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At long last, I have found a desk that satisifies my seemingly-simple-yet-somehow-actually-impossibly-arcane demands. It's a close cousin to the desk I left behind before moving to Scotland, minus that desk's ~200lb slate top (which is why I rejected the possibility of shipping it here). After 12 years without a desk, I'm looking forward to putting things in drawers & pulling out those little slab shelves.
Its top is also nicely aged/dinged up & I will enjoy running my hands over it -- see below:
It's going to be a tight squeeze to get it into the room where I plan to use it, so let's hope I can channel my crafty-furniture-mover persona (or that the top comes off easily).
#I do not know what is up with current desk trends#everything is either scaffolding wood badly stained & somehow steampunked with pipes#or like a flimsy-looking door on hairpin legs#occasionally you can find something attractive but then of course the price is ludicrous#and even on an expensive desk#something has happened where no one seems to want drawers#drawers are key to the desk experience for me#that's ~40% of the reason to have a desk#anyhow I think this desk & I will be happy together#although now I have to find a CHAIR for fuck's sake#let's hope that doesn't take another 12 years#every chair I've liked costs more than the desk did#so we're not off to a great start
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Global Biodegradable Scaffold Market Is Estimated To Witness High Growth Owing To Rising Demand for Regenerative Medicine
The global Biodegradable Scaffold Market is estimated to be valued at US$1.02 billion in 2021 and is expected to exhibit a CAGR of 18% over the forecast period of 2022 to 2031, as highlighted in a new report published by Coherent Market Insights.
A) Market Overview:
Biodegradable scaffolds are three-dimensional structures designed to support cell growth and tissue regeneration. These scaffolds provide a temporary framework for cells to attach and grow, ultimately promoting new tissue formation. They are used in various applications such as bone tissue engineering, wound healing, cardiovascular repair, and organ transplantation. The advantage of biodegradable scaffolds is that they eliminate the need for surgical removal since they degrade naturally in the body over time. The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases and the growing demand for regenerative medicine are driving the market growth.
B) Market Key Trends:
One key trend observed in the biodegradable scaffold market is the rising demand for regenerative medicine. Regenerative medicine aims to restore the structure and function of damaged tissues or organs by using a combination of biomaterials, cells, and growth factors. Biodegradable scaffolds play a crucial role in this field by providing a platform for cell attachment, proliferation, and differentiation. They act as a temporary support system until the body's own cells can regenerate the tissue. For example, in bone tissue engineering, biodegradable scaffolds help stimulate new bone formation and facilitate the healing process. This trend is driven by the increasing geriatric population, rising prevalence of chronic diseases, and advancements in stem cell research.
C) PEST Analysis:
- Political: Government regulations and policies regarding the use of biodegradable materials and tissue engineering technologies can impact market growth.
- Economic: The economic stability of a region influences investments in healthcare infrastructure and research and development activities in the field of regenerative medicine.
- Social: The acceptance and awareness of regenerative medicine among the general population and healthcare professionals influence the adoption of biodegradable scaffolds.
- Technological: Advancements in 3D printing, nanotechnology, and biomaterials have enabled the development of innovative and more effective biodegradable scaffolds.
D) Key Takeaways:
- The Global Biodegradable Scaffold Market Size is expected to witness high growth, exhibiting a CAGR of 18% over the forecast period, due to increasing demand for regenerative medicine.
- North America is anticipated to be the fastest-growing and dominating region in the market, driven by well-established healthcare infrastructure, high healthcare expenditure, and supportive government initiatives.
- Key players operating in the global biodegradable scaffold market include Merck KGaA, 3D Biotek LLC, Medtronic, Xanofi, Akron Biotech, Nanofiber Solutions, Vericel Corporation, NuVasive, Inc., Organogenesis, Inc., Biostage, Inc., In2Bones Global, Orthofix Medical Inc., Spine Smith, Invivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp., and Onkos Surgical. These companies focus on strategic collaborations, acquisitions, and product innovations to strengthen their market position.
In conclusion, the global biodegradable scaffold market is expected to witness significant growth driven by the rising demand for regenerative medicine. The use of biodegradable scaffolds in tissue engineering applications provides a promising approach for facilitating tissue regeneration and improving patient outcomes. The market is characterized by technological advancements in biomaterials and 3D printing techniques, which enable the development of more advanced and personalized scaffolds. Regionally, North America is expected to be the fastest-growing market due to favorable healthcare infrastructure and government support. Key players in the market continue to invest in research and development activities to launch innovative products and gain a competitive edge.
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Biological Scaffold Market Trends, Outlook, Revenue and Forecast 2022-2028
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of current Global Biological Scaffold Market based on segmented types and downstream applications. Major product development trends are discussed under major downstream segment scenario.
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According to this survey, the global Biological Scaffold market is estimated to have reached $ xx million in 2020, and projected to grow at a CAGR of xx% to $ xx million by 2028.
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Scaffold Technology Market Industry Share, Size, Growth, Demands, Revenue, Top Leaders and Forecast to 2028
Industry Analysis
The scaffold technology market is expected to witness market growth at a rate of 8.89% in the forecast period of 2021 to 2028 and is expected to reach 2,254.07 USD million by 2028.
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Scaffolds can be defined as the artificial extracellular matrices that support the 3D tissue regenerations and accommodate cells. These can be either permanent or temporary matrices which offer mechanical, chemical and biological support for the tissue formation. Scaffold technology is applied to present 3D culture assays that involve cell to cell interactions, high throughput screening, cell to matrix interactions, transfections, and cell migration assays.
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The scaffold technology market is segmented on the basis of type, application, disease and end use. The growth amongst these segments will help you analyse meagre growth segments in the industries, and provide the users with valuable market overview and market insights to help them in making strategic decisions for identification of core market applications.
On the basis of type, the scaffold technology market is segmented into hydrogels, wound healing, 3d bio printing, and immunomodulation. Hydrogels is further sub segmented into polymeric scaffolds, micropatterned surface microplates and nanofiber-based scaffolds.
On the basis of application, the scaffold technology market is segmented into stem cell therapy, regenerative medicine, and tissue engineering, drug discovery, and others.
On the basis of disease, the scaffold technology market is segmented into orthopaedics, musculoskeletal, and spine, cancer, skin and integumentary, dental, cardiology and vascular, neurology, urology, GI, gynaecology, and others.
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The first Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold designed to overcome the limitations of metallic drug-eluting stents
The Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS), a non-metallic mesh tube, progressively dissolves once the blocked artery can function normally once more and remains open on its on, similar to a stent in that it is used to treat a restricted artery. BVS, which resembles a tiny mesh tube, is intended to assist in unblocking a heart artery and re-establishing blood flow to the heart muscle. Once the artery can remain open on its own, BVS eventually dissolves, perhaps allowing the blood vessel to operate normally once again.
Similar to a cast supporting a broken arm and being removed, Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold Market has a similar appearance to a stent but is a non-metallic, non-permanent mesh implant that gradually dissolves and allows the artery to function normally once more. Over the course of 12 to 24 months, this new scaffold vanishes, supporting the vessel until it acquires the strength and ability to maintain its open position on its own.
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there’s an interesting trend in kh of worlds and the way they change mirroring characters and the way they change that i really love - destiny islands which tends to be in and out of danger depending on how sora, riku, and kairi are doing, hollow bastion’s revival happening as riku gets away from ansem’s influence and starts slowly doing better, castle oblivion being a blank slate until aqua comes home (which there’s a mechanical reason for, sure, but the land of departure returning alongside the wayfinder trio also has a real thematic resonance), aquas exploration of the castle of dreams in 0.2 mirroring her view of the things that just happened to her, daybreak town not destroyed when its group is scattered but instead becoming the invisible scaffolding that the future is built on…etc etc! there’s a lot of cool examples of this! and the thing i’ve been thinking of all morning is that it makes the vision of scala in kh3 kind of devastatingly sad.
it’s…unclear at best if the scala we visit in kh3 is the real city, or some sort of dream or memory projection from xehanort (being literally inside the generally-not-well-understood kingdom hearts makes it a bit complicated) but it’s so strikingly empty and quiet. again this is partially mechanical - it’s a boss arena - but still. all the little details of life in the environment design, the little market you visit in remind, the chairs and cafes and posters make it feel lived in, but there’s no one there. it’s just xehanort. this final, terrible reflection of his childhood home, preserved perfectly, and he is the solitary person in it. it’s so fucking sad!
i think the end of kh3 does a decent job of humanizing xehanort even before we know him in dark road and even while he’s at his most villainous, and i think scala is a big part of that. like that intro cutscene of him just walking slowly through the streets…..gah. peepaw :(
#pers#kh#xehanort#dark road#sorry again for woobifying peepaw. welcome to xehanort apologia dot edu#i was doing fuckall and cooking in my kh3 save file and it was the one at scala and i just walked forward and saw that cutscene and got sad#thats his HOME!!!! its like the ansem fight being on destiny islands and how gutting that is#like idk xehanort you got kingdom hearts did it work did you absolve yourself of guilt did you find the end of grief?#or are you alone in a dead city and realizing what made this place was your lost friends hmmmm?#i love when kingdom hearts js about GRIEF!!!!!!! AGH
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the tavern's core moves (the longest rest, rough draft)
i think some of my long COVID brain fog is lifting, trying to get the basic scaffolding down for the longest rest last year felt like trying to think clearly while you fall asleep with a bad fever. now it's like, it's very very rough, but it's happening in a structured way. i have a lot more clarity of thought as i write. hopefully this trend continues and improves even more!
(also a heads up that everything from the tavern's perspective is deliberately written to evoke unhealthy interpersonal attachments, so bear that in mind before reading!)
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zionism wants us to look away.
so it turns off the lights, the power, the signal, and commits its crimes in the dark, where we cannot see. zionism thinks that if it murders children in their beds at night, while the world is asleep, no one will notice. zionism thinks that people will not light torches and flashlights and matches until palestine is lit in red flames, flickering glow illuminating bombed hospitals and the bodies of the people that once sought refuge inside of it. zionism thinks that we will put our pillows over our heads and drown out the sound of their screams.
but what lurks in the dark only scares us more, because we know despite not seeing. so we take to the streets in frantic rage — filling our vision with red for their blood and green for their land and black and white for their freedom — and wait until it sees us. we are not blind, nor will we close our eyes.
zionism wants us to forget.
so it tells us stories of its history and its pain and its justifications, drowning out the thousands of children sobbing over the bodies of their parents, ripped apart by illegal weapons and laughing soldiers. it holds its press conferences and talks about antisemitism and nazism, unaware that it only echoes the atrocities it speaks of, committed by villains just like its people. it lies and it lies and it lies and it tells us we are liars, so that perhaps the truth will one day slip our minds.
but we are louder, eternally so, and we will be heard forever. human rights are not a piece of clothing, to be called a trend, to outgrow and then throw out to be recycled into something else, diluted and watered-down. our so-called phase will live on in the history books as the toppling of tyrants, and only then will it stop.
zionism wants us not to care.
so it makes its excuses, and suddenly an entire ethnicity are animals so undeserving of water and electricity and life. they are mongrels, zionism says, to be kicked to the curb and beaten. they are dogs, who have no need for home or a place to live. fathers are terrorists working to do everything they can to protect those they love as bombs rain down on them. mothers are extremists that yell and curse and beg for their family to be spared. children are agents of war throwing rocks at tanks. there are soldiers hiding out in those schools, and that is why they must be blown to bits.
(animals are treated better.)
but how? what did that unborn baby do to them? was it, too, planning evil savagery from the womb? we demand answers to impossible questions. we will continue to do so until zionism starts making sense, because we are only being fed too many equations that don’t add up. missiles fired at innocent families do not equate war, or anything but genocide.
(zionism says that those who stand against it are terrorists. we laugh. there must be a hell of a lot of terrorists in the world, because we flood the news with our flags.)
zionism wants us to give up.
it is hoping for the impossible. there is no defeat for a people that know that death is not the end. palestine will never die.
and halfway across the globe — resistance is in every skip of our heartbeats when we watch the news with horror. resistance is in every roar of outrage that shakes downtown during a protest. resistance is in every time we drape a flag over our shoulders to leave the house.
resistance, for me, is paint on my cheeks and dark liner i call my ‘protest makeup’. an enamel pin i wear to school, and the glare i give people who look at me funny for it. my posts. hijab. a hoodie with ‘palestine’ in arabic lettering stitched across the front.
alone, it’s nothing. but in the thrumming mass of angry protestors, waving a flag off the top of construction scaffolding, it’s everything. i promise. as long as we keep yelling, zionism hears us. it sees us. it will not forget us, and it will give up.
and then palestine will finally be free.
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how do you go about planning your storyline? :) especially for your decades challenge
Hello there dearest! I’m sorry this took me a while. It’s a bit of a difficult one and I wanted to take some time to sort out the chaotic process in my brain before I tried to type it out 😅
This is just a rough outline of what works for me specifically in writing a historical story on simblr. I can’t speak to writing advice in general because it’s not something I have experience with; nor do I think this will be helpful for everyone. So please feel free to pick and choose whatever suits your fancy or ignore it all completely.
Of course, it’s time to take this below the cut, since you know it’s going to get a bit long 😉
1. Find Inspiration (Nonfiction books, Blogs, TV shows, YouTube videos, Period Pieces, etc etc…)
For a decades challenge/history based story I think this is really the starting point for me. Whether it be styles of architecture, clothing trends, a historical fact, or an individual’s story, there’s so much real life inspiration to be found for this type of story. It can often seem small, but sometimes pinpointing what you know you want to include and working it in there can be the crux of so much of a story.
I’ve said this before but one of the very first things I knew I wanted to include was the Titanic, since it was the first historical event I ever became interested in. Other examples are New Orleans as a setting, the inclusion of Storyville, and even something as small as the axe man that I included in this post.
When I find these moments of inspiration, I try to immediately transform them into tangible scenes or plot points rather than simply jot them down as a note or like a “maybe for later”. This keeps me from getting mired in too many ideas or overwhelmed with things I like, but that don’t necessarily have a place in the story.
However, sometimes it also means I will need to tweak ideas as the plot develops, such as changing the original storyline of Rosella and Lord Harrington to Rosella and Georgiana; but even with these edits, this process still creates a sort of scaffolding structure for the story as a whole. It gives me plot points or small, specific scenes that I am working and writing toward. I’m then able to allude to the eventual outcome beforehand as well as weave a larger narrative around it while still having clear points of guidance for where I want to go.
2. Connect the Dots
The “dots” here are the aforementioned scenes and/or plot points that I have written well in advance. I have dozens and dozens of these, and I’m basically constantly adding to the document where I keep my writing. This is all kept in chronological order so I can see the progression as well as where I need more narrative to fill out a decade. I generally look at this structure and ask myself: how do I realistically reach that point?
To use the example of the Titanic again: this meant somehow getting the oldest daughter of a relatively poor and close knit family aboard a ship bound for America. It meant not only putting her in contact with someone who would have access to these tickets, but also giving her a reason to leave the people she loved. Then once those larger dots are connected, I continue to focus on smaller and smaller threads, like the details of Georgiana herself or Rosella’s relationship to Zelda, until the storyline feels fully fleshed out and a character’s motivations are coming through.
3. Character Consistency
That last bit is very important to me, and I always try and think about how the characters are functioning within the framework of what I’ve written and the historical landscape. Sometimes this comes into play before connecting the dots, but often it is actually what finally puts the puzzle pieces in place. Something sim-specific here is that I really do use sims traits as guidance on who the characters are, how they interact with the world, and how the world has affected them.
So often when I am referencing a prewritten plot point or scene I will ask myself, how would that character get to this point? What may have happened that would lead them here? How does their personality interact with this historical event or point of inspiration?
Many scenes have often come from more outward facing questions, like, is this trait clear to everyone reading as well as me? Has this visibly impacted their life and done so in a sensible way? This is in part responsible for many extra scenes we saw at the end of the 1920s when a few of my best simblr babes pointed out to me that Antoine’s motivations weren’t very clear. It also helps me to fill in and round out that base storyline structure with more small, real-life scenes that showcase and develop certain traits as characters grow and interact with the world around them.
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With all that said, this is often a very long process that involves reading or watching historical content, going over my own writing again and again, and just waiting for the day when my brain suddenly writes 5-6 scenes unprompted. Other times I’m flying by the tip of my boots, watching y’all feedback and incorporating it or reading through scenes with friends for their help.
So the process has looked very different at various points in the narrative and through the many months I’ve been writing this story. But overall, having those points to write toward as well as tangible character traits have guided the process throughout.
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Interesting Things in the Final TotK Trailer (Part 1)
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Starting at the very beginning, we get a shot of the sky above Hyrule, and see a soldier construct fighting a chuchu — that opens up some fun gameplay opportunities if you can get them to fight monsters for you or vice versa!
Next we see a glimpse of Hateno, which seems to have grown… mushrooms? This might be related to the underground elements. The most effected building seems to be the one that in BotW sold armour sets, so they’re probably selling something else now. My guess is either potions or fireworks! There also seems to be a new trend of mushroom hats, so maybe they’re still just doing clothes.
Next, we see a camp in Castle Town, with a little Link walking through. They’re rebuilding! Hopefully this is a quest like Tarrey Town, where we can help them out as we run around Hyrule.
A better look at the ring structure spotted in previous trailers and the shrine-like structures! There seems to be some scaffolding around the ring, maybe the Sheikah are investigating it? The shrine-structure also has two colours (green and blue) in its spiral where before we only saw green. Is this just a better look or does it mean it’s not fully activated yet? Kakariko itself seems fine, even if some sky island debris seems to have narrowly missed it.
Typhlo Ruins, now without shadow! I wonder if we’ll find anything interesting there now we can actually see? Also, rather than disappearing altogether, the shadows surrounding it may have just gone up, as there’s a cloud seen in a previous trailer that looks oddly similar.
A mysterious structure rising from the ground… could it be a dungeon? Maybe even the Arbiter’s Grounds or Desert Colossus?
Our first glimpse of Ganondorf, all powered up by the Blood Moon. I wonder if this is when he first wakes up and rises Hyrule Castle from the ground, or just before Link fights him at the very end of the game?
Link trying to grasp Zelda’s hand, and just missing — is it just me or does his arm look a lot more malice-y than the previous times we’ve seen this scene? Maybe it bursts out just as he’s about to catch her?
Pits opening up in the sand, possibly leading to caves below? There’s also a glyph in the background that might represent a character we see later in the trailer.
Underground! Based on the lava and rock type, this might be the heart of Death Mountain itself, and possibly a dungeon! There’s also the return of the flamebreaker armour, although it looks like its received a bit of a redesign.
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Almea is interesting because, despite being fantasy--originally of a very classic mold; it seems to have started out as much of a place for Zompist to set D&D campaigns as anything else--its author is clearly concerned with the mechanics of history: although there is no simple 1:1 comparison (Verduria is not an allegory for France; Ctesifon was not Rome; Xurno is not Russia), the way the world is presented, and the way in which the author explores it, meshes well with the major trends of our own world and how we understand them. Almea is a world you can make historical atlases of; it is a world with its own history of colonialism and international relations and a similar technological arc. It is, in short, a set of fantasy starting conditions (”what if three million years ago aquatic elves and swamp orcs fought an apocalyptic war, and in the aftermath a new hominid civilization tried to re-run Earth history”) whose consequence are worked out in a fairly Earthlike way.
You might contrast this with Middle-Earth--for all that Tolkien had a pretty good head for history and language, he’s much more interested in exploring his fictional history through the framework of legendary narrative. Zompist has the Historical Atlas and the Almeopedia; but Tolkien’s big work is the Silmarillion, a work of history which is primarily concerned with telling that history in the epic mode. You can’t really make a historical atlas of Middle-Earth--for one, it’s not detailed enough. Corners of the world which fall out of the story, like the outer provinces of Arnor after the collapse of the northern kingdom, basically just disappear. There might be something in the big gaps in eastern Rhovanion and Rhun, but it’s clearly not relevant to the stories Tolkien wants to tell, so we have scant sense of what that is.
Comparing different approaches to worldbuilding is interesting to me, because once you start doing that, you really expose how shallow the imagination is of people who think of worldbuilding as, like, a secondary accessory to “real” storytelling. It is a fairly common position that worldbuilding is, I don’t know, basically a second-order activity, an indulgence at best, and that the real purpose of worldbuilding is to provide a good foundation for “proper” stories, which the ends of worldbuilding ought to serve. To me, though, worldbuilding has always been an interesting activity in its own right. Often a much more interesting activity, because how you design a world, the internal and external logic you approach it with, and how you present the results of that design, will not only, as a matter of inevitable consequence, cause certain stories to emerge from that world, in a way that feels as natural as breathing, but will give a strong scaffold, a supporting superstructure that helps those stories fit together in a way that transcends their individual arcs and themes.
For example, all stories that you might tell about Almea are part of an analytic history of a fantasy world that is About what it means to approach a fantasy setting with the tools of modern historiography, political analysis, and sociology, as much as they are About the individual themes of those stories. All stories you might tell about Middle-Earth are About reclaiming the epic mode for modern fantasy, and the possibility of redemption in a world marred by suffering, as they are the Silmarils or the One Ring. Bad worldbuilding often is merely an adjunct to storytelling--and that’s how you get shared settings that feel like a hodgepodge whose elements have no coherent relationship to one another, because the story someone wants to tell comes first, and, well, they’re going to force it to work in the setting whether it’s natural to it or not. And even good writers can build (or contribute to) lousy, boring worlds using this approach.
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writing a sw austen themed thing is really interesting because like, one of the things about austen’s women is they lead extremely narrow lives within the confines of a very specific kind of upper-class femininity. you can write things like pride and prejudice and zombies, and I heartily enjoy that, or you can go odd postmodern routes that seek to simultaneously modernise and girl-power the text whilst simultaneously excising many of the questions of agency, gender, and female interrelationship that exist in the original- i wish to uphold no classic works as the epitome of feminism for many reasons, but this trend bothers me greatly - but one of the interesting things about austen to me is the utter worlds of fascinating plot and comedy she details within those confines, and if I’m writing that kind of AU i don’t want to break that. and it brings this thing up that in some ways it feels odd to have blaster and lightsaber wielding action heroines engaged in croquet and cross stitch and interested in their marriages and homes and children, but comparing austen to sw i find actually underlines the poverty of female characterisation within star wars. austen’s women hold their own distinctiveness abroad broader patchworks of human comedy and are sharp and flawed and interesting; a catherine morland, an elizabeth bennet, and an anne elliot are three very different things. as much as these women’s lives are scaffolded around traditional goals of marriage and family, their lives are lived out in relation to other women and in configurations far more complex than “frenemy.” austen can have an endless number of stitchery-in-the-parlour scenes because every woman is distinct enough that comedy and drama arise simply from their proximity in the same place, and this is just.... not something star wars can easily say for itself. it’s the epitome of strong enough to carry the man versus strong enough to carry the narrative
#like it's actually a fun writing excersise for me#the main thing i'm ammending the Draft for is... it needs more women#i think the famous declarations and ballroom scenes get the most focus#but everytime i reopen an austen it's the women who grab me again
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SSR Vil Schoenheit Dorm Uniform Personal Story: Part 2
"Even the margins of a monochromatic page."
(Part 1) Part 2 (Part 3)
[Pomefiore Dorm – Ballroom]
Vil: You there! Straighten your back! You must always watch your posture while walking!
Pomefiore Student A: Y-Yes, sir!
Vil: You over there, your hem is frayed.
Vil: Make sure to pay full attention to the finest details of your attire as well. Outfit maintenance is also a part of fashion.
Pomefiore Student B: Thank you very much for the advice!
Vil: And… then there's your hair. Is that supposed to be fashionable?
Vil: You've so preoccupied yourself with the current trends, that you have neglected to determine if it even looks good on you.
Vil: First, know thyself. Only then can you ride the wave of fashion.
Pomefiore Student C: M-My apologies!
[Pomefiore Dorm]
Epel: Man, Vil-san is in perfect form today, too… I can hear his voice all the way here.
Epel: When this first started, I thought it'd be far better to be stuck cleaning than having to deal with him saying all sorts of stuff with my appearance…
[wind blows]
Epel: BUT I DEFINITELY GOT THE WORSE END OF IT!
Epel: I can't believe I gotta clean the outsides of all the windows of the huge castle-like Pomefiore dormitory!
Epel: And without a scaffold, all the way to the highest windows!
Epel: Just how many meters is it down to the ground…?
Epel: What'll happen if I slip…?
Vil: Epel!
Epel: Ack!? A voice from inside the building…? Vil-san!?
Vil: Will you be able to finish wiping down all the windows before the day is out?
Epel: Y-Yes, I will!
Epel: So please don't talk to me right now! If I let go of the windowsill, that'll be the end of my story!
Vil: Fufufu, what focus. Keep up the good work.
[Pomefiore Dorm – Hallway]
Pomefiore Student A: Siigh… Vil-ryōchō's curriculum is way harder than I thought it'd be…
Pomefiore Student B: What he's saying might be right and all, but it'd be great if he could be a little nicer…
Pomefiore Student A: I keep feeling like the Dorm Leader is always watching us, so there's no space to even take a breather.
Epel: I'm completely wiped out from wiping down every single window.
Epel: Maybe he was only targeting us to deal with all this exhaustive stuff...
Pomefiore Student A: No way! I don't believe that our Dorm Leader would do such a thing like that!
Pomefiore Student B: ...However, the Dorm Leader is just shooting out commands, while himself doing nothing but observing from his lofty throne.
Pomefiore Student A: Well, that's because he's on a completely different level from the rest of us. So essentially… He doesn't have to do anything.
Pomefiore Student B: Even so, it doesn't sit well with me. Why do we have to be the only ones who're dealing with all these hardships…?
Pomefiore Student A: Let's drop it. If this continues, we'll just be speaking ill behind his back. That sort of thing isn't beautiful, right?
Pomefiore Student B: …You're right. My body is completely exhausted, so I should sleep now to prepare for tomorrow.
Epel: That's for the best, probably. I think we're the only students still awake… Huh?
Epel: Looks like the lounge lights are still on.
Pomefiore Student A: I can hear a conversation… Is someone there?
Pomefiore Student B: I'm kind of curious now…
[Pomefiore Dorm – Lounge]
Rook: …Vil. You had an early morning meeting for the commercial shoot again today, didn't you?
Rook: I think you should let your fair skin rest sometime soon.
Vil: I'd like to, but my duties are still not through, so I'm afraid it's not possible.
Vil: I must organize all of these memos.
Rook: What's written on them?
Vil: A list of the dorm students' height and weight, as well as notes on their posture and walking style. Also, the list of herbs that would suit their constitutions.
Rook: You are simply merveilleux for keeping an eye on each student's status like this.
Rook: Even though I don't think any of them have noticed the extent of your efforts...
Vil: I have no need for them to notice. After all, I'm not doing this because I wish to be liked by them.
Vil: Students chosen for Pomefiore should be strong and beautiful.
Vil: As the Dorm Leader of Pomefiore, I have a duty to mentor those more inexperienced students.
Vil: …Oh my, is it that late already?
Rook: Are you finally ready to sleep?
Vil: Not at all. It's time for me to work out.
Rook: My goodness, you truly do fill me with awe.
Epel: …Did you hear that?
Pomefiore Student A: Yeah…
Pomefiore Student A: Thinking that Vil-ryōchō didn't have to do anything because he's already beautiful enough… There should be a limit to our foolishness.
Pomefiore Student B: Right. And moreover, for us to complain about someone who works even harder than we have…
Pomefiore Student B: How could we have been thinking something so stupid!?
Pomefiore Student A: No matter how strict the curriculum is, let's trust in Vil-ryōchō and do our very best.
Pomefiore Student B: You're right!
Epel: Yeah. I'm going to do what Vil-san told me and continue to clean the windows, too.
(Part 1) Part 2 (Part 3)
#twisted wonderland#twst#vil schoenheit#epel felmier#rook hunt#twst vil#twst epel#twst rook#twst translation
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I'm having some serious feelings *tm about the "dating to breakup or dating to get married" trend
because on one hand seeing people being to open and honest and firm in their expectations of a relationship is a good thing. communicating your expectations to a partner or potential partner is a good thing. And I'm glad that a larger part of the population is finally learning those communications.
But I am having such a disproportionate emotional response to this trend. like I don't know if it's religious trauma or just the reaction of a bitter tired queer raging against some hetero-normative bullshit but I fucking hate this trend.
like I'm trying to be logical because ultimately my emotional responses are my own responsibility to deal with. But I really fucking hate this trend. it makes me unreasonably angry. I want to scream at yet another arbitrary scaffolding being put around the human experience.
Why can't we just be with someone to be with them? why does every single fucking relationship we have need to fit into neat little categories with labels and stages and goal marks and expectations?
Why does every relationship have to serve such a strict fucking purpose?
isn't that exhausting? Aren't you so fucking tired of having to corral all of your human experiences inside set little paths?
like I am almost definitely having an existential crisis over the society at large right now. But please, if you're hopping on this trend right now seriously consider if you're adhering to these extremely strict expectations because you genuinely want that life or if your just tired and you think it will make your relationships easier to navigate.
If you're not 100% invested in a dating-to-marry lifestyle then do not advertise that you are. Take some time to really consider you're expectations and communicate that instead.
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Puscifer
House of Blues, Boston, MA
28 June 2022
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“Life is short. Create something with every breath you draw.” So goes the slogan for Puscifer, one of the longtime projects of Maynard James Keenan, and the only musical endeavor of his where he is technically the sole permanent member. Keenan, first known for his roles as the vocalist of prog- and alt-metal titans Tool and A Perfect Circle, has by all accounts taken this philosophy to heart both on- and off-stage: not only is he the lyrical head of three bands, he’s an accomplished martial artist, and also heads up two different wine labels from the precariously-placed plateau that is Jerome, AZ, counter-intuitively wrenching ichor from the notably-harsh environs of the American southwest.
Fresh from a tour with Tool on the back of that band’s first album in many years, Puscifer are back at it after their own years-long break, hitting the road with the LA-based noise-rap outfit Moodie Black. That three-piece, headed by Arizona native Kristen Martinez, starts a trend for the night by incorporating a projection screen in their performance, which by the end of the performance Martinez has torn down and wrapped around her like a fallen flag. Puscifer goes even further in their transformation of the space, two TV-shaped screens mounted in the rear of the stage, and a scaffolding big enough for two people supporting a craning, complex lighting array that protrudes out from the very back wall. There’s also a host of seven-pointed, honeycomb-style LEDs surrounding the stage.
More stunning than the technological setup is the central role Keenan plays in the pageantry that ensues over the course of the evening. While he’s always opted for various costumes (or varying degrees of undress) across all his bands, Tool shows typically see Keenan take a position far from the crowd, crouching low and oscillating back and forth in shadow, as if channeling a particular energy. Puscifer, the super-ego to Tool’s id, couldn’t be more different; as Keenan’s most freeform project it finds him often at the lip of the stage, fully in character as neurotic g-man Dick Merkin, face heavily made-up and hair gratuitously gelled back. Keenan has played many characters throughout the Puscifer years, often with a country flair in keeping with the project’s jokey, parodic origins (see: ‘Cuntry Boner’). But the shift to black suits and bald-capped alien agents isn’t totally out of the blue, as not only do Roswell and Area 51 call the southwest their home, but Puscifer itself has grown from a band issuing records called V is for Vagina into a project where Keenan expresses his winemaking-inspired reverence for nature, and now his thoughts on the chaotic state of the world, which he explores readily on their latest project, Existential Reckoning.
While the subject matter has gradually become more serious, Keenan has done anything but dispense with his sense of play in the stage show of this auteurial project – there’s just a few less ten-gallon hats milling around. Keenan is joined onstage by longstanding Puscifer “Agents” Carina Round, Mat Mitchell, and Gunnar Olsen. Mitchell, in charge of synth and guitar, shaped the sonic direction of Existential Reckoning, and Round – present from some of the earliest days of the project – has always acted as a venerable vocal foil for Keenan, as well as a lead actor in all the choreography that takes places throughout the night as the band winds through all twelve tracks from Existential Reckoning. Round supervises as, after the second song of the evening, a group of emaciated agents hoist from the photo pit an “onlooker” – dressed as one of Maynard’s other Puscifer personae - who is recording the set on his phone, an act which has been strictly forbidden for the evening by the historically camera-averse Keenan – though his permission of professional photography suggests – as do the many signs posted around the House of Blues – that the issue is more with people abdicating their experience of the show for the sake of documenting it in terrible quality. The aliens hoist the tan-suited figure backstage where, if the pre-show video featuring Dick Merkin is to be believed, he will be promptly recycled into America’s most ubiquitous mystery meat.
Throughout the night, Keenan and Round perform all sorts of interlocking dance routines, both in the foreground of the stage and up on the scaffolding, the layout of which can be seen prominently in the band’s live video for ‘Bedlamite’. During the thrilling ‘Apocalpytical’ they emerge from backstage wearing chest-plate-mounted microphones underneath their suit jackets, allowing them to move freely and control the mics solely with their center of gravity. They keep them on for ‘The Remedy’, the arrival of which elicits elated cheers from the crowd. Both perform a series of robotic dances at different times, and Round is joined in a line by the thinly-veiled alien agents, who at other junctures come to the forefront with Geiger counter-like devices and squabble as they search for something unnamed. After a second interlude – afforded to the band by pre-taped screeds in which Merkin alleges that nearly every famous person, including one Maynard James Keenan, are of extraterrestrial origin – Keenan returns as Billy D., the foul-mouthed, tan-suited figure who was so disreputably impersonated earlier in the evening. Billy D. notably has whiskey tumbler in-hand at all times, and during a few songs of this pseudo-encore segment the g-men – now fully transformed into aliens – come to the stage and refill the vessel with Maker’s Mark. Round also has by this point traded her tailored duds for an all-black Victorian-era dress, and further changing the atmosphere of the evening, for the title track of Conditions of My Parole Keenan sings into a megaphone, a technique he’s often employed with Tool that lends a unique texture to the song.
Before the evening is over, Keenan discusses the plans for a few reissues, including the aforementioned V is for Vagina. Feeling inspired, he leads the room in a chant of “Vagina!” as he walks across the stage, four times extending the mic in the direction of the audience and a quarter of the room shouting it on cue in turn. “Powerful stuff!” he quips before adding, “Some old fuckers kicked the hornet’s nest and they’re gonna find out…”, clearly in reference to the Supreme Court’s recent and tragic overturning of Roe v. Wade amid ruminations by Clarence Thomas that they aim to do far more damage in the future. But ‘Bedlamite’ helps close the evening out on a somewhat optimistic note, with its pristine refrain that “it’s gonna be alright” – though speaking to Forbes Keenan acknowledged that it’s not a philosophy of inaction. As a gesture of goodwill, he suspends the night-long cell-phone ban for this final cut, and as the song winds down he toasts the crowd from the top of the scaffolding, and fist-bumps Round on Mitchell’s final note. The stage goes dark, but Merkin returns one time in a quasi-blooper reel, finding him playing a Bop-It! game with all the giddiness (and difficulty) of a small child.
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Years later, even with all my growth and the entire world itself having changed, the landscape such a different beast than before
It still hurts like a motherfucker
My personal existence is better than it ever has been, even as the world continues to darken, and still. The cold, clear slash of pain through my abdomen, the quiet of a calm evening rent by sudden sobs
I look on past!me so tenderly, I just want to hug her and stroke her face and gather her in my arms, crooning quiet sweetness of it's okay baby take your time i'm here and i'm not going anywhere
She had to fall apart on the cold lineoleum of her kitchen floor at the Hour of the Wolf, all alone in the night, the trifecta of breakup-living alone-pandemic bringing her demons to her door better than any dusty desert drug trip could
But I wish I could magically be there that night, the ghost of summers-eve future, an apparition of warmth and kindness and the gentlest love she'd ever know
No, not his, nor his, neither of them
My own
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One of my dearest friends said something recently I can't stop thinking about
We were discussing previous incarnations of ourselves, and about my mid/late 20s self, she said:
"I didn't like her very much. She was really mean to my friend."
Which stopped me cold
I was quick to defend myself; I did not "gut that bitch from the inside out" as the trend goes. She has not been discarded so much as her license to drive the bus has been revoked. Hell, she doesn't even have co-pilot privileges. She has been relegated to the back of the bus, her headphones on, staring out the window like she's in a movie. Exactly where her melodrama belongs.
But she's still here. She's still me. I refuse to cast her aside when all she ever wanted was to be loved in all her mess. How could I forsake her now?
I have so much forsaking to make up for when it comes to her
How much did the slow slide down into the relative darkness cost me? How many years, how many friendships, how many opportunities of life lost in the mire of her mind?
I don't count that as her fault. But her legacy is now my responsibility. And I ache for her, want to shower her with love, cherish her. The pain and the pride I have for her are inseparable
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An online community that meets every Wednesday to share highs and lows, encouragment in goals, had a guest speaker that shook me to my core
Everyone says "believe in yourself" like it's easy, like it is a solution
No one gives tangible insight into how, or even what that means.
Her first point? The one the entire scaffolding of achieving goals and doing hard things and all the rest rah-rah hung on?
That your past, your present, and your future are all in conversation. The superimposition, double, triple exposure, one right after the other, all at the same time. Your past, the proof that you are capable. The future, holding a hand to you, beckoning. The present, where the decisions get made, moment after moment.
Past me believed in the woo-woo of it all. But she didn't believe in me.
That hug I want to give her? Pull her close until she pops back into socket, the ghost hopping back into flesh, until we are one in the same again. Forever.
Believe in myself to literally, finally, be myself
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