For the first time, A3Day ranked within the top 100 Music Commentary podcasts on Apple Podcasts, coming in at number 22 for the week! Ευχαριστώ, Ελλάδα!

Also, the unruly Hallyu sibling finally makes its return for Season 2 with new guests hosts and opinionated commentary. Visit www.a3daysistershow.com or find old episodes on your favorite podcast platform now!

idk man something about raine and eda’s weird love at first sight where this is a person who just immediately makes you feel safe and seen and who loves you unflinchingly for twenty years even when things sour, to the point where after twenty years you step seamlessly back into loving each other, and the years apart weren’t wasted because they allowed you to grow into the person you needed to be to express and accept love from the love of your life. and your love is so very much supplemented by your community & inextricably linked to the person you have become with a little help from the people you met outside of this life changing love! love where this is your person but this is not your only person!!!! LIKE,

❛ i thought you’d like some company. ❜

𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬: no longer accepting.

"I could never deny yours, though," Gale answers, "I suspect the desire's mutual."

Of course. It's been several weeks now since their peculiar run in by the river, all fire and fate and Wyll's great pact. Karlach's endeared herself, however, in little but a wink of that measly time, and in a way, Gale admires, that's plainly humbling. She's loud, most certainly, and savors every pittance of time. He envies her zeal, her love for life yet roaring in her eyes, and sharing in her presence, she lightens him considerably. (He's a doomed mortal, too.) And she warms his bones.

A smile, genuine, springs on Gale stubborn like an itch. With some embarrassment, to his notably gentlemanly horror, he realizes he's nowhere to seat his guest. And that won't do. Rising from his stool, he offers it with a meager wave of his hand. Morena, it should be noted, raised no beast of a man, so before Karlarch can argue, he turns for his books.

"As it were, you've happened to catch me at a rather opportune moment. I've been well entrenched turning theories around you lately," Gale offers, looking over his shoulder. In a heartbeat, he seems to find the exact journal he'd been looking for. He rifles through it, nods, and beams back up. "You burn quite fantastically, for lack of a better word, but a scholar longs to study, to bring a balance between two opposing forces. It's a matter of equilibrium, the very law of harmony, and for as fiercely as you incinerate, I can just as quickly numb."

He raises his hand. About it, a tundra, a gust of winter chill, glows.

Oh. He can touch her, right? "May I?"

the "they're gay and they're gonna kiss" to "they're bisexual and they'd like to kiss but they won't" to "their sexuality is undefined and they're going to enter an emotionally intimate relationship whose categorization as platonic, romantic, or other is deliberately ambiguous and left up to reader interpretation" fanfiction writing pipeline

there's this aspect of interacting with other music fans that's like... and of course it's been said before, but if you want to talk to other people about music, you should listen to things that are generally popular, but if you want to dig into your own personal tastes, you're going to have a hard time finding people that know about the obscure genre pieces you get into. and mostly i think everyone does both but i don't know if it's been clearly delineated recently, that these are two very well known camps. and there's perpetually new people getting into music and rediscovering the same thing for themselves and i've never figured out to explain to the "how can you listen to pop, there's better music than that" camp that they are trying to exclusively make a choice that tends to cut off conversations with other fans. like yeah. there is better music. i know. and nobody knows who sevdaliza is i was literally just saying this. she's like the most extremal figure in the industry to me because 1) 100% of her tracks are incredible, and 2) 100% of people i talk to about her go "this is SO GOOD how have i never heard of her." like well. idk what to tell you she's a former basketball player from iran who started her own label they don't play that on the radio. but have you heard the new doja cat yeah it's so good. how about the new melanie martinez weird baby concept do you think she's taking it too far they had a whole poster for that at the record store. etc. the other thing i wanted to say is from the other end of the table it's a different game. writing a chartable single is probably harder than writing a good album, let alone the business end. anyway, now that the casuals have stopped reading, the point is, i've given the topic a lot of consideration and this is why i'm buying the tumblr headphone badge sorry everyone. you may all call me a sellout now

Stray Kids Made History!!!!!

Stray Kids have just made history as the only k-pop group and only group since One Direction to have debuted heir four chartable albums consecutively on No.1 billboard 200.

They are the fastest group all time to do it, beating One Direction with a record of 1 year and 8 months.

Their albums who have helped them achieve this milestone are:

Oddinary

Maxident

5-Star

樂-STAR.

They have once again proved themselves. They continue to climb higher on the hall of fame.

My boys are truly:

Shaking the industry

Quaking reality

Making it iconic.

Sherlock & Co Charts 1/24/24

I thought this was neat! Look how high Sherlock & Co is trending in the US and other countries right now!

Citation

“Sherlock & Co.. Podcast - Listen, Reviews, Charts.” Chartable, chartable.com/podcasts/sherlock-co. Accessed 24 Jan. 2024.

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So risky has the Red Sea become since Houthi militants started their attacks on shipping that, since late November, over 350 container ships—plus all manner of tankers, bulk carriers, car carriers, and other merchant vessels—have diverted to other routes. That means massive logistical challenges that involve not just new charts and more fuel but getting crews and cargo to alternative staging posts. Because shipping is extraordinarily efficient, most won’t notice a thing. But if the attacks on shipping continue, we’ll start paying for the service. And we would do well to anticipate Houthi-like campaigns in other waters.

Not a day passes without more turbulence in the Red Sea. Since Christmas Eve, the inlet that links countries including Egypt and Saudi Arabia has seen multiple Houthi attacks, including against a Swiss-owned container ship and a Norwegian tanker.

Drama in the Red Sea is, of course, nothing new, going all the way back to the biblical book of Exodus. Yet today’s users of the Red Sea can’t hope for divine intervention. To be sure, the U.S. military has launched Operation Sea Guardian to protect Red Sea shipping, and since Christmas Eve the force has, among other things, shot down 12 attack drones and five missiles launched by the Yemen-based, Iran-backed Houthis. But counterfire from Western navies in response to Houthi attacks doesn’t yield the sort of chartable sailing environment shipping lines need. It may help solve the problem in the long-term, but it does little right now.

What’s more, it’s unclear which ships can expect escort. The French Navy seems to prioritize French-flagged vessels, but—as I have often discussed in Foreign Policy’s pages—most vessels sail under a flag of convenience, are owned in one country and managed in another, have foreign crew members, and carry cargo between altogether other places.

What qualifies as a U.S., or French, or Norwegian vessel in the Red Sea can be deeply uncertain. And shipping—and most importantly, the insurers—is all about reducing risk. That means the largest shipping lines have instead begun diverting their ships to other routes. By Dec. 24, some 280 box ships had already been rerouted, as had lots of tankers, bulk carriers, car carriers, and other merchant vessels. (By Dec. 27, Maersk and CMA CGM had announced they would gradually returning to the Red Sea—but if the situation continues to deteriorate they can divert again.)

That means a sudden procession of ships taking the much longer route via the Cape of Good Hope on South Africa’s southwestern coast. “Shipping companies are extremely busy right now,” Cormac McGarry, a maritime analyst at consultancy Control Risks, told Foreign Policy. “They’ve been working over Christmas, changing routes. The first thing that happens when you divert is the legal aspect—a clause in shipping contracts allows shipping lines to divert if there’s a war risk. And then you have to decide where to divert your ships to.” The Cape of Good Hope route, which the Suez Canal’s construction once made redundant for long-distance cargo, is suddenly en vogue again.

As large parts of the global public now know, traveling via the Cape of Good Hope rather than the Suez Canal adds an additional 10 to 12 days of sailing—and a completely different route for captains and their top lieutenants to chart. But that’s perhaps the easiest part. “Planning a new route doesn’t take much time when working with electronic charts, but rounding the Cape does bring new considerations,” a senior officer who works on the largest types of container ships told Foreign Policy.

Those new, and thorny, considerations include getting crews and cargo to where they need to be—because, in many cases, ships’ current crews are scheduled to finish their rotations and other seafarers are waiting to take over. “If you’re going around South Africa, you may need to stop somewhere during the journey for bunkering and change of crews,” McGarry pointed out. “And if you’re changing a crew out of somewhere in southern Africa rather [than] somewhere around Suez, you need to change where they fly to and from.”

McGarry said ordinarily ships might change crews and cargo near the canal; now, the changes will need to occur in places such as Mombasa, Kenya; Durban, South Africa; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; or Gran Canaria, one of Spain’s Canary Islands. Just before Christmas, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam were reporting a massive spike in ship arrivals; in the case of Dar es Salaam, the sudden rush had resulted in a 16-day wait to refuel. “ [Diversion] can be done, and the shipping lines are doing,” McGarry said. “But it brings additional costs.”

Those costs are there whatever route the ships take: Journeys through the Red Sea bring hefty war risk premiums, and the Cape of Good Hope route brings additional fuel costs, not to mention the costs of rerouting crews and cargo. Several shipping lines have already imposed surcharges for their services. The delays and extra costs may, in fact, merely be the first chapter in the geopolitically connected turbulence facing global shipping and, as a result, the globalized economy.

The Red Sea turbulence is also bringing trouble to nearby countries. With ships spending as little time as possible in the Red Sea, countries such as Sudan and Eritrea—whose only ports are located on the Red Sea—will struggle to get ships to call at their ports. Egypt, the custodian of the Suez Canal, is already suffering. And with less traffic through the canal, shipping to Mediterranean countries such as Greece, Italy, and Turkey will become especially cumbersome.

Iran, in fact, seems to have concluded that the Houthis’ experiment in the Red Sea has been so successful that it bears repeating in the Mediterranean. “They shall soon await the closure of the Mediterranean Sea, [the Strait of] Gibraltar and other waterways,” Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi, the coordinating commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, told Iranian media on Dec. 23, apparently referring to the international community.

Spare a thought for the world’s seafarers and shipping logisticians—there’s no holiday break for 2024’s troubled waters.

Guys I am BLOWN AWAY. After just 2 episodes The Brand Breakdown is ranked #129 on the Apple Podcast charts (per Chartable).

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The Weight of Fame

For some time, a thought has rolled around in my head on the matter of fame. Growing up, I had a very unique viewpoint to this, because as all of you know, I am nowhere near famous. But due to my mother's profession, I grew up around a lot of famous people.

In some cases, they were quite famous long before our paths crossed. Sometimes, fame crept up slowly. And, in some cases, I watched them go from relative obscurity to instant fame. It was dizzying, to be certain.

There is a hazard in the performance profession that if you keep at it long enough, you just might become famous. For some people, this is the entire goal—fame and fortune. But, for me, my biggest dream when I pursued acting was to be "oh, it's that girl from such-and-such" and never to have my name be a household one.

Why? Well, fame is lousy.

Don't get me wrong! There are certain benefits, of course, especially where endorsements and freebies come into play. The thought that a famous person with millions of followers might use your product and post about it is always enticing—especially for small businesses.

But the actual labor of being famous is a task. Very often, fame is unpredictable and arises in its own, un-chartable fashion. In some very rare situations, you can opt into it, like when taking on an iconic role.

Doctor Who comes to mind most readily. There is a certain fanaticism that is next-level when it comes to a long-living, iconic export such as this one. Matthew and I were studying at Leicester when so-called New Who debuted, so Christopher Eccleston was our first introduction to The Doctor.

When he regenerated into David Tennant, that was my first introduction to the Scottish actor. He instantly became someone we recognized in our household at an instant, even as he popped up in roles in other media we watched. It was never, "Oh, it's that guy!" It was always, "Oh, it's David Tennant."

With a single role, David Tennant became a household name for us. But, I feel like that's a known hazard of becoming, "The Doctor". I may be wrong, but listening to Doctor 12—Peter Capaldi—speak on how "Matt" and "David" prepped him on the particulars of the famous role leads me to believe this is not something into which an actor walks unknowingly.

No, there is a certain feverishness fanatacism associated with Whodom, and there are definitely expectations one should have for themselves walking in.

Privacy? Nope. Not going to happen. Everywhere you walk, folks will flood you for autographs. Social Media? Oh, run. You might as well run! You're never going to be able to simply scroll through your mates' latest shitposts and family photos without being assaulted by a million photos of yourself and others' opinions on every one.

In essence, by accepting a role that is a tremendous accomplishment, you have to also accept the weight of unrelenting, unforgiving fame. Every moment will be photographed or video-taped. If you take a step, it will be recorded, scrutinized, and analyzed at length. Fame is the robber of privacy and peace of mind.

And yet there are people who seek it. And, more power to them, I suppose. But, it's one thing to walk in knowingly. It's quite another to have it explode into place or, worse, creep in unexpectedly.

Let's first address the overwhelming surprise of sudden fame. In the 90's, my mother was the assistant makeup on a television show in our hometown. For her, it was a job that would help her support her two children. She was a single mom, after all, and one of the benefits of living in our city was that films and television shows actually shot there.

Much of the year, she took work wherever she could. Sometimes she was in Arizona. Sometimes in England. Sometimes we didn't know where she was. But, to land a series in-town was huge and meant we would see more of her, even with 18+ hour days and fraturday schedules.

During the filming of the first season, before the Pilot aired on television screens across the nation, Mom invited the four leads to our house for spaghetti dinner.

At one point, someone decided to turn on a computer and input each of their names to see what came up in search. For all but one of the actors, it was next-to-nothing. The fourth actor had come into fame as a child, so there was plenty there, and I can assure you they endured a fair amount of teasing that night for what the early internet unearthed.

Within a few months, they were all wildly famous. The internet was filled with their faces, magazines called for photo shoots, and all my friends at school were talking about that show.

Everything changed for them in an instant. Yes, the locals were still decent. I mean, in Wilmington, almost everyone worked in the industry at that point. Seeing a famous person in the grocery store was always met with, "Oh, neat", and then you moved on as if nothing happened. No autographs. No photos. Folks were in town to work and didn't need bothering.

But the tourists. Oh, the tourists! Suddenly, everything these actors did was monitored, broadcasted. "Who is sleeping with who?" rumors erupted. Discussion of acne. All the embarrassing things we hope nobody will notice about us became water cooler conversation for perfect strangers across the globe.

It's not that they didn't know it was a possibility. They're actors, after all, and that kind of fame can come. But it was still... surprising.

Now, I think they handled it as best as they could, truly. But it did change everything for them. Fame always does.

But the third type of fame is the one that I think must be the hardest—unexpected fame. The kind where someone is in no way seeking a public-facing job and somehow, somewhere along the way, they become famous without wanting it.

There are lots of people this can happen to—from scientists to authors to architects. Some people simply want to create something incredible that people connect and relate to, and find themselves thrown into the throes of fame without time to grapple with what it means.

Or, worse, after years of relative invisibility find themselves thrust into the constant churn of fame's unbearable machinations.

"Smile!" "Answer my question!" "Why are you ignoring me?" "You're a diva because you didn't answer my exact question the way I told you that I wanted you to answer it."

These people never sought fame. They sought survival. They sought satisfaction in their profession. They sought to do the job well. And, yet, fame found them. Oh, how difficult that must be.

So, to the fame-seekers, I ask you to think long and hard about it before you pursue it. Are you ready to lose your privacy? Are you ready to have every decision you make placed under scrutiny, down to which clothes you wear (or don't) and how you choose to style your hair?

And to those interacting with famous folks—give them a break. Yes, some of them sought it. Some of them accepted it. But that doesn't mean they are any less human and deserving of kindness, consideration, and courtesy.

Being famous has its perks, sure, but it also strips a lot away. It takes, and it takes, and it takes. So, remember to give famous folks some space, too. Let them be people, still, because that is what they are. At the core... still human.

Because their family and dearest friends won't remember them the same way a fan will. A fan will remember the performer and all the pieces that they gleaned from magazines and interviews. But their friends and family will remember the person, the individual, the heart and soul beneath it all with which they had a meaningful relationship.

They're still human. It's okay to let them be human. At least, that's my take on it.

Premium Spotify Snafu

If you were like me and planning on making several premium Spotify accounts today but you have ever had a free trial before, you cannot get any more free trials on Spotify with the same email, address, OR credit card.

You can try to start from scratch with a new credit card, email address, and billing address, as if you were a new human being, over and over... or you can bite the bullet and choose this great a work-around, but it involves a discounted payment plan:

So for me, I signed up for a free trial for VIBE when it dropped. Which means my address and my credit card are blocked from any more free trials. I went to login under my different fandom emails, but Spotify understood they were linked to the same info and would not let me get premium no matter what. I'm at work today and I do not have time to go out and fiddle with gift cards or use friends' and family members' addresses to create a bunch of identities.

So what to do?

I signed up for a Premium Family Plan.

This allows me to pay $16 total each month with my main credit card to own 6 individual, independent Spotify premium accounts--and all 6 of these profiles individually count separately for Billboard streaming, provided I stream properly.

That's less than $3 for premium accounts with streams that count three times as high as free streams. Worth it, for me, because I know I can cancel this plan in any given month. Since I am not locked in for a year, I likely will cancel after Suga's tour unless another member needs me to be at peak.

I genuinely like this family plan option, because it means I can quickly and easily shuffle through my premium accounts so I can hit those 20 streams and then move on to the next account, for maximum charting.

The only thing is that if you upgrade your free trial today to a Family Plan, Spotify will give you a link to invite other members of your "household." You then need to email yourself that link to 5 other fandom emails.

You gotta log into each email, follow the link you just emailed yourself, and sign in to your different corresponding Spotify accounts, save your password, and set yourself up. As you accept your emailed invitation, it will ask you for the EXACT ADDRESS from your main owner account, so write that down before you dig into your various inboxes.

As you log in to all 6 of your Family Plan accounts and start setting things up, be sure to follow BTS, each of the members (especially Jimin today), and I highly recommend you also follow JRJ-OT7 for the best chartable playlists for BTS that I've ever seen.

Let her do the hard work for you, making playlists using exact calculations for filler songs, timing, and charting impact. Go ahead and like some of her playlists so you have something in your library before FACE drops and be on the lookout for her FACE-specific stuff when it drops.

If you have questions feel free to ask in the comments--I'm working today and may not be able to get to you as quickly as another fan can.

PLEASE SHARE THIS SO MORE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THEY NEED TO TAKE TIME TODAY TO SET UP PREMIUM ACCOUNTS CAREFULLY.

If you have a better alternative or more info for folks who cannot afford a subscription, please PLEASE share your knowledge and thank you!

Love, Roo

i love when i’m like “i am handling this new mom development so fine and normal” and then immediately like clockwork stay up till 4am for literally no chartable reason

Me: Well, what do you know. Do you remember Paul I used to play volleyball with? Mum: Vaguely Me: He's in the paper, doing work for a chartable foundation. (turns computer to face her) Mum: That can't be Paul, he looks ten years older than you at least. Me: No that's definitely him, I can see the kid I used to know thirty years ago in the old dude on my screen. Mum: What in the world is with that shirt? Me: Oh, Paul's color blind. Mum: Well I guess it is Paul, isn't it. Me: I only remember because his mom used to write the colors of his shirts on his collar. Mum: Poor dear, where's his mother when he needs her?

Stray Kids Made History!!!!!

Stray Kids have just made history as the only k-pop group and only group since One Direction to have debuted heir four chartable albums consecutively on No.1 billboard 200.

They are the fastest group all time to do it, beating One Direction with a record of 1 year and 8 months.

Their albums who have helped them achieve this milestone are:

Oddinary

Maxident

5-Star

樂-STAR.

They have once again proved themselves. They continue to climb higher on the hall of fame.

Our boys are truly:

Shaking the industry

Quaking reality

Making it iconic.

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