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barrel-crow-n · 4 months

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Biggest crime of SaB and it's cancellation is it not showing me Kaz's start into Dirtyhands. I wanted to see Fflyn Edwards bite people and smash them over the head with bricks and bottles. Was that too much to ask?

#can someone give me feral kid kaz fic recs #i read one where it was just him serving time in fucking stir six times #and i absolutely loved it #but i also just want feral street kid kaz #pleaaaase?#kaz brekker #six of crows #grishaverse #six of crows duology #soc #dirtyhands #feral street child kaz #< i promised i'd make that a tag #feral kaz #netflix shadow and bone

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bonnieisaway · 2 months

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anyways while I was editing earlier we have almost a precise ranking of power for the shadow killers despite most of them not actually ever saying/their official ranking never been mentioned. and most of this is either just mentioned in passing or can be guessed from the way the show presents them. up to season 4 spoilers ahead btw

so like, obviously Seven (in his prime, at least - do you think the second spot ever took his when he disappeared btw? like do you think there was a time where he was just labelled missing for ages before somebody else became number one?) was rank number one, it's said and talked about like a million times, Seven was conclusively the highest ranked and most powerful shadow killer by 18 years old.

along with this we hear one other thing: Green Phoenix is mentioned to be the (physically) weakest Shadow Killer. given how much people are sticklers for the rankings we can presume this puts him at the lowest of the seven, even if he chose to appear weaker than he is and his focus is majorly on cunning and wit rather than martial prowess, I assume this is where he's offically ranked honestly

everyone else has never had their number mentioned - or if it was said in some obscure place i don't know it's not on the wiki, but let's be fucking for real nothing is on the wiki seriously one of us might wanna update that thing one day anyways - but I believe we can roughly guess where the rest of the killers rank given by their actions in the show and the order which the show presents them.

which - this might be a controversial one tbh - puts Redtooth fairly low on the list. he is physically more powerful than Green Phoenix, but Green Phoenix is able to outwit Redtooth twice, and Green Phoenix is technically the one who kills Redtooth. But also, Seven at fairly low strength was able to fight Redtooth and almost won on his own. Redtooth is also mentioned in season 4 that naturally, he was physically weak and actually struggled with picking up qi and such - he does not have a natural nor honed talent and his power ENTIRELY relies on the Blood Demon inside him. So he's easily outwitted, he's physically weak without the Blood Demon which, up until season 4 was still restrained heavily, Seven is able to handle him all the way back in season two. Notably, Dai Bo and the rest of the cast are unable to handle him however, even though most of them are built to handle aggressive opponents liked Redtooth.

But it's mainly the fact he appears and is 'defeated' so early in the show that makes me truly believe he ranks so low. Obviously we probably haven't seen the full capabilities of Redtooth and most of the cast however, and this is a ranking with the seal. Obviously he seems to be set up to absolutely rock White Fox's shit in season 5, but it's still really important to keep in mind that this is purely the Blood Demon.

after him the other shadow killer we have the most information on is Blackbird, who Seven ultimately beat into the fuckin ground but boy did we sure almost die getting there!!

So from what we know about Blackbird, from season three, is that unlike Redtooth, he is physically strong, and similar to Green Phoenix he's largely driven by his trauma and his need to validate something that's missing within him, but his weakness seems to really only be his own ego - his weakness (aside from the sun like a fucking vampire. cringelord) is when he can't win, when he is struggling, his frustration is ultimately his downfall. This is one of - if not the only - few fights where 'prime' Seven - or even just Seven as he is now - does not appear to be physically stronger than somebody, and he's actually just barely faster than Blackbird (being able to fucking FLY he's still got a bit of an advantage but Seven's reaction time is evidently quicker, and Blackbird comments that Seven's ambushes and speed used to be infamous - a prowess that Blackbird is almost capable to keep up with) but he wins the fight with wit and outsmarting them. And ultimately, Blackbird's weakness was himself.

Which is a lot to say he's really strong. But it's hard to place him anywhere on the leaderboard without a key thing that Manjusaka says:

"It seems you're the best after all," as she turns to Blackbird. This is (presumably) the direct translation, because in English Manjusaka actually says something different that I wanna touch on again later, but she turns to Blackbird and says he's the best after all. Which would imply: Blackbird took the spot for number one when Seven was missing. Blackbird had been second to Seven in the league - and some of his contempt for Seven may be because of that. This conclusively puts Blackbird in the number two spot for me.

The next three we have even less information on, so it's really hard to put them in precise spots. As for Manjusaka though we have this: she is very cunning and manipulative, and the other Shadow Killer we know to be infamous for their cunning and wit was the lowest ranked - because the ranks seem to have FAR more value in raw martial prowess and strength than wit. Along with this, Manjusaka never actually works alone. In English in season 3, when she turns to Blackbird, she says "I guess we're just better together," which puts a lot of emphasis on her working with somebody, and emphasis on the fact that she's USING the fact that Blackbird is so high rank so that she can be powerful by proxy. She's also the only one who seems to defend her other Shadow Killers - though they aren't immune to her own scrutiny, Manjusaka outright kills three people for shit-talking Redtooth.

Along with this - Manjusaka dies to Green Phoenix (coughprobablycough) and leaves her as an opponent Seven will never (probably) fight. The Shadow Killers have kept appearing in an order of higher and higher ranking, and Manjusaka is the third to ever appear, and of the three, ALL THREE have died and one came back. Just like, the order these characters have appeared in, they usually appear in increasing power and every season has ended with Seven fighting or about to fight a new, powerful Shadow Killer. Manjusaka dying already leaves her feeling fairly low ranked, given the pattern the show has exhibited.

Manjusaka is also tied to Shimen and are inseparable - what Shimen and Manjusaka lack the other make up for. Shimen appears slow yet viciously strong and stone faced, he's nothing but muscle and qi, and Manjusaka is fast and stealthy - she teleports around, she uses deception and poisons to best her enemies. They're also hardly ever depicted apart. They're only separated twice - when Shimen leaves the fight with Blackbird due to general disinterest, and when Shimen and Manjusaka split up in season 4.

(these two symbols fading into each other feel like they represent Manjusaka and Shimen)

They're constantly depicted together and fluently work together. They coordinate easily when that's not the normal for the Shadow Killers - infighting is banned and that's it, they aren't required to get along. But these two are two inseparable halves of one whole, they are both arguably strong on their own but they have glaring weaknesses that the other fills. Their weaknesses, to a point, are when they're separated. This also would seemingly put them next to each other on the ranking - together it feels like they make up one, unstoppable person, and it makes sense that separately they are at similar ranking/strength, just simply excel together, and weaker rankings would be the most likely to bond together to form stronger ones.

Not to mention, Manjusaka dies on screen at the end of the season four and that's it, and Shimen's fate is left entirely unknown because he doesn't appear again and only the leader approaches Green Phoenix. But during the opening for the entire season we see one shot of Shimen we never actually see during the season:

Shimen left alone and unconscious without Manjusaka. And he leaves the Blackbird fight unharmed, he obviously leaves the encounter with Ouyang Zang (is that his name ? straight up might've misspelled it sorry ) alive because he appears again afterwards, and it seems to imply that without Manjusaka, Shimen is left weak and vulnerable. So these two, to me, feel like they're exactly next to each other on the rankings - and possibly ranked somewhere in the middle

Which now only leaves White Fox, who we know the least about personality wise but we've seen some of his martial abilities (AKA: hey guys I can make a nitrogen bomb from my finger. wanna see) and watched him fight the prince of Stan, which does lead to the conclusion that he is fairly powerful, though it seems it's not really physical strength but his qi, speed, and reflexes that let him overpower his opponents. Given the rankings I've given the other Shadow Killers it naturally leaves him at a semi-high spot.

Which leaves me with my final (guesstimated) ranking of the Shadow Killers, with Seven during his prime, Redtooth's seal still not broken:

Seven

Blackbird

White Fox

Shimen

Manjusaka

Redtooth

Green Phoenix

Shimen and Manjusaka feel interchangeable in their spots, honestly? And I would almost put Redtooth above Manjusaka ...? But it kind of feels natural that he's below her. Also, I went back and skimmed the show to see if anybody else was introduced by ranking, given that a lot of people in the show had been previously, and I only found these scenes:

Which are all only labelled 'the seven greats' according to the translation, unless somebody here speaks Chinese and their rankings are actually said/implied in the Chinese characters and Netflix just didn't translate it which wouldn't even surprise me honestly Netflix just fucking does that sometimes

so yea 👍 that's my estimation on the rankings of the Shadow Killers maybe the show will prove me right eventually. this post took me like 2 hours to make. help

#scissor seven #killer seven #wu liuqi #seven #scissor 7 #analysis #manjusaka #blackbird #white fox #green phoenix #shimen #redtooth #bonnie is once again going stir crazy without content #absolutely nobody is surprised #honestly the rankings feel kind of weird #i supposed they're based only off kills or something similar.. ?#or maybe it's because we haven't seen the full potential of a lot of characters #but majusaka lowkey feels like she should be SO much lower #and shimen should be SO much higher #and i dont even know how redtooth truly is a shadow killer. i'm thinking the last one before redtooth called in sick /j #i mean they are all undoubtedly insanely powerful #i think just analyzing their combat and how theyre talked about for #the past 2 hours of my life has mentally isolated me from the fact that these are the 7 best in the world

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welcome-to-green-hills · 6 months

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Hoping and praying for some sibling energy in Sonic 3. I don’t care if it’s from the Wachowski boys or from Shadow and Maria, I need some fun sibling antics…🙏❤️✨

#sonic movie #sonic movie 3 #sonic wachowski #tails wachowski #knuckles wachowski #Movie!Shadow #Movie!Maria #Y’all can tell that I’m goin’ a bit stir-crazy here 😅😂

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cryptid-stimming · 2 months

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👻 Too Many Meatballs Stimboard 👻

x x x / x x x / x x x

[Image description: a 9 gif stimboard; from left to right.

First line: A close-up gif of meatballs sizzling in a frying pan and being turned with a pair of tongs. A close-up gif of a hand placing a cooked meatball onto a pile of meatballs on a plate. And a gif of a creepy humanoid shadow on a wall gesturing with a clawed hand towards a bed (taken from the 2010 film Insidious).

Second line: A gif of meatballs being stirred in a pan with a thick sauce, steam rising up. A gif of Ryan and Shane from the online show 'Watcher', sitting around a firepit, with font appearing on screen reading "too many meatballs". And a gif of meatballs in a frying pan being turned with a pair of tongs.

Third line: A gif of someone's hand writing 'you'll die' with a white paint marker over a drawing of a meatball with a ghostly face. A gif of meatballs sizzling on a baking tray tray. And a gif jumpcutting as meatballs are added to a pan of thick sauce with a pair of tongs.

End of image description.]

#stimboard #I'm being silly #unsourced gif is mine I can't draw a meatball apparently lol #hands #writing #creepy #silhouettes #shadows #people #watcher entertainment #food #meat #cooking #sizzling #frying #rotation #stirring #fast gif

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snowy-bones · 3 months

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Bellino

that's a name we do not speak about as it causes an upset. teh heh! if you are wanting to interact with us, please do so in a more appropriate manner and not just saying names. some are still tender and we are not ready to talk about those losses...

#nonni nuggo #admin snow #the shadows stir #please do refrain from just sending in names #it can be unsettling #if you wish to speak to us please just do so?#we do not understand why you have just sent in a few names of old alters #but please be respectful

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darkestelemental616 · 1 year

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Bruh, I think I may be a genius.

I think I may have solved one of the BIGGEST plot holes of the original Grishaverse trilogy: why didn’t any of the Grisha Mal touched--including Zoya--notice that he was a goddamn amplifier?

(spoilers for the Grisha Trilogy/Ruin and Rising under the cut)

BECAUSE ALINA HAD ALREADY CLAIMED HIM.

SHE CLAIMED HIM WHEN SHE REFUSED THE TESTER’S CALL IN THE BOOKS. SHE CLAIMED MOROZOV’S AMPLIFIER ALREADY, ALIVE, AND THEREFORE INCOMPLETELY OR SOME BULLSHIT WHEN SHE WAS A KID, AND THAT’S WHY HIS AMPLIFICATION DIDN’T WORK ON ANYONE ELSE.

And then when she killed him in Ruin and Rising, she closed the circle/disrupted the claim or something, and that’s why she lost her power, because she had lost her powers to keep him in the first place, so blah blah blah some equivalent exchange bullshit, but my point is that I just fixed a massive plot hole by being sick and sleep-deprived while rewatching season 1 of Shadow and Bone and prepping for season 2.

...Also that Inferni in the show with the blue ribbon in her hair that dies in episode 1 was totally Zoya’s girlfriend and that’s why Zoya in KoS/RoW wears a blue ribbon, thank you and goodnight.

#grishaverse #shadow and bone #ruin and rising #sab spoilers #sab show #Mal Oretsev #Alina Starkov #malina #Alina Starkova #meta #headcanon accepted #miri attempts writing #I've had covid for a couple weeks and while I have minimal symptoms #I may be going a little stir-crazy

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catsafari25 · 6 months

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ALSO while I'm on the subject of bionicle, while I do adore that Matau gets his character development in Web of Shadows, if you'd only shown me Legends of Metru Nui and asked me to guess who'd be the one to push Vakama over the edge, it would have been Onewa, hands down

(Also ALSO: Matau's whole "I understand that being a leader means being brave enough to make mistakes" spiel felt like we were missing some b-plot where Matau has to step up to help lead and discovers this personally)

#bionicle #lego bionicle #web of shadows #posts that are probably incomprehensible to 98% of my mutuals #onewa and matau are kinda opposites?#in that the matau & vakama conflict is set up through their different approaches #(matau is more easily distracted and laid back while vakama is very Driven and weighed down with responsibility)#while the onewa & vakama conflict is stirred up by the fact they're actually quite similar in ways #(both are canonically described as the tacticians of the group)#(and had vakama's visions not pushed him into leadership then onewa would probably have stepped forward)#yes im dissecting the choices of a nearly 20yo lego commercial movie #but in my defence this was a cornerstone of my childhood

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frasermints · 5 months

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Why is Joey's ankle sprain the worst case scenario? Week to week is good I thought

typically, w/ athletes that require a lot of ankle movement (basketball is where i saw most of my ankle injuries) week to week is a good sign. and if we can trust what leafs pr staff are saying (which, if you know me... I Do Not), then his sprain isn't worse than a grade two.

skates are designed the way they're designed for a reason. ankle support is a necessity so you can skate safely. that's why if you watch this video, OP is getting their shit rocked in the comments for wrapping their laces around their ankle - it creates the illusion of stability while actually destroying the integrity of the boot & setting them up for injury.

i have concerns that ayotte and bean and theodoropolous are going to either sign off on him getting back to on-ice activities too early - not even playing just fucking practice - or that woller himself will push too hard the second he's cleared out of a misplaced sense of obligation and he's going to resprain and it will be worse.

if you don't know, high ankle sprains are much worse than your average "i stepped down off the curb and fucked my foot up". high ankle sprains have an at minimum six to eight week heal time, often with the demand of no weight and zero movement for the first two. it can cause a rotational or shearing fracture at the end of the tibia/fibula where the ligaments insert, which was why he got the MRI yesterday. they had to know what they were working with to make sure he wasn't out for the season vs just out "week to week" (it's going to end up being at least a month. prepare for two.) they also sometimes require surgery and plating if there is a fracture involved, mostly because of where the break is. they have to make sure the bones of your leg stay where they're supposed to be.

because there isn't a lot of blood supply to ligament tissue, it's really hard for ligaments to heal. and because i don't have access to woller's mri results or ayotte's/bean's/theodoropolous' brains, i have no idea what they're planning on doing for a rest and rehab plan, if there's an incomplete tear, if it's grade one or grade two. i could keep going.

back to the ankle support skates thing - woller isn't skating miles every single night, but much of his job relies on his flexibility, ability to change direction quickly, ability to quite literally fold in on himself at a moment's notice. his ankles have to be stable AND flexible. that is not possible with any amount of leftover inflammation or injury.

woller is the entire leafs team. as much as i love willy and mo and mitch and everyone else. woller is the entire leafs team. keefe knows this. keefe is not a doctor. keefe has pushed them to the point of exhaustion a couple times this season. the only reason practice was cancelled after mo's 35+ minute game was because he literally could not get out of bed the next day. i don't know if i trust keefe's judgement when woller does come back. i just... i don't have a good feeling about it.

once you fuck up a joint, especially the ankle, especially where woller hurt his, it's fucked up for the rest of your life. he is very likely to do this again at least twice. maybe not during his career. maybe when he's retired. maybe during an offseason. but again - you guys see the shit he does in the net. he acts like he doesn't have any fucking bones. he runs around like he's a puppet on strings. like he's a fucking video game character. he does not treat his body kindly when he plays. i don't know what he does to cool down or warm up or whatever, but he treats his body poorly during games. this was inevitable. and i am scared for what happens during his recovery.

i do not give a fuck if we end this season 32 in the league. i do not care if we use marlies goalies for the rest of the season. all i need is leafs staff to listen to me when i tell them to let joseph woll recover at home for as long as he needs for his ankle to be at 100%, because if they don't, it will not be good for him.

#most of this is doomerposting but a lot of this is an analysis from my two years of helping athletes go through shit like this #it's definitely different because hs athletes aren't professionals and i am not like a doctor or anything i was just an AT's shadow #but athletes are still athletes. the mentality is still the same and they're all fucking crazy when taken out of their enclosures #there was a girl i took care of that had committed to notre dame to play d1 basketball that got a high ankle sprain #it was in fact grade 3 and she did in fact NOT listen to recovery instructions so this is very different #it ended her sports career and she didn't go on to play NCAA basketball which sucks #but as much as athletes are known for ''taking care of their bodies'' athletes do NOT take care of their bodies. athletes enjoy doing sport #sleeping and elevating and icing is not doing sports. letting someone else do your job is not doing sports #and i can see woller going stir crazy at home while jones and sammy take over for 2 months and it breaks my heart #my post #nhl #leafs #joseph woll #asks #anonymous #answered

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loraculis · 1 month

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halfway trough the first chapter of the new story, and if we ignore the clunky wording (like 2 sentences back to back ending with the same 3 words), the story is quite fun and engaging, with a worldbuilding that's half dark fantasy and half dystopian sf, a semi-active mc who actually drives the plot!!

i'm really interested, so we'll see.

#the underground city : stirring shadows #tuc:ss #this name is so long and for what #dutp #dress up time princess #time princess #time princess dreamtopia #tp #tpd

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confused-bagel · 11 months

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can ya’ll send me a list of voice actors you want to voice Shadow in the next movie

#I have an idea stirring in my brain #shadow the hedgehog #sonic movie 3 #bagel.txt

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clannfearrunt · 2 years

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My idea for what Ring Fucker is is like. Yeah sure TKB is in there and so is Zorc and yeah sure they are two of the biggest/most complete portions of what makes up The Spirit Of The Ring but. Every time the Ring has a new host aspects of the host/their “darkness” does get added to the mix and the Ring has had. SO many hosts. There’s SO MANY bits of people with completely different personalities, goals and desires in there that it makes Ring Fucker a mess, he’s easily distracted in the short term and he acts erratically and contradicts himself regularly and he’s a Little Stupit. He’s a thief. He’s the captain of the city guard. He’s a great king on a campaign of conquest. Hes leading a peasant uprising against the local monarch. He’s a mother of five. He’s killed 3 of his children. He’s a gay man. He’s a lesbian. He’s had three of his previous husbands die tragically leaving him only their wealth. He’s been a doctor. He’s died of fourteen different diseases multiple times. He’s Russia’s greatest love machine. If he even THINKS about sex he’s gonna throw up. He’s a Catholic pardoner granting indulgences. He’s been to Protestant church service more times than he can count. He’s illiterate. He’s taught in 3 universities.

He was a horse one time.

#this obviously hinges on my staunch belief that DSOD is not real but Capsule Monsters is #this is what I MEAN when I say the spirit of the ring is a soup #Con stop yapping #nice brain! *stirs it up with a spoon*#Con goes to the shadow realm #The AYuniverse

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