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[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you’re thoughts on teaching younger children sex ed are so correct. do you think it has to do with the Christian like “purity culture” that seems so deeply ingrained into our society or some other factors too? I’ve noticed ppl only think teens can be abstinent, so much so that conversations around teen shows always seem to involve how if the characters are having sex, they could have been aged up or not included those types of things, leading to this whole “puriteen” phenomenon. But I’ve always thought it was realistic to show it, cause it happens.

okay lotta ideas here let me chunk these up

do you think it has to do with the Christian like “purity culture” that seems so deeply ingrained into our society or some other factors too?

if by "our society" you mean the United States then yeah absolutely. this country has a deep and pervasive vein conservative Christianity in our culture that's soaked into everything from politics to education to art and entertainment (which are not things that can be meaningfully disentangled from each other anyway). sex education in schools used to be a fairly bipartisan issue in the earlier half of the 20th century, but the modern backlash largely stems from the republican party adopting abortion and sexual conservatism as the party standard in order to align with evangelical Christians (this is, of course, a very streamlined version of events). which is not to say that only republicans have been complicit in defanging sex education; notably it was Bill Clinton who incentivized abstinence only education during his presidency and fired his surgeon general appointee Joycelyn Elders for stating that she believed children should be taught about masturbation in schools. (look up Joycelyne Elders, she's incredible.)

I’ve noticed ppl only think teens can be abstinent, so much so that conversations around teen shows always seem to involve how if the characters are having sex, they could have been aged up or not included those types of things, leading to this whole “puriteen” phenomenon. But I’ve always thought it was realistic to show it, cause it happens.

I don't think it's, like, an inherently sex negative act to be unimpressed with the overabundance of TV shows about teens getting naked and fucking each other senseless. there's a pretty wide gap between wanting real actual teens to have information and opportunity to safely explore their sexuality and the TV and film industry profiting from the fantasy of promiscuous teens played by 20-sometthings. like, I don't think anyone who cranked it to the girls from Riverdale is a child abuser or whatever, because those were in no way real children and anyone with eyes can see that, but given how rife the entertainment industry is with sexual violence and abuse towards real child and teen actors I do think it gets like. extremely skeezy.

like to be clear I DO agree that people who are surprised when teens are anything but 100% abstinent are clowns, especially because this attitude hurts no one so much as teens who are made to feel like there's something wrong with them for being horny during the Being Horn period of their hormonal development. and I do agree that we're seeing ramifications of this backlash against sexuality showing up in young people who are worryingly squeamish about sex and intimacy. but I don't think the expectation that teens are supposed to be abstinent is the sole factor behind people criticizing hypersexual teen shows. most things aren't just one thing.

[hiemaldesirae]

Swap AU:

Vox and Alastor's breakup/Fight was huge--and messy as fuck. Quite simply, unlike what canon is hinting at where Valentino came to Vox's rescue and Alastor ruined one of his Antenna it didn't happen here--and for those 7 years, Alastor lived with the belief he'd killed his beloved Vox. Which is the main reason why Alastor took over the entertainment district--too keep anything of Vox's alive. So yeah, Alastor runs the Vees. TV isn't as powerful--Radio is in every house, but huge televisions are on every corner, running 24/7 informing sinners of news and such and you can rent a tv alongside videos. (And the big TVs show Valentino's porn for a few limited hours at night. Val is....not someone Alastor cares alot for, especially once it comes out Vox sent an SOS to him. Once Velvette and Nifty become friends however, Alastor can see what Vox saw in Velvette.)

Vox's deal with Lucifer is alot more freer then whatever canon Alastor has going on. Lucifer's only command is this: Help and Protect Charlie to the best of your abilities and I'll give you power. The more you help her the more power you'll get in return.

So Vox doesn't really want to free himself at the moment--why would he, when helping the Princess would get him ridiculous amounts of power? (And with this power, he could protect himself from Alastor? He'd never be afraid of dying a second time again.) And that's why he avoids radios, knowing if Alastor picks up his voice the deer will know he's up and alive.

Upon his return and realization that Overlords aren't solo acts anymore and that Alastor owns the Vees and the entertainment district, Vox gets in contact with a hidden Overlord that owes him big time--after all, Vox did stop him from betting his soul and well seeing how Valentino's life is absolute shit at the moment it's a good thing he did.

Husker is, of course grumpy as ever, but agrees to take on his overlord status again and Join Vox at the Hotel--both of them proclaiming themselves as allies and the Hotel and the area around it their territory, easily surrounding the land with hearts, spades and lightning bolts.

While the two overlords are decorating, Angel Dust lifts up his phone, and takes pictures of Vox, and sends them to Valentino.

Valentino prints them out, and drops them off at Alastor's desk, murmuring about how having Angel Dust at the hotel might be a good thing after all.

HI AGAIN SWAP NONNY!!! youre so cool marry me. I mean what wait who said that

oh my GODDDD fuck the idea that alastor thinks he fucking KILLED vox when the other disappeared... im gonna be SICK he thought he killed his beloved and because of it even though he hates modern technology and all the buzz and noise that comes along with it he decided to take control of the entertainment district because itw as the only thing he thought he had left of vox... do you think he kept like voxs old heads or something and like has a makeshift grave or something. and he hates val because vox went to ask him for help but he didnt come in time so he thinks its BOth their faults that vox is gone... oh my god. oh my fucking God........ im really gonna be sick nonny why would you do this to me THEYRE SO FUCKIGn .OWUAUGAHHHHH TEARS MY HAIR OUT

YEAHH husk and vox friendship here is so sweet to me. i like to think that vox and husk join in on the bonding activities at the hotel with charlie and hype her up sometimes. also since theres no niffty here would vox also act as a niffty type person? like he and husk share duties between them of being concierge/janitor/bartender.... imagining vox in a bartender suit and a maid outfit was probably not the best thing to do for my fragile mind tbh but. You know. You see my vision right nonny dont you (i am shaking you gently)

GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HIM!!!!!!!! is angel acting like double agent like here or something? or are he and val in less of an employee/abusive boss relationship here and more of a comrades-in-arms relationship here united under alastor's tyranny? whatever it is im excited to hear more :) please dont stop with this nonny the brainrots getting to me

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[southofeerie]

modern west wing social media hcs

i feel like charlie would have the most normal social media acct and following, like maybe an instagram where he posts pictures of himself (mostly for family), and like a twitter where he occasionally retweets his friends or bartlet. he likes making fun of other people (especially senior staff) for being too stuck to their devices, and a large online presence would take away that ability

CJ’s twitter is less incendiary than she’d like, since she’s the face of the bartlet administration, and so a lot of it is discussing policy or clarifying briefings. she does retweet a lot of good edu sites or interesting articles she finds. she herself trends a lot, she’s pretty famous online as a political icon ala AOC or bernie sanders, and she gets a lot of edits made online from press conferences (which she enjoys bragging abt to the other staff, while making fun of them for being out-of-touch). CJ also has a private instagram that hogan had her make, but she only posts extremely blurry pictures of coffee and her goldfish with captions like “hogan said to post to remind people that im alive”. toby always replies with “sending the pictures to MOMA. breathtaking” and danny replies with “breaking news. press secretary reveals she is still alive. more at 7”.

leo does not have social media because he still has a flip phone and a brick laptop. he says he prefers hearing bad news out loud or reading it on physical paper, but really, he just can’t figure out how to work it. im talking types “google” into google, then types “hello find me a map of the united states of america” in the search bar. margaret tried to help but seeing him type google into google physically pained her

josh is banned from twitter (after he pissed off three midwestern states, basket weavers, and most hollywood producers in the first week in office). cj regularly checks to make sure he hasn’t made a new account. he has a public instagram, but cj looks over captions before he posts (he once tried to ask the president for permission to get a new account but the president sided with cj). most of his posts are about encouraging people to vote or be more politically active. he is also not allowed to reply to comments on the instagram, so he reads them out loud in a mocking voice to donna. unbeknownst to him, there is a white house deputy chief of staff twitter page run by donna (with cj’s permission) that discusses white house initiatives and shares fun anecdotes abt day to day work. anytime someone tells josh they love his twitter account he assumes they mean instagram, and nobody tells him until bartlet is two years out of office

donna, like charlie, has an instagram mostly for her family back home, but also has a twitter where she talks about tv shows she likes and her hobbies, that has a decent following. she might have a tumblr but again it would be abt tv shows and hobbies she has

toby is on goodreads and instagram (but only to leave sarcastic comments on his friends’ posts). he hates twitter’s word count limit and how it’s owned by elon musk, and rants abt it often. he leaves lengthy reviews on any political commentary article in the comments section. this has been brought up in the briefing room, to the point where cj has a recording of herself saying “toby ziegler’s online rants are not indicative of president bartlet’s views. if you have any questions please direct them to ziegler himself”

president bartlet has facebook </3. there’s a white house twitter page run by an intern, but he’s not involved with that. he posts fun facts about national parks or ancient latin novels, but each fact starts with something like “joshua lyman, 🧍‍♂️deputy chief of staff, 🇺🇸doesn’t understand the true beauty of yellowstone national park 🙄🏞🏜🤦‍♂️”. most people think it’s a parody account and cj doesn’t want to correct them

abbey does not have facebook, despite her husbands insistence that it’s better than twitter. on the rare occasions she uses her account it’s mostly to discuss important medical breakthroughs and her daughter’s work

sam has a really popular instagram, where he posts selfies and pretty pictures of the white house and captions like “having a great day at work today!” or “white house at sunset.. gorgeous”. he posts on his story a lot, and comes off as very relatable to the public. he’s cj’s dream social media user

will bailey runs campaign social medias pretty well but his own twitter account is mostly for promoting the campaigns. occasionally he retweets stuff his friends post, or tweets out funny jokes he hears.

margaret is tumblr famous, but never posts abt her job. her posts regularly wind up on other sites. she hasn’t told anybody and doesn’t plan to

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[kindatrocities]

I'm not gonna say much because me and politics have an 🌟unhealthy relationship 🌟 and I tend to get sucked down rabbit holes that end with me causing more damage than I should, but I will say this. I became a full fledged lefty around the time of January Sixth and I wasn't really focused on the Israel-Palestine conflict at that point because it wasn't being focused on in comparison to the anti-democracy and fascism that was coming out of the United States domestically. Until October 7th happened, I didn't really realize there was that much of a conflict to begin with, let alone a deep seated one that went back for decades. And I was confused why the Biden administration, who, up until that point while not perfect, had done foreign policy better than most US presidents of the modern era (not a high bar) had become a fucking genocidal maniac to begin with. I had heard talk about the scary Zionist lobby, but I don't think I got a sense of how big and how powerful that lobby was until a couple of days ago. Students at Columbia University had taken a building called Hamilton Hall. Taking buildings has been a form of protest since modern protesting was a thing. Hell, Columbia University itself had Vietnam anti war protestors take over the a building on that SAME CAMPUS. But what ended up happening was that these encampments outside the building and inside the building were attacked by, what I can only see as half the fucking NYPD. Fireworks for Anti-Protestor Zionist types were shot into the crowd and people were brutalized by the officers. Then the NYPD had the audacity to go onto TV and say that the protest movement was being infiltrated by anti-US foreign agents, and their evidence of this was an industrial chain they said that most students would not have access to, EXCEPT, that exact chain is sold on the University of Columbia website to prevent bike theft. And all of this was simply to get Columbia University to stop funding a genocide.

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[beardedmrbean]

“Cuckooing” could become a new criminal offence in plans under discussion by the Home Office.

A total of 48 MPs have backed a proposal that would make the act of occupying or exercising control over another person’s home in connection with criminal activity illegal for the first time.

The practice, known as “cuckooing”, is most commonly perpetrated by county lines gangs who often occupy a vulnerable person’s home to store or distribute drugs.

Problem highlighted in popular TV dramas

The problem has been highlighted in such popular television dramas as Line of Duty and Happy Valley - but is in itself not a criminal offence.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith has put forward an amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill that would make “cuckooing” punishable by up to seven years in prison.

The former Conservative leader has had a meeting with Home Office officials to discuss the proposals, which have the backing of 40 Tory MPs including Suella Braverman, the ex-home secretary.

Police visited more than 1,200 “cuckooed” addresses within one week last month, as part of a national “country lines intensification week”.

There are tools, both civil and criminal, available to police and local authorities to disrupt “cuckooing”, and perpetrators can be prosecuted for the crime that they commit within a property, such as drugs offences.

But backers of the amendment, including Sir Robert Buckland, the former justice secretary, believe that using a vulnerable person’s property as a base for such activities itself needs to become a recognised crime.

‘People with vulnerabilities being exploited’ 

“I think that ‘cuckooing’ is another example of how we can reflect the sad reality that there are still many, many people out there who have vulnerabilities who are being exploited by criminal gangs or more sophisticated operators, who use these people as a human shield in order to conceal their criminal activities.

“Therefore, I think anything we can do to strip away that last shield has got to be a good thing in terms of really meeting the criminality where it lies.”

He warned that currently victims of “cuckooing”, which can include people with mental health issues, the elderly or those with learning disabilities, currently risk facing criminal sanctions themselves for criminal activity going on in their home.

He added: “I think it is important that we seek to use the full force of the criminal law to tackle this type of exploitation.”

The proposed new law would mean that a person will have committed an offence if they occupy or exercise control over the home of another person in connection with carrying out a criminal offence.

‘Police need more powers’ 

Means of exercising such control range from the threat of use of force or other coercive behaviour, fraud, or the giving of payments or other benefits to achieve consent of the victim.

Louise Gleich, of the Joint Modern Slavery Unit at the Centre for Social Justice and Justice and Care, said: “The police need more powers to go after the criminals who cause such devastation in the lives of vulnerable people.

“Simply prosecuting offenders for other crimes takes no account of the harm done to the victims. Civil orders are inadequate to properly disrupt this behaviour and stop offenders just moving on to other victims.

“A specific criminal offence is needed and we urge the Government to use the Criminal Justice Bill to update the law.”

The Home Office said: “Cuckooing is unacceptable, and the police already have a range of powers to step in and protect vulnerable people if they are being exploited in this way, including possible jail time for the perpetrator.

“We will consider the amendment and engage with parliamentary colleagues in the usual way.”

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[redhoodinternaldialectical]

Was wondering who's your favourite Jason Todd writer. (Maybe least favourite too)

Oooh this is a tough one! In part because I'm not entirely sure who to count as a Jason Todd writer, and in another part because I'm trying to pick someone other than Winick bc saying it's him feels too obvious lmao

The joke answer is Bruce Jones, because I genuinely adore Nightwing: Brothers In Blood, though I uhhh- look I GET why other people do not xD

But really maybe I should just bite the bullet and say it's Judd Winick. I do love what he did with the character and I can say with confidence that I'm not just listing him cause of Under the Red Hood. Seeing Red in Green Arrow (2001) is like my favorite comic run ever. Jason's appearance in Outsiders (2003) is great. Streets Run Red in B&R was solid. Lost Days remains my favorite interpretation of the time after he came back, despite the fact that I have some criticisms.

That being said, I do think I mildly prefer him in an anti-hero role rather than Winick's sympathetic villain who can sometimes be reasoned with, and I quite like what Rosenburg has been doing with him.

It feels like Rosenburg has a really solid idea in his head of who Jason is and why/how he clashes with the other bats. I enjoyed The Man Who Stopped Laughing way more than I thought I would. Taskforce Z has definite merits. Gotham War was a complete clusterfuck and horribly organized, but I do think I see what he was going for there and was interested even though it clashed badly with what the other writers were doing.

So yeah, I guess that's my answer. Rosenburg is my fav modern Jason writer so far and Winick remains the heavyweight champion of Jason writing overall.

My least favorite on the other hand isn't any of the usual suspects (Starlin, Morrison, and Lobdell)

Starlin seemed to want to write vicious, seedy thrillers about realistic serial killers and the worst that humanity has to offer and was instead stuck writing Batman and Robin lmao. Should he have just found other employment instead, or knuckled down and written to the tone of the material at hand? Probably! However, putting Batman and Robin in a world that was patently unfit for their type of heroics was interesting to read for me, and frankly, most of what I love about Jason wouldn't exist without it.

Morrison was certainly unfavorable to Jason, but using Jason and Dick as opposing ideas of what it means to be Batman is honestly really cool, and idk I think if you can get passed the aesthetics this version of him works.

Lobdell... might actually just be bad at writing entirely? But! Lobdell has a lot of good ideas and can write something that's fun. There are several more competently put together stories that I can't say the same of.

So yeah, it's none of them, because Cavan Scott was the one who wrote the worst rendition of Jason I've ever had the misfortune to read.

Even mother fucking Battle for the Cowl did a better job with Jason! Just by giving him character motivations and a reason to be in the plot! Titans United Jason is a complete asshole to everyone around him despite having reasons not to be. Like, not even for no reason! For negative three reasons!! There are many different roles he could have taken in this comic that would have been interesting, but instead he is "thug who insults Connor Kent and is generally useless and incompetent".

Though to be fair to him, Titans United was a tie in for a TV show that has very, very different histories for all of the characters involved. It was basically a commercial and as far as I can tell this author wasn't involved in the show or any of the characters outside of this one comic. It might honestly be unfair to call him a Jason Todd writer at all.

And if we don't count little one offs like that then... yeah I don't really know who my least favorite would be *shrug*

Anyhow I feel like I've rambled more than long enough, hope this was an interesting read and thank you thank you for sending the ask :3 !

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[script-a-world]

Submitted via Google Form:

I saw in some sci-fi fiction that there are some small spaceships that just a single person can use. These things are slim and you are basically lying down because it's literally that tiny. The only thing is, I've only seen these used for travelling short distances (i.e. within view) / combat. I was wondering if I could use such a sleek and tiny design as a normal spaceship that can travel FTL. I'd say travelling 10 light years would take just a single minute. Exactly how advanced would tech like that need to be? In this way, a larger ship or crew isn't necessary if you have no cargo you can't carry on your person (helped by making use of shrink rays). Is there any example of a sci fi civilisation that you think could have such tech that can do that I could draw inspiration from or have an idea of what how advanced I'm trying to do?

Tex: A Doylist explanation for these might be that they are analogues to personal vehicles, so are limited by the writer’s and readers’ expectations of personal vehicles, such as the need to use chemical fuels in order to use them. FTL, as a general rule, relies more on momentum than it does acceleration - our current theoretical models mostly rely on the use of exotic particles to fuel suggestions such as the Alcubierre drive, Krasnikov tubes, etc (Wikipedia).

Ten light years in a minute is easily traversed under these conditions, particularly if the technology were perfected to the point of mass production. This seems to also function as your unit of measurement, so you would be able to use this for all technologies of the same type within your worldbuilding. Because of the nature of FTL drives, they would not be unreasonable large (think of how much we’ve scaled down modern computers!), and you could conceivably compare them to the gasoline engines that are currently in the majority of our modes of transportation today. There are many, many, many variations on the theme of spaceships, so I’ll list some of the major franchises that have percolated popular perception of this technology for comparison:

Star Trek, Category: Spacecraft classes

Star Trek, Category: Starship classes

Battlestar Galactica ships

Stargate Tau’ri fleet

Stargate, Category: Hive ships

Stargate, Category: Spaceships

Star Wars, Starship (Legends version)

Wootzel: For examples in media, you may want to check out the TV Tropes page on FTL in media, and maybe even the Analysis Page on the same (this one gets dense at first, but further down the page there are a lot of examples of “types” of FTL tech that other creators have used). 

If you want to have small ships that are capable of FTL, and you think it’ll serve your story or something about the theme of your world, then do so! Just pick and choose whatever rules and limitations you want in your world that suites you. You can pull inspiration from other works, or just think about what will work for you and make up your own conventions. Just note down what the tech requires and what limits it, and keep that consistent in your story so you don’t contradict yourself, but otherwise do whatever you’d like.

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[twistsandtwizzles]

I Watched So You Don't Have To: Stars on Mars

You may have seen that Adam Rippon is one of the cast members on the new FOX reality show, Stars on Mars. I knew this information but had no plans to watch this show, until this week when I needed to turn something on tv that would take up 5% of my brain power or less. And this fit the brief exactly.

In case you are also mildly interested in what this weird show is about and what Adam is doing on it, but don't want to let it take up even 3% of your brain power, don't worry, I am here for you! Read on for a recap of Stars on Mars: Episode 1.

We open on William Shatner very dramatically telling us that twelve celebrities are going to participate in an “experiment” to find out if they can “survive life on Mars” (aka a month somewhere in Australia). The winner will earn the title of Brightest Star in the Galaxy and this made me laugh out loud because that’s it? They don’t even get any money? Just a title that is also found on a fourth grade science fair participation trophy?

Anyway, Shatner - who has very clearly not gone to Australia and is recording this somewhere in his house - tells us that this simulation will be 24 days long, and will show us which celebrities are the strongest, the brightest, the bravest, and who can handle the stress when the food runs out. We’re treated to a compilation of clips during this portion, then Shatner says, “This is: Starsssssss on Marssssssss” and the way I typed this quote does not do it justice.

We’re now introduced to the astronauts as they trudge across the surface of “Mars” into the “Hab” where they will be living. The first astronaut is Christopher Mintz-Plasse, aka McLovin’ from Superbad, and we cut to a talking head where Christopher says he’s been called McLovin for 16 years and is kind of tired of it; unfortunately for him it is what I will call him for the entirety of this recap.

We get a tour of the hab, which basically looks like every space movie you’ve ever seen, and we are introduced to the lady-voiced-AI thing that is going to be the main communication tool/voice-over element on this show. McLovin marvels that “a lot of money went into this” which, I’m not sure I agree, but okay.

Next in the hab: Ronda Rousey, “Champion Fighter” followed closely by Tom Schwartz from Vanderpump Rules who the VO tells us is “currently known for Scandavol.” Full disclosure that I have only ever seen five minutes of VPR so this man is a complete stranger to me - but I do live in the culture enough to know that his name is “Schwartz” and not “Tom.” Schwartz explains his show to McLovin, boiling it down to “people work in a bar and have sex with each other.” McLovin says, “Well, we’re not doing that here. I don’t think.”

Next up: Tallulah Willis, “Daughter of Bruce and Demi” and Adam Rippon, “Olympic Figure Skater” and the entire reason I’m even watching this show. Then Porsha Williams Guobadia, “Real Housewife” and another complete stranger to me (look, how can I find time for Bravo reality shows when I have to watch old figure skating programs on YouTube?); Tinashe, “R&B Recording Artist” who I know mostly as a regular Who? Weekly subject; Ariel Winter, “Award-Winning Actor from Modern Family” (she was the middle child); Marshawn Lynch & Richard Sherman, “Teammates and NFL Legends” who are introduced as a unit but it is unclear if they are playing as a team or not; and Lance Armstrong, “Cyclist” and look, I am not happy about his presence either.

Lance is greeted warmly by everyone in the room and Ariel gives a talking head geeking out about how Lance is a real astronaut. She makes the mistake of mentioning this to Porsha who does not appear to correct her. Unknown if Porsha was just trying not to embarrass Ariel, or if she has no idea who Lance Armstrong is either and thinks he could plausibly be an astronaut.

Shatner sends a message to the celebs explaining that every 48 hours a celebrity who is not “mission critical” will be “extracted” (he then helpfully clarifies that this just means “sent home”). He also explains that the “Base Commander” is the most powerful role in the hab as the commander is basically in charge of everything, and the commanders will be re-appointed every two days.

The celebs are instructed to select a Base Commander and we get our very first Adam Rippon Talking Head! Adam explains that everyone is figuring each other out and that no one wanted to be the first base commander. We cut to the celebs desperately pointing at each other and trying to peer pressure others into the role. Then they are informed that the Base Commander gets their own room, and Roger nominates Marshawn, who was worried about fitting into his bunk earlier. Marshawn accepts.

The first mission for the astronaut celebrities: to rescue their 12th crewmember who is trapped in a pod on the surface. Marshawn sends Lance and Ronda out for the rescue while the rest of the crew watches their progress via monitor. Adam excitedly says of the outdoor footage, “Oh my god, it looks like Mars,” and again, I’m not sure I agree, but I’m happy that he’s happy.

To no one’s surprise the rescue mission is successful and completely lacking in any kind of drama. Natasha Leggero, “Comedian,” is the final celebrity to join the hab.

Marshawn is instructed to divide the daily task list. He sends Porsha and Tallulah to sort the foods and rations (Lady Hab Voice pops up to note that there will be no resupply of the rations during their stay and I'm sure this will be a major issue later in the series).

After a few shots of people doing their assigned tasks we cut to Adam, finally, since he is the only part of the show I care about. He and Ariel are dusting “the patches” which are basically Mars-themed Scout badges. Adam Talking Heads that he assumes the patches are probably something they will earn on missions throughout the show. It is unclear if the show thinks this is some sort of amazingly smart deduction on Adam’s part or if it, like me, assumes that Adam has watched a reality competition show at least once in his life and simply took the very tiny step needed to reach this conclusion.

Adam tells Ariel that he actually loves cleaning and organizing, and she excitedly says she does too. Adam asks, with true joy in his eyes, if she likes folding things. She says laundry is her favorite. I do not understand these people.

We cut between some other small talk and talking heads. Marshawn and Lance argue about who is more of an athlete, and how Marshawn did not throw Lance’s doping in his face during this conversation I will truly never know.

Adam has clearly been tasked by production to explain the basics of this game in his talking heads, because he again tells us that they are “trying to figure each other out and learning to work together” since “that will be important the longer they stay in the game.”

A bunch of snippets of general “get to know you” convos: the group chats about how famous Tallulah’s parents are; Porsha and Natasha chat about their kids; Lance and Marshawn and Ronda chat about sports again; Lance feels weird about sharing a bathroom; Ariel admits to Porsha and Tinashe that she has confused Lance with Neil Armstrong. Then everyone goes to bed. Natasha says, “Goodnight honey,” to Adam and it makes sense those two would be fast friends.

An alarm goes off in the middle of the night and Shatner appears to tell them that “Martian Dust” is headed their way and has already knocked their comms satellite over. They need to go repair it, and if they do it they will earn a patch. Everyone seems totally wowed by this patch information so maybe we were supposed to think that Adam was a genius earlier.

Tallulah is chosen to be a mission specialist and is staying behind with Marshawn while everyone heads to the surface. “Let’s save this satellite!” Adam says. He looks great in this space suit.

Adam’s talking head is back with more general reality show basics, namely that even though they are stressed about this mission they have to focus and do a good job, because ultimately “the name of the game is that someone has to go home.”

The celebs walk out into a windstorm and Tallulah and Marshawn direct the crew in repairing the satellite. Adam says that “this is not what (he) signed up for” but Adam, I’m pretty sure it is. 

Once again this mission is successful and not all that dramatic, even as all the celebs tell us how stressed they all are and how hard this was. (Assembling an Ikea dresser looks far more difficult than this satellite repair job.) Natasha does say at one point that she was trying to stay out of the way in the “loser area” along with McLovin and Adam. 

McLovin says he thinks they all would have died if it was really Mars, and I suppose this statement is technically true but also it’s kind of like when I cut through an empty parking lot after my driver’s test and the examiner said, “if there were cars here you’d be running them over right now.” I would not have done that if there were cars there?? And these people would not be asked to repair a satellite on actual Mars. Anyway.

Marshawn and Tallulah are told to identify the three astronauts least critical to mission success. This is revealed by Marshawn calling the “Mission Critical” celebrities one-by-one back into the hab and handing them - hold onto your hats because none of us saw this prize coming - a patch.

The three least mission critical celebrities: Adam, McLovin, and Schwartz. McLovin says, “aw man, the three fragile white boys!” as they give each other a group hug. They are then each asked to explain to the Mission Critical celebs why they should stick around. 

McLovin says he didn’t participate in the mission because he was removing himself from the situation since there were too many people trying to do the job.

Adam says he’s mission critical because he’s one of the hottest people there and “I think that’s important for any kind of challenge that we do. I’m just being honest.” This earns a big laugh and applause from the already-safe crew, and someone says, “He’s right!” LOL.

Schwartz reminds them all that he was the one that actually made a major repair on the satellite and the group immediately says, “oh yeah” and lets him into the hab. He gives Adam a big hug and assures him, “You are very hot.”

So that leaves Adam and McLovin as our bottom two. The group decides that Adam is more mission critical than McLovin, which means our favorite Olympic-figure-skater-turned-astronaut gets let back into the hab, and that I have to watch this show for another week.

McLovin wanders to the extraction point and gives an exit interview from the suddenly calm Mars surface without his space helmet on, and it’s hilarious how soon after elimination the faux-Mars premise is dropped.

Tune in next week (or don’t) for some arguing and more “space” adventures that appear to include a fire in the hab and something to do with a bunch of water on the Mars surface that I have many questions about! The previews indicate that Adam will eventually get a headset to lead a mission at some point, so we'll how that goes. See you next time.

#adam rippon #stars on mars #recaps

[hsaainteriorcompany]

Discover The Best Bedroom Sofa Layout Ideas: 6 Interior Design Inspirations!

Are you looking for some zesty, quirky, modern-day designs for your living room? Check out the inside of this piece!

Sofas are no longer just for living rooms, drawing rooms, or leisure zones. Having comfortably seated themselves in your bedroom, the most valid question is, what type of bedroom sofa design should you be choosing for your interiors? Is this bed room sofa layout fashion here to stay, or will it die out? Check out these six wonderful bedroom sofa Layout interior design ideas that can be added to your bedroom area for more seating.

1. Compact Bedroom Divan Sofa Design

Make your bedroom lively and colourful with a hanging yellow divan. For smaller bedrooms, this option is a great option since it doubles as a three-seater sofa during the day and a comfortable double bed at night. For a well-rounded bedroom setup, add garage solutions and a stylish TV unit. 

2. Futon that Doubles as a Bedroom Sofa

As a 2-seater couch in bedroom areas and a standalone bed for guests when they visit, futons serve a dual function in many Indian houses and apartments. You can provide a comfortable night's sleep easily if your house lacks a dedicated visitor room. Make your master bedroom more comfortable by purchasing them in pairs.

3. Modern Bedroom Sofa Design With Channel Tufted Sofa

Modern sofa designs for bedrooms are often playful and unconventional, as evidenced by pieces like the channel-tufted couch. The colourful furniture additionally serves as a dual-purpose item, serving both as a bench and as extra seating in the room. Providing a sleeping space for one character, this is a fantastic way to accommodate visitors. Make your bedroom look well-rounded and alluring by pairing it with cushions of different styles and sizes.

4. Bedroom Window Bay Seat and Daybed

A window bay seat is a must for a bedroom with a breathtaking view. Bookshelves flanking the seating area will seamlessly complement this comfortable reading nook for ebook fans. The brought bonus? A 20% extra area is provided through an underseat storage solution, making this couch design ideal for smaller bedrooms.

5. Guest Room Sleeper Sofa Design

A sleeper chair is an excellent cutting-edge bedroom couch concept to consider for your visitor room. Combining elegance and functionality, this L-shaped backrest sofa exudes class. Incorporating both fashion and luxury, it seamlessly blends into your home's aesthetic. Furthermore, this facet sofa for the bedroom can easily be the primary slumber association beyond the visitor room. By transforming from a sofa during the day to a slumbering space at night, this seating option enhances its practicality.

6. The Printed Single Sofa Chair for a Smaller Bedroom

When it comes to smaller homes, a settee chair is generally the most desired choice for bedrooms. As well as providing extra seating for those who need it, it makes great use of the space without compromising the floor space. Think about placing it in a room that includes a home office - a combination that complements the overall appeal of your house. 

#interior design ideas #interior design #bedroom

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[aemoglobin]

had a wonderful conversation with my roomie, iscah, last night about various series we would and wouldn't like to be isekai-d into and honestly we came up with some gems.

agreed that game of thrones is generally The Worst series to get isekai-d to mostly because neither of us really know Anything about the series as a whole but also because in general it fucking sucks. your safe choices are the Church (if you're a woman) and Academia (if you're a man) but even then we're not sure if that's entirely the case! i'm entering their equivalent of the catholic church and making it Gay. the ice zombies and dragons are NOT my problem!!

star wars would suck bc the chances of ending up a slave are just way too high and if you're force-sensitive oh boy. oh man. there's generally no safe era but old republic or the eu (may she rest in peace) are probably the safest eras if you're not on a planet that is plot-relevant!!!

star trek is the easy win bc it's more or less utopia. you don't have to do anything you don't want to. personally i would be committing lesbian atrocities in the enterprise's holodeck as the episode's B-plot for nearly every episode i show up in, i am the most polarizing female character in stng, simultaneously setting the development of lesbians in tv back two decades and also doing more for lesbians in tv than anyone has ever done before and will ever do again.

both agreed that hp is also easy-peasy since it's just modern england with extra steps. and also if you left england you could do whatever you want bc no other countries were involved with all of that.

retail worker voltron au but i'm the retail worker who got isekai-d to the planet Target (this is an entire planet that's just Target. like how Coruscant in star wars is a whole city) and then i am so fed up with this job i commit unionization (i don't know anything about unionizing a workplace let alone a planet) and take over the work force. workers of the galaxy unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains etc

the alternate to THAT au is getting transmigrated into a middle management galra army officer where my job is still basically the same (logistics and maybe working at the bx) but now i have a much higher chance of dying on the job (the chances of dying on the job at Target are low but never zero btw). this is NOT the type of catgirl isekai i was thinking of and i want a refund!!

#i do think i could make galra coloring work for me. i like purple... #rose idol chatter #rose si talk

[jasper-the-menace]

So if we presume that planes continue to evolve as we saw with Kamigawa, does that mean that given their culture that New Capenna would, theoretically, be able to have gangs based on the families reenact West Side Story.

Could you envision more modern Capenna??

Do y'all want me to get into the weird poly thing the family heads have going on? Because this is how you get me to get into that.

The Obscura have always tread the fine line between "totally legit psychics" and "scam psychics". The invention of things like TV and phones would only exacerbate that already-existing problem.

The invention of new things would also open the doorway to more "methods" for the Obscura to use in their various divinations. They already had cards, crystal balls, and the like before, but someone invents the pendulum (only $9.99 if you call this definitely tolled number!) and it's all the rage for a few years among Obscura agents.

Raffine thinks it's funny as shit and has her own "psychic hotline" for the particularly wealthy to use.

The invention of more modern technology would also improve illusions and sleight-of-hand tricks. You can't tell me the Obscura wouldn't be all over that. Sure, they could just use their own magic, but if there's an easier and cheaper way, why not add that to your repertoire?

Conning people is just so easy in the modern age is what I'm saying.

The Maestros are going to be all over modern art movements, okay? Let's just make that one clear. Opening up the doorway to different types of art (such as pop art, which was popular in the 1940s to 1950s in the United States) leads to a broader range of museums with their own unique flairs.

While Xander hasn't been a fan of every art movement, he does get what they're going for and respects the grind, because holy shit they had to invent all sorts of new techniques and technology to make these pieces. He also has a soft spot for a few of the newer ones, but you'll never hear him say it aloud. (And yes, I'm saying his canon death didn't happen, fight me out behind the Denny's.)

Also, murder has gotten more easy! Or at least more interesting.

Of all of the families, the Riveteers would change the least. They're still a construction-based union, they just have cranes and bulldozers now. They've stayed in business due to demolishing and rebuilding as the years have gone on.

Ziatora still rules this mighty empire of loyal workers, directing her Riveteers on construction sites even as technology makes things faster. Though she does eventually have to invent OSHA because of how many of her workers she has to keep catching.

The existence of frat boys shows that the spirit of the Cabaretti is alive and well in the modern time, even if druidry has fallen to the wayside. A core foundation of the mortal experience is having fun, and the Cabaretti are still here to provide!

They also have their own version of the Michelin Stars going on. Like...I don't know, the Vantoleone Stars, after the Mezzio base that Jetmir refuses to let go of.

To give Jetmir credit, though, he's gotten a lot better about security for the revelries, in case there's a repeat of the Adversary-Crescendo incident. Of all of the family heads, he's adapted to the modern era the fastest.

Given everything going on above, yes, everyone still needs lawyers and security. That's where the Brokers still step in, though it's a lot more decentralized as different offices try to make their mark. Everyone still pays lip service to Falco Spara, but anything beyond that is up in the air.

Spara's still got sleeper agents all over the place, but he's a lot more guarded nowadays. Pretty much everyone is waiting for blood in the water to take him down from the top and put themselves in his place, so he's retreated from the public eye in favor of double- and triple-checking his contracts for loopholes. Even one could knock him from his perch. Rumor has it that the only people in contact with him anymore are his second-in-command and the other family heads.

...I almost feel bad for all the puns in this section.

As for everyone else, well.

The government and law system are still auctions rather than functional. (Though that's not too different from our modern day, huh?) Generally, as long as you get a mean enough Broker for a lawyer, your case is as good as won (or thrown out) regardless of your actual guilt status.

The angels are hanging around, adapting to either join the crime families (though it's very awkward between them and the demons) or creating their own merry bands of misfits. A good number of them work for the various newspapers, doing what they can to either help or hinder as they see fit - and according to their central color, of course.

Efforts to get back down to Old Capenna and see what's down there now have some public support, because enough time has passed that people have forgotten (other than Spara, who never forgets) what used to be down there. It's a free-for-all, as it requires a different set of survival skills from New Capenna, and no current attempts to rebuild down there have been successful with all of the monsters still running around.

Time continues to march forward, and so do the mortals of New Capenna. The primary question raised is how long the angels, demons, and avatars can keep up.

~Jasper

(P.S. All of the divider graphics were made by me, over on @jasper-graphics!)

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[samurailogic]

Okay. Big fat post about my Vocaloid idol universe

The girl group = VY1, MAIKA, Yukari, Akari. Thinking about adding a fifth member who will likely be Iroha. :)

VY1 Mizuki: the "weird one." Formerly in a duo group with VY2 (they are still extremely close, there was no falling out. Mizuki just wanted to do something different). She and Akari have generally the most experience. Says strange things all the time and her fans worship her as like modern day Platos. Sweet and kind if a little lost on social cues. Doesn't really know how to appeal to idol fans and make herself charming and cute but she's trying her best and that's what matters. Her as a singer and her daily life intersect hard (years of being together with someone who is both your super best friend and your singing idol partner).

Akari: defacto leader. Has the most idol experience and was in many other groups before. Is incredibly knowledgeable and intelligent when it comes to music contracts and such but in her daily life is a real airhead like how she gets scammed easily. Cheerful and all around upbeat but is a little worried about her long-term future because none of the other groups she was in lasted very long. Clingy and sometimes seems a little desperate for attention and care. Doesn't have many memories outside of/before her idol life.

Maika: their management keeps trying to make her the "sexy one" but it doesn't work. A big ole art nerd. Is super well-read and a little pretentious about music. This italo disco shit is serious to her. Her and Mizuki tend to cling to each other and quickly became friends after the group was first formed. Yukari tells Mizuki obvious lies but Mizuki believes all of them so she tells them back to Maika as truths and it's like this⬇️

She did her own solo music in the past and is used to having alot of control over everything she does and creates. Is the type who is really shy about romance. Does everything with a massive amount of love and passion.

Yukari: gets the "cool older sister" role. Has the least amount of experience as an idol by far and easily rolls with the punches, leading to her clashing a bit with Akari & Maika who take every activity fairly seriously. Ends up gravitating towards Mizuki who is generally quiet. Teases Mizuki alot and sometimes goes too far but they make up :). In general doesn't really know how to interact with people without putting a massive layer of irony sarcasm etc between them. Just trying to chill honestly.

Not a member but for lore here's VY2 Yuuma: doesn't try to get into another idol group or do solo work after he and Mizuki split as a unit. Flat faced. Mizuki takes lead between the two of them and he tends to look to her for guidance but tbh most of the time she is just as lost as him. (Mizuki feels like she needs to take all of his burdens.. they have been through alot together) His and Mizuki's duo unit once appeared on some random TV show with Ice Mountain (Kiyoteru's band) so now he has a crush on Kiyoteru. Nowadays occasionally sings a song or two at a club or something. His manager is trying really hard to find something for him to do.

Anyways so mizuki maika yukari akari ⬇️

Various factoids

- when they sleep in one big bed together they sleep in order of Maika-Mizuki-Akari-Yukari

- photos taken of the girls tend to be plagued by Orbs. This always goes away if Mizuki is in the photo however

- Akari is the type to get upset about killing bugs instead of taking them outside

- Akari and Maika post very frequently on their social medias, Yukari posts a decent amount, Mizuki's account is practically dead

- Maika is fine at cooking and has a sweet tooth. Mizuki eats food only because she has to (has no particular tastes) and is also just OK at cooking. Yukari is really good at cooking and dislikes getting takeout. Akari suxxx at cooking but she's trying her best and also she loves spicy food

[canmom]

Animation Night 144 - Gundam Thunderbolt

144 is 12 squared. Squares are kinda robot like. Ergo we’re watching Gundam. Impeccable logic I’m sure you’ll agree.

Check it out, it’s an Itano circus.

Gundam! Over the course of Animation Night I’ve gone from being someone who doesn’t know the first thing about Gundam (back when I wrote Animation Night 88 on the history of robot anime and Animation Night 94 on Tomino’s “New Anime Century” and ‘anti-war’ fiction) to someone who is developing a fondness for its particular brand of scifi melodrama.

Gundam Thunderbolt is set in the core Universal Century timeline, but it approaches it with a mind towards changing and dismantling; the author of the manga, Yasuo Ohtagaki, even spoke of ‘always trying to identify which parts of Gundam must be destroyed’ - destruction and subversion being what he considers the original spirit of Gundam.

Gundam Thunderbolt thus begins in a time period concurrent with the original Gundam TV series, with the Federation and Zeon battling on Earth in a ‘Thunderbolt Sector’ littered with space debris. On the Federation’s side are survivors of one of the destroyed space colonies wishing revenge; on Zeon’s is a special unit of amputee pilots. Before long, however, the conflict develops a third faction with the Buddhist radicals in the ‘South Seas Alliance’, which declares its secession from the Federation.

But it’s Gundam, so the focus of the story is on a handful of characters caught in the middle of it. On the Federation side we have Io Fleming, an ensign with a passion for music, and his lover Claudia Peer, a spaceship captain deeply depressed at the long war. On Zeon’s side comes Daryl Lorenz, double leg amputee, and Karla Mitchum, a caring scientist specialising in prosthetics. Early on in the conflict, Io causes Daryl to lose yet another limb - but rather than pack up and leave the war, he volunteers to undergo a further amputation for full integration into a brain controlled Gundam.

The manga is still ongoing, but the first arc was written with the intent of being adapted into a movie, and indeed Sunrise did just that. The first form of Thunderbolt was an eight-episode ONA series released on the web from 2015-2017. Concurrently, this was recut as a pair of compilation movies, titled December Sky and Bandit Flower.

(look it has girls and robots!)

Gundam has gone through many hands since Tomino’s day, and the principle factions of the Universal Century setting have been interpreted in a number of ways - something that anituber Pyramid Inu discusses nicely here. At the time Ohtagaki was writing in the mid 2010s, the mainstream Gundam airing was the Unicorn series (OVAs and then a TV show), written by Harutoshi Fukui, a writer who began his career writing Tom Clancy-like stories with a nationalist bent. He toned this down when he took over Gundam, describing himself as a ‘JJ Abrams’ type figure; nevertheless his Gundam presented a heavy-handedly war-on-terror inspired story in which the Federation is cast as America fighting Muslim militants.

Ohtagaki’s vision also emphasises religion, but instead puts the focus on a more familiar Buddhism, taking aim at what he sees as unreasonable suspicion towards religion in modern Japan (source)...

If you depict people who believe in Buddhism in a manga, people call that a cult. He points out that that way of thinking is already biased and feels that it points out people’s ignorance towards religion. He laments that if you look at it from a global perspective or even consider the history of humanity, the lack of religious beliefs among Japanese people today is quite unusual. He says that it’s a significant problem for Japan today to accept and tolerate other people’s beliefs, so much so that just because someone appears chanting sutras, they’re branded a cult.

He says that assumptions like that are far more dangerous. He’s not out to portray the South Seas Alliance as an ally of justice, nor their religious beliefs as righteous, it’s just that Japanese people close their eyes and try not to see them. He’s illustrating all this because he wants people to realize that it’s strange to think there is no such thing, that it’s more than a little unnatural that there were no religions in the world of Gundam in the first place.

Ohtagaki aimed to sidestep Gundam conventions in other ways: an adult protagonist, a stronger emphasis on chain of command. On the matter of ‘anti-war’, he takes a more fatalistic, small-scale stance:

In anime, the side the protagonist is on always ends up looking like the side that’s in the right. But both the Federation and Zeon are just countries, so it shouldn’t be about wrong and right. I don’t think there’s any point in inserting your ideologies in a manga. For people with normal lives, nations and wars are the ultimate kind of violence, and I want to draw the best ways to handle being in a war in order to survive.

So I’m not anti-war either. Wars will continue to happen, and I don’t think we’ll ever be rid of them, so the most important thing is to know how to handle them. But there aren’t that many people in Japan who think about things in that way. It’s correct to say that you’re anti-war or that there shouldn’t be war, so if you look at things as though war is inevitable, people think that you’re pro-war and you’re a bad person. But I think that’s a very narrow way of thinking, and it actually shows a lack of historical knowledge.

What do I think of that, eh? Right now, mostly ‘hmm’. Ohtagaki is correct to recognise that ‘will wars happen’ and ‘should wars happen’ are different questions; there’s also the question of ‘if war shouldn’t happen, how can it be prevented’. To say ‘war is inevitable’, even if is true, is not to commit to any particular war being inevitable. But it’s also true that there’s no need for all fiction about wars to try and take them on!

I can’t entirely comment on this until I’ve seen the movies, so put a pin there; but given the morass of ‘what does it mean to make true anti-war fiction’, deciding to sidestep the issue entirely is perhaps an understandable move. I’ll be curious to see what focus this approach gives the films; if previous Gundams have approached ‘anti-war narrative’ through focusing on the futility of going to war and the hope for some kind of new-age transcendance (original Gundam), the tragedy of civilians caught up in the middle (War in the Pocket), or the story of a soldier who tries to avoid killing (08th MS Team), what will a story that’s more about just trying to survive look like?

Anyway, so far we’ve focused on the writer and the manga. Let’s actually talk about animation.

Thunderbolt was animated at Sunrise Studio 1, known as one of the bastions of the gradually dying art of 2D mecha animation, as well as character animation with an impressive sense of space. More recently, they impressed everyone with Gundam Hathaway (Animation Night 124).

So Gundam Thunderbolt abounds with complex shouts and detailed designs moving through space, leaning on the talents of e.g. Nobuhiko Genma and Kazuki Ito who animated this incredible POV shot, or Shingo Tamagawa of Puparia fame who provides this splendid character animation. In the late 2010s, we are firmly in the digital compositing era, and glows, flares, gradients and high contrast backgrounds abound, but even though this isn’t entirely to my taste I can’t deny just how splendid the underlying drawings are. The character designs are on the realist end of the scale, and they float around with the classic Sunrise sensitivity to 3D space.

Mecha destruction is given a particularly impressive level of flair, with beam swords and lasers slicing up robots and splattering hot metal all over to the point that it starts to feel like a gory samurai movie. All in all it looks intense and compelling: the product of decades of development by some of the best in their craft. It manages to retain clarity of very complex designs even as they move around wildly. It’s even got some cool oldschool lighting effects...

A question that may be asked is, if mecha animation is mostly about animating complex, rigid 3D shapes, why not do it on the computer, which excels at exactly that? One answer is that there’s a certain quality of movement that comes from planning everything out in 2D. Low framerates can be used to create a sense of weight and avoid the ‘toyetic’ feeling that comes from overly-smooth CG without considerable effort put in to avoiding it.

Another is that 2D gives you a different approach to composition, which allows you to subtly exaggerate and stylise or just frame things in a way that puts the layout in the camera first without constraint - the reason that Houseki no Kuni planned out its action scenes in great detail in 2D before animating them in 3D. Then there’s just the ‘feeling’ of 2D, the slight errors and roughness giving it a more lively, organic feeling. Finally we might add the effect of limitations and constraints as structure.

That said, the ‘2D feel’ of a digitally composited series like Thunderbolt is not the same ‘2D feel’ as a 90s OVA like 08th MS Team. Working digitally makes some aspects of the workflow easier - you can easily preview a motion and scroll through the timeline - which makes some of these extremely complex shots possible. But conversely it is associated with faraway objects becoming indistinct blobs - this is I believe what is referred to as ‘douga melt’. Thunderbolt in all these clips looks very ‘2010s’. Which makes me wonder what the characteristic look of 2020s anime will turn out to be...

I think that will suffice for an introduction/study log/whatever these posts are! Animation Night 144 will begin at 8pm UK time, about two hours from this post! Movies will start at about 8:20pm. It will be at twitch.tv/canmom! Hope to see you there~

#animation night #gundam #gundam thunderbolt #anime