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Just watched the recording i set for the Olympics opening ceremony and it was so nice. In the years leading up to Tokyo I kept thinking how extravagant it would be with focus on the culture from kabuki to the pop culture like Godzilla, Mario and Super Sentai. I like that they made it more about the world instead of showcasing their culture like previous games have done. Maybe if Tokyo gets a third Olympiad they can do the extravagant ceremony but for the circumstances I liked the tact they had to say that we’re all in this together and are stronger because of that.

Next film was XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport. It starts with some shots in Greece with a brief recap of the ancient Olympic tradition of the flame before transitioning to the modern day where the flame goes from the shores of Greece to the shores of... Switzerland. Yes it starts with a 30 minute look at the St. Moritz games, this time in beautiful technicolor. The colors are so vibrant and pretty so I didn’t mind. After the winter games it spends 1.5 hours on the games in London. The way it’s formatted and edited reminded me a little of the Love Bug films which I enjoy. Nothing was dull but not exactly exhilarating so I’d place this film in the middle. As for the events, well they didn’t do as good covering everything like the previous films did. There were ~20 different sporting categories and only 8 got covered in some form. The ones not covered at all were basketball, boxing, canoeing, fencing, field hockey, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman styles) along with the lacrosse demonstration being omitted. For anyone curious the events covered were aquatics (diving, swimming and water polo) athletics, cycling, equestrian, rowing and sailing. It’s kind of annoying that they have all these sports and they somehow don’t have time to include some part, even more galling since this film did double duty by covering the winter games as well. It’s going to get interesting when it gets to the more recent ones where there’s way more sports and the films are 2-4 hours still.

Not really bad but more something that makes me angry. I have this one coworker who I was friendly with but over the past year he’s been getting a bit insufferable. He keeps going on with conspiracy theory stuff and says stuff that is pretty bigoted. The biggest bigotry he displays is his views on LGBT rights, especially trans rights. He refuses to acknowledge their correct gender and pronouns and treats it as them lying and practically drag queens. The worst part is how he says it all in a calm, matter of fact way that makes it insufferable. Then his opinions on the government, which I never bring up but it comes into the conversation anyway, go into the direction of “Republicans: good and honest, Democrats: communists and destroyers” and he ignores all the good that FDR, a democrat, did to get our country out of the depression and conveniently forgets about watergate which involved a Republican. Then his conspiracy stuff is grating on my nerves. His current ones are COVID vaccine denier level just so you get the idea. Then there are others where it’s untrue, like one where the Wizard of Oz is a metaphor for the power of gold and they changed the silver shoes to Ruby to cover that up when I keep telling him they changed the shoe color because they wanted to show off how good technicolor was since silver wouldn’t be quite as flashy as a bright color like red. He’s also vegetarian but he at least doesn’t shove that towards anyone but today he tried giving me the ‘vegans are superior to everyone’ spiel by claiming every single winner of the Olympics and other sports are vegan and when I pointed out the lie in it, since lots of those athletes eat McDonald’s and protein shakes, and he tried backtracking! What just makes all this bad is he’s not really a bad guy but he just gets to where he rubs you the wrong way after a while to the point that you want to yell at him to shut the crem up.

Been job searching so I can finally leave the toxic environment I currently work at and I finally got a callback! I’ve been wanting to work at Barnes & Noble and I didn’t care if it was barista at the cafe or bookseller for the store. It’s not the closest one to me, that one rejected all my applications, but it’s the next closest so it’s good for the drive at least. I’m hoping it goes to interview level so I can know to give my storming two weeks notice and the ol two finger salute of punkhood. Hopefully this works out and I can stay for a few years to reach senior level and move out of Texas for good.

Next up is Fight Without Hate/ Combat sans haine covering the 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz. The title refers to how this came just after WWII was over and everyone was glad to have some ‘fighting’ that wasn’t full of hate but of sportsmanship. It started with a history of the Olympics themselves before showing the games getting prepared by building up the snow boundaries for the different courses. The events were adequate this time, the most fascinating was the figure skating which became very fancy by multiplying the image, inverting the colors and showing all the skaters spinning and twirling, but the best part of this film was the commentary. The commentary was radio banter where the guy kept getting interrupted by his wife and the petty squabbles became hilarious by the end. One example is her wanting him to get her a black jersey, after she had seen one of the speed skaters wear one, and he told her “no” so she heads to the bar with his journalist friend and later he decides to get one for her as a surprise and she was so excited she bought three more to make her friends jealous! Then during the ski jump he was so drunk his wife took over for him. Listening to this reminded me of the radio drama My Favorite Husband staring Lucille Ball. Once again no Nordic Combined coverage. What is it about the winter films skipping this event in particular?

Finished Olympia Part 2 Festival of Beauty. Started with showing the athletes at the village training, exercising and relaxing before moving into a gymnastics demonstration filled with so many beautiful men and women. All events covered were beautifully shot and executed in fun and interesting ways like in diving where the camera followed the divers into the pool and the men’s diving was so artfully shot with the footage being reversed or the angle was different. Overall the only events not covered at all were water polo, basketball, canoeing, gymnastics, handball, shooting, weightlifting and wrestling. I really want to see more work from Riefenstahl now but her other stuff isn’t exactly commercially available because of the whole propaganda thing which I didn’t detect here once again.

Watched Olympia Part 1 Festival of the Nations and that was so neat to watch. I can see why it’s considered one of the best Olympic films ever made. That opening depicting the ruins of Ancient Greece, recreation of the ancient games, the torch relay and it transitioning to the modern day to bring the flame from Greece to Berlin was so magical to watch. The rest of the film was only the athletics events and boy does Riefenstahl make it so watchable. Every shot was very artistic in nature and has a point to be included. This woman knew what shots she wanted and she got them. During the marathon it looked like she even strapped a camera to Sohn Kee-chung’s chest to get a shot of his legs in motion. It’s amazing how many camera and film techniques were actually started by Riefenstahl from smash cuts to extreme closeups to using tracking shot rails. As for the whole controversy of the film itself I must not fully understand propaganda because it didn’t really make me that sympathetic towards the nazi party or think that the Germans were superior to the other athletes. Heck non-Germans got equal treatment to the Germans, especially the black athletes like Jesse Owens. It’s kind of sad films like this ruined Riefenstahl’s career since she had real talent with the imagery to the point I kind of want to find a copy of Triumph of the Will and Tiefland to see how good her talent is elsewhere.

A short one today, Youth of the World/ Jugend der Welt. This encompasses the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and was delightful to watch. It’s only 38 minutes but it gives you just enough of a taste for every single event. A pattern I’m noticing is these films omitting the demonstration sports since they excluded the military patrol and ice stock sport. That was probably the first time I’ve ever heard Hitler’s voice but it was just to announce the opening of the games so he didn’t do much. The events were shot beautifully and doesn’t well long on anything, the exception being the ski jumping event. During that they edited in footage of hawks to almost compare the ‘flying’ skiers to the birds. Still kind of amazed at the wild flailing of their arms when they make that jump. Despite what one would think there’s not really any propaganda here. Yes you see the nazi flag but it’s in the context of there being flags flown at the Olympics. They also flash the winning flags for each event so the 3 gold winners are the only time the flag is flashed on screen. Of course it’s the summer games that are considered propaganda so I’ll let you know how that goes.

Wow! The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928/ De Olympische spelen— Amsterdam 1928 is so much better than the other film! The footage is not that great, at times you can make out a human shape but not much else, but everything else is so much better from the pacing to the editing. Even the music, which is a similar style, isn’t as boring and fit much better. They even trimmed the events down to showing only the winning matches and only did extra for some artsy slow motion shots and for anything interesting, like the high jump the Philippines athlete did. Heck they even had time to show the gymnastics demonstration from so many countries that was so cool to watch. Thanks to this they trimmed it down by an hour which makes it much more bearable to watch. The events are in a different order instead of grouping them altogether. Not sure what didn’t get shown because the beginning of the film had a restoration note saying that reel 1 was badly damaged and reels 5 & 8 are gone. Because these events are from 1928 it sometimes felt weird seeing the women in shorts and athletic shirts instead of the usual garments of the time. An interesting fact: H. R. Queen Wilhelmina almost didn’t attend these games. Her husband Prince Henry opened the games because she was on vacation in Norway and didn’t want to cut it short because she believed the games promoted paganism. She eventually turned around and watched some events and handed out the gold medals during the awards ceremony. Next would normally be the 1932 games in Lake Placid and LA but the films are lost so it’s the 1936 Nazi games next. This should be interesting.

Ugh... The Olympic film The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam was so dull (insert Monty Python “it’s dull” skit here). Between the 4 hour time stamp and the boring music this film was a chore to watch. To show how bad it was I planned on watching it in 2 hour blocks on Wednesday and Thursday and I just couldn’t get past the first hour on Wednesday and the second hour on Thursday with no attempts on Friday and Saturday. What also made it worse was the structure of events. Some events they showed the winning match or heat, some they showed. Every. Single. Match. And even at 4 hours they still didn’t show every single event. They didn’t even show the infamous women’s 800m race that made the IOC ban women from doing any race over 200m until 1960 because they decided the women were exhausted from being too frail and delicate to run that far. Barf! Another really bad choice was the editing. They had intertitles to let you know what event was going on and who the winners were... when they bothered to let you know what event was on screen. I lost track of which boxing match was happening and during the swimming it announced it was one of the women’s swim matches but suddenly switch’s over to one of the men’s without telling you who won or that it was a different event altogether. The music really brought this film down cause even the events I liked watching from the previous films, like the swimming, rowing and equestrian events, I kept nodding off and wanting to look at something else. I also kept checking the time code to see how much more there was and I tend to avoid doing that with any film so that’s a bad sign. As for any positives I’ll say the footage is nice and clear with only a few minutes total of less than stellar footage. It’s worth noting because this wasn’t the official film, it was the rejected one and that only happened because the film studio was from fascist Italy and the Dutch board assumed it was going to be full of fascism propaganda so they took the footage and made their own film. If fascist propaganda is about making something extremely boring then they succeeded on that part. The Dutch made one is next and I’m really hoping it’s better cause I don’t know if I could take another boring film so soon.

Next film is The White Stadium/ Des Weiße Stadion. This film was thought lost until it was found in 2011 from elements coming from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Russia. The first three make sense since the film is in German and French but it makes me wonder why they had footage in Russia. The footage overall is so good for a film that was supposedly lost and you can tell when they used less than ideal footage by the B&W levels being off or heavy grain. Otherwise this looks a lot better than 1924 Paris! Sound wise I love the music. The previous films were coordinated piano music that would be played in the theater and national anthems but this is a soundtrack. I’d listen to this film in the background just for the music. It reminds me so much of Ghibli, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy X & 7 with a dash of Danny Elfman thrown in along with some ‘wintery’ music. This music is so nice and relaxing to listen to. As for the actual onscreen contents I think I enjoy the winter sports more than the summer sports. The summer games tend to get dull after a while for me but the winter stuff holds my attention much better. I think it has to do with the beauty and grace of the sports themselves which makes sense since the summer ones that I like are gymnastics and that’s about the beauty and grace of the athlete themselves. I did find it odd while keeping track of which sports remained that they showed curling but it apparently wasn’t played according to the IOC records. So was it just a random game played in between events? Also they didn’t film any of the 10,000 meter speed skating race that a Norwegian judge canceled while it was happening supposedly for melting ice but the description I read makes it seem like the judge was mad that Irving Jaffee, USA, was beating Bernt Evensen, Norway. The IOC tried to overrule the judge but the International Skating Union sided with him and thus overruling the IOC. Evensen for his part did advocate for Jaffee to get the gold medal but nothing ever happened. The first half hour of the film felt like a nature/slice of life documentary and was so peaceful with beautiful shots of the St Moritz area. It almost felt like a different film once the Olympics start but you can tell it’s the same film from the cinematography direction. With how the film starts differently I could see that being the reason it was lost by having people not realize it was an Olympic film. Speaking of the cinematography this film was directed by Arnold Fanck and his protege was Leni Riefenstahl, the director of Olympia which is considered the first great Olympic film so I’m wondering how much better that is since I find this to be the first great one in chronological order. The next film sounds exhausting since it’s 251 minutes! That’s a 4 hour film! I might have to watch this in two parts.

Next Olympics film was The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 and boy is the quality all over the place. For the most part the footage is excellent to the point where you can see individual blades of grass but there are some bits of footage where it must’ve been a copy since the details are excellent but the lighting is dark heavy to the point where some shots are completely dark in three corners. Then there’s some footage that is blurred and of lesser quality to the point that it was SD quality. Even then it’s still good quality since you can still tell what’s happening. Now for the bad. There are tram lines visible throughout the film and the amount varies from barely visible to lines across the screen. The worst had to be during the polo match with some pretty heavy traming happening. Then there’s some damaged film during the rugby match that affects the black and white levels pretty bad. One review I had read thinks it was a mold stain. I’m not sure if they could clean it up any more than they did without finding a duplicate copy which might not happen since this was originally thought to be lost until they found the footage in England and France when doing the restoration project. As for the games themselves they’re all covered I think, I wasn’t exactly keeping track of every single event, but it’s not exactly captivating the whole 3 hours since it was meant more as a theater newsreel format but there are moments that are good to watch like the high jump fails, the equestrian attempts and the gymnastics. The score fits the time period and gets pretty synchronized with the actions like the Danish gymnastic performance, false starts and the boxing match. To be honest I’ll be kind of happy once it gets to the more cinematic films and aren’t so newsreely and that starts with the Berlin games which is 4 films away. It’ll also be nice to get to the sound pictures and actually hear the cheers since there’s something missing without that ambiance.

The next couple Olympic films were short films so I’ve finished those. First is The Olympic Games Held at Chamomix in 1924 which is more of a highlights reel of the events. It only covered a little of figure skating, hockey and ski jumping and very short bits of the ski marathon, military patrol and bobsleigh with nothing from curling, speed skating and Nordic combined. It was interesting to see how different the techniques were than they are now, especially on the ski jump where they stayed almost completely erect and swinging their arms wildly. The other film was The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece which was only 8 minutes. It was an interesting vignette of 6 men in staggered motion and then showing the action in full motion. The wrestling almost looked like ballet the way it was performed. Oddly there’s a shot of a Greek woman randomly shown at one point. The footage overall for these two is both good and bad. There’s obvious damage to them and the winter footage is sometimes blown out thanks to the sun reflecting off the snow. Inversely the footage is crisp with details, like seeing the snow spray during the bobsleigh and the lines in the ice during the skating event, and oddly is also blurry in parts of the picture. This probably has to do with the quality of the print and most likely can’t be fixed without damaging the picture itself. Next film is the 1924 Paris one and its 3 hours.

Celebrating the Olympics by watching all the officially sanctioned films from the IOC. Most of these are 3 hours so give me luck on making it through them all. First up was The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912 which is technically not a film but a whole bunch of short films and news clips from 1912 put together into a film format. It’s surprisingly in great shape for 100 year old film stock considering how rotted stuff from back then has gotten. Heck the IOC almost didn’t find this stuff until they did a check for the films of the games and happened to find this footage in Sweden and London. It manages to cover almost all the events, maybe about 85-90% of them, but each is still a couple minutes long. It also takes an hour to get to the actual games because the first hour is just the preliminaries! The other two hours are the actual games, the opening ceremony, the medal ceremony and the various demonstrations shown. It’s neat seeing how distinguished and fancy everyone dressed for the games, especially the equestrian teams being in their military uniforms since every single participant there were lieutenants, captains and even the prince of Prussia. The one thing that’s actually new for this film is the score which fits the period nicely. Going to be nice watching the rest, though it’s a shame they don’t have any footage from 1896 Athens, 1900 Paris, 1904 St Louis, 1908 London 1920 Antwerp and 1932 Los Angeles since they managed to find footage for all the other games.

@Eluvianii The OG Godzilla is a fun film. It’s crazy when you think about it that they weren’t planning on any future films considering the ending which makes you wonder how Godzilla went from destroying Tokyo for the heck of it to defending the city from other monsters in the later films. I have the Criterion Collection version that includes the US ‘remake’ King of the Monsters and it’s laughable in places like them saying Godzilla is like 500 feet or something and when the rampage is happening Godzilla towers over the buildings but somehow the American reporter is looking down at Godzilla from the newsroom... which is a three story building so how tall is Godzilla??? I also have the set that includes all the Showa films, including the 2 US films, so that’s going to be fun to watch.

Final Louis Malle documentary ...and the Pursuit of Happiness. It’s about immigration back in 86 and shows all sides of it from the success stories to the illegals treating it like a game when they get caught and ‘voluntarily leave’. The footage came from all over the country from San Diego, San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, Houston, New York and even middle of nowhere Nebraska so you get to see small differences in the stories. One of the more prominent stories was from Houston where the black residents treated all the Asian immigrants as being part of a conspiracy to force them out of their homes to build houses for white people. I bring this up since the only other time blacks show up are from Africa and don’t have this crazy conspiracy stuff going on where immigration is concerned. This film was made so close to when I was born and it’s interesting how much of this stuff I never saw in my life when I lived in California. I never saw the Asian and Hispanic communities mentioned as being prosperous in the areas I’d have been to as a kid so either things changed significantly in the 4 years before I was born or I was really colorblind as a kid to not notice the different people. For context I lived there until I was 10 so plenty of time for me to see the different cultures and peoples. To show how different the California of my childhood was to the one from now the last time I had gone, maybe 2-3 years ago, I was actually surprised by how many Japanese people I had seen along with all the Hispanic/Mexican owned businesses. TBH I don’t think I was ignorant of this stuff as a kid, it was most likely just stuff that didn’t register to me at all since I do remember seeing films with Asians and other people like that but it just didn’t phase me at all and they were just people. One example is Power Rangers. I remember watching MMPR as a kid and it never registered that Zach and Trini were different looking from the others. Same with their replacements Adam and Aisha. This really shows how much society forces us to look at the differences between us since I didn’t notice, or maybe acknowledge, any differences until I had moved to Texas and people here made it a bigger deal than California did.

Not really bad but just more disheartening and worrisome. My mother just can’t understand the worry one of our coworkers has whenever her son goes somewhere. For context this coworker is black. Pretty much she worries that something will happen and he’ll be shot by a cop for no reason. I understand why she feels that way because of events over the last few years but my mother just doesn’t see the problem or even acknowledge the problem. She keeps looking at life through a white woman’s experience and doesn’t see any problem with the way black relations with cops is. My mother views this as racist and needless worrying and just will not see the problem at hand. While I’m not black I know about the issues blacks have had to deal with where the police and the government are concerned. I understand how our coworker feels because I don’t fully trust the cops myself. As a kid I was told to respect them and if they are around you or coming towards you then it means you’ve done something wrong and because of that my body tenses up whenever I see a cop or guard and they’re walking in the opposite direction towards me but not at me. I know it’s not the same but it’s that feeling of ‘is that cop coming towards me? What could I have done wrong?’ that connects both and shows some mistrust. This feeling also extends towards the military for me, mostly because in my mind I can’t trust a group that is legally authorized to kill people for any reason. Part of this has more to do with my grandpa who was a veteran but I never felt safe around him. There was always something about him I didn’t like and I get that same feeling around war stuff so there’s a link there for me. My mother though has never had any reason to distrust this stuff and part of it is because one of her brothers was a cop so she doesn’t see the side everyone else does, which is the victim side of things. In her mind it seems like if someone is getting arrested or shot at then there’s always a good reason from the cop side. Me I grew up with the stories of cops shooting the wrongs people, breaking into the wrong homes, refusing to pay for any broken property they caused, discrimination profiling and extreme measures for holding detainees who aren’t even resisting. I just can’t understand how someone can look a problem in the face, refuse to see it and think someone is overreacting to nothing.

Just watched Louis Malle’s God’s Country. Kind of interesting and gives a look at how a farming community changed over the course of 6 years. It started in 79 and the community is prosperous and happy but when it changes over to 85 and you see how dejected and upset the people are at the Reagen administration to the point they want to do tax evasion to make a point. There was one family had hoped to have their kids take up farming but in 85 they hope the kids will go to college and pursue greener pastures because of the economy changing to make farming not worth doing. Because of how recent the events are it really highlights how much people ignore problems and see it through rose colored glasses since my parents treat the Reagen administration as if it were hunky dory and ignore the fact that things weren’t, for example how the deficit went from 300 billion to 2 trillion over the course of 8 years. More people need to see records like this to understand that things have been messed up in this country for a few decades and not just a recent thing.

Just finished Louis Malle’s Calcutta. This was additional footage from filming Phantom India that he thought was interesting enough to be its own film. It doesn’t have the same problems I had with Phantom India but you can still detect it a little. It focuses on so many things in the city of Calcutta from a marriage to a funeral, from a woman’s protest of the government to a student protest of the government, from lepresy to the slums and even entertainment in the streets to a festival for Saraswati. The most bizarre thing he captured was the student protest taking a break so a religious caravan can pass through and as soon as it passed they restarted. That probably had to be the most respectful protest I’d ever seen.

Watched the rest of Phantom India. The more it went on the more it felt like Malle kept repeating the idea that India was losing its identity thanks to England, industrialization, the Congress Party and non-Indians visiting. The way he went on about it made it seem like the ‘authentic’ India is a land of poverty, dirty people and social unrest which just feels wrong the way he presents it. The final part was in Bombay and he spends the majority of it lamenting the loss of the ‘real’ India through the success’s and achievements of those making the country prosper to the point that it’s equal parts racist and colonialism. It was a fascinating watch but Malle’s interjections and comments just skew things in a wrong direction.

Watched the first four episodes of Louis Malle’s Phantom India. It’s interesting and fascinating to see India through a historical lens like this but you also get a curated look at India as well. Malle focused on different aspects of Indian life, from the temples to the communists to the farming to nature, but would lambast any westernization of the locals. It’s pretty evident by where he chose to film as well since he stayed away from the north where everything is ‘colonialism courtesy of the English’ and thus not worthy of being Indian in his documentary. Even the commentary he provides gets a bit exoticism in nature, especially when he goes ‘I don’t want to fetishize this but I’m going to anyway’ or even goes ‘I don’t know what’s going on here but it’s something’, that at times it feels like he’s looking down at the locals while praising them at the same time. It’s a weird case of bigotry the way it goes since the attitude tends to be ‘I'll judge you but at the same time I’ll refuse to judge you’ so I’m not sure if Malle is being unintentionally bigoted or not. It might be best to not dwell on that question in the long run.

In the middle of ROW, part 3 specifically, but had hit a bout of depression while reading through some of the Kaladin stuff and the second set of interludes so reading that stuff wasn’t exactly what I needed, especially the Vyre interlude since I just can’t get into that mindset at all.

@Orlionra & @TheCruelSadist It’s a little hard for me not to gravitate towards the labels since I do fit them. It’s like when I was a teen and the only labels I knew of were ‘straight, gay and lesbian’ and it wasn’t until I was in my early 20’s I even heard of asexuality and knew it described me but didn’t explain the romance side at the time. Then in more recent years I learned about the romance labels so I’m still figuring stuff out. Thinking about it I might be grey ace since grey is a bit more of a catchall since it’s the romance version of genderfluid and my romance preferences aren’t exactly stable enough to be Pan or Demi since some days I’m more interested in men, some days women and some days I just don’t think about it like an aro does. So for now I’m a grey Ace.

We’re both looking elsewhere for work. All I know is I don’t want to be in a warehouse, admin work at a school or be in the food industry. I don’t know about what she wants but she’s the type where if she has a week off and nowhere to go she gets cabin fever pretty fast so unemployment is not something she will look forward to. Mine is pretty much at retirement already, she just prefers working over relaxing. Well there’s a saying for what you’re experiencing: The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. People change it to blood is thicker than water and use it to explain why family is important but the saying is actually saying that the family you choose is more important than the family you grew up with. Also there’s always sending her to a senior living center.

It is going to be interesting which shards will be on which side of this conflict being hinted at. So far it seems like this: Harmony coalition: Harmony Valor (implied to be reasonable to recruit if the right thing is said) Odium coalition: Odium Autonomy Mercy (whatever was said in their reply worried Sazed and they were there for the fight between Odium and Ambition. Still a question which they were helping though) Abstaining/whatever: Endowment (rejected Hoid in her response but Harmony’s ROW letter does make you wonder if she might’ve indicated otherwise) Invention (up in the air since Harmony can’t locate them again. Makes you wonder if this might be the ‘survival’ shard since they hid themselves from a reply) Whimsy (whatever they said in response to Harmony makes you wonder if they are trying to keep the peace or sent a cloud cuckoo lander response that doesn’t answer the question at all) Cultivation (she could also go in the Harmony section but she could be a third party as well) Non-factors: Ambition Devotion Dominion Honor