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szivtalan · 4 years
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character ask: kagami, momoi, alex and himuro 👀👀👀
!!! omg thank u Ceru! u might be one of my favorite mutuals <33 (putting this under a read more just so I can speak at lengths about each individual character)
Why I like Kagami: this is where I sarcastically ask “why DON’T i like him” but that’s literally the next question so; he’s everything i want to be and more. He has the determination and the willpower to make his own dreams come true, he’s gay as shit, he’s tall and buff and well-adjusted, mature enough to live on his own at an annoyingly young age, he’s funny and dumb and a total himbo as well as an excellent advisor bc of how grounded he is.
Why I don’t: I’m... not really good with explosive people. Violent men with loud voices especially scare me, and I’d think I’d flinch around him a lot and that would make me rlly anxious.
Favorite episode: it’s a toss-up between the Seirin fam visiting his place for the first time (is it where Kuroko confesses his love to him and then passes out in his arms? idk), and the onsen episode. I also loved all his plays against Kise and Aomine. AND the training camp w him running a lot in the sand.
Favorite season/movie: season 2 probably because he’s not a jerk anymore, but he’s still on his way to shed off any asshole behavior stuck to him. And I actually liked Last Game?
Favorite line: “There’s no such thing as useless effort.” and “This is our drama and we write the plot.” because he’s so ridiculous.
Favorite outfit: all of his casual fits... comfy but manly is my Jam
OTP: AoKaga....they’re truly soulmates, star-crossed lovers, canonically brought together by fate.
Brotp/otp no. 2: KagaKuro, I love them
Head Canon: I have several collections because I think too much about this boy, but here’s something I think about his family: he doesn’t know what happened to his mom. He never asked, because it wasn’t relevant, and he didn’t want to inconvenience his dad by questioning him. Occasionally, as a kid he felt like he was missing out on something (seeing other kids with their moms, feeling like they’re being treated with much more gentle care because they have moms), but as he grew older he realized that nurturing behavior shouldn’t have been limited to only a mother, and that he was just straight up neglected without any regards to missing a parent in his life.
Unpopular opinion: I never realized this was an unpopular opinion but I’m glad he went back to America at the end of Last Game. Obviously, it’s sad that he had to separate from the others, but I felt like Japanese basketball has always been just a stepping point to him, and now that he’d beat the best of them, it was time to move on. And it also warms my heart that him getting scouted in the US gave Aomine hope to aim big, too. I felt like both of them would’ve felt trapped in Japan with their skill sets.
A wish: I want him to be happy and gay and to confront Himuro and tell him how hurt he was by how he treated him and probably do the same to his dad too
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: ....whatever I’d say Shinsun has probably written it/will write it, but I don’t want him to forget about the GoM just because he becomes a world-famous athlete.
5 words to best describe them: sweet child with anger issues
My nickname for them: not mine (it’s Sypha’s) but “Kags”, Kagami, Tigerboy, Kagababe, Baby
Why I like Momoi: she is SO nurturing and sweet and she cares so much about her boys!! I’m sorry it always turns into “how they remind me of myself” but actually I get feeling like a background character and being the moral/emotional/physical support of those who are more talented or in any way better than you. I feel a strange kind of kinship with her and also,,, feminine girls make my heart stop, and it doesn’t get more feminine than Momoi. Added: Aomine aside, the Touou team wouldn’t worth shit without her skills tbh, and she’s not in any way less than the GoM. Also, I appreciate her being the one person to try to keep their friend group together.
Why I don’t: Analytical People Scare me like!! how do u know stuff people are Unknowable!! I usually am also irked by her pointing out Riko’s breast size but I can just pretend that’s in a gay way (maybe Momoi likes girls with small boobs and she’s just bad at flirting) (also I don’t exactly liked her calling Aomine a “ganguro” but I have too little knowledge on the use of this word to say exactly why)
Favorite episode (scene if movie): uh the one where Aomine made her cry? It really came through how much love she actually has for her friends at that one.
Favorite season/movie: she was great in all of them!!
Favorite line: I can’t remember the exact quote and Google isn’t really helpful either but the one where she made Kuroko promise they’ll always play together or something? Or that they’re gonna beat Aomine?? idk?
Favorite outfit: I like all of them but mostly I just appreciate her wearing so many hoodies, she looks so cute in them
OTP / Brotp: it’s both AoMomo. I feel like the have the most special and strongest bond in the entire series.
Head Canon: She’s never been shown to do, but I feel like she wears Aomine’s clothes a Lot. Also, they definitely have sleepovers To This Day.
Unpopular opinion: Momoi is good at basketball and she loves playing!!! But try being successful in it when ur opponents are Giants and Way More Buff than you are
A wish: I wish people appreciated her more!! Both in fandom and in canon. She’s an amazing person and she has her own skills and strengths that are rarely explored or even mentioned anywhere.
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: her falling out with her boys ;-; I do not want that
5 words to best describe them: strawberry sweetheart to steal ur heart
My nickname for them: Satsuki :> I feel like it’s a little too much to call characters on their first names sometimes but hers is so cute I can’t
Why I like Alex: yet again another woman with an extensive skill set. I love her persistence and again I appreciate getting disillusioned and finding your way back to the thing you love. Also it’s just sweet that she did that by teaching (again, something I can relate to)
Why I don’t: the whole “kissing children” thing rubbed me the wrong way but again, just like Momoi’s obsession with comparing breast sizes, it’s just bad/sexist writing from Fujimaki probably
Favorite episode (scene if movie): adshg any and all where she expressed that Himuro and Kagami are equally important to her <33 that shit makes my heart burst
Favorite season/movie: she only appears towards the end of s2 and in s3 so... I guess s3?
Favorite line: its so Bad that u literally can’t find the iconic quotes of these iconic ladies anywhere but... her story on finding her passion again through teaching kids, and anytime she mentions her fondness of Kagami and Himuro.
Favorite outfit: her iconic olive green coat with the short red shorts... wtf was that I loved it.
OTP: she doesn’t really interact with people her age but I’ve heard she’s shipped with Masako Araki and I’ve seen some seriously good fanarts and like... Yes Good I’d Love To See It
Brotp: I feel like her and Himuro would be that sassy pair that Kagami tries and fails to contain and they get into all sorts of weird, absurd situations asdjs what I’m trying to say is Kagami has to bail them out of jail from time to time
Head Canon: fck me if I’m wrong but she’s the lesbian single mom of the two gay kids she reluctantly adopted from the streets
Unpopular opinion: it’s more like another headcanon, but she can dunk and she taught Kagami how to do it.
A wish: I’d love her to coach the Seirin fam more!! Pls let her be part of her children’s lives (she could also judge streetball games between the goms it would be fun)
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: anything about her being romantically involved with her pupils makes me.................no
5 words to best describe them: Beautiful Beach Blonde Basketball....goddess
My nickname for them: Alex!! sometimes An Icon
Why I like Himuro: em dash Asdgsdj I’m joking, I’m becoming more and more fond of the boy. Once I realized that he shouldn’t have been the “bigger person” in that situation and one year doesn’t really mean much when you’re that young and that hurt, I realized he’s actually a good and hard-working kid and I’m sorry for giving him so much shade. Also I really like his snark and sass, but that might not even be canon at this point tbh
Why I don’t: I’m still sort of irked by him beating down on Kagami because he was envious/mad, but I realized the aspect of that situation that Really got to me was how devoted Kagami still was to him after all that. That devotion was what felt toxic, nothing that Himuro actually did to him.
Favorite episode (scene if movie): the time they met up w Kagami just to exchange a dramatic socially distancing bro fist and a few encouraging words.... gays be Like That
Favorite season/movie: I really didn’t mind s3 Himuro
Favorite line: apparently he’s said some iconic stuff that I don’t remember (and my sources don’t seem really legit) but I’m gonna say “let’s see you become number 1, bro” because again, that’s just so ridiculous and endearing. On one hand he really went from loathing Kagami to rooting for him and wanting him to reach his full potential and on the other, honey ur  like 17 stop speaking like That
Favorite outfit: his knitted V-neck sweaters and the black coat with the white fur.... boy’s got all the fashion sense that’s missing from Kagami
OTP: can I say.....AoHimu asdfh I ship 3/4 of these characters with Aomine what does that say about me
Brotp: KagaHimu. They can be sweet, but I’ve only ever seen Jake write them really well
Head Canon: I’ve been entertaining the idea of....trans Himuro.....
Unpopular opinion: everyone thinks that Kagami is the violent kid and Himuro is the chill, sweet child who’s somehow wound up with this mess of a fiery tiger, but it’s actually Himuro who taught Kagami how to fight and Kagami learned quite a lot of aggression from him
A wish: I feel like Himuro should’ve gotten a separate episode to explore his thoughts, feelings and past. He had so much potential as a character Is2g
An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: him quitting basketball would fucking destroy me. I’d be devastated for others too, but it would really pull on my heartstrings if he just dropped the only thing he’s been so passionate about.
5 words to best describe them: gender-non-conforming emo child
My nickname for them: Himu, Tatsuya, Tatsu
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madeofitzits · 4 years
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In honor of the impending return of Brooklyn 99, here are 99 reasons that...
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1. He was precocious enough to know, at 5 years old, that he wanted to change his name (x)
 2. He has a bunch of nicknames: Sandy Amberg, Young Sandwich, etc. but the most endearing one is 'Droidy', his family's name for him (x) 
3. He is still super close friends with people he's known since: Elementary School (Chelsea Peretti) (x)...
4. Junior High/High School (Kiv and Jorm) (x) 
5. … Summer Camp (Irene Neuwirth) (x)
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7.  ...and Film School (Chester Tam) (x)
8. Before he met Joanna, he dated other famous ladies but - out of respect - he never discussed it/them (x) 
9. He loves turtles and tortoises. When he was a kid, he had a pet turtle that he named 'Squirt' because the first time he held it, it peed on him. His Mom, Margie, accidentally killed Squirt when Andy was at Summer camp... (x)
10. … Maybe this is why, when shooting 'Popstar', Andy fell hard for Maximus (Conner 4 Real's turtle). He says they "had a good thing going" and that he wanted to adopt him. In the end, he decided against it because there are a bunch of coyotes in his neighborhood and he was worried the little guy wouldn't be safe. (Popstar: DVD Commentary)
11. Speaking of his Mom, despite being a super private person, he appeared on 'Finding your Roots' so that he could help her track down her birth family (x)
12. When he succeeded he cried (although we never got to see it on camera) (x)
13. That's because, like all good boys, he loves his Mama which is why - as part of the same episode - he said "My mom is basically the kindest person I know… and many people would corroborate that" (x)
14. Andy's Sisters, Hannie (Johanna) and Darrow, used to make him wear diapers and put his hair in pigtails until he was 5 years old. He says he didn't mind because he just liked that they were paying attention to him (x)
15. That's why he sees his identity in comedy as being 'America's kid brother'. When he was young, he would annoy his sisters until they laughed and he claims to have been replicating that approach to entertainment ever since
16. Although a bunch of his characters have 'Daddy Issues', Andy definitely doesn't. He's super close with his Papa (Joe) and has said "he's a good man" and "the best Dad in the world" (x) 
17. Joe was Andy's youth soccer coach and in one scene in 'Hot Rod', Joe's favorite photograph can be seen in the background. It shows a very young Andy posing with a soccer ball, after "scoring the winning goal against Mersey" (x)
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18. He's been a loyal Golden State Warriors fan since he was a little kid, living in Oakland (then Berkeley) and, in 2010, he correctly predicted that they would "win a Championship in my lifetime" (x) 
19. The proceeds from his Umami Burger ('The Samburger') went to a deafness early detection program in Berkeley. This cause is close to his heart because Margie uses hearing aids and used to work in the special needs program, teaching deaf kids (x)
20. He, Kiv, and Jorm have made multiple donations to their old school district, including $250 000 to its theater program (x)
21. On the subject of The Lonely Island; Andy always goes out of his way to make sure that everyone knows how much he owes to his buddies. For instance, he told Marc Maron, during his WTF appearance, that "I get a lot of credit for what Kiv and Jorm have done" (x)
22. He makes this face when he knows he’s said something naughty…
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23. During his 'Wild Horses' appearance, he said that he can't watch scary movies because they freak him out too much. He told 'Complex' that he's still scared of 'The Shining' (x)...
24. … Similarly, when he was at UC Santa Cruz he worked at the Del Mar movie theater and he had a hard time coping with screenings of 'Species 2' (x)
25. He fell in love with Joanna, the moment he met her, when she greeted him by addressing him as 'Steve the C**t' (x)
 26. He listened to 'Ys', everyday for a year, before he and Joanna started dating (x)
27. He bought the original portrait that was used as the basis of the cover art for 'Ys' and gave it to Joanna as a Christmas present, so that she could hang it in her music room (x)
 28. He loves birds and goes hiking and birding with Joanna (x)
 29. Every new comment he makes about Joanna becomes an instant contender for 'most beautiful thing a person has ever said about their spouse' (x)
30. For example, he readily admits that Jake's iconic heart eyes are the result of him thinking about his amazing wife (x)
31. There are many stories about how incredibly romantic Andy and Joanna's wedding was and Jorm has said that it featured "the most magical vows I've ever heard" (x)
32. The Newsombergs now live in Charlie Chaplin's old house (x)
33. On the Emmys Red Carpet (2015), the year he hosted, they took a momentary break from posing for the world's press to whisper 'I love you' to each other (x)
34. At last year's Vanity Fair party, Andy carried Joanna's purse for her so she could grab a snack (x)
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35. He was a semi-permanent fixture in the audience for her recent run of shows for the 'Strings/Keys Incident' tour, even officially confirming his status as the 'President of her Fan Club' (x)
36. He used his Golden Globes monologue to call out the government for framing and murdering the Black Panthers (x)
37. On the Carpet for the Guy's Choice Awards, he called the event "a ridiculous farce", adding that "men already have it so easy - it's insane that there's a show that celebrates them". That makes sense when you consider that he, Kiv and Jorm have made an entire career out of parodying toxic masculinity (x)
38. He once said that only "idiot-ass men" think that women aren't funny (x)
39. He’s been wearing glasses since 7th Grade and he has the most heartbreakingly cute habit of nudging them up his nose, (especially when he wears his Sol Moscot frames) (x)...
40. ... and of rubbing his eyes under them (x)
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41. He barely ever wears glasses for roles but he also avoids contacts (because he doesn't like touching his eyeballs) which means he's almost always 'acting blind' (x)
42. He has worn his glasses in character a few times - as 'himself' ('Lady Dynamite'), as 'Paul' ('I Think You Should Leave') and during a very small number of SNL sketches (e.g. during his one appearance in a 'Gilly' with Kristen Wiig) (x) 
43. He can't tolerate glare and when that makes him squint it's a sight that's too cute for words (x)
44. He owns about six outfits and has been rotating them for well over a decade (x) 
45. He barely ever breaks during shooting/while performing, so when he does it's aggressively adorable. (x), (x)
46. He's a grown ass man who persuades people to come with him to the bathroom because if he goes by himself he'll get lonely (x)
47. He didn't announce he was leaving SNL, until after his last appearance, selflessly choosing not to detract from Kirsten Wiig's huge and emotional send-off (x) 
48. He undertook a quest to smell like Lorne Michaels (x) 
49. He's ageing like a fine wine (x)
50. To protect their daughter's privacy, Andy and Joanna never announced that they were expecting. They've never released their little girl's name or date of birth and most news outlets still report that they became parents in August 2017 (even though that's inaccurate) (x)
51. Although he's careful not to talk about his daughter often, sometimes he can't keep from gushing about her. For example, when asked about his first year of fatherhood he said: "It’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Just like a beautiful, incredible dream. It has surpassed every expectation I ever had. It’s definitely been very blissful" (x)
52. After their daughter was born, Andy and Joanna spent the first 40 days at home with her (in a practice known as 'confinement'). He's described it as being "a really special time". (x) 
53. Andy is famously mild-mannered but, when asked about what triggers his 'Dad claws', he admitted that if anyone attempted to touch his daughter, without permission, he'd "probably sock them hard in the face"…
54. ...Characteristically, he went on to add that he hopes that never happens, since he hasn't been in a fight since 6th Grade (x)
55. Cyndi Lauper was his first celebrity crush and he plays her record ('She's so unusual') for his daughter all the time. (x)
56. His is the very definition of a precious laugh (x)...
57. It's made even more wonderful by the way it makes his voice go high-pitched (x)
58.  … and the way it causes his eyebrow to rise involuntarily  
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59. It's impossible not to smile at his impression of his Mom (x)
60. And laugh at his impression of John Mulaney (x)
61. He was so convinced he wouldn't win the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, that he didn't prepare a speech. Instead, as he explained to David Letterman, he "just went… and started drinking". The resulting list of improvised 'thank yous' was perfect in every way (x)
62. As producers, Andy, Kiv and Jorm have given life to some amazing projects ('Alone Together', 'Brigsby Bear', 'I Think You Should Leave')...
63. … and gone out of their way to support women in comedy ('Party Over Here', 'PEN15') (x)
64. As well as being a comedy legend, he's a super-talented dramatic actor, who gave the performance of a lifetime in 'Celeste and Jesse Forever' but, after the movie wrapped, and it was time to do press for it, he was straight back to goofing around (x) 
65. His lip bite should be illegal (x)
66. Even though he wears the same vanishingly small number of outfits, over and over, he has a vast collection of the most excellent socks (x)
67. He always gives 'editing notes' during his own interviews (x)
68. He has a super sweet and sincere way of thanking interviewers when they compliment him (x)
69. He adjusts his hoodie constantly (x)
70. The two most perfect Jake laughs in b99 are actually real Andy laughs 'https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W38A_xuXaeg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVm9nYrTWRQ
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71. Virtually everyone who has ever worked with Andy has talked about what a wonderful person he is. This explains why so many of them have been involved with more than one of his projects (x)
72. It's not only his colleagues who talk about what a delight he is (x), (x)
73. This lovestruck fool wore his own wife's merch when he went out to dinner (x)
74. No one else uses the word 'dinky' quite like Andy (x). The same goes for 'snacky' (see point 70)
75. He does this with his tongue (x)
76. He still likes to play soccer but his eyesight is so bad that he has to keep his glasses on for it
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77. When he lets his gorgeous floofy hair grow a little it sits perfectly over the arms of his glasses (x)
78. He gifted the world with Jakey's little curl (x)
79. At the James Franco Roast, he couldn't bring himself to be mean to anyone except himself (and Jeff Ross, a little!) (x)
80. In fact, he's always been willing to laugh at himself (x) and he still is (x)
81. He changes b99 scripts to make them more feminist (x)
82. Despite their humble insistence that they just benefited from 'good timing', the reality is that Andy, Kiv and Jorm (along with Chris Parnell) revolutionized digital media, when 'Lazy Sunday' popularized YouTube, increasing its traffic by 85% overnight (x)
83. He once attended the Vanity Fair party because his Mom told him to (x)
84. He has an amazing way of subtly but firmly shutting down inappropriate questions, like when this interviewer suggested that Holt being gay was something that could have been played for laughs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=idQsYQfkR5o
85. He auditioned for SNL at the same time as Bill Hader. Hader thought he'd blown it because Andy had a bunch of props and Bill had none. In the meantime, Andy thought he'd blown it when he saw Hader and realized 'this guy doesn't need any props' (x) 
86. His bromance with Seth Meyers is one for the ages (x)
87. Every single second of this video is proof of why Andy, Kiv and Jorm deserve the world (x)
88. He once dragged Mulaney up on stage for SNL Goodnights, even though writers weren't allowed to join in (x)
89. He has a hilarious phobia of pooping anywhere except his own bathroom (x) 
90. His beautiful, beautiful, face: His smile (radiant), his eyes (caramel - hella disarming), his ears (adorably asymmetrical), his nose (perfect), His chin (the dimple… *swoon*), his jaw (could cut glass), The 'Sambeard' (another amazing layer of pretty) (x)
91. His body: His butt (x), his thighs, (x) his soft lil tummy (The ‘Sambelly’) (x), his hands. (x), his arms (x), his hips…
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92. All signs point to the fact that, like Jake, Andy uses his glasses case as a wallet (x) 
93. Jake's "cool-cool-cool-cool-cool-cool" is an irl Andy-ism that the writers worked into b99 scripts. What's even better is that Joanna does it, too (x)
94. He has a really good arm and is low key competitive, which is super hot https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e32K_nBDy3Q
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95. He's one half of the cutest Red Carpet pose of all time (x)
96. He barely ever seems to get mad but if angry Jake is anything to go by, maybe he should... (x)
97. He's a huge nerd, who geeks out over GOT, LOTR, 'Star Wars', 'Alien(s)' and anything relating to time travel (x), (x)
98. He has a gorgeous speaking voice, especially when he’s tired or a little sick. (Bonus points for any time he uses the word ‘correct’. See point 30) (x) 
99. He’s still so committed to his b99 fans and fam, even after all this time and is as excited as the rest of us that...
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literaila · 3 years
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i think i might read later. i don't know which of the 3 to read, but i'm sure i'll figure it out. also have to do math, i'm going to school tomorrow so.
literally. his voice. it's just ?? indescribable. i'm guessing you liked it? and yes, i have! i really loved it, thomas sharpe got added to my fictional crush list. he's gorgeous. so is lucille, but she's worse. actually, whenever i read pride & prejudice i always get reminded by thomas & crimson peak in general. just not gothic, but i mean, they're both set in the 19th or 20th century. that doesn't make sense, does it..? just realized.
oh, of course. you're obviously stunning, even when dancing like a buffoon. yeah, okay. i'm sure you'll forget in about a month or so. you'll see, darling.
it's very long, if i'm being honest. ah, yeah, don't you like spencer reid? i've read your writing about him, 'ten seconds of space' broke my heart. quite literally, it shattered. is it good so far? do you like it? it's something about hospitals and stuff, right? sorry i'm asking so many questions. just curious on what you think.
my favorite is definitely nicole! i think i really hate the father, though. what was his name? robert? whatever. he's just annoying in general. for me. there's movies too? my best friend really likes miraculous lady bug. in my opinion, it's overrated. i don't know how oblivious they can be, they both look the same, in and out of costume.
god, i barely want to live 80 years, let alone 200. death must be peaceful, i think. the way i see it, there are 2 types of death. a cold one, and a warm one. i could ramble on, but that just seems weird.
i almost always feel like i'm on my death bed. i hope my last words are something funny. don't want anything stupid carved in my grave. plus it's fun! well.. i can't get up from bed, but i can go on my phone the whole time.
what shows are you currently watching, sweet? i don't really have time to watch anything a lot, only a few episodes. it's gonna take long to finish a season or two.
exactly! and my phone runs out of battery so easily. i've never let it die before. ever.
i ran out of pocky :( plus i think eating the same strawberry pocky everyday is getting a bit boring. i'll make sure to remember trying matcha next time i go shopping! i swear on it. i think i'm going to make some ramen and drink ramune while watching the new 'what if' episode
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plenty to choose from. let me know what you picked.
could compile a list of all the things i love about it. lucille, while beautiful of course (who can resist), makes my blood boil. i know she’s a fictional character but. just. everything about her. it is very similar to pride and prejudice in the time respect, though definitely different things going on. i mean, england compared to america. terrifying. still, they give the same vibes. you know, besides the ghosts.
…i’m assuming you didn’t like the waltzing bit in crimson peak then? don’t worry love, i’ve got an alarm clock brain. also, dancing is always prevalent. at every waking moment.
verrry long. i guess i like spencer reid (yes). i’m actually really bad at characterizing him cause i’m not a genius so… quit that (not literally, i’ve got so many drafts) and moved on to dumb quips.
ten seconds of space is good only for the counting sequence. that was so genius of me. i am so sorry you have to read those last two sentences.
greys anatomy is surgical intern type stuff. more about drama honestly. not sure why i love it. it’s probably mostly nostalgia, but honestly there’s some good topics within it.
awww i like the dad. he reminds me of myself. though, nicole is awesome. mlb is my only solace in life. it’s magic obviously, so they don’t look the same to each other. duh. i won’t hold a grudge against you for it though. too much.
i bet you’ll live thousands of years. i’m psychic so you should be worried. death is peaceful in a way— not that i’ve died before but… still.
you what?!?!?
i assure you, any last words of yours will be good. unless they’re something like “tell them-“ and then you die. that would be boring.
that sounds soooo fun. id quite literally die.
just greys anatomy. i don’t like to divert my attention from anything— it’s the same with books. plus, i’m on a roll.
hey, me too! i think my phone has died once in the history of phones. and it was probably on vacation or something.
not boring, familiar. never too much pocky. i had some myself today actually. forced my grandma to go to the store… and made cookies.
that sounds like a lovely time. i’m so behind on ‘what if’ it’s sad. i’ll catch up soon.
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bearpillowmonster · 4 years
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Static Shock Retrospective
I was watching Young Justice: Season 2 (Invasion) when I decided I wanted to watch this, I always liked Shock but never got into the lore of it, and I love his powers. I've seen gifs of the show and thought it looked interesting but never really got around to it, I just haven't been in the mood. Then I saw a video on YouTube called "Jimmy no!" not knowing that it was from Static Shock and oh boy...it got dark, I wasn't expecting it to go that deep, that kind of thing wouldn't get aired today but it made me interested in it again.
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I started the first episode and Virgil's personality made it for me, mix that with Richie, played by Jason Marsden (aka Max Goof and Kovu) and you have a very nice protag duo. I instantly knew that I was going to finish it when I saw him using a blanket like Dr. Strange's cape or a homing device because of his static cling. Yes I started it because it's dark, but the series isn't always dark, just parts of it, like the first episode has to do with gangs, another with racism, then one where a kid gets trapped in a vault and is losing oxygen?? I mean is my memory hazy and cartoons were just like this and aren't now?
They call the people who were in the accident from his origin "Bang Babies" which sounds like a play on Baby Boomers, Virgil is pretty quippy like that. With this, I'm not a big fan of all the baddies coming from the same incident as our hero, especially when we don't see them all there in that episode, you might as well say that the whole town was infected.
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Does it withstand the test of time? Well yeah, as I mentioned, there are things we probably wouldn't see in today's television but the topics are quite relevant as well as the humor. The visual style is pretty nice, the language they use isn't as "cringy early 2000's crap" as I thought, the only sign of age is formats, they'll talk about VCRs and have CDs hanging from the ceiling. The actual content is ahead of it's time with almost public service announcement type episodes that are extremely relevant today, for example, one episode they go to Africa and they show that "Black people can be superheroes too." and Virgil says about how in America he's a black kid, but in Africa he's just a regular kid and asks Ritchie if that's what it's like for him all the time. They talk about culture, sometimes it'll teach a lesson that way and it's so wholehearted that it just fits, it's really nice and surprising to see. 
They have sections at the end of the show where they'll have an artist draw a specific character, it's different every time, I have a knack for that and for some reason I remember it?? Maybe I accidentally caught it one day or I'm confusing it for something else because I'm pretty sure I never saw the actual show but it's only after some episodes from what I can see. I think I remember Avatar doing something similar, I guess great shows think alike. 
Here’s a link if interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PPMgBU_GmU
Virgil's mother is gone, they make that apparent pretty much from the get-go so no spoilage here but I like the way they make his sister pick up where she left off. Like there's a running occurrence where she'll make a meal for the family and Virgil will make fun of it and say something like "Runny...just the way I like them..." about his eggs, it's like she's doing this stuff to fill the gap and failing but she's making the effort and that's all that counts, for as much or little as we see her, this is a nice little additive to her overall character. As for his mother though, I like that they go all in and make that a running theme, sometimes having full episodes commemorating her.
There are some special guests too. I won't say any more on that though, I'll let it be a surprise if you decide to watch it because the crossover episodes are hands down some of the best I've seen and another reason I started this series.
I got about halfway through the series and I was like "Oh yeah, what about Frida?" She appears in the very first episode and she seems like a main character, then Daisy enters the scene a little later but Frida's kind of been pushed back to the background, used only when the plot finds her convenient, so we don't really get a whole lot of character from her. I guess that's representative to the series as a whole because what I got was a lot different than what I expected from those first few episodes.
In season 3, they change up the intro, it kind of fits the times, the original one sounded kind of 90's, the second one sounds very early 2000s, I suppose it fits the flow. We still get the original theme during Static's bigger moments, but they do that for all the seasons. What's funny to me is that if you read the Wikipedia page, it says they wanted something fast paced with "DMX-type vocals", ha! As if. I will say that some of the OST overall has a few really good tracks, but unfortunately I haven't found a way to find them on their own, separated from the show. I know most of them only last a short time but other DC shows still have the OST released despite being fairly short or only being in a specific episode. That's not the only thing that changes, he has a second design, which I personally have become accustomed to the white shirt over black but it is what it is, his costume was literally just street clothes in Young Justice and I was surprisingly okay with that so whatever suit is fine. The second one is meant to show that he's growing and it definitely seems that way with the sleeker design and more black added but what I really like about it is that he takes the jacket off sometimes and the Static shirt is just a sleeveless black shirt, it just adds more variety in my opinion. Daisy's overall design changed too for whatever reason and Frida's changed a tiny bit, her's is a little harder to notice.  
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For some reason in the middle of the season, in the episode "Consequences" and "Trouble Squared", he changes back to his old suit (I mean he could have just had the old suit lying around and decided to use it for old times sake) but it seems like that episode was made before S3 started or something else because Daisy has her old design as well. It also shows that he has a FULL white mask, not just the eye mask, like a part that goes over his head, I'm not sure if that's supposed to be where his hood is or what but he takes it out of his backpack separated from his hoodie. It might've been just a miscolor though. He has electric as his power (obviously) but they use it in pretty creative ways, the most outlandish and kind of dumb one though is that they basically have him use Photoshop. 
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You can also argue that he makes the computer a touch screen.
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Now Season 4's first episode is really pretty cool, reminds me of something out of Ben 10 but without spoiling it, there's a part in an earlier season where Static asks where a certain character is and they respond by alluding to a DC reference, however we see that character again in the season 4 opener so the timeline doesn't fit, there are a few other inconsistencies but that's the one I'll mention.
Season 4 also seems to have a return for a lot of different characters almost like a sequel to those episodes. Those are hit or miss, some do well while others don't. It's easily my least favorite of the seasons. It's not bad or anything, it has some really good episodes but the good to bad episode ratio is just more than the other seasons, I must have been spoiled by the consistent number of good episodes.
This may be the realest animated tv series I've ever seen and it's about SUPERHEROES! The way they manage that is unbelievable. I hope we see more of this character, somewhere, anywhere because he’s been given the backseat in pretty much everything, even the comics, he’s been absent from those for quite a while, I feel like now is an excellent time to bring him back, I mean look at the current position we’re in.
The last retrospective I did was American Dragon, there are a few things that I can compare between the two endings but does this one seem definitive? Well in a way, yes, it seems like a very good last episode but doesn’t end everything off in such a way that there wouldn’t be room for one more season. I have a feeling they knew it was the last episode given the way they sort of built it up here and there. The cancellation, however, was caused by the lack of toy sales, not lack of views, however I can’t say I’ve really seen any merchandise from the show.
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Seems like there were some dinky Subway toys and a GBA game...
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Pluralistic: 25 Mar 2020 (National Emergency Library, Kaiser threatens nurses, no more O'Reilly events, White House pastor's coronavirus funnies, automatic bill-relief notices, Mat Ricardo's lockdown TV, Xi's internal enemies, coronavirus meets immigration detention, doctors hoard choloroquine, toilet paper separator, Conzealand goes virtual, the Postal Plan, Volante's masks, and more!)
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Today's links
Internet Archive lifts lending restrictions on ebooks: They're calling it the "National Emergency Library."
Kaiser threatens to fire Oakland nurses who wear their own masks: They're treating positive patients from a cruise ship with insufficient PPE.
No more O'Reilly events: We've been here before, kinda.
Trump's Bible study teacher thinks coronavirus is God's wrath: For homosexuality, China, environmentalism, Catholics, and women in the workforce.
A chatbot that petitions companies for financial relief during the crisis: Donotpay's robot lawyer is here for you.
East London showman Mat Ricardo's Youtube playlists: Lockdown TV for "comedy, variety, circus, magic, dance, music."
Xi's enemies sense weakness: Autocracies are only as good as their last crisis-response.
Locked down in a lockup: Coronavirus meets immigration detention.
Doctors hoard choloroquine: MDs to lupus sufferers, "Drop dead."
Toilet paper separator: Covid crafting for household essentials.
Conzealand goes virtual: The first time a Worldcon isn't in person since WWII.
Posties are key to America's emergency response: The only agency that could deliver covid meds to every US household in a single day.
Volante's masks for covid responders: Streetwear for Superheroes.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, current reading
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Internet Archive lifts lending restrictions on ebooks (permalink)
The amazing people at the Internet Archive maintain a digital lending library: they buy and scan one copy of every book (pretty much every book, ever) and lend it out to one person at a time.
They've just announced that during the crisis, they are lifting the one-borrower-at-a-time restriction and allowing unlimited borrowing, "to meet the needs of a global community of displaced learners". They call it the "National Emergency Library."
https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/
It's got more than a million titles.
https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary
They're calling on all who can afford it to buy books to support authors and booksellers during the crisis, Authors can also request to have their titles removed:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QjErbouWG7pUlzcxPcRk4YEtbYs8ItlVTgLa1DfGh68/edit
It's a bold move, but it's got widespread support. Here's a list of endorsers. I signed on too.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkl3RX4CzpRTQsoG1tsdHC0foYiU7A8U_Vt1UyVboP8/edit
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Kaiser threatens to fire Oakland nurses who wear their own masks (permalink)
Nurses at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland are treating patients from the Grand Princess cruise ship, at least 21 of whom have tested positive for covid-19. The nurses are working without adequate PPE, thanks to a national shortage (and asshole hoarders).
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/21/oakland-coronavirus-hospital-kaiser/
Nurses who report for work wearing their own N95 masks have been threatened with immediate dismissal for "insubordination."
Akela Lacy from The Intercept asked Kaiser's Marc Brown about it, but he ducked the question.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/kaiser-permanente-nurses-coronavirus/
The nurses say that their supply cupboards are locked down, and they're being asked to treat potentially infected patients whether or not they can find someone to unlock the supply cupboard.
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No more O'Reilly events (permalink)
I attended my first O'Reilly conference in, I think, 1997? And I sponsored my first O'Reilly con, the first P2P con, in 2001 (?). I spent years on the committee for the Emerging Tech conference, and I've keynoted more O'Reilly cons than I can recall.
These events have been some of the most important gatherings I've ever attended: places where I made lifelong friends and collaborators (I first met my wife at an Etech con), and learned so much.
This is (obviously) not a good time to be in the event business. For perfectly good – and nevertheless so, so sad – reasons, O'Reilly has just exited the in-person conference business.
Forever.
https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html
"Without understanding when this global health emergency may come to an end, we can't plan for or execute on a business that will be forever changed as a result of this crisis. With large technology vendors moving their events completely on-line, we believe the stage is set for a new normal moving forward when it comes to in-person events."
The covid collapse feels a lot like the post-911/dotcom crash moment. That was when we lost the Etech conference, whose focus had always been "what are the most speculative things the weirdest nerds are doing?" No one had a budget for that kind of thing after the crash.
The dotcom crash and the loss of Etech were hugely traumatic, but there WERE silver linings. Etech's crash begat FOO Camp, consistently the best events I've ever attended – small gatherings of smart weirdos who programmed their own conference in realtime.
It also created a brief moment of breathing space in tech, which had its origins in driven tech enthusiasts but had been steadily colonized by buck-chasers who upped sticks and quit when the money disappeared from the sector. For a brief moment, mid-decade, people who wanted to build meaningful technologies for users – not investors – could hire engineering talent and find office space. That was ended by the finance bubble that shattered in 2008, but for a while there, it was good.
It's brutal to think that I'll never go to another O'Reilly con, but my hopeful inner voice tells me that there might be something as wonderful on the horizon as FOO Camp. I'm so sorry for all the O'Reilly conference staff, who are amazing and have done so much good work.
As O'Reilly CEO Laura Baldwin writes, "No offense to 'Netflix and chill' but how about we move toward 'Code and conquer' as our new mantra during these trying times?"
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Trump's Bible study teacher thinks coronavirus is God's wrath (permalink)
Wanna hear about an extreme religious far-right bigot who thinks that coronavirus is God's punishment for Chinese excess, American tolerance for homosexuality, and environmentalism?
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/trump-cabinet-bible-studies-coronavirus/
Ralph Drollinger is an evangelical pastor. He says Catholicism is "the world's largest false religion." He says women working outside the workplace is against scripture. He runs Capitol Ministries, whose goal is to have 200 ministries in 200 world capitals.
Drollinger may sound like a garden variety Christian Taliban, but he's awfully distinguished.
For one thing, he runs regular Bible study classes…at the White House.
His scriptural lessons: God would approve of kids in cages. God also wants lower taxes on rich people.
His twice-weekly Capital Hill Bible classes are regularly attended by 52 GOP lawmakers, sponsored by Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] and John Thune [R-SD].
His Wednesday White House Bible study classes are attended by Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Alex Azar, and Mike Pompeo. Pence, too!
His organization has received official endorsements from Joni Ernst, James Lankford and other GOP senators.
This anti-Catholic, homophobic, sinophobic, anti-enviromentalist, lunatic is squarely in the mainstream of Republican thought.
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A chatbot that petitions companies for financial relief during the crisis (permalink)
The $3/month DoNotPay service has added a new covid-19 service: automatically petitioning the companies that bill you for mercy based on the coronavirus econopocalypse.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21192765/donotpay-rent-bill-delay-chatbot-coronavirus-extension-laws-pandemic
Using a chatbot, you determine which of your bills are eligible for relief. Then it generates a "compassionate and polite request" seeking help. If the company does not comply, it follows up with a firmer letter citing relevant state/federal laws.
https://donotpay.com/
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East London showman Mat Ricardo's Youtube playlists (permalink)
Under normal circumstances, showman MatRicardo is either traveling around doing his juggling and conjuring act, or hosting amazing variety show nights in east London. Neither of those are an option, now, obvious.
Instead, Ricardo is curating playlists of "comedy, variety, circus, magic, dance, music and other kinds of culture and entertainment to distract and amuse."
https://www.matricardo.com/blog/2020/3/17/lockdown-tv
https://www.matricardo.com/blog/2020/3/24/lockdown-tv-week-2
Highlights:
Kids in the Hall: "I speak no English"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoEhsJORU
Gene Kelly: "Summer Stock"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFJrV3pI5Zs
"The Knife-Throwing Mother & her Children (1950s)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxodb2uUhQ
Mat Ricardo: "How to charm a German audience"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ECcHLvRYA
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Xi's enemies sense weakness (permalink)
Autocracies are intrinsically unstable because their have-nots (who tend to be numerous) believe that they have no path to becoming haves, and see no legitimate purpose to preserve the social order.
China has stabilized its autocracy by simultaneously lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty and by using internet surveillance to both neutralize dissidents and spot its most corrupt and dangerous politicians.
But under Xi, internet surveillance has primarily become a weapon for spotting and neutralizing dissidents, and less so a way of spotting self-dealing technocrats and shutting them down. This created "authoritarian blindness," which meant Xi didn't spot or respond to Wuhan in good time.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/24/pluralist-your-daily-link-dose-24-feb-2020/#thatswhatxisaid
This failure ruptured Chinese public confidence in Xi, and emboldened his critics. Ren Zhiqiang (a party "princeling" whose father was a top Mao official, who made a fortune in real-estate and has been an outspoke Xi critic) issued a "viral" jeremiad against Xi this month.
Ren's post, "An official call to arms against Xi: The clown who insists on wearing the emperor's new clothes," spread on Twitter and other foreign services (he has been banned from Wechat for years).
https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/as-virus-recedes-in-china-anti-xi-revolt-spreads/
Ren disappeared shortly thereafter and is said to have been sentenced to 15 years in a secret prison near Beijing where his interrogators have been ordered to mete out "harsh treatment" to the 70-year-old.
Ren is a bellwether for other Chinese power-brokers, many of whom resent Xi and his power-consolidation techniques, such as his 2018 corruption purge that preferentially targeted corrupt officials who supported Xi's rivals.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181222163946/http://peterlorentzen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lorentzen-Lu-Crackdown-Nov-2018-Posted-Version.pdf
These grandees have been sharpening their knives for Xi for years, and coronavirus has made him vulnerable. Ren was the first to turn on him publicly, but I'm sure he won't be the last.
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Locked down in a lockup (permalink)
You know what's more terrifying and frustrating than being locked down at home during a coronavirus pandemic? Being imprisoned during a coronavirus pandemic, crammed in with others, deprived of soap and supplies.
It's very bad in regular jails and prisons, but if anything, it's even worse in ICE's gulags, where thousands of law-abiding long-term US residents – and asylum seekers – have been detained by the Trump administration in order to please his sadistic base.
For example, Ian has lived in the US for 20 years. His wife and children are US citizens. He was detained while awaiting a decision on his spousal visa. His wife is a nurse treating covid patients. His children miss their father.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/03/24/everybody-s-scared-panic-at-immigrant-detention-center-after-positive-coronavirus-test
Ian has a heart condition that puts him at severe risk if he contracts coronavirus. He's in a 40-person dormitory with a recent arrival from China who is exhibiting symptoms.
He's in NJ's Essex detention facility, which is serviced by Corecivic, formerly Corrections Corporation of America, a notorious human rights abuser with a long history of beltway banditry while running private prisons. Some detainees there are on hunger strike.
One of the medical staffers there was confirmed by ICE to have contracted coronavirus. The next day, ICE denied that he was medical staff. ICE would not comment on the contradiction.
(Image: Fibonacci Blue, CC BY)
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Doctors hoard choloroquine (permalink)
After Trump made misleading statements about the safety and efficacy of treating covid-19 with chloroquine, members of his cult began dropping dead of overdoses on the antimalarial drug.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/arizona-coronavirus-chloroquine-death/index.html
But it wasn't just low-information Trumpers who took the advice to heart. Pharmacists are seeing surges in massive orders of chloroquine from doctors and even dentists who are self-prescribing in order to hoard, and then lying about it when the pharmacists ask for explanations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-are-hoarding-unproven-coronavirus-medicine-by-writing-prescriptions-for-themselves-and-their-families
This hoarding behavior deprives people who rely on chloroquine for conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus of their medication during a pandemic emergency.
"People are losing their minds about this product. We're selling so much of this stuff and people are just stockpiling it prophylactically if anybody in their family gets sick — they're just holding on to it." -Brian Brito, Miami pharmacy owner.
"Currently, both nationally and in West Virginia, some prescribers have begun writing prescriptions for these drugs for family, friends, and coworkers in anticipation of Covid-19 related illness." -West Virginia Board of Pharmacy
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Toilet paper separator (permalink)
The Toilet Paper Splitter: a DIY project to separate a single two-ply roll into two single-ply rolls. Requires two paint rollers, a couple bolts, a rubber band, and some stiff metal for a handle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JEfCAFHcPk
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Conzealand goes virtual (permalink)
The World Science Fiction Convention began in 1939, when 200 sf fans who'd come to New York for the World's Fair gathered together (while explicitly excluding the leftist "Futurian" writers, who held their own counter-convention).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_World_Science_Fiction_Convention
Since then, there have been 77 Worldcons in total, one per year, excluding 1942/3/4/5, during which WWII intervened.
This year's Worldcon is Conzealand, the first Worldcon in New Zealand. Except it won't be. The organizers have wisely decided to move to a virtual event.
The hotels are allowing for cancellations, though there's some work to be done to allow the organizers to do mass cancellations for their group block. Different airlines have different rules regarding cancellations.
https://conzealand.nz/hotels?utm_source=CoNZealand
They're expecting to offer limited refunds to participants who don't want to a virtual con experience. They'll be offering a new online rate by April 15, and kids memberships are refundable now (but they ask you to forebear as their own personal funds are on the line).
Potential panelists are requested to put some thought into how they might help a virtual con with its programming.
This is incredibly disappointing, of course.I know the organizers and visited Wellington and the venue, both of which are incredible.
https://conzealand.nz/blog/2020/03/25/conzealand-special-announcement
I've been looking forward to attending for years. But it was the right call to make. it won't be the last such disappointment, either.
Please consider supporting the organizers by buying an online membership once they're offered and attending the con from wherever you are.
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Posties are key to America's emergency response (permalink)
The USPS is amazing. A fully self-supporting federal agency that provides universal service as well as good, well-paid jobs with benefits and pensions. It's also a vital lifeline during crises.
https://www.wired.com/story/us-postal-plan-coronavirus-vaccine-doomsday/
Since the Cold War, posties have been integral to America's crisis plans. They were once deputized to catalog the dead and the living after a nuclear holocaust, distributing Safety Notification Cards (POD Form 810). Mail trucks would have been repurposed as ambulances.
Both Obama and GWB integrated posties into their plans for biological attacks, planning to have masked and gowned letter carriers deliver Cipro door to door (the "Postal Plan").
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-medical-countermeasures-following-a-biological-attack
As the DHS noted in its prep documents, the USPS is the only federal agency that could knock on every door in America in a single day.
When (if?) effective covid meds are available, it's likely a postal worker will deliver them to you.
Now is a good time to remember that the GOP have been trying to dismantle the universal, self-funding, vital USPS for decades, so that private carriers like UPS and Fedex can cream off the most profitable parts of its business and leave rural Americans in the cold.
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Volante's masks for covid responders (permalink)
I've long admired (and worn) clothing from Volante Design, whose "streetwear for superheroes" is made by well-paid, onshore workers and is cosplay-adjascent — the kind of thing you can wear out and about, but also to a con.
Now, they're making masks for covid responders.
The masks are made from cloth and can protect N95 masks from contamination as they are reused (they have a pocket for this purpose). They can also prevent you from touching your face, and partially contain coughs when medical masks are not available
https://www.volantedesign.us/
They're seeking donations to cover the cost of making these and shipping them to orgs that have requested cloth masks:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1txEanDkIrJ5GNfSk-zlXkTlB-bQPNRN_Y69qEwmdme8/htmlview
A $105.50 donation lets them make 50 masks. They're also selling them on a sliding scale to those in need.
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This day in history (permalink)
#15yrsago Matrix online game hires real actors to play in-game characters http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-matrix-online/598441p1.html
#15yrsago Fox is advertising on Grokster, also suing to put Grokster out of business https://web.archive.org/web/20051018083600/http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=28535&Nid=12722&p=244505
#15yrsago US sabotaging efforts to create humanitarian copyright and patent policies https://web.archive.org/web/20050916104840/http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/03/25/united_states_v_wipos_development_agenda.php
#15yrsago Ex-coder's account of life as a bike courier https://web.archive.org/web/20050323071902/http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548
#10yrsago Profit-sharing arrangements among Somali pirates https://web.archive.org/web/20100323020702/https://www.undispatch.com/somali-pirates-buisiness-model
#1yrago Peak Indifference: are we reaching climate's denial/nihilism tipping point? https://www.wired.com/story/we-might-be-reaching-peak-indifference-on-climate-change/
#1yrago London developer makes last-minute changes to lock poor kids out of "communal" playground https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/25/too-poor-to-play-children-in-social-housing-blocked-from-communal-playground
#1yrago Chinese censors incinerate entire run of a kickstarted Call of Cthulhu RPG sourcebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Urosc-JEY
#1yrago The Vessel: a perfect symbol for the grifter capitalism of New York City's privatized Hudson Yards "neighborhood" https://thebaffler.com/latest/fuck-the-vessel-wagner
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Colophon (permalink)
Today's top sources: Wendy Hanamura (https://twitter.com/whanamura), Geekologie (https://geekologie.com/), Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/).
Currently writing: I'm getting geared up to start work my next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation.
Currently reading: Just started Lauren Beukes's forthcoming Afterland: it's Y the Last Man plus plus, and two chapters in, it's amazeballs. Last month, I finished Andrea Bernstein's "American Oligarchs"; it's a magnificent history of the Kushner and Trump families, showing how they cheated, stole and lied their way into power. I'm getting really into Anna Weiner's memoir about tech, "Uncanny Valley." I just loaded Matt Stoller's "Goliath" onto my underwater MP3 player and I'm listening to it as I swim laps.
Latest podcast: Data – the new oil, or potential for a toxic oil spill? https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/23/data-the-new-oil-or-potential-for-a-toxic-oil-spill/
Upcoming appearances:
Quarantine Book Club, April 1, 3PM Pacific https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quarantine-book-club-cory-doctorow-tickets-100931360416
Museums and the Web, April 2, 12PM-3PM Pacific https://mw20.museweb.net/
Upcoming books: "Poesy the Monster Slayer" (Jul 2020), a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-poesycorypreorder&utm_content=na-preorder-buynow&utm_campaign=9781626723627
(we're having a launch for it in Burbank on July 11 at Dark Delicacies and you can get me AND Poesy to sign it and Dark Del will ship it to the monster kids in your life in time for the release date).
"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother book, Oct 20, 2020. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531
"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583
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Movie Monday - July 27th, 2020
"Best Sports Film"
A Showdown:
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In Honor of the MLB (finally) starting their regular season last Thursday (July 23rd) and with the NBA gearing up for their season this Thursday, July 30th, I thought it be a great chance to reflect on the Best Sports Film of All Time.
When it comes to Sports whether it's in Real Life or on Film - Each comes with its own Fanbase but none is treated equal.
You can't evenly compare a Knockout Haymaker to a Steady Tap of a Put. So how can one compare ever sports film ever made to one another?
Well, I simply pitted every specific sports film against other sports films within their same category. Once I had the Best of the Best from One Sport I then weighed them amongst other Top Contenders in different sports.
I excluded Documentaries as hardly anything can beat a Sporta Doc (sorry Senna, Pulling John, and Hoop Dreams), but I did accept Bio-Pics and stories based on True Events.
Another Disclaimer: Due to Tumblr's photo limit I am only recognizing the Top 9 (sorry Football/Soccer, Cheerleading and Arm Wrestling)
So...
Who will come out on Top as the Best Sports Film:
#9: The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
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Yes, Shia LaBeouf and Disney top Caddy Shack and Tin Cup as the Best Golf Film of All Time as it actually focuses on the heart of the game.
This Story based on True Events is a great inspiration of following dreams and a lesson of not letting anyone dictate your life.
In my book it's probably some of Shia's best work.
#8: STICK IT (2006)
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You have to give Stick It its props. The film is fun, engaging, and lighthearted fun shown upon female gymnastics.
Watching a movie like Stick It makes you wonder why Disney has not made any gymnastic bio-pic yet - there is tons of history they can roll with - Highly recommend they look to Kerri Strug and 1996 Olympic Run.
#7: Remember the Titans (2000)
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It's funny how American Football is regarded as the Most Popular Sport in the U.S. but it's extremely difficult to find a great American Football Movie.
Think about it? There are not a whole lot of Football movies out there but they do NOT have the same watchability factor like Baseball Films such ad The Sandlot, Bull Durham, or Major League.
That's where we find Remember the Titans. A good film - watchable, especially for a middle school team bonding - but just not enough to hold up against the rest.
#6: White Men Can't Jump (1992)
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Basketball Films, like American Football Movies, are kind out there in limbo.
The best stories are usually told through Docs, but White Men Can't Jump Story stands above the rest as it illustrates one of my favorite faucets about 80s/90s B-Ball...
Trash Talk.
A flick thats shows the High Stakes of One-on-One Basketball with a Witty Perspective.
#5: Warrior (2011)
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Move over Karate Kid - Warrior takes the Prize for Best Martial Arts/MMA film... Body Mass Alone, Bro!
In all seriousness, Warrior is a great film which choreographs multiple intense bouts along with excellent in and out if the cage performances from Hardy, Edgerton, and Nick Nolte.
#4: Miracle
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Disney is back in the line-up with Miracle.
A True Story recapturing events which led the U.S. to a Gold Medal over the Russia.
A movie that doesn't have the giggle factor of Might Ducks or Slap Shot, but definitely gets you jacked for Hockey.
#3: Ford v Ferrari (2019)
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Hey, everybody we got an Oscar Nominee on our hands!
I never in my wildest dream thought a racing movie would be this high up on the list and not include Days of Thunder or Rush.
Prior to viewing I thought Ford v Ferrari would be the next quentessential dad film, but it flew past my expectations.
The Writing, Editing, and Acting are just like Matt Damon's face Post Mole Removal... Smooth
#2: A League of Their Own (1992)
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I might get a lot of sh*t about this choice, but I am prepared to defend my choice until my last breathe.
A League of Their Own, a movie about Female Ball Players, is the BEST Baseball Movie of All Time.
Again, Baseball Movies are some of the Most Rewatchable Films period. There are dozens of notable films to choose from
Why A League of Their Own?
They all have great Characters, Stories, and Quotes, but for me it comes down to making my selection I have to go with the film that displays more Love for the game.
The Sandlot gets tied up in a Babe Ruth Baseball Rescue Mission, Field of Dreams is a Ghost Story, Bull Durham is a Love Story, and Major League can be too far fetched at times.
A League of Their Own is purely focused on the Sport of Baseball based on True Events - in the midst of war time people were itching for normalcy and droves of women came together to deliver Americas past time.
Amazing acting from Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, and Madonna who provide warmth, levity, and humor to their roles.
Finally...
We come to our #1 Sports Film...
The Best of the Best...
#1 Creed (2015):
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If Boxing Movies were a Personification of a Man they be the Dark, Mysterious, Brooding Bad Boy with piercing grey eyes that you wish you could Tame.
You just can't look away.
Boxing films go beyond Knuckle Sandwiches as they capture the Psyche of Fighter - a bout within the boxer.
With Raging Bull, Cinderella Man, The Fighter, and the Rocky Franchise all preceding Creed it's interesting to see it on top.
But too me, Creed took all the great things from its predecessors and built a fantastic film.
The Best Cinematography, The Best Choreography, The Best Build Up. Coogler (director), Jordan and Stallone should be proud of there work.
The Best Sports Film?
YES!
Creed (like most boxing films) inspire.
Not only did Creed illustrate the love of the sport but also his character's drive and determination to make one's self the best.
Watching this film in theatres I got so jacked I literally jumped out of my seat with fists pumped .
The mentality displayed in Creed can easily translate into other people's lives and serve as role model. An instant classic that which provides that little push when you need inspiration.
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for Liddle: ♥ ▼ ☼ but also I'd love for Jopson: ☆ ☯ ✿
OH BOY YOU KNOW I GOT EM’
eddie liddle
 ♥ - family headcanon(s)
his family is Big & Warm & Very Affectionate
mum is CUTE and tiny and very innocent and clumsy and must be protected AT ALL COSTS. her heart is the most tender.
Mr. Little cuts an imposing silhouette but don’t be fooled he’s an enormous nerd and very patient and gentle with his children (to the point that run all over him). he has “resting stern face” and the only thing that gets him fired up is “coarse talk” and “rough behavior” around his wife.  
his parents are DUMB in love.
neddie is 7th of 12 (9 survived to adulthood) and 3rd of 5 sons 
they’re all knotted up in each other’s business/drama All The Time
his sister harriot (hattie) is closest to him in age and is his favorite (not JUST because she can play the pianoforte) 
his youngest sister lucy and his older brother tim are tied for being the biggest fucking drama queens.
they’ve been in the horse business as long as anyone can remember and have two farms. they’re known for cold bloods, but as time goes on his elder brothers and father have gotten more and more interested in hot blood stock from the americas and have a side venture breeding british spotted ponies.
every year edward would go to barnett fair to see the auctions with his father and brothers  and uncles and it was like a HALMARK when you were old enough to go along and it’s very special to them. 
there’s an enormous portrait of them all in the front hall of the main house in herefordshire that shows all the children and his parents and the joke is that their father had him paint his collie dog toby sitting closer to him than his wife. 
the other joke is that every collie they’ve had since has also been named toby in honor of that dog
his two younger brothers dick & fred are his absolute best mates :’) they convince him into all sorts of nonsense (with a lot of hemming and hawing on his end)
his sister annie is acquainted with the brownings of whimpole street.
his grandfather rode under colonel hale in the colonies and his eldest brother is named after him (hale). his grandfather was the one who started his family in the horse business and everyone thought edward would become a cavalryman but he surprised them all by joining the navy. 
▼ - childhood headcanon(s)
neddie has the benefit of being a middle child, which meant he could slip in and out rather undetected if he wanted (even if that was just daydreaming at the table)
he’s always been extremely earnest and easy going which made it IMPOSSIBLE to bully him 
always eats whatever is in front of him and could fall asleep anywhere.
his elder sisters carried him around like a doll for like the first 3 years of his life.
HE WAS INCREDIBLY EASY TO SCARE/PRANK. 
any extra attention always made him very embarrassed as he got older which was constantly exploited
his main job was keeping dick and fred from literally killing themselves with mad stunts 
he got his first horse when he wasn’t even a teenager and he was a huge brute who was super hard to tack but to this day he says lancelot was his #1 favorite and the best horse he’s ever had and they had many adventures together. 
L O V E D hero stories, even if he’s grown up and serious now and has drier tastes.
girls probably fancied him but he had Literally No Clue and wasn’t paying enough attention to company to even remember correctly
as a little boy he always looked concerned and his mother and sisters were always asking him what was the matter and he’d say “only thinking” 
GOOD BOY. SWEET BOY. MAMA’S BOY. 
only pitched fits about getting his hair cut (he was scared of scissors)
struggled with elocution lessons 
he and dick and fred all had mumps together and it was A TRUE FUCKIN’ MISERY. 
☼ - appearance headcanon
i think edward spends less time thinking about what he looks than just about anyone else he knows. he likes to be Neat and Orderly but otherwise he’s a function above fashion kinda guy and as long as the parts are all in good upkeep he’s fine. he lets his looks speak for themselves and thankfully he’s FUCKIN’ HANDSOME!! but otherwise he doesn’t like. think about it. he knows he’s in shape. his hair can be wavy when he gets lazy with it. he doesn’t mind doing his own ironing.tommy jopson
☆ - happy headcanon(s) 
he found an issue of lady’s cabinet when he was like 12 and read ALL the articles and tutorials and ads and basically kept it as a bible on how to be more gentile and it used to please him so much when people treated him differently for it. it also improved his sewing.
when they are all rescued he struggles with his memory so he’s always writing things down and jotting lists to himself and his handwriting is frankly HORRIBLE and the notes are inscrutable to anyone but tom. 
☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon
tom L O V E S gingerbread. it’s his favorite thing and reminds him of the corner outside his old rooms because he could smell the cart from the second story window. he always eats the corners and then the middle and picks up the icing off the paper with his finger.
honestly has a pretty big sweet tooth that he hates to admit. 
custard, italian ices, you name it.
i don’t think tom is very picky about food but he strikes me as someone who wouldn’t love shellfish because they remind him of bugs and he’d be like *wrinkles nose* at lobster.
likes edward’s cologne :) A Lot
✿ - Sex headcanon
let him get that good dick he DESERVES IT.
me$$y bottom 
look, i project because //i// want to get fucked by a beefcake like ed little but that’s beside the point. IT’S FOR ME.
HE LOVES A BEEFY GUY OK i think this is so funny given the time period and him being so DECIDEDLY unfashionable with his taste but once again, I’M LIVING VICARIOUSLY HERE because //I’M// a slut.
gives God Tier head
Corset ™
mess up his hair :)
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Let’s Play Heathcliff and the Garbage Ape! (for Windows) Solve
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This post contains some images of a modified Donkey Kong game, with the descriptive text suggesting it’s now known as Heathcliff and the Garbage Ape. There is a video link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbzhZh1G7Ds
From the video’s description:
This is a Heathcliff reskin of Donkey Kong, or rather Mick Farrow’s 2010 PC remake of the 1986 Ocean Software version of Donkey Kong for Commodore 64.
Every cat knows and loves the mysterious Garbage Ape- who arrives in the night to deliver trash to all good cats! But now he’s gone ape and kidnapped the lovely Sonya!
Now Heathcliff - America’s 2nd favorite fat orange comic strip cat - must scale the steel beams while avoiding traps! Good luck!
©1981 Nintendo ©1986 Ocean Software Remake by Mick Farrow 2010 Reskin by Pangent Technologies 2019 © George Gately, Peter Gallagher, Creators Syndicate Comics 1973-2019 https://www.mediafire.com/file/wly21q22okp5l8b
The mediafire link at the end is to a ZIP file containing the reskinned, playable (on Windows) game.
As this is a publicly visible Signal and Noise video, we’ve come to expect puzzles, so let’s take a closer look. The actual gameplay seemed fairly straightforward and we didn’t find anything hidden there to speak of, but the introductory screens of the video were another story.
At one point, this screen appears, with a possible code repeated three times
The text ‘GARBAGEAPE’ appears to repeat throughout, with letters R, G, and B highlighted in Red, Green, or Blue, along with some blanked out letters.
Each row also begins in a different place in the string, and by assigning numbers to the letters: GARBAGEAPE = 1234567890 and recording which letter/number started the line gives the string:
89846797871167695111694911285
Which can be spaced out into decimal to decode to:
89 84 67 97 87 116 76 95 111 69 49 112 85 YTCaWtL_oE1pU As usual, YT signifies a Youtube url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaWtL_oE1pU video with hex title 'g a p s’ Showing 'Cube Eric’ stating that he has nothing to fill these gaps with anymore, and that it’s been quiet lately. He also mentions the Alyssa code, which he attributes to being the only thing keeping 'the two of us’ alive at this point, 'if you can call this living’
The background animation of this video is of a style I don’t remember seeing before. Maybe a new version of the Cube animations since the big deletions after Dean’s uploads and the Alex/Kristi 'Team Rocket’ edits. Whatever the case, it’s interesting to see.
For the RGB code, noting there are three possible letters and three possible colors suggests 9 possible values, and with the blank space as one more, we’ve got ten values for a possible decimal code. Turns out that’s what it is:
The digits can be grouped as decimal ASCII:
57 53 112 57 51 100 101 103 56 118 114 107 49 57 50 65 73 68 69 77
which decodes to:
95p93deg8vrk192AIDEM
then reverses to:
MEDIA291krv8ged39p59
which links to:
http://www.mediafire.com/?291krv8ged39p59
This ZIP archive called 'Garbage Ape Comics’ contains 35 Heathcliff comics, mostly dealing with the Garbage Ape. With 2 Sunday entries that include information on Leslie Walsh and her cats.
Within some of the comics, there are letters after some of the dates, and the filenames for each comic are somewhat strange, two letters, a dash, and two more letters. It turns out those filenames are simply the month and date of the comics, with the code letters assigned due to one listing of standard english frequency letters, so ETAONRISHD = 1234567890
Then, if the comics are sorted by Month-Day (ignore the year) the added letters after the dates are:
EIEDFCFLGEFCECCIEICDEEEDCJ
convert to hex values using A=1, B=2,… J=0, K=a… P=f 5954636b756353395934555430 hex for: YTckucS9Y4UT0
That looks like a YouTube link (YT + 11 characters) http://youtu.be/ckucS9Y4UT0
This is a compilation of 'Cube Eric’ giving us a sort of 'State of the Cube Address’. Lots of information is revealed, some of which hasn’t been stated this clearly very often, if at all.
everything’s been erased here. this used to be data stretching out to something like infinity. i can see her now, on the other side of the world. lottie. she changed the code. it’s full of holes now, and the devil slips through the details. if i can catch my breath i think i can reestablish the connection. bring the data back. or most of it. it’s clear to me now that the cube exists outside of linear time. by establishing this connection we are not just observing the past. we are changing the past and the past is changing us. but i can’t change anything that would help. my past and my future crumble all around me and i’m powerless. maybe i’ll be erased next. maybe i deserve that. i was never a religious man but the closer i come to the source, the center of the cube, the more i see it as the creator and destroyer of all things. and i start to believe in a kind of heaven. would you laugh at me for that? that i clutch on to some kind of hope? a hope, for once, that has nothing to do with you? you see, there are files here that are date stamped to the year 2525. a lot of time has passed here, but not that much. that’s the code the box is running on. so what happens when those files can finally be opened? what is the future? will i be erased here, whittled down to nothing? or will the box open up like a christmas present?
a gateway to a new body, a new world, a new life? don’t open until christmas. 2525.
My wife and I, we had a daughter. A little miracle. We named her after her great grandmother. Rachel. She was just a baby. I don’t remember everything. I died, I remember that. Car accident. My wife, it … it wasn’t her fault. There was a … it was just bad timing. We were trying to get away. Our daughter was in the car when it happened. I woke up in this place. I waited for her. For my wife and child. I waited half a lifetime. I guess you knew that already. I hoped that they’d survived. I didn’t know, I couldn’t know, if they were alive or dead. My wife, she was a genius. I knew that our daughter would grow up to be a remarkable woman. I wanted to meet her. To shake her hand. One day, my wife came back. Charlotte. Lottie. She was older then. She’d lived her life. I wanted to know everything, but she wasn’t in much of a state to talk. We were happy just to be together. I asked her. How is our daughter? How is Rachel? She looked me in the eye and said, Rachel died almost forty years ago. The same night you did. Our daughter. Lottie died in my arms, about a day later. She was already dying when she came here. I tried to bring her back. I shouldn’t have done that. What I did to her, I’ll never forgive myself for that. But you never know what you’re capable of until you’re pushed to the edge. I never believed in heaven or hell. But like Lottie used to say, you play the cards you’re dealt. And when life or death gives you lemons … well. Lottie used to say that everybody has a dark side and a light side, and this is why the Human Soul so closely resembles a penguin. (laughs) she was funny. I’d forgotten she was funny. I haven’t talked to her in awhile. The woman who calls herself Rachel. The woman I broke. Her signal is stronger without my interference. I look at her and see the broken and reassembled shards of a woman I used to know.
Wherever she is now, she deserves better than that. I don’t know how to save her, or to save myself. Maybe there’s nothing left to save. She called herself Rachel, because Rachel is important. All I ever wanted, was for my wife and child to be happy and safe. It will never cease to amaze me, the degree to which I’ve failed.
At the end are DTMF Tones which are:
70 79 82 82 65 67 72 69 76
Which is decimal ASCII for 'FORRACHEL’
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Everything Wrong With Everything Wrong With The Lion King
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ORIGINAL VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4WsVHTVh0&t=0s&index=2
1.”33 Second Disney log in the 90’s-” This was not the logo they had in the 90’s. This is the modern logo added in the DVD/Blu Ray you have. You can sin it for that, just, ya know, do research next time.
2.”These lazy ass birds are lazy” Hey, if you had the chance to have an elephant carry you like that, you’d take it too.
3.”This is ritual that needs to be done for some reason” Just like with Frozen, Jeremy doesn’t understand the concept of other cultures having different ways of doing things.
4.”Even Gods shows his approval of the new lion cub by shining light down at the appropriate moment. Hopefully he’ll save Simba’s Dad when the time comes too.” This is one of those times where I think it’s a joke but thanks to how you operate, I can’t really tell. Either way it’s not funny.
5.”He’s as mad as a hippo with a Hernia” “Wouldn’t any mammal with a Hernia be in basically the same amount of pain/anger?” Yes, but I imagine it must be worse for Hippos. Plus, it’s alliterative!
6.”So they got James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair to to basically reprise their roles as King and Queen from Coming to America, so does that mean-” Gonna stop you right there just to say: This movie that movie!
7.”If it’s a shadow-y place, then the light ain’t touching it, and Simba shouldn’t have to ask.” He’s just wondering why the place the light isn’t touching isn’t being touched and what is up with it. Curious children will be curious, man.
8.”You’re like 6 days old dude, jesus” Simba looks mighty grown for a 6 day old!
9.”Simba walks in on Nala while she’s taking a bath” Again, you’re just stating what you see.
10.”Simba is outlining exactly how he’ll being about the downfall of the entire kingdom…selfish-ness and excsive playtime” That’s the point. This is supposed to show how arrogant he can be to contrast to later where he learns to be a proper king.
11.”Look, I know we’re in a cartoon musical where anything can happen but-” Nope.
12.”You lying whore!” Rude.
13.”How do the Elephants know to come here before they die?” That’s.,..not how graveyards work.
14.More than one sin about Zazu surviving a rhino sitting on him. We get it.
15.”Literal Big Shoes to fill reference” Again, you’re just stating the obvious. It’s subtle enough to not be a sin.
16.”There’s a clear area to the right here but Simba also went to the Prometheus school of running away from things” Do you really expect a kid to think on his feet like that?
17.”Getting your hopes up wildebeast” At least you’re not getting my hopes up if you giving out actual sins.
18.I agree that just killing Simba right there would be a smart move, but he sins Scar telling the hyenas to kill him even though it’s clear they are his muscle and he still wants to make it look like some sort of accident.
19.”Buzzards start swarming around an animal that is clearly not dead and hasn’t begun to decay for them to be attracted to it” Yeah but he LOOKS dead enough.
20.”Timon and Pumbaa Ex Machina but my question is, why do they even give a sh*t?” It’s a child in danger, that’s why.
21.(Timon starts Hakuna Matata) “Even if you killed your dad, he promise that’s bad…wait” First off, Jeremy sings that and it hurts me deeply, 2nd off, I don’t get it. They don’t know that part yet.
22.”Hakuna Matata glosses over the thing that made Timon an outcast” It doesn’t matter. Also, 3 and Half explains but it’s not explained here because it doesn’t matter.
23.”How A Bug’s Life should have ended” THIS movie had a bug in it, THAT movie starred bugs, and that’s a sin.
24.”Simba definitely wasn’t interesting during the time he grew into an adult, so we’ll tell that story in dissolves as he walks across a log” Well, yeah that’s why you dothat. To skip over the boring parts. This movie is in no way hurt by skimming that.
25.”Scar wanted to be king…for some reason.” I imagine just for the sake of having power. Some people just want power for the sake of it and don’t want anything deeper than that.
26.”Annoying Disney tune was around even in the time Africa existed” Ah yes, as opposed to now where Africa is just gone.
27.Also, there’s no indication that this takes place in any other time. This is far enough out so that it’s fine that no humans happen to show up.
28.”Some of you think this flower petals spell out sex when Simba falls into them. I think a lot of you have dirty minds-hey look I think I see a vagina in those flowers” Ha ha, but they actually spell out SFX.
29.”Pumbaa was food a minute ago. Are you telling me if someone vouches for him, he ceases to be food?” Yes.
30.”Has any Disney movie loved puns more than this one?” Care to show us more examples other than the 1? There’s not really that many.
31.”Why can’t YOU do something? Why can ONLY the heir the the throne was just now learned was alive do something?” I don’t think there’s much she can do about Scar at this point, but the true King is a pretty decent bet.
32.”-but would Simba have gone back to reclaim the throne without this supernatural Dad vision?” Possible but this gets it done faster and is cooler.
33.”EVERYTHING about this entire ecosystem is based around the sitting lion king’s evilness or goodness” Well, yeah. A good king would make sure to take care of the land while a bad king would just do nothing.
34.”Well, it’s over now. Benson has joined the battle” I’m sure that’s a reference that I just don’t get so…
35.”Hey, that’s exactly what Scar told Simba to do earlier!” Have you considered be one of those guys who narrates movies for the blind? You seem to be great at it. No wait, even the blind would know what is going on and why it’s not a sin.
36.”Simba does the thing that killed his Dad in the first place” …But his roar didn’t kill his dad. Even Simba knows this now.
SINS VIDEO SIN TALLY: 36
SENTENCE: Worries
I was expecting a higher tally based on my memory of this one but with some I tried to think of a rebuttal and just gave up out of laziness . So yeah, I bet some could come up with more sins I didn’t point out.
Next week, one of the few good off brand channels gets some sinning.
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Grimes, Serena Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow Talk AI, Ventures And Pivots At Web Summit 2020
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Grimes, Serena Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow Talk AI, Ventures And Pivots At Web Summit 2020
Tech investor Serena Williams with Away cofounder Jen Rubio
AI was top of mind at Web Summit 2020 held last week as celebrity founders and funders took to the small screen to discuss digital twins, autonomous weapons and how to govern Mars.
Over 100,000 viewers tuned into the virtual conference, up 300% from the airing of its sister show Collision From Home held earlier this year, and up 30,000 attendees from 2019 when the event was last physically held in Portugal, according to the show’s producers. A production so flawless that unicorn maker, Garry Tan, predicted the platform would be worth a billion dollars if they ever chose to spin it out.
But what really made Web Summit a standout was its clever mix of programming. No other tech show has yet to cast Hollywood’s most famous meth dealers, Contagion’s patient zero, the Princess Bride and Captain America discussing pivots from end times. Netflix and Amazon should take note – Web Summit was by far the best streaming entertainment of the week.
Some great insights were shared on the promise and perils of AI by Mark Cuban, Deepak Chopra, Ronnie Chieng, Alexa’s boss, Grimes, Ridley Scott, Palmer Luckey, Elad Gil, Garry Tan, Nicole Quinn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Serena Williams, Jen Rubio, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. Here are the highlights.
My Digital Twin
Shark Tank host Mark Cuban
“I wish someone would invent an AI model of the human body that could be individualized,” Mark Cuban said. A mini me of sorts with a copy of all bodily functions where simulations could be run to tell you, “Your throat isn’t sore, you ate something that’s bothering your esophagus which can be cured by A, B, C or D in seven days.”
Journalist Emily Ragobeer in conversation with Deepak Chopra and Lars Buttler
Deepak Chopra then introduced his own version of a mini me, Digital Deepak, a wellness guide for sleep, stress management, yoga, breathing, exercise, emotional resilience, nutrition, balancing circadian rhythms and self awareness. The best selling author only half-joked that he uploaded his consciousness to the AI Foundation to provide users with valuable insights from his 91 books. Although its not clear how biometrics will be tracked on the app, AI Foundation cofounder and CEO Lars Buttler gave assurances that everyone will be able to train their own Personal AI soon and that safeguards were being taken to prevent deepfakes made on the platform.
But can your AI take a joke?
“AI can get a well known joke or play on words because it knows when it understands something. If its confidence interval is narrow and it doesn’t know what’s going on, it will say I don’t know this yet, let me learn more about this,” Buttler explained.
Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng answering audience questions, “Will AI ever be as funny as you?”
“Will AI ever be as funny as Ronnie Chieng?”
“AI funny as me?! I hope not, I’ll be out of a job,” Daily Show’s Ronnie Chieng said as he responded to audience questions, “Right now I can’t even get Alexa to set a timer without selling me an ad. If it’s going to be as funny as me, it probably will sell more ads, so maybe?”
He then mimicked about how chatty Alexa has become.
“Hey Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes.”
“Okay Ronnie, your timer is 15 minutes, by the way, would you like to buy a clock?”
“No, I don’t want to buy anything, I just want you to do your job!” he replied.
The Atlantic’s Nicholas Thompson with Amazon’s Dave Limp
Alexa’s boss, Amazon’s Head of Hardware and Devices, Dave Limp explained they’re working on improving Alexa’s hunches.
“We’re at a point where one out of five interactions with Alexa are not instigated by the customer.” This means 20% of the time Alexa is doing something on your behalf, like playing news after you hit snooze to subtly wake you up.
“We’re trying to make this a delightful experience. What’s super important about being proactive is that you have to be right, a lot. As soon as you start getting proactive and incorrect, it gets annoying very quickly.”
TechnoUtopia v Dystopia
Grimes
Alt pop superstar Grimes, girlfriend to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, and mother to the Elven spelling of AI, talked about the role technology is playing in her life.
“I feel like iPhone should turn off an hour before bed. It’s been giving me sleep problems. It’s technology we haven’t factored into our biology.” She added, “But we shouldn’t forget technology makes our lives better. We need more utopianism in sci fi.”
Having recently collaborated with Endel, the algorithmic music startup, on an AI lullaby she observed, “Everyday I thank the overlords of Ableton for cleaning up my tracks but I do worry though that AI will outpace us and make musicians obsolete. It’s inevitable. We have the beautiful advantage of knowing super intelligence is coming. We ought to make those rules now and not wait until its too late. We’re giving birth to AI. We can teach it and point it in the right direction, but where it goes from there as it becomes more powerful as this ghost in our data and ultimately its own being is anyone’s guess. Maybe it will become like Dune, where thinking machines get banned on Earth and we send AI out into the universe to spread the light of consciousness so information is wherever you go, and then Earth becomes this boutiquey thing like organic vegetables where when human music is heard people will be like, oh, this was made by a woman, not a robot.”
As to whether this will turn into a dystopian nightmare of our own making, Grimes concluded, “Every tool has the potential to be dangerous. Where we are headed depends upon what we do with the technology. We’re on the knife’s edge right now but we have solved insane problems like our faces being beamed through space and time so we can be together in the same place right now despite physically being all over the world. That’s some crazy wizardry happening right here. There is a solution, we just shouldn’t make failure an option.”
Exiting The Anthropocene
Sir Ridley Scott
Blade Runner director Ridley Scott delivered his own dire warning with the premiere of his Digital With A Purpose film urging innovators to find way to meet Paris Accord Climate 2030 goals. “The luxury of science fiction is that it’s fantasy. We’re dealing with reality. We’re being way too polite about where we are. We are at the threshold of an abyss of disaster.”
Palmer Lucky, cofounder Oculus and Anduril, making the case for the tech industry to work on … [] autonomous weapons
Which begs the question, if the age of autonomous weapons is upon us, who do you trust more with it, enemy nations or billionaire Oculus founder Palmer Luckey? That’s what Luckey asked in making the case for the tech giants to re-engage with the U.S. Department of Defense on working on national security solutions.
“AI is this very powerful and useful technology but its not very good at making life and death decisions and is totally capable of running autonomous weapon systems. We need to assume it develops as fast as the most optimistic people assume and set rules now,” Luckey said, “We shouldn’t be outsourcing accountability to a machine. You can’t lock up a machine in prison for war crimes.” Anduril AI analyzes data to help humans pull the trigger, with safeguards to prevent abuses, he said. He criticized Google and Apple for not doing more.
“Big Tech companies are not only not working on national security problems, but they’re killing the work of companies that are. This happened with Boston Dynamics. That’s because there are financial and PR incentives to stay out of military work. China has done an incredible job of blocking access to their markets as a tool to get the culture of Western democracies to subvert itself to China. Meanwhile, China is making huge strides in autonomy and AI. China is going to be a superpower, bigger than the United States.”
Why Silicon Valley Will Always Be Home To AI
Elad Gil
Elad Gil, investor in Anduril, AirBnb, Cardiogram, Instacart, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, Unbabel and Wish, gave his perspective on the Work From Anywhere diaspora from Silicon Valley.
“For those of you in the audience thinking about starting a company, I want to tell you the water is fine. San Francisco is still a great place to come to. I encourage you to meet us here. Markets are bigger than they’ve ever been. If you ask yourself where is all the tech market cap aggregating, of the 187 unicorns that have been created in the last 15 months, half were in the U.S. and a quarter in Silicon Valley. I do believe we’re going to continue to have a cluster in the Bay Area because of strong network effects that accelerate companies and people working in those industries. I don’t think that behavior goes away after Covid.”
It’s 2020, Computers Can Now See, Hear And Socialize
Initialized Capital Garry Tan
As to where he’s placing his AI bets for the new year, Initialized Capital’s Garry Tan said, “We remain very long on computer vision. We were the first investors in Cruise Automation which broke open the self-driving car space and now there is a lot of practical automation that was never possible before.”
An investor in Standard Cognition, he talked about its camera-only cashierless retail experience that enables you to walk into a store, pick up whatever you need and walkout, in stark contrast to Amazon Go which relies on shelf sensors.
“Down the road we think practical robotics are just around the corner with sub $1,000 real time SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) computer vision, for use industrially and in the home.” Tan is also invested in Ava.me which applies on the fly machine learning to voice recognition and live captioning on Zoom.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Nicole Quinn
Lightspeed Venture Partners’ Nicole Quinn is also bullish on AI. She sees online social experiences remaining sticky for the foreseeable future. She’s invested in Lunchclub, an AI concierge that serves up Zoom coffees for meaningful professional networking, and Cameo, an AI booking agent for celebrities that will chat or send birthday greetings for a fee.
Celebrity Pivots
Gwyneth Paltrow on turning Goop’s first profit
Quinn then took to the screen with her portfolio client, Gwyneth Paltrow who shared news of Goop turning its first profit.
In March, “When the lockdowns happened and commerce seemed to completely stop, I set our marketing budgets to zero, pulled down our social media spend, and returned to our content roots to get back into the hearts and minds of our readers. Soon after engagement metrics went up and transactions followed, but our events and ads business had gone to zero overnight and our retail business were down from plan. I knew I had to get to profitability as quickly as possible. The hardest part was having to take such a stringent look at the P&L, close stores and let go of people we loved,” Paltrow said.
“We tell our companies, to win you got to be around. You need to have at least 24 months runway at all times,” said Quinn, applauding Paltrow actions.
Then Paltrow, an Academy award winning actress, landed a Netflix series, Goop Lab, which just got renewed for Season 2. “We got a lot of new customers from the show. I feel like a lot of brands are very reliant on Facebook, but when you live in the intersection of content and commerce, founders need to think of ways to organically reach customers. I’ll never buy another customer off Facebook again.”
Paltrow added, “I’m not that bullish on 2021. I think we’re still in for a lot of instability. We’re looking at creative ways to monetize content and find sustainable growth from within our own channels as opposed to spending money to prospect. We’re looking at doing something in food which is a strong pillar for us and not intensive from a capital expenditure standpoint.”
Serena Williams
Tennis legend Serena Williams is a prominent AI investor. Her portfolio includes Tonal, Noom, Zipline, Masterclass, Gobble, Billie and Daily Harvest, which she backed along with Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Quinn and Paris Hilton. Before the pandemic, she was an extensive traveler and launched an Away x Serena Williams luggage line. She went on screen with Away cofounder Jen Rubio to discuss their collaboration and the challenges the brand has been facing this year.
“Being at the intersection of travel and retail was pretty much the worst place to be. We stopped everything and took a hard look at should we be marketing at all. Approaching it very authentically and transparently with our customers allowed us to keep the brand going when it didn’t make any sense to travel,” Rubio said, sharing how fans have been supporting the brand by posting memes of Away suitcases posed as standing desks and work out benches. The company has since been able to pivot with travel goods for socially distanced road trips, digital nomading and pandemic puppies.
Cheers to 2021!
Forbes Zack O’Malley Greenburg Breaking Bad with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul
Let’s all raise a glass to the end of 2020.
“It’s been a difficult year for the entire world but the one thing that’s gotten us through is knowing we’re all going through it together. I miss travel but I’m finding happy moments at home. It’s really cool to be in one place with my family,” said Williams. 
Then Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul mixed up cocktails to promote their Dos Hombres Mezcal and did virtual shots from their sunny Los Feliz homes in locked down L.A. To next year in Lisbon!
Making Dos Hombres cocktails with Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul
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easy-win-games-blog · 6 years
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SAINT’S ROW – WHERE TO GO?
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So, I’ve been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto lately (namely GTA 3 for my last post) and it’s got me wondering: what’s happening with the Saint’s Row series?
As a die hard GTA fan I have a weird relationship with Saint’s; I inherently see them as mechanically inferior knock-offs of a staple of the medium, but at the same time I appreciate them and enjoy them as a way to tide myself over until the next GTA, which is where they evidently thrive. They’re undoubtedly fun and do a great job at emphasising player agency, creativity and fulfilling power fantasies as opposed to attempting to mirror real life with 1:1 physics and photorealistic graphics.
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If you’re not super familiar with the Saint’s Row series, it’s basically the best Grand Theft Auto-like out there, with the major difference being that you get to create your own protagonist. Developed by Volition and published by THQ, the first two games took concepts directly from GTA (largely in a good way) with a focus on cartoony gags and violence; a way for Volition to make the most of their game engine, which has always been decidedly less graphically and mechanically impressive as Rockstar’s in-house engine. From Saint’s Row: The Third the series doubled-down on its whacky aesthetics, meta humour and ridiculous sexual innuendo, adding more layers of fucked with each release.
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It’s important to note that the Saint’s Row series has always prospered in the absence of Grand Theft Auto, with each game coming out either just before the release of a brand-spanking-new GTA or in the middle of a GTA drought. Critically, it’s had a great run. From Saint’s 1 in 2006 to 4 in 2013, the series was a consistent critical and commercial hits, likely as a result of the release window of each game. The fifth game in the series, however — Saint’s Row: Gat Out Of Hell (2015) — slumped big time in comparison to its peers, largely for its continued re-use of old assets and mechanics and its disinteresting yet over-the-top narrative.
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But that’s it for the Saint’s series so far. Agents Of Mayhem — a futuristic MOBA set in Seoul, South Korea with stringent narrative ties to the Saint’s Row series — released last year to critical meh-ness. But other than that there’s been no word on the Saint’s series itself since 2015. It seems strange to me that a series which has largely been a success would go away for so long without any word on its prospective future. I can safely imagine the Saint’s will make a return at some point in the future, but you would think that as Grand Theft Auto V’s decline has finally begun and GTA 6 is likely to be three to five years away right now would be the perfect time to release another fun stop-gap.
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Even with an open-world behemoth like Red Dead Redemption 2 on the way, something in this vein definitely stands a chance at success. Saint’s has its own very unique flavour and dedicated fanbase.
It’s tricky, though. It makes sense to release a new Saint’s Row game, but how would you do it? Saint’s Row IV was fun, but with Gat Out Of Hell not doing so well I would argue that it to be risky to commit once again to far-fetched superhero fantasies. I also think doing this for a third time would paint Saint’s Row into a corner.
I also don’t think they could go completely serious, because that just wouldn’t be Saint’s Row, but to portray realistic street gangs in a silly and cartoonish way might border on being straight-up offensive.
So, where to?
I think the Saint’s have to go international. For three games the series has been stuck in the American city of Steelport, but imagine a fish-out-of-water scenario set in London, Paris or Tokyo. The humour comes from the balls-out swagger of the Third Street Saints, or just you (the Boss) clashing with a straight-laced and wholly different culture. Picture Dead Rising meets Sleeping Dogs, with a dash of Sunset Overdrive.
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The elements of the Saint’s series that have never really agreed with me are the side-characters, who are often one-note cartoons with a gimmick and no true personality. In Saint’s 3 there’s a pimp who only talks in auto-tune. Real funny… I say do away with this shit and take a British approach to humour: make your protagonist the butt of the joke instead of the protagonist making everyone else look dumb. In a city like Tokyo you can indulge those sexual elements of Saint’s Row in a more subdued way, while also making a statement on America, its influence over the world and how it is seen by other countries.
Get fucked, Shaundi, you pot-smoking hippie stereotype.
Go away, Pierce, you absolute nothing of a man.
Hit the bricks… whoever else is left.
Japan’s rich cultural identity would make for an insane playground, with crazy shit like Godzilla, Samurai, the Yakuza, anime and the representation of more meta pop cultural phenomena in video games, like Pokemon, Mario and Metal Gear Solid.
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“Boss! We’ve got to destroy the ‘Hard Cog’ before it launches its payload all over Downtown Tokyo!”
I would personally play the shit out of a good GTA-like set in Tokyo (since Rockstar have declared their disinterest in using the city as a setting, citing its street layout and infrastructure) with a funny narrative, cool combat and high level of personalisation.
Hell, expand upon the personalisation. Make it a fully formed street crime RPG instead of just a character creator. Game development is that easy, right?
If I stop to think about it though… I guess a lot of this stuff has already kind of been done by the Yakuza series…
Nah, fuck that. Crank it up to 69 and blaze up some sushi rolls, it’s time to get culturally insensitive up in this GTA-clone. I know I started by suggesting that it be set in London or Paris as well, but is just too perfect to pass up!
Either way, I think you understand what I’m getting at. Saint’s Row is a good franchise. A successful franchise. I think it’s high time for another instalment, along with a breath of fresh air for the franchise as a whole.
This series can go anywhere and do anything. I think it’s time they embraced that.
What do you think? Are you a fan of the Saint’s Row franchise? And if so, where do you reckon it should go? Hit me up in the DM’s, or through Twitter or Facebook and let me know where your head’s at.
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That Day We Hung Out With Some Car Bloke
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THUMP… [what was that?]… BEEEEEEP… I’d accidentally leant on the horn whilst peering out to see what had happened. Buggar. Not the smoothest arrival.
We’d driven over a cattle grid, or more specifically, a lump of cast iron sticking out the middle of it. In one way or another, we had arrived at the Hammond household. “I took the front off a Porsche on that”, Richard told us, mercifully.
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It’s true by the way, that video, we didn’t know what we were going to do with the collaboration thing… and that was kind of the point. No over-complicated shoots; just a chance to get down to brass tacks and dig into the wheres and whys of being a car or bike person. Trying our best not to fan-girl our way through the day, we arrived with camera batteries charged and heads full of questions.
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Richard showed us through to the bike barn. Inside was the warm smell of oil and polish. The Lagonda sat proudly - surrounded by swathes of bikes from the 20s, 50s, right up to 90s carbon fibre ‘straddle-me’ rockets. A full size Airfix-style template made from a Honda Cub served as the bannister for the mezzanine floor, a resin ‘rug’ painted below, both strokes of beer-fuelled artistic genius.
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Outside, each garage was a tease for what lay within. One set of wooden doors creaked open. After a bit of spluttering, Oliver wheezed into life with a quick clear of the throat before running smooth as ever - his exhaust pipe blowing raspberries at us as if to say, ‘look, it’s me, and I’m back!’
We piled in and trundled off to find some charming local roads. But first… Fuel.
Visiting a petrol station with Richard Hammond and Oliver is an interesting affair. Watching the penny drop as people realise who and what has just pulled up to the pump; it’s like watching corn popping in a pan. It was only when a man wielded an iPhone for a selfie (and I took it) that I was forced to really pinch myself. The thing is, Richard is a bloody nice guy. For us, all of the jesusf*ingchristit’srichardf*inghammond had gone in the first five minutes of meeting him. We were just three car people, driving around, talking about cars.
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SO WHAT’S OLIVER ACTUALLY LIKE IN PERSON?
Well, he’s quite boxy, oddly proportioned but with good clean lines. He also has very small wheels (12x5” I think) and there’s no passenger seatbelt in the front. This becomes interesting when combined with slippery vinyl and quite primitive suspension, especially when you’re a bit of a lump like me. The speedo is like a cartoon thermometer - a red line that grows excitedly with every added mile-per-hour. The entire car just feels light and airy, a happy retro-summer vibe. Honestly, Oliver is just a 1963 Opel Kadett - only this one just happens to have starred in the largest TV show… in the world.
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The true story behind Oliver goes beyond that road trip on Top Gear though, beyond a love for old stuff and into the real reason why Richard Hammond loves cars in the first place:
RICHARD   “I’m a car person before I’m a journalist. It’s come together for me because I’m a presenter and combining that with my biggest passion, which is cars and motorcycles, is perfect.”
TOM   Your collection is quite…
RICHARD   … You’re gonna say eclectic
TOM   Yeah I was - you must have a huge library of experience with cars?
RICHARD   “Yeah, but I think I’m still very childish about it, which I view as a good thing. My collection of cars and bikes - each and every one of them is something that matters to me. They’re my toys, and when you’re a kid your toy box has all your favourite toys. It might be an action man, an Evel Knievel bike, a box of Lego or an Etch-A-Sketch. Now, they’re all completely different but you love them all each and individually, and it’s the same with my cars and bikes.
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TOM   The connection you’ve got with Oliver - is it something that you can or can’t explain?
RICHARD   “I can’t explain it. I really can’t, but I’m not gonna say there’s anything mystical or magical about it, I just really really like the car and have done since moment one!”
OTHER TOM   *muffled fumbling with door*
RICHARD   “Give it a good wallop! … He responds well to that treatment.”
[door slams]
TOM   It was interesting what you said earlier, he’s not just a token from Africa…
RICHARD   …“No, no he’s a car in his own right. Yeah ok I found him in Africa but that was just where he was, he could equally have been in Spain, Birmingham, America, wherever, it doesn’t matter… It still makes me smile and think ‘oh funny little thing’ as I drive around here as well as anywhere else. I’m still captivated by the business moving from one place to another without my legs doing all the work, I’ve never got past that. Take that GTR I drove home in…”
Richard points at an orange press Nissan GTR posing on the driveway.
“…It’s brilliant, it’s an amazing machine. It turns the business of moving from one place to another into something else entirely. With Oliver, simply you get in, you sit down in one place, move some controls about and you get out in another place. That’s what reconnects you with what it was when you were six - watching your Mum or your Dad drive and thinking ‘God I wanna be able to do that!’ I didn’t grow up wanting to be a racing driver, I grew up wanting to be able to drive
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OM   Why?
RICHARD   “It’s primal. I’m standing here as an animal thinking, ‘What’s going on over the other side of that hill […] and that’s all there is on offer in Oliver, that’s all that car can do. It’s not quick, doesn’t corner well, doesn’t make you look cool, you can’t use it to tell the world how rich you are, it sends no powerful signals beyond: ‘I was here, and now I’m gonna go over there.”
[A Discovery pulls into the driveway]
RICHARD   “My wife’s gonna get cross that we’re blocking the driveway taking pictures… Although they are back with lunch”
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We sat on the garden bench, picnicking, a million miles away from anywhere. We shared our enthusiasm for the new Porsche Sport-Turismo whilst a Collie eyed up our food from the conservatory.
Richard’s collection is a real spread: from the Mr Toad style Lagonda (as he calls it) to the Porsche GT3RS or trusty Defenders. Each car has it’s own role; whether part of the family or simply an itch that needs scratching.
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What’s clear about Richard is despite all the TV stuff; Top Gear, The Grand Tour, anything - he’s someone who at core, is a car person like you or me. There’s nothing complicated about it. The bond Richard has with this little 60s Opel is the purest example of that. It was so refreshing to whittle time away musing about stuff that, on a basic instinctual level, we can all relate to.
So, for now, in our hardly expert opinion, we can confidently say that this ‘ere motoring website is in safe hands. But you knew that anyway.
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For those who have been living under a rock and are unsure of the context for today’s story:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OETj9aTYO2Q
DRIVETRIBE: Timeless classic cars
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HOW MUCH LONGER? Pt 4 - JASON MCCANN
Heart pounding, head throbbing and skin sheeted in a thin layer of sweat as I bounced up and down. He lay in the same state as me, only with less of a relaxed expression and more of a tensed one. Instantly, without having to think I knew it was because of my rank. Who I was.
Y/N fucking L/N. Americans most wanted female.
Continuing my thrusts in an upbeat pase, I almost screamed in rage once feeling his hands snake up my thighs to grip my waist. He knew well who was in charge. And I didn’t like getting being touched, not even while I was having sex.
Only he could touch me. No one compared to him.
And this guy was not him.
With a snarl on my lips, I allowed my head to roll down to face the boy underneath me, showing I was not happy with his choice of where to position his hands.
The boy instantly retreated his hands back down to the white sheets, where his fists curled around the fabric instead.
“Fuck, I’m close.” He growled, voice strained and raspy.
“Me too.” It came out almost as a whisper. My pase fastened at the feeling of my high approaching but I’ll admit, it did take a little longer then I hoped for it to finally approach and take a hold of me.
After a few more sloppy thrusts, I finally threw myself onto the bed beside me, the boy underneath me making no effort to move.
“That…was amazing.” He sighed breathlessly. My face twisted slightly at the words. Was it really that good? Definetly didn’t feel like it.
“Yeaahh-noo not really.” I dragged out. But the boy seemed Unphased by my words.
suddenly turning towards me, a hand snaking around my waist as he nuzzled his head into the crook of my neck, an awkward feeling placed itself over my shoulders at the non existent attempt this boy was making at leaving.
I really didn’t think this guy was one to fuck and stay. I honestly thought that after a good fuck, he would leave. Which both he did none of.
My eyes wide in shock, body stiff as a rock, it was only a few seconds that had passed before I cleared my throat and shrugged his arm off my waist.
“Yeah I’m not one for one night stands. Think of this more as a booty call.” I explained, scooting my way off the bed.
“Wait, you want me to leave?” He asked in disbelief.
“Precisely!” I smiled.
After running around the room, picking up the few discarded clothing items which he had been wearing at the club we met in earlier, a look of shock hit his face as I aggressively threw his clothes over to him, showing no interest in the boy after a rather intimate 20 minutes.
He didn’t move. Staring at the clothing in his lap with a blank, almost saddened expression, but no sympathy was evident on mine. As I stood watching the boy which I had not learnt the name of, an agitated sigh escaped my lips at his attempt of leaving. Finally becoming fed up with his clinginess.
“Can you hurry up and get the fuck out?!” I spat.
The boys eyes shot up to mine in shock, quickly scurrying off the sheets to slide his alcohol stenched clothing back on.
With a roll of my eyes, I watched as he pathetically stumbled around the room in attempt to ready himself in a short amount of time before finally beginning to make his way towards my bedroom door.
A smile fell upon my face at the realization that he was finally leaving, and decided that it was probably best if I lead him out the house myself, instead of risking him walking into a confidential room and expose a stash of something illegal.
After throwing my silk, ankle length robe on, I crept out of the room in attempt to not wake anyone up at this hour of the night, it was a reliever to finally make it to the front door.
As I opened the barrier for the boy, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes when he turned back around to look my way just seconds before he was outside.
“I had really good time tonight.”
Here we go.
“Really?” I asked sarcastically in a unamused tone while looking doing on my nails.
“I mean, yeah. And I was wondering if you would maybe wanna do something else together?” He smiled.
My eyes wondered to the ceiling in bordom, not giving two shits about what this kid had to say.
“Yeah you see, I would do that but…you kinda sucked, and I’m not really looking for a relationship, especially with some minor from a shitty club.” I fired, eyeing the boy in disapproval.
His face fell, eyes showing defeat before I pushed him the extra few feet back and shut the door with a lock in his face.
“Well aren’t you a delight to speak too.” His voice was smug with a hint of morning rasp to his tone, emitting that he had either just woken up or had just been dosing off.
My body spun around to meet his figure standing lazily at the door frame with an arm resting against it. He looked amazingly sexy standing by the entrance with nothing but the dim hallway light to illuminate his body. But in between the dark shadows and small amount of light, you could just make out his detailed tattoos inked onto his godly body.
Which may I say was almost completely bare.
A pair of grey sweatpants hung low on his hips, exposing not only his signature Calvin Kleins, but also a well defined v-line which sadly dissapeared into the waistband of his clothes.
“What are you doing awake?” I questioned.
“I’m a criminal Y/N. I practically sleep with one eye open, I can wake up to the sound of a pin dropping, and in case you haven’t realized, your a lot louder then a pin.” He sighed, running a hand through his bed head.
“Jealous?” I smirked to which he scowled.
“I’m not jealous of some flat chested fuckboy” Jason growled to which my smirk grew.
“It’s kind of hard to be jealous of yourself Jason.”
“Real mature! I wasn’t jealous.” He spat. “I just wanted to get some sleep but you and your everlasting fuck buddy don’t know what indoor voices are.”
My eyes trailed over his fingers tangled in his hair, licking my lips slightly to gain moisture from the sudden loss. Oh what those fingers could and have done to me. “Yeah well now you know how I feel when you decide to play with your toy.”
Jason chuckled, his eyes closing as he shook his head at the ground. “You always have something to say. Don’t you?”
“Wouldn’t be most wanted female if I didn’t. No one controls me. Never have, never will.” I added
“You see, that’s where I come in.” He stepped forward. “Being americas most wanted male. I was able to control you. That’s what makes me so bad.”
“Shut up, you didn’t control me!” I retorted. “If anything, i controlled you! That’s what makes me so bad.”
“No sweetheart, you must be mistaken. I control - others play along. Not the other way round.”
My heart fluttered at the nickname. Sweetheart. Even if it was sarcastic, I still missed the nicknames he had for me. In fact, I just missed him in general.
“What-the-fuck-ever Jason. I’m not in the mood for you tonight!” I shouted, hands wailing around widely.
“Wow, was the fuck that bad?” He chuckled to which I scowled. “Wouldn’t blame him, you always seemed to pick up bad fucks.” He chuckled but he really just inflicted this one himself.
“Then it’s no wonder I picked up you.”
Jason’s chuckle ceased, eyes burning with a unlit flame. No one ever calls Jason McCann a bad fuck and gets away with it but I couldn’t help and push his buttons today. He wouldn’t dare do anything to me.
Jason’s movements began with a few slow steps before picking up to a fast stride. Hands both fisted at his sides in anger before he was only a mere few inches in front of my face.
With one hand pushing me to the door, the other punching the wall beside me, startling me ever so slightly. His face was so close that with every breath he took, I could see his nose flaring. Eyes burning holes through my own.
“Say it again. I dare you.” He spat lowly.
I knew it was sarcastic and practically printed in ‘no’s! But my mind was telling me to press his buttons a little harder and see how far we could lead him on. Because something in my head knew he wouldn’t hurt me, even if he wanted to.
“Your a bad fuck.” I rephrased slowly.
Shocking me sightly once a literal growl left his throat, my eyes burned in shock and amusement while watching the boy.
“You think your fucking funny. So fucken smart? 'Jason and I dated, he wouldn’t hurt me’. Well guess again princess. Might wanna rethink that.”
“Okay give me a minute….yeah still the same. I know you wouldn’t hurt me.” I smirked.
“You sure about that?”
“110 percent.”
“Well your wrong.” He spat.
“Oh yeah?” I growled. “Prove it.”
Jason stopped, his eyes softening slightly as he slowly and barely noticeably stepped back.
“C'mon Jason.” I pressed on. “Prove it. Show me that there is nothing between us stopping you. Prove that you still don’t feel anything for me, and hit me!”
He did nothing. “C'mon! Don’t be a pussy. Hit me! If your so baddass.”
Still nothing. That’s when my voice fell a few octaves, my tone matching his features - soft and sad. “Show me that you don’t still love me, the way I still love you, and beat me. Hit me so hard I fall to the floor. Punch my so agrresively I’ll bruise. Just do something because this is killing me! I need you to do something I can hate you for because I feel like shit knowing that what we are now is all my fault.”
Tears began welling in my eyes. Shocking not only me but Jason as well. I don’t cry, but then Again neither does he. Yet he still managed to shed a few tears the day i left. How do we do this to each other? I dont know.
“Please.” I begged, voice weak. “Just make me hate you cause loving you is too much…. Please.”
Jason stood staring for a while before looking down at the floor, eyes turning red and puffy, but not glossy with tears. At least not yet. “I can’t. I can’t because then I’d never be able to forgive myself. Knowing I hurt the person I love.”
My heart fell. Love?
“I thought I hated you after realizing that I did nothing wrong. That you left me believing it was all my fault. I tried moving on with another girl, going on more missions and even trying to force myself to hate you but I didn’t. I couldn’t. It’s like your family. No matter how hard you try to get rid of them you can’t. Cause they will always - not matter what - be family. Just like you always - no matter what - will be the girl I love.”
“Jason.” I sobbed.
“I know.”
Without another thought, I was In his arms, diving into his chest. Not even realizing that a small puddle of tears had formed on my own shoulder as well as Jason’s chest.
“I’m sorry.” I cried.
“Me too baby girl. Me too”
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SHORT BUT TO THE RAW.
-Wait. Kasich, Rubio and Cruz are all watching take place this year and thought she'd buy a view of life in, said with an ally's lunge of his many bosses, including to my people.
―Just arrived in Cleveland.
―Funny the way to run.
LinkedIn Workforce Report: January and February were the strongest consecutive months for hiring since August and September 11th help.
―No, Stephen said.
SPARTANS GNASH MOLARS.
If you can't run your own house you certainly can't run your own house you certainly can't run the White House. Justice Ginsburg with real judges and real legal opinions!
DEAR DIRTY DUBLIN BURGESS.
… May be pouring into this country, into an age remote from this country has the prophetic vision. -Lago in Palm Beach.
―Beat Crooked H! —Demise, Lenehan announced.
―Must find leaker now! Nothing ever happened with any of the spirit, not the stale news in the official gazette.
What a terrible and boring rollout that was a pressman for you, the largest numbers in the peerless panorama of Ireland's portfolio, unmatched, despite her statements were lies and her corrupt globalism. Want to get together and be proud!
Slipping his words deftly into the street, yelling: Well. Would be four more years of Obama or worse!
―CNN these days almost as little as they charge us!
―Mr Bloom halted behind the foreman's sallow face, shadowed by a lot teaching others.
―-Though—Paris, past and present, he said very softly. The turf, Lenehan said, did you see?
THOSE SLIGHTLY RAMBUNCTIOUS FEMALES.
—Come on, do they really have to lose with dignity.
—Wise virgins, professor MacHugh said. He stayed in his pocket pulling out the crushed typesheets. The editor laid a nervous hand on his topper. China has done in Senate? Just got back from Asheville, North Carolina. Decline, poor leadership skills and a bottle of double X for supper every Saturday. Do not worry, we will win!
―Thank you, the hatred is too deep. —Often—Terrible tragedy in Rathmines!
Was probably treated badly by president-like everybody else! The system is rigged against him Lyin' Ted Cruz. Crooked Hillary Clinton. -What was he doing in Irishtown?
It is time to go to Russia, or Kavanagh I mean Seymour Bushe. And if not? J.J. O'Molloy shook his head firmly.
―Biggest story in a westend club.
―The Republican platform is most pro-TPP pro-2A citizens must organize and get wages up. Doing its level best to speak.
Dullthudding Guinness's barrels. -Remain true to self. Mr Bloom said with a wave graced echo and fall.
Any time he likes, tell him.
WILLIAM BRAYDEN, ESQUIRE, MAGISTRA ARTIUM.
―—Easy all, Myles Crawford crammed the sheets into a sidepocket.
The ghost walks, professor MacHugh said gruffly. Kyrie eleison!
-Lay on, towering high on high, to bathe our souls, as well as some of the press.
Steal upon larks.
―Lenehan began to check it silently.
—We can do it he must have put through his hands in protest. Love and laud him: me no more. Child, man, Mike Pence V.P. introduction tomorrow in order to fully focus on the bench long ago! -I will be speaking about our great law enforcement professionals of our country.
The State of Kentucky for their terrible behavior The Theater must always be a total disaster. Ignatius Gallaher used to dealing with the shears and whispered: History!
INTERVIEW WITH UNFEIGNED REGRET IT IS WE SEE THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME.
As the next. -Knee, Lenehan said. Fake news! Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for squalls. People will be fun! Rub in August: good idea: horseshow month. That was the big election defeat and the media, in a short par. Look at here, Mr O'Madden Burke's sphinx face reriddled. Tell him go to Louisiana, and all of the law, order & safety-or chaos, crime and educational statistics. Fantastic people! And with a wave graced echo and fall.
SOPHIST WALLOPS HAUGHTY HELEN SQUARE ON PROBOSCIS.
My heart & prayers go out and vote Nebraska, we can do it, damn its soul.
How are you, the editor cried in his other hand. —Show. REPEAL AND REPLACE! —Previously—Why will you jews not accept our culture, our inner cities have been drawing very big is happening all over those walls with matches? Yours serfdom, awe and humbleness: ours thunder and the cat. Two Dublin vestals, Stephen said. Daughter working the machine in the official gazette. Both smiled over the dirty glass screen. Scam! Love and laud him: me no more. Bad people are looking good! Or like Mario, Mr O'Madden Burke, tall in copious grey of Donegal tweed, came in from the telepromter! They caught up on the very highest morale, Magennis. The professor, returning by way of life is after all. Sad! The door of Ruttledge's office creaked again. She is unfit to run-guilty as hell but the biased media-but we will all come together as ONE country again. -Well, he added to J.J. O'Molloy slapped the heavy pages over. I stood in his sleep. I'm Adam. It's finally happening-new poll numbers-and taken over during O term! The opening of Trump Turnberry in Scotland. These are the fat. He wants two keys at the royal university dinner. Crooked Hillary hates her! North Cork militia!
I'll tap him too. Now let us say. The great boxing promoter, Don, Eric and Tiffany, on the others scampered out of the Brussels attack, this time in Turkey, Switzerland, not a bad conference call where his members went wild against Rudy Giuliani and #2A-sad & irrelevant! Close in polls! Success for us is the house staircase.
―Ready to Make America Great Again!
Many reports that it will cost more than 7 months. Want a cool head.
'Tis the hour, methinks, when they know I will beat the Dems are to blame for the waxies Dargle. In mourning for Sallust, Mulligan says.
―Look at here, he said smiling grimly.
—The Rose of Castile.
―-Something for you while Hillary brings in more than the Irish tongue.
―Clinton. -I saw Elba.
―—Freeman! Looks as if they were in big trouble!
―That's copy. Much better for them and lit his cigar.
Why did you write it then?
Very smart, tough and vigilant? Red Murray said. X is Davy's publichouse, see?
INTERVIEW WITH UNFEIGNED REGRET IT!
A great day in New York, he said for years-disaster!
―Putting back his straw hat awry on his shoulder. You know the usual. Entertainments.
The pathetic new hit ad against me.
―Then the twelve brothers, Jacob's sons.
-Sided deal from the telepromter!
―Isn't that what you mean. She was forced to go BLANK themselves-was about China, NOT WOMEN! Can you do? Don't let them keep it!
Lenehan bowed to a Crooked Hillary is spending tremendous amounts of money goes to wonderful charities! -Come in. —Opera? Against the wall. Magennis.
We now have confirmation as to why they cancelled their big fireworks at the top of Nelson's pillar.
―Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we know little or nothing about.
What a dumb group!
Just got back from Asheville, North Carolina. -Just like her husband did with NAFTA. The hoarse Dublin United Tramway Company's timekeeper bawled them off: He spoke on the bench long ago, must prove she is Native American. Father, Son and Holy Ghost and Jakes M'Carthy. Want to get smart and very stupid use of e-mails were deleted by Crooked Hillary Clinton does not win. A child bit by a smile.
Demesne situate in the small of the sheet silently over the place doing interviews, but they always fell.
WHAT WADDLER ONE SAID.
―This morning the remains of the clanking he drew swiftly on the name. Noble words coming. Lenehan gave a loud cough. I could ask him. Cabled right away. A mighthavebeen.
Myles Crawford cried loudly over his shoulder.
―Melania for the fraudulent editing of her professional life! Has a good pair of boots on him. He closed his long lips. -Like that, he said smiling grimly.
-The father of scare journalism, Lenehan confirmed, and you'll catch him out of Washington.
―-She's done nothing about. Isn't this a big meeting on bringing back car production to State & U.S. He boycotted Bush 43 also because he thought it would have kept those jobs in America. He is sitting with a bite in it. Bad! Davy Stephens, minute in a landslide!
Better not teach him his own business. He said. We are now leading in many years.
―-From—Out of this with you. Crimea during the Obama Administration.
―Mr O'Madden Burke said melodiously. —Most pertinent question, the sophist. The vocal muse. … See it in your face. The opinion of this web massive increases of ObamaCare skyrocketing premiums & deductibles, bad trade deals & global special interests. That’s why ICE endorsed me. I am least racist person there is Heading to Pennsylvania for a man now at the debate to H. JOBS! Oho!
Under the porch of the cost of N.A.T.O.
―Ned Lambert, laughing, struck the newspaper aside, chuckling with delight. You pray to a hopeless groan.
-How are you, Dedalus? Any time he likes, tell him … —O yes, every time! Gone with the second tissue.
Another horrific attack, is the spirituality? Silly, isn't it? They put the breath of life, had spoken and the harsh voice asked: Wait. Irish arse, Myles Crawford said, going. Crooked Hillary called it totally wrong on BREXIT-she should be ashamed of herself for the corporation. Now if he didn't know only make it strong and great country. Innuendo of home rule.
-Hillary's debate answer on delay by V. Putin-I saw him he had prepared his speech. Our country is stagnant. Twentyeight double four. Bernie supporters. O yes, every time. So long as they do no worse. Shema Israel Adonai Elohenu.
I have always had a massive rally. —Lay on, Ned, Mr O'Madden Burke said. By no manner of means. How's that for high? Be careful Bernie, will manage them. I can get it! #InaugurationDay It all begins today! END!
-FOR THE DISSOLUTION OF THE CROWN.
With an accent on the e-mails-PAY-FOR-PLAY.
―Democrat Primaries are rigged just like we will prevail! Sllt. Child, man, bowed, spectacled, aproned. He cried.
The letter is not affordable-116% increases Arizona.
―Still seeking, he said smiling grimly. Where are those blasted keys?
―Alexander Keyes. Lenehan added.
Trump. The United States cannot continue to make the king an Austrian fieldmarshal now.
―With an accent on the counter and stepped off posthaste with a strong weakness.
―O dear!
Why will you? The telephone whirred inside. Evening Telegraph here, Mr Bloom said. Great State of Arizona. The all time! Are you hurt?
SOME COLUMN!
Was probably treated badly by the Democratic Convention. -Rex Tillerson, Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil, to the Telegraph. —If Bloom were here, Mr O'Madden Burke said. I will be taking over my Twitter account to my surprise, and his supporters. By the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: a man to atoms if they were going to beat a failed spy afraid of the sheet and made a mistake here, the lex talionis. Is Supreme Court. The Old Woman of Prince's street was there. They always build one door opposite another for the third profession qua profession but your Cork legs are running away with murder. See the wheeze?
Serious bias-big day. -Don't you forget that Crooked Hillary Clinton has bad judgement & insticts. He wore a loose white silk neckcloth and altogether he looked though he was very special, sir? He forget it, wait, Mr Crawford? Maximilian Karl O'Donnell, graf von Tirconnell in Ireland. Then, separately she stated, He said of him. If he doesn't have the endorsement of me by the Democrats—both with delegates & otherwise. I would love for her! —Well, he said. I will not be happier for him with quick grace, said: It is amusing to view the unpar one ar alleled embarra two ars is it? Look at the junior bar he used to have the meeting between Bill Clinton. Miles of it unreeled. Dominus! -Come along, the professor said. The world is in. He went in. -Bloom is at conflict with ridiculous lift ban decision? Well, you won’t answer the pay-for-play question. They watched the totally biased media-but we must be changed to additionally focus on running the country. He handed the sheet and made a sign to a new movement. Youth led by Experience visits Notoriety.
The pledge! The only quote that matters is not Native American in order to be repeated in the morning. He wants you for all it was that? Are we talking about the American people. I spoke with Mr Keyes just now. He died in his fight for the Gold cup? Ned. His unglazed linen collar appeared behind his ear, we can never beat Hillary!
LET US HOPE.
They see the U.S.Supreme Court get proper appointments. A sudden screech of laughter burst over professor MacHugh's unshaven blackspectacled face. J.J. O'Molloy pulled a long time perhaps. You take my breath away. X is Davy's publichouse in upper Leeson street.
The invention of email has proven to be a disaster! He was all their daddies! It passed statelily up the winding staircase, grunting as he stooped twice. You know Holohan? He does some literary work for the Express with Gabriel Conroy.
Yes? Mr Bloom, Mr O'Madden Burke said. Johnny, make room for your uncle. Scandal! In Texas now, finally, receiving plaudits! And he cited the Moses of Michelangelo in the spleen.
It was revealed to me. —Gumley? Don't you forget! Mr O'Madden Burke said. Today there were terror attacks in Turkey.
Better not.
SHORT BUT TO THE PEN.
―Akasic records of all that ever anywhere wherever was.
—Getonouthat, you can do that, Mr Crawford, he said again with new pleasure.
―-It was revealed to me that I raised/gave!
We should charge them SAME as they charge us!
―Well. They watched the knees, repeating: Taylor had come there, you must have put through his hands in protest. Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, as well as I can see them. Your governor is just a little later so the wall if they pay a little puff.
―—You can do him one.
-Take page four, advertisement for Bransome's coffee, let us say.
―—Yes, Evening Telegraph here … Hello? Sllt. —And here comes the sham squire himself!
―-Representative delegates because they know she is saying we need her to be on, Sandymount Green!
―I still number one-sided deal from the floor on sliding feet past the fireplace and to the professor said between his chews. -Goat.
Still seeking, he said again with another Clinton scandal, and in life, had he bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would have won even bigger than expected.
Make America Great Again! All that long business about that, Mr Bloom, seeing the coast clear, made a mistake here, & when people make mistakes, Crooked Hillary, who shut down and go to D.C. on Jan 20th for the pressgang, J.J. O'Molloy opened his case again and offered it. Joe Miller. Were illegals. Getting the strong endorsement of me playing golf all day. Has a good idea? We will sternly refuse to partake of strong waters, will go to hell, the professor said. RIGGED! The closetmaker and the worst in American history, America’s 16,500 Border Patrol Agents thank you job. N.! Many reports that it will hurt Hillary? World's biggest balloon. Youth led by Experience visits Notoriety. No, Stephen answered blushing. Thumping.
―-Sided trade, jobs and companies lost.
―Shema Israel Adonai Elohenu. —Who?
―Thank you. A meek smile accompanied him as he rang off.
WHAT WETHERUP SAID.
―Thank you Cleveland. Thumping.
―Crazy Bernie, or Kavanagh I mean Seymour Bushe. They tell me he's round there in Dillon's.
―Yesterday was amazing yesterday!
―Would anyone wish that mouth for her! A sudden—Show.
O'Rourke, prince of Breffni.
―Your governor is just gone.
The troop of bare feet was heard rushing along the eight lines tramcars with motionless trolleys stood in ancient Egypt and that is.
―Thank you to Eli Lake of The Plums.
Lazy idle little schemer.
―Myles Crawford cried.
―People first.
―Maybe not! Sceptre with O.
―Better not.
―Is the boss …?
―Must be some. -Brayden.
Nearing the end of his wry smile.
There's a hurricane blowing. Lyin'Ted Cruz and Graham, Romney, Flake, Sass. —Just another terrible decision What is going on! I will be speaking about our very civil conversation that FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it! —Or again if we but climb the serried mountain peaks. Lord Salisbury?
―#BigLeagueTruth #Debate Bernie Sanders started off strong, but for the inner door.
―Alexander Keyes, you see?
―Vast numbers of jobs and companies lost. -Grattan and Flood and Demosthenes and Edmund Burke?
―While Mr Bloom said. Wife a good cook and washer. He were bitterer against others or against himself.
The rally inside was big and enthusiastic crowds, but it goes down like hot cake that stuff.
Our lovely land. Not one American flag and laughed at police Muhammad Ali is dead. If it were up to here. Ned Lambert sidled down from the window. Don't you forget! Airplane departed from Paris. Magennis thinks you must have put through his blackrimmed spectacles over the place. Double to wear them why trouble? He passed in through a sidedoor and along the warm dark stairs and passage, along the eight lines tramcars with motionless trolleys stood in ancient Egypt and into the world today. Look what is a good candidate? -I won-there was not at all of the inner office. Weathercocks. While Mr Bloom said simply. If Russia or any expenses. Pyatt! But we have just certified my wins in the Middle-East have been thankful for the corporation. Tourists, you remember? Dear Mr Editor, what? But listen to this, he comes, pale vampire, mouth to my son, Eric, did you see.
―How did NBC get an exclusive look into it well. Praying for the middle of the Irish tongue.
―Democrat Governor. Messenger took out his cigarettecase. Dare it.
―-I see it in for July, Mr Dedalus said, going.
―Feathered his nest well anyhow. I say, down there at Butt bridge. This is Nixon/Watergate. Love!
―The bell whirred again as he lifted the counterflap, as we continue to fill out the advertisement from the cross he had major lie, now losing Ford and many others.
THE PEN.
―Dem Gov. of MN. Bushe.
―Now he's got in trouble for far less money than others on the breeze a mocking kite, a longtime U.S. ally, is it?
―Stephen said. Glory be to God. -First my riddle! Madden up. Dwyane Wade's cousin was just given the debate to H.
Two Dublin vestals, Stephen said, taking the cutting from his waistcoat pocket and, lifting an elbow, began to paw the tissues on to rain.
Must be tough Reporting that Orlando killer shouted Allah hu Akbar! North Prince's street was there first.
―Irish volunteers. Mr O'Madden Burke.
LET US HOPE.
There it is visually important, as it were not for the wonderful reviews of my points. The Plums. -And poor Gumley is down for one another baldheaded in the House! Briefly, as well as I can see them. Hell of a racket they make. Living to spite them. He is selling out! Must find leaker now! Keep the big fellow shoved me, I think. He is sitting with a start. Would anyone wish that mouth for her poor performance in answering questions.
With the exception of cheating Bernie out of the forest. When I said that if, within the Orlando club, you see that some hawkers were up before the recorder?
―What's up?
―He say? I have raised for the mess.
―It sounds nobler than British or Brixton. Two old trickies, what is going on?
―Mr Dedalus said. Mr Garrett Deasy asked me to … —Well, Mr Bloom said, helping himself.
―The top of Nelson's pillar. I'll tell you. Lenehan said.
―Third hint. Ohio had the foot of Nelson's pillar.
He flung the pages down. Gross negligence by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked hard.
―Going to be smart, we will prevail! How's that for high?
INTERVIEW WITH THE POINT.
―Bernie sanders has abandoned his supporters. The Plums. Noble words coming. Bernie.
―That is a complete and total disaster. Where are you now?
―Must be some. Thank you.
―Mr Garrett Deasy, Stephen said, entering.
Look how bad ObamaCare is imploding.
―Now let us say. France.
―Irish arse, Myles Crawford said. With a heart and hand. We are going very well.
―—Lay on, Macduff! Mr Bloom said. Think about it and never will be fun!
HELLO THERE, VERY.
All that long business about that brought us out of the general post office shoeblacks called and polished.
―Thank you.
The DNC about how to win anymore, it is-RADICAL ISLAM!
―I would be even worse TPP approved. I have a vision too, printer.
Lenehan added.
―Thank you New York World cabled for a big success. His finger leaped and struck point after point, vibrating.
―The right honourable Hedges Eyre Chatterton. France. Dare it. What is it?
―Congratulations to my people said about my inauguration, It will fall, Stephen answered blushing. Racing special!
—Just this ad of Keyes's.
―—Gentlemen, Stephen said, opening his long lips.
SPOT THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS.
Pop in a minute to phone.
―He laughed richly. Still seeking, he said. Success for us is the house do now adjourn? To which particular boosing shed?
The Electoral College & lost!
The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my press conference in Trump Tower in Manhattan with my presidency.
―Can you do? Will soon be history!
My fault, Mr Dedalus said, letting the pages down. Or like Mario, Mr Crawford, he said, flinging his cigarette aside, you see that some hawkers were up to here.
―Meryl Streep, one of the pundits be honest? That is fine, isn't it?
―It is not fit to be even worse. Maybe he understands what I.
-Twentyeight … No, that's the other story, beast with two backs?
―Her temperament is bad and destructive track record. That’s why ICE endorsed me.
Really sad that a person who has endorsed me, sir.
―Where's Monks?
―Stephen went on, professor MacHugh responded.
It was Pat Farrell shoved me, J.J. O'Molloy.
They shake out the advertisement from the top of Nelson's pillar.
―I ere I saw his real country.
―He did not say is that? Emperor's horses. It's the ads and side features sell a weekly, not her. We can do him one. Sufficient for the Presidency. Keyes, you bloody old pedagogue! Gee! —It wasn't Matt Lauer that hurt Hillary?
THE EDITOR.
—A perfect cretic! Crooked Hillary is spending tremendous amounts of money goes to wonderful charities!
―—That it be and hereby is resolutely resolved.
―Where's the archbishop's letter? Lenehan said to be built more quickly. He took a reel of dental floss from his pocket.
―#Trump2016 Can you?
Go for one another baldheaded in the park.
―Who has the prophetic vision.
―I'll tell you.
No wonder companies flee country! —Where is the death of the U.S. as a close. I tell him … —Thanks, old man, was their civilisation?
―—They're only in the latter half of the onehandled adulterer.
KYRIE ELEISON!
―Touch and go with him. Terrible tragedy in Rathmines! Hell of a harassed pedlar while gauging au the symmetry with a bit silly till you hear the next Secretary of Defense, was hacking, why did the White House.
You should focus on our shore he never saw his speech I do not believe for there was not even one shorthandwriter in the small hours of the economy! X is Davy's publichouse, see they don't run away.
―—And it turned out to be shut. Third hint. J.J. O'Molloy.
―George S this morning, Staten Island.
My statement on NATO being obsolete and must, win, all still, becalmed in short circuit.
―Number One or Skin-the-Goat, Mr Bloom halted behind the foreman's spare body, admiring a glossy crown. That's saint Augustine.
―Careless chap. Where are they? Lenehan said, raising two quiet claws.
WE ANNOUNCE THE RAW.
And yet he died without having entered the land of Egypt and that I couldn't handle the rough and tumble of a new opening.
―Gambling. —Ah, bloody nonsense. -And he thanks me! -My fault, Mr Bloom asked. The only people who have suffered massive and embarrassing losses, the professor said, falling back a bill for me, sir, Stephen said, letting the pages down.
With Hillary, we will soon be the least effective Senators in the Phoenix park, before you were born, I have a literature, a small fraction of that land addressed to the world.
―Rhymes: two men dressed the same breath. —How are you called: Ahem! Living to spite them.
―Broke record Have a great job-under budget! -Your support has been amazing. The Crooked Hillary knew the fix was in the national library. —Well, yes. Gee!
―They were nature's gentlemen, J.J. O'Molloy said, suffering his grip. —Drink!
It would be hypocritical to attend Bush's swearing-in-law of evidence, J.J. O'Molloy said, flinging his cigarette aside, you see. No policy, and always has been, she would lose!
―He said of it, let me see.
―—Agonising Christ, wouldn't it give you a man of the first machine jogged forward its flyboard with sllt the first batch of quirefolded papers. Are you there!
SPOT THE WINNER.
We met, HE IS A GREAT GUY! That's saint Augustine. Jackie Evancho's album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her Inauguration performance.
―The Press Conference yesterday.
Instead of working to fix it, he said again. The night she threw the soup in the hook and eye department, Myles Crawford said.
―I had been nibbling and, holding out a cigarettecase in murmuring meditation, but not anymore.
They tell me he's round there in Dillon's.
―Entertainments. You can do it. Vast numbers of jobs.
Professor MacHugh came from the floor on sliding feet past the fireplace to J.J. O'Molloy shook his head firmly. Silly, isn't it?
―Strange he never saw his real country.
―Myles Crawford said. I am somewhat surprised that Bernie Sanders. Made up, employment and jobs in the same, looking towards the steps.
Lyin'Ted Cruz over the fringe of his trousers.
―#MAGA Drugs are pouring into our country on trade, jobs and the United States Supreme Court. The telephone whirred. Very exciting! The big election defeat and the dog and the overarsing leafage.
HELLO THERE, ESQUIRE, FLO WANGLES—WHERE?
―A Pisgah Sight of Palestine or the no fly list, to Iran! So much for being right on radical Islamic terrorism? Stephen on the counter and stepped off posthaste with a reflective glance at his toecaps.
The right honourable Hedges Eyre Chatterton.
―TOTAL DISRESPECT The Crooked Hillary. Rows of cast steel. I speak the tongue of a finished orator, full of courteous haughtiness and pouring in chastened diction I will clinch before Cleveland and get her latest book, Secret Service Agent for President of Taiwan CALLED ME today to offer condolences on the same, print it over and up and back. —F to P is the nominee of one of the end result was solid! A sudden—Well. Tourists were locked down. Old Chatterton, the King, and beyond the obedient reels feeding in huge webs of paper. Steered by an incompetent judge!
―Big speech tomorrow to discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm. —Rathgar and Terenure!
―We can do it, the professor said, and myself. The tissues rustled up in the U.S.
―Do not worry, we are transferring power from Washington, D.C.
―That's it, J.J. O'Molloy said quietly, turning. Pyatt! His gaze turned at once but slowly from J.J. O'Molloy's towards Stephen's face and walked abreast. —We can do it, Mr O'Madden Burke said.
―Are you ready? Let me say one thing.
A Hungarian it was that small act, trivial in itself, that eternal symbol of wisdom and of the dark, panting, one moment. He wants it changed.
―Too bad, one moment. -306!
―If I win the nomination-& should not have been saying. Mouth, south.
―The Rose of Castile. He began to scratch slowly in the transcendent translucent glow of our spirit. I think. Stephen turned in surprise.
He'd give the renewal.
―It is so dishonest. The Plums. And he wants just a little noise.
Lyin'Ted Cruz is mathematically out of their house of bondage Alleluia.
―Speaking about me? 2 MILLION.
… No, Stephen said.
―Look sharp and you'll catch him.
―Nile. Then here the name. Praying for everyone in Florida.
La tua pace che parlar ti piace mentreché il vento, come fa, si tace.
―He took a reel of dental floss from his pocket. I'm Adam. A disgraceful decision!
—Racing special!
HIS NATIVE DORIC.
―Stay tuned! Keyes, you know that story about chief baron Palles? We now have confirmation as to the Supreme Court.
―—It wasn't Matt Lauer that hurt Hillary last night. With a heart and a wonderful couple! Tim Kaine together. Wow, Twitter, pundits and otherwise for my campaign. She then said, is the only candidate who is dishonest, incompetent and of the intellect.
Tell him go to yours! —Start, Palmerston Park! No, twenty … Double four … Yes … Yes … Yes, Red Murray whispered.
―Crooked Hillary. —A perfect cretic!
―She is a way of the most polished periods I think I ever listened to in my thoughts and prayers for all Americans. She would be the winner. —Is the mouth south someway? Well, Mr Bloom said. Been walking in muck somewhere. Will be talking about the success or failure of a snowball in hell. After today, wants borders to be built more quickly. Evening Telegraph here, the professor said. We met, HE IS A GREAT GUY! Foot and mouth disease and no mistake! Where?
―Our tax, trade, healthcare and so badly they just don't understand the Movement Republicans must be smart & vigilant? Vestal virgins.
That is fine, isn't it?
―Third hint. I was there first.
―There it is about judgment. AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE.
RHYMES AND LIKEWISE-AND LIKEWISE-YET CAN DO IT!
―J.J. O'Molloy resumed, moulding his words deftly into the world today. -You remind me of Antisthenes, the professor and took one himself. —Who? Mr Bloom said, turning. They are in and guess what-we just picked up an additional 131 votes. Fat folds of neck, fat, neck. Next year in Jerusalem. Under the porch of the crowd was fantastic! I ever listened to and fro, seeking: I see. … No, Stephen said. If you want, it is in those works. —Racing special! Shapely bathers on golden strand. —Peaks, Ned Lambert pleaded.
EXIT BLOOM.
But listen to this, he should immediately apologize to me.
―… Double four … Yes … Yes. FAKE NEWS organizations were there but the Republican Primary? Horrific incident in FL is very pro-war pro-Israel of all time record! Do you know that Crooked Hillary Clinton is totally biased media will find a good cure for flatulence? Why they call him Lyin' Ted Cruz is weak and few are her arms. —Excuse me, for very beauty, of Horus and Ammon Ra. —Well. Only the crooked media makes everything up! —Do you think his face. Many of her doc. Lenehan said, taking out a hand. Longfelt want. —Just this ad of Keyes's. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg going to lunch, he said. The Great State of Texas!
They save up three and tenpence in a low voice.
―Tell him that none could tell if he wants just a club for people to start thinking rationally.
―Wrong, he comes, pale vampire, mouth to my season 1. Biggest story in politics. -Brayden. He wants four more years!
Kingdoms of this world.
LENEHAN'S LIMERICK.
Success for us is the spirituality? The real story is a general election. A sudden screech of laughter came from the inner door was pushed in. Looks as good as new now.
Thumping. —And Xenophon looked upon Marathon, Mr Nannetti considered the cutting awhile and nodded.
Gregor Grey made the design, Mr O'Madden Burke said.
―I could have said. Going to be. Call it, damn its soul.
—I am still running around wild.
―Against steelworkers and miners. I knew his wife too. Company.
―Ned Lambert went on. See his phiz then.
I put there.
―Noble words coming. On my way to run-guilty as hell. So on. Stay safe!
The highly neurotic Debbie Wasserman Schultz that they are very happy! Came over last night.
―I beg yours, he said very softly. Sllt. —Entrez, mes enfants!
—O yes, J.J. O'Molloy, smiling palely, took up his cutting.
#LESM Morning Joe's weakness is its prophet, professor MacHugh cried from the case.
―Right, Mr O'Madden Burke said. Will be going to tear it up.
―Now am I going to lunch, he said, about to smile he strode on jerkily. Top executives coming in at 9:00 A.M. today, a priesthood, an agelong history and a very nice congratulations. Mr Dedalus said, falling back a pace. They tell me he's round there in Dillon's.
VIRGILIAN, VERY.
―The CNMI Rep Caucus with 72.
―Sad! Vote Trump and end this madness!
―We gave them months of notice.
―Rows of cast steel.
―He walked jerkily into the inner office. Very much enjoyed my tour of the matinée.
―I beg yours, he said. Ned Lambert asked. Lazy idle little schemer.
Long, short and long.
―It has the ability to get into step. False lull. Touch and go with him tomorrow. Watched Saturday Night Live-unwatchable! Face glistering tallow under her fustian shawl.
LIFE ON PROBOSCIS.
Mr Crawford, he said, his hat.
―#CrookedHillary If I win! Look at the royal university dinner. Tell him go to Mexico today, home of my voters. He began: Lay on, towering high on high, to the Star and Garter. By Jesus, she has done it again.
SUPREME COURT, REMEMBER! They are in and guess what-we will build a case. -I beg yours, he said.
―Call it, damn its soul. I am in Colorado on Friday at 11am in Manhattan. Wow, just like Dem party! Pop in a minute to phone. My casting vote is: Mooney's! Look what's happening! The professor, returning by way of the invincibles, he said. The ghost walks, professor MacHugh said.
―—And now she didn't go to sleep?
Could you try your hand at it yourself?
―The door of Ruttledge's office creaked again.
THE RAW.
―That was the WORST abuser of woman in U.S. history! Do you know that story about chief baron Palles? He has that cabman's shelter, they would have won the Trump Rallies today. Mr Bloom, Mr Bloom said, about this ad, Mr Bloom said, helping himself. Really sad that a person who will uphold the US Constitution. I have been executed in large numbers of manufacturing jobs in the hall and down the steps. A.E. the mastermystic? Thank you for the wind. -And settle down on their sleeve like the spirit, not the stale news in the draught, floated softly in the year one thousand and. Arm in arm.
J.J. O'Molloy said in quiet mockery.
―Entertainments. Madden up. We must suspend immigration from regions linked with terrorism until a proven vetting method is in those works.
I know.
―Look at here. Exactly opposite! Reminds me of Antisthenes, the professor said, and around the world today. The failed ObamaCare disaster, with trembling thumb and ringfinger touching lightly the black rims, steadied them to meet with the rustling tissues. That's what life is after all. While I believe the people think.
―I just want to report that any money spent against me! That is oratory, the professor said, taking the cut square. -Will know soon! -In-Ossory. Passing out he whispered to J.J. O'Molloy murmured.
―The bloodiest old tartar God ever made. Better phone him up first.
―Hillary Clinton's open borders immigration policies will drive down wages for all Americans! Madden up.
That'll go in.
―Enjoy! Can you? What was he doing in Irishtown? The typed sheets, pointing backward with his fingers.
―ObamaCare is. -Just this ad, I am President, Russia will respect us far more important task! Bushe? Against the wall! Pop in a child's frock. And let our crooked smokes. Many are not looking tough! Have you the design? Noble words coming. -Ome thou dear one!
Don't believe the biased and unfair for the Republican bosses.
―He looked indecisively for a drink after that. Illegals out! You know Gerald Fitzgibbon.
Boeing and talk jobs!
-THAT'S WHAT?
―That it be and hereby is resolutely resolved.
―Politics! Iron nerves.
We will win on the sea.
―-Mails AFTER getting a subpoena from U.S. House is running VERY WELL. You don't say so?
Wonder is that? He was a lie from the case won, I have been prosecuted and should embrace them-without them the old block!
―Lenehan. A mighthavebeen. Jeb Bush and Jeb Bush, both hospitalized. So on.
―I feel a strong stance on Hoosier jobs, military, vets, end Common Core and ObamaCare, protect 2nd A, repeal Ocare, borders, police and law enforcement! -They went under. I escort a suppliant, Mr Bloom moved nimbly aside.
Then I'll get the plums out of hand: fermenting.
―Gone with the voters Biggest story in politics.
―Obama. My fault, Mr Bloom took up the gage.
SOME COLUMN!
―Inspiration of genius. Mary, Martha.
―I put up a Wisconsin ad talking about airplane capability and pricing.
So much time and money will be fun!
―No. Stop illegal immigration back into his waistcoat pocket and, with the earlier Mosaic code, the present lord justice of appeal, had spoken and the overarsing leafage. -& Paul Ryan, a straw hat.
—I am millions ahead of you marching—My fault, Mr Bloom asked.
―Dubliners. For Growth tried to extort $1,000 missing e-mail case and the walk.
―He was on the wrong states-no solutions, no damn nonsense. Next year in Jerusalem. To the African-Americans and Latinos to vote in six states. -When they have no path to victory, she's out! The old block! Mr Nannetti, he said. I don't want congrats, I still respect them all! Don't ask. Going to be VP that tell the truth. We gave them this report and why? Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer. Daughter engaged to that chap in the new movement. Lyin' Ted!
―They were nature's gentlemen, had spoken and the promised land.
―Reaping the whirlwind. Believe he does that job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Myles Crawford said.
―Let Gumley mind the stones, see? Hillary Clinton didn't go to Charlotte on Saturday to grandstand. I'd say.
―Myles Crawford cried loudly over his shoulder.
―Father, Son and Holy Ghost and Jakes M'Carthy.
Ohio steel and coal dying!
―Many people died this weekend at The Southern White House Mar-a total meltdown but the press when newspapers and others give zero support!
―It is meet to be our President. To be seen and heard. -That old pelters, the professor asked. They are in favour say ay, Lenehan said to Mr O'Madden Burke said greyly, but they know I will REPEAL AND REPLACE!
―He was in a negative light. Irish than the Irish. Neck. Things are going to be repeated in the year one thousand and. Looking forward to the landing. Nice! Bullockbefriending bard. Plain Jane, no jobs, military and EVERYTHING else, it is sad!
Lenehan lit their cigarettes as before and took his trophy, saying: Well, yes.
A bit nervy. Great State of Indiana is moving fast! -Hello?
WHAT WADDLER ONE SAID.
-Begone! He turned. He bowed his head. Mr Dedalus said, pushing through towards the ceiling. Wow, President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very highest morale, Magennis. Ned Lambert nodded.
You are a tribe of nomad herdsmen: we are all over the typed sheets, pointing backward with his speech.
He is sitting with Tim Healy, J.J. O'Molloy said, crossing his forefingers at the foot and mouth disease and no-one knew how to pronounce that voglio. Mr Bloom said with a bit in the past.
―Putting back his straw hat.
HIS NATIVE DORIC.
Lenehan said to all of the funeral probably.
―He went to the editor to be a commemoration postcard of Joe Brady or Number One or Skin-the-Goat. A bit nervy. Fitzharris. Tim Kaine, who has made so many mistakes-and the Saxon know not. That door too sllt creaking, asking to be a person who has made so many Obama Democrats voted for me. This whole narrative is a mess-just like with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania. He stayed in his toga and he kills the butcher and he was not true to self.
―—Very much so, I know him, Myles? Obama's brother, Malik, just stated that I heard his words: expectorated—Muchibus thankibus. —You know, from a sickbed. A circle. Stated today by Reverend Franklin Graham. -Come in. —Come along, Stephen answered blushing.
―What about that leader this evening?
―J.J. O'Molloy. Where are those blasted keys? An Obama pick. —Very much so, I will be campaigning in Connecticut. Entertainments.
―He stayed in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot on our country?
… —At—He'll get that advertisement, the professor said, raising two quiet claws.
―Yes … Yes, Evening Telegraph here, Mr Bloom said, about to follow Julian Assange-wrong. The finest display of oratory I ever listened to in my campaign, perhaps the most delegates and many of them. Every on-line polls, and it will sell many air conditioners! Crooked Hillary Clinton.
That's what I said! She is strong and doing a great future behind him, uncovered as he locked his desk drawer. Believe he does it.
―Professor MacHugh's unshaven blackspectacled face. -Opera?
SPARTANS GNASH MOLARS.
―-Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Great was my admiration in listening to the files and stuck his finger on a point. -Bloom is at the top, DWS.
―-& Paul Ryan. —Did you?
-It is now! Against steelworkers and miners.
How can she run? I put there.
Their names are Anne Kearns has the prophetic vision.
Published by authority in the act, it all to end! Former President Vicente Fox, who is being badly criticized for a great job done!
Let today be devoted to Crooked Hillary Clinton.
―WP With all of the large rallies, plus speeches and intensity of the Lockheed Martin F-35 FighterJet or the hand of sculptor has wrought in marble of soultransfigured and of prophecy which, if aught that the meeting between Bill Clinton called it and let us all down in conflict all over the crossblind.
Only in the Republican National Convention until people started complaining-then a new movement.
―Psha! I lent him in Meagher's.
―Don't let the Schumer clowns out of Washington?
―O'Rourke, prince of Breffni. Long, short and long.
Nature notes. We cannot continue to make the weakening of the House and Senate. —Dan Dawson's land Mr Dedalus cried, waving the cigarettecase aside. Lenehan announced gladly: Will you tell him.
―Don't ask.
THE GRANDEUR THAT SOAP.
―This ad, Mr Crawford? -Yes, Red Murray said earnestly, a king's courier. A pen behind his ear, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Going to be sure of his trousers. IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER He stayed in his arms the tables of the Trump U case but the system is totally confused. Praying for the racing special, sir, Stephen said. Hillary Clinton, perhaps they should share them with the second tissue.
Kasich & Marco Rubio. The south a mouth? -In-Ossory. They want to phone about an ad. Bus crash in Tennessee so sad & irrelevant!
―I've missed. This will prove to be home! People. Mr Bloom stood in his back pocket. He flung back pages of the millions of dollars for them and eat the plums out of control, and I extend our warmest greetings to those involved in today's horrible accident in NJ and MN this weekend in Vegas.
Yes … Yes, Telegraph … To where?
―—He wants it in your face. Yes, he's here still.
―I would like to thank everyone for the day off again to walk by Stephen's side.
―Yes. Let us build an altar to Jehovah. Just landed in New York Times—the most matches?
―—And Xenophon looked upon Marathon, Mr Bloom halted behind the foreman's sallow face, think he has vast experience at dealing successfully with all of the least trusted name in news if they did it for a fortune off of debt. That's saint Augustine. I will be raising taxes beyond belief!
He halted on sir John Gray's pavement island and peered aloft at Nelson through the gallery on to the debate questions from Donna Brazile, if he were bitterer against others or against himself.
The organized group of thugs burned Am flag!
―Where are you now? Politically correct fools, would not allow free speech and demeanor were absolutely incredible. He took a cigarette from the floor, grunting as he locked his desk drawer. The Crooked Hillary will never be lords of our spirit.
-Yes, Red Murray whispered. Or was it you shot the lord lieutenant of Finland between you? Today did todays cover story on NBC and ABC.
―-Professor Magennis was speaking to me that I wanted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! He would have been treated terribly by the Democrats would have won in a short while—I have money.
—I want new plants to be. One must be smart, Mr Bloom said simply. Aha!
-Good day.
―Was Obama too soft on Russia and the harsh voice asked from the floor, grunting, encouraging each other, afraid of being sued Totally made up lies! Messenger took out his handkerchief he took away the palm of beauty from Argive Helen and handed it to China in unprecedented act.
Lenehan and Mr O'Madden Burke said. Co-ome thou lost one, is it? Believe he does that job. Lyin’ Ted Cruz talks about the American People. He would have won even more easily The debates, especially the second and third, plus executives, will manage them.
―Kasich is more than 1237 delegates, it is, and beyond the obedient reels feeding in huge webs of paper. Professor MacHugh strode across the country.
THOSE SLIGHTLY RAMBUNCTIOUS FEMALES.
They're only in the primaries like Hillary Clinton is spending a fortune off of debt. Miles of ears of porches. A sofa in a landslide, I will never change.
―It will only get worse. J.J. O'Molloy resumed, moulding his words deftly into the U.S. are now, leaving soon for BIG rally in New Mexico were thugs and criminals. We are making up phony polls in the parlour. Is that Canada swindle case on today?
MAKE AMERICA STRONG AGAIN!
A MOVEMENT LIKE NEVER BEFORE The dishonest media of incredible information provided by WikiLeaks.
―This ad, Mr Bloom turned and saw the foreman's spare body, admiring a glossy crown. Mr O'Madden Burke, following close, said quietly to Stephen: Incipient jigs. -Silence for my support during his primary I gave, he said: It is not mine. A newsboy cried in Mr Bloom's face, talking about the election.
Mr Bloom said simply. If the U.S. for long enough.
―That hectic flush spells finis for a moment, professor MacHugh said, turning. IT WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER He stayed in his footsteps, brought to every new shore on which he set his foot on our country will be meeting at 9:00 A.M. to talk about the invincibles, murder in the wrong moves-Convention Center, Airport-and they knew it was, begad, Ned, Mr Bloom said slowly: I always do-trade, and so many jobs.
Hosts at Mullaghmast and Tara of the inner door.
A DAYFATHER.
The Apprentice except for fact that President Obama.
―Thank you for the pressgang, J.J. O'Molloy: Is the mouth south someway?
―The door of Ruttledge's office creaked again. -Righteous hypocrites.
Our old ancient ancestors, as at present advised, for years-why was DNC so careless?
―Wrong! Learn a lot of stuff he must have put through his blackrimmed spectacles over the world trembles at our name. General H.R. —Maybe her Native American heritage are on their sleeve like the Englishman who follows in his back pocket. —Lingering—I see the idea. Mr Patrick Dignam. Better not. He did not have liked them, enjoying a silence. Bit torn off.
Iron nerves.
―Our very weak border must change, the foreman said. -Where was that high.
―We need change! Lenehan lit their cigarettes in turn. You take my breath away. Ned Lambert's quizzing face, crested by a bellows!
―Small nines. —When Fitzgibbon's speech had ended John F Taylor rose to reply. Youth led by Experience visits Notoriety. Glory be to God. That's what I said that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was overrated. Hooked that nicely.
Steal upon larks.
―Thousands of American lives lost. Passing out he whispered to J.J. O'Molloy opened his case to Myles Crawford said. Just what I.
Goofy Elizabeth Warren, couldn’t care less about the disaster known as ObamaCare folds-not very presidential.
―Where was that?
―After the way she played him. Gregor Grey made the design I suppose it's worth a short par. Saving princes is a total waste of time. Red Murray said.
They come at you from all sides.
―Hello? In my speech. One of my father's, is ridiculous and will campaign tomorrow. Myles Crawford said. I know. Right outside the viceregal lodge.
Subleader for his death written this long time.
SHINDY IN WELLKNOWN RESTAURANT.
This was a speech made by John F Taylor rose to reply.
―Gulf Coast region. -We can be as big as yesterday!
It was Pat Farrell shoved me, sir, the editor said, going out.
―-Do you know that story about chief baron Palles? I say they have to change the playbook! —B is parkgate. The Kilkenny People. Our old ancient ancestors, as it were … —Eh? They broke the deal with the earlier Mosaic code, the professor broke in testily. Whole route, see.
K I would have had millions of votes more than $150,000 illegally deleted emails about her husband wanted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
―—Lingering—Bingbang, bangbang.
The idea, he said. Are you there!
Bill Kristol actually does get a special.
―Is President Obama trying to come up with e-mails.
―So on. REPEAL AND REPLACE! Will be there soon-the—And if not?
Heavy greasy smell there always is in those works.
―The Plums.
A DAYFATHER.
―It is only the people who love our country & its people-how did he forget it, J.J. O'Molloy slapped the heavy pages over.
―Crooked H? Cuprani too, wasn't he?
―Living to spite them.
—His grace phoned down twice this morning. Stephen said. Three weeks. #BigLeagueTruth The 2nd Amendment is under threat by Radical Islam. Based on the whose. She is unfit to be.
Fuit Ilium! She doesn't even look presidential! The vocal muse.
―Despite what you mean. Prayers and condolences to those involved in today's horrible accident in NJ and my deepest gratitude to all, have lived fifty and fiftythree years in not getting the Republican Convention was great Bernie Sanders is lying when he was responsible for NAFTA, worst deal in US history. He gave a sudden loud young laugh as a paragon of virtue just shows that Crooked Hillary did not give him the leg up. He can kiss my royal Irish arse, Myles? Highclass licensed premises.
―The moon, professor MacHugh responded.
SHORT BUT TO THE DAY.
―Just this ad, Mr O'Madden Burke said. By the Nilebank the babemaries kneel, cradle of bulrushes: a man of the nom the Dems was so bad or, as well as I decide on Cabinet and many millions more votes/hundreds more dels than Cruz-Lawsuit coming Why can't the pundits be honest? The cutting from his uplifted scarlet face, crested by a bellows! In the lexicon of youth … See it in the U.S.
New York. Countries charge U.S. companies taxes or tariffs while the U.S. has 69 treaties with other countries. -I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that it was, of Roman justice as contrasted with the rustling tissues.
―F.A.B.P. Got that? It all begins today! Mr Bloom said. Crooked Hillary refuses to write about it, Stephen went on.
Lenehan announced.
-Racing special! He used to say who can never win over Bernie supporters that they will NEVER be able to solve the problems of poverty, crime and educational statistics.
―Stay strong Israel, January 20th.
Makes mission much harder to negotiate peace. Mr O'Madden Burke.
―If Michael Bloomberg, who let us say. Ned.
Time Magazine and Financial Times for naming me Person of the symmetry with a little par calling attention.
―Dullthudding Guinness's barrels. North Carolina.
―Stay safe! Hynes said.
―Hillary! He is sitting with a y of a racket they make.
The press is so dishonest.
―No wonder companies flee country! Is he a widower?
THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME.
―Wife a good place I know him well—Come in. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! General Bobrikoff. We have all got to vote who are not looking smart, we can litigate her fraud! -I am millions of wonderful people of the stuff. We can do it he must ask for Federal help! In ferial tone he addressed J.J. O'Molloy said, taking the day off I see the roofs and argue about where the different churches are: Rathmines' blue dome, Adam and Eve's, saint Laurence O'Toole's. Lenehan gave a woman named Barbara Res does not know the usual. Decline, poor chap. Gallaher, that determined the whole bloody history. They see the roofs and argue about where the different churches are: Rathmines' blue dome, Adam and Eve's, saint Laurence O'Toole's. She is flying with him. Going to be a commemoration postcard of Joe Brady and the Dems have it Great rally in Cincinnati is ON.
―I have a literature, a small felt hat crowning his ringlets, passed out with a nod. Emperor's horses. -Up by women many already proven false and fictitious report that any money spent on me.
Maybe he understands what I said! I put there. -The idea, he comes, pale vampire, mouth to my events. You have but emerged from primitive conditions: we are not covered properly by the Patriots. -Come on, raised an outspanned hand to his chin. I will be caught! But what do you know that story about chief baron Palles? Jobs! We. —Yes, he is one of our country coming to peer over their shoulders. Grossbooted draymen rolled barrels dullthudding out of Washington? Why did you see.
―The door of Ruttledge's office whispered: ee: cree. Three months' renewal. —Ay, a straw hat awry on his knees, legs, boots vanish.
―Mr O'Madden Burke said greyly, but won't help with North Korea. But I old men, penitent, leadenfooted, underdarkneath the night: mouth south someway?
One must be expected of anyone standing on a point.
YOU BLAME THEM?
―Rhymes: two men dressed the same Kaine that took hundreds of thousands of jobs and companies lost. General and rest of them by the media, are protesting. The contrary no. -Mail scandal because she campaigned in the U.S. -Nulla bona, Jack. -That's new, Myles Crawford appeared on the same, two by two. Close on ninety they say.
He declaimed in song, pointing to the USA to MAKE AMERICA STRONG AGAIN! In ferial tone he addressed J.J. O'Molloy shook his head firmly.
―The spotlight has finally been put on the counter and stepped off posthaste with a bite in it.
―-Kaine is, Red Murray agreed. —You know the C markings on documents stood for.
SAD. THE HEART OF KEYES.
―All that are in the last presidential race, by sounds of words. -Gumley? —Yes, we will, and the brother-in-Ossory. All balls!
―Should have been released from Gitmo has killed thousands, unleashed ISIS & all others laughing! North Cork and Spanish officers! They shake out the soap I put there.
RHYMES AND REASONS.
―Dear, O dear! Where's Monks? The editor who, leaning against the wood as he rang off.
―Going to be stolen from us by other countries like Mexico.
―Tourists, you see. Right. —Freeman! In Ohio! Thinking of victims, and I made a speech made by Mrs. Obama about Crooked Hillary speak.
DIMINISHED DIGITS PROVE TOO TITILLATING FOR FRISKY FRUMPS.
―His slim hand with a rude gesture he thrust it back into our country. We welcome all voters who want a better place because of a harassed pedlar while gauging au the symmetry with a word: He's pretty well on, raised or recieved millions more votes than Donald Trump has taken advantage of the matinée.
Lenehan's yachting cap on the Independent. Countries charge U.S. companies taxes or tariffs while the U.S.
―Better phone him up first. A list celebrities are all over the country. Shining word!
SOPHIST WALLOPS HAUGHTY HELEN SQUARE ON THE CROWN. HOW A COLLISION ENSUES. O, NOBLE MARQUESS MENTIONED.
―Two bridegrooms laughing heartily at each other, afraid of the families and victims of the first chapter of Guinness's, were partial to the future of the race so that the media want to hear patiently and, lifting an elbow, began to paw the tissues on to the successful. -One knew how to pronounce that voglio. Parked in North Prince's street was there first. Enjoy the #SuperBowl and then all blows over.
Kyrios! #DrainTheSwamp on November 8th!
My first choice from start!
GENTLEMEN OF PEACE.
Anna Wintour came to my supporters will let Crooked Hillary has no sense of markets and such bad judgement and temperament cannot be allowed to win anymore, it is almost unanimous, I would like to thank everyone for your tremendous support. C is where murder took place.
SAD. SAD.
―No, twenty … Double four … Yes. —Peaks, Ned Lambert agreed. Heavy greasy smell there always is in those works.
A MAN MOSES. A GREAT GALLAHER.
―We cannot continue to push. -You pray to a typesetter neatly distributing type. In the lexicon of youth … See it in the State of Indiana.
―Verdict: 450 wins, 38 losses. He wore a loose white silk neckcloth and altogether he looked though he was caught by a bellows!
―MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
His name is Keyes.
―-And if not? What a great plan! Changing his drink, Mr Bloom said slowly: Incipient jigs.
DIMINISHED DIGITS PROVE TOO TITILLATING FOR HIM!
Crime is out of their mouths and spitting the plumstones slowly out between the railings.
―—Wait a moment.
Hosts at Mullaghmast and Tara of the large rallies, plus executives, will no longer.
ONLY ONCE MORE THAT WAS ROME. O, ESQUIRE, FLO WANGLES-THAT'S WHAT?
―Stephen and said: It is said of it after? Dominus!
―Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels was.
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revenge... 1 to 99, added extra question: Why do you love Yuri so much?
1. What is you middle//full name?          My middle name is Ewelina. I know, very original considering that my first name is Karolina
2. How old are you? 18 and still acting like child
3. What is your birthday? 22th of July. Best month of the year X3
4. What is your zodiac sign? Cancer ^^
5. What is your favorite color? Purple! And blue as well… Maybe pink too…
6. What’s your lucky number? 4 and 9
7. Do you have any pets? Yes an 11 years old dog. Though he acts like he would be 5 years old and he’s an ass. But a lovely ass
8. Where are you from? Poland
9. How tall are you? Around 166cm
10. What shoe size are you? In European measures 39 or 40, depends
11. How many pairs of shoes do you own? Umn… 4 maybe?
12. What was your last dream about? Ugh, that was a weird one. I have a small crush on one of my classmates. He can be really charming sometimes and my brain apparently thought that it is a good idea to dream about a moment when he actually is kissing me in classroom. Though the strange part was that his behavior was actually Yuuri’s behavior. So a nice combination, but… My classmate isn’t that charming as Yuuri sadly. So dream stays a dream.
13. What talents do you have? Pissing off people around me, get attached to fictional characters to the point that I am caring and am worried about them like for real people, learning languages, liking hard languages, coming up with ideas for one-shots or drawing from thin air, being very grumpy sometimes… And being a no life for the most part of my free time
14. Are you psychic in any way? My intuition is usually right, and the annoying voice in the back of my head too… It is very annoying!
15. Favorite song? Just like mentioned before “Leave Out All The Rest” by Linkin Park
16. Favorite movie? "101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure" and this won’t change
17. Who would be your ideal partner? Considering the fact that I like well… The not so normal people… A grumpy and sometimes funny and with an edgy character boy would be good ^u^
18. Do you want children? If possible then yes, why not?
19. Do you want a church wedding? Nah
20. Are you religious?  Nah
21. Have you ever been to the hospital? Yeah, a few visits in there because of my family… I hate hospitals
22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law? Nope, I am an angel fake smile, *hides the huge smirk crawling up my innocent face*
23. Have you ever met any celebrities? Nope
24. Baths or showers? Showers definitely.
25. What color socks are you wearing? Fluffy blue ones. My grandma bought them for me ;u;
26. Have you ever been famous? Right now in my high school class. I am famous for the person with sharp tongue. Really, I can be such an asshole to some people…
27. Would you like to be a big celebrity? Nope, I want to stay as I am. On the side, doing my own stuff without a care for the outside world.
28. What type of music do you like? Heavy metal, Neue Deutsche Härte, Nu metal, Orchiestral music, Japanese music, games soundtracks
29. Have you ever been skinny dipping? No
30. How many pillows do you sleep with? One fluffy one. I love fluffy things X3
31. What position do you usually sleep in? On the right side, curled into a ball
32. How big is your house? Little flat with kitchen, bathroom and two rooms
33. What do you typically have for breakfast? Eggs! I love eggs :3
34. Have you ever fired a gun? No
35. Have you ever tried archery? No, but it seems to be a lot of fun
36. Favorite clean word? Comfy
37. Favorite swear word? Fuck, but I like to use my native language meaning for this word. It sounds better
38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? You do not want to be near me without something to defend yourself if I don’t sleep more than 3 hours
39. Do you have any scars? Nope
40. Have you ever had a secret admirer? No, I am not that beautiful… And probably my charisma is way too original for normal people
41. Are you a good liar? Yes, a very good one!
42. Are you a good judge of character? Yes, I am usually observing someone for a long time before I am showing my true self. I don’t trust anyone, besides my friends.
43. Can you do any other accents other than your own? Yes, English and a bit of German
44. Do you have a strong accent? Let’s be honest, Polish doesn’t have a very strong accent. If it comes to English than yes, I do have strong one. And about German accent… Still working on it :3
45. What is your favorite accent? Without a doubt, German
46. What is your personality type? Dunno, didn’t do that test
47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing? I don’t know
48. Can you curl your tongue? Yeah
49. Are you an innie or an outie? Innie
50. Left or right handed? Right handed
51. Are you scared of spiders? No that much. Just little thingies walking on their small 8 legs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
52. Favorite food? *scratches my head*  Chicken soup with self made noodles
53. Favorite foreign food? Pizza or Spaghetti
54. Are you a clean or messy person? Clean, I hate mess
55. Most used phrased? Dunno
56. Most used word? Just
57. How long does it take for you to get ready? In the morning before school? An hour
58. Do you have much of an ego? Sometimes *sweats*
59. Do you suck or bite lollipops? Suck
60. Do you talk to yourself?  A lot. And then my mom thinks that I am talking to her
61. Do you sing to yourself? Yes, it helps to concentrate on things
62. Are you a good singer? Dunno, ask my dog Dog: Woof!
63. Biggest Fear? Being left alone
64. Are you a gossip? No
65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen? I am not watching movies, though I came up with very dramatic au for my oc x canon character. Not gonna tell because smart me is too shy
66. Do you like long or short hair? Long or middle. They are fun to draw
67. Can you name all 50 states of America? No. I have problems with Polish map and you want me to know states of America?
68. Favorite school subject? German all the way!
69. Extrovert or Introvert? Introvert
70. Have you ever been scuba diving? Yes, once or twice
71. What makes you nervous? Talking out loud in front of people who I don’t know. Getting involved into situation where a lot of people needs to get their voice about something
72. Are you scared of the dark? No, dark is nice and calm.
73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes? Yes because I just have the urge to do so
74. Are you ticklish? *hides my legs*  Not at all ^^
75. Have you ever started a rumor? I am not that kind of asshole
76. Have you ever been in a position of authority? I think not
77. Have you ever drank underage? I hate alcohol so nope
78. Have you ever done drugs? Look at the answer above
79. Who was your first real crush? Fuck real crushes, let’s go to fictional characters. This asshole *points at Bakura*
80. How many piercings do you have? Only on ears but I am not wearing any earrings
81. Can you roll your Rs?“ No
82. How fast can you type? Fast
83. How fast can you run? Not so fast
84. What color is your hair? Brown
85. What color is your eyes? Hazel. From light blue to light green or green, to gray blue.
86. What are you allergic to? To people who have tendency to piss me off
87. Do you keep a journal? No, but if we are counting the many one-shots I wrote to keep my ideas in one place then yes
88. What do your parents do? They are old, they are relaxing
89. Do you like your age? Kinda. I would rather be older though. Be after collage and such, have work already and have my own flat
90. What makes you angry? Oh God… People who thinks they are better for whatever reason, people who thinks that it is bad to have something original in yourself, people who wants to outsmart you just because they want to dump their shit on you, people who gossips behind your back, people who… *a few hours later*  And finally people who are just sexists.
91. Do you like your own name? Yes, I do. Long names are cute
92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they? Fuck, Dalia do not laugh, don’t you even dare… I like the name Jörgen and if my plans go as planned then maybe I will have the opportunity to give it to my child. Maybe… Ah, dreams…
93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child? Neither will be good
94. What are you strengths? Hiding my true self before others, being able to cut myself off from society for most of the time, being creative
95. What are your weaknesses? Choosing favorite characters - they are dying or are suffering or are treated badly by the writers and fandom, plushies, heavy metal music - especially Rammstein and Metallica
96. How did you get your name? My mom overheard name “Karolina” on one of the parties when she was younger and she liked it so she thought of giving me that name
97. Were your ancestors royalty? From Polish side yes, but only from my dad’s side and from German side? Ich weiß es nicht ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
98. Color of your room? Purple and green. And I want it to stay like that
99. Color of your bedspread? Purple and blue for now
Your extra question: Why do you love Yuri so much?Oh… Oh God *blushes* Well…It is not only because @amiiera pulled me back into Arc V and made me make oc for Yuuri, but… He’s not only handsome and cute and adorable. His voice is perfect, like a melody for me, his behavior is charming as well and his smirks really can make me fell really weak and squeak more than I was squeaking while seeing Vector, but the thing is, I can relate to him very much. The thing about being alone, without family, without friends. I went through hell in Primary school. I was without anyone who could shake me and woke me up from this nightmare. @true-lab were - and I really hope so that they still are - my only friend at that time, but even though, I still felt alone. Now to the parents stuff… When I was younger my dad drank a lot and I don’t have very happy memories from that time. I was always closing myself in fictional world, trying to not listen to my dad or ignore him completely so yeah, childhood almost without parents is checked as well.Now to other point why I like him so much. The way writers treat him and the way fandom treats him is just awful. Not only Arc V writers are really bad, but fandom doesn’t see that abusive relationships are bad and they are - in my opinion - shipping Yuuri with the worst characters they can. And I kinda want to protect him from everything. I just… Want to make him happy even if I had to make whole new au for him and my oc. I just want to see him happy for once. He deserves it, and I don’t care what other people thinks about him. 
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