New Darren Hayes interview for The Music Australia, link to read below 💗💗

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Happy New Year to anyone who follows me on Tumblr! I'm an Australian who lives in Sydney, and LOVES all things Michael Sheen. It's 1:30am 1/1/2024, and I'm not particularly keen on crowds and loud noises so that's why you'll find me typing up this blog instead of celebrating 2024 I confess that if you follow blogs like @ingravinoveritas or @problematicwelshman, I am the Aussie Anon who happened to see Michael Sheen everyday for an entire month at my work. I would share my observations on MS while he was in Sydney to rehearse and perform Amadeus. I also have a selfie to prove it:

Yes I am under the emoji. I also saw Amadeus 3 times. My last time Anna Lundberg was sitting right behind me, where my friend was game enough to speak to her where I didn't. ANYWAY what brings me here, right now, in this instant on New Years is due to a pretty petty and possibly inane thing that Anna repeatedly did while she was in Sydney, and something she posted just now. She uses the New Zealand flag when referring to anything related to her, and her family's time in Australia. New Years last year:

Also her current Insta Story!

Look, I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of backlash for this, people saying who cares!? However Anna, as someone who is in a relationship with Michael Sheen who is a fierce and proud Welshman, and is the mother of 2 of his children. She should be delicate about using the CORRECT flag that represents a country. ESPECIALLY when in the same breath she mentions an Australian icon which is the Sydney Opera House. The SOH has been the home of Australian Art, Innovation and in a massive way Indigenous Representation (albeit the SOH was designed by a Dutch person) I don't see any excuse for using the wrong flag when referring to Australia. Especially in a world when we're learning more about expression of identity. I don't care if she has baby brain, or thought that New Zealand and Australia were one and the same because they're "Down Under". Or she thinks the flags look the same (they really don't) Or she has no time! It's no excuse to not Educate yourself! Ask questions! Yes we make mistakes but when you're representing yourself and your famous partner, you ought to take care! Yes you're human, and you have emotions, fallacies, but c'mon! You're letting yourself down!

I don't respect the Australian past of colonialism, and I wouldn't expect New Zealand to respect the same. But this flag represents us today as separate nations. Also in no way was Amadeus a duel nation production. I know the producer that's why I was able to see the show 3 times. I am losing so much respect for Anna Lundberg and I try sometimes to give her the benefit of the doubt, because let's be honest she ain't in a loving relationship save for her children, and I think Michael respects her as a friend, and mother, so it can't be easy. But it really begs me to question, how long can he tolerate the lack of self awareness? Lack of awareness in anything but beyond her bubble!? If any one responds to this please be diplomatic and tactful.

HEICBDJSHJDHE THE ANNOUNCERS DRAGGINF SAUBER WHEN THEY FINALLY DO A GOOD PITSTOP

I am gonna give you an off topic question.

Where is the nearest airport in Florida

i am but a humble aussie who has never travelled abroad. i have NO clue where any airports in florida are and the only way i **MIGHT** be able to identify the state is because it kind of looks like italy???

there is a parliamentary petition to fully fund trove. trove are one of the most valuable resources for historians, archaeologists, heritage workers and anybody interested in australian history, a veritable treasure trove (sorry) of newspapers, historic maps, images, and sounds, all available for free - but it is currently going to run out of funding in july. trove needs funding from the federal government to continue functioning, let alone continue in its mission of digitisation. if you're australian, please sign the petition and encourage the government to keep the servers running at the national library

New SpaceTime out Friday....

SpaceTime 20240315 Series 27 Episode 33

Star ripped apart by black hole

Astronomers have uncovered the closest recorded occurrence of a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole.

Astronomers search for new physics in the debris from colliding neutron stars

Scientists say neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics, with implications for determining the true nature of dark matter.

Rocky Earth like planets come with Jupiter like bodyguards

A new study looking at exoplanetary systems has found that terrestrial Earth like planets are often found in systems which also host Jovian like gas giants.

Taikonauts to be on the Moon before the end of the decade

Beijing says it will achieve a manned moon landing before 2030. Central to these efforts is the development of the Long March-10 moon rocket which will be specially designed carry spacecraft and landers into lunar orbit.

The Science Report

Micro plastics found in plaques of more than half of clogged artery patients.

The link between extreme heat while pregnant and the likelihood of having a preterm birth.

The first half of 2024 likely to see many areas to experience record-breaking air temperatures

Skeptics guide to the world’s most haunted bodies of water

SpaceTime covers the latest news in astronomy & space sciences.

The show is available every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Apple Podcasts (itunes), Stitcher, Google Podcast, Pocketcasts, SoundCloud, Bitez.com, YouTube, your favourite podcast download provider, and from www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com

SpaceTime is also broadcast through the National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio and on both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

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SpaceTime -- A brief history

SpaceTime is Australia’s most popular and respected astronomy and space science news program – averaging over two million downloads every year. We’re also number five in the United States.  The show reports on the latest stories and discoveries making news in astronomy, space flight, and science.  SpaceTime features weekly interviews with leading Australian scientists about their research.  The show began life in 1995 as ‘StarStuff’ on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) NewsRadio network.  Award winning investigative reporter Stuart Gary created the program during more than fifteen years as NewsRadio’s evening anchor and Science Editor.  Gary’s always loved science. He studied astronomy at university and was invited to undertake a PHD in astrophysics, but instead focused on his career in journalism and radio broadcasting. He worked as an announcer and music DJ in commercial radio, before becoming a journalist and eventually joining ABC News and Current Affairs. Later, Gary became part of the team that set up ABC NewsRadio and was one of its first presenters. When asked to put his science background to use, Gary developed StarStuff which he wrote, produced and hosted, consistently achieving 9 per cent of the national Australian radio audience based on the ABC’s Nielsen ratings survey figures for the five major Australian metro markets: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth.  The StarStuff podcast was published on line by ABC Science -- achieving over 1.3 million downloads annually.  However, after some 20 years, the show finally wrapped up in December 2015 following ABC funding cuts, and a redirection of available finances to increase sports and horse racing coverage.  Rather than continue with the ABC, Gary resigned so that he could keep the show going independently.  StarStuff was rebranded as “SpaceTime”, with the first episode being broadcast in February 2016.  Over the years, SpaceTime has grown, more than doubling its former ABC audience numbers and expanding to include new segments such as the Science Report -- which provides a wrap of general science news, weekly skeptical science features, special reports looking at the latest computer and technology news, and Skywatch – which provides a monthly guide to the night skies. The show is published three times weekly (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and available from the United States National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio, and through both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

It’s an exciting time in astronomy today, where records are being broken and reset regularly. We are barely two months into 2023, and already new records have been set for the farthest black hole yet observed, the brightest supernova, and the highest-energy gamma rays from our Sun. Most recently, an international team of astronomers using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile reportedly saw the brightest object ever observed in the Universe: a quasar (J0529-4351) located about 12 billion light years away that has the fastest-growing supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its center. The international team responsible for the discovery consisted of astrophysicists from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) and the Center for Gravitational Astrophysics (CGA) at the Australian National University (ANU). They were joined by researchers from the University of Melbourne, the Paris Institute of Astrophysics (IAP), and the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The paper that describes their findings, titled “The accretion of a solar mass per day by a 17-billion solar mass black hole,” recently appeared online and will published in the journal Nature Astronomy. First observed in 1963 by Dutch-American astronomer Maarten Schmidt, quasars (short for “quasi-stellar objects”) are the bright cores of galaxies powered by SMBHs. These black holes collect matter from their surroundings and accelerate it to near the speed of light, which releases tremendous amounts of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum. Quasars become so bright that their cores will outshine all the stars in their disk, making them the brightest objects in the sky and visible from billions of light-years away. As a general rule, astronomers gauge the growth rate of SMBHs based on the luminosity of their galaxy’s core region – the brighter the quasar, the faster the black hole is accreting matter. In this case, the SMBH at the core of J0529-4351 is growing by the equivalent of one Solar mass a day, making it the fastest-growing black hole yet observed. In the process, the accretion disk alone releases a radiative energy of 2 × 1041 Watts, more than 500 trillion times the luminous energy emitted by the Sun. Christian Wolf, an ANU astronomer and lead author of the study, characterized the discovery in a recent ESO press release: “We have discovered the fastest-growing black hole known to date. It has a mass of 17 billion Suns, and eats just over a Sun per day. This makes it the most luminous object in the known Universe. Personally, I simply like the chase. For a few minutes a day, I get to feel like a child again, playing treasure hunt, and now I bring everything to the table that I have learned since.” But what was most surprising was that this quasar was hiding in plain sight. “All this light comes from a hot accretion disc that measures seven light-years in diameter — this must be the largest accretion disc in the Universe,” said ANU Ph.D. student and co-author Samuel Lai. “It is a surprise that it has remained unknown until today, when we already know about a million less impressive quasars. It has literally been staring us in the face until now,” added co-author Christopher Onken, who is also an astronomer at ANU. As Onken explained, J0529-4351 showed up in images taken by the ESO Schmidt Southern Sky Survey dating back to 1980. It was only in recent years that it was recognized as a quasar, thanks to improved instruments and measurements. Finding quasars requires precise observations from large areas of the sky, resulting in massive datasets that often require machine learning algorithms to analyze them. However, these models are somewhat limited because they are trained on existing data, meaning candidates are selected based on previously observed objects. This image shows the region of the sky in which the record-breaking quasar J0529-4351 is situated. Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Dark Energy Survey Since J0529-4351 is so luminous, it was dismissed by the ESA’s Gaia Observatory as being too bright to be a quasar and was ruled to be a bright star. Last year, the ANU-led team identified it as a distant quasar based on observations using the 2.3-meter telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. They then conducted follow-up observations using the X-shooter spectrograph on the ESO’s VLT telescope to confirm their results. The quasar is also an ideal target for the GRAVITY+ upgrade on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), designed to accurately measure the mass of black holes. In addition, astronomers look forward to making observations with next-generation telescopes like the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). This 39-meter telescope, currently under construction in the Atacama Desert in Chile, will make identifying and characterizing distant quasars easier. Studying these objects and their central black holes could reveal vital details about how SMBHs and galaxies co-evolved during the early Universe. Further Reading: ESO, ESO Science Papers The post The Brightest Object Ever Seen in the Universe appeared first on Universe Today.

Private Sector Good, Public Sector Bad?

The reigning ideological economic theory within the Conservative Party is, and has been ever since Margaret Thatcher came to power, that “markets know best”

This was made abundantly clear when Kwasi Kwateng, the Chancellor of Liz Truss’s short-lived government, dismissed anything resembling a “planned economy”. Rather, growth and economic success depended on:

“…the power of our treasured free-market economy to leverage private capital and unleash Britain’s unique entrepreneurial spirit to grow new industries." (The Conversation: 13/04/22)

The key words here are “to leverage private capital”. What this means in ordinary speech is to encourage private investors to participate financially in “projects that benefit the economy, society or the environment”.  This has resulted in private investors running (and in many cases, owning) most of our public utilities and services. But rather than “benefit the economy, society and environment" these private investors have devastated it.

Over the next few blogs I intend to look at various British/English public utilities and services and to see how they have fared under the private sector.  First up are the railways.

Britain’s railways are organised within a mishmash of private and public ownership, and has been described as “broken" and no longer fit for purpose.

“The UK's train network is not only one of the worst in Europe, it is also one of the most expensive.” (euronews: 20/05/21

This is no surprise given its complex and chaotic structure.   The railway tracks and rail network are owned and operated by Network Rail, which is a “non-departmental public body of the Department for Transport, (DFT) with no shareholders"

 Non-departmental public bodies are a strange entity. They are national or regional bodies that work independently of government, are not staffed by civil servants, and yet are still accountable to government ministers. It is the Secretary of State for Transport who sets the strategic direction of the railways, allocating funding, and it is the secretary of state  who has to approve major investments in the railway system.

The companies that operate the trains are privately owned and are either awarded franchises from the DFT, or they are “open access” operators that provide passenger services on a particular route or network, but with no exclusive rights enjoyed by franchise holders.

To complicate matters further, the actual trains, passenger carriages and railway wagons, known collectively as “rolling stock”, are owned by the rolling stock leasing companies” (ROSCOs) who lease out their stock to the privately owned rail operating companies.

Freight train operators are totally separate from passenger trains, have no contracts with government but do need permission from Network Rail to run their services.

For year 2022/23 the railways received £11.9bn of government funding and Network Rail has secured £27.5 bn of government funding over the next five years. In short, we the taxpayer invest heavily in our rail network which the private passenger, rolling stock and freight companies use to make a profit.

A 2019 report by the TUC found that:

“Rail firms have paid over £1bn to shareholders in the last 6 years.” (TUC: 02/01/2019)

In 2022 Avanti West Coast received a taxpayer subsidy of £343m, despite having the worst punctuality record amongst train operators and paying out £12m to its shareholders. Avanti West Coast is owned by First Group, who also own Great Western Railway and South Western Railway. Great Western paid out the largest dividend in 2021/22, £33m, while South Western paid out  £13m. 

More recently:

“UK rail operator Govia awards $79m in dividends amid UK rail dissatisfaction.” (Railway Technology: 08/01/24)

Govia is largely foreign owned, the three largest shareholder companies being Australian, Spanish and French. In 2022 it was fined £23m “over financial irregularities" having failed to return £25m in taxpayer funding. Why on earth any government would want to go on subsidising such a company is beyond understanding, especially as the Transport Minister at the time said the company had:

“…committed an appalling breach of trust...behaviour was simply unacceptable and this penalty sends a clear message that the government, and taxpayers, will not stand for it." (BBC News: 17/03/22)

Clearly the minister (Grant Shapps) didn’t mean what he said as Govia is still operating trains two years later and still courting controversy

Turning to the train-leasing companies, we find:

“Profits of UK’s private train-leasing firms treble in a year. More than £400m paid in dividends in 2022-23 while rest of railway faced cuts and salary freezes.” (Guardian: 18/02/24)

These companies saw their profit margins rise to 41%, a profit that we as taxpayers and passengers pay for. It is estimated that "taxpayers are now effectively paying the £3.1bn spent last year on leasing trains.” To actually run a passenger rail service yet not own a single locomotive or passenger carriage is bazaar to say the very least.

Finding overall profit figures for freight train operators is a little more difficult but Colas Rail UK’s revenue in 2022 was £15,529m, up 17% on the previous year, an operating profit of £460m.

 Overall, taxpayer subsidies to the rail industry run at £6bn per year. However, these massive subsidies have not led to lower fares, an end to over-crowed trains, or an efficient service. According to TaxPayers Alliance 02/01/23) "rail subsidies cost taxpayers £1300 each by March 2023.” Meanwhile the private companies that operate the highly fragmented and disjointed system continue to reap profits and pay out dividends.

Maybe this would not be so bad if the British taxpayer subsidised dividend payouts went to British owned companies, but this is far from the case:

“According to the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union, 70% of Britain’s railways are now under foreign ownership to some degree.” (CityA.M.: 11/01/17)

The figure of 70% foreign ownership is disputed, not least because some companies have gone bust since 2017, with five lines now being effectively run by the government as “operators of last resort.”  As the 1993 Railways Act forbids the UK state from running the railways these lines are likely to be franchised out to private firms in the future.

“…many foreign state-owned enterprises of the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Hong Kong now run rail franchises in the UK." (The Standard: 11/05/23)

While other countries have no philosophical problem with running railways for the benefit of their citizens, and clearly have no qualms about investing state money in foreign ventures, the Conservative Party is ideologically opposed to state intervention in running UK public services and is vehemently opposed to setting up a UK sovereign wealth fund.

In summary, successive Tory governments have continued to pay taxpayers money into the coffers of private enterprise regardless of how efficient, honest or effective these firms are at providing an essential public service. Clearly, where the railways are concerned, they are not run to “benefit the economy, society and environment" but for the benefit and interests of private investors, in the mistaken Tory belief that private enterprise is always better than public stewardship despite evidence to the contrary.  

As an Australian…

Please stop calling tamlin tim tam. Tim tams are one of the greatest things his country has ever done and are delicious and a national treasure and should not ever be compared to that piece of shit

Impressive Darren Hayes performance of Poison Blood for Grammy’s Recording Academy 💗🙌🏼🙌🏼

“Thank you Recording Academy / GRAMMYs for inviting me to record this special live version of my song POISON BLOOD #PressPlay Shout out to TREVOR YASUDA for lush guitar”

I love Pacific Rim with all my heart, I truly do. But, as an Australian, every time I watch it I am BEWILDERED as to why they cast non-Australian actors to mangle their way through the accent when Australian actors EXIST and national treasure and theatre darling Richard Roxburgh EXISTS and looks like this

Like, that is Hercules Hansen? (Roxburgh is probably too classy for a film like pacific rim but Still)

And for Chuck, well, Australian acting and theatre schools are rife with young hot wannabes hoping they're gonna be the next Hemsworth. they really didnt have to play it like that.

"I have never known closeness like this"

For old man Terry

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The Inland Taipan (or the Oxyuranus microlepidotus) is considered the most venomous snake in the world with a murine LD 50 value of 0.025 mg/kg SC --- a fact easily researchable in libraries, in wild life encyclopedias, on a National Geographics broadcast documentary or a quick online Google search, and it takes quite a bit of a connected channel with a professional black market poacher turned contractor of illegal substances living somewhere in a tucked away compound deep in the Australian Outback to covertly smuggle the poison extract to LA in a sealed decorative vial, that was, in turn, secured into an unmarked, elegant black box, inlaid with a dark, plush bedding inside. A container not unlike something worthy of Cartier's diamonds. Just one droplet in the whole bottle, the specifications state. That's all it takes. The rest being a concoction of drugs and medications, tranquilizers strong enough to put down a Rhino, so, as he is told, you don' feel a thing. That idea pleases him, as he reads through every bit of ingredients, meticulous about just what goes inside of you, approving of each chemical silently to himself, having requested that it is brewed like this for the body that was his. For you. It would, ultimately, just be a paralytic sort of numbness, a coma and then death contained in a colorless, odourless cocktail small enough to fit into his pocket. If Romeo and Juliet could do it in the play, why would he be any different?

He was getting old, and you were still so young.

Terry always knew that the trajectory of your lives would part paths.

He would eventually and inevitably succumb to age, regardless of money, regardless of all the top notch doctors in the world, state of the art equipment, his diets, routines, giving Veganism a tragic try he forced himself to endure in those moments when he tried to, as they say, live right and turn a new page, regardless of exercise regimens and a full blown heart and liver transplant for all he was concerned. You would live on, decades his junior, and he would be without you, sidestepped and sidelined by the prospect of lasting unity and in the last few months, the thought was terrifying --- he supposed there was something unforgivable about the fact that he found you so late in life. About the fact that when you were born, he's already got his first ever grey strand of hair. Some universal sort of joke that would ensure he would only get a small taste of what a happy ending is like right before it is ripped from his grasp by an undeniable generational gap; a thing entirely outside of the bounds of his control and jurisdiction to change. But, no. Terry Silver wouldn't be messed with like this. He wouldn't allow it. If he was bound to die, he would do it on his own fucking terms; when he wished to and how he wished to, and he wouldn't be going alone either. Pharaohs, Maharajas and the Kings of Old never went alone either. Warlords were buried with their slaves, servants and concubines.

Their loot, weapons, treasures, their favourite horses, their golden chariots.

Terry Silver would wish to be buried with you.

His most prized possession on this Earth. 

That evening, he has the last ever supper in your company --- the staff dismissed from the mansion's premises to give you the utmost, uninterrupted privacy with him, every moment precious; Michelin star dishes cleared out, the dessert eaten, the night is starry (and he kept his eyes on the weather reports weeks in advance, looking for the perfect conditions) and Terry suggests a toast out of a coveted Macallan from his cellar's private collection that was thirty years old; more or less the age gap he's had with you and the irony wasn't lost on him as you drank together, huddled closed on the sofa overlooking the balcony and the sea; as you smile and kiss him tenderly, so innocent in your cluelessness. Beautiful even as you didn't realize you were drinking a tentative, bashful sips of a scotch riddled with serpentine venom. Just a little more, his thoughts echo. Any moment now. We'll be forever together. No more bullshit rules. Bullshit limitations. He takes a gulp and swallows, not looking away from your eyes. Tomorrow morning, his staff would, he knew, find you locked in each other's embrace in a sleep that never ends, and at first, initially, to an outsider looking in, you would appear like lovers simply having dozed off hugging. Carla or one of the other maids wouldn't have the heart to wake you before they realize the truth. -"I have never known closeness like this."- He whispers to you as you snuggle into the crook of his neck. He finds it is the most honest thing he's ever confessed to in his whole life.

Guitar Lessons | Part Two

Fluff

Hello! I noticed Guitar Lessons was kind of popular so I decided to write a Part Two for it!

Now, before you read, I've been planning to write a multi-chapter imagine for Lisa, and another one for Jennie. Also, I'll try to make group reactions for both MAMAMOO and BLACKPINK. Finally, I want to try AU's for both groups too, so be prepared for future updates!

Finally, please do remember requests are open! I haven't received any...

Part One

You’ve dreaded the time in which you couldn’t date her yet. The entirety of two months passed with you just waiting for that outing she invited you to, while she continued assisting your guitar lessons, leaving a free hour just to talk and to tease you about what she had planned for your date, tempting you, making you impatient and wishing to be able to forward time to the actual day.

Finally, YG published Roseanne's solo project and with that came the promotions, first, they were national promotions across Korea but then, international promotions started and the first stop was L.A. As promised, she took you with her.

It wasn’t difficult to hide your true intentions. You were known to be close to all of BLACKPINK, and of course, even closer to Roseanne, so she took you there as “moral support”. It wasn’t all perfect though, there were the shippers and with the pictures of you walking in close proximity to the Australian idol conquered the Internet in the following hours, fueled even more by the fact that you weren’t an idol but a producer and that Rosé had talk marvelous things about you in her group and individual lives.

Now imagine what was currently happening when a fan snapped a picture of both of you walking through Venice beach, Roseanne attaching her arm with yours and smiling widely, looking at you as if you were the best treasure she could ever find in her life.

That made you nervous and, even if you tried to hide it, Roseanne managed to notice. Of course, you knew that dating an idol had consequences, this being just one of the nicest ones. Your face going around all the Internet and TV channels, Rosé losing fans by the minute, her promotions being greatly overshadowed by your ever-growing dating rumor…

“(Y/N)…?” Rosé took you out of your dreamland from across the table at her very expensive hotel room. “…Is something wrong?”

“No, I just got lost, I’ve had this idea for new music in my head since a few days back and I kinda…” She looked at you with confusion in her eyes, as if she didn’t believe you. “…I’m sorry, I shouldn’t be talking about work”

“No, it’s okay” She looked between you and the food she asked room service to bring. “I know it’s not the romantic dinner I talked about but with the rumors and all…”

“Don’t worry, I understand, people get crazy sometimes, right?” She nodded before looking into your eyes.

“Are you enjoying yourself?”

“Of course” You immediately answered, noting a slight trace of sadness in her expression.

“It’s just that you’ve been weird since we returned, you didn’t even paid attention to the movie” You sighed, she knew, of course she knew. She knows you inside-out, there’s nothing you can hide from her, even if you did your best to lie.

“I’m sorry” So, you decided to be honest, after all, above being the woman you fell in love with, she is your best friend. “I’m just worried about this”

“About this?” You immediately saw her eyes reflecting a slight heartbreak.

“About this relationship bringing you down, overcomplicating your job, I don’t want to be a problem”

“You are not” She put her hand above yours. “You are all the contrary, you are the solution to all my problems” She inhaled deeply. “If people are mad that I finally found someone to share my victories and my losses, then let them”

“Roseanne, I…”

“Let me finish” You didn’t know if she was motivated by resolution or desperation, but you knew just by her tone that this was important to her, you were important to her. “We’ve passed through a lot more than this, we can get through this just as we have done with all of our past problems, the only difference is that now, if we lose this, we won’t get a second chance”

You knew she was right. If you surrendered to the pressure right now, you knew there wasn’t going to be a second chance; there’s no next comeback, or next concert, or next tour, there’s this only chance to capture what you want the most right now, but the risk to lose either way was just too-

“I like you” Roseanne blurted out while having her eyes closed, her hand was trembling, she was afraid, nervous, anxious, all because of you.

There’s too much risk, that’s for sure but, it’s way better to risk it than to never try it, that’s what got you into being a producer… “I like you too, a lot” You turned your hand and delicately took hers, caressing the back of her hand with your thumb.

The most beautiful smile you’ve ever seen drew on her lips, her eyes shone brightly, about to release a waterfall of happy tears.

Was it scary? Of course

Was it dangerous? Kind of.

Was it worth it?

“Rosie, would you be my girlfriend?”

“Yes… I’ll gladly be your girlfriend (Y/N)!”

Of course it’s worth it.

Because I was the only one she wanted,

Me, human as ordinary as you can get,

And I almost rejected the notion,

That my happiness was her only ambition,

All because I was afraid I couldn’t fulfill,

The place she put me in,

When I’ve already done it,

Ever since we met

stellarmag #STELLARMOMENTS: @itsjordanjr’s career began when his mother spotted an ad for auditions for the 2003 Australian run of the musical The Lion King. And after scoring the role of young Simba, it set his future in motion. 19 years on, Jordan is revisiting that nostalgia with a part in the cast of National Treasure: Edge Of History, a spin-off to the popular film franchise starring Nicolas Cage. “I was a big fan of Indiana Jones,” he says. “When I heard that there was going to be a National Treasure series, I was so excited. I was just really lucky and grateful that I got the job.”

Kirsten Drysdale is a national treasure.