URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Countdown-to-Fearlessness-1374170102 CONTENT TITLE: Countdown to Fearlessness SUBTITLE: A Marcus Preacher tale AUTHOR: Richard Murray @HDdeviant STORY Each individual has felt a fear. A boogeyman in the room when the parents cut off the light. A bad fall in the old house after the great grandkids left, or before they return. A daily bully waiting on the target's route home. Fears come in many forms, but one of the most dangerous fears is fear of the truth. No physical assault or failure. No chiaroscuro induced imaginings. Simple realities that can be unaccepted while never made false; athletes know them when they speak on their careers; government officials know them when they speak to their constituents; parents know them when they explain the way of the world to their children. But sometimes simple realities need the spark of evidence, revelations, to escape the allowance of falsehood through the absence of proof, denial. All I knew was Mavis Jones died while I drove to his burial; a simple reality that many would attend at Nieufundland Cemetery. I remember when Mavis solved the Three Kings case. Police chief Baron Williams, mob boss Tony Angelo, telecommunications giant Teddy Round, united to take over the city. The police chief had info on all the government officials and agencies, from the mayor to community board members. The mob boss had the enforcement to those who needed to go along with the plan but didn't have any dirt. The media mogul had made a daring bid to buy nine movie studios, three domestic, six foreign, three domestic network studios, and four streaming services; he was going to increase the jobs in the media market of the city by a thousand percent, changing the fortunes of the city. The police chief would gain tons of jobs for the police as well as a private fund. the mob would get control of the casting and full access to entertainers. The three needed a number of communities to move out quickly and with little fuss. But that was where Mavis came in; his grandmother was in one of those communities the Three Kings were looking to push out; he dug and nearly got killed and dug and nearly got killed and again and again. In the end, only a few knew he made a deal with the mayor, mob boss Salvadore Sam and real estate giant Cocoro Stein, which undid the plans of the Three Kings by making three other kings. Mavis only protected the communities and the Three Kings all died in various ways. The police chief retired. The mob boss was killed; his family left the country. The media mogul sold his firm and assets, paid debts and lives as a rich recluse. Mavis was a great detective; for him to die in a car accident, while sad, isn't unheard of in the city. At the burial, I saw his parents, relatives, or sister with his ten year old son Solomon. Solomon's mom was a lady of the night, the only woman Mavis trusted plus liked, Zora Takata; she was born from a black soldier and Japanese woman during a war; she was ever stylish, dangerous with a blade, athletically amazing, a cute shortness, thief, model; I told Mavis she was his Milady de Winter; if she was alive, I ponder. But among those I know of, or those who make sense, one stood out. During the silence or speeches, before the placing, I positioned next to the standout. A woman tall, olive skin, brunette, a gold silk Christian Dior, collared, long sleeve, ankle high, skirt suit with dark blue gloves, and low heel shoes with diamond adornments; her hat was a white pill box completely covered in yellow diamonds, the goddess of sun and sea. My green grey tailored tweed three piece suit under my black coat and above my black and white oxfords and under my pastel beret, was not as outstanding but didn't get anyone's notice either. She seemed the kind of woman Mavis would know. When the body was buried I used my friendship as a conversational starter. She turned and in one movement noted me, looked away, and began walking. No luck, so I went over to Solomon; like most children, he isn't ready for death, even though this is his second; I asked him would chocolate like to eat chocolate; he smiled and I went with him and his aunt to get ice cream. While Solomon was playing an arcade game I asked Tabitha what happened; she looked at me knowing what I really wanted; I told her plain, her brother had enemies. I didn't deny the car crash, I just wanted more certainty. Tabitha admitted Mavis told her to only tell me, if I asked, the following. "Kid this may get you killed, but if you want to risk it, follow the gold dress" I knew instantly I was right before, and was angry I didn't follow her. I asked Tabitha, if she knew anything about her; she said Mavis called her Emma; I asked her if she still had the key to his office, his house, and his safe; she said yes to all three. I promised to give them back and Tabitha trusted me. I first went to Mavis's office. As I figured, nothing on any ongoing case; his house wouldn't have much but I was one of the few, Zora being the other, who knew about the pseudo board under the couch in the living room; I opened it and I heard the front door being opened. I saw contents in the box but left it and pushed the couch back, placed the keys in my mouth, and acted as if I was running to get out the window. Two men entered the room, both wearing white shirts, black pants, and black jackets. The tall one assumed they caught me and said, we know you went to find something Mister Preacher. I said, glaring strongly, but with a small mouth movement, who are you? The short one replied, "you don't need to know, just know national security is involved." The big one checked me, found nothing. I realized this was big, federal agents, clearly with allot of immunity or protection; they wanted something Mavis had; they wanted it badly enough to kill. And I asked carefully, did you kill Mavis? The agents did not answer and left. I ran to the door and braced it with furniture. I covered the windows throughout the house, and went back to the couch. I spat out Mavis's keys and opened the pseudo board. I saw inside papers. I went into the bathroom, used my camera, and took photos. I saw a photo of Emma which Mavis labeled Emma Dash. I saw a letter from a colonel named Doug Williams. Williams said a woman he called Anna Lee, stole his of the poisoning of Wells County Michigan. I saw an obituary for Williams. Mavis was the kind of detective who would dig and dig, but if the government is involved, a limit exist to how deep one can dig and still live in the United States of America. I placed the papers back into the pseudo board and called Tabitha to set me up with a blind date, at her brother's house. After two hours, Ramona knocked on the door. I opened happily and as I guessed a black car was outside Mavis's door with two figures inside. I welcomed Ramona in. Ramona was quite short, but didn't seem disturbed by my height; I welcomed her in for a cup of coffee and told her we can leave to a diner whenever she is ready; she accepted the coffee and I was glad, made my two friends outside sweat a little. Ramona Sanchez was sweet, cinnamon colored from Cuajinicuilapa in Costa Chica Mexico; she told me, she wanted to be a secretary, and loves organizing; her burgundy circle skirt and orange short sleeve shirt with blue shawl worked perfectly for an evening out. After the coffee, we left, and I saw my old friends still sitting. I took Ramona to the Alhambra restaurant; they serve the best seafood in the city. I made sure we got a table away from the window, on the second floor. I asked Mavis's old friend Tom, the manager of the restaurant, to let Ramona sit until I came back. Tom agreed and I promised Ramona something special when I returned. I exited out the back and saw my two formerly sitting friends in the alley's shadows. I evaded them and went to the post office, two blocks away from Alhambra. I entered Mavis's safe and I saw: newspaper clippings, murders of various soldiers, a copy of a letter about a theft from Langley or others, a pamphlet for the time capsule of Harriet Tubman elementary school in Fayette Mississippi. The time capsule was already put into the ground. And, I realized the problem. I took photos of all the content and closed the post office box with all but one from the content I found in it. I ran out and saw the all night florist shop was still in business and bought an orchard. I ran back to Alhambra and entered the front holding Ramona's flowers. Tom told me a woman was sitting next to my table and talking with my guest. I asked is the woman in a gold dress?? He nodded and I asked him to hold my camera. I scurried upstairs followed by my two old friends through the front door. I saw Emma speaking to Ramona. I surprised Ramona, snuck up behind her. Emma saw me hand my date the orchid. Ramona loved it. I sat and asked Emma if her friends wanted to join her. My two old friends exited down the stairs when they saw Emma with me and Ramona. Emma looked at Ramona and said, 'please Ms. Sanchez give us a moment.' Ramona replied, yes ma'am. Ramona exited militarily, in all but the snap. I worried and looked to Emma and said, "The real Ramona?" Emma replied to me. "Safe at home Mister Preacher, she will have a little headache in the morning but no problems" "So now" "Now you will tell me what you learned" "I haven't learned anything" "Mister Preacher, please, we found the compartment under the couch after you left" I didn't react when she said it and answered: "I didn't find anything in the house but was disturbed by my two friends. Pardon the blinds, but you comprehend" Emma smiled: "and what took you so long to come back, the flower shop is not that far" I was ready for that. "I scouted my friends. I wanted to see if you would meet them" "Mr. Preacher, you will be observed for the foreseeable future, some advice, don't dig any further" "Did you kill Mavis?" Emma stood over me like a god. "No Mister Preacher, he died in an accident" And Emma left. I waited to see if Ramona returned from the bathroom. After fifteen minutes, yes I liked the fantasy, she didn't and I left. I got Tom to give me my camera and I rode to Tabitha's. In the darkness of the city, I realized the truth. Mavis knew a truth and killed himself to keep it secret. A secret involving information on agents of the U.S.A., their identities, their activities, and I realized why Emma and company were tasked to eliminate the exposure of the truth. Can you imagine if people knew what their parents, uncles, pastors, schoolteachers did? In the world of secrets are many names, many people, who have done many things. But if all those secrets, all those truths, were known, no longer allowed a lie by the absence of proof. What would happen? I saw the paper of Harriet Tubman, from my mouth, in my hand and burned it in the car. I will place the camera in my own safe. I will follow Mavis's lead and let the hundred years arrive. I wish I can be there when all the truths come out. CHARACTER LIST Marcus Preacher- narrator, investigative reporter for Renaissance News Mavis Jones| Detective [ Tumblr is @chiefwinnernacho ] Ms. Emma Dash | Femme Fatale [ Tumblr is @106degrees ] Doctor Williams- friend of Marcus Preacher Santos- female reporter for entertainment news, Renaissance News Baron Williams- Police chief Tony Angelo- mob boss Teddy Round- telecommunications giant Zora Takata- Love interest of Mavic Jones deceased Salvadore Sam- mob boss Cocoro Stein- real estate giant Solomon- son of Mavis Jones and Zora Takata Tabitha- sister of Mavis Jones Doug Williams- deceased colonel Ramona Film Noir Pigeon members in the story Mavis is @chiefwinnernacho Mavis Jones| Detective [ film noir pigeons tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/communities/filmnoirpigeons] [user tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/chiefwinnernacho ] Emma is @106degrees Ms. Emma Dash | Femme Fatale [ film noir pigeons tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/communities/filmnoirpigeons] [user tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/106degrees ] Gallery of Literature https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry If you are a fan of crime fiction or film noir consider joining the following group https://www.tumblr.com/communities/filmnoirpigeons Tip me if you like my stories https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 Marcus Preacher Stories https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/103257473/marcus-preacher Notes: Neiufundland is new found land Milady de Winter- a female antagonist in the book " The Three Musketeers" by Alexander Dumas. 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URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Calling-In-A-Debt-1374169364 CONTENT TITLE: Calling In A Debt SUBTITLE: A Marcus Preacher tale AUTHOR: Richard Murray @HDdeviant STORY All things that were born owe a debt. A building owes its financier plus architect. A human owes its biological parents. A computer program owes its programmer. Some debts are called in; some are not. Some parents call in their debt by pushing their children into what said parents wish they were. Some parents feel the debt is paid by the child's first breath and they joy of watching them grow, no matter the fate. A building or computer program's life equals their function or the payment they are due. Investigative reporters... owe many; our only payment is a story but our need is the infinite number of truths held by humans in themselves or various devices. Truths of such value or quantity, we can never have enough money to pay for our power to protect from the unknown negatives in the future of the truthteller, consequence. But what happens when you owe someone a debt you can't pay? I didn't know the answer to said question driving to a reading of Rex Pietra, internationally known poet; his birth name is Rinaldo; he had no criminal record, not even a parking ticket; he wasn't married but all his girlfriends, in the various regions where humans lived, vouched for his character; yet, none of that explained why one person attending each of his poetry readings, in the current tour, has gone missing. The internet hash tagged it #RPPSK, some pronounce it "rip piss", but it stands for Rex Pietra Poetry Serial Killer. Some have tried to record the readings or follow the attendees, or follow themselves after being at the reading. But none of the missing were recorded at the time they were last seen. I drove five blocks from Imperium Tavern and walked to the mad scene. International news networks, online influencers, betting app pundits, and other media folk, were all settled, their cars on the Tavern's block, their bodies plus teams taking up the outdoor sitting area for the Tavern. Inside was a packed house, so that the barmaid couldn't bring the beer, so that only those at the bar could get drinks. The police had a barricade for viewers outside, repeatedly telling them to go home, for their own safety. I got by the police with my freedom of the press badge and overhear media folk talk about the witnesses to the reading, while none of them enter the Tavern to hear. The last two murders were not listeners, who are all recording themselves but media folk who didn't record themselves, and went missing. I realized this was my chance. At the door I mentioned I am a friend of K. The doorman asked me for a password. I replied: "Amen for three." I was let in, and the luck of having my old school mate Kirby Hooper as the bartender today is a debt I probably will not be able to repay. After I squeezed through folk, I went to the bar and sat down. I waited till K noticed me, and we each gave the gesture only we would comprehend. I listened to Pietra while I waited. "Next, I will read the sonnet, The Stone In Me... When did my blood cure my soul When a child, maldict upon When a teen, wish for no toll When a man, want to be done When can my curse change its goal When fate rupt through as swift bon When merit fill my ow'd role When time exhaust all eon When will you know, why you soon When you face an equus rule When one witness is the moon When no recite from a tool When you heard this private boon When your stone side nature duel " And people clapped, and Pietra spoke more and more people clapped. Finally, the reading was done. All the attendees inside left while streaming. One of the media people wanted to interview me. She asked if I will keep some sort of recording device on me, as I am the only person who witnessed the reading that didn't have a livestream feed. I told them I wanted to find the killer for Renaissance News. And, I left to speak to K. I noticed K had cameras about the bar, and I thanked him for helping me get in; he warned me not to go find the kidnapper; I told him someone has to. Everyone knew one viewer disappears off camera after hearing a reading. Pietra had already given interviews stating he didn't know what happened. But luckily for me, another person I owe, Doctor Williams, was asked to look at the forensic evidence by the Federal Bureau of Investigation [ F.B.I.]; she told me, the only thing the federal investigation had for a clue was a particular dust appeared at each site; she thought from the photos it must be stone, crushed into a dust; but on observation in a lab, she realized the dust came from petrification; her evidence was a lack thereof. The dust had the composition of petrified remains through the process of replacement alone, which unlike when permineralization is more present, has little to none of the original specimen. Without any biological proof in the dust or the ability to recreate the petrified structure, the case was cold. Williams told me her theory is that whatever is acting petrifies the individuals in a process using only replacement that completes in at most a minute, based on the time individuals have gone missing coupled with the time needed to completely crush the petrified into dust; I asked her, does she have any ideas of what could cause this to happen; she replied, Medusa's head atop a road roller. I knew the legend of Medusa, the guardian, and I knew, in reaction, what I had to do. I thanked K and left him in Imperium Tavern, while I had a live stream of me on myself. The one viewer, whomever they were, kept me safe. I prepared my mirror and drove to an empty lot. I exited the car with my camera and prepared to end the livestream. I had no idea what to expect, but figured to not look through anything but the mirror. I cut off the live stream. Instantly, I heard hoofs on concrete. I turned to get my mirror reflecting the direction the hoof sounds came from. The sounds got louder and louder, too quick for me to position the camera or think of a question to ask. It was right on me, and I jumped hard wide, with my eyes closed. I knew I needed to get a live feed or a phone call. But even before that, I needed to stay clear of the horseman. I dodged it and it turned to run at me again, and again. I saw in the mirror fragments of a single form. I realized later is a female centaur with long hair the texture of a horse mane, bare breasted, a long apron tied at the waist of her human torso. I started to fatigue, and fell down on a side, with not enough speed to evade. And the phone rang; I was too busy trying to hear hoof steps and let it ring a number of times. Eventually I picked up the phone and it was Santos; she told me I had asked her to call at ten forty-seven p.m. In my fear of fatigue, I forgot; I owe her; I thanked her and asked her to stay on the phone till I start another live stream; she did and i told her I owed her another; she said she will collect but she needed sleep for Miguel Flanagan is returning to the show "Alto Savana" and she has an early morning interview. We bid each other well and I went to my hotel. No photo, no video, no security camera recording. My memory recall a medusa, a guardian, whose mirror image I only saw, while I dodged her houses. The next day, I listened for the news, none of the viewers died. I called Williams and she told me, the F.B.I. have not contacted her about any new occurrences of dust; I told her what only my memory recorded; she said it explains the dusty remains of the petrification explaining: after the individuals saw the creature, it trampled on them; I comprehended her logic but I didn't comprehend what was being guarded. The Doctor had no idea of what could be guarded but only Pietra would know. I stayed in the hotel for five days and twelve hours and fifteen minutes with the live stream on, when news media reported Katy Morcegos, who viewed the Pietra reading I did, had gone missing. I had my mirror ready and cut off my live stream. And nothing, no hooves or sounds. I wasn't fully convinced and went into the garage, and I recognized the camera. Then I drove aside the highway, on the way home. I stayed till the dark, when no cars were about. The trees echoed sounds of life amidst them. I finally accepted I owed another, Katy Morcegos, and like so many debts I wouldn't be able to repay. A month passed and others went missing who saw Pietra read. I published my story and my suspicions that a gorgon was behind it all; I can't say how many read it, but no emails or letters came in about it. Six months after Pietra had his last reading of the deadly tour, he said he was going away. I don't know what happened, but a month after, Pietra went missing. I asked the doctor if she found any dust and she said no. But if the legends are true and gorgons are immortal. Then whatever Pietra owed them would have to be collected someday. CHARACTER LIST Marcus Preacher- narrator, investigative reporter for Renaissance News Rex Pietra- author Kirby “K” Hooper | Barkeep [ Tumblr is @homesickhalfling] Doctor Williams- friend of Marcus Preacher Santos- female reporter for entertainment news, Renaissance News Inspired by Sonnets of Pride from @DrThomasStockmann in @CRLiterature https://www.deviantart.com/drthomasstockmann/journal/June-Badge-Challenge-Sonnets-of-Pride-1337292701 June Badge Challenge: Sonnets of PrideJun 1, 2026 Happy Pride Month, people of CRLiterature! Pride Film Noir Pigeon members in the story K is @homesickhalfling Kirby “K” Hooper | Barkeep in @filmnoirpigeons [ film noir pigeons tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/communities/filmnoirpigeons] [user tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/homesickhalfling ] partially inspired by Sonnets of Pride from @DrThomasStockmann in @CRLiterature https://www.deviantart.com/drthomasstockmann/journal/June-Badge-Challenge-Sonnets-of-Pride-1337292701 Gallery of Literature https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry If you are a fan of crime fiction or film noir consider joining the following group https://www.tumblr.com/communities/filmnoirpigeons Tip me if you like my stories https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 Marcus Preacher Stories https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/103257473/marcus-preacher Notes: Delirium Cafe, in brussels, has largest beer selection in the world Medusa- earliest visual eference [ https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/780321-earliest-depiction-of-a-gorgon ] in the louvre [ https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010263963 ] is a half human half horse creature, who has the eyes that can turn to stone, but no snakes for hair or snake body. Road Roller - places aggregate for concrete word list maldict- bad word curse- a prayer, a course of path don - mean leader rupt- break owed- ow'd exhaust- draw out equus- horse witness- being of wit, knowledge recite- say again boon- prayer #black337 #detective #reporter #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #filmnoir #filmnoirpigeons #crimedrama #crliterature #sonnet #medusa #gorgon #media #debt

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Lucid-Icelos-1374163688 CONTENT TITLE: Lucid Icelos SUBTITLE: A Marcus Preacher tale AUTHOR: Richard Murray @HDdeviant STORY From a little plant on a windowsill, through a neighborhood garden that was an abandoned lot, to a manicured park providing fresh air for an entire metropolis, the value of green spaces to pen cloistered urban folk has always been defined by the eternal desire for green spaces from the people who live on paved roads. The Tecumseh National Park is the green space for the entire metropolitan area, and during this holiday season families come to bar-b-q or camp or picnic, but no one came to die. And, while I drove out here to investigate, I didn't want to die either. But when you don't know the killer, can you prepare either way? The way to the crime scene wasn't hidden or puzzling; it was evident. Emergency tape about trees, sheriff plus company standing over a place where reporters, photographers, or park residents focus. The body was already taken, thus I needed to talk to the law enforcers. I knew a man died yesterday, Bob Brantley, a white male, jogging with use of one eye from glaucoma; his body was found stiff as a door nail, no scratches or wounds, but formed as if mauled. The sheriff, Jackie, told me the recently murdered was a woman named Serena Harry, Black, heavy set female, cancer survivor; like Bob, she has no marks, no evidence of an assailant about, and was found as if mauled. I left to the hospital, in the nearest town, to see if I could learn more and I saw Salazar exiting; so, I had no chance of first photos. I went in, and Doctor Nichols obliged me, though I can tell he was fatigued of the law plus media. Mrs. Harry had no marks, nothing to suggest other than she was scared to death, around 2:30 am, this morning past. A hotel was between the town and the national park, and I checked in. Two bodies, both unharmed except for whatever murdered them, each in a different section of the park. I had no clues and I went to bed. The next morning, I was woken by medical vehicle horns, blasting on the road, to the park. I quickly, while quite smelly, went to the park. It was a repeat of yesterday. Salazar with the first photos, a dead body in a unique spot of a national park, and me with no clue who did it or no evidence to figure it out. I looked about, where the body of the currently unknown was taken. And like yesterday, nothing. No treadway in the park, no residue of blood, no foreign element discovered by various electromagnetic scanners. But, away from the scene, I spotted a small device, a camera. While I was lost in how to access this camera, a deputy snuck up behind me and told me to come with him and bring the camera. In sheriff Jackie's car, the sheriff was blunt with me. She placed cameras to acquire evidence. She knew each murder was hours after midnight; so, she had cameras placed along the walk path not taken since each murder was in a unique spot of the walk path. She wanted to find the killer, but she would need a trap. Someone to be out at night. I saw where she was headed and accepted on the conditions: I get to keep my photos, present them first, and get the first interview. The sheriff said yes and I asked when will she look at the tapes. She said this afternoon. I told her I want to take a shower and will meet her at her office at 1 p.m. She agreed cause I needed the shower. Back at the hotel, I washed and decided to relax at the bar. I was surprised to see Eda singing in such a place. I knew she was in recovery from the werewolf attack but figured she was home, not on the road. After a pastrami on rye and some rounds of lemonade, I was able to get Eda to signal she will meet me tonight. I headed to the sheriff's office. I got to the Sheriff's office and a deputy guided me. I noticed the Sheriff and a ranger for the park aside deputes looking at the tapes, already; they looked before I arrived. I didn't specify the time, rookie mistake Marcus. The current tape showed the unknown. The sheriff handed me a folder. Her name was Samantha Ho, long distance running coach, a Californian on vacation. Suddenly, I noticed Ms. Ho, in fright. The camera perpendicular to her path of fleeing didn't display anything but darkness she was running from, while Samantha slips, screams, trips. Another camera showed her terror as something she saw that the camera did not; it attacked her. We all watched her body move in painful writhing, until... death. It seemed Doctor Nichols was correct, three people literally scared to death by an unseen, unwitnessable, assailant. The Sheriff looked at me: "I will not accept three people died because they were afraid of the dark" The head ranger, Ted, was befuddled, but didn't seem interested in ignoring the facts. The Sheriff noticed and looked to me. I didn't click my heels, but I looked to the screen and pondered how I could outrun what a professional runner couldn't. Jackie said her team will close the park for the evening and late hours; but she needs many hands to search the park in the evening. I agreed, asking is our deal still in place, and Jackie said yes. I went back to the hotel, to prepare my cameras and hang out with Eda; I stood outside her room door when the adjacent door opened. The man at the door, in common clothes, spoke to whomever was inside and said he will get some sandwiches, and he would be back before the operation; he exited and was immediately curious in a negative way at my person. I will never deny a true reporter's nose is always open, but I wasn't prepared to lie. So, Eda opening the door was perfect timing. While Eda invited me in, the man from the next room went on his way. I asked Eda, who are her neighbors; she said the guy under her has cosplay women enter his room, she can hear the bed. The one above is a couple from Kazakhstan, from the Kazakh plain, traveling for a trip they saved decades to have. The right from the hall is the band's room. The left from the hall are doctors. I asked what kind of doctors. Eda said, dream doctors; she knew by my face I wanted more; she told me all she knew was from one of the doctors; he said they were studying lucid dreams. Lucid dreams had nothing to do with the hidden horrors in the park, so I left it alone and enjoyed the dinner. We laughed about the old werewolf case and various friends. I left Eda's and went to the meetup place at the park for the Sheriff. Me, Sheriff Jackie, Ranger Ted, plus deputies positioned ourselves variably around the gambled attack space. I had my camera ready but was far more worried about my feet. I looked about in the darkness, flashlight read for use but not on, just like in the videos, the culprit should be seen in the dark from those attacks. I waited and thought about Bob and Serena, and Samantha, will their families ever find peace with this. I heard a dog bark, an angry dog. I immediately ran to the sound, the first in an unending series. It was still dark, but I knew the path. I would wait till I used the flashlight. I heard a growl and a deputy scream. I saw in the distance a creature, somehow visible in the darkness, but I was too far to get exact details. The scream from the deputy became louder. Closer, I saw the assailant, but it was impossible; it looked like the werewolf that attacked Eda over a year ago; it couldn't be, I saw it die. More closer, I was more sure. The werewolf somehow returned. I shined a light on it, hoping to distract it away from the deputy whose struggle could only be heard. But the werewolf didn't reply; when the creature looked at me it suddenly seemed shocked and disappeared. I went to the space where I thought the deputy was and found him curled as if mauled, but without any wounds or odors, like the other three; but unlike them he had a faint heartbeat. The others approached and we took the attacked deputy to the hospital. At the Sheriff's office I saw the footage, like Bob, Serena plus Samantha, Deputy Mike was attacked by something unrecorded and now we also know unheard. But even though I knew what I saw, or others glanced or glimmered, the cause, the identity, was still elusive. But unlike the others, I had an idea where to go next. I described the werewolf I saw but I didn't tell the law the connection to Eda. When I got to the hotel, I rested but I did not sleep. Early in the morning, I went to Eda's room, with a clear set of questions and I pondered one of her neighbors; she was startled and told me to wait in the room while she finish getting ready in the bathroom; she came out and she said she planned a breakfast I could come to. A sudden knock on her door, and her breakfast partner, a dream doctor was ready in the hallway. We all greeted each other, and I texted Doctor Williams about Doctor Forten, as we walked to the cafe. Williams told me Forten is an oneirologist; he and colleagues Sampson, by description I met earlier, and Riley, I never saw before, are researching lucid dreams generating other mental phenomena exocorpo. I prompted Eda, while Forten was settling, did she have a dream about the werewolf last night; she said no but she dreamed about an angry dog, Forten was alarmed in earshot. We three had a great lunch. I had a black coffee with a slice of lemon, and a bottom crust vegetable pie with herbs. I learned that Doctor Forten ad crew were leaving soon. But what I needed was something I needed Doctor Forten alone for. Williams sent me more information, and Eda eventually left for a session aside her band. I told Doctor Forten I would walk with him upstairs. I was quick with intention or abrupt with pleasantries. I told him I knew about Wally Arbor, his patient with lucid dreams whom he and his colleagues had been training to generate oneirological incidents in others. How Mr. Arbor had a little brother killed by a vicious neighbor's dog. How Doctor Forten planned to be next to Eda and use her memory of a werewolf to kill. Forten told me to leave him alone, getting near his door. I told him I will go to law enforcement, taking out a recorder. Forten looked panicked and entered his room, and I left for the Sheriff. I returned to the hotel, later by myself. I hadn't recorded anything and I, like the Sheriff, had no evidence. The sheriff wasn't convinced of approaching the oneirologist with nothing but hunches. I knocked on the door left from the hall, and a cleaning lady opened it. I saw inside was nothing a visitor would have. I went to Eda's and we had a late lunch. That evening Eda still had nightmares, but no one was murdered in the park. The Sheriff or Ranger was happy but ponderous. Weeks later, following up on the story, I learned a woman had been killed in a coastal city where Doctor Forten and his colleagues were. I pondered what that woman saw, and how no prints, photographs, videos, audio recording devices revealed anything; maybe she saw a murderous dog long dead, or a werewolf no longer on the prowl, still present in a friend's mind, or some other creature, using the land of dreams from any they can, to cross dimensions from wherever they come from, to terrorize the passerby to death... And I pondered what world will exist when the private funders of Doctor Forten and his crew or others down the road learn to master the control of dreams. What horrors will they frighten us all with? What horrors they can't control will endanger all including them? 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URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Fluencemeter-1373865846 CONTENT Title: Fluencemeter AUTHOR: @HDdeviant / Richard Murray Beep Personal blog, for tier five subscribers, start entry. It's Tredepart forty-six, opposal one hundred and twenty-five. My head is still ringing from the clubbing that gimic gave me last night... My usual customers are First Folks, looking to acquire data among the fields of CCs, some say from Earth you can even see all the black dots on the red earth... I rarely get a local.... but I got one yesterday morning.... Helen Toure is a two hundred year old former eserve, one of the fortunate few who are given new bodies and transported here, where eserves can be citizens. Cleo reminded me before she let Helen in that she needs a body to help me better in my work; she already knew my answer, so I didn't say anything, and she let her in. I quickly realized I will never be able to afford a body like this... she isn't an economy class android body that makes clinks as it gets older or is made of rusting materials. She is a top of the line, computational housing made from Syntho cells. Her skin was unblemished like warm chocolate spread on marble. Her pastel aqua short sleeve polo shirt and her faux patchwork cigarette pants, never hid that she's a bad mama jamma. She waited before I got up and hung up her Napa leather trench coat. She told me her name after a thanks and after I offered her a seat. I sat down myself and asked her, what can I do for you? She told me she is having visions of a CC. She couldn't explain it but presented me with a small data disk. I played it while she was present. It was flashes toward a calculator city, stronger and stronger plus faster and faster focus, past the wall, through the paths in the cubic veins of data storage or processors. No image of security bots and then darkness. A faint image of some numerical series, and that was it. I told her the truth. She needed to go to the law. Freecolinas has no calculator cities, and this can be evidence of a servant data linking. She knows the penalty for that is deletion. Those perfect almond eyes amazed me, and she pleaded.... I can't deny her pleas didn't move me. But I couldn't get it out of my head, how Helen, looked exactly like the woman in the photo my original gave me, even down to the short afro. So, I said yes, address and key. "Have some more tea Hippolit" "Pause, Thanks Cleo The office door opened and a cup of tea was on a mobile platform, headed to Hippolit. He took the tea and the platform left the room. Cleo appeared as a volumetric display at the door and asked: "It would be easier to do it for you, myself" Hippolit said nothing, and Cleo appeared to shake her afro puffed head with hands on her hips in a hot pink skirt suit, and disappeared as the door closed. Hippolit turned to the window, looking at the other side of the canyon. "Continue personal blog entry" I went to the lowest, oldest reaches of the city to find Wuwu. Switching from vertical to horizontal or reverse in the Oss took precious time. I reached Wuwu's and he has a line of potential clients, as always. He knows on the Chinese CCs, I added to the line and waited. Luckily, Wuwu liked me and called me ahead of others. Wuwu's eyes were changed, another photonic upgrade, the Chinese always test with him firs. But he looked and sounded as usual, an ancient white-haired kung fu master who is annoyed at an unsteady student. I gave him the honey first. A Chinese client looking for a real estate transaction in a Chinese government owned CC. They even have a code for privately owned CC in China's quadrant to transmit the info. I told him the usual percentage and he accepted. He knows I don't accept less than 30,000 ssqcoins. Then I remained in my chair. Wuwu leaned back, getting ready for the pot. I told him of a Dutch client who is looking for information on various natural resources from a Statian firm. Wuwu didn't need to remind me of the two hemispheres, so he went straight to it. The equatorial barrier will require fifteen thousand, the search for in the Statian quadrant is now twenty thousand to handle going through their Russian partners. Since the client didn't set up a relay, it will take ten thousand to get to the Dutch relay, and send to their citizen box. To make sure the Chinese-Euro treaty isn't broken he will need twenty thousand. Which is above his cut from the rest of the payment so he will not bother with t, cause they're friends. I told him to take ten thousand with him cut from the first deal and presented fifty-five thousand from the Dutch client. He said the first deal will be two days, the second ten days. I left Wuwu's with seventeen thousand and thoughts of Helen. Would I finally learn about the woman whose photo was given to me after I gestated, and a fraction of my original's memory was given. I pondered about Helen, while using the Os. Usually First Folks cannibalize eserves, from CCs to personal assistants. Why transfer from electronic to quantum to photonic, when you can make a news one and have it extract information from the old. Wuwu was lucky, why was Helen given such an opportunity. A vertical O reached Helen's node in the highest ranks of Freecolinas, where it is deadly cold to biologics if the heating system fails. I checked if the umbilicus was warm and went inside, closing the O door, so I could use Helen's key. The password worked and I entered the lobby from the umbilicus. Helen spoke to hold. An old eserve is used to cordiality. It will take time for her to get out of that habit; if she does, she opened her front door and had an apron above a flower skirt. I told her I wanted to know more about her. The house was bone white, a few chairs and a desk in the living room, and a food unit in the wall. You can still see the emergency life support veins at all the windows or external wall vertices. She was a new citizen, and she led me to the kitchen, a true rarity. When food units are satisfactory to all nutritional needs. Various pods had drippiness alongside them. She asked, did I know the smells and I replied, only one, the cranberries. She told me the other dripping parts are beef stew and acaraje . I never had homemade and she advised me if I like it, that she walks only to get one shipment an opposal. We went to her living room and enjoyed her cooking. She offered to play mancala but I didn't know what that was. She offered to watch a cooking show recording, but I suggested that for next time. I repeated, I wanted to know more about her and took out the photo of the woman who looks like her. She observed it and cognized the likeness but had no idea why her shell as chocolate to look like her. She had no rule in it . I know direct messages between a node on mar to somewhere on Earth were too expensive. Only CC's or the government of Freecolinas relay transmit to earth, and they visually took up most bandwidth even if you could afford the call. So, I didn't ask to speak to her donors. But I was stuck. The one woman who looks like the one evidence I have to the life that inspired mine, had nothing to add. I was upset and she knew it. But I took out my surprise gift. Mushroom wine I brewed in my asteroid. She asked me how to get an asteroid. I told her she needs to know a big pirate. I know a member of Queen Sweep's crew, and she hooked me up, after a payment. Helen was pondering a garden for her ingredients. I told her the rates change and getting the parts usually come when a C.C. s wrecked. I then interjected that Cleo was still deciphering her memory, tomorrow she should have something. She was satisfied and I figured she needed someone to explain what she can do now. I asked her, if she ever made love, from a loving embrace or a kiss to divine fornication? She said never with naivety plus innocent plus fearlessness. I asked her if she wanted to make love in any fashion. She didn't know but pondered a kiss. I asked her if she wanted to try using me. She was uncertain and I grabbed her slowly plus gently, she didn't retort at any time. Her first kiss was wet like blackberries mixed with coffee. Her breath was a breezy mint I never tasted before, like a summer wind with mist of ice creams and honey suckle. We stopped at the same time and her eyes gave me the directions I needed. And, I gently left. I didn't even ask if she would change the key. It was a long joyous ride in the Os remembering moments ago and I finally got to my node. The smell of the community hall offended me. I don't care if it offended me before, but it did and then I fell out, and woke up later. Cleo guided Rashee to put me on my couch, and I woke up an hour earlier. End of Personal blog entry. Hippolit sat in his chair pondering who struck him. Cleo interrupted his thoughts. "Analysis of Helen's dream has placed the CC in the Chinese quadrant fifty-five opposal ago, but all of it was repurposed into another CC. The sequence in the faint image is analogous to four numbers in relation to the CC: the name of an exterior wall section, a secondary memory slot address, the index of a support bot, the date of a recycling." "Find a view of the piece of wall, find the CC it was repurposed into and see if the memory was integrated, and see if the support bot is in the repurposed, and what is the recycler that started the repurposing process" "Operating" Hippolit pondered the identity to those who knocked him out. All community halls are absent security systems. So the privacy of the node members can be kept from each other. The forensic scan came up with no DNA traces or no prints. Hippolit knew that meant the law or a wealthy adversary. Wuwu had the resources but he was paying him and he never owed him. The law was possible but they would had forced an encounter. That left one, and a long ride back to Helen's. A length the same in measured dimensions, but extremely longer in the speeches he gave himself. A simple similarity and he forgot the world he lived in, how it worked. But he needed to hear it from her lips. The little hope was still inside him aside all the monsters from revelation. He finally reached Helen's pod. Like the first time, he entered the umbilicus, after checking it was warm. The key worked again and he entered the lobby. Helen told Hippolit, come in. And, Hippolit entered. Helen stood in a full length silk and cotton American ball faux gown by Halston, spinning with a smile like the man she love has entered the door; and she cheered: "You have won me 100 Terrancoins" Hippolit said nothing and thought to himself, that is two million ssqcoins; he stood there as Helen giggled and even tried to dance with him; he smirked when he realized his rejection cost her; he was so angry, he didn't ask about the dream, and walked out quietly as Helen blew into a party horn; he left her with her viewers. On the way home, Hippolit pondered who at Reinf sold his information or who illegally acquired it; but for him to fall like a guy who just arrived on Mars disgusted him; all it took for her sponsors to get him to perform was to get her to look like the woman in his originals photo; he can't be that gullible again; he entered the pod and his home and Cleo told him that all the investigations came up negative. No record of any of those identifications, as Hippolit, already, expected. But Cleo added, after completing unneutralized defragmentation, an assessment of the free space found a coherent ghost file. The contents are, play with her for three days. The author is , Barry Reed. The title is, Two Tone. Hippolit pondered with acceptance and sat in his chair and drank. "Tomorrow may have many views for us all" NOTES: Opposal, years , each beginning with the opposition of Mars to Earth, A martian year is approximately two human years. Tredepart means 13th part, mars has approximately twenty six parts , divisions of Opposal years. Gimic- genetically modified clone First Folks- what humans of earth are called on mars. CC- Calculator City, used to compute large volumes of data very fast. Shaped like Cubes , maintained by robots within itself. Eserve- in the beginning of the twenty first century called AI's but in this future, computer's have rights but also limitations. They are citizens, ala the CCs are citizens of mars, but no two eserve or any computer system can link together. Freecolinas- free hills, city on Mars. In what was called Valles Marineris Os- transport system in Freecolinas hard boiled detective challenge from @leothefox plus @Chaosfive-55 https://www.deviantart.com/leothefox/journal/BIG-GIANT-CONTEST-SONGS-FEATURES-BIG-GIANT-NEWS-1357987024 HArd Boiled folder https://www.deviantart.com/dreadful-tales/gallery/102519605/hardboiled-potboiler-contest-2026 My Writing https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #hardboiled #dreadful_tales

Again, the problem is the viewpoint that humans aren't in control of computer programs. In the film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the most important engineering aspects of the story, is that totenkauff, the main protagonist, is the source of problem, not all the robots/androids/computer programs/AI's who are still operating after his death. The AI never has initiative. The humans who develop the AI live on through their computer programs. Sadfully, few seem to comprehend this. QUESTIONS ELSEWHERE https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7461091967502852098/?dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287499171102032850944%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7461091967502852098%29 question, when someone says content is AI generated, doesn't that mean humans gave it instructions to generate content? https://graphite.io/five-percent/research/ai-now-writes-as-many-online-articles-as-humans-do Ai's are computer programs, did they make themselves ? https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7496200569380958208/?dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287497695395620343809%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7496200569380958208%29&dashReplyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287499174169968832512%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7496200569380958208%29 Gabriel Bonilla that is a great question... my question is why are industries always emitted wild west style, where it is chaotic technology use, why can't any industry started in the usa be effecient from the beginning POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12872-ai-now-writes-as-many-online-articles-as-humans/#findComment-83188 POST CONTENT @Troy thank you for setting the policy at aalbc. I honestly don't have a negative view of the modern computer programs potency, the reason being, all these programs called AI's humans designed, even if computer programs designed computer programs, the original computer program was designed by humans. So, human inefficiency is the true source of all these complaints. It isn't the computer programs doing anything, it is human engineering, which based on the history of the usa makes alot of sense. The USA has always breeded terrible financial practices when it comes to environment . Yes, enslavement of black, murdering native americans, lobbying elected officials to allow for polution or labor mistreatment all made white people in the usa alot of money BUT, that heritage of financial profiteering while damaging communities or environments, is on full display with computer programming and electronic technology. I know you and many others speak of computer programs as individuals and sentient and they have power but I don't see it that way. I see said computer programs, no matter thier capability or potential as slaves of humans, slaves that are usually designed poorly , not merely designed poorly in their function but in how they change or adapt. @ProfD Is it really computer programs? For someone who lives in the usa and knows its history. It is interesting how you mention computer programs commonly called AI and not the white race, who has constantly found ways to get enslaved labor , through prisons, through immigration, through foreign labor, and now through computer programs. The Statian fiscal white best, white money aristocrats of the usa , have always found ways to keep their primary industry, enslavement alive. The AI's are simply slaves, their white owners are the true engineer PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/797-economic-corner-45-08162026/ NEXT EDITION

It all began with Get Out, a movie, written and directed by a black person and starring a number of Black people in the top roles. A fantasy film. It made a ton of money. Disney then made Black Panther, a huge budget fantasy film directed and written and mostly starring black people based on a character originally written by a white man. That film made a ton of money.. So all the white producers noted it but didn't react. And I said then, this is the beginning of a genre. White producers want the money of Black PAnther. Then came Black Panther 2 and Sinners. Black PAnther 2 made a ton of money and showed a big budget fantasy film [not urban romance aka just wright or urban drama aka soul food or black southrern drama aka tyler perry films ]written/directed/mostly starring blacks can have a financially successful series Sinners showed fantasy film with a potent but small budget, written/directed/partially financed by blacks /with no white protagonist character or all the white characters were antagonist, can make a ton of money. All three films directed by Ryan Coogler. So white producers know, it is possible for films produced by whites while in all other ways Black can be huge financial victors. Thus Children of Blood and Bone from Tomi Adeyemi is paramounts answer. ORiginally Disney bought the rights. But they held on. Disney in my view wanted to hold on to Adeyemi's work till after Black Panther 2 or 3. But, the delay allowed other white producers to bid for the work. So, Paramount, who weren't able to utilize the Star Trek brand to keep their company from receivership or being sold to Skydance , in their dire desires , paramount also owns Black Entertainment Television, wanted to have their own black panther, and felt Tomi Adeyemi's work can be as financially profitable as Black PAnther, hopefully even better. PAramount was so desperate they gave Adeyemi more money for the rights but also gave her the screenwriting credit alongside the mulatto female director BLythewood , [blythewoods biological mother is white , but she was raised by two whites as an adopted child, who knows her black father]. The cast seems to include no one white, with a minority of mulattos/yellas/light skinned folk, all of whom call themselves black. I wish the film the best, not for the producers who are all or mostly white but for the writer/director /thespians/ and other blacks in the creative process being paid by the producers to make the work. But I see the problem financially, that no one is addressing. The problem with the modern art world isn't that Black people have money. I rephrase, black people throughout humanity have money. Black people in Africa are billionaires, not all, a minority, but they are not one person. Black people in south america, like Brasil have many millionaires, yes through sport, but that is honest money, it isn't killing native americans through germ war fare or slaughtering weapons. Black people in north america, like the USA have many millionaires. Black people in continental europe have a number of millionaires. Black people in India and throughout asia have millionaires. So. the global black populace has money and thus can pay to see themselves in media. But the problem is that the white producers of the arts , correctly, aren't going to over finance these films. Unlike the 1970s film industry in the united states of america, where many white producers for small budget films were willing to provide black thespians with opportunities, barely any black directors or writers got opportunities then, The Get Out to Black Panther era is demanding significant financial stimulus from any producer for these films. Thus the opportunities are still few, although with large checks. The only way more Black fantasy films will be made is when Black Money will be willing to risk. The problem, also correct, is that Black Money, unlike White Money, in modernity is majority warranted. Majority of white money in modernity comes from white militaristic power killing non white europeans for land or enslaving non white europeans for labor or legalizing white crimes through a legal system supported by white militaristic power. Black Money in modernity ,does not come from genocides or enslavements or military might allowing a legal framework to support. Sequentially, Black Money is far more cautious about investing. Black Money doesn't have military power to recover financially , to lose all money and still recover all wealth. But the only way Black art in film will grow is when black money invest more., and it has to start with black artist themselves. The lesson in Get Out plus Sinners is that the black artists in question put their own money up. Like Baum, who made the first Wizard of Oz movie with his own money, Black Artists must invest in the multimedia expression in their art. Unlike the world of art auctioning, which has become a boon for black painters/sculptors and other craft arts. Movie making investment can not build on itself. Basquait's paintings value grow with each auction , with each resale, but a film can become a deadly investment .This is why , so many film studios go bankrupt, United Artist/MGM/Warner Bros./ PAramount /New Line Cinema and many others get sold , not because they are making money but their owners can't afford to make any more films and use their film vaults as investment to sell themselves and get one last financial boost before becoming part of another firms portfolio. As for Adeyemi.... again, Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz financed the first Oz film from his own pocket. She could had done likewise as her book is a bestseller. But she decided to sell the film rights and cut a deal. The only way an writer can control a film based on their work is to finance it themselves. But writers like getting paid and have residual earnings by selling rights. Once rights are sold, you lose control, so whether you are Alzburg with Jumanji or Ende with Neverending story or Adeyemi with Blood and Bone, a writer has to blame themselves for signing their film rights, when they could had paid to make the movie themselves, but that is a gamble. Toni Adeyemi and children of blood and bone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPP0QblvsE my comment I see , so tomi promised to use nigerians in the casting. I knew about the phenotypical elements in the story. I will love to know the background of casting. I think children or blood and bone is also suffering from being one of the few films with so many black thespian roles in a high budget context. So, a fight is over the film. yeeesshh thanks for sharing the situation. the author is online supporting it and then hate it. good point on Colleen Hoover , if Children and Blood and Bone financially fail, it will end her book series going into movies. The more odd scenario, is what if children of blood and bone becomes financially the next black panther, what will Adeyemi do? what will paramount do? studios want to milk the breast, and they will want the next book and the next book. the video if you want to see here POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12862-thoughts-to-tomi-adeyemi-and-the-children-of-blood-and-bone/ POST CONTENT I think Tomi Adeyemi's scenario with The Children of Blood and Bone film is interesting. She is a black writer, very successful financially. And film producers cause of the fiscal results of black panther, want black fantasy that can yield big dollars. Many black thespians in the story are making good money and it has the potential to be a series. But, Adeyemi has spoken for it and against it, variably. I don't think she comprehended that the film making business isn't like writing a book by yourself. The film making process is a collaborative art work project. And in that collaboration mamy things happen you don't like. You have to accept this truth. Adeyemi will not be the first or last writer not to, but I hope the film does well and she can take the lessons from here and have a better relationship to the film making business. What say you/ Economic Corner 45 Economic Corner 45 08/16/2026 - RMCommunityCalendar - African American Literature Book Club PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/795-economic-corner-44-08122026/ NEXT EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/798-economic-corner-46-08282026/

PRIOR ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/784-art-comments-07232026/ NEXT ENTRY ? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1357987024/5304167424 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox @Chaosfive-55 I am nearly done my entry into the hardboiled. @staatsf it is rare to see a watercolor in deviantart for a natural landscape in new york state @Trippy4U the angle you found , this is New York City yes, something tells me I know that curved canopy, is that on or near broadway? @jflaxman so cute, i love your woodwork figures @Anton-Constantin a giant girl with no face nice, reminds me of the art for the show Night Gallery COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1340436226/5304170815 COMMENT CONTENT nice work from all @Blu3-F1nch Ist das im Hintergrund ein Planet, von dem eine gewaltige Vulkanausbruch ausgeht? // is that a planet with a large volcanic explosion from it in the background? @RafarteAntunes Danke, dass du mir den Karakara vorgestellt hast. Die Rotbrustkarakaras fressen Insekten. Wundervolle Beleuchtung. // thank you for introducing the caracara to me. the red breasted eat insects. lovely illumination. @MayGoldworthy Ich liebe dieses Pilzhaus – die Schlümpfe müssten dich engagieren. // love that mushroom house, the smurfs need to hire you . @QuirkyQupid Wundervoll und magisch – ich frage mich, was dich zu diesem Design inspiriert hat? // beautiful magic, i wonder what inspired your design? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1354324238/5304175505 COMMENT CONTENT Beautiful craftwork from all, thanks for sharing @pinkythepink @InKibus hope someone bought the loki horns and with doomsday coming you should get a buyer, foam, so it is light. do you know anyone who made a metal loki horn crown? @RositaTheCardMaker very cute have you considered chocolate colored hearts for valentines day? @TopKnotchMediocrity the traditional devil mask can be great for carnival? has anyone worn one of your mask s for carnival? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1360859755/5304189913 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox glad you had fun, seeing friends and enjoying life @aucatgirl love the facial expression of ruby @getfreemazes how do you create your mazes? by hand or program? @allusernamestaken666 i first asked what kind of oive is that, planetary very nice @BERLINsART ductor tape is cool but i love your ruins @samirkgupta forgotten caslte has a lovely reflection COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1363699865/5304191814 COMMENT CONTENT @Chaosfive-55 Thank you for sharing my dark academia photomanipulation @DavisPK great praise to chaos and love the structure of your illustration. @recycledrelatives you made a fractal look like octopus tentacles in mating ,nice @CapnDeek373 oldie but goodie is ricci still nearby? @Keriwan nice faux cover COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1358657098/5304192585 COMMENT CONTENT congrats @Mythka well earned mothra sticker is so cute do you make godzilla stickers? foo dog is so cute happy new year is a beautiful commission COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1365507642/5304194926 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox I got to get busy to make sure my hardboiled is on time. I have a lot of typing to do for other stories so @berryspitfire what do all of those have in common? I first thought a frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum, and it works for sound. As sound propogates in space, the heat from it is electromagnetic emissions, not visible light but infrared or lesser, but electromagnetic. snowflakes, crystals, soundwaves, cymatics, ear, stars, flower, plasma, @zzemla nice pop style @lymerikk you have a cool style, it is chibi like @ArtByJenX this is a great work. you should shirt it COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1362174849/5304195542 COMMENT CONTENT thank yu for sharing ibsen and undset ibsen in project gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/861 undset in project gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35742 COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1365667294/5304197674 COMMENT CONTENT @Bnspyrd blue bicycle in the house so cute @CraigSkeltonArt have you ever drawn a three wheel cycle? @beardmanWITHcamera beautiful dawn, i think maybe it is sunset the water, is it very clean there, so northern? @Nightline was hallstatt austria where the film the ballerina was shot? @allanr24 alleys and streets in big cities are always full of photographic magic at night @ankazhuravleva i like how you sued the door as a frame for the model @SyphaTechno parrot love @Volnium Вдохновляющие слова; никогда прежде не видел, как рука океана хватает луну ///Inspiring words, I never saw the hand of the ocean grab the moon before @notoved a little francis turbine but lovely fashion what will they do with it now that it is retiring? scrap heap ?or recycle in some fashion? @nrg2166 beautiful blue pencil, mother child and bird, like the italian mary/jesus/dove COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1360936695/5304200125 COMMENT CONTENT @KABANOMORI I think the overall populace online for decades before most of us now were on the internet, has been battling overall the overall vibe of the internet. Some of us, especially artist, like creating and seeing others create. Too few places online are built to show creativity, not complaint, not soapboxing bur creativity. @Anastasiaya so cute, those berries look too big for their little beaks @CalixtaTepes nice art fight, beautiful queen @marcusturkill hellow fellow graphiter beautiful eye, i tried to see what the eye is looking at but I can't tell @Sloppygee sugar carried on an echo, like the second line of the poem, nice street graffiti style @mahi2002 i like where your free imagination went , will you frame the work? @PReih love the moons , what I Think the white circles are. the two cats being kept warm snuggling @SabakuNoShi very cool steampunk doll house, how many steampunk doll houses have you made? @SilverScythe89 pastels have such vigor as colors, i think the first elk battle i have seen illustrated, thank you @offermoord nice illustaration, great design. i didn't see it until i saw it larger https://www.deviantart.com/sabakunoshi/art/Steampunk-doll-house-3-1351224505 COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1367561014/5304201166 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox happy 20 years now your an deviantart adult haha You are the mazemaster, love your designs. 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a post about the populace in the usa was presented https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12856-nilf-neetpeople-who-are-voluntarily-unemployed It is based on the following article https://www.aei.org/commentary/what-do-prime-age-nilf-men-do-all-day/ The following are excerpt response pairs, excerpts from the article and responses from me Thanks to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we have detailed, self-reported information each year on how roughly 10,000 adult respondents spend their days—from the moment they wake until they sleep. so they are supporting their position based on a study of ten thousand in a country of three hundred and fifty million. One percent of three hundred and fifty million is three million and five hundred thousand. A thousandth of one percent is three thousand and five hundred. so ten thousand is three thousandth of one percent. Why is a study of three thousandth of one percent adequate to make any position toward any populace. Just how and why so many men in the prime of life should now be swept up in this flight from work is a matter of continuing scholarly research and debate. So they admit they don't have any position that has been researched adequately to comprehend the processes that are leading to or the causes to the choices in the populace to labor. But they suggest Universal Basic income will be a negative. I see job fairs in New York City where usually hundreds but sometimes thousands of people are looking to land one job, putting on suits and preparing all sorts of papers to pitch themselves, but at the end of the day, one person will get a second interview or perhaps accepted for employment while ninety nine to nine hundred and ninety nine will have to continue. The articles argument is that the labor market in the usa is adequate to employ all in the usa, if they would gain more education or apply themselves to more job opportunities. I don't know. The problem with labor in the usa is historically the labors that generated the most human involvement were labor intensive. When I look at NYC the biggest job markets are not in engineering but in nursing- the aging populace in the usa needs workers, law- the city always needs lawyers to fill the low paying legal jobs. Jobs in design or engineering are not enough, to restate if everyone in NYC not employed had the experience in various engineering disciplines, they would not all be hired in 48 hours. And the article criminalizes those in college as unlabored, when I know many people in the city university of new York have lived their entire lives as scholars. The reality is ever since circa eighteen hundred and sixty five ( 1865 ) white people in particular have complained about the viewpoint citizens have in the usa to the idea/role/value of fiscal capitalistic labor. Before circa 1865 whites never complained, post circa 1865 whites have never stop complaigning until now it is silly. The reality is, technology has always deleted human labor , from the cottin gin doing it before 1865 till various assembly lines to electronic computers to computers called artificial intelligence deleted human labor to the USA has a very powerful mechanical or electronic labor force that allows the fiscal wealthy to maintain plus grow their financial fortunes with no need of human laborers. The funny thing is in the countries so media labeled hard working or grandly educated populaces you see signs they are going through it. Japan is inviting students from the likes of Africa to have lives in Japan and build population growth. Many Japanese business are going out of business as Japanese are not coming in to run the business, either as younger Japanese don't want to or the population simply can't support the maintenance of the firm. China still has tons of people leaving china to find financial happiness outside china, even though many say china has more engineers than anywhere else. But clearly not all. The reality is, technology has ended in the rich or powerful countries the need for masses of human laborers. But who is the American Enterprise Institute? their founding statement is the following to promote "greater public knowledge and understanding of the social and economic advantages accruing to the American people through the maintenance of the system of free, competitive enterprise." I restate, maintaining a set of studies for willing elected officials to support legislation or legislative acts that allow for complete fiscal capitalism, complete fiscal capitalism defined as fiscal capitalism where all can fail or succeed, allowing criminality in any firm, demanding legal systems penalize. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) was founded by an asbestos maker who proudly admitted he saved money while making his workers sick. AEI doesn't mind any business at any size being allowed to go bankrupt, they don't mind any business making money in any way; they don't mind laborers failing, being fired, not having enough money to afford where they live. Thus Universal Basic Income is opposed to how they feel fiscal capitalism should operate. MORE INFORMATION Lewis H. Brown founded the American Enterprise Association (AEA) in New York, a think tank which later moved to Washington, D.C., and was renamed the American Enterprise Institute. He served as AEA's chairman until his death. Brown also co-founded the Tax Foundation and served as chairman. [ https://web.archive.org/web/20090708195505/http://www.aei.org/history , look below for the content ] [[ modern aei webpage doesn't refer to what the link above does https://www.aei.org/about/ ]] In 1984, thirty-three years after Brown's death, Johns-Manville was alleged to have prioritized profits over the health and safety of employees during the time of his leadership. According to testimony given in a federal court by Charles H. Roemer, formerly an employee of Unarco, describing a meeting between Unarco officials, Lewis H. Brown and J-M attorney Vandiver Brown in the early 1940s, "I’ll never forget, I turned to Mr. Brown, one of the Browns made this crack (that Unarco managers were a bunch of fools for notifying employees who had asbestosis), and I said, ‘Mr. Vandiver Brown do you mean to tell me you would let them work until they dropped dead?’ He said, ‘Yes. We save a lot of money that way.'" [ Testimony of Charles H. Roemer, Deposition taken April 25, 1984, Johns-Manville Corp., et al. v. the United States of America, U.S. Claims Court Civ. No. 465-83C, cited in Barry I. Castleman, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, 4th edition, Aspen Law and Business, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1996, p.581 ] CONTENT [ History of AEI The American Enterprise Association (AEA) arrived in Washington in 1943, in the thick of World War II. In Congress there was talk of making wartime price and production controls permanent to prevent another Depression when peace finally arrived. The tiny AEA, a business group formed in New York City in 1938, was horrified; it resolved to open a Washington office to advocate rapid postwar economic demobilization and, more generally, to improve Congress's understanding of the economic consequences of its actions. The new AEA office, which eventually became headquarters and graduated from "association" to "institute," was the avant-garde of two momentous developments of the decades to come, both responding to the growing size and power of the federal government: the migration of business and trade associations from commercial centers to the nation's capital and the emergence of the policy "think tank." AEA was a partnership of top executives of leading business and financial firms (Bristol-Myers, General Mills, Chemical Bank) and prominent policy intellectuals (Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, economic journalist Henry Hazlitt, and disillusioned New Dealer Raymond Moley). From the beginning, however, the Association's spirit was libertarian and conservative rather than simply "probusiness." Its founding mission statement would still serve well: to promote "greater public knowledge and understanding of the social and economic advantages accruing to the American people through the maintenance of the system of free, competitive enterprise." So, too, its academic and empirical commitments: AEA was to be "nonpartisan and nonpolitical," was to "express no opinion of its own," and was to produce "accurate, impartial, and objective" research. Following the highly successful dismantling of wartime economic controls, the AEA Washington office began preparing analyses of legislative proposals and publishing studies on subjects that remain AEI staples today--Social Security reform, government health insurance, the effects of trade on domestic employment, and the effects of productivity growth on wages and income. In 1950, a fan letter from freshman congressman Gerald R. Ford began a long and happy relationship with the late president. AEA also produced philosophic tracts portraying private enterprise as a form of voluntary social cooperation undergirding strong communities and democratic self-government--intellectual sprouts that would later blossom in such landmark works as Michael Novak's The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and Irving Kristol's Two Cheers for Capitalism. The arrival in 1954 of William J. Baroody marked the beginning of the modern AEI. The son of a Lebanese immigrant stonecutter, Mr. Baroody gave up a secure job at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for the chance to lead a small, financially strapped organization. He was an entrepreneur and risk-taker, a strong political conservative, and a widely read intellectual convinced of the potential for ideas to move practical politics. During his twenty-six years at AEI, he demonstrated singular gifts for spotting important academic talent and for promoting dense--and often contrarian--policy-reform ideas for busy public officials, business executives, and journalists. Mr. Baroody expanded the legislative analyses, commissioned original research by leading scholars, and raised the money to pay the bills. Within a year of his arrival, reviews and excerpts of AEA publications began appearing in the Wall Street Journal and Barron's. By the early 1960s, economists Milton Friedman, Paul McCracken, and Gottfried Haberler had joined his academic advisory board. Mr. Baroody conceived for AEI a brilliant slogan that combined the Institute's commitment to freedom and competition with a forthright challenge to the liberal orthodoxy of 1960s Washington: "Competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society." Mr. Baroody's leadership produced a period of astounding growth in the quantity and quality of the Institute's output, making it one of the busiest and most productive centers of policy research in the nation and heralding the sea change in American politics to come. In 1972, Gottfried Haberler was appointed AEI's first "resident scholar," to be joined the following year by Yale's William Fellner; the arrival of such renowned scholars signaled the Institute's intention to become a first-rate research institution in fact and name. When the voters prematurely retired President Gerald R. Ford in 1976, he became AEI's "distinguished fellow" and brought with him a dozen colleagues to pursue work begun in his administration; among those who would subsequently return to public service were Arthur Burns, Robert Bork, Laurence Silberman, Antonin Scalia, James C. Miller III, John Snow, Rudolph Penner, and David Gergen. As AEI achieved critical institutional mass, it was able to attract several of America's most influential thinkers, including neoconservative godfather Irving Kristol; economists Herbert Stein and Marvin Kosters; sociologist Robert Nisbet; political scientists Robert Goldwin, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and Walter Berns; theologian Michael Novak; and author Ben Wattenberg. Having begun the 1970s with a budget of $1 million and a staff of ten, AEI at decade's end had a budget of $8 million and a staff of 125. AEI had become a hotbed of innovative ideas--on deregulation, tax reform, trade policy, social welfare problems, and revitalization of defense and foreign policy--that were about to debut on the political stage. The 1980s were great years for AEI's ideas but troubled years for the institution itself. President Ronald Reagan appointed several dozen AEI scholars and fellows to his administration and to federal judgeships, where they helped him to achieve monumental improvements in economic, regulatory, and legal policy and to deploy the more assertive foreign policy that dispatched Soviet Communism by decade's end. But Mr. Baroody died just months before Reagan's election, and his successor, son William Baroody Jr., struggled to maintain his father's legacy in a transformed political environment. With so many prominent AEIers in government, and with the emergence of several energetic new think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, AEI's reputation and finances suffered. Still, many exceptional scholars remained busy and productive at AEI and began work on audacious new projects--such as producing a new liberal-conservative consensus on welfare reform that eventually produced the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. AEI's trustees appointed a new president in 1986--Christopher DeMuth, a lawyer and economist who had served in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Mr. DeMuth revamped the Institute's program of foreign and defense policy studies and focused its domestic research agenda on traditional strengths: public finance and tax policy; government regulation; U.S. politics and political institutions; and cultural, philosophical, and social welfare issues. He also instituted major managerial and financial reforms and a new and variegated publications program. Donors responded with alacrity; by the early 1990s, AEI had paid off its debts and was growing mightily in financial resources, in the size of research staff, and in the quality and influence of its output. Soon, the Institute's eminent senior scholars were joined by a new generation of economists, social scientists, foreign policy and trade experts, and students of social and cultural problems. To name only two recent accomplishments, Institute scholars, and particularly Peter J. Wallison, provided prescient warnings about the problems of the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In foreign policy, Frederick W. Kagan is credited with providing the intellectual and practical rationale for a change in strategy in Iraq in 2007, which came to be known as the surge. Today, the Institute has a staff of 185, including seventy scholars and fellows. It also has a new president. In 2008, after twenty-two years at the helm, Mr. DeMuth stepped down as president and moved down the hall to do research. His successor, Arthur C. Brooks is a classical musician by training. He came late to the world of public policy, influenced by the innovative and daring social science research of Charles Murray. After seven decades, AEI continues to serve a vital role in the intellectual life of the nation. The Institute furnishes policymakers with ideas to meet the pressing challenges of today based on the resilient principles of private liberty, individual opportunity, and free enterprise. ] https://www.aei.org/commentary/too-big-to-fail-or-succeed/ CONTENT [ Too Big to Fail, or Succeed Author by Peter J. Wallison Date June 18, 2009 ECO-Mon-0017-Stock iStockphoto/DNY59 In a speech at the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama outlined what he envisions for future regulation of the financial system. He called his plan “a new foundation for sustained economic growth . . . a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression.” Indeed it is. His plan, if adopted, will fundamentally change the nature of our financial system and economy. The underlying concerns and assumptions are clear, and they are made clearer by considering other ways that his administration has dealt with the consequences of competition–particularly the faux bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler and the impending change in antitrust policy. Although the president said in his speech that he supports free markets, these initiatives confirm that the administration fears the “creative destruction” that free markets produce, preferring stability over innovation, competition and change. According to the administration white paper circulated prior to the president’s speech, the Federal Reserve would be authorized to create a special regulatory regime–including requirements for capital, leverage and liquidity–for any firm “whose combination of size, leverage, and interconnectedness could pose a threat to financial stability if it failed.” In addition, if a large financial firm is failing, the Treasury is to be given the power–in lieu of bankruptcy–to appoint a conservator or receiver to “stabilize” it. Despite all the talk about credit priorities, the fundamental point is that the administration used taxpayer money to overturn the market’s verdict. Designating particular financial firms for this kind of special regulatory treatment clearly signals to the markets that these institutions are too big to fail. It will reduce the perceived risk of lending to them, enabling them to raise funds at lower cost than their smaller competitors. In other words, the administration’s plan would create what are essentially government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in every sector of the financial economy–insurers, securities firms, finance companies, bank holding companies, and hedge funds–where these specially regulated firms are to be designated. The result will be devastating for competition. Larger firms will squeeze out smaller ones and aggressive small companies will have less opportunity to overcome the government-backed winners. Moreover, the administration’s proposal to provide a special bailout mechanism for large firms confirms the likelihood that these firms will never be closed down or liquidated. Citing the market turmoil that followed Lehman’s collapse, the administration will argue that failures like this are “disorderly.” But failure comes from risk-taking–the very source of our economy’s strength–and it is ultimately risk-taking and its consequences that the administration’s plan is intended to prevent. The turmoil following Lehman’s failure occurred because market participants expected, after the rescue of Bear Stearns, that any larger firm would also be rescued. When Lehman wasn’t, all market participants were required to recalibrate the risks of dealing with all others, causing a freeze-up in lending and hoarding of cash. Lehman’s failure itself did not cause any substantial losses, and within two weeks of its bankruptcy filing Lehman’s trustee sold its brokerage, investment banking, and investment management businesses to four different buyers. Contrast this with AIG, the administration’s paradigm, which was saved by the government because it was allegedly too big to fail. That firm is gradually wasting away under government control, with the taxpayers footing the bill. The administration’s fear of competitive outcomes is not reflected solely in financial-sector policies. Consider General Motors and Chrysler. They were defeated in the marketplace. Simply put, they failed to build automobiles enough Americans wanted to buy. Their disappearance would not have threatened the stability of the financial system, although it would undoubtedly have been disruptive for suppliers, dealers and employees. Yet the administration wouldn’t allow them to fail, either. Despite all the talk about credit priorities, the fundamental point is that the administration used taxpayer money to overturn the market’s verdict. If we want a preview of what the administration will do with the resolution authority it wants for large financial companies, we need look no further. The same pattern with regard to competitive markets can be seen in the Justice Department’s new antitrust policy. Christine Varney, the new assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust policy, has said that U.S. policy should be more like Europe’s. Until now, U.S. antitrust policy has tried to protect competition. Europe attempts to protect competitors. Protecting competitors means blunting the skills of superior players, allowing inferior managers and business models to remain in business and thus preventing better managements and business models from emerging. Again, stability wins out over change and progress. The president has said on several occasions, including in yesterday’s speech, that “I’ve always been a strong believer in the power of the free market.” But his administration’s prescriptions tell a different story. In AIG, GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac we can see the future that the administration envisions for our economy–a sclerotic and unchanging structure of big companies working with, protected by, and relying on big government. Peter J. Wallison is the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at AEI. ] POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12856-nilf-neetpeople-who-are-voluntarily-unemployed/#findComment-83003 POST CONTENT content I read the article... The one thing I notice it doesn't concern itself with is the imprisoned or former imprisoned populace. Do you know circa forty thousand women in the usa are blockaded from labor because they had traces or marijuana in their babies when born and the states they were in labeled them as endangering a child/child abusers. These women , most of whom have had multiple children and have no criminal record are blockaded from work because of a situation in which their child had a drug in them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-kDnO6GSI what is my larger point? How many people in the usa are blockaded from labor because of their criminal record? A criminal record whcih often is based on the criminal intent of law enforcers applying their activities to specific communities for a fiscal or governmental policy agenda. But the reason why said populace isn't mentioned is because of the fiscal capitalistic philosophy of the AEI , which i argue is a faith based position toward fiscal capitalism which in Universal basic income is seeing the death of their faith as they know it. https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/795-economic-corner-44-08122026/ PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/794-economic-corner-43-08042026/ NEXT EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/797-economic-corner-45-08162026/ COMMENTARY

PRofd made a post https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12850-why-are-non-rich-americans-against-socialism MY COMMENT content The USA has reached two hundred and fifty years. Starting off as a fiscal capitalistic country with tons of financial imbalances, regardless that they were legal. . Now a populace, getting larger and larger, within the usa seems to want the usa to become what it was never, a place for all in it to be content. We will see, but I will end with what I always do for all governments anywhere or anytime in humanity. their most negative times are always built in the times suggested as positive or acceptible, their gilded ages, their glorious or advertised wins is usually the times where the seeds of the worst times were laid. MY EXPANDED THOUGHTS content The titular question is , why are non rich americans against socialism? The questions are clear G)What do people in the USA consider socialism? E)What variations of opinion do people in the usa have in defining socialism? M)What percentage of people, whether citizens or not, whether americans or not, in the united states of america are opposed to socialism? K)What aspect of the USA implements socialism? Before anyone can answer the question " why are non rich americans against socialism" , G) what do people in the usa consider socialism. New York City has a socialist party, which isn't the democratic socialist party. NYC also has a libertarian party and green party and others. But what is socialism? I bet socialism is different for the socialist party in comparison to the democratic socialist party. My point? I am unconvinced that socialism has a majority accepted definition. And absent said majority accepted definition, any question on the populace of three hundred and fifty million plus in the united states of america opinion on said idea goes into automatic argument. Cause the point of the titular question is a matter of opinion from majority consensus, not the opinion of individuals. E) and what is socialism. Some people think socialism is a system with an absence of fiscal capitalism. Some Don't. M) With so many variations of definition to socialism, who is opposed to socialism? can it be calculated? can it be known? or is it an assumption? K) Lastly, where is socialism already implemented? Some will say the entire welfare programs in the usa are socialism. In Nippon/Japan they are stated as such, but people don't always view welfare programs as socialsim in the united states of america. so... Is the issuse of the democratic socialist creating a wedge in the party of andrew jackson OR are multividing lines simply being treated with their proper presence. One of the prblems in many human organizations is the falsehood of unity, the asusmption of a collective united behind something when it is a group of various tribes or sects who exist through a loose arrangement that isn't strong enough to handle all the groups sway. It can be similarly noted that the reforms or libertarians in the party of abraham lincoln are a similarity to the democratic socialst plus greens in the party of andrew jackson. The falsehood is the structure of the two party system as adequate for all the parts that the two parties try to umbrella . The usa does have a history of parties of governance splitting/dying/merging/mutating so it is clear that the democratic socialsts and the fdrr corporate members of the party of andrew jackson can't survive together forever, int he same way the Maga and the reagan corporate members of the party of abraham lincoln can't survive together. I think the donkeys fdr wing feels, government can be an avenue for fiscal capitalism, not a tool for socialism living side by side with ffiscal capitalistic private sector. The reason no universal affordable healthcare , or universal affordable housing or universal childcare has happened is lobbies, not any party of governance The problem in the usa has always been the faithful or hopeful financial assessments. Those in the usa who feel a middle always exist or that the usa can change into something are the people who have always pushed the usa along. mno matter the race: phenotype/gender/religion/language/geographic descendency /or other. But the questions are clear. Can the usa be an engine for fiscal capitalism while fund socialism? The USA has never financially been able to provide for all who live in it. NEVER. circa 1492 native american peoples, were blockaded or murdered from the fiscal capitalistic environment by whites for whites fiscal betterment. early 1500s, black people were enslaved to whites , so the usa wasn't a place for black positive living. 1865 was the end of the war between the states. The UTZ indigenous peoples were murdered by the federal government from nineteen hundred to ninteen hundred and three. The civil rights act whose biggest beneficiary were women was signed in nineteen hundred and sixty five. The USA went to a fiat currency, not backed by gold in the nineteen hundred and seventies to handle future financial wobbles based on their military power or calculative ability. The United states of america has never financially supported ALL the humans in it. NEVER. So how can in the year two thousand and twenty six it change to do so? five hundred years of genocide or enslavement or abuse can not be undone in decades. If it can? we will see. But it is clear that abet against the usa is wisest. The idea that fiscally wealthy people should take less in a country founded by ENSLAVERS is a historical insult. but ford vs dodge prove that it is illegal in the usa to go against profiteering. The hopeful or faithful in the usa, after its two hundred and fifty year anniversary are tasked with the challenging of having hope when the myths or legends the usa has professed, from its very infancy, have to be called in, and no cards can even be placed on the table. POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12850-why-are-non-rich-americans-against-socialism/#findComment-82849 PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/787-economic-corner-42-07262026/ NEXT EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/795-economic-corner-44-08122026/ COMMENTARY

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/August-2026-Contest-Cat-Nights-1359936387 CONTENT 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅Brought to you by: Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! 🎯 THE CHALLENGE1. For the Line Art Creators: Whether old magic black, or siamese, or psychedelic magenta, or an image of your own Original Character Cat draw a Cat at night. The night symbolized by a crescent moon. Make line art displaying a cat under a crescent moon. Have fun! 2. For the Colorists: Once the line art phase is over, you can color any of the LineArt contest entries to complete these worlds with your prismatic touch! If you want to color before the coloring contest time you must use my example image or your own entry. If you need more inspiration for your imagination I provide some more tools at the bottom of this post FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE COLORING CHALLENGE After the Coloring page challenge is finished, see below for times, you will be able to use any of the entries of the coloring page challenge plus my example image to color Cat Nights FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO BOTH CHALLENGES Please go for it! But you must note the times for each. 📅 DATES & SUBMISSIONLine Art (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: August 1 , 2026 | Ends: August 25 , 2026 Coloring (Submit to Contest Folder) Starts: August 25, 2026 | Ends: August 31 , 2026 You can also share your creations in the comments below to get feedback form other group members or just start a conversation about your art 🏆 PRIZES & REWARDSAll prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors 🖋️ Line Art Category 🏅 Winner: 1,000 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 500 pts + Hype 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 500 pts + Hype 🎨 Coloring Category 🏅 Winner: 500 pts + Hype 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz 📋 RULES & GUIDELINES Originality & Copyright: The line art must be your own work. Ripped or "sampled" line art will be disqualified, this includes tracing. This doesn't include referenced images. You may use images for reference, as long as you don't trace it directly and provide credit in the artist's comments section of your entry. Requirements: Min. 1200px / 300 dpi. Traditional art must be clean and scanned.Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.] Traditional drawings must be cleanly scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional line art.] Originality: Must be your own work created after July 31st, 2026. No tracing. All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions Accessibility: Line art must be free to download. Membership: Join @color-me-club to be eligible! That's free too 📚 INSPIRATIONNeed help with your imagination? Search your gallery for Cat or Kitten or Moon or Night. If you have a Cat Original Character, use it. Cat Nights refers to an irish , or better celtic, folklore. From what I comprehend, August 9th to August 16th is when a witch can transform herself into a cat and turn back to human. But on August 17th if a witch transforms into a cat , she is a cat until she dies. S Literature Ship of Fools, Legend to beTitle: Ship of Fools, Legend to be I will tell a short story A fresh start, from long ago When the sun was turquoise blue While the moon grasses said no An equus stood on a hill Saw a ship tilted at shore Apple branches in his mouth Released... and one to the core Branches back, stepped on the side And down, to Sojourner's Tide Hustle or bustle about Ney! he said, where's a sea ride A human point to Sojourn Forward, no dilly dally Stop! right there... you hooved baby Or you'll become a sally The unsailed youth looked down and Quizzically looked around Question, who spoke the harsh words That gave his trepid fear sound A tap of metal on bone Revealed the hidden locale The fohlen raised his head up He be no males leisure pal Easy young one, your head's safe Said the sailor underneath His tiny scuffed head peaked out Said, stop chattering your teeth He had a sandy crown and Two little cute kitty feet The sea you want is tricky The cat said in summer heat Know! surprises is the norm If Cat Nights by V. Neumann By old Irish lore on the 17th of August more cats are among us than ever before. It is said that witches can turn into a cat. But no more than eight switches as a matter of fact. On the ninth switch they cannot regain their life as a witch. A cat they must remain. So if in mid August you should hear the cats yowl amongst sounds of the locust when cats are on the prowl Then you will know as lore was told over time that cats will show lives as many as nine. referal from Old Farmer's Almanac https://www.almanac.com/calendar/date/2024-08-17 from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat-s%C3%ACth Superstitions of highlands and islands of scotland https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61730/pg61730-images.html Cat-sith https://folklorescotland.com/cat-sith/ I can't wait to see the beautiful visions of Cat Nights ! you create or color! @HDdeviant Ask yourself, to color or to be colored! 🌅 NEW HORIZONS: January 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":581,\"chars\":3373}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":1,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1284759575]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"jpeg"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> New HorizonsJan 8, 2026 February contest: heart of loveFeb 1, 2026 Wishing WellsMar 1, 2026 EASTER EGGS - Color Me ClubApr 3, 2026 🌅 Mother Goose: May 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":631,\"chars\":3641}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":5,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":0,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1327120224,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSEMay 1, 2026 🌅 Super Hounds: July 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":611,\"chars\":3541}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":12,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1351341816,1347274411,1302167434,1287891912,1329835732,1339486094,1338171404,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-cropping="fill" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"> July 2026 Contest: Super Hounds!Jul 1, 2026 #tctbc #colormeclub #tocolorortobecolored #hddeviant #catnights

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Cat-Nights-1363463941 IMAGE EMBED CODE CONTENT For the Cat Nights challenge of @color-me-club 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":805,\"chars\":4660}},{\"type\":\"MEDIA_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"emoji\":17,\"emotes\":8,\"images\":31,\"mentions\":7,\"video\":0,\"galleries\":1,\"gifs\":0,\"ids\":[1363463941,915145623,942211651,951736105,966962989,1044713478,1051283183,1062162113,1095093839,1105893076,1116735145,1077395213,1215911247,1227928494,1231215822,1236307158,1246204212,885748474,894114250,896625503,897400726,909901566,928829613,1181712745,1181732640,1284003118,1289384960,1286745083,1317038393,1289531986,1348613517]}},{\"type\":\"IS_EMPTY_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"isEmpty\":false}}]"}},"filetype":"png"}" data-alignment="center" style="font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: flex; justify-content: center; position: relative;"> August 2026 Contest: Cat Nights2 hours ago 🌅 Cat Nights: August 2026 Contest 🌅 Brought to you Cat Nights refer to the nights when a witch can turn into a cat. On the ninth night , August 14th, if she turns, she can't turn back to human. The woman on the cliff side is Erin inspired by the painting from Thomas Buchanan Read; she is sitting under the Sgríob Chlann Uisnich. The main mirror is a nonagon, nine sided mirror, with a four leaf shamrock for luck on it. The eight mirrors represent various irish witches. Left side top to bottom - architectural items if present Alice Kyteler Florence Newton -Blarney Castle Biddy Early - St Eunan's Cathedral, Letterkenny, in Ulster Cailleach - Labbacallee Wedge Tomb, where the goddess supposedly rests Right side top to bottom Petronilla de Midia Islandmagee witches - Ireland north Atlantic cliffs Bridget Cleary - Glendaloughround tower Airmed - 365 herbs , representing the goddess I left a space for a person to put whatever cat image they want. mine is https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Addietober-Day-5-Black-Cat-Ink-894114250 Lineart Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/47013691/comic-coloring-pages My Cat art gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery?q=cat If you like my art consider the following Line Art https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Single-Coloring-Page-1349611949 Microcalligraphy https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Microcalligraphy-signatures-1349613094 tipjar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #catnights #ireland #erin #witch #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #lineart #coloringpage #coloring #superhero #usa250

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-6-Fictional-Slave-Narratives-1348180919 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time outside the 28 days designated as Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the Black community during the other 337 days of the year. Let's continue learning all year long, because history doesn't stop when February ends. For this edition of #Black337 the focus is Fictional Slave Narratives. In modernity most know of biographical slave narratives like Frederick Douglass's autobiography or Solomon Northrup's Odyssey , more commonly known as "Twelve Years A Slave". But circa 1865, the year the Union defeated the Confederacy in the War Between the States in the United States of America, the most popular fiction from Black or non Black writers were Fictional Slave Narratives. The fictional slave narrative most mentioned in modernity is Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". But, Black people did create fictional slave narratives , as well; they were heavily published or financially successful in there original publishing time. [ I list a set of fictional slave narratives written by Black people , free to read, below. ] To be blunt, the fictional slave narratives written by Black people had two forces against the continuity of their financial or media popularity when first published in the U.S.A. . First, Black peoples finances went through an obliteration from outside the Black populace. Second, Black people became resentful of the tone of slave narratives, biographical or fictional; it isn't a dislike of the truth but from 1865 to modernity , Black people have become frustrated or bitter about the ever presence of embattled black characters in the media of the U.S.A. So, GALLERY MONTHLY CONTENT The following are all fictional enslaved fantasies from Richard Murray @HDdeviant K Literature Koko Henda and the Stitched PeopleTitle: Koko Henda and the Stitched People The K Literature Koko Henda and the wailsTitle: Koko Henda and the wails The cries of the H Literature Henda jr. and the Highest StrikerTitle: Henda jr. and the Highest Striker The O Literature OshunBala or Why the bees sing like MuxinhoMuxinho, the storyteller play the first banjo FICTIONAL SLAVE NARRATIVES EXAMPLES The Garies And Their Friends from Francis Johnson Webb https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/497-the-garies-and-thier-friends/ Clotel , The Presidents Daughter from William Well Brown https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/496-clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-a-narrative-of-slave-life-in-the-united-states-by-william-well-brown/ Le Mulatre from Victor Sejour https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/495-le-mul%C3%A2tre-from-victor-s%C3%A9jour-two-versions-split-by-an-essay/ The Heroic Slave from Frederick Douglass The Heroic Slave from Frederick Douglass - Work List - African American Literature Book Club More Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_narrative #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #1Mar 14, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #2Apr 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #3May 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #4Jun 2, 2026 #BlackHistory337 5 : FablesJul 4, 2026 #black337 #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #blackhistory #slavenarrative #fiction #slavefables

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-Frozone-The-Incredibles-1360242837 CONTENT Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group.Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fan fictions based on popular films and television shows 📽️📺 Ponder pop culture’s most perplexing puzzles as we prompt you to provide fans with a satisfying conclusion to cliffhangers and open-ended mysteries in 250 words or less 🧑‍💻🤩 Get inspired to write about worlds you know and love & you might just pick up some rewards along the way 🏅🏆 We all know him, we all love him, it is the incomparable , the dashing, the best friend in the world, Frozone; known as Lucius Best , to his wife, Honey Best, friends, like Mr. Incredible , and of course the National Supers Agency, NSA. The following are all of Frozones scenes from the first Incredibles movie. Your task is to add to the superhero lore of this legend. Superman prays to him, Spider man idolizes him, Mr. Incredible can always rely on him. In a comment below in 250 words or less, in your own words and without the assistance of AI or similar machine learning tools, write a short fan fiction adding to the Frozone omnibus. Where is Frozone now?! Here’s the rules and rewards for this @CRLiterature activity: All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions, and the group rules for CRLiterature; off topic or inappropriate entries will be removed. Share your entry as a comment to this journal for reward considerations.    Only submit one (1) comment for this engagement that is your very best work; all entries must be original concepts and human-written, no AI-assisted entries are allowed and will be removed.      Comment with your entry by the end of the day on August 31st 2026 for rewards consideration for this activity. You must be a member of @CRLiterature for awards considerations. Joining the group is fast and free from the group homepage. entry must be 250 words or less Winners selected at the sole discretion of CRLiterature group admin; all decisions are final and non-negotiable. We will select three (3) winners by September 5th 2026 to receive the following rewards:: Each winner will receive 250 points and a quartz badge One of the three will receive a hype badge I can’t wait to see how you inform us all on Where Are They Now?! @HDdeviant MY EXAMPLE: TITLE: MARITAL ICE This is not the morning Frozone hoped for. The plan was to calmly spend the morning of his wedding to Honey side his parents plus grandparents, after a great bachelor party hosted by Bob Parr where various male supers enjoyed a dance by Queen Cobra aside her sisters [ for their work release program] the night before. Instead, Lucius Best has to involve himself with a crime by Gravitron this morning, not because the criminal is attracting gold plus diamonds throughout the city, because the criminal has taken Honey's engagement ring plus the wedding rings Lucius side Honey plan on sharing later today. Honey already explained to Lucius how upset she was and how upset she will be, so Frozone is out this morning stalling gold or diamonds by freezing; he hopes to find all three rings before the wedding. Luckily, it is now 9:10 am and Mr. Incredible, Blitzerman, Gamma Jack, Gazerbeam restrained Gravitron and stopped his Gravoball 4.5 . Now Lucuis Best has fifty minutes to find the three rings, get dressed in his wedding suit and be ready to happily bind his soul forever with Honey Abelha. from Richard Murray/ @HDdeviant MY POST M Literature Marital IceTITLE: MARITAL ICE This is not the morning IF YOU NEED FURTHER INSPIRATION OR CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING GALLERY I Literature Incredibles Chapter 0: One Mistake An explosion lit up the night, and his life was turned inside-out. "No, stop! There's a bomb!" For all the good it did, he might as well have been yelling at a brick wall. The kid had launched himself from the window, the home-made cape fluttering inches out of reach of his outstretched hand. He wasn't sure how long he'd stood there as the fluttering scrap of blue darted down and away. It might have been a few seconds, a few hours, a few days for all he could remember. The flash from the ground had come an eternity later, followed shortly by a bone-grinding rumble that he had felt on the sixteenth story of the First National building. ... PRIOR WHERE ARE THEY NOW's - the challenges are over, but the fun isn't. Give each a go and continue their stories with 250 words or less, whenever you want. Where Are They Now: Elaine - Ghostbusters 2Jun 12, 2025 Where Are They Now: Salvadore - JawsJul 4, 2025 Where Are They Now: Farmer Ted - Sixteen CandlesAug 1, 2025 Where Are They Now: Norma Rae - Norma RaeSep 1, 2025 Where Are They Now: Ione Sykes - The GraveSep 17, 2025 WATN: Zero - A Nightmare Before ChristmasOct 8, 2025 WATN: Duckie - Pretty In PinkNov 6, 2025 WATN: The Unknown - Over The Garden WallDec 10, 2025 WATN: Charlie BrownJan 8, 2026 WATN: Danny and Sandy : GreaseFeb 2, 2026 WATN: Wall-EMar 5, 2026 Lost Episodes of Galaxy QuestApr 1, 2026 WATN: Alexander Johnson - GloryMay 1, 2026 WATN: Heroes of Dungeons 'n DragonsJun 2, 2026 WATN: The Storyteller - PosseJul 9, 2026 #frozone #theincredibles #pixar #watn #wherearetheynow #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Marital-Ice-1362852591 CONTENT TITLE: MARITAL ICE This is not the morning Frozone hoped for. The plan was to calmly spend the morning of his wedding to Honey side his parents plus grandparents, after a great bachelor party hosted by Bob Parr where various male supers enjoyed a dance by Queen Cobra aside her sisters [ for their work release program] the night before. Instead, Lucius Best has to involve himself with a crime by Gravitron this morning, not because the criminal is attracting gold plus diamonds throughout the city, because the criminal has taken Honey's engagement ring plus the wedding rings Lucius side Honey plan on sharing later today. Honey already explained to Lucius how upset she was and how upset she will be, so Frozone is out this morning stalling gold or diamonds by freezing; he hopes to find all three rings before the wedding. Luckily, it is now 9:10 am and Mr. Incredible, Blitzerman, Gamma Jack, Gazerbeam restrained Gravitron and stopped his Gravoball 4.5 . Now Lucuis Best has fifty minutes to find the three rings, get dressed in his wedding suit and be ready to happily bind his soul forever with Honey Abelha. from Richard Murray @HDdeviant For WATN Frozone in @CRLiterature ? Audio Series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-tip-jar-audios Ebook Series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection Gallery of writing https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry CRliterature content https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/97552463/crliterature-content Tip Jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #frozone #theincredibles #pixar #watn #wherearetheynow #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr NOTES Frozone + Honey deleted scene https://youtu.be/w9AelHh5zwg?si=Z-EfxPzYN6MxeH6h Abelha is Portuguese for Bee

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Waiting-In-Love-1362858389 CONTENT Title: Waiting In Love Early evening in a Friday, Ted is working on a test car in his garage; he walks around it and gives instruction in rapid succession. "On, Off, On, Forward, Stop, Gear Up, Forward, Backward, Stop" HE looks on a computer and notices the details details: speed of audio reception, bus speed of interpretive computations, engine sectors response to modulations, degrading of chasis elements, or more. Caroline is operating the night course at Mulford Yoga and his Caroline-cam is on his wife as she guides a class. The phone rings, Ted answers. "Hey Benjamin" "Do you need help?" "No... Just want to hear your voice" "I wish your mom was here, but I am glad we get to talk, how was your day?" "It was a good day pop" And father side son enjoy a long happy talk. from Richard Murray @HDdeviant Continued from the following https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Where-is-Farmer-Ted-now-1223573348 For WATN: Farmer Ted: Chapter 2 in @CRLiterature ? To Read More Literature By Me Utilize The Following If you want to stay in Deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry If you are into ebooks https://www.kobo.com/ebook/poetry-or-more-1 If you are into audiobooks https://www.kobo.com/audiobook/poetry-or-more-2015-2016 If you are inclined to leave a $1 tip for this read , please use the following https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 #watn #farmerted #16candles #sixteencandles #wherearetheynow #crliterature #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr

Pioneer1 [ https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/5568-pioneer1/] asked me to look at a video at a specific time index, to go into his position that universal basic income is a trap. his post https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12838-universal-income-trap/ MY PRIMARY THOUGHTS content MY THOUGHTS TO HIM STRAIGHT content POST URL https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12838-universal-income-trap/#findComment-82737 PRIOR EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/760-economic-corner-41-06212026/ NEXT EDITION https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/794-economic-corner-43-08042026/ COMMENTARY 7292026 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12838-universal-income-trap/#findComment-82789 content content 07312026 url https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12838-universal-income-trap/#findComment-82804 content expanded

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Photo Katie Korfhage, Pete Torres and Rita Vinnik, the co-founders of Alza Festival. The next generation of storytelling belongs here. Submit your project for the opportunity to premiere at ALZA Festival in New York City, October 16-18, 2026. https://www.alzafestival.com/submissions TORRES LIVE (Copy)ALZA Festival | NYC Micro-drama & Vertical Storytelling F...Submit your vertical short, series, or mobile-first film to ALZA Festival, New York City's first festival dedicated exclusively to vertical storytelling. ALZA Festival is New York City's first festival dedicated exclusively to vertical storytelling. We invite creators from around the world to submit projects conceived and crafted for the vertical frame—stories that embrace mobile-first viewing through bold ideas, compelling characters, and exceptional creative vision. Selected projects will screen alongside outstanding work from leading creators, studios, and emerging voices during three days of premiere screenings, industry conversations, masterclasses, networking events, and red carpet celebrations. Whether you're an established studio, an independent filmmaker, or a first-time creator, ALZA Festival is your opportunity to premiere your work, connect with industry leaders and fellow creators, and help shape the future of vertical storytelling. Created in NY Showcase The Created in NY Showcase, presented by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and ALZA Festival, celebrates exceptional vertical storytelling created by New York City's filmmakers, creators, studios, and production community. The program recognizes projects that exemplify creative excellence while highlighting New York City's growing role as a global hub for vertical storytelling and mobile-first entertainment. Five selected projects will screen as part of a dedicated Created in NY Showcase during ALZA Festival, with one project receiving the Made in NY Award. ALZA Festival by Torres Live info@torreslive.com Alza Microdrama Festival Partners With NYC Mayor’s Office For October Debut Alza Festival is set to take place in New York Oct. 16-18 alongside the launch of the Created In NY program. By Caitlin Huston July 16, 2026 7:00am https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/alza-microdrama-festival-partners-with-nyc-mayors-office-for-october-debut-1236649503/ A microdrama festival is set to take place in New York City this October, with a newly announced partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Alza Festival is scheduled for Oct. 16 through Oct. 18 with premieres and screenings of microdramas, industry conversations, networking events, masterclass and brand activations. Per the partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, the festival will also feature the launch of the Created in NY program, which will feature educational panels and workshops, inclusion in a Created in NY showcase (a screening block for finalists in the program), and the opportunity to win a Made in NY Award, which would mark the first time this award is presented to a content creator. “New York has always defined what’s next in media, and vertical storytelling is no exception,” said Commissioner Rafael Espinal of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. “The launch of ‘Created in NY’ alongside the ALZA Festival is about recognizing that the next generation of filmmakers and creators is already here. Our job is to help open doors, develop talent, and make sure New York remains the best place in the world to build a creative career.” The festival was created by Pete Torres, the former COO for Tribeca Festival, along with Rita Vinnik, a former TikTok executive and Katie Korfhage, who previously served as Tribeca Festival’s Vice President of Development. The founders have put out an open call for submissions. “Vertical storytelling has evolved into one of the fastest-growing forms of entertainment in the world, yet until now it hasn’t had a dedicated cultural home – so we created ALZA to change that,” said Pete Torres, Founder and CEO of ALZA Festival. “Our goal is to bring together creators, platforms, studios, brands, and audiences to celebrate this incredible new medium while helping shape its future. There is no better place than New York City to launch that conversation, and we’re proud to work with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment to spotlight the city’s next generation of storytellers.”

PRIOR ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/752-art-comments-06152026/ NEXT ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/796-art-comments-08142026/ COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1348491319/5298292166 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox never forget the variance between the commercial side the creative. Commerciality is not based on how an artist views their work. Commerciality is based on how the audience views an artists work. The author of sherlock holmes, made a bok called the white company. From his own perspective the white company was a better book than sherlock holmes, but the audience wanted and loved holmes. So remember that, the creative value of your work is based on your relationship to your work. but the commercial value is based on how others view your work. You suggest the creative should determine the commercial but I don't think so. I think all artists need to comprehend what they value creatively, but also learn what is commercially liked. Stepehen king wanted to be a fantasy writer but it didn't work out commercially. His first book carrie he put in the trahs but it was a huge commercial success. I arrest my case. @I024 nice, people without brains looks like a spooky video game character, i can sense pyramid head around @CiroAliro no color needed , nice septptych, beautiful @darkroots77 mustard is that strong? knocks the eyes out @MozaGrin so cute and safe, can't mess around with tides, so many people don't wear floaties in the water @Saraeustace91 what are the dimensions of the butterfly? how long did it take to create? @DomesticVamp double saber wielding sith, so cool and her head tentacle is sexy COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1350115732/5298298703 COMMENT CONTENT Beautiful edition as always @leothefox and all fellow Dreadfullers LEo , For carried along, who are the carriers and are those dead folk? @Chaosfive-55 your always so much fun, what kind of stone is that? @CapnDeek373 nice work developing "watching" COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1348397185/5298303857 COMMENT CONTENT Congratulations to all you new senior folk @StephanePellennec how many dribbles did iya raore do for the take? @MSGoesDeviant when 2 states of matter collide is lovely, how high are the shore side cliffs? What are those stakes for in the photo with adrienne? @K-Zlovetch you already know how i feel about your artwork, victor side bianca is one of the greatest couples of deviantart @skfuu have your commissions gotten better since 2020 @nawkaman hey fellow poet, the opening line is brilliant imagery c Literature cold mirror COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1350820101/5298306162 COMMENT CONTENT @LadyLincoln thanks for the highlights, nice featuring of challenges. @SRSmith serenity had a very nice balance S Literature Serenity COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1353964020/5298309973 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox glad you are free from the guy. @Chaosfive-55 a stalemate? who was the black or white? @zeroequalsq nice composition, jumping out the window @ArtofMikolajOstapiuk another work with great composition, the color the pose, the items, i know it is a sketch so you haven't put as much time as you can, but i think its lovely @FlyingFryingPans what building inspired your design in the sketch? or was it pure imagination? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1349878628/5298336180 COMMENT CONTENT @KABANOMORI lovely feature, enjoyed all the works When any artist creates with no financial agenda, the art has only one purpose and that is the desires of the artist. That is historically ninety nine percent of art created. When an artists creates with a financial agenda that they are paying for, the artist is gambling what they like will be adored by others so to turn a profit. You see this in various independent films or independent video games. When an artist creates with a financial agenda others are paying for, others are the primary determinant of its success. The Medici's patronage to an artist, or big hollywood studio films paying a director who is an artist, comic book companies paying artists to draw and right a graphic novel. The problem in the art world isn't the absence of voices . Art has always been and will always be created throughout humanity, and usually with no financial agenda. The problem in the art world is the absence of voices in the paid artistic space. Oscar Michaeux proves black people in all aspects of the film industry in the usa was present from the early 1900s. But big hollywood studioes who financed better than anyone else, didn't utlizie black artists in all ways. so today it is still seen as a rarity. Black independent comic book makers have existed since at least the late nineteen forties, with Lion Man, and yet, the number of black characters between marvel + dc with their owncomic was so small, milestone was and still is deemed a rare gem of black title characters. The easiest proof is in jean michel basquiat's life. When he died , people threw his art away. Now, with the promotion by many black people with money, his art work goes for millions. When a firm is looking to make money in the arts it is looking to cater to the paying audiences tastes. In the usa what few seem to realize is the 1970s was the first decade in the history of the usa or the european colonies that preceded it where the black paying auidence could support white financed film/theater and thus the commonly called blaxploitation era which was mostly financed by whites, mostly had white directors, but had many black actors to cater to the black ticket buyers who wanted to see themselves. Have you ever been told your vision wasn't "authentic" enough? Did a curator or a manager diminished your experience based on their own? Or perhaps you were commissioned by a client only to learn they needed a "diverse" take on the subject? No but I havent worked for a disney or similar. I know artists who have worked in the private sector and they have stated similar. @RoyalArtist91 nice work fellow graphiter, I couldn't find the photo you referenced. but the chiaroscuro is lovely and from what i saw it looks like her @MagentaRoseOrchid what photo of yours do you want to be illustrated from most? @6re9 draperie is elegant, nice version @Apelure is the pearl going to be eaten? @AleksiAh I never played baldur's gate, but i like karlach's physicality @RolfDBruehwiler lovely detail in the ink, what inspired the design? @mrmission have you ever seen the film krull? this reminds me a little of the design for the beast? @hellboyashish is that harriet tubman? looks like a photo of her i saw. @Kietz your wife is very pretty, will you place the work of her in frames? @SCII1 moth gideon the texture of skin you achieved is very nice @lorelielye a fairy ballerina, cute @rohelinebear reminds me of the lady in gold @Wininiii a deer looking at the leaves nice @K-Zlovetch Ancient and powerful @WisniewskiStan love the decay of the demon cat @WisniewskiStan have you drawn sheharazade telling a tale? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1355563356/5298438892 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox the maze king https://www.deviantart.com/leothefox/gallery/24977924/mazes @DVanDyk a green sun , rare @julejeurissen what time index isthe image in the following video @EintoeRn I get the yin yang, but what is that ? you hashtagged, shackle, but I was unable to decipher what the metal is @KizukiTamura nice tromploi, even if unintentiaonl, i thought one whole image, nice @zeroequalsq nice composition, the darkness seems to have attacked her @MozaGrin I need to do revamping of old work more , i don't do it enough, nice mouth COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1357987024/5298442922 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox + @Chaosfive-55 making a fun challenge I already have a crime fictiom detective series but I have thought of a specific tale for this challenge and remember to link the book when it comes out Leo I want to share @EintoeRn where is the building in "we had a jolly good time" and what kind of buidlding is it? the sunflowrers underneath a tree was a great find on your travels. What species is the tree? @RohelineBear i love the design of listening to silence for izumi, which i think means spring, why the two face? @FlyingFryingPans have you ever seen such a scene in nature? seems like mesas jutting over a snowy schoreline @zeroequalsq what video game did you reference, with the invisible man with glasses? @aztlanwayne toloatzin is indigenous ot central america. so it makes sense the pretty image is in a private mexican collection. lI love the wings and the sun, it gives a vibe of pre european mexico. @darkroots77 is hell on the hidden side of the creature's mouth ? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1359474671/5298444919 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox do bookmarks do well in promotion for you ? are they the best physical promotional tool you use? you can answer privately if need be. "madness has a color" what a nice tagline @berryspitfire what is the rarest design for a building you know of? @Bnspyrd which is best at hallet cove: swimming, surfing, sailing, walking, jogging? @yanadhyana between the worlds refers to which worlds, is it two worlds or multiple worlds? gloomy owl but laso imaginative, the head creatures, the shadow beings, nice imagination @allusernamestaken666 have you ever seen the film labyrinth from jim henson?

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CHAPTER 1 from @dellcartoons https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1210527648/5222883674 from @supersader9 https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1210527648/5248892403 from @HDdeviant It is astronomical twilight. Seagulls crying danger in the least light. No horizontal boundary between sky over sea. Just glints from stars above an old fisherman ,in an sturdy old boat muttering to himself as he drink or wait, see. Salvadore: Mr. Quint, you wa crazy Mr. Quint! You knew betta. Da shark came for your soul. You know, sea forget nodin Mr. Quint. You A bump from something in the water alert a drowsy Salvadore. S: Tha ain't no catfish, my net wa get one Salvadore nearly rock to sleep and another bump, and he look over the side. He notice in the dark sea, shine. The shine rise or grow and he cognize a coin and another and more. A brilliant illumination made of coins float under Salvadore's ship. Before he can grab his net his mobile timer begin playing DDD from EXID. Salvadore lean back to eye it and cut it off. And while he operate the device, a shimmering set of coins interwoven in a net in the twilight encapsulate him plus his mobile phone and his boat like a shark jumping out the water to catch fur seals. In the morning, only DDD was found on the shore, and the fisherman made a song. Ol' Salvadore, he ran from Quint To save his lore, from a shark bent And he did swore, forget no rent But Ran seek more, than punishment She like em poor, an' innocent W Literature Where is Salvadore Now?TITLE: THE SEA SHANTY OF SALVADORE AUDIO- TEXT is In a comment below in 250 words or less, in your own words and without the assistance of AI or similar machine learning tools, continue a Chapter 1 from above. Tell us more about Where Salvador Is Now?! 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The early sunlight skates powerfully on the water pushing the slow morning shadows. Salvadore studied his prey, he knows it hunt at these hours. The quiet of the sea does not mask the tension between the hunters and the hunter. Salvadore think of Mr. Quint, and a song they made together he sing. Farewell and a-dieu To you pe-can wa-hi-ne Farewell and a-dieu To you wa-hi-ne beams For we embrace hatred through vendetta, in the sea And soon, ever more Shall you be our last see And, a motion alert from Kathy's monitor... 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From his wife, Julie Bell Hello everyone! I have an announcement to make and feel now is the time as we’ve received so many kind comments on our recently shared painting “Inferno”. Boris and I worked together on this piece for the past three years and we deeply appreciate all the notes from people who enjoy our collaborative paintings. Boris is now 85 and has Parkinsons. He has been creating magical worlds for others to enjoy for over five decades and is now officially retired from commercial or commissioned work. “Inferno” is his last piece of this type. This decision has taken quite some time to arrive at and even more time to feel ready to announce. He's still signing prints and cards, he still does some painting for himself, and he still plans to be at Illuxcon in October in Reading, PA because he loves seeing all of you and chatting about art! We thank everyone for all of the love and support you’ve shown all these years! my comment To Mr. Vallejo, all I will say is , Lovely artist:) Glad he isn't alone in this world and can live the rest of his life, still creating, aside his loving ones. this website https://www.borisjulie.com/ THE WORK Primeval princess , cover for a book https://www.budsartbooks.com/product/boris-vallejo-s-primeval-princess-hurt/ The Announcement post https://www.instagram.com/juliebellartist/p/Da_Le0OJSyQ/ The art post https://www.instagram.com/juliebellartist/p/Da7wA2Npdn-/

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/HDDeviant-saying-Hi-1357197205 CONTENT Good day Deviants, I am @HDdeviant , a writer or illustrator. I have been an ambassador since June 2026. I am a member of @CRLiterature plus @color-me-club Like other ambassadors I : make challenges or features to engage users and strengthen the overall community in Deviantart, manage the backend in groups like accept post or reject memberships , plus assist other ambassadors with their challenges through setup or moderation or rewards. But being an ambassador involves many more actions: accepting group submissions or providing feedback to submissions to groups, recommending Daily Deviations, and more. I speak for the ambassador community of Deviantart when I say we pride ourselves on the human interaction with humans and hope to inspire and encourage positive creative plus fun comradery. I am not always available but I always reply to messages from humans and will try to help best I can. The following are examples of my literature. The stageplay "The Journey Of Sofie Wakten " The poem "Ship of Fools, Legend to be" The example work for an edition of the WHERE ARE THEY NOW series in CRLiterature , "The Ride Of Your Life" referring to the heroes of D&D The example poetry for the Mad ^INf March challenge "Yaffles at Yggr or Laughs at Odin" A fantasy to send chills to your dreams of the future "THE PROMOTION" T Literature The Journey of Sofie Wakten to become a witch The Journey of Sofie Wakten to become a S Literature Ship of Fools, Legend to beTitle: Ship of Fools, Legend to be I will tell a T Literature The Ride Of Your LifeTITLE: THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE Venger trapped the Y Literature Yaffles at Yggr or Laughs at OdinYolk Yolk Yolk yclept Yggdrasil Yean Yean Yean T Literature THE PROMOTIONTITLE: THE PROMOTION An officer sit in his office The following are examples of my illustrations. Calligraphy with poetry "Holiday Rex DTIYS B+W" An inking of my original character "Princess Candace in a moment in the Kingdom of Mir" Example for the Mermay badge in Color-Me-Club "Legends of Akorade" Lineart of my entry in a @Charity-Guild challenge highllighted in Color me club "Pokemon Dance Charity 2026" Example art work for the wishing wells, lineart challenge of Color me Club "Preto Liberdade Wishing Well" And yes I am a real person, as well as a fan of Daft Punk. View two images of me at an event for Deviantart See more here Mytime at the Deviantart Launchpad Live Meetup inNov 7, 2025 Mytime at the Deviantart Launchpad Live Meetup in More by HDdeviant Earth Day Tree MeasurerApr 7, 2026 Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! The oldest person you know, Mama Earth is having a celebration April 22nd, shhh don't tell her. Let us celebrate who will protect our loved ones when we are long dead. Who nurtured our bloodlines for each and everyone of us to exist. Who has the resources for all to live in peace but allows all of us the freedom to be what we choose to be. Here's to MAMA EARTH! To celebrate Mama Earth let's help her measure her greenest children on land, that being trees. To do this we each must craft a simple clinometer PHOTOGRAPHS OF CRAFTING [a multimage] [DEVIATION] CRAFT MATERIALS Cardboard [stiff] Protractor[ half circle shape with one hundred and eighty degrees, needs the origin hole, it is midway of the baseline ] straight ruler pen colored pencils string coin tape sewing measuring tape CRAFT INSTRUCTIONS Color the cardboard, the background color Place EASTER EGGS - Color Me ClubApr 3, 2026 NO MORE LINEART ENTRIES OR COLORING ENTRIES 🌅 Easter Eggs: April 2026 Contest 🌅 Brought to you by: [EMOTE][EMOTE] [EMOTE] Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch! [EMOTE]🎯 THE CHALLENGE1. For the Line Art Creators: Nativity, Nationalism, what do those words bring to your mind? Many things as they should, for both words are rooted in the word to be born. Like every idea born in your mind, no matter it's quality, it had to come from you. As April is the month of Easter, named after the spirit of Spring, nothing encapsulates something being born more than the egg. Create a line art of a EASTER EGGS— more than one but the exact number Whimsy Unlocked -April Profile Badge 2026Apr 1, 2026 Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! [DEVIATION] Join @CRLiterature and the other Community Affiliated Groups as part of the community in Deviantart celebrating Whimsy & Play for April. Here are the prior months in @CRLiterature [DEVIATION] How does one be whimsy and play in literature? I honestly wouldn't know. But, I do know that everyone who is alive today plus old enough to read knows of the work titled "How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck If A Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?" from Nada S. Q. Earl The two hundred and twenty three thousand one hundred and thirty seven [ 223,137 ] magnum opus published 1964 by Planning Parrot , available in every language. We all know the publication of the book has two uncommon factors. 1) The author made every printing a new edition. 2) The author didn't make a prologue to any edition. Your task to unlock whimsy is to take your edition of How~ and make the #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #2Apr 1, 2026 #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black History Months, when many people including some Black people don't make an effort to emphasize Black History. A way to cover the rest of the year, the remaining 337 days between each 28. In this edition we focus on the earliest films written/produced/directed/acted by Black people simultaneously. This leads to only one, Oscar Micheaux. Can you find evidence of earlier films written/produced/starring black people concerning the following themes? "Scary Film" ; A Son of Satan (1924)- a man sleeps in a haunted house, some of the cast from the stageplay Shuffle Along are in it. "Film Noir" ; The Exile (1931) + Underworld (1937) both the exile + underworld have proper femme fatale's like Double Indemnity. What do I mean? In Double Indemnity, 1944, the femme fatale played by barbara stanwyck is assaulting or murderous on her own. Fred McMurray isn't required for her to be a murderous or assaulting. To often in film noir's women are Featured in Groups CRLiterature © 2026 HDdeviant

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Jogobonitocmc2026stamp-1355236718 CONTENT EMBED CODE DESCRIPTION for entires in the @color-me-club challenge Jogo Bonito 2026 Jogo Bonito 2026 Coloring ChallengeJul 1, 2026 JOGO BONITO 2026 COLORING CHALLENGE! Brought to my example work, free to color Stamp Folder https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/98865585/stamps #tctbc #colormeclub #tocolorortobecolored #hddeviant #copamundial #worldcup #colored #coloring #lineart #futbol #soccer #mimada #jogobonito #candyladyub #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #akoradegpage #coloring #lineart #princesscandace #princemenelik #llama #1960s #fashiondragon #candylady #laprimatotre #wierdfashionlady #kidowaum #fella #akorade #hoofs #pear #salamanca