfortable! In the correct size. A band that is too big is going to ride up and shift and rub and move and be awful. A cup that is too small is going to squeeze your tissue into the band, making it feel tighter, and painful, because now your band is pressed into breast tissue.
Bra sizes are a ratio. The letter by itself is meaningless. There is no such thing as "an A cup" or "a D cup." Both A and D cups look vastly different on different bands. "Size DD+" as a bra size category is similar to a shoe store with a "size 6+" category, except worse, because shoe size really is generally only determined by one number. "DD+" being all the information you're going on to determine a bra size would be like answering the question, "How far away is that?" with, "Five." Minutes? Hours? Miles? Blocks? There's a whole range of things that could mean!
The letters correspond (roughly--people don't come in 2-inch increments) to inches of difference between the under and over bust measurement. So going back to our supposed "30A" up there... let's assume a 26" underbust and a 30" bust. 30 is 4 more inches than 26.
A: 1 inch, B: 2 inches, C: 3 inches, D: 4 inches.
Yes, that's correct. That person Pepper is trying to shove into a 30A should be wearing a 26D. A 30A bra would be for someone with a rough underbust measurement of 30 inches and a rough bust measurement of 31 inches. 1 inch difference. Whereas the 26D is for 26 under, 30 over. Notice how the 26D is actually a SMALLER total circumference than the 30A? Cup size scales with band size.
The reason this company pisses me off in particular is because if they wanted to be a niche "smaller boobs" bra company, there is a HUGE untapped market in people who need sub-32 bands. A few carry 30s and 28s but good luck if you need a 26 or 24. And they could help more people get into PROPERLY fitted bras, instead of tossing them into matrix sizes and pretending they're special.
I saw this on their website: "The industry designs for 36C. We design for AA, A, and B."
YOU CANNOT DESIGN FOR CUP SIZE INDEPENDENT OF BAND SIZE.
Also, the industry designs for fucking no one. The industry calls "A cups" small and "D cups" large, tosses out 32-40 in bands and A-DD in cup sizes and calls it good.
DD is five inches of difference between under bust and bust. 5 inches on a person with a 30-inch underbust is going to look MUCH different than 5 inches on a person with a 38-inch underbust. A circle with a total circumference of 43 inches is MUCH larger than a circle with a total circumference of 35 inches.
If you wear bras, and you want to make your life infinitely better, I beg, plead, urge you to go to abrathatfits.org and do the calculator. (Particularly if you've always been sized as an A or B cup, because those are actually very rare true sizes on any band.) The calculator actually takes into account 6 measurements, because for some people a leaning bust measurement is more important than a standing one. Believe the calculator. It will almost certainly give you a band size smaller than you expect and a cup size much larger than you expect. It's not perfect, so it's a good idea to try a cup larger and smaller, too, but it's generally very close. Try different sizes in the same bra--and NOT a t-shirt bra or any bra with molded/formed cups. almost no one properly fits those. Look for an unlined, seamed bra. Go by UK sizing, and stick to the UK brands. (Bare Necessities carries a bunch of them.) US bras are horribly inconsistent, especially in larger cup sizes. UK brands also generally have a far larger size range.
Any time you try on a bra, be sure to "scoop and swoop" to ensure ALL of the breast tissue fits into the cup. A big issue with ill-fitting bras is breast tissue that migrated to the armpit. You ever notice a little bulge on the side at the top of the band under your arm? There's a good chance that's actually displaced breast tissue.
Also check out The Irish Bra Lady on Instagram. She has tons of posts showing what properly fitted bras look like, in a wide range of sizes. If you're really in doubt about the size the calculator gives you, check her account first, she probably has a picture of someone in that size or close. It's helpful sometimes to see what it actually looks like.
Unfortunately, size is only one aspect of a well-fitting bra. Shape is equally important. Some bras have taller cups, some have shorter, which work better for different root sizes. There's fullness, is it mostly on the top or bottom? Even? Horizontally? Close set, wide set? Projected, shallow?
Go through all the resources at the abrathatfits subreddit. They have tons and tons of information to help determine your shape, what bras might work best for you, and the commenters are incredibly helpful if you need to make a post to ask a question.
I'm not going to lie, it took me probably 6-9 months to find a bra that fits? I have to buy mine from Poland. It was a bit of an ordeal.
But now? Now, I think about my bra exactly twice per day: once when I put it on in the morning and once when I take it off in the evening. I don't notice it. It doesn't shift. It doesn't poke. My straps aren't cutting into my shoulders or falling off them. I'm not constantly "reseating" my boobs. It turns out they stay put just fine if you give them a seat they actually fit into.
Finding a well-fitting bra is up there with medication and regular exercise in terms of its contribution to my quality of life. It's confusing, and there's a LOT, but it is SO fucking worth it.
You know that TIkTok trend question that's all, "if you HAD to start talking about one topic for 30+ minutes straight, what would you talk about?"
Yeah.
I will spend the rest of my life shouting all of this from the rooftops. Bras can be comfortable! It's actually true!
#in which sara has far too many opinions about bras#bra sizing#bra fitting#bras#a bra that fits#pepper is a shitty company and they should stop#do not purchase from them they are lying to you#their bras are not correctly sized#they do not give a crap#they want your money
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Cosmic Events: June 2024
Executive Summary: very short void Moons, very long Opportunity Periods, heavy mutable energy at the beginning.
Lunar Phases
Monday, June 3, 02:36 UT - Balsamic Moon, 28°01’ Aries
Thursday, June 6, 12:38 UT - New Moon, 16°18’ Gemini
Growing up a little bit. “Things” are in the process of change, and we want to meet it with maturity and graciousness. Trying to suss out the future in order to make the best of it. Recognizing when something is over and moving on.
Monday, June 10, 04:34 UT - Crescent Moon, 4°48’ Leo
Friday, June 14, 05:18 UT - First Quarter Moon, 23°39’ Virgo
Tuesday, June 18, 07:15 UT - Gibbous Moon, 12°33’ Scorpio
Saturday, June 22, 01:08 UT - Full Moon, 1°07’ Capricorn
Trying to do our own thing, but the damned world keeps intruding itself. We have to adjust. Steady, hard work with a practical endpoint is a good outlet.
Tuesday, June 25, 12:15 UT - Disseminating Moon, 19°25’ Aquarius
Friday, June 28, 21:53 UT - Last Quarter Moon, 7°40’ Aries
Void of Course Moon
Sunday, June 2, 22:04 UT (Aries) - Monday, June 3, 05:55 UT (Taurus)
Wednesday, June 5, 08:09 UT (Taurus) - 08:36 UT (Gemini)
Friday, June 7, 12:16 UT (Gemini) - 12:41 UT (Cancer)
Sunday, June 9, 19:05 UT (Cancer) - 19:29 UT (Leo)
Tuesday, June 11, 19:16 UT (Leo) - Wednesday, June 12, 05:39 UT (Virgo)
At 10 hours 23 minutes, this is the longest void Moon in June.
Friday, June 14, 17:54 UT (Virgo) - 18:12 UT (Libra)
Monday, June 17, 06:05 UT (Libra) - 06:38 UT (Scorpio)
Wednesday, June 19, 16:19 UT (Scorpio) - 16:32 UT (Sagittarius)
Friday, June 21, 22:58 UT (Sagittarius) - 23:08 UT (Capricorn)
Monday, June 24, 03:05 UT (Capricorn) - 03:14 UT (Aquarius)
Tuesday, June 25, 22:30 UT (Aquarius) - Wednesday, June 26, 06:08 UT (Pisces)
Friday, June 28, 08:45 UT (Pisces) - 08:52 UT (Aries)
At seven minutes in length, this is the shortest void Moon in June.
Sunday, June 30, 04:56 UT (Aries) - 12:00 UT (Taurus)
(Note that out of 13 void Moons, eight of them are under half an hour long in total - and one more is only 33 minutes long. This is because Neptune is very late in Pisces, moving from 29°40’ to 29°56’ during June.)
Retrograde/Direct/Etc.
Transiting Ceres/Capricorn is retrograde all month.
Transiting Pallas/Scorpio is retrograde all month.
Transiting Juno/Virgo is in her post-retrograde shadow all month.
Transiting Saturn begins the month in its pre-retrograde shadow; it stations retrograde on Saturday, June 29.
Transiting Pluto/Aquarius is retrograde all month.
Ingresses
Monday, June 3 - transiting Mercury enters Gemini
Sunday, June 9 - transiting Mars enters Taurus
Monday, June 17 - transiting Venus enters Cancer
Monday, June 17 - transiting Mercury enters Cancer
Wednesday, June 19 - transiting Vesta enters Leo
Thursday, June 20 - transiting Sun enters Cancer
(Aka the Cancer Solstice.)
Opportunity Periods
Tuesday, June 4, 23:04 UT - Wednesday, June 5, 08:36 UT. “This Last Quarter Moon OP is a good time to get organized, let go of what is no longer necessary, and finish up projects.”
Friday, June 7, 12:41 UT - Sunday, June 9, 19:29 UT. “Long OP while the Moon goes through the entire sign of Cancer, great for finding or expressing love after your emotions are renewed.”
Friday, June 14, 18:12 UT - Monday, June 17, 06:05 UT. “An excellent waxing Moon OP for commerce, arts, networking, or partying.”
Wednesday, June 19, 05:24 UT - 16:19 UT. “Short OP filled with intense emotions. Good for deep thinking and reflection.”
Thursday, June 27, 14:57 UT - Friday, June 28, 08:52 UT. “This is a good opportunity for connections as well as expressing love and compassion.”
Et Cetera
The Cancer Solstice takes place on Thursday, June 20, at 20:51 UT. It’s much like the Full Moon chart of the next day; only the Moon moves very much. The Sun, Mercury, and Venus are all together in Cancer, sextile Mars/Taurus - which is a great setup for minding our own business. But….
The Sag Moon is the apex of a mutable t-square, though. Mutable = new problems arising, dealing with responsibilities (Saturn is involved). Something happens, and burying our heads in the sand is the wrong approach.
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Masterlist
A/n: we love committing to something right before the busy season of my job and starting labs for my major.
Tag List: @mini-meanhoe @leggomylino @hanstagram @desertofdessert @hoes4hoseok @jeonqqin @mrsunshine999 @jisungsjheekies @hannie-squirrel00 @cotccotc @yangs-jeongin @binniebutter @orangegyu @little-precious-baby @raethethey @sofie296 @love-letters-2-jisungie @bluejayboys
SMIY Tag List: @sanccharine
Pairing: Jeong Yunho x Reader
Genre: Series, Fluff, Angst, Comedy, Idol au, Secret Relationship
Updates: Completed
Warnings: Cursing, Privacy Invasion, Dieting, Overworking, 18+Themes (eventually)
Summary: Privacy. Normalcy. Love. Y/n was ready to give all of that up when she became an idol. She was more than happy with the absence of those qualities in her life until a certain six foot mountain of sunshine and chaos was cast opposite her in her first drama. Confronted with the fact that she no longer knows what she wants; Y/n must decide if he’s truly worth giving up the life she’s dreamed of…and how much damage she’ll let happen before she makes a decision.
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Profiles Part One (Ateez)
Profiles Part Two (JINXX)
1. Pointy Elbows
2. Spit Fire
3. The Water Bottle
4. This Behemoth
5. The Uncle From Guam
6. Sunbae (🖋)
7. Bro
8. Stupid Goof Fuck
9. Finally Now It’s My Time
10. Playing Hooky (🖋)
11. I Made This Awkward (🖋)
12. 82.4%?
13. Big Ass SAT Word
14. Battle of Lockscreens
15. Genius Idea
16. Boss Bitch
17. Best Friend’s Brother
18. Taeyong
19. Come Eat Meee
20. SEONGHWA HYUNG
21: Addicted
22. @ bby_yn Stan Account
23. Seatmates
24. Hongjoong the Wise Old Tree
25. Screw Reincarnation (🖋)
26. Glitter, Orgasms, and Self Esteem
27. Don’t Look At Other Oppas
28. Green Eyed Monster
29. Alexa, Play Now or Never
30. Subtweeting
31. Not A Total Lie
32. You’ve Got to Be Fucking Kidding Me
33. Fuck You, Hobbit
34. Matz Wine Time
35. Horny Song (title tbd)
36: Progress Not Perfection
37. Shadow in the Night
38. The Tour Fairy
39. You Do Drugs????
40. Queer Baiting
41. 15 Hours
42. Something With Tequila
43. Girly Pop
44. What’s The Point Of Knocking (🖋)
45. Playground Dating
46. 4 Days, 3 Hours, and 27 Minutes
47. Feet Pics
48. Melon Head
49. Himbo Agenda
50. Fan War
51. Cyber Bullied
52. This Bitch
53. Sugar Baby
54. Concerned in Swidish
55. 6 Million Punching Bags
56. Exposed (🖋)
57. Grapes
58. The Truth
59. Suteki
60. Big Biggie
61. Not Your Fandom
62. Missed Calls
63. I’m Outside🖤
64. How Does This Make You Feel?
65: Yeosang’s Credit Card
66. Ice Cream
67. Mister Monster
68. The Universe is a Masochist
69. Unbiased But Not Really (🖋)
70. Boca Boca
71. Choo Choo
72. Meme War
73. Dipshit
74. Xanax
75. Special Kind of Joy
76. 💛
77. My Knees (Finale)
#jeong yunho#jeong yunho imagines#jeong yunho smau#jeong yunho idol au#jeong yunho imagine#jeong yunho angst#jeong yunho fluff#jeong yunho smut#jeong yunho oneshot#jeong yunho secret relationship au#jeong yunho au imagine#jeong yunho au#ateez angst#ateez scenarios#ateez#ateez au imagine#ateez au imagines#ateez imagines#ateez smau#ateez reactions#ateez social media au#ateez soulmate au#ateez masterlist#ateez idol au#ateez preferences#ateez secret relationship au#rubber ducky you're the one#seeing myself in you
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Tomorrow X Together Announce 2024 U.S. Tour
Act: Promise will span 11 shows across eight cities including New York, Los Angeles, Houston, and Washington
K-pop band Tomorrow X Together announced on Tuesday that they’ll be embarking on the U.S. leg of their Act: Promise tour this spring.
The trek, which launches in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, on May 3, promises to be “grander” than its 2023 predecessor Act: Sweet Mirage. The U.S. portion of their world tour kicks off May 14 in Tacoma, Washington, and features 11 total shows across eight cities including Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York.
According to a press release, Act: Promise “embodies the commitment to move forward together towards a hopeful future.” The concert is billed as an example of a “cohesive narrative, seamlessly weaving together captivating music, performances, VCRs, and set designs.”
Tickets for the tour will go on sale to the general public on March 24 via Ticketmaster.
Earlier this month, the quintet — Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and HueningKai — announced their upcoming sixth mini album, Minisode 3: Tomorrow, due April 1, while also unveiling a new logo and color scheme for their upcoming era. The group previously dropped Minisode 1, featuring their massive hit “Blue Hour,” in 2020. Minisode 2, which included “Good Boy Gone Bad,” released in 2022.
Last summer, Tomorrow X Together performed at Lollapalooza in Chicago, stacking their set list with tracks like “Farewell, Neverland,” “Lonely Boy,” and “Anti-Romantic.” The group invited Coi Leray onstage for a surprise cameo during “Happy Fools,” sealing their set as one of the most memorable of the fest.
Tomorrow X Together 2024 U.S. Tour Dates
May 14 – Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
May, 18 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
May, 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
May, 22 – Los Angeles, CA @ Crypto.com Arena
May, 26 – Houston, TX @ Minute Maid Park
May, 29 – Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena
June, 1 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
June, 2 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
June, 5 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
June, 6 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
June, 8 – Washington, DC @ Capitol One Arena
#txt#tomorrow x together#240320#article#rolling stone#soobin#yeonjun#beomgyu#taehyun#hueningkai#act: promise#txt world tour
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Sanremo 2024: how Italians go mad
You want to know why Italians are so weird and crazy? Here's how long the national song contest, the Sanremo Music Festival, was this year:
Just the 5 nights of the actual show were 26 hours and 3 minutes.
But then, if you add the pre-show, aftershow and Sunday specials you get 39 hours and 10 minutes.
It's a good thing we're famous for our espresso.
-------------------------- Here's a breakdown:
First night:
pre-show: 12 minutes
show: 5 hours 15 minutes (8:45pm - 2am)
after-show: 48 minutes
Total: 6 hours and 15 minutes
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Second night:
pre-show: 11 minutes
show: 4 hours 45 minutes (8:44pm - 1:29am)
after-show: 45 minutes
Total: 5 hours and 41 minutes
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Third night:
pre-show: 11 minutes
show: 4 hours 52 minutes (8:45pm - 1:37am)
after-show: 52 minutes
Total: 5 hours and 55 minutes
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Fourth night:
pre-show: 12 minutes
show: 5 hours 14 minutes (8:45pm - 1:59am)
after-show: 61 minutes
Total: 6 hours and 27 minutes
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Fifth night:
pre-show: 10 minutes
show: 5 hours 57 minutes (8:45pm - 2:42am)
after-show: No aftershow for the final! The host was actually co-hosting the main show.
Total: 6 hours and 7 minutes
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Sunday specials:
Domenica In (interviews + songs): 5 hours and 54 minutes
Dietro Festival (BTS with all the drama): 51 minutes
#this is still just a fragment of the total amount of tv and radio time the festival gets#eurovision#sanremo#sanremo 2024#esc#esc italy#eurovision 2024#eurovision song contest#rai 1#festival di sanremo#just italian things
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as my beloved friend @theosrose said yesterday when we were talking, the sheer lack of any scenes between stede and ed this season makes it feel very strange, and since i've got nothing better to do today, i've decided to compare the amount of screen-time stede and ed share in season 1 vs season 2*
* i mean scenes in which they are alone, or in company but the focus is only on them (like the restaurant scene)
season one:
ep3: their first meeting (25:17-25:38). total: 21 seconds
ep4: opening (02:22-02:42), "who's this mary then?" (09:51-10:48), stede wakes up (13:41-14:31), aux wardrobe (14:57-16:56), "do you wanna do something weird?" (18:36-21:11), "we need to be a lighthouse" (26:51-27:38), ending (29:43-31:10). total: 535 seconds
ep5: books looting (01:32-01:49), dining lessons (02:26-04:18), going to the party (04:51-05:21) (i cut it right when frenchie enters), entering the party (09:10-09:48), ed playing the piano (15:29-15:57), stede telling ed to stand down (20:31-21:04), passive aggression (25:17-25:36), moonlight (26:11-27:12). total: 337 seconds
ep6: opening (00:11-02:30), ed almost kills stede (15:46-16:00, 16:16-16:25, 16:49-16:55), bathroom scene (18:00-20:44). total: 332 seconds
ep7: opening (00:10-01:10), treasure map (05:11-05:56), the moth (10:45-11:12), restaurant scene (12:00-13:30), after lucius calls ed out (17:35-18:40), co-captains (24:29-25:07). total: 325 seconds
ep8: "i mean in hindsight i probably could've guessed" (11:22-48), nature walk (12:40-12:52), the beach talk (16:43-17:28), ed leaves (22:18-22:52), foot nudge (33:07-33:35). total: 145 seconds
ep9: ed shaves off his beard (13:33-15:27), the kiss (16:44-19:58), last conversation (21:02-21:35). total: 341 seconds
interesting note: although stede and ed share the last amount of scenes in ep9 (only 3), the total amount of time spent together is the second longest in the entire season. also, the kiss scene is the longest scene in s1.
TOTAL NUMBER OF SCENES: 35
TOTAL NUMBER OF TIME: 2036 seconds, or 33.93 minutes
the total runtime of s1 is 5 hours 6 minutes 45 seconds, or 306.75 minutes. 33.93 out of 306.75 in percentage is 11.06%
season two:
ep1: opening (01:12-02:17). total: 65 seconds
ep3: reunion (27:43-29:44). total: 121 seconds
ep4: opening (00:00-00:28), "you're not a mermaid" (03:17-03:35), "i like your beard" (10:09-10:46), "i love everything about you" (17:23-19:43), stede inviting ed back to the ship (24:00-24:53), "buttons turned into a seagull!" (26:40-27:02). total: 298 seconds
ep5: "i'm your captain" (03:22-04:50), moonlight kiss (25:20-27:44). total: 224 seconds
ep6: guilt room (03:01-03:22), poison into positivity (04:53-05:47), don't be pirates, kids (07:47-08:17), the almost dance (11:38-11:54), the love scene (22:10-22:27, 22:43-22:50, 23:25-23:32). total: 152 seconds
ep7: the morning after (01:02-02:18), dining and dashing (04:19-05:57), ed giving stede a lesson in being famous (06:03-06:43), ed leaving (11:59-13:51). total: 326 seconds
TOTAL NUMBER OF SCENES: 21
TOTAL NUMBER OF TIME: 1186 seconds, or 19.76 minutes
the total runtime of s2 (minus the finale) is 3 hours 16 minutes and 2 seconds, or 196.033 minutes. 19.76 out of 196.033 in percentage is 10.07%
CONCLUSION:
while the amount of screen time in percentage is similar between the seasons, s2 has significantly fewer scenes with stede and ed. additionally, the time they spend together per episode in s1 is much longer than in s2, and the scenes are stretched out throughout the episodes evenly. even during s1ep8, in which they share the least amount of screen time due to being separated, stede and ed still share 5 scenes, unlike s2ep5 which separates them for the longest amount of time (20 minutes!)
so far in s2, stede and ed share way less scenes than in s1, and when they do, they are shorter and often oddly spaced. for me, the best laid out episode is episode 4, while the worst is episode 5. interestingly, they share the least amount of screen time (after ed wakes up) in ep6, despite having the love scene in it. in my opinion, most of their scenes in s2 feel less earnest than in s1, and are so short i can barely savor them. this is ultimately the result of hbo cutting off two episodes, but also an issue of giving the crew too much spotlight, making stede and ed's plot line feel rush and poorly planned post ep3.
i have no doubt the finale will fix most of stede and ed's issues, but the scarcity of the scenes they share (and their contents) make their arc feel watered down to me, like the writing crew keep beginning to say something meaningful but getting cut mid sentence
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It's Taylor Swift release day so here's my ranking of all her albums that no one cares about.
1. evermore - subjective perfection. It's as if someone produced a perfect mixture of what I want Taylor to sound like. Incredible, it's a shame she didn't stick to that vibe. Cowboy like me is her best song. She should fire Antonoff and just stick with Dessner.
2. folklore - just slightly behind evermore. It's the one that got me into her music. Wonderful songwriting, great production. Also all the songs are easy to learn and sound great on guitar which is a wonderful addition.
3. 1989 - the perfect Taylor pop record. I was honestly pissed at the Taylor's version because it messed up the pace of the album so badly.
4. Speak Now - sonically diverse, not a single weak spot in this one. Last Kiss is her second best song. Long Live, Dear John, Mean - so many iconic songs on this one. It's also her first album where the songwriting really shines.
5. Fearless - love the vibe of her still being in her country phase but slowly leaning closer to pop. The upbeat songs are great but the slower and sadder ones don't land as hard as on other albums.
6. reputation - another really good Taylor pop. A bit edgier 1989. Don't Blame Me, Dancing With Our Hands Tied, Getaway Car, Dress and New Year's Day are the highlights.
7. Red - THE Taylor Swift album if we're being honest. It's the one that cemented her as a superstar. A lot of great songs here - State Of Grace, Red, Holy Ground, I Knew You Were Trouble, WANEGBT, All Too Well (especially the 10 minute version). Also some of the best Vault tracks (again, especially the 10 Minute ATW). But it's kind of bloated, with quite a few songs that could be cut and not much would be lost.
8. Taylor Swift - I loooove country Taylor. It's a shame this era ended so quickly. Picture To Burn, Should've Said No, I'm Only Me When I'm With You, Our Song? BANGERS. Every track that's a bit slower here is just a skip tho.
9. Lover - bloaaaated. Some phenomenal stuff. False God, which I'm pretty sure is the only saxophone part in Taylor's discography. Cruel Summer, The Archer, DBATC, Lover, Daylight, all really good tracks. But the lows are really low. ME! with Brendon Urie is a crime, and You Need To Calm Down and The Man are not much better. Also it's the album repsonsible for the gaylors.
10. Midnights - I still haven't forgiven her that disastrous rollout. 15 different versions, a special song available only on the variant sold in one venue. There are 23-26 tracks in total (again, thanks to that mess it's hard to tell) and you could easily remove about 13 to have a much better album without losing nothing of value
11. The Tortured Poets Department - maybe it will grow on me but I doubt that. This one is also so bloated, with some very bizzare lyrical choices. That one line in the article about the songwriting collapsing under the weight of the lore was so real. I appreciate that she plays with her vocals more than usual here. Also the moment Dessner takes over the album immediately gets better. FIRE JACK ANTONOFF. Anyway, it's quite a disappointment for now. I've been happier about getting one Cassandra Jenkins track a few days ago than getting two hours of Taylor today.
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Podfic Stats 2023 by MistbornHero. Included some covers I liked that had no reason to be put on the Stats page.
Descriptions & Links under the Read More.
Total Works: 152
Total Words: 207,838
122 solo works
9 multivoices (edited or produced by me)
13 multivoice roles (works where I participated in a voice only role)
2 not!fics
5 repods (which are also solo works)
1 filk
Total Time: 33 hours with 38 minutes. (Or, one day and 9 hours with 38 minutes)
Authors Podficced: 148
Fandoms Podficced: 56
Longest Chaptered Work: Like Fire in our Bones | +4 hours | Incomplete
Longest One-Shot Work: "Twin Flame" written by @insi | 1 hour 30 minutes
Shortest One-Shot Work: "Trapped" written by @melimegreenleaf | 56 seconds
All Time Totals & Comparison between each year
Total “Solo” Works: 420
2018 - 6 podfics
2019 - 21 podfics
2020 - 73 podfics
2021 - 60 podfics
2022 - 111 podfics
2023 - 152 podfics
Total “Solo” Works Time: 131 hours and 56 minutes
2018 - 1 hour and 34 minutes
2019 - 12 hours and 25 minutes
2020 - 21 hours and 12 minutes
2021 - 22 hours
2022 - 1 day and 16 hours
2023 - 1 day and 9 hours
Top 3 Ships:
CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya
Lucy Carlyle/Anthony Lockwood
Top 5 Fandoms:
33 | 9:17 hours | Star Wars
6 | 2:30 hours | Bungou Stray Dogs
11 | 2:00 hours | DCU / Batman
4 | 1:40 hours | One Piece
7 | 1:20 hours | Lockwood & Co (this could have been Zelda by 3 mins, but Zelda is only here from ITPE and L&Co is here by my own obsession)
Rating Divisions:
82 General
47 Teen & Up
7 Mature
3 Explicit
1 Not Rated
Category:
57 Gen
44 M/M
25 F/M
20 Multi
12 F/F
7 Other
Significant Works:
First: "in which Qui-Gon Jinn learns why he should not make Obi-Wan upset" written by MiriRainbowitz | @dammmithardison | 11 minutes
Last: "The Air That I Need" written by FunkyinFishnet | @dinomighty | 21 minutes
300th: "Explosion" written by yeaka | @yeaka | 9 minutes (I also got to 350)
Most Music: "Domestic Trappings" written by zombified_queer | @zombified-queer | 26 minutes (I know it sounds like 2ish songs, but I under-laid like 3 extra ones under it)
Most SFX: "Divide & Conquer" written by impersonal_villain | @impersonal-villain | 31 minutes (this might have been Death Wish if that fic had been longer lmao)
Most Kudos: "I've never made it with moderation" written by Trixree | @trixree | 3 hours and 11 minutes
Most Words In Top Ship: "Kill Me With Desire" written by jynx | @bluemaskedkarma | 1 hour and 12 minutes (I'm manipulating my stats to make this fic show up, yes)
Drabbles made: "its", "Trade Secrets", "After the Rescinding", "Cicatrix", "Not for Us", "Protection", "Reason to Live", "tea, milk & honey", "Infinite", "Looking Good", "Ruffled Feathers", "keep out", "string", "tri-confession showdown", "video game night", "Pull Me Closer", "Friends", "Skip", "The Unspoken Hour", "mi hijo", "Three", "Go Jump in a Lake", "Dia de muertos", "Trapped", "A Familiar Scent", "dream", "Fallout", "Olives", "Sound", "Spells", "not a third-wheel", "New Resolve", "A List of Ordinary Miracles", "Is That a Weird Cucco?", "Just a princess", "be the lightning in me"
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Above: George Harrison in a wheelchair after injuring his foot at Friar Park in March 1979. Photographer unknown. The brake wouldn't work on the small tractor he was riding, so he put his foot down on the path, only for the back wheel of the tractor to run over it. Below: Laurie Fidler's version of the story I typed up for this post. It's much shorter and the details are a little different. [click to enlarge]
From the WALH Beatles fanzine - Issue #26 - April 1979.
George in L.A. - March 1979
I came home from school at about 3:30 (step one), which is real early for me. It was hot, so I just peeled off some clothes and switched on the TV. It just happened to be on CBS (step two). Because it was so hot I just sat on the couch and relaxed, when all of a sudden I hear "These are the stories we are working on for the 4:30, 5:00 and 6:00 news..blah blah…and Pat O'Brian will have an interview with former Beatle George Harrison." That was all I had to hear to take me out of a nice state of relaxation. A hundred thoughts began to run thru my mind: call the gang, get my camera ready, get a tape recorder, where was the interview taking place, when, was it in L.A.??? -- etc., etc., etc.! I called Laurie…no answer. God! She's not home from work yet. I called Sandi...she had to work late...again I get on the phone to call Selita. Yay! -- she's home! "Selita, get on over to my house, George is going to be interviewed, bring your camera!" (I have a big color TV.) I kept trying to call Laurie but still no answer. Where the hell was she?? By then I had tried to work all the tape recorders in the house (3) and of course not one of them worked. I was so mad.
Finally, Laurie called saying she went to see Sandi at work and she told her to call me right away, something about George. I told her about it and she said: "While I come over, call the station to first find out if it's live." Needless to say at hearing the word live, I went slightly mad. I then began to make calls -- I think about 6 of them -- each time getting closer to his whereabouts. As I was talking I kept thinking to myself, "God! I work well under pressure." I was very calm and professional on the phone. My final call was to Warner Bros. where I found out that George was holding a press conf. at that moment. After telling her some far-fetched story (what's funny was that she believed me), she told me where the conf. was being held, bless her.
Called Laurie back up to tell her to forget about the show, we are going to go see George at Warner Bros. She made it up to my house in a few seconds flat. I hardly had time to grab my camera and film and a photo for George (I prayed) to sign.
We hear her honking and we run out to the car in near panic (since it's now about 5:00pm and full rush hour), we get in, and WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF....
Laurie, I think, if she were in competition for the world's fastest driver would have won hands down. We made it to Burbank in about 20-25 minutes. A miracle in itself, not to mention when the freeway is bumper-to-bumper. Laurie always was good at dodge-the-cars.
After parking the car and walking towards the front entrance, a quiet fear began to come over me. I'm not sure if it was fear of not being able to finally meet him face to face after so many years, or the fear of actually meeting him. From a total state of nerves I found myself totally calm and at peace with myself (isn't there something that says the calm before the storm??).
Then I began to notice a lot of people walking down the street with George's new LP and some press releases, and as we approached the gates, more and more people began to file out. "Oh god, it's already over, maybe he left" was my first thought, which saddened me considerably. I proceeded to ask some reporter if he knew if George had already left. "He left a long time ago," was his answer in a rather shitty tone. I again felt sad but there was no way I was going to budge an inch, at which time Laurie's friend comes and says that the conf. went great and that George was funny and very nice. After asking if he was still in, she replied she was pretty sure he was because he went in (after the conf.) to talk to Mo.
All that was left to do was wait. So we did. We went to the parking lot to see if we could spot one of his cars but nothing looked right, however the first car my eye caught sight of was a gorgeous bronze Bentley, brand new and very classy. We wanted (or at least I did) to go and check it out but then someone else would walk out the doors of Warners. Every time those doors opened I felt I would die. Finally, a security guard (sweetest man you'd ever want to meet) came outside because at 6:00 Warners officially closes, so he was there (I'm not sure why). We asked him if he knew George was still in there, at which point he turned to look at the cars in the lot and said, "Yeah, that's the car he came in this morning", pointing to the Bentley. Me: "Do you know if there are any other exits?" Guard: "No, he'll have to come out from there, he'll be carrying a cane, he was limping."
Limping?? What does he mean, limping, how, why, when, where, who...We thanked him for being so nice and just began to talk amongst ourselves trying to implant the assurance that yes, this was it, and yes Virginia there really is a Santa Claus.
A few seconds later, the guard says to us, "HERE HE COMES!" I turned to see him coming towards us expecting to see that wonderful lively bounce, but instead I saw him limping and quite badly at that. He was so lovely I don't think I'll quite be able to put in words what my feelings were at that point. All i could think of was how beautiful and young he really is. Pictures are really a very false representation of him.
We started to walk towards him and stopped (since he had to pass us to get to his car). When he reached us my first concern was to ask him what had happened to his foot. He replied with a gorgeous smile, "Oh, I just hurt my foot." Thank you George, but that's a bit obvious since his foot was all bandaged. He was wearing beige cords, a printed shirt (white/blue and blue flaps). He was also wearing his big Dark Horse necklace, the blue one, and no wedding ring. I'm usually not so observant but I couldn't keep my eyes off of him. Ah! That man is BEWITCHING.
The best part however was his hair, it's short and sporting and it suits him wonderfully. Lovely, just lovely.
Laurie asked him to sign a couple of autographs (ala Beatles) and again with an enormous smile he said, "Oh, sure!" What a sweetheart, you should have seen him trying to get comfortable with his cane before signing. However, he was enjoying it or so it seemed. As he signed I asked if I could snap a couple of pics, and to answer he looked right at me (I know now that I can live thru anything, his looks are the ultimate test) and said: "Sure, if you can be quick." As I was taking some shots I heard him say, "Oh, where'd you get this one?" I looked to see that he was checking out my photo of him, really interested, and I said "I got it out of a Japanese calendar." He seemed so pleased. God! I wanted to hug him (let's keep it clean). Every once in a while he would stare at me so that I could take a photo, well, needless to say I never did manage to get one whenever he did that because I couldn't do anything but look back. He was so cute. I bet he knew his affects on me because he seemed to get a kick out of doing it.
He then began to walk towards the Bentley which was a few feet away. As he was getting into the car (hopping in so as not to put weight on his hurt foot) I told him (I think, or was it Laurie) that I loved his new album. It was light-up time again, his whole face was a warm grin. "Do you really like it then?" "Of course," I said. "Do you have the album?" He again seemed interested -- ah, such a gentleman! Laurie then said, "I love 'Blow Away', come on George, knock those Bee Gees off the charts!" (as she thinks of it now, she can't believe she said that -- I can't either!) After hearing that he just about cracked up and made a gesture like, oh well, we try. He was getting ready to go (he had a driver, a nice guy who was enjoying the whole thing nicely) so I asked how Dhani was. This question brought about the biggest smile yet (after George nirvana) and the reply, "Oh, he's just fine!" "And Olivia?" "She's fine too." He then said he had to go and said bye. At the second he left, already I couldn't believe what had happened, all I could remember was how beautiful, young, happy and gentle he was. He has absolutely no airs about him at all. He makes you feel more like a friend, asking you questions. I could have not have dreamt of a more totally terrific meeting with George. I thought I'd be very nervous but instead I was calm with a kind of inner glow. Absolutely mind-blowing. My last thought was, God, it was worth the waiting, and how much I do feel for him...Stefania Catone.
#george harrison#olivia harrison#dhani harrison#the beatles#mo ostin#fan encounters#WALH#can't help but admire the hustle of fans before the internet#call the gang#1979
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Christmas Reruns 2023 Day 3: A Christmas Miracle (3/3)
Merry Christmas if you celebrate it and happy holidays if you don’t! One of the things I love about Christmas is watching reruns of all the old classic Christmas movies–Christmas is a big time for nostalgia. A few years ago, I decided to incorporate that tradition into my fandom life and post my CS holiday reruns. So here you go! Enough holiday (mostly) fluff to get you to New Year’s Day. (With a new story posting on Christmas Day.)
Rating: G
Word Count: 2446
Other chapters: 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
Notes: Here’s the conclusion of A Christmas Miracle. Once again, it was written in 2013 and fits within my A Wish Your Heart Makes universe.
“If you hadn’t cast the curse in the first place, dearie, Pan never would have had the opportunity to curse us the second time.” Mr. Gold hissed.
“Oh, that’s rich!” Regina said with a sneer, “considering it’s coming from the imp who provided me with the curse in the first place!”
Emma sat in her favorite booth at Granny’s and watched her adversarial family members face off. She was rather impressed. They’d remained civil for nearly two hours.
“Come on guys,” Mary Margaret said, walking up to Gold and Regina, her hand extended in a pacifying gesture, “let’s not argue. It’s Christmas!”
Regina turned on her. “Stay out of it, Snow. It’s all your fault anyway.”
“My fault?!” Mary Margaret yelled, her hands coming to rest on her hips.
“Don’t play stupid,” Regina sneered, “Or maybe you’re not playing.”
“Just a minute! You can’t talk to my wife that way!” David charged into the fight.
Regina rolled her eyes and turned back to Mary Margaret.
“Yes, Snow,” Regina continued, “if it wasn’t for your total inability to keep your mouth shut, we wouldn’t be where we’re at.”
“Where we’re at? Where we’re at?!” Mary Margaret fumed, “That's…that’s not even grammatically correct, let alone accurate!”
Emma rolled her eyes. They were arguing about grammar? It was definitely time to go get some air…before the magic started flying. She got to her feet, and wobbled for a second on her high heels. Why had she let Mary Margaret convince her to dress up? If she had to come to this party, couldn’t she have at least been comfortable?
Emma turned her back on the argument, on Neal and Henry talking in a booth on the other side of the diner, on Hook who had gone up to the bar for another drink. Pushing the door open, she stepped outside.
Hook looked up as he heard the bell over Granny’s door chime. He caught a glance of golden hair and a soft blue dress before the door closed behind Emma. The lass had been rather quiet since dinner; he wondered what was bothering her. It was obvious something was; something beyond the obvious awkwardness of this party.
The voices rose behind him, everyone trying to shout down the others. Something crashed against a far wall. He shook his head. Snow White really did see the world through rose-colored glasses. How on earth had she thought this group of people would have a good time together?
Hook took a final swig of the beer he was drinking, and then headed for the door. He had no wish to remain in what was turning into an all-out battlefield. Of course, the thought of spending some time alone with the lovely Emma, might have played a part in the decision as well.
Pushing the glass door open, Hook stepped outside. There she stood underneath the awning, shivering. Why hadn’t she grabbed her coat before she’d stepped out?
“It’s a bit cold to be standing outside love,” he commented, stepping up behind her.
“Yeah, well,” she answered, turning toward him, “it beats getting caught in the middle of World War III in there.”
He laughed and shrugged out of his coat. He draped it over her shoulders and was rewarded with one of her rare smiles. They stood there for a moment watching the snow gently fall through the dark, evening air. Hook caught strains of music coming from the convent; it seemed the nuns were ringing in Christmas with carols.
“Joy to the world the Lord is come…”
“It doesn’t look like Mary Margaret is going to be able to get in all the Christmas traditions she was hoping for,” Emma commented. “We didn’t get to the Christmas carol sing-a-long.”
“It’s a shame,” Hook commented, looking over at her, “that was the part I was particularly looking forward to.”
“Really?” she asked looking at him with skeptical eyes, “You want to sit around singing carols?”
“And why not,” he asked with a grin. “Some of the songs I have heard here in Storybrooke would be particularly appropriate to the evening at hand.”
“Such as?” she asked with a matching grin.
“When we finally kiss goodnight,” he sang in a soft baritone, “how I’ll hate going out in the storm, but if you really hold me tight, all the way home I’ll be warm.”
She rolled her eyes, but he saw the smile that draped her face. A moment later, she turned back toward the street with a dejected little sigh. They stood in silence for a minute. “…And heaven and nature sing. And heaven and nature sing. And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.”
“It’s really coming down,” she finally said looking up at the streetlight across from them.
“Aye,” he answered with a smile. “We’ll have a fine blanket come Christmas morning.”
“Great,” she said with a grimace. “Just what I wanted for Christmas.”
“Oh come on love,” he said, turning her back toward him. “Surely there was a time you liked snow.”
He expected a witty retort, but instead she dropped her eyes and turned back toward the street. “I do remember one day,” she finally responded. “I was about six. I’d been living with a foster family for almost three years. They were great; I really thought they would adopt me. One day, it was close to Christmas, I remember, my foster dad took my foster brother and me out to play in the snow. We made the biggest snowman I had ever seen. We made snow angels, had a snowball fight, the whole nine yards. Later, we went in and my foster mom had made us a big pot of hot chocolate.”
Emma fell silent, and Hook waited. He heard the pain in her voice and softly began rubbing her shoulder. She leaned into his touch. “…holy infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.”
“What then, love?” Hook asked after a moment. He wasn’t sure he wanted to hear the answer.
“The next morning, my foster dad disappeared,” she answered, and he saw the tears in her eyes. “They never found him; no one knows what happened. Well, my foster mom kinda fell apart. She couldn’t afford to take care of two children, so it was back into the system for me.”
Hook closed his eyes. It must have been devastating for a little girl to lose the only family she had ever known. Turning her once more to face him, he wrapped her in a hug. She resisted for a moment, and then he felt her arms wrap around him.
“I think it’s time we make a new memory surrounding snow,” Hook said after a moment. She pulled away from him and looked questioningly up into his face.
“Yeah?” she asked, “and what would that be?”
Hook grinned. “Well, love. I propose we go play in the snow tomorrow.”
“Play in the snow?” she asked with a raised eyebrow, “Really?”
“Aye, lass,” he smiled at her, “We can bring Henry.”
“And what exactly would we ‘play’ in the snow?”
“First,” he answered, with a wicked grin, “We make a devastatingly handsome snowman with a hook. Then we make a beautiful blonde snow maiden looking adoringly up at him.”
“Are you sure the blonde isn’t rolling her eyes at him?” Emma asked with a grin. “Sounds more true to life.”
Hook put his hand to his heart and staggered as though mortally injured. “You wound me, lass.”
“Hmm,” she said grinning, “that might play to your advantage.”
“Aye? And how is that?”
“Well,” she said with a grin, “if you’re injured you’ll need someone to take care of you.”
Was the lady actually flirting with him? His grin blossomed into a full blown smile. She smiled back for a moment and then turned back to the street. He heard a defeated sigh.
“What’s troubling you, love?” he asked. She didn’t answer for so long he thought she was deliberately ignoring him. The nuns started up a new carol. When blossoms flowered ‘mid the snow…
Finally she turned back toward him. “It’s just…” she made a helpless little gesture with her hands. “I don’t know…Every single time it looks like things are starting to work out, like good is going to succeed, like the bad guys are going to get defeated, like we might get a bit of peace and happiness, something else happens. Someone casts a curse, or kidnaps a kid, or…”
“Or disappears sending you back into the system…or turns you in to the police for his crimes…or sends you off to another realm with no more protection than a seven-year-old lad so that you can come back and be the savior?”
“Yeah,” she said, and he saw the tears brimming in her eyes. One escaped and slid down her cheek. Raising his hand, he tenderly wiped it away.
“Emma, love,” he said, his voice going deep and gravelly, “I can’t promise you peace and happiness, but I can promise to always be beside you, helping you, protecting you and those you love. You need never fear I’ll abandon you.”
She whirled away from him and started pacing. The lass was seething. “Yeah?” she snarled at him. “I’ve heard that before. 'I love you, Emma.’ 'You’re like our own daughter, Emma.’ 'Let’s go to Tallahassee, Emma.’ 'We just wanted to give you your best chance, Emma.’ It’s crap! All of it!”
“You doubt me, lass? Even after Camelot?” he asked and was ashamed to hear the pain in his voice.
She stopped and looked back at him. The first Noel the angels did sing…
“No,” she finally answered, “the hell of it is that I don’t doubt you. You’ve proven again and again that you will do anything for me…even at your own expense. But Hook, you’re not indestructable. What if you disappear? Or are kidnapped? Or are killed?”
Hook’s heart swelled. That was real feeling in her voice. The lass was a lot further gone than she thought. He cupped her face with his good hand again.
“Love,” he answered meaning the word with all his heart, “as I said, I can’t promise you nothing terrible will happen, but for today, for this moment all is well. Perhaps, all one can do is create the good memories to be our solace in times of distress.”
She looked up at him for several moments and then slowly nodded, briskly swiping her hands across her damp cheeks.
“So about those snowmen…?” he asked playfully.
“Henry and I will be ready bright and early tomorrow morning,” She answered with a smile.
For the first time in nearly as long as she could remember, Emma felt hope. It was hope that she found shining out of Hook’s blue eyes as he smiled at her.
“I’ve got a gift for you, love,” Hook said, holding out a small, thin box.
“Oh,” Emma said ruefully, “Hook, I didn’t get you anything.”
He smiled gently. “It’s no matter, Emma. I have no need of gifts.” He held the box out to her again, and she reached for it automatically. Lifting the lid, she saw a silver necklace with an opal and silver swan pendant. Emma ran her finger over the jewel.
“It’s beautiful,” she said softly.
“Aye,” he answered looking at her. “It is beautiful, and strong and graceful. Much like you.”
She looked down and then met his eyes. “Is that really how you see me?”
“Aye, lass,” he said gently. “Indeed it is.”
Il est ne le divin enfant… It seemed the nuns had decided to venture into French carols.
“Thank you, Hook,” she said simply. “Well, I don’t hear any yelling, so that probably means they’ve either stopped fighting…or killed each other. Either way, I suppose we should go back in.”
“A moment more lass,” Hook said. That pirate grin of his was back.
“What?” she asked warily. She had come to know that tone in his voice, and it meant trouble.
“Well, love,” he said with a raise of his eyebrow, “I think it is only right that we follow holiday tradition.”
“Exactly what holiday tradition might that be?” she asked. He pointed to a spot over her head. She looked up and saw a sprig of mistletoe hanging right above the two of them.
“You’re terrible, you know that?” she asked with a smile and a slight shake of her head.
“Perhaps so,” he answered playfully, “but your mother has her heart set on her family following the traditions this year. What manner of a daughter would you be if you were to blatantly deny her greatest Christmas wish?”
Her breath caught and her heart began to pound. Well, why not?
“Well, in the spirit of Christmas tradition…” she said with a little wave of her hand.
He looked surprised for a moment, then the grin was back. She was determined she wouldn’t let his kiss affect her, she wouldn’t! Then his lips settled against hers and all rational thought fled. All that existed was this man and the sensations he aroused in her. Her arms wrapped around his neck. She tangled her fingers in his hair, pressing closer, closer. She could never be close enough. She blossomed for him like a flower in a spring rain. The kiss went on and on. It lasted forever; it ended far too soon.
Finally, with a groan, he pulled his lips from hers.
“Emma, love…” he breathed. She couldn’t say a word if her life were on the line. She was glad his arms were still around her because her legs felt like jelly. If he were to release her, she would melt into a puddle at his feet.
Hook took a deep breath and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the charming rogue was back.
“Well, love,” he said gently rubbing her back. “I had it on good authority that the last time was a one-time thing. It seems I’ve just experienced a Christmas miracle!”
She rolled her eyes, but didn’t pull away. Though it scared her half to death, she couldn’t deny it any more. Being in his arms felt like…home.
“Well, don’t get too used to it buddy,” she said. Her voice didn’t sound convincing even to her.
“Oh, I wouldn’t dream of it, love,” he said with a raise of one eyebrow. “After all, I’d have to wait an entire year for another Christmas miracle.”
“Very true,” she said with a grin, “But there are a lot of holidays between now and then.”
He laughed. “I like the way you think, Emma. I like the way you think!”
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End of School Year Wrap Up
Final Course Grades:
Geometry - 99.4% - A+
Lit and Comp II - 98.7% - A+
Spanish 2 - 101% - A+
Bible I - 100% (participation grade)
World History - 103% - A+
Biology with Lab - 99.4% - A+
PE/Health I - 100% - A+ (participation + RAD passed)
Foundations - Assignments (40%) + Participation (60%) = 100% - A+
Goal Wrap Up:
Academics:
Score 90% or higher in all coursework
Read for 30 minutes each day outside of the required reading
Study vocabulary daily (Lit and Comp 2 + Spanish 2)
Complete World Civilization II CLEP prep course (World History)
Supplement a minimum of one video/activity on Khan Academy each weekday (Geometry + Biology + World History)
Complete one Spanish, French, and Chinese lesson on Duolingo each day (exceeded; average of 15-30 minutes per day)
Practice piano for 30 minutes, 5 days a week (exceeded; average of two hours, 7 days per week)
Pass my ballet exam in March (exceeded with a distinction!)
Character/Spiritual:
Complete GIRLtopia Senior Journey and earn the Award Pin
Complete Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey
Earn CEF pin Y1 with my family
Earn at least seven or more Senior badges (The ones I am aiming for: Cookie Boss, Savvy Saver, Programming Robots, Designing Robots, Showcasing Robots, Website Designer, Women’s Health, Troupe Performer, Novelist, (Troupe Performer and Novelist will be completed May 26) Science of Style, Collage Artist) (exceeded; 11 will be completed in the spring, 19 badges total)
Volunteer a minimum of 20 hours in the community (exceeded; 48 hours in the spring, 83 hours all year + 22 service unit hours totaling 105 volunteer hours this school year!)
Meditate for 10 minutes each weekday
Other:
Post studyblr updates at least 2 times per week (exceeded; I posted almost every day!)
Limit video gaming to 6 hours Friday-Sunday, 3 hours max per day
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The thing you're not getting about why genshin is worse is because events are not meant to be the primary source of quartz in fgo. It comes from your weekly log in, live streams, 50 day ten pull, ascending servants to their second last ascension, story quests, free quests and the ten quartz you get from doing ten of them, rank up and interludes and the quartz you also get for doing ten of those, and special occasions like anniversary and new year. If you do ten rank ups you get a ten pull and you can do this in maybe an hour or two, now try grinding a ten pull in genshin. It'll be a lot more time investing and taxing considering you're just pressing buttons in fate. Also genshin's odds are just lower and it bleeds whales way harder by making constellations do more than just damage and they make modern 4 stars suck without them. Yes genshin has a better pity but that isn't the be all end all, you need to get 5 copies to max a 5 star in fate where as genshin its 6 AND 5 copies of their weapons. I could keep going on about ways that it's worse all day long, especially when genshin has way more micro transactions and predatory practices like battlepasses and resin but take that fate is worse is utterly baffling tbh
Oh boy let's get into the math here because this is where the fun begins.
Don't get me wrong, I'll never defend Genshin's dogshit practices, but I have a personal grudge against FGO fans sucking on it when it's literally the bastard of the mainstream bunch. This argument is me pitting garbage against garbage to say which one is stinkier.
This gonna be long so I'm putting this under a cut:
Alright FGO dailies list (I'll use NA for FGO, since Genshin is a global server schedule):
Day 2=1 SQ, Day 4=1 SQ, Day 6=2 SQ and Day 7=Ticket (3 SQ equivalent)
Total: 7 SQ
Needed for a tenfold: 30 SQ
Weeks needed for a tenfold via Log-In alone: 4 weeks and 4 days. 32 days total.
It should be noted that if you miss a single day, it resets from the very start. You must log in no matter what. It might take but a few moments, but note, you have to.
Genshin dailies list:
10 Primos per Comm/action, total of 40, and a 20 Primo bonus for turning into Katherine
Total: 60 Primos
Needed for tenfold 1600 Primo
Weeks needed for a Log-In alone: 26 days total.
Genshin's big detriment is that while you never lose your place, you need to spend time on Commissions. It can be anywhere from 5-10 minutes, which is a bit of a serious timesink. It's a bit better with the Fontaine update but it's still a pain in the ass for those on the go.
Alright, but Lord, that's just raw Log-In, what about monthlies?
Monthlies are the same, since both give you 5 tickets/fates to use. Genshin is at the disadvantage here since you need to spend the stardust you get from summoning on it, but Fate also requires you to spend Mana Prisms. Fundamentally similar, it's just that Fate wins out by the small margin Mana Prisms are slightly easier to obtain.
What about pity?
Eat my ass, Fate's pity system just happened cause they were getting this ass beat monetarily and they gave up and did a base-tier QOL update. Six FUCKING years we waited for pity and its over 900 SQ??? ((330 pulls btw))
I saved a whole year and a half back for Musashi's inital release and I just barely had that shit. And that was events, dailies, so on and so forth. (I got her in three tickets so nobody come at me with the fact I'm just a bitter old bird who didn't get my cute girl.)
While there's the 50/50 mechanic with Genshin, that levels the idea of 180, and that's going to hard-hard pity. No matter what, you can, and will, at least get the character you want.
Now what if we include Weapon Banner, since people assume Weapons+Characters *must* go together rather than it just being BIS and disregarding the completely different game mechanics of turn-based FGO and action rpg Genshin (<bitter).
Weapon Hard Pity is 240 pulls. You get a Fate Point for 80 pulls if you don't get your directed weapon, and you get another one if you get screwed again. Two Fate Points guarantees the next 80 is what you want.
Now, that might equal 420 pulls, but there's a catch few people acknowledge: Soft Pity.
Genshin has a system that, the closer you get to that hard pity, the higher the rate goes up. Therefore, it's not often someone actually goes to the hard 80 or 90. I'm just using the hard numbers as a point.
FGO is a hard pity, nothing about the rates changes from Summon 1 to Summon 330. Plus no guarantee you actually even get something from those 330 pulls--at least in Genshin you get a Basic Banner character who has some measure of utility you can use to make progress.
Also FGO pity doesn't carry per banner, but Genshin's does, so if you get fucked over and wanna wait a few months, you have another shot instead of wasting all of it cause you got close but no cigar.
But what about upgrades? Constellations?
NP-bonuses are rather minor and not as key as say, Xiao C1 or Hu Tao C1, so FGO has the edge there. However, that leads me to the side point of:
Weapons.
Reasonably, everyone talks about how the 3-star weapons suck, yadda yadda. You get so many weapons from the game as welfare that are good and can be used by multiple characters. You don't need a 5-star weapon, just because you aren't hitting 300k a hit doesn't mean shit.
Genshin has a lot more versatility in team building than FGO tbh, since a lot of FGO's boils down to "Do you have Merlin/Skadi/Chen Gong/Waver/Tamamo/Castoria/Support Caster.png" that you can then use with any other character.
Not saying Genshin doesn't have that too with Qinqiu and Bennett, but due to the nature of Spiral Abyss, people have gotten smart about using others instead of just them cause it's a split up team system.
Citation: I didn't get a single 5-star Weapon until Year 2.5 of Genshin. Fun fact, I also didn't have a single DPS 5-star either (all I had since launch was Diluc and Venti), until fucking Cyno came out. I managed to play the game just fine.
Now in FGO NA, I was also there since Launch, and I didn't get my first SSR until the Solomon raids, in which I finally got Florence Nightingale. I was playing the game carried by Kiyohime, Salter, and throwing SQ at revives. And guides, christ, so many guides it made Arknights look elementary.
What about general SQ/Primo flow (the Anniversaries and whatnot mentioned)?
FGO, the year of 2023, had, according to a Reddit post which I can link if people want the source, is: 2571 SQ, tickets included.
This Reddit post involved Servant NP Ascension Quests, Events, Chunked Log-In Bonus, Live Streams, Bond Stuff, ect ect (also, stuff you can't do if you didn't roll them, the post was being generous with people getting what they rolled or had)
That is about 85.7 tenfolds. So, if you don't spend a penny and not miss a day of logging in, the average joe might get about 2, 3 hard pities on who they want. Presuming I'm doing the math right on that.
Genshin, in the year of 2022, had, according to another Reddit Post, roughly 100k Primogems.
That equals about 62.5 tenfolds, or over 620 Fates. Now, tossing that into the system with someone with the worst luck imaginable that wants a character, that's about the same amount of 3 to 4 guaranteed pities.
One might note that the numbers are about the same, and yeah, that checks. However, there's a lot of variables, such as Spiral Abyss for Genshin, and actually having the characters to do Interludes on.
Half-baked conclusion
FGO is a money sink, Genshin is a time sink. They both sink your serotonin. Nobody wins.
Look, I play both, I have grief with both, I have fond memories of both. I wouldn't have a stupid expensive Okada figurine sitting next to a custom Cyno plushie if I hated these games.
But they're gacha, they're both out for your money, it's just that one is just a raging cunt about the whole affair.
Reddit Post Citations:
#if theres anything I'm fucking stupid about its gacha#espeically the two i have the most time in#i been in fgo since year 1 day 1 in jp#i had two np 5 merlins before nasu took me out back with a shotgun#i was day 1 (day 4 technically cause rerolling lmao) for genshin too#theyre both my problematic dickhead comfort games#who need to be slapped for gambling crimes
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A Shared Love Between Our Posse
Fandom: Hypnosis Mic
Characters (main): Ramuda Amemura, Gentaro Yumeno, Dice Arisugawa, Ann Wolff (OC)
Pairing(s): Fling Posse x Ann (Ramuann, Genann, Diceann)
Description: Collection of loredumps, headcanons and fanfictions involving each of the pairings
Warnings!
This is a polycule ship! The ships coexist with another!
These ships are only Canon x OC (or S/I) works! This is solely selfship/yumeship works! None of these is Canon x Canon!
If these things make you uncomfortable, avoid any of these works!
Lists below cut
Words total right now: 127,990*
Average reading time so far: ~ 16 hours*
*Shiplore and dynamic are excluded in the word count
The Basics
Ramuann - Dynamic + Loredump
Genann - Dynamic + Loredump
Diceann - Dynamic + Loredump
The Story - I
Just A Passerby (Ramuann)
'Hey Miss!' - 'I'm not a Miss!' (Ramuann)
Secret Archives (Genann, sort of)
Literary Genius (Genann)
Gambling Hobo & Kitchen Killer (Diceann)
Invitation (Ramuann)
Everywhere I Go (Ramuann)
The Start Of Their Story (Genann)
Gambling Buddy (Diceann)
Lap Seat (Genann)
You Like Me (Ramuann)
Surprise Kiss (Genann)
Sweet Kiss (Ramuann)
Kissing Jackpot (Diceann)
Money Or Marriage? (Diceann)
Meeting In Osaka (Ramuann)
Drabblecember 2023
Cold Weather (Drabblecember Day 1) (Diceann)
Baking Together (Drabblecember Day 2) (Ramuann)
Decorating (Drabblecember Day 3) (Ramuann)
Learning Traditions (Drabblecember Day 4) (Genann)
Sharing Stories (Drabblecember Day 5) (Genann)
Wrapping Gifts (Drabblecember Day 6) (Diceann)
Snowed In (Drabblecember Day 7) (All)
Sharing Snacks (Drabblecember Day 8) (Ramuann)
A Walk Outside (Drabblecember Day 9) (Diceann)
Sleeping In (Drabblecember Day 10) (Genann)
Building A Snowman (Drabblecember Day 11) (Diceann)
Snowball Fight (Drabblecember Day 12) (All)
Movie Marathon (Drabblecember Day 13) (Ramuann)
Stealing One's Sweater (Drabblecember Day 14) (Diceann)
Being Sick (Drabblecember Day 15) (Genann)
Scrapbooking (Drabblecember Day 16) (Ramuann)
Laundry (Drabblecember Day 17) (Genann)
Winter Date (Drabblecember Day 18) (Diceann)
Hot Drinks (Drabblecember Day 19) (Ramuann)
Listening To Holiday Music (Drabblecember Day 20) (Diceann)
Staying Up Late (Drabblecember Day 22) (Genann)
Stealing Another's Sweater (Drabblecember Day 23) (Ramuann)
Big Get Together (Drabblecember Day 24) (All)
Gift Swap (Drabblecember Day 25) (All)
After A Party (Drabblecember Day 26) (Genann)
Cooking Together (Drabblecember Day 27) (Genann)
Doing Chores Together (Drabblecember Day 28) (Diceann)
Shopping Trip (Drabblecember Day 29) (Ramuann)
Morning Routine (Drabblecember Day 30) (Diceann)
Happy New Year (Drabblecember Day 31) (All)
The Story - II
Well, It's A Lie (Genann)
Nasty Claws But Squishy Plush (Diceann)
Kiss Until You Drop! (Diceann)
First Meeting Of The Year (All)
It'd Be Unbearable Without You (Ramuann)
He's A Teasing Nightmare! But... (Genann)
Train Ride To Osaka (Genann + Diceann)
That's Not An Onee-San... That's My Partner! (Ramuann)
The Urge To Kiss (Genann)
Peaceful Moment (Diceann)
Cute (Ramuann)
Lucky Kabedon (Diceann)
Like A Slotmachine - I Love Ya! (Diceann)
A Moment In Secret (Genann)
Another Set Of Lovebirds (Genann)
Begging For Night Cuddles (Diceann)
Voice Talent (Genann)
Group Photo - But There Are Only Two Hands (All)
Chocolate Gift (All) (Ramuda Birthday Special 2024)
Adoribly Angry (Genann)
A Quick Shut Up Kiss (Diceann)
Hugs (Ramuann)
Me? I'm His Fiancée (Diceann)
Peaceful Rest... Right? (Ramuann)
Secrets & Trust (Genann)
The Story - III
Sneaky (Genann)
A Crêpes Date (Genann)
An Outfit For You (Ramuann)
To Be A Catsitter (Diceann)
Emergency Lap Seat (Diceann)
A Fool For His Birthday (Genann) (Gentaro Birthday Special 2024)
Discussion
A Forehead Kiss (Ramuann)
A Rather Sweet Time (Ramuann)
The (Last Minute) Concert (Diceann)
Fake Date... Right? (Genann)
An Unfair Game (Ramuann)
Our Choice (Diceann)
Ice Cream Date #1 - With Ramuda (Ramuann)
Ice Cream Date #2 - With Gentaro (Genann)
Ice Cream Date #3 - With Dice (Diceann)
Under The Stars (Diceann)
Wrist Kiss (Genann)
more coming soon...
Loved Enough (Ramuann)
Sleepy Charms (Diceann)
Masterlist Part 2 (soon)
#Nimue's Lake#fanfiction#fanfic#fic#selfship community#self ship community#f/o community#f/o x s/i#s/i x f/o#oc x canon#canon x oc#selfship lo#self ship lore#yumejoshi#yumefic#yumeship#yumeposting#romantic f/o#polycule#polyamory#hypnosis mic oc#hypmic oc#ramuda amemura#amemura ramuda#hypmic ramuda#gentaro yumeno#yumeno gentaro#hypmic gentaro#dice arisugawa#arisugawa dice
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