Ten seconds until landing.
Louis wasn’t sure whether the shivers in his spine were from anxiety or excitement.
Five seconds until landing.
He locked his helmet in place and tested the intercom system. This moment was going to be broadcast live around the world, so he had rehearsed his first words until he could recite them in his dreams.
Three seconds until landing.
Peering through the porthole he could already see the rough rocky surface of the moon, covered by a layer of moon dust that hadn’t been disturbed in millions of years. The sunlight reflected more harsh of the surface, because of a lack of atmosphere, creating a surreal spectacle of highlights and shadows.
Brace for landing, impact incoming.
With a thud and a rumble through the cabin, Apollo 11 had landed on the Earth’s eternal satellite and the closest thing it had to a sibling. Louis grabbed the flagpole that was secured against the wall of the cabin. He wouldn’t officially be claiming the moon for the USA, but it was a nice symbolic middle finger to the Russians.
With a hiss the valves depressurized and the hatch of the ship slowly opened. Through the opening he could see the surface and the scattering of the light even more clearly now. It was beautiful, haunting and alien.
For a moment Louis was struggling with unbuckling himself. All this advanced technology and they still couldn’t manufacture a belt system that wasn’t a pain to release. That and the fact that he still had to write with a pencil while in space. As he finally disconnected himself from the vehicle, he pushed himself off the seat and let the weaker gravity carry him towards the platform. Stopping himself short of exiting, he firmly planted his feet on the metal plates below. This first step had to be made with intent.
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!” Louis said as he truly planted the first human foot on the lunar surface. Hearing the satisfying crunch of ancient dust beneath his boots.
His intercom system buzzed and crackled with words of celebration from the control room back on Earth. He barely noticed it as he was gazing along the rounded horizon of the moon, with the Earth brightly illuminated in the background. It was truly a magnificent view.
Louis had carefully set out on a walk across the lunar surface. Leaving footprints behind in the dust that would lead his way back to the Apollo. Scouting for a nice spot to plant the flag, his eyes fell on a subtle upwards slope in the rock and dust. That would be the perfect location and he took giant leaps – almost like a kangaroo – towards it.
As he stuck the steel pole as deep in the ground as he could, he noticed something moving from his peripheral. Probably something conjured up by his mind adjusting to the unfamiliar lightscape that was cast on the surface. Yet when he turned to inspect it, he saw a small dot on the horizon. It looked vaguely human, but Louis knew that couldn’t be possible. Curious and slightly startled he decided upon investigating it.
Walking on this surface had been a breeze. Not only was it incredibly satisfying to take these great leaps, but it also barely took any strength. In a mere five minutes he had traversed almost a mile to his crude estimation. The closer he got to the figure however, the more it resembled the silhouette of a human. He could feel anxiety creeping up his throat at this completely impossible scenario, but he also couldn’t make himself turn around. He had to see for himself. The most odd to Louis was the fact that no matter how much closer he got, the figure didn’t seem to move. Almost like it was waiting on him.
He was close enough now to see the details. It was indeed a man. It looked like an ordinary human, but it wasn’t wearing any protective gear. It couldn’t possibly breath on this surface, nor should it be possible for its body to withstand the cold or UV radiation. It frightened Louis on a level he had never experienced before. Convinced he was seeing things, he closed his eyes and took several deep breaths, calming down his mind as best he could. When he opened them again, the figure was gone. Relieved that he had in fact been seeing things that weren’t there, he turned around. He screamed as he stared straight into the glazed eyes of the figure that had stood right behind him. Jumping back instinctively, he stumbled on a couple of moon rocks. The fall didn’t hurt him, because of the lower gravity, but as he crawled backwards, the thing slowly started moving towards him. Louis turned around and stumbling found his way back onto his feet and he bolted away from this thing as fast as he could. Oddly, running on the lunar surface was a lot harder, as the lower gravity tried to transform each push from his foot into a leap that took him frustratingly slowly forwards.
Catching his breath – mostly out of fear and panic – Louis came to a halt. Resting with both hands on his knees. He hadn’t kept track of where the Apollo was and the reckless flight had made a mess of the footprints in the dust. That’s when something inside him told him that he wasn’t standing here alone. He slowly looked from the ground upwards. In front of him stood the figure. It didn’t look exerted, it didn’t even seem to have left any trail, it just stood there as it grabbed hold of Louis’ helmet and he heard the click of the release. The cold vacuum of space was the last thing he felt.
The dust on the surface crunched as the figure in the spacesuit had managed to track back the footsteps that lead to the spaceship. Across the metal hatch it entered the spaceship and fiddled with a couple of buttons and switches until the hatch closed behind it. It sat down on the seat in the cockpit and strapped itself secure. The buckle was a bit of a struggle, but when it was done, it activated the launch sequence, with the interface setting course towards Earth.
Ten seconds to lift off

Hello!
Well its been a month since we saw history being made in the Crucible Theatre: Luca Brecel winning his first world title and becoming the first player from Continental Europe (and first player from Belgium) to win the title. The 2022-23 snooker season was chock full of shock results and a changing of the guard in many ways, and the next season doesn't intend to disappoint us at all! Will the fabled "Class of 92" return to winning ways, or has the Covid-19 pandemic itself become the necessary change that snooker may or may not have required for its long term future?
It'll be an interesting season for sure, as the World Snooker Tour will be returning to China as well, the first events to be held in the country since 2019. We already had the Hong Kong Masters last season, which set a record for the largest audience in snooker history, but unfortunately that event is not on the calendar this year, and the fate of the Turkish Masters hangs in the balance as well.
All that aside, lets look back at last season and see what changed for the community:

• We used a new format for all of our tournament discussion threads, where AutoModerator would be the post owner, using a structure that made it easy to repeat over all tournaments and to help keep things fresh. This helped to centrally manage all tournament discussion threads in a long-term sustainable format.
• The World Championship used an experimental form of the above, which was met with "mostly positive" feedback from the community, but which also caused some controversy and also some confusion with established users.
• We also refreshed our visual branding with a brand-new header image across both old and new Reddit, that best encapsulates snooker in the Theatre of Dreams.
• We also brought on some extra moderators to help keep our community inclusive, welcoming and positive for the season ahead.
• The stats showed our community continued to grow, with more messages and users joining us last season than in any previous season.

Based on your feedback shared over the course of the entire season, we're looking forward to the 2023-24 snooker season and want to provide you with transparency about how things will be handled with the Tournament Discussion threads, as well as other minor points that came up during the season.
​1. AutoModerator will continue to be the poster for all Tournament Discussion threads going forward.
At the start of last season, our main user who handled all TD threads quit Reddit. This led to a vacuum in relation to who should manage the threads in the future. We trialled using AutoModerator for all threads to provide consistency to the community and we believe this to be a net positive change which removes any kind of "ownership" concerns, as future moderation teams can continue the management of these posts. Therefore, effective immediately, any and all tournament discussion threads (for this season and all future seasons) will be scheduled posts through AutoModerator for the foreseeable future, and they will continue to be "one thread for the whole tournament", with the exception of the World Champs as discussed later.

1. No threads will be made for Qualifying rounds, with a specific set of notable exceptions.

Throughout last season, World Snooker Tour used a qualifying round for the vast majority of tournaments. This season, we expect that this will continue and these rounds are often only accessible to users through paywall platforms such as Discovery+, making them inaccessible to the majority of fans. They also don't generate a huge amount of interest from the community anyway, as during actual Qualifying sessions, little community posts were made, except for notable results.
Therefore, with that in mind, and as World Snooker Tour have decided they will continue with the Qualifying rounds format in subsequent season, official discussion threads for Qualifying rounds will not be made going forward (for this season or any other season), but we encourage the community to make new posts as required for any notable results or matches that people might feel they should watch or need to know about.
Two specific tournaments are exempted from this rule: those being the UK Championship and the World Championship. These two events are given more notability by World Snooker Tour, as well as more "meaningful" coverage that is also available for free, so it is reasonable to give them more attention on the sub than other events.

1. No threads will be made for the Championship League.

These tournaments are generally played behind closed doors and get little televised coverage. Since a large portion of the community is based in either the UK or Europe, where access to the events is limited to one stream on YouTube [which lacks commentary] and one stream on Facebook [which does have commentary], and these events have typically generated little interest due to their unique format, we don't think its in the best interests to provide a thread for discussion threads for either version of the Championship League, but -- like Qualifying rounds above -- you're more than welcome to post a new thread for notable results that you've seen mentioned on social media.

1. The televised rounds of the World Championship will use an updated thread format for this season.

Last season, we trialled an unusual format whereby Round One matches were in one thread, Round 2/Quarter Finals matches were split into two threads [one per table], Semi-Finals were covered in one thread and the Final was given a thread to itself.
Our intention was to make things more intuitive to navigate and to reduce the potential for spoilers, as people may be watching one match but not the other and end up being spoiled. However, feedback during the event showed that while many appreciated the format of the threads, others did not and it led to confusion, as people did not know what Table One or Table Two referred to.
We want to make these threads for the event easy to use: the World Championship is our premier event on the calendar and draws a lot more activity than any other event on the calendar, which means we want to make sure that everyone can use them. Across all of the threads for the World Championship, they amassed well over 17,500 comments alone. If we put all those comments into just one thread, they would be an extremely painful experience, not only for us moderators having to remove bad comments, but also for you trying to read the thread (as well as loading said thread!)
With this in mind, and based on your feedback, we are going to use a different format for these threads this season: again, like last season, your feedback will help us to shape a format that works for you but also makes it easier for us to moderate over the tournament. The new format will involve each individual round being given its own thread: no separation will be used for each table, as the designation was deemed confusing and unnecessary.

1. The sticky post for matches to be played on each day will continue, but with some specific exceptions

Along with the use of AutoModerator for owning the discussion threads themselves, we also provided a sticky post which detailed matches to be played per day for each stipulated session of that day, as well as other notable information relating to each session [eg matches cancelled because a player withdrew]. We believe that this information can be useful for fans, even if it is duplication of information provided by World Snooker Tour, so this will continue for all threads as required.
However, this information will not be provided for those tournaments played in Asia. This is because of timezone reasons, and matches will be played at times when most of the moderators will not actually be able to check what matches are being played and on what table. For those events, the sticky post will just detail some useful information not covered by the OP, if any: otherwise, no sticky post will be given.

1. The rule regarding "don't post threads with spoilers in the title" will be reviewed.

This has become a point of contention recently, as Reddit has made several changes that mostly make the rule redundant. However, we appreciate that a thread containing a spoiler can still be disruptive as not everyone will be aware of these features, or may not be using a version of Reddit where they exist. With that in mind, our moderators will be reviewing the specific rule and see if it needs to be tweaked or removed. We will provide updated information on this later in the year [but before the Champion of Champions commences]
​
Okay, long post over with! While the professional tour is taking a well-earned break, Q School is well underway to see who is joining (or rejoining) the tour. Let's all congregate again when the 2023-24 season recommences and enjoy the time to relax! :)
With regards,
- /snooker Moderation Team

I own land in Klamath county Oregon, in a “town” of less than 100. I’ve lived all over the west coast and the mountain regions, but this was different.
During fire season, things got odd. This was in 2020/2021 especially. I noticed many fires within a short period. It would be a regular occurrence to wake up to smoke billowing over my land from a new fire.
These fires were all visible to me from my home sometimes over a hill, sometimes I could see flames. One night I had a dream of a wall of fire at the edge of my land and within a few days my closest neighbors old property in the woods burned down. He wasn’t there, nobody was.
When the fire fighters came, they had new fires starting when the other fire was being put out in my neighborhood, but the little ones were going against the direction of the wind and blocked by hills, rocks and trees, etc. and shouldn’t have been spread by the previous fire. so they had to do extra investigations and couldn’t figure out how it would be possible to naturally spread like that when the fire clean up was already finishing up.
They used a water tanker airplane on my neighbors property because it was already putting out 3 other forest fires started within 24 hours, in the same area within a few miles
Sometimes there would be up to a dozen large fires nearby, within a week. Often times by the river down the road and also westward towards crater lake area.
I also noticed a lot of these were in a line visually, not an exact line but a general geographical line on a large scale meaning it’s like they were being burnt methodically for periods of time. Over a large area.
The military has a base in Klamath falls nearly 60 miles away and fly over often, also the trails in the sky sometimes were at insane levels during this period. (No idea if they’re related with fire)
The explanation of these fires varied, often times there would be a controlled burn, then they’d repost the same story but say it was a forest fire and it was a surprise. Which I thought was odd. Some were possible arson or garbage burning.
The weirdest moments for me were when they were saying it was caused by lightning on sunny blue days with very few clouds.
An area nearby where I go for solitude in nature, was nearly complete burnt in the bootleg fire. It is a very secluded area away from anything. It just so happens to be where a monument is for the only world war 2 enemy bombing site in mainland usa. when a bomb took out school kids outside in the forest during world war 2.
Now I only mention those details to explain that this area gets very weird mysterious vibes and I’m not very superstitious but something just seemed and still seems … off and bad about the situation. Which is why I’m still thinking about it.
Thoughts?

Ah, Eurovision season. The time of hype, music, unity – and a shit ton of drama. This year’s winner is maybe one of the most controversial we’ve ever had, and that’s saying something considering we've had broadcasters straight up end a broadcast because they didn't like the winner (don't ask).
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start from the basics:

What is Eurovision?

Eurovision (or ESC) is an annual song contest originating from Europe, organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It’s been held without fail since 1951 aside from 2020, when it was cancelled for truly mysterious reasons. (COVID, guys, it was COVID). Originally incorporating only European countries, the contest has grown in its scope since its early days, nowadays having almost 40 countries participating (including some decisively non-European countries like Israel and Australia) and reaching a viewership of 150+ million, making it measure up to live events the likes of Super Bowl.
The concept of the competition is simple: each country sends one original song to compete. Aside from the biggest sponsors of the contest (UK, Spain, Italy, Germany and France) and the winner of the previous year (Ukraine in ESC 2023) each entry participates in a semi-final, from which 20 countries are selected to advance to the final via voting. The winner of the competition is the act that gets the most votes in the final, who then gets the right to host next year’s contest and enjoy the tourism money. This year, UK took over the hosting duties from Ukraine for reasons (the war, guys, it was the war).
The voting system is important to understand for context: each country gives two sets of points, both equal in value and weight. Points are given to the top 10 entries, 10th getting 1 point, 9th two points and so on. Third place gets 8 points, second place gets 10 points and first place gets 12 points to make the top two positions more valuable. The two sets of votes come from professional juries and the televote. Countries can’t vote for their own entry, naturally.
Juries are 4-5 member teams consisting of music professionals (artists, producers, managers, vocal coaches, music reporters, radio DJs, choreographers etc.) who appraise each entry based on the following criteria:

• Composition and originality of the song
• Performance on stage
• Vocal capacity of artist(s)
• Overall impression of the act

Televotes are collected by having viewers vote via the official Eurovision app, or by calling/texting. A person/device can give a maximum of 20 votes and each vote costs money, the amount depending on each individual country, but it usually hovers somewhere around 1€/vote. Yes, I blew 20€ on the grand final. Yes, I blew another 20€ on the semifinal I was allowed to vote in (there are two semifinals and you can only vote in the semi your country’s in).
This year's Grand Final was held on May 13, but things start happening way before that. Each Eurovision season typically starts with countries selecting their representatives. Some use internal selection (as in, broadcasters decide who goes all by themselves) but most host national finals, competitions where the winner is granted the golden ticket to Eurovision. These national finals are keenly followed by eurofans (passionate fans of Eurovision).

Ready Player One: UMK 2023 and the Launch of the Dark Horse

In January 2023, UMK, the Finnish national final for Eurovision, started revealing its finalists. Seven finalists were announced, and their songs were released one by one on a once-a-day schedule. Finland’s journey in Eurovision has historically been poor, having only managed to secure one win (granted, there are many who have never won) and often finishing on the back end of the results.
Since 2020, however, UMK went under new management and did what was pretty much a 180: in a few years, it became one of the highest quality national finals around, and because of that, many eyes were on Finland when UMK started. The overall quality of songs in 2023 was very good, but one emerged as a clear frontrunner.
Käärijä, a Finnish rapper who was virtually unknown even in his home country, entered the competition, as the kids say, guns ablaze and mad as hell. His song Cha Cha Cha, a rap/metal/techno fusion song that does a complete tonal and genre shift halfway through, immediately became the fan favourite to win. When the time came, Käärijä absolutely landslided the national final, getting more points than the three runners up put together.
Hopeful buzz started amongst the eurofans; would this finally be Finland’s time after seventeen years (Finland’s last and only win was in 2006)? Finland is by means not the most beloved country in Eurovision, but many see it as an underdog that’s finally catching up to speed. Many wanted it to do well. Some were cautiously optimistic.
That was, until Sweden entered the competition, as the kids say, guns ablaze and mad as hell.

Ready Player Two: Melodifestivalen 2023 and the Awakening of the Sleeping Giant

Sweden, by all possible metrics, is one of, if not THE most successful country in Eurovision history. Before 2023, they’ve raked in a massive six wins (second only to Ireland who has seven), two of which during the last 11 years alone and the last one as recently as 2015. Additionally, on years they don’t win, they place in the top 10 almost without fail. They have only failed to qualify from the semifinals once, and it was largely seen as a national disgrace.
Sweden takes Eurovision VERY seriously, and it shows in their results. Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s national selection, started gathering curious eyes even before it started, because rumours were murmuring of someone very remarkable returning on stage. These rumours turned out to be true.
It’s hard to overstate how iconic Loreen is to the Eurovision community. She won the competition back in 2012, with a song that’s widely regarded as the best winning song of all time. She’s beloved and for a good reason. Known as a passionate, skilful vocalist and a world-class performer, the moment her participation was confirmed, many considered Melodifestivalen 2023 a done deal.
It must be mentioned that Loreen did attempt to return to Eurovision once between her win in 2012 and entry in 2023, but failed to win Melodifestivalen. However, this year’s entry was not here to play. She entered with Tattoo, a pop epic crafted by some of the best songwriters Sweden has to offer, with a staging so impeccable it could pass for a music video.
Critics and audience alike were raving. She was back, more powerful than ever. Expectedly, she won Melodifestivalen and earned her place in the line-up of 2023. In the community, the buzz was immediate, but not all of it was positive.

Sweden and Eurovision: A Turbulent Relationship

I think it’s fair to say that Sweden is, for the lack of a better term, suffering from success. Lately, there has been a somewhat anti-Sweden mentality brewing in the community, stemming from a few key criticisms Sweden regularly gets

• Genre loyalty: Swedish entries generally all fall under the umbrella of “radio friendly pop”. They’re well composed, well produced but seemingly leave the fandom cold. “Generic”, “soulless” and “safe” are terms often thrown at Swedish entries
• Jury bias: For a while now, Sweden has done better with juries than the televote, the difference once notoriously being as massive as 220 points, or 2nd place (jury) vs 22nd (out of a possible 26) (by the public). That being said, it’s disingenuous to say the televote hates Sweden as they regularly rank in the top 10, but it’s hard to deny that their point tally routinely consists of more jury than televote points
• Same songwriters: Melodifestivalen has been quite frequently criticized for having a large chunk of its songs written by the same core group of ten-ish people. In Sweden’s defence, a country of 10 million does not have that many active songwriters, but it’s hard to deny it’s a striking detail. For instance, in this year’s final, Melodifestivalen didn’t have a single entry that didn’t have at least two of these songwriters credited

This has led to things souring between Sweden and eurofans. To sum it up concisely: many eurofans feel like Sweden never takes risks, sends ungenuine lab-crafted jury baits and is always rewarded for it no matter what the viewers do because the juries always have Sweden's back. There's a lot of intricacies that go into this and there's nuance to this criticism, but for the sake of keeping things concise, I won't go into them now, all you need to know is that this is something that's going on.

“I love Loreen, but…”

Because of this sentiment, while Loreen undoubtedly had her fans, a sizeable section of the fandom started being critical of her. People started negging. Her song was called generic and soulless, the fact it was written by a huge group of the “regulars” in Melodifestivalen was brought up. People said it was too similar to her 2012 winning song, a 2.0 or carbon copy if you will.
As soon as Loreen was announced as the Swedish representative, the competition took on a narrative of its own. It was widely seen as a race between Finland and Sweden. While Loreen definitely had her fans, the overall mentality was leaning more towards Käärijä. He was seen as the underdog from the country that has a winning chance once every 20 years, if that, going up against the Eurovision powerhouse Sweden who wins so often the fandom is getting tired of it.
That’s not to say no other entries were ever in the talks: Spain’s artsy fusion flamenco song was seen as a potential jury darling. France’s sassy chanson was seen as a potential sleeper hit. Norway’s TikTok viral Viking techno banger was seen as a potential televote magnet. Ukraine was still a big unknown given that the previous year, they had received the largest televote tally in the history of the competition and many thought sympathy votes would keep pouring in this year as well. And then there’s whatever the fuck Croatia was doing (okay, they never had a chance of winning, I just wanted any excuse to subjugate people to this chaos).
But the overall sentiment was heavily leaning towards this being a neighbour war between Finland and Sweden. As the press and pre-parties (fan arranged concerts where artists are invited to perform to get their first interactions with the fandom) started, eyes were undeniably on Loreen and Käärijä.
During his Eurovision journey, Käärijä became somewhat of a crowd darling and went moderately viral on TikTok. A little guy with a bowl cut and a thick accent who had quickly gotten the reputation of being both funny and extremely friendly, coming to the competition with an out of the box and blatantly flamboyant genre fusion banger, walking around in a green bolero with no shirt. It's hard not to feel endeared. (Not that Loreen was unfriendly or anything, she’s perfectly nice by all accounts, but her off-stage personality wasn’t as much of a focal point as it was for Käärijä who became so beloved he was locked in as an icon even before the competition began).
Finns, they, well… Rallied behind Käärijä like crazy. Their government officials sent tweets wishing him good luck. The state owned railway company dressed its statues as Käärijä. The Helsinki tram got a Käärijä makeover. Cha Cha Cha topped the Finnish charts for ages (and still does AFAIK). The Finnish press was going gaga, broadcasting how only Loreen stood in the way of Käärijä’s victory.

“Just Ignore Everyone”: The Main Event That Undeniably Shaved a Few Years Off Of Graham Norton’s Life Span

The main event came about at the Liverpool Arena. As expected, both Sweden and Finland qualified for the final (later revealed to have come second and first, respectively). As the grand final came about, what was supposed to be a fun event (ironically carrying the slogan “United by Music”) turned into a rather tense occasion. Sweden performed 9th whereas Finland performed 13th. Both of their performances went largely well.
During Finland’s performance, the crowd went so crazy some commentators even said the whole building was shaking. People shouted Cha Cha Cha at the top of their lungs. The audience was on his side. Not that Loreen’s performance was poorly received either, she clearly had a lot of friends at the arena, but Finland got the audience by the balls.
After all of the 26 acts were done performing, the time for vote announcements came. The structure of vote announcements goes as follows: first, each country gives their jury points one by one, their spokesperson saying out loud the country that got 12 points, the highest one possible. After that, the total televote points given by all countries are given to each act one by one starting from the country currently at the last position.
Very soon, it became obvious that the juries had taken an immense liking to Tattoo.
Loreen got 12 points after 12 points, and the atmosphere at the arena shifted. The audience got more and more agitated with each 12 points Sweden received, and cheered very loudly whenever Käärijä (who was expected to do significantly worse with the juries thanks to non-mainstream genre and his lesser singing abilities due to being a rapper first and foremost) got any points. It got to a point where they responded to Sweden getting 12 points by chanting Cha Cha Cha.
The hosts (Graham Norton and Hannah Waddingham) were getting visibly uncomfortable and had to calm the crowd more than once. Hannah Waddingham eventually gave the exasperated yet iconic one-liner “just ignore everyone” when the chanting wouldn’t calm down. In the end, Sweden was comfortably in 1st place, having raked in a massive and historic 340 points, almost double that of the runner up Israel (who got 177 jury points). Finland ranked 4th with the juries with a total tally of 150, nearly 200 points behind Loreen.
Once the time for televotes came, everyone’s eyes were on Finland. Käärijä was expected to do well, but no one could quite gauge how well he’d do. Turns out, very well. He raked in a massive 376 televote points, getting the full marks from 18/37 countries and not placing lower than 5th with any country. To put it in perspective, this is the 2nd highest televote score ever (by percentage of available points), the highest being Ukraine from the year prior, and the circumstances were quite unprecedented.
By then, it was obvious the two-horse race had become true. Loreen would need 189 points (roughly the 3th-4th place in televotes) to secure her win, a tally that wasn’t a walk in the park, but was very doable with her popularity.
The following sequence is still very bizarre to me. Loreen’s points were announced. She got 243 points, making her the televote runner up. Which in turn meant Käärijä had lost to her by about 50 points despite outdoing her televote score by 133 points. As the winner was announced, Käärijä buried his head in his hands, clearly devastated. Loreen was immediately guided back on stage for her winner’s reprisal.
Footage from backstage shows many contestants beelining for Käärijä to comfort him. They’re seen hugging him, chanting Cha Cha Cha like he’s the actual winner and trying to cheer him up. All the while, Käärijä himself was obviously heartbroken. The crowd wasn’t happy, to a point where when Loreen accepted the trophy, she asked if anyone even wants her to perform again.
While Loreen’s fans were ecstatic to see her win and perform again, a portion of the audience reportedly walked out, disappointed. That was the end of the main competition. Sweden had won its 7th Eurovision trophy, catching up to Ireland for most wins ever. Loreen had become the second person (and first woman) in history to win twice.
The fandom, while disappointed, quickly got over themselves and accepted the outcome- yeah no one’s buying this lmfao. The dust was up in the air and wouldn’t settle for a good while.

Let the Shit Slinging Begin: Conspiracy Theories, Petitions and the Media Fight

The outcome received immediate backlash. Loreen’s winning performance and grand final performance were mass downvoted on YouTube. Loreen’s victory post on Eurovision currently has 0 upvotes and over 6500 comments. Social media posts by Eurovision about Loreen were spammed by people proclaiming Käärijä was the real winner. Some contestants (namely Slovenia, Estonia and Serbia) outright said Käärijä was their winner. Finland’s grand final performance views also surpassed that of Sweden’s.
There was a lot of shit slinging. Conspiracies started rearing their heads. Some were convinced Sweden had rigged the jury in order to host Eurovision on the 50th anniversary of ABBA’s victory (yes, ABBA is Swedish, yes, they won Eurovision with Waterloo, no there’s no proof of this conspiracy). A petition was started to remove the juries and it reached 60 000 signatures in two days. Loreen was accused of plagiarizing at least two different songs (not that I personally think the accusations have any merit, the melody line is just incredibly common). The Norwegian delegation outright said the juries should be overhauled (Norway got screwed over massively by the juries, being placed 17th, only to be pulled to the 5th overall position by the televote).
When detailed televote results came out, it turned out Sweden had not placed 1st in a single country. It also had less 2nd places than Finland, and its average position was 5th (which coincidentally was the lowest score Käärijä got in any country). People were pissed. Some proclaimed spending money on voting is a waste of time if the 2nd highest televote score in history isn’t enough to win because a group of 200 or so people said so.
People started going through the jury credentials, soon discovering that they were overwhelmingly pop professionals (55% to be exact) while rock pros were nowhere to be seen (they made up 3.8% of the jury to be exact). To be fair, people weren’t only pissed for Finland, they were pissed for other entries that seemingly ticked all the boxes for the juries just to get a minimal result because Sweden vacuumed all the points like it was time for spring cleaning. (I feel like I must mention that a lot of televote magnet entries also flopped hard because Finland suckled up most of the televote points leaving the rest to fight for scraps.)
With the televote results also came a peculiar detail that kicked the drama between Sweden and Finland to a whole new sphere. Turns out, every country gave Sweden televote points, except one. Yep, you guessed it. Finland blanked Sweden, while Sweden’s televote gave Finland the full 12 points. (Finnish and Swedish juries gave each other 12 points.)
This was seen as unsportsmanlike and the Swedish media latched onto it. Think pieces started coming out. One infamous Swedish Eurovision podcast episode hosted by a Swedish newspaper consisted mostly of ranting about how Finland is a "country of idiots", how it's impossible Finns could genuinely have thought 10 other songs were better than Tattoo and how it was a testament to their lack of taste that they voted for Germany and not Sweden (Germany came in last, Finland was one of the only countries to give them points. Germany sent a metal entry so I’m not sure why this was a surprise, Finns LOVE metal).
Swedish newspapers also widely reported that the Finnish Eurovision commentator had told Finns not to vote for Sweden, furthermore adding fuel to the fire. This seems to mostly be lost in translation/a cultural miscommunication, the commentator in question read a joke out loud from the stream chat that essentially said “you’re allowed to vote tactically but not for your own country”, joking about the general elections held in Finland just months prior, where a lot of people voted tactically for the largest left-wing party to prevent the largest right-wing party from taking over. It didn’t work but "vote tactically" became a nation wide meme. Said commentator also simultaneously came under fire by Finns for stanning Loreen too much during his commentary. Man just can't win lmao
One Swedish newspaper article evoked strong backlash in Finland by referring to Finland as “östra rikshalvan” (“Eastern part of the Kingdom”, roughly translated) which was the term used for Finland when it still belonged to Sweden. Many Finns saw it as colonialist and like Sweden was implying they were entitled to their former vassal using their money to give them points. However, it’s difficult to deny this lack of points likely was tactical from Finland, given how they’ve given Sweden points every other year except this one. The Finnish media also did broadcast heavily that Loreen's win depends on the amount of televotes she gets compared to Käärijä, so it's not far-fetched at all that Finns were aware of it and voted for something else.
Finnish press wasn’t silent either. A widely publicized clip from a gossip radio show hosted by the teen targeted state-owned radio station Yle X3M heavily criticized Loreen’s entry, calling it “shit” and making a tasteless joke implying Loreen was on drugs the whole night thanks to her somewhat ethereal demeanour. One of the hosts also seemed convinced the results were rigged. Newspapers also eagerly reported about the plagiarism allegations against Tattoo, even if they never went as far as suggesting there’s any merit to them.
Perhaps the saddest part of this is the contestants themselves. Loreen and Käärijä both have consistently praised each other. They reportedly get along great and there are numerous clips of them hugging, laughing and joking around. Despite taking the loss heavily, Käärijä congratulated Loreen and emphasized he loves her and wishes her all the best from the very first interview he gave after his loss. (He did however say he feels like the jury system might need a reform.) Likewise, Loreen said in an interview that she wasn’t bothered by the crowd chanting Cha Cha Cha because she thinks Käärijä is awesome and authentic.
They’re still in contact and are planning to meet up for coffee when Loreen’s next in Helsinki. The abuse Loreen herself received reached downright disgusting proportions, crossing from general trashing to misogynistic and even racist territory (because of her Moroccan heritage). It got to a point where Käärijä had to address it on Finnish morning TV, emphasizing that the results are not her fault and that he feels horrible for her when people insult her because he knows her and knows she’s a lovely person. By all accounts, there’s no bad blood between them (or any contestants for that matter, this year was remarkably cordial).
So, where are we now? People have mostly calmed down (mostly) and accepted the results. Many still push for a jury reform, demanding larger juries with more diversity and knowledge of non-mainstream genres, a shift to a 60/40 voting split in favour of the televote, and many other things too numerous to list here. EBU has not addressed the controversy in any shape or form (and they likely won't), and we’ll likely have to wait until next year to find out if the jury system will be overhauled. Loreen and Käärijä fans are still bickering amongst each other but the general public seems to have moved on. Loreen is currently enjoying very good streaming numbers and chart placements across the world, and a record number of Eurovision entries are charting. Käärijä isn't doing half-bad either, being greeted by an airport full of supportive Finns upon his return and having skyrocketed to undeniable legendary status in the Finnish music scene.
Here’s to hoping Käärijä’s invited to perform at Eurovision 2024 as an interval act and regardless of jury reform (or lack thereof) people can bury this hatchet and Nordic unity can blossom once again. (Nordics get along great... Until one loses a competition to another, then it means war.)

• Age: 33.
• Location: Oregon, USA
• Income: self-employed, estimated 100K net for 2024 tax year
• Student Debt: graduating this weekend (!) with 165,000 student debt. Yowch. Will likely consolidate to a set interest rate when the pause is up later this summer.
• Consumer debt: none. I also have great credit.
• Assets: saving for a house in 2025. Aprox 40K saved so far for eventual down payment/closing costs.

Up until recently, I was operating under the "pay as little as possible, the world is ending anyway" attitude regarding my student loans. But in the past few years/months I've gotten my shit together in a new way and am wanting to be as strategic about my loan repayments as possible.
What other ways are there to maximize deductions, etc for paying off this massive loan amount? I mean beyond PAYE plans, etc. I mean, ways to get this sucker crushed asap.
Example: 529 plans. I'm an Oregon resident/tax payer. Can't quite seem to wrap my head around whether or not I can open a 529 plan (in Oregon, or otherwise?) to pay off my loan debt. According to this site, Oregon does not meet Federal regulations for using a 529 for loan repayment. If anyone can clarify/offer advice on this, I'd appreciate it a lot!
edit: link

I am exhausted. I am wired. I am hungry. The bronchitis from a month ago is back and tearing up my lungs. My body is in full on revolt. I am deleriously, ecstatically happy, and for the first time in a very long time I look at the future not with fear, or with indifference, but with hope and excitement. The last week may well have been one of the best weekends of my life. I am bursting with so much joy and love of the beauty of the world and the people in it, and gratitude for the people in my life and the gifts they have shared with me, that I can barely encompass it.
For nigh on a decade, I have predominantly been motivated by fear. Fear that if I didn't fix what had gone wrong in my marriage, I was a bad person. Fear tht if I didn't change in the way my husband needed me to to become the person he needed me to be, I would lose him, and it would show me to be a bad person. Fear that if I lost him, I would lose everything that mattered, I would be alone, unloved, unworthy of love.
Fear. Fear may be the mind-killer. It may be the little death that brings total obliteration. But it's a great motivator. Through long, painstaking, difficult effort, three steps forward, two steps back, I ground out a new me. A me with skills i'd never had, with a capacity for self-reflection and acceptance that I could never have conceived in my twenties. A me who (unlike twenties me) could stand for what I wanted and take the risk of loss, but also a me who (unlike the me of my early 40s) could be flexible and compromise rather than clinging for dear life to the boundaries that I'd carved in stone because I hadn't had any and could no longer tolerate hteir absence. A me that could blend self-care and compassion and care for others. A me who could be open with almost anyone about almost anything, but who didn't need to force that openness on people who didn't want it or couldn't share it.
It took me too long; I changed in the way my husband needed me to, but too late, and by then he needed something else, and the person he needed had become incompatible with the person I needed to be. But we both loved each other so much that we kept trying, and it didn't work, because it couldn't work. I grew into myself in order to save my marriage, and in the process lost it, and it sucks, but it's ok.
And yet, still, in the year since we agreed to stop trying and transmute the deep love we have into each other into a friendship (instead of a failing attempt at a partnership) --- in that year, every intrusive thought, every self-talk on long walks, every middle of the night ranting at myself when I cannot sleep, has been about my marriage, about the feelings from it that were never resolved and which likely can never be resolved. I have been stuck, half in the door to the relationship, half out, unable to move, or progress, or imagine any future --- the future I had hung my hat on for decades was gone, and while that decision was right by the time we made it, it meant there was nothing. A good job, a great circle of friends, a loving family household, sure, all of those are great, but they're no basis for building a future in the absence of the relationship that has been the focus of my adult life; nothing is such a basis.
At Coachella this year, a little bit before the start of Monolink's set, I ate some mushrooms. I peaked during the amazing visuals of Eric Prydz's set, enjoyed the acute comedown during Calvin Harris, stayed up all night, euphoric as fuck. It was a great time.
But --- i've been on the outskirts of rave culture for long enough to know that psychedelics are not just for partying. If you go in with the right mindset and the right intention, they can be a tool for change. There are all sorts of studies ongoing now of this principle --- mdma for ptsd, ketaimne for depression, mushrooms for whatever those godawful expensive clinics in oregon are doing with them. I had an intention: it is time to close the door, to be fully outside, to let the past be the past. I want to maintain a friendship, sure, but it has to be a friendship among friendships, not a primary friendship, and I have to just let the intrusive thoughts and the feelings and the what ifs go.
So the next night, still in the residual euphoria, I looked out across the crowd at the massive robot statues on the grounds, and they became security guards, blocking the door. And even now, a month later, when the intrusive thoughts come, the guards are there, tall and bright in my mind, warning me away. Do not enter, they say. The path is barred. Once in a while they don't succeed, but the overwwhelming majority of the time they do, and the intrusive thoughts have reduced.
I came home from Coachella knowing I had done it: I had hacked my mind, successfully, and the ensuing month --- a month where I had the worst cold in a decade, and bronchitis, and the most stressful work project since Borland kicked my ass to the curb so many years ago --- has proven it. The euphoria got lost in the cold, the stress of the project was brutal and overwhelming --- to the point where I got called out, in a way, specifically because the way I was interacting with coworkers was drawing complaints --- but the security guards are still there, a seemingly permanent addition to my cognitive repertoire.
But still, I could not see a future. Just an endless present, comfortable but unsatisfying, stretching until I die.
I'd been toying with the idea of going to another festival, Lightning in a Bottle --- an electronic music festival with hippie-spiritual aspects run by the people who run a specially curated stage at Coachella (the same stage I went to to bawl my eyes out after Porter Robinson's set this year) --- for years, but it never felt right, and I didn't want to go without a crew. (I increasingly don't want to go without a crew, but that's a tale for another day). This year, as I was still riding the euphoria from Coachella, things coalesced: some friends were going, I could camp with them, if I went this year, I'd have a crew. So I bought a ticket, took the time off work, and then promptly put the whole thing aside to focus on 70 hour work weeks while recovering from a terrible sickness.
I wasn't sure I was going to use psychedelics until I got there; my mindset in most of May has been ... incompatible with successful hacking or, honestly, joy. But I stepped onto the festival grounds on Wednesday and --- festivals are such a muscle memory for me that i was instantly refilled with the joy of the last festival, and the one before it, and the one before it; when i am at a festival it is as though i am at all festivals i have ever been to, one continuous time, the energy stretching across and among them, and it hit me, i was home.
(This didn't work last year at Hog Farm Hideaway or at California World Music Fest, and it's curious to me why, but that too is a topic for another day).
We set up camp -- me, my friends, one of their friends, some of her friends --- and started the weekend. The festival is sprawling (my campsite was at least a mile, possibly a mile and a half, away from the venue, with continuous campsites between) --- and, unlike Coachella, the festival isn't really about the bands per se; it's about a series of curated experiences to which the bands contribute. And the vibes --- the vibes, oh my god the vibes. Almost everyone is on, engaged, connected. I got more hugs from random strangers last weekend than I have over the past five Coachellas combined.
The production value isn't as good as Coachella (but very few are), but the curated atmospheres are stellar. And I love touches like the mid-festival fire pit, or the wierd martian dance party hangout, and the art design of the woogie at night was amazing.
I tripped twice last weekend (once planned, once a spontaneous last minute decision that may have been one of my best decisions of the weekend), and I rolled once.
I went into it with the intention of figuring out what the rest of my life looks like, and that didn't happen, but that was kind of a tall order, right? Insane, really.
But I also went in with the knowledge --- if i'm going to use these substances to hack my brain, the place i'm going to do it is at music festivals, and both so I can do it alone and so I am not a burden on my friends when I do it, I have to develop certian skills --- the skill to manage my reaction when i get overstimulated, the skill to go off and find a calming place when the feels get overwhelming, the skill to navigate to the bathroom when i need to, the skill to have a good time and not freak out when i get seperated, the ability to keep enough of my wits about me to be a good member of the crowd and not do super stupid stuff that's going to attract attention I don't want. My friends were kind enough to give me a safe space to develop those skills, and by the end of the weekend, I had. And at the same time ...
I had a couple intersections with the spiritual aspect of the festival. Not many, as that's not really what my friends wanted to do, and sharing the experience with them was more important than having my own experience in many ways, but some. An opening cacao ceremony I barely remember except for the bitter taste of the cacao and the sense of peace and focus it provided. A shiva ritual with tone meditation. And the fire pit, late sunday night, where the fire took on the aspect of the sacred fire that burns in everyone's heart, and i could gaze across the fire and see it, feel it, beating in everyone. (Something I did again, sober, last night, at the fire pit with my household-family).
I do not know who I am, not for real. I know the terrified child who hid behind being the smartest kid in the room so hte other kids would leave him alone and his mom and stepparents would take him seriously (and who stepped up to take care of his mom every time her relationships failed); I know the man who was afraid to not be the person he thought his husband wanted until that was unsustainable, the man who would not compromise with his husband because he'd been pushed to the point where the meagre boundaries he was clinging to were both essential and all he had, and the man who out of fear transformed himself into something close to a healthy adult (for someone else, not himself) --- but none of these are the core of me. They are masks I have worn, roles I have inhabited. I do not know who I am, and that used to terrify me, but now it does not.
I know that a big part of me is the part that connects, that seeks connection and forges conneciton and helps others find connections. I call myself a Bondsmith in cosmere fandom not because of any affinity to the known powers of bondsmiths, but because of an affinity to the act of bringing people together, of forging tribes and protecting them. And I know that a big part of me is the person who can sense, even if he can not always see or describe, the sacred fire of love and beauty deep within the core of us all, hidden and encrusted over by hurt and fear and rejection and loneliness and self-doubt and self-loathing and the drudgery of day to day life, and who seeks to bring it out and help it flower.
I do not know what I am going to do. I do not know who I am going to find that the rest of me is. That is a problem for tomorrow --- the metaphorical toomrrow, the immediate future stretching before me.
But ... I have spent a decade developing the tools for self-reflection and self-evaluation and self-change. I have learned this spring that I can use immensely powerful chemical tools to hack new neural pathways into my brain, to heal myself, and to help me discover who I need to be and what I need to do. I have a safe and loving community who will support me in it, and a job (for now) that will pay for it, and no need to worry about forcing myself to be who anyone else needs me to be --- I can find out who I need to be, and then I can decide what to do about it.
For the first time in more than a decade I am excited about the future, hope that I can be, and my future can be, something fantastic and fulfilling and full of love and joy and peace.
And I have so much gratitude, proximally to the friends who helped me this spring, more broadly to the friends who carried me through the darkness, and with whom I hope to celebrate the light.

Brings me to tears every time. 💕 I last saw Duran Duran at Marymoor Park about 10 years ago. 🎸 🎶
Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue Thought I heard you talking softly I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio Still, I can't escape the ghost of you . What has happened to it all? Crazy, some'd say Where is the life that I recognize? (Gone away) . But I won't cry for yesterday There's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find And as I try to make my way To the ordinary world I will learn to survive . Passion or coincidence Once prompted you to say "Pride will tear us both apart" Well now pride's gone out the window Cross the rooftops Run away Left me in the vacuum of my heart . What is happening to me? Crazy, some'd say Where is my friend when I need you most? (Gone away) . But I won't cry for yesterday There's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find And as I try to make my way To the ordinary world I will learn to survive . Ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ah . Oh, yeah, oh . Papers in the roadside Tell of suffering and greed Fear today, forgot tomorrow Ooh, here besides the news Of holy war and holy need Ours is just a little sorrowed talk . And I don't cry for yesterday There's an ordinary world Somehow I have to find And as I try to make my way To the ordinary world I will learn to survive . Every world Is my world (I will learn to survive) Any world Is my world (I will learn to survive) Any world Is my world Every world Is my world
https://youtu.be/FqIACCH20JU

Respect Juggernaut

This won’t hurt me! Nothing can!
♫Theme
Cain Marko was the son of nuclear scientist Kurt Marko, who worked in Alamogordo, New Mexico with Brian Xavier. After Brian died in a lab accident, Kurt married Brian’s widow Sharon for her family’s money, resulting in Cain becoming the stepbrother of the Xavier’s son Charles, the eventual founder of the X-Men. Kurt proved to be an abusive father to both Cain and Charles, which combined with Cain’s jealousy over his brother’s telepathy, fostered a lasting resentment between the two of them. After Kurt died saving them from another lab accident, Charles and Cain would end up serving with the army together in Korea. During their service, Cain would stumble across a cave that had a temple dedicated to the powerful mystic being known as Cyttorak. Touching a crimson gem at the heart of the temple, Cain was transformed into Cyttorak’s avatar on Earth, an unstoppable human Juggernaut. Shortly after, the cave collapsed, with Xavier barely managing to escape. Years later Cain would dig his way out and seek revenge on Charles for the perceived slights he had inflicted upon him. In doing so, Cain would come into conflict with the X-Men, Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor, Doctor Strange, and many other superheroes before eventually burying the hatchet with his brother. However, despite joining the X-Men and later Thunderbolts, Cain would return to being a villain each time. Throughout his life and various goals and motivations, only one constant has remained for Cain Marko. No matter the obstacle, he will never stop.
This respect thread is abridged due to Juggernaut’s large number of appearances. A full version is available on the Juggernaut Mega Respect Thread, with links to the unabridged sections posted where appropriate.

Key and explanation of periods where Juggernaut was stronger or weaker than normal

• [50%] Briefly lost half of his power after Black Tom absorbed it
• [X] Was made weaker by Cyttorak after deciding not to do his bidding anymore
• [T] Was made weaker by Cyttorak after he was angered by Juggernaut temporarily becoming Captain Universe
• [Kuurth] Became possessed by one of the Serpent's Asgardian Worthy named Kuurth after picking up his hammer
• [Once and Future] Had his power completely removed by Cyttorak but regained it after taking the place of an alternate universe Cain Marko, though it began to fade
• [Unstoppable] Was given more power by Cyttorak than he had given anyone else

Strength

Unabridged Force Field and Advancing Sections

Force Field

• Needs his helmet to use his force field - Uncanny X-Men #32
• Transforms a metal gauntlet into a new helmet - Amazing Spider-Man #628
• Can summon his helmet and armor out of thin air - Venom: The Madness #1
• Pushes Professor X's wheelchair back with a wave of force - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Stops a 10 ton rolling steel barrel with a current of energy and rolls it back through a wall and into Beast hard enough to knock him out - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Shoots globules of sheer energy, with a single one powerful enough to break a tree in half - Uncanny X-Men #46

Advancing

• Exerts enough pressure to buckle and shatter a metal wall that had 50 times the tensile strength of battleship steel - Uncanny X-Men #12
• [Limits] Loses his footing after some stairs he was climbing are turned to ice by Iceman - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Shatters a concrete power station by running through it - Amazing Adventures #16
• His powers let him swim in water even though he should be heavy enough to sink - Amazing Adventures #16
• [Limits] Sinks in water after Colossus knocks him into it unexpectedly - Spider-Woman (1978) #38
• Knocks Hulk over a hill and shatters it with a single charge - Hulk #172
• Walks through a building while Spider-Man was trying to pull him back - Amazing Spider-Man #229
• [Limits] Sinks to bottom of a 40 foot foundation of wet cement - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Walks through miles of bedrock and fractures the tectonic plates under Manhattan, which results in a catastrophic earthquake months later - Amazing Spider-Man #629, 628-629
• Holds onto Thor's hammer as it’s returning to him and tackles him through five boxcars and into a building hard enough to shatter part of it and knock him out - Thor #411
• Knocks down a uh... certain skyscraper by charging into it - Spider-Man (1990) #16
• Literally walks over Thunderstrike when he tries to push him back - Thunderstrike (1993) #2
• Makes footprints in concrete - Professor Xavier and the X-Men (1995) #13
• Charges into War Hulk and pushes him through hundreds of meters of rock, though Hulk is eventually able to stop his advance - Hulk #457
  • War Hulk was strong enough to lift and throw one of the pyramids of Giza - Hulk #456
• Rams his fellow Exemplar Stonecutter through a stone staircase - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• [X] Him and Sasquatch collide into each other hard enough to create a large crater in the ground, with Juggernaut being the first to recover - Uncanny X-Men #422
• [X] Climbs through a pile of wreckage and causes the ground the shake and knock cars into the air - New Excalibur (2006) #6-7
• Fights evenly with World War Hulk and pushes him back, undermining the foundation of the X-Mansion, though Hulk is able to knock him away by sidestepping him and adding to his momentum - World War Hulk: X-Men 3
  • World War Hulk was strong enough to prevent the crust of a planet from splitting by shifting tectonic plates - Hulk (2000) #102
• [T] A Raft scientist says he has endless kinetic energy and is unstoppable once he begins charging - Thunderbolts #144
• [T] Charges downwards through 1.3 kilometers of bedrock - Thunderbolts #149
• [Kuurth] The X-Men try at least 42 plans to stop him from walking towards San Francisco that all prove ineffective, including:
  • Face shooting him with a unique energy annihilation beam
  • Teleporting him to the bottom of the sea and the heart of the sun
  • Siryn combining her sound energy with Dazzler's sound-to-light powers to generate an extreme intensity laser
  • Gambit and Rockslide combining their explosion powers to create a detonation that nearly exhausted Cecilia Reyes from the effort of protecting civilians with her force shield
  • Magneto throwing an aircraft carrier into him - Uncanny X-Men #542
• Charges through a force wall government scientists couldn't find a way to penetrate - Dark Avengers #181-182
• D-Cel, a mutant that can slow down kinetic motion to the point objects stop falling, can't stop Juggernaut from advancing towards her - Juggernaut (2020) #1

Unabridged Striking and Lifting Sections

Striking

• Creates an earthquake across a valley that causes a cliff to collapse by slamming the ground - Uncanny X-Men #33
• Stuns Hulk with his blows - Hulk #172
• Backhands a 3 ton steel ball thrown at him by Spider-Man through a building, causing its side to collapse - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Incapacitates the Thing in three hits - Secret Wars II #7
• Backhands Rogue across Edinburgh and through a stone wall - Uncanny X-Men #218
• Punches Captain Britain through hundreds of meters of ground and incapacitates him with two more strikes - Excalibur (1988) #3
• Knocks out Professor Hulk after a prolonged fight while not wearing his armor or helmet - Hulk #402
  • Professor Hulk was strong enough to punch through doors capable of withstanding a nuclear blast - Hulk #410
• Levels a building with a punch - Deadpool: The Circle Chase #2
• Splinters apart the God Machine and the glacier it was on top of in an exchange of blows with Stonecutter and overpowers him - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• [X] Punches Rhino into a concrete wall hard enough to shatter it - Uncanny X-Men #435
• [X] Causes World War Hulk spit blood with a punch - World War Hulk: X-Men #2
• Punches a force field hard enough to create earthquakes registered at magnitude 4.6 and 8.0 - Hulk #602
• [Kuurth] Destroys more than half of the Raft island prison with a strike - Fear Itself #2, Thunderbolts #158
• [Kuurth] Punches Moonstone miles away - Thunderbolts #160-161
• [Kuurth] Strikes the ground hard enough to create a massive crater and a tremor registered at magnitude 0.6 - Thunderbolts #160-161
• [Kuurth] Levels Salem Missouri with a strike - Fear Itself: The Home Front #3, Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #3
• [Once and Future] Makes Colossus spit blood with his punches and overpowers him - Amazing X-Men (2014) #17
• [Unstoppable] Slams the ground hard enough to create a massive crater - Amazing X-Men (2014) #19
• Knocks out Immortal Hulk after a prolonged fight with the help of D-Cel and a gamma radiation siphon - Juggernaut (2020) #1
• Shatters a metal vault door - Juggernaut (2020) #4

Lifting, pushing, pulling, throwing, grip, etc.

• Snaps a steel cable as if it were paper - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Sweeps the O5 X-Men aside - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Pulls Hulk's head from behind and starts to break his neck, though he overpowers him due to getting angry - Hulk #172
• Tears apart a solid concrete wall reinforced with steel - Spider-Woman (1978) #37
• Rips off and lifts the corner of a building - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Lifts a tank by its turret and swings it onto another tank hard enough to wreck both of them - Marvel Team-Up #150
• [50%] Black Tom with half of his power suplexes a building - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Throws the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak into orbit - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Throws a boxcar into a weakened Thor hard enough to hurt him before lifting another one and ramming it into him - Thor #411
• Sends a pile of debris created from two boxcars getting thrown into him flying with a shrug - Thor #412
• Shatters a steel cocoon encasing him - Thor #412
• Sends tanks flying with a swipe of his arm - The All New Exiles (1995) #1
• Holds up a collapsing building - The All New Exiles (1995) #3
• Rips up a massive chunk of the street and throws it into a SWAT van hard enough to crumple it - Spider-Man (1990) #84
• Throws a truck through a building while weakened - Uncanny X-Men #361
• Rips off and swings the corner of a building while weakened - Uncanny X-Men #361
• Starts crushing Thor with a bear hug - Thor (1998) #17
• [X] Pushes a tank onto its back - X-Men (1991) #160
• [X] Flexes out of ice that was covering him - New Excalibur (2006) #2-3
• [X] Holds onto a metal beam with his fingers while being dragged underground until it snaps in half - New Excalibur (2006) #7
• [T] Pins down Luke Cage - Thunderbolts #150
• [Kuurth] Magneto can't stop his hammer after he throws it despite it being made of metal - Uncanny X-Men #541
• Rips off an icicle the size of a person and throws it through a Frost Giant - Punisher Kill Krew #3
• Swings an Asgardian dragon by the tail and into the ground hard enough to crater it - Savage Avengers (2019) #14

Unabridged Durability Section

Durability w/ Force Field/Armor

Blunt

• Only slowed down slightly by a continuous optic blast from Cyclops and a punch and kick from Angel - Uncanny X-Men #13
• [Limits] Angel is able to rip off his helmet after Beast loosens it - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Fine after Hulk strikes him in the back and tears up the rock under him - Hulk #172
• Fine after Colossus kicks him into a stone wall hard enough to make it collapse on them and knock Colossus out - Uncanny X-Men #102
• Started welding his helmet on with a laser torch, making it hard for Spider-Man to pull it off - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• [50%] Fine after Spider-Man yanks out a manhole cover he was standing on while he was stretching his webbing, so that it slingshots him into Black Tom hard enough to make a building collapse - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Started bolting on his helmet, making it hard for Colossus to rip it off - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Unharmed after getting struck with 1.37 kilotons of steel by Nimrod - Uncanny X-Men #194
• No-sells a punch from Rogue that shattered every window on a street - Uncanny X-Men #218
• His force field kills all of the momentum of Thor's hammer after he threw it at him - Thor #411
• Unharmed from Nova and Namorita throwing two boxcars into him - Thor #412
• No-sells a full force hammer strike from Thor - Thor #429
• Hurt but mostly unharmed after getting punched by Post-Crisis Superman - DC Versus Marvel #1
• Knocked out but quickly recovers after getting hurled from Canada to Hoboken by Onslaught - Uncanny X-Men #322
• Fine after War Hulk throws him from Giza to Cairo - Hulk #457
• Fine after getting punched through a concrete wall by War Hulk, though he's able to remove his helmet before he can get up - Hulk #457
• No-sells Spider-Man punching him with everything he had - Spider-Man (1990) #84
• Unharmed by a rain of blows from Thor that shatter the street around them - Thor (1998) #17
• Unharmed by a optic blast from Cyclops that he says had enough force to rip a small planet in half - Cyclops (2001) #1
• Fine after getting punched from Earth to Mars by Skaar - Hulk #602
• [T] Still able to fight after taking several attacks from Thor, Luke Cage, and Iron Man that make a large crater and shatter a cliff - Thunderbolts #150
• [Kuurth] Unharmed after Hope Summers with the powers of the X-Men flies into him hard enough to shatter a highway - Uncanny X-Men #541
• A non-Mjolnir Uru hammer shatters when Thor hits him with it - Thor (2018) #1
• [Limits] Thor makes him spit teeth by hitting him with a bigger Uru hammer, though Thor broke it and dozens more to knock him out - Thor (2018) #1
• Fine after getting punched into the sewers through part of a building and the street by Venom - Venom (2018) Annual #1
• Fine after getting punched through six stories of a building by Quicksand - Juggernaut (2020) #3
• His force field stops Swarm's bees from touching him - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #19

Piercing/Cutting

• No-sells a bazooka shell - Uncanny X-Men #33
• A spinning helicopter blade breaks upon hitting him - Uncanny X-Men #33
• Isn't cut by Wolverine's claws - Uncanny X-Men #102
• No-sells a concentrated barrage from assault rifles and rocket launchers that would reduce a house to splinters - Amazing Spider-Man #229
• No-sells a point blank tank round - Marvel Team-Up #150
• [Limits] Shatterstar's swords that were forged in a dimension of magic and science are able to cut through his flesh and helmet - Spider-Man (1990) #16, X-Force (1991) #4
• No-sells several tank rounds - The All New Exiles (1995) #1
• [X] No-sells assault rifle rounds - X-Men (1991) #160
• [X] Sabretooth's claws gouge but don't cut through his helmet - X-Men (1991) #162
• [X] No-sells bullets while a knife shatters upon hitting him - New Excalibur (2006) #14
• [X] Still able to fight after getting slashed across the chest and back with a sword by another Juggernaut, and catches the sword in his hand - New Excalibur (2006) #15
• [X] Fine after getting blasted through a concrete wall by some firearm - New Excalibur (2006) #16
• Unharmed from Skaar hitting him with his sword - Hulk #602
• Survives but is knocked out after getting hit by a giant Asgardian rocket launcher - Punisher Kill Krew #4

Sound

• Unharmed by a sonic scream from Banshee that shatters the stone floor under him - Uncanny X-Men #103
• Unharmed by a sonic scream from Siryn - X-Force (1991) #3
• Fine after getting hit by a sonic scream from Siryn that causes a building to collapse - Deadpool (1994) #3-4

Heat

• Unharmed by jets of chemical flame - Uncanny X-Men #13
• The Human Torch’s flames can't penetrate his force field - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Unharmed from a speeding tanker truck crashing into him and exploding - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• No-sells a microwave blast from Firestar that caused his armor to glow white hot - Thor #412
• Unharmed by Firestar melting a pile of steel girders surrounding him - Thor #412
• Unharmed from a vat of molten metal being poured on him - Deadpool (1994) #2
• Hurt but mostly unharmed after falling into molten steel while weakened - Juggernaut (1997) #1
• Rocked but doesn't fall after Inferno blasts him with enough sheer energy to vaporize countless tons of titanium steel in a split second - Avengers (1998) #24
• [X] Was supposedly fatally burned but still able to move briefly after taking the brunt of a flammable liquid explosion that destroyed part of a building - Uncanny X-Men #420
• [Kuurth] Unaffected by Adam-X igniting his blood - Uncanny X-Men #542
• Unharmed by Pyro's flames - Uncanny X-Men (2019) #16

Cold

• Unharmed after falling into a frozen lake - Cyclops (2001) #1
• [X] Fine after getting knocked through a stone wall by a stream of ice from Iceman - Uncanny X-Men #411
• [Kuurth] His helmet is only slightly cracked after Iceman lowers its temperature to absolute zero and Colossus punches it - Uncanny X-Men #541

Electricity

• Unharmed by a 20,000 volt electric fence - Amazing Adventures #16
• No-sells a lightning bolt from Storm - Uncanny X-Men #102
• No-sells a full strength venom blast from Spider-Woman - Spider-Woman (1978) #37
• Hurt but mostly fine after Storm and Spider-Woman blast him with enough electricity to cause a ship to explode - Spider-Woman (1978) #38, Amazing Spider-Man #229
• Unharmed from a million volts arcing over him - Amazing Spider-Man #229
• No-sells Thor calling down a lightning bolt on him - Thor #412
• Still conscious after Bishop channels enough volts of electricity to maintain the city of Hoboken through him while weakened - Uncanny X-Men #322
• Unharmed by electrical blasts from the Max Dillon and Francine Frye Electros - Sinister War #4

Light

• Recovers in minutes from a strobe effect created by Dazzler that she thought would stun him for an hour - Uncanny X-Men #217
• No-sells a photon blast from Dazzler that used all her power and that she says would've punched a hole through a mountain - Uncanny X-Men #217-218

Energy

• Fine after Nimrod knocks him through a concrete wall and into a construction site hard enough to make a crater with an energy blast - Uncanny X-Men #194
• A God-Blast from Thor that crumbles the concrete foundation he was standing on only pushes him back - Thor #412
• Tanks an energy blast from Frankie Raye Nova while weakened - Doctor Strange (1988) #44
• Unharmed after getting hit by an energy blast from Stellaris that created a massive hole in the road - Thunderstrike (1993) #2
• Walks through a continuous bio-energy blast from Chamber, though he's a hurt a little - Generation X (1994) #61
• No-sells an energy blast from Black Tom - Generation X (1994) #61
  • Black Tom's energy blasts can wreck a tank - Spider-Woman (1978) #38
• [X] Survives getting hit by a plasma blast from Havok that created a trench in the ground - X-Men (1991) #162-163
• [Kuurth] Unharmed after Hardball blasts him with a sphere of energy that destroys part of Las Vegas and helps cause an earthquake that collapses skyscrapers - Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #3-5
• Tanks a blast of the power cosmic from Cosmic Ghost Rider - Wolverine: Black, White & Blood #3

Chemical

• Unharmed by Night Thrasher's acid bombs - Thor #412

Adhesive

• His force field prevents Spider-Man's webbing from sticking to him - Amazing Spider-Man #229, Marvel Team-Up #150

Biological

• Still able to fight after his fellow Exemplar Conquest hits his pressure points - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• [T] Resists being mutated by the Terrigen Mists - Thunderbolts #146
• [Kuurth] Burns out nanites in his body designed to knock him out - Thunderbolts #145, 160
• [Kuurth] Starts dissolving Mercury after she fills his lungs with his internal fauna and antibodies - Uncanny X-Men #542
• Survives but is knocked out by a plant manipulator growing valerian inside of his body - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #17

Matter Manipulation

• Nimrod's disintegrator beam affects a steel I-beam he was holding but not him - Uncanny X-Men #194

Phasing

• Hurt but still able to fight after Vision briefly phases his hand into his head before increasing his density - Hulk #403
• Unharmed by Viv Vision phasing into him and becoming tangible - Deadpool (2018) #2

Magic

• [Limits] Thor is able to create a cone that negates all mystical energy and removes Juggernaut's force field by making his hammer spin around them - Thor #429
• Unharmed after hurling Stonecutter into the core of God Machine, causing it to explode and release enough mystical energy to destroy a glacier - Juggernaut (1999) #1, Avengers (1998) #24
• [T] Still able to fight after getting hit by cannon shot that had poltergeists smelted into it that emerge out of his shoulder - Thunderbolts #156-157
• Unharmed by the Scarlet Witch's hexes - Uncanny Avengers (2015) #29

Soul/Life Force

• Only has a headache after D'Spayre consumes enough of his soul/life essence to give most mortals a coronary rupture - Juggernaut (1997) #1
• [T] Quickly recovers after running through a human mutated by the Terrigen Mists that could drain life force with a touch - Thunderbolts #146-147
• [Kuurth] Casts out Ghost and Satana after the former combines his intangibility with the latter's magic to try and free his soul from Kuurth/the Serpent's control - Thunderbolts #160

Power Absorption/Nullification

• Rogue can only absorb a portion of his power - Uncanny X-Men #218
• [Kuurth] Rogue trying to absorb his powers incapacitates her - Uncanny X-Men #542
• Cut off his link to Cyttorak while keeping his powers by using the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to make a new armor - Juggernaut (2020) #3-4
• A power dampener doesn't work on him - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #14, 18
• The Human-Adaptoid can't use the Absorbing Man's powers to absorb Juggernaut's powers - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #17

Mental

• His helmet protects him from any mental attack - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Unaffected by Professor X's telepathy - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Unaffected by Rachel Summers telepathy - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Eventually made a smaller helmet from scraps of the original that also protects him from mental attack, which he wears underneath it - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Resists Dazzler using light to hypnotize him - Uncanny X-Men #217
• Psylocke manages to hurt him through his helmet with a psycho blast, though it only stuns him for a moment - Uncanny X-Men #218
• Fine after getting stabbed with Psylocke's psychic knife while weakened - Uncanny X-Men #322
• Resists his fellow Exemplar Bedlam's telepathy - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• Captain Universe can't read his mind - Amazing Spider-Man #629

Durability w/o Force Field/Armor

Blunt

• Fine after Hulk swings him around hard enough to rip off his helmet and send him flying into a cliff - Hulk #172
• Fine after getting tackled from behind and through a wall by Colossus - Uncanny X-Men #183
• Unharmed from a building collapsing on him - Uncanny X-Men #183
• Fine after Rogue absorbs some of his power and throws and flies into him hard enough to create a massive crater in a rail line - Uncanny X-Men #218
• Still able to fight after getting pummeled for nearly a minute by Thor - Thor #429
• [X] Fine after getting tackled through a house by Sasquatch - Uncanny X-Men #432-433
• [X] Unharmed from a double-decker bus crashing into him hard enough to total itself - New Excalibur (2006) #3
• [X] A continuous optic blast from Earth 6141 Cyclops doesn't even slow him down - New Excalibur (2006) #3
• Survives getting thrown to Earth from orbit by Captain Universe - Amazing Spider-Man #629, 627
• [T] King Hyperion hurts his hand punching Juggernaut in the head repeatedly - Thunderbolts #153
• [Kuurth] Tanks getting tackled through the deck of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge by Colossusnaut - Uncanny X-Men #543
• [Kuurth] Still able to fight after getting pummeled by Colossusnaut hard enough to collapse a building - Uncanny X-Men #543

Piercing/Cutting

• No-sells a tank round - Excalibur (1988) #3
• [X] Unharmed by minigun rounds - Uncanny X-Men #433
• [X] Still able to fight after getting stabbed in the abdomen by Rhino's horn - Uncanny X-Men #435

Sound

• [Limits] Incapacitated by tight beam ultra high frequency sonics from Nimrod - Uncanny X-Men #194
• [T] Still able to stand after Iron Man blasts him with enough localized sound to put down a whole regiment - Thunderbolts #150

Cold

• Unharmed from getting encased in ice by Iceman - Uncanny X-Men #33
• [X] Unharmed from getting covered in ice by Earth 6141 Iceman - New Excalibur (2006) #2-3
• [Once and Future] Tanks getting launched into the air by a stream of ice from Iceman - Amazing X-Men (2014) #17

Heat

• [T] Hurt but mostly fine after getting hit by King Hyperion’s atomic vision - Thunderbolts #153

Gravity

• [X] Survives getting sucked in by Xorn's black hole along with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and ending up in the Mojoverse, though they survived as well - X-Men (1991) #164, Uncanny X-Men #460

Light

• [X] Unharmed after getting launched far into the distance by a photon blast from Dazzler

Energy

• No-sells a continuous energy blast from Nimrod right after he used one to create a large hole in a concrete wall - Uncanny X-Men #194
• [X] Fine after getting knocked through a thick stone wall by an energy blast from the Shadow King - New Excalibur (2006) #3
• Unharmed after getting knocked through a concrete wall and from Upper Manhattan to the New Jersey Palisades by an energy blast from Captain Universe - Amazing Spider-Man #627-628

Chemical

• [X] Unharmed by Mammomax's stomach acid - X-Men (1991) #164

Biological

• [X] Possibly unaffected by Polaris trying to reverse his blood flow with magnetism to knock him out - Uncanny X-Men #426

Mental

• Manages to keep moving out of hatred after Professor X attacks him telepathically, though he's knocked out with a second attack - Uncanny X-Men #13
• [Kuurth] Emma Frost is incapacitated from trying to affect his mind - Uncanny X-Men #541-542
• [Unstoppable] Rachel Summers can't read his mind - Amazing X-Men (2014) #19

Unabridged Endurance, Speed, Skill, and Temporary Powers Sections

Endurance and Regeneration

• Barely slowed down by enough sleeping gas to stop a herd of elephants and a gas that causes loss of balance - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Doesn't get tired - Amazing Adventures #16
• Starts to age rapidly due to strange forces in a dimension Eternity cast him into, but is able to remain young as long as he feels hate - Doctor Strange #182, Amazing Adventures #16, Hulk #172
• Doesn't need air, food, or water - Amazing Spider-Man #230, 629
• Quickly regenerates after getting stabbed in the eye and cut several times by Shatterstar's swords - Spider-Man (1990) #16, X-Force (1991) #4
• Still able to move after D'Spayre absorbs most of his power and uses it to reduce him to a skeleton, and quickly regenerates after getting it restored - Juggernaut (1997) #1
• [X] Seems like he needed air after being weakened - Uncanny X-Men #412
• [X] Later walked from somewhere in the Yellow Sea to South Korea however - New Excalibur (2006) #13-14
• [T] Needs air - Thunderbolts #145
• [T] Still able to fight after King Hyperion breaks his knee - Thunderbolts #153

Speed

• Grabs Angel and shoves him into the path of Cyclops optic blast before he can redirect it - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Nearly as fast as Beast and ducks under a tree swung by him - Amazing Adventures #16
• Catches a girder slingshot at him by Spider-Man - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Slaps Speedball out of the air - Thor #412
  • Speedball was fast enough to dodge gunmen at point blank range - Speedball #1
• Tags Spider-Man with a backhand after tearing off some webbing he sprayed in his eyes - X-Force (1991) #4
• Smashes through a wall to catch two people falling - The All New Exiles (1995) #2
• Fights evenly with Conquest, who was fast enough to grab Quicksilver on the run - Juggernaut (1999) #1, Avengers (1998) #25
• Dodges energy blasts from two Sentinels using some kind of hovercraft - X-Men Forever (2001) #5
• [Kuurth] Catches up to a speedster called Nonstop - Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #3
• [Kuurth] Colossusnaut says he's faster than him even as he runs into Kuurth and accelerates to 600 miles per hour - Uncanny X-Men #543
• [Once and Future] Tags Nightcrawler and Rachel Summers with backhands and knocks the former into Northstar despite Rachel warning them he would attack with her telepathy - Amazing X-Men (2014) #17

Skill

• [X] Fights well against someone with the full power of the Juggernaut using his skill and experience - Uncanny X-Men #436
• [X] Catches Dazzler after she blinded him by listening for her position - New Excalibur (2006) #19
• [T] Lets a Hand ninja get in close so he can grab him - Thunderbolts #148-149

Temporary Powers

Telepathy

• Somehow absorbed Professor X's telepathy after he tried to drain his powers with a machine - Uncanny X-Men #32
• Reads the O5 X-Men's minds to anticipate their moves - Uncanny X-Men #32
• Knocks out Jean Grey with a mental bolt - Uncanny X-Men #32
• Never used telepathy after this

Mystic Abilities

• Gained mystic abilities while trapped in the Crimson Cosmos - Uncanny X-Men #33, Doctor Strange #182
• Casts mystic spells that shrink Nightmare to his size and makes him collide into him when Nightmare was large enough to hold the Earth in his hands - Doctor Strange #182
• Him and Nightmare cast spells that shatter a chunk of rock and destroy bonds of cosmic force that held Eternity - Doctor Strange #180, 182
• Gave up his mystic abilities in exchange for having his youth restored - Hulk #172

Trion

• Became more powerful than ever after getting possessed by an evil spirit - X-Men (1991) #88
• Grows to giant size - X-Men (1991) #88, Uncanny X-Men #369
• Punches through the fabric of spacetime - X-Men (1991) #88

Captain Universe

• Became Captain Universe after being chosen by the Enigma Force - Amazing Spider-Man #629
• Traps Spider-Man in a force sphere and repairs fractures to the tectonic plates under Manhattan to prevent a catastrophic earthquake - Amazing Spider-Man #629

Kuurth

• Can fly - Thunderbolts #160-161
• Calls down lightning - Thunderbolts #158
• Colossus says his lightning could incinerate armies - Uncanny X-Men #543
• Possesses a man by touching him with his hammer - Uncanny X-Men #540
• Teleports back after Pixie teleports him to the bottom of sea, low Earth orbit, and the heart of the sun - Uncanny X-Men #542

Once upon a time, there was a man. A man who got everything he wanted. In the end it wasn’t enough. In truth, it could never be enough. No amount of power could change who he was. It could never quench his thirst for power. He was now and forever the Juggernaut. And he would never stop.

Every day I think about this trip, and wish I could go back in time to prevent it. It is the worst thing that's ever happened to me, and while I understand the innate curiosity associated with such a fascinating drug, I strongly urge you don't touch it, and if you do decide to, take a much smaller dose and don't do it alone. Seriously, try finding a single report with a positive experience. You can't.
It all started in June of 1994, and my friends and I had just graduated high school. We were all massive potheads, but I had only ever used marijuana and tried mushrooms once. We also liked camping a lot, something I still do to this day. One thing we always made sure of was to camp as far from civilization as possible. I don't think camping at an established campsite is really camping. You have running water, a fire pit, and sometimes even electricity. Whats the point? You might as well just be at home. Luckily, where we lived in Oregon at the time, there was plenty of that.
The weather was perfect, sunny, warm, and despite the mosquitos everyone was having a great time. We were on a hike, and about halfway into it, one of my close friends spotted a plant growing a few yards off the path. We'll call them Belvis. I'm not sure where they got the name, but we all called them that, and even some of our teachers.
"Yo guys, check this out!" Belvis walked off the path, and came back with a handful of spiky jimsonweed seed pods. "I've heard of this stuff, it makes you trip balls! We should try some." I mentioned before that I had tried shrooms once, and it was actually on another camping trip like this one. The dose was relatively low, and all I remember was the sunlight streaming through the trees looking really pretty, so I was excited to try this new stuff since I thought it would be the same. but oh boy, it was not.
We were all clueless, and thought it would be a great idea, except for Belvis' sister, A. She thought that if anything was to go wrong, she didn't want it to go wrong out in the middle of nowhere. I wish every day that I had listened to her.
When we got back to camp, everyone took two seed pods, except for A. We broke them open and ate the little black seeds how ever we could. My buddy E tried to eat them whole, but nearly vomited at the taste. Belvis mixed them into a bottle of water, and chugged them. I mixed them into a can of soup that I had brought, and ate them, being careful to not chew them.
A while later, I don't remember how long but it couldn't have been more than an hour, I really really needed to piss, and my mouth was dry as hell. I went behind a tree, and tried to, but as with most datura trips, nothing came out.
It was at this moment a massive 100 foot tall tank passed over my head, crushing trees and leaving deep tread marks in the ground. This terrified me. Not because of the massive fucking tank, but because I remembered that there was a military draft to Yugoslavia. In reality, there was none, but in my mind there was, and I was about to be whisked away from my scholarship at PSU, my future, and my family, and placed into war.
I ran back to camp, and found that my friends were all gone, replaced with demonic versions of them. They had skin that seemed to flash between jet black and bright white at an impossibly fast speed, and gaping holes for eyes. They all stared at me, and the next moment I was laying down in my tent. I don't remember walking to my tent or laying down, the travel happened in an instant.
Then, the tent instantly transformed into my bedroom. It's strange how hallucinations manifest themselves. It's not like a sharp cut or a fade, but you simply look at something one moment, and the next moment it's simply another thing, with no change happening in between. Your brain just says "yeah that's about right" and carries on.
I got up from the bed and walked down the hall, where my dad was sitting at the kitchen table, reading a newspaper (he never reads the paper). I opened my mouth to speak, but he stood up and beat the everliving shit out of me. My father isn't abusive, and has never been violent to anyone, so I have no clue why I hallucinated this.
I ran back to my room, and found myself in Belvis' tent. He was there, and without a word passed me a blunt. I smoked it for a while, but then I dropped it, and when I tried to pick it up, it was just a seam line in the sleeping bag I was sitting on. Belvis and I talked for a while, until I found myself in the back of his truck. Belvis had taken his truck up there, and E had taken their car. Belvis was in the back with me, until he got snagged on a branch and yanked off at high speed.
For some reason, this was really funny, despite the fact that he was one of my best friends. I had no idea where I was going, and when I looked into the cab, there was nobody there. I was all alone in the back of this truck, speeding down the road. I got real scared, and started banging on the cab's window, and in an act of desperation, I jumped out.
The intense searing pain that followed was nothing I had ever experienced before or since. I had roadrash on both my legs and my left hand, but that pain was felt over every nerve and piece of skin in my whole body. I felt nothing but pain. There were no thoughts but pain. Only pain. I was in my own personal hell for what felt like an eternity. There was no time, no past, present, or future. Only pain. The world around me looked like hell, full of deep reds and blacks and a constant deafening scream was heard in my ears.
Eventually I must have fallen unconscious, because the next thing I was aware of was being rushed into the hospital on a gurney. Once they noticed I was awake, they gave me a cup of something black, and told me to drink it. I politely told the nurse no, and handed it back to her, but when I talked to A afterward, she told me that I was screaming slurs and cursing and threw the black liquid all over her.
Not sure what they did, but they probably gave me a lot of anti psychotics, and put me to sleep. Later, when I had mostly come back to reality, my parents were at the foot of the bed, and the doctor told them I would be ok as long as I didn't ingest anything like that every again. I had roadrash and a broken leg, and had to wear a crutch for a while, but I would recover.
I hadn't completely come down from my trip while my parents drove me home, as I kept seeing people in the road who weren't there, and warning my dad not to hit them, all with a mild background feeling of pain.
I recovered, but it's a wonder I didn't die, and that none of my other friends got hurt. While talking to A after the trip, she told me everything that she had seen.
Everyone else had their own story, but what she saw me do was run into the camp with my dick out screaming about Bosnia before jumping over the campfire and hiding in my tent.
Then, about an hour later, I walked out of my tent and down the trail. I stood staring at a tree for probably half an hour before screaming and running back to camp, this time hiding in Belvis' tent. Belvis wasn't in there, they were staring at the fire and mumbling to themself.
Everyone was going crazy, and several people had tried to jump into the fire or burn down the forest with burning sticks. A was getting really scared, so she corralled everyone into Belvis' truck and took us to the hospital, which I especially needed after falling out. There was no more room in the front for me, so I was put in the back. She saved my life, and I can't thank her enough.
I have since then never done anything other than weed, and will never touch anything else. The eternity in hell of sitting on the pavement fucked with my brain. I don't know if it's PTSD or something else, but I frequently get flashbacks to that moment.
If I could go back in time and stop myself from taking that damn plant, I would. The experience changed me, and not for the better. Don't take anything that can mess with your consciousness and make you do stupid shit beyond your control, it's a miracle none of us died, and if it wasn't for A saving us all, I might not even be alive. Don't take this stuff. Don't do it. No matter how curious you are, no matter how fascinating it is, DON'T DO IT. If you do decide to for some reason, only take a small dose and don't do it alone. Datura is scare stuff man.

Including, but not limited to:
Most other people, cotton, money, oxygen, planets, solar system, the universe, the human body, keys, necklaces, napkins, Kleenex, plates, tv screens, cable tv, sports, the super bowl, smiling, laughing, crying, eyes, nose, mouth, hands, feet, cars, roads, trees, dirt, air, the sky, clouds, math, algebra, calculus, addition, subtraction, chairs, tables, beds, grass, water, coughing, walking, biking, running, kindness, rudeness, frisbee, football, swimming, swimming pools, food places, coffee places, dancing, yoga, meditation, work, medical doctors, medical school, high school, middle school, elementary school, colleges, puberty, glasses, contacts, Lasik eye surgery, old people, retirement homes, hospitals, eye clinics, dental clinics, rain, humidity, Mediterranean weather, airplanes, airports, light, lightbulb, flashlights, notebooks, pens, pencils, calculators, shoes, boots, sandals, Disney World, cartoons, amusement parks, roller coasters, water slides, sleeping, dreams, hair, beards, clothes, shopping malls, streets, roads, highways, houses, apartments, chatting, social settings, learning, reading, drawing, bathrooms, toilets, sinks, soap, showers, bathtubs, washers, dryers, cabinets, closets, towels, wallets, jackets, parking spaces, candy, food, soda, milk, juice, wine, beer, vegetables, fruits, bread, cheese, YouTube, Reddit, people disliking videos on YouTube, people liking videos on YouTube, people downvoting posts and comments on Reddit, people upvoting posts and comments on Reddit, nostrils, jumping, bouncing, jumping-jacks, music, movies, singing, talking, chewing gum, throat clearing, slapping, biology, bacteria, maple syrup, pancakes, waffles, bacon, being respectful, following rules, being kind, being honest, lying, cheating, having conversations, breathing, sneezing, sleepwalking, school bullies, hitting, smoking, vaping, chewing tobacco, California, Florida, Texas, New York, New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn, American Idol, choir, vacuuming, sweeping, skipping, breakdancing, beaches, palm trees, hot weather, cold weather, snow, tailgating, cheerleading, thunderstorms, Pi, teachers, camping, etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
View Poll

Hello,
I grew up in Youngstown and haven't been home in 15 years. Chaney High for life. But I moved to Oregon some time ago and started a YouTube channel dedicated to old cemeteries/pioneer history in Oregon and would like to visit home soon.
I'd like to do a special video on a cemetery or two back home so I figured I'd ask my Youngstown family if they have any recommendations on abandoned or forgotten cemeteries. I'm interested in the long gone ones and the ones not so visited these days, the stories of individuals who I can tell through my channel so I can preserve their memory in a way. I imagine there has to be something in the Mahoning Valley hidden from the world.
My link is in my profile if you're interested in checking out my small corner of the internet. Hope the Penguins are hanging in there :)

Key and explanation of periods where Juggernaut was stronger or weaker than normal

• [50%] Briefly lost half of his power after Black Tom absorbed it
• [X] Was made weaker by Cyttorak after deciding not to do his bidding anymore
• [T] Was made weaker by Cyttorak after he was angered by Juggernaut temporarily becoming Captain Universe
• [Kuurth] Became possessed by one of the Serpent's Asgardian Worthy named Kuurth after picking up his hammer
• [Once and Future] Had his power completely removed by Cyttorak but regained it after taking the place of an alternate universe Cain Marko, though it began to fade
• [Unstoppable] Was given more power by Cyttorak than he had given anyone else

Striking

• Punches through a row of logs - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Punches through a thick ice wall - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Slams the ground hard enough to knock out Cyclops and create sonic waves that cancel out Jean Grey's telekinesis - Uncanny X-Men #32
• Punches through a stone wall - Uncanny X-Men #32
• Creates an earthquake across a valley that causes a cliff to collapse by slamming the ground - Uncanny X-Men #33
• Punches through machinery - Uncanny X-Men #46
• Stuns Hulk with his blows - Hulk #172
• Punches Colossus through a stone wall - Uncanny X-Men #102
• Knocks out Wolverine with a backhand - Uncanny X-Men #102
• Punches the stone floor under Colossus hard enough to shatter it and knock him into the air - Uncanny X-Men #102
• Punches through a metal wall and shatters the granite wall behind it with the shockwave while knocking out Nightcrawler - Uncanny X-Men #103
• Knocks out Spider-Woman with a slap and a punch - Spider-Woman (1978) #37
• Swats a car out of his way and crumples the fender of a semi truck with a punch - Amazing Spider-Man #229
• Punches through and smashes apart a door sheathed in steel - Amazing Spider-Man #229
• Backhands a 3 ton steel ball thrown at him by Spider-Man through a building, causing its side to collapse - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Warps a pile of steel girders with a punch - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Punches Spider-Man several times at awkward angles and severely injures him - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Punches Colossus through a wall and incapacitates him - Uncanny X-Men #183
• Incapacitates the Thing in three hits - Secret Wars II #7
• Backhands Rogue across Edinburgh and through a stone wall - Uncanny X-Men #218
• Punches Captain Britain through hundreds of meters of ground and incapacitates him with two more strikes - Excalibur (1988) #3
• Sends Thor flying through a concrete wall with a backhand - Thor #411
• Incapacitates Doctor Strange with a kick and a punch while weakened - Doctor Strange (1988) #44
• One-shots Ajax, Ulysses, and Hector - The Incredible Hulk: Mayhem at the Mount #1
• Knocks out Professor Hulk after a prolonged fight while not wearing his armor or helmet - Hulk #402
  • Professor Hulk was strong enough to punch through doors capable of withstanding a nuclear blast - Hulk #410
• Levels a building with a punch - Deadpool: The Circle Chase #2
• Fights Venom three times in three days and overwhelms him in the exchange of blows, except for their last encounter - Venom: The Madness #1-3
• Knocks Storm out of the air with a thunderclap - X-Men Premium Edition #1
• Shatters rock and knocks the All New Exiles into the air with a stomp - The All New Exiles (1995) #Infinity
• Punches through a metal water skimmer and knocks out Bishop - Uncanny X-Men #334
• Knocks out Gambit with two fingers - Uncanny X-Men #334
• Punches War Hulk through several cars - Hulk #457
• Punches Post-Crisis Captain Marvel Jr. into the street hard enough to shatter it - Unlimited Access #3
• Punches Thor through a brick wall - Thor (1998) #17
• Embeds Stonecutter's head in machinery with a punch - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• Sends his fellow Exemplar Bedlam flying across a glacier with a backhand - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• Incapacitates his fellow Exemplars Conquest and Carnivore with a couple blows - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• Splinters apart the God Machine and the glacier it was on top of in an exchange of blows with Stonecutter and overpowers him - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• Knocks out Generation X with a thunderclap - Generation X (1994) #61
• Knocks down Cyclops with a thunderclap - Cyclops (2001) #1
• [X] Punches through Iceman's ice barriers - Uncanny X-Men #411
• [X] Levels a house with several punches - Uncanny X-Men #416
• [X] Hits Puck into the ground hard enough to crater it and knock him out - Uncanny X-Men #422
• [X] Punches Sasquatch through a police car - Uncanny X-Men #422
• [X] Shatters the arm of a golem made from the earth with a punch - Uncanny X-Men #422
• [X] Catches a punch from Exiles Mimic in his hand and hurts him with his own punches - Exiles (2001) #28
• [X] Shatters a wall with a punch - Uncanny X-Men #429
• [X] Punches Sasquatch through a house - Uncanny X-Men #433
• [X] Knocks Vindicator through a house - Uncanny X-Men #434
• [X] Punches Guardian through a tree - Uncanny X-Men #434
• [X] Punches Rhino into a concrete wall hard enough to shatter it - Uncanny X-Men #435
• [X] Punches down a metal door - Identity Disc #4
• [X] Breaks a giant Collective Man’s leg with a punch - X-Men (1991) #160
• [X] Knocks out Avalanche and dents his metal helmet with a backhand - X-Men (1991) #162
• [X] Punches the ground to get to someone buried deep underneath it - X-Men (1991) #162-163
• [X] Knocks out Spiral with a punch after being de-aged into a child - Uncanny X-Men #461
• [X] Shatters a thick stone wall with a punch - New Excalibur (2006) #3
• [X] Punches Earth 6141 Iceman into a chunk of ice hard enough to shatter it and knock him out - New Excalibur (2006) #3
• [X] Punches Captain Britain through a wall and drops him to his knees - New Excalibur (2006) #8
• [X] Knocks out Black Knight with a tap to the head - New Excalibur (2006) #9
• [X] Nearly beats another Juggernaut to death - New Excalibur (2006) #15
• [X] Knocks out Earth 6141 Beast in a couple punches - New Excalibur (2006) #20
• [X] Hurts Albion with a punch - New Excalibur (2006) #20
  • Albion and Captain Britain shattered windows across London from the shockwaves of punching each other - New Excalibur (2006) #5
• [X] Causes World War Hulk spit blood with a punch - World War Hulk: X-Men #2
• Punches a force field hard enough to create earthquakes registered at magnitude 4.6 and 8.0 - Hulk #602
• Overwhelms Skaar in an exchange of blows - Hulk #602
• [T] Collapses a large cavern - Thunderbolts #147
• [T] Scatters Veil in her gas form with a thunderclap - Avengers Academy #4
• [T] Shatters a rock wall with a punch - Thunderbolts #149
• [T] Hurts Thor with a punch - Thunderbolts #150
• [T] Pummels King Hyperion into rock hard enough to make him spit blood - Thunderbolts #153
• [T] Nearly beats an immobilized King Hyperion to death - Thunderbolts #153
  • King Hyperion was only briefly knocked out after Exiles Mimic flew into him at half the speed of light - Exiles (2001) #64
• [T] Shatters a large metal door with a strike - Thunderbolts #156
• [Kuurth] Destroys more than half of the Raft island prison with a strike - Fear Itself #2, Thunderbolts #158
• [Kuurth] Knocks away the Thunderbolts and craters the ground with a strike - Thunderbolts #160
• [Kuurth] Punches Moonstone miles away - Thunderbolts #160-161
• [Kuurth] Strikes the ground hard enough to create a massive crater and a tremor registered at magnitude 0.6 - Thunderbolts #160-161
• [Kuurth] Knocks a tank and Humvee into the air with his strikes - Fear Itself: The Home Front #3
• [Kuurth] Levels Salem Missouri with a strike - Fear Itself: The Home Front #3, Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #3
• [Kuurth] Knocks Rage into the Stratosphere tower hard enough to fracture it - Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt #3
• [Kuurth] Creates shockwaves that destroy a gas station by striking the ground - Uncanny X-Men #540
• [Kuurth] Shatters a highway with a strike - Uncanny X-Men #541
• [Kuurth] Cracks Colossus's skull with a strike after he absorbed the power he had from Cyttorak - Uncanny X-Men #542-543
• [Kuurth] Colossusnaut's bones crumble when he punches him - Uncanny X-Men #543
• Knocks out Ragnarok in several punches with the help of Mister Hyde - Dark Avengers #182
• [Once and Future] Punches Man-Killer through a stone wall - Amazing X-Men (2014) #17
• [Once and Future] Makes Colossus spit blood with his punches and overpowers him - Amazing X-Men (2014) #17
• [Unstoppable] One-shots the Living Monolith - Amazing X-Men (2014) #18
• [Unstoppable] Slams the ground hard enough to create a massive crater - Amazing X-Men (2014) #19
• [Unstoppable] Punches Colossus through a forest and breaks several of his ribs - Amazing X-Men (2014) #19
• [Unstoppable] Punches through the hull of a ship and causes it to start sinking - X-Men: Blue (2017) #1
• [Unstoppable] Knocks Jean Grey and a metal railing into the air with a stomp - X-Men: Blue (2017) #1
• Shatters a block of ice he was encased in with a punch - Iceman (2017) #5
• Slams the ground hard enough to crater it and scatter the Avengers Unity Squad - Uncanny Avengers (2015) #28-29
• Punches through a magic shield created by Brother Voodoo - Uncanny Avengers (2015) #29
• Causes Thor to spit teeth with his punches - Thor (2018) #1
• Splatters a Dark Elf with a punch - Punisher Kill Krew #4
• Punches through some Asgardian creature - Punisher Kill Krew #4
• Works in shifts with the Punisher and Black Knight to break through a massive tunnel that had metal walls dozens of feet thick by punching and cutting them with swords, respectively - Punisher Kill Krew #4
• Punches through the head of a Frost Giant - Punisher Kill Krew #4
• Punches through Magneto's clone Joseph's force field - Uncanny X-Men (2019) #16
• Punches Blockbuster into a subway car hard enough to crumple it - Uncanny X-Men (2019) #18
• Backhands Fabian Cortez through a stone pillar - Uncanny X-Men (2019) #20
• Slams the floor of a building hard enough to knock large pieces of concrete into the air - Juggernaut (2020) #1
• Knocks out Immortal Hulk after a prolonged fight with the help of D-Cel and a gamma radiation siphon - Juggernaut (2020) #1
• Shatters a metal vault door - Juggernaut (2020) #4
• Splatters Primus with a thunderclap - Juggernaut (2020) #4
• Slams the ground hard enough to knock police cars into the air - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #13
• Flattens Deadpool's head with a punch - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #14
• Hurts the Human-Adaptoid with a punch after he turned his body into steel - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #20
  • The Human-Adaptoid had the powers of a hundred superhumans - X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #16

Lifting, pushing, pulling, throwing, grip, etc.

• Snaps a steel cable as if it were paper - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Pushes back Cyclops optic blast as though it was a solid thing - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Sweeps the O5 X-Men aside - Uncanny X-Men #12
• Makes handholds in a solid wall of earth - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Severely injures Beast with his grip and disables his leg with a chop - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Rips apart a metal pole and propeller - Uncanny X-Men #13
• Sends a stack of crates flying into Angel hard enough to knock him out - Uncanny X-Men #32
• Rips apart a helicopter piece by piece - Uncanny X-Men #33
• Causes an energizer to explode and create shockwaves that knock out Jean Grey and Cyclops by clogging its air intake - Uncanny X-Men #46
• Shoves part of a chunk of ice encasing him into Iceman hard enough to knock him out - Uncanny X-Men #46
• Rips up part of the ground and throws it into Angel hard enough to knock him out - Uncanny X-Men #46
• Pulls Hulk's head from behind and starts to break his neck, though he overpowers him due to getting angry - Hulk #172
• Hurls Storm's lightning bolt back at her after getting hit by it - Uncanny X-Men #102
• Rips out and throws part of a stone wall - Uncanny X-Men #103
• Tears apart a solid concrete wall reinforced with steel - Spider-Woman (1978) #37
• Grabs Colossus from behind the hull of a ship and pulls him through it - Spider-Woman (1978) #38
• Crushes a solid steel hatch cover - Spider-Woman (1978) #38
• Grabs Spider-Man's arm with one arm while it was behind his back and holds him in place - Amazing Spider-Man #229
• Rips down a wall - Amazing Spider-Man #229
• Shoves a bus out of his way - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Crumples a steel girder - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Rips off and lifts the corner of a building - Amazing Spider-Man #230
• Rips out a bar counter and swings it on top of Colossus - Uncanny X-Men #183
• Pulls down a wall and causes a building to collapse - Uncanny X-Men #183
• Lifts a tank by its turret and swings it onto another tank hard enough to wreck both of them - Marvel Team-Up #150
• [50%] Black Tom with half of his power suplexes a building - Marvel Team-Up #150
• [50%] Throws a car into Colossus hard enough to make him drop Spider-Man - Marvel Team-Up #150
• [50%] Starts crushing Rogue with a bear hug - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Throws the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak into orbit - Marvel Team-Up #150
• Throws several cars in quick succession - Uncanny X-Men #218
• Pulls down a building - Uncanny X-Men #218
• Rips apart a concrete wall and tanks - Excalibur (1988) #3
• Throws a car and bus at Thor - Thor #411
• Throws a boxcar into a weakened Thor hard enough to hurt him before lifting another one and ramming it into him - Thor #411
• Shatters an iron rail wrapped around him - Thor #412
• Sends a pile of debris created from two boxcars getting thrown into him flying with a shrug - Thor #412
• Shatters a steel cocoon encasing him - Thor #412
• Rams a stone pillar into Thor hard enough to make him drop his hammer - Thor #429
• Hurts Achilles with his grip - The Incredible Hulk: Mayhem at the Mount #1
  • One of Achilles powers is invulnerability - Hulk #381-382
• Knocks away Professor Hulk, Spider-Man, and Wolverine - The Incredible Hulk: Mayhem at the Mount #1
• Knocks Hercules and Vision into the air by throwing Professor Hulk through them and a couple other Avengers - Hulk #404
• Rips a fire truck in half - Thunderstrike (1993) #2
• Swings a robot dinosaur by the tail into a destroyed one hard enough to wreck it - The All New Exiles (1995) #Infinity
• Sends tanks flying with a swipe of his arm - The All New Exiles (1995) #1
• Holds up a collapsing building - The All New Exiles (1995) #3
• Grapples with Prime and overpowers him - The All New Exiles (1995) #4
  • Prime was strong enough to fly miles underground and unharmed from a nuclear warhead exploding next to him - Prime (1993) #9
• Wrecks a building and flips and throws cars during a rampage - X-Men Unlimited (1993) #13
• Wraps a truck around someone - Juggernaut (1997) #1
• Halts a steamroller and throws it into Beast hard enough to knock him out - Professor Xavier and the X-Men (1995) #14
• Rips up a massive chunk of the street and throws it into a SWAT van hard enough to crumple it - Spider-Man (1990) #84
• Throws a truck through a building while weakened - Uncanny X-Men #361
• Rips off and swings the corner of a building while weakened - Uncanny X-Men #361
• Throws a bus into a building - Thor (1998) #17
• Starts crushing Thor with a bear hug - Thor (1998) #17
• Rips down a metal wall and throws it into his fellow Exemplar Decay hard enough to knock him out - Juggernaut (1999) #1
• Throws Monet/Penance off of him - Generation X (1994) #61
• Grabs onto some rock and keeps himself, Toad, and Mystique from being pulled in by the force of a vacuum - X-Men Forever (2001) #6
• Restrains Hulk - Defenders (2001) #10
• [X] Throws Wolverine from the ground to a plane in the clouds - Uncanny X-Men #412
• [X] Throws rocks through a stone wall - Uncanny X-Men #416
• [X] Rips out a concrete wall - Uncanny X-Men #420
• [X] Swings a tree into Polaris hard enough to knock her out - Uncanny X-Men #426
• [X] Throws a car into Guardian hard enough to knock him through a house - Uncanny X-Men #433
• [X] Tears apart Guardian's armor - Uncanny X-Men #434
• [X] Piledrives Rhino into a concrete floor hard enough to shatter it - Uncanny X-Men #435
• [X] Swings a sign post into someone with the full power of the Juggernaut hard enough to knock them through a building - Uncanny X-Men #436
• [X] Rips off the helmet of someone with the full power of the Juggernaut - Uncanny X-Men #436
• [X] Lifts and tosses a huge metal beam - Uncanny X-Men #442
• [X] Fractures a giant piece of concrete with his grip and pushes it out of his way - Uncanny X-Men #442
• [X] Lifts several tons on an X-Men weight machine, though he struggles while not even at Colossus-level - X-Men (1991) #157
• [X] Pushes a tank onto its back - X-Men (1991) #160
• [X] Tears apart Black Tom - X-Men (1991) #162
• [X] Swings Mammomax through three trees and into the ground hard enough to crater it and knock him out - X-Men (1991) #164
• [X] Lifts and throws Mojo's Exiles using a curtain after being de-aged into a child - Uncanny X-Men #461
• [X] Flexes out of ice that was covering him - New Excalibur (2006) #2-3
• [X] Breaks out of some crystal the Warwolves encased him in that they thought would stop him - New Excalibur (2006) #4-5
• [X] Wraps some metal beams around the Warwolves - New Excalibur (2006) #5
• [X] Lifts a train car - New Excalibur (2006) #6
• [X] Holds onto a metal beam with his fingers while being dragged underground until it snaps in half - New Excalibur (2006) #7
• [X] Overpowers mechanical tendrils that dragged him through a metal beam - New Excalibur (2006) #7
• [X] Swings a dragon-like alien into another alien - New Excalibur (2006) #12
• [X] Throws a bus off of him and into the Wrecker hard enough to knock him out - New Excalibur (2006) #13
• Breaks the neck of his predecessor as the Juggernaut - New Excalibur (2006) #15
• Straightens a steel girder wrapped around Spider-Man to free him - Amazing Spider-Man #628
• Temporarily restrains Captain Universe - Amazing Spider-Man #628
• [T] Pushes a boulder into a large human mutated by the Terrigen Mists to crush them - Thunderbolts #147
• [T] Knocks down and warps a metal door by shoving it - Thunderbolts #147
• [T] Crushes the head of 20 Hand ninja that joined bodies with one arm - Thunderbolts #148-149
• [T] Lifts a few tons on a weight machine - Thunderbolts #150
• [T] Pins down Luke Cage - Thunderbolts #150
• [T] Throws a boulder - Thunderbolts #151
• [Kuurth] Shrugs Colossus off of him - Uncanny X-Men #541
• [Kuurth] Magneto can't stop his hammer after he throws it despite it being made of metal - Uncanny X-Men #541
• [Once and Future] Breaks free of ice covering his legs - Amazing X-Men (2014) #17
• [Unstoppable] Flexes out of ice covering his legs and chest - X-Men: Blue (2017) #1
• Lifts a carousel - Iceman (2017) #5
• Throws a car over his shoulder - Uncanny Avengers (2015) #29
• Rips off an icicle the size of a person and throws it through a Frost Giant - Punisher Kill Krew #3
• Swings an Asgardian dragon by the tail and into the ground hard enough to crater it - Savage Avengers (2019) #14
• Throws a large piece of concrete through Quicksand's neck - Juggernaut (2020) #3
• Pulls the Lizard and Grey Gargoyle off of Spider-Man and tosses them away - Sinister War #4
• Digs a large hole through the ground and a metal roof - Legion Of X (2022) #5

Chapter Master Marneus Augustus Calgar

Chapter Master Calgar is the Current chapter Master of the Ultramarines. Considered to be the most successful Ultramarine period short of Guilliman himself, Calgar had relatively humble origins as a servant-boy named "Tacitan". Tacitan's best friend was the noble scion of House Calgar, the original Marneus Calgar whom he idolized. When the original Calgar was killed by a chaos corrupted trainer, Tacitan took the name of "Marneus Calgar" in his honor and eventually went to become a full fledged Space Marine.
Calgar has a long and storied history as the Ultramarine Chapter Master with notable deeds of marshalling the defense of Ultramar against Hive Fleet Behemoth, being the last man standing defying the Ork Hordes of Zalathras and facing down Abaddon the Despoiler upon Vigilus. Calgar's career and repitoire continues to grow, especially after crossing the Rubicon Primaris now nicknamed the "Calgar Procedure" due to him being the first volunteer to become Primaris as a firstborn Space Marine.
Feats are labelled "Primaris" are done post Rubicon Primaris. Any feat not labeled as such is prior.

Strength

• As a child, fights and kills wolves (he is the dude with the knife) Marneus Calgar Issue #2
  
• As a child, kills a bunch of wolves offscreen. Note: He is the one with the knife. Marneus Calgar Issue #2
  
• As a child, has to jump through this trench and not fall in Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• As a child, had to climb some unspecified tall wall with wild animals attacking him Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• As a child, kills a dude by vampire biting him Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• Is a big dude by Space Marine standards The Chapter's Due
  
• Cuts through various vegetation with just strength Calgar's Siege
  
• Throws aside dead Orks Calgar's Siege
  
• Rips an Ork's arm off Calgar's Siege
  
• Karate chops an Ork and decapitates it and then rips another Ork's head off Calgar's Siege
  
• Uses the body of one Ork to beat 6 others to death Calgar's Siege
  
• Lifts up another Space Marine and rips him in half Calgar's Siege
  
• Blocks a sword swing which creates a shockwave that causes nearby Space Marines to fall over but is brought down to a knee Calgar's Fury
  
• Pulls off the head of a Daemon Prince Calgar's Fury
  
• Forcefully pushes a Necron Pylon to rotate and aim at its own building Warzone: Damnos
  
  • These Pylons are quite big so forcefully rotating is quite difficult
• Blocks an enemy space marine's mace swing Primarch Rising
  
• Primaris Rips half a man's torso off Marneus Calgar Issue #1
  
• Primaris Mario stomps a cultist into gore Marneus Calgar Issue #3
  
• Primaris Rips his way through a metal wall Marneus Calgar Issue #3
  
• Primaris Rips a dude in half and throws him against the wall Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Primaris Pulls a dude's head off while having a sword wound in his chest Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Primaris Crushes a skull by squeezing Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Primaris One hand lifts a gigantic metal head despite the sword through the chest from earlier Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
  • Author's Note: This scene is often take out of context. Marneus does NOT defeat the Lord of Skulls 1v1.
• Primaris Breaks a man's arm just by grabbing and lifting him Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Primaris Cracks Abaddon's jaw by punching him Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Limit Cannot outmuscle a Daemon Prince The Chapter's Due
  
• Limit An unspecified amount of Chaos Space Marines dogpile him to the ground Primarch Rising
  
• Limit Primaris A Keeper of Secrets is physically stronger than him and can push a spear into him after he's caught it Vigilus Ablaze
  
  • Keepers are pretty gigantic however

Durability

• As a child, endured the cold night exposed to the elements Marneus Calgar Issue #2
  
• As a child, had to spend at least a day not freezing to death in the snow Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• As a child, is given redununt organs, fused rib cage and better musculature Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• As a child, is shot and lives. He does have some implants described to the right by now. Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• As a child, has reduced need for sleep Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• As a child, walks through some kind of toxic enviorment Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• As a child, has innate resistance to vacuums and extreme tempatures Marneus Calgar Issue #4*
  
• A shuttle crash from orbit only draws blood from him and leaves him relatively uninjured. Calgar's Siege
  
• His Iron Halo provides an energy shield based defense against various attacks Calgar's Siege
  
• Rarely feels tired, and his armor holds up against countless attacks Calgar's Siege
  
• Did not sleep for 2 weeks while constantly fighting Calgar's Siege
  
• Tanks chainswords from Orks Calgar's Siege
  
• Get's shot in the head by a bolt pistol and is only momentarily blinded, even 'welcoming' the pain Calgar's Siege
  
• Takes repeated beatings from Ork mobs Calgar's Siege
  
• No-sells normal guns Calgar's Siege
  
• A Daemon Prince strong enough to tear apart stone pillars like clay simply by moving through them punches him once, then mario stomps him and he gets right back up Calgar's Fury
  
• Broken begins begin healing mid-combat Calgar's Fury
  
• Resists a poisonous atmosphere but slowly takes damage from a highly radioactive world Calgar's Fury
  
• Feels his broken bones healing in real time Calgar's Fury
  
• Tanks a bunch of Daemons attacking him The Chapter's Due
  
• Tanks but is injured by a Daemon Prince attacking him The Chapter's Due
  
• Is injured from Daemons swarming him but keeps fighting through it The Chapter's Due
  
• Trades blows with a Daemon Prince after a fist clash that drops all the snow from the mountains around them The Chapter's Due
  
• Tanks not-mentioned weapons from enemy Space Marines Rise of the Primarch
  
• Was briefly KO'ed when a bunch of Chaos Space Marines mobbed him Rise of the Primarch
  
• Primaris Chainswords break on his armor Marneus Calgar Issue #3
  
• Primaris Tanks cannon shots from a Helbrute Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• Primaris Survives this plane crash with no injuries Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• Primaris No-sells a shotgun? Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Primaris Tanks a bolt-shot but we see the bullet hole + bleeding. Then deflects a Daemonic Sword Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Primaris Gets stabbed through the chest by a Daemon sword and then proceeds to pull one of the stabber's head's off Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Primaris Is fine after getting stabbed through the heart and having his throat cut Vigilus Ablaze
  
  • This did require rushing him to medical aid to survive and recover fully.
• Primaris Tanks bolter shots from the Talon of Horus but Abaddon tearing off one of his gauntlets causes it to get skinned Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Primaris Is briefly KOed but lives from having his two hearts cut Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Primaris GETS UP despite having the two aforementioned hearts cut and kills a possessed Chaos Space Marine in the process Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Primaris Even manages to later walk himself to medical attention despite the above injuries Vigilus Ablaze
  

Speed

• As a child had to outrun a monster in order to make it past the first test. Marneus Calgar Issue #2
  
• As a child, uses another person's body as a human shield from bullets Marneus Calgar Issue #3
  
• As a child, had to crawl through gunfire while being attacked by wolves *Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• Kills six orks in mere moments Calgar's Siege
  
• Goes from punching to shooting in the blink of an eye Calgar's Siege
  
• Dodges a point-blank bite from a Daemon Prince Calgar's Fury
  
• Despite being in Terminator Armor which actively slows the wearer down and makes them larger, he is able to dodge an attack from a Daemon Prince The Chapter's Due
  
• Catches a knife too small for his hands and uses it stab a Daemon that was about to bite him despite being less than a meter from its face The Chapter's Due
  
  • Author's Note: M'kar is in intense pain due to just having had his true name spoken.
• Primaris Is able to catch a spear thrust from a keeper of secrets but gets out-muscled by it Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Primaris His Primaris armor makes him far faster than before Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Scaling The Swarmlord whom Calgar had not one, but two duels with moves and attacks in blurs The Devastation of Baal
  
• Primaris Scaling Abaddon whom Calgar has an extended duel with was capable of bolter timing in conversation distance Wolfsbane
  

Stealth

• As a child, sneaks up and kills one of his chaos corrupted classmates Marneus Calgar Issue #3
  
• Is able to walk quietly despite weighing half a ton Calgar's Siege
  
• Makes no noise while moving in a temple Calgar's Fury
  

Willpower

• As a child, is given hypnotherapy to 'know no fear' Marneus Calgar Issue #4 )

Senses

• Has a variety of enhanced senses and can learn memories by drinking/eating the flesh of a creature Marneus Calgar Issue #4 )
  
• Bionic His bionic eye has infrared vision Calgar's Siege
  
• Can easily smell blood in the air as clear as a scarlet flag Calgar's Siege
  
• Helmet His helmet can distinguish blood that belongs to his guys or not Calgar's Siege
  
• Can deduce an animal has received implant-based armor despite it being a mile away Calgar's Siege
  
• Bionic His infared vision can see through smoke calgar's Siege
  

Intelligence

• As a child, was taught how to track Marneus Calgar Issue #2
  
• Knows the name of every crew member on a ship Calgar's Siege
  
  • This is 1,100+ people
• Had issued a 'superhuman campaign of defiance' against superior invaders Primarch Rising
  
• Is a superlative warrior and talented strategist Space Marines Codex 9e
  
• Masterminded a campaign seeing his army winning hundreds of battles Space Marines Codex 8e
  
• Possesses prodigious strategic cunning Ultramarines Supplement 8e
  
• Demonstrates 'Grand Strategic Acumen' Ultramarines Supplement 8e
  
• Devises hundreds of firing solutions and contingencies in the span of a single battle (with help) Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Can read dozens of data slates and watch multiple videos at once Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Manipulates multiple enemies into engaging each other Vigilus Ablaze
  

Skill

• Hits an undetermined amount of headshots as plenty of Orks die and another character mentions that non-headshots would only 'tickle' them Calgar's Siege

Wargear

The Gauntlets of Ultramar have underslung bolters. Fists versus Bolter will be delineated as such.

• Bolter Blows up two large Orks Calgar's Siege
  
• Bolter Guns down a lot of Orks Calgar's Siege
  
• Bolter Blasts the eye out of a cybernetically enhanced 80-100 ton beast Calgar's Siege
  
• Bolter Guns down various Chaos Space Marines Calgar's Fury
  
• Bolter Forces a Daemon Prince to retreat Calgar's Fury
  
• Bolter The shots would penetrate ceramite and blows up half a mans' body Marneus Calgar Issue #1
  
• Bolter Another sizable explosion is seen on this panel Marneus Calgar Issue #1
  
• Bolter Blows a man's arm off Marneus Calgar Issue #1
  
• Bolter Shooting a Chaos Space Marine causes him to lose his whole head Marneus Calgar Issue #2
  
• Bolter Blows up a dude from neck up Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Bolter Kills two people with one shot(?) Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Bolter One-shots Chaos Space Marines Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Bolter Six bullets turn a person into basically soup Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Bolter Bolt shots from the gauntlet are enough to make Abaddon not want to close in on him Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Fists Cuts through vegetation with its disruption field Calgar's Siege
  
• Fists Damages a Daemon Prince Calgar's Fury
  
• Fists Kills a bunch of Daemons The Chapter's Due
  
• Fists Is able to stagger a Daemon Prince into dropping him when its distracted from pain The Chapter's Due
  
• Fists Pounds his way through a Daemon horde The Chapter's Due
  
• Fists A fist clash with a Daemon Prince drops all the snow from the mountains around them The Chapter's Due
  
• Fists Pulverizes Necron heads + torsos Warzone Damnos
  
• Fists Utterly annihilates a man's body Marneus Calgar Issue #3
  
• Fists Annihilates a Chaos Space Marine's entire torso Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• Fists Punches through a Helbrute and causes it to fall off a building Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• Fists Punches through a transport hull Marneus Calgar Issue #4
  
• Fists Ragdolls Abaddon an unspecified distance Vigilus Ablaze
  
• Both His bolter dismembers Orks while his fists tear Orks to pieces Calgar's Siege
  
• Both His bolter fires a volley that flays 12 Orks, and then disembowels Orks with punches Calgar's Siege
  
• Both His bolter disintegrates Orks, and then his fists tears them apart Calgar's Siege
  
• Both Decapitates a big Ork and then guns down plenty others Calgar's Siege
  
• Both Disintegrates a Chaos Terminator's head and then guns down multiple enemy space marines Rise of the Primarch
  
• Both Calgar with two hearts cut and having just been KO'ed gets up and immediately kills a possessed with a punch + bolter combo Vigilus Ablaze
  

Misc

• Has been through a lot of shit Marneus Calgar Issue #5
  
• Off-screen defeats an army of Orks Space Marines codex 8e
  
  • Kinda sorta. He was the last able combatant and did fight on alone for at least a bit solo and ultimately won by calling in an airstrike
• Limit Did lose a 1v1 to the Swarmlord Ultramarines Supplement 8e
  
  • Won the rematch at least

I work full time remotely from home (pre planned so I could be with the baby -mistake 1 thinking I could work lol) My wife works insane and hard hours (sometimes 4:30AM to 6pm / sometimes 7am to 3pm -- depends but she works her butt off and works hard). She was on maternity leave for 6 weeks but shes been back to work full time the past 3 weeks. Because of her work we've moved 1000+ miles away from all friends and relatives and while I've made "friends" with the neighbors over the past 2 years its not really anything substantial where they could "help".
We have a 2month old and he's our first. For the past 3 weeks its just been me and him at home--my work has literally come to a standstill and I'm getting in major trouble due to deadlines/quotas not being met --- I cannot quit or get fired as my income supports the family. (I do try my best when he's asleep but it cant make up for a full 8-9 hour workday) Wife can't quit because shes got a long term career shes building into and its her dream job etc etc
Should have known that you cannot work full time and raise a newborn lol, but anyways The way the feedings work is that I get the 2AM, she gets the 4/5AM then I would get the 7/8AM. However, over the past 3 weeks almost without fail she is waking me up at 4:30AM/5:30AM or 6AM saying "I have to go to work please take over". And so I do but that means my day starts there. Baby sadly is addicted to sleeping on someone and if i transfer him he will immediately wake up screaming.. so he sleeps in my arms and I just hang about/ try to read news or do work off my phone .
I understand that things will get easier - hopefully but also different challenges will arise as he gets older. I dont know how to tackle this especially since I can't give up my work and for the past 3 weeks this has been hard.
Sadly the issues are being compounded because I feel like my wife doesnt respect or appreciate the work/sacrifice (if that can be said) that I'm making or the stress I have. She expects me to be the SAHM and have dinner and the house cleaned and and and (I do the cooking, I do the laundry -but she folds because apparently I fold bad, I do the vacuuming/mopping/I feed the pets, I mow the grass outside/I make sure the cars are maintained) and when I mention to her how tired I am or how I need a break her response is "my work is way harder than yours" when I mentioned how if the roles were reversed and I came home from work saying that about her being a SAHM the world would torch me she said "well you don't pump so its not as hard on you". I guess I get that. She works and pumps...but idk I just feel like its not right that I'm expected to cook and clean and do the laundry and also work and whenever I say i'm tired i need help all i get is "im more tired" or something like that.
An example. Last night she got home around 5:30PM. I had wanted to start going to the gym when she got home for "me" time, but reality is once she gets home she has to shower and pump and then I can go (and at this point in the day I'm just so spent its like whats the point).
So last night she comes home at 5:30pm and says she also has takehome work. I say thats fine for me I didnt get anything done i wont go to the gym and ill do some work too when you're done. She finishes her work around 8:30 (and in the meantime I had put the baby on the crib and made dinnedid a diaper change/played with the baby when he woke up because he hates his crib lol) So shes done around 8:30 says she needs to pump. So shes pumping and I put away the dishes, take out the trash and grab the mail and finally sit down to do my own work at around 9:30pm.
After about an hour or so I give up and go to sleep at 10:30 She also goes to sleep around the same time after putting the baby to sleep. I do the 2am feed but this time when the baby starts to wake up around 4AM i just nicely say "hey hes getting up can you please feed him' Her "can you im tired" me "me too and I did the 2am its your turn" her "im more tired just please feed him I have to go to work soon" so I get up and im like "ill do his diaper change but hes your son you need to get up and feed him" and I do the diaper change and she gets up and boom its a fight.
I guess I shouldnt have said "hes your son" mb but like then she texts me at work "all you do is be mean to me at home, you dont let me sleep i work so hard/ you treat me like sh*t at home"
which I really dont agree with. I'm just like 0 energy--she comes home and wants to complain about her coworkers -- i just am like glazed over. or like also last night with all that going on at 9:30 she says "lets go out and get ice cream" and my response was "no I cant I work" Her "you always say no you always chose work over hanging out with me" and now im on reddit making this post because idk i have no life hahah We literally moved 1000+ miles to this state. She told/promised me when she was done we'd move back home and now she wants to stay in this state but in a different city where again we know literally no one and now we have all this pressure and stress with this newborn I just have no idea what to do.

I don’t post often, but I have just had to put my kitty down today. He appeared at my front door in January 2020 as I was searching for cats to adopt online. According to the neighbours he was a stray, so we took him to the vets and they said he wasn’t chipped and he was an old boy (about 15yo). I said we would still look after him, I wanted him to know he had a erm bed a bowl full of food if he needed it. From then on he was my little friend. He wheedled his way into my heart and I loved him more than I can explain. I broke up with my partner in early 2022 and asked my friends mum if she could take him in as I couldn’t leave him behind, nor could I take him to a shelter as he was too old and I knew he wouldn’t like being cooped up in a little box whilst people passed him by. He was so friendly and vocal with his little trills and purrs, plus he loved when the hoover came out as he would roll on his back and we’d vacuum him all over and he would purr until the floor rumbled. Every time I opened the door for him in the morning he would trill “hello” and he would warm my heart. We were told he had thyroid problems, arthritis and he was going blind, and I went to visit him on Sunday and he looked up at me as if to say “I hurt, it’s time.” It has truly broken my heart to say goodbye to my little grey boy who entered my life just before the world fell apart and I will miss him for the rest of my life. I hope he knows how much he was was loved, both myself and my friends family were there and held him when the final dose went in. He was my best friend and yet the world continues without him in it.
Good night Ernie, we miss you ever so much. Hold your pets close, as it is shattering when they are no longer with us ❤️

So... I've been writing a personal story, and it surrounds Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino. A few friends I showed them to said I should share them in the community - I don't know if this is the place to share them, but I thought... May as well. They include my interpretations of the songs as well.
A hotel owner who takes her place as the receptionist... And is also looking for stories to write about, inspiration for her science fiction novels. A lover who decides to not give into is darker, more lustful desires, instead waiting for his lover's calls. A friend who's concerned about what's going on through experience, a friend who's concerned through context. A distant acquaintance that shares the feeling with the lounge singer about still fantasizing about each other from time to time, and that feeling is mutual with other young men. A young lady who is happy to find comfort in the hotel owner's world. Friends that are happy about the new world they can experience. The tales of Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino. (A description for a story inside of a story.)
Star Treatment: This number is the first we hear at the location. It sets the scene as the hotel and casino is a lovely, calm place that the owner has created and started for her friends. We find out the owner has also become the lounge singer, starting a 'cover' band called 'The Martini Police'. This song also makes some references to Science Fiction properties, which the lounge singer loves... We find out the hotel has been opened for everyone... And anyone. The lounge singer puts on a show for her friends, weaving metaphors together, a signature of her work. She even says she just wanted to be like the members of a band, maybe foreshadowing... Her friends look on, happy she's singing. She also makes reference to the fact that she wants to haunt the one she loves and hopes it's okay, but they're in a tough spot... For now. In fact, that may change, everyone's enjoying the residency, which the Lounge Singer even refers to the place as her 'Make-Belive Residency'. And she, along with everyone love it.
One Point Perspective - The Lounge Singer now sings to a much smaller crowd. Her friends that are much closer to her... She lists her intentions, past and present... Everything from starting the 'Cover Band', talkinh about a stunning documentary only she saw, and asking everyone to bear with her, she's losing her train of thought... She says that she's played to quiet rooms like this before, and while there's an element of sadness, she's really just glad and grateful she has friends to talk and sing to about her thought, no matter how random or existential they are. She likes reflection, no matter how small her perspective is... For now.
American Sports - This song is from the perspective of The Concerned Friend From Experience. He's friends with The Hotel Owner, but he's experienced strange visions and dreams that he suspects are tied to the hotel. He reflects on thoughts he keeps to himself, and perhaps he's not the only one having these visions... There may be some overlap with others. He never tells anyone these thoughts, for that's not what his peers are there for. He then makes a snide comment about explosive visions, similar to the American Sports he loves, plays, and sees others just outside playing.
Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino - This song is once again sung by the Lounge Singer. The Hotel Owner has now decided to take her rightful place as the receptionist - Little does she know the consequences... She reflects on everything the place means to her, guiding her friends along this place, to custom rooms and architecture she can't help but adore. She invites the young man she loves to kiss him, and asks her friends what she can do for them. She asks them to let loose, maybe even let their darksides out to play... Something the hotel and casino is trying to bring out. There's also an ominous buzzing and red light, something The Receptionist is trying to figure out why... Something's being hidden, but why? This is her hotel and casino...
Anyways: This track shows exactly why The Hotel Owner takes so much comfort and pride in the hotel and casino, despite the looming visions and possible dangers her friends are sharing - she needs a break from her real life. She reflects on her popular status, and how that has affected what she overshares and overthinks while vacuuming. She comes to sit down in an empty room, and this is the only song not performed in front of anyone else. She just wants to show who she really is, and thanks everyone who's stuck around with her. Being her isn't easy, she has so much to deal with, which others barely take time to think of, just trying to change the conversation to 'Anyways'. The number ends with one of her friends entering to check on her, ending the self-reflection.
Golden Trunks: Something dark is definitely happening at this place... Some people allowing their dark desires to overtake them. But why? This song is from the perspective of The Vindicated Friend. Yet as the number progresses, more voices join in, reflecting that... Everyone knows that The Lounge Singer has her eyes on someone else, he's even The Vindicated Friend's best friend. Yet... The Lounge Singer relented that it's always hard to live on, especially that now she's forgiven him. She admits that sometimes, her fantasies about the past get the better of her. Some over-sharing characteristic of her, he thinks, but he hates the fact he also does... And he's not the only one. Now... They're invited for it to become reality. But by who? The forces of the hotel and casino... Why?
Four Out Of Five: The ominous buzzing and red light has only intensified. And not just for The Receptionist. The Concerned Friend From Context has now found out the 'past' of the establishment, and now she, The Concerned Friend From Experience have gotten more rapid visions... As well as many other patrons. The Lounge Singer puts on a show for the grand opening of The Information Action Ratio, a taqueria she put on the roof of the casino. Yet, beneath her cheery vineer, she knows something is going on in the world she created, at the hotel and casino of her own making. She hates that, and wants to make everything better. She reflects on the state of the world that she doesn't want to return to, and tries to be cheeky and fun, happy to share some lovely Mexican food with her friends. Until she notices some are absent... How? Why? Why have her friends disappeared? Where have they gone?
The World's First Monster Truck Front Flip: A song that is a reflection of The Friend Who's Just Happy To Be Here. It's not that she took her friendship with The Hotel Owner for granted, but she never knew she was capable of... This! She has never had the easiest life, so being offered a getaway where all she has to do is press a button, is a happy comfort she doesn't mind to take part in. She has a lot more trust in The Hotel Owner than The Hotel Owner has in her, but the gap is being closed. There's so much for her, shows for her to see, time she can spend with her friends and her boyfriend. It doesn't matter that the hotel and casino wants her to be a little darker... After all, she's a bad girl trying to be good, happy to have a friend who supports her.
Science Fiction: The Lounge Singer indulges in her cheeky writing, and we find out she's The Aspiring Science Fiction Writer. Dark events are occuring around her, and it's not that she's oblivious, she just doesn't know the depth. She's fine to sing a complicated, multi-layer love song to The Young Man Who's Unsure If He's Even In Love. She even references the fact that him, and his other friends, probably have no idea what she's talking about. She's singing songs about hidden messages, and they're certainly staying that way.
She Looks Like Fun: As The Young Man Who's Unsure If He's Even In Love watches The Lounge Singer, he can't help but sink deeper into his lustful fantasies. He's trying his best to focus on what she's singing about, and even if she does a damn good job singing a line as ridiculous as 'Cheeseburger', he can't help but comb through memories of their past... Maybe if he was to return her feelings, things wouldn't be so bad. She's a damn good dancer, and he's not the only one who thinks so... Everyone watching her would be inclined to agree. Perhaps she would be a fun girlfriend...
Batphone: The Young Man Who's Unsure If He's Even In Love knows there's a batphone that will give him immediate, private access to The Receptionist, but is keen to wait for her to call. Batman imagery means a lot to them, and he reflects in her cheekiness. He's an introspective young man, so he reflects on everything he's never told his friends... The hotel and casino seems to have that effect on people. Another effect occurring is... Dark forces and energy around him. Something strange is going on, but he's oblivious. He's too busy making his observations that he can can only share with The Receptionist. He's chosen to not given into the lustful tendencies that the hotel and casino have called him to. He's still not committing to her, or even giving her a straight answer, but maybe she'll know he's waiting... As he thinks about what's going on in the hotel and casino, because... Come to think of it, where have some of his friends gone?
The Ultracheese: The conflict is over. All that's left is The Hotel Owner and her friends. Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino is going to close its doors temporarily, as it'll have to be re-done soon, and The Hotel Owner will have to return to reality. She thinks about the ironic death she could die, despite the fact she's immortal... Writing songs about everything she's lost, like the friends that she still thinks of, has pictures of on the wall. Those people were far from her friends, so now she's just happy that she has the friends that surround her now that lover her no matter what. She knows she's done things in the past she shouldn't have, and even apologizes for the damage that may have been caused from the hotel and casino. Her friends embrace her in a hug, and she looks out, not just to The Young Man Who's Unsure If He's Even In Love, but to all of her friends, that despite everything, especially in the past year, she's never stopped loving them. Their presence has made this sad song at least into a bittersweet one. It's the perfect way to end their summer, and the perfect bookend of their friendships.
However, even the songs that aren't primarily sung by The Lounge Singer, she still sings these songs in her dreams... These songs are their stories, but the whole thing is her story as well.

Use the staff to raise both Atlas and Mantle
Use the staff to create vortex that only sucks in Grimm into oblivion
Lower Atlas to Mantle and use to the staff to create a field that destroys every Grimm that’s inside of it that covers the entire world then use the staff to create a device that would make Salem brain dead then use the staff to create a one way portal into deep space and toss Salem’s brain dead body and her followers into it then create anything else so the portal will close