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kaspers-kanvas · 2 months
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hanging out w ur blue bestie
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zestydippingsauce · 4 months
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listen, i know it's an everyday sort of phonecall that ends up being so poignant because it's The Last Voicemail but it really sings to me how Maya's probably saying "Mia, I don't play with toys anymore i'm totally an adult now" in front of her glass display case of tokusatsu figurines
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diabloindigo · 2 years
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Watching Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers for the thirtieth time and I just noticed the bootleg Samurai Blacksad.
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littlestpetgoth · 5 months
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Tell us more about your little homestucks?
ok.. ill only go over my descendent ocs because they're the ones ive been posting about recently, i have too many homestuck ocs to cover lol..
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mayosi pyrope is the first descendent oc i made back when there was a brief trend on twitter to make, fan descendants of the trolls. i think i was inspired by ko's descendent acarid, and terezi being one of my favorite trolls i ended up making a bootleg pyrope. (and i draw them together all the time bc they rot my brain)
they're a radical transmasc weeaboo skater "vigilante" who grew up being raised by humans in a very normal average household where they got basically anything they wanted with no issues. their interests include; dishing out justice, watching animes, playing videogames, and doing sick tricks on their board. they wield a katana that resembles terezi's dragon cane.. they're my simplest designed character, and though they look a lot like terezi with a skirt and long hair their design was heavily influenced by dirk because i imagined that dirk has influenced some kind of anime character that mayosi obsesses over and has based their look on..
they aren't at all interested in, being a lawyer or anything like that and would like to take care of bad guys samurai batman style in their ideal world.. unfortunately the loving gently parenting of their human family didn't toughen them up enough so they're mostly a baby who doesn't do well when faced with conflict. mayosi's easily bossed around by anyone who firmly tells them to do something because they're too scared to step up and stand up for themself and others, they have a lot of shame for not being as strong and cool as terezi or red glare. real wet blanket.
uuuh like terezi, they weren't always blind. they were lured in by their ex best friend now super complex hate not boyfriend acarid and he poured acid into their eyes, ruining their vision and giving them crazy chem burn scars.. i think around this time they were also given their super rad pointy shades so they can look more like their hero, but it was a major blow to their confidence since not only are they a weak coward they're now a weak coward who can't see. they eventually learn to navigate the world via sound waves, its not as effective as terezi's sniff and taste vision but mayosi isnt as interested as smelling and licking everything in their presence.
example of what i think it's like for them here..
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theyyy are convinced by acarid to join him in his perfect sburb sesh, where they eventually grow a pair and cut off his arm and gouge his eyes before being shot in the brain and killed dead without ever waking on their moon. (sad) mayosi's feelings about acarid, who essentially abuses and manipulates them constantly, are very complicated because they feel an obligation to take on the brunt of his crazy in order to protect everyone but also because they cling to the nostalgic memories they have of him and are hoping he'll one day go back to that.
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kokesi megido is based on kokeshi dolls, i think she sees ghosts and is really scared of them so she's super skittish and is always finding ways to shoo them away.. she probably knows how to speak japanese ig, i dont have a lot to say about her unfortunately.. i like how her design turned out though.
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grimir maryam and romato vantas are brothers adopted into a rich human family, they're both spoiled brats and are constantly bickering with each other when they aren't pretending the other exists. grimir is mute and likes to garden (sooo original, i know) and romato speaks a lot and is a hopeless romantic writer. shrug.
i don't have as much to talk about. for any of my descendents other than mayosi because i have a really hard time developing ocs when i dont have people to bounce ideas off of. i mean most of mayosi was formed around acarid's existence and from ko's influence, otherwise they also wouldn't be developed . sorry .
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shuttershocky · 6 months
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In your opinion are there other fate games worth playing if I liked the original VN and Samurai Remnant?
That's a bit of a tough question.
Fate/Extra is pretty good... Storywise. Its gameplay is the single most godawful turn based combat ever conceived in the history of RPGs, holy shit it's excruciating. If you can play it on a PSP emulator with a guide to all enemy attack patterns open on your phone and with your emulator abusing save states (you WILL need to do this), then I'd recommend it! If not... Maybe not.
Fate/Extella is pretty good... Well no it's not but the Altera route specifically is pretty good! Gameplay wise it is a significantly worse musou than Samurai Remnant, though with way more characters and multiple viewpoints.
Something you should definitely read if you loved Fate/Stay Night is its sequel, Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. It's another visual novel instead of a video game so there's nothing to talk about with regards to gameplay (unless you like Hanafuda and a bootleg arcade game called Illya's Castle), but it's an excellent VN and a great place to see the cast of FSN interact with each other outside the big murder game.
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fairytale-poll · 7 months
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MOD'S CHOICE POLL
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Mod's own propaganda under the cut:
Sasha as Red Riding Hood:
During submissions, I became so absolutely excited when I saw this pop up. I don't know who decided to submit it, but they unlocked some childhood memories for me. Back when I was a child, my family visited Pakistan (my parent's country of origin) for the entire summer. One day I, bored, asked for some movies to watched and my parents and uncle brought back some clearly bootlegged DVDs dubbed in Hindi/Urdu, and Bratz Kids Fairy Tales was one of them. I watched it so many times, you have no idea- I think that I might have wrecked the whole DVD with how much I watched it. (A similar thing happened later on when I obtained a clearly bootlegged copy of Bratz Fashion Pixie too but that's another, non-Red Riding Hood related story.) I wasn't surprised that it was eliminated right off the bat, but my childhood nostalgia dictated I put it here, or else I would be betraying the 7-year-old in me.
Shang, Tao, and Paotze:
Another childhood favorite of mine. This picture book has such beautiful art and I remember being very surprised by the story as a child. I found a PDF of it online to reread when the contest started and honestly it still holds up. The three sisters that are the Red Riding Hood in the story I feel are genuinely very clever. And for nothing else, look this one up solely for it's beautiful art which is just breath-taking whether you're a child or an adult!
Lamb:
Not going to lie I never played this game. My good friend who I adore submitted this to the poll and it immediately got eliminated and I just felt bad lol. But it does look cool & I trust their taste so I do think that this game is great. I want to play it but I am really bad at getting myself to play games.
Aku:
Samurai Jack is a CLASSIC and I dare you to not watch this clip and crack up. Mako was a gift of voice acting and I miss him so much. Also this episode is just pretty amusing.
Amy Lee:
My sister was actually the one to submit this and I will use her own propaganda here: "Evanescence was a voice of a generation." Honestly this song is kind of just okay, there are better Evanescence songs, but got to respect the effort they put into the music video. Who can resist to choose Amy Lee anyway?
The Path sisters:
Like many people who know this game, I know it through Izzzyzzz's two video essays on it. I didn't play the game afterwards, but I did watch some play-throughs since I don't play many games + it seemed mostly like a walking simulator anyway so I felt like I got the same effect. It is AMAZING and has so much story and analysis and I love shit like that... In particular, Scarlet, Ruby, and Rose are my favorites whose stories really resonated with me, even if I haven't exactly gone through their life experiences. Ginger too. And there's some really horrific imagery in Robin's...I would recommend everyone find a way to experience this game-- whether that's playing it, watching Izzzyzzz's videos, or finding a walk-through/analysis of it, it's worth it!
Lisette:
So this manga is sort of obscure but it is also sort of nostalgic to me. Well, nostalgic by proxy. My sister read it when I was younger and told me some details about it and for some reason it stuck with me. Like??? For no reason. It's not even that good lmao. The first chapter right off the bat is pretty edgy & handles sensitive topics very badly. But goddamn if I do not think about random elements of the story for no reason. I don't really remember shit about Lisette but hey this picture of her looks really cool.
Red:
If you notice a theme among these being "nostalgia" you would be right, as this was another nostalgic offering from my childhood that I would watch semi-annually. I was also fond of the sequel, though I thought it felt like a different series than the first one. (Which isn't unusual with animated sequels to popular movies, but the fact that the sequel was set-up by the ending of the first one implies it was planned? Weird). But anyway Red is iconic and funny and voiced by Anne Hathaway and also her sad emo song "Red is Blue" sometimes still gets stuck in my head, so take that as you will.
Chacha:
I know absolutely nothing about this series. But it looks very cute so I like it. I love cute magical girls they deserve the world. Also I looked it up and apparently the Studio who did the Akazukin Chacha anime would later do the Yu-Gi-Oh animes from the 2000s and 2010s, so there's the obligatory mention of nostalgia.
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dailyedgeworth · 2 years
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today, i spent more than an hour trying to find the ace attorey menu from 2015 (i found it) and im tired so here's edgeworth with a bootleg steel samurai (bean)
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submissiveking99 · 10 months
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Hey guys! So... Bit of a nerd talk time where I go about one of my less used muses, I guess
And probably one most people don't expect me to have, I guess.
Or at least, the franchise related to them. Yeah , I'm talking about Power Rangers. Because I be a big ass nerd, and new issues of the comic have come out reminding me of an old post I made a while ago.
So, ever since 2016, we have had an ongoing series of Power Rangers comics done by BOOM! Studios and they are great. Amazing even. Over 150 issues over all, when you combine every run and spin off and such. And outside a few writing hiccups... They've been glorious.
So, one thing the comics have always had and been amazing with.... Are OC Ranger designs
And we've had a lot.
So I thought I'd go through them a bit to show them off and talk about them
So first off... We have their first original Ranger, Lord Drakkon
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This suitbis glorious. Lord Drakkon as a character is an evil future version of Tommy Oliver, one who fused the powers of the Green Dragon coin and the White Tiger. And the fusion of their designs works oh so wonderfully well~!
And also, yes. They did make a live action version of the suit. And yes, JDF did wear it, for a live action trailer for the Shattered Grid event that really showed off Drakkon and how dangerous he was
In his world he defeated the Rangers and ruled his world. Killing Billy and stole their powers, seperating the powers across his army to make... Well a literal army of rangers. But not gonna go into them because they are just armoured variants of ranger suits
However Drakkon did evolve three times over the Shattered Grid event
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Evolution 1 adding the powers of the Samurai Dangers and (if I remember correctly) the Black Dino Thunder ranger to his form.
And the samurai style real fits.
But following this came....
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Evolution II. Using the Zero Powers and several other mophers. The black overtaking everything else just looks so gorgeous, like the corruption of the rangers powers seeping through his very body
Until finally....
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Oh what can I SAY about this suit?!
The black, grey, gold and red colour scheme being so beautiful?!
The badass cape?!
The evolved armour and subtle detailing?!
10/10!
Delicious~!
But beyond him.... We have my muse
Ranger Slayer
While most of you who see my Muses sees the Pink MMPR Ranger, Kimberly, you are mostly right
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But only mostly. She is only an option for her
Because my muse is ACTUALLY the Ranger Slayer!
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An alternative version of Kim, from Drakkon's world. Won't go into too much detail because she's gonna get a solo post. Long story short, she was mind controlled into being Drakkon's assassin. And time travel/multiverse shinanigans, she was freed
But for now.... Look at this DESIGN~!
The white/ black inverse, along black the focus colour, and so much more
Oooh~!!!
Also the extra armour to mimick hear worn by actual archers?
Amazing!
Also... Something about the coloured palms does it for me, lol
Portable part of why I like the Pokémon Salazzel, hehe.
But yeah, Ranger Slayer also further evolved when she eventually returning to her home world. While not a power up, she did her a redesigned suit to show she was now the queen of the world with Drakkon gone
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This one, I'm not a big fan of. But I love the slight phoenix motif it has
It really works
That's also not the only power up/alternate power set Kim had in the comics
Introducing... The All-New Power Rangers!
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Okay, so, long story short. These are basically budget powers that Kim made. Set after she left in season 3, she had enough of a connection to make boarderline bootleg powers to help save her family from a fish man invasion in France
Because of their almost fake nature, and their powers being drawn from Kim, all the rangers have a very 'street' look, as well as some pink
And I love it, again!
Like, it isn't my favourite, but... It works.
It's a cool 'street level' redesign, if that makes sense
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And I realise I have no space for any more posts
Damn it!
Looks like I have to do a second post.
Drat
Well, I'll quickly go over one last design.
This one is MUCH newer. Like, three issues ago.
The Zed Ranger
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Zedd and the rangers where forced to team up not too long ago, and Zedd hard that as a chance to steal the Rangers tech. Making himself a Morpher for an emergency
An emergency like when Rita returns, super charged, and almost kills him. Leading to a three way war between him, the Rangers and Rita
And do I have to EXPLAIN why this is awesome, from a story or design aspect?!
I'll see you guys next time.
Fuuuck this is badass!!!!
See ya in part 2
Part 2: here
Part 3: here
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underratedmhapoll · 8 months
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Match 11 - Equipped Hero: Yoroi Musha VS Humarise Leader: Flect Turn
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bubblepopsims · 1 month
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Thank you @madfeary <3 ^-^ this was a bit tricky hahahah but its mix of all
B- bubble pop by HYUNA
U - UMI says by Mos def
B - Bootleg Rascal by sticky fingers
B - blue by willow beats
L - Leon by Alt- J
E - enough, enough now by Bad Omens (live)
P -pride by Kendrick Lamar
O - on my own by fantastic Mr Fox
P - playground by homebodi
S - sands of amber - ffxiv shadowbringers soundtrack by masayoshi soken
I -Is your love strong enough by how to destroy angels
M - makeda by Les Nubian
S - Samurai Champloo ending (remix)
i tag @plumbewb @koibish @sadgirr and whoever else sees it and wants to do it! tag me i love sharing tunes. (also you dont have to do it XD some of us have long ass usernames XD)
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bigtittylawyer · 5 months
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(@goldenrodchef) Apparently there's a bootleg Steel Samurai show that even steals its theme song, called the Plumed Punisher. Just found out about it today. -Gen
whaaaAAAAT????
oh my arc I thought my fandom buddies were making that one up to scare me. the khura'inese bootleg steel samurai ripoff isn't real and can't hurt you, or so I thought!
...Maya I hate to break this to you. But I knew about that.
WHAT
I keep up with the (usually quite depressing) Khura'inese legal system on the off chance something ever changes over there. There was a case a few years ago where one of the actors got murdered.
...Guilty verdict, of course. There hasn't been a not guilty verdict in that region in decades.
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It is literally so hard to do a character arc for someone that starts out as a horrible asshole that makes you still want to stick around with them till the end. Even harder to do that and still preserve their identity as that character without some part of them being unrecognizable. Johnny's arc is so interesting cause he barely changes at all, he's still a total asshole with a raging ego problem, he still wants to be the hero of the story but his perspective shifts ever so slightly. He's dropped into a world thats all but forgotten him and even in the earliest conversations you have with him you can see the cracks.
In the post quest convo you get with him about the samurai bootlegs he practically admits to you that he thinks the best way to get people to change is to attack them, but he gets to see that despite everything he's done the people who didn't want to listen just didn't. He believed for who knows how long that his raid on arasaka was what would wake up the world, that by charging face first into a wall everyone else would think of him as a hero and magically fix everything. It's only by being around v, by having that perspective shifts that he has the biggest impact, instead of "saving the world" by blowing up the tower he just saves v, and a side effect of him doing that ironically is arasaka taking a huge hit financially anyway.
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vivianvixen · 30 days
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Cyberpunk is played out. How about cybergrunge? Kit your street samurai up with some JNCOs and blast Nirvana as you flip off a world that thinks you're stupid and lazy. Cyberjazz? Transform your arm into a tommy gun as you bootleg some prohibited wetware in the art deco hellscape of the roaring 20s.
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ogradyfilm · 4 months
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2023: A Year in (Movie) Review(s)
Every cinephile has at least one Holy Grail. It's a common story: interest in said rare movie is piqued by a fleeting allusion in the pages of some neglected reference book or obscure magazine article. Gradually, curiosity evolves into infatuation, then obsession, manifesting as a desperate pursuit that might persist for decades, the search constantly hampered by the tragic fact that the White Whale in question remains stubbornly elusive—either out-of-print or never officially licensed or localized in the first place. And even if it is available (usually through sources of dubious legality), the image quality is always barely a step above an nth generation VHS transfer.
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Well, in 2023, I managed to cross five such films off my personal “bucket list”—and despite the year’s numerous challenges (financially, in particular), I think that’s an accomplishment worth celebrating. Thus, in the interest of posterity, I’ve enumerated them below, along with brief descriptions and links to the corresponding reviews I wrote immediately after seeing them:
A Page of Madness: Of all the miraculous discoveries on this list, this one was undoubtedly the most unceremonious and anticlimactic. I randomly stumbled across this silent avant-garde masterpiece (of which I became aware way back in college) while nonchalantly browsing Amazon Prime’s digital library; suddenly, there it was, available to rent for a paltry three dollars. The movie itself was sublime, of course; after spending such a significant chunk of my life hunting it down, however, the relative ease with which I ultimately acquired it couldn’t help but feel a bit… underwhelming.
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Samurai Wolf: Although Hideo Gosha’s lean, mean chanbara classic has never truly been out of reach to those “in the know,” my own research into the assorted bootlegs and unauthorized foreign imports available via various online marketplaces was… less than encouraging. Fortunately, Film Movement came to the rescue like a chivalrous ronin; the restoration on the company’s Blu-ray release is borderline pristine, enriching the director’s already bold compositions and dynamic camerawork. Nihilism and moral decay have seldom looked so beautiful.
Angel’s Egg: Home video copies of Mamoru Oshii’s surreal animated allegory tend to be obscenely, prohibitively expensive in the West, and tickets for the infrequent repertory screenings generally sell out almost instantly. Thankfully, a recent overabundance of free time afforded me the opportunity to experience the film’s haunting, hallucinatory magic under ideal circumstances—in a theater absolutely packed with fellow fans and aficionados. The Q&A with art director/character designer Yoshitaka Amano that followed the feature presentation (courtesy of Japan Society) was just icing on the cake.
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Door: While Banmei Takahashi’s taut, suspenseful, claustrophobic thriller is the latest addition to this list (I learned of its existence roughly a year ago, through out-of-context clips shared between several Twitter accounts), you shouldn’t make the mistake of underestimating my enthusiasm for it—my desire to see it burned with the fiery passion of a spurned admirer. As luck would have it, my thirst was sated rather quickly compared to the previous entries on this countdown; the movie played at this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival—perfectly scheduled to coincide with the Halloween season.
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis - When I initially encountered this ambitious, extravagant, and extremely expensive special effects extravaganza, the only viable way to view it was in twelve parts on YouTube, compressed to about 240p resolution—a format that hardly does the spectacle justice. Thank goodness for the fine programmers at Japan Society; the big screen really smooths out the movie’s minor flaws and superficial blemishes, and Kyusaku Shimada’s magnificent performance as the nefarious Yasunori Kato certainly benefits from a more expansive frame. Guess I can finally stop requesting the film in the feedback section of literally every post-screening survey…
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And that essentially sums up my 2023; the satisfaction of enjoying so many films that had been taunting and tantalizing my imagination definitely took the sting out of the whole "prolonged unemployment" situation. With that said, I’d like to wish everybody a very Happy New Year! Hopefully, my adventures in cinema will continue in 2024. (For God’s sake, will some distributor please show Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Sweet Home the love it so richly deserves?!)
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setaflow · 11 months
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Find the Word/Manuscript Search Tag
Tagged by the ever-lovely @ghostoffuturespast (read her answers here and give her works some love!).
Words I had to play with were quiet, sound, dark, and here. Three of these passages were picked from published work and 1 was picked from a WIP.
Quiet
The quiet pulls taut like a rubber band— first person to let go gets snapped. His foot thumps the pavement, a tic only found in musicians and people with more words than they know to use, but V continues to hold her tongue. She's waited roughly eight hours for this; she figures she can wait a little bit more.
Sound
The record spins a few times, searching aimlessly for sound. Then, as though awakening from the deepest slumber imaginable, it crackles to life: "Lost another day, to pointless drudgery…the slow chippin' away, of my autonomy…" It's about what V imagined out of a bootleg Samurai tape. The audio sounds like it's been ground through a woodchipper, music hardly hearable at times over the rowdy crowd they're playing for, and it's not helped by the fact that no one in the band sounds the least bit cohesive together. This is a recording from one of their many spur-of-the-moment reunion concerts in the 2010s, meaning everyone is playing this version of Buck Ravers to their own beat— both metaphorically and very literally. Henry struggles to match the others' tempo, Nancy hits a few errant keys here and there; even the usually steadfast Kerry is somewhat rusty, V wincing whenever she hears a note that's a bit too high or a touch too flat. The only one who doesn't miss a single step is Johnny. He screams every word into the mic as if it's holy gospel, feeding off the will of the crowd as they preach his lyrics right back to the pulpit. The collective energy reaches such an insane fever pitch that Johnny seems to singlehandedly drag the rest of the band back towards coherency, and by the time their opener wraps up, all five of them've fallen back into their familiar sync.
Dark
Night descends upon the city the same way it always does— abruptly and silently, the quick puff of air that blows out the candle. V's got a decent stretch of the 101 to herself now. She's parked off on the side of the road, weight propped against the seat of the Kusanagi, her back to the NC skyline in favor of studying the assortment of oil wells and pump jacks just beyond the chain link fence she'd stopped in front of. The sky above V's head is a blank black slate, no chalk-white stars shining or bleary-eyed satellites blinking through the clouds. Out here, it's just her, a red bike, and thousand little flames burning in the dark.
Here
It’s stupid to say, it’s so fucking stupid to say, but V can’t stop herself, “Guess I meant…I-I dunno, a…a h-happier ending? For everyone involved?” Johnny only turns away, his expression clouded. “We were born under bad signs, kid,” he quietly reminds her. “Happy endings? Here, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people.”
I'll tag @clusterfxckedbysirens @beammeupbroadway @trashcatsnark @skippygiraffee @glitchinginthegarden @ladykatie512 @seraphfighter @wanderingaldecaldo and anyone else who'd like to try! But no pressure at all if not :3
Your words will be wait, wind, teeth, and hope
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Ok so, i just watched chip and dale:rescue rangers and, while it was a decent movie (the humor didn't really hit but i liked the story)
But the thing im freaking out about is...
THE REFERENCES!!! Useing the bootlegging plot as a way to get all sorts of charaters in there was actually pretty smart! Heres some of my favs(sorry for poor quality, disney is worst than nft mfs when it comes to preventing screenshoting their content)
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is it bad that i think dipper is really cute in that style?
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Samurai jack more like samurai cat- *gets bludgeoned*
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g G u m b a l l s
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Is that a motherfunkin JOHNNY TEST?!? I-
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