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Valtteri Bottas was part of a Finnish tv show called "Yökylässä" (sleepover) where the host goes to visit Finnish celebrities and spends two days and one night in their home. This episode aired on February 2nd, 2023 and was filmed at some point in 2022.
Below I give context to the screenshots and have also translated some interesting bits:
1st row: Just some cute random VB photos to start with
2nd row: He really loves gin, first two photos are from his main apartment and right photo is from his weekend house. It simply was too many bottles to fit into one shot (no pun)
3rd row: And here we have him making gin tonic using his own gin brand. The obligatory helmet wall (there was another one as well). He's had this Ferrari for a few months, says blue is his favorite color. He'd have wanted to drive the host around with it but the battery had run out so they went with his red Alfa Romeo SUV
4th row: That's his weekend house near the main apartment but outside the city center. An artist in Monaco offered to make art work (something funny) for him and this is what they received. The framed a$$ photo is in the guest bathroom of the weekend house. They sold 5400 pcs of prints of it in 24h and got 50k€ for charity
5th row: They face timed Mika. He (grinningly) says the only advise he can give to Valtteri is "to break later". Just some absolute mint slippers he was wearing when they brushed teeth. That's his boat which is called "Rehab" but "it's almost the opposite (when you go there)". They rent it for others too, a full day is ~5k€
Other stuff i decided to highlight:
There's 3 or 4 feral cats around the weekend house that they'll give food to
The most important trophies are in Finland, the one from his first win is the most special
"It's hard to find apartments that you like to stay in (in Monaco), the prices are crazy expensive and quality is quite bad and they're old"
He pays 9500 € rent per month for his apartment
He wouldn't say how much the weekend house cost
The main reason for moving to Monaco was the taxes. He's calculated that in Finland his net income would be ~20 % of all of his gross income. In Monaco it's 60-70% after his expenses (like managers etc.) At the beginning of his career when things were unsure he thought it's important to try to make as much money as possible, after all the hard work he had put into becoming an F1 driver
He doesn't enojy fame and would rather be unknown but he understands it's part of being in F1 and he'd do anything to be able to live his childhood dream
He drove a kart for the first time as 5yo, jumped out of it and told everyone he'll become an F1 driver
Mika Häkkinen was his idol as a kid. It was a wow moment when he got a call from an unkonwn number in 2007 and it was Mika who wanted to help him in his career
He handles his finances/contracts by himself because it's hard to give someone else control over those things. Also mentions he doesn't like to be a passenger in a car because he's not in control of it
He only goes to social media to post things he wants to share, he doesn't read any comments or dm's
Tiffany does read some comments and said there's now less hateful comments towards Valtteri compared to how much there was when he drove for Merc
He hasn't really been single, after his break ups he's fallen in love quickly again. "It's nice to have a life partner"
Weight mentions ahaed! He talks a bit about the same stuff he mentioned in his podcast last year; he trained himself sick (around 2014). He was having really unhealthy training and eating habits and hid things from his trainer. He thought at the time that was what he should do. "If your team tells you to weight a certain amount, you'll do it". He then talked to a psychologist who said at first he was behaving like a robot without emotions but after that he started to work on getting healthier habits back
Host: "Do you talk about mental health related issues with your colleagues?" - "Not really, it still isn't a common subject to talk about. Even though maybe we should, I'm not the only guy who sometimes struggles".
Host: "How was it when you were the second driver for years?" - "Quite tough. It was so hard to accept but now I've made peace with it that Lewis was a better driver than me. After last year (2021) I admitted to myself that that's just how it goes sometimes." "Did you use to be bitter and jealous?" - "Yes, especially the first couple of years. I didn't hate him, we had a good partnership but I always thought how can I beat him and be better than him and win the championship. But it was tough 5 years. I shouldn't have been as harsh to myself."
He pays the private jet company he uses extra amount of money, enough to compensate the environmental impact. They went to his boat and he said he will compensate the costs too
He mentions that sometimes in the places they travel to it's better to keep quiet and lay low than to speak up about the issues within the country. He does say that in Saudi (2022, after the missile) the drivers decided to not drive but they were guaranteed it's safe to do so and that there's heavy security around the track. "Show must go on" and they weren't really given an option other than to drive. Formula 1 goes to places that pay the most.
Host: "The only thing missing from your life is F1 championship, is that so?" - "Yes."
#valtteri bottas#alfa romeo#ok first of all deal with the black borders#i was too lazy to crop them after watching this thing twice (it was 1h long)#and translating#anyways!! he really does seem like such a genuine down to earth dude#there were more shots of his apartments but idk i feel uncomfy posting them even tho the cameras were literally there#hopefully this is enough to show the vibes#as i felt it's my finnish duty to post about since i didn't see anyone else talking about this 🙈#hope the vb fans will see this#f1#alcohol tw
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Alfred finds and adopts three homeless teens while the whole of the Batclan is away, the three teens are of course The Fentons. Alfred on the other hand had been dealing with a bit of Empty Nest Syndrome and takes the trio in, so by the time the rest of the Batclan filters back there are three extra people in the Manor but the Fentons deliberately ghost the rest of the residents.
I love this for four reasons:
The potential for Alfred, who wishes Bruce would stop adopting small violent children, realizing that HE is the same.
You can't tell me Alfred, Danny, Dani, and Jazz won't be BFFs. Jazz is the only (mostly) sane person in this house besides him. Dani absolutely WILL spy and report on injuries in exchange for more of that casserole. Danny and Alfred have similar sarcastic wit.
"If we had a nickel for every billionaire with a secret identity we know, we would each have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but weird it happened twice."
The SHENANIGANS!!!!!
Shenanigans include:
At first, Alfred doesn't tell the Batfam because they're a family of detectives. Surely they'll notice. Over time, it becomes a contest of who can make them suspect the most without being found.
Alfred either playing it off or staring with a raised eyebrow when one of the Batfam asks why/if he's talking to himself.
Jazz can only be turned invisible in the nick of time so many times before somebody finds out about her. "It says here, Ms. Fenton, that you have a brother?" "Yes, Danny. He died. But don't worry, he got better!"
When Tim is forbidden caffeine for a week, Danny drinks his coffee super fast or Dani replaces it with chamomile tea with black food coloring.
Dani: "You know Dick, you really shouldn't do that."
Dick, after a moment of panic, realizing there's nothing in the room with him. "....God?"
Dani, realizing how much chaos she can cause: "yeah, that's me! God."
Danny and Dani take turns being human just to walk past open doors. They all look enough alike to Tim, Dick, Damien, and a young Jason in uncertain light that the rest of the fam has to do double takes.
When someone calls Constantine over as a favor, he takes 2 steps into the manner, says no, and RUNS.
"So I've heard the voice of God, and it sounds like a 14-year-old girl."
"....how hard did Bane hit you again?"
"God says Jason is the one who stole your book."
"...right ok."
Bruce decides he's gonna go be Batman while wounded. He snuck out, so Al calls his Secret Ghost Squad.
Batman is repeatedly interrupted (*cough* saved) by 2 OP glowing metas. Constantine will no longer cross Gotham's borders.
Danny: "You need more ectoplasm. You're a growing half-ghost."
Jason: *shoots the wall* "WHAT THE FUCK WHO WAS THAT?!"
Danny: would you believe it was God?
Jason: NO
Jason figures it out first because he's being parented by a dead guy. He actually doesn't mind that much because he gets to visit the GZ
Cass figures out second because she's observant.
Dick figures it out third by spraying 'God' with paint. He then realizes he attacked an invisible creature that can go through walls with no idea how to fight it.
Tim figures it out by deliberately putting salt in his coffee to see what would happen.
Damien finds Cujo. He is Upset that Cujo already has an owner. Danny tells Damien in exchange for Damien to stop yelling insults at him. (Dani calls him Weak for this, and tells Damien 15 minutes later because he thought she was calling HIM weak and had Opinions)
"Oh shit."
Steph bribes the 'house spirits' for prank help, and then tricks them. They tell her out of Respect.
Duke starts talking to himself about star output on his homework, gets stuck, and SpaceBoi helps. Duke's 10 minutes into stars actually being interesting for once before he realizes he's talking to a ghost.
Bruce has been introduced to them by Jazz. Alfred made her after the 4th sleepless night due to researching the surprise metas.
Dani: its cool dude, but now I have to go prank Tim. Bye!
Vlad shows up for a private meeting with Bruce Wayne. The ghosties reveal themselves in order to kick his ass.
Alfred is the only person who can get away with calling Danny 'Daniel' and Dani 'Danielle'. Anyone else has Serious Regrets.
The Joker breaks Alfred's leg in a bombing. He's never seen again. Danny, Dani, and Jazz are a little TOO innocent
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half life scientist oc concept...:3
joan was stationed on the border world during the resonance cascade, and after communication from black mesa was lost she managed to synthesize a portal back to earth herself. on xen she mostly studied the biological lifeforms, like the houndeyes and bullsquids, along with researching vortigese.
shes super reluctant to do any sort of harm to xenian lifeforms when back on earth, instead preferring to Run Like Hell or hide, using her prerequisite skills from her studies on xen to survive. having her cool special purple hev suit helps too.
her houndeye friend (it doesnt have a name yet) was the first thing she encountered after getting back to earth. she learned how to properly deal with houndeyes during her research, and since ol' houndie got teleported all on its lonesome, it bonded to joan. theyre basically best friends now and she has to keep it on a leash so that it doesnt attack every friendly scientist or security guard they may come across. houndeye named cupcake when it sees an unsupervised 60 year old scientist
also, shes hard of hearing and employs use of a hearing aid (i dont know if you can tell from the simplified version i drew) which renders her more resistant to the houndeye's sonic attacks than the average person.
i havent gotten around to drawing it yet, but i think she survives to the events of half life 2. maybe she has a xenian animal sanctuary out there somewhere, and can introduce houndeyes and bullsquids as allies to the player (similar to the antlions)
ok thats it thanks for listening
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𝘼 𝙎𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙮
Hobie Brown x Black!Reader
Synopsis | Hobie Brown has listened to you play three times, each time, he falls harder in love
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a/n: I'm simply obsessed with hobie Brown, like he's so fine. But anyways, here y'all go. I also tried new borders and adding synopsis and stuff and honestly I like it, don't know why I didn't do it sooner.
The first time he heard you play was an accident.
Like usual, he had come by your place after dealing with his spiderman duties, or ‘problems the British government are too weak to fix’ as he would say to you time and time again. You had been practicing for an upcoming recital and you had been struggling with the end of it, always gliding your bow too rough or vice-versa. You were so immersed into what you were doing that he couldn’t interrupt, so instead, he sat on the edge of your bed, waiting for you to finish.
“Ok, I basically got it do-” you jump, screaming in fear as you turn around to see hobie with a smile on his face, chin in hand. “What the hell hobes’, why’re you just sittin’ there like a creep?!” and he smiles even more, getting up to hold you. “Why’ve you never told me you could play like that?” he asks, pressing a kiss to your lips.
“I have, you’ve just never heard me play before.” You smile, putting your violin back in its case. “You're lying straight through your teeth, you know that?” He jokes, walking around your room as if examining it.
He was half right. You didn’t tell him that you played the violin, but what you did tell him is that you played an instrument, so he can't be mad at that. Besides, if he wanted to hear you play, he could've asked at any time of day and you would've done it.
“Okay okay, you're right. But now you know, so you gonna stand there sulkin’ like a baby or are you gonna come over here and lay with me?” You ask, patting the empty side of your bed. “You know how to change the topic of conversation a little to well for my likin’, you know that?” He says, laying next to you, pulling you onto his chest.
“Yes, now stop bein a little baby so we can watch that show you were buggin’ me about.”
The second time he heard you play, you were on stage.
You had bought him a ticket to the concert hall where you would be performing. He could tell that you were excited to play, which is why he made sure to tell Miguel that he wouldn't be available today.
He walks in, confused as to where to go. So he goes to the closest person he thinks works there; a receptionist behind the desk. “Where do I go to find… auditorium seven?” With a pointed finger to the left, he says thank you and walks off, ticket in hand.
He goes up to row fourteen, picking out his seat from dozens. Sitting down with a deep sigh, he plays with the ribbed scrunchie you had given him months ago. He waits in silence for the recital to start, fatigue almost taking him.
His attention is caught once the lights dim down from everywhere besides the middle of the stage. The pianists go first, and he enjoys it, but it doesn’t really catch his attention. His knee shakes out of suspense as the stage closes for what could've been the twentieth time. The violinists go next, and he gets excited, sitting up straighter in his chair. You told him that you would be the fifth to last one to play, but you didn’t tell him how many people would be playing. So here he was, waiting to see when you would come out from the side of the stage in all your beauty.
The seventh person goes, and now he’s just straight bored. Now don’t get him wrong, he fucked with classical music, he thought it was cool, but he wasn’t all that interested it if it wasn’t you. So when you came out, he was all the more happier.
The audiences’ volume lowered once again, and you put your bow unto the strings. He leaned forward, as if to get closer to you; then you started playing. He didn’t know if it was the fact that he was in love with you, or if he knew that you being on stage meant that this entire was close to being over, but it was as if you and him were the only ones who existed. He could see the passion you had inside of you from the way you played, and it brought a smile onto his features. You had a certain expression on your face that he could only read as a love only you could understand.
When it was all over, you found him through the thick crowd and ran into his arms, hugging him tightly. “Did you see me hobes’?” You ask, taking his hand in yours. “No, I fell asleep. Sorry love.” He deadpans, struggling to hold back a grin as he watches your face drop. “Your fuckin joking babe. Don't do that to me!” You whine, playfully punching him in the arm as he almost doubles over in laughter. “I'm so sorry love, I had to do it.” He sighs, wiping a tear from his eye “Don't get slapped.” You whisper as the two of you walk out onto the crowded street. “What was that?” He teases, bending down to hear you better. “I'm gonna hit you in a second.” You say, pushing his head from yours.
The third time he hears you play, he knows he’s gonna spend the rest of his life with you.
He was making dinner, a simple dish of spaghetti and garlic bread, while you were on the couch watching something that you’ve surely already watched a million times before. He was checking to see if the bread was ready when all of a sudden you gasp loudly, causing him to almost burn himself against the top of the oven. “Shit- what the yell y/n, you good?”
You don’t answer, instead running to your now shared room to get your violin. Curious to see what you're doing, he follows after you. “What idea has your frightening brain come up with that you screamed like a dying banshee?” He asks, leaning against the doorframe. “Hobes, you're about to see me flex on something that I’ve been able to do since I was fourteen.” You smile, running back to the living room. “ This should be interesting.”
You unpause the movie, placing the violin under your chin as you get ready to play. The scene unfolding before Hobie Brown is… a spectacle to say the least. You’re currently playing the violin version of the scene from the end of Sister Act 2. The fact that you took the time to learn this more than five years ago is wild to him. But it’s what makes him fall in love with you all the more. You finish, turning to him with a smile that could rival the sun. “Why did you take time out of your life to learn that specific part of the movie, and why did you do it so well?” He asks, confusion written all over his face. “I used to hyperfixate on things for like months a time, and this was one of them.” You say, big smile still painted on your face
“Was the hyperfixation the movie itself, or was it learning songs from movies on the violin?” “It was both, but you can’t lie; both Sister Act movies were nothing but fire.” You say, walking up to him, violin long discarded.
“Sure love, whatever you say.” He takes your hips in his grasp, gently pulling you against him. “What, you don’t think so?” You ask, pressing kisses onto his entire face, effectively making him laugh. “Yes, I do think that both Sister Act movies are good, great even.” He chuckles, pressing one kiss on the side of your forehead. “You know you love me and all of my unusual interests.’ You smirk, walking into the kitchen. “Do I, do I really?”
“Hey! What’s that supposed to mean?”
Yeah, he’s never letting you go, you sound to sweet to him.
-Nene
#nene#x black reader#x reader#atsv hobie#hobie brown atsv#hobie x reader#hobie my beloved#spiderpunk#hobie brown#hobie x y/n#hobie Brown x black reader
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Hello! I adore your writing! May I please have a match up for Hazbin Hotel, Chainsaw man and Sally face if it’s not too much trouble? I'm demisexual 27 year old plus sized woman. I’m 5"7 with fairly wide hips that dip to more narrow center and broad shoulders. My eyes are pale green bordering yellow with short almost shoulder length dark brown hair that is an orange blond from the top of my ears down. I have a septum piercing, two sets of ear piercings and glasses in sort of an aviator style that I forget to wear. I'm a little buff under all this fluff as I am a baker by trade. But I have been dealing with a shoulder injury has kinda left me feeling a bit fragile and frustrated. I've been told I'm fairly pretty but I just kinda don't see myself that by conventional standards. I'm not really self conscious about my body, I am just a large animal and people will just have to deal with that. I prefer to dress comfortably but if I can I enjoy wearing jumpsuits as well as black dresses.
I would describe my personality as caring but very direct. I Tend to prioritize others well being over my own. However, I am working on ensuring I take care of myself just as well. I tend to be reserved around other people but once I get comfortable I tend to ramble on my interests in short bursts, primarily around biology, cryptids, animation and practical effects. Honestly I enjoy being a bit aggressive with my friends- usually intimidation play or picking up people to help make them feel a little small. Admittedly when I feel comfortable around someone I prefer feeling small and protected if I’m not needed for comfort. I have many creative hobbies, primarily sketching, painting, sculpting, and crocheting. One of my favorite things to do is wildlife drawings. Though I find it difficult to hold on to my passions for prolonged periods of time, if someone I'm close to is passionate about something- I'm completely enthralled and try to be as supportive as possible. I love word play, often trying to force puns where they don't fit. I love horror and thriller movies and have a decent tolerance for gore but to be perfectly honest I have a hard time with handling prolonged scenes with people actively suffering.
This sounds a little silly but I imagine if I was a demon in hell I would probably resemble something of a chimera. I do apologize if this is a bit of a long submission! Thank you so much for your time!! 💚
I read sally face and started tweaking….
God i love sally face. AND THANK YOUUUUU.
.. I’ve decided to pair you with… ALASTOR, DENJI & LARRY JOHNSON!
Let’s be real. I think at first you’d remind him of his dear old mimzy. Before she died anyways, and obviously not dependent on him to fight your battles.
Alastor would find your rambling interesting, and he’d honestly probably learn something he hasn’t before? like “wow! Thats new.”
He’d want to learn more about your interests, also because he’s the radio demon, and doesn’t seem to really know much about the modern world- or care for it. But he IS based off a wendigo. So i’d think he’d find it interesting!
He LOVES when you paint, draw, crochet for hum! It reminds him or his own mother, and he’d probably become attached to you.
He’d also enjoy it if you did all of this, while he’s broadcasting too. He’s not able to always be there, but if he is, he’ll want to be with you.
Alastor would LOVE to watch horror movies, but if it makes you uncomfortable, or a scene does, he will pay no mind and skip it. Not like theres anything new he hasn’t seen.
If you were a chimera. He definitely would’ve been surprised at your look! Like- “oh ! Thats new.”
Ok … Denji time..
This man would NEVER JUDGE YOU. He can’t even bag someone.
Honestly i think he’d prefer someone chubbier, he’d LOVE to give hugs.
I think Denji would be a very physical touchy person, esp after what happened with… everyone. It’d help him protect you :)
When he found out about your shoulder injury? He was on your ass all day, every day. You don’t get away!
He loves that you take care of others, but this man is always hurt. He’d rather you be okay than he is!
He would love to listen to you ramble. Denji knows when to shut up, and i think he would enjoy listening!
Okay i know I’ve said this before but denji WILL make you draw pictures of you and him together- or he’ll draw them himself. Like stick figures holding hands!
If you crochet him something? Over the MOON. If its a piece of clothing he’s always wearing it. If its a plushie? He’s sleeping with it at night.
Denji would be indifferent to horror movies. I think he’d prefer comedy. He’s seen enough! :(
NOW LARRY 💛
I feel like i shouldn’t have to explain.
He’d LOVE YOU. You remind him of his friends :)
Your personality allows his to come out! He loves that you care for his friends, and his well being cause we know damn well he doesn’t.
Larry is a Listener instead of a talker. He’d love to listen to you ramble and ask questions while he’s painting! His favorite things at the same time!!
You draw with him, you paint, you crochet? Holy SHIT!!!! HE’D BE IN LOVE. Like! Okay !!! I LOVE YOU!!! 🧡🧡
I think he doesn’t mind any movie you guys watch. As long as it’s a mean of being able to cuddle with you on the couch and watch a movie.
He definitely finds your puns funny.
~~~
I HOPE THIS WAS OKAY!!!
#hazbin hotel x reader#hazbin lilith#hazbin cherri bomb#hazbin nifty#hazbin vaggie#hazbin charlie#hazbin angel dust#hazbin husk#hazbin alastor#hazbin hotel#hazbin vox#hazbin velvette#hazbin vees#hazbin carmilla#hazbin rosie#hazbin adam#hazbin lute#hazbin sera#hazbin emily#chainsaw man#denji#csm denji#csm#sally face#sally fisher#sal fisher#larry johnson#ashley campbell#travis phelps#chainsaw man x reader
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Ok... I swore to myself I wasn't gonna make another negative MAWS post, that I was just gonna leave it at the Twink Slade disappointment post.
But apparently there's this trend that's been happening on Twitter, where people are trying to bring up the 2004 "The Batman" designs to try and defend the designs of the MAWS rogue gallery. And that was the territory I CANNOT let go, as someone who is a fan of Jeff Matsuda and his character designs.
SO FIRST, LET ME CLARIFY: I'm simply making ONE post about ONE factor of MAWS that irritates me. I'm not here to just sit and constantly bash on the show. I wouldn't do that, I have a personal close friend of mine who enjoys the show and I'm happy for her and I want her to enjoy the show. I have SO many gripes and reservations but I recognize those are personal.
I'll be putting this under a Read More and tagging it as Anti-MAWS so MAWS fans don't have to read/deal with this post. Probably just don't read my tags as well.
So if there's one thing that has irked me the most about MAWS, it's the redesigns and rewrites of Supes' rogue galleries. Mostly the redesigns though. MAWS took a bunch of colorful, diverse, and fantastical designs and made them monotonous, bland, and simply not fun at all. And yes, while the in-universe explanation (Being that they're all mechanically enhanced rather than freak accidents or born that way) makes sense, it still makes the villains incredibly un-appealing. EVERYONE is in boring black, white, and gray armor (aside from Parasite and while I think his physical design is neat I have issues with his character rewrite too, I'm just not here to discuss that). Everyone who had incredibly fun or creative designs was horribly washed out. Silver Banshee went from being a literal ghostly wraith to a boring motorcycle-looking chick. Livewire went from a vibrant blue lightning motif (that SHE herself created) to boring merc armor. And yes, I have issues with Slade's armor, the head was promising but the overall design has color-balancing issues.
Now let's look at the redesigns of the rogue gallery for the 2004 "The Batman" show. These are mostly drastically different from their original design counterparts, just like MAWS. But the massive difference is that most of these designs are still colorful (where it applies, obviously not to Penguin), recognizable, and push the borders of imagination; They're so ludicrous and exaggerated in their design and their physical features. Even if I was disappointed in some of the character rewrites (Like Mr. Freeze having only a small cameo to Nora in the flashback, but mainly being another selfish thug), the designs are still great. You can look at The Batman villain designs and easily recognize them because they follow the basic structure of their original designs.
Joker:
Is still in his green, purple, and orange color palette, with his trademark freakish grin. The design takes creative liberties with the spiked hair, the more athletic physique, and the actual clothing style of his outfit, but this is clearly meant to be Joker.
Mr. Freeze:
Is now essentially a cryomancer thanks to his mutation, but this is still obviously Mr. Freeze. Some kind of helmet (in this case encased in his own ice) wearing a thermal freeze suit, and his red eyes invoking the red goggles he wore in his original iteration.
Catwoman:
The design exaggerates a lot of features of the OG outfit, like the ears and the goggles (though the OG design really just has eye spaces), and uses shades of crimson and purple, but you look at the black bodysuit and the whip around her waist and she can clearly be identified.
The main argument I'm making with the 2004 Batman designs is that they're A) recognizable to their original counterparts by invoking the same color scheme and basic design points, B) Colorful and pushing the lunacy of a world full of supervillains, and C) Completely stand out from each other, no two villains look as though they're of similar origins (besides obvious pairs like Joker/Harley Quinn and the two Clayfaces, the latter which was a guy who took concentrated serum made from Ethan Bennett's Clayface DNA). The Batman designs are good because while they ARE drastically different from their original counterparts, they honor the original designs.
Whereas in the MAWS redesigns, none of the redesigns are reminiscent of their original counterparts (besides the obvious Brain and Monsieur Mallah, kind of hard to fuck that up), and lack the fantastical element that The Batman redesigns (And the original Superman show, where it applies) had.
Livewire:
Looks nothing like her original counterpart. The armored clothes, the lack of lightning motif, lack of color to her outfit (I'm not here to talk about the race-swapping), none of it is supposed to tip you off to being Livewire, especially when her character is written so drastically different. You should be able to tell who Livewire is BEFORE you see her powers.
When OG Livewire looks like this:
Silver Banshee:
Is just a regular human in drab clothing. There's some kind of attempt to give her the hint of a ghost motif with the bone legs, but then that disappears in her later costume design. Same later costume that tries to half-ass a skull motif on the helmet but it doesn't work with the helmet's angles.
When this is Silver Banshee's original design (going with a still from Batman Unlimited)
And if they wanted to stray from the whole "supernatural" aspect, they could have compromised like they did in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay:
Which I mean I still don't like that redesign as much as Silver Banshee's OG design, but it's still recognizable and it's still cool.
The bottom line is basically this: You don't have to justify liking this new Superman show and its take on new characters. But to try and say the character designs on MAWS are like the 2004 "The Batman" cartoon redesigns is such an unequal and imbalanced comparison. The thought process for the character designs in these shows are so drastically different from each other, and the execution of said character designs aren't comparable.
#discourse#Anti MAWS#Anti My Adventures with Superman#Listen I'm not saying any other gripes publicly about the show; Again I have an irl friend who watches it#and I'm absolutely not about to drag her down or just rag on the show; so I get it#But if there is one thing that can really make or break something for me it's character design#And the one thing I'll openly criticize MAWS for is how basic their character design process seems to be#The showrunners FROM THEIR OWN MOUTHS said that they purposely made Lois look like Luz from Owl House#So there is NOT a lot of creative thought process going into these redesigns#And to compare that to Jeff Matsuda who is an industry veteran and who's worked on MANY shows with incredibly kick-ass designs#Well that is a stick in my craw that I can't let slide#'BUT AURA DON'T YOU LIKE THE 3D HE-MAN SHOW AND THEIR DESIGNS?!'#Yes I do but A) I'm not out here claiming that they're faithful designs to the original characters (Because Duncan and Teela clearly aren't#B) Nor are they badly designed characters that I'm trying to compare to a whole different level of character design#The Batman 2004 show was an incredibly fun show that captured the dark and melancholy nature of Batman; and the villain designs were fun#MAWS isn't on the same level as The Batman
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Wishing Star AU - Prolouge
Pain.
As she awoke, Irida’s world was pain.
Which she honestly expected. The last thing she recalled before blacking out was an Alpha Gabite’s attack striking her.
Given that it was her or Glaceon? It was worth said pain.
“You think she’s awake?”
“Maybe. Hopefully, she can tell us where she came from.”
Who was talking? She didn’t recognize those voices. Kidnappers? No, they were confused…
Perhaps she should look around. Wouldn’t be the first time she had to power through some pain, after all…
Slowly, hazel eyes revealed themselves to the world. They took in the view of a far-too-large tent, the mouth below slowly dropping. “Oh, you’re awake!” The brown orbs locked onto the speaker, and-
Was that her Flareon? With her Espeon next to them? Well, it’s nice that they were here to watch her recovery, but surely they’d recognize her.
Then again, they were very large. Maybe they weren’t hers after al-
“So. Where did Glaceon find you?”
The sound of shattered ice filled the clan leader’s mind. “…did you just talk.”
The Espeon in question tilted their head, their companion groaning. “Of course he did, you derp. Although I’m more curious why you’re speaking with Lady Irida’s voice.”
“Wha-I am Lady Irida! And what is a ‘derp’ anyways?”
Leveled eyes never felt so piercing. “…someone silly. Like a certain Eevee is being.”
“I’m a human, not a-!” She’d jumped up in reflex seeking to defend the accusation - and then was bluntly reminded "oh yeah, she was still in pain." OW.
However, the distraction it provided gave the Pearl Clan’s head enough time to realize she’d jumped up onto four legs. Why didn’t she… right. Try and push herself off the ground. Come on… come on!
“Vee!” Why couldn’t she reach? And did she seriously just say “Vee”?
Looking down at her arms to check, she had to blink. Rub her eyes. Blink again. The view of all-too-familiar paws wasn’t going away.
“This can’t be happening…” outside. Now. She needed help! Pushing past the pain once more, and ignoring the cries to stop, the young lady raced outside, hoping to find a Warden to help her-
Why was everything so big?! No, not the time for that. Keep moving, keep ignoring the pain. “Hello? Someone!? Anyone?! Help!!”
No reply. She heard a couple chuckles about a “cute Eevee” and a “yapper”, so apparently, they couldn’t understand her. Great. Ok, how else could she communicate…
Palina! She was nearby, talking to someone. They’d made a bit of a silly tapping code when younger, before Irida became Clan Leader. But thank Sinnoh they did! It’d let her get through to the Coastlands Warden, and from there she could-
The Eevee skidded to a halt, staring at the person Lina had been talking to. Specifically, herself.
It was like looking in a mirror - her own visage was looking down at her, looking confused. Wait, no - that wasn’t real confusion. Some recognition was leaking through, almost like they knew who the actual Irida was.
“Right, that’s enough of that.”
Wha-“Hey!” Something had grabbed her by the scruff of her neck, lifting the apparently-an-Eevee off the ground. Irida tried to kick and squirm, but she just…couldn’t. She just dangled limply, resistance futile as she was carried past the village borders.
She was at least able to peek back, realizing Flareon had taken her in his mouth. Great, now her own Pokémon was kidnapping her! And both the boys were in on it, seeing as Espeon had followed behind.
As they left, she could make out bits of conversation - she hadn’t been paying attention earlier, and now she was regretting it.
“No, seriously Lina. I’m fine. You don’t need to make Calaba check me.”
“You were out dealing with an Alpha. I don’t want to risk you covering anything up.” Did… did Palina actually think that was her? At least she doubted the lack of injury, but still!
A cry for help built up in her throat, only to be pushed back by the lack of understanding. Right… humans don’t understand Pokémon… who can apparently talk, going by Flareon and Espeon.
Wait. Where was Glaceon? Was she still hurt after the fight?! Did the Gabite still get to her?
…Was she even still alive?
As they went deeper into the surrounding Icelands, the Clan Leader found her mind racing with worry and confusion. What had happened to her sister? Why was she an Eevee? Who was that doppelgänger? And what the heck happened while she was out cold?
(…that was a bad pun. And she felt bad.)
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For the curious, this little fan-chapter was inspired by this ask: https://that1nkyone.tumblr.com/post/692991132180889600/ok-just-found-this-blog-today-and-being-the
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Ok, finally getting back into the swing of things between working on asks (I’m so sorry they’ve taken a hot moment, life do be wild at times), painting, writing and such. With that being said, book talk continues!
On my quest to read a ton of Dark Angel content, I started at the very beginning with the 30k era (Let me tell you, the list given to me just for 30k Dark Angel stuff is quite long). So after Descent of Angels I moved onto Tales of Heresy, which is a collection of stories from different factions.
Short version? Most of them were really good, a few even had some real gut-punching lines, one was nothing but a single strong punch to KO someone.
Longer notes (Rambling really) under the read-more, to various degrees of spoilers.
So the first story was Blood Games, which I had roughly known about beforehand. It’s such a interesting concept, the Custodes purposefully trying to break into the Imperial Palace to find any weak points or flaws. And considering what I know about how Blood Games began, I couldn’t help but chuckle a few times. Very fun to get a custodes pov too, especially from the 30k era and action packed without bordering onto being too much.
Wolf At The Door was next and damn.. It was well written and the story it tells is extremely effective. Once again showing that the Imperium is a brutal machine that grinds all in it’s wake during the Great Crusade. The last line is: Outside, the people of Antimon were still cheering their deliverance when the first bombs began to fall.
Damn.
Scions of The Storm was the next story and no less as brutal. Especially when there’s the line “Less than twenty-four hours later more than a hundred and ninety million people were dead – over ninety-eight per cent of the doomed world’s population.“ Poor Sor Talgron he seems like another decent Word Bearer and he’s going to die horribly later on, I just know it.
The Voice is perhaps the ‘weakest’ of the stories. Not because it was bad, far from it, in fact it was very interesting since it’s solely a Sister of Silence only story and they are so under loved no matter the setting. It’s also very unsettling given that it takes place on a Black Ship and well, you know how the Imperium is with psykers. There’s rivalry, there’s murder and there’s an SoS breaking her vow of silence. Delightful really.
Ah Call Of The Lion, the story that made me crack open this book in the first place. I admit that I only know of Astelan as a Fallen in 40k so reading about him before that was fun! He actually sounds like a pretty cool guy too. But damn did I hate Belath so freaking much. What a lil prick and telling Astelan, “I’m telling the Lion on you!!” Ugh, UGH.
The Last Church is one of those stories I first heard about when I was first getting into Warhammer. Suffice to say I can see why it was mentioned a lot. Uriah was so interesting and damn shout-out to his patience for dealing with Big E.
After Desh’ea is that story I mentioned that was like one long gut punch. This is the story where Kharn survives a beatdown from a freshly ‘returned’ Angron who is rightfully pissed off about everything and mourning the precious people he did have. It hurt to read this between Angron, Kharn and knowing what happens.
#scribe's scribbles#scribe shouts about books#warhammer 40k#Getting sick for like 2 weeks sucked#I give the Space Wolf a B+ for trying to be civil during most of the story too
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Saturday Morning Coffee
Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️
Another week and month in the books. We’ve crossed into February and Punxsutawney Phil says six more weeks of winter. I’m ok with that. Coffees ready, let’s get going.
MARK KENNEDY • Yahoo
Carl Weathers, linebacker-turned-actor who starred in ‘Rocky’ movies and ‘The Mandalorian,’ dies
I remember seeing Rocky as a kid and I didn’t much like Apollo Creed. He was arrogant, cocky, and besides, the star of the show was Rocky, the underdog. Of course they eventually became friends and I liked him then.
I loved him as Al Dillon in Preditor and as Chubbs in Happy Gilmore.
R.I.P.
Amanda Richards • Netflix
NASCAR: Full Speed Is Coming to Your Screen at 200 Miles per Hour
I blew through the five episode season in a couple days. Why’d they only order up five episodes in the first season? I mean, F1: Drive to Survive has had 10 episode since season 1.
They focused on the playoffs but they could’ve done more leading into the playoffs. It’s a long season full of drama and I wanted more.
Overall it was really good and I hope we get a full 10 episodes in season 2.
Pkl
Define all your data in Pkl, and generate output for JSON, YAML, Property Lists, and other configuration formats.
Pkl is an Apple project. They’re trying to become a services company and having a better means of managing things sounds like a good idea.
It’s odd to see Apple using Java and Kotlin for this but it does make sense given it’s meant to be portable to different platforms. And by different platforms I mean actual different platforms like Linux, Windows, and Mac. Not Mac, iPhone, and iPad. 😄
Jason Parham • WIRED
Black Twitter Remains Unbothered in Elon Musk’s X
I’ve seen folks on Mastodon talking about how difficult it is for Black Mastodon to get started.
When I setup Curmudgeon Cafe there was a large contingent — and still is — of LGBTQ+ instances.
If memory serves it was more a matter of discoverability.
I’d love to see multiple BIPOC instances spring. We need more diversity, not less.
Miguel de Icaza • blog.la-terminal.net
My current effort is slightly different: how to build a native iPadOS (and hopefully VisionOS) experience for Godot. So rather than rewriting the existing Editor codebase with Swift, this effort is about making a SwiftUI on top of the existing Editor.
I don’t keep up with Godot but I do keep up with Miguel. It’ll be fun to watch his effort evolve into a finished product.
Robert Downen • Texas Tribune
Texas' standoff with the feds in Eagle Pass is igniting calls for secession and fears of violence
The MAGA crazed are ready for war and his orangeness is egging them on. Not only that he’s actively working with leaders in the House and Senate to blow up a bipartisan bill that would be the best deal the GOP has seen on the border. All to get that orange dumbass re-elected.
David Nield • Lifehacker
It’s 2024, and I’m here to extol the virtues of using an RSS reader.
Of course everyone should use an RSS reader! Might I recommend Stream for iOS? 😘
Yes, yes, it’s my app, but you should give it a try and if you like it, please, leave me a tip. 🙏🏼
Tim Hardwick • MacRumors
NHS App users in England can now collect medication from a pharmacy without having to visit a GP or health center, according to NHS Digital.
Man oh man would I love to have a national healthcare system that’s fully integrated and lets me manage how I interact with doctors and other healthcare providers.
I’d like it to work like Facebook. Doctors should invite me to join, or I invite them to join, my medical record.
American Healthcare is still stuck in the past. I’d love to see it fixed.
Nick Barclay • The Verge
Spotify accuses Apple of ‘extortion’ with new App Store tax
Spotify and others didn’t get what they really wanted. They don’t want to pay a single cent to Apple. Which from a business perspective makes perfect sense.
Guess we’ll see what the law says.
Aki Ito • Business Insider
In the two years I’ve been writing about Americans' changing relationship to work, there’s one theme that’s come up over and over again: loyalty. Whether my stories are about quiet quitting, or job-hopping, or leveraging a job offer from a competitor to force your boss to give you a raise, readers seem to divide into two groups.
There are so many factors to loyalty. The true believers exist and they have little to fear. Then there are the masses who quietly do their jobs and aren’t really seen.
We had a layoff at work last May and it destroyed morale, destroyed the company culture, and left loyalty at an all time low.
I hate to be so cynical but companies aren’t there for you. They’re there to make profit. Loyalty from the company only extends so far to the employee.
I still love my job and work hard at it everyday but I fear being laid off.
Jakub Porzycki • The Verge
Microsoft says Apple��s new App Store rules are ‘a step in the wrong direction’
Of course they think it’s going in the wrong direction! They’re a huge corporation in the business of selling software. They don’t want to hand any of it over to Apple.
Epic’s Tim Sweeney referred to it as “Malicious Compliance.”
Get out the popcorn! 🍿
Vadim Kravcenko
New libraries. New languages. New Frameworks. New Intern coming in and thinking he can rewrite better parts of the code himself. It’s easy to get swept away. But is the newest framework always the best choice? Is a rewrite really going to make everything better? Or is there wisdom in the code that has been around for years, has been tested with crazy edge cases, and has evolved together with the business?
I understand why folks are tempted to rewrite thing, I really do. When I wasn’t a dinosaur of a developer I hand that tendency. “I can make this better”, my brain would say. Sure, there’s occasion to “turn the soil” once in a while and I believe that’s good for a code base. But a full rewrite? No. 🌹
Nikita Prokopov
As you can see, even the checkmark wasn’t always there. But one thing remained constant: checkboxes were square.
A square checkbox is something us old timers are accustomed to seeing and changes can be confusing.
The Vision Pro’s checkboxes are confusing but I kind of like UIKit’s toggles as long as you don’t go crazy styling them. 😃
Nilay Patel • The Verge
It sounds amazing, and sometimes it is. But the Vision Pro also represents a series of really big tradeoffs — tradeoffs that are impossible to ignore. Some of those tradeoffs are very tangible: getting all this tech in a headset means there’s a lot of weight on your face, so Apple chose to use an external battery pack connected by a cable. But there are other, more philosophical tradeoffs as well.
I think Nilay did a great job balancing his review of Vision Pro.
It’s a great start but has a really long way to go as a general computing device. That’s my opinion having never used one.
I really believe we’ll get a sense for how we should be using it if we see pictures of Apple Executives wearing it daily to do their jobs. I kind of doubt we’ll see that for anything other than articles written about it.
The iPhone, Watch, and AirPods are devices those same executives probably use everyday. I just can’t see them using Vision Pro as much.
When/if they’re ever able to make them look like regular glasses and they cost around $500-800 I’d consider wearing them all the time. Until then they’re way too expensive for my blood. I would rather spend that kind of green on a new MacBook Pro.
Will Stream support Vision Pro? I think so. I have no idea when, but I think it will.
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A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas (Book 2)
oh my heart
SPOILERS BELOW
MY HEART FUCKING BROKE. YOU KNOW WHEN IT BROKE. YOU FUCKING KNOW.
IT BROKE WHEN TAMLIN LOCKED HER IN THE HOUSE.
GOD FUCKING DAMN
OKAY SO
Feyre pre-Amarantha needed her Beauty and the Beast moment. But she went through fucking SHIT in Amarantha’s bullshit trials and DIED and CAME BACK TO LIFE and Tamlin, I SWEAR TO GOD I KNOW YOU’RE FUCKED UP TOO, LIKE GODDAMN, A LOT HAS HAPPENED, YA BOI NEEDS THERAPY
WHERE’S THE FUCKING FAE THERAPIST
IT SURE AS HELL ISN’T IANTHE
AND HE
WELL
HE’S FUCKED UP TOO I GET IT
THEY’RE JUST
THEY’RE JUST NOT COMPATIBLE WITH EACH OTHER AT THIS MOMENT
AND IT
FUCKING HURTS TO SEE
I don’t doubt that he loves her. I don’t doubt that she loves him. They’re also - at this point - so very different than when they first met.
Tamlin needs to rebuild (or try to) whatever vision he has for the Spring Court. He wants to pull inwards and deal with whatever lies outside the Spring Court’s borders with an overabundance of caution.
Feyre cannot look inwards, or else the fuckery she’s still recovering from and processing will pull her into its black hole.
God. It hurt so much when he. Stupid bubble. You know.
And Lucien. Fuck. I liked Lucien a lot more in Book 1. I just feel like. I don’t know. It’s a hard situation for him, too.
I love Rhys. I’M SIMPING UWU
The shit he went through with Amarantha. IT FUCKING HURTS ME TO THINK OF BABY RHYS, CASSIAN, AND AZRIEL GROWING UP TOGETHER. THE SHIT THEY WENT THROUGH. THE LOVE AND TRUST THEY HAVE IN EACH OTHER. GOD.
I do love that Velaris, for me, in MY PERSONAL READING EXPERIENCE, was mostly townhome. It truly is the secret getaway where Rhys and his Inner Circle get to be themselves. Not High Lord, or General, or whatever.
Honestly, I didn’t understand why Feyre was mad that Rhys didn’t tell her they’re mates. Like, when did he have time girl. WHEN DID HE HAVE A MOMENT. WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONVENIENT FOR YOU?
When he ran into you at Calamnai? HuH???? When the only thing you wanted was Tamlin and you weren’t even able to tell him you loved him?
Oh, Under the Mountain? I’m sorry, when you were busy trying not to die and Rhys was trying his damndest to keep you alive???? Oh, by the way, when you were doing all that shit for Tamlin? Should he have told you then?
Or what about when you were reeling from trauma and trying to piece yourself and your world back together? When you couldn’t eat or sleep? Should he have been like hey howdy hot stuff, it’s me, ya boi - we mates - see ya next month!
Or when he whisked you away from your wedding TO TAMLIN? yEAAH, that would have gone so well. SO LIKE. I DON’T KNOW. IS IT JUST ME. I DON’T KNOW WHY SHE’S SO UPSET HE DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING SOONER BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE WASN’T EVER REALLY A GOOD FUCKING TIME FOR THAT KIND OF CONVERSATION
Not a big deal, actually, she gets over it pretty quickly. Am I the weird one, for not understanding why she gets mad? Not to like. Invalidate her feelings. You do you girl. Your emotions are valid. But also you are a fictional character and I’m dumping my own emotions and thoughts here. So like. I don’t get it. Like, he wasn’t telling you but also. When could he have. It’s not like he was like “hey i’ve been hiding a really big secret about like - how you can undo every bad thing that happened to you and there are no negative consequences.”
I hated that Rhys shared Velaris with the human queens. I hated that. I hated that. I get it. I understand it. It hurt me. IT HURT ME.
AND TAMLIN’S FUCKING BETRAYAL. HE SOLD THEM OUT TO HYBERN FOR WHAT? FEYRE? DOES HE ok so like
me? projecting? maybe. tamlin = fictional? absolutely
does he still love her (purely) or does he just want her back in this weird desperate hope that once she’s back everything will click back into place and give him the life he thinks he deserved and wanted and his happily ever after will occur and the rest of eternity will be happily ever after
So like
ya
what da fuck boi
I can see the angle of “keep your enemies closer” and “i would’ve been able to spy on Hybern’s plans and movements if I let them use my lands” but also like
dis some fucked up shit and idk if your reasoning is that sound my guy and is the price worth it and like - you are dealing with HYBERN here they are FUCKED UP, bro, like come ON, is any deal you make with them going to be worth it fr fr sheeeeesh
Lucien being like Elain is my mate kinda like
out of left field for me
very you get a mate, and you get a mate, and you get a mate, everybody gets a mate energy and i like
idk
it was a lot
i want a hot Fae mate too T_T (NOT THAT MY CURRENT PARTNER ISN’T FABULOUS I LOVE THEM VERY MUCH but like also Fae magic isn’t my current reality and i wish it was)
Feyre, High LaDY OF THE NIGHT COURT?
wig SNATCHED
i love this for her
fuck it UP, Rhys!!!!!!!!!!!! we stan a woke hot boi
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(In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. Subscribe Now: More: are two types of underlines on sent. 1)First open Microsoft word 20072)Write some text i alr. Modify the before and after points to adjust line spacing. Click the Line spacing command in the Paragraph group on the Home tab. How to Remove Hyperlink Underline In PowerPoint 2007, 2010. Click Home tab, and go to click the Styles launcher button to display the Styles pane. To change it, modify the Title style: right click on the style name, choose Modify, then use the Format button to select Borders and Shading. Start by pressing CTRL-A to select your whole document. To do either of these things, modify the Hyperlink style. Method 1Method 1 of 3:Highlighting and Deleting. How to underline the broken word on Word When we work with text to emphasize or highlight to make it easier to identify, we will certainly use the underlined or italicized tool. To remove a single hyperlink, right-click on the hyperlink and select "Remove Hyperlink" on the popup menu. click to the spot right next to existing word, no space between existing word and cursor (existing space is after cursor). black as default color in Writer, while in Word 2003 it would be any one. Word: What are the blue squiggly lines? | CyberText Newsletter The method you use depends on your preference. On the Proofing tab, click the Hide spelling and grammar errors checkbox: 3. In Word 2010 or a later version, display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) Word displays the AutoCorrect dialog box. Use the Line spacing drop-down menu to select a spacing option. On the Home tab, in the Font group, click Clear All Formatting.
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tu quoque -- with my metaphors mirrored
and 'smarter than tho' used literally
actually anything to do with the word 'smart'
(i know I've said this 100 times about 'smart', kids but that word is so goddamn systemic and overused)
anyhow
these are tactics of a conservative, ho hum
William F. Buckley Jr. know-nothing fare
dime a dozen typical American responses
some people just turn out to have way less vision, heart and originality than you had suspected when you actually look with
a logical mind instead of your wishful thinking and friendly intent
but that's typical in the USA too.
absolutely it is painful shrieking on the operating table as the droids recommence to give it new life, medicate the seared skin and scars, and append newly robotic limbs and a suit of black armour to encase the white corpus, but no longer my problem, let the youth of the future figure it out because the wheels of fate churn ever onward.
so much less to ROCK in the USA than it seems. to name just one example, the way Americans think they 'speak' another language or became Hindu. no you didn't, lol. like you're 3 hours into the program cuz you can't break away from the tv or the mirror long enough.
make no mistake, kids, Americans are known as some of the biggest assholes in the world for a reason -- but it also depends on where you go. If you go to Germany, it's like: who the heck are the Germans to make that decision, lol? Germany needs to stop being an asshole to Germany before it thinks it is ready to smack America down. Deffo a country with rudeness issues.
It's also difficult for these people in foreign countries to sort of tactfully say that we're a nation full of assholes.
that's the problem i run into dealing with my dad. Ok, so you're my biological father, but you're a huge asshole who's only ever been an asshole and let loose and fired first and gotten all those cartoon smirks on your face, and you're adamant than I'm INJUN JOE, the sole problem, and very very dangerous.
what do you do? lick the abusive hand, or say um, tactfully politely and with respect, you're a liar, manipulator, spoiled brat and huge asshole?
sort of a no win situation so he's on pause, being family -- these people just brainwash themselves into thinking I'm some evil deviant criminal scum full of a grab bag of shifty tricks cuz they're dumb -- anyhow, it's not like I get money or shelter from the guy and haven't had a relationship since the 00s so there's no reward to just see him face to face and take abuse.
anyhow, I feel it's much like how somebody from, say, France or Sweden would want to say 'Americans, you're the problem, but we don't want to be a huge jerk about it' and how do you do that?
I mean, I know the way a French socialist or Finnish socialist has done that with me, but I'm a nice guy on their page. I'm not the sort of huge asshole in question who needs to be de-Trumpified, de-patriarched and de-conservative'd.
So, fuck if I know how they do it with those people. I know how Greta Thunberg does it, but how would a Swede or Frenchman converse with say, that MAKE ME A BURRITO BITCH guy in the MAGA hat raging out on the southern border?
The point is probably moot cuz my book on emotionally immature parents said there is absolutely no fixing my dad. Since he's back on the silent treatment kick, which my book and every clinical psychologist I've talked to said is the sort of thing only emotionally immature people engage in, I don't have to worry about it. It kind of looms on my mind for 2023 though or 2024.
The American is always aiming towards something better. People are toys to 'em. There's a better toy coming out next month, just like there's a better video game coming.
The American values not writing unless it's in the form of a product, a completed little fiction, even better if sold for $ and on the shelf. Like my dad always says, it's a shame I haven't written a book... a real shame, such a bad boy am I. Oh, daddy dumbass, I write a book a night sometimes lately. You have no idea in your dumb world of shelter provided by others and bully boy entitlement.
Meanwhile, the American will never catch up to a 12 yr old girl in Athens, Greece on all the metrics that anybody sane would care about: languages, grace, culture, perception, kindness, sweetness, mental health, love (and someday, I'm sure, sex), cooking, history as more than something to inject into the temporary present for dominion purposes.
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awaiting the verdict of the jaundice debt vs [redacted] trial is making me feel insane, so i feel like airing some of my thoughts about the double standards i’ve seen from his supporters in the ‘sjw’ circles particularly (those that generally see themselves as superior and immune to manipulation/ misinfo, those with high ‘social justice’ standards), even outside of the abuse allegations. just the standards and judgements of ‘character’, as it were.
i’ll start with the more recent-- 1)
[Debt], when speaking about Wright during his testimony, repeatedly misgendered him,
this is y’alls king?
2) someone will have to explain to me (it’s an expression. don’t, bcus you can’t) why kate moshpit speaking in his defense as an ex (and frankly, every other ex of his in the press) is completely credible to the point that it discredits the claims of [redacted], but [redacted]’s ex defending her is not credible and does not discredit the claims of debt.
3) apparently, [redacted] donating ‘only’ $1.3 million of a $3.5 million pledge to the ACLU renders her the antichrist. jaundice debt pledging to buy wounded knee and return it to sioux nation, and never having done so or even come near doing so, is apparently not worth note (under oath or not, if one goes by the principle of ‘your word is your bond’, why is it only the former that matters? & i have to say at the rate of the pearl-clutching about the former, one would think she pledged it and has not donated a single penny since, which is not the case)
4) jaundice defending roman polanski. i don’t really have much else to say here.
except:
believes there may be shady dealings behind the scenes concerning Polanski's arrest for a 30-year-old statutory rape charge.
sound familiar? i’m ultimately very suspect of those that subscribe to conspiracy theories right off the bat. speaks to what’s happening now, as well.
5) “Give me your take on why young, rich movie star-type guys pay for sex.
Let’s say there’s a young guy who’s successful, famous, rich, da-dah-dah, can have anything he wants anywhere in the world. We presume. At the same time, this fellow could meet a girl in a bar and say, “God, you’re great, let’s go make out,” and they just go slobber. In his brain, he’s thinking, maybe he would like to see her again. Maybe this girl that he met has a slightly ambitious side to her, a devious kind of thing where she starts twisting things around. The next thing you know, this girl says, “This motherfucker raped me,” and all he knows is that, “We felt each other’s tongues, all right.” Let’s say the tabloids get hold of it and say, “Well, he fucking did it,” and that spins around for a few days or weeks and, bing, the guy’s guilty in the eyes of the world before he even has a chance to speak.”
6) ok, back to double standards. both these people are white, and have privilege when it comes to that.
from [redacted], we have a tweet that was patronizing, insensitive, and meted out stereotypes, but she later tried to clarify.
for debt, we have :
Sources say he paid his first wife, Lori Anne Allison, $1.25 million to keep quiet after he allegedly left a long ranting message in which he repeatedly used the N-word.
use of racial slur confirmed by subpoenaed text messages
He moves to the couches in the living room and flips on the television. [Debt] has an affinity bordering on obsession with the bons vivants who had their late prime in the 1970s, whether it is Marlon Brando, Hunter S. Thompson or Don Rickles. “Rickles was the bravest comedian ever,” says De[bt]. “He’d say anything.” As proof, he finds a video of Rickles on a Dean Martin celebrity roast, turning to boxer Sugar Ray Robinson: “I want to thank Sugar Ray Robinson, who said to Rocky Graziano, ‘Hey, baby, you’re hurting me.’ Sugar Ray is a great champion. Sugar, we would ask you to talk, but you know the blacks, your lips lock.”
“Jesus,” says Waldman.
De[bt] insists it’s ballsy, not offensive. I mumble, “I don’t know about that.” De[bt] isn’t paying attention.
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#BatsInQuarantine
I am going insane. So I poured my restlessness into one long and very detailed post and got super into it. Please enjoy this hot mess.
The Justice League, being the well-meaning virus-proof Super Friends that they are, took one good look at the news, one good look at their non-powered friends Ollie, Bruce, and their families, and collectively decided that these normal humans must be Protected At All Costs.
Now, keep in mind, Bruce is never one to roll over when it comes to being benched.
However, he understands the importance of social distancing. He knows he needs to set a good example for his kids, and keep up appearances as Gotham’s Most Responsible Multi-Billionaire.
So. Quarantine it is.
But how are his kids handling it?
Dick -
100% on board in the beginning. Gotta do the Responsible Thing. Gotta set a Good Example. Besides, guys, this is gonna be Fun. Quality Family Time is always a Must.
He lasted 2 days.
Then he started to get twitchy.
And as everyone knows? A Trapped Dick Grayson is a Feral Dick Grayson.
He bounces off the walls.
Literally.
“I have to climb.”
“Dick, no.”
“I have to climb everything.”
Has scaled the manor 16 times already. Has climbed the chandelier. The banister. Bruce. The roof. The Cave. Anything in the house that’s been bolted down and especially anything that hasn’t.
Duke found him clinging to the wall 10 ft off the ground like Spiderman and screamed so loud it shattered glass.
Desperate for news of the outside.
He thrives off of it like a starving man.
Was the one to suggest he and Barbara take a break to Social Distance from each other (”Sorry, babe, kissing spreads germs”) and experienced Instant Regret(TM) approximately 5 minutes after.
The Family has labelled him a Flight Risk Level 1 (Most likely to say f**k it and make a break for the outside world)
Jason -
Accidentally got trapped inside the manor with the others when Bruce called Shutdown. If he had his way, he’d be chilling in his favorite safe-house right now, binging The Witcher with Roy and Artemis, and not worrying about finding a stray brother in his sock drawer.
But he’s nothing if not an opportunist.
The way he sees it, Jason has 3 options:
Self Improvement
Self Isolation (See Duke, Cass, and Damian)
Descension Into Madness (See Dick and Steph)
And, well, he always wanted to try a few things. Now he’s got the free time to do it.
So he settles on baking.
Alfred’s got enough food and raw ingredients stored up to feed an army. (Not because he’s a Panic-Buying-Hoarder in times like these. But because he’s a Panic-Buying-Hoarder all the time. Just try feeding 11+ teenagers sometime.)
Uses recipes he finds off Google.
His first few attempts are, in a word, ‘tragic’.
Alfred slips him a few of his recipe cards, and Jason suddenly starts seeing Results.
Turns out he’s pretty good at this baking thing once he gets the hang of it.
Hope everyone’s okay eating nothing but pie, macaroons, biscuits, and whatever else Jason whips up.
Cause that’s gonna be the only food left by the time he’s done.
Barbara -
Self-quarantined with her dad.
They’ve been binge-watching classic black and white movies together.
It’s a fun time, but she’s started to get a little antsy. Loving her dad and wanting to be around him 24/7 are, understandably, mutually exclusive.
Calls the manor to video-chat every day.
For her sanity just as much as theirs.
Gives everyone little challenges to film on their phones and send in. She makes compilations of everyone’s submissions so they can all watch and laugh together.
Bonus points for Creativity
One comp shows the family trying to drop Mentos into coke bottles.
Dick did a handstand, and dropped his Mento from the second story balcony.
Tim did it wearing the Batman cowl. The soda exploded into his face, and the rest of the video is just Bruce’s Shrieking.
Stephanie tried it, but the bottle tipped. Everyone on camera screamed as the bottle rocketed through the front window.
She spends most of her calls having one-on-one convos with Dick.
They’ve come up with little code phrases so they can be Cheesy even with family members lurking in the background.
She thinks the way he clings to the monitor is cute.
Almost like he’s giving her a hug through the screen.
(It’s easier than letting herself worry about his mental state, at least)
Tim -
Oh this boy.
Freaked out for the first five minutes before he decided ‘hey wait, Bruce is letting me stay in my pajamas all day? Noice.’
Now he’s just vibing.
The rest of his family is Low-Key shielding him.
He Has No Spleen, you see.
Steph: “Someone could cough on him and he could die!”
He just goes about his day, playing Animal Crossing like there’s no tomorrow, tinkering on projects, taking naps, etc. Living his best life.
Meanwhile there’s always someone lurking behind him, keeping watch, keeping him safe.
Dick sneezed within 5 feet of Tim once (the fact that he was on top of the dusty bookshelf Tim was perusing is irrelevant)
Jason still full-body tackled him the second Tim’s back was turned.
No one with any symptoms--
Like, any symptoms. They don’t even have to be Corona-related.
--is allowed within 10 feet of Tim.
Tim has been wandering the manor for weeks, now, without seeing another human being.
(He sees Dick on the ceiling sometimes, but that doesn’t really count)
He’s been trying increasingly drastic pranks and shenanigans to draw someone, anyone, out.
But it doesn’t matter how many times he steals Damian’s sword, or sets fire to Jason’s brownie bites.
Nobody wants to risk it.
Cass -
No one has seen her since quarantine started.
Everyone is approximately 87% sure she’s somewhere in the manor though
Because she does eat the meals Alfred leaves out for her.
Or at least someone does, at any rate.
(Jason and Santa top the running suspects list)
Santa was Steph’s suggestion. For some reason it snowballed.
It’s assumed that Cass misunderstood the meaning of ‘social distancing’ and took it too far.
But no one knows for sure.
She is Tim’s Guardian Angel.
People who so much as clear their throats a little too loudly anywhere near him suddenly wake up on a different floor of the house four hours later.
Duke came closest to spotting her while he was up in the attic.
Either that, or there’s another Creepy Sister everyone forgot to tell him about living up there.
She is silent, and watchful, sticking to the shadows, but she does leave the occasional note out to brighten her siblings’ day.
Things like ‘helo i love u’ and ‘hop u ar ok’ mostly.
She is bound and determined to protect her family from this invisible threat, no matter the cost.
Steph -
Like Dick, she was Super Pumped at first.
(Just kind of showed up at Wayne Manor before quarantine was enacted. The original purpose of her visit is unclear, but regardless, she’s Trapped.)
Also Like Dick, her descent into madness was swift.
She is impossible to pin down.
Not like Cass or Damian, who’ve stayed off the grid, and are therefore Untraceable.
No. She’s impossible to pin down, because she never stops moving.
Switches seamlessly between Zumba on top of the Giant Dinosaur in the Batcave, and furiously knitting Alfred (the Cat) a sweater with a pair of Tim’s used chopsticks.
Braided everyone’s hair while they were asleep.
Even Bruce’s.
She tried to do Tim’s, but somehow blacked out and regained consciousness in the attic.
When she woke up with a scream and a furiously twitching eye, she startled Duke out of his Makeshift Fort he built out of old cardboard boxes and antique furniture. He’s had to resort to finding a new hiding place.
Sometimes, on the rare occasions she does sit still, staring off into the distance, she’ll suddenly start laughing hysterically. This may last between thirty seconds and thirty minutes, depending entirely on how long it’s been since she’s knitted a cat sweater or done cartwheels through every room in the house.
Blew up the greenhouse out back, somehow.
Everyone has agreed not to talk about it.
Some people were built to handle prolonged time inside their homes.
Stephanie Brown is not that way.
Damian -
Damian Wayne Cannot Be Contained.
At least not inside the house.
He took off thirty-six hours into quarantine.
Thanks to the security equipment around the borders of the Wayne Estate, he can’t escape the grounds.
(He’s tried and failed multiple times. Jason and Bruce have a running bet on how many times the perimeter alarms will go off per day.)
(Jason is winning.)
He wanders the grounds with Titus as his only companion.
The two of them run laps, practice drills, and find ways to occupy their time.
No one’s entirely sure what those ways are.
In fact, nobody knows exactly where Damian is at any given time.
Only that he is Out There.
And he’s the best security system Wayne Manor’s ever had.
So far, he’s stopped five groups of civilians scaling the perimeter walls before the lasers and electric nets even have a chance to deploy.
They were trying to break in and steal supplies.
(Even ones they already had in surplus. Like Toilet Paper.)
He’s also stopped Dick from escaping twelve (12) times.
Drags him back by his shirt collar and deposits him on the welcome mat.
Usually with a note for Alfred/Jason, requesting more fruit tarts.
Duke -
Did not leave the attic for two weeks.
Then Steph discovered his hiding spot (read: was dumped there by Cassandra) which forced him to relocate to the basement.
Yes, it turns out Wayne Manor does have a basement.
This was a surprise to Duke, who always thought that the Batcave was Bruce Wayne’s basement.
Alfred keeps him supplied with all the necessities:
i.e. food, magazines, assorted pastries from Jason’s latest batch, usually straight out of the oven.
Duke also snagged the Manor’s Alexa.
She has become a sort of ‘Wilson’ to Duke’s ‘Chuck Noland’.
She is his only comfort. His only ally.
He’s determined to wait out this quarantine, doing his best to avoid the others.
Duke has seen these people under pressure.
He knows exactly what he’s dealing with.
Duke: “Alexa is the only motherf****r in this madhouse I ever respected.”
*offended butler noises from the other room*
Duke: “And also Alfred.”
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I Will Now Express Every Thought I Have About Pacific Rim: The Black
⚠️ spoilers for the whole thing baby
I actually forgot Pacific Rim: The Black was premiering today until I saw it in an article this morning! When I first heard about it months ago, I was decidedly not sold on a Pacific Rim anime. Uprising burnt me the fuck out and I don’t have a lot of trust left in me for new entries to the franchise. But I had heard rumblings of Raleigh and Herc being referenced after going into #pacificrim and I decided I may as well check out to see what was up! I binged it in 4 hours and it sure was a whirlwind, I’ll tell ya
The Plot
I really enjoy the setting and initial concept! We’re so use to seeing Kaiju/Jaegar shenanigans play out within these major cities with helpless civilians everywhere that spending so much time in a lonesome desert and these destroyed civilizations was really cool and indicative of the changes Pacific Rim has undergone in the last few years. I also looooved the Desert Settlement from the beginning!! It seemed really homey and picturesque; I wish we’d spent more time with the other survivors and got to see more of their day to day aside from farming and sitting.
I also found the first episode set up to be really tight and well written! I was hooked during the initial flashback, Hayley and Taylor’s fight was really poignant and well acted, and the reveal of Atlas Destroyer felt really huge and epic!!
But once we left the Desert Settlement and the plot started actually moving along, the pacing becomes suuuper rough. We spent way too long in Bogan with Shane and Mei; there’s only 7 episodes and we spent, like, 3? 4? within the confines of that camp and I felt it weighed the plot down. Boy is introduced in the 2nd episode and, because the narrative spends so much time on Shane’s evil machinations and Mei’s back story, we still don’t know anything concrete about his origins or purpose 3 episodes later! That felt frustrating to me
The story beats overall were very predictable. I was able to pick up on Mei’s backstory via her dynamic with Shane in their introductions, so her memories felt too built up and too hollow once they were revealed. The same with the reveal of Boy’s Kaiju form; he was in a big green test tube in a PPDC base - I assumed immediately he was a part-kaiju experiment and again his reveal felt hollow, especially after the glacial pace of it’s development.
Even when events weren’t predictable, they lacked weight. The appearance of several Kaiju Breaches in “Boneyard” felt very cheap for some reason; I wasn’t scared and I didn’t feel tense about these odds mounting against the protagonists. This was just happening and I was just watching.
The Art Direction and Animation
I’m very obsessed with all the new Kaiju we got from this; I love how Copperhead is rendered, they’re a joy to see on screen!! The Rippers are also very cute and deserve little plushies...i love these neat little dogs. Boy’s Kaiju Form is very intimidating with an interesting color palette and I loved seeing him next to Copperhead’s highly saturated design!
That’s unfortunately all that I liked however; All the human character design is unmemorable to me. Every character looks exactly like another easily identifiable anime character from a different property (Hayley looks exactly like Zero Suit Samus to me, for example. And Mei kept reminding me of both Bernadetta Fire Emblem and Motoko Kusanagi from GitS. The list goes on).
I can sort of understand why they’re so bland? A franchise going from Live Action to something as heavily stylized as anime is probably a really difficult transition and these designs are probably meant to be more lowkey than more unique anime designs in order to help that transition. But realistically stylized designs can still be recognizable and unique! These feel uninspired and bare bones.
I have no problem with the switch to CGI animation that modern anime is doing because I know it’s a lot cheaper to produce and it can still be really unique and striking! But The Black’s model animation felt very stilted and inconsistent. I don’t have a lot of knowledge about animating so I don’t think I can accurately describe what I disliked? Wooden is probably the best term. Character movements felt wooden and things like hair and clothes felt plastic.
Impacts also had very little weight. The fight between Tayler/Mei and Copperhead reminded me of when you’re in a dream and trying to punch something, but you can’t punch hard. It was simply too floaty and too soft. The final showdown in “Showdown” was better, but not by much. It was very immersion breaking seeing these Giant Robots and Giant Monsters unable to throw a real solid hit!
Characters
My favorite character was unequivocally Joel Wyrick. We love Joel Wyrick in this house! Joel’s character has real charisma and charm. I love his flirtations with Loa, how his cocky disposition is juxtaposed with his drinking problem and later insecurities over his lost memories, and his genuine kindness shown to Mei, Taylor, and Boy. No one ever plays with Boy, they just run after him and drag him around...but Joel has this moment in “Escape from Bogan” where he kneels down to Boy and helps him collect rocks. It was sweet!
So of course, when Joel dies for absolutely no reason 5 minutes later - pissed! I was pissed! I yelled “COME ON” aloud in my studio apartment! I was genuinely so excited to see him interact more with the rest of cast then, poof. No More Joel.
His death felt like it was for shock value to me rather than actual narrative development. Why kill him when we still don’t fully understand his and Mei’s relationship? Why were they so close? Were they childhood friends, or just coworkers that happen to become friends? Why did he specifically know all the details of Shane’s abuse towards Mei before she did?
What did his death accomplish? It made Mei sad...ok? She was already...very sad. Her running away from Shane already had consequences - the consequences of Shane coming after them for revenge in the future. Why did Joel have to become a causality?
His death is ultimately tied to Mei’s character arc which is, unfortunately, my least favorite :c I find Mei to be a really one dimensional character with a personality, backstory, outlook, and motivation that I’ve seen done a million times before with a million other characters. She feels very out of place in the franchise as a whole - Pacific Rim is, at it’s core, a story about connecting with others. Her self-centric arc and lack of desire to connect outside of drifting really alienates her from the story at large and it frustrates me how long The Black’s narrative spends on her.
Hayley and Taylor were otherwise very interesting in the pilot episode, but become similarly one dimensional at the story chugs on. Taylor’s unflinching (bordering on unhealthy) faith in their parents was really interesting next to Hayley’s complete acceptance of their parents’ death. But once the two of them make up their differences, they lack an interesting dynamic and become very passive protagonists.
Taylor especially has no personality - how would you describe Taylor? He’s...brave. He’s the older brother. He’s a leader? He’s nice? There is nothing noteworthy about him at all, which is sad considering I think he has the potential to be a really interesting way to explore the original movie’s influence on The Black’s story.
Hayley’s grief and self-blame are more interesting than Taylor’s...nothingness, but she still falls into this one-note trope of being the naive, excitable little sister. I guess I feel abnormally frustrated about this flat character writing because Pacific Rim’s incredibly unique cast has always been an inspiration to me! It feels sad that this new iteration into the series is full of what feel like stock characters.
Then we get to Boy. How come Boy can’t have a person name? It’s specifically written in a dialogue between Taylor and Hayley: “I’m not going to call him Chad or Barnaby or one of those names for a baby brother you wanted as a kid,”
Why?
He’s by all accounts a human child when they find him. Yes, he was found in a big green test tube - but he walks and acts just like a human child. The only difference, seemingly, is that he is non-verbal and engages in strange/annoying behavior (running off, eating bugs, etc). So he isn’t deserving of a name?? I don’t know why that makes me so mad, it just does. it’s like they refuse to treat him as a human even before they find out he’s a Kaiju - it’s super weird! How can the story sell me on the three of them becoming found family (like they’re seemingly trying to do) if the protagonists won’t even treat this kid like a kid??
Misc. Thoughts
The callbacks to Stacker, Herc, and Raleigh were cool! I also like that Herc is a major plot point! We love Herc Hanson and it’s what he deserves. I also find Loa’s connection to Horizon Bravo very interesting...and the fact we’re getting Kaiju cultist lore! Love that! Love that!
Fucked up that the only two dark skinned characters were: 1) removed from the story 10 minutes in with no call back yet, 2) Killed after having 1 line of dialogue and fridged for the character development of the blonde white girl. I really need to know what the deal with those 4 characters leaving in the beginning was about - I absolutely thought we’d see them again by now, but no dice
I don’t know how to feel about Ajax and have no clue what their purpose in the story is. They’re cool, but whats the point?
If Mei and Taylor are paired up together romantically, I’m putting Craig Kyle and Greg Johnson in the time out box. Very tired of seeing random hetero romance B plots in stories that can’t even get their A plots together
Overall, it’s kind of subpar! It has the foundations of a really interesting story, but the pacing and characters really took me out of it. I’m interested in Season 2! I know season 2 is already ordered and I’d love to see how things continue to develop, see if the character writing gets any better - but I’m not too hopeful unfortunately. I really really love Pacific Rim after all these years and I’m happy to still be getting content and world building! There’s just sooo much I would change about this however. At least fanfiction’s free!
Thanks for reading all this, I have ADHD and just go on and on if u let me. hmu if You Too have thoughts about Pacific Rim: The Black and have no one to talk abt them with
#pacific rim#pacific rim: the black#pacific rim the black#taylor travis#hayley travis#long post#sorry this is thousands of words. i contain multitudes
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