i didnt like his acting. he didnt deliver his lines believably. especially the line "earth is not for the taking". idk something about his line delivery made me cringe.

Enjoy these standalones and new series coming in 2022!

Epic Fantasy

• The Starless Crown, James Rollins, Jan. 4
  • An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world.
• Servant Mage, Kate Elliot, Jan. 18
  • A group of rebel Monarchists free Fellion the light-mage from indentured servitude and take her on a journey to rescue trapped compatriots from an underground complex of mines.
• The Bladed Faith, David Dalglish, Apr. 22
  • A usurped prince prepares to take up the mantel of a deadly assassin and reclaim his kingdom, his people, and his slain gods.
• The Spear Cuts through Water, Simon Jimenez, May 3
  • A reluctant warrior goes on the run with an ancient goddess through a lush world full of wild magic, wondrous creatures, and hidden enemies.
• The Collarbound, Rebecca Zahabi, May 12
  • On the other side of the Shadowpass, rebellion is brewing. Looming high on the cliff is a fortress full of mages who offer protection, but also embody everything the rebellion is fighting against.
• Kagen the Damned, Jonathan Maberry, May 10
  • Kagen Vale is the captain of the place guard, charged with protection the royal children. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is killed, leaving the empire in ruins.
• Flames of Mira, Clay Harmon, Jul. 5
  • People like Ig are born from life-threatening trials that bind chemical elements to the human body, forged in the boiling volcanoes and subterranean passages under Mira’s frozen lands.
• Into the Broken Lands, Tanya Huff, Aug. 2
  • To save their people, the Heirs of Marsan have no choice but to enter the Broken Lands, trusting their lives and the lives of everyone they protect to someone who shouldn't exist.
• The First Binding, RR Virdi, Aug. 16
  • I buried the village of Ampur under a mountain of ice and snow. Then I killed their god. I am legend. And I am a monster.
• Witch King, Martha Wells, Fall
  • (No blurb but I'm too excited not to include it)

The End of an Era (again)

Well here we are. After a year of cycle switch-ups, rerates, Swifties failing in rates, interacting with the other music subs (for once), Gamers finally getting their say, the loss of a very important community member, the loss of a less important community member, and any number of countless other obstacles we've finally reached the end of the 2021. And with the reveal of 70's Soul over the past weekend we have now completed our 5th session (cycle? series? season?) of Popheads Rates!

Someone suggested this to me earlier in the year (though I'm sorry I don't remember who!) (Edit: it was Niki! A huge thanks to them for coming up with the idea!! It was a ton of fun to work on!) and I think it'll be fun to take a look back at the past 12 months of rates now that All Stars 5 voting is open (speaking of, don't forget to submit your votes for wildcard spots before December 31st!)

This covers everything covered in the All Stars 5 cycle (+ All Stars 4). So the rates from last December (Contemporary R&B and 1987 Pop Guys) up to last month (High Concept Pop and 70's Soul)

##The Numbers

Over the past year Popheads had:

• 27 ... rates completed

• 37 ... different rate hosts

• 792 ... different raters (or usernames at least)

• 1335 ... main rate songs rated

• 3017 ... ballots counted

• 2867 ... 11s given out

• 1197 ... 0s given out

• 28 ... songenialities given out

• 176 ... bonus songs/remixes/speeches/TV breakdowns rated

• The average score of all songs from this year was 7.642 which is higher than the total average across all 5 years (overall is at 7.394)

• The average controversy from this year was 1.808 which is lower than the total average controversy across all 5 years (overall is at 1.935)

• The most common score received by songs this year was 7.630, which was given to 5 different songs (All That Ever Mattered - HAIM, Baby Girl - Chloe X Halle, Madame X - Allie X, Without Me - Halsey, Sakura Drops - Utada)

##And the meaningless

• The most common letter to be used at the start of songs this year was 'S' with 150 songs. Followed by 'T' with 97, 'I' with 86, 'B' with 83, and then 'C' with 82

• The most common numbers used at the start of songs are **1

I bring you a fresh new Installment of this ongoing narrative. I'm happy for all the support that some of you readers have been giving me. I don't have any special announcements at this time, so we will get right into it. Anyways, Please Enjoy.

+ Prologue + Previous + Next +

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Chapter 17

Iron Hand

It was a relatively short jump from The End of the Line to New Dundas as the systems were only sixteen light years apart, making the journey rather short. Before they had departed Creesh had brokered a deal to haul refined materials to New Dundas and bring back a shipment of machine parts. Hurk seemed to be well and truly pleased with his new combat ship and had honored his promise to give them a discount at all his fueling stations, and they were also loaded with a pile of illegal plasma guns to turn in for disposal at New Dundas.

Neirdith smiled for the first time in several days as The Shining Knight exited warp with a twisting lurch. New Dundas was there in the distance, a tiny gray dot orbiting the much larger world of Tartarus. Tartarus was a volcanic hellscape, massive eruptions spewing tons of toxic ash and gasses high into the choking atmosphere. The world was absolutely immiscible to life, except the Jeseo of course, who had evolved on an airless volcanic world much like it.

New Dundas slowly grew larger in the viewscreen as the ship drew closer and closer, eventually she was able to make out the great silver domes of the colony itself. These large barriers were made of a high strength yet flexible steel alloy called plasteel, it was able to bear incredible loads unsupported while still retaining a level of flexibility that kept it from being brittle. As they entered the colony and set down on one of the landing zones, Neirdith stood from her chair and stretched.

"Well, I have to go by the precinct and turn in the bounty. Would you like to come with me, Creesh?" She asked the smaller alien seated in front of her.

Creesh spun her chair around and hopped off onto the floor, fluffing her feathers slightly she nodded and said "Samantha is sleeping at the moment, and Gloom is probably busy updating the ships systems, so yes, I will accompany you."

Neirdith smiled and gave her an

PART 16 <==H==> PART 18

[Aly, Jalla, Tillia]

Aly was in a bit of a daze, Fredrich, Sarah, and Mara were quickly bringing different dresses, veils, and fabric samples to her asking her what they thought. Jalla and Tillia, looking supremely uncomfortable, had taken to talking and playing with Jessie.

“I’m sorry, stop for a moment, everyone.” Aly said and the three humans stopped and looked at her. Aly turned her gaze to Sarah. “Please, I know I am getting a wedding dress, but what for? And why the rush?”

“Ah,” Sarah nodded, understanding the question, and pulling her cellphone from her pocket she dialed quickly and handed the phone to Aly.

“Hello?” Eddy said on the other end of the phone.

Aly quickly repeated her question and explained that Sarah had handed her the phone. “What is going on Eddy?” She asked.

“You trust Allan right?” Eddy asked.

“Of course.” Aly said without hesitation.

“And you love him right?” Eddy asked again.

“With all my heart.” She said without missing a beat.

“Then do me favor and just play along. Let Mom pamper you, and do all the things a mother-in-law should do. Tonight all your questions will be answered I promise.” Eddy said. “Trust Allan, he is the one who planned all this.”

“Okay.” Aly said even more confused as tonight they were supposed to be leaving. But she handed the phone back to Sarah, who put it to her ear, and Eddy spoke quickly and Sarah said thanks and hung up.

“Aly,” Sarah said looking to her, “Allan is going to marry you according to earth customs tonight. He knows that it means nothing to the rest of the galaxy, but he thought that you would like it. If I know anything about the two of them, Allan and Eddy have gone to great lengths to ensure that it is an amazing wedding, and to make sure that you are in the dark until the moment of the wedding itself.”

“What?!” Aly asked, surprised.

“Yep.” Said Mara.

“I don’t think that you should be in the dark about your own wedding. I won’t tell you what they have planned, but I will at least tell you that is the plan.” Sarah said smiling happily at Aly. “Fair?”

Aly who was blushing and feeling happy simply nodded, and let the three humans get back to work, bringing her an untold number of things needing her opinion.

[Yokohama Japan, Allan]

“No

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

TLDR: 10% of her videos use clear-cut greenscreen and 20% film her separately in some way. But when she does do it, it's usually for her pop crossovers (with the exception of Ariana, who she's always there for)

Nicki's use of greenscreen and other trickery in her MVs is as iconic to her as bitches being her sons and terrible taste in men. But is it warranted? Who does and doesn't she show up for? Sometimes it's not clear cut, and there's degrees of availability: sometimes she'll show up on set but only have enough time to do one scene. I watched all ~80 "feat. Nicki Minaj" videos to find out.

(this is also a great way to see how hip hop (or at least its pop-facing side) has evolved throughout the 2010s, by the way)

I divided all of her videos into tiers:

#Tier 0: She showed up

"5 Star" (Yo Gotti featuring Gucci Mane, Trina and Nicki Minaj)

although she probably didn't need to because the music video is a nondescript white background.

"Hot Girl Summer" (Megan Thee Stallion featuring Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign)

"BedRock" (Young Money featuring Lloyd)

"Bang Bang" (Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj)

"Letting Go (Dutty Love)" (Sean Kingston featuring Nicki Minaj)

"Get Low" (Waka Flocka Flame featuring Nicki Minaj, Tyga and Flo Rida)

"All Eyes on You" (Meek Mill featuring Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown)

"You da Baddest" (Future featuring Nicki Minaj)

"Only" (Young Money et al)

"The Way Life Goes" (Lil Uzi Vert featuring Nicki Minaj)

"Big Bank" (YG featuring 2 Chainz, Big Sean and Nicki Minaj)

"Side To Side" (Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj)

"I B on Dat" (Meek Mill featuring Nicki Minaj, Fabolous and French Montana)

"Rake It Up" (Yo Gotti featuring Nicki Minaj)

"Give It All to Me" (Mavado featuring Nicki Minaj)

"No Love" (August Alsina featuring Nicki Minaj)

"Throw Sum Mo" (Rae Sremmurd featuring Nicki Minaj and Young Thug)

" Krippy Kush" (Farruko, Nicki Minaj and Bad Bunny featuring 21 Savage and Rvssian)

"My Nigga" (YG featuring Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Rich Homie Quan and Meek Mill)

"I'm Out" (Ciara featuring Nicki Minaj)

"Up Out My Face" (Mariah Carey featuring Nicki Minaj)

"I Wanna Be with You" (DJ Khaled featuring Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and Future)

"Senile" (Young Money featuring Tyga, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj)

"Knockout" (Lil Wayne featuring Nicki Minaj)

**"I Ain't Thru" (Keyshia Cole featuring

Big Brother 3

Marcellas got Jill Scott. Roddy got the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Gerry got U2. Chiara got Paul Oakenfold. Amy got Sarah Brightman. Jason got U2 and the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack. Danielle got Bon Jovi.

Big Brother 4

Nathan got U2. Jee got Linkin Park and Richard Marx. Alison got Ashanti. Justin got Dave Matthews Band. Erika got Pink. Jun got Pet Shop Boys.

Big Brother 5

Marvin got Van Halen and Prince. Drew got Maroon 5, John Mayer, and Counting Crows. Diane got Evanescence. Nakomis got The Flaming Lips, Nebula, and Nine Inch Nails. Adria got Usher.

Big Brother 6

Eric got James Taylor. Kaysar got Guns N’ Roses. Maggie got Dave Matthews Band. Howie got U2. Jennifer got Jessica Simpson. Janelle got Tiesto. Beau got Britney Spears. April got Dave Matthews Band.

Big Brother 7

Jase got The Chicks. Janelle got Tiesto. Kaysar got Norah Jones. James got Pearl Jam. Danielle got Queen. Boogie got Jay-Z. Erika got Coldplay.

Big Brother 8

Jen got U2. Dick got the Ramones and Mötley Crüe. Dustin got Mika. Dani got Rilo Kiley and The Faint. Jessica got Toby Keith and Beyoncé.

Big Brother 9

Chelsia got Nine Inch Nails. Sharon got Britney Spears. Ryan got Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Adam got Jay-Z. Natalie got Yellowcard. Sheila got Coldplay.

Big Brother 10

Jerry got Glenn Miller. Keesha got The Chicks. April got Air Supply. Michelle got Snoop Dogg. Renny got Ella Fitzgerald. Dan got Weezer and The Killers.

Big Brother 11

Jessie got Lil Wayne. Ronnie got the Legally Blonde soundtrack. Chima got Prince. Michele got Weezer. Jordan got Def Leppard. Jeff got Bob Marley. Kevin got Enrique Iglesias.

Big Brother 12

Rachel got Rascal Flatts and Spice Girls. Matt got Weezer. Britney got Lady Gaga. Lane got Eminem.

Big Brother 13

Rachel got Spice Girls, Tiesto, and Rascal Flatts. Jordan got Tim McGraw. Dani got Third Eye Blind and Cold War Kids. Kalia got Adele. Jeff got Bob Marley. Porsche got Rihanna. Adam got Faith No More.

Big Brother 14

Frank got The xx, M83, and Biggie Smalls. Shane got Flo Rida and Akon. Danielle got Jason Aldean. Ian got Arctic Monkeys and Matt & Kim.

Big Brother 15

McCrae got Regina Spektor. Aaryn got Spice Girls, Jessica Simpson, and Carrie Underwood. Helen got U2. Judd got Red Hot Chili Peppers. GinaMarie got Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. Andy got Madonna and Talking Heads. Elissa got Taylor Swift. Spencer got Nirvana.

Big Brother 16

C

Do your worst!

Hi, I'm Eddie Paxton and I'm extremely happy to announce that "Man out of time " a web series based on the life of Steve Rogers from 2014-2023 has finally started its production in Toronto.

The first season is based on the Hydra shield drama of 2014.

Here is the synopsis of the first season "It is been 2 years since Steve Rogers came out from the ice and save the Earth from Loki with Avengers now he has got a bigger challenge and it is to survive into this modern world can the 1940s Brooklyn kid can survive in modern-day America ?"

Here is the complete cast:-

Alex Pettyfer as Steve Rogers

Rachel wood as Natasha Romanoff ex kgb agent avenger and shield agent

Jessie usher as Sam Wilson a guy who idolizes Steve Rogers eventually becoming his sidekick falcon

Kevin Hart as Nicholas fury the head of the shield organization with a mysterious past.

January Jones as Maria hill fury's right-hand woman and shield commander (There is a twist with her character based on some real-life rumor we heard about Maria hill )

Stephen Amell as Clint Barton (Guest appearance ) a shield agent with special arrow skills an avenger goes under the codename Hawkeye (He was always our first choice for Hawkeye especially after he played a fictional Clint Barton aka Oliver queen in arrow . He accepted the part without reading the script as it was his dream role )

Alan Ritchson as Brock Rumlow A high-ranking shield agent and a secret hydra mole in the shield a loyal man of Alexander pierce the head of hydra.

The next two pieces are a huge surprise for you people

James Bucky Barnes played by none other than Jared Leto

And Alexander pierce the main antagonist of season 1 is being portrayed by none other than Hannibal and casino royal fame Mads Mikkelsen.

Man out of time will arrive on July 2025 exclusively on roxxflix.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

The French DJ’s 5th studio album was released on August 26, 2011. It is the follow-up to 2009’s One Love—a hugely successful album in its own right.

Nothing but the Beat was released in a two-disc format. The first one contains collabs from Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Flo Rida, Usher, Nicki Minaj, and many more. Akon, Ne-Yo, and will.i.am also make an appearance here; these three artists worked with David on One Love. Disc two is an electronic album, with Avicii and Afrojack making appearances.

The album’s 2.0 version was released over a year later, on September 7, 2012. In this reissue, new songs were added, which included She Wolf and Just One Last Time. Nothing but the Beat Ultimate, the album’s third and final reissue, was released 3 months later on December 10, 2012.

4 out of Nothing but the Beat’s 10 main singles went on to become successful on the Hot 100 charts. Where Them Girls At, Without You, Turn Me On, and Titanium all reached the top 20. It’s also worth mentioning that all 10 main singles peaked within the top 20 of the UK charts as well!

Tracklist (Ultimate edition):

Disc One

1. Titanium (featuring Sia)

2. Turn Me On (featuring Nicki Minaj)

3. She Wolf (Falling to Pieces) (featuring Sia)

4. Without You (featuring Usher)

5. I Can Only Imagine (featuring Chris Brown and Lil Wayne)

6. Play Hard (featuring Ne-Yo and Akon)

7. Wild One Two (Jack Back featuring David Guetta, Nicky Romero and Sia)

8. Just One Last Time (featuring Taped Rai)

9. In My Head (with Daddy's Groove featuring NERVO)

10. Where Them Girls At (featuring Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj)

11. Little Bad Girl (featuring Taio Cruz and Ludacris)

12. Sweat (vs. Snoop Dogg)

13. Crank It Up (featuring Akon)

14. I Just Wanna F. (with Afrojack featuring Timbaland and Dev)

15. Nothing Really Matters (featuring will.i.am)

16. Night of Your Life (featuring Jennifer Hudson)

17. Repeat (featuring Jessie J)

Disc Two:

1. Every Chance We Get We Run (with Alesso featuring Tegan and Sara)

2. Sunshine (with Avicii)

3. Lunar (with Afrojack)

4. What the F***

5. Metropolis (with Nicky Romero)

6. The Alphabeat

7. Metro Music

8. Toy Story

9. The Future (with Afrojack)

10. Dreams

11. Paris

12. Glasgow

13. Little Bad Girl (Instrumental Club Mix)

How do you guys look at this album 10 years later? What are your favorite songs off of it?

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.