#Dragonball commercials

[heliosynchronisity]

heyy soz for all the commission posting but could do with the extra cash while im between jobs >w<

but just wanted to share this new commission type i've been doing and really enjoying!! keep reading for more info!

Wanna see ur OC in the style of ur fav cartoon, game or show? No need to keep looking! Gimme an oc and a 2D style and I'll let ya know if I can do it! Examples of  styles: Looney Tunes, Steven Universe, Power Puff Girls, MLP FiM,  Chowder, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon etc I am using my 6 years of TV animation experience for evil good

prices can fluctuate a lot between styles so rough (USD) ballparks are: icon 20-50+ bust 30-80+ waist up 50-200+ fullbody 80-300+ full scenes will need to be discussed, this rate is per character. Final quotes will be given thru DM after all the necessary info is acquired~

info i'll need oc ref links: target style: (image examples please) pose, expression, outfit etc: icon/bust/half/fullbody?:

-simple gradient/flat background can be added at no cost - detailed  backgrounds are unavailable at this time (i dont wanna use actual  backgrounds from shows for commissioned work) -any kind of characters welcome but please keep in mind species and character designs and their compatibility with the target style (ie. I won't know what to do with a human OC if u ask for a bluey art style - however you can request a 'design this character if they were in this universe' style commission at extra cost!) - if ur not sure, PLEASE ask! -no nsfw for this commission type at this time.

-TOS- by commissioning me you agree to the following Terms of Service - you must be over the age of 18 - all payments are in usd and are arranged via paypal invoicing - payment must be made up front, 50/50 payment plans available for pieces over 300usd - refunds unavailable after sketch is approved -  final artwork must be credited to me anywhere it is posted, either   linking back to my TH account or simply adding 'artwork by  heliocanix' - my work will NOT be used for any crypto, nft or ai purposes - artwork purchased from me is to be used for personal purposes only, commercial usage rights can be discussed

[evwritesgames]

RIP Akira Toriyama

Chrono Trigger, Dragonball, and Dragon Quest all had an indelible effect on me growing up. Each had a role shaping my tastes since all three were both for kids yet more than "just for kids". Toriyama was one of the Japanese creators who seemed somehow permanent, an institution unto himself. Like Yoshitaka Amano or Hayao Miyazaki, who thankfully lives on, I don't think anime or games would be the same without Toriyama's immense influence and specific, idiosyncratic art style that had no problem running off in its own direction even as Japanese commercial art in games, manga, and anime became very homogenized and over-saturated. Which only makes Toriyama's uniqueness and contribution stand out that much more.

The art I'm posting is a few years old now but it's one of my favorite of my own pieces and is my personal tribute to the man, his art style, and his role in creating my all-time favorite video game.

[ziggyevenstar]

feb (and march 1)🌷

🌷 been listening to a lot of beatles songs again lately. kung agad lang akong nagplay ng happy beatles songs i would’ve felt better a lot sooner

🌷 had lunch sa bir office this week kase naginvite sila. nagluto sila ng chicken wings. sobrang chill sa office nila pag lunch time or pag out na

🌷 been going out to different coffee places after work. i think need ko ulit magbawas ng coffee intake ko. balik hibiscus naba ito. charot. note to self: need ko ata magorder ulit ng flower tea

🌷 work has been really fun, bait nila lahat🥰 i want to make coffee for everyone again kasooo mej mas madami gagawin ko if ever bec less than 20 na kami sa office and then 2 sa kabilang branch, 3 sa kabilang branch, 2 sa kabilang branch, and one sa taas. dami, kawawa breville hindi naman for commercial use e

🌷 nagdala si ate ehlla ng coffee saken kanina♥️

🌷 puro ako grab mygad kelangan ko matuto magbudget. pero kase nasa kape naman ligaya hahaha

🌷 nagmessage sina tita sa work nung wed before lunch nagyayaya ng lunch🥰 kaso yun nga i had lunch with bir people

🌷 my friends keep messaging me random stuff. i love it

🌷 therapy’s been going great. hindi ko nagagawa totally yung assignments kase naman parang high school homeroom feels (pero i know naman it’s going to help)

🌷 realized i’m not willing to go from

“i want you to be my girlfriend so bad”, or “the things i’d do to keep you” or “for you, i’d compromise anything”

to

“aNo gUsTo mO tReAt kItA aS a pRiNcEsS?”

HAHAHHAHAHA

🌷AVATAR. SO. FUCKING. GOOD

🌷 nagbayad nako para sa convention namin!! pero sad not all my friends are going

🌷 sinundo ako ng ate ko from work tapos sabi nya “may binili ako para sayo” tapos binigyan nya ko ng maliit na pouch na pwede mo icolor hahaha tapos dinos yung design. wala yun lang, natuwa ako sobra hahaha

🌷 had my period (oo hindi sya taboo) so i was feeling emotional tapos nagwwhine-cry ako habang kumakain ng burger ko, e sakto yung nagpplay na song malungkot. sabi ng ate ko, “palitan natin yung song. alexa, play dragonball z” HAHAHAHA tawa ko ng tawa. K.

🌷 nagsara na kalidad. bigla ko namiss cold brew days

[onemillionwordsofcrap]

So for those who don't know, there was a "Muppet Babies" show when I was small that was a rip-roaring commercial success, to the point where every single franchise out there decided to do a separate series with the characters as kids or babies whether it broke canon or not. And thus "I hear next year we're getting [Franchise] Babies" was a go-to joke when you wanted to make fun of a franchise for having run out of ideas but still wanting to milk the cash cow

All of that to say, apparently we are quite literally getting Dragonball Babies and I have no idea how to feel

[toast1862]

oh my goodness. when i was a kid we used to record episodes of dragonball z off cartoon network and then watch them as a family at the end of the week. we had dozens of tapes, starting somewhere in the namek saga and ending i think at the very end of the series? at least partway through the buu saga for sure. but i thought 100% of them were lost when all our shit got destroyed by hurricane katrina. but just now we were looking through some unlabeled tapes to see what was on them. and there's just a mid-namek dbz tape in there. with commercials and everything. what a fucking find

[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragonball Z: Abridged Episode 10 Review

Originally posted August 18th, 2015

A blending of long-form storytelling and rapid-fire jokes.

“The Punchline” is about twenty-five minutes long, making it the longest episode of Dragonball Z: Abridged at the time of release, and Team Four Star’s first attempt to craft an episode that fits into this longer form. So the challenge they’re presented with is to meld their “joke-a-minute” style with a story that demands more time than they usually allot themselves to tell their stories in. And personally, I feel like they successfully complete that challenge, for the most part.

Part of this can obviously be attributed to their decision to split the episode into three separate parts; this gives them the time to work on each part on its own, and develop it in the amount of time they normally have to do so. Of course, this makes it tempting to divide the episode by each part and look at them separately, and I would have done so, if it weren’t for the fact that it all flows together as a single episode incredibly well.

The majority of this episode deals directly with the fight between Goku and Vegeta, whose face off has been built up to over the last few episodes. Their fight is long and drawn out, typical to anime form, and yet it never seems to overstay its welcome, mostly due to the strong jokes Team Four Star injects into every moment. These jokes come, primarily, from the natural conflict between Vegeta and Goku’s personality, as Vegeta slowly becomes increasingly frustrated by Goku’s innocence, and gradually loses his temper as their fight drags on.

When the fight does come to the end, it’s a rather pyrrhic victory for Goku, as he has been physically broken, and the majority of their allies are dead. So it’s no surprise that Krillin’s immediate reaction to Vegeta’s attempted escape is to grab a sword and prepare to end it once and for all. What is surprising, of course, is Goku’s decision to allow Vegeta to flee, as long as he says he’s sorry. Yet it is still entirely in character; Goku’s innocence hasn’t failed him yet, and he still is optimistic enough to trust Vegeta not to betray him even now. Team Four Star, of course, leans in to how absolutely moronic Goku must be to still be willing to trust Vegeta, and rightfully so, but it’s still a rather touching moment (even when Vegeta immediately betrays him afterwards).

Goku still isn’t perfect of course, and Team Four Star refuses to let us forget that, as when Gohan returns to try and save his father from being killed by Vegeta, his only concern is whether Gohan told Chi Chi to put dinner on, and not the incredible risk his son took in coming back for him. Yet this selfishness from Goku doesn’t undo the fact that he still loves his son, as they have a brief moment of bonding right before Vegeta come to attack Gohan. The message of this moment here is mixed, and complicated, as Goku’s love for his son doesn’t preclude his failures as a father, which both taints the moment and simultaneously makes it more real.

Rating: 4/5

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Stray Observations

Vegeta: “I’m going to start beating you now. I don’t know when I’ll stop.”

Narrator: “Meanwhile, back at the plot.”

Vegeta: “As I reveal my giant, monkey… form.” Bystander: “Thank god, I thought he meant penis.”

Yajirobe ex machina. And yet I don’t mind it at all.

Their “commercial break” gag is probably my favorite cutaway gag in this series, though the cutaway to the deer dying is a close second.

Vegeta: “That armor was a gift from my father!” Yajirobe: “I’m sure your father was a great man.” Vegeta: “I hated my father.” Yajirobe: “I’m sure he was a total prick.” Vegeta: “How dare you talk about my father like that!?”

Captain Kirk: “Suck it, Spock.”

Vegeta: “Yes. I’m very, very sorry. That you’re all still alive. Suckers!”

Krillin Owned: All the way up to 10.

Ghost Nappa!

[poobit]

also sorry but i think you shouldnt call yourself knowledgeable in commercial art if you never ever study bootlegs and the art done in any working class area of the world like , fucking street food stands and dinky little shops with murals of weirdly proportioned but passion driven mishmash of dragonball or simpsons characters done by people who have only done a mural like two times in their whole life , the graphic design of a local cleaning supply shop with 10 different unpaid stock images and fonts and decorations .

[clarktooncrossing]

Giraffe's Eye View | Princess Mononoke (1997) REVIEW

Wondering why the sudden case of Deja Vu? It's because this was posted as one long review called 'BINGE WEEK', but I've decided to shorten it for the sake of your sanity and mine. If you're interested in my previous review, click here for my thoughts on Rankin and Bass's take on The Hobbit! For now though, onwards to a grand adventure!

Let it be known throughout the land that I am not a weeb. Yes folks, surprisingly there are people out there who's lives don't revolve around anime. Nothing against the artform as a whole, it's just never been my cup of jade tea. You'd think me being born in the 90s would mean I'm totally obsessed with the medium, considering all the shows that mate it Stateside. You'd also think Pokémon would've been taken off the air by now, yet here we are. That show never kept my interest despite Nintendo's marketing making it appear everywhere, DragonBall seemed far too gratuitous both in terms of its action and sex appeal, and Sailor Moon came out at a time when the difference between boys and girls were distinguished by toy commercials. Ninja Turtles and Spider-Man were for dudes, Barbie and Sailor Moon were for not. Obviously now I know that's a load of bull, especially given my love of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but little Clark was a lot dumber back then. Still, even now I'm reluctant to try out any new animes, not that this stops my pals from trying. The recommendations they gave me were a mixed bag to say the least. Tokyo Godfathers was as beautiful as it was bittersweet, One Punch Man that used the tropes of three separate generes to its advantage, and Nagatoro was cute despite how awful its titular character could be at times. On the other hand the finale to Cowboy Bebop pissed me of and my first exposure to Cardcaptor Sakura was during the middle of its second season, my anger rising due to how confused I was. With all that said, my taste in anime outside of Avatar or RWBY has expanded, now including films produced by Studio Ghibli. Last year I watched Kiki's Delivery Service for the first time and thought it was pretty decent, so what did I end up thinking of Princess Mononoke (1977)?

For starters, I was wondering why it's called that when she's not actually the protagonist. Not to say she isn't a pivotable part of the plot, but most of our time is spent on Prince Ashitaka, voiced here by Billy Crudup. For anybody about to complain how I'm a filthy dub-lover, two things: 1) I am just learning how to speak Japanese and I am a painfully slow learner. 2) This is an animated movie, not a manga. If I wanted to read, I'll bust out one of the Komi books lining up my shelves. All I wanna do is watch the movie without having to pay attention to whatever it says on the bottom. Nothing against anybody who prefers the dub, this is just my preference. Besides, the American cast for most Ghibli films are incredible, this picture being no exception. We have Billy Bob Thorton from Bad Santa, John DiMaggio taking a break from trying to defeat Kim Possible, and Minnie freak'n Driver as Iron Town's leading lady Lady Eboshi. As someone who thinks Tarzan is one of Disney's best movies, it was a pleasure hearing Jane in this movie.

Wait, wasn't I talking about the plot? Like I was saying, Ashitaka is cursed by a demonic boar, said curse being a demonic manifestation of vengeance and hatred. Think if all the nastiness of Twitter became a collective of demon worms that oddly resembled Venom. It's a pretty fitting description too, considering the symbiote's whole ordeal is enhancing the darker side of ourselves. It's why I still like Spider-Man 3, the symbiote in that movie bringing out the worst of Peter Parker just as much as this demonic curse brings the worst out in everybody. Aunt May was right when she said revenge is like a poison, no better example of this being this picture.

The curse is slowly killing Ashitaka as he comes across two factions also consumed by these darker emotions. On one side is the aforementioned Iron Town, a civilization made of metal that sits on some of the remains of the forest. While the populous seems pleasant enough, Lady Eboshi is obsessed with expansion, making the very sound point that cities have to grow or folks will die. On the other hand we have those living in the forest, such as the apes, boars, wolves, and the titular princess San (Claire Danes), all of whom hate the humans for destroying their home. Basically this movie is the anime answer to The Lorax, a story I have always loved. Much like Dr. Seuss's tale of Truffula Trees, progress and environmentalism are never depicted as purely right or wrong. Both bring up good points while also showing the flaw of each position. Any story that depicts one side as purely in the right or wrong is pure garbage!

ESPECIALLY THAT ONE!

Unlike Illumination's idiotic butchering of a beloved classic, I always respect pro-nature stories that find this balance. After all, people gotta live somewhere and so do animals, right?

If the brilliant writing wasn't already a win, the movie has amazing animation, though really that's to be expecting from Studio Ghibli. Granted, they achieve this level of perfection from the director working his animators like dogs, but let's not open up that can of demonic worms. Regardless of how the sausage was made, it's so spam good sausage. Heck, this movie marked the first example of CGI being implemented into anime and you can hardly tell! If I had any complaints about this movie, it'd be the surprising amount of gore in this movie. Granted it never gets to RoboCop or Predator levels of exteme, but boy did I begin to question this film's PG-13 rating when Ashitaka managed to decapitate a person with an arrow! Green Arrow wishes he could be that lethal! Also, the fact that our two protagonists don't end up as a couple as the end was kinduv' a bummer to a hopeless romantic like that, but really that's small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. When all's said and done, one can easily see why this is considered one of Ghibli's finest features. Do yourself a favor and check this out if you haven't already, preferably before you're cursed by demons.

Then again, maybe what they needed was a goddess to banish all the demons. Oh! I can think of one...

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CURIOUS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? CLICK HERE TO SEE MY THOUGHTS ON MOTHRA (1962)! MAY THE GLASSES BE WITH YOU!

[relicfragment]

Thinking about the summer of 2013. Watching boomerang at my aunts. Sleeping on the couch at my own choice because i didn't want to be w/o the noise of the television. Sticking danimals crush cups into the freezer to eat like popsicles later. The older cartoons from the 60s and 70s being on during the day, shows like Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls in the evening, and shows like Samurai Jack and He-Man at night. Every single Boomerang bumper, including the songs and shorts and stop motion animations. I'm certain there wasn't a single commercial on that channel other than ads for other shows, the bumpers, and the songs and shorts between it. This and The Hub and also Nicktoons. When my family finally got DirecTV after years of living on nothing but local television I was obsessed.

I didn't watch much Boomerang after that year. Eventually I got big into The Hub and Nicktoons. Nicktoons at night, particularly, in the summer of 2014. I started getting into fanfiction and staying up late and watching minecraft lets plays. Nicktoons had a block at night where they'd air the old nicktoons. Nowadays they only air loud house, spongebob, and their spinoffs with maybe one original acquired cartoon because nickelodeon has been a shell of its former self for over half a decade now. I used to watch Dragon Ball Z Kai on it too, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal / Dragonball GT before they put new episodes of these shows on sundays where my grandma wld force me to go to church.

The Hub was probably the network i mourned the most. I would wait every day after school for Deltora Quest to come on. It was one of my favorite shows-- it was an anime dubbed into english. I would watch MLP, Pound Puppies, every animated show you could think of besides maybe transformers prime.

[loopy777]

So yeah, interesting commercials with the Dragon Ball cast. Several deal with Gohan (Later Gohan, Trunks and Goten) having eye troubles after swimming cause their Saiyan heritage doesn't negate the need to use drops. Several US commercials involve Ford Fusion and a Japanese one during the time of Battle of the Gods where the Dragon Team shill.... I mean share their love of KFC.

Still not the most bizarre collab ad I've seen for KFC. (I have a print copy of #1, incidentally. Don't worry, I didn't pay money for it.)

The eyedrops one is the weirdest of all these to me, though. I've never heard of needing eyedrops after swimming, never mind it being big enough to do an ad campaign with Dragonball. Unless that was the point, it was a brand new idea no one would have given time of day to without a big character to draw attention to it?

But it's the car commercials absolutely make the most sense to me. Ever since I saw He-Man and the Ninja Turtles selling cars, I realized my generation ruined the world. Why not have our childhood toys sell us cheap cars in our middle age? It makes perfect sense that we still make buying decisions like we're 8 years old, despite having 8-year-old offspring ourselves. (Or, at least, most of us. I missed that memo.)

[char-x3]

Los Angeles FC 🤓

[dragonballclassic]

[blueikeproductions]

My guess was both popularity and perhaps just being a stronger story over all.

Mon Colle Knights was fun but it was the weaker left over scraps of stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon on a surface level. The primary villains led by Eccentro weren’t all that different from Team Rocket (and even then Team Rocket were a reference to the Time Bokan series). It was also peculiar because it was based on a card game that the US never got for one reason or another.

Medabots was popular, but it also didn’t finish its run on Fox Kids, instead the remainder of its series got booted to whatever The Family Channel was calling itself at the time. It was dubbed by Nelvana, but it did ride the coat tails of Digimon somewhat, as an early commercial boldly declared Medabots was brought to you by the same ones who brought you Digimon, trying to get Digimon fans to watch it. I think it worked!

Flint the Time Detective was fun too but also a little too Pokémon-esque, though it ironically had more in common with Time Bokan than Pokemon and Mon Colle Knights did. It was one of the more obvious Pokemon reactionary anime of the time, and like a lot of the Yokai Watch copy cats became lost to time (ironically).

Tranaformers: Robots in Disguise shared several Power Rangers and Digimon voice actors, with Tai as Koji’s friend Carl, Matt as the Autobot Wedge, Meramon/Whamon as Predacon Sky-Byte and Hawkmon most famously as Optimus Prime. I don’t count it as much in this equation as it’s Transformers and it was going to do well regardless, and did quite well as a brand refresh after Beast Machines was sort of the Digimon tri of Transformers in its day…

Monster Rancher had a stronger story on par with Digimon, but it too didn’t exactly resonate and its show didn’t conclude on Fox Kids either, with it concluding on the Family Channel, and its extra third season being MIA in America (to my knowledge) until YouTube uploads, officially and unofficially. It wasn’t a Saban dub and instead was done by the folks responsible for Beast Wars, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, early Dragonball Z, and ReBoot’s stellar voice cast. It too, American broadcast wise, was trying a little too hard to compete with Pokemon, even having its own PokeRap in Unlock Your Disk, emphasizing a Catch ‘Em All gimmick technically not part of Monster Rancher’s gameplay.

Digimon was ultimately the stronger competitor at the time, having the stakes and storytelling Pokémon didn’t have. Now Pokémon is trying to do that in HZ, but to very mixed to poor results. Sometimes you don’t mess with a formula. Medabots I’d say was the 3rd strongest, but it had the awkward timing of coming out towards the end of Fox Kids as it mutated into the 4Kids programming block the Fox Box/4KidsTV, so it didn’t take root as well as Pokémon and Digimon did.

Can you figure out what made Digimon’s dub stand out from other shows that Saban had dubbed?

I have no idea? I think Digimon is just popular.

[msdbzbabe]

Some gifs from DB commercials

[sketchjii]

rottmnt staff really grabbed this song for their latest promo huh

[jacquelinemerritt]

Three Questions

Originally posted February 18th, 2016

Or, my general approach to criticism is to ask:

What is the story/film/video/song/album trying to do?

Does it accomplish its goal?

Is that a goal worth pursuing?

The first question is an important one, and answering it can either be incredibly easy or ridiculously difficult. Dragonball Z: Abridged’s goal is simple: to retell the original series’ story as a clever action comedy. Some complex works have simple answers to this question too; Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly’s goal is to interrogate the commercialization of black culture, and Plato’s Republic is trying to establish a working metaphor/definition for/of justice.

A work like Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia, on the other hand, can be much more difficult to parse, as the film raises questions about the nature of romantic love versus sexual desire, the the inability of many artists to connect with those around them, and the value of religion and tradition in a modernist world. In this scenario, the critic’s values have to come into play, and so, in my opinion, the important questions raised by Nostalghia are united by the disconnect modernism forces upon people, with the main character’s “objectivity” resulting in his disconnection from the world, and his return to religion at the end symbolizes his embrace of traditionalism and the restoration of his ability to connect with others. I’m personally in favor of this perspective, and I believe the text supports it, but hey, I’m really interested in critiquing modernism and the negative effects it has on society, so I could well be missing another argument that ties the themes of the film together more closely.

The second question tends to always take work to answer, but that work is, in a way, the simplest. The task here is to articulate the weaknesses and failures of a story, which are things most people have an intuitive sense of when they consume a piece of media. To do this effectively, you need training, both in the terminology of story, character analysis, and the vocabulary of your medium, and in effectively articulating your thoughts. The great thing is that almost all of this training is available online: almost all current criticism is published online for free, Wikipedia is a treasure trove of information about film theory (start with Eisenstein and go from there), (I’m sure musical and writing theory is there too) and there are hundreds of people online providing the best and most effective information on film I’ve received (I’m gonna link to a few).

Now, the downside to this is that as you grow as a critic, you may have to move past the critics you started watching/reading in favor of more intelligent and nuanced critics (I’m not going to point fingers here, but there are some critics I used to love that I don’t find particularly interesting or insightful anymore). And there’s also a whole lot of super pretentious criticism out there that isn’t particularly clever or interesting that you have to wade through to get to the particularly good stuff. This tangent has gotten quite long now, but my point is essentially that to be a good critic requires reading a lot of good criticism and learning a lot about the medium.

The final question I ask is the most subjective, but it’s also, in my opinion, the most important. And, the thing is, it’s a question that, whether people realize it or not, everyone automatically asks themselves when watching something. Whether or not I believe the writers should be attempting what they’re attempting will unquestionably influence my opinion on the story itself, and as such, it is my first and last job to question myself in addition to their goal.

Now, here’s the thing: it’s both always that dramatic, and almost never that dramatic. When I’m watching Dragonball Z: Abridged, I already believe there’s inherit value in adapting melodrama to comedy, and I honestly think it suits the emotional beats of the story better than the original. But since I find it incredibly valuable just beyond that, I have to ask myself why, on a deeper level, I find it as important as I do, and my next answer is that it’s valuable because it interrogates the original story by including queer characters, making the women actual people, and showing us, in an even clearer light, just how poor of a father Goku really is. Similarly, when I’m saying that the invalidation of Dodoria’s identity by Vegeta is harmful (as in my review of Episode 15), I’m not just saying that his comments are harmful because they’re transphobic, I’m saying they’re harmful because the lack of a counter to his comments frames the degradation of transgender people in the show as entirely normal, and the default response to the existence of women like me.

That last point is the most nuanced one I want to make, as it captures the “ethics” behind my criticism. I’m not interested in bashing artists for creating work I disagree with, I’m interested in questioning the ideas they present and fostering understanding as to why I don’t support those ideas. Saying that as a woman who reviews an internet parody of a 90s anime is, interesting. Yet it is the only way I can describe just what I’m trying to do with this blog and my reviews (well, in addition to fostering critical conversation about “illegitimate” forms of media, because I believe that nothing is above critical analysis). And I hope that in general, that’s what I’m accomplishing.