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coraniaid · 1 month

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Xander, 1 and 21.

1 Why do you like or dislike this character?

Going to focus on the why part and avoid coming to a firm conclusion about the implicit binary choice.

Season 5's The Replacement posits that there are two Xanders -- one suave and self-confident, one a bumbling walking punchline -- before revealing that both of these Xanders are equally real and exist as aspects of the true and singular Xander, with neither having primacy over the other. However, while there are indeed two diametrically opposed versions of Xander Harris, real fans of the show know that they don't exactly correspond to what the show suggests here. The true distinction is between, on the one hand, the Xander who grows up miserable and alone in an abusive household and is determined not to become his father and who loves and supports his friends unconditionally and is maybe/probably/definitely bi but doesn't seem to realize it yet and, on the other hand, the Xander who makes frequent gross sexual comments about all the women he knows and visibly and bitterly resents the ways they outshine him and who considers it his moral duty to give them terrible, patronising, unsolicitied advice about their personal lives whenever he can.

As in The Replacement, both versions of the character have equal claim to be the 'real' Xander. The much more irritating one is perhaps more present in the early seasons (especially when the writers genuinely seem to be trying to set him up in an actual love triangle with Buffy herself, but also throughout much of his 'romance' with Cordelia) but he never really goes away, even after the writers started trying to find new things to do with his character from The Zeppo onwards. He shows up in Season 5 to explain to Buffy how it's all her fault that her boyfriend metaphorically cheated on her while she was selfishly worrying about her sick mother and he's actually a really great guy Buffy never properly appreciated (he doesn't say "can I have sex with Riley too?" in this episode, but he might as well have done); he shows up in Season 6 to sulk about the fact that the woman he left at the altar dared to sleep with somebody who wasn't him and how much she "disgusts" him as a result; he shows up in Season 7 to help kick Buffy out of her own house.

But, equally, the sympathetic, loyal and, yes, even heroic Xander isn't just some post hoc fandom creation either. There are hints even earlier, but Season 3 and especially Season 4 really do make it clear that Xander's home life is horrific. He does risk his life to save Buffy's in Prophecy Girl, even when Angel wouldn't, even after Buffy had been clear she didn't reciprocate his feelings toward her. He does eventually admit to some of his worst behaviour (his jealousy about Angel, his betrayal of Cordelia). His treatment of Anya, while horrible, really does make sense as an attempt to do the right thing for somebody he cares about by somebody almost utterly consumed by self-loathing.

His speech to Buffy in the second half of The Freshman ("when it's dark and I'm all alone and I'm scared [...] I always ask: what would Buffy do? You're my hero.") is, despite what he says immediately afterwards, genuinely touching. The way that, in The Replacement, even the cowardly incompetent side of Xander is willing to risk his life to protect Anya from what he thinks is a demon is honestly kind of sweet. His speech to Willow at the end of Season 6's Grave ("I'm not joking [...] I can't imagine the pain you're in [...] You're Willow [...] I love you") and to his speech to Dawn in Season 7's Potential ("You gave her your power [...] You're not special. You're extraordinary") both feel like genuinely well-earned moments in light of everything we've seen of Xander so far.

The fundamental tension inherent to Xander is that he doesn't smoothly and effortlessly develop from one version of the character to the other. It's not as simple as the grating Xander from the early seasons "getting better". Both sides of his character are present -- and either side can be dominant -- from the very beginning of the show and right until the end.

21 If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

Well, I am a fic writer and I have, technically, written for this character (he is the POV character for one fairly short chapter of Coexist.) I think he is a very hard character to write well (especially in the high school seasons) and I'm not at all sure I managed.

Honestly, I think well-written fanfic takes on Xander that actually treat him seriously as a character are incredibly rare. (Off the top of my head I can think of exactly one example. I'm sure there are others -- and I'm sure part of the issue is that I only really read a particular subset of Buffy fanfic -- but I doubt there are many others.)

I think a lot of fanfic writers really just don't like Xander at all (and so only write the horrible Xander, if that, and only so they can have the characters they like call him out on his worst behaviour), whereas other writers lean too heavily into the sympathetic Xander (and either have him explicitly realize and denounce his own poor behaviour early on or just write a meek and mild 'Xander' who just needs a hug and who has never even thought about saying anything inappropriate to any woman ever, which ... well, that's not the character that appears on screen, is it?).

I think the trick to writing Xander well, such as it is -- and the approach I tried to take myself -- is to try to treat him as sympathetically as possible without pretending he isn't often prone to jealousy and making mean-spirited comments, that he isn't a bit of a massive hypocrite at times and that he doesn't often say "funny" things that aren't when he shouldn't. That's harder than just playing up the angle that Xander's parents are awful and he's trying his best and suggesting he'd be much happier if he just followed Anya's advice to Buffy and found a "nice, boring, boyfriend", but I think if you don't try you're not writing a sympathetic version of Xander Harris so much as you're creating a whole new character.

Yes, Xander (mostly) is trying his best, and his parents (especially his father) are awful, but very often Xander's best is far from good enough. He will say awful things sometimes and he probably won't apologize for it, even if he does secretly feel ashamed by it. You have to try to write both versions of Xander -- both the one that makes sense as one of Buffy and Willow's best friends and the one who really doesn't seem to have anything in common with them at all -- if you're going to write the Xander.

That being said, the absolute worst thing you can do to Xander is give him magical powers or superhuman fighting skills so he can Help Buffy Patrol. That's not who he is! That's not true to either version of the character!

(... sorry, I lied. That's the second worst thing you can do to Xander. The actual worst thing is what the comics do with him and Dawn. No super-powered fantasy fanfic could be more horrible and ill-advised than that.)

#btvs #asks #thanks!

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slavghoul · 2 years

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A really nice article from this month's Classic Rock (6/2022) focusing on the atmosphere of Ghost shows and what Tobias is like on stage versus in private.

THE GREAT PRETENDER

The choral wells of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei, Deus drift through the audience at Manchester Arena. It’s Saturday night, the mood is high and a cathedral is being built on stage. Behind the curtain, eye catch glimpses of the sort of theatre normally associated with the Iron Maidens, Rammsteins and Alice Coopers of this world. Giant steps. High walls and arches. Ornate stained glass window backdrops. More dry ice than Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights video, dotted with a scattering of men in hard hats. Stonehenge this is not.

The curtain drops. The opening guitar glitter of Kaisarion bursts into our faces. Punters wearing nuns’ habits, crucifixes and corpse paint gaze up like children in a sweet shop, while Nameless Ghouls in gas masks are illuminated by cracking pyrotechnics. As riffs and drum thunder roll out like groovy cavalry, marrying heavy mystique with Def Leppard-sized hooks, it’s easy to see why Metallica and Dave Grohl are fans. The most rapturous applause, though, is reserved for their mercurial leader. An impishly charismatic figure, masked by black-and- white face paint. Hair slicked back with grey. Microphone in hand. Part Victorian military dandy, part Joel Grey’s MC from Cabaret in tight black skinny jeans and black leather gloves, Papa Emeritus IV strides, skips and gesticulates with the precision and campery of a seasoned Broadway star. And although there are thousands watching, those painted eyes of his have an oddly penetrative, Mona Lisa-esque effect. All-seeing. It’s as if he’s looking at you. Welcome to the Ghost show.

A few hours earlier we’re in a Grade Il-listed hotel on Manchester's Oxford Road, lifting an armchair with a short, polite Swedish guy in a band T-shirt. Silver chains clink at his wrists. A skull ring hulks round one finger. His generously spiked hair is jet-black, contrasting with almost bloodless skin. He could have wandered in from one of the rock pubs across the road.

"Master,” Tobias Forge says with a smile, pulling back his jacket, when asked about the T-shirt. “They’re an American eighties death metal band. They’re not very good, but they're cool!”

It’s surreal to think that this is the man who will slink across the stage as Papa Emeritus IV tonight (the latest incarnation of Forge’s fictitious, ecclesiastical one-man dynasty). The 41-year-old conductor at the heart of the 700 cues, 45 or so crew members and four tour buses that make up the Ghost experience; a production that, in some ways, feels more akin to the Cirque Du Soleil than to a rock show. It’s a globetrotting colossus, following its doomy, cultish origins in Linkoping, Sweden in 2006.

“Some people prefer ad-hoc rock bands like Pearl Jam or Springsteen, who come up on stage in whatever they wore on the street and just start playing,” he says, quickly adding: "which I love; I love Pearl Jam, I love Bruce Springsteen. But that’s not what we do. We don’t improvise that much. A lot of the show is free-form, which makes it edgy, but there’s still a script.”

Having released a gloriously grandiose new album, Impera, Ghost returned to the live circuit this year as co-headliners with Volbeat in the USA, causing some political “head-butting” when Ghost went on second every night. As Forge implies, they are not so much ‘hard to follow'-’ as logistically impossible. Now; at the start of this European tour, they’re very much on top - with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats and Twin Temple in support slots.

“Co-billing for us is not necessarily a great thing,” Forge reasons, carefully. “What we’re doing is not compatible with many other bands. Not necessarily the sound; I don’t see a problem for a fan to absorb both. But if it’s going to be a forty-five-minute changeover, is that great for the crowd that paid for these tickets? I can order ten courses I really like, but I can only eat one. I’m not sure it’s doing the desired trick.”

There’s a cool flash of fanaticism about Forge, just detectable behind his approachable demeanour. He looks you straight in the eye. He pauses to consider his answers. During our conversation he’ll compare putting on a show to a football season, making a film, running a restaurant and going to war. All are analogies he’s used before, and all support the sense of auteurship that ripples through the Ghost world (as well as echoing Forge’s own fondness for sports, Stanley Kubrick and good food).

But there are other sides to him. The geeky classic-rock lover, who watches live Queen and Iron Maiden clips to get pumped before shows. The guy who on tour goes out to football and hockey games. The arty urbanite with friends in music, film and amusement parks back home in Stockholm. The happily married father of teenage twins, who binge-watched The Sopranos, Game Of Thrones and Stranger Things with his family over lockdown. The reluctant frontman who, if he had his way, would be Ghost’s guitarist.

“But that’s like complaining about not being the general because you got to be the king instead. I would have felt more fluid being the guitar player, but the difference would have been that, mask or no mask, my on-stage persona would have been closer to my real one - my actual one, my private one - than it is nowadays.”

Over at the arena, the gap between those personas increases. As Impera's lead single Call Me Little Sunshine starts up, Papa returns in glittering cardinal's robes. He looks like a Christmas tree. Freddie Mercury via the Vatican. Liberace for the holy orders.

Back home, conversely, Forge marvels at the chops of friends like Fredrik Akesson, Opeth’s lead guitarist who played on Impera, embellishing the whole record with splashes of virtuosic, 80s-rocking flair.

“I mourn the fact I get to play the guitar so little over the course of my life, because I love playing,” Forge says, twisting his skull ring, “and I think I am a better musician than I am a singer. I just happen to be a good singer in Ghost.”

A self-described jack of all trades, the place you're most likely to find Forge, on tour, is behind a drum kit. Backstage he pounds through Top 40 hits as part of a mobile workout regimen. Foreigner’s Urgent, Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas, Lenny Kravitz’s Are You Gonna Go My Way? and The Guess Who’s American Woman are all on his go-to list.

In the past he relished the travel aspect of band life, ducking out to explore new sites and record shops. So much so that it began to tire him out, pre-show. Now, he mostly sticks to a strict routine of workouts and walking with audiobooks - most recently Jan Guillou’s Carl Hamilton series, Sweden’s politically astute answer to James Bond.

“Ten books, eighteen hours,” he says. “That’s good for ten thousand steps, and you can do calls when you’re walking.”

On stage the seven Nameless Ghouls are in similar ship shape, darting from the menace of From The Pinnacle To The Pit to a galloping Spillways - complete with guitar duels, knowing glances and gestures. Even without facial expressions their performances feel characterful, not to mention being shit-hot on a technical level. It says a lot about them, as people, that they’re happy to be in this group anonymously.

For almost a decade Forge was similarly hidden. He spoke to journalists from behind curtains or masks. Officially he only revealed his identity in 2017, following a lawsuit from ex-bandmates. These days, living in a celebrity-heavy pocket of Stockholm (the Skarsgard acting dynasty are among his neighbours) he’s relatively undisturbed, except for any passing rock fans who recognize him from video interviews on YouTube, and a few Google images. How does that level of visibility sit with him? Does he enjoy doing interviews, for instance, while unmasked?

“I guess from a therapeutic point of view, speaking so much about yourself, your background and your motivation of why you’re doing this, it does have a cathartic function. But I definitely reach a point each day where I don’t want to talk any more. As much as people think that as an artist you like to revel in yourself...” he catches himself. “Look, I’m an exhibitionist, of course, but I definitely get to a point where I get really bummed talking about myself after a while.”

Perhaps this explains the desire to inhabit other personas, and makes sense of his latent acting ambitions.

“Yes,” he says with a laugh when asked if there are specific characters he’d love to play, “but I can’t say because it's part of how I view myself, and that might not rhyme with the rest. As an actor you are working with your physical attributes as your currency, so I know being five foot nine, white, with a certain body shape, I couldn’t do everything on the menu.”

In the Ghost universe, Forge bypasses such restrictions, starring in it and directing the various other parts. Mid-set at Manchester Arena, the audience’s mouths stretch into grins as Papa Nihil - an ancient ‘mentor’ cardinal in aviators - is wheeled out in an open coffin. This was not expected. Supposedly they killed him off in Mexico just before the first lockdown, but here he is, ‘reanimated’ by stage hands to deliver Miasma's saxophone solo. It’s all very Alice Cooper, with a dash of Benny Hill.

“I like to compare it to running a restaurant, because people...” Forge searches for the words. “You grew tired of your quiche or whatever a long time ago, even if it’s your grandma’s recipe, but people expect it to taste the same every night because they don’t come in and eat it every day. They expect the quiche to taste the way it did, because they brought two friends with them.”

So what dish would Ghost be?

“Because of the mixed nature of the music that’s combined,” he muses, “I guess it’s a calzone, with sushi in it, with cream on top.”

As the hits keep on coming, they make good on that sushi-calzone-with-cream-on-top concept. The Ghouls storm into Kraken-sized riffer Cirice, and Papa Emeritus reappears in bat wings – because why not? There are smoke jets, more dry ice, new robes, a fancy hat that (at certain angles) looks a bit like antlers... And then come the flames. Big ones. Fucking loads of them, giving the pyromaniac crews behind Slipknot and Rammstein a run for their money, before leading into He Is - a satirical yet stirring singalong with ABBA in its veins, completed following the suicide of Forge’s friend Selim Lemouchi (of Dutch occult rockers The Devil’s Blood) in 2014. Four years previously, his music-loving older brother died suddenly, the same day the first Ghost songs were released. Death runs deep in this music - in the fortitude it’s taken Forge to run with it.

But they're not done yet.

The metallic crunch of Mummy Dust is swiftly offset by Papa donning a blue sparkly jacket. “Let me hear you say ‘oomph’!” he roars into the audience, followed by what might be “did you feel it in your pants?!” - but it’s hard to tell through the make-up and an accent that sounds increasingly Compare The Meerkat-esque.

Indeed, for all Papa’s suave qualities his stage banter comes with an enchantingly befuddled edge; somewhere between a swashbuckling lothario and a slightly mad pensioner, but less creepy than that sounds. Is this the same softly spoken Scandi guy who chatted earlier about doing his 10,000 steps and watching hockey games?

“We’ve had a good hang!” he declares, by way of a pre-encore ‘farewell’. “I hope you leave feeling... well hung?!”

From there it’s time for a dynamite brace of Enter Sandman (they provided a version for Metallica’s Blacklist guest covers album last year) and Dance Macabre - the least metal song ever recorded by a band with such a metal-friendly image as Ghost.

“Just one more?” Papa shouts to the whooping masses. “And then you go out into the Manchester night, and either you fuck someone, or you go fuck yourself! How about that?”

With that, the band nail an addictive Square Hammer, and the cheers shoot up by several decibels.

Back at the hotel, just before he disappears to gear up for the evening ahead, Tobias Forge considers how it feels when he steps on stage. Transformed. Ready.

“I would say phenomenal,” he replies. “It’s one of the few moments where I don’t think about much else. Most of the time I am thinking of something else. I’m worrying about all kinds of stuff at the same time. The best nights are when you flow through them, and the worst nights are when you think: ‘Oh shit, I forgot the last step, I need to go back,’ and you start thinking about it.”

If that happens tonight, they hide it well. Curtain calls arc taken to the pastoral strains of Emmylou Harris's Sorrow In The Wind, and as Papa and the Ghouls wave, blow kisses and throw plectrums into the adoring audience there’s something reassuringly innocent about it all.

When children learn the truth about Santa Claus, they often keep believing anyway because they want to. They play along with stockings by the chimney, or Dad/Uncle Pete/whoever in the red suit, because it’s more fun that way. The same thing happens with Ghost. Ultimately it’s make-believe. A mystery with a sparkling rock soundtrack.

‘Fun’ can feel like a dismissive term. But as we’ve been reminded tonight, there is power in fun. Power in big, rousing guitars. Power in brilliantly entertaining spectacles. Not least of all, in recent times, fun offers cathartic escape like little else. The means to smile instinctively. Restoration for anyone who’s ever felt crushed by life.

“I would put on Live After Death before going on stage because it takes me near to the dream, rather than thinking of the practical nature of today,” Forge reasons. “That’s what it’s all about. All we’re doing is dreaming.”

Fistfulls of 'Ghost dollars' are scattered by roadies as house lights go up, the smell of burning permeates the arena and, finally, we wake up.

#the band ghost #interview #tobias forge

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barrel-o-monkeys-lmk · 9 months

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My theory about monkey kid:

I think I've realized how monkey kid arcs work, because DBK was posessed by LBD, and Spider Queen was essentially a puppet to LBD and season three was LBD. It's a puppet chain leading to the puppeteer as the main bad guy.

Now think about how season four went. The cycle reset. Azure was a puppet to the king of the underworld, but for it to continue, the king *can't* be the next big bad, it would shorten the cycle.

So either,

A: the king is, and they fuck up their three season cycle they've got going, OR

B: someone else the king planted is the conflict. Someone we know. Ink-K.

(looking at this through a system biased lens,) what if Ink-K is still here? Pressuring MK. And what if: MK is struggling with what he talked about, "wanting to go back to their monster of the week adventures". And also his monkeyness.

I see the way HOC works is an In-between of MK and Ink-K. Where MK is good, and Ink-K is (generally) evil. HOC is neutral.

And the reason why MK was acting so different as HOC is because HOC is MK's "real emotions" perse, like if: because he was human for so long, his emotions have been stuck humanish, and HOC is like a puberty-ish emotional fluctuation for MK. And a bit of a confidence boost, a feeling of freedom, but it's like removing a "masking" of sorts, letting it all out.

And Ink-K is *pushing* MK to the evil he wants him to be throughout the season.

What if MK, or even Ink-K is *CAUSING* monster of the week adventures, and realizing rather quickly that they are too low scale for him.

Hell, even his monkeyness causing him to hang out with wukong and macaque more to talk to them about all of this, and like how the hero and the warrior went, MK leaves the main crew behind for most of the season, going off on his own, dealing with his thoughts away from them, and through the season, they have to have an intervention with MK, talking about how he needs to stop what he's doing, and asking to talk it out, but MK's volatile emotions cause him to lash out causing either a deep look within himself to ask "what happened?" Or even a fight with the main cast, and maybe even Wukong and Macaque, to get him to see reason.

Before Ink-K pressures him further, and MK talks it out with the group. Not an external "Big Bad" for the season, but an internal conflict as he handles his new emotions, before accepting what he is, and becoming a monkey permanently. HOC (a median-like entity) becomes the new host in a sense, before Ink-K and MK have a final bout, before they both talk it out, before Ink-K sulks in a corner, and comes back about half way through season 6.

That's how I predict the new seasons will go, before *something* happens to put the king in the spotlight, like maybe him stealing the jade emperor's power from nezha, and causing the cast to rampage through the underworld to stop him, interacting with each king to try and figure out "who done it?" In a way, and fighting the King to capstone off the season.

DBK-SQ-LBD

Azure-Ink-K-King.

It fulfills the three season pattern nicely.

So, what do you guys think?

#lmk #lmk theory #lmk mk #lmk sun wukong #lmk macaque #lmk mei #lego monkie kid #lmk pigsy #lmk tang #lmk sandy #lmk six eared macaque #ink mk

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silvyysthings · 2 years

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DUNE: PART 2 will film scenes at Brion Tomb in Altivole, Italy, next week, likely on July 4-6, as indicated in an ordinance by the town's mayor to restrict access to the area.

Shooting, which kicks off Monday, will likely last until Wednesday 6 July. The set is very secure: the mayor of Altivole, Chiara Busnardo, has signed an ad hoc ordinance to limit access to the filming area. The arrival of dozens of fans from all over Italy is inevitable but the controls will be tightened. For Altivole remains the pride of being the backdrop to one of the most anticipated international films of the next film season

#timothée chalamet #zendaya #rebecca ferguson #dune part two #dune2

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joshdonnas · 2 years

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Privateers (4x18)

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Life on Mars (4x21)

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Full Disclosure (5x15)

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Memorial Day (5x22)

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Ninety Miles Away (6x19)

In God We Trust (6x20)

Things Fall Apart (6x21)

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Here Today (7x05)

The Al Smith Dinner (7x06)

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Running Mates (7x10)

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The Cold (7x13)

Two Weeks Out (7x14)

Welcome to Wherever You Are (7x15)

Election Day Part I (7x16)

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Requiem (7x18)

Transition (7x19)

The Last Hurrah (7x20)

Institutional Memory (7x21)

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writerleo86 · 3 months

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Terravenger Season 6 - The Agents of Light Arc - Episode 497 (Do Not Copy) - 01.04.2024

Walking from the shadows was a young girl with fair skin and bright blue eyes. She had long blond hair that was made into a bun. She wore a turquoise shirt with short sleeves and a V neck. Placed on the right side of the chest area was a picture of a toad with light-green scales and large yellow eyes. And placed on the front left side of the shirt was a golden MAF badge. She also had a small orange band around each wrist, a pair of tight khaki pants with a small skirt coming from her waist, and a thick red-orange sash tied around the top of her waist. And she wore a pair of open-toed green-blue shoes with orange at the front.

The girl continued walking forward as she gave out an excited smile.

And she said in a calm voice "I guess it's time for me to shine."

Terravenger -- Season 6

Episode 497: The Two Ravens -- Prepare Yourself

On the first floor of the Midas City Hospital, the tired Duo sat on the bed inside a small room. Duo had his shirt off as one of the Midas Academy's teachers stood behind him at the left side of the bed.

Kirk Tucson placed his left hand on the top of his student's back as Duo asked "Is the really necessary?"

Tucson informed him "We know now that the Bringer can possess your body at anytime. Unless you are completely protected, he can return anytime he wants."

Duo yawned as he stared at the ceiling.

And the youth told Tucson "Fine! Let's do this already!"

Tucson gave a short chuckle and replied "I knew you'd see it my way."

First, the color of Tucson's eyes began to glow yellow.

He chanted "Obsecro te hoc corpus ab aliqua specie tenebrarum custodire."

A golden light soon shined around his left hand. A large circle of golden light was placed on the top of Duo's back.

And Tucson called out "Tenebris Spiritus Signationem!"

Duo began to yell in pain as the golden light had shined from the circle on his back for a moment. Then the shine from his back faded. The true color of Tucson's eyes returned. And placed on the top of the youth's back was a large black-lined tattoo that was shaped as a circular discus.

After that, Duo fell on his right side to the bed as he continued to feel the pain on his back.

"What the hell?" He cried. "This is supposed to protect me? This thing hurts like a mother?"

"Give it a few minutes," directed Tucson. "Your back will be good as new. You'll be able to walk freely without any source of darkness trying to control you. This will work as long as I'm still alive though."

And Duo implied "That means MAF's gotta keep you protected too!"

Tucson gave a soft laugh and informed his student "It'll be alright. If the Midas Armed Forces isn't able to protect me, I know the forces of Light will."

During the evening, an individual performed a back roll toward a large tree while they were at the middle of a large forest which was at the northern part of Midas City.

This was a male youth with fair skin, a slender body, and shaggy dark-brown hair. He had a pair of pointy ears with a patch of dark hair on each top. Each of his eyes had a yellow sclera, a light-green iris, and pointy black pupils. He also had fangs among his teeth. And he had claws coming from his fingers. He wore a short-sleeved white shirt with the top part revealing his neck and shoulders. On the center of the shirt's front was a large shape made of golden lines. And he had a thick black brace around each elbow which had a jet-black pad. He also wore a pair of tight black pants that lowered to his ankles. And he had on short black boots which had light-purple protectors at both the front and the toe area.

He leaned himself onto the tree as he found another person floating down to him.

This new individual was the slender soldier named Tiger. He was a male human-like creature with light skin and pale-blue eyes. He had long and puffy tail that was colored white. The inner part of his short hair was black while the outer was blue. And his right eye was covered by locks of his hair. He also on black eyeliner and black lipstick. He wore a sleeveless black top with a large light-blue V covering his chest. Each shoulder was covered in black while see-through black sleeves were attached to his fingerless black gloves. He had tight black leggings and long black warmers around his ankles with blue at the center. He also was bare-footed. And he wore a long and opened black coat with short sleeves.

As each hand remained inside the pocket on both sides of his coat, Tiger looked down at the younger warrior with no emotion.

Tiger directed in his soft but grim voice "When you go for the attack, make certain that you are intended to kill."

The boy shook his head and answered "Yes sir."

At the left side of the Training Room at the Midas Academy, the pint-sized girl turned around as she waved to the cheering audience using both hands. Many students and staff members had stood from bleachers at two sides of the large arena.

But standing behind the cheerful girl was the older Luna. She had light skin and sky-blue eyes. Her blond hair was still worn straight and fell toward her shoulders. She wore a long-sleeved white shirt underneath a pink shirt with shorter sleeves. And her MAF badge remained on the front left side of her chest. She had on a long pink skirt with a small upside-down golden crescent-moon crest holding it together. She also had long blue-violet warmers around her ankles and maroon slippers with high heels.

Luna called to the younger girl "Do your best, Ino! But have fun too!"

The pint-sized girl named Ino Iruka shook her head and looked forward with determination.

She thought to herself "Just think good vibes, Ino. You've got this."

Next, three more individuals walked into the room from the two doors at the other side.

One of them at the right side was Paige McCormack who had fair skin and sky-blue eyes. Her brunette hair was short and formed into the bob-cut style. She also had on black eyeliner and light-pink lipstick. And she had a black choker around her neck with a golden locket chained to the center which had a small red gem. She had on a long-sleeved yellow shirt with a black top which had the MAF badge placed on the front left side. She also wore a pair of puffy white bottoms. And she had on a pair of long dark-brown boots that had flat heels.

The girl who was the left side of the group was Seer. She had long black hair that had light-purple highlights. And she wore black eyeliner along with light-purple lipstick. She also had golden rings on the bottom of her ears and a silver tiara on her forehead with a small clear gem lowering from the center. She wore a black outfit consisting of purple outlines and a large heart which revealed the top of her chest. And her tight bottoms lowered to the bottom of her knees. She also had a large black warmer with purple outlines covering each arm and long black boots. Her golden MAF badge was placed on the front left side of the chest area. And a long pale-violet sash was tied around her waist.

The other who remained at the middle was Iris Thomas. She had pale skin, green eyes, and bright blue hair that passed her shoulders. She had on black eyeliner and purple lipstick. And she had on dark-blue earrings. Iris wore a blue top that lowered to her middle section. She had on short bottoms that had two tones of blue. And she had on a thin black belt with her MAF badge worn as its buckle. She also wore a pair of long black boots. And a shiny black necklace was worn around her neck with a small ivory fang hanging from the center.

Iris stood at the right side of the arena as she stared at her opponent with determination. And the other girls -- Paige and Seer -- sat at the front of the bleachers that were behind Iris.

Meanwhile, ten staff members sat at a long table which sat a row of computers inside the large room at the bottom of the Academy.

The head-engineer Seven of Nine remained behind the team as he watched the large screen placed on the wall before them. He wore a gray coat with a vertical green-blue line placed on each long sleeve. And he had a fine collar that was attached to his coat. Underneath his coat were long dark-gray sleeves. He also had on a pair of baggy light-gray pants with a thick white line around the lower part of each leg. He had on a pair of black boots. And his MAF badge remained on the front left side of his coat.

The emotionless cyborg folded his arms before him as someone else walked to his left side. It was his lieutenant Victoria Sidney with her long blond hair worn out, black eyeliner, and red lipstick. She wore a brown coat with yellow linings and a pair of long tails falling from the back. He had on a pair of white pants and short burgundy boots. She also had on brown gloves and a long golden pad over each shoulder. And her MAF badge remained on the front left side of her coat.

Victoria informed him "The Commander and I both are impressed with the work you had invented. You should be proud of all you have done for the past few months."

"Thank-you Lieutenant," said Seven of Nine.

Victoria shook her head and replied "Continue your best efforts by switching the imagery of the battlefield."

Seven of Nine shook his head and directed "Bring forth Act 208!"

Sitting on the fourth seat at the long table was the ecstatic youth named Raj. He wore a sleeveless dark-brown shirt with a black gauntlet covering each wrist and ankle. He wore a pair of baggy pale-green pants with a thin black belt. On each side of his waist was a small light-brown compartment shaped as a cylinder. And he wore his black shoes with yellow-green at the top center. He wore an opened white vest with a thick collar and short sleeves. A pair of golden diamonds were placed on the front right sides of his vest while a large pocket was on the left side. He also had a MAF badge that was placed on the large pocket of his vest. And he wore his visor with blue lenses around his eyes.

The youth pulled down his right fist with excitement and yelled "Yes sir!"

Raj began typing on his keyboard as the entire area of the training room had changed.

The two opponents along with the attendance who sat on their bleachers were not on the sandy grounds which was surrounded by a great ocean during a beautiful morning.

A small flock of white birds flew into the air as the opponents continued facing each other.

The other members of the Paigettes club remained at the right side as the leader Paige told Seer "The people that are work in the Engine Room have become greater since Mr. Seven of Nine has entered as their leader."

Seer implied "This entire area! This looks almost real! I love what technology that Mr. Seven has brought to the table!"

Then the serene Victoria announced to everyone "This battle will begin between Iris Thomas and Ino Iruka."

The pint-sized Ino shook her head with a great smile on her face and told her opponent "Let's give this fight everything we have."

And she introduced herself "Watashi wa Iruka Ino. Let this battle help us learn about ourselves."

The smiling Iris shook her head and said "Yoku itta. My name is Iris Thomas."

The voice of the kind Victoria finally announced "Begin!"

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Week 4: Reality TV and social media

The boundaries between created and real, performer and viewer, are frequently blurred in this intricate and interesting ecology that has emerged from the growing integration of social media and reality TV. Deller study (2020) claims that social media has contributed to the emergence of "microcelebrities," or small-scale online celebrities in a particular niche who may include people who utilize social networking sites to develop their own personal brands (Funn & Falkof 2021). More precisely, being on Reality TV serves as a springboard for many cast members to pursue successful social media careers, using their newly acquired notoriety to market themselves and collaborate with companies. A notable illustration is the singer Hòa Minzy. was declared the winner on June 18, 2014, the last night of "hoc vien ngoi sao" season 1, receiving 51.16% of the vote from the audience (VnExpress 2014). Since sharing her song on social media, Hoa Minzy has amassed over 2 million Facebook followers and a million YouTube subscribers. She made a lot of money from brand collaborations, product endorsements, and even her own clothing line by using her singing ability and humorous nature.

consequently, even though social media can facilitate self-expression, self-presentation, self-promotion, and marketing, it also exposes celebrities to a wider debate about the sincerity of their persona and brand, thereby "holding up a mirror to human behavior and interaction," which is a sobering realization for anyone who has given it any thought (Dellar 2019).

Reference list:

Reference list

Deller, RA 2020, Reality television : the television phenomenon that changed the world, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, Uk.

Dunn, C & Falkof, N 2021, ‘You’ve Got to Be Real: Authenticity, Performativity and Micro-Celebrity in South Africa’, Frontiers in Sociology, vol. 6.

VnExpress 2014, Hòa Minzy trở thành quán quân Học viện Ngôi sao, vnexpress.net, viewed 1 February 2024, <https://vnexpress.net/hoa-minzy-tro-thanh-quan-quan-hoc-vien-ngoi-sao-3006431.html>.

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