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ms-ajt-whumps · 7 months

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Sidekicks 1992

Barry Warry played by Johnathan Brandis

#whump #soft whump #comfort #fainting #asthma attack #ambulance #father comforting son #johnathan brandis #sidekicks 1992 #face touching #touching hair #fluttering eyes

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punkeropercyjackson · 4 months

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How'd i think i'd never end up loving Miguel O'hara though.He's literally a Jason Todd kinnie AND canonically latino.It's like i don't even know myself

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thatoneparrot · 2 years

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a butt load of sketches! 🦜💜

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vintagegeekculture · 4 months

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Hi, do you happen to know the name of the cartoon from the 80s where they rode inside giant tires with guns on either side?

That's Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, a French-Japanese-American co-production. It had the avant-garde elements of French animation, the slick, imaginative sophistication of Japanese scifi animation, and the merchandisability of an American 80s cartoon. The premise has been compared to Star Wars, with its young impulsive hero, cocky pilot best friend, funny robot sidekick, and wizard mentor, but the number one thing it seems to take from George Lucas is that the interstellar future will be a lot like California in the 1950s, with greaser kids working on hot rods in their garage, and drag racing in their spare time.

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A lot of 80s cartoon shows have aged disastrously (Thundercats is particularly hard to watch at times) but Jayce has aged incredibly well, mainly because of the solid characters and the fact the writing team included Joseph Michael Straczynski, who had them lean heavily on continuing storytelling that stretched throughout the series. It's right up there with Galaxy High School, Real Ghostbusters, Pole Position, and Vytor: Starfire Champion as 80s animated shows that actually are pretty good and are worth it to rediscover.

In fact, the continuous storytelling may be the single greatest weakness of the series: like Conan the Barbarian, it never got a legitimate finale. A series like this deserves nothing less than a Götterdämmerung.

JMS was famous for being one of the first creators active on the internet, at the time, answering questions on the Compuserve forums in 1992. A lot of his early comments on Babylon 5 have been preserved for posterity (B5 fans used to pore over them like sacred scrolls), but if you look at the actual transcripts, most of the questions he got were about Murder She Wrote, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. In fact, there was an early appearance of people wearing Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors' Lightning League symbol to very, very early B5 get togethers.

#jayce and the wheeled warriors #80s cartoons

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docgold13 · 2 months

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Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Happy Birthday Batman

An official DC Comics calendar published for 1976 identified February 19th as Bruce Wayne’s birthday. Other dates have been mentioned in the comics as possibly being the Batman’s birthday yet the nineteenth of February still seems the most canonically recognized. Really, a Pisces?

In any case, to celebrate the Dark Knight’s birthday here are paper cut-outs of Batman in all his various animated forms. Who knew there were so many?

The Adventures Of Batman was the first Batman cartoon series and ran from 1968 to 1969. It stared Olan Soule in the role of Batman with a young Casey Kasem in the role of Robin.

The SuperFriends brought Batman together with the world’s greatest heroes and ran from 1973 all the way to 1986. Soul and Kasem both reprised their roles as Batman and Robin in the series.

The New Adventures of Batman ran for a single season in 1977 featuring Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin. This was a particularly silly show and featured a great deal of a magical imp known as Bat-Mite.

1992 saw the advent of the greatest cartoon of all time as Batman: The Animated Series debuted and ran through to 1995. The great Kevin Conroy provided the voice for Batman.

The New Batman Adventures was a continuation of Batman: The Animated Series with some updated stylistic changes. It ran from 1997 to 1999, featuring Conroy as Batman.

Batman Beyond entailed a Gotham City of the future where an aged Bruce Wayne trains a young man on his path to filling the mantle of The Batman. It ran from 1999 to 2001 and stared Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne and Will Friedle as his protégé, Terry McGinnis.

Justice League brought the Superfriends back together this time under the banner of The Justice League (and later Justice League Unlimited). It ran from 2001 to 2006 and once more featured Kevin Conroy in the role of Batman.

The Batman, which ran from 2004 to 2008, departed from the continuity established in Batman: The Animated Series and presented a new version of the Caped Crusader and his various allies and adversaries. It starred Rino Romano in the role of Batman with Evan Sabara and Danielle Judovits as Robin and Batgirl.

Echoing the campiness of 1966, Batman: The Brave and The Bold was a fun, light-hearted anthology series that ran from 2004 to 2008. Each episode saw Batman teaming up with different heroes of the DC Universe for madcap adventures. Diedrich Bader stared as Batman.

The series Young Justice, which ran non-concurrently from 2010 to 2022, focused primarily on Robin and the other younger heroes as they made their way from being sidekicks to a team in the own right. Batman featured in many of the episodes where he was voiced by Bruce Greenwood.

Beware the Batman from for a single season in 2013. Anthony Ruivivar voiced Batman in this dark, largely computer animated series.

Batman Unlimited ran from 2015 to 2016. This was primarily a commercial in animated form featuring short, action-packed stories in tandem with the release of action figures and toy vehicles. Roger Craig Smith provided the voice for Batman.

Justice League Action brought back the League for more light-hearted adventures with a star-studded cast. It ran from 2016 to 2018 with Kevin Conroy returning to once again voice Batman.

Batman appeared as a periodic guest star in the DC Super Hero Girls series, which ran from 2019 to 2022. Herein Batman spoke in a barely audible growl that only the other characters could comprehend. Whereas actor Keith Ferguson provided the voice for Bruce Wayne, who further hid his secret identity as the the Caped Crusader by featuring in the ridiculous reality TV show, ‘Making it Wayne.’

A lampooned version of the Dark Knight sporadically features in the zany Harley Quinn animated series, premiering in 2019. Diedrich Bader reprises his role from Batman: The Brave and The Bold, voicing this decidedly goofier version of the Dark Knight.

And finally, hopefully debuting some time soon, Batman: The Caped Crusader acts as a spiritual successor to Batman: The Animated Series and features the final acting role of the late, great Kevin Conroy, reprising Batman one last time.

#batman the animated series #Batman #Batmen #Happy Birthday Batman #cut-outs #paper art #Batman Cartoons

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whiteboywhump · 4 months

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Sidekicks 1992

Barry has an asthma attack

#whump #asthma attack #male whump #gif #whump gif #medical whump

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disney-is-mylife · 3 months

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Alas, with only 12 options, I had to leave out several possible candidates. I did not count most talking animals (Jiminy being the big exception because, well, he doesn't exactly LOOK like a cricket, does he?), nor did I count any robots, aliens, or superheroes/humans. This poll only features characters that are either magical themselves or could only exist in mythologies/fairytales.

(I also did not count any Alice in Wonderland characters, despite considering the Cheshire Cat, because none of them count as "companions" to Alice, more like weird residents she bumps into on her journey down the rabbit hole.)

And as for any other options.... honestly, I just ran out of space and wanted to include from as many eras of Disney animation as possible lol ^^"

Happy voting! ❤

Disney 20th Century Animal Sidekick Poll!!

Disney 20th Century (Other) Animal Sidekick Poll!!

Disney 21st Century Sidekick Poll!!

Disney (Other) "Magical" Companions Poll!!

#Starling polls #Disney Sidekick Polls #Disney #Disney animation #Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs #Pinocchio #Peter Pan #Sleeping Beauty #The Sword in the Stone #Aladdin #Pocahontas #Hercules #Mulan #Frozen #Moana #Raya and the Last Dragon #original post #200+ votes #20 notes

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lollipop-helo · 1 month

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So, I was thinking about one of my most recent posts:

The one I talk about how much I hate doing digital lineart and that my artstyle depends on it.

And that gave me an idea!

What if I created a whole new artstyle for the sole purpose of not doing any lineart?

So that's what I did!! (⁠✯⁠ᴗ⁠✯⁠)

I didn't have any idea on what I'd do or how I would do it, so it's still a bit rough and the proportions and other stuff may be a bit off ┐⁠(⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠￣⁠)⁠┌ I'll try to make it better with time!

Anyways, my first subject was....

TAILS!!!!!!

^ No bangs version (at first I completely forgot about them)

^ w/ bangs version (With this, I found out I have no idea on how to draw his "hair")

HE'S SO FREAKING CUTE!!!!!!!! ＼⁠(⁠ÒwÓ)⁠／

"Oh but why did you draw him with lashes if he's a boy?" BECAUSE HE IS THE CUTEST AND LASHES MAKE EVERYTHING CUTER!!!!!! (⁠｢⁠`⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠)⁠｢

Now for the facts! :

Miles "Tails" Prower is a character from the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise.

His name is a pun that refers to "Miles Per Hour"

He is Sonic's sidekick, and had his first debut in 1992, in the game "Sonic The Hedgehog 2".

One of his favorite foods (if not his favorite) is mints!

Even though he is very young, being only 8 years old(or 4 ½ if we're taking "The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog" into account), He is extremely smart and has a IQ of 300. He once even made a TV out of paperclips, for heck's sake!

He has made multiple gadgets and tech items because of his inteligence, his probably most famous/used one being "The Miles Electric", a multi-use portable computer, or the "Tornado", which is an airplane.

His intelligence and knoledge on technology is very advanced, with him being able to figure out how tech he'd never seen before works within only a few glances/minutes.

Although his main focus is in being a scientist that creates technology, he also has good knowledge in history, physics and just science in general

His origin story can vary a little depending on what piece of media we're talking about, but two things that are confirmed in the majority of iterations are that:

1- He used to get bullied in his village because of his 2 tails (That is also why his nickname is, well... Tails.)

And 2- One day he saw Sonic run by, found him cool and decided to follow him around until they became friends.

Tails can fly with his 2 tails, using them like a helicopter propeller. While flying, he is shown to be able to keep up with Sonic's speed, although he does get tired if he flies too much. Using his tails the same way, he can also push boats and stuff like that underwater. He also sometimes fights using them as weapon, and is a very skilled fighter.

Still about his tails and fighting skills, although I think those are just plot errors, he is shown to be able to use his tails to slice through metal, and is seemingly strong enough to lift up tons and sometimes is even faster than Sonic. (Okay, let me rephrase this. These definitely are plot errors. Sonic is literally supposed to be the fastest being on earth. And which 8 year old child can LIFT UP TONS OF STUFF??? It's already impressive that he can lift Sonic and other people up along with him when flying!)

(ahem...)

He is agile and has some acrobatic skills.

Unlike Sonic, he is a good swimmer, and also a good cook.

I can't think of any more random facts..

And again, sorry for the drawing's awful quality, it is my first time trying that artsyle TwT I promise I'll get better.

Also, it's almost 2 AM and I should be sleeping long ago. ( ⁠ಥ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠ಥ )

So as always,

BYE BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And have a good night~!

(or day, idk.)

#tails the fox #he is so silly #miles tails prower #tails the fox fanart #he is so cute #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sth fanart #new artstyle

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jasontoddssuper · 5 months

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Summer Kent title release dates and issue numbers

(Will also include his animateds and video games as i don't want to make a whole seperate post for that since it would feel too similar)

Sparks:Secret Origins-1983,ran for 66

The Last day Of Summer-1989,it's own special

Ember's Ashes-1989,ran for 156

Death of Superman-1992,it's own special

Reign of the Supermen-1993,it's own special

Steel and Superboy-1994,52 and 100 and he's an mc as John's protege and Kon's eldest sibling,mentor and mom figure

Robin,Batgirl(Cass' run)and Young Justice-1993,2000 and 1994,ran for 185,72 and 51 and is important to read the ones with him in them for context on his sisterly bonds with Stephanie,Cass and Cassie

Supergirls-2002,ran for 27

Ember/Red Hood-2006,ran for 33

We Are Robin-2007,ran for 12 issues and Duke becomes the 5th Robin at the end thanks to him

Batgirl(Stephanie's run)-2009,ran for 60 and appears enough to count as an mc

The Bird and The Dragon-2010,ran for 13

Red Hood and The Outlaws-2011,ran for 92

All New Teen Titans-2019,running for 55

New Ember Days-2024,will run for 64

Dead Sidekicks Force-2016,ran for 42

Wayne Family Adventures-2021,ongoing and he's major recurring character

Superman:The Animated Series-1996,was in various crossovers to Batman:The Animated series to show his friendship and eventual romance with Dick(Note:I specifically choose a verse where Jason dosen't exist and Summer is in Dick's generation to avoid creepiness)

Teen Titans(og cartoon)-2003,had 6 seasons and Dragon Rose and Pink Arrows are both canon to this verse,ending in a vee relathionship

Batman:Under The Red Hood-2010,movie adaption where he's the tritagonist like in the original comic

Injustice series-2013,two games and has him as The Eradicator on Clark's side and the sequel gives us Jaysumm as doomed soulmates

Lego DC Super Villains-2018,his legoverse debut

Lego Batman/Superman:Family Matters-2019,a mix between family sitcom and romcom(Jaysumm is the rom part ofc)

DC Superhero Girls reboot-2019,undetirmend number of seasons(but deserves at least 7)and has his Ember incarnation with a Black Lantern alter ego and Stephanie and Jason are the Batgirl and Robin here because they fit better than Babs and Dick(and Clark,Lois and Bruce get age lifts)

Red Hood and The Outlaws(Cartoon adaption)-2019,9 seasons,rated tv-14 in the same sense Fionna and Cake is and one of the weirdest cartoon's ever that's also praised as DC's best show.Has a chibi spinoff called Pocket Outlaws as of 2023

Lego DC:Ember-2020,a game of him as the protagonist and mashup of his various stories

Deaths in the summer-2020,movie adaption fusion of Ditf and Tlos that co-stars him and Jason

Summer Kent and His Spectacular Friends-2022,5 seasons and Summer is in his high school superhero cartoon protagonist era with a girlfantasy twist!The show puts a heavy focus on his girlhood(while still respecting his bigender transmascness)and relathionships with the other Superfam girls and other female Outlaws and has vibes and lore to it that you'd find in MLP and W.i.t.c.h.The only male characters who get consistant screentime are Clark,Jason,Eddie,Mathew(@theautisticcentre ),Thad and Lex

(I won't make this post even longer than it already is but he's also a major character in all the other Superkids' and Batkids' runs i created such as Kon's Power Boy,Mia's Supergirl,Duke's Signal and Cass' Batman and also Thad's Kid Flash!!)

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theactioneer · 11 months

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Jonathan Brandis, Sidekicks (1992)

#jonathan brandis #90s action movies #chuck norris #mullet

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9800sblog · 7 months

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hello 👋 im new to your side and im already obsessed 🫢

I wanted to ask you what type of villain each ateez member would be based on their energies? 😊

Thx

ateez tarot reading

in their villain era

spoiler alert !

hii I LOVED this question, I just wasn't confident in answering yet because i mostly watch romance and drama, but here it is

seonghwa

page of wands, 2 of cups, 4 of cups reversed

the villain with a sad, familiar backstory, leader of the underdogs, revolutionary. no shit that dude is so into star wars, that's the type of villain he'd be, for sure (not for sure, I've never finished the first movie). he has a motive and a passion, he's bringing peace, he has a sidekick, he's taking charge of his life, he's sick of what the world offers him. he's only a villain as a defense mechanism, the explosive type, he wouldn't sit back and plan, he'd act on it diligently and call for others to join him.

carrie (1976)

soundtrack: teenagers - my chemical romance

hongjoong

the sun, the emperor, knight of pentacles, the hierophant, ace of pentacles reversed

power hungry! mad scientist, cult leader, evil genius. the opposite of seonghwa, he has patience and a plan, a legacy, his badness will live for ages. he thinks his way of living and seeing the world are better, more efficient than others, no one has more knowledge than him, he must impose or everything will fall apart. the world without his vision is sick and shallow!

taxi driver (1976)

soundtrack: karma police - radiohead

yunho

the magician reversed, knight of wands reversed, queen of cups, 2 of pentacles reversed

manipulative, controlling, brainwashing! never satisfied, a bored tyrant that hurts peasants for laughs, an evil witch with poisons. literally like voldermort or any disney princess villain. he thrives in others’s pain, does whatever he wants, always wants more. alternatively, a villain motivated by love, he's doing everything for the person who doesn't want him because he is bad so he just keeps doing more.

bram stoker's dracula (1992)

soundtrack: brand new city - mitski

yeosang

3 of pentacles reversed, 5 of wands reversed, 7 of pentacles

duality, the antagonist, the traitor, pretends to be working side by side with the good guys, but is secretly hiding an intense, well-thought plan. shows his best face forward to win the trust and break from the inside. has a sweet tongue, can easily lure people into his cause. mentally disturbed, hears voices, distracts people from real issues, duality. there's this old story I cannot remember the name, about 2 men living inside of 1 body, I can't find it anywhere.

peter pan (1953)

soundtrack: columbia - oasis

san

page of cups, 9 of cups, 8 of cups reversed

prideful villain, born villain, trained. motivated by pride, he admires the power of evil. narcissistic, self obsessed, he always dreamed of doing bad, now he gets to be the worst! definition of power hungry, he quickly realized that the good ones never get ahead and he dedicated his entire life into being the best worst version of himself, "I'll show you".

pearl (2022)

soundtrack: oh no! - marina | nice boys - guns n' roses

mingi

page of swords, 10 of swords reversed, 9 of wands

inherently bad, stays in denial until betrayal, comes back stronger than ever after being humiliated. totally, completely motivated and blinded by revenge, punishment. he claims that others tainted his innocence, but he's always had that thing dormant inside of him, begging to come out.

gone girl (2014)

soundtrack black sheep - palaye royale

wooyoung

2 of cups reversed, temperance, high priestess

his villainy comes from independence and not caring what others think, he just does whatever he wants whenever he feels like it, 0 worries. he's the bully and the mastermind.

girl, interrupted (1999)

soundtrack: chin check - n.w.a.

jongho

ace of pentacles reversed, 5 of swords reversed, death reversed, ace of cups reversed

would rather torture than cause mass end. he just doesn't let anything die or anybody win, he may pretend to be on the good side but he has alterior motives. doesn't create trouble, simply accentuates it. his motivation comes from a simple twisted view of right and wrong, of what's proper, or perfect. he has a silent type of power, a hidden, infiltrated villain, you wouldn't figure out it's him unless he wants you to. he controls the structural complex of things, the way they function and the way people behave. silent killer. "I don't need to do anything because the protagonists are stupid enough to ruin themselves".

mother! (2017)

soundtrack: sympathy for the devil - the rolling stones

#kpop tarot #ateez tarot #ateez #horror #halloween

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thedurvin · 4 months

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Oh boy did I find something for y’all: the YouTube channel “FRUITofZALOOM”, handcrafted lunacy by Paul Zaloom.

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You may remember “Beakman’s World”, a lower-budget competitor to Bill Nye that ran 1992-1998 with rapid-fire terrible jokes that loved delving into grosser science. His quirky sidekicks might have been acting but apparently star Paul Zaloom is just Like That and has been making bizarre multimedia videos in various wacky formats and styles for years now. In this one, Santa Claus (played by a variety of toys and also Zaloom in a costume) tries to go on vacation but gets stuck in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and meets various sea creatures while learning about microplastics.

#beakman's world #Youtube

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randomvarious · 3 months

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1990s German Trance Playlist (YouTube)

Chicago had house, Detroit had techno, and with both of those world-changing dance genres managing to resonate so profoundly throughout much of Europe, you just knew that that continent was gonna then take all that inspiration from those two styles and eventually create something of their own that could stick too. And the big genre that they came up with was trance, which in its earliest days, was heavily nurtured like no other in the city of Frankfurt, Germany.

Now, although he's not strictly known as a trance musician or DJ, it's safe to say that trance music would not exist in its current form if it weren't for the legendary Sven Väth. Sven, a native of Frankfurt, co-founded Harthouse Records in the early 90s with some other folks, and that label would then prove integral to both the rise and spread of trance and hard trance. Sven was someone who had spent many a vacation in the party capital of the world, Ibiza, Spain, and he had also been to the tiny, coastal Indian state of Goa as well, where the beach parties there had DJs spinning all sorts of psychedelic tunes in order to induce their revelers into a state of trance 😵.

And Harthouse's first release was a trance record by Sven himself, along with his trusty sidekick Ralf Hildenbeutel, who seemed to have more of the technological knowhow in order to make Sven's ideas into a reality. Together, under the name of Barbarella, they released "My Name Is Barbarella," a 1992 song that sampled a line of dialogue from the French-directed Jane Fonda sci-fi flick that they had taken their own name from, and also sounded deeply inspired by Ibiza as well. As an undisputed early trance classic, the 9-plus minute version of this one is currently sitting at over 163,000 plays across a bunch of different uploads on YouTube, and it's the song that kicks off this little ten-song playlist here.

And right after "My Name Is Barbarella" then came another Harthouse classic: "Spectrum," by Metal Master, which was a duo that Sven Väth was also a part of, along with one of Harthouse's other co-founders, Matthias Hoffmann. The record that this song comes from, Vol. 1, is the one that started to establish Harthouse's harder edge towards trance, as its first Barbarella release was actually a much softer affair. True to the name that they'd given themselves, Sven and Matthias seem to have incorporated some metal guitar into this one, in the form of long, atmospheric, and distorted chords, which when combined with string synths, really manage to cinch the whole song together, making for quite an astounding piece of dance music 🤩. Currently nearing 112,000 plays with its multiple uploads on YouTube.

But while those two tracks are wholly important in the history of trance music, I also bring them up here because Sven Väth's other halves from both of those duos happen to have trance tunes of their own that are excellent too. Ralf Hildenbeutel had a song that's really hard to believe was made all the way back in 1993—because it sounds so much more modern!—called "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)," which he released as Progressive Attack. As its title suggests, this one is indeed hypnotic, as well as deep, and more than any tune in this playlist that precedes it, also feels like a blueprint for what trance would soon become. And across multiple YouTube uploads, it currently has under 18,000 plays.

And Matthias Hoffmann's contribution is simply one of the most breathtaking pieces of trance that I've ever heard in my life. Back in 1994, he released a song as Brainchild called "Symmetry (C-Mix)," which was put out on another label that he and Sven Väth had also helped co-found called Eye Q Records, which was closely associated with Harthouse itself. Then in '99, "Symmetry C" was re-released on Multiply Records, a subsidiary of UK label Telstar, and on it came a whole bunch of remixes, including a "Breakbeat Remix" that was done by the UK's Lange. And this is a tune that currently brings the whole playlist full circle too, as it serves as the final song while also taking us back to trance's origin point of Frankfurt. Currently sitting at over 341,000 YouTube plays across many different uploads.

Now, we're almost done here, but I'd be remiss if I didn't, at the very least, make mention of a few more tracks on this thing, all of which come courtesy of Hardfloor, a duo from Cologne, who, although they'd become more known for their techno prowess, applied their mastery of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer (the machine that yields electronic music's famed acid squelch) to some trance tracks, including "Trancescript" and "Into the Nature," both of which appear on their acclaimed 1993 debut album, TB Resuscitation. "Trancescript" is currently at under 85,000 plays and "Into the Nature" has over 130,000. And I also included an excellent remix that they did of Chicago native Robert Armani's "Circus Bells" as well, which currently has over 146,000 plays.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible.

Barbarella - "My Name Is Barbarella" Metal Master - "Spectrum" Hardfloor - "Trancescript" Hardfloor - "Into the Nature" Robert Armani - "Circus Bells (Remixed by Hardfloor)" Marco Zaffarano - "For My Love" Progressive Attack - "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)" Paul van Dyk - "Words (PvD's Words for Love Mix)" Pitchrider - "I Know" Brainchild - "Symmetry C (Lange Breakbeat remix)"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music too.

So with this opening shot, we start with ten songs that clock in at a total of 75 minutes; a bunch of classic, historic tunes along with some that have lower play counts too.

And next week will not be nearly as much of a cohesive history lesson, but I'm planning on revisiting these German 90s with a slate of favorite techno bangers 👀.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

#trance #dance #dance music #electronic #electronic music #music #90s #90s music #90's #90's music #youtube #youtube playlist #youtube playlists #youtube music #youtube music playlist #youtube music playlists

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vintagegeekculture · 10 months

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“Sidekicks” (1992) with Jonathan Brandis and Chuck Norris.

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coupleofdays · 2 months

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A while ago, I read through the groundbreaking and highly influental British superhero comic Miracleman (a comic that is equally famous for its long history of complex and strange legal battles over copyright). This included the series "Miracleman: The Golden Age", written by Neil Gaiman, published in 1992. This comic is set in a future world ruled over by the titular superhero, Miracleman, who has managed to transform the Earth into a seeming utopia, mainly through the use of various strange and wonderful alien technologies. The first issue depicts a small group of people making a pilgrimage to Miracleman's home, in order to make wishes and requests to him. When they eventually meet Miracleman, one of the pilgrims, Gwen, make the following wish:

To which Miracleman replies:

Again, keep in mind that this was written in 1992. But when I've read the debate over "AI art", I often think about this part of the comic. And, interestingly enough, Gaiman seems to have done the same. In 2022 he was finally able to continue his Miracleman story with "Miracleman: The Silver Age", and it appears that he decided to show just how Miracleman had granted Gwen's wish. The new story is about his former sidekick, Young Miracleman, exploring the world and noticing signs that it might not actually be all that utopian, despite Miracleman's good intentions. This includes the following panel:

Feels to me that Gaiman makes his thoughts on the subject pretty clear there.

The thing is, when I read Gwen's original request, I could sympathize with her a lot. There have been many times when I've gotten ideas for images in my head, cool artwork that I wish I could see, that I wish I could create. But I just don't have the time and energy to sit down and learn how to draw well enough to realize these pictures. Therefore, the promises that proponents of "AI art" give are very appealing, the idea that I could just type in my idea and have the picture generated, without having to put any effort into it. Of course, I know that in reality, the result would most likely still not be very satisfactory, and would probably miss some specific details I would want. It's an impossible, wrong-headed idea that misses the point of what artistic expression is actually about, just like Miracleman seems to have missed it. But I won't deny that it's tantalizing to imagine just being able to snap my fingers and get the image in my head onto paper.

Of course, I know that the real solution is to comission one of the many wonderful artists that are out there and offering their services. Well, if you can afford it, that is. One aspect of Miracleman's utopia is that he has abolished the concept of money, and has made it so nobody needs to work just to survive. Maybe his mistake in this case was not realizing that he had already created an ideal environment for everyone to have access to art, a world where artists can take comissions from anyone, not because they have to make money to live, but purely because it's fun.

#Miracleman #Neil Gaiman #Mark Buckingham #art #AI art #utopia

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☙Why Harley and Ivy were always meant to be together❧

I often see people on the internet who complain about Harley and Ivy being a couple, it's usually people complaining about how they only became a couple because DC wanted to be 'woke' or something and how they preferred them how they were before, so here I wanted to make a little post to show how there was always something going on between Harley and Ivy long before they became canon.

Harley's first appearance was on September 11 1992 in Batman: The Animated Series, she appeared for four episodes as Joker's Sidekick until on January 18 1993 her fitfth appearance ever was in the episode 'Harley and Ivy', here the two meet for the first time, and become partners in crime, being defined 'the new queens of crime'.

Harley's first comic book appearance, eight months later in The Batman Adventures #12 (September 1993) is together with Ivy, and her first canon appearance in Batman: Harley Quinn #1 (October 1999) also includes Ivy.

This shows how Ivy's character was always important in Harley's history, and she was never just Joker's Henchwoman.

But this doesn't mean there was anything romantic between them right? Well let's take a look at a couple things.

Here's some official art by Bruce Timm himself, who (for the people who might not know) is the co-creator of Harley Quinn; He made quite a few drawings of the two together back in the days where they appear very close like this picture here where they're huggin, or there's even this pic here where Ivy approaches Harley for a Kiss with mistletoe while Harley is nervous about it. Apparently there's even more risqué art but I'm not including that for obvious reasons, sadly Bruce Timm sexualises Harley a lot, but despite that this shows that Bruce Timm himself always saw these two as a thing.

Fun Fact:

Talking about Harley's own creators view on Harley and Ivy, her other co-creator Paul Dini wrote the 'Love is Love' comic for DC's tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting:

Moving on, Harley and Ivy appeared in other episodes of the Batman Animated Series together and became a real Iconic duo. But What about the Comics? Here's some instances in older Comic-Books where the two are portrayed as being pretty close:

Batgirl Adventures (1998) / Batman: Harley and Ivy (2004)

There's also some instances where one of the two was portrayed as caring deeply about the other:

One being this in Batman Adventures #3 (2003) where Harley is all Lovey-Dovey about Ivy.

Or there's also this panel from Batman: Gotham Knights #14 (2001). where when asked if she gets lonely Ivy says that she's got everything she needs while being surrounded by pics of her and Harley (And funnily enough also a picture of Supergirl).

But the major example is definitely this panel from Batgirl Adventures (1998), which honestly speaks for itself and truly shows how even back in the day these two were often perceived as a couple.

Fun Fact: This panel and the one before were both written by Paul Dini

Worth mentioning: during this period in time there was a phase where Ivy was often somewhat hostile towards Harley, and even hit her at times (As you can see mainly in Batman: Harley and Ivy (2004)) This is often brought up by people who ship Harley with Joker. It is undeniably true that there were instances were Ivy definitely wasn't good for Harley, but not only did that kind of behaviour from Ivy stop since they then changed her attitude back to normal and created the whole 'Harley is the only Human Being she cares about' thing, but it's also important to remember that Joker is abusive to Harley in basically every universe, more importantly the main one, while with Ivy, she was only abusive to Harley in the DCAU comics, while being normal and loving in other universes, and her behaviour was also mostly comedic since we can see Harley doesn't have much of a reaction in those comics.

Last but not least, another instance of Harley and Ivy's relationship having romantic undertones is found in Gotham City Sirens (2009), which is more recent but still takes place a few years before the couple became canon.

Here in Issue #24 Harley accuses Ivy of caring so much about her because she is in love with her, Ivy gets incredibly mad about this, so much that she almost tries to kill Harley, but stops after seeing her Arkham cell covered in Joker graffiti, she remembers that she has a problem and how much she cares about her. Here Ivy is clearly in denial about her feelings, a dynamic that we later see appear again years later in The Harley Quinn Animated Series, though in a much different way.

In conclusion, Harley and Ivy clearly have history, and it's crazy or at least ignorant to claim that their romantic relationship came out of nowhere.

This post also turned out a bit long, I don't know if anyone will read it or care about this but if anyone did I hope you like this little snippet of Harlivy history, and I incourage you to add more if anything comes to mind!

I remind you that these are fictional character and you're free to ship whoever you want, even Jarley! or you're free to not like the ship of Harley and Ivy of course, even though me being me I obviously wouldn't get that.

I hope everyone has a nice day, and I hope we get more and more of Harley and Ivy in the future!

edit:

I felt like adding these quotes from Paul Dini (Co-Creator of Harley) to the post (link to the interview)

"When Bruce and I did the Harley and Ivy miniseries, it was certainly implied that [Ivy and Harley] had a relationship with each other—they shared hugs and kisses. I didn’t want that to overpower what the story was, but the relationship between them is so natural."

"The more I worked with [Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy], the more I could see [a romantic relationship] happening. Unfortunately, at the time, in an animated kids cartoon, you really couldn’t get into the complexity of that or honor what a relationship like that could really be. We just showed them together as friends and on fairly intimate terms when they were out of the costume, but nothing was implicit because if we couldn’t do that relationship properly then we didn’t want to do it at all."

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