#[And then Julius/Victor cameos.]

[ofstarsandskies]

@bishonenprince from them memz

"You're thinking of Nii-san, not me. I do like tomatoes, but I don't like them more than the average person likes their favorite dish--"

--And then Julius appears to take the clown wig and makeup. "How long do I need to wear these for the cupcake?" This man would maim anyone (except his bby boi) for anything with tomatoes. Quadruple that if they used Rieze Maxian tomatoes.

"I see you're still the most pathetically predictable creature on the planet, Julius," Seeing his once-brother grovel for a treat he could just ask Ludger to cook disgusted him. "It wouldn't surprise anyone if Exodus offered you tomatoes in exchange for hostages, you wouldn't dare to let the tomatoes be harmed."

[kresnikcest]

This mod replaces the cameo models in Xillia 2 with glassesless Julius and Victor. It also includes Ludger, and an option to hide the character model entirely.

Thank you to @lastthroes for the Spanish translation and screenshots, @yesmylord-demonic for the French translation, @ofstarsandskies for bug testing, as well as Temple of Tales and DaZombieKiller for the modding tools.

This mod has only been tested on BLUS31397 and 2ndFire’s undub of that disc. Support for European and Japanese discs will be added if anyone asks.

Download here. If the site asks for a decryption key, copy and paste the text after the # in the url.

(The text about Julius’ glasses and Victor’s mask is canon, by the way.)

Click here for other mods.

[talesofafangirlwithadvr]

CW Superheroes Are Back Part 2

Part 2 of an explosive week as the Arrow-verse returned! Personally, I really enjoyed Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow’s premieres (maybe a little more than Supergirl and the Flash--which is surprising for me).

Arrow

Last year’s season finale was jaw dropping and I had been asking myself who survived the island explosion ever since. Which meant that I was pumped for the premiere. Is it wrong of me to be upset that not too many people died?

I give them credit for the way they set up everyone’s return. It was very clever the way they would hint towards someone, making us unsure if they were still alive and then BAM they appeared. (For some it wasn’t too shocking because we had seen them on commercials.) Our only 2 real losses were 1) William’s mom-which was obvious after hearing Oliver would be having custody of William (her death was sad though). 2) Thea--kinda. She was the one I guessed was going to go, due to her lack of plot-line last season. But she’s actually in a coma for 6 months (btw I like how the island exploding became our flashback seeing as how we’re in season 6 and no longer have Oliver/island backstory. Other shows jumped and we didn’t get a filler-just saying). The destruction could have been sooo much worse. I love him now-but come on even Slade survived!

But who I’m truly pissed is still living--that’s right Black Siren aka Laurel from Earth-2. Why????? You killed “our” Laurel off just as I was really starting to like her (out of the blue--might I add) just to bring in her evil doppelganger! Hasn’t Captain Lance been through enough! His breakdown at the end! :( Is it also bad that my first thought for who helped her was Malcolm Merlyn? (Yes, I’m still not confident he’s dead either.)

While characters are still coping/trying to overcome the island-Lance, Diggle, etc. Olicity is alive and well. Loved their conversation and how a life and death situation can bring a couple together. 

Wild dog has become one of my favorites (I wasn’t a huge fan of him at the start of the last season.) One of my favorite lines in this episode was when they joked around they didn’t know he could read.    

Oliver & William--few things.

1) Nice new apartment

2) Welcome back Reisa

3) So happy William’s here

I am SO ready for this relationship to grow sooo much and I know the first time he calls Oliver dad will melt my heart. I like the hope with the baseball game at the end.

AND THAT CLIFFHANGER!!! A picture of Oliver Queen as the Arrow on THE NEWS!! WHHHAAATTT! It’s going to be a good season.

While I love Wild dog’s quote my top one is more like an action: William’s point at Oliver as the “bad man.” Oooh. I knew it was coming and I still felt the pain as he said it.   

Legends of Tomorrow

I love the dynamic of this show. It can have the humor of the Flash and then the darkness of Arrow. I really enjoyed all the comedy in the first episode of season 3. 

Kind of upset that this season wasn’t just about mending time from bleeding into itself like I thought. Instead the real enemy looks like the Time Bureau, an organization Rip founded to correct time because the Legends screw it up (their new motto). Rip, Arthur Darvill, is only a guest star this season, so I wonder how often we will see him. All I know is that it never gets old when he talks about Mr. Rory (Whovian in me squeals-I mean this episode they even referenced Centurions. Come on!) 

Loved seeing what the Legends were up to when they disbanded. Great cameo of Kid Flash working with Citizen Steel and the shock of Amaya returning to 1942. Heatwave on the beach in a Hawaiian type shirt-never thought I’d see that. I love that he’s the one who found Julius Caesar, the anachronism.

Not going to lie, I thought Dr. Stein was going to break up Firestorm (something i never considered before this episode). The fact that I thought I saw an article title about Victor Garber leaving for Broadway did not suppress my predictions, but I’m glad (nor now) they are safe and sound.  

LOVE the bromance that is Ray and Nate. They are 2 of the biggest nerds (which makes me love them separately), but then together they are even better. I love how funny they are and the references they make with each other. 

Stealing the Time Bureau’s gadgets just proves that we are in for some more mischief this season and I can’t wait!

Favorite Quote: (comes from Nate at the Time Bureau)- “I didn’t know mens warehouse gave group discounts.”

[davidpwilson2564]

Bloglet

Monday, August 19, 2019

A signed Epstein will has come to light.  The Epstein fortune will go to his only living relative, his brother, Mark. 

R.and I are talking about the music in Brando movies.  Leonard Bernstein in "On the Waterfront," Leigh Stevens in "The Wild One," Miklos Rozsa in "Julius Caesar," etc.  R. tells me that when he was in his teens he helped out in a record store near the U of T campus in Knoxville that carried an EP of music from"The Wild One."  The record for some reason (I think I had that little record in my tiny collection) was called "Hot Blood," a title that raised some eyebrows (it being the early fifties).  I will have to look this up.

I remember hearing about that record store and the crazy guy (called Dugout Doug) who ran it. It pisses me off that there was so much going on in Knoxville that I missed. Though I lived only twenty miles away I hadn't a clue of Knoxville's Left Bank (Bob Orr's term) and didn't join this happy band until I was in college.  (Some of this Knoxville subculture stuff is written about in Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree.")

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

This, by way of Slipped Disc, the composer, Julien Gauthier, camping in Northwest Canada, seeking inspiration for a symphony, was killed by a grizzly bear.

Demark has told Trump (who will do anything to distract us from the impending recession) that Greenland is not for sale.  Trump only has money (but we never know how much or how little).  Denmark has Greenland, Carl Nielsen and Victor Borge. 

A terrible dream in which I am in a creative writing class.  I tell the instructor, who is many years my junior, that I am only good at first chapters and abandon the story when moving the pen requires a lot of sweat.

Re the music from "The Wild One."  You can find just about anything on Youtube Music.  The short selection was indeed called (or subtitled) "Wild Blood" and I must have owned it and played it on my little machine when I was in my early teens.  It is a jazzy "hot" rendition (how could it be otherwise?) was put together by Shorty Rogers.  I guess at about this time in my life I was captivated by less than "good" music, much to my mother's dismay.  This sort of interest, it was preached, led to juvenal delinquency.

Note: Shorty Rogers does a cameo in "Man With the Golden Arm."  He is the bandleader Frank Sinatra auditions for on drums.  Frank does quite badly and is sent away.  The regular drummer, Shelly Manne, again takes over.