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Shinichi genderswap doodles......👁️

tbh after thinking about it, I ultimately decided girl Shinichi would look exactly the same as normal Shinichi (except for the school uniform with a skirt maybe), but long hair DOES suit her +shrunk Shinichi getting lost in her own hair is funny to think about lol

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I was too used to your company

Now let me accompany you in another way

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Star Wars cosplayers *immediately* after tonight's episode of "Ahsoka"...

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We always tease about Obi Wan being space jesus but guys.

Ezra became space jesus

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I don't think any of us expected it to happen this quickly, to be fair, although I'm glad it did: it means Ezra will have plenty of time to play a major role in this season, rather than us needing to wait for some other season/show to see what he's like in live action.

Me when Sabine actually finds Ezra, even though the entire show has literally been about finding Ezra.

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He would be a proud daddy of his little baby girl 😭

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I've been acquainted with Grand Admiral Thrawn ever since I picked up Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire from the school library around ninth grade or so. He was such an interesting villain to me at the time, and that impression hasn't lessened with age. Being the key antagonist in one of the old Star Wars expanded universe's first big storylines, he's also kind of a major figure of the whole darn beyond-the-movies canon, in the same way that Darth Revan is. And he kind of filled a void that the Original Trilogy left gaping wide, in the sense that—apart from the fleeting presence of Tarkin in A New Hope, the Imperial military never really had any threatening and competent military leaders at the face of things... just Darth Vader and the Emperor.

I was thrilled to see Thrawn make his live action debut in Ahsoka, and though my first visual impression of the guy was a little underwhelming. The Rebels incarnation in particularly very much had that "a strong body feeds a strong mind" kind of character and a physique to match, along with a Sherlock Holmes hawkishness to his facial features. But as soon as he opened his mouth and I realized how on-point the performance here was coming off the back of his appearances in Rebels, I was sold.

It seems some people really are very skin-deep in what they find "imposing," though, because there are a lot of complaints about how "lame" he looks, because he's "fat," or whatever. It's true, you can see it if you look at his uniform: he's got a bit of a gut going on underneath his just-slightly-frayed-and-aging Grand Admiral dress whites.

I say: "So what?"

The appearance is still solid; discrepancies can be explained by, for example, Thrawn undergoing an extended recovery period from some unspecified injury he sustained when the purrgils warped him and Ezra through hyperspace into another galaxy. If you recall, Thrawn was actually in quite the predicament when that happened:

It might well even be that he hasn't been able to maintain a strong and healthy body in the way he used to, for example. Maybe he had to go through painstaking self-directed physical therapy to even get as far as he has.

More importantly, his performance is absolutely on-point. He has the same presence he did in Rebels, minus the exaggerated CGI-cartoon facial expressions that everyone had in that show. He moves, acts, and speaks in a way that I would absolutely imagine of him in the Thrawn Trilogy novels. And he hasn't really even had time to build tactical momentum yet. It's everything I could have wanted from a Thrawn portrayal.

So yeah, I say "So what?" So what if he's a bit "fat." He's Thrawn. The king has returned to Dark Side Minas Tirith, and it is glorious.

Sidebar: Ezra Bridger's live action return was also glorious, but I don't need to tell y'all that, do I?

#star wars #ahsoka series #ahsoka show #ahsoka spoilers #thoughts #blog #thrawn #grand admiral thrawn #ezra bridger #spoilers

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Hearing Hayden Christensen call Ahsoka "Snips" was everything I ever wanted, and I didn't even know it until it met my ears.

dave filoni, you're paying for my therapy

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Ya know, it's funny how no one can just be mildly critical of My Adventures With Superman. I only ever see people singing its praises or people decrying it as "woke" or "soy" or something.

Like, just for once, I'd like to see some of my less-positive, kinda-mild criticisms echoed outside of my own skull. Like: "You know, Clark being kind of a dork is fun but they lean into it a bit too much at times. 'Himbo' charm only goes so far before it becomes idiot irritation." And: "These episodes really are too short for the stories they tell." Actually to be fair I did hear the episodes-too-short criticism at least once, but you get what I'm saying, right? I hate this stupid "woke agenda" bullshit. It makes it so, so hard to talk about anything from a constructive-criticism standpoint because everyone else who wants to "criticize" a thing is frothing at the mouth about how the lizardmen are trying to brainwash us all into soy-slurping communists or something.

#thoughts #maws #my adventures with superman

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So a while back—a year or more back, actually—I went looking on Amazon for a book I'd read in grade-school English class. Call it a fit of nostalgia. Finding the book was a pain, because I couldn't remember the title. I couldn't remember the title because it's a transcendentally unmemorable title for a book: Running Out of Time.

Super generic, yeah? But the story had stuck with me, so I spent some time tracking the book down (I couldn't remember the name of the author, either) and ordered a paperback copy.

I never got around to re-reading the thing until just this morning, though, when I plucked it off my bookshelf to kill time during a video-export.

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix is about a girl who lives in a "historical preserve," a town that's supposed to be a living replica of the 1800s. All the kids are ignorant of this fact, but the adults are in the know; they're the ones who signed up for it, after all. But lately a sickness has been sweeping through the village population and it seems like whatever organization runs the place won't let the village use modern medical techniques or even quarantine signs to combat the spread.

Our heroine is young Jessie, the sharp-witted and intelligent daughter of the village midwife, who has stealthily taken over as the "real" doctor in town by night after the official doctor stopped sneaking medicine into the folk remedies. Not knowing what else to do, Jessie's mother tells her the truth about the place and tasks her with the potentially dangerous mission of going out into the modern world and getting help.

It's an interesting little story. One of those kinds of books I appreciate a little more as an adult than I did as a kid, I think, because I can see beyond the protagonist's youthful point-of-view narration to all of the details she doesn't quite comprehend. Short, but sweet. I recommend it.

#blog #books #thoughts #running out of time #margaret peterson haddix

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Since I got Baldur's Gate III via Early Access and didn't really pay attention when the "Deluxe Edition" stuff dropped into my Steam account, I completely forgot there was an art book and complete game OST folder in there. Well, that's all on my phone now. Guess I know what's playing on my radio when I go out for a Lyft/Grubhub session tomorrow.

#baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate #bg3

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Mm, this is a societal issue that's stuck around for a while. The rest of us totally-non-photosensitive people have a tendency to roll our eyes at the issue because it's not something we've personally experienced, but it seems like the only place where the law has pushed people to include photosensitivity warnings is... videogames, which, like, yeah, holy wow, a completely unpredictable and player-controlled series of image-lights gets a photosensitivity warning. I feel like they forced it on only the absolutely-most-obvious possible seizure-risk product and then said, "Great, we've solved epilepsy. Let's go get lunch, guys."

Another example of "normal" and "abled" people being a little too willing to put problems other people have out of their minds, I guess.

full offence but it should be illegal to use flashing or strobing images in adverts like straight up if a company has paid to force strobing shit in front of people then they have paid to directly hurt and potentially kill disabled people and whatever company they paid was fine with it. go to fucking jail and rot there.

#thoughts

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I dunno, I have to question the "it takes so much more work to flesh out the female characters" bit, on account of nobody actually caring whether or not their ships work or are characterized well or are anything other than a long list of AO3 fetish kinktags that will come up in searches and get a lot of kudos.

Articles trying to overthink the slash-shipping "phenomenon" are one thing, but trying to overthink why people slash-ship is just as silly. They do it because it's their kink. And that's okay.

The people who want a male/female or female/female ship in a franchise with underdeveloped female characters absolutely WILL just fill those characters in themselves, or, if the fanbase has already done so, will happily use the "fanon" interpretation of that character.

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

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I love this weird-ass revisionist idea of lightsabers where lightsaber impaling was only ever done to censor them, as if Qui-Gon wasn't impaled literally two seconds before Maul got cut in half. The reason people get impaled with lightsabers more often in the live-action shit is because it's easier to portray in live action without it looking super fucking hokey and requiring judicious use of CGI and camera-cuts.

Or without a character spreading their arms and going "OH NO MY ARM'S CUT OFF" while Count Dooku misses the timing and cuts his arm off on a slight delay—but I digress.

It's just funny to me how people suddenly have a problem with lightsaber impalement as if it's not a well-established thing that even bad guys with lightsabers do, because they aren't audience members with videogames on the brain drooling for the next cinematic Mortal Kombat Fatality, and getting salty at "Disney" for not being brutal enough.

But you know, even "Disney" did get fairly brutal from time to time, so methinks this is more a case of people who already dislike Disney Star Wars looking for things to attribute to Disney so that they can keep complaining about Disney. Which, I mean, fair play: Disney is always worthy of complaining about, but let's be intellectually honest about it, too.

I mean, the reason Disney Star Wars has issues isn't because the lightsaber's aren't brutal enough. In The Last Jedi, Kylo Ren cuts Snoke in half, cuts the top of some guy's head off, impales someone and kicks them into a grinder that spits out chunks of their armor to make sure you know they got grinded up, and then flash-impales some dude's face. Meanwhile back in Revenge of the Sith, the film's idea of a bad guy going full lethal force on a bunch of enemies is just a bunch of guys in costumes going "ARRRRRGH!" while the camera cuts away because all they were willing to show was the lightsaber maybe passing close to the general vicinity of someone's torso.

Disney is maybe overusing the relatively easy-to-special-effects impalement in their dramatic twists, but then, George Lucas overused shit dialogue, and that's way more annoying.

#star wars #lightsaber #ahsoka show #ahsoka series #ahsoka spoilers

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Hang on, wait a tick. What I said earlier about it being Brainiac instead of Zod.

There was that line about "kneeling." Could it be...

...Brainiac... and Zod...?

#my adventures with superman #maws #my adventures with superman spoilers #maws spoilers #theory

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I like to think that the reason Mr. Mxyzptlk took this weird blue elf-eared form is because he, like us, is up to his eyebrows in Baldur's Gate III right now and loving every second of it.

Just imagine him playing as a little blue-skinned mage-gnome. There, now you see it.

#my adventures with superman #maws #baldur's gate 3 #bg3

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So some people were theorizing that the whole "Zero Day" thing was building up to General Zod. While it hasn't been totally confirmed yet, it is now almost absolutely certain that what it was building up to was Brainiac. I'm kinda glad, to be honest; I find Brainiac way more interesting as a Superman villain than Zod, and Zod really only has impact as a villain once Superman is already established.

I loved the finale, by the way. A perfect climax with Parasite and then an epilogue with the ship and the General.

Also, I tell ya what: using the audience's knowledge of who the General ALMOST CERTAINLY WAS to turn the "reveal" here into a comedic build-up and punchline was just... *chef's kiss* ...perfectly up to temperature.

#my adventures with superman #my adventures with superman spoilers #maws #maws spoilers