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honey, wake up, the romulans are at it again
#snw spoilers#my thoughts on that episode#they are always at the most#i enjoyed seeing more of laan#her and jim have amazing chemistry#and ofc pelia#em-txt
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What if Natlan took inspiration from the Aztec death whistles? (GENSHIN RAMBLE)
08.05.2023 | Note by me: Okay guys, I know Fontaine’s 4.0 trailer just came out and it’s far too early to be talking about Natlan that is going to be released in 5.0, BUT I just came across a fact called the “death whistles” from Ancient Mexico and I ran straight here to share with you guys :) So enjoy the read, fellow Natlan enthusiasts! Please note that this is just a ramble about Natlan’s speculation and their soon to be revealed lore, this post is not indicative of Hoyoverse’s final product.
And since I am going to be talking about things heavily related to cultural references, if you are familiar with/apart of the cultures that is being mentioned, please do correct me if I had made a mistake and feel free to add your thoughts in asks or in the tags below! I will add credits to the websites from which I have found this information from in the bottom of this post. Reblogs and credits are very much appreciated. ^^
(CW: Few swear words below the cut!)
So there is this unique part of Aztec culture called the “death whistle” that originated from ancient Mexico. It’s a kind of whistle shaped into a seemingly humanoid carving with an opening to blow into that creates a bone-chilling sound reminiscent of human screams, animal calls, and howling winds. These whistles come in various shapes and produce different variations of sounds. Here are some pictures I found in Google, so this is what they look like:
As you may know, Natlan is speculated to be inspired from Pre-Columbian or Indigenous America, alongside influence from Spanish and West African cultures. Either way, it can mean that Natlan may also be inspired from Aztec or early Mexcian cultures and folklore, so it’d make sense that they would add inspiration of the whistles. To list some references of Natlan that we see so far, the nation’s name could be a reference to the language of Nahuatl, meaning “place near where there is abundance [of] Na”. Secondly, the Aztecs worshipped many gods of wars, and Mexico is well-known for its volcanoes, much like Natlan is, and so much more.
Going back, I would conclude that it would be a very interesting and most likely addition if Natlan would include the death whistle which is deeply connected to Aztec and Mexican folklore.
In the immemorial past, these whistles were found in temples that worshipped the wind god Ehecatl (E-he-kah-tl). These whistles were also associated with the Aztec god of death who ruled over the land of the dead from what they call Mictlan, named Mictlāntēcutli (Muhkt-laan-tuh-koot-lee). These instruments were called “whistles of death” because historians believed that they were used to help guide sacrificial victims on their journey to the afterlife. Not only that, but I have also derived information that they were used for religious practices, such as ritual sacrifice, or for something related to battle and war. This fact stood out to me considering Natlan is the Nation of War, and to have these featured in the game’s story would be undoubtedly amazing! And even a good addition to the overall cultural feel and character of Natlan’s dedication to combat. I feel it would enhance the tone of the nation’s lore and even give us a tiny glimpse to the more deeper and darker parts of Genshin lore.
Here is a YouTube link for the sound of the death whistle.
Also, fun fact! Because the whistle is related to the god Ehecatl, the whistles were required to simulate the sounds of the wind because a strong wind cannot be summoned whenever the occasion requires. Interesting isn’t it?
Now, time for my opinions and speculations!
Ever notice how Barbatos and the wind is always vaguely mentioned in the lore of the nations we go through outside of Mondstadt, such as where Barabtos’s seal is strikingly similar to one of the adeptal abodes we visited, or that one letter we found in the Chasm with the Abyss, how Barbatos was vaguely mentioned to be helping Dvorjak to help him in Liyue? Or how the wind god of time, Istaroth, was mentioned in Ei’s Story Quest and the Cecilia flower making appearances in one of the cutscenes in Inazuma? Or maybe you’ve heard of the crazy theories of Irminsul being related to Venti? How about those Anemo vision weilders saving us in each nation we visit? Hahaha, I think I'm going crazy. But.
What if I am not?
Suspiciously enough, from what we’ve learned, these whistles were found in a temple that worships a wind god. You know who else is a god of the wind and has a temple to worship him/her? And the fact that it is also mentioned that a strong wind cannot be summoned in certain occasions, and you know a place in Genshin where the wind does not blow? Yes. Mare Jivari. And surprise, it is also located in Natlan.
I wonder if Venti will be vaguely mentioned once again, but in Natlan. Of all places, he keeps getting mentioned in other nation’s lore. If this is the case, and Venti’s motifs (Wind, song, poetry, cecilias, etc. You get the gist.) OR his god status as Barbatos. If this continues in Fontaine and this happens to be true in Natlan, or even throughout the story in Snezhnaya, then this cannot be a coincidence. After all, we’ve gotten information about Barbatos’s connection with the Tsaritsa, their fallout, and how she is jealous of his power.
Moving on.
I think it would be scary and cool at the same time if we hear that the whistles could even be used in war in Natlan. Perhaps to drive, scare, and even torment their enemies? If Hoyoverse’s writing team would be so bold and even take a step further to amplify Natlan’s culture surrounding war and battle, and even show us as the audience that these people are far more fearsome than they seem, then the death whistle would be such a kickass addition. Who among the people could have discovered it? Their Archon?
Come on, Hoyoverse, don’t be shy. You’ve given us psychological horror from Sumeru’s samsara, Dottore’s experiments, an execution surrounding the God of Eternity’s extra-special technique, now give us some feral fire-bending tribes who could go absolutely apeshit and don’t hesitate to fuck around their enemies like they wanted. Let them do it in honor of war. In honor of the Lady of Fire. Show us that they are tribes that belong to the art of combat. That they are true tribesmen and women that shall serve War at any cost.
Anyway, that is all that I have to share, thank you for reading! And here are the links to the websites from which I got the info!
#genshin impact#natlan#natlan genshin impact#nation of war#genshin ramble#venti#venti genshin impact#barbatos#PHEW this took longer than i expected!#anyway#i'd like to have some people to talk to about#ill be waiting for you guys' thoughts!!!
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TESFest Day 06 - Final Kiss/Prophecy
"Hind siiv Alduin, hmm?" Ivrasea stared down the dragon in front of her. They had managed to lure Odahviing into the trap above Dragon's Reach.
"Vahzah. Where is he?" Miraak walks up next to her, putting his hand on her shoulder. He is always there, reminding her where she is, who she is. Making sure she doesn't lose herself talking with the dragons. She tends to forget the people around her don't also understand the dragon tongue.
"Rinik vahzah. Alduin bovul. One reason I came to your call was test your Thu'um myself. Many have begun to question Alduin's lordship, whether his Thu'um was really the strongest... Among ourselves, of course. None we yet ready to openly defy him." Ivrasea rolled her eyes at the dragon. She didn't particularly care about what the dragons thought of Alduin. She just wanted to get this stupid prophecy thing over with but of course the dragons aren't making it easy on her.
"He's hiding? Where?" Odahviing laughed at her impatience. Ivrasea took a step forward, a spell flaring to life in her hand, but she was of course held back by Miraak.
"Unslaad krosis. He has travelled to Sovengarde to regain his strength, devouring the sillsejoor. A privilege he jealously guards... His door to Sovengarde is in Skuldafn, one of his ancient fanes high in the eastern mountains. Mindoraan, pah middovahhe lahvraan til. Zu'u lost ofan hin laan... now that I have answered your question, will you allow me to go free?" She narrowed her eyes at the dragon before responding.
"No. Not until Alduin is defeated." The dragon seemed to smile at her.
"Hmm... krosis. There is one detail I neglected to mention about Skuldafn." It seemed so quiet up here with the dragon. She wasn't alone, she knew that by the hand on her shoulder, keeping her grounded. And she knew there were other people in the room with her, witnessing the conversation between her and Odahviing.
"What is it? Spill it." She was trying so hard to keep her composure but she was so tired from all this. The dragons got on every last one of her nerves, making her want to kill them even more. And they all seemed to enjoy it.
"You have the Thu'um of a dovah but without the wings of one, you will never set foot in Skuldafn. Of course, I could fly you there, but not while imprisoned here." At the reminder of not having the wings of a dovah, she felt suddenly uncomfortable in her skin. It happened occasionly, like her dragon soul trying to break out of her skin, like it was the wrong vessel.
"Do you expect me to taker your word on that?" She felt another hand on her other shoulder, and whispered words in her ear.
"You can trust him. What would be the point of trapping his if you didn't think he'd tell the truth?" Miraak's words made sense of course. Why shouldn't she believe him? She just didn't want to believe it'd be so easy.
"Ahraan. You would me, Dovahkiin. I may not tell the whole truth but I am no liar. Go see for yourself. I will be here, of course... unless alduin returns before you do." Odahviing was right of course. She didn't have any other option, nor the time to figure something else out. She sighed and put her hands up on Miraak's for a moment before stepping away from him. She signalled for the guards to let up the trap.
"Fine, I'll let you go, as long as you take me to Skuldafn."
"Saraan uth — I await your command, as promised. Are you ready to see the world as only a dovah can? Zok brit uth! I warn you, once you've flown the skies of Keizaal, your envy of the dov will only increase. Amativ! Mu bo kotin stinselok."
Ivrasea turned around to face Miraak. He took his mask off, which startled her a bit. He never much liked taking it off in public. She never quite understood why. The influence of Herma Mora wasn't very obvious anymore, at least not to anyone who wasn't looking for it. She wasn't sure what color his eyes used to be, but now the iris's are a mix of greens and blacks. His sclera is mostly white now, but with a bit of green here and there. He was smiling at her. She didn't quite understand why. She was about to leave him alone again. With no idea if she'd even return.
Miraak noticed the sadness in her expression and grabbed her hands. That was his way of soothing and her and for some reason it usually worked. But not today. There is just too much happening and she just wasn't ready for any of it.
"I'm not ready for this. I barely survive last time I went up against and I had help then. What am I supposed to do against him in the place he's the strongest?" He let go of her hands and instead cupped her face in his hands. She felt a bit more relaxed with him.
"Don't worry so much. You'll be fine. You are so much more powerful than you think." She closed her eyes for a moment and placed her hands over his.
"I hate prophecies," she whispered. Miraak chuckled a bit and she smiled.
"I know." He leaned forward and kissed her. It felt like a last kiss. A goodbye. She had make sure she made it back alive. She didn't want this to be the last for them. He let her go and helped her up on Odahviing.
Putting his mask back on he said to her, "You better defeat him and make it back to me alive." She smiled down at him.
"You know I will."
#tesfest22#tes#oc: ivrasea#miraak#tesfic#im being nice to ivrasea for now#maybe not so much to miraak tho
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Imperial Sniper
CHAPTER ONE: Where’s Your Respect?
CHPT 1 | CHPT 2 | AO3 |
Plot: The Separatists had been defeated, and it is the dawn of the new Galactic Empire. Y/N, who abandoned her former Jedi ways now walk among the ranks of the Empire as a Sith as means of survival. Her actions fueled by her pain and anger towards Emperor Palpatine and the devastating Order 66 are what keep her alive, as she struggles to find her way through the broken galaxy.
Her new mission pairs her up with local sharpshooter CT-994, Crosshair, the two of them tasked with eliminating a Senator conspiring with the Rebels and harboring a Jedi.
Pairing: Crosshair x Reader
Word Count: 1k
Author’s note: You know what, now I’m writing fics. Crosshair goddamn you, you make me do things I never imagined I’d do again.
Currently, this is a standalone story where we get to see a snippet of Crosshair's continued allegiance with the Empire after the events of Season 1. I may tie this into a larger picture where Cross reuinites with his brothers and expand this into a Bad Batch x reader, but for now, I hope you enjoy a lil bit of Crosshair tribute!
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The Separatists had been defeated and the rising Galactic Empire was quickly spreading its generosity and order throughout the galaxy. Currently, its top priority is to quietly eliminate the remaining Jedi the clones may have missed, as well as eradicating any remaining individuals in seats of power voicing against the new political power.
Y/N marched down the pristine halls at a rhythmic pace, ready for her newly assigned mission. The once amicable Jedi who enjoyed the company of her garrison now was hate-filled Sith—due to the sudden revolt of her own trusted garrison, and the death of her fellow Jedi. She managed to seek means of survival by channeling her hatred towards the Sith and ironically becoming a Sith to avoid the Empire’s condemnation.
For this mission, she was being accompanied by a renowned trooper, a sniper who never misses, and one of the last few remaining clones in the Imperial army at that.
His name was Crosshair.
She turned a corner, entering the armoring she was notified to meet her soon-to-be partner in. The lights were dim, the room seemingly empty, so she waved her hand to slide the door shut, and waited.
“Didn’t anyone teach you to knock… ?”
The armory was in fact, not empty. The sniper decked out in his sleek dark trooper armor lounged casually in the darkest corner of the room, slowly and meticulously polishing his rifle. Upon the intrusion, Crosshair merely cocked his head to the newcomer, barely acknowledging his assigned partner. He silently stares the girl down, closely observing her attire and demeanor.
Y/N paused, returning the glare. “Didn’t anyone teach you to treat those who exceed you in rank with respect?”
The enhanced clone’s face remained unreadable, but his voice dripped with sarcasm.
“Didn’t have any… higher ups to answer to,” the man drawled, finally standing up. He holds his gaze with a little spark of curiosity. Crosshair was more wary of his new partner than scared, the latter of which seems to be the effect the girl was attempting to instill.
He finds it almost laughable.
Clearly this girl was still new to the horrors of the battlefield of this dark new era, yet she was already trying to assert the authority her status in the Empire had granted her. That aside, a mission was a mission, and he had a job to complete.
“The mission…?” He inquires slowly.
Choosing the wiser path and ignoring the clone’s impudence, Y/N pulls out a holoprojector, summarizing the mission brief.
“This is senator Ca-laan,” she nods at the projected image of a regal figure adorned in fine robes and jewels. “He leads a small outer rim planet. We have eyes on him because of a coded transmission we intercepted carrying the news of their allegiance to the Rebellion. As well as their harboring of an escaped Jedi.” The last part brought a bitter taste to Y/N’s mouth, as this would have been the same fate for her had she not managed to convince Lord Vader of her uses as a Sith.
“We are to cleanly eliminate the senator and neutralize the Jedi. I was told you would be the best for the job,” she notes as she stowed the device back into the folds of her robes and readjusted her mask.
Crosshair shared a curt jerk of his head as a response before he donned his own helmet. The little smirk tugging at the corner of his lips did not did not go unnoticed, however. Clearly this man is confident of his skills, and enjoys the brief acknowledgement like a proud bird displaying its plumage.
“Lead the way, miss.”
Another snarky response, another eye-roll. Y/N spun on her heels and began making her way towards her ship’s docking bay.
“We will be taking my ship, a modified Theta-class T-2c shuttle, my Infinity Atlas,” the sith starts, not turning back to see if the man is caught up. Upon entering the hold of the ship, she fluidly begins powering it up, flicking switches here and pressing some buttons there. She smiled as she took in the familiarity of the hum of her ship, the engines quickly igniting in beat.
“Have you ever been on one of these ships?”
Crosshair steps on board, scanning the interior, “I’ve seen my fair share of ships. Tech—” He hesitated, but quickly recoups his pace, “—Doesn’t shut up about em.” The man follows Y/N onto the bridge, faintly impressed. His gaze swept over the buttons and levers, no doubt breaking down the piloting hardware in his head in case it ever came down to him piloting.
“Your ship cloaked?”
The girl was certainly proud of her handiwork on her ship, as she smiled for the first time since she was assigned this mission. “Of course it’s fully cloaked. Best imperial tech in this bad boy.” Taking a seat, she begins charting their course, quickly disembarking on their journey.
“Tech… he is one of the troopers on the rogue force… ninety-nine, was it?”
Pointedly turning a deft ear to the question, Crosshair turned around to head back into the cabin. “Give a call when we’re there.” He calls, finding a perch on one of the seats, and setting his helmet on his lap.
The sniper doesn’t actually plan on sleeping, he is merely resting his eyes for the upcoming job. Sniping does make one’s eyes dry, so he knew to prepare so that he doesn’t reach his limits. However, he sits still as a stone, unmoving.
The sniper listens. He listens to the humming of the engines. He listens to the occasional clicks and beeps. He listens for the other life form piloting the ship. Shuffles in the seat, tapping of the foot, with his main sensory input tuned off, Crosshair utilizes his others.
Now that he had a moment to himself, he realized he was a bit put off by his own mentionings of his former teammates. It almost felt… normal.
But now is not the time. He reorganized himself and continued listening.
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If anyone knows how to use the read more function on mobile please teach me
#tbb crosshair#the bad batch spoilers#the bad batch#clone force 99#the clone wars#order 66#crosshair x you#crosshair x y/n#crosshair x reader#tbb fanfiction#Star Wars#tbb tech
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14 & 20!!
 14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?
Honestly, not really. Although we do have this soap opera called 7de Laan that’s been on for the past like 20 years and whenever I’m really bored I put it on and yeah I’ve gotten obsessed a few times but I can’t think of a South African who hasn’t.
20. which sport is The Sport in your country?
See this is actually a really funny question. Because our national sport is soccer. However, we’re absolutely shit at soccer. Our soccer team is notoriously bad.
However, we won the rugby World Cup last year. Our rugby team is definitely more supported then our soccer team. It’s a massive deal here.
So yeah, it’s hella ironic.
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ebss 15.08.19 lb
pooja's bitchface at all these people invading her house early in the morning is legit my permanent mood.
panditji is like vadhu is not dressed at all? hush sir, she's living my best life, doing everything, down to shaadi, in her jammies.
this fucker already pulling the "pati is parmeshwar" bullshit.
god you are so going to get murdered once this wedding is done, dude. i really need her to go black widow/praying mantis like the OG promos of this show.
rani is me, outraged at this misogynist rubbish.
“rang maine khud choose kiye hai... sonali baahar agar koi tumhari bhaabi ki tareef kare, toh bataana mat bhoolna ki yeh rang tumhare kabir bhaiyya ne tumhari bhaabi ke liye specially choose kiya hai.”
lord, he’s laying on the performative romantic gushiness more than dhruv also.
sonali has taken over from rani wrt best reactions in bg. i love her face so much. i love it so much that now deepika padukone looks like nakli aanchal to me.
ugh.
rani's desperation to break it all up is already showing. barely minutes later.
pooja is like bish you think i wanna marry that loser? i'm just buying time.
lol, shaadi toh hogi boo. abhi se uss sach ke saath samjhauta karlo toh achcha.
my god this bitch. she really don't give a fuck about di or maa. she's really something elseeeeee.
chanda is already bossing over everyone, because ladke waale. unko toh saath khoon maaf.
aur lol, in sab ke thopde dekho.
fucker. i thought he was genuinely apologizing to amma for the way he’s doing this. but he's just being a passive aggressive asshole.
WHY KABIR???? TELL ME THERE'S SOME GOOD ULTERIOR MOTIVE BEHIND THIS, LIKE YOU'RE TRYING TO PROTECT POOJA+MOM FROM DHRUV OR THE CHOPRAS OR SOMETHING. PLEASE!?!?!?! I HAD SO MUCH HOPE FROM YOUUUUUUUUUUU.
ok some small mercy that he's concerned about "maa" and doing her ilaaj and all.
(idk with what money, but i'll take whatever scraps of goodness i can get rn.)
here comes the briiiiide, all dressed in whiiiiiite.
and pink. coz apparently that's kabir's favt. colour.
"mashaAllah. mashaAllah!!!!!!! kaha tha na maine, in kapdo mein MERI POOJA khil uthegi. nihaayati khoobsoorat lag rahi ho tum, pooja!"
woh sab toh theek hai but why you talking like hrithik from jodhaa akbar suddenly???
"aaj se tumahre life ke saare important decisions main loonga."
bitch, you're seriously asking for a swift kick in the groin. someone call sonakshi rastogi pls.
no sonali. we do not smile at this patriarchal garbage. come on.
ouffffffffff yaaaaaaar. dekho magar pyaar se.
haraami insaan.
ugh. my poor girl.
i can't help but lol at suman. ek baar isko bahu baanake laane ka nateeja abhi tak bhugat rahein hain, ki chalo doosri baar bhi isiiiiko laana hai.
it's ok, sab tumhara hi kiya-dharaa hai. if only you hadn't aided and abetted arson and murder.
FUCKER. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. TERE HAATH KAAT KE SAMUNDAR MEIN NA PHENK DOON MAIN.
"bohut jald yeh tumhara ghamand mein duniya ke saamne todunga."
I HATE MEN. I HATE MEN. I HAAAAAAAATE MEN. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
ouff ab aashirwaad bhi lena hai is manhoos shaadi ke liye.
lmaoooooooo everyone's faces.
....... except chanda, who's enjoyinggggggggggg being badi buzurg in this sitch.
done? now everyone literally gtfo pls.
"tum kitni dakhyanusi ho yaar. aaj kal dono families ek jagah book karti hain, ek jagah rasmein poori karti hain, enjoy karte hain, masti karte hain..."
ohhhhhhhhhh boy.
yup. ghar jamai has moved the fuck in. with the whole fam.
DO DIN MEIN SHAADI????? uthaaaaaaa le reeee deva.
also didn't he say he wanted lammmmmmbi shaadi?
sis try not to be so obvious that you're playing for time.
lol yeh kabir sonali yaaraana.
guess jai is still in the doghouse for the exam cheating thing.
TIME TO USE YOUR JANHVI MITTAL WAALA DIMAAG AGAIN SIS. YA WOH RADDI MEIN BECH AAYI APNE SAARE SAARIYON KE SAATH?
haaaye meri bachchi.
what the fuck is your deal bro? usko sataana bhi hai, rote hue dekha bhi nahi jaata. why are you like this??
mummy is here to taunt, ki "kya hua, uske do boond aansoo gire aur saari badle ki aag thandi pad gayi?"
he insists there's no badle ki aag. THEN WHAT IS THIS???? I DON'T GET IT. EXPLAIN TO ME.
how ironic, azaadi ke din hi azaadi kho baithi.
pooja's like i need to gtfo this damn house. 15 august toh 15 august, chalo manaate hain.
ok blah blah maatrubhoomi blah blah idc.
but look how fucking stunning. lord. how is she realllllllllllllllllllllll???????
lmao ranjeet is a realist. kabir yahaan se chavanni bhi nahi lene dega, aur rani bhi nahi pat rahi.
LMAO HE'S ALREADY GOTTEN TINDER. ("yeh dekho; so many roop ki ranis, for your choron ka raja!")
OMFG CHANDA WANTS TO GET ON TINDER TOO. LSKJFLSKJFLK LORD PLS SPARE MEEEEEE.
lololololol rani sees di sneaking into kabir's room.
what clue you even expect to find here in this room sis, he literally just moved in an hour ago?????????
lol rani ke zakham pe toh top class himalayan pink salt chhidkaa jaa raha hai.
ugh he's so irritating. like kinda sorta justified in the snark coz she WAS snooping in his room, but ugh.
*windows log off noise* oh that sound? it’s just me switching my morality waala brain off. coz i've had enough for today. i'm just gonna stare at these ridiculously beautiful faces super up close to each other, coz it's all i've wanted from this show anyway. let me have this!
siiiiiiiiiiiigh in a different show.....
god chachi has brought full paltan and is literally saying "shame shame, puppy shame."
chachi gtfo here with your slut shaming.
AND YOU, STOP CHEESIN' AND ENJOYING THIS. GOD YOU'RE THE FUCKING WORST, MAN.
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oh boy, kal naach gaana episode hai.
but shail is back!
kyun behen? tu khud kyun jaayegi???? to invite more attention and let him know you're on the case? god pooja, you're dumb as fuck. honestly.
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Beccaland’s Bite-Sized Big Finish Reviews Big Finish Fourth Doctor Sale
Big Finish have got a sale on the first five series of the Fourth Doctor Adventures, plus some of the novel adaptations, until 30 August 2018. In order to facilitate your decision-making, I thought I’d give some quick reviews of the ones on sale that I’ve listened to, under the cut. Plus at the end of my post I’ve listed some of the ones I haven’t listed to, but am considering buying while they’re on sale; I welcome your advice!
Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: The Fourth Doctor Box Set
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Leela
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: It’s been a while since I listened to this, and I’ve only listened to it once, which is some indication of its middle-of-the-road-ness. It’s a nostalgic return to the Hinchcliffe era, and I liked it well enough. It wouldn’t be top of my list for buying, though.
The Wrath of the Iceni
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Leela
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: Big Finish generally does a good job of delving into the tension between the Doctor’s non-violent philosophy and Leela’s preference for, shall we way, direct action. This story is no exception. If you’re a fan of historical adventures, definitely get this one.
The Auntie Matter
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana I
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: Doctor Who does P.G. Wodehouse BRILLIANTLY. Put this one at the very top of your list!
A British dandy who has a history of short but intense relationships takes a fancy to Romana, but his titular Auntie has her own ideas. Meanwhile the Doctor and Romana appear to be having completely separate adventures from one another. Unbeknownst to either party, their shenanigans overlap for better and for worse. Also there’s a robot who nearly steals the show.
The Justice of Jalxar
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana I
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: This one gets rave reviews from most quarters, and it is indeed very good. Plus, it’s got Jago and Litefoot! Basically, there’s a masked, superpowered vigilante running around Victorian London. What’s not to like?
The King of Sontar
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Leela
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: Sontarans rarely get treated with any depth, but this story is an exception. Dan Starkey has been playing Sontarans long enough to have developed some real insight into their psychology, and between him and always-on-form writer John Dorney, the Sontaran culture has never been better developed than it is here (though as I recall, the Eighth Doctor’s story in Classic Doctors, New Monsters Vol. 1 also does a pretty good job). Plus, Leela interacting with a Sontaran who isn’t just an angry cartoon potato is nifty.
Philip Hinchcliffe Presents Vol. 1
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Leela
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: I loved the Hinchcliffe era of Classic Who, and quite enjoyed this return to it, but at the same time, I was a bit underwhelmed. Neither of the two stories in this set wowed me; I find I don’t have a lot to say about it.
The Romance of Crime
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana II
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: I very much enjoyed the Missing Adventure novel from which this audio is adapted, and like Big Finish’s other novel adaptations, this one lives up to my expectations. There’s lots of lovely intrigue and John Dorney’s usual quality scriptwriting to enjoy.
The English Way of Death
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana II
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: See above re: novel adaptations, except this one is even better.
Note that you can get both these two adaptations standalone or in a box set. Though the box set is also on sale, it costs significantly more than buying both stories separately. But you do get nifty bonus features, if you’re into that.
Requiem for the Rocket Men
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Leela
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: Leela and the Fourth Doctor meet the famed Rocket Men, in an adventure not to be missed! It’s right up there with the best in the lineup for this sale. Despite knowing that Leela doesn’t actually depart with this story, there’s a real pathos and tension to her journey here and in the subsequent story, Death Match. Plus, the Beevers Master is in fine form, and K-9 gets lots to do!
Really, you should buy this, and The Rocket Men, and Return of the Rocket Men (Ian Chesterton and Steven Taylor Companion Chronicles, respectively), and then also get The Crowmarsh Experiment (standalone or in its box set). Don’t forget to also buy Death Match, because although the Rocket Men’s story is wrapped up in this installation, Requiem ends on a cliffhanger.
Death Match
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Leela
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: Not nearly as good as the first half of this story, but absolutely necessary to conclude that little arc (though you really should also check out the superlative The Crowmarsh Experiment, which is, alas, not part of this sale, but includes a sort of coda to Leela and Marshall’s story). The Beevers Master is the highlight of this story, and John Leeson as K-9 is brilliant as always.
The Well-Mannered War
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana II
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: See above re: novel adaptations, except this one isn’t nearly as good as the other two. Basically, there’s a centuries-long unofficial cease-fire in an interplanetary war, and everyone’s quite chummy when the Doctor and Romana arrive. But politicians are stirring things up for their political gain.
TW: The Chelonians are treated as rather a joke, and there’s transphobic elements to those jokes (same goes for The Highest Science, a Seventh Doctor and Benny novel adaptation which I nevertheless enjoyed more than this one).
Note that you can also get this in a Novel Adaptations box set with Damaged Goods, a Seventh Doctor, Roz, and Cwej story (novel by RTD, adapted by Jonathan Morris) which I think is much superior to this one. If it were me and I was considering buying TWMW, I’d buy the box set in this instance, since buying Damaged Goods on its own is $13 on download; this way you get two stories--one pretty good and one very good--for a very good price.
Wave of Destruction
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana II
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: Other people seemed to like this one more than I did, but although I remember liking it pretty well, it hasn’t left a strong impression and honestly I don’t remember it well enough to write a very good review of it.
The Paradox Planet
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana II
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: This is a fascinating and compelling take on what can happen when people start using time as a weapon of war. Pity that Legacy of Death didn’t live up to the promise of the first installment.
Legacy of Death
TARDIS team: Fourth Doctor and Romana II
Rating: meh | ok | pretty good | great | freaking awesome
Bite: The Paradox Planet gave us a brilliant setup, but the whole thing sort of falls apart in this second installment. John Leeson as K-9 is the highlight of this story (and many others).
BONUS RECS based on various review blogs, here are the Fourth Doctor adventures I’m thinking of buying in this sale, with an asterisk next to the ones that sound most interesting to me:
Renaissance Man*
The Sands of Life
War Against the Laan
Phantoms of the Deep*
White Ghosts
Last of the Colophon
The Abandoned*
Suburban Hell
The Cloisters of Terror (mostly for the return of Liz Shaw’s mum Emily, from the superlative Companion Chronicle The Last Post)
The Labyrinth of Buda Castle
Gallery of Ghouls
The Trouble with Drax
The Pursuit of History
Casualties of Time
If you’ve listened to any of the above and want to recommend which of them I should snatch up, please let me know in a reblog!
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WALA NG IIYAK 2020!!!!! SELF HELLO PLS LANG HAHAHAHHAAHA
SOBRANG fucked up kase na re-real talk ko yung sarili ko??? dahil to sa NCOV na to eh so yeah nasa bahay lang me always because bawal lumabas so yea nakapag isip isip ako lalo na tuwing galing and as in LIKEEEEE puta grabe pala din pala mga nagawa ko before kaya siguro nangyare sakin to now siguro this is my karma ??? ewan ko ah BUTTTT I dont wanna be to hard on my self. I know for a fact that sa part ko I gave my VERY best as in! i gave my all and my best to them at that time?? (wow dami) but yeah AND KNOW i know that I GAVE MY ALL but putangina kinulang pero yea this is my karma. and i’m not mad i’m happy that i was able to see THIS. to realize every thing that is happening. So yeah WITH these realization i learned a lot.

•putangina mag mamahal lang pag ready na ah?! wag gagamit ng iba para maka move on!! ANDDDD PORTIA PUTANGINA MAG MAMAHAL KA LANG PAG KAYA MO NA BIGAY LAHAT AS IN LAHAT pero mag titira KA sa sarili MO TYAKA BIBIGAY KO LANG SA MAY DESERVE ?!?? sa kaya din pantayan??? HA?? self?? puta ah KA STRESS Eh.
• know. your. mother. fucking. worth!!! GIVING YOUR EVERYTHING TO SOMEONE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE WRONG PERSON!! U GOTTA PICK THE RIGHT PERSON... pls lang ha.
• LOVE YOURSELF !! FIRST !!! PARA PAG INIWAN KA NILA HINDI MASYADONG MASAKIT KASE NAG TIRA KA!!! DIBA!! HINDI PUro sila nalang!!! ha!! “you deserve better” PWEEEE SILA NANAMAN??? LAGI NALANG SILA EH IKAW SELF Ano?? tao ka din deserve mo din naman!! ok!!!
• ENJOY LIFE this is not a race!! UMIBIG LANG PAG HANDA NA diba!! + MADAMING LALAKE SA MUNDO SUre naman ako na nag laan yung dyos ng 1 man lang para sakin!!! HA???
• TULOY LANG ANG LIFE!!! MASARAP mabuhay. Imagine the best feeling that you felt sa wrong person.... what more pa kaya kung right person na?? yon pwede na q mamatay non CHAR. PERO SERYOSO DIBA!!!! excited na ako huhu
I MADE THIS FOR ME! This is in no way bragging or being a bitch to my past self BUT sometimes u gotta be straight up with yourself to face reality with your best self. I am not comparing all of them but analyzing all that have happened based on what i truly feel. SO YEA NO HATES, just love char BUT YEAH HAHAHAHAHA
3/11/2020 - NCOV
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BUITENPLAATS DOORNBURGH MAARSSEN
Science, architecture and art come together at Buitenplaats Doornburgh in Maarssen. Add a restaurant to it with chefs who worked at De Librije, Kadeau and Choux and you’ve found your favorite escape from the city!
17th century
Those who lived in Amsterdam in the 17th century with enough money bought a country house on the Vecht. Buitenplaats Doornburgh is one of those estates. When you walk past the stately house with singing birds in the background you can only imagine yourself in that era.
Former monastery
On the same site you’ll find a former monastery. Somewhat hidden, with a very different look and feel. No extravagant details, no large windows, but rather robust and almost incognito. You ring the bell in front of the large door and when they open the door you arrive in a serene room where the slippers immediately catch your eye. Meant for those visiting the exhibition and want to experience the serenity of the building in the same way the sisters did.
Dom Hans van der Laan and Jan de Jong
The monastery was built in the 1960s for fifteen sisters who made daily meditation walks through the priory, prayed and ate in silence in the dining room. Architect Dom Hans van der Laan is the founder of the Bossche School, a movement in architecture with a specific ratiosystem as a starting point. The style is minimalistic and creates a serene atmosphere. Together with his student Jan de Jong they worked on the monastery.
Exhibtions
In 2016 the last three sisters moved out and Buitenplaats Doornburgh was bought by a project developer with a sense of art (MeyerBergman is also behind the Westergasfabriek and Paleis Soestdijk, for example) and a love of preserving historical heritage. Nowadays you can visit exhibitions in the former monastery – in the fall they invite Daan Roosegaarde, at the moment there’s an exhibition about the Bossche School.
Restaurant De Zusters
There’s also a restaurant called De Zusters, named after the sisters who have lived there. In the kitchen you’ll find chefs who worked at some of the best/most inspiring restaurants in the world such as De Librije in Zwolle, Kadeau in Copenhagen and Choux in Amsterdam. Imagine being a chef working as close to ingredients coming straight out of the garden: you can see they really enjoy working here.
Experience
Because the restaurant is located in this former monastery, it’s not your standard ‘Let’s sit down, order a five-course menu and then leave again’ experience. Without giving away too much, I can say that you really immerse yourself in the history of the building. Along with delicious dishes of which the almond apricot soup was my favorite, along with the salad with herring and the goat cheese butter cake (!). A true recommendable experience.
Out of the city
You see more and more (Michelin-starred) chefs moving to the countryside. Septime opened a restaurant in a nature reserve two hours from Paris, Kobus van der Merwe cooks two hours from Cape Town in a small restaurant in Paternoster and April Bloomfield from New York now also has a farm with restaurant in the British countryside. Of course for us, people living in cities all around the world, it takes a little bit more effort to go there, but it’s so worth it. When you arrive on the estate, the stress seems to fall away immediately. You are in a different world for a moment. And because the spiritual character of the building is still present, the serene will also affect you as a visitor. Even if you are only there for one evening. So go!
Check out: buitenplaatsdoornburgh.nl and dezusters.nl
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If you like Asian food but you don’t always feel like going to a restaurant and pay more than you actually want, Asian supermarkets are always your best bet. With the internet it’s easy to find several different recipes or to give you ideas on what to make. Amazing Oriental supermarket is one of those places where you can find almost anything you need. From sauce to fresh fish to frozen goods to even drinks and snacks from all over Asia.
My favorite shop to go to is the one in Ypenburg, The Hague. It’s a little bit out of my way but I usually enjoy the drive from Rotterdam to Ypenburg and I prefer to go there because their selection is HUGE. Chinese, Korean, Indian, Japanese.. they have it all and besides buying food (to cook yourself) they also have a restaurant where they serve Japanese Ramen, Chinese and Indonesian food. I didn’t get the chance last time to take a picture because they were about to close but I will add it when I’m back and have time!
Amazing Oriental has 20 different locations all over The Netherlands and you can check their website to find the shop nearest to you!
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Supermarket: Amazing Oriental
Address: Laan van Haamstede 36, 2497 GE Den Haag
Website: https://amazingoriental.com/winkels/den-haag-ypenburg/ or https://amazingoriental.com/
Rating (out of 5 stars)
Interior: ★★★★☆
Staff: ★★★★☆
Food: ★★★★☆
Price: ★★★☆☆
Restaurant
Interior: ★★★☆☆
Staff: ★★★☆☆
Food: ★★★☆☆
Price: ★★★☆☆
Located not far from the highway you can see the large Amazing Oriental sign from a slight distance, there’s enough parking space right in front of the door and when you enter you can either go right into the restaurant or into the large store. They have carts and baskets that the customer can use and when you enter the store the first thing you’ll see are the fresh products section following by the fresh fish.
Beyond that there is a huge selection of rice, sauces, noodles, dried fruits and vegetable, teas, all types of crisps, bowls, utensils, they got it all! Some items are priced a little bit higher than you’d expect but still they often have a cheaper lesser known brand right next to it. Don’t forget that you pay for the import costs too. They also have a wide variety of frozen goods, from durian to meat to fish to Chinese ice cream, I’m going to try all of it!
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The only downfall I can say however is the restaurant, the food is good, it’s on the cheaper side but I really dislike the way they help people. there’s a bunch of people there but only two or three are actually helping. You line up and when you pick what you want (which isn’t always clear because they do have a menu but also a glass case you can pick from) and they will fill your plate and put it in the microwave before moving with you to pay. They often go back to the microwave to take the food out. You either get your food right away or you get one of those shaky noisy things that give you a heart attack while you wait for your food (a beeper). It takes really long before they help the next person, for some weird reason. If there’s a line already at the counter, don’t bother, you’ll be there forever and probably starve… But if you do make it through, sit back and enjoy because I really enjoy their food and I recommend it. I haven’t tried the ramen yet but the Thai red curry, the Chinese duck and the pork belly are awesome! You can also take away like I did last time! It was still hot by the time I got home and I ate until I exploded!
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Are there any shops you prefer visiting? Tell me all about it on our facebook! I will check them out!
Amazing Oriental Supermarket - Ypenburg, NL is Mayo's favorite supermarket, read here why #supermarket #amazingoriental #food If you like Asian food but you don't always feel like going to a restaurant and pay more than you actually want, Asian supermarkets are always your best bet.
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The Man Who Really Built Bitcoin
In March, a dazed resigned man confronted columnists hollering inquiries concerning virtual cash outside his rural home in Temple City, California. Dorian Nakamoto, 64, had been distinguished by Newsweek as the individual who engineered Bitcoin—a story that, as past endeavors to unmask its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, was soon disparaged. In the mean time, the individual apparently most in charge of empowering the money to swell in an incentive to $7.7 billion, and with the most impact on its future, was stowing away on display on the opposite side of the nation, in Amherst, Massachusetts.That individual is Gavin Andresen, an amiable 48-year-old picked by the genuine Satoshi Nakamoto, whoever he or she is, as his successor in late 2010. Andresen progressed toward becoming "center maintainer"— boss engineer—of the open source code that characterizes the standards of Bitcoin and gives the product expected to make utilization of it. The mix of Nakamoto's favoring and Andresen's times of tireless, all day take a shot at the Bitcoin code has given him huge clout in Bitcoin circles and stature past. The CIA and Washington controllers have looked to him to clarify the cash. Also, it was Andresen who imagined the charitable Bitcoin Foundation—built up in 2012—which is the nearest thing to a focal specialist in the realm of Bitcoin.
Some Bitcoin devotees offer grandiloquent expectations that Americans will shake off the shackles of the Federal Reserve and poor countries will ascend to thriving with the minimal effort exchanges made conceivable by the stateless virtual money. Other Bitcoin supporters have the quality of sales representatives pursuing a stamp, reeling off reasons you ought to become tied up with the cash that make you feel you're not getting the entire story. Conversely, Andresen is by all accounts looking for calm individual fulfillment, happily calling himself a "nerd inspired by stray pieces things." He can make a really decent pitch for Bitcoin, yet he rapidly slides into specialized subtleties that would be a side road for most. "We say this will be the time of the multisignature wallet," he says when summing up what 2014 holds for Bitcoin.
Still, Andresen has had and keeps up more impact than any other person on the code that decides how Bitcoin works—and eventually whether it can survive. In spite of the fact that there is no national bank for the money, its outline needs noteworthy changes in the event that it is to wind up plainly generally utilized. How Andresen uses his control over Bitcoin will shape its destiny as well as the prospects for other virtual monetary forms.
Fortunate Bet
Bitcoin's causes might be covered in secret, yet bounty is thought about Andresen and his past. Once in the past known as Gavin Bell, he has been a product design as far back as he graduated in software engineering from Princeton in 1988 and accepted a position with the Silicon Valley processing organization Silicon Graphics. He worked there for a long time, and after that at a progression of new companies building items from 3-D attracting programming to web based recreations for visually impaired and located individuals to play together. At that point he experienced Bitcoin in 2010.
Bitcoins were basically useless at the time and to a great degree finicky to get tightly to and utilize. Be that as it may, Andresen saw specialized tastefulness in Nakamoto's outline, and a cash outside the control of any administration spoke to what he calls his "for the most part libertarian" legislative issues. As opposed to being made by a national bank, bitcoins are "mined" by individuals running programming that races to comprehend a scientific confound and win a prize of recently printed bitcoins. The mining procedure is intended to bit by bit pay out less and less after some time, until 21 million bitcoins exist, and it likewise serves to confirm exchanges made in the cash.
Anxious to see individuals begin utilizing Bitcoin, Andresen propelled a site in 2010 called the Bitcoin Faucet that passed out five free bitcoins to each guest. (A bitcoin was worth just pennies at the time yet every one exchanges for $600 today; Andresen decreased the span of the present as bitcoins rose in esteem, then close the site down in 2012.) He additionally started sending code changes and enhancements to Nakamoto. Bitcoin's originator enjoyed his work, and soon made his protégé's email address the just a single on the venture's landing page. Andresen formally ventured forward in a December 2010 post on the Bitcoin gathering. "With Satoshi's favoring, and with extraordinary hesitance, will begin accomplishing more dynamic venture administration for Bitcoin," he composed. He has worked all day on it from that point forward. The Bitcoin Foundation paid him $209,648 in 2013—a pay he got in bitcoins.
His smooth rising has prompted visit allegations that Andresen is Nakamoto and shed the pen name the money picked up footing. He generally straight denies it. "I am not Satoshi Nakamoto; I have never met him; I have had numerous email discussions with him," he said in the wake of giving a discussion in April. "No one knows his identity, I think." If that was a lie, Andresen is a wonderful rascal. All through several gathering posts, email messages, and lines of code, his style has been particular from that of Nakamoto.
Andresen has had and keeps up more impact than any other person on the code that decides how Bitcoin works—and eventually whether it can survive.
Andresen devoted himself to Bitcoin out of what he calls "illuminated self-intrigue," yet without the guarantee of anything consequently. "This was a venture that I needed to see succeed," he says. His bet has paid off, giving him a lucrative new profession and reinforcing his family's security net. It's not known what number of bitcoins Andresen holds, but rather he has said that the arrival on the bitcoins he collected in the money's initial days has been sufficiently enormous that he could serenely resign. He gladly reports that his better half, a topography teacher, doesn't allude to Bitcoin as "imagine Internet cash" any longer. His children ended up noticeably persuaded last Christmas that their father had been onto something after he utilized Bitcoin to pay for a white-water rafting trip in New Zealand.
Upwardly Mobile
The ascent of Bitcoin amid Andresen's association with the venture is accentuated by the area of our meeting, in the hall of the Beverly Hilton lodging in Beverly Hills, California. A suited Andresen is tasting cereal brew in the wake of talking at the Milken Global Conference, an occasion that pulls in driving figures in the budgetary business, who pay $8,500 for a ticket. A few lenders appear to be captivated—if baffled—by Bitcoin, and Andresen is the ideal individual to speak to it to them. He makes it seem like a legitimate, past due move up to the old cash in your pocket.
At the point when Andresen assumed control from Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010 he laid out the way the venture would work, drawing on his experience overseeing groups building programming items and what he knew about real open source activities, for example, Linux. A gathering of five center designers developed, with Andresen as the most senior. Just they had the ability to change the code behind Bitcoin and converge in proposition from different volunteers. That gave them one of a kind control over the cash's essential operation and monetary parameters. While the cost of Bitcoin took off throughout the years, Andresen and the other center designers works to enhance the product that made it all conceivable. They settled security bugs that had allowed computerized heists, made the product less inclined to crashes, and spruced up the interface to make it simpler to utilize.
That was no little assignment since what Nakamoto had left was not the sort of programming you would want to assemble an item on, not to mention an economy, says Mike Hearn, an ex-Google programming engineer who has contributed code to the venture. "He discharged Bitcoin to demonstrate his thoughts would work," Hearn says. "It wasn't composed to be a long haul manageable item." Most of the work to settle that was finished by Andresen and Wladimir van der Laan, the Amsterdam-based coder who assumed control from Andresen as center maintainer in April, says Hearn (van der Laan, who additionally draws a pay from the Bitcoin Foundation, didn't react to a meeting demand). As bugs were settled, chaotic code cleaned up, and new components included, the vast majority of what Nakamoto composed vanished. Under 33% of Nakamoto's code still remains. "He was a splendid coder, yet it was particular," says Andresen.
Subside Todd, a designer who has added to the Bitcoin extend, says Andresen appears in to a greater degree a rush than others required with the venture to change Nakamoto's outline, evidently persuaded by a longing to get the cash in the hands of millions or billions of clients. "I'm significantly more preservationist in rolling out improvements than he is, and I imagine that is valid for different engineers too," Todd says. For instance, he indicates late changes that Andresen planned to make charges on Bitcoin exchanges rise and fall as the volume of exchanges changes. Todd trusts the outline of those progressions would have profited from more opportunity to research conceivable drawbacks.
The quantity of individuals chipping away at the code stays little, even since Andresen set up the Bitcoin Foundation to bolster the product with gifts from people and organizations. Be that as it may, the product behind Bitcoin has never been more basic. As the cash has become worth about $8 billion, its partners have broadened from the early libertarian devotees to incorporate financial specialists on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley (see "Bitcoin Hits the Big Time"). U.S. officials and controllers have talked decidedly about Bitcoin and attempted endeavors to manage it.
The danger of security blemishes is a steady stress for Andresen. He snickers when he relates how in 2010 somebody tipped off Nakamoto about a bug that made it conceivable to burn through any other individual's bitcoins. "Satoshi simply changed the code and told everyone, 'Run this new code, I'm not going to reveal to you why,'" Andresen says. Be that as it may, althou
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INSIDE THE HOME OF A YOUNG COLLECTOR
AN ART COLLECTION THAT TELLS A PERSONAL STORY
Meet Marloes van Vugt... avid art collector, art historian, ex gallery owner and mother to be. FRAEMd paid Marloes a visit in her little Amsterdam apartment in De Pijp so that (as always) we could get a swig of art inspiration from someone who was truly passionate about following and supporting young artists. It has only been 7 years of collecting art and with no master plan behind her collection, we were impressed to see how beautifully she has managed to enhance her home with cherished art.
First art purchase by Billy und Hells, ‘Lola’, 2010, photo print on dibond/plexiglass, 100 x 70 cm, edition 10
Once Marloes had pulled the trigger on this photograph by Billy und Hells, it was all uphill from there. Seven years later, she would enjoy sitting in her home with her husband and two adored dogs (plus bun in the oven), surrounded by an impressive collection of art that mattered. In looking back though, it must be said that her decision to start her own gallery was what really fuelled the fire for MORE ART. As she met more artists, she learned more about art and as she learned more about art, she couldn’t live without it. Smart move we think!
“My collection is a reflection of different periods in my life, with all its ups and downs. Some works are a bit more sad and dark, others playful and fun”.
Marloes explains to us that collecting art is like her very own personal story and that’s why she loves every single piece so much. Meaningful stories and connections such as these show that apart from making a great investment in the art that you buy, it should ultimately be something that you’re prepared to live with forever. Does she have a favourite piece perhaps?
“I really don’t have favourite pieces; it feels like choosing between my babies. But one of the last pieces I bought - and also the smallest work in my collection, is a work by Andrea Freckmann. When I visited the preview of Art Rotterdam I wasn’t there with the intention of buying art at all. But when I saw this tiny canvas at the booth of Galerie Maurits van de Laar, I knew I wanted to have it. At the time, I was 11 weeks pregnant and the work made me think of this little creature in my belly. When the baby is born this coming August, she will already own her first piece of art”, says Marloes.
Andrea Freckmann, 'Ohne Titel', 2016, oil on linen, 13 x 18 cm
KEEPING IT YOUNG AND FRESH
Marloes believes that apart from art by emerging talent often being fresh, renewing and well valued; by collecting it you are also contributing to a young artist’s career, which she feels is truly important. With great sentiment, Marloes explains that “they are the future of our cultural society and they need our support”. And if you have half the charm that Marloes has, you could also land up getting to know these young artists personally and follow their careers closely. For Marloes, that is the great benefit of ‘going young and fresh’.
For some people though, it is tricky to understand the value of art and and if the cost of the artwork truly reflects the level of skill, material, artist’s career etc. The advantage for Marloes of course, is that with running her own gallery for these past 7 years, she has learned a significant amount about pricing art. However, she explains that “the main principles are always material, technique, size, edition or not, career of the artist and off course if you are willing to spend that amount for it”. Sometimes it's simple, you just gotta have it.
Okay, this is too exciting. Show us some more art please!
Above left: Wouter van der Laan, ‘Imposter’, 2015, acrylic on panel, 61 x 90 cm
Above right: Line Gulsett, ‘Downfall’, 2016, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
Above left: Louis Reith, ‘Untitled', 2013, collage and ink drawing on book page, 23 x 15 cm
Above right: Lonneke van der Palen, ‘Mountain Girl’, 2011, photo print, 20 x 15 cm, edition 30/100
Sarah Mei Herman, ‘Jonathan, Swimming Pool’, 2013, photo print, 15 x 20 cm, edition 30/100
“At the moment I have a lot of small and medium sized work in my collection, due to the typical small Amsterdam apartment we live in. But my goals are certainly to acquire bigger pieces. I imagine big paintings with layers and layers of thick paint. I really love that!” says Marloes excitably. But despite the fact that Marloes needs to choose art that will fit in the space they live in, she never thinks about it ‘fitting in’ with her interior. She buys what she likes in the moment and that is what is most important. With a bit of gallery knowledge though, she does make use of proper lighting when a piece is installed in her home and recently changed the colour of her living room wall in order to enhance the artworks. Together with that she works with Mertens Frames to have her pieces framed at the highest quality.
Top left: Sophie van der Perre, ‘Anyway the wind blows’, 2012, photo print, 29 x 41,5 cm, edition 1/10
Top right: Sander Dekker, ‘I spy with my little eye’, 2013, photo print on dibond/plexiglass + frame, 33 x 50 cm, AP 1
Recently Marloes has headed in a new direction; changing her role from gallerist to now, art consultant. With her impressive experience and knowledge in the most recent art and design world developments, this migration could not have come at a better time.
Click here to learn more about Marloes’ new venture
Text by: Georgia Fane Hervey
Photos by: Eva Roefs
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dekho kaise mundi aage kar raha hai haldi ke liye. isko kuch zyaada utaavli nahi chadhi kuch dino se shaadi ke liye???
lol mummy name one successful shaadi in this fam after dadaji’s generation. no pls, go on, i'll wait. yeah, that's what i thought. toh aap shaadi ke khushiyon pe lecture naa hi do toh achcha.
kabir is determined. bhai shaadi toh karni hi hai. kab tak facebook status yunhi "it's complicated - with kavya mittal" pe atka rahega???
chanda has some nonsense to say as per usual, so i shall just concentrate on this face. truly masha’Allah.
love u sonali.
dadu asking about kalyani and these two idiots are just staring at each other's faces. goddddddddd, why wouldn't you tell dadu the plan??????
maathe pe bandook rakh ke hi toh tu dulhan se shaadi kar raha hai. toh might as well do it at bua as well. 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
gauri kumari sharma viiiiiiiiiiibes. haaaaaye. *does nazar gesture again and again*
oh shit. pooja's eye has caught bracelet. sonali i hope you've thrown that shit away.
OH NO SHE'S WEARING IT RN. SIS, WHY?
did she see it??? did sheeeeeeeeee??????
god they are so fucking beautiful together just look at them man literally fuck this showwwwwwwwwwwwwwww for not giving to us from the start lkfdjslfkjlsdk i'm all in my feels nowwwww
every time he calls her "baby" i want to pull a few of his arm hairs. so creepy and cheap it sounds.
oh damn, she's imagining maa as a part of this. does that mean subconsciously she sees this as a real wedding, as opposed to the one with dhruv???
oufffffff. you fuckers won't even let her indulge in daydreaming as a fucking coping mechanism.
sonali why the fuck are you even wearing that bracelet, it doesn't even go with the outfit you're wearing rn.
mummy ka outburst. ouff. either you get with the plan or don't attend the shaadi only. ainvayiiiiii ka drama.
this bitch enjoying. meesni kahinki.
god i wish she'd really take out her chandalini roop instead of sitting here listening to this garbage. she should have murdered y'all a long time ago.
why you getting upset? you like pooja or naah????
drama drama drama.
ugh kabir, just when i start coming around to you, you have to pull some crap. fuck off man.
naach gaana. yup just the thing needed to make this tense af situation even more awkward.
le, chachi ko toh bas bahaana chahiye.
SONALI PUT THAT HAND WITH THE BRACELET DOWN SO HELP ME GOD.
oh god dadu is going in search of kalyani. why are all of you likeeeeeeee thisssssss????? just play your assigned roles, god.
god my heart hurtttttttts. pls tellywood gods, at least agle show mein shrenu ka role aisa dukh-dard waala na ho. dil jalta hai meraaaaaaa, watching her cry like this in every show.
blah blah blah fwding till dadu gets to know it's not kalyani.
i hate you asshole, but god, your face is just..... *saif ali khan voice* wow.
ouff sonali, you getting on my last nerve today.
does he know she's dr. sharma's wife or is he just surprised that it's not kalyani?
well.... that went splendidly. you fucking mittals can't do anythinggggggggg right.
"dadu main aapko sab samjhaata hoon!" yeah you about 72 hours too late on that, son.
oh god my hearttttttttttt. LET THIS GIRL LIVE YOU FUCKING MONSTERS.
kabirrrrrrrr tujhpe keedeeeeeein padeinnnnnnn fuck outta here with this tough love bullshit i haaaaaate youuuuuuuuu
"pooja jaise logon ko sahi raaste pe laane ke liye...." UMMMMMMMMMM WHO DIED AND MADE YOU THE GOD OF KARMA, BITCH????? tour guide banke sahi raasta apne in manhoos gharwaalon ko dikha, samjha tu?
sonali jumping to passionate defense of kabir ‘can-do-no-wrong-ekdum-best-mittal-hai-yeh’ bhaiyya.
oh ho. toh confirmed ki kabir was the one who went and found maaaa and planted her in front of pooja.
soooooooo...... i'm thinking this is some kinda plan of his to give pooja back some of family that she lost??? (by protecting her from dhruv/someone else???) but he also wants to get back his family's property and shit, so he's forcing her in this naa-tera-naa-mera type deal. idk, i'm just maarofying tukka.
lol dadu was like jo bhi gtfo my room right now, i need to do some heavy duty repenting to ensure i don’t go to hell thanks to all y’all antics.
"sonali, sab log dukhi hai. main kuch galat toh nahi kar raha??" LMAO OH NOWWWWW YOU'RE ASKING HER, LIKE 6 HOURS BEFORE THE WEDDING.
sonali is biggest kabir bhaiyya cheerleader. she also seems to have more akal than him in how to handle this whole situation, so i'm kinda trusting her judgement. please don't let me down, sonali.
TEAM POOJA IS FLOUNDERING SO BADLY. THEY'RE JUST NOW FINDING OUT THAT NO TRAINS LEFT/ENTERED INDORE YEST, COZ RAINS. HONESTLYYYYYY YOU GUYS.
"mandir chalo, rasam karni hai."
nope, no changing, coz apparently she has to wear this same sari. coz it has to be maa ki sari.
he ensured that he gave her maa ki sari. *sighhhhhhhh* fuck i hate these tellywood guys and their good gestures and shady intentions and all these fucking conflicting emotions.
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omfg these fucking idiots lost maaaaaaaa.
sis ek aur laafa maar deti. like........... ab maa bhi unke haath nahi hai, you have literally nothing to lose.
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