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no-psi-nan · 1 year

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Haha no worries! It's downplayed a lot in the series because it's supposed to be a comedy, but when you start looking more closely at the stuff Kuniharu does, it paints a picture of a terrible father and a bad husband too.

It's been a topic on the blog several times, so I'm sure people can chime in with more evidence, but here's what's off the top of my head...

Raised Kusuke. Nuff said tbh lol.

Kuniharu calls Kusuo a monster multiple times and is almost certainly the reason why Kusuke and Kusuo himself believe that Kusuo is an inhuman freak. This attitude is certainly not coming from Kurumi, and nobody else knew about Kusuo's power. From the beginning of the series, Kusuo genuinely believes he's unable to connect with other human beings, and it's mostly because of this attitude inherited from his father.

Kuniharu is never seen attempting to prevent Kusuke from constantly picking fights with his brother, and only attempting to discipline Kusuo for behavior that Kuniharu considers disrespectful to him. This is mostly a fact by omission, but we do see him belittling Kusuke when the kid obviously already has an inferiority problem.

Kuniharu is one of the worst performers at his job and the first to be let go in the case of a crisis. When he loses his job, he's unable to find any others because his only real skill is shoe-licking. This was a parody chapter though so questionably canon. He's always running late for his job though and we see him trying to make a manga artist rip off Naruto, so honestly it makes sense that he's that bad at his job. The only time he's shown as slightly competent at his job was during a parody chapter too hsfjdlshfks.

However what's definitely canon is that he either doesn't make much money or mis-spends most of it. In an area where Nendo's mom, a single woman, and Satou's family, the exact average family, can afford to live, Kuniharu had to take out an 80 year mortgage to pay for a similarly sized home. For context, most mortgages are for 30 years, 15 if you git gud. Btw, the house was literally a gift from Kusuke, Kuniharu insisted on paying out of manly pride or something. Sir, Kusuke is a freaking billionaire and this is like the only single no-strings-attached genuinely kind thing he's ever done hsfjdlshfks

Completely irresponsible with money: has a huge Valentine's day budget for his wife's gift ($3,000 iirc?) and then spends it all at the bar paying for his coworkers' drinks (the same guys who abuse him at his job and think he's garbage). He also spends huge amounts of money on his model figure collection, and has a whole room of gym equipment he never uses. As a result, Kusuo has a very small allowance and for some reason, his one favorite food (coffee jelly) is not included in the grocery list. Even though Kusuo canonically gets insane rock bottom prices for literally everything that gets bought in the household. How do you fuck up so badly financially that you can't buy your clinically depressed son the one (inexpensive!) thing that brings him joy??

By the way, Kuniharu started dating Kurumi when he was a college student and she was in high school. Kusuke was born like a year after they met, so you can do the math about how little time he spent before knocking her up 😬 They basically had a shotgun wedding. No wonder Kurumi's dad is NOT a fan of Kuniharu...

Literally one of the first chapters is Kuniharu and Kurumi domestic violence but make it funny. They're throwing furniture, Kuniharu is breaking the windows, Kurumi is yeeting her husband, and all this shit is over a single coffee jelly, which again, should be a normal part of the groceries for their household. They constantly bring their son into this drama too, which I'm sure is fantastic for his mental and emotional development btw.

There's a manga exclusive chapter that's a parody, so questionably canon, but in it Kuniharu physically attacks Kusuo multiple times over differences in opinion.

However, it IS canon that Kuniharu takes any opportunity to try to physically harm Kusuo. Ex. Hitting him in the massage episode and trying to step on him when he turns tiny.

Canon tries to redeem him a bit by showing moments where Kusuo is a baby and Kuniharu is trying really hard to make him smile because he wants his baby boy to be happy. Unfortunately that just makes it seem like he tried to be a good father for a bit when Kusuo was a baby, and then as soon as Kusuo's powers developed enough to make him miserable (the time when he needs the MOST familial support!), Kuniharu just gives up, and starts using Kusuo as his personal genie in a bottle. While also trying to fix his own fragile ego by attempting to establish dominance over his son. ????? Get therapy bro.

Canon also shows that Kuniharu's love points for Kusuo are the same as for his wife, however, not even Kuniharu believes that, as he tries to run away to evade it hsfjdlshfks. And even if he does love his son that much, he certainly doesn't show it in any meaningful way, because his literal MIND-READING SON doesn't know that. There are plenty of parents who truly love their kids and still abuse them like hell because they think that's the right thing to do (see Kaido's mom being overly strict because she wants to see him succeed in life), so the love points don't mean much imo.

Kuniharu does dole out a couple of pieces of wisdom (at Kusuo's wrong date birthday party and in the volcano arc) but that really doesn't make up for anything and even his wife thinks he's childish so... 🇫

Kuniharu is definitely funny as a character, and like I said, most of this requires digging into canon a little more, but once you start looking, it becomes clear that Kuniharu is just not a good person, father, or husband.

Like, I totally get that having a genius and a god as your kids would not be easy for any parent, but Kuniharu really doesn't try to make life better for either of his sons, preferring to get into petty squabbles with his wife and play video games/build models the rest of the time. I'm not saying dads can't have hobbies, but the only times we see him spending time with Kusuo is usually when he's begging for a favor, and he also clearly does zero housework whatsoever, so...

Anyways, I think Kurumi deserves a better husband and Kusuo deserves a better parent (or at least a break from being used as a magical favor vending machine lol) so I often joke on here that Kurumi should get a divorce and run polls about who she should marry instead and such!

Hope this helps! 👍🏾 Thanks for the question!

#notes to nopsi #kuniharu saiki #saiki k #saiki no psi nan #sknpn #the disastrous life of saiki k.#nopsi meta #tdlosk

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lol-jackles · 2 months

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Looking at the trial(see # Rust tag on twit for sourcing) I see there were bullets obviously left lying around, the safety on set was a total failure, the producers hired someone for two jobs who wasn't experienced enough for one. This was obvious enough that the crew walked off. This was obvious enough that a few days before, Guiterrez was taken to task (and then given "space" when she vented, wtf) The actor before Jensen developed a "conflict." Why would anyone fail to object and shut it down?

And there was a possibility that Hannah was high from cocaine. Any empathy I had for her went out the window when she handed the "set Mom" a bag of cocaine and assumed she would hold on to it without question.

Hannah admitted to loading the gun herself, and failing to properly check the rounds. The evidence points towards her as the source for the live rounds, and that she failed to identify them multiple times throughout production.

That said, Baldwin and the rest of the producers were being cheap when they hired her, made her work a second job as prop master, and now she's being used as a scapegoat. Not to say she's not responsible, she definitely is as she loaded the guns and failed to properly check the rounds as well as the source for the live rounds, but she's certainly not the worst person on that set.

I want to know which producer thought it was a swell idea to hire an inexperienced armorer with no apprenticeship in a job with one credit to her name on a Western film full of guns and gunfights. It’s like hiring a first-year pilot school student to fly a 747 by themselves. And the pilot is high on cocaine.

This set was a shit show and created a perfect storm for something like this to happen. Many failures in organization and safety. Plus the union and crew issues.

I’ve been a background actor and an extra on several shows and independent movies with a lot of guns, and even where a bullet was meant for me (collateral damage when a hitman missed his target). In every one of them, the armorer, prop master, and the AD handled the gun in all the scenes to verify it is not loaded. I’m also a gun owner and permit holder and we’re taught that no one should ever take a gun from someone and assume that it is unloaded. Always check for yourself. One very memorable experience on a movie set the armorer handed the gun to several people on set to verify that it was not loaded, including me because he knew I was a permit holder. So as you can see, a gun goes through several hands to verify it is not loaded before given to an actor. But on the day of the Rust fatality, there was no armorer on site of the scene, and the AD never checked the gun to verify it was not loaded.

Conditions on outdoor standing set ranging from sucky to terrible are expected: the bugs, the weather, the hours, the young angry PAs, and the producers having mental breakdowns. And yes, shortcuts are constantly taken by disregarding safety protocols, especially on low-budgeted/shoe string-budgeted films. There were a few times I thought I was going to get hurt or maimed in car scenes and it didn’t even involved car chases, just idiots driving and talking at the same time. But firearm safety protocol were never disregarded, at least from what I’ve witnessed.

Hundreds of thousands of action and war movies and police procedural tv shows, injuries or death from guns are very rare: 3 total in 37 years, though that is cold comfort for Halyna Hutchin's family.

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momentsbeforemass · 2 months

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Secret sauce

He was kind of a legend.

He was one of the most successful lobbyists I ever worked with. Not in terms of making money, but in terms of getting bills through the legislature.

Which was amazing. Because his clients were mostly small-time not-for-profits. Stuff like youth services, after school programs, access to mental health care.

Good causes. With shoe-string budgets.

They couldn’t field an army of volunteers to help a friendly legislator. Much less write a check.

And yet, year after year, he got their bills passed. With support from both parties.

When I asked him how he did it, he laughed. Then told me, “I don’t do anything. I just make sure they never forget us. Because if they remember us, they’ll do the right thing.”

As I learned, that wasn’t spin.

Whatever was happening, whatever the issue was – even if there wasn’t an obvious connection to the small-time not-for-profits he represented – he kept his clients visible. He made sure they were part of the conversation.

That really was his secret sauce.

I bring this up, because it reminds me of what Jesus shows us in today’s Gospel.

Jesus is explaining the way that He does things. Jesus is modeling for the Apostles (and for us) how to make sure that you do the right thing.

What’s the constant in today’s Gospel? Jesus is always looking to God, thinking about God, following God’s lead.

“The Son cannot do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For what He does, the Son will do also.”

That’s the point of it, the thread that runs through it all.

Jesus isn’t all about Himself. And yet, Jesus never loses sight of who He is. That sounds like a contradiction, but it isn’t.

Jesus never loses sight of who He is, because Jesus never loses sight of Whose He is.

Jesus is always looking to God, thinking about God, following God’s lead, defining Himself in terms of God and His relationship with God.

Which is both a glimpse into the inner life of the Holy Trinity, and the recipe for our lives.

How do you and I do that? We follow the model that Jesus gives us.

We make a habit out of looking to God, thinking about God, following God’s lead, whatever the issue is – even if there isn’t an obvious connection – defining ourselves in terms of God and our relationship with God.

That’s the secret sauce, the recipe for doing the right thing in all things.

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#Secret sauce #Do the right thing #Follow God #Look to God #God's Love #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Catholicism #Moments Before Mass

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scotianostra · 10 months

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On July 30th 2003 Multi race winning Motorcyclist, Robert Steven ‘Hizzy’ Hislop died.

Hizzy, as he was affectionately known once said “If I’d never thrown my leg over a bike, I’d never have lived.”

Robert Steven Hislop grew up in the village of Chesters, near Hawick in the borders. His father started the interest of both he and his brother Garry in motorcycle racing. This was short lived at the time as he lost his father and a few years later his brother was killed at Silloth circuit. He ended up with a serious alcohol problem which led into depression.

Hizzy thankfully recovered and began his Isle of Man road racing career in 1983 by finishing second in the newcomers’ race at the Manx Grand Prix.

On short circuits, his first championship success came when he won the 250cc British Championship in 1990. Superbike victory followed with the British Superbike Championship in 1995. Some attributed his success to James Whitham leaving the series mid-season to deal with cancer.

Although he did not take a BSB victory in 1996 or 1997, Hislop was hired by Rob McElnea’s dominant Cadbury’s Boost Yamaha team for 1998. The nature of the fight for the championship between Hislop & team mate, fellow Scot. Niall Mackenzie, was illustrated by a near-collision on the last lap at Snetterton which cost the team a 1-2 finish. Hislop generally matched his countryman before a serious crash took him out of title contention.

His last championship success came in 2002 when he won the British Superbike Championship riding a Ducati. A notable feature of his season resulted from Hislop lapping Donington Park circuit more quickly on a superbike than the fastest Moto GP machine: Hislop’s modified production Ducati was heavier and less powerful than the bespoke Grand Prix bikes.

The 1992 Senior TT was described as an absolute classic. It is often described as one of the best races in TT history.

After their successful 1991 TT on all conquering Honda RVF machines, Hislop and Carl Fogarty had not planned to return in 1992. However, they both lined up on the Glencrutchery Road that year on unfancied machinery: Hislop was ona Norton with Fogarty on a Yamaha. The Norton Hizzy rode had been developed on a shoe string budget when compared with the Japanese competition. John Player had no intention of backing Steve’s TT campaign but after scratching around for some support and with minimal testing time, the team headed for the Isle of Man.

Hislop’s Norton took to the circuit in the unconventional white livery of Steve’s long term sponsor Abus. Hislop and the team defied the bike’s detractors by taking a fine 2nd place in the opening TT F1 race. The bike proved it could complete 6 laps of the gruelling Snaefell Mountain Course in hot weather so the team looked forward to Friday’s Senior TT.

Hislop’s main rival was Foggarty, who started at number 4. Steve started at 19. Not only did this give Hizzy more traffic to contend with but it also gave the crowd an anxious wait as the officials calculated the time difference between them. As the race progressed, the two riders smashed records they set the previous year with Hislop taking a narrow advantage into the final lap. In a last-ditch attempt to catch Hislop, Fogarty recorded a record lap time of more than 123 mph on his Yamaha. It was all in vain however as Hislop guided the fly splattered Norton home to an historic win. This was one of Hislop’s greatest achievements and one of the most popular TT wins. Carl Fogarty’s lap record stood for 7 years.

Hislop and Fogarty went on to become two of Britain’s most successful motorcycle racers, winning many races and championships. It was the 1992 Senior TT that saw them battle together for the last time.

Described by some as a flawed sporting genius, success in the world championships never materialised for Hislop. This was possibly because of a self-destructive aspect to his character. The flaw may have led to a number of well-publicised clashes with other riders and teams in the British championships which hindered progress into international series.

Having lost his brother and many friends in motorcycle accidents, he made a point of never going to the funerals of fellow racers, saying:

“Some people might find that a bit callous. I only ever attend family ones and people find it a bit strange that I won’t go to a friend’s funeral, but it’s just my little way of shutting off.”

Steve Hislop died in a helicopter accident in July 2003, near Teviothead, Roxburghshire and was interred in the village of Chesters near his birthplace of Hawick, Scotland. He had two children.

There is a bronze statue in memory of Hizzy in the grounds of Hawick Museum. at Wilton park and another at Onchan Head, Isle of Man, as seen in order in the pics. The last pic is a cairn near Teviothead, the scene of the helicopter crash, it reads……

‘Hizzy’ This cairn was built by a few friends of Steve Hislop, British Superbike Champion, who was tragically killed in a helicopter accident near this site, on July 30th 2003.

Kind permission was granted by His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch.

#scotland #scottish #sporting history #motorbikes #motor sports

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separatist-apologist · 2 months

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Totally agree that nonprofit work is not really all it’s cracked up to be. I’m currently working in a position that college me would have thought was my dream job, and despite fully believing in the mission, the office politics and sexism can really drain away all enthusiasm for the work.

Fully understand how hard it is to walk away but I’m so glad you found another exciting opportunity. You deserve all the best and I hope this new job is everything you want. Also hope you have some time to decompress before you have to start! ❤️

Working for non-profits is sold to passionate, bright-eyed grads as working for a cause. They don't mention that the cause is capitalism dressed up like social justice. I don't regret my time at one, but I wish I would have known what I was getting myself into. Not that for-profits are any better, but they're honest, at least. Non-profits operate on shoe-string budgets and are designed to suck as much out of underpaid people (often who need the job in order to gain licensure, which they take advantage of) and then spit them back out, burned out and disillusioned while they continue the cycle.

It used to frustrate me that we spoke so often about ending cycles of violence for the community, when the community made up the non-profits staff to begin with. We could start ending those cycles IN our organization and instead upper leadership (who makes over 6 figures) created the most abusive atmosphere. On paper we'll say we respect transfolks, in the office people are endlessly misgendered and there is no accountability because its the CFO/CEO who are constantly doing it.

I thought becoming a manager would make me a more effective advocate for my staff and instead I sat in meetings where our CEO would tell us that she wanted our staff members to be scared and feel like they were being watched 24/7. I sat in board meetings where our lowest paid staff member (who was not making a living wage even in the Midwest where cost of living is low) was told she was greedy for wanting more staff members to help her fulfill a grant that tripled her caseload.

I think I did good things during my time here- I negotiated pay raises for my part time staff who were making $13 an hour when I started when both the fastfood place across the street AND the gas station advertised paying their staff more for a job that was a lot less traumatizing.

I expanded our programming and brought us into the vastly underserved, rural parts of the state where I grew up. And I kept my department consistently fully staffed by creating a culture in which (I hope) people felt respected and valued.

I still believe in the mission. I still think the work is important, necessary, and worthwhile. And I would never advocate for anyone to work in these places unless they absolutely had to. My advice will always be to stay just as long as you have to, and prioritize yourself first. Don't answer the phone when you're off work, don't take it home, don't let them put their deficits on you because they'll take and take and take and it'll just never be enough.

#anyway is this bitter? yeah a little #everything is bad under capitalism blah blah blah #but nonprofits are a particular brand of cruelty imo

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autisticandroids · 1 year

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been reading various discussions on the genuinely thorny issue of ao3 moderation - mostly what to do about racist fanworks, but also the eminently plausible possibility that due to having lax content policies, ao3 could become a safe haven for white supremacists.

my first takeaway so far has been - it seems like having some level of content moderation would be a good idea, if only to deal with the hypothetical nazis who could use ao3 as a place to post their manifestos. like, i am in general suspicious of content moderation on ao3, because it's both hard (ao3 is big and has a shoe-string budget; moreover, the ethics of content-moderation in general are thorny, as most content moderation is done exploitatively and it can even be traumatic for the moderators) and likely to be abused. but i am coming around to the idea that ao3 has to at least be prepared to defend against the people who tend to show up on "free speech platforms" if nothing else.

my second takeaway is that it would be really easy for ao3 to have better anti-harassment policies, and its failure to do this much is pathetic. it's one thing to host fictional stories with arguably reprehensible content; that's a complex issue both in terms of whether it's worth doing anyway and in terms of who decides what's reprehensible (and in fact, who decides where the line is re: what's reprehensible enough that it's not worth doing anyway). however, it should be easy to simply temp-ban or permaban users who do things like use racial slurs in their comments or incite harassment in their author's notes. that's actually pretty simple and inarguable. ao3's failure to do this is embarrassing.

my third takeaway has been that i think people are just entirely failing to note one of the biggest likely problems with more content moderation - spurious mass-reporting. lots of these arguments take into account that people might do things like "report fic with sex between an eighteen year old and a twenty five year old as pedophilia" in good faith because they're stupid, and i agree that that will definitely happen because fandom is fandom and online is online. however, it's also common to use intentionally spurious mass reporting as a form of harassment on platforms that are more trigger happy with a suspension or ban than ao3. and that's not something i really see brought up? this seems like one of the most obvious problems to be tackled on a more moderated ao3.

my fourth takeaway is that these calls for action against racism tend to use examples of homophobia and misogyny in their hypotheticals in order to seem more neutral/cater to people who don't care that much about racism. but i think that's a bad source for hypotheticals because imo trying to ban homophobia/misogyny on ao3 is way more obviously bad than trying to ban racism. like, ao3 is a porn site. it hosts things people want to get off to, mostly. and because we live in a patriarchal society, a lot of what people get off to, regardless of their own gender, is going to just be eroticized misogyny. that's what happens when patriarchy inevitably shapes people's sexualities. this is nearly ubiquitous in porn. and i think homophobia kind of piggybacks on this both because a lot of homophobia is also a result of patriarchy. and patriarchy... well, it governs how people fuck, and what turns them on. plus, if you mix the whole eroticized misogyny thing with most of the porn on ao3 being slash you're going to get a lot of homophobia as a result. so i don't think this hypothetical really works the way people want it to. (also homophobia and misogyny are simply less salient given that fandom spaces are already mostly set up to cater to a very female, very queer demographic, because fandom of the sort ao3 caters to skews female and queer. but this would hold true even if that wasn't the case, imo).

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ifuckinglovedinosaurssomuchjesus · 1 month

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GODZILLA MOVIE MARATHON: Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)

Oh hey, remember when I was doing this? I am at the whim of my hyperfixations and, luckily, I'm in a Goji mood again. So it's time to pick up right where we left off a year ago and keep this marathon going.

We're deep in the champion series, where Godzilla movies were made every year for Toho's annual movie festivals, which meant cookie cutter scripts and shoe string budgets.

The script is pretty standard by this point, except with the aliens replaced by hilariously incompetent Atlantians. It gets the job done ok, it keeps itself relevant and is relatively entertaining, even if you're still spending most of the runtime waiting for a rubber suit monster to show up.

Speaking of monsters, the plot mainly revolves around a little robot by the name of Jet Jaguar. He spends most of the movie getting yanked around by whoever is in control of him till he inexplicably against consciousness and joins the battle for good. He's an obvious Ultraman rip-off, but he's also a cult favorite for his goofy design and his antics. He gets a lot of love from fans, Evangelion even references him in the Jet Alone episode, and it's easy to see why. He's not the strongest, but he's got spunk, character, and a catchy theme tune. You can't help but love him.

The same goes for the other debut creature, the titular Megalon. The Kaiju in this movie have so much personality, Megalon especially is super expressive. I love his child-like personality, where he gloats and taunts when he's winning but throws a tantrum when he isn't. He cackles and claps and slaps his butt, and despite having no facial expressions, he might as well be talking with how well the suit actor portrays his thoughts. My favorite is his obvious "what the hell" pose when Jet Jaguar and Godzilla escape his fire trap. He's also ridiculously pathetic, dumb as bricks, he ultimately gets knocked down by swallowing one of his own bombs. I love how he just lays there while Goji and JJ just stare at him with contempt. Even his final departure is hilarious with him face planting into a hole as it collapses onto him.

Gigan also makes his return, as cackling and sadistic as ever, and he matches Megalon's energy perfectly. They really do make a perfect duo, real team rocket energy of bumbling bafoons thinking they're badder than they actually are. Gigan's justification for being here is the best, the Atlantians straight up just call the cockroach aliens from the last movie and ask to borrow their monster. Sure, why not?

And of course, Godzilla is here too. He's a full on children's hero, accentuated by the goofy circus music that plays as he walks up to the battle. He's got some cool moments, like singlehandedly stomping both Megalon and Gigan when he first arrives and of course the iconic tail-slide kick.

Overall, many people lump this movie in with vs Gigan as the bottom of the barrel when it comes to the franchise, which I think is unfair. They're both similar movies in that they both live and die by the final battle. While vs Gigan had a really slow, boring fight that really didn't justify having to sit through the rest of the movie, vs Megalon has one of the most fun final battles in the series. If you can sit through the rather tediousn, but not all bad first hour of human plot, you get 20 minutes straight of some of the most expressive and enjoyable Kaiju action of the Showa era.

Interestingly, for some reason a US executive decided this was going to be the Godzilla movie to grab that American demographic, and it was marketed and distributed far more than nearly any film before it. While not an immediate success, it did result in this easily becoming the most common Godzilla outing in video rental stores and late night TV reruns. It shaped Godzilla's image in America more than any other film, for decades the name was synonymous with cheap costumes, goofy effects, and bad dubs. Even to this day, the Monsterverse's take on a heroic Godzilla fighting evil monsters has its roots going back here. Some people may hold resentment towards it for that, but for me personally, I really enjoyed it. It's not the best the Showa era has to offer, but it's certainly up there, so 7/10 seems fair to me.

#kaiju #godzilla #movie review

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13thdoctorposts · 1 year

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Another TLDR DW rant from me.

I’ve started to see hot takes that the reason Chibs wasn’t given a bigger budget (im guessing in regards to marketing) was because BBC had lost faith in the show… do these people live in the real world?

The job of every business is to do more for less money, budgets are often tight and stagnate, and often places don’t even raise budgets in line with inflation. The BBC isn’t printing its own cash, and Doctor Who isn’t the only product they are concerned with. The BBC has multiple arms of its business, I’d bet most are under funded not because BBC has lost faith in its whole business but because it only has so much money and that money needs to be stretched. Thats why they needed Disney.

It makes financial sense that they would bank on Doctor Who’s name recognition to help get viewers and put more money behind marketing newer shows and newer products in their business. I know it’s hard to believe but Doctor Who isn’t and never will be the biggest focus for the BBC just because Doctor Who fans think it should be. Scifi is niche… I said it… it doesn’t have broad appeal… it’s amazing it still does as well as it does, especially after 17 years on a shoe string budget after years of economic instability and a crushing cost of living crisis.

Oh and for the people saying they should have just put more stuff on social media because they personally would have done that for free… thats not how businesses work… social media requires a social media manager and a graphic designer at minimum to run, thats probably over 100,000 pounds a year for those 2 jobs at least. If running social media was cheap agencies wouldn’t earn hundreds of thousands of dollars running campaigns, and in a lot of the western world working in social media can actually pay a lot of money. I would guess the BBC, at least previous to Disney, probably have a team that works on all their social media channels for all their shows and other arms of the business and so every channel is treated equally which probably isn’t enough for hard core DW fans but thats just reality.

#13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #thirteen #13 #13 era #chris chibnall #chibs #chibbs #chibnall era #chibs era #chibbs era #13 era dw

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cyarskj1899 · 1 year

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I sing this all the time. Michigan winters especially Detroit,Michigan winters ain’t no joke

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"It's So Cold in the D" turns 15 — the truth behind the accidental Detroit anthem we can't stop singing

By WWJ Newsroom

January 20, 20234:56 pm

DETROIT (WWJ) -- When it comes to Detroit artists who have made an impact on music and culture, there are truly too many to name.

But there’s one local rapper that Metro Detroiters quote regularly — especially during the winter months — who has never really gotten her due.

We’re talking about T-Baby, who had a massive viral hit 15 years ago this month with her now-iconic song, “It’s So Cold in the D.”

And if you tell us you didn’t just sing the hook as you read that — we don’t believe you.

The unbelievably catchy and quotable song was originally penned as a tribute to T-Baby’s late friend Mason Graham, who was fatally shot while trying to break up a fight at Universal Coney Island on Detroit’s east side in 2006.

The music video, was made with a shoe-string budget of just $300, hit YouTube in January of 2008, and went on to rack up an impressive 11 million views.

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In the years that followed, variations of the “It’s So Cold in the D” catchphrase have been included in tracks such as Eminem’s “Detroit vs. Everybody” and Big Sean’s “Story by Snoop Lion,” and the song has been performed in-concert by the likes of New Kids on the Block and Usher during tour stops in Detroit.

"It's So Cold in the D" received new life in 2011 when it was included in an episode of MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead” reboot, and the resurgence later resulted in a 2015 remix of the song (though nothing beats the original.)

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But even with all of its popularity, T-Baby says she received so much online hate after releasing the tribute — which she intended to be a commentary on violence in the city — she took an extended hiatus from YouTube and music to avoid the negativity.

Additionally, the rapper and artist, who grew up Latonya Myles on Detroit’s east side, has never really been given much in the way of compensation or credit for her original song.

Most artists who perform or reference it do so without permission, and despite holding a copyright on the “It’s So Cold in the D” phrase, it often appears on t-shirts, mugs and even candles with little to no money going back to T-Baby.

Though she has continued to have a social media presence and create music through the years, T-Baby says she still keeps mainly to herself, and doesn’t put a lot of trust in others.

But regardless of how people feel about the song itself, T-Baby created something that most artists have a difficult time achieving: staying power.

The song is now used on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, meaning a whole new generation is discovering the viral hit.

In another 15 years, you can bet that on a freezing winter day, Detroiters will still be turning to one another and uttering the phrase, “It’s so cold in the D.”

But if we don't start to give T-Baby the credit she deserves right now...well, there's really nothing colder than that.

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after 3 straight days of queer movie-watching at the festival (with an interlude to play some football) and my brain being overloaded with Stimulus, feel like I need to compile my thoughts on the experience overall:

1. lotta DIY work, which is a great reminder that if you want to make, you can + opens up conversation around how institutions do not fund this kind of work (in the UK especially there’s a limit to spaces one can go for funding). the real experimentation/cinematic bravery isn’t happening for half a billion dollars, it’s being done on a shoe-string budget. that being said, one really wishes there was more money to be had in this, simply because it would make people able to live off the work and make much more

2. lot of sports-related stuff, both fiction and documentary, which is funny considering where a lot of my own focus is these days. also got to meet Verity Smith, which was a bit of a hero-moment, and he gave a lot of great info on the state of sports nationally and internationally. and yeah, I got to play football for the first time in 10 years!

3. generally met a lot of great people. I think the idea about “networking” as it’s been presented to me as an artist (including the word itself) is still a big problem, and will always be. it’s got too many concepts baked into it that don’t gel with the kind of work I do in the communities I do it in + my particular flavour of brain, but that being said -- once I realised that there are spaces where meeting/connecting with people in your specific field of work, where this aligns with queer practise of shared needs for what that work represents and is for, then yeah, I kind of got what networking was all about. So I could talk freely about my own work + listen to theirs, and not feel like we were just sussing out how we could use one another to get ahead

when I was studying, there wasn’t this kind of... idk, discussion of ways that working in an arts industry -- with all of its [waves hands at the microcosm of any and all industries and life that is in the mainstream run by capitalist colonialist patriarchy] many many issues -- can be interacted with from different perspectives, so it’s neat to be able to find ways to do that by simply being in spaces like these

4. watched both wildhood and set it off as my main two fiction features (the others I either couldn’t make it for or missed parts of due to overlapping events). the former feels like a wonderful breath of air + fits into a space of both canadian first nations cinema that I’ve been lucky enough to get to watch, and queer cinema. the movies are getting made and they are good -- one does have to look for them/be active in spaces where they would likely be disseminated, which tbh is also an ethos of artistic engagement + community engagement that I’m very in favour of anyway. in order to get to the deeper stuff, it doesn’t do to simply sit back and wait for it to arrive. it does exist! go find it!

also the sex scene in it was 👀👀👀 smthinsmthin water as metaphor belongs to the queers

also I’d been wanting to watch set it off for ages, as (only?) the second lesbian crime movie, next to bound. set it off isn’t technically centred on lesbians, but one of the leads is openly shown to be a stud/butch, and she’s respected/liked by her friends. I’m curious about how this film feels to the Black lesbian community and perhaps Black film-goers as a whole, since [spoilers] it’s got a fair bit of police violence and very little in the way of happy endings.

where I sit with it, is that it’s criminally (ha) underrated and oughta be discussed in the same breath of compelling characters that exist in heat and dog day afternoon -- the bittersweet-at-best tragic ending fits with the general tone of this specific take on the genre (the non-oceans-movies versions tend to have mixed-to-tragic endings), although the violence does hit closer to home/more realistically than in most other heist films. and all the main characters are So So Cool, which is important for a good heist film!

5. also got to watch two documentaries about older queers, one about the history of the Chicago bar “sidetrack” and the other about older queer people in Ireland. These connections and stories are so vital, and queer-cinema-as-documentation feels like one of the most queer things one can do. We love a documentary, because we’re trying to make sure those connections are built, that we don’t forget our pasts, that we have roots. there are people from whom we have these torches passed, and they’re our elders, even across continents.

also thank you to that lesbian couple acknowledging that young people are really struggling with money in this modern capitalism. definitely feels like it puts the work of the festival I was at into perspective -- with spaces closing and difficulty in renting (especially in cities), we need to find ways to open up spaces for one another

6. also I had a little curated archive piece up there and people said nice things to me about it 😭😭😭

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theliterarywolf · 2 years

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Monster High Live action again confirming that cosplayers with the budget of a shoe string and some change make better and more accurate costumes of characters, than entire companies. Who'd have thunk?

Also that those cosplayers have the decency to not rewrite characters as 'improvements'.

Why is Draculaura a 'Vampire-Witch' now?

Why is Lagoona a sea-nymph now?

Why is Clawdeen half-human now?

Why is Heath a hot-headed jock now?

Why not just make your own show at this point; these are completely different characters, for fuck's sake.

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courtwizardsirdoctorclydesdale · 2 years

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FILM REVIEW POWER HOUR MY DUDES

"Psycho" (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick

"The Shining" (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Pardon for the absence of actual content for over a year, it will happen again.

"Psycho" (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

"Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother."

Despite it being among the most stigmatizing films ever made in its effect on public perception of mental health it was much better than I had expected!

Mechanically the film was good for its time, the cinematography was striking at times, my only gripe would be how the deaths were handled but for the first film of its genre I'm willing to give it a pass. The acting and dialog are where the film shines, every actor, save one which I'll mention later, is excellent in their roles and sells the performance. Norman Bates is very realistically portrayed as an uncomfortable kid isolated from reality with genuine gripes in his situation. Each protagonist also has a realistic motivation and acts intelligently according to their goals. The acting was superb from everyone involved each behaving realistically and believably, if I were to name a star performance it would be Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates both for merit and pure screen time dedicated to him.

The soundtrack was delightfully unnerving and used sparingly so as to keep its drama, never underutilized or overstaying its dramatic highlights. My favorite aspect of it was how much restraint was shown in saving the iconic track which *made* the film for the very final reveal and confrontation, following harrowing silence.

A great film with something for everyone I only have light criticism beyond the meta handling of mental health. Each of the murders looks horrid, everything criticized today for its laziness and cheap quality is shown from a shaky camera, poor special effects, and several too many cuts from different angles. I am willing to be swayed of my opinion on this matter however given its revolutionary genre setting weight and the shoe string budget the film boasted. The very worst and most out of place scene was the "Parlor Scene" trope from mysteries which "Psycho" most certainly isn't. The psychiatrist delivers such a lively and pseudoscientific performance in his explanation for the killers actions. His explanation is something I would expect from Tim Currys Butler in "Clue" from a less experienced director. So full of passion and excitement we he as he narrated the tragic and harrowing events of the film that he had completely overshadowed the second final reveal.

In conclusion I often find myself returning to classics and trendsetters and am often surprised by how refreshingly unique they are from what was inspired by them. Some films which adhere to this observation are Casablanca, Night of the Living Dead, and now psycho each offer ingenuity in their decisions which are sadly lost to time from their bigger budgets or poor directing decisions. Despite the "Parlor Scene" I was surprised I liked it as much as I did and could happily reccomend it to anyone who likes films.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick

An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.

The sci-fi film ever made.

Mechanically among the best I've ever seen, I don't usually go out of my way to see the behind the scenes but the cinematography of this film is beyond beautiful, it's fascinating. The environmental stills of the pre-human landscape, the stark and bright reality of a near future space travel, an even the colorful primordial imagery of the nature of the universe and the Cosmic reality of space and time. There is so much to talk about with this film that's done exquisitely but the cinematography steals the show. The audio is weirdly quiet the whole film and the background noise and dialog are weirdly synced but the audio is a titan of quality still. The film dares to be quiet and to let the audience fully bask in the sounds of space. The grand classical pieces which would be used in every sci-fi to come are a bit grating in their repitition in other films but still sing a triumphant tune of the human race I'm sharp contrast to their ape ancestry. The chanting of the Obelisk is haunting and beautiful in its theme of Cosmic presence, both inhuman yet made entirely of human vocals.

The acting in this film is great but not perfect. There are only three important characters to the film that being Frank, Dave, and the HAL unit. While there are other characters their acting is merely good as well as short-lived. Frank and Dave both serve as reasonable protagonists and great contrasts as representatives for humanity's relationship with A.I. Dave played by Kier Dullea is the star of the show both as the primary protagonist and the king of non-vocal acting, the scenes of his silent thinking expressions or intense concentration rival any I've seen before. The choice of the HAL unit to speak without any fluctuation in cadence or emotion was haunting in its final moments as it begs for its life and quietly sings a song as its last act of sentience and first known command.

There isn't much to criticize technically or narrativally but I can point out some aspects of the film which might have estranged it from general audiences. The film is long and travels at a very slow pace through the whole thing, even with a theatrical intermission it feels long and takes its time throughout. Between its pace and a fractured, disjointed plot the film can easily bore or confuse someone who doesn't love every aspect of films or at least with a schedule to keep. The film also unfortunately never becomes very exciting or thrilling, nor is there any comedic relief; I don't think these things are flaws as such but they can easily make someone else's dull experience even more unsatisfying. The film at its best, and I've noticed Kubricks films in general follow this idea, is when it's asking for self reflection or trying to ask you existential questions. When you begin to drift from the audio and the visuals and engage with the questions it poses while still enjoying a feast for the eyes or ears as more a background.

In conclusion I loved "2001: A Space Odyssey" it was a fascinating and lovely film, the moments of quiet add both to the tension and impact of the scene; but also serve the dual purpose of setting a stage for introspection or questioning the actual filmmaking decisions themselves. The dialog feels very mellow and human compared to most sci-fi films where the alien is the point and highlight. The film is too long and slow to reccomend to a general audience in my opinion, but anyone with a love of sci-fi themes or Cosmic horror should find as much enjoyment as anyone obsessed with films in general, a delightful time. Also watch the space song music video for it, I didn't make it don't know the person who did but it's on YouTube and also lovely

"The Shining" (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick

I've got very strong and mixed opinions on this film that I hope someone is willing to endure

Mechanically it's great, the cinematography is good throughout and gorgeous often, the color pallete might be among the best of Kubricks work, and the setting is believable and used to it's perfect heights. The audio was done well if again weirdly quiet like A Space Odyssey, the screams were the only time the audio really sounded strained. The acting was also excellent, both of the stars Shelley Duval and Jack Nicholson are giants of acting talent, even if Duval was horribly mistreated on set her performance is still immaculate.

The soundtrack was serviceable in points and yet again great. I find the string pieces excellent I'm general for building unsettling tension bu it never held the same weight as the pieces for A Space Odyssey. My issue with the soundtrack is that it didn't hold enough tension to be worth the focus put on it by the film, it seemed to struggle for attention over the acting instead of setting the tone for it.

I have several salient criticisms for The Shining and then a more vague personal assessment. Of my criticisms; any dialog out side of the Torrence family is very strange and stilted, even Jack himself can sometimes appear less (redacted) and more awkward which is likely a director choice given the rest of his work and even other parts of the film. The maze scene is fantastic but the final scenes with Mrs. Torrence make no thematic sense with her character until that point. Jack Torrence even with potential supernatural aid had no established means of leaving the food storage. Finally the small moment where the old-timey villain calls the only major Poc character in the film a slur was just distasteful, it was neither shocking, nor did it make the villain seem any more old-timey or villainous; even still since it's never brought up again it serves no character building purpose.

In conclusion despite everything good and great about the film, despite all of the acclaim and how influential it was the film didn't grip me in any meaningful way. I was left feeling surprisingly underwhelmed and neutral about the film as a whole, even worse without any real way to describe why even with all of this word vomit. I think I can reccomend The Shining to a general audience if for no other reason than the quality of the sum of its parts. As for my own opinion of the film it bears another watch, a read of the book and more thought.

Big Conclusion

More to come but these were three big films I hadn't seen before and it was fun to watch them all I'm rapid succession. I have more big films coming my way shortly and I have an unlimited supply of unhinged raving at the noir genre so I'll try to post again before the year is out but I won't try too hard. If you made it this far I reccomend watching one of the listed films, all are good with Space Oddesy being my personal favorite.

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Dec 5 Gingerbread... first apartment

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5th of December 2022

I laid on our bed already bored with my textbook, while y/n was sitting at her desk working away on her paper for class.

"babe"

"Yes?"

"I'm bored"

"Okay"

"You wanna go do something?"

"Like what?"

"you wanna go to the Christmas market?"

"Nah. too busy"

"go to the coffee shop? get a nice festive brew?"

"No, too expensive"

"A walk in the snow?"

"Too cold"

"Did you wanna... make some Christmas cookies?"

"Maybe, what kind?"

"Gingerbread house?"

"....Yeah okay"

"Woooo!" I smiled jumping off the bed and grabbing her hand pulling her out of her chair and out of our bedroom into the kitchen "Let's pop on some festive tunes and get baking"

"Alright, Peppermint gingerbread?" she asks getting her little cookbook and tieing her apon around her wait

"ummm you know me well my love" I smirked cuddling her closely as she baked the dough for the cookies

"Would you like to make the shapes?"

"Yes, I would! what are you going to make?"

"A little house, just some basic house shapes, two people, and a few 3d trees"

"Oohh getting fancy" I smiled making her the shapes "I think... I'm going to make a mansion with a garage, pool, bulter and small dog" making my own shapes

"Alright adam, if your sure" she giggled "Now I'll watch those cook, you go and get our decor" she smiled

"Okay, anything specific?" I asked her grabbing my coat and shoes

"I'd like Maltesers and caramel buttons for sure"

"No problem. won't be long" I smiled giving her a kiss before grabbing my wallet and heading out of our little house heading down the cold snow-covered streets the snow still battering me as I walked luckily it wasn't far to the local corner shop quickly ducking inside "Afternoon" I smiled

"Afternoon, cold out," He says at the counter

I wondered around collecting up everything into my basket, Laces, buttons, Maltesers, kinder, gummy bears, Smarties, candy canes, chocolate coins, gumdrops, and basically everything else they had in their sweet confectionary section and taking it all over to the till he looked at everything as he scanned it and then looked at me

"What did you do to her?"

"Nothing. we're making gingerbread houses"

"Ohh, I thought you'd just really pissed her off."

"Well. not yet" I laughed handing over some cash and taking my bag scurrying back out into the snow before arriving back home and quickly coming inside snaking the snow off me "I'm back my love!"

"did you get the sweeties?"

"I did, how's the bread?"

"all baked, and the icing is sitting in the mixer"

"excellent. then it's time to decorate!"

I worked for what felt like several hours while the snow fluttered outside the window my plans had uhhh... downsized a little given my... skills. not being helped but y/ns sweet perfect little house it was a cute little cottage with caramel button shingle roof, little iced trees, chocolate coin path, little gummy bear string lights, a little pink waffer door and all manner of other perfection.

"All done" she smiled putting her last bit of icing sugar snow dusting on her house "How about you"

"I uhhh I think so"

"what do you think?" she asks

"it's... beautiful. seriously it's perfect. this is what like M&S would use in an advert. it's beautiful my love"

"Thank you adam" she smiled giving my cheek a kiss "what have you made?"

"well... due to planning boards and budgets, and overall handy work we had to downsize. from a mansion with pool, dog, and butter to.... gingerbread... first apartment. his bed is in his living room. and the shower is so close to the toilet you could realistically pee while in the shower." I explained "But still little ginger dog. he may not have all his legs but he is still a ginger dog"

"It's adorable adam" she giggled giving me a cuddle

"Mine looks really shit compared to yours doesn't it?"

"No, it's just as perfect. let's be honest adam if this apartment was in central London it would be six figures a month"

"True, at least we can eat mine. and keep yours beautiful"

"Sounds like a good plan" she smiled taking my wall and heading to the sofa so I took a wall to and went to join her.

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trials-era-sam · 2 years

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Tagged by @julycrimes!!! Thank you Vas ily <333

Answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you want to get to know better. (Oh boy 20 is a lot lol we'll see)

Name: Ana

Sign: Sagittarius

Height: 159 cm or 5'2

Birthday: Nov 30

Time: 9am, started working earlier than usual so decided to take a break with this :)

Favorite band/artists: Green Day!!! I guess I should say Ed Sheeran lately lol. It varies a lot - I've been listening to a lot of scores for instance (Only Murders in the Building and Horizon Zero Dawn soundtracks my beloved <3)

Last movie: still Lightyear lmao I watch way more tv shows than movies can you tell

Last show: finished s1 of Severance, need to finish s2 of Only Murders in the Building - highly recommend both for very different viewing experiences

What I post: not much at the moment lmao sometimes gifsets or shitposts, very occasionally fic or art

Last thing I googled: it's all work-related and I'm not disclosing that, but before that it was a countdown calculator (I got this very cute calendar that counts down to your next trip so I wanted to set it to Oct 17 - Vancouver baby!! :D)

Other blogs: oh boy I created two more recently so it's getting to be a lot lol @my-probably-boy for OMitB, @broughttoyoubymontanarecreations for the Horizon game franchise, @shuffle-hop-step for other stuff I love (mainly cats and Disney and tap dancing) and beloved @frozennatural that pops up from time to time :)

Do I get asks: not as many as when I had anon asks enabled - I do miss the fun ones but I don't miss the random weird criticism lol (seriously anons, stop going on blogs you don't like and then tell them what you don't like about them under the cover of anonymity challenge)

Following: 135

Average hours of sleep: like 7

Instruments: none except for my tap shoes. Wanna learn piano and guitar tho

What I’m wearing: Green Day t-shirt and loose very comfy pants

Dream job: tap dancing teacher. Subtitler. Baker. Not candlestick maker

Dream trip: Japan with someone who knows the language and an unlimited budget

Nationality: French

Favorite songs: I honestly don't know

Last book I read: Le syndrome de l'accent étranger by Malia Sheik Fareed. V fun

3 fiction universes I’d live in: JKR can get fucked but I've been watching some Harry Potter TTRPG and damn. Going to Hogwarts sounds fun again. Also His Dark Materials bc I want a dæmon and also Horizon Zero Dawn after the Derangement's over bc it's very pretty and I want Carja outfits (also so many characters in this game can get it)

No-pressure tagging @jellybracelet @seanwinchester @stanfordsweater @jaytwo @beloved-turtle-lord-kaira @the-slythering-raven @brother-in-a-g-string @sparrownatural @the-gray-ghosty and anyone else who wants to do it <333

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scotianostra · 1 year

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Steve Hislop the Scottish motorcycle racer was born on 11th January 1962.

Hizzy, as he was affectionately known once said “If I’d never thrown my leg over a bike, I’d never have lived.”

Hizzy thankfully recovered and began his Isle of Man road racing career in 1983 by finishing second in the newcomers’ race at the Manx Grand Prix.

The 1992 Senior TT was described as an absolute classic. It is often described as one of the best races in TT history.

Having lost his brother and many friends in motorcycle accidents, he made a point of never going to the funerals of fellow racers, saying:

Steve Hislop died in a helicopter accident in July 2003, near Teviothead, Roxburghshire and was interred in the village of Chesters near his birthplace of Hawick, Scotland. He had two children.

There is a bronze statue in memory of Hizzy in the grounds of Hawick Museum. at Wilton park and another at Onchan Head, Isle of Man, zas seen in order in the pics. The last pic is a cairn near Teviothead, the scene of the helicopter crash, it reads……

‘Hizzy’ This cairn was built by a few friends of Steve Hislop, British Superbike Champion, who was tragically killed in a helicopter accident near this site, on July 30th 2003.

Kind permission was granted by His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch.

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