#T-120

[kply-industries]

"This tape can record all four possible genres!"

#animated gif #animated gifs #gif #gifs #old advertisements #old ads #retro #vhs #video cassette #80s #scotch #T-120 #Egypt #cinema #yamaha pop contest #japan league #genres #all possible entertainment

[mobile-papers]

#mobile wallpaper #vhs #vhs tape #t-120 #retro

[blamhammer]

Surface by T-120

#surface #t-120 #music #synthwave #chillwave

[inkskinned]

i hate how commodity and capitalism has ruined so much storytelling . i hate how sequels and prequels and whatever else all ring like merch sales; i hate that i as an author have to include any social media following i have as a marketable trait; i hate that everything feels like a xerox of a copy of a dream of a memory.

i hate that my nostalgia has been turned into profit. i hate that companies fear consumer backlash so no real commentary may be made; i hate that companies care more about quantity over quality. i hate that so many artists and creators are being overworked to the point of complete collapse rather than being allowed to tell the story their way. i hate that every point of representation has to be fought for. i hate it i want us all to go back to living in a cave .

when you sit with friends over a bonfire and the night is getting long and people start telling this slow, almost hypnotic story - in this quiet voice, like they don't expect you to listen while they say the most fucked up shit you've ever heard - that is storytelling. who cares if the punchline is car hand hook door. storytelling has always been about community, about us all sitting in the dark, choosing to fill the silence while the last embers are dying. we forgot that storytelling is spellwork. hallucinating together, our breaths held, waiting for the ending we already knew was coming.

#this is specifically due to my rage and undying hatred of megacorporation #disney. #and specifically bc i think there COULD have been a really good series of new #dinosaur island t rex movies #if they had just fucking gone the distance #stopped with the fucking bad CGI #and made the whole thing about late-stage capitalism #do you wanna know what would ACTUALLY sell and work on the big screen more than a trex screaming in front of a volcano #(u absolute jerkweeds)? #so they've rebuilt the island and the park. but the narrative is 100% #that nobody wants to fucking work there and it feels AT BEST cult-like and insular. nobody is paid well for this #at EVERY possible place they are cutting corners. the dinosaurs might have higher walls #but the handlers are paid 5.34 an hour due to island laws. the corporation has RFID tags in their costumes which they are forced to wear #the employees are not allowed to drink water in 120 degree heat bc it would be upsetting to guests #u know real things i experienced working for disney #(but it was 8.90) #anyway it turns out the park CEO knew the risks and just didnt care bc bottom line BAYBEE. #it would be so much more sobering and fucking GOOD if it was like. scientists being like ''i am an environmental scientist'' #''after the epa was slashed this is literally the only job i could find. i literally HAD to take it or i couldn't feed my family.'' #''i hate what i do. i am disgusted by it. i literally CANNOT STOP because the company also charges us 400 dollars a week to live here'' #the dinosaurs escape EARLY in my movie. like minute 45. and then... 1 week later #the park reopens. #half the staff are missing. they're just fucking gone. it doesn't matter tho the company tells everyone to work 2x as hard #that those people weren't loyal enough or they are tragic heroes bc they died doing what they love #and the movie isn't like ''wow dinosaurs scary!!!'' it's... #that in a global fucking pandemic disney kept sacrificing employees. #but it'll be disguised bc the pandemic will be dinosaurs. #this my beloved is what we call an ALLEGORY but unfortunately certain companies have never heard of them #allegories require critical thinking and that doesn't test well with audiences

[yukihiko-honda]

#120 #kodak #T-MAX400 #Japan #浜松市

[fruitcage]

#BASF #video tapes #VHS #VHSwave #1988 #80s #1980s commercials #synthwave #vaporwave #T 120 #T 160 #extra quality #gif #my gifs

[utilitycaster]

Hi! I'm sorry if you've already talked about this, but I was wondering what your thoughts were on Caleb's becoming a professor at the Soltryce Academy? As compared to what some fans thought he would do (going rogue and taking down Cerberus Assembly)

Hi anon,

I don't know if I've talked about this, and I don't think I have at length if I did, so I'd like to thank you for asking me and providing the opportunity for the rant below. If you were simply looking for a brief answer that is only about Caleb, then I do have to ask whether you are familiar with this blog and my whole deal. But also the brief answer is "I think it's beautiful that Caleb carves out a place for himself that harkens back to his childhood dreams, in a world he once thought he would have to remake entirely in order to ever feel at home. The idea that this is somehow a failure, and that the secret good ending is him turning into Batman or perhaps a moderately sympathetic Agatha Christie villain seems unfathomable if you are not stupid and lack all media literacy. Unfortunately being an idiot with no media literacy is somewhat in vogue these days. In this essay I will - "

(and here's the essay)

The ending of Campaign Two felt horribly abrupt when announced: I was among the people who thought so, and who thought so loudly. Yet it finished, after a marathon session, with an ending that, at every turn, showed how profoundly the cast cared about and understood the arcs of the characters they had built and the story that they had told. They truly did, as the advice Brennan repeated recently goes, surprise us with the inevitable. I would not change a thing.

Caleb Widogast, like any good character, was more than the sum of his parts. Yes, he was a sensitive portrayal of a character who had undergone traumatic child abuse and who still was dealing with the aftermath. Yes, he was an equally sensitive portrayal of someone who is primarily speaking in one's second language. Yes, he was a wizard, which rules, and bisexual, which also rules, and he had a magic cat and a great sense of humor. But most of all Caleb was the realization of a coherent goal that was deeply tied into the setting not just of D&D 5e but of Exandria, of Wildemount, of Zemni Fields, and of the Soltryce Academy.

He was once a young man who dreamed of something better and who had a gift for the arcane, and he managed, so he thought, to find a way to rise above his humble origins. His dream was to become a teacher. Trent had other plans, you know the rest, and he woke up in his late 20s, a fugitive, with the magic powers he'd had in his mid-teens, and a life he felt he had nigh irrevocably destroyed. For a time, he lived mostly not because he wished to be alive, but because he felt his death would not serve his goal: his moonshot, to undo the mess he'd made of his past. Along the way, he met a goblin, and then he met a few people more. He started to laugh again, and to become more powerful, and encounter new ideas, and fall in love, and inch by inch, begin to heal - all without yet undoing his parents' death. He made arcane breakthroughs that had nothing to do with altering time and all to do with helping his closest friend. He tentatively found that there were other wizards he could trust, and learn from, and perhaps even care for.

And also, along that path, he learned there were others who pursued secrets about time, and possibility; there were wizards he could not trust but from whom he might have been able to learn. And he sometimes chose not to do so, because somewhere along the line, the plan changed. I don't think Caleb even realized it had until he was faced with his chance. It is worth noting that Caleb's murderous rampage through Vergesson Sanatorium, and his decision to leave Trent Ikithon alive, were separated by no more than a week.

Caleb did not end the campaign fully healed. That's not how this works; that's not even a meaningful or measurable statement. But he did end the campaign having told himself, inch by inch, that moving forward cannot happen while also moving backward. He let go of so many things, recognized they were not to be, and then he finally stood in a room with Essek with an ancient machine that said "you can do it. You can have what you've wanted for so long." And Caleb had planned this, planned it carefully, no paradoxes for him, just his parents living a quiet life half a world away, and he could have done it. In a way, it would have felt inevitable too. And he hears Essek say "Will you do it? I will help you." And he hears Essek say "But I accept my regrets, my thoughts now, and I'm here today with this knowledge, in this moment with you, because of those mistakes." And he hears himself say "Because you're not my cat. My cat is dead." And he sees himself with Frumpkin around his shoulders like a scarf in the tiny hut in the middle of the tundra. And he hears himself say "Yeah, he's always been one to control narrative. And that is a big part of holding onto power, controlling narrative." And he drags some dust up his arm, and disintegrates everything in the room, and burns what's left.

***

My brother works in a middle school (I promise this is relevant). My brother is also an openly gay man with rainbows plastered prominently on various laptop and backpack surfaces. As one might guess, he's had multiple kids come out to him. I think about this when I think about what Caleb said, about how, when the guard changes, will he and Astrid "mangle more children to feed the fields of Wynandir." And I think about what it means to the Assembly, who we know benefited from Trent's actions, who in some cases were well aware of them, to not only have one of his former victims among their number, but to have one in the very school they used to recruit. What it means that both these people publicly gave testimony. What it means to the Soltryce Academy students that there's a teacher they know will believe them.

Caleb has already struck down what he needed to of the Cerberus Assembly.

It's simple. Sometimes happiness looks like a return. Sometimes happiness looks like a boat heading towards the horizon. Sometimes happiness looks like a place to rest. And I think that it's not out of the question to say that to some, happiness does come after a righteous round of revenge. But does not look like that for Caleb, and what's more, while he took the whole campaign to discover how it might look for him - to even believe that it was a thing he could still perceive and one day have - it never, at any point, did.

#did i go perilously close to You Are Jeff by Richard Siken in one portion of this essay? yes. #did I hold myself back from writing parallel essays about the other 6 long term members of the nein? yes. #critical role #caleb widogast #oh the paragraph about destroying the t-dock: direct references to c2 episodes 141 130 120 110 and 141 again in that order #long post

[yibo-best]

down jacket brand YAYA published the height and weight of Yibo (i remind, he became their world ad representative) ⤵

1.82 m 120 斤 (60 kg)

🥺🥺🥺🥺

#he lost weight again #somebody! take care of him #I don`t know why some (Asian) sources talked about his weight of 59 kg #maybe they know something more precisely #but in the video there was a weight of 120 jin #and one jin is 500 grams #as wikipedia told me lol #but wikipedia also has no trust

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

IF-120 landing craft were a type of transport utilized by the Empire. Based on the design of Lambda and Sentinel-class shuttles, IF-120s were larger and bulkier than their cousins. The landing craft, after being unloaded, could be converted into a mobile command center. Often, IF-120s were intended to stand alone with advance troops as the Empire established a foothold on a planet.

Source: Star Wars 84 (Art: David Mazzucchelli; 1984)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

#if-120 landing craft #starship #galactic empire #star wars comics #marvel star wars #Lambda-class T-4a shuttle #sentinel-class landing craft #david mazzucchelli #star wars #expanded universe #star wars legends

[daybreakrising]

wrio came home!!!! boy that was tense

#;forever yelling into the abyss (ooc) #( i had 120 wishes and lost the 50/50 ) #( then the boy came home in the last 10 wishes ) #( s t r e s s )

[tbcanary]

love your blog, you curate so much great dc content from all around! you seem like an arrowfam expert, so I thought I'd ask: do you read fic, and if so do you know any good fics featuring ollie? or dinah? it is so hard to filter out all the arrowverse stuff + all the other fic where they are tagged but just end up being background characters. or else ollie is a cartoon villain.

aw, you're so sweet! i appreciate that you trust my judgement on this. i wouldn't call myself an expert, per se, but i've been trying to familiarize myself with the arrowfam more over the past year or so and it's been a delightful time. i love those west coast fellas.

as far as fic recs go, the unfortunate fact is that i've sort of given up on a lot of the comic fanfiction scene? i won't get into why, but generally i find browsing for things to read to be pretty reliably disappointing, so i don't do it much anymore. that being said...

we all fall down by vlrnlr - technically not strictly dinahollie, because hal is here too. but i love the way dinah and ollie are written here, and the way their connection is built up over time, and the understanding they have for each other -- and eventually hal, you know how it is. i love this fic a lot; it's one of the few that i save to come back to.

there's also a standalone prequel that focuses on ollie's history, called la reine est morte; i enjoy that one, too. a little more focused in, but it's a good read, esp if you like the older stuff with him that's a little more grounded in reality and current events.

those are the two that i can for sure recommend to you. if anyone else is aware of decent arrowfam writers out in the world, i am frankly all ears.

#anonymous #ask.tb #SORRY I CAN'T DO MORE.... #i am not going to say this in the body of the post but i'll say it here #every fic that uses an ar/row/f/am character as fodder for the b/a/t/s #owes the arrow lovers among us 20 bucks apiece #the tags are NOT navigable there's NOTHING in there #after whittling out all of the people I Did Not Want To See #i was left with like 120 d/inah//ol/lie fics OVERALL #and that's. ughgughuhhghhhhhhh. GGHHHH !!!! #i could fix this by writing them. i could. i know that. but writing comics fic is so scary you guys. #anyway

[babsaros]

i went to bed at like. 5am? and woke up at 1. went to work. soo hungry i keep having to go sit in the back bc i'm shaky and sweaty. on my break i got a cup of soup from panera. didnt even finish it lol. got off work and picked up burgers for dinner and i have eaten half of mine and didn't even touch the ice cream i got :(

#even if i am getting a mental benefit from zoloft #this is just untenable its insane #i weigh literally 100 lbs. :( i've been closer to 120 for years #and i had just got an appetite increase on t! #ughhhhh #my brain just does not want food at all #even though my body is screaming about how hungry it is #food mention #cw eating

[spikrock]

march hare's boots were demonias i didnt know he was emo like that

#yes i did #im on a mission to try a find what kind of shoes they all wear #thack's are custom made im 99% sure #but theyre demonia #i need to know the price/general price of all their shoes because mally's awesome purple flame ones are 290 dollars #and i think it'd be really funny if his are way more expensive than everyone else #so far its true demonias are only from like 40-120 dollars as far as ive seen #mad t party

[kara-knuckles]

I think the Patchwork London Singularity is based not only on MC's memories, but also on Mnemosyne's feelings and experiences. And while Reines nicely explains the culprit's whydunit from detective novel perspective, I believe there is another angle you can see Mnemosyne's actions from. Namely, stages of grief.

Let's start with our location, Patchwork London. At its core, it is similar to the fourth Singularity, and we all know that in Japanese words "four" and "death" are homophones. Mnemosyne's grief for Da Vinci's passing is a big part of her character.

Our first stop is at the museum where people search for someone they don't remember. The loss of memory is so strong that even the person they look for doesn't remember they are actually a person. This corresponds to denial: as long as you don't acknowledge something it's like it never existed. And just how Nursery was one of the books in the library, Mnemosyne was only a program before gaining awareness.

The second patchwork is about a masquerade. This one has a strong identity motif (masks, different facets of Tower of London history, Salieri in two different ways, we meet Gray at the end…), but in the stages of grief theory this translates into bargaining: masks make everything interchangeable, so it is easy to replace things and find compromises. M and Shakespeare wanted Salieri's music to be heard, so they turned an automaton into the closest thing to Salieri they could. And a similar thing happened to Da Vinci: even if the original died, the new one continued her work.

The third patchwork is the ideal world of steam. As Babbage explains, he and this world of his dream are mutually exclusive, which is very depressing. I think it symbolizes Mnemosyne's awakening after Da Vinci's death and the realisation that she can never be together with her creator.

The last area is fake Rhongomyniad, and, as the place of the final confrontation with the culprit, it easily corresponds to anger. Fittingly, the tower itself represents Mnemosyne's motive: just how the Lion King was collecting righteous people because she believed only they deserved to continue existing, Mnemosyne's plan was to manipulate the MC's memories so that they would only have the good ones.

Finally, there is Rail Zeppelin outside of the Singularity. It shelters the part of Mnemosyne that accepts Da Vinci's passing, which was discarded because she wasn't ready for it. It actually tries to do its intended job, which is why it summons Faker to act as an observer for the part of the Master that ended up on the train.

And the theme of acceptance neatly ties into Faker's arc. As she tells us in the beginning, she doesn't accept Ionioi Hetairoi, and is unwilling to see Iskandar. However, thanks to her experiences from this and the previous summonings, she finds her closure, which culminates in her summoning the Hetairoi herself and fighting alongside Iskandar with muffled You Are My King playing in the distance.

#Mnemosyne FGO #Faker Case Files #Hephaestion Fate #Fate/Grand Order #fgo #i started writting this post back when this rerun was up in jp #but i never finished it #so it was in my drafts for two years #Lady Reines is a very special event for me #both because i love Case Files #and because it was my second event in fgo #(the first was GudaGuda 3 and it was more of a fever dream) #it was really cool to see the events i played through during the previous month #but with new twists #and Da Vinci's feels were real T^T #thankfully i managed to get both Reines and Faker this time #and my Gray is level 120 now #so i'm very very happy #theories and headcanons

[big-low-t]

Impact Albums, Part 3

@pyretic-perfect-storm (thank you!) posted some of the albums that impacted her while growing up. I thought I would do the same...

Fugazi - "13 Songs" - In college I rented a house with a buddy and some other students were renting the house beside ours. One day I was blasting the Ramones first album and one of the guys next door yelled from his window - "Is that the new Ramones album?" I said "No, it's their first one." He replied "Shit, it doesn't matter, they all sound the same and they are all awesome." So I had a music fan living next door I began talking to him from time to time. I shared a Voivod album with him and one day he played me this Fugazi record. Amazing band. This got me into following and listening to many of the artists on the same label as Fugazi - Dischord Records. I feel lucky to have seen Fugazi play live two times. One of the most amazing bands I've ever seen. One of the greatest bands, EVER.

Skinny Puppy - "Rabies" - I was already listening to "The Land of Rape and Honey" by Ministry at this point of my musical journey. I had heard that Ministry album playing at a frat party in college and me being the music nerd that I am, instead of drinking and chatting up girls I was asking what that band was that was playing on the stereo. So fast forward a bit and I am browsing a record store. I see this Skinny Puppy album. Minstry's Al Jourgenson's name is on this one and that got me to buy it. My fist Skinny Puppy album. Not their best, but wow they were just so different from anything I had ever heard before. So it got me to buy a few of their older albums and I was fully hooked by the time they released "Too Dark Park," which I consider Skinny Puppy's best album. I will forever regret not catching one of their amazing live shows.

Morphine - "Cure For Pain" - I never thought I would find myself listening to a band like this. No guitar, just drums, bass and a saxophone. These guys had some sort of jazz, alternative, blues, smoky bar tinged sound that didn't exactly fit into any normal genres. I couldn't help but like them when I first saw the music video for the song "Thursday" on MTVs 120 minutes show.

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And talk about an impact musically, 120 Minutes on MTV opened the door to so many bands for me. Lush, Pixies, Depeche Mode, Hum, R.E.M., Echo and The Bunnymen and just way too many to list them all. I tried to watch it every Sunday whenever I could.

Thanks again to @pyretic-perfect-storm for her post. Thanks also for anyone brave enough or insane enough to have read all of my music rambling. I'd love to see some impactful albums and artists from some other Tumblr folks... but only if you have the time and want to do it! Have a good day everyone!

#big low t #impact artists #impact albums #skinny puppy #morphine #fugazi #mtv #120 minutes

[yukihiko-honda]

#120 #kodak #T-MAX400 #Japan #豊川市 #東海道