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takaraphoenix · 5 years

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So, @kimmycup tagged me in this game. Let’s do this. Alternately titled:

Let me rant about the difference in receiving feedback on FFN vs AO3

Because I am really getting lost in the math behind “most popular” fic. And it’s most definitely more than just “reaching a different audience” when the feedback for one and the same fic differs between over 1k comments on one site vs not even reaching 100 comments on another site.

Author Name: Takara_Phoenix

Fandoms You Write For: Okay so let‘s only involve the ones I am still actively involved with, not the ones that are like... eight years old and I haven’t thought of them once, yeah? That’d be: Percy Jackson, Shadowhunters, Marvel, Rise of the Guardians/How to Train Your Dragon, Detective Conan/Magic Kaito, Vampire Academy, Jungle Book, DC Comics/the Arrowverse, Descendants

Where You Post: AO3 and FFN, but occasionally also on tumblr - when it’s prompts or drabbles

Most Popular One-Shot: Depends on where you ask. And what you define as popular. Personally, the only value I see are in comments - kudos are literally just the press of one button, they mean nothing, and hits aren’t an indicator of much either considering it counts as a hit even when you opt out after a paragraph.

I’ve only had my AO3 for five years now, meaning that the fics on FFN still had four more years to simmer on there and gather attention, I suppose. Meaning, a fic posted for the first time obviously gets more attention than a four years later mass repost on another site.

On AO3, the oneshit with most comment threads would be How to Court the Prettiest Omega Ever in Five Years or Less, my first PJO ABOverse fic, featuring Nicercy. Which, you know, is only 37 comments on there. Seriously I genuinely blame the existence of the kudo function for the overall lackluster comment-response on AO3 because “press one button vs actually writing words”... but that’s a different conversation to be had. (I mean, seriously, in comparison, this fic has 51 comments on FFN... and it is by far not the one with most comments I have over there).

The clear winner if you look at FFN is Something Went Wrong, my first Minotaur/Percy smut fest with a whooping 116 comments. And yes. Positive. Genuinely did not expect that when after weeks of debating, I decided to post this story. *chuckles* (Again, for comparison, this fic got a total of 8 comments on AO3... eight... the difference there is staggering... Which, I’d like to tag on that, on top of the kudo-nonsense, the fact that AO3 displays total amount of comments to the readers and not comment threads is also misleading and I don’t think it helps, because I think you’re more inclined if you see it’s only 8 comment-threads in total on a fic you like vs it showing you 16 comments as the total comment-count.)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: THIS IS TOO HARD TO ANSWER. I’d have to consult my chart, but that hasn’t been updated in ages. Because overall amount of comments means little if you don’t also take into account the amount of chapters - 50 comments on a oneshot are a lot, 50 comments on a 5 chapter fic, not so much, and 50 comments on a 50 chapter is frustrating to receive.

Okay, let me go full nerd on this one. Y’all know I love charts. There was a time where I was interested enough in finding this out that I had a chart going of all my multiple chapter fics. With a collumn on how many chapters the story had at that point in time, how many total comments on AO3, how many total comments on FFN and what, by combining those two numbers and dividing them through the chapter-count, was the average amount of comments per chapter.

However, that chart had last been updated on December 31st 2016. There’s been a lot of influx, lot of new stories and other stories gaining/losing popularity, so when I now say Meet the di Angelos with a 2016 average of 57,25 comments/chapter, that is completely exclusing ten fics I wrote since then.

Damn now I really wanna update the charts...

Also if you can’t tell by now how much actual feedback and comments mean to me, I genuinely don’t know how else to convey it... xD”

If you go by total comment-count - which, again, is misleading because you gotta keep the chapter-count in mind - it’d be Chasing Fireflies on FFN with 1749 comments (on 102 chapters. And, again, for comparison, 88 comment-threads on AO3. 88 vs 1749 is insane) and Percy and the Ghost King of Summers High on AO3 with 749 comments (on 50 chapters. On FFN that’s actually on 990 comments. Far smaller difference here compared to other stories).

Though I dunno, if you measure popular by fanart received, Summers High comes in with five, while my Chasingverse is in with 6... and multiple fanfictions written for it.

Favorite Story You Wrote: Favorite to write, or favorite to reread? There’s a difference there. I’m insanely proud of Chasing Fireflies and the plot and world I created there, the character development. I... don’t really reread it it’s over 500k long I don’t have that time.

Currently, I am really loving The Primal Instinct, it is sooo much fun to write, I get to put basically all my favorite headcanons in there, I’ll get to write Aline and Helen more and Jace’s interactions with others, it features both my favorite OT3s at once. (And it is faaar from my most popular one. Just, feel like mentioning this because my numbers-obsession may read as only writing for comments, which I don’t, I mainly write for myself. The comments are just... very, very nice treats to receive. Also, I love numbers and charts and were curious to see if there is a kind of trend there in what does receive most attention sooo...)

Story You Were Nervous to Post: Uuuh every new thing. Every time I step outta my comfort zone. Trying out a new pairing for the first time. Venturing into a new fandom for the first time. Experimenting with a new kink and wondering if this would be too much. Literally every single time, still.

How Do You Choose Your Titles: On a whim. I suck at titles. Mostly I try to force alliterations because I am a sucker for alliterations, but otherwise I do try to go with “as it says on the tin”, or I try a pun/being clever. Aside from my Triton/Percy fics. Every single fic I’ve written for them is named after a song from Disney’s The Little Mermaid franchise and I have yet to run out of songtitles to use for fics and hey, by then they’ll probably have included a new song in the live-action remake so there’s that! :D

Do You Outline: Depends. Oneshots? No. I just write those. Multiple-chapter fics? ...Depends. xD

If I have a clear vision for where it’s going to go, I do tend to divide into chapters and make myself small notes on what goes into said chapters. Mostly, it’s just a rambled “and x happens and then y” at the end though and then I see how I can make it fit into chapters.

Complete: 795 stories on AO3! Damn, I’ve been busy.

In-Progress: As of right now, 4. Because this week features my Ace Awareness 7-parter, though technically we’re right now down to 3 multi-chapter fics because the next one is only due to be released and join the rotation!

Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: Well, that is two entirely different things now.

Coming Soon:

Shadowhunters, Asmodeus/Jace, “The Royal Consort of Edom” oneshot on the 23rd

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Alec/Jace, “Nesting 101″ oneshot on my birthday this Saturday

Percy Jackson, Nico/Percy, “Something Borrowed, Something Green” oneshot on the 30th

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Jace, “Dancing with the Monsters in the Night” an out-side-of-schedule oneshot for Halloween

And I do think that that is what constitutes “soon”.

Not Yet Started:

HTTYD/RotG, Hiccup/Jack, “The Origin of the Blue Hoodie”, planned for November 27th

Shadowhunters, Magnus/Jace, “Set-Up by the Guard-Cats”, planned for December 4th

Descendants/PJO, Nico/Percy, Ben/Carlos, Uma/Audrey, “Demigod Defenders of Auradon”, planned for December 11th

A-and that is as far as I have planned my schedule ahead. Those three are the only fics on my personal schedule that I haven’t started working on yet. I don’t like to plan ahead too much, because then you just completely lose interest in the story by the time you get around to actually writing it.

Do You Accept Prompts: Prompts, not so much. Requests, yeah. For one, prompts always seem so demanding, while requests are more polite - and also more structured. Prompts are always like “here have one quick trope thrown at your head” and like... I do have a well-enough planned-out schedule with more than enough fics of my own set, I don’t need to try and turn one random prompt into an actual story. But if someone has a specific request, a pairing and an actual plot, that they really wanna see, I do always hear them out, I may not always like the pitch and thus not accept them all, but on the overall I do accept requests.

More inclined to accept birthday requests than random requests, because random requests would be put into the rotation of my schedule and, well come on that shouldn’t be a surprise, they tend to be pushed off then in favor of fic ideas I came up with myself because there’s nearly always more enthusiasm about writing an idea that you came up with yourself than the idea of someone else. Whereas birthday requests have a set date that doesn’t disturb my schedule and I am a big softie who has a weakness for getting gifts myself so I do like to do something nice for someone so they get something special for their birthday.

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: Most excited to write? Well, that’d be the Descendant/PJO crossover atm, because that is something very new and shiny and I do love shiny, new things to experiment on. But also The Prince of Pluto, my next multiple-chapter fic that I have already started writing.

Tagging: Whoever wants to do it! <3

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GAY MUSIC CHART – 2019 week 08

Welcome to the Gay Music Chart, the LGBTQA related music videos TOP 50 actuality and most request.

Please notice that we received dozens of suggestions, and it's impossible to present all of them in the same week edition because the video would be too long. We have three months late to catch up, so it will take some times.

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Here is the recap for this week :

OUT : Erik Altemus - "Desidero" LW: 26 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 24

OUT : Greyson Chance - "Good As Gold" LW: 27 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 10

OUT : Clean Bandit feat. Marina & Luis Fonsi - "Baby" LW: 35 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 35

OUT : Years & Years - "All For You" LW: 39 / WO: 17 / PEAK: 01 (x1)

OUT : Blair St. Clair - "Irresistible" LW: 41 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 09

OUT : Tuure Boelius - "Vihaan rakastaa sua" LW: 43 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 43

OUT : Sam Tsui - "A Million Pieces" LW: 44 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 31

OUT : Pet Shop Boys - "On social media" (lyric video) LW: 46 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 46

OUT : Michete - "Yum Yum Big Slurp" LW: 47 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 47

OUT : Tim'm West - "Shoes" LW: 49 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 49

OUT : Tokio Hotel - "Melancholic Paradise" LW: 50 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 50

01 (+ 2) : Calum Scott - "No Matter What"

LW: 03 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 01 (x3)

UK - 2018 - from the album "Only Human" (Special Edition)

This really personnal song tells the story of Calum Scott telling his parents he was gay and their reactions of loving him "no matter what". It's a deep and emotional power ballad.

02 (- 1) : Jax Jones, Years & Years - "Play"

LW: 01 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 01 (x1)

UK - 2018 - from the EP "Snacks"

03 (- 1) : Troye Sivan - "Lucky Strike"

LW: 02 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 01 (x2)

Australia - 2019 - from the album "Bloom"

04 (+ 6) : Lauv & Troye Sivan - "i'm so tired..."

LW: 10 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 04

USA / Australia - 2019

05 (+ 4) : Saara Aalto - "Dance Like Nobody's Watching"

LW: 09 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 05

Finland - 2019 - from the album "Wild Wild Wonderland"

A music video about a transgender teen who wants to do ballet against the will of his father.

06 (=) : Trinity The Tuck - "The Face The Body"

LW: 06 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 06

USA - 2019

07 (+ 13) : Courtney Act - "Fight For Love"

LW: 20 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 07

Australia - 2018

The drag queen came 4th at "Eurovision - Australia decides", the Australian national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

08 (+ 8) : Federica Abbate - "Finalmente"

LW: 16 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 08

Italy - 2018

This song came second in the first part of the Sanremo Giovani 2018 Music Festival for emergent artists. The lyrics talk about a love relationship badly judged by the entourage. If the lyrics aren't specifically gay, the music video is, with the portrayal of a young man who comes out to his father who rejects him in return. So, the young man can only be reconforted by his boyfriend and his friends. Until... Beautiful.

09 (+ 3) : Calum Scott - "If Our Love is Wrong"

LW: 12 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 09

UK - 2018 - from the album "Only Human"

10 (- 6) : Manila Luzon - "Go Fish"

LW: 04 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 04

USA - 2019 - from the album "Rules"

11 (- 6) : Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - "Shallow"

LW: 05 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 04

USA - 2018 - from the OST "A Star Is Born"

This song won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song 2018, the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance 2019 and Best Song Written for Visual Media 2019, the BAFTA for Best Film Music 2019.

12 (+ 1) : Not.Your.Regular.Boy. - "It's All Yours"

LW: 13 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 12

The Netherlands - 2018

This is his third single.

13 (+ 9) : N.E.F.O.R.M.A.T - "Чужие Судьбы" (Aliens Destiny)

LW: 22 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 13

Russia - 2019

For their first music video, these two have guts to do this kind of music video in their country: they show their homosexuality, they kiss, they flirt half naked in bed, they rebel for freedom. Respect, men!

14 (- 3) : Tiago Braga - "Ilusão"

LW: 11 / WO: 25 / PEAK: 06

Portugal - 2018

A story of infidelity.

15 (+ 18) : Christopher Sorensen - "Afterglow"

LW: 33 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 15

USA - 2018

A touching music video about a teen dating a mature man, but his life collapses when he discovered he's a married man with child.

16 (- 9) : Netta - "Bassa Sababa"

LW: 07 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 07

Israel - 2019

This is her first single her victory at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, still composed by Stav Beger.

17 (=) : Jão - "Me Beija Com Raiva"

LW: 17 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 10

Brazil - 2018 - from the album "Lobos"

It's the first time the singer talks about his sexual orientation with this song, writen for an ex-lover who broke his heart.

18 (NEW) : Robyn - "Send To Robin Immediately"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 18

Sweden - 2019 - from the album "Honey"

19 (+ 2) : Bilal Hassani - "Roi"

LW: 21 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 05

France - 2019

Bilal Hassani won Destination Eurovision 2019 and will represent France at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Avivwith this song about self esteem.

20 (+ 4) : Theo X - "You Don't Wanna Dance"

LW: 24 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 09

Denmark - 2018

In this cute music video, a young teen dares to give an invitation to dance to another boy. Love is love.

21 (- 7) : Sam Smith, Normani - "Dancing With A Stranger"

LW: 14 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 14

UK / USA - 2019

This is a passionate duet about coping with loneliness and trying to get over a lost love.

22 (- 8) : Sam Smith - "Fire On Fire"

LW: 15 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 07

UK - 2018 - from the OST "Watership Down"

"Watership Down" is a BBC mini-series adaptation of the book, which tells the story about a warren of rabbits fighting to survive numerous perils as they search for a new home.

23 (NEW) : Trinity The Tuck feat. Peppermint - "I Call Shade"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 23

USA - 2019 - from the album "Plastic"

24 (+ 5) : Calvin Harris, Sam Smith - "Promises"

LW: 29 / WO: 12 / PEAK: 01 (x1)

UK - 2018

25 (- 6) : Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus - "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart"

LW: 19 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 04

USA - 2018

26 (- 1) : Brandon Stansell - "Hometown"

LW: 25 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 25

USA - 2018 - from the album "Slow Down"

This song is kind of a representation of his coming out story, with his family who didn’t respond very well. It was named one of the TOP 10 COUNTRY MUSIC VIDEOS of 2018 by Rolling Stone.

27 (NEW) : Ben Platt - "Ease My Mind"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 27

USA - 2019 - from the album "Sing To Me Instead"

With the second track of his upcoming album, the actor and singer officially comes out as gay in this music video, where he's dating Charles Carver.

28 (+ 8) : Allen King feat. Amor Romeira - "My Boy"

LW: 36 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 03

Spain - 2018

29 (+ 11) : Urgence Homophobie - "De l'Amour"

LW: 40 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 10

France - 2018

As homophobic attacks have increased by 15% in 2018 in France, 70 French celebrities made this song to fight homophobia.

30 (NEW) : Filatov & Karas - "Au Au"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 30

Russia - 2019

A man is pregnant in this music video.

31 (+ 1) : Michael Medrano - "Love Somebody Else"

LW: 32 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 11

USA - 2018

The song was previously presented in our chart, but the music video was only released during our break.

32 (NEW) : Lady Gaga - "Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)" (Piano Version)

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 32

USA - 2018 - from the album "Joanne"

She won three Grammy Awards this year, including for Best Pop Solo Performance.

33 (NEW) : TIN - "Don't Say His Name"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 33

UK - 2018

34 (- 16) : D. Prime - "GAY" and "HAPPY-NESS"

LW: 18 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 18

USA - 2019

35 (+ 3) : JORDY - "Just Friends"

LW: 38 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 35

USA - 2018

A love declaration.

36 (NEW) : Ben Platt - "Bad Habit"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 36

USA - 2019 - from the album "Sing To Me Instead"

The singer and actor will release his first solo album next March 29th. People wonder if he has just come out as gay with the appearance of Charles Carver in his apartment at the end of the clip.

37 (- 29) : Lizzo - "Juice"

LW: 08 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 02

USA - 2018

38 (- 1) : Greyson Chance - "shut up"

LW: 37 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 37

USA - 2019

39 (- 16) : Super King Reza & Groovebox - "Horchata"

LW: 23 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 23

USA - 2018

40 (+ 2) : Someone Who Isn't Me - "Gomenaki"

LW: 42 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 40

Greece - 2018

41 (- 7) : Silva - "Duas da Tarde"

LW: 34 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 08

Brazil - 2018 - from the album "Brasileiro"

42 (- 14) : MNEK - "Girlfriend"

LW: 28 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 28

UK - 2019 - from the album "Language"

43 (NEW) : Years & Years feat. MNEK - "Valentino"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 43

UK - 2019 - from the album "Palo Santo"

We can't show the music video due to copyright restriction.

44 (NEW) : LOBODA - "INSTADRAMA"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 44

Ukraine - 2019

45 (- 14) : Miss Benny - "Rendezvous"

LW: 31 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 31

USA - 2019

Miss Benny is the new project of Ben J. Pierce aka Kid POV, aka Benny, well known here for his previous singles, included "Boys Will Be Boys". Welcome back!

46 (NEW) : Savoir Adore - "Bloom"

LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 46

USA - 2019 - from the EP "First Bloom"

47 (RE-ENTRY) : Pabllo Vittar - "Seu Crime"

LW: - / WO: 2 / PEAK: 31

Brazil - 2019 - from the album "Não Para Não"

48 (=) : Echo Black - "Poison Apple"

LW: 48 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 37

USA - 2018 - from the album "Dawn"

The queer lead singer of the band is Danny Blu.

49 (- 19) : Electric Fields - "2000 and Whatever" (Lyrics Video)

LW: 30 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 30

Australia - 2019

Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross mix electronic music with Aboriginal culture. This song came 2nd at "Eurovision - Australia decides", the Australian national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.

50 (- 5) : Troye Sivan and Jónsi - "Revelation" (Lyric video)

LW: 45 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 11

Australia / Iceland - 2018 - from the OST "Boy Erased"

The song was nominated on the 2019 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The movie "Boy Erased" follows the son of Baptist parents who is forced to take part in a gay conversion therapy program.

NEW THIS WEEK

Nimmo - "No More"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

UK - 2019

Pet Shop Boys - "Give stupidity a chance" (lyric video)

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

UK - 2019 - from the EP "Agenda"

Bring Me The Horizon feat. Grimes - "nihilist blues" (Lyric Video)

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

UK / Canada - 2019 - from the album "amo"

Drake Jensen - "Talk Me Down"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Canada - 2019 - from the album "Sideshow"

Jackie Shane - "Any Other Way" (audio)

LW: - / WO: 2 / PEAK: 18

USA - 1962

The transgender singer has died at the age of 78 years old. RIP.

King Princess - "Pussy Is God"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2018

Dorian Electra - "Man To Man"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2018

Tacocat - "Grains of Salt"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019 - from the album "This Mess is a Place"

Galla - "Nightsong"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2018

Adam Gallagher is a fashion influencer, who releases his first single.

Nima - "Are You Serious?"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019

Matracia - "Slow"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019

Ben Levi Ross & Taylor Trensch - "Only Us"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019

A gay cover of the song from musical "Dear Evan Hansen"

Bobby Newberry - "Love You Like I Do"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019

CupcakKe - "Squidward Nose"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019

As usual, it's for an adult audience with these explicit sexual themed lyrics.

Abdu Ali - "Chastity"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019

PrettiBoiRoq - "Wanna Be Me"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2018 - from the EP "Haus of Ken"

ILoveMakonnen feat. Gucci Mane - "Spendin" (Official Lyric Video)

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

UK - 2019

Silva - "Brisa"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019

Jaloo feat. Nave - "Dói d+"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019

Funtastic - "Taku Fogo"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019

Criolo - "Etérea"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019

Filipe Catto - "É Sempre o Mesmo Lugar"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019 - from the album "Catto"

Ana Gabriela - "Mais De Nós"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019

Mateus Carrilho, Tainá Costa - "Toma"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019

Yhago Sebaz - "Vou Embora"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019

Rodrigo Alarcon part. Liniker - "Amor Acidente"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Brazil - 2019 - from the EP "Parte"

Diego Diaz - "Caótico"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Argentina - 2019

Agustín Malandra - "Madrugada Índica"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Argentina - 2019

Dj Nelasta feat.Titica & Paulelson (Mr. Aleluia) - "Tonga"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Angola - 2019

Gyre - "Quarantine"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

South Africa - 2018

Yaariyan LGBTQ Flashmob 2019

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

India - 2019

Netflix Presents: The Valentine's Day Special

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

India - 2019

This is a gay themed advertisement from Netflix India.

Love X Stereo - "Zero One"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

South Korea - 2019

Yanni Burton - "Mess Around"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Australia - 2019

Philippe Jaroussky - "Che città"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

France - 2019

Colin Meyer & Burçak - "Pornstar"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

The Netherlands / Turkey - 2018

Merol - "Hou je bek en bef me"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

The Netherlands - 2019

Daniel Schuhmacher - "Venus or Mars"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Germany - 2018

Electrosexual - "Darkroom"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Germany - 2019 - from the EP "Era#03 - X2"

Divines - "Ponad"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Poland - 2019

In this music video, LGBTQ bullied students take their revenge and go to prom.

Azis feat Azis Group - "Jeno Biagai"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Bulgaria - 2019

teo entertainment - "OMG Fuck Me Hard"

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Russia - 2018

MARUV - "Siren song" (live @ Vidbir 2019 - Final)

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Ukraine - 2019

The song won the national selections and will represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.

Alen Chicco - "Your Cure" (live @ Eurovizijos 2019 - Grand Final)

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Lithuania - 2019

The song came 5th in the Grand Final of the Lithuanian national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Junà - "Strength of A Woman" (live @ Eurovizijos 2019 - Grand Final)

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Lithuania - 2019

The song came 8th and last in the Grand Final of the Lithuanian national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest. This time, the backdancers wore high heels.

Sigmund - "Say My Name" (live @ Melodi Grand Prix 2019)

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

Denmark - 2019

The song came 5th in the Danish national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest.

P!nk - Live at The BRIT Awards 2019

LW: - / WO: - / PEAK: -

USA - 2019

She has received the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at The Brit Awards 2019.

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Review: Princes of the Apocalypse

by Colin Padgett Arnold

After running it for seven months, my home table has made it through the first four dungeons of Wizards of the Coast’s Princes of the Apocalypse, an adventure book for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. This comprises the book’s first act and covering roughly a third of its content. I figured this was as good a point as any to reflect back and review the book thus far. Specifically, I’ll be covering Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6, & 7 as well as Appendices A, B, & C.

Some quick notes for bias and control. I am a fairly experienced GM with most of my experience running games spread over D&d 4th Edition, 13th Age, and Dungeon World, and experience playing in just about everything else. The players consist of two experienced role players and table top gamers, two experienced creatives who have none the less never touched an analog role playing game, and one inexperienced player with impeccable comedic timing - a fine mix of sagely wisdom and fresh perspectives. The party is made up of a cleric, a paladin, a ranger, a barbarian, and a warlock. Suffice it to say, they are running a surprisingly balanced party with one more player than ideal for the adventure, but not enough to have to necessarily change anything prewritten. I won’t be detailing the specifics of how my players have played through the adventure, but if you’d like to follow my group’s exploits against the elemental cults then you can find us at #Kru.

Addendum: when I originally started writing this the group was seven months in, now we’re a whole year. A combination of me putting off covering the appendices and summertime simply being a busy time of year for me professionally had this just not happen! In a few weeks they’ll be through Chapter 4 with several more Side Treks under their belt. However, I won’t be covering that chapter in depth. Each of the dungeons in Chapter 4 are impeccably well designed and where the game really shines. The problem is, it’s also where the game becomes infinitely mutable. While you can run each of these as a highly tactical dungeon crawl, players can also get by them largely through skulduggery and diplomacy or, my favorite, using a cataclysmic weapon of the cults introduced in this chapter along with a myriad of spells and abilities to upend the sand box. My players have done all three, including clearing a dungeon entirely by leveraging a character’s backstory and the character arc we’ve been building to destroy it in a handful of encounters. Chapter 4 will be truly different for every single group that plays it, especially if the dungeon master is heavily integrating their players’ characters and backstories.

At a Glance

Princes of the Apocalypse is a heavy tome at 256 pages, brought to us by Sasquatch Game Studio. Its lead designer, Richard Baker, has had a prolific career in game design running Forgotten Realms development during the early 2000s, working on D&d since it’s TSR days, and writing a number of other games and novels. Princes was specifically written to bring the classic Temple of Elemental Evil storyline and concept into 5th Edition and to create a more free form foil to the previously released Tyranny of Dragons story line. The adventure sees you going on a hex crawl inspired by the classics to take down four cults devoted to elemental magic in a sleepy frontier valley. The scenario is structured into three acts, each one delving into a deeper layer of dungeons controlled by the elemental cults and is designed to take a party of four adventurers from level 3 to 14. It also contains two short adventurers to take a party of level 1 characters up to the book’s starting point.

On the whole, I’m on the fence on how effective Princes is at being an exploration game. Taking place in the Dessarin Valley just inland of Forgotten Realm’s Sword Coast, the meat of the adventure takes place in a measly ten hexes of a sum nine hundred and ninety hex map. Occasionally the book proper takes you out of this clump, and the adventure’s side quests are all far reaching into the rest of the valley. However, I’ve had to very heavily bait the party to any part of the map that isn’t the small neighborhood of scrub hills the elemental cults are based in. Not because they don’t want to explore the world, but because comparatively the distance to any extra location is two to four times the distance between the town Princes starts you in and the cults themselves. The game certainly is a sandbox as every situation has a number of vectors to approach from and contexts to find it in, but I rarely see my players tempted off the major roads and landmarks.

The cults themselves, who at the start are organized in four surface level strongholds, seem to have been designed with a “correct” order in mind, with each one being balanced around a party level one higher than the last. While a smart party could certainly take down the level 4 or even level 5 dungeons right out of the gate, the “final” stronghold is filled with a number of enemies capable of casting Fireball. A level 3 or 4 party simply doesn’t have the mechanics to deal with or throw back that kind of firepower. Likewise, each stronghold has an entrance to that cult’s corresponding Act II dungeon and each one feels like the natural place to proceed in the moment. This does, however, land the party into dangers designed around a party 4 levels higher than they are.

I feel like Princes has two separate games inside it, just playing with the same elements. You can certainly run the game like Tyranny of Dragons or the Starter Box, with a lightly railed plot where the party goes around kicking in doors, one dungeon at a time. The surface text almost expects it. Each of the main villains of Act I’s “how to role play” blurb ends with “and then they probably just attack the party.” If you want traditional, heroic, storm-the-dungeon fantasy then Princes has you, which is weird because that’s not what it says on the tin.

A smart party that approaches Princes like a sandbox game will do perfectly fine in Act I as long as they at least half expect to get in over their head. That level 6 dungeon with all the Fireball casting mages? It’s a rickety tower in disrepair with spotty defenses that, if players have a mind to, could just be burned down with minimal effort. Every cult has a fairly easy way to infiltrate their ranks with a subtext that the players might even seriously join one. And the NPC villains are certainly more fun to play in Act I when they’re more concerned about their rival cults than this band of adventurers loping through the valley.

Ironically enough, the things that have helped motivate my players to range far away from home and the cults themselves have been trying to scrounge up resources, aid, and solutions when they’ve bitten off way more than they can chew. I think where the genius of this design comes in is when you run it as a sandbox for players that haven’t learned how to approach one. Yeah, I’d prefer if all four of the “Haunted Keeps” where on more even difficulty with each of them having some threats that were particularly too much to deal with. But looking forward to Acts II and III, I’m hoping that the rather large disparity of letting a party walk into a dungeon twice their level at the start of play is to help teach players how to scout, retreat, and really think about when they should fight, talk, or completely circumvent a problem. Princes really does present you with an exquisite chess set to play around with, even if the directions themselves are rather straightforward. There are relatively few cues for how to use the NPCs and their resources outside of letting the players roll up on dungeons, but each cult and character’s motivations are clear, concise, and interesting. I’ve honestly been surprised how easy it’s been to go off book with this adventure and have it still feel seamless to what’s already there. Any game master with a little experience willing to play back and forth with their players will find a fun way to run it.

Whew, that was a long glance.

Chapter 1: Rise of Elemental Evil

Simple enough, the first chapter gives you a sweeping backstory for the adventure. Four cults each drawn to a different Prince of Elemental Evil (supremely powerful beings who are each King of an Elemental Plane and associated with air, earth, fire, and water respectively) have taken up residence in some ancient castles on top of an ancient Dwarven city on top of some spooky Underdark caverns. A diplomatic mission to Waterdeep gets kidnapped by these cults, which kicks off the whole adventure. Chapter 1 details the philosophy of each cult and their elemental master, along with the history and motivations of each cult’s Prophet - the leaders that are ultimately going to be your big villains at the end of the game. Out of any of the story set up, I think the character write ups on the Prophets are the best things in this book. I’ve been so anxious to introduce them, I’ve been giving my players short aside scenes to build them up between major events. Every one of them has something akin to the Sending spell to start a real dialogue with the player characters, though it’s unlikely they’ll be on the cults’ radar until after Act I.

For players, there’s a list of several adventure hooks to give characters a reason to join the adventure. Some are cryptic rumors to help lead the party to any of the first four dungeons. Some are connections or bounties to encourage a character to seek out and deal with certain mid level villains in the cults’ chains of command. Some help reveal hidden information about the dungeons that lay beneath the valley, and a few even point all the way to the final dungeons. Regardless, each hook is a hint and a set of criteria for the character to receive 2-4 inspiration points. A little advice: don’t give out the adventure hooks that won’t pay off until the end game. If you plan on making your players stick with character deaths, you’ll need them to help fold in new characters. If you like to play fast and loose with character death so that it only happens when it matters to the story and characters, then you can always assign new, relevant adventure hooks at the start of each Act.

If you’re a big fan of Forgotten Realms, 5th Edition’s focus on Faerun’s faction system makes an appearance in this book as well. Each faction has an investment tied up in the delegation that goes missing at the start of the game, and each is represented by agents across every settlement in the valley. If a player would like to start as a part of a faction they get an easy in on the adventure, but there’s no additional benefit. My group elected not to start with any affiliations, and has still managed to frequently interact with them. The book leaves plenty of room to encounter the various factions at your leisure, and they feature in several of the Side Treks.

Chapter 2: the Dessarin Valley

Princes is set in the Dessarin Valley, a frontier wilderness off the Storm Coast of Faerun. Chapter 2 details the various towns, villages, and settlements throughout the valley, provides random encounter tables, and contains a helpful map of the whole region and all the various hidden fortresses and goodies. The most in-depth attention is paid to Red Larch, the town the adventurers start in.

Red Larch is a tiny little crossroads town with about twenty or so major businesses and locations for the players to interact with. It has everything from competing caravan carpenters and an adventurer supply shop to agents of every major player faction and either a spy or lead for every cult. Each location has an entry describing it’s look, business, and the key NPCs that reside there. Some also have entries for leads relating to the cults’ business in the area (Rumors of Evil) and secret agendas concerning the townsfolk for an optional side quest (Trouble in Red Larch). Of particular note: the local temple hosts shrines to any god imaginable and is manned by a single priest who is relieved every two weeks. The initial NPC is a contact for The Gauntlet faction, and getting the players involved with rotating clergy can give them a more personal connection to the outside world and the powers and resources of Waterdeep, the nearest major city, without having to abandon the adventure to actually go there.

The other half of the chapter details exploring the valley. Every major settlement or location has a quick description, details on any NPCs that might be found there, and a summary of why in the world the players would even want to go there. Mostly this details which faction can be found where, what can be bought, and whether or not the place is tied up in a side quest. All the locations have some nice flavor but, again, they are all particularly out of the way.

Aside from distance, my only real complaint is that the valley is inhabited overwhelmingly by humans, and humans end up being most of the cultists as well. Feel free to spice that up as you see fit. I certainly like my fantasy to be a little more fantastic, and you have plenty of room to add in things without out-shining some of the crazy stuff the cults will bring to the table.

A note on the scale of the map: the book’s scale says 1 hex = 10 miles, while the errata for the book says 1 hex = 4 miles. I’ve been operating under the errata’s listing but using The Alexandrian’s guide for traveling a Hexcrawl. Even ignoring terrain types, this travels a little slower than rules as written 5th Edition. However, even when running 5th Edition’s travel times, 10 mile hexes make most locations a week or more away, which doesn’t always match up with cues and notes throughout the book.

It does, however, match up with the math for random encounters. Princes’ random encounter check will have you encountering something every 3 or 4 days which is perfect for 10 mile hexes but with 4 mile hexes leaves the players mostly alone in the wilderness. If you go with 4 mile hexes, which I highly recommend, either roll double the twenty sided dice when doing random encounters or just throw in one whenever you deem it appropriate.

The biggest thing this adventure is missing is some kind of random weather or event table. The book frequently mentions how the Elemental Planes are affecting the valley, changing the weather, and disrupting daily life. Aside from the random encounter table, the cults themselves, and a few events keyed off of hitting checkpoints like clearing dungeons, Princes largely leaves it up to you to narrate. I would have loved to have a few prewritten tables for flash fires, thunderstorms, or earthquakes just to remind myself to remind my players the huge stakes early in the adventure.

Chapter 3: Secret of the Sumber Hills

One of the most important parts in this section is right on page 41 in a grey text box. This little box lists the level around which each of the four major dungeons are designed around, and suggests letting the players gain a level every time they clear one of the haunted keeps. This is fine if your players are clearing the scenario cleanly and easily. However, if your group embraces the sandbox aspect a little more or really likes tracking experience, take note: the math for experience in this adventure does not match up to rules as written. Raw experience for a four person party comes a few hundred short even with side quests under 5th Editions rules of only rewarding experience for killing, routing, charming, or otherwise neutralizing another creature. So feel free to throw them some extra exp for role playing, story events, creative problem solving, or whatever.

The first section gives details on how to get the players out the door. Details from any of several factions come in that an important diplomatic delegation has gone missing in the Sumber Hills, your own little neighborhood of the Dessarin Valley. A variety of clues can be found in Red Larch which can lead the the party around the local area in a simple investigation with a few combats. At the very least, the clues should get the party started and lead them to the Water, Earth, or Air cult dungeons. Just after this is a section titled “Cult Reprisals” with encounters to run after each dungeon to point them towards a new target. The Air and Water cult encounters expressly include directions to their bases, and fairly easy to find information in the Early Investigations lead directly to the Earth and Fire cult bases. If all else fails, the Air cult’s Feathergale Spire is visible on the horizon of Red Larch.

Of the four dungeons, Feathergale Spire is the most scripted. The party can walk right in, socialize, go on a quick hunting trip, and get back in time for the game master to figure out how long they want to stretch this one out. The air cult here is the easiest of the four mechanically, but strategically as a tower in the middle of a canyon with knights mounted on vultures it’s the hardest structure to assail by force. If they can charm their way through the front door, which is an easy task, they shouldn’t have any problems. The unit gives you two named NPCs: a rather blank knight named Savra who’s pretty easy to take in any direction you want, and the tower’s captain Thurl Merroska who will be an easy way to make the players distrust any NPC of authority they meet for the rest of the campaign.

The second dungeon, Riverguard Keep, is located on the major river of the area. The book recommends playing it out as a mercenary group attempting to renovate the castle to protect the river from pirates, who they secretly are. Fairly quickly my players gathered more than enough information about the local river pirates and the water cult that trying to keep up the deception would have been ridiculous, and this was the first place they visited. Mechanically, the keep throws a lot of bodies at the party which could be overwhelming, but there’s only a few spell casters spread out over the whole dungeon. This dungeon’s named lieutenant is a Genasi river boat captain that your players are just as likely to meet on the river or in the port of Wormford. Their leader Grimjaw can be particularly troubling depending on how much you stick to the rules as being a Wereboar leaves him immune to most early forms of damage and capable of saddling one or two of your players with lycanthropy for their next couple of levels. Goldenfields and Summit Hall are two religious locations that should have a high level cleric with remove curse, should you need to point your players towards one.

The Stone Monastery, the Earth Cult’s base of operations, is the first problematic dungeon as far as order goes. The abbey contains four gargoyles which can be particularly tough without some strong magical damage. And while the Earth Cult’s base enemy monk is fairly easy to deal with, they have two other unique enemies with strong defenses, strong attacks, and some very good spell casting. The dungeon itself has some specific notes about what to change if the party leaves and returns to take the cult down another day, which is likely to be the case. The monastery gets three named NPCs. A friendly Lich has been living in the building since it was his family home and can drop some exposition about the area’s history. A rather boring priest is there to greet visitors and possibly induct the characters into the lowest level of the cult. Lastly, the abbess of the monastery is Hellenrae (or, as my players have taken to calling her “Literal Actual Toph Bei Fong.” A blind, no nonsense, female kung-fu master who can see through vibrations in the very earth? Yeah, checks out.) Probably the most dangerous thing about the Stone Monastery, though, is that the entrance to it’s Act II counterpart is right in the basement and only needs a key that the party can pick up from either leader on site. Equally frustrating for dungeon masters: depending on how you approaching looting, the Earth Cult’s priests and guards all wear splint and plate mail. Granted, it’s all made out of magically shaped stone as opposed to metal, so if you do allow your players to upgrade their armor this early you can at least saddle them with the awkwardness of constantly looking like Earth Cultists.

The last dungeon, Scarlet Moon Hall, is a burnt out hill with an old wooden tower and a flaming wickerman where some long lost druids are performing some kind of a sacred right. Fantasy Burning Man’s mechanics do a lot to compartmentalize all the various forces in the area, and many of the camps around the hill are druids and adventurers come to see the supposed ritual that can be recruited to the parties cause. This is great because between the giant fire elemental in the burning giant, the hell hounds, the fire cultists with magically flaming swords, and the several priests capable of casting fireball twice per day Scarlet Moon Hall throws some heavy punches. The big boss is Elizar, a fire themed druid who can summon smoke mephits from his tobacco pipe and possibly the most fun I’ve had running an NPC in this whole book. Princes’ NPCs have only the minimum of text to motivate specifics, but Elizar is the only one depicted coolly taking a drag in front of an explosion.

Chapter 6: Alarums and Excursions

Here we have the side quests. The first set includes a number of small excursions into the wilderness around Red Larch and two dungeons. Designed to take a party quickly from level 1 to 3, I feel like it gives new players a very nice crash course on combat, exploration, and investigation without bogging things down too much for experienced players. The first dungeon focuses on a necromancer who can net the party an early wand of magic missile. While the quest does end with a perfect moment to pass around a piece of paper with the Elemental Evil logo drawn on it, it never really ties back into the deeper machinations of the book. If you happen to start your party at level 1, be prepared to tie this back in during Act III somehow.

The second dungeon is wrapped up in a conspiracy controlling Red Larch. It’s dungeon directly hints towards the ancient Dwarven city which makes up Act II, and helps throw a little action to endear the party with the townsfolk of Red Larch. The aftermath shows a number of town elders in the pockets of the Earth cult, and leaves you to elevate whatever NPCs the party has really taken a shine to to be their reliable home contact when they come back. The villain of this dungeon, an Earth priest by the name of Larrack, makes a perfect recurring villain if your party happens to kill all the other cult captains. I’ve personally got a soft spot for the village idiot, a half-orc named Grund who spends most of his time pickling, and elevated him up to a major supporting character for the party.

The rest of the chapter is devoted to what it calls Side Treks, largely one shot style side quests. These are fun romps to try to entice the party off to the four corners of the valley. All of them net new equipment, opportunities for allies, or magic items, so don’t worry about the challenge for experience if you’re running by the book’s estimates of leveling up after each major dungeon in Chapter 3. Do try and keep an eye on the recommended level for each as they’re meant to be peppered over the whole adventure. The Vale of Dancing Waters is an adventure designed for a party at level 8 that’s particularly easy to accidentally run for a party of 3rd level characters poking around in the early game.

Chapter 7: Monsters and Magic Items

While there are some wild magic items made for this adventure, you really don’t come across many of them early on. For the time being, you really want to look at the sections on Monsters and NPCs. Every cult has a more physical, warrior thug and a spell caster priest that make appearances. Some even have two! Enemies inspired by the Monk character class make a big show. All of the spell casters have heavily elemental themed spell lists, and might have some particular inspiration if you have a sorcerer in your party. The most interesting of all of them is the Water cult Fathomer, a second spell caster that can transform into a watery serpent.

Largely, I don’t really like 5th edition monsters. Either their complexity is so simple that it comes down to how many attacks they get with their multi attack, or you’re tracking an entire spell list for them (I highly recommend the 5th Edition Spellbook app found in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. It contains every spell available through the Players Hand Book and Princes of the Apocalypse, and lets you organize individual spell lists for characters. And it’s free). Some of the lower level enemies have once per combat abilities or special circumstances like the Crushing Wave Reaver’s double damage to unarmored enemies. The Assassin ability along with sneak attack damage plays a recurring role in many NPC enemies in the Side Treks, which is good because it’s potentially fatal no matter what level it shows up in and does a great job at teaching why players should start combats on their own terms instead of charging into every situation head first. Combats that don’t involve spell casting enemies largely become boring, however, and the Black Earth Guard’s plate mail leads to some particularly slogging combat as the party levels up. At the very least, Princes adds a large number of spell casting enemies to the game, something I found sorely lacking in the Monster Manual. If your players really need a challenge, I’d suggest playing around with how enemies from different cults can interact mechanically under the narratively plausible idea that the cults are so fed up with the player characters that they’ll actually work together to try and stop them.

Appendices A, B, & C: The Good Stuff

Appendix A details a new player race for 5th edition: the Genasi. Listen, there are one hundred different articles out there talking about the optimization standards of the Genasi and their sub-races. Who cares? Do you want to play an elementally powered humanoid? The peasant version of a Djinn/Jeanie? Do you want to have rock skin, flaming hair, fin ears, or just constantly float a few inches off the ground? Do you want to have jewel colored skin and magical abilities regardless of class choice? Genasi are amazingly fun to play and for once you have a setting and adventure that neatly ties them in regardless of how Tolkienic you like your fantasy. Each cult has a major Genasi NPC to pit against the party as well. Beyond that, if you pick up the free player supplement for Princes, you’ll get Aaracokra and Deep Gnomes as well. Aaracokra can fly, which is considered the most broken level 1 ability in the whole game. Take that as you will.

Appendix B adds a slew of particularly elemental themed spells which are included as part of 5th Edition’s free content. Druids, Sorcerers, and Wizards make out with the most additions, the first two getting the most thematically out of having more elemental spells. Each element gets their own Prestidigitation/Thaumaturgy style cantrip to control an element. Frostbite, Create Bonfire, and Thunderclap are all cantrips worth considering for build optimization period, if that’s a thing you’re into. Regardless of if you’re playing Princes of the Apocalypse or not, the added spell list does a ton for filling out spell lists for characters that just want to cast Ice spells and nothing else, or whatever element happens to take a player’s fancy.

Lastly, Appendix C describes how to take Princes and apply it to different settings. Mostly focusing on transplanting the campaign into Darksun, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, and Eberron, this section details a lot of focus on how to pick the region your players will explore and exactly what function each player faction is supposed to bring to the story. Even if you intend drop Princes into a wholly original setting or just keep it in Faerun, seeing four more takes on the adventure’s context helps understand what’s supposed to be important and what isn’t.

Final Review

All in all, this is one of the best pre-written adventures I’ve ever run or played. My biggest complaints are a somewhat mundane cast of races and a lack of a full service for weather and elemental effects in the overworld, which are things that are easily changed and designed at home. Princes’ set piece dungeons are so tightly designed, inspiring, and well notated that any dungeon master should have plenty of time and energy to fill in whatever gaps the book leaves in their play style. As for length, a focused and effective group of players could finish this adventure in around a year with weekly sessions, though there’s plenty of room for role playing and side content to keep a group content for even a whole two years. This ranks up there with the best games I’ve ever been a part of.

Thanks to Peter Tesh for editing.

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