#nyc: manny

[bread--quest]

[ID: Three digital drawings of the characters Padmini, Manny, and Veneza, from N. K. Jemisin's Great Cities series. All three are very simple, lineless drawings of the head of the character. Padmini is a woman with brown skin and long, darker brown hair, and she is smiling slightly while looking off to one side. She is drawn against a blue background. Manny is a man with light brown skin and short, curly light brown hair, who is looking away with a neutral, unamused expression. He is drawn against a dark green background. Veneza is a girl with dark brown skin and curly dark brown hair in two buns, and she is grinning confidently at the camera. She is drawn against an orange background. All three have skylines drawn around the top of their heads in glowing white lines; the Queens skyline for Padmini, the Manhattan skyline for Manny, and the Jersey City skyline for Veneza. End ID.]

tcwb fans today i bring you: skyline halos. tomorrow? who knows....

#i had to redraw this like 3 times bc they kept coming out horribly crunched :( #sondart #wow look something original!! #great cities #the city we became #fan: restless city #nyc: manny #nyc: padmini #nyc: veneza #sorry i didnt do the others yet ghdhshsn these 3 are my special favorites so i did them first #might do the others later. perhpas. #not sure what neek's would look like... #also shout out to the silhouettes of the queens/manhattan/jc skylines i referenced. no idea why they existed but im glad they did

[centersy]

Manny: Neek is playing hard to get…

Manny: But it’s okay. Good thing I’m really hard to get rid of.

Neek (later in confessional): I’m only playing hard to get because pretty boy likes a challenge. He thinks he’s seducing me, but I’m seducing him.

#manny x neek #nyc avatars #the city we became #the world we make #great cities #n.k. jemisin #nk jemisin #booklr

[warhead]

#deitch #deitch projects #barry mcgee #twist #margaret kilgallen #buz blurr #clare rojas #rigo 01 #manny miranda #alicia mccarthy #cheryl dunn #bill daniel #nick ackerman #chris johanson #eungie joo #nyc #2001

[8iunie]

via Victoria’s Instagram story, 08.10.2022

#måneskin #maneskin #ethan torchio #victoria de angelis #thomas raggi #my comfort duo 🧍🏻‍♂️🖤🕺🏼 #edgar & vincenzo #mirror selfies #america: los angeles #ig story #my posts 💫 #video #mr. torchio + bun #måneskin with cigarettes or smoking 🚬 #aurora rossa manni #sleeping beauty 💤 #selfies #måneskin in a silly goofy mood 🤪 #må smiling 😁 #america: nyc #auguri edgar 💘

[worldburnrp]

would manny montana work for one of the cartel underboss roles?

Hi there — absolutely! We adore Manny, and think he would be the most perfect fit for it. <3

#oc rp #crime rp #appless rp #mature rp #city rp #nyc rp #manny montana

[wbpromoblog]

WANTED.

“Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐍𝐘𝐂. WorldBurn is an original character crime & roleplay group set in New York, exploring the corrupt underworld of the city. — Click the source link or on this blog’s icon to be redirected to our page!

ACCEPTING ON A ROLLING BASIS!

#manny montana #active rp #oc rp #crime rp #appless rp #semi appless rp #lsrp #lsrpg #mature rp #mumu rp #original rp #gang rp #mafia rp #city rp #dark rp #nyc rp

[freshthoughts2020]

#spotify #spotify for artists #poppin 22 #big shit poppin #big things poppin #t.i. #t.i.p. #mannie fresh #atl #atlanta #brooklyn #henrico #new york #nyc #new york city

[roseband]

literally.... one of my friends was like "oh you got your band geek experience w/ the rose you must be so happy"

but i literally think it was a monkey's paw event

cause the second i stepped onto that plane, the music store my mom bought my first guitar (which was MY first instrument instead of using her keyboard) my first full scale guitar, my first clarinet, my first bass, and the tenor sax i played at carnegie as a kid announced it's closure

and also the music store where i bought my flute that i've gigged on, and my bass clarinet i played at carnegie as an adult did too????

literally monkey's paw

#personal #the store where i got my GOOD clarinet...... closed in 2012...and merged into his kids store #and his kid's a fucking scammer lmao like rod baltimore was king.... jon baltimore's a douche #(most of 47th closed when the big sam ash moved to 34th... and now the big sam ash is closing too and i can literally cry #i literally traumadumped on the cashier giving me my bulk bass clarinet reeds tues when i bought everything forest hills had) #im not a guitar girlie...... but a winds girlie and i KNOW ppl were big mad about manny's guitars closing back then #and also rudy's moving cuz rudy's is teeny weeny downtown now #how can you have NYC??? with like... limited music stores it does not compute i miss COLONY records too ;~;

[tootern2345]

Some Van Beuren cartoons that credit the animators

1. Stone Age Stunts

2. The King Of Bugs

Two of them (George “Vernon” Stallings and John “J.J.” McManus) later worked for Disney and all of them later got director credits at VB as well

#van beuren #1930 #1930’s animation #animation #cartoons #vintage animation #classic cartoons #eddie donnelly #george stallings #vernon stallings #george rufle #john mcmanus #john foster #mannie davis #harry bailey #gene rodemich #jack ward #NYC #east coast animation

[our-happygirl500-fan]

So I’ve been digging around the Turtlepedia wiki, going through old tweets from the team who worked on Rise & watched videos covering the scrapped Rise episodes so this is basically a post going through some of the scrapped season 2 stuff for Rise that I have found:

Rise was first written under the basis of there being three seasons

JJ Conway’s twitter posted an episode guide which showed some of the episodes that were expected to be in season two:

As you can see ‘The Clothes Don’t Make the Turtle’ was one of the last episode that was released that fit the original plan for Season 2 before most of the episodes got scrapped or changed & the Rise team had to rush to finish the series.

Some of the episodes we know the synopsis of while others still remain a mystery the scrapped episodes were listed in order as:

Wedding Smashers:

This episode involves Mikey & Raph going undercover as pretend villains ‘Shady Bug & Dr Rude’ to sneak into Ghost Bear’s Wedding after they accidentally gifted Ghost Bear one of Donnie inventions (a black hole generating toaster) as a wedding gift that they then need to retrieve.

The episode was supposed to introduce the character Ghostpepper, Ghostbear’s fiancé 

The episode also brings up some continuity in having the characters be aware that Meatsweats has been missing since the episode Pizza Puffs where he got kidnapped by ‘Shadow fiend’ at the end, I wish this episode hadn’t gotten scrapped because it shows that the Turtles are aware that their enemies are going missing when Big Mama starts kidnapping them for her Battle Nexus New York.

This episode most likely would have shown Ghostbear be kidnapped at the end like how Meatsweats was kidnapped at the end of Pizza Puffs & Hypno was kidnapped at the end of The Clothes Don’t Make the Turtle.   

Warren Stone 2: 

Donnie: Stand back total stranger we are fighting our greatest foe

April kept the arm that she cut off Warren in ‘Warren & Hypno Sitting in a Tree’ & the arm ended up growing into a second Warren Stone, despite April raising this second worm in secret Warren Stone Two ends up becoming the ‘turtles greatest foe’ after Warren Stone Two captures the Turtles, April & the original Warren Stone team up to save the Turtles & defeat Warren Stone 2

Parts of the episodes storyboards can be found on youtube, a running gag appears to be Mikey referring to Warren as ‘that other worm guy whose not Warren two’  

T-Hex

The episode T-Hex covers Mikey desperately wanting a robotic toy but Splinter saying no & Mikey having to sneak the electronic pet into the lair. Though the robot is adorable Mikey learns that it’s not as innocent as it seems & is actually a trap set by Baxter, the episode would have introduced Baxter in an Albearto mech

Psyched Out

Shred Dead Redemption

After the events of Manny Unhappy Returns the Foot Shack has shut down, Foot Lieutenant & Foot Brute open up a cupcake shop selling flaming cupcakes called  Fire and Icing which Raph wants to investigate 

The episode would have involved the Turtles doing a stakeout, a chase scene & the Foot clan putting themselves at odds with Big Mama as they investigate if her new champion ‘Shadow fiend’ has a connection to the missing Shredder.

The Island of Dr. Noe

Dr. Noe, the evil dentist from Todd Scouts ends up kidnapping Raph & Leo ends up having to lead the team in order to rescue Raph & stop the evil dentist.

Something interesting about this episode is when the Rise team were discussing this scrapped episode it was revealed that Leo wasn’t supposed to become the Leader at the end of Season 2, that’s right the iconic ‘Blue You Are The Leader Now’ wasn’t originally supposed to happen, instead Leo was supposed to be pushed into roles where he had to take charge throughout season 2 & the season would end with Raph & Leo as co-leaders.

Battle Nexus NYC (a full 20 minute episode) which was used in the series as Battle Nexus New York, the main difference between the original plan & the episode we got is that originally instead of Cassandra taking the Shredder from Big Mamma, the Grand Nexus Hotel was supposed to have fallen into the Hidden City with both Big Mamma & Shredder leaving The Foot to have to venture into the hidden city to try & retrieve the Shredder.

Toddler Mutant Ninja Turtles

A Mikey focused episode where a ‘bank robbing immortal jellyfish’ zaps Raph, Leo & Donnie, turning them into Turtle Tots & making Mikey the oldest brother for the episode. The episode is said to be inspired by the 1987 series episode ‘Adventures in Turtle Sitting’

Dog Dale Afternoon

April’s friend Dale who we first see in ‘Hypno! Part Deux’ gets turned into a werewolf by a witch & Donnie & April team up to try & turn him back to normal

Bee Story

Goyles Just Want To Have Fun

Huginn & Muninn reunite with Draxum, only to be confused when they find him working as a lunch server. Not wanting Huggin & Muninn to know how soft he’s gotten since his redemption Draxum begs the Turtles to help him look good in front of his former minions.

Rampagin’ Raph

Mikey & Leo have become more skilled in using their mystic powers making Raph feel left behind so Raph tries to practice in secret only to end up stuck in his giant form, Raph goes to to Draxum for help who ends up separating Raph & his mystic projection however the mystic projection ends up rampaging through the city becoming bigger & more powerful with the more things it destroys leaving Raph to have come clean to his brothers about what happened so they can save city. 

Hot Thrash  

Gourd Almighty 

Donnie grows a giant pumpkin for competition & has to have his brothers help him find a way to get the giant pumpkin out of the lair

Two pages of the episodes script were posted on Ron Corcillo’s twitter

A Spiders Web Widens 

Hidden City Heroes 

Gone Goat 

Draxum walks out after having a fight with the family but then gets kidnapped by the Foot. While attempting to rescue Draxum, the family has no choice but to resolve their issues relating to him.

The Key (a full 20 minute episode)

Karai was supposed to be introduced in this episode, she was supposed to have a larger role training the Turtles & with the family spanning around 10 episodes but due to the Rise team rushing to finish the series most of Karai’s episodes were scrapped.

The rest of the episode titles were not finalised however Ron Carney’s twitter posted a schedule board where possible episode titles can be seen.

Though Ron Carney also admitted that some of these titles are fake, the episode April Showers Mayhem Flowers might be real as the team admitted to wanting to do an episode about Mayhem & their status as an agent of the Council of Heads 

The Return of Monty Moose is also probably real as we can see Monty Moose appear in the Rise Movie’s scrapped intro so the team probably had plans for the character in season 2

Monty Moose is a toy line only character from the 1987 series so Rise introducing him as an actual character is kind of cool

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #tmnt

[bread--quest]

neek and manny's dynamic is still so hysterical to me. neek is very reasonably like "he's hot but there is something wrong with him" meanwhile manny is like "i would absolutely die for/kill for/be killed by this guy. anyway google 'am i gay quiz'"

#wow look something original!! #fan: restless city #the city we became #great cities #nyc: neek #nyc: manny #i need to reread the world we make sooo bad

[centersy]

need to write the avatars of New York City in a sense8 type orgy actually—

#manny and neek finally fuck and it just has a ripple effect through all the boroughs #walk with me #the city we became #the world we make #nk jemisin #n.k. jemisin #nyc avatars

[nkjemisin]

Hello, hope you're doing well. Love your work a lot :)

If you don't mind, I'd like to ask an open-ended question about the Great Cities Trilogy becoming the Great Cities Duology.

It's fantastic either way! I'm just curious about how things would be different, in different circumstances.

I appreciate your time. Wish you all the best ❤️

Spoilers for the Great Cities!

Thank you!

It's important to understand that when I start a new trilogy, I really only plan out the beginning and the end in detail. The rest is just general points I mean to hit in each book. So I can tell you some ideas I thought about putting into the books at the time, but I can't tell you exactly what I would've actually written if my initial plans hadn't gotten derailed -- I'm not that much of a planner, and I tend to change course midstream anytime I get a better idea for something. But here's what I wrote into the first outline.

Book 1: What you read

Book 2: Tentative title: "The City Hard Fought." America vs. New York. I'd been planning to have a demagogue president -- obvs inspired by Trump; I started working on developing this as a book in 2017 -- attack New York City to further his political ambitions. This would've taken the form of the president eventually threatening to bomb the city/all blue cities. At the time I came up with it, the idea seemed completely far-fetched and silly... Aaaaaaand then Trump started attacking New York City to further his political ambitions. I realized I really didn't want to speak some ideas into existence, and also that I couldn't make something like that funny when it was really happening and ruining people's lives. So I changed things up. The mayoral race would always have happened, but I originally intended to put the start of it in the background of the second book and have it culminate in Book 3. R'lyeh would've spent a chunk of this book being punished for her failures in Book 1, effectively taking the metaphysical stuff off the plot table for a while so human nonsense could move to the forefront. Aislyn and São Paulo would've ended up trapped in the Ur with her (hadn't fully worked out how), and that plot would've turned on Aislyn convincing R'lyeh to do a jailbreak. The end of the book would've been Manny's family calling him home.

Book 3: Tentative title: "The Last City" or "The City Unbowed." New York vs. everybody else. With the demagogue president dead (I was planning for him to get eaten by the Ur, painfully and slowly), things would've gotten metaphysical again, with multiple cities coming to life and causing chaos, effectively led by the newly-awakened Chicago. I'd intended the core of this book to be an escalating "cold war" between NYC and Chicago, with their star-crossed romance and Brooklyn's first 100 days as magical mayor (dealing with an ambitious senator attempting to use NYC to establish himself as the next big demagogue) echoing the politics of the living cities. Among other things, it would've turned out that the Ur was manipulating things to cause war between the living cities, via a traitor in Manny's family, in order to weaken the cities and cause the "falling to the bottom of the Tree" problem that you saw in TWWM. I always planned to end with the climactic "all the living cities march to war as ghostly giant robots" scene that happened in TWWM, but I'd planned for R'lyeh to fight alongside them, and they would've been fighting a manifestation of the Ur itself. Probably a Cthulhu-like monster -- but monsters aren't very interesting to me, so as with TWWM the real threat is the Ur's authoritarianism.

So, different but not that different. Not sure I would've been able to fit in everything I'd originally planned; when I first come up with a new series I tend to be big on ideas, but not all of them work when I start writing. As you can see, I retained most of the major plot elements I'd originally planned. I think the biggest loss was the character-specific subplots I had planned. Like, Veneza would've had a blowout with her racist father; Chennai's ancient avatar was going to try and seduce Padmini back home to take over from her (same subplot involving the risk to Padmini's visa status); Brooklyn would've been a badass mayor; Manny and Neek would've gone on some awkward dates and probably had at least one awkward morning after. I would've spent more time on R'lyeh as she basically starts to decolonize herself. We would've gotten a lot more of Evil Manny, and Neek would've had to talk him down/win him back at some point. Also, tentatively I'd originally planned that Neek's revealed name would be "Nueva." Glad I changed my mind about that one.

Sad that it won't happen, but there's always fanfic! (Don't show it to me tho. h/t @seananmcguire )

#answered asks #the great cities

[sentientcitysmackdown]

ROUND 1, MATCHUP 3

[ID: The cover of The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin next to an image of Mechanicsburg from the webcomic Girl Genius, with the letters "VS." between them. End ID.]

An exciting round to be sure! Mechanicsburg is technically a city controlled by a sentient castle, but I decided it counts. It's also controlled by a homicidal AI and filled with mad scientists, but its citizens love it anyway. The City We Became takes place in a world where cities are a thing that can become alive and choose human avatars to personify them, and New York City does just that! It's personified in one person (Neek) and then 5--no, sorry, 6 more people for its 5 boroughs (Brooklyn, Bronca, Manny, Padmini, Aislyn, and Veneza), and it continues to be the glorious, horrible, all-too-much all-the-time mess of a city it always has been. The person who submitted Mechanicsburg described it as "a weird and chaotic symbiosis that has so much collateral damage, but somehow it all works", which is also a pretty spot-on description of NYC as seen in The City We Became! However, only one of these two weird and chaotic symbiotic cities can continue on...who will it be?

#new york city #the city we became #mechanicsburg #girl genius #the world we make #im a little biased on this one. not gonna lie #girl genius does look really good though i might try and get into it #sentient city smackdown #round 1 #READ GREAT CITIES YALL #if you are following this poll i GUARANTEE its your thing

[itsmarjudgeloveclassicrock59]

Jimi started using 1956 Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar around April 1968. The earliest photos date to April 5th, 1968, which could possibly mean that this is something Jimi acquired at Manny’s Music shop, which is just a 30-minute drive from the Symphony Hall. At that time, the guitar seemed the have been used exclusively on the song Red House, and it seemed to have some sort of a white sticker on the top of the body.

The Les Paul was however most famously used at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East venue in New York on May 10, 1968, and at the Miami Pop Festival on May 18th. Aside from these two, Hendrix apparently hasn’t really played the guitar that much, since it was spotted during only a handful of gigs around this period.

-GroundGuitar

Photo Elliott Landy - Jimi Hendrix Fillmore East, NYC, 1968

#jimi hendrix #classic rock #guitar legend

[wbpromoblog]

WANTED.

“Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐍𝐘𝐂. WorldBurn is an original character crime & roleplay group set in New York, exploring the corrupt underworld of the city. — Click the source link or on this blog’s icon to be redirected to our page!

ACCEPTING ON A ROLLING BASIS!

#manny montana #crime rp #nyc rp #appless rp #city rp #mature rp #original rp #lsrpg #oc rp