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LadyNoir July 2021 Day 15: Forbidden

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A/N: Was I expecting to write an enemies to lovers AU? No. Did I panic and not get to the lovers part? Possibly. Stay tuned for either a future fic or a future day this month (Hello secrets!) for a continuation because who doesn’t love enemies to lovers?

When she’d first gotten her miraculous, Tikki had told her that Ladybug was supposed to be part of a pair, that she had a partner out there.

She still remembered coming home after that first fight, seeing the look on Tikki’s face and knowing the black cat she’d gone up against was supposed to be on her side

Every time she faced him a voice whispered in the back of her mind, ‘does he know?’

Ladybug knew it didn’t matter, but she still found herself wondering. What if it was different? What if we fought by her side, joining her in stopping akumas, working together against Hawkmoth?

She was relaxing in the shadow of a beam on the Eiffel Tower one evening when he found her. Ladybug had thought there would be no harm in taking a break during patrol, but her luck seemed to be saved for akuma battes.

Jumping to her feet, one hand on her yo-yo, Ladybug prepared herself for a fight, bracing for him to throw the first punch. She’d found it hard to fight him, to start their fights, knowing he was supposed to be her teammate.

“Relax, Bug,” Chat Noir laughed at her. “I’m not here to fight you, at least not tonight.”

She frowned at him, untrusting of his words.

“I usually come up here at night. Something about the lights, it calls me.” Ladybug wasn’t sure what the joke was, but he laughed quietly at something he’d said.

She crossed her arms, finally annoyed at his appearance. “So, what? I’m supposed to leave, even though I was here first, so you can what? Howl at the moon?”

Mimicking her stance, Chat Noir raised an eyebrow. “Really, howl at the moon? My other half can’t even come up with a proper cat joke?”

Her blood ran cold. So he did know. Not that it changed anything, apparently.

She stiffened as he moved, raising his hands in surrender.

“But I get it, I’ll let you have your space. Maybe in the future we can make a schedule. On Tuesdays you can have the tower, and on Thursdays I can. Something simple for you to follow.”

“And what if I want Thursdays too?” She didn’t know why she was responding, going along with his teasing.

“Why, Mlady,” he grinned at her as she bristled at the pet name. “I guess that’s what making a schedule is for.”

With that, he saluted and jumped off, his baton already extending underneath him.

She tried not to think about the fact that it was the longest conversation she’d ever had with him.

~~~

The small bell at the entrance to her shop jingled, and Marinette looked up in time to see Adrien holding up two cups of coffee. She smiled and waved him over behind the counter as she cleaned up her clutter.

“Why hello there. I thought you were doing a photoshoot for the next,” she checked her phone, “hour.”

“Well, Vincent said I was too much of a ‘deflated lasagna’ and sent me on my way. So I figured, what better way to spend my new free time than with my favorite person and her favorite coffee?”

Marinette snorted imagining Vincent’s remarks as she took a sip. Her boyfriend didn’t always have a lot of free time in her schedule, so she appreciated any opportunity she got to see him during the day.

Of course, it never felt long enough.

The couple jumped as their phones went off, and she sighed at the alert.

“Oh, I need to get home, you know my dad-” Adrien started heading out the door.

“Yeah, I should close the store and try to pull in some people to get them off the streets,” Marinette nodded, headed towards the back door of the store.

She turned as he slipped outside, Tikki floating infront of her. Calling her transformation, Ladybug raced outside.

She knew it wasn’t fair to be frustrated at people who were akumatized, but did Hawkmoth really need to target people during the only time she got with Adrien today?

“Why, Mlady! Long time no see!”

Ladybug groaned. Of course he’d be enthusiastic about this. He probably sat around planning how to get in her way, how to ruin her day.

She twirled her yo-yo, searching for the Akuma. Maybe today would be quick, maybe she could avoid going toe-to-toe with the cat for once.

~~~

Marinette grumbled as she slipped into bed. Adrien had gotten up early for that photoshoot and would probably be exhausted from his day, and the akuma battle had lasted far longer than it should have. Instead of a nice evening cuddled on the couch with a movie, she’d have to have an early night.

At least they had a moment before the akuma this morning.

Rolling on to her side, Marinette hoped that maybe tomorrow would be better.

~~~

As her feet touched down, she realized her favorite vantage point was occupied.

“Why, Bugaboo, if you wanted to see me so badly, you could have told me yesterday!”

She groaned, rubbing her face. “Chat, why are you here?”

“I told you,” he tapped the beam next to him. “A schedule.”

Sure enough, taped with probably an impressive amount of tape, was a piece of paper with days of the week written on it. If she squinted, there was a small black cat drawn under ‘Thursday’ and a red circle under ‘Tuesday’.

She turned to leave, but his voice stopped her.

“Does it ever feel overwhelming? The double life?” His voice was quiet, and Ladybug couldn’t figure out if he actually expected an answer.

She didn’t realize she just had to wait.

“I get you don’t want to answer me, identities and all, but you haven’t pushed me off this ledge yet. I just -” Chat paused, and Ladybug saw his shoulders fall. “I’m not going to talk about it to him, and I feel like you’d get it.”

She stayed silent, not knowing how to respond.

“I’m sure you know we could have been partners, should have been a team. I think in another life, that would be nice. Freeing.” He whispered the last word, as though it wasn’t meant for her.

He sighed. “It would be nice to not feel so alone.”

Finally overwhelmed, Ladybug stepped back. Since she’d arrived, Ladybug had felt like she’d been intruding on a private moment, and this was too far.

“It’s never too late, Chat,” Ladybug whispered, stopping herself from reaching out. She didn’t know if he was too far in his own thoughts to hear her. Throwing out her yo-yo, she turned to him. “For now, I’ll just try to keep to the schedule.”

Something about what he said stuck with her, but she let herself get caught up in the swinging of her yo-yo to let it simmer.

~~~

Marinette didn’t remember when it had gotten so hard. She knew Adrien was frustrated with how his father pushed him, all of these early morning photoshoots and late night events starting to run together, but he’d never taken it out on her like this.

She was exhausted, but it wasn’t like Marinette could tell her boyfriend it was because Hawkmoth had increased his akumazations recently.

She missed when their time together was with giggled stories and warm cups of coffee, instead of fights and empty apologies for missed dates.

It felt like Marinette blinked and suddenly he was gone, his voice asking for some time apart echoing around her apartment, inescapable.

Tikki’s soothing voice sounded miles away, and all Marinette hoped for was a reprieve from those poisonous butterflies.

~~~

He bared his teeth as he pushed the baton against her, pinning her down. He wasn’t usually so physical, preferring to let the akuma do most of the work, but today something was off.

There was a feral look in his eyes, and a ghosting of purple and black near the bottom of his mask.

Taken aback, Ladybug thought through their recent interactions. No, she couldn’t have caused that.

“Minou?”

He froze, tilting his head to the side. Had she said that out loud?

She didn’t let the thought fester, already pushing off of him.

Slipping out from under him, Ladybug stood up, already planning her next step to get past him, to purify the akuma.

~~~

This time, when he joined her at the Eiffel tower, she offered him a croissant. Her parents had insisted on giving her a box of pastries, and with no Adrien to share them with, she didn’t know what else to do with them.

Chat quietly took her peace offering, sitting against the beams, watching her.

Brushing crumbs off her, Ladybug tried to bite back a sigh.

“Sometimes I wish it was different.” She couldn’t bear to look at him, to watch the surprise cross his face. “We could’ve been partners, but instead this city expeccts me to protect it. Sometimes I just want to stay home, hide out in my room.”

She finally looked over at him, but he wouldn’t meet her eye.

“Sometimes I wish we were partners, but most of the time I just wish things were normal. I mean,” she rubbed her face, willing herself not to cry. “I couldn’t even take a couple of days to be sad about my relationship ending.”

“I didn’t know you were in a relationship.”

“Well, I’m not. Not anymore.”

“Oh.”

They sat in silence for a minute, and she worried she’d said too much. Paired miraculous or not, he was still her enemy. Although up here, with the iron structure and the stars to keep them company, she wasn’t sure that was true. Like she’d somehow entered a truce with him, without even realizing it.

“Ladybug.”

She turned to him, surprised at the use of her name.

“Why did you call me that?”

She frowned, trying to figure out what he meant.

“During the last akuma, you called me Minou. Why?”

“Is that not what you are? A cat?”

“But you called me a kitten.”

She tried to hide her grin. “Yes, a big scary kitten.” She saw him frown and continued. I saw your face. I know I didn’t give you that bruise, and I know the akumas usually leave you alone. I guess,” she sighed, deciding if it was worth admitting. “I guess I just realized you’re probably my age, that we’re too young to be doing this. Too young to have to grow up this fast”

She looked over Paris, wondering if she’d gone too far.

“It was from my dad,” Chat whispered, and Ladybug ripped her eyes off the city to look at him. “He was, ahem, less than pleased with my appearance, and wanted to make sure his frustration was noted.”

She frowned, trying to understand. “Is your appearance important?” He chuckled, and Ladybug’s eyes bulged as she realized what she’d said. “No, I mean, um, like, is your appearance part of your job or something? Why does he care?”

Chat’s eyes sparkled, like he was hiding another laugh in them. “Something like that.” She watched as his hand reached up to rub the back of his neck. “Can’t have less than perfect for the face of the company, even if my relationship had just ended. Can’t have just one day to myself.”

“I’m sure he’d be thrilled to know you’re spending your night high on the Eiffel Tower with me, instead of sleeping.” Ladybug pushed away the sensation at the back of her mind, like there was something she should note, something important.

“I mean me? With Paris’s sweetheart? I’m sure he couldn’t be too upset.”

“I’m pretty sure Paris’s sweetheart is Adrien Agreste.” Ladybug motioned to a billboard in the distance.

“Sure, Ladybug, if you think he’s a sweetheart,” he chuckled again, and Ladybug squinted, trying to figure out what was so funny.

She pulled out her yo-yo and startled at the time.

“Oh, I didn’t realize how late it’s gotten. I gotta go.” She stood, but turned to Chat. “Thanks for tonight. I think I needed it.”

“Me too, Bugaboo. Me too.” Chat stretched out, making no move to follow her. “Get home safe bug.”

In another circumstance, it would be a threat. But tonight, high above the city, it was just a goodbye.

“You too, Chat Noir.” She smiled at him one last time before swinging away, leaving her forbidden friendship behind her. At least for tonight.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanfic #miraculous lb #LadyNoir July 2021 #Day 15: Forbidden #ladybug and chat noir #My Fic #enemies AU

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miraculouscontent · 4 years

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This is weird that Adrien give me Shounen Protagonist vibes, especially when he charges to Akuma and is shocked that his enemy easily block his attacks or use ability to defeat him midcharge (Maledictator and Pixelator). This feels like he think that he is Saitama but end as Ichigo kurosaki ( usual batte: mindless charge to enemy and humiliating defeat)

Miraculous in general gives me a lot of anime vibes. I talked about it in a couple reviews of some gay anime I did a year ago (not directly mentioning Miraculous), but the main lead just being needlessly tormented at every corner seems to be something that those anime and Miraculous have in common, and then people wonder why the protagonist acts the way they do?? It comes off like the protagonist has to be perfect all the time but then it’s like--they have to be at least a little flawed to keep the show going, so where’s the line drawn?

And yeah, Adrien in battle is like--

I mean, we all remember that shot in “Oblivio” where he’s lounging around while Ladybug shields him. It’s like there’s no in-between; either he’s lounging back or charging headfirst into the enemy/making impulsive decisions in general.

#category: salt #character: Adrien Agreste #other: ask and answer

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marichatlenoir · 3 years

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La solitudine e la dimenticanza ~ Marianne e Fu

I destini di Marinette e Adrien si intrecciano con le vite di Marianne e Fu: due storie d'amore oltre la memoria e il tempo perduto.

La promessa.

Per proteggere le identità di Ladybug e Chat Noir ed impedire che Papillon le scopra, il maestro Fu compie il rituale di passaggio dello scrigno a Ladybug, pur essendo consapevole di dover sacrificare i suoi ricordi. Perdendo la memoria, il maestro Fu perde anche la sua identità.

Il passaggio dello scrigno dei Miraculous.

In Oblivio, il maestro Fu era stato risparmiato dal perdere la memoria ed aveva potuto aiutare Marinette e Adrien che avevano perduto i loro ricordi e non erano consapevoli delle loro identità. Nel passaggio di ruolo a Ladybug, il maestro Fu è condannato a perdere la sua memoria.

La telefonata al maestro Fu.

Seduto da solo sulla panchina dove si erano rivisti dopo decenni, il maestro Fu guarda una foto di Marianne in bianco e nero e ripensa a tutti i momenti vissuti con lei, già sapendo che l'avrebbe dimenticata con il rimpianto di non averle mai fatto una vera dichiarazione d'amore.

L'ultimo sguardo.

La solitudine ha segnato la vita di Fu, prima come monaco e poi come guardiano, costringendo anche Marianne ad un'attesa infinita che ha rischiato di rivelarsi vana per aver esitato o aspettato troppo a lungo. Nell'attesa dell'amore, i ricordi di quell'amore sono ormai svaniti.

La consapevolezza della perdita.

Quando Fu vede Marianne alla stazione, è colto da una profonda emozione. Nonostante Fu creda di averla appena incontrata, il suo cuore batte come se la conoscesse da sempre. Come accaduto a Marinette e Adrien in Oblivio, i sentimenti riemergono dall'inconscio ed avviene la magia.

Fu riconosce gli occhi verdi dell'amore.

In Oblivio, Adrien non ha bisogno dei ricordi per sapere di amare Marinette e non può nasconderle la sua identità. In uno scambio simbolico, Adrien restituisce al maestro Fu la possibilità di riconoscere Marianne come la donna che ha amato per tutta la vita anche senza ricordi.

Adrien: "Non ho bisogno dei ricordi per sapere di amare quella ragazza".

L'attesa è stata lunga, ma non è stata vana. Marianne riceve la dichiarazione d'amore più bella che avesse mai potuto ascoltare, perché è nata dal cuore dell'uomo che ha sempre amato, dai suoi sentimenti mai sopiti che hanno infranto i confini della memoria e dei ricordi perduti.

Fu: "Ti ho appena incontrata eppure il mio cuore batte come se ti conoscesse da sempre".

Marianne è felice per essersi ricongiunta a Fu e dolcemente gli risponde: "Ascolta sempre il tuo cuore". Tuttavia nel cuore di Marianne non può non esserci tristezza per la condizione del suo amato. Insieme potranno creare nuovi ricordi, ma lei è l'unica custode del loro passato.

Lo struggente addio.

Marianne prende le mani di Fu con delicatezza per restituirgli una carezza, un ricordo della loro vita del momento in cui si erano separati e ritrovati, sapendo che non si lasceranno più. In un istante di lucidità, la memoria sembra riaffiorare e riconquistare l'identità perduta.

Un istante di felicità.

La scena è una metafora che rappresenta la solitudine di un anziano che perde i ricordi degli affetti di tutta la sua vita, quando la memoria viene aggredita da una malattia come l'Alzheimer. Non soltanto lui, ma anche chi lo ama deve convivere con lo spettro dei ricordi perduti.

Marianne: "Ascolta sempre il tuo cuore".

#miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miracle queen #oblivio #maestro fu #marianne lenoir

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wedontdeservenino · 5 years

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What I want to see, in this order:

-Finish up this season with Marinette crushing on Adrien and Chat Noir crushing on Ladybug

-Crush reversal, Adrien changes targets and falls for Marinette, Ladybug falls for Chat Noir. Adrien and Marinette become closer friends in the process

-Reveal! Either one at a time with some fun antics in between or at the same time.

-Whole bunch of awkward. Them being cute and hiding together to transform to fight Akumas, but leaving their feelings unspoken because they don’t really know how their crush feels now that they know their identities

-Awkwardness was cute at first but getting old. Marinette gets tired of waiting for nothing. Starts dating Luka. Brings him on the superhero team.

-Adrien is jeaaalllouuus. Acts jealous for a while. Eventually decides to be happy for her and tries to date Kagami, but, still has some risidual bitterness. Brings Kagami on the superhero team.

-Marinette and Adrien get in fight. Adrien lets out that he’s mad at her for dating Luka. She yells that she was in love with him but she was tired of waiting for nothing.

-Some big event, be it an Akuma fight or a dance or something, pushes them together. Somehow end up admitting that there’s still feelings there. Maybe a kiss.

-Both break up with S.O.’s. Luka and Kagami are hurt but overall it’s a mature separation.

-Cue new period of adorable awkwardness. They are both aware they’re kind’ve “together” but are really shy. Lots of dispersed kisses and hand holding and dates, all riddled with lots of blushing.

-Eventual comfort. Power couple mode! They make a great team. Maybe some episodes with misunderstandings but for the most part, they are comfortable in their relationship and the boat doesn’t get rocked too much. Both are very much in love!

-Final battle (perhaps not Hawkmoth, since we probably need some time to deal with the emotional aftermath of him being Adrien’s father. Maybe he’s like the “mid-boss” that happens sometime in between all of this, but this battle is with some new big-bad.) Intense battle. The miraculous team fights (all the people with the miraculous’ they’ve been given in the past, but also all of their classmates given a miraculous one time only for a final showdown. Classmates are told Ladybug and Chat Noir’s identities, but not the general public.) Happy ending. Either Marinette or Nino become new keeper of the miraculous box (Fu probably dying during Hawkmoth fight or final batte). Shows final shot with Ladybug and Chat Noir on their way towards police sirens to help fight (less magical) crime. ~~The End~~

#miraculous ladybug #ml #please this all i want #they dont HAVE to date right after the reveal #im fine with like 5 million more seasons #but theres still interesting things you can do after they know #yknow?#just dont have the whole world discover their identities #im still bitter after danny phantom #never again

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romana73 · 5 years

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REYLO, ALICE E GATTI NERI

Post scritto da ME. Le gifs animate riportate, invece, NON SONO MIE e NON APPARTENGONO A ME IN NESSUN MODO

Scrivere il post riguardo i Reylo e Miraculous. Le storie di Ladybug e Chat Noir, mi ha ricordato un altro Anime (cartone animato) e Manga (fumetto) giapponesi, il cui protagonista maschile è cattivo, ombroso e tormentato, innamorato della protagonista femminile. Mi riferisco ad Alice Academy (Gakuen Alice) Manga fantasy shōjo, scritto e disegnato da Higuchi Tachibana, di cui esiste anche l'Anime formato da 26 episodi, trasposizione dei primi 5 volumi del manga. Alcuni episodi dell'Anime non corrispondono al Manga. I toni cupi che pervadono il Manga, nell’Anime sono stati molto ridotti. La protagonista non scopre chi sono i suoi veri genitori (nel Manga la protagonista scopre, invece, la vera identità dei genitori) e Ruka non rivela i suoi veri sentimenti per lei. Protagonista della storia è Mikan Sakura che, all'inizio della vicenda ha 10 anni, ma poi nel Manga cresce, fino ad avere 16/17 anni. Orfana di genitori, vivace, ottimista, rumorosa, Mikan vive con suo nonno in uno sperduto paesino di montagna. Un giorno, la quotidianità di Mikan va in frantumi: la sua migliore amica Hotaru le annuncia che si trasferirà, mentre la scuola del paese annuncia la sua chiusura. Non ricevendo più notizie di Hotaru, depressa e preoccupata, Mikan scappa di casa, per cercare la Alice Academy, nuova scuola di Hotaru per vedere l'amica. All'esterno dell’istituto, Mikan conosce Narumi Anju, professore che la salva da un tentativo di rapimento usando il suo potere speciale. Il giovane prova a usare il suo potere anche su Mikan ma, stranamente, questo non fa nessun effetto. Narumi propone a Mikan, allora, di diventare una studentessa dell'accademia, in questo modo potrà rivedere Hotaru. Il professore spiega a Mikan che Alice Academy raduna tutti i giovani in possesso di un Alice, ovvero un specifico potere che può essere di ogni tipo: volare, creare illusioni, telecinesi, leggere la mente, correre veloce e via di seguito. Mikan apprende che Hotaru possiede l'Alice dell'invenzione mentre, più avanti, si scoprirà che Mikan possiede l'Alice dell'annullamento: nessun potere funziona con lei, perché appena entrano in contatto con Mikan, lei li annulla...quel giorno, Mikan conosce anche Natsume Hyuuga, suo coetaneo burbero, iroso e freddo, che possiede il potere del fuoco a un livello molto alto e indossa una maschera da gatto. Natsume fa parte delle abilità pericolose e il suo superiore è Persona, insegnante mascherato con il potere corrosione. Unico amico di Natsume è Ruka Nogi, in possesso del potere di parlare con gli animali...

Nelle sue missioni, Natsume indossa una maschera da gatto nero a cui deve il suo soprannome che, Mikan scoprirà, poi, essere una maschera di contenimento del suo Alice. Ogni volta che Natsume si ribella, la maschera lo punisce con una scossa elettrica. La prima volta che Mikan vede Natsume senza maschera, rimane senza parole:

In missione, Ben Solo/Kylo Ren indossa quasi sempre una maschera. La prima volta che Rey incontra Ben/Kylo lui porta la maschera, quando la toglie, Rey rimane disorientata:

Per calmarlo, Narumi bacia Natsume sulla fronte, facendolo svenire, così che lui lo riporta a scuola. Il bacio di Narumi è capace, infatti, di addormentare le persone. Narumi porta, così, Mikan e Natsume in un salotto della scuola, lasciandoli soli per completare l’ammissione di Mikan. Non appena si risveglia, Natsume aggredisce Mikan, bloccandola sotto di lui, interrogandola, minacciandola e tentando (inutilmente) di usare il suo potere per scoprire chi è:

Nel film “Star Wars. Episodio VII. Il Risveglio della Forza”, Kylo Ren cattura e imprigiona Rey, usando la Forza per leggere la sua mente. Alla fine, però, Rey legge la mente di Kylo, ritorcendo il suo potere contro di lui. Destabilizzato, Kylo chiede la guida di Snoke per capire chi è Rey:

Narumi assegna Mikan alla guida di Natsume, ma lei non vuole. Nessuno capisce, all'inizio, quale sia l'Alice di Mikan, così Natsume la mette alla prova. Il ragazzo dice a Mikan di andare nella foresta e se tornerà illesa e il suo Alice si manifesterà, lei potrà continuare a frequentare la scuola. Hotaru e Yuu decidono di accompagnarla. I tre scoprono, così, che la foresta è piena di magici animali anche di peluche, molto pericolosi. Creando una illusione, Yuu chiama Ruka nella foresta, per avere un ulteriore supporto. Saputa la notizia, credendo che i tre abbiano catturato e stiano sfruttando l'amico, Natsume corre nella foresta. Furente, il ragazzino affronta Mikan e minaccia Hotaru e Yuu chiudendoli in cerchi di fuoco. Mikan sta per cedere, ma poi usa involontariamente il suo potere contro Natsume, annullando il suo potere e atterrandolo:

Nel film “Star Wars. Episodio VII. Il Risveglio della Forza”, furente per la sua fuga, Kylo Ren segue Rey e Finn nella foresta e, dopo aver fatto svenire Rey, sbattendola contro un albero, si batte con Finn, ferendolo gravemente. Risvegliata, Rey si batte con Kylo. All'inizio, Rey sembra perdere, ma poi cerca la Forza in se, atterrando e ferendo Kylo. Nel corso del duello, Kylo si offre come maestro a Rey, ma lei rifiuta:

Un giorno, Natsume dice criptico a Mikan che gli insegnanti e la scuola non sono ciò che sembrano. In particolare, Natsume rivela a Mikan che Narumi non spedisce a suo nonno le lettere che lei scrive all’anziano, poiché l'istituto non permette contatti con l’esterno, specie a soggetti pericolosi come loro, costantemente tenuti d’occhio. Mikan non crede a Natsume, ma poi, aiutata da Hotaru, scopre che Narumi non ha mai spedito nessuna delle lettere che lei gli aveva affidato:

Nel film “Star Wars. Episodio VIII. Gli Ultimi Jedi”, Ben Solo/ Kylo Ren insiste e spinge Rey perché chieda a Luke cosa è successo davvero la notte in cui lui distrusse il Tempio dello zio. Ben/Kylo rivela a Rey che Luke percepì il suo potere e, spaventato, tentò di ucciderlo nel sonno. Rey non ci crede ma, poi, riesce a far confessare la verità a Luke, scoprendo che Kylo non aveva mentito...

Mikan scopre che, a 8 anni, Natsume ha incendiato tutto il suo villaggio. In questo modo, Natsume è stato scoperto da Alice Academy. Ora, Natsume è parte dell'Unità Speciale dell'Oscurità, sezione della scuola con il compito di scoprire e fermare organizzazioni malavitose e che, altri ragazzi con abilità classificate pericolose come quella di Natsume, seguono addestramenti speciali per entrare il tale unità. Natsume è controllato, inoltre, da Persona, insegnate della classe delle Abilità Pericolose, che lo umilia e ricatta:

Ben Solo/Kylo Ren è stato trovato da bambino da Snoke che ha subito iniziato a tormentarlo psicologicamente per convertirlo al male. Ben/Kylo fa parte, inoltre, dei Cavalieri di Ren, gruppo di persone dedite al Lato Oscuro della Forza, di cui lui è Maestro:

Al suo arrivo all'Accademia, il fatto di non conoscere subito il suo Alice e di non avere stelle (sistema di valutazione in base cui, maggiore sono le stelle guadagnate, maggiori sono i privilegi e la paghetta passata dalla scuola), rendono difficile la vita a Mikan, che è soprannominata “ senza stelle”:

Nel film “Star Wars. Episodio VII. Il Risveglio della Forza”, Kylo Ren dice a Rey che lei è solo una “spazzina”:

Mikan è presa in simpatia da Narumi Anju che la supporta e aiuta:

Rey è supportata e incoraggiata da Leia Organa, madre di Ben Solo/Kylo Ren e Generale della Resistenza:

Una sera, Natsume dice a Mikan di non cercarlo e non andare vicino a lui, perchè lui non è come loro:

“...finché sei in tempo, non lasciarti trascinare nell’OSCURITA’ [...] perderesti l’allegria e la tua LUCE...”

( Natsume a Mikan, 1x20, Alice Academy)

Nel film “Star Wars. Episodio VII. Il Risveglio della Forza”, parlando con la maschera di Darth Vader, Kylo Ren si scusa, amettendo di sentire ancora il RICHIAMO della LUCE. Nel film “Star Wars. Episodio VIII. Gli Ultimi Jedi”, l’OSCURITA’ presente nell’Isola sacra di Luke chiama Rey. Il vecchio Jedi incita la ragazza a resistere, ma si accorge che lei si è lasciata, invece, trasportare perchè, dice Luke, l’Oscurità possiede qualcosa di cui Rey ha bisogno... :

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nightmareonfilmstreet · 6 years

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10 Movies We Can’t Wait To See At This Year’s Fantasia Film Festival

Ladies and Gentlemen, the 22nd Internation Fantasia Film Festival is upon us! This year’s lineup boasts from heavy hitters, including the World Premieres of Robert D. Krzykowski’s The Man Who Killed Hitler and then Bigfoot starring the legendary Sam Ellitot and Nightmare Cinema, directed by Mick Garris, Alejandro Brugués, Ryuhei Kitamura, David Slade and Joe Dante (who will also be recieving a lifetime achievement award). Also peremiering at the festival is David Robert Mitchell’s highly anticipted follow-up to It Follows, the neo noir Under The Silver Lake, the Spike Lee produced Tales From The Hood 2, and Dennison Ramalho’s (The ABC’s of Death) feature film debut, Among The Living.

There is no shortage of incredible, must-see films in this year’s lineup and it promises to be other banner year for genre film. The Fantasia Film Festival run from July 12th – August 1st in the heart of Montreal. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased HERE.

Below are 10 movies that ewe can’t wait to see at this year’s Fantasia FIlm Festival. If you are going to be in attendance at the festival, let us know what your looking forward to seeeing in the comments below, on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and in the Horror Fiends of Nightmare on Film Street Facebook group!

Mandy

Director: Pananos Cosmatos Writter: Pananos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn Cast: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, Ricard Brake

“The peaceful existence of Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) in the Shadow Mountains of 1983 is burned to the ground when a deranged religious sect fixates on Mandy (Andrea Riseborough), the love of his life and, as is soon made very evident, a significant grounding force in his universe. Things deteriorate into a tranced-out nightmare of insect venom, hard drugs and broken-minded delirium as Red journeys into hell in order to avenge the woman he once lived for. Blood will flow in rivers. Worlds will collapse unto themselves.”

Nightmare Cinema

Director: Alejandro Brugués, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Ryuhei Kitamura, David Slade Writer: Sandra Becerril, Alejandro Brugués, Lawrence C. Connolly, Mick Garris, Richard Christian Matheson, David Slade Cast: Maurice Benard, Richard Chamberlain, Annabeth Gish, Elizabeth Reaser, Mickey Rourke

“At a forgotten, haunted bijou, a group of strangers have assembled to watch a series of macabre vignettes unspooled by the mysterious Projectionist (Mickey Rourke). Like the best anthology films (DEAD OF NIGHT, CREEPSHOW, TRICK ‘R TREAT), the stories’ tones range from truly deep, dark, psychological, demented horror to ones with a lighter, satirical spin. Witness a ghost story that will chill you to the bone; an exorcism story guaranteed to make your head spin; a B&W descent into clinical madness; a plastic surgery gone horrifyingly awry; and a cabin-in-the-woods slasher ditty with a unique twist you’ll never see coming.”

Under the Silver Lake

Director: David Robert Mitchell Writer: David Robert Mitchell Cast: Andrew Garfield, Topher Grace, Riley Keough, Zosia Mamet

“Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The city of angels. The dream factory where it’s all too easy to lose contact grasp of Earth and see nothing but stars… Take for example Sam (Andrew Garfield), a prototypical slacker in his mid-thirties, without ambition… though he does have an unpredictable temperament, a penchant for voyeurism, and an unhealthy obsession with pop culture. When a mysterious neighbor (Riley Keough) appears in the sights of his binoculars, then disappears overnight without a trace, the first-class geek cannot help but investigate – possessed, somehow, by the eternal spirit of the countless detectives who stalked the hot asphalt of LA before him. But a Bogart he is not. Sam’s unorthodox methods very quickly leave him confounded; through the looking glass and into the heart of a strange city where dog killers, owl-women, aspiring actresses and gurus rub shoulders, among other high-society demiurges pulling the strings of an entire culture…”

Terrified

Director: Demián Rugna Writer: Demián Rugna Cast: Ariel Chavarría, Maximiliano Ghione, Norberto Gonzalo, Elvira Onetto

“The lives of three neighbours in Argentina are turned upside down following a series of violent deaths in the area. For retiring inspector Funes, what was supposed to be an easy case suddenly takes a strange turn and he finds himself dealing with more than he can handle. Paranormal experts are brought in to assist in investigating what they believe to be haunted houses, where they will be tested by an evil the likes of which they have never encountered. As the night goes on and chaos is unleashed upon them, nothing, and no one, can be trusted.”

Tales From The Hood 2

Directed: Darin Scott, Rusty Cundieff Writer: Darin Scott, Rusty Cundieff Cast: Keith David, Alexandria DeBerry, Bill Martin Williams, Bryan Batt, Lou Beatty Jr., Martin Bradford, Kendrick Cross

“Horror is back in the hood! The sequel to the groundbreaking original film TALES FROM THE HOOD reunites executive producer Spike Lee (Honorary Academy Award® winner) and writers/directors/producers Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott for an all-new gripping, horrifying and oftentimes devilishly comical anthology. Keith David stars as a contemporary Mr. Simms to tell bloodcurdling stories about lust, greed, pride and politics through tales with demonic dolls, possessed psychics, vengeful vixens and historical ghosts. Mr. Simms’s haunting stories will make you laugh… while you scream.“

The Witch In The Window

Director: Andy Mitton Writer: Andy Mitton Cast: Arija Bareikis, Alex Draper, Greg Naughton, Carol Stanzione, Charlie Tacker

“Divorced dad Simon (Alex Draper) brings his 12-year-old son, Finn (Charlie Tacker) out to Vermont to help him renovate an old house he recently purchased. Used to the speed of New York City, Finn has an impossible time slowing down to a smalltown pace, and he’s disappointed before even getting there. So is Simon (“I guess I was hoping I would catch you on the 12 side of 12, instead of the 13 side of 12”). Afflicted with a rare medical condition in which there’s a literal hole in his heart, Simon, ever resourceful, does what he can to make things good as he and his son attempt to repair what’s broken. Soon, a series of nonsensically terrifying happenings occur, nightmarish and incomprehensible. It becomes clear that they aren’t alone in the house. That there is more work to be done than either could be capable of grasping. That death is a partially living state. And that they are in a very special kind of danger.“

The Dark

Director: Justin P. Lange Writer: Justin P. Lange Cast: Nadia Alexander, Karl Markovics, Toby Nichols

“Once upon a dark, dark time, there was a girl, lonely, undead and bloodthirsty. Behind her a dark, dark past – a curse. Hidden in the dark, dark woods, she tirelessly haunts her childhood home. Mina (Nadia Alexander) is a damaged soul, and tears to pieces anyone who dares enter her hunting ground. When she meets Alex (Toby Nichols), a disfigured and blind boy, brought to her by mysterious circumstances, her animalistic cannibal instincts seem to strangely fade away. As this uncanny friendship grows, little by little, both of these lost children learn how to reach out to the hints of light left within.”

Cold Skin

Director: Xavier Gens Writer: Jesus Olmo, Eron Sheean Cast: Aura Garrido, David Oakes, Ray Stevenson

“In the early years of the 20th century, a young man (David Oakes) takes over the responsibility of surveying the weather of a secluded island in the Antarctic. Hoping for isolation and time for self-reflection, he instead finds a crazed and weathered person named Gruner, played by genre favourite Ray Stevenson (DEXTER, THOR, DIVERGENT). Gruner quickly reveals that there is more to this island than meets the eye and that below the icy depths, a terrible scourge lurks. The extent of Gruner’s madness slowly becomes more and more pronounced as his bloodlust for the creatures becomes apparent. Struggling for survival, the surveyor must choose between a madman and a legion of creatures he does not fully understand.”

Heavy Trip

Director: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren Writer: Juuso Laatio, Jari Olavi Rantala, Aleksi Puranen, Jukka Vidgren Cast: Johannes Holopainen, Minka Kuustonen, Ville Tiihonen

“Life has its downsides in a small, northern Finnish town. The local bros give long-haired, leather-clad Turo a tough time, and his job at the mental hospital is literally shitty. His crush on Miia at the flower shop is thwarted by the tacky lounge singer Jouni, and his band jams in the back of a reindeer slaughterhouse. In the plus column for Turo, well… there’s the band, even if these black-metal true-believers have never gigged in all their 12 years together (Turo’s concealed but crippling stage fright hasn’t helped). A miraculous crack at a major metal festival in Norway jumpstarts the quartet’s dreams, and Impaled Rektum set out on a metallic mission that will make them confront not only doubts, detours and difficulties, but also Vikings in longships (plus an elf), graverobbing, Swedish rocket launchers and wolverine-wrestling (dangerous… and awkward!).“

Dans La Brume

Director: Daniel Roby Writer: Guillaume Lemans, Jimmy Bemon, Mathieu Delozier Cast: Romain Duris, Olga Kurylenko, Fantine Harduin, Michel Robin, Anne Gaylor

“Mathieu (Romain Duris, DE BATTRE MON COEUR S’EST ARRÊTÉ) and Anna (Olga Kurylenko, QUANTUM OF SOLACE) are the parents of a girl (Fantine Harduin, HAPPY END) who suffers from a genetic disorder forcing her to live in a hermetic box that filters the air. This already vulnerable existence becomes even more precarious on the day Paris is hit by an earthquake, and then filled with a mysterious toxic gas that seems to come from below ground. Only those hiding on the higher floors and rooftops of buildings survive, but they are left stranded, without any resources. Wanting to check that their daughter remains safe in her “bubble”, Mathieu and Anna will have to face the fog.”

The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then Bigfoot

Director: Robert Krzykowski Writer: Robert Krzykowski Cast: Sam Elliott, Caitlin FitzGerald, Ron Livingston, Aidan Turner

‘The year is 1987. Calvin Barr (a too-great-for-words Sam Elliott) is not a violent man. But he is more than capable of violence if sufficiently provoked. What many don’t realize about the thoughtful, elderly bloke regularly seen at the neighbourhood tavern is that he’s a legendary WW2 veteran who many years ago assassinated Adolf Hitler, an incredible secret that he’s frustratingly unable to share. One day, just as he’s coming to terms with rounding out his life, Calvin gets a visit from the FBI and the RCMP. They know what he’s done, and what he can be capable of. They have a mission for him. After discovering that it harbours a disease capable of eradicating humanity… they need him to take out Bigfoot.”

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Principessa (Miraculous Fanfiction)

5 Lacrime

Circondato dalle farfalle nel suo covo, Papillon perde il contatto con Marinette, ma percepisce che l'Akuma non è stata catturata "Quel maledetto Chat Noir è riuscito a liberare l'Akuma.. ma perché Ladybug non è intervenuta? Non l'ha catturata!" l'uomo batte il bastone da passeggio sul pavimento "E se avessi... no, mi avrebbe consegnato subito il Miraculous! Allora perché non si è vista?"

Chat Noir vede l'orecchino diventare opaco mentre una farfalla viola ne fuoriesce, allontanandosi verso il cielo, ma lui non ci fa caso. I ricordi delle persone che aveva sentito sbiadire pochi istanti prima ricompaiono, più vividi che mai. Suo padre, la scomparsa della mamma, l'incontro con Nino, lui che presta l'ombrello a Marinette mentre le spiega il malinteso della mattina precedente. La vista di Chat Noir è offuscata dalle lacrime che non riesce a trattenere.

Il corpo di Principessa Solitudine viene avvolto da una nube di fumo viola turbinante, quando si dirada Chat Noir è inginocchiato a terra, il busto di Marinette sulle ginocchia, la testa della ragazza appoggiata sull'avambraccio. L'altra mano le scosta delicatamente la frangia spettinata dal viso. "Marinette?" sussurra l'eroe in nero. Marinette è immobile, braccia e gambe abbandonate, priva di sensi.

"Oh no. Principessa!" continua Chat Noir, scuotendo la testa per asciugarsi gli occhi "Svegliati. Per favore" sussurra, accarezzandole la testa "Ti ho fatto questo.. ho fatto del male a tanti amici.. E' solo colpa mia! Mi potrai perdonare? Guardami. Ti prego. Non volevo.... io... io non avevo capito" Marinette non sembra sentirlo, gli occhi gonfi, le palpebre chiuse e arrossate, ancora immobile.

"Oh, e questo? Hmmm ha qualcosa di.. di.. familiare... ma anche di nuovo, ed è qualcosa di così potente. Ma non è come prima... hmmmm" dice Papillon fra sé, avvertendo il senso di colpa e la paura di Adrien "Avanti, mia piccola Akuma, sei ancora libera!" ordina, allargando le braccia e sollevando il bastone da passeggio viola.

Il viso di Chat Noir è ormai vicino a quello di Marinette, lui la stringe a sè, un groppo alla gola, il cuore che batte all'impazzata, come stretto in una morsa "Marinette, svegliati, fallo per..." Chat Noir deglutisce a vuoto, una lacrima scende lungo la maschera e cade sul viso della ragazza, poi un'altra "Ti prego" le dice, gli occhi fissi sul viso immobile "hmmm" mugugna lei, con una smorfia e muove una mano

"Principessa.. io... io... io ti..." sussurra Chat Noir

Marinette spalanca gli occhi e ne vede altri due che fissano i suoi. Verdi. Felini. Lucidi di pianto. Sente il viso bagnato, ma le lacrime non sono sue. "Aaaaaah!" grida, la ragazza spaventata, puntella le braccia sul petto di Chat Noir, scostandolo e scalcia per allontanarsi, perdendo una scarpa, il cuore a mille, confusa e leggermente stordita.

Nessuno dei due nota l'Akuma allontanarsi, priva di un bersaglio.

Chat Noir sobbalza "Marinette! Finalmente!" sbotta, e puntellandosi sulle ginocchia getta le braccia al collo della ragazza, stringendola in un abbraccio, il peso che gli gravava sul petto diventare meno opprimente.

La stringe, forse troppo, ignorando le sue proteste. "C-Chat noir! C-Co-Cosa cavolo stavi facendo? Lasciami, Chat Noir! E d-dove s-ono?" fa Marinette, irrigidendosi. Sente le guance diventarle rosso fuoco.

Chat Noir la lascia andare subito, accucciandosi accanto a lei, pronto a difendersi "Scu... scusami!" arrossisce anche lui e si porta una mano dietro la nuca, toccandosi il collo "ehm... ecco... sei stata akumizzata! Ehm... stai bene?" Marinette annuisce "Ah si l'Akuma...” “Ma l'ho liberata da dove stava... e..." con il dorso dell'altra mano si asciuga una lacrima, sperando che lei non lo noti. Marinette l'ascolta a malapena, mentre scatta in piedi "Akumizzata? Io? Ma... Dov'è Ladybug? L'ha catturata?" si tocca il lobo di un orecchio, un sospiro di sollievo sentendo l'orecchino "e.. e... e... oh" la ragazza porta l'altra mano alla bocca, ripensando agli ultimi ricordi che ha di quel pomeriggio. La sua stanza, la disperazione, l'Akuma.

"Non so dove sia Ladybug, ma tu sei sicura di star bene?" prova a spiegarle Chat Noir, intanto Marinette si guarda attorno, poi lo guarda fisso "G-g-grazie, Chat Noir! Sto... si, sto bene. Ora devo... " distoglie gli occhi da lui, rimettendosi la scarpa che aveva colpito l'eroe in nero "Devo and..." Un tonfo sulle scale della scuola fa voltare entrambi.

I due ragazzi spalancano gli occhi, sorpresi e sollevati "Ladybug?" quasi urlano, in coro, l'uno per la felicità, l'altra per la sorpresa.

"In carne ed ossa. Scusate il ritardo. Ho sistemato tutto!" l'eroina in rosso fa una riverenza, poi guarda Marinette "Stai bene? Micetto... " Chat Noir non riesce a impedirsi di sorridere, mentre Marinette cerca di riprendere fiato, incredula.

"Che accidenti è successo?" la blocca Chat Noir, una smorfia sconcertata sul viso, ma un paio di bip l'interrompono: I'impronta sull'anello inizia a lampeggiare, lui guarda il miraculous, poi guarda Ladybug e Marinette "ehm. Mylady, non sai quanto sono contento di vederti, ma mi sto per ritrasformare. Ti aspetto tra un'ora alla Basilica del Sacrée Coeur." Chat fa una pausa, poi la fissa negli occhi azzurri "Dobbiamo parlare. A tra poco." sposta gli occhi verdi su Marinette "Ciao Marinette, e scusami per poco fa, non... non... volevo spaventarti". Chat Noir le saluta con un cenno e si allontanta, quasi saltellando, finalmente sollevato.

"C-Certo.." riesce a dire Marinette, gli occhi sempre più spalancati fissi su Ladybug, che le fa l'occhiolino. "Vieni, ti accompagno a casa" le dice Ladybug, offrendole il braccio e facendo roteare lo yo yo, lanciandolo verso il terrazzo della pasticceria. Marinette mette un braccio sulle spalle di Ladybug, lei le circonda la vita col suo, un salto e le due ragazze arrivano sul tetto.

Ladybug, alzando i pollici, fa cenno agli agenti di polizia che la situazione è sotto controllo, poi si gira ed apre la botola per la camera di una impietrita Marinette, che si lascia accompagnare all'interno. Marinette è ancora immobile, in piedi accanto al letto che la guarda stupefatta, poi con la coda dell'occhio vede Tikki fare capolino da dietro la toletta. La Kwami le fa un cenno di assenso con la testa. "Ora devo andare" le dice Ladybug "Stammi bene e stai attenta alle akuma! Ciao!" Saluta Marinette con un cenno e prima che lei possa dire qualcosa, Ladybug è già sparita.

Finalmente Marinette si riscuote, stringe i pugni per non farsi prendere di nuovo dal panico e dice, a voce un tantino troppo alta "Tikki! Dopo mi spiegherai perché" una pausa "Vero?" conclude, secca, schioccando un'occhiataccia alla Kwami. "Ora... dobbiamo prendere un'Akuma! Tikki! Trasformami!"

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You voyage off to follow the trembling melody To the miraculous land where the light of the setting sun is buried And innumerable poets can only melt their waxen wings.

Wu Xinghua (吳興華), from “In Dedication I”, The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period, tr. Herbert Batt and Michael Hockx

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Mint Quotes

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• A man in all the world’s new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. – William Shakespeare • A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. – Joseph Addison • A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. – Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. – Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties. – Joseph Addison • Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription. – Henry Ward Beecher • After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I’m no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You. – Nicholas Sparks • Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint. – Billy Connolly • Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year. – Alice Hoffman • An emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin’ Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack.” Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet. – Darynda Jones • And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops. – Greg Proops • And you, my best friend on earth, my soul sister who shares Chunky Monkey scoops and beefcake e-mails at the drop of a hat, the woman who made me wear a frothy, ruffled lime-colored bridesmaid dress that added fifteen pounds to my hips, are going to spill your guts to me, aren’t you? (Sunshine) No fair and the dress wasn’t lime, it was mint. (Selena) It was lime-icky green and I looked like a sick pistachio. (Sunshine) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland’s writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition! – Julia Spencer-Fleming • As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat. – Pliny the Elder

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Chocolate, cookies, and I love mint-chip ice cream. – Mary McCormack • I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. – Andrew Motion • I have a friend who actually told me that she’d rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she’ll order a salad. If I order a salad, she’ll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she’ll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she’s down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks. – Joy Behar • I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don’t wear deodorant. I don’t have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I’ve had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren’t wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice. – Zach Galifianakis • I loved Morocco. It’s very exotic and different from anywhere I’ve ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional. – Isla Fisher • I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, ‘Kid, you’re going to make a mint in television movies.’ He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects. – Mare Winningham • I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans. – Billy Joel • I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I’m hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I’m scoring a goal in hockey.- Jack Gantos • I wouldn’t treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it’s all about the breath mints! – Alice Englert • If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, ‘I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.’ – Aiden Wilson Tozer • If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • If you’d asked me at 30 where I’d be during the Masters when I was 46, I’d have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television. – Jack Nicklaus • I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.- Patti Smith • In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that’s inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes – Morgan Spurlock • In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed. – Hunter S. Thompson • It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. – Waverley Root • It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy. – John Green • It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again. – Maggie Stiefvater • It’s clear, it’s fresh, like a mint candy. – Margaret Atwood • Ive never drunk coffee. Im convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea. – Saffron Aldridge • Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints. – Diablo Cody • Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints. – Kim Harrison • Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown. – Louise Imogen Guiney • Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed. – Iggy Azalea • Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, ‘Tis not with me exactly so; But ’tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more. – John Quincy Adams • My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass. – Serena Williams • My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin. – Holly Black • My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket. – W. P. Kinsella • My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho’ she isn’t always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. – Charles Farrar Browne • Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. – Thomas B. Macaulay • Now if I cry on screen I think it’s mint. Because I think that’s how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn’t, then it just doesn’t happen. – Michael B. Jordan • Number of empty Ben & Jerry’s containers: 3 – two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s, anyway? Is there a greater waste?) – Ally Carter • Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles. – Tennessee Williams • Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. ‘Kiss me,’ he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter’s shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie’s lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. ‘I’m glad I wasn’t stuck in here alone,’ she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath. – Jodi Picoult • Rogerson,” I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, “where would I find the pelagic zone?” “In the open sea,” he said. “Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints. – Sarah Dessen • Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite. – Ray Bradbury • Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. – Jim Bishop • She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency. – Anthony Marra • Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone’s bees. You can’t untie a boat that was never moored, nor hear a shadow in its furs, nor move through thick life without fear. For us, all that’s left is kisses tattered as the little bees that die when they leave the hive. Deep in the transparent night they’re still humming, at home in the dark wood on the mountain, in the mint and lungwort and the past. But lay to your heart my rough gift, this unlovely dry necklace of dead bees that once made a sun out of honey. – Osip Mandelstam • That the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds. – Charles Dickens • The coolest gift I’ve ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It’s a collector’s item and came with a case and a stand and everything. – Josh Turner • The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi. – Arthur Koestler • The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought. – Nathaniel Hawthorne • The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves you feeling so free you’ll want to do cartwheels on the beach. But don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this message. Look no further for an easeful path to enlightenment infused with rapture and hope, which comes as much needed medicine for the soul. – Lissa Rankin • The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods – ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep – have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq! – Annia Ciezadlo • The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. – Evan Esar • The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I’ve gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there. – Nikki Jean • The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It’s like a septic tank saying, ‘You need a mint.’ – Bill Maher • The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in that regard, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better example than IN MINT CONDITION: 2013. In reading it, I have discovered writers and artists previously unknown to me who are now very high on my radar, and they should be just as high on yours. – Kealan Patrick Burke • The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) – he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance – in the real world and online. – Aaron Patzer • The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow. – Langston Hughes • The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones’ arrangement of “One Mint Julep.” I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that’s what I want to do with my life. That’s the sound I want to try to make. – Booker T. Jones • The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men. – John Gerard • The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn. – Mary MacLane • The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. – Alexander Smith • The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world. – Jack Kerouac • Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. – Alexander Pope • They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things– I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life’s ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There’s so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something. – Lisa Ann Sandell • Tic Tacs are the maracas of breath mints. – Demetri Martin • Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they’re the strongest – Natalie Portman • Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?’ it must be here. they can’t have eaten that… i dunno, Nik, what do they do?’ POO. – Angie Sage • What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn’t kill Mr. Nesbitt. – Walter Dean Myers • When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it…then a glass will be filled and poured back into the mixture, blending it further. The comes waiting. Motionless waiting. Finally, from high up, like some green cataract whose sight and sound mesmerize, the tea will once again cascade into a glass. Now it can be drunk, dreamily, forehead bowed, fingers held wide away from the scalding glass. – Simonne Jacquemard • When Hale’s hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn’t exactly sure what he’d find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except… “Is that an earbud?” she whispered. He smiled. “Are you on comms?” “Shhh,” he told her softly. – Ally Carter • Whether the darken’d room to muse invite, Or whiten’d wall provoke the skew’r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print. – Alexander Pope • Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints. – Rick Riordan • Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience. – Ray Bradbury • Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth’s sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print – John Clare • Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:”I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don’t always get what we wish for. – Tucker Max • Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines. – John Keats

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A Look at the November 2018 LSAT

Last Saturday, all the law school-bound folks who took the November LSAT were treated to the best weekend plans one could hope for: staring at a screen all day, nervously awaiting the score release email from LSAC.

When that email finally comes, pretty much everyone acts the same way. Like the children who make a beeline to the present under the Christmas that they just instinctively know contains the dopest toys, ignoring all the presents that probably contain, like, socks and sweaters — these test takers go straight to the score, and discard all the other stuff provided in the score release emails for disclosed exams.

But for LSAT instructors, we savor the other stuff — the actual exam, the answer sheets, the score conversion table — I’m getting inappropriately flush just thinking about it. In fact, past end-of-year exams were typically held in early December, so the score release date ended up being around Christmas time, which would lead to the inevitable joke that the release of a new LSAT really is the best part of Christmas morning for the brother- and sisterhood of social pariahs who teach this exam.

But, since they moving the end-of-year LSAT up to November, the score release didn’t fall on Christmas this year. Instead, they fell on the sixth day of Hanukkah. Which is apt, because feeling like you don’t have enough fuel to power you through, but somehow, miraculously, making it to the end is a feeling every LSAT taker can relate to.

At any rate, now that we have the November LSAT, and — as we do for every disclosed exam –we’re going to go through it with the attentiveness of a Talmudic scholar. We’ll be giving our impressions of each section of the exam and the “curve”, to try see how this exam compares to other recent exams and if there are any on-going trends that this test exemplifies.

All right, enough pre-amble. Let’s start with some Logical Reasoning …

Logical Reasoning

• Let’s start with the question distribution. Based on Blueprint’s classification system, there are three general families of questions, and several types of questions within each family. The LSAT always has its favorite questions that it tests extensively, but the prevalence of other question types wax and wane depending on the vicissitudes of the test writers. So looking at recent the question distribution of recent LSATs can give you a good sense of how many questions of each type will appear on future exams. For the November 2018 exam, here’s the question-by-question breakdown, compared to the average frequency of that question type, based on all the published LSATs since 2013.

As you can see, most question types are at least somewhere close to their average frequency. The aberrations on this exam were Soft Must Be True and Main Point questions. You usually get somewhere between four and six Soft Must Be True questions, but this exam had a paltry three. But that’s not entirely out of the blue — the test writers have been de-emphasizing Implication Family questions on recent exams, so it’s not entirely surprising that the most prominent Implication question took a hit here. Personally, I would view that as good news. I think these Soft Must Be True questions are the most difficult question type in Logical Reasoning. And, not coincidentally, I thought one of the hardest questions on this exam’s Logical Reasoning section was a Soft Must Be True question (it was about nerve cell regeneration).

There was an abnormally high number of Main Point questions. Also good news, imho, as I think these are typically among the easier question types on the LSAT.

Oh, and just for “fun,” would you like to see some slightly chaotic charts on how frequently these question types have appeared on the last ten published LSATs? No? Oh … well, I made them anyway, so, here they are …

Another thing to note: in 2016 and ’17, for whatever reason, the test writers went crazy for Disagree and Agree questions. They used to only include one or two of these on each exam, but in 2016-17, they started including three, four, or five. We thought at the time that the Disagree question would be prominently featured on future exams, too. I thought this was a fitting tip of the cap to our polarized national discourse, in which we can’t seem to agree on anything, and a canny way to test future law students’ ability to characterize a point at issue between two parties — a skill that’s essential to reading a legal case in law school. But, alas, a year later, this doesn’t really appear to be the case. Farewell, Disagree prominence, we hardly knew ye.

• With respect to the content of these questions, we saw a pretty standard slate of concepts. I counted eight questions that involved conditional statements (almost of which were clustered in one of the two Logical Reasoning sections, for whatever reason, and almost none of which were especially convoluted or difficult), four that involved causation, and a veritable holiday smorgasbord of common fallacies. Causation fallacies, comparison fallacies, whole to part fallacies, percent versus amount fallacies, equivocations, exclusivity fallacies, absence of evidence fallacies, and logical force fallacies all reared their ugly heads throughout the two LR sections.

A curious trend on recent LSATs is that certain tests have really repeated one of the common fallacies, over and over again. In September, we saw a proliferation of the perception versus reality fallacy. In June, we saw a bunch of bad comparisons. Last December, there was a lot causation fallacies. On this November exam, there were a lot of equivocations. Which is just a fancy way of saying that someone assumes that two related concepts are completely interchangeable, when maybe they aren’t.

For instance, in one early Weaken question, a bat apologist named Pratt assumed what was true of bats was also true of rabid bats. Pratt the Batt Guy said that while rabid animals pose a danger to humans, bats rarely bite people and most bats don’t have rabies. He concludes that health regulations that urge people to remove bats residing in buildings where people live or work are unjustified. Which, like, first — and this should really go without saying –you shouldn’t voluntarily live or work with bats. Unless you’re a billionaire detective haunted by your parents’ murder and sharing city space with a grotesquerie of deranged villains, that’s weird. These health warnings are self-justifying. Second, this dude assumes just because bats in general don’t bite that rabid bats won’t bite either. Sure, bats and rabid bats are related — they are the same animal — but there are important differences between the two (like, say, only one has a foamy mouth, a swelling brain, and — importantly — violent, erratic movements symptomatic of rabid mammals). We would say Pratt is equivocating between bats and rabid bats, by assuming that they act the same. The right answer merely pointed out a salient difference: that rabid bats are more aggressive than uninfected bats.*

*The common fallacies have a fair amount overlap, so you can usually say that one argument commits multiple common fallacies. We could also have said this argument was relying on a faulty analogy between bats and rabid bats.

And one very specific type of equivocation showed up a bunch: confusing a comparative and an absolute claim. I might say that it has become safer to eat Romaine lettuce in recent months (that’s a comparative claim). But to assume that now Romaine lettuce is safe to eat (an absolute claim) would be a, quite literally, deadly equivocation. The writers of this exam seemingly love to test this concept, given how often it shows up. So they must have had a dang ball coming up with the questions on this one.

There was a question in which an aesthete claimed that abstract expressionist paintings were “aesthetically pleasing” based on the fact that most people found those “more aesthetic pleasing” than a dumb child’s painting. There was another question in which a pesticide-loving farmer claimed we can’t increase the number of farmers who practice organic farming because if all farmers practiced organic farming we wouldn’t produce enough food to feed the population. That farmer must have inhaled a bit too many chemicals over the years. Another argument assumed that because all vacations reduce the burn out experienced on the job, that multiple short vacations reduce worker’s burn out more than one long vacation.

• All right, this is the space where I get to chat about my favorite question** and my least favorite.

**Hey … don’t look at me like that. I may be a nerd who actually has favorite questions, but I’m still a human being who has dignity and deserves respe … wait wait wait — where are you going? Come back …

First, the favorite. I got to hand it to the test writers on a difficult Explain question that came at the end of the second LR section, even if my notes on that question include the phrase, “This was f[letter redacted]cking stupid.” They really came up with a creative way to explain the situation at hand. The situation is thus: a new antitheft device is on the market for cars. It relies on electronic homing beacons which allow authorities to track stolen cars, and it’s so effective that it’ll help police catch even the most experienced car thief. Except like no one has the device yet and the device’s presence is undetectable to a car thief so, unlike The Mighty Club of Yore, it doesn’t “directly deter theft.” Nonetheless, auto thefts drop dramatically, even in cities where very few people have the device.

How can we explain this difference? Well, I, along with what I imagine was a sizable percentage of test takers, assumed that even if wasn’t “directly” deterring theft — as in, car thief sees device, decides not to steal car — the possibility that any car stolen could have that device has an indirectly deterrent effect. So, you know, the thieves are compelled to give up the now-too-dangerous life of car thieving and, I don’t know, learn how to code? But of course, no answer choice said that. Not even close.

I was able to eliminate every wrong answer except the last, which said, “In most cities, the majority of car thefts are committed by a few very experienced car thieves.” I stared at it for minutes, trying to wrap my head around it. It seemed so stupid to think about there being this small network of hyper-competent car thieves. This is bad Nicolas Cage movie territory. But if there are only a few thieves doing all of the thieving, all this device has to do is take out one or two of them to have a dramatic effect on the number of stolen cars. If the device allows the authorities to catch just one Randall “Memphis” Raines, a prolific car thief is taken off the streets, and cars are much less likely to be stolen in the future. Instead of needing many devices equipped to many cars to catch many thieves, we just need a few devices in a few cars to catch a few thieves. At the very least, I have to appreciate the test writers getting creative and giving a cinematic approach to this Explain question.

Now, sadly, the least favorite: a difficult Flaw question, late in the first LR section on the released exam. This question is a little tricky as far as these things go, but not anything crazy overwhelming. There was study in which 500 families were given a medical self-help book and 500 comparable families were not. You know, how to treat a common abrasion, how to suture a knife wound, how to perform a makeshift, DIY appendectomy. Stuff we want untrained professionals handling. We’re told that doctor visits among families who were given the book dropped by 20%, but there was no change in the frequency of doctor visits for families not given the book. Great, we have correlation. Now, if the conclusion said “The experiment indicates that having a medical self-help book in the home decreases the frequency of doctors visits,” we have a classic correlation-does-not-imply-causation situation.

Except the right conclusion didn’t quite do that. It said, “[T]he experiment indicates that having a medical self-help book in the home improves family health.” There was also another premise that said, “[I]mproved family health leads to fewer visits to doctors.”

If I were to ask you, right now, if we have any evidence that the families who had the medical self-help book were in better health than they were before, I think you’d say, “No.” And you’d be right. We only have evidence that they’re going to the doctors less. They could actually be in worse health, if they’re doing a bad job relying on the medical self-help book. These families could be walking around with infected wounds and misdiagnosed maladies, for all we know. This argument is a causation fallacy, but it’s also equivocating (there that word is, again) between fewer doctors visits and improved health.

It’s not the hardest argument to understand. But it really sticks in my craw when the LSAT decides to make a question harder just by making the answer choices pointlessly abstract. Like, I know legal jargon is abstruse and hard-to-follow and this test is a way for law schools to get a sense of how well prospective students can handle that language, but I don’t remember anything as circuitous as, “two different states of affairs could each causally contribute to the same effect even though neither causally contributes to the other.” Like …

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When you’re confronted with a crazy abstract answer choice like this one, try to plug in the actual concepts from the stimulus to help you make sense of the answer choice. The two “states of affairs,” I guess, are having a self-help book and having improved health. According to the argument, both of those lead to fewer doctor visits. So, if we replace the abstractions with a concrete nouns, it would be, “Having a self-help book and improved health could both contribute to fewer doctor visits, even though having a self-help book might not cause improved health.” Reading it that way, I think, makes it plain that this is the correct answer. Sure, having a self-help book would lead to fewer doctor visits. And sure, being in better health would lead to fewer doctor visits. But that doesn’t mean that the self-help book is leading to the better health, which in turn leads to fewer doctor visits.

Even on other annoyingly abstract questions like this one, you can get through it. Just fill in the abstract terms with the nouns from the stimulus. And, by the way, you should be doing this a lot on the LSAT. On this test, there’ll be more Mad Libs than the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Reading Comprehension

• Next up, everyone’s no one’s favorite section, Reading Comp. Reading Comp being the most difficult section on an exam has been rule and not the exception lately. This section, though … I thought it was pretty mild. Until I got to that last passage. Things were going great, until someone brought up the damn cosmos again and we got another passage on the Big Bang and the multiverse and entropy and all that stuff that was also on a difficult passage from December 2017.

• So let’s go over that final passage. You’d think that after a recent passage about this very topic on the December 2017 exam, this wouldn’t be too difficult. But there were a few annoying things this passage did, which I will dutifully catalogue for you. Before that, though, what was this passage about? The passage starts by conveying the consensus view among scientists that the universe started off like Jon Snow … tiny, hot, and dense. And then the Big Bang happened and the universe has expanded and cooled. But some physicists, namely Sean Carroll and Jennifer Chen, believe there were multiple Big Bangs*** that created multiple universes. According the second law of thermodynamics, entropy and chaos should increase overtime (this author includes a not-at-all helpful analogy to help illustrate that idea). So it doesn’t make sense that the universe started very hot and dense, since means there’s not a lot of chaos or entropy (apparently the term “hot mess” is an oxymoron), and a low entropy-starting point is very improbable. Carroll and Chen argue instead that the universe probably started out a cold and empty place.**** But, in that case, how did the universe expand? Usually you’d expect hot, dense things to expand, not cold and empty things. Well, some other physicists found that even empty spaces can have the occasional energy fluctuations, and those energy fluctuations are probably what led to our universes and the other universes too.

***Sure, there was the original show, and then Young Sheldon …

****”The universe is a cold and empty place” is ~definitely~ something I wrote in a LiveJournal, circa 2003.

OK, annoying thing no. 1: this passage kind of assumes you have like a basic, working understanding of thermodynamics. Annoying thing no. 2: the author is definitely present in this passage, and seems to accept Carroll and Chen’s theory, but there isn’t a conclusion offered anywhere, making it hard to determine what the main point of the passage is. Annoying thing no. 3: there were a lot of questions about the organization of the passage, when I thought the organization was kind of jumbled and all over the place … entropic, if you will.

And I definitely wasn’t the only one who thought this … the last question on this passage was “removed from scoring,” a measure that the LSAT takes only when the responses from test takers deviate so greatly from the predicted responses that it’s clear something was misleading or unreliable about that question or passage.

• The rest of the passages, though? Not so bad. The first passage was a mash note to the Indus Valley, the oft-overlooked Bronze Age civilization. The passage is about all the cool things we’ve recently learned about Indus Valley, and how that changed some of our assumptions about its demise. The questions were mostly about the details, but as long as you had good tags, you would have been Indus to win this.

• The second was about how this film scholar was stretching when he claims that musicals from the 1930s, like Busby Berkeley’s, were “realistic.” OK, since they brought it up, let’s take a timeout for one of the greatest love songs ever written …

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Anyway, this was a classic antithesis passage in which the author really had her knives out for the film scholar. The way she bloodied up this film scholar’s argument, the end result resembled less a musical and more a horror film.

• The third passage was the dreaded comparative passage, but it was in my view, one of the easiest comparative passages in years. Passage A was about how human beings probably lack free will, or that any free will we may have is incredibly circumscribed by a million factors. And, as such, we should remove the idea of “blameworthiness” from criminal law. It all reads like a very unconvincing non-apology for some horrific accident. “Neurological research tells us that, if free will does exist, it has little room in which to operate. As such, blameworthiness is a backward-looking concept that demands the impossible task of untangling the hopelessly complex web of genetics and environment in order to isolate a factor of free will that may or may not exist. In conclusion, I’m sorry I ran over your dog, but I must respectfully disagree with your claim that that I had much choice in the matter.” Passage B picks up pretty much right where passage A left off. Passage B reaches a different conclusion though — human beings have a demonstrable tendency to assign blame, so trying to remove blame from criminal law is impossible. As long as you got that, the questions would have been smooth sailing. Either way, no one is going to blame the LSAT offering a manageable comparative passage.

Logic Games

• OK, let’s go straight to mining game that duped a significant number of test takers. It was the third game. The game told us a mining company would be sending out its engineering team to month-long work trips to one of two mines — the Grayson mine and the Krona mine — or keeping the team on a month-long stay at the company’s headquarters. So it was our job to figure out which months, from March to November, the engineering team would be at Grayson mine, Krona mine, or the company’s HQ. The game told us that the team would spend a total of three months at Grayson mine and three months at Krona mine.

I believe that last detail led some test takers to conclude that this game was a grouping game or a combo game, since I heard from a few people this game was one of those. Making that conclusion would have led to big trouble. I’m starting to feel like this exhortation is going to end up on my tombstone, but let me exclaim it once more: SCHEDULING IS ORDERING! End of story! You got nine months? You got nine slots in your ordering set-up. Line ’em up and don’t over-think it. And, in this game, your players would include three Gs (one for each month spent at Grayson), three Ks (for the three months at Krona), and three Hs (for the three months at HQ).

Now, nine slots is a lot to deal with, and I was actually a little bit stumped on how to best label the slots. I went with 3-11, referring to the number of the month. I have no idea if this was the best approach (I, for one, always forget if June is the sixth or seventh month in the calendar year, and “November” is literally Latin for “ninth month,” despite being the eleventh month). But I’m sort of lazy and didn’t want to write “APR” and “AUG” to distinguish April and August, or “JUN” and “JUL” to distinguish those two months, or “MAR” and “MAY.”

This game wasn’t super difficult, it was just … annoying? And I say that as a person who loves logic games. I will never make sense of the world around me. I will never understand the opposite sex (for male LSAT instructors, women are “hard to get” in more than one way). But logic games? I get those. They make sense to me. They’re my constant. But this one just did a bunch of stuff that really tested my love.

Beyond the annoying set-up, that either required you to write out the names of the months or count from 3 to 11,***** there was the first rule. That rule said, “The team must work for at least one month at headquarters between any two months working at different mines.” A chill version of this game would have said, “The team cannot work in Grayson and Krona mines on consecutive months.” Or, “The team cannot work in Grayson mine in the month immediately before or immediately after any month it works in Krona mine.” Or, even, “Before moving from one mine to the other, the team must work for at least one month at the company headquarters.” In other words, it could have conveyed information to you like a normal person and not something that was Google Translated from ancient Sumerian into French and then into English. And this was an incredibly important rule in this game, too.

*****Shouts to all those who “Come Original” with a different set-up, though.

If you got that rule down though, the game wasn’t too bad. Basically, since Gs and Ks can’t go next to each other, you had to have an “H” buffer between the Gs and Ks. But since you only had three “Hs” to act as buffers, the Gs and Ks had to cluster together in your set-up a little bit. This led to a few important deductions, and two very helpful scenarios.

If, by the way, this game haunts you, and you’d like another try with a similar game, game 3 on the June 2010 exam is very similar to this one.

• Remember my sweaty exhortation that “SCHEDULING IS ORDERING!” from a few paragraphs ago? There are always exceptions to rules like that on the LSAT, and the first game, a combo game, was one such exception. That game had six speakers lecturing at one of six available timeslots — at 1:00, 2:00, or 3:00 (pm, presumably), on either Thursday or Friday. Now, Thursday comes before Friday, so there’s some natural ordering there. But the game didn’t have a single rule about a player having to go on a day before or after another player. Most of the rules, instead, were about grouping players on different days. So, Thursday and Friday were the two groups, with three slots, numbered 1-3, in each.

This game, for the record, was an echo of game 4 on the June 2010 exam. So bully to you if you did that exam before taking the November test.

• Game 2 was a fairly straightforward 1:1 ordering game and game 4 was a manageable, if somewhat difficult, underbooked ordering game. But what linked all of these games? Scenarios. I would have had a lot of trouble doing any of these games without making scenarios. With them, I finished them in around 25 minutes.

Games that benefit from the use of scenarios are all over recent LSATs. On the September 2018 exam, I thought you should make scenarios for all the games. On June 2018, all but one. On December 2017, all. The trend of scenario-based games is, quite frankly, an unmistakable trend on recent LSATs. If you’re not practicing when and how to make scenarios, you’re preparing for a different LSAT than the one you’re going to get.

The Curve

• So, what was the curve, you ask? Most blogs just say “-11” or “-9,” referring to the number of questions you can miss and still earn a 170. This blog will give you more. We’ll give you the number of questions you can miss and get and still earn a 170, a 165, a 160, a 155, and a 150. And we’ll compare that to the same figures for the past five LSATs …

… After the test, we predicted a -10 or -11 curve. And, not to toot our own horns, but we were somehow right on both counts. It is technically a -10 curve, since that was literally the number of scored questions you could miss and still earn a 170. But it’s also kind of a -11 curve, since there was that one question from Reading Comp that was removed from scoring, essentially granting everyone one free miss. So it is literally a -10 or -11 curve, depending on how you look at it. Call us Aaron Judge, the way we’re just nailing these curves.

Anyway, this curve — looking at all the possible scores, was more or less identical to the September 2018 curve. Not the most generous of curves — you’d have to travel back in time to the quite-difficult December 2017 test to find one of those — but not the most miserly either. Given that nothing on this test was glaringly difficult or alarm-raising, I’d say that’s pretty fair.

A Look at the November 2018 LSAT was originally published on LSAT Blog

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