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[daily-grian]

The power wash one, but he is getting hit by a power washer instead

AUUUUGH

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[donutfrosting]

How’s c00lkidd dealing with his dad’s disappearance?

He's not doing very well. He's beginning to think 007n7 has abandoned him. (Face Noob AU)

[sleepanonymous]

About your tags about those known collabs with other artists, what are all the known collabs hes done? Id heard he did piano for bfmv before but i havent been able to find out which songs

Hello Anon 🖤 Thanks for the ask, I actually had fun typing all of this up and doing research. Spoiler alert: I am now sus of every and any song that George Lever and Carl Bown have produced that contain synth/keys 😅

Also, side note, listening to all of these songs while fact checking really cemented how unique Vessel is as a pianist. It’s like he’s playing in his own language, if that makes sense? It’s truly beautiful.

For Bullet For My Valentine, Vessel did the Piano Versions on the deluxe Gravity album: Breathe Under Water, The Very Last Time, and Under Again. I’ve heard a couple of times that he also did synths for the standard version of the album, but there’s no absolute confirmation of it, since he was only initially credited in the three songs I mentioned. He did have the credits changed to Vessel1 before they were removed altogether from the songs. The album Gravity was supposedly recorded between 2016/2017, so around the same time that the One and Two EPs dropped. I’m not 100% positive how he got that gig, but that is supposedly how he met Carl Bown (the producer for Take Me Back to Eden). It could also be the other way around, and Carl and Vessel already knew each other and he brought Vessel in to do the piano versions.

He is credited as a composer (ie he played piano) for Holding Absence’s song Purge. Their self-titled album was recorded in 2018, so around the time Sleep Token released the singles Jaws and The Way That You Were. Fun fact about this collab: the band most likely met Ves through George Lever, since he produced Holding Absence’s album, and that’s how the Loathe/Holding Absence/Sleep Token tour came about.

In 2019, he collaborated with The Hell on their song Jump the Fuck Up. This one I have the least information on, since the band is also anonymous and seems to have revolving members. The only credits on the song are the band name and the composer/lyricist Stephen Sears. I haven’t done too much digging, but I would not be surprised if the band had ties to George, Carl, or even both producers.

In summer 2020, during lockdown, he did a piano cover of Type O Negative’s Love You To Death with the vocalist of Forlorn, Megan Jenkins. Her band has previously worked with George Lever. I do have to warn anyone who looks up this song on YouTube, since you’ll see him in the music video that was filmed (hands, arms, chin, hair/hair color, back). He was uncredited, but the mv is proof of his involvement.

The band Malevolence stated in a podcast interview that he played keys on the acoustic version of Higher Place, but was not credited (at least one band member didn’t even realize this). The song was produced by Carl Bown, and since the album/song was released in 2022, I’m assuming it was recorded sometime in 2021, so between recording TPWBYT and TMBTE.

[ask-robloxia-2006]

how did guest and noob came about? Or even anyone in robloxia for that matter. Including you

-Curious anon

The only one I have a clear answer to are the guests! They're supposedly modelled after the first person in this place, big 'ol Roblox himself! He really made them a lot more.. cute than himself, but that works for such a joyful place like this!

As for Noobs? I don't know.. they kinda just appear from thin air! Some have names, others have random strings of words and numbers, and all of them are really fun to get to know!... maybe not in large crowds though.

For me?

That's.. a good question.

All I remember is a man named.. Dave? David? He told me I was gonna do some really good things, and I hope to hold up to those words!!! I promise to!!!

Edit: I FORGOT THE R ON THE VEST WAAGH I THOUGHT I GOT EVERYTHING!!!

[revanhaed]

Owl house Gabenath? Or Hesperia helps Nathalie? Angst/comfort fr

there would be plot, wouldn’t there? 🤔

[aroaceleovaldez]

So, in your last post about the Percy Jackson TV show, I felt you lacked a few pieces of information/points. While it is true that the CGI in the film is pore and not constructed well, please note that while they have a large budget Disney has made a lot of restrictions to the show. In the original scrips there was a significantly larger amount of violence that would have needed more CGI. This was latter edited out of the script due to both restrictions and budget cuts for other parts in the show(sadly). Also to bring into prospective Sea of monsters the movie was made 10 years ago. Inflation has juristically affected the way money is used in films. Another thing to note is typically movie budgets are less than TV shows because they only are filming for one larger block of time. TV however they can take years meaning the acters need to be paid even for the time off set. This is not to say movies cannot take years, but it is to show that TV shows are filmed longer. I would also like to say I am genuinely not trying to be rude or unkind about your opinion and thoughts on the subject. I am just someone who has a different insight into the topic because of the things I know about the topic (I myself, am an actor and for the most part I think this is why the CGI was not the best as well as some of the script work). 

I did actually calculate inflation for Sea of Monsters versus the PJO TV show. We know the PJO TV show allegedly had a budget of $12-15 million per episode. For comparison, this is the type of budget Disney+ usually uses for stuff like The Mandalorian. I was doing a generous underestimate for the entire season which comes out to $96mil (12mil per episode x 8 episodes). Sea of Monsters' budget was 90mil. Here's that inflation:

So lil over $120mil. Going for a top estimate for s1 of the show (15x8) that's $120mil. And as far as I'd heard that may also not include stuff like budget for casting for the show. They are still roughly in similar ballparks.

Regardless of this - as an animator, i can tell you there is no excuse for that wonky CGI trident other than it being extremely quickly done. That's literally a transform error, like ctrl+t type stuff. That is a lazy and cheap trident, probably because Disney notoriously overworks and cheaps out with their CGI. The CGI problems in the show are majority because Disney's being cheap about it. This shows in nearly all the CGI in every episode.

If they had to remove violence from the script and so remove CGI scenes with it, then theoretically they should have more room in the budget for more or better CGI where it already is in the show. That money doesn't just vanish. Changing that in the script gives them less of an excuse, actually.

Also, as i mentioned in my previous post - if you don't want to CGI hydrokinesis, don't pick the franchise where the main character's defining power is hydrokinesis. If you can't have much violence, DON'T PICK THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY SERIES WHERE THE MAIN CHARACTER BEHEADS TWO PEOPLE IN THE FIRST BOOK AND IT ONLY GETS BLOODIER FROM THERE. You cannot have PJO without some level of violence. It's kind of very inherent to the series. Rick actually talks in his original Teaching Guide for The Lightning Thief about how, in argument against attempts to ban TLT (in this specific instance for "being too violent"), that monsters in the books poof into golden dust for a reason, because then they haven't "died." There is no blood. They can and will come back. Because it's fantasy. That is the excuse for all the violence. Of which there otherwise technically is a lot of.

If you are doing live action PJO you are going to have to have some amount of violence (and there is absolutely a level that is perfectly suitable for a PG13 audience. The show right now is leagues below that level. PG13 just means parental guidance for under 13 - this majority has to do with concerns about children under 13 replicating behavior on-screen. Past 13 kids know better than to do that, which is why that rating is a thing. There are plenty of film/media/etc that are way more gory and violent and are still PG13). You are going to have to CGI monsters/creatures to some degree regularly (alongside demigod powers like Percy's hydrokinesis even more regularly). And between those two things, characters are going to have to look like they're physically interacting with the CGI at times. Disney is capable of doing this. Disney does have the budget for this for the show. They're not doing it because they're being cheap. Disney has done this before and does it regularly. This is not anything new. It entirely has to do with CGI not having as many unions. They have no excuses. If they didn't expect to run into these problems then they clearly did no planning for what adapting the series would entail and didn't think at all of what the series actually featured before diving into it. And they have no excuse for that! That is step one!

[badlydrawndashstrider]

NICE BRACELETS GAYLORD. -CG

TT: ! TT: Oh. Hi Karkat. I was wondering where you went. TT: Glad you like them, because one of them's yours.

TT: Here ya go. I'm gonna go find John.

[kirkwallguy]

I get that it's game mechanics but they go and do the clunkiest dialogue for poor Taash's gender search and then present you with a binary choice for their culture like??? Haven't we just talked about not having to do either of these. You have a half dozen codex entries on queer Tevinters helping them through this but they gotta pick ONE culture.

The bird feeding and meeting Karash was cool! Why is the rest of Taash's companion storyline so... bleh. If they needed to have a binary choice on their companion questline why did it have to be about something so personal and that Bioware is so goddamn bad at.

it's just so fascinating to me that this was written and went through multiple edits like... even if it gets miraculously better later and the conclusion of their story is "they can be non-binary with their culture AND their gender :)" (which is still uh. in the words of jessica, not everything feels like something else.) it's still crazy to have them talk about being forced into boxes and then have you choose to encourage them to pursue one culture or the other, especially since it feels implied that qunari culture is traditional and stifling while rivaini culture is accepting and free, even though so far we've barely SEEN any of either culture lol.

[isablooo]

me reading your dracula's guest comic (great work btw i loved it): you know maybe zalman has a little crush on jonathan because why not

Thank you so much for reading!! I was trying to lean into how norms of male friendship were different and in some ways more intimate in the victorian period and can come across as homoerotic to modern readers so I'm definitely here for this interpretation!

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[daughterofhecata]

Hello Kaj!

A while back you mentioned Sabaton, and i checked out some of their songs, but then i guess i forgot about them again... but the other day i found two Sabaton CDs at the charity shop for cheap, so i bought them - kind of indirectly on your recommendation :-D

Now i want to talk to someone who also knows the band! So, i really like their music, because it fucks! I like that it's fast, the guitars are sick and the choruses go hard, especially when they have shouting or a choir! But i'm less sure what to think about the lyrics of some of their songs, some are hard to parse out what the opinion of the song is, if that makes sense? (doesn't help that english isn't my native language and a lot of references or figure of speech probably go over my head) I've tried reading about the band a bit but i find all kinds of different opinions on them, and whether they glorify nazis and/or war in general and all that...

I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on their stuff, since you've known the band for a while, and also because you have a different perspective as a german and (i really hope i remember this correctly and don't confuse you with someone else!) have interest in that history and therefore probably know a lot!

I hope this doesn't come across as rude or intrusive, i just want to talk about it and am interested in your perspective! Also i'm pretty sure you've talked about it on here before, but tumblr search refuses to let me find anything (as usual)...

And just in case this isn't obvious (this is an anon ask on tumblr after all), i don't expect you to reassure or give me permission to listen to this band! i like critically engaging with things i enjoy and don't think any media is or should be considered completely good or evil!

sorry for the very long question, i hope you have a nice day!

Hey!

Cool shit! Congrats on the CD aquisition!

Very glad about you mentioning you're not looking for permission to listen to them, because even if I wanted to, I couldn't give you a clear yes or no there. Not least because, and please do consider my entire answer under that caveat, I haven't actively followed their music since uuuh The Great War album, so 2019. Still love the older albums, just sort of fell off the train. So I can't speak for anything that may have happened or come up after that.

In general, I think Sabaton will always be followed by the accusation that they're glorifying war and the military. That just comes with the terrain, ie concept of their albums/lyrics. And one album I'm especially critical of in that regard is my beloved Carolus Rex, because, well, Sweden was a major player in that war, and they are naturally not impartial. I love the album to bits, but it's also extremely colored by, presumably, how Sweden perceives its own history.

However. I think they are by and large also aware of those tendencies in their topics. And it's the balance, that does it for me. Was Lauri Törni (Soldier of Three Armies) a hero one should look up to? Eeeh, probably not, considering he did fight with the nazis. Do I dislike Rorke's Drift for the weird imperialist/colonialist undertones? Absolutely. But on the other hand, you have songs like Inmate 4859, The Final Solution and Rise of Evil, that are very outright antifascist, and you have Stalingrad, The Great War, The End of the War to End War and - something that gives me particular chills - the cover of In the Army Now (if you haven't heard that one - go do it!) that do explicitly comment on how war is *not* glamorous and great.

As far as I'm concerned, I always got the impression that yeah, they kind of do have this obsession with war history and battles, but to me there has also always been this undercurrent of... idk, looking at humans in extreme situations and honoring them. Especially when we're talking about songs like No Bullets Fly, The Ballad of Bull, Resist and Bite (i know, i know, all of these are from Heroes but that was a formative album for me).

There are huge grey areas obviously, and like I said, haven't really followed them for a lot of years. I have no idea if/how Covid influenced them (bc lbr, quite some people went in.... interesting directions during/after that time) or if they are still working with Peter Tägtgren (he used to produce them & rumor has it, he's gone off the deep end conspiracy-wise), but in general, I think they have a certain level of awareness that they can be sort-of credibly "accused" of glorifying war and are at least partially trying not to do that.

[canisalbus]

Machete reminds me of those unhinged little dogs that screech at everything except the single person they like (Vasco)

He's a Creachure and I love him

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[utilitycaster]

do you think that the arkhan/hand of vecna plotline will ever come back up again? or does arkhans ascent into published dnd canon make this unlikely? curious on your take on this part of the lore

I am concerned that you have in some way hacked into my discord conversations because I said this like an hour and a half ago.

I have only ever thought of Arkhan in the sense of "ah, right, the days when G&S could be like 'hey guys we need to have this famous person with ties to D&D and/or other Nerdy Pursuits on the show" and Matt presumably had to be like "um it's the finale battle of a campaign we've been playing as friends for five years? but sure, I guess." Joe Manganiello seems like a lovely person but it was an profoundly awkward and badly placed appearance. Sam Riegel fully sobbing in the club while some guy with zero context for why half the table has burst into tears over a high level Counterspell is just like *Nic Cage in National Treasure Voice* "I NEED TO STEAL THE HAND OF VECNA." It is a moment of pure, unbridled high camp surrealism. It feels like it comes from a mockumentary sitcom about a fictional actual play show rather than as part of the final battle of a highly popular and successful existing actual play show. This, too, is Goncharov.

Anyway. That is my take on this part of the lore.

[buster-gallon]

"Hello, Buster Gallon. I am curious, and I am interested in your response. What is your opinion on the team?"

Mega Ambler hummed, curious of Buster Gallon's answer. He then paused, asking yet another.

"And what's your opinion on me?"

Second question is from @anonymousbeeblurr

"I hope you don't mind with the idea of me answering three people at the same time."

"I will do this in order..."

Buster paused as he tapped his right index finger under his chin, probably trying to remember who's in the team and sort them in the order he wanted to answer

"Let's start with Jun, I'm impressed with his quick-witted thinking and being able to adapt to most situations. I'm most impressed when he knew immediately what to do when we confronted Black Hook. He made a lot of great impressions on me and I'm happy to join the team."

"Blue Cop, I admire his ability to be able to keep the team under control when Jun is busy. Though, I think he needs to take a rest more often." (@blue-policerobot)

"Mega Trucker, I wish his ability to think is as good as his dancing skill." (@thelatinodancerbot)

"Mega Ambler, I will leave you later. I save the best for last." (@unlicensedmedicalcardbot)

"Phoenix Fire, his reaction time is fast when it comes to exhausting fire. Although he needs to try to calm down and not panic whenever he sees fire."

"Shadow X, he's childish, and his pranks are the same as his personality. But they are entertaining to watch." (@shadowx-ishere1)

"Dexter, he's a kitty magnet somehow. The last time I saw him, he had a group of 20 kitties around him and on his body. Edo almost cried in bankruptcy."

"Fleta Z, he's fast, his aiming accuracy is astonishing and he knows how to impress the ladies." (@gracefulbountyhunter)

"Wild Guardy, he's a noble Metal Cardbot, I respect his determination to be better than Blue Cop."

"Buffalo Crush... His hunger has eaten his thinking processes."

"Black Hook... Old." (@capta1nstreasure)

"Heavy Iron... Old, but more aggressive." (@heavyironsbasement)

"For the others, I will need time to learn more about them."

Once he finished with everyone, he shifted his attention to Mega Ambler, the one that he saved for the last.

"Now, for the one I save for the last, Mega Ambler... I think you are..."

He paused, and paused, and paused... And then he shifted his attention to his mini gallons who were approaching to the two, leaving his reply hanging and hanging...

[robloxforsakenconfessions]

I love that guest 1337 is in forsaken but I wish more people made content about the movie

-someone who grew up the last guest movie

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