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11 Ways To Completely Revamp Your Kuttymovies 2022
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aevyk-ing · 3 years
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10 things that helped me through 2020
Okay, this has been quite a hard year. And most of my (and I’m sure everyone’s) problems were because or got even worse with the current situation of the world. But I still was able to find joy and happiness from time to time. This is a list of all the stuff that helped me during this year and I’m really grateful of this all:
1. Writing:
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I started this year working on the illustrations of my first published novel: Zem. I published it in September and then translated it to English. I’ve been also working on another novel that I’m currently writing. And I’ve translated and written several fanfics. I swear there was a time, while I was checking Zem, that I felt like I could really make this my job. I’d love to spend the rest of my life creating this world, these characters, these stories... I’ve only felt real happiness once this year and it was while writing. I know it’s quite impossible to make a living out of this, that I have to find a job and keep working on my writing, but gods, I would give anything to be able to be an author.
2. Tumblr:
This site has been my retreat. I’ve met and followed some great people this year and any little interaction has made my day. Thanks everybody for the likes, reblogs and comments. I read them all and I’m just happy to be part of this site. 
3. TOA Wizards
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Tales of Arcadia... I think I’ve already said enough in my posts and nothing new would go here, but I’m infinitely grateful that these series exist. 
4. The Tim Tracker
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I found Tim’s channel last year, when I was getting ready for my trip to Florida. Since I was the one with the most free time in my family, I started watching his videos just to know what to do in Disney World, what to skip, etc. He’s such a funny and entertaining person and his videos are great to watch. I’ve also learned a lot of casual English thanks to them and the rest of his family is wonderful too. I’d love to meet people like that in real life. 
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTimTracker
5. Superstore
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Now into the media. I haven’t seen much new stuff this year, and most of it didn’t make an impact. But my family and I were searching for something to watch after dinner and my father said: “What about this series?”. I had seen a couple of ads and it seemed fun. Plus, I really wanted to see America Ferrera in another role. And it was great (she’s great). Every character is funny, every episode is funny and I just love Amy and Jonah’s relationship. The 5th season is not available in my country yet, sadly, and we had to move to other (way less great) series. 
6. Red shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
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A not-so-guilty pleasure for me. I watched it in April or so (I don’t really know) and I absolutely loved it. Sure, there’s some copy-pasted stuff from other movies, but the rest is just great. The character designs are so pretty and Snow’s full arc was so relatable for me (being chubby in high school and being treated like a lesser human being). The voice acting is just perfect and even though I’ve watched it several times by now, it still hits the same.
7. KEIINO
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I love this band. Their music has been helping me since last year and, this one, they had this wonderful online concert. Can’t wait to see what’s next for them.
8. Fanfiction
Another not-so-guilty pleasure. Sure, now I’m more of a writer than a reader, but I still love to get lost in a good story. Tales of Arcadia fanfiction helped me to fill the void while waiting for Wizards and it’s so interesting to read about these characters in another setting. It has helped me too when I wanted to write something just for the sake to write, without having to think about what’s going next and what I need to happen. 
9. Drawing
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After a whole year with so little time to draw and then an art block, I’m so glad I had the time and mindset to draw more. I’m still learning, going as far as I could with the Daylight December and pushing myself to get better in character design and concept art.
10. Cosplay
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Almost all my life really sucked this year, but at least I had the creative stuff covered. This was a huge year for me, finishing my first armor ever and then inmediately starting another one. I’m also learning to do self photoshoots and to work alone, instead of depending that much on my mother or my grandma to check everything. 
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Possessor (2020): I saw Cronenberg Jr.’s cyberpunk movie (which paired in an interesting way with that new Duncan Jones - Alex de Campi cyberpunk graphic novel Madi, which I think was supposed to be the third in the trilogy with Moon and Mute, which I read earlier that day-- they kind of form an interesting double feature).  The movie’s got some stuff, though it’s not perfect-- and it’s hard to be Cronenberg’s kid because I’m not going to pretend I didn’t have my arms crossed, saying “Existenz, though.”  But it’s got some stuff in there, even if he’s not where his old man was at, yet.  And they stacked it with fun actors to watch, certainly (even in the small parts-- Tanis from Letterkenny shows up-- I liked her more than the other girl with the small part in there).
I feel like it was one of those movies that work for me aesthetically and storywise, but I struggled with more for thematic reasons:  it kind of loses track of the metaphor it starts with that I found interesting, which is the sort of classic possession-but-sci-fi thing but done as a kind of a metaphor for the psychological impact of drone warfare.  Or it tries to do that but also tries to do some another thing, that’s just not as articulated.  Or at a certain point, I wasn’t as plugged in as I think the move wanted me to be.  
(Both it and the Duncan Jones trilogy feel very descended from New Rose Hotel, to me, the William Gibson story ... I think Abel Ferrera made a movie of it but I never saw it... or maybe reading that as a teen was just my formative “the betrayal is inherent to capitalism” story from science fiction...)
But it was nice enough.  It was a nice try...?  Or I felt like very sad after it was over that I wasn’t staggering out of a movie theater into a sunny day on a 2pm on a Sunday.  Or that I didn’t get to be in a theater where most of the audience was silent except like one other alone middle-aged man whisper-yelling “whaaaaat?” behind me at like a climactic moment.  I missed him so much.  
Django Unchained (2012): I hadn’t seen this since 2012. I’d really forgotten how much I liked that one, just as a superhero origin story if nothing else. Just Sam Jackson!  Goddamn, Sam Jackson in that.  Black people have probably never heard a white guy say the n-word while imitating a black guy’s voice, as much as people working on that movie had to, but I appreciate they took one for the team, it was worth it. So much of that movie is “let’s get an audience hooting and hollering”, in a way that I don’t think he ever did as much on anything else, you could argue Once Upon but the real ending of that is saaaad, or not even Kill Bill (the second Kill Bill is a lot of the Bride having to be reborn and kill her old self in order to fulfill her quest, so it doesn’t have the “just cheer at the end” quality Django has). I don’t think Django reaches as far  as Kill Bill cause it’s just ... the Origin of The Movie Superhero Django... it’s more of a comic book, but... a fun one!  I say that cheerfully!  
Holidate (2020): this time, the romantic comedy is about the blonde girl from Nerve and American Horror Story yelling “no one wants to fuck me because I’m awkward”, which is really hard to believe on this one because she’s not a terrible looking girl, whatshername.  She looks nice!  I had a hard time believing that men refused to fuck her, out of principal.  
It’s one of those movies about hot young people who spend all their time with each other but refuse to fuck.  Will they fuck???  I mean, probably, otherwise they’d have to settle for someone less conventionally attractive.  Booooo! The movie was not persuasive that there was some great issue preventing them from boning, which is pretty critical for a movie like this.  The guy wasn’t any good generally, though, I didn’t like him at all (and his “best friend” character was one of my least favorite guys that Netflix repeatedly casts in its movies), and at the end of the movie, he didn’t really do anything to win back the girl.  I want to see them both fight for a relationship, and instead he’s just like “oh okay, well, I guess I’m willing to fuck this hot girl that landed in my lap.”  That doesn’t seem romantic!  Some of the “actually romantic comedies can have r-rated humor in them” parts were a little too much, also.  In this essay I will explain why the laxative humor in Bridesmaids was successful whereas in this movie, it disrupted the
Beyond Skylines (2017): I found these unusually enthusiastic letterbox’d reviews of this sequel to Skyline (the other Los Angeles alien invasion movie that came out in 2010, that wasn’t Battle: Los Angeles starring Two Face), so I watched the movie.  Frank Grillo slops around a HR Giger set until teaming up with The Raid guys to stab 8-feet tall aliens with knives and silat martial arts, which was honestly satisfying, I’m not very sophisticated.  At one point, a shotgun-toting Hispanic LA cop yells “Hola, Puta” at a building-sized alien kaiju, who immediately eats his brains.  It was a very difficult movie to predict because it starts in the subways of Los Angeles, so I really didn’t see Frank Grillo teaming up with the Raid guys to save a matte painting of an Indonesian temple coming.  I don’t think I’m as enthusiastic as the letterbox’d dudes, but I can’t say it was dull.  The New York Times praised its “near-lunatic genre-hopping.”
Every movie on Netflix has alien invasions in it, though, holy shit.  When I went looking for this, Netflix recommended every single other movie on its service to me. It’s their specialty!!  Why do we keep making so many of these movies???
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I Didn't Break the Lamp: Interview with Jacob Budenz
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Today’s interview is with Jacob Budenz, a new addition to the Mad Scientist Journal family!
DV: Tell us a bit about yourself!
Jacob Budenz: In addition to being a writer, I’m a multi-disciplinary performer (singer, piano player, actor, performance artist, director, composer—basically everything but dance, which I’m pretty lousy at). I also work as a “freelance educator,” which feels a little bit sexier than saying “adjunct professor.” During grad school, I made my living as a street Tarot reader, and I still pick up gigs doing readings from time to time.
DV: What inspired you to write “Seen” for I Didn’t Break the Lamp?
JB: You know, the first paragraph, which was of course way longer and even more meandering in earlier drafts, was originally a journal entry between my first and second semesters of grad school. I was cranking out way more writing in shorter spans of time than I was used to, and I think I was worried I’d lost my “mojo,” so to speak. The first paragraph was sort of a “look around you, idiot” letter to myself. I’d decorated my bedroom with all manner of wacky curiosities, from pink skull busts to paintings of demons to these tiny jewel-shaped string lights that looked sort of like tiny glowing fairies. So at the time, the opening paragraph was just a reminder to myself that I only needed to look a little harder to see there was magic everywhere. A few weeks later, I was thinking about that little passage, and I thought, but what if someone had squinted at the floorboards and suddenly realized the world was full of these little fairies? Then, of course, the story emerged and evolved into what became kind of a love letter to modern queer loneliness. So what started as a pep talk to myself about inspiration became the inspiration for my next piece. I actually wrote the piece a couple years ago, spent way too much time revising it, saw your call for submissions, and thought, “Wow, that seems like the perfect home for this weird little tale!”
DV: Your characters in your story seem so natural and realistic. Are they based on specific people you know, or an amalgam of traits?
JB: Thanks! Definitely an amalgam of traits. I spent my early adult life in Baltimore, where there’s a really thriving art scene and tons of wonderful artists. And then there are the Mitches of the world, usually recent art school grads in my experience, who can be so unaware of how snobby they sound that it’s actually kind of endearing. I definitely dated a Mitch or two in my early twenties, though of course the Mitch in the story is kind of a cartoon of a bunch of different people. As far as Ron goes, I’m not really sure where he came from; I don’t really know anybody who’s that negative all the time. I think he came from an amalgamation of fears of mine; at the time, in particular, I was pretty severely injured and couldn’t exercise at any capacity, so I was probably the most out of shape I’d ever been. So Ron’s relationship with gay dating as being not “hairy” enough to be this, not skinny enough to be that, emerged from my thoughts on what it means to slip outside of certain categories or expectations of the gay male gaze. While I have a partner and a perfectly fulfilling social life (unlike my protagonist), I’ve definitely been in places of really dark, desperate loneliness like he has, and so I was imagining how I’d be if my body issues spiraled out of control, and if I was alone, and if I didn’t feel like I had anything in common with the people around me. So I wouldn’t say there’s “a lot of me in Ron” or anything (I certainly do not walk through the world with that level of harsh, persistent snark), but I really did my best to inhabit that kind of headspace when I was writing this.
DV: What is the coolest part of being a writer?
JB: That’s a great question! People don’t ask this enough. It’s always stuff like, “What’s the hardest thing about being a writer.” I’d say, for me, I have a blast coming up with really absurd concepts (or pulling stuff from my extremely vivid dreams) and finding the connections between issues I really care about. I joke that I’m “re-mythologizing” the queer other, as opposed to demythologizing, which means even if I’m grounding queer characters in sincere, real world issues, I’m putting them in these larger-than-life situations and writing new myths and allegories to illustrate our lived experiences. Another cool thing, which I’m sure any writer will tell you, is having the excuse to build extremely niche, specialized knowledge. I’m sure I’m on some kind of watch list. My search history features punctuation-free questions like “what happens to the body when a child is murdered outside of their home state” or, most recently, “Does your blood smell any different if you’re pregnant?”
DV: If you had an imaginary friend growing up, what was their name, and what were they like?
JB: I guess that depends on your definition of “imaginary” and “friend.” I was raised as a born-again Christian and sent to Baptist school from 4th-12th grade, so I talked to God a lot? Congruently—and this is the kicker—I’ve sort of always been a witch at the same time. When I was a kid I had a tree I talked to all the time by the courts where my mom played tennis. I collected stones and crystals and talked to them, and to animals, and to the stars, all that. I imagined they responded sometimes, but mostly they were just good listeners. You might say the Christian God and I haven’t been friends for quite some time, but we had a good run and I hope it’s no hard feelings on either side. I’m still an out-and-out witch though, far more than before, so I guess depending on your perspective I have plenty of, well, principalities I talk to that the average person might think of as imaginary.
DV: What’s on the horizon for you?
JB: I’ve got another piece coming out in an anthology through Lycan Valley Press; it’s about a gay medieval scholar who gets trapped in a cafe bathroom with a sentient interstellar octopus, in case you were wondering. I’m also beginning the daunting process of compiling materials to query agents and get my novel published. I’ll withhold the details on that, for now, though. Since I graduated from my MFA program in December, I’ve been focusing mostly on performance. In the spring, I was hired to compose and music direct for this adaptation of the The Tempest through the lens of climate change and colonialism, cast as the lead in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, and brought on to work on a comedic show about feminist performance art with one of my favorite artists, Chris Ferrera, which we just closed and will tour in the fall. In July, I’m having a comeback show with my psychedelic witchpop band, Moth Broth, which was on hiatus while I was in grad school, and now we’re working on finishing our debut album. So I think the second half of this year I’ll focus mostly on music, publishing my novel, and reclaiming my writing habit, which I’ve taken a wee bit of a vacation from in the past six months!
  I Didn’t Break the Lamp: Interview with Jacob Budenz was originally published on Mad Scientist Journal
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Good point about Snotlout. What is interesting is that say they don't have much power over Astrid but who gave them the power to decide that Astrid has anger management issues? I don't any signs of Astrid bursting into fits of anger in HTTYD2 and Hiccup holding her back, even in HTTYD she was not angry at Hiccup because she anger problems. This is solely on Art/Douglas. Just like they decided Astrid can't sing or is mean to the gang. What gave them the power to decide that if they have no power?
Astrid is definitely an over reactor, but she doesn’t just suddenly start swinging an axe for no reason. I think Riders of Berk and Defenders of Berk showed that a bit better.
So basically, she needs to control the extent of her anger, not when her anger appears.
Astrid not being able to sing I don’t really mind. I’m guessing that might have been something to do with America Ferrera not wanting to really sing. And as for being mean to the gang…I get it at first, but holy hell, they’re supposed to be friends now! Fishlegs, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, and Snotlout respect Astrid! They follow her to Drago and there’s none of this, “Oh. Way to go, Astrid,” kind of stuff. They trust her as a second in command and a warrior.
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Cinema Latino
Insomnia and I have been bitter sisters for a long time now. She knows my secrets and reminds me of them, over and over and over during the tiny hours when all sensible and peaceable people should be sound asleep. I admit that some of this is my own fault. My two favorite cocktails war it out; Sudafed and caffeine team up against melatonin and merlot. Eventually I decide that the drugs aren’t making me feel better, they’re just making me feel a different kind of bad. Then it’s back to just me and Insomnia in a monogamous, monotonous relationship. I lie awake and fester in my thoughts, or walk around my tiny house, or read boring books for hours. I’m currently reading an endless saga of Ice Age people who saunter across Asia in real time, stopping occasionally to have some bad sex. Eventually, morning comes (if not as quickly and enthusiastically as the book’s characters) and, bleary-eyed and jangly, I saunter over to Aurora, because Asia is too far away.
I don’t have a lot of business in Aurora, although there’s some cool stuff happening in the arts district. I wandered over there because I have a long-running self-improvement campaign in place and “maintain my Spanish skills” is part of that. I landed in the parking lot of Sonora Cinemas, a Spanish-language movie theater on 6th and Peoria at 10am on a Sunday morning, which is when the cool people all show up to the movies.
I’m a fan of low-brow venues and dive bars and have spent a non-negligible amount of time at the Elvis Cinema, which has cheap prices, dark hallways, and sticky floors. The Sonora is not that. It’s big, bright, and sparkling clean. Your feet practically bounce off the carpet. The smartly-dressed manager asked in English to assist me. I requested a ticket for How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World. He explained that that film was only in Spanish. I am a six-foot, blue-eyed, natural blonde–more Cameron Diaz than America Ferrera. I appreciated his courtesy, but replied that Spanish-only was fine. I used to get the same question at theaters when I lived in Latin America and conducted the entire ticket transaction in Spanish. I look unequivocally white-bread.
I find my seat in Theater Two. I am the only person in this theater. I even turned on my cell phone flashlight to check out the dark corners of the seating area. It’s completely empty. So basically, I went from the dark, empty solitude of my sleepless bedroom to the dark, empty solitude of a weekend-morning movie theater. #Winning. I spread out and put my feet up. Even though every sign on the doors warned in Spanish that outside food is not allowed, I snuck in my own snacks. My 2019 nutrition plan doesn’t include Raisinettes. I brought a refillable water bottle and a navel orange because I am extremely cool and also, pooping in your 30s is a different game than pooping in your 20s.
I picked HTTYD in Spanish, no subtitles, both because I didn’t want the crutch of reading the text in either language and because I thought a cartoon would be easier for my rusty language skills to handle, although it’s harder to read lip and facial cues on a cartoon character. I’m gonna say this: HTTYD3 is not Dreamwork’s masterpiece. I remember reading a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel in college in the original Spanish, and being totally befuddled by it. I got a copy in English to clarify the narrative, only to discover that it was just as bizarre in English and I had understood it perfectly in Spanish to begin with. I felt the same way about this movie; it felt entirely unnecessary and full of contrived weirdness. Maybe I didn’t get on the HTTYD wagon soon enough in the franchise? Maybe something was lost in translation? I’m pretty sure I got the gist of the movie…the problem was that there wasn’t much gist to be gotten. Lots of dragons, a villain, a noble young hero, fire and explosions abound. Spoiler alert: the good guy won. I think the bad guy got swallowed by the ocean or something suitably tasteful and punishing.
This is the point where I rant about why Hollywood makes so many terrible movies: they make them for the world market and explosions don’t require dialogue, much less subtitles or translation. More profit, but lots of boring, flammable plotlines out there lately. Sadly, this has even infected “children’s” movies like HTTYD. I actually fell asleep during the movie, which tells you that Sonora’s seats are comfortable, the movie was tepid, and that insomnia really does end in Aurora.
On my way out I checked out the bathrooms because there is nothing more important than bathrooms in a venue. I am happy to report that they were glittering and spotless. Countertops and floors were bone-dry. The dispensers had soap, the towels were stocked. Lovely. The manager smiled at me as I walked out and invited me to return again soon.
A fellow was standing by the door of the theater as I walked outside.
“Oh, my god!” he exclaimed, in Spanish. “Where the f— did you come from? What’s going on here?!”
I have to take this as evidence that he didn’t expect me, the white lady, to be there, which is kind of the reason I was there. This is where I get philosophical. Why leave the house when you can see everything in the world on Netflix or Hulu at home? Putting on pants is such a drag. My reasons to be there were many of the same ones that make me support live theater and music. There’s something about a social, group experience that makes it entirely different than listening  or watching alone in your bedroom. And if you make an effort to be somewhere that most people “like you” are not, it expands your world. You see new things and meet new people who remind you that the world is a very big, highly variegated place. It’s good for your soul and your language-processing brain lobes to do something outside your norm. Take a risk. Head to Aurora. There are some new releases playing in the matinee.
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Happy Friday, Memphis! Hope you had a great Valentine’s/Singles Awareness/Bitterly Apathetic Day yesterday! Here are the five things you won’t want to miss in Memphis this weekend, plus a few extras. Murals on Dr. M.L. King Jr. Avenue near Southwest Tennessee Community College. L to R: @bethwarmath, @zulupainter1. But first, don’t miss the goodies from the blog this week: the 2019 Beale Street Music Fest lineup, updates to the Huge List of Events And Festivals, the 2019 Time Warp Drive In movies schedule, and two awesome Memphians you should get to know, vintage fashionista and entrepreneur Amy Dobbins and muralist Frances Berry. The Memphis St. Patrick’s Day Guide is live, too. Here’s your weekend guide: 1. Memphis 901FC v. Christian Brothers, CBU’s Signaigo Field, Saturday, noon, $5, all ages/kid-friendly Memphis 901FC is our city’s new professional soccer team. As they warm up for their first season (starts March 9) they’ll take on CBU’s men’s team in an exhibition game – and it’s all for a good cause. Half of the proceeds go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 2. Memphis Majic Screening, National Civil Rights Museum, Saturday, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., free, all ages/kid-friendly From Memphis Majic creators: “Memphis Majic is a riveting in-depth look at the city of Memphis through the lens of a 30 year old Memphis-born street dance called “Jookin’.”  The February 16 museum screening before the film’s national debut, and gets to the heart of the city’s rich culture, history, race relations and socioeconomic barriers.” It’s free, but be sure to register to save your spot. 3. Memphis Express v. Arizona Hotshots, Liberty Bowl, Saturday, 7 p.m., $20 and up, all ages/kid-friendly Our new Alliance of American Football team plays their first home game this Saturday night at the Liberty Bowl. Get out there and support these professional players and enjoy plenty of in-game entertainment (including a silent disco), concessions, and great seat options (starting at $20). 4. Time Warp Drive-In, Malco Summer Drive-In, Saturday, 7 p.m. – ’til, $10 per person, all ages allowed (parental discretion advised) This month, the Time Warp Drive In honors African American actress Pam Grier with two films in an evening they’re calling NOBODY MESSES WITH PAM GRIER: A TRIBUTE TO AN ICON. First up is Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, a blaxploitation homage, followed by Grier’s “brilliant revenge flick” from 1973, Coffy. See the full Time Warp schedule for 2019 here.  5. Soup Sunday, FedExForum, Sunday, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., $20 adults/$10 kids, all ages/kid-friendly Soup Sunday celebrates 30 years of filling Memphis bowls this weekend. Enjoy all-you-can-eat samples of soup, appetizers, salads, breads, and desserts from about 50 local restaurants and caterers. Soup Sunday benefits Youth Villages’ efforts to support young people and families in crisis. Plus a few other ideas… On Your Feet! The Musical, Orpheum Theatre, Friday – Sunday, multiple shows, $25 – $125, ages 5 and up The Gloria and Emilio Estefan Broadway musical is at the Orpheum all weekend; the show includes all the hits. Friday night, the Orpheum is doing a Student/Teacher/Hero ticket Rush for discounted tickets and a Kids’ Night On Broadway night. Read all those details here. Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live, FedExForum, Saturday, 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., $20 adults/$5 kids, all ages/kid-friendly Live monster trucks! They come every year to FedExForum around V-Day, they’re loud, they’re crazy, they smash stuff! Kids love them, grown-ups with earplugs love them. I’m especially excited about the Megasaurus, a “massive, car-eating, fire-breathing prehistoric robot”. Crosstown Brewing 1st Birthday, Crosstown Brewing, Saturday, noon – 10 p.m., free to enter, all ages/kid-friendly Crosstown is putting three new beers on tap, hosting live music, and the New Wing Order food truck, plus new merch all day. Come help this local brewery celebrate one year of drinking great beer in their taproom. Africa In April Original Art Collection, Orange Mound Gallery, Friday, 5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., free, all ages Celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the Africa In April festival with this showcase of local artists at Orange Mound Gallery. (Then save the date for Africa In April, April 17-21 at Robert Church Park.) Ballet Memphis’ Spring Mix, Ballet Memphis Overton Square, Friday – Sunday, times vary, $25, all ages allowed Ballet Memphis’ annual spring concert offers three pieces: “Steven McMahon’s birdlike fun of the Mississippi Flyway with three-dimensional sets from acclaimed visual artist Erin Harmon. Julia Adam’s water-themed Dew Point, with its playful props and soundtrack featuring Louis Armstrong to Jeff Buckley, and a “fiery” new work from Rafael Ferreras completes the bill.” There are performances next weekend as well. There’s plenty more on the blog’s calendar. Have a great weekend, Memphis! Come back here and tell me all about it. Are you a home owner in Memphis, with a broken garage door? Call ASAP garage door today at 901-461-0385 or checkout http://bit.ly/1B5z3Pc
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Rematch!: Dalmar vs. Adelise
Log date: 12/29/17
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I had come to the Bannock for more training. More. I needed to be prepared for when the search for Guillemont found its lead. To avoid what happened last time. I needed to be more useful. More... more... little did I expect to be met with company that sun...
Dalmar Ferrera draws into approach at the sight of a familiar figure and her familiar escort, booted heels crunching gravel and debris underfoot.  Always the jaunty rogue, Dalmar reaches out towards one of the other training dummies as he moves to lean his weight against it.  Unfortunately, he did not realize that they were meant to turn when given enough force.  His grip slips almost instantly, causing him to stumble and ruin any sense of stealth he might have had.
Adelise De'bayle turns with the near speed of a coeurl, pressing a boot firmly into the dirt as she swung her polearm fiercely in Dalmar's direction. "Huh..." she blinks toward the awkwardly-footed man, her brows raised in some confusion. "Sir Ferrera. Afternoon."
Dalmar Ferrera stumbles a few more steps, and then twirls with a bit of a flourish.  As though it were all part of his plan.  "Ain't got my codpiece on today, just Dalmar's the name."  He responds with a cocky, crooked grin.  "Sorry, didn't mean t'ruin your concentration.  Just happened to be droppin' off some stuff, and noticed your little friend."
Adelise De'bayle: "Were you dancing again?" She asks in some genuine curiosity as he twirled back into a more straight position. "Worry not. I was probably just finishing up here any how. With the sun beginning to set, the rays are beginning to pour in through the leaves. I would rather not be in their path."
Dalmar Ferrera flicks his own angled eyes up towards the twisting leaves and branches, squinting.  "Y'mean the sunbeams?  Y'goin' to melt if they touch'ya?" He teased, never serious.  "Damn, I was hopin' to get a round in with you before you ran off.  Been practicin' loads and all."
Adelise De'bayle: "Not melt per se, but I burn easily. Pale skin and all," she reaches a bare finger to tap at her cheek once for good measure. "I am certainly in no rush to head off anywhere in particular if you are interested in a spar. Perhaps you might return to our estate with me? We have a training room there where we can go at it."
Dalmar Ferrera lets out a crooked note of laughter, "Awh, hell.  I feel that one, damn folks were paler than Ishgardian snow.  Real cruel of 'em to pop me out in Ul'dah." He scoffs, before bouncing lightly on his heels.  "What's wrong with here?  Ain't nobody goin' to interrupt, I don't think."
Adelise De'bayle: "The sun," she says lamely, "and who was popping what?"
Dalmar Ferrera: "Huh, that 'fraid of a little sunburn, eh?" He narrows his stance slightly, lips setting a loose line across his face.  "A'ight, suit'cha self.  We can saunter on back to your place, in that case."
Adelise De'bayle: "Not so much afraid. I simply would rather not get one," Adelise instead turns to inspect their surroundings, her eyes narrowing as she falls upon a nearby hollowed tree. "How about in there. I am sure that would provide more than enough space and coverage. If you wish to remain in the area that is."
Dalmar Ferrera: "Works f'me." He responds in the affirmative, with a nod.  Twisting on a heel, he'd saunter off to the aforementioned place."Hopefully I don't get covered in termites."
Adelise De'bayle removes her lance from her figure, setting off to the side. Directing Nogelle to do the same, she turns back toward Dalmar, stretching her arms out. "I am sure you will be fine."
Dalmar Ferrera unbuckles his long knives, and their respective scabbards, setting them similarly aside for the moment.  "Righ' righ'." He gruffs, before he turns back to face her.  There was a bouncing sort of movement to his steps, resting more wholly on the balls of his booted feet.
Adelise De'bayle: "Now you suit yourself with knives? While I commend your desire to be well-rounded in weaponry, be wary not to become too frivolous with swapping around. That is an easy way to never master one art. And mastering a single weapon can be the difference between life and death with up against an opponent who has mastered their own. It is why I do not choose to use my lance against you," she raises her fists, scooting the metal underside of her boots against the rotting bark as she readied herself.
Dalmar Ferrera gives his shoulders a dismissive shrug, "Ain't never really been an axe guy, m'self.  Last few times y'saw me, I've had knives.  Easier to disable with a knife, than with an axe."  He presses the knuckles of his right hand into the palm of his left, and then the reverse.  "Y'gonna talk all day, or y'gonna fight?"
Adelise De'bayle: "I am ready," rather than go straight into the offensive, Adelise positions her arms up defensively as she made a slow shuffle forward. Clearly, she was anticipating a first approach from the man.
Dalmar Ferrera wasn't quite done preparing, judging by the way he gave one last stretch.  Bending over, and pressing his knuckles into the dirt in a remarkable show of flexibility.  It was almost believable that he was only stretching, if not for the smirk.  He exploded into movement in the blink of an eye, crossing the distance between them in a blur and lashing out with a flurry of tooth-loosening strikes!
Adelise De'bayle had been watching the man in slow calculation, figuring he would lash out when immediately given the opportunity. Turning her pauldron covered shoulder to take the brunt of his fists - avoiding her face - Adelise remained in the defensive until a single opening of rest came for her to swing a muscular leg up and in his direction.
Dalmar Ferrera had grown wary of Adelise's kicks since their last meeting, and the resulting humiliation that he'd sustained.  The barrage of knuckled strikes stopped as he threw arms up to protect his frame, still knocked nearly aside and almost all the way down by the blow.  He tried to take advantage of the situation, moving to push her with open palms to unbalance her.
Adelise De'bayle had not expected her kick to not immediately knock the man on his rear. Brows raising practically to her hairline as his hands came flying forward toward her, Aderlise was pushed down onto her back. Years of being tossed around though taught her well on a speedy recovery. Taking the roll to the back with some small grace, she forced herself fully back into a reverse barrel roll before planting her feet into the wood and shoving herself back up. Lunging forward, she threw a heavy fist into his gut.
Dalmar Ferrera hadn't quite anticipated the young woman to be able to recover with such vigor, he was still practically recovering from his own shove when she was on him again.  Pain exploded in his midriff, nearly driving the breath from his lungs as he struggled against the blow.  Still, she'd find his strong hands squeezing around her wrist.  The only warning that she got before he'd suddenly twist at the joint, not enough to break it as much as to force her to refocus on freeing herself.
Adelise De'bayle had a certain piercing gaze about her. Crimson eyes lit with focus as her fist came in contact with his abdomen. As soon as it collided though, did she feel his vice-like grip upon her wrists. Tugging her slightly from her attention, Adelise grit her teeth in pain as she forcefully tugged her hands against his. All the while, as if on instinct, she raised a leg to kick at his chest; the idea being to force distance.
Dalmar Ferrera knew that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that he was going to be able to match the strength of her legs.  He paused for a moment, straining terribly against her boot before he suddenly jerked backwards.  A feint, making it look as though he was going to pull one way before he suddenly charged forwards!  Attempting to take the fight to the ground!
Adelise De'bayle went falling down as he charged at her, taking her into the rotting wood. Grappling his arms, she thrusted a knee up into his belly in an attempt to knock some more air from the Hyur. All the while, she simply continued struggling against him, always trying to make distance.
Dalmar Ferrera made a wet sort of grunt as another blow crashed into his midriff, slackening his resolve for a moment.  His guts churned and ached, and he could only blink back the agony.  But, he was on top now.  One hand maintaining his iron-grip on her wrist, the other would warningly lift before coming crashing down into her own middle.  Without even waiting to see if it connected, he'd begin winding up again!
Adelise De'bayle released a pained grunt as his fist made contact with her abdomen. A gasped cry left her as unbeknown to the Hyur over her, a healed but ever tender wound lied there. Tightening her jaw in some agonizing pain, Adelise's eyes lit in fury as practically all her strength went into forcing the man off with a loud bellow.
Dalmar Ferrera could not stay atop the smaller woman, even despite his advantage of weight.  He would be tossed aside, but would rise again with alacrity of a striking viper.  He lacked the grace and technique that she'd worked so hard for, but he made up for it with vigor.  Pushing his body to the limit, he'd move frightfully fast!  Attempting a fight-ending kick towards Adelise's midriff, anticipating that she'd be trying to rise, and knowing how to hit where it hurt.
Adelise De'bayle was mid-standing, a hand gripped painfully to her belly as she stared at his oncoming kick with wide eyes. Raising her arms up to attempt to slow the blow some, it was still enough to crush at her abdomen. Blood spurted from between her teeth as she backed away from him, her hands moving to her belly in a pained tremble as she now tried desperately to avoid physical contact.
Dalmar Ferrera immediately stops at the sight of blood, blinking rapidly as though he were regaining consciousness.  "Whoa whoa!"  He states, shocked.  "Shite, 'M sorry!" More words tumbled forth, guilt arcing across his features. "Shite. Shit."  He holds his hands up and out, wardingley, as if to indicate that he was done fighting. "Hold up, hold on."
Adelise De'bayle spit at the blood that had forced itself up her throat, coughing it out onto the wood, "d-damn... I thought... I thought this was better..." she said out in a berating tone, less concerned by his hurting her and rather more at her own weakness. Turning away, Adelise touched at her belly some. From under the burgundy cloth, the faintest pool of deep crimson began to bleed into fabric.
Dalmar Ferrera gives himself a quick pat-over, before coming up with a familiar bottle.  "Here, drink this.  S'that healin' draught that your man gave me."  He offers it hurriedly out to her, swallowing nervously at the sight of such a grave wound.  "I didn't know it was that... bad.  M'sorry."
Adelise De'bayle turns slowly, reaching to take the potion into her hand. Face now being held in a neutral expression, Adelise wiped at her bloodied lips before unstopping the potion bottle and downing the substance in one go. Swallowing hard, she tossed the empty vial with a grunt. "No need to apologize. It is not your fault my body is weak."
Dalmar Ferrera lets his shoulders slump slightly, lips tilting downwards in a weak sort of frown.  "Listen, it ain't nothin' about havin' a weak body.  I just went a bit overboard, that's it."  He flicked his eyes all about, before bringing them back to her face.  "Is it workin'?"
Adelise De'bayle: "No, it is not," she shakes her head. "That is a hit I should have been able to normally take." Adelise didn't quite seem to mind how immodest her actions were about to be, as she struggled to lift up her tunic to reveal the now ghastly and bloodied scar that covered the expanse of her belly. "An old wound, that seems to be more of a weakness now than I thought it would be..."
Adelise De'bayle: "As for the potion, the pain has subsided some, I fear this sort of injury however has lasting effects. Even a potion cannot do too much to keep it from causing me issues."
Dalmar Ferrera blinked and crouched in low, dusky green hues widening with... awe?  Hands pressed to his knees, he tilted his head off to one side.  "Damn, girl." He breathes, "Y'lived through that and are still walkin' round?"  A shrill whistle escapes his lips, "Ain't it goin' to heal over time?"
Adelise De'bayle: "It was during my aid in the liberation of Ala Mhigo. I was penetrated through by a Hakkin, so it has been named. One of Shinryu's brood. The giant... creature that covered the sky that sun. It was... a terrifying experience. One I am lucky to have lived through. I am sure I must have a scar on my back as well," she frowns. "I am not particularly kind to it, so I am sure it will never fully heal to being normal."
Dalmar Ferrera holds out a hand to one side, and lets a handful of grit and dirt fall to the ground.  Something he'd picked up during his stretch, that he'd cunningly held to try and hurl it into her eyes.  At the mention of creatures, and battles.  "Y'were there?  When that... thing came out?" He blinked, lifting his eyes admiringly up to her own gaze.  "So you're some kinda hero, then, yeah?"
Adelise De'bayle: "Hm..." she considers this, before shaking her head. "I do not feel like a hero. I may have been able to slay a single brood, but the real hero that sun was the Warrior of Light. If only I were able to have been given a glance at such power. Instead I was practically dead. Some hero."
Dalmar Ferrera scoffs, "Oh, shut it.  Sure, y'ain't draggin' dragon-gods ou'tta the sky and throttlin' them, but y'did somethin' great.  Most folks'd be runnin' for the hills if faced with that sort of shite." He plants his hands on his hips.  "Y'really shouldn't sell y'self short, gal."
Adelise De'bayle: "Many were running in fear, yes. Reminded of the Calamity. I... I would have rather died there having been able to do something to save them all, if anything, then ran away like a coward. This was not their world to rule over in terror."
Dalmar Ferrera gives his eyes an exaggerated sort of roll at her explanation, smiling broadly.  He'd reach out with a loosely-closed fist, moving to press it to one of her pauldrons and push rudely.  "That's the shite I'm talkin' 'bout, hero." He laughed, brightly.  "S'hope for the little people with big people like you around."
Adelise De'bayle shifts slightly at his push, her lips twitching into some sort of unreadable emotion. Hand still held to her slightly bleeding belly, Adelise exhaled a sigh. "I suppose that makes our score even for now then, hm?"
Dalmar Ferrera grins wickedly, triumphantly even.  "Shite, I guess it does.  S'not really a fair fight if you're goin' to be pullin' shit like fightin' with a big 'ole wound though." He admonishes.
Adelise De'bayle: "I will need to wear more protection there next we spar. To make it more even," she smiles lightly.
Dalmar Ferrera mimes some sort of movement, looking like he was waddling around with layers upon layers of clothes.  "Ch'yeah, you'll look like this for our next bout." He teases, before he relents and lets his arms fall back to his sides.  "Well, thanks for th'fight and all.  Next time I'll beat you fairly, though!”
Adelise De'bayle scoffs, crossing her arms with an amused sort of stare. "Right, I am sure that is how it will look. I look forward to that," she directs her eyes down. "Wearing your new socks?"
Dalmar Ferrera: "Course I am!  Y'told me that I had to, after all.  Good thing, too.  I was worried my boot was goin' to come flyin' off when I kicked you. Y'make it look so easy, all that kickin'."
Adelise De'bayle: "Jumping requires quite a bit of leg strength, you know."
Dalmar Ferrera: "I mean, I jump around plenty as well!  Not like that, a'course, but still."
]Adelise De'bayle: "It is a bit different. Have you ever managed to jump nearly eight to ten fulms in the air?"
Dalmar Ferrera: "I've fallen nearly eight to ten fulms.  Does that count?"
[5:49 p.m.]Adelise De'bayle: "Hmm. Well, in practice I have as well. Though no, it is not the same. You do not work your legs out falling."
Dalmar Ferrera: "I don't think I got the pluck for bein' a Dragoon anyway, to be frank.  Plus, I'm way too... gangly for it.  Feels like all you folks are carved ou'tta cold stone.  So seeerious." He lofts, in a teasing tone.
Adelise De'bayle: "I have been told I am lanky. Though also too short," she frowns heavily at this. "I am not too serious, I simply am," she says with a stone hard expression.
Dalmar Ferrera: "I mean, y'can wear boots with reaaaally high heels, can't'cha?" He grins, "And, awh.  Don't take it personal, I didn't mean to offend.  Was just teasin'."
Adelise De'bayle: "I do," she says this neutrally, "platforms, heels. To be tallers," she glances off some, "it did not offend me. I suppose I have been told I am too serious at times. I cannot help it."
Dalmar Ferrera: "Different strokes, I s'pose." He cuts a glance through one of the gaps of the log they inhabited, squinting.  "S'probably not gettin' any earlier out there.  I'm not keepin' you from anything, am I?"
Adelise De'bayle: "No, most of my suns are simply reading and preparing for the next confrontation that arises against my House. Amongst other things," she waves a hand. "Different strokes?"
Dalmar Ferrera: "Yeah, for different folks.  Ain't heard that one before?" He grins, cheekily.  "And, that's good.  I was worried that I was keepin' you from some fancy tea-party."
Adelise De'bayle: "I have never been to a tea-party," she says lamely, "different strokes for different folks. What does that even entail? Strokes? Like stroking in the water? Boats? Painting?"
Dalmar Ferrera: "I mean, I guess it could apply t'all of those.  Everybody strokes different, whether s'paintin' or paddlin' in the water."
Adelise De'bayle: "I see. I figured perhaps it meant something specific. That makes... sense though," she furrows her brows, as though thinking about this way too hard. "You brushed your hair?"
Dalmar Ferrera furls his brows, lifting a gloved hand to rake fingers messily through his hair.  "Chyeup.  Washed it and combed it, after a nice long bath.  I even got to pour all kind'a oils and shite in the bath, I probably still smell like lavender and who-knows-what-else."
Adelise De'bayle: "Was it your first time bathing?" She muses aloud, the question not intentionally sounding sarcastic.
Dalmar Ferrera: "First time in a real bath, yep!  I've bathed plenty, but it's always just been scrubbin' my bare arse out of some frigid river, or with water pulled from a well. S'a word of difference, I swear."
Adelise De'bayle: "It is true..." she frowns, "why has it only taken this long for you to take a bath in an actual tub?"
Dalmar Ferrera: "Eh, I ain't really picky 'bout that.  Long as I can swipe a pail of water, and a sliver of soap, I'm pretty much fine to scrub down wherever.  Folks don't really care to peep on men, anyhow."
Adelise De'bayle: "Mmm," her lips twist into some expression of disgust before she simply exhaled. Applying more pressure to her belly, that which has presumably stopped bleeding for the time being, Adelise shifted her footing, "you smell nice. It is fitting, believe me. If ever you wish to have a tub to clean yourself in, our House is open to you. Dalmar."
Dalmar Ferrera chortles amusedly, tipping back on his heels and glancing all about.  Some expression of embarrassed modesty, "Well, uh.  Thanks." He murmurs in tangled tones, "I'll try my best not to offend My Lady with my odour in the future." He teases, "Maybe I'll just sneak in, here n'there, hot water is addictin'."
Adelise De'bayle: "I have smelt far worse. You adjust to strange odours quite quickly," she shrugs. "You can try and sneak in, through our guards and front desk will catch you. Simply tell them the Viscountess gave you permission to use our public bath."
Dalmar Ferrera furls a brow, "Public?  Y'mean I'm goin' to be out in my skivvies with all those giant Elezen?"
Adelise De'bayle: "If there are others in there. Some have their own private bathes within their rooms, some do not. Is that a problem? I would hardly think they will care..."
Dalmar Ferrera: "Yeah, well, they're the giant ones!" He huffs weakly and grunts, "I mean, it ain't a problem or nothin'."
Adelise De'bayle can't help a flat expression. "You are telling me. You are a Hyur though," she raises a free hand to tap at her pointed ears. "What excuse do I have."
Dalmar Ferrera gives his shoulders a weak sort of shrug, "Maybe y'just inherited the short genes instead of the tall-like-a-tree genes." He teases, "Maybe you'll hit puberty again?"
Adelise De'bayle: "My mother is five fulms, two ilms..." she looks down with a hollowed sort of expression, clearly not pleased with this. "Compared to my father's six fulms, ten ilms. I do not think there will be much more growing for me, unfortunately. I am eighteen anyhow, my puberty suns are long but passed. Thankfully."
Dalmar Ferrera: "Hell, guess it's goin' to be platform heels forever for you.  I'm sort've the same way.  'Pparently my dad had a big bushy beard at my age, but I can't grow nothin' more than a dumb patch of chin-hair.  It's not fair, I tell you."
Adelise De'bayle: "I am sure there is bound to be a way to make your hair grow more. Though everyone is different. Perhaps a salve will help. I can ask the Countess of my House if you wish?"
Dalmar Ferrera: "Somethin' tells me that messin' with that sort'a thing might end up workin' a little bit too well.  I don't want to end up lookin' like an Opo-Opo."
Adelise De'bayle twists her lips up in some amusement, the faintest image of pointed fangs appears just under her lips before the emotion passed. "Fair enough. It would be in my best interest to return back for now though. Do find it in you to stop by our estate again. I am sure the others would like seeing you again," she plants a hand to her hip, "you did send our cup back by the way, yes?"
Dalmar Ferrera offers a mild smile in response to her pointed one, which was almost instantly replaced by a momentary flicker of shock.  "Oh, uhm.  Yeah, it should be uh... on the way.  As we speak."  Furitive glances were cast all about, "I should probably be goin' as well, y'know.  Buuusy guy, and aaaall." He began to edge away.
Adelise De'bayle: "You had better! Killian is a mess about this missing cup!" She cries out. "And I need go prepare for some gala being hosted tonight. I have never been to one, so I am not quite sure what to expect."
Dalmar Ferrera: "Oh, shite.  I was goin' to a Gala as well tonight.  Gotta dress my ass up all fancy." He grins, "Well, I hope t'see y'there if it's the same one!" He offers a syrupy wink, before dancing off into the Shroud.
I attended the Golden Gala that night, where Dalmar was as well. I ended up winning a seal, though unfortunately I was unable to keep it. I also ended up meeting someone new. A dark-scaled Au Ra named Jebe. His people do not talk. I suppose it was good I try and enjoy what small things I could. Who knew what the future held.
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