#Grendel hour

[cyber-neptune]

"Didn't we have a Gauss and Grendel in our squad?"

Gauss and Grendel :

[kaiserouo]

he's a nom nom warframe

[lovelandfrogman]

been having thoughts

[shortterm-emory]

Been listening to The Mountain Goats again

[apollo-elias]

Hi all! My final project for college was this labor of love I spent about a year on. It's inspired by The Ninth Hour (https://www.ninthhourmusical.com/) which is criminally underrated.

Basically, it's a four minute long animated storyboard following Grendel post his final fight with Beowulf. I put a lot of work into it, and so please enjoy!

(Vocal performance by Shayfer James, lyrics by Shayfer James and Kate Douglas)

[patch-of-roses]

Musical recommendation that is fully available and less than 50 minutes!

I just watched The Ninth Hour: The Beowulf Story (like I finished it thirty minutes ago), and I am utterly in awe of it.

The show starts with a coin flip meant to determine the actor who plays Beowulf and the one who plays Grendel. The stage is a church. The main actors have such a commanding presence. It has one of the most homoerotic songs I have ever heard between a man and a woman.

I highly recommend watching this performance. It's fully uploaded on the Met's YouTube page. It's phenomenal.

[friends-w-ghosts]

I definitely never saw myself making Beowulf art but I’ve been listening to a musical based on it and I’m very obsessed, so here we are. I actually got to see Shayfer sing one of the songs live and after that I was done for lol I’ve listened to the whole album a million times.

It has a lot of great symbolism that was a lot of fun to work from! There were a loooot of thumbnail sketches as I tried to figure out what I wanted to focus on — I might actually finish one of the ones I scrapped and make it a Beowulf-only poster design.

If you want to listen to it yourself:

[latetothepartyandconfused]

I'm so normal about this

[audio description: Part of Lullaby from the Ninth hour musical, Where dying Grendel is singing to his mother. the song goes as: "Mother all my life you taught me people can't be trusted and we have to fight to stay alive we'll always be the enemy oh eye for eye and limb for limb the blood that I've been swimming in mother I've grown tired of this mother I've grown tired of this There's beauty and there's empathy some people might have cared for me I hid my heart and stayed inside instead of moving with the tide mother I've grown tired of this mother I've grown tired of this mother I've grown tired of this ...tired sorry" Grendel's voice is is hoarse and wet. His words are slurring a bit and it sounds like he has to push them out. As he nears the end, his voice becomes softer and quieter and he slurs more. His last words are barely more then a whisper. \end ID]

[regicidal-defenestration]

If I had a pound for every Beowulf musical adaptation which had themes of Beowulf living forever through the stories told and also forcing Beowulf to confront the similarities between him and Grendel I'd have two quid which isn't a lot but it's odd it's happened twice

[roach-works]

i used to have to wash dishes before getting to play Creatures 1996 on the computer so sometimes ill smell a particular kind of dish soap and remember my beloved childhood digital pet, QWERTY

have you ever done things at like specific times of the year so when it rolls back out youre like damn... smells like undertale outside

[sanchomps]

real. de get back to me when i can put the weird infestation leeches in my operator unethically or something. let me unhuman the guy

oh thatd be fun, idk if that's referring to anything in the new quest but no spoilers please lmao i havent done it, and dont know when ill play it as mentioned before no drive to play the game currently

this is a take is probably what the majority shares (n if it is its the normie take ill die on) i love my operation being some guy sitting there <3 among all the superhuman frames they surround themself with and everyone else being some level of weird bioenhanched race. i like my contrasts. for some reason a running theme of my main interests over the years have been an entire cast of nonhumans and theres one (1) human (doom, undertale). yes this definition can be stretched. the core principle is a very huge ratio of nonhumans to human

[cyber-neptune]

Im delusional

[konakoro]

I've only played about, like, an hour of Warframe but fuck everything fast mecha monster man go wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[imagine-darksiders]

I feel like Grendel, I think being Santa might have fcked up my hearing. It's like I've gone deaf to high and mid frequency sounds, but I'm hyper sensitive to low frequency sound that I'm suddenly picking up in everything I do or hear. There's a vibration deep inside my inner ear. I just flushed the toilet and it was like all I could hear were the pipes rumbling. Cars drive past and it's like all I'm getting are the low pitches.

Anyone who's around excessive loud noise ever get similar problems? Is there a way to deal? This has come on about 24 hours after I was blasted by loud music from speakers all around me.

[ckret2]

bouncing off that anon's ask, who would you ship Bill with *outside* of Gravity Falls? Literally any media go ham with it

Invader Zim for exactly one reason: their voices would be sooo annoying together. Imagine it. Imagine the dirty talk. Absolutely atrocious.

This isn't a ship but I think he should hang out with Team Rocket. I mean I guess it could be a ship if you wanna find a way to fit him into the polycule. They've got plenty they can relate to each other on: complicated relationships with parents, being special in your species in a way that makes you a freak/outcast, seeking family via criminal gang, trying to accomplish ONE evil task for like a billion years and somehow no matter how many people you try to manipulate or how clever your cover stories and creative your plans you just canNOT do it...

But mainly I want him to give them terrible advice and horrible help on their criminal ambitions while trying to get them to build him a portal. They waste 50 episodes on 50 different portal-building schemes while Bill gets progressively more irate, and in turn they get equally furious at this annoying talking Ghost-type they can't touch or make go away. Poké balls work on him but he immediately pops back out even madder, which does nothing to help him persuade them that he's not a Pokémon.

Anyway within a month they'd all die for each other. In a very emotional moment when he thinks they're about to be killed and there's nothing he can do about it, he'd tell them they would have made fine Henchmaniacs; and then when they inevitably survive he immediately takes it back.

I think Bill and Unicron would hook up and I think Unicron would make Bill worse. I think he's one of the only beings in existence that could make Bill worse. Bill's got a self-destructive streak a mile wide and Unicron would exacerbate it. They'd break up cordially and then slowly grow to loathe each other more and more in retrospect. Bill would still booty call Unicron when drunk and Unicron would accept.

this isn't necessarily a ship but imagine if bill and getaway teamed up

The Princess in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer. Bill would promise her a diamond the size of a star and she would build him a portal in less than a week. Bill would compliment her interior decor sensibilities and she might actually compliment his appearance because he's very bright, and that would be enough for them to decide they're besties. They'd get champagne, trash talk their enemies, and bully the plebs like a couple of high school mean girls. They'd make out while completely wasted and deny it when they're sober. Each of them privately thinks the other one is their pet.

Grendel from Grendel. Bill would initially hook up with him expecting him to be the monster equivalent of a party frat boy and then they'd talk philosophy in a dark cave for 18 hours straight and mutually feel like they're not alone for the first time they can remember. They'd make each other worse and then fix each other and then Grendel would die in battle and Bill would get worse again.

I think he could have something with Frankenstein's monster, too—original novel version, not movie version. Similar reasons to Grendel: strong sense of alienation from parents and of isolation from everyone else in the world; feeling of having been created as something totally singular, feeling of having a perspective no one else shares; self-identification as the monster in the narrative of their own life... Plus with the monster Bill's also got "life inevitably culminates in killing my own dad." Bill met him because he was actually trying to get Frank to build him a portal—he's like the first scientist trying to do major projects using electricity—but then ended up more fascinated by the science project than the scientist.

[nek-ros]

sorry for sliding into your asks again but I actively play Genshin as well as Warframe and they are not comparable. Genshin would never Hildryn. look at the upcoming character Varesa and then look at Grendel again. look at the lack of sexualized male characters in Genshin. look at all the tiny skirts and the "pantsu." look at the borderline-pedophilic little girl characters. look at all the racist whitewashing in Genshin. (yeah, I'm not proud I play it. the writing is great sometimes, and that's what hooked me, but that feels like saying "I read Playboy for the articles.")

im aware of all of those in genshin, i used to play the game and i stopped because of those things + boredom

im not comparing those aspects of genshin with warframe because, as you say, THOSE aspects arent comparable!

what i AM saying is that warframe and DE have a downright embarrassing track record of not having any fat characters, and it feels especially insulting considering warframe makes a massive deal about being able to become whatever the fuck you want, unlike genshin. "dream not of what you are but what you want to be" unless what you want to be is a fat person i guess!

im not comparing the two to personally insult warframe players and devs and say they're basically the same as genshin's, i compared them bc i noticed DE uses similar tropes as hoyoverse when creating their only fat character, and both games have a lack of fat characters. a lot of people complained that varesa's main theme is being a "fatass" whose only gimmicks are eating food and slamming people with her body, and the primary thing separating her from grendel warframe is that the genshin devs are too chickenshit to actually make her fat. it's still kinda insulting that the ONLY fat character in warframe does the same things varesa does

aside from that i guess a more apt comparison would be to baldurs gate 3, since larian studios also thinks you should be able to be an elf, squid, tiefling, whatever the fuck you want except for being a fat person (sans dwarves). none of the bg3 companions are fat either..

anyway i love warframe and im approaching 4.5k hours in it, im just pretty annoyed the devs behind the funny transgender sexy robot dressup game cannot comprehend finding a fat person desirable