#(aka: gestures at TP)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

hmmm in great need of completing a script for an incoming deadline, and instead spacing out getting teary-eyed over a scene I'm imagining for thralls ;;

#thoughts #thralls of power #animatic project #I am aiming to maximize ways to get as many hopeful endings as I can for the gerudos #in spite of the Circumstances #(aka: gestures at TP) #except for. you know. #there's a Certain Someone you can't really save from that whole mess #and I have a scene about that exact realization between other characters that #*he cannot be saved from himself* #not only is it too late but maybe it's always been too late #and a lot of people share a lot of responsibility in that specific outcome #(including one of the characters involved that does hold themselves accountable in a very concrete way) #and it's. it's difficult. ;; #I'm very ;;;;; about this project in general #I have never tried to do more tragic scenes visually so I am a bit scared of melodrama but. #let's see.

[leqclerc]

What hurts the most is that in Austria, when Charles managed a broken throttle to the checkered flag and won despite Verstappen hunting him down, Binotto told him via radio: "Hai fatto la differenza che fa un campione" aka "You made the difference a champion makes".

He KNOWS, like everyone else, that Charles is wdc material. But he won't commit to it and at this point it feels like he's filling Charles's head with dreams and promises, calling him champion and telling him he did a good job in the sprint (while he said nothing to CS), just to keep him at Ferrari, because otherwise he would have joined another team by now.

Charles was offered a contract by Merc and RB during his rookie year (I mean that's insane, all the top teams offering a rookie a contract). RB made him a new offer last year. In 2019, Marko said he's the biggest talent without a RB contract. After Austria, Wolff said any team would want a Charles Leclerc and in the past he said Charles is wdc material.

Everyone and their mothers is telling/suggesting/hinting at Charles that he should change teams. So of course Binotto is scared. But instead of committing to helping Charles, he uses empty words to keep him compliant.

Charles is so loyal to Ferrari because they raised him. Binotto can play all the games he wants with him and Charles won't leave. CS has no loyalty whatsoever and defies orders left right and center. And he gets away with it thanks to his sponsors worth billions of dollars.

Exactly!! 👏🏻 No because I love this ask, you put my thoughts into words so well. That’s exactly it.

It’s why I’ve always disliked Binotto. He just seems incredibly disingenuous. One hand he’s been praising Charles and promising him greatness for years now—I mean, the promise of 2022 was largely what got Charles through the disappointment of the past two seasons. He always spoke about wanting to “help bring Ferrari back to the top where they belong” and was fully committed to the team. Yet Binotto can’t afford to fully commit to him. You’re absolutely correct, “empty words” and largely empty gestures are unfortunately his modus operandi. On one hand he wants to project this image of a chill, laidback, almost paternal TP who has such a good relationship with his drivers, but on the other that falls completely flat when he backpedals on his public statements, doggedly defends poor strategic moves, and has no qualms about throwing his drivers under the bus. I’m so glad the cameras caught that damn finger wagging moment and he was later pressed to explain himself (not that his explanations seem believable.) Like, maybe it won’t change much but seeing him actually face scrutiny for that was gratifying. He’s really not as smooth or clever as he believes himself to be and the faster that notion is dispelled the better.

I’m using him as an example because for all intents and purposes he’s the public face of Ferrari and also because we don’t know how high this goes. If it’s a decision coming from the very top and Binotto’s merely executing orders “on the ground” so to speak, or if this is largely his own initiative. Which…the first option would be incredibly concerning if true. If this is largely Binotto’s doing then there’s at least a chance he’ll eventually be removed from his position.

Anyway, like you said, the sad part is Binotto doesn’t even need to do that. Charles is still committed to this team, even when they let him down. Which is what makes the whole thing that bit more tragic: CS acts recklessly and often selfishly because Ferrari, for all their history and glory, is really just another career stepping stone for him. He’s a product of the RB academy, had short stints with Renault and McLaren to “remake” himself after those ties were severed, and as far as I can remember, he never really expressed any real desire to join Ferrari specifically until the opportunity came knocking on his door. (It still amuses me, though, that one of his biggest “selling points” was the fact that he’s allegedly a team player. Well…) For Charles these are people he, in a way, grew up with. I mean, if he was brought around as an FDA driver to learn the ropes then he’s probably known at least some of these engineers and mechanics and other personnel for years now. Then there’s also the more personal motivation; fulfilling his dream and honouring Jules’s legacy. It’s so much more than just a team to him and it’s incredibly twisted to see that used almost against him in a way.

Everyone knows Charles is champion material, but the question is, how do you turn potential into fact? He’s been doing everything he can this year, but it’s not a solo sport, and the team and car still make a huge difference. He can’t try to fend off both Red Bulls and deal with an internal team crisis at the same time, that’s just not conducive to winning titles. It’s like the foundations they established in the last few years have been shaken. It’s just sad that they clung to him in their poor seasons, but when things finally come together, when he needs them to rally around him the most, they’re nowhere.

#replies #anonymous #discussions and predictions #wait no bc i tried to google if cs mentioned anything about his dream being ferrari or whatever #and got hit with two quotes: ‘leclerc eternally grateful for dream ferrari f1 chance’ #and a quote from marko about how ‘ferrari didn’t ask for carlos – that was in the dreams of carlos sr’ from like 2017 😭😭😭😭 #tells you all you need to know really

[blackgwenstacy]

highlights from the lightning thief musical

i saw the lightning theif last night at the straz in tampa and it was so!!! good!! my inner theatre kid was so satisfied and i wanted to make a list of all my favorite parts (which is basically the whole musical lmao) spoilers  ahead

so the musical started with this LOUD ass clap of thunder and half the audience (including me) nearly peed

PERCY’S ENTRANCE WAS SO DOPE after the Prologue the demigods rip away the lightning banner and Chris McCarrel s l i d downstage into a “thinking man” position and goes: “look. i didn’t want to be a half blood” i DIED

when sally gets home from work percy goes something like “hey mom how was your day mine was great went on a field trip got expelled did some homework nothing extraordinary hahaha”

when Smelly Gabe made his entrance percy suddenly had a can of air freshener and was OBNOXIOUSLY spraying it LMAO

when grover appears after Strong he’s like: “thERES A FURY” and percy responds “no, YOU’RE ALL FURRY” but the audience definitely heard “you’re a furry” we were dying

percy meets poseidon in a dream and goes “oh look. a strange man in a Hawaiian shirt.

poseidon gives him a sea shell and he talks really deeply and slowly. he was like “what beloooongs to the seeeaa can alwaaays returrrrn...it’s a sea shell” and does the Shaka hand gesture and walks offstage. i cannot make this up.

grover’s actor also as mr. D? A+

silena gestured to her crotch when she said charlie grew sunflowers “everywhere”

katie gardener went on a spiel about not senselessly slaughtering trees and Mr. D just....aggressively sharpened a pencil in front of her

during Another Terrible Day percy was so confused and overwhelmed he just started clapping to emphasize what he was saying: “WHAT👏🏽 IS👏🏽 HAPPENING👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽” i screamed

CHIRON’S CENTAUR BODY WAS JUST A TAIL STICKING OUT OF HIS PANTS AND HE JUST WALKED REALLY ABSURDLY TO EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT HE WAS HALF HORSE. suspension of disbelief was really my friend here.

when Grover and Percy get reunited Grover’s scared that Percy will be mad at him for not protecting both him and his mom but Percy just goes “i’m so happy to see you!!” and they share the biggest hug i’m 🥺🥺🥺 grovercy rights

Percy has only seen Annabeth in his weird dream sequence so when he actually sees her in real life he blurts out “HEY YOU’RE MY DREAM GIRL” and everyone onstage is just like...did you really just-

to represent water they used a toilet paper roll and leaf blowers. they literally TP-ed clarisse in the bathroom scene

the campfire scene was probably one of my favorites like the bonding!! complaining about their annoying parents!! the little dance they all did at the end kinda seemed Greek influenced but i couldn’t tell ah!!

they japed the entire audience during percy’s claiming. they couldn’t actually show a trident above his head so they were like “LOOK IN THE SKY. IT’S A TRIDENT” and pointed toward the back of the house and the audience turned around in their seats looking for the damn trident we looked stupid

Chiron: “All hail Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God.”

Percy: “Son of a SEA GOD?? SWEEEET!”

and then everyone started panicking because “holy shit son of the Big Three we’re doomed.”

Mr. D legitimately wanted to turn Percy into a dolphin to avoid Zeus’ wrath

Mr D (about the Master Bolt): THIS ISN’T SOME TIN FOIL COVERED CARDBOARD PROP IN A TRAVELING MUSICAL

The Oracle was SO COOL like all the actors were inside her dress to make it move with her hand movements it was creepy but COOL

GOOD KID!! Good Kid was so intense like you could see Chris SPITTING. HE WAS SO INTO IT

there was a heart to heart between Luke and Percy after good kid at the lake and it was so beautiful I ALMOST forgot Luke was the traitor

can I just say the OG trio is amazing omg frick. they were so excited during Killer Quest I love them 🥺

as soon as Act 2 started it jumped right into them being chaotic aka them exploding a bus

random bus passenger: “believe it or not this isn’t even the weirdest thing that’s happened to me on the greyhound”

Grover explaining how he can talk to the squirrel during Lost! and Percy went: “I think that’s kind of nuts” and just SMIRKED. the entire audience started clapping for the f*cking pun they had to hold the scene for ten seconds it was golden

I FORGOT TO MENTION THIS EARLIER BUT EVERY TIME SOMEONE COMPLIMENTED ANNABETH SHE WOULD GET SO HAPPY!! Luke said she was the strongest person he knew and she was like “you think i’m strong??🥺” and Medusa was like I just HAVE to take a picture of you and Annabeth was like “you want a picture of ME?? 🥺🥺” someone please give this girl the praise and love she deserves

Kristin really sang her heart out during My Grand Plan like I had chills literal CHILLS. KRISTiN YOU’RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE.

during Tree on the Hill they had Grover on the ground level singing about what happened then up on the scaffolding Luke, Annabeth, and Thalia were acting out what he was singing and during Thalia’s death Annabeth, Luke and the actress who played Thalia stood with their backs together and used their arms to form a tree and i cried

THEY HAD CONFETTI CANONS FOR THE END OF DEAD ON ARRIVAL I WAS SO IMPRESSED

annabeth: “guys...i think that pit down there is Tartarus”

percy: “THE FISH SAUCE??”

“we need to get out of here before hades finds us!!”

Hades, in an exaggeratedly southern, flamboyant accent: “WELL, it’s TOO LATE FOR THAT!”

hades radiated chaotic gay energy i swear. you know the john mulaney new in town bit where the guy’s like “i’m a homosexual and i’m new in town” that is hades.

Hades: “give me the lightning bolt”

Percy: “there’s no way in HELL--oh”

Hades really emphasizes the fact that there’s no way out of the underworld without his help and then Percy remembers the shell his dad gave him and blows into it which opens up a PORTAL and Hades goes “oh, COME ON”

ANNABETH AND GROVER REFUSED TO LET PERCY FIGHT ARES ALONE MY BABIES

Ares singing his version of Clarisses “Put You In Your Place” vs Percy singing “Son of Poseidon” all during a fighting sequence. poetic theatre.

for the climax of Son of Poseidon percy, annabeth and grover all had leaf blowers and TP-ed the front three rows of the audience to represent percy defeating ares with his powers. jesus.

percy told his mom Medusa’s head was a “do it yourself statue kit” scream

annabeth: hey clarisse we met your dad, he’s not as strong as you think

clarisse: you met my DAD??...did he say anything about me? 🥺

LUKES EVIL YET HEART WRENCHING VERSION OF GOOD KID WHILE HE AND PERCY ARE SWORD FIGHTING

“I’ll do anything I don’t care if I hurt anyone it doesn’t pay to be a GOOD KID A GOOD KID A GOOD SON”

he stabs percy and runs and also rips down the CHB banner on his way out. what kind of anarchial mess.

annabeth goes “seaweed brain!” while giving percy ambrosia for his stab wound and percy smiles and goes “wise girl :)” and they nearly touched foreheads. nia.exe has stopped working

during the final moment of Bring on the Monsters white lights focus on percy while the rest of the stage is dark and he smiles while singing “I’ll be back next summer, I’ll be back next summer.” and there’s a final blackout. my heart.

there’s so much i want to say and a lot i probably forgot but just know this musical did that. the actors are all so talented and so many of them played 3+ more characters!! like imagine the amount of quick changes and lines and songs they have to remember!! they’re bad asses all of them. it’s true to the actual pjo books as well. if you have a chance you should totally see it because the tour is closing soon :’)

#tlt musical #the lightning thief musical #pjo #hoo #tlt #pjo musical #musicals #theatre #theatre kids #The lightning thief #percy jackson #percabeth #nia says stuff #mine

[tumblunni]

I LOVE YOKAI WATCH SO MUCH

All these monsters are just so soft and the music is great and there's so much craftsmanship put into the environments i keep finding new tiny lil secret animations for stuff?? Like when you go into houses you take off or put on your shoes, when you cross the street you press the button on the traffic lights, when you run and stop real fast you do a slide, YOU CAN RUN UP AND SLIDE DOWN ACTUAL SLIDES, you can sneak behind houses to find secret routes and crawl underneath stuff cos youre short, when yoy run too much ypu get winded for a few seconds, and ONLY JUST NOW i discovered you can use all the equipment in the school's outdoor gym field by walking up against it, and theres several shortcuts because of this! You can climb up the rope strengtg test thingie and then POLE VAULT OVER THE WALL holy shit this kid is hella reckless but i appeciate cutting a good two minutes off my commute across the town.

And can i say that the idea of an open world town game is really really fuckin good?? Its just like all those open world explorations except its in an urban area instead. Like this town is HUGE! And theres so many hidden areas in alleyways behind houses and roads under roads and stuff. Lots of places where they placed a treasure chest in just the right spot to say "hey this area is reachable!" and then yoy have such a great time figuring out how! And so much is already open just at the start of the game, ive got totally sucked into this!! I've already found a few places thatre clearly intended for later in the game but they open up JUST enough early on for you to get a taste and feel hyped to come back later!! There's a sewer dungeon and a mine tunnel dungeon that you can just get one floor into and see hints of where theres treasure chests or boss enemies you'll someday be able to reach! And aaaa ive had this delay in the lp's progress cos i got so sucked into finding all the yokai currently available. Thats the BEST part of the open world town stuff! You dont just find monsters as random encounters or in special supernatural areas, the whole damn slogan of the thing is Yokai Are Everywhere! You're encouraged to search under vending machines, cars, windowsills, plantpots, flowerbeds, trees, lakes, sewers, trash cans and goddamn everything!!! All the actual town stuff in the town is a monster spawning spot, and the randomized nature of it means theres always a reason to run around town even if youve already been somewhere. There's always only (for example) three or four trashcans around the town that have Dimmy, out of like 15. And you have a radar system to track them down so its super fun! And then theres some rare spots which are kinda frustrating, like hungramps only in the cardboard box in one alleyway and pupsicle only in one of tge many ponds which honestly doesnt make sense. That one took the longest to grind! Oh and there's the weirdness of Slush's recolour Droplet which is THE SAME COLOUR except slightly darker! Its only rare cos you dont notice when you got one, lol. Apparantly it has an even rarer version but that one's bright red, thankfully! Cant get that one yet tho, otherwise id keep grinding for even more hours lollll

Aaaa my heart just feels so full when i play this game! It really captures the fun of exploring new places as a kid! Sucks that im not allowed to run arpund collecting cute snails now i'm an adult, but this captures the feeling of it more than pokemon does. Its possibly the reason why pokemon go was so monumentally popular? But i think this captures the feeling of more interactively SEARCHING for your monsters while also having the actual substance to back it up and keep you playing. Also it has such loving replication of childhood! I already mentioned the cute animations giving personality to your kid, but there's also the little touch that currency is in kiddy bucks. I.e. you gain smaller amounts of pennies from all money sources, and working up to £5 feels like 4000g in other games. Tho ive actually been grinding so long that i have £400 now! Im spending it on food to give all my monster friends!!! THEY ALL HAVE FAVOURITE FOODS AAA IM FEEDING A SENTIENT WALL A POT NOODLE one of the monsters is a fake wall with legs yo these designs are SO cute! Bit of a missed opportunity tho that its just a random find in grassy areas when it could have been its own minigame maybe? Like, test how well youre memorizing this giant map by having one out of place wall appear somewhere and you need to find it. There's a hide and seek minigame in every game this company's ever made so i'll be sad if there's not one here!

Aaaanyway the wall is the last yokai i need to grind for and then FINALLY i will resume the goddamn tutorial and get past the first story event, lol. Really i feel like they shouldnt have opened up the world so much so early, ive got sooooo sidetracked by joy~!

The lil wall guy is named Noway aaa i love them...

Oh oh oh and ive accidentally got attatched tp some yokai i didnt really like the designs of, cos the way they play in battle is so creative and useful! Currently my big pal is Leadoni ("lead-on" + oni aka goblin). Theyre a weird kinda mehh design thats a neat concept but the execution is weird. Cos their supernatural power is making you get lost, they have one giant hand doing a beckoning gesture, and one tiny one waving a little flag. But what makes the design meh to me is that otherwise the design is just 100% a generic cutesy oni like in any other game. So it looks kinda extra gross to have a massive muscley hand on a tiny child thing. I feel like the more cutesy you make the body the more creepy that hand is, lol! But its really useful in battle cos it leads enemies astray too, it takes attacks that were originally targeting its teammates. Thats just so kind!!! So i feel bad that i named mine Doomfist and Foomdist XD i didnt expect id use them so much! But i like that the game is so good it made me go "aww kind babby" even for the one design that looked legit scary to me. BABBY PROTECTS THEY FAMBLY AAAAA

God i love this game...

#bunni plays yokai watch

[slothydaydreamer]

Meet a customized, Handsome Jack inspired Claptrap unit: J4CK-TP, aka Jacktrap

The colour scheme is based on Jack's hair and clothes

The green and blue stripes are meant to resemble the heterochromic eyes

The real, blue eye of the Claptrap unit is both a homage to Jack's pocket watch and to Rhys' cybernetic eye

The antenna has freely movable parts and can be used to express feelings (kinda like a cat tail, lol)

The "hands" are bigger and heavier than the ones of a standard model. Doesn't hinder Jacktrap from swinging them around to gesture while talking, the movement is just less controlled and more likely to hit something...or someone.

They are really great to smack people into the face, less good to strangle a person. Or to hold guns. Or do anything else. They suck. Good cup holders though.

His arms aren't stronger or anything, so when Jacktrap gets pushed to the ground, he is flailing around just like every other Claptrap

Pretty sure that this is the real Handsome Jack's worst nightmare

#borderlands #handsome jack #claptrap #jacktrap #my art

[axayt-thenightsoul-fox]

(click on it for good quality) Here is the Ref For My Sans Aka Kitsune Sans Original Name : NineTailed Fox Sans Nick Name : N.T.F.S.

High : 189 Weight : 40 Hp : 30 Defense : 200 He always wears Mask He has nine tails. The facial expressions shows a smileing face :) But if you Kill someone ,your facial expressions will turn into crying gesture T^T When he has the mask on , the end of tail glows giveing him more power then before and hp(from 30 to 60) , he can summon attacks even more faster then other sanses and doesn’t get tierd at all. if you try speed attacks or tp attacks he can sense your magic or determination and block it or dodge it.

BLASTERS : The Laser blast can follow the opponent until they hit him and the blaster after shooting are chances it will follow the opponent to keep shooting (I had was planning to post an animation that I worked 8 hours at it to post it but my pc need it to ruin my day and crash the program and lose all the work ;-;)

#reference #my art #ninetailed fox sans #sans #kitsune #ut au