A small bit of imitative counterpoint from Handel's Organ Concerto Op. 7, 4
Hi there! Just wanted to share some counterpoint I noticed when I revisited an old piece I was listening to. You're more than welcome to listen to the rest of it, but the portion I wanted to look at was only a minute or two long.
A small bit of imitative counterpoint from Handel's Organ Concerto Op. 7, 4
Hi there! Just wanted to share some counterpoint I noticed when I revisited an old piece I was listening to. You're welcome to listen to the rest of it, but the portion I wanted to look at was only a minute or two long.
Your absolute favorite opera performance or film on youtube. Please link it.
There is a wealth of performances and films, so which one do you find the creme de la creme. Mine would be Ponnelle's Le nozze di Figaro. My absolute favorite classical singer of all time plays the count, and the rest of the parts are ideally cast. The filming and performance is incredibly beyond words. I can literally watch this film every single day if I had the time and never get sick of it. Nirvana. Part 1 (English subtitled) Part 2 (English subtitled)
Am I being unreasonable for not wanting my sister back in my life after she stole my boyfriend and abandoned me first?
Myself (37F) and my sister (26?) had a traumatic upbringing. Not going into the details there, our parents were unfit to take care of my sister anymore when she was around 13. Since none of our other relatives wanted to take care of her it fell on me to take custody over her. I love my sister even now but I can't lie and say there was no resentment even back then. It hurt that I had to juggle the infancy of my career with the moodiness of my teen sister along with all the responsibilities that came with taking care of another person when I could barely take care of myself. The fact that she got to get out of the situation before she reached 18, a privilege I didn't get to have, contributed to my resentment. It didn't help that she had "deliquent" tendencies that often had me going around town picking her up from trouble. A couple years after she moved in with me, my longtime boyfriend at the time moved in to help me out aswell. He was much better at handeling her moodswings and keeping her behavior stable. He was the most important person to me at the time, he encouraged me in my career and helped keep me happy even though my life wasn't exactly at the place I wanted it to be at the time. I honestly thought we were gonna get married. Then a couple of weeks after my sister turned 18, they left me. Both of them just up a dissapeared with each other one day. They robbed me of my car and some of my other belongings, and vanished without a word. Needless to say I was devastated and it took years of support from friends and therapy to accept what had happened. Very recently (I wanna say a month ago?) however my sister just suddenly reappeared. After 8 years of nothing she found where I was living and messaged me about wanting to speak. I accepted her offer to meet up and she came over for a coffee. It was eerie seeing her again, I assumed I was never going to see her again so she was more or less dead to me. She told me a lot about what she feeling now and what she was feeling back then. The gist is, she understands she made a lot of mistakes but she doesn't want to lose the only family she has. I'll be blunt and say I wasn't receptive to what she was saying. I finally let out a lot of the resentment I had towards her, and the anger I felt when she took the person I loved away from me. My rant at her ended with me basically saying that she already walked away from her family and she was dumb for thinking I was just gonna waste all these years waiting on her. She seems to have understood so she left again. That was that and I again haven't heard from her since. My current boyfriend thinks I should have "tried harder with her" but in my eyes she's a grown ass woman and no longer my responsibility nor am I someone who can fix her. He said plain simply that he thought I was being "unreasonable" and now he's pretty annoyed with me. So I guess now I'm here to get more assessments. Edit: Responding to most common things asked/said, got off work and skimmed most of the responses.
My ex was 29 when he moved in with me, I don't believe it was possible he was grooming her. I was with him before my sister moved so I knew him before she was a factor.
My sister and him are no longer together.
She did try to apologize to be frank I don't forgive her.
My bf is annoyed because of some personal family drama of his own that my situation reminds him of. I'm not breaking up with him over this, and he treats me generally well.
My sister didn't ask for anything when we saw each other, she just talked about everything from then and a little bit of what she has been doing.
I didn't report them at the time when they robbed because I guess some part of me was hoping they'd come back even after it all.
Preamble: This should be a list of topics you can learn in general (and as long this isEngineeringStudentsyou may not learn in courses as well). Have a look what might fits you, what can be a benefit for you in future and what sounds fun. This list will never be 100% correct, there will be stuff missing and maybe some things change over time (also a lot of typos and bad grammar, I'm sorry). But withyourhelp we may create a list with interessting and helpful topics. Yes this post was made around half a year ago, but is usefull in my opinion and would be to sad to be lost in the archive. Hello everyone, I noticed a couple of posts in the last weeks where people are looking for stuff to learn, but are not sure what. So I want to make a small list of EE-stuff what I recommend, beside most standard stuff (like Calc I, Ohms law etc.). I have no clue about other engineering fields (I'm into automation & robotic), but maybe YOUcan help out for your engineering field, but please in another topic, not here*!* (but will be linked, if you post them in the comments) One general advice, if you know where you want to work in future, you shall not wear blinkers and concentrate just on stuff of your field. Take a look outside the box and try to learn some stuff. You don't have to be a master on all fields, but be able to know what other engineers are talking about. Short notice: I try to list mostly free or open-source stuff, because some of us haven't got a student-licence (and/or the money), but I also know that you can't beat some commercial products so far. General Stuff:
LaTex (and Addons you may want to use) - I know a lot of people are stucking on Work/OpenOffice/LibreOffice and similar programms. It is intuitive to deal with it, but if you are not an advanced/expert in Word and writing your thesis you may go nuts like I went. With LaTex you are "programming" your thesis. Sounds creepy, but it looks so good (and much better than Word-Stuff) . Have a look, because many professional papers are made with it. You may get help at LaTeX.
Programming languages:
Assembler - You want to programm stuff realy fast and want to be one with your embedded system? Than you have to learn assembler, the language every other programming language is speaking in the end. It depends on the microprocessor you are using, because they have different command lines. Try to deal with a RISC (PICxxx family) and a CISC processor (8086) and you will have a feeling how to deal with them. (Example Tutorial)
C - maybe you learned it already, maybe not. C is one of the fastes functional procedural, structured languages every made. Many microcontroller boards deal with it and is mostly used in embedded systems. You will have great power to do anything, but also great responsibility. It is easy to learn the basic stuff, but more complex when you want to do advanced stuff. Reddits: C_Programming Try the IDE Qt for such stuff, because it is packed full of good stuff and is free to use (afaik). Also you can programm in ...
C++ - as well in Qt. C++ is the bigger brother of C. Mostly the same blood is flooding along the code lines, but is a little bit different. C++ supports object-orientaded programming (OOP), what C can't do (so easily). If you can deal with C, it is maybe the best entrance in the OOP-World. It is used for operating systems, virtuall machines, embedded systems as well and some more. When you can deal with C++, you may be able to deal with Java(what I don't like, but different reasons) as well. Have a look on the actual new standard C++20! Reddit: cpp
Python 3 (yes there is Python 2 as well, but ...) - the most famous interpreter language in our time at the moment. It works different than C/++, but you will find much similarities. There are tons of tutorials out there. You can use python for big data-stuff, image processing, robotics, gaming, sensor stuff and many more things. Tons of packages are free to use for your project, if you download it you get a ligthweight IDE IDLE as well and is very dynamic. If you can deal the cons (it runs until errors appear and other stuff), it can be a good friend. If you have some experiences with IDEs and want to make bigger private projects I recommened PyCharm, because you will learn to programm in the PEP8 standard (rules how to write good code in Python) and have plenty of tools for your pure Python code. Watch licences! Reddit: Python
Matlab (free alternatives: Scilab/GNU Octave) - normally I would not support it, because a licence is expensive (even for unis and companies). But it is still used by many Profs., so you have to deal with it anyway. Matlab is "a giant calculator-interpreter-programming language". When you have matching packages it can be a good friend for image processing, controlling, robotics, math problems, numeric and many more (some of us may heared about Simulink and Stateflow which is based on Matlab). So it is a powerfull tool, but expensive. Maybe try Scilab or Octave as well (maybe not so powerfull, but usefull). Reddit: matlab
R - When you have to deal with stochastic stuff, data mining and big data stuff. Sometimes this language can be pretty handy, because it is specialised for this use case. Reddit: Rlanguage
Rust - An upcoming language, which promise to be safer than C, by great performance and slim in it's size. What you can do with it? Well theyself say nearly everything. It is more complex in the beginning, but if you are able to tame it, it may be a powerfull weapon. Learn Material- Reddit: rust
Electronic stuff:
Electromagnetic compatibility(EMC) - I'm an automation guy and EMC is Voodo for me. But it is one of the core competences you need to design circuits. How do you have to design your board, that obscure phenomenons won't happen (signals that shouldn't be there). What is this stuff and what weapons exists to fight these ghosts! :^)
VHDL and Verilog - There are three kingdoms of integrated ciruits (IC): Microcontrollers, FPGAs and ASICs. VHDL and Verilog are from FPGA land and very popular. FPGA is "hardware programming". But this is where my knowledge ends to be honest.
fritzing- Programm to create nice looking pictures with breadboards, motors, arduinos ... , circuit layouts and making your printed boards. Easy to use and for beginners helpful.
EAGLE - fritzing is for beginners and you want to be more professional in designing circuit diagramms? Then you may use EAGLE. I'm not sure what kind of licences exist at the moment, because it was bougth by Autodesk come years ago? But I think there is still a small free version for everyone and maybe a special license for students (but I'm not sure!). A good open source alternative is KiCAD.
Applied Mechanics - wait you will say, you are EE and tell me to learn ME stuff for circuit boards? Yes! Because your circuit boards may have to deal the toughest conditions. Dropping your smartphone, vibrating plates, bending...it happens to your board as well. So learn to deal with it.
LTSpice - simulating circuits with a high parameter variety (like termic noise etc) [thx CaulkParty ]
Altium for PCB-design, seems to be one of the mostly used in industry
Automation &Robotic:
Language standards for PLC - There are plenty of sellers of PLC stuff. Rockwell, Siemens, Mitsubishi and many more. Depending where you are living there is a "trend" to a company. When you have the money and/or possibility to work with it, do it. I don't know if there is a cheap one out there, but maybe YOU can help us out.
Applied Mechanics - A robot is not just DH-Parameters and cables alone. It is good to know what your robot can lift, what forces and torques exist while your robots tries to throw a 90kg stone 300m far...while driving on a truck ... taped on a ladder...while the truck is driving around a sharp corner up the hill (ME students may laugh or cry here as well).
Linux - Sooner or later you may be confronted with Linux. A free operating system, which is not like Windows or this thing with the fruit. It is used so many times, especially in the embedded field. It is not easy to get into it at the beginning, but an easy start is with Raspbian(and a Raspberry Pi, because it's optimised for that) or for Notebooks/PCs Ubuntu. There are plenty of distributions and you have to find your favourite one (I was distro hopping a couple of times).
Quaternion - when you are dealing with robotic the first time, you know the singularity problems. Not with Quaternions. If you know how to work with them, you will be a step ahead of other people.
Safety - A point I missed in my courses. How do I design a robot cell? Where does an emergency stop has to be? What is SIL? And when do I have to deal with a risk (there will never be 100% safety in a process).
Security - Like Safety I missed this in my courses as well. In a time where digitalisation is everywhere. From mobile apps, killer USBs, ransoftware, snake oils, 5G, GPG etc. How can I be sure that my data was not manipulated? How can I protect my system against introuders? Why has data securety to be such a thing? And when is it usefull?
CAE/CAD ( computer-aided engineering/design) - Sometimes you should be able to read a technical drawing and how you can design your own prototype. Especially while 3D-Printers are on the rise in the industry. Poorly I don't have a clue about good&free software in this case. =/ Otherwise SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor is the most used software in this topic afaik and Studentlicences exist. This is not about mechanical constructions only, sometimes even electrical construction or simulations. Reddits: SolidWorks, AutodeskInventor
Hydraulic & pneumatic - Another topic from ME. If you know the basics as EE it is good enough (reading hydraulic and pneumatic plans, how do valves (and the sensoric) work, what are basic components in such systems, math of pressure etc. ...). [WANTED: GOOD PAGES FROM ME PEOPLE TO ADD AS LINK HERE)
computer networking - There will be much more technology working via networks. So you should know something about switches, routers, IP-Networks (especially IPv6), TCP/UDP (, fieldbus systems). It's not so popular in "classic" EE, but I think this will be a big deal in future anyway.
ROS and Industrial ROS - an open-source framework for robotic. It is good for fun stuff and to learn a bit around robotic, but in case of expensive constructs or safety stuff not reliable! Reddit: ROS
MPLab X IDE - IDE to simulate and programm microcontrollers. (thx UnDeaD_AmP )
Information - and communications technology:
Wireshark - paket analyser for network stuff. Can be usefull for automation as well (field bus). Reddit: wireshark
GNU Radio - (thx to CaulkParty): Capturing and demodulating real-time radio transmissions, Real-time signal capturing of cellphone transmission packets fed to Wireshark, Simulation of a radio and more.
Micro- and Nanoelectronics:
Here could be your advise as well!
Power Electronic/Electric:
Powerworld - used to simulate large power systems, old legacy software that's used all the time in industry
AutoCAD Electrical - See CAE/CAD
Batteries - LiPo, NiCd, LiFo etc. What is important to know, why you should have a safe charge place, fireressistant covers when you build your own charging electronic and more.
Renewable Energy - wind, solar, hydro and more. How they work, how to regulate them and if such a gadget would be good enough for the next hiking/camping trip
Learn about transformers, 3 phase power, know what a duck curve is and why it could be bad
Craftmanship (can be tricky, because you may not get the tools and somebody with experience for that)
Minecraft <--basic
soldering - because it is everywhere and breadboards are not made for eternity
drilling (sounds easy but you may should know some stuff)
making your own circuit board from scratch ( Never done it before? Be extra carful in case you want to deal with acid! Better grab somebody who can help you out with that!)
Softskills: Yes I can see some of you are rolling with their eyes and thinking "serious"? And you are right! And wrong! Don't underestimate Softskills. Having lectures about that stuff is sometimes pretty boring, but you won't believe what people are out there not being able to handle stuff. Neither Time management, not social skills to deal with conflicts and so on. Some people don't even know that they are missing this kind of skill set. Be honest to yourself and get at least a basic set. It is difficult to teach suc things for yourself and some techniques won't work, but others will (I manage my projects in another way than my workmates do). [Sources are welcome, because this field is huge. I will just describe stuff I know/recommened/warn about ...]
Time Management - Scheduling the week, an event, your life and more. Are you using your smart phone caleneder? A Notebook? How to know where to start with your pool of tasks? There are many ways how to handle stuff.
Conflict solving skills - My old Prof worked in a company before and he told us that 50% of his time was solving conflicts between people and 50% doing engineer stuff. Many conflicts are based on a misunderstanding, excalating over time and explode by a tiny spark. You need to moderate these conflicts which measn. Make rules (no bad words, don't get loud, we don't talk when the other one is talking), be neutral and don't take position, try to find the root of the evil, ask questions so the others have to answer and make breaks when needed ... and sometimes you even have to know a point where you have to say "Fuck it, you don't want a solution, deal with your own stuff".
Presentation Skills/Debate Skills - You know this one prof who is writing in a cryptic wingdings font in size 4, while mumbeling stuff with the blackboard to explain stuff and you are sitting in the other corner of the room, running your AI skills to understand stuff. Or the other one who is using yellow letters on white background and wondering, that you can't see them via beamer, but on the PC it was so clear. Don't be that type as well! Speak loud and clear, ask if every one can here you, make rules at the start like "Questions after the presentation please", check your presentation location, make tests if everything works, choose a good medium (free talk, powerpoint like things, placards, >> practical stuff if possible << (alsways good)), make the presentation for the target audience you expect, improvise if needed etc. Talk in front of a honest test audience, know how to built up your presentation (mine is Intro, definition, history, basics, topic, meta stuff/future, end statement). Know the fouls of a conversation and try to find a good way handeling them. It is important to stand against others in a discussion as well.
Project Management skills - The father of many softskills: Waterfall model, Kanban, V-Modell, time management, importants of tasks, how big is your team, handling budget, risk management, RISK MANAGEMENT (doubled, because especially as engineer it should be on your skill list or know what to do), teamwork and more.
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Other Topics that aren't mentioned yet Maybe I will add/change some stuff from time to time... Anything you are missing? Put it in the comments and if I know it (or enough other) I will add it on the list as well. Something wrong? Please let me notice so I can change that! You don't even know how to survive Engineering? You may check out this regular post from me.
So I'm playing a forest gnome arcane trickster (no need to mention what happened to my last character). I played him as a quite creative little dude, but am I being to creative? For example: I got trapped in a square hole with walls of brick, it was just deep enough to not be able to get up. Instead of just sitting there my character took the rope from his burglar's pack tied one end around the handel of his short sword, and the other around his wrist. He placed the sword in the corner and used the sword guard as a stool to jump from, he got up, and the used the rope to pull up the sword. The dm got visibly annoyed and muttered something about a weapon being a weapon and not a ladder, or something like that. Or when, I said that I picked up a fist full of ash from the campfire and put it in an empty pocket in my coat, because I wanted to see if what I was planning to do was a good idea or not. Later when we were attacked by some thugs, One of them got a bit to close to me for my liking so I threw a fist of ash in his face. Here the dm paused, and asked me for the stats of a fist of ash, I said that it didn't exist stats from it and that it would be considered a improvised weapons. He couldn't find any weapon equivalent to it. So he said that it just straight up missed. Or that one time when we needed a distraction so I sneaked up to a sleeping guard with a newly destroyed piece of fabric in my hand, I quickly rapped it around the guards face and casted mending on it, so it got stuck around his head, then the wizard casted light on the piece of fabric, and well, it made on heck of a distraction. The dm once again got visible annoyed but remained silent. I'm wondering if I'm being "to creative" and I should tone it down, or if the dm is in the wrong?
What influenced the transition from Baroque to Classical?
When it comes to the transition from Classical Music to Romantic music, I can see it taking shape and coming together more easily. A lot of ideas were being formed, Beethoven was impressing people, Paris was rivaling Vienna as a center for innovation and music (something it didn’t do in Mozart’s days), and the formation of national identities were sweeping Europe. But when it comes to the transition from Baroque to Classical, I’m a bit at odds as to how it happened. Some people say it was the death of Handel and the rise of Austria along with that more Southern delicatezza of Italy. I mean when you think about it, cassical Austrian music is basically a synthesis of German and Italian Music. How did it this all take shape? How did Baroque die out and Classical rise up?
I [24F] feel so guilty after my ex-GF cheated on me, how to cope?
I dated my ex for 9 months. I literally had the feeling that she was the love of my life. She was the sweetest, most intelligent, and most attentionate person I ever dated and it felt like she adored me. everything was great, I felt loved, she felt loved. We did many thing together and all was great. She didn’t want to join a soccer team an ex-fling of hers played in and was nervous about how to act. I encouraged her to be friendly to that girl (the girl had had a GF all that time, even when she was having a fling with my now-ex). In the end I found out she had been texting sexual things to that girl for a while, she had actually been making fun of me a bit and had told me that she had been sad about it for a few days and her friends knew about the messages to the girl. I felt hurt, I felt sad. I had been cheated on in every past relationship and this hurt a hell of a lot. She told me she did it to take revenge on the girl for rejecting her and that it was an ego thing, she wanted to hurt the girl like she hurt her. At first she was sad about how ‘the girl had ruined everything’ but I reminded her that she did. What made it worse was that she was crying because of this girl and I comforted her not knowing it was because of her. My mom's birthday was that week ( she passed away almost a year ago) so I was struggeling aswell. I tried my best to forgive: we took trips together, I still visited her family who adored me. But at times I was distant and it didn’t help that she played soccer 5 times a week and drove home drunk which I really hated. In the week before the break-up she encountered the other girl's She dumped me 2 weeks ago because her feelings for me were gone because of my distance. She says she missed the old me (from before she cheated) and that she broke up with me because my distance hurt her so much. I can’t stop blaming myself for being distant. What if i would have handeled it better? What should I do now? I feel like I’m going crazy and like I lost my true love. I have never gotten along with anyone like that. I am a lesbian and we are quite rare and I'm scared I will die alone and never have a partner who loves me and family. Tl;dr: GF dumped me after I was distant, how to go from here and how to cope?
September 14th, 2020: Mandahrk Interview (Part 1 of 2)
Due to the number of questions Mandahrk received from the community, the interview exceeded reddit's character limit, and will be split into two parts! The questions from the NSI team will be in this post, and the community questions will be included in the second. You can read part two here. Tell us a little about yourself. Hello everyone! I am a 25 year old civil engineer from India. I grew up in towns so small they didn't have proper internet connections until the mid 2000s and little me couldn't even have imagined that one day I would be writing for a large international audience like this. As one of the few, if not only, writers of your nationality and history on NoSleep, are there any distinct challenges you find in your writing and interactions with the subreddit? The love and support I have received from this community has been nothing short of incredible. I certainly did not expect this. When I first started writing for nosleep I was worried that my stories won't be good enough and that if I write about India people won't easily connect with them, simply because the setting is so unfamiliar to most of the sub. But since I was mostly writing for myself and since I had seen WriteChrisWrite's series based on Hindu mythology do really well I stuck to my guns and lo and behold - my first story to crack 5k upvotes - the first part of a series - was as Indian as it gets, and unlike the aforementioned series that focused on immigrants in the United States, it was set in India, had Indian characters and even referenced Indian TV shows in the first part itself. The success of that story gave me the confidence to begin carving a niche for myself on the sub. I saw that people were craving for content from other parts of the world, as it keeps horror fresh. It's why Japanese monsters are all the rage right now. And so I began writing about myths and legends I grew up with, about characters based on people I personally knew, and the response was great! To be the first writer from India to get a modicum of popularity on nosleep was (and is) absolutely a big honor for me. But of course I didn't want to be typecast as just "the Indian guy", so I experimented and the next story that blew up was from the perspective of an American character. This was a whole new challenge for me as I'm not American, and the only knowledge I have of American life is through books and films and TV shows. So I focused on universal themes and that made it much easier for me to connect with people from all around the world - things that scare you, things that you treasure - you can touch the hearts of people from any nationality if you focus on the core human experience. I mean, to my utter surprise, my 'This is why mimes are much more terrifying than clowns' is astonishingly popular in Vietnam of all places. There's even an animated video of it in Vietnamese that's now sitting at over half a million views. Just incredible. Of course the internet being what it is, I also got some hate. But I just used that hate to fuel my creativity. When did you first become interested in horror? I was about 4 years old when 'woh' was airing on TV. It was an Indian adaptation of Stephen King's IT and its opening was scary enough to rival American Horror Story at its best. My father thought it would be a good idea to watch the show with me on his lap. It wasn't. It scared me so bad that I would start bawling at the mere sight of this clown doll that I had. My parents had to throw it away. And I used to love that doll. But I wasn't just frightened, I was also fascinated. I craved that adrenaline rush that consuming horror fiction gave me. There were other Indian horror shows airing at that time - shhh koi hai, zee horror show, Aahat, Aap Beeti and others that I would try to watch behind my parents' back. Soon I graduated to Hollywood horror with The Descent, the Saw series etc before moving onto Japanese horror. I remember watching the ring on cable TV when my parents weren't home. Gave me nightmares for weeks. I loved it. Was there a specific moment you knew you wanted to write in that genre? I'd say it was when I got a copy of my high school's magazine and read a horror short story by a senior. I had always been interested in writing fantasy, but I knew that it was a long term goal and that my writing needed to improve in preparation for that. And the best way to do that was by writing short stories. I just didn't know what kind I wanted to write. But after I read my senior's story, I knew what I wanted to do. I read some Stephen King shorts and wrote my first one about a kid who's selling lemonade to his neighbours while his mother's corpse rots in his house. I would write every now and then but didn't really get serious about pursuing writing as a hobby until last year. For nosleep. That's a very creepy early story! Where else have you found inspiration? Have real life experiences ever made their way into your work? Inspiration is everywhere. You can find stories hidden in the most mundane of things. You just need an active imagination. I was out on a run the other day and saw this girl taking her pregnant dog out for a walk and I thought wouldn't it be funny if she gave birth to a human baby? And I turned that into a story. My first story to hit the top spot - Every night for the last 18 years someone has been sneaking into my bedroom and sleeping next to me - is based on my childhood fears. I was terrified of sleeping on my side because I would keep imagining someone lying down behind me and gently caressing my back. The character in the story stacked pillows next to him - something I very much used to do. Hide'N'Seek is also drawn from experience. I was playing that game at a friend's house, and I did see someone lying down like a corpse on a ledge when it was my turn to search. See, when you're writing a story you should remember that only if it scares you will it have a shot at scaring others. Not otherwise. That's why it's important to keep it personal. Every night for the last 18 years someone has been sneaking into my bedroom and sleeping next to me features a pistach, and you mentioned admiring a fellow author's series featuring Hindu myths. Do you have plans to incorporate other myths and creatures from Hindu theology and culture in your future writing? Absolutely. India is such a mesmerizing country. Culture, language, food - everything changes here every 100 km or so and there is just a treasure trove of myths and legends waiting to be explored. I'm glad that there are finally horror movies like Tumbbad that are starting to dig deep into local mythology and I can't wait to do the same in my stories. Your story Fake News feels so relevant in our times of technology, social media, and mass panic, often stemming from rumors with no factual support. No matter where in the world one lives it seems people from all cultures have fallen victim to this epidemic. Was this story based on something that actually happened in your area? Yes. The story is based on an actual spate of lynching that occurred in India in 2017. Dozens of people were killed in separate incidents over baseless child abduction rumors that appeared out of nowhere and spread through whatsapp groups like wildfire. Mob violence isn't anything new in India, there have been numerous riots that have occured since independence in 1947. But in almost all of these incidents, the riots were organised by political parties - fanning flames of hatred with incendiary speeches, spreading fake news, organising mobs and providing weapons to them, deliberately holding back the police or even having them participate in the killings etc. However in the 2017 killings, no political party was overtly involved - they were completely organic, carried out at the grassroots level by common people themselves with no provocation. And that terrifies me - the idea that perfectly normal people can suddenly turn into monsters and kill in broad daylight for absolutely no reason just scares the living hell out of me. Ever since then I've been interested in the role social media plays in our lives. How can people, even those who are highly educated, fall for just the most unbelievable, fact-free nonsense they read on the internet and turn into blood thirsty monsters? How did you discover NoSleep? What prompted you to begin writing for it? It was late 2015 and I was in college. It must have been around 3 am and I was sitting in front of the clock tower with a group of friends around a small bonfire exchanging ghost stories. A friend of mine gave me a list of the scariest horror shorts on YouTube. One of them was an adaptation of the 'smiling man' creepypasta. I discovered nosleep the next day. And I've been hooked ever since. During this time I came across inaaace's air traffic controller story and it was the scariest thing I had ever read. I knew then that I wanted to write for nosleep and try and scare others as much as this story had scared me. Eventually I graduated college, got over my procrastination and hesitation and finally began writing last year. My 'This is why mines are much more terrifying than clowns' was a homage to him and I think it's why so many people who read that story found it to have a 'classic nosleep' feel to it. Because it was meant to be that way. What NoSleep stories and/or authors have had the strongest impact on you? There are so many authors here who've had an impact me and continue to influence my work that I'm afraid I'll end up forgetting about some people. But anyway, here goes nothing. inaaace - for his absolutely terrifying imagination. WriteChrisWrite - for his all you can eat diner series (which is no longer there on nosleep as it is being adapted into a TV show) where he used monsters from hindu mythology, which gave me the confidence to start writing about things that I'm most familiar with. TheJesseClarke - for expanding my understanding of horror. dopabeane - for her mesmerising prose. verastahl and Mr_outlaw_ - their work helped me create my own extended universe. The_Dalek_Emperor - one of the all time greats of nosleep. Borrasca, room 733, all classics. Max-Voynich - for introducing a surrealist element to horror that was sorely missing on nosleep. Seriously, his writing is a treat for the senses. Literally everyone over at /thecrypticcompendium. Having the opportunity to pry open their skulls and peer into their imaginations has been a fascinating experience. There are so many others - u/nslewis, u/fainting--goat, M59gar, headofspectre, samhaysom, Cymoril_MelniboneElias_witherow, searchandrescuewoods, harrison_prince, TheColdPeople, dariuspilgrim, 1000Vultures, bloodstains, magpie_quill, Coney-IslandQueen. Some stories on nosleep that etched themselves onto my memory, in no particular order are - Left/Right game by NeonTempo - imaginative concept executed flawlessly. What happens when the stars go out by thejesseclarke - makes my bawl every time I read it. Third Parent by Elias_Witherow - the only story on nosleep that I haven't been able to bring myself to read again. Uncle Gerry's family Fun zone by red_grin - it is the perfect horror short story and each read reveals something new. What is the most terrifying thing you have personally experienced? When I was 12 I had this mole on the small of my back that was gradually increasing in size. Swelling up like a little balloon. I showed it to my parents and they took me to the doctor, who told us that it was a benign tumorous growth that would have to be removed. It was the most scared I've ever been in my life. To stop myself from bursting into tears in the hospital I kept pestering the nursing staff with questions. They were really professional and helped me keep my nerves in check, to the point that I was pretty quiet when they wheeled me into the operating theatre and knocked me out with an anaesthetic. Thankfully the surgery went smoothly and I even got to see the chunk of flesh they cut out of me! We're so glad you were able to have it taken care of and are okay, that's so frightening! You mention another real-life fear in your story Manpig, where you delve into the topic of bullying, and the horrible results it can have. What prompted the story, and its notably grim ending? I actually wrote that to subvert what I believe has become a bit of a trope on nosleep. There have been many stories about physically unappealing, almost monstrous people/creatures that seem terrifying on the surface, but are in fact just misunderstood and even end up befriending the protagonist. The only evil that exists in such stories comes from "normal" people. I thought it would be a fun sleight of hand to get everyone to sympathise with Manpig only to reveal him as a monster in the end. Another reason that it ended on such a dark note is that it was a deliberate choice. I find myself struggling with grim endings, it's hard for me to kill off characters I love. The thing is that horror is at its most memorable when it leaves you feeling hopeless at the end. That's why I've been making a conscious effort to try and make my readers feel despair by the time they finish reading. At least in some of my stories. What are some of your biggest influences from media? Stephen King. Because obviously. I don't think there's anyone writing horror today that hasn't been at least somewhat influenced by the man. I also really love Shirley Jackson. Her prose took some getting used to but once I did, I enjoyed her work immensely. She's great at slowly playing with your mind and her characters are some of the most well fleshed out in horror. There's also Joe Hill, Thomas Olde Huevelt (HEX was devastating), Adam Nevill, Paul Tremblay, Victor Lavalle, and Mark Danielewski (house of leaves is such an inventive book). Moving away from horror I'm a huge fan of Arundhati Roy - she cuts through the wilful ignorance and hypocrisy of privileged Indians in a way that is very rare for writers over here. Then of course there is Dr. Ambedkar, whose Annihilation of Caste continues to be the most revolutionary thing I've ever read. Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie, Khushwant Singh (his stories on partition of India are awe-inspiring) - all legends. I also devoured Premchand's stories as a child, but his work is a part of the hindi literary tradition. Now growing up, I loved fantasy. Lord the rings was the first book I ever truly fell in love with. It was a tattered old thing when I bought it, and is still one of my most treasured possessions. I have the fondest memory of searching for old books with my father at Daryaganj in Delhi. (Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Dickens - I was introduced to all the classics because of this street market.) My mother is a huge book lover as well. She's got trunks and trunks of books - everything from Enid Blyton to Jeffrey Archer and Mario Puzo. Got my love of reading from her. The series Every year for the last 3 centuries our town has been sacrificing its women to protect the world is an edge-of-your-seat ride documenting a man and his harrowing experience with something...otherwordly that has his town in its grip. Since you mentioned Shirley Jackson, was this story, however much more fleshed out, initially inspired by her classic tale The Lottery? It absolutely was! I loved the idea of the lottery - generation after generation following a violent ritual that they don't even understand or question anymore. Letting some inexplicable horror become a part of your life - what a fascinating concept. And it is set in a small town too - the most fertile ground for horror. I wanted to do something similar - write about a cold Himalayan town, but didn't want to explore the same themes in the exact same way. So I turned Shirley Jackson's subtle psychological horror about blindly following tradition into a popcorn thriller, wove it into my extended universe and it became my favourite story that I've ever written. Do you ever plan on revisiting Rocky and the group he works for? Yes! I have outlines of multiple series planned out in my head already and will be going through them one by one. In fact, I'm current writing a series set in the universe. Other than writing, what are some of your hobbies? What other creative mediums do you enjoy? I absolutely love music. I will literally listen to anything. From Rammstein to Frank Ocean to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, my playlist is a hodge podge of genres. Hell I was just listening to Black Pink's latest song a couple of days ago. The tonal shifts in my playlist can be so jarring they can give people whiplash. But my first love will always be Punjabi music. Give me some Jassi Gill or Sidhu Moosewala and I'm ready to bring the house down. Apart from music I love acting. I was involved in the theatre scene in high school and college but decided not to pursue it. From improv to street plays to staged productions - I've done it all, in both English and Hindi. I'm a bit of an introvert, but just love being on stage. I was once so into a performance I dislocated my shoulder. Finished my part though, before collapsing in pain when I was alone. Popped that fucker right back in myself. But the damn thing ended my chances at playing for my college's basketball team. Do you ever explore writing other genres besides horror? If so, what other styles of writing? Which do you prefer? Oh yes. I wanted to write my own high fantasy epic after reading the Lord of the Rings. Still do. But it's on the back burner for now. For when I'm a better writer. At the moment I'm content with writing horror and exploring its different facets. How much time do you spend writing in an average day or week? Do you have any rituals that help you focus? When I'm not working on a series I generally average around 3-4 hours a week. I don't really have rituals as such. I just write whenever I have some free time and the mood strikes me. Though I do at times listen to music to set the mood. Especially if I'm writing an action sequence. In that case I generally fall back on classical music - like Mozart's Lacrimosa or Handel's Sarabende or even Vivaldi's four seasons. If you're writing violence to thrill, and not to horrify, finding elegance in it is the way to go. And listening to classical music helps me get into that mindset. When crafting a piece of fiction, do you generally start with an outline or simply begin writing? It really depends on what I'm writing. Sometimes it'll be an idea that goes off in my head like a lightbulb and I'll write the story down in less than half an hour. No outline, no idea of how it's going to end, I'll just go with the flow and see where the story takes me. 'Every night for the last 18 years someone has been sneaking into my bedroom and sleeping next to me' began as a sentence and I wrote the first part in 16 minutes. I actually saw how much time it took. On the other hand, some stories will be meticulously planned. Like the 'I just met the lone survivor of a village that disappeared over 200 years ago' series and the 'My Home Owners Association seems to be a little too passionate about enforcing its rules' series were all planned out from start to finish and it took me weeks to write them. Wow! That's some intensive planning. Your HOA series takes an inventive approach to the common "rules" series we see on NoSleep, with all the rules being fairly typical and benign, but the consequences of breaking them proving fatal. What led you to the concept, and in particular, the revelation that the people behind the rules are white supremacists? Rules based stories have been doing really well on nosleep for a while now and I knew that I wanted to do my own spin on them. It's certainly not the first such series I had written either. My rule-breaker series was also a subversion of the concept. I love playing around with ideas - to see how I can stand out from the crowd and do my own thing. After wracking my brain for a while I eventually decided to write about rules that appear perfectly normal at first glance but something sinister is lurking just beneath the surface. It was awesome, because not only was it a novel concept, but having "normal" rules added an extra element of mystery and suspense to the story as well. That's because when you see a rule in a story and it tells the protagonist to ignore the little girl that walks the hallway between 3:03 AM and 3:13 AM, you as a reader are already somewhat aware of what's going to happen. But when there's a rule specifying that trash cans must not be kept outside the allowed hours, you're completely in the dark and are left wondering - what could the possible consequences of that be? As to why white supremacists? I'll answer that in the next question :) Have you received any backlash for including racial elements in your stories? How do you approach the topics with the appropriate gravity and awareness? Funnily enough, I got absolutely zero backlash for the series and the response was overwhelmingly positive. In fact, it was the other way around - racial "backlash" was what prompted me to write the story in the first place. When my grandfather, who fought in the second world war once told me a story that has haunted me ever since hit 6k upvotes, I got a slew of racist messages from this one guy who kept creating accounts specifically to hurl racist abuse at me. It incensed him to see an Indian do so well on the subreddit. Bigots just can't handle the fact that the world is rapidly changing around them. It made me laugh. And I thought okay buddy, now I'm gonna write about a middle aged Muslim man killing a bunch of neo Nazis in suburban America. But it's not like I wrote that series specifically for that one guy. With so much ethnic strife around the world I had wanted to write about tolerance, and about being intolerant of intolerance, and that is why, to me - the inclusion of David in the HOA series was so important. Here's an old white man, as patriotic as they come, with an American flag fluttering outside his house, who's also lost his son to the endless war on terror, but still refuses to give in to hatred, and actively fights against it. He's the embodiment of my belief that a better world is possible, and his bond with his muslim neighbour becomes the most significant aspect of the series. Another one of your in-depth series, The Inheritance Game - What exactly would you be willing to do for $300 million?, is incredibly intricate, with the plot relying heavily on the interactions of the characters. How far in advance did you draft out the story, and who the ultimate survivors would be? Inheritance Game was my own take on the battle royale genre (belko experiment, hunger games etc). I wanted there to be a cerebral element to the old kill everyone else mayhem and so added to the stress that my characters would go through by forcing them to think, to do calculations, to form alliances and more. I planned it out from the start to finish and was so happy that I was able to distract most of my readers from who the mastermind was. It was the first time that I had used red herrings and misdirection and it worked out fabulously. Planning it was a bitch though - I had to make a chart to keep track of all the characters and how they were related to each others. Thankfully, one of the readers, Reflaxo was kind enough to draw a family tree on paint and it really helped! We've seen other bizarre will readings in media in the similar (though far less deadly) The Westing Game, and the twisting whodunit Knives Out, among others—if you were to do your personal twist on the idea, what odd stipulations would you place in your own will? You know what? It would be fun to have some sort of a treasure hunt in my will. Whoever gets to the goal first gets to keep all the money. This would of course be only if I hate my family (which I don't). Now that I think about it, this would make for a great sequel to the Inheritance game - have people go around some city solving sinister, often fatal puzzles while they plot against each other - a terrifying race! But damn, just thinking about the planning that this would require gives me a headache. Have any of your stories ever involved research? If so, what was involved? Almost all of them. When I'm writing from the perspective of an American character I have to do research on the tiniest of things. What kind of architecture is common there, what materials are used to build a house, what do people eat, how are law enforcement departments structured, radio call signs used by the military - things that might be ordinary to you isn't so much for me. Hell, I even made a post on nosleepooc asking about what HOAs are like. Are there any topics you feel are too controversial for you to address or that you prefer not to explore in your writing? I think don't think there are any topics that are too controversial to be addressed, as long as they are handled with proper care. Personally, I like to explore anything and everything in my work. I believe that writing and/or reading about the most horrific things can have a cathartic effect and can help us deal with the pain that comes to be associated with these events. But these topics (sexual assault, transphobia, racism etc) must be treated with respect or else it's just exploitative. What are your feelings toward NoSleep's immersion/plausibility rule? What impact, if any, do you think the suspension of disbelief format may have when transitioning your work toward a mass audience unfamiliar with NoSleep? I am of two minds when it comes to this rule. On hand it sets this platform apart as its own thing and helps weed out a lot of what would ultimately end up becoming extremely repetitive stuff. It's only because of this that nosleep isn't choked with series after series about the zombie apocalypse. It also forces writers to be a bit creative and does away with the 'I was dead the whole time' cliche to an extent. I also enjoy the role playing aspect of it. Quite a bit actually. Especially when its a long series and everyone is invested in it. On the other hand, I hate how almost half the comments end up being deleted because of the immersion rule. Feedback, praise, criticism - these are all important and they all end up being removed. Sometimes I'll scroll past a story with hundreds of comments and it'll just be a sea of [deleted], [deleted]. The comments we get on our stories are little packets of memories for us and it's annoying to see them get deleted. Do you have any favorite reader reactions to your writing? I love any and all reader reactions! I am grateful that I have the opportunity to share my imagination with other people. And it's even more special when my stories are able to connect with someone. When they're invested in seeing where a series will go, when they're touched by a story or get shit scared or even repulsed - it really warms my heart. Seeing my name and my stories pop up in recommendation threads makes me ecstatic. But if I had to pick the most memorable reactions I've seen, I think I would go with the girls sending me links to their onlyfans accounts via dms and comments on my story about the platform ;) What story or project are you most proud of? 1st November 1984. It was an incredibly personal story and it was very difficult for me to write. But I'm really proud of how it turned out. I'm glad that it ended up being one of my most popular stories and that I could bring the truth of that horrible event to so many people. The heartfelt messages I received from people on the sub and from other Sikhs who found the story really made my eyes water. It's been 36 years since the anti-sikh genocide and justice has still not been served. And that makes it so important that its history is remembered and passed down from generation to generation. It's extremely satisfying that I could contribute to that in my own small way. What an amazing way to use NoSleep to shine light on a horrific time in history that took so many lives. 1st November, 1984 brought forth an outpouring of comments from people whose families had been affected, in addition to those who were learning of this tragedy for the first time. You can feel a strong sense of solidarity among your readers and a thankfulness for bringing knowledge about such a dark time. Did you expect to get such a response from this story? You say it was personal—did you have family impacted by this, and if so, was it cathartic to share this story? Is there ongoing turmoil and trauma in your country due to these events? I didn't think that the story would get this popular. But I'm so glad that it did. Like I said, it's been 36 years since the pogrom and we still haven't seen justice. Court cases are still dragging on and many of the killers have died natural deaths. There's just so much unresolved trauma in the Sikh community. The rot was so systemic back then - everyone from police to politicians to media to bureaucracy - all were involved in spreading hate and organising the genocide. Keeping quiet and bottling it all in became the norm for our families, for fear of state reprisal. It got so bad that many young Sikhs living in the west today are unaware of the extent of the tragedy. I know that just reading that story was cathartic for many older Sikhs and the heartfelt messages I received are a testament to that fact. I'm so glad that I decided to write it. We need to remember what happened in 1984. If we can't get the victims justice, the least we can do is remember them. Forgetting their suffering might be an even bigger crime than what happened all those years ago. Writing it and spreading awareness about the genocide to so many people was a tremendously gratifying experience. I must say here that it's only because of TheJesseClarke's As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death that I realised that there was space for stories like this on nosleep. And yes. My family did suffer in 1984. My dad's family lost their home (which was later taken over by someone else), their business and had to shift to Punjab (a traditionally sikh dominated state in India) with nothing but the clothes on their backs. My Dad was in college back then, and had to make the terrifying journey all alone. My mother's family faced the same. They were boycotted by their neighbours and had to ultimately pack everything and travel over 2200 km to get to safety. Thankfully, no harm came to any of them. But they knew plenty of people who were butchered, especially in Delhi which was the epicenter of the violence. 1984 was the biggest reason why despite being born in a Sikh family I've never had long hair and have never worn a turban. I grew up to be an atheist, but I still feel like what could have been a part of my identity was robbed from me. What's the most valuable lesson you've learned since you began posting to NoSleep? I'm sure others have said this, but upvotes don't really say everything there is to say about the quality of a story. There are many factors that decide whether a story becomes popular on nosleep or not, and its quality is just one of them. In fact, one of my favourite series - little house on Briar rose drive - barely cracked 100 upvotes. It really taught me to write for myself first and foremost instead of always worrying about whether other people will like it or not. Not to mention there is something special about writing a series that hovers around 500 upvotes or so but with the same 15-20 people commenting on each part. It's like telling a campfire story to your friends. That intimacy is somewhat lost when your story hits the top spot and you're more focused on other things instead of just enjoying the ride. (Psst - that doesn't mean I don't feel gutted each time a story of mine fails to hit the #1 spot. But that's fine. Failures help me appreciate successes more). As a successful author on NoSleep, do you have any advice for new contributors? Oh gee... Me? Successful? Why, thank you very much! To anyone considering posting on nosleep or those who already have a couple of stories out on the sub, I would just like to say that practice makes perfect. Keep writing. The only effective way to get better at one's craft is by working on it. Don't worry about writing the perfect story or getting negative reactions, just start writing. And put yourself out there. Get over that hesitation and post you story! Let others see your work. Crossing that hurdle is the first and the most important step in any writer's journey. One thing I'd like to add here, is that just writing isn't enough. If you keep writing in a vaccum you'll soon end up plateauing and you'll be stuck at a certain skill level. You may even end up developing some bad habits - like repeating words, character arcs etc. To break through you'll need an extra push. What might that be, you ask? Reading. But don't read as a reader, read as a writer. Stories on nosleep, horror books recently published, other books in other genres - read everything that grabs your interest. And see how writers write. Take notes if you have to. Because I do. Sentence construction, character development, use of metaphors, how to build suspense - you can learn a lot, just by changing how you read. Read, till you find your own 'voice'. And then read some more. Next - Get in touch with other writers. Show them your work. Ask for help. Look for ways to improve your craft. Feedback is important. Feedback from people who know what they're doing is priceless. Your advice for writers to read more is truly some of the best advice we've heard. To bear the fruit, you must also ingest the fruit. You are what you eat and all that. So, looking forward, what are some of your short-term and long-term writing goals? I am currently working on a series that I would like to put out as soon as possible. There's also a collaboration with three other authors that's been stuck in development hell for months now. Would like to get that show on the road as soon as possible. Long term writing goal - I want to get a book published in India in the traditional way. Something to do with magical realism. Due to the number of questions Mandahrk received from the community, the interview exceeded reddit's character limit, and will be split into two parts! You can read part two here.
The Saga of Upgrading a Sprocket and Chain on an 81 XT250.
Well, it all started out with a broken chain. Actually, my chain got caught up in the gearbox. Upon pushing the bike home 3 miles, I removed the gearbox cover on the left side and discovered that the chain was tangled up quite a mess. After somehow, accidently popping off the master-link. (To this day, I'm not even sure if it was the master-link, but it cracked open with a screw driver) I got the chain loose. That's when I noticed my sprocket was missing some teeth. Figure I'd order a new sprocket and chain. I decided to go up one Tooth. I went from a 15t (supposedly stock) broken sprocket, to a 16t sprocket. Fresh. I also ordered a stylish, new, 98link chain, because I figured, what the hell. Now depending on who you ask, the 1981 Xt250 chain specs are as follows.. 520 Chain with a 98 link Length. Depending on who you ask, the Stock sprocket for a 1981 XT250 is either 15T or 16T - I previously had a 15T sprocket with a 98L Chain, with the Rear Tire set at a 7 Click. Still following me here? New Chain comes in. New Sprocket comes in. I'm now running a 16T sprocket on a 98L chain. Guess what? Chain is too short. So I bring the Rear tire ALL THE WAY to a 5 CLICK. MEaning the axel adjustment is on 5, instead of 7. Needless to say, the new chain still didn't fit and I used the old chain. With the old chain on, (new master link) - The bike Felt very UNSTABLE. Something about it. After much discussion, chain measuring, and thought, I decided that bringing the tire forward on the axel adjusters is the reason the bike feels unstable. See, I got used to riding the bike around on CLICK 7 for 6 months. With the Axel adjuster on CLICK 5, it felt like I was rolling around on Ice Skates. Had to be careful on my turns, didn't want to lean. She just felt a little more "SLIPPERY." Sprocket felt a bit nicer. I had more low end RPM at higher speed, which is what I wanted, since I like to do a lot of road miles. But, due to the handeling.. she goes back to the shop. Back to the Shop she goes. And NOW I'm sitting with the chain, sprocket, shifter, gearbox cover off. She sits. I'm throwing on both the Old Chain, and new chain. I'm measuring her up and down according to specs. Now the Chain has to be between 50-60mm in clearance. I'm putting that adjuster on 5, 5.1, 5.2, 6, 6.1,6.2, 7, 7.1,7.2, - Every damn milimeter I move that rear axel, I sure as shit measure it down and record my findings. I find that my OLD CHAIN needs two teeth, to most likely be compatible with my sprocket. Which would mean ordering a 100L chain. Right? After all the measurements and the psychotic obsession. The next step is measuring the new chain. And guess what? that Chain, according to my playing around and obsessing over each link, I figure my new chain needs to be a 101 length chain. But Chains don't come in ODD NUMBERS! So guess what? I settled on a 100Length chain, and am going to pray for the best. Total cost came out to somewhere around $300 for the chains, the sprocket, the grease, and some other bullshit I needed. There is nothing like taking your bike apart and putting it back together and riding down the road. The obsession of my two wheel'd love comes from the Joy of riding her. Had I not experienced such joy from this 40 year old machine, and every groveling exhaust note, I wouldn't go through the painful lessons I've had to deal with in repair and maintnence. WISH ME LUCK fellas. Wish me luck this new chain with 100links fits on this bike. It is according to spec. It's a 520 - 100l chain made by D.I.D. so it SHOULD work. IF ALL ELSE FAILS, I will order a new 15T sprocket and just throw, the 98l chains on that, and pray for the best. I don't know if you guys feel my pain, but ordering the wrong parts is painful.
made with chermiaow :)) we hope you enjoy it! (S.) 178 votes and we'll post the next bit Act One || Scene One the welcome-to-the-tomb party 1975 [Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony plays loudly. All the characters except for SHOSTAKOVICH are milling around in a gothic-looking place. There are stone tables around with food on them.] BACH [shouting across the room]. Turn it down! BEETHOVEN [walking ridiculously slowly over]. You’ll have to speak into my ear trumpet. I can’t hear you. {Producing tuba, putting his ear to the mouthpiece.] BACH. Turn it down! BEETHOVEN. Who’s the clown? The turning clown? BACH. [sighing.] Play quieter. [At this moment, Shostakovich’s Waltz Two (read: the annoying nameless tune) overwhelms Beethoven’s symphony; the latter dies down altogether. A bespectacled boi appears.] MOZART [shaking hands with SHOSTAKOVICH]. Welcome, welcome. [He leads SHOSTAKOVICH to a chair, on which there is a whoopee cushion. The audience sees it clearly, but SHOSTAKOVICH seems unaware of this. He sits down; a violent farting sound is emitted. MOZART bursts into inappropriate laughter, immediately having to make several awkward moves to save his eyesight from SHOSTAKOVICH, who has thrown a fork at his face.] [Leck Mich Im Arsch plays while SHOSTAKOVICH pulls the whoopee cushion awkwardly out from under his butt.] TCHAIKOVSKY. Ah yes, today we welcome another distinguished Russian to the tomb. [He pulls out a kazoo from inside his tutu and kazoos the Russian national anthem.] RACHMANINOFF. DISRESPECT. [He slaps TCHAIKOVSKY hard with his big big hand. TCHAIKOVSKY fumbles with his legs, falls down and rolls off stage, tangled in the tutu.] Now he’s gone. [to SHOSTAKOVICH] I’m sorry you had to witness that disgrace. Usually, Saint-Saens keeps him in check, but his heart’s bothering him today. It’s never been the same since he came up here. SHOSTAKOVICH. [looking at CHOPIN, who seems like the only sane one.] Is this where all composers come to when they die? LISZT. [pushing CHOPIN aside and flicking his hair back.] Only the very best ones. That’s why I’m here. [CHOPIN gives him an incredulous look.] Duh. [Makes this face, but with eyebrows raised.] CHOPIN. [looking at LISZT saltily.] You only stun your audiences. LISZT. [turning away from CHOPIN, towards SHOSTAKOVICH.] You don’t even have audiences. [He winks at CHOPIN and watches him walk away with a smirk on his face.] [CHOPIN curses under his breath and goes to sulk in the corner.] SHOSTAKOVICH. [giving LISZT the done face.] I can’t imagine living out the rest of eternity with people like you. LISZT. [sitting down, uninvited, next to SHOSTAKOVICH] None of them is like me. [He throws a pointed glance at CHOPIN.] I’m exceptional. SHOSTAKOVICH. More like exceptionally arrogant. LISZT. [somehow keeps his calm, heart rate decreases; he breathes elegantly.] At least I have so many things to be proud of. [Sniffs and walks off.] [SCHOENBERG comes onstage from a door in the back of the stage.] SCHOENBERG. [sleepily] The party’s already started? [He sees SHOSTAKOVICH.] Oh, hello! You’ve come to join us here too! [SCHOENBERG starts scanning the place. SIBELIUS comes up behind him.] SIBELIUS. [drunkenly, holding out a drink to SCHOENBERG] Don’t worry. Paganini’s still down there, so there’s only twelve of us today. [SCHOENBERG relaxes visibly, accepting the drink.] SCHOENBERG. You know what they say: when thirteen are at the table together… SIBELIUS. The first to rise will be the first to die. I already know. [He pats SCHOENBERG on the shoulder and totters off drunkenly. He turns back, almost as an afterthought.] But Paganini’s already been our sacrificial lamb. [SCHOENBERG is left staring blankly with the glass in his hand.] [Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony starts playing. Before the first phrase is over, HANDEL bursts out violently from one of the doors at the back of the stage. He immediately slams his hands over his ears.] HANDEL. STOP IT! MAKE IT STOP! [The music ceases abruptly.] HANDEL. Everything’s one semitone sharp! [He throws his wig at SHOSTAKOVICH, who looks stunned.] The A is more than 20 hertz sharp. [He kicks the table and winces in pain.] Disgusting. I thought you were all musicians here! What are you, deaf? BEETHOVEN. [coming up and producing tuba.] We take meth? It hasn’t really gained popularity yet, though. [HANDEL scowls.] You’ll have to talk into my ear trumpet. HANDEL. [shouting irritatedly into the tuba] WHAT ARE YOU, DEAF? BEETHOVEN. [looking genuinely excited] U clef? You invented that? Genius! HANDEL. [sighing] You and your ear trumpet should go burn in hell.
Okay, I've seen a male conductor kiss a female soloist's hand, but this is a bit much. ...Oh, the performance is good too. (Handel: "Crude furie degli orridi abissi" from Serse; Joyce DiDonato, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Ensemble Matheus)
So we recently have had a inner world expansion as well as meeting several new alters most of the alters work awesome with the rest of the system and have even made in system friends but there's this one who is a bit rude like he told one of our female Alters who's a sorta warrior pirate to "be quiet and let him handel this " as well as teasing one our alters with unique hair and much more .he's been very annoying to a bunch of alters if anyone knows what to do that's be awesome.thank you in advance.
I have some idea of what my political ideology is, but I would like to ask your opinion. Government and elections: I believe a republic or a constitutional monarchy is the best form of government. There should be a unicameral parliament elected by proportional representation multimember districts. The legal voting age should be 18. I do not believe money should be a part of politics and all candidates and parties should get government funding, with further capping the amount of private donations. I also believe in the separation of church and state Economy, taxes and social services: I believe in capitalism, the Nordic model and a welfare state, although it needs to be reformed to make it more sustainable. No-one should be forced to hire, and an employer should be able to refuse to hire an employee for any reason whatsoever. I support a low-medium, slightly progressive income tax (top rate around 30-40%). The corporate tax should be max 20%. There should also be no inheritance tax for example. Otherwise most taxes should be focused on harmful things like alcohol and tobacco. Along most necessary things, taxes should fund:
affordable healthcare (including drug price regulation)
pensions
minimal unemployment benefits (to encourage work)
free kindergarten and primary school
subsidized secondary and tertiary education
a few months of paid parental leave (parents should absolutely get to decide how to split it)
a little bit of research (I believe the free market does a pretty good job of handeling it)
a medium sized military
medium sized police force
border security (I'll come back to that later)
nonprofit national museums
national parks
politicians' salaries (which shouldn't be very high)
For infrastructure, rail lines, airlines, energy and water etc. I support a mix of public and private operation and funding. If you're wondering how to fund all of this with low taxes, I think Estonia does a very good job at this. They have a pretty much flat tax rate of 20%. I believe in free markets with minimal regulation, though internationally, I do support some tariffs and protectionism to encourage local products. I believe everyone should have the right to belong to a workers' union. Foreign policy: I believe in a pacifist take on foreign policy for independent and sovereign nation-states. Defensive wars should be fought on rare occasions and I am against foreign intervention (the USA in the Middle-East for example). I think open borders can be a good thing for similar or like-minded nations, but borders should be closed in times of crisis (Covid-19 for example). I support the EU for open borders and trade, and not much more. Though I think programs like free Interrail passes for young adults is a good thing. I also think the EU parliament should be abolished and replaced by what is pretty much the EU council. I am also not really fond of the Eurozone and would rather have national currencies for all countries. The UN should just be a platform for international cooperation, not much more. I generally also don't I do not support international climate agreements (or government action for that matter) since I think the threat of climate change is exaggerated. In terms of immigration, I support some of it. Student and temporary work visas are a good thing, but staying for a longer time requires commitment to learning the language, culture etc. Refugee amounts should be kept minimal. Social issues and misc.:
I am an extremely strong defender of free speech, and I think the American model for speech is the superior one
equality in front of the law
support gay marriage
there should be basic background checks for guns and there should also be a reason to own a gun
euthanasia should be allowed, but with strict requirements
gender reassignment surgery should be strictly banned for underaged people
gender change surgery should be banned for underaged people, otherwise I don't really care
drugs should be illegal
support GMOs (but definitely not on humans)
cultures are valuable and should be conserved
abortion: Legal in cases of rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother. Also always legal up to 2-3 months. I am strongly against sex selective abortion and abortion because of economic reasons.
neutral on prostitution
Feel free to ask any additional questions or clarifications :)
So i've been thinking about a legend, i don't now a name yet but i can explain his origin story and abilities. also about the relationships between him and the legends Origin Story He is a russian retired IMC Artillery Expert, his nickname under the I.M.C soldiers was Tsaarbomba. he was known as a person who loves explosions. he was the best in the IMC Artillery departement. but in a huge battle against another army he made a coördination mistake and took out many soldiers with his artillery fire. Bangalore was also on that battlefield (this is important later in the relationships part) and was heavily injured. after that he retired and took al blame for the mistake. but after a while he discoverd apex legends and tried to continue with his passion. Abilities passive "Passion Protection": Even tho he likes explosions, he knows the dangers of it. so he weres a thiccc suit that reduces grenade, arc star and termite damage by 50% and ignores all effects (no shelshok) and reduces Bangalores, Gibraltars and his own ultimate by 20% Tactical ability "the old fasion way": He is russian and thought that thermite grenades where weak because of the single line of fire, so he made and old known weapon in russia, the Molotov, it deals 4 damage overtime and if someone is standing in there, the damage increases by 2 every second. it also has a random spread between 5 to 7 meters. devestating if thrown in a small area. Ultimate"My best friend Boomer": He has made in his spare time his own artillery turret, he calls it Boomer (people over 30 will (i hope) love this). he deploys a usable mortar turret for his or other teams . every shot does 50 damage and has a spread of 9 meters with area damage being 30. depending on the distance the shot will take a minimum of 2 seconds before impact, after that, the further the distance, the longer it takes before impact. the mortar has an infinite reserve, the reload time is at least 7 seconds. if not damaged (like rampart) it will give back a bit of percentage to the charge up. Fortified perk: he is in my head a pretty thicc boy, because of his suit, he is nearly as big as Gibraltar. So i think this suit him Relationships Bloodhound: Bloodhound is kinda upset of his mistake, but he knows his guilt is huge, and respects that the most and forgives his mistake Lifeline: Lifeline is also upset but knows that not everyone can be saved Gibraltar: He is also upset at his mistake, but tries to cheer him up sometimes. Pathfinder: He is just pathfinder Wraith: She has looked at the different outcomes and it was actually one of the BEST (i also am flabber smacked by this even tho i made it up). Bangalore: She is the most hostile and angry at his mistake, if she could, she would kill him at any moment. Mirage: He thinks it isn't that bad since he didn't know them. (Mirage may be a psycopath) Caustic: He is like he is. A sociopath Octane: Octane is like a fan boy and wants to ride his mortar. Wattson: She is sad because of his mistake and tries to ignore him Crypto: He just stays in the shadows Revenant: He will never change Loba: She doesn't care Rampart: She is good friends with himm before and after the accident happened, he still asks about a modification to his mortar. So, this is my idea, if the develepors see this, they can adjust this as much as they want, but dont you dar remove the Molotov, that is the only ability cleu that he is a russian. thank you for reading and i'm 14 (yes, i'm a psycopath). I also made some interactions Own voicelines enemies: "Comrads, i have spotted an enemy" "Enemy here, Comrads" "Comrads, i see an enemy far away, bet i can get them with Boomer" "Comrads, they're reviving someone" Downed: "comrads, they got me" "im down comrads" "Help me, Comrads" "I'm Going here comrads, help me there" Fighting: "I shot them" "got them Comrads" "I'm getting hit, comrads" "I got one, comrads" "we got the whole squad, nice work Comrads" "get cover, grenade" "Arc star, watch out!" "Thermite incoming, not as powerfull as my molotov tho" Ability: "say hi to Boomer everyone" "eveyone say BOOM" "i think i hear a mortar being set up" "feel the fire BURN" "Feel the power of Russia!!" "MOLOTOV baby!!!" "the good ol' Molotov" Interactions with legends Bloodhound: "the alfather feels your guilt, forgive yourself" - "i can't, it was too big of a mistake" "your guilt is too big, it brings you pain" - "and rightfully so" "Forgive yourself for a mistake anyone could have done" - "not unless i had too much pride" "i made a mistake too that costed lives" - "the difference is the amount and the way how" lifeline: "life is not fair for some people" - "if i didn't exist, they wouldn't have died at all" "Sometimes things happen" - "you call killing half an army a thing that can happen?" "Not everyone can be saved" - "i learned that the hardest way" Gibraltar: "come on brotha, it wasn't your fault" - "then who was handeling the artillery?" "Brotha, keep the spirits up for now at least" - "i can try" "sometimes a sacrifise is a good thing" - "that wasn't a sacrifise, not even close" Wraith: "you did the right thing" - "what? killing thousands of soldiers" "there were no better outcomes, you would have made that mistake either way" - "Thanks wraith, i really feel better now" "any other outcome would have been worse" - "and how do you know that? with your special powers?" Bangalore: "Your mistake nearly killed me" - "and i have the biggest guilt for that and i'm sorry" "thanks to you we lost tons of people" - "a mistake by me that i know is the worst thing" "You are even worse then that simulacrum, jackass" - "at least it was accidental" Mirage: **"**Don't feel bad, at least you weren't atached to them" - "that really makes it better does it" "Hey what do you call an large accident in a war?" - "a lot of people dying?" "hey, i lost people to" - "My army lost people at lot" Octane: "hey, can i ride your mortar?" - "sorry, safetyregulations" "How far do you think i can fly with your mortar" - "far enough for you to be dead" "let me ride your mortar, pleeeease" - "i wish it wasn't deadly for that" Rampart: "don't even think about it" - "it would be better for Boomer to have an upgrade" "Im not letting you make an even bigger mistake" - "that stings Ramya" "sheila is at least a real name" - "mine is at least funny" "sheila is a better name for a kid" - "hey, take that back, you hurt Boomers feelings"
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