#M2 Pictures

[thebutcher-5]

Oculus - Il riflesso del male

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo continuato a discutere di fumetti, spostandoci questa volta negli USA e prendendo in esame i comics, specialmente uno riguardante il mio supereroe preferito con Superman: Stagioni. La storia parla della crescita di Clark, da quando andava al liceo a Smallville fino a quando si è trasformato in Superman, compiendo gesti…

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

my n1 guilty pleasure is thinkin that post m2 lauretta moved deeper into criminal after several years & ended up sentenced to jail somewhere in the middle of 1970s

[13eyond13]

Question 6 for the "choose violence" ask game hehe

6. Which ship fans are most annoying? The ones in the fandom I've personally seen as most abrasive over the years are probably the MattxMello shippers who hate a lot on Near and Meronia tbh. I don't even really have much skin in that game myself, as shipping the successors isn't really of any interest to me. But successor arc fanfics written by those shippers are usually so biased against Near and so obsessed with turning Mello into some sex god or something I don't find interesting that I just don't even want to read them at all.

[choose violence]

[mizzmellos]

them. do i need to say anything?

THIS IS SO CUTEEEEEE I SHOULD DO A REDRAW

[theysaidhush]

Why is no one talking about Sunoo asmr with aloe on M2?! His pretty hands covered in the shiny aloe gloss, ugh and the noises that it was making😩 I don't know if it was just me but my mind was not soothed at that part

Like you can't tell me he didn't know what he was doing! He knew exactly what he was doing!

(Was wondering if you could turn this into something:))

Sunoo playing with his gf’s 🐱? (Not the emoji 💀)

Dang, never saw this video but my mind’s going wild with those pictures…

Like sorry not sorry if this isn’t what you had in mind but you can’t tell me this boy’s bad at fingering 😔 Literally did talk about it before but his fingers are so pretty…

Don’t tell me this boy wouldn’t come back to his girlfriend absolutely turned on after this, a malicious smile on his face as he makes his way over her, telling her he wants to try something. Bonus points if she’s a virgin���

He’d definitely tells you about this bio sticky lub 100% good for the coochie and smoothly laid you on your back as he gently and sneakily kiss your way down the bedroom. Sunoo would make those sounds as if he’s the one being on the receiving side of sweet ministrations, his eyes shining with delight and his smile stretching his face at the mere idea of how pliant you are for him - like what did he do to deserve someone as kind and nice as you, even outside the bedroom?

This boy would definitely moan and complain about the fact that he has to put this on his fingers even if he doesn’t mind it one bit because he just wants you to do it for him. He wants to see you looking up at him with those pretty eyes, eyebrows furrowed as your focusing on the task at hand: coating his fingers with the lub. And he bites back another moan because you’re so damn pretty and sexy while doing it - not that you’re even trying. And of course, now that he can’t you have to undress yourself for him - he’s on the verge of passing at this point.

Sunoo would tease you for a bit before he finally touches you when you want him the most. He’d kiss your face, nudge your neck and shoulders with his pretty nose and massage your ear with his other hand - that’s how he learned that it was an erogenous part of your body, now he’s addicted to the way you gasp when your face is reddening and your thighs closing on his hips. Now that he knows that, he’s relentless - it is not something you would have expected from Sunoo of all boys in his group but here you are, falling apart because he’s fucking your damn ear?

His other hand, shining and sticky, teases your cunt. But it’s just a fleeting touch, the ghost of his fingers flicking you’re clit, making the muscles in your lower stomach tighten every time you feel him there. He knows what he’s doing as he finally slowly and sensually draw circles your clit. The contrast between his cold finger and the heat burning in your makes you stir and whine, and he enjoys every bit of it. This sweet boy would gently brings you to your orgasm with only one long sticky finger playing and stroking your private parts; this would boost his ego and he would definitely think about it for AGES.

[starguardianniom]

Billy and Lighter

I love their dynamic so much.

Freaking Lighter of all people sees Billy as his worthy rival.

Ngl but I legit think it's because Billy is the only one he can fight without being afraid of passing out.

Given Lighter faints at the sight of blood and that Billy is an android, if Billy gets hurt he will probably leak oil, but no blood, which is perfect for Lighter.

I honestly, half-seriously thinks that's the sole reason Lighter considers Billy is rival, because he won't risk embarassing himself if he manages to hurt Billy while fighting as Billy has no blood for him to faint to.

But he also does respect him given he thinks highly of him and actually likes him like a brother too.

They playfully tease one another but you can also clearly see that Lighter has a high opinion of Billy and is also happy for him to have found happiness somewhere else too, and that's so wholesome, my heart.

I was pratically screaming of joy in my head the entire time yesterday when I speedrun the chapter (I had the day off lucky me so I used it to clear out chapter 4 entirely yeah!).

I took so many pictures, will upload them this weekend, now I need to go do that certification exam to get my people to level 50, given I need to level up pretty much everyone I have right now (Billy, Anby, Nicole, Corin, Soukaku, Ben, Anton, Seth, Jane and Lucy are the characters I currently have the game refuses me Piper and just sended me a lil army of Corins, Anby and Soukaku, now I have Anby and Soukaku to M4 and Corin to M3, though it gave me Billy M2 and Seth M2 thank god) I'll be at it for a while.

But honestly I expected Lighter to be a bit more mean toward Billy and feeling superior to him but it seems like I was worried for nothing, Lighter loves Billy and Billy loves him back, though I'm pretty sure Billy also thinks that he wasn't able to escape Lighter entirely given he now has Anby around. XD Lighter keeps forgetting things and Anby keeps forgetting the line between fiction and reality, I imagine Billy must be used to Anby because he had to spend half his time reminding Lighter of stuff all the time. XD

I swear Billy had it better than Lighter back then, given he was the Champion that means he was the strongest of the Sons of Calydon, which means he's stronger than Big Daddy, and Big Daddy is most likely the one who raised and taught Caesar how to fight, so if she didn't get the title of Champion back then, then Billy was most likely strong enough to beat her too and Big Daddy. But then he left. But he also got to meet Lighter before that, but Lighter is weaker than Caesar but still has the title for some reason, so it's a bit murky there as to why they needed 2 champions.

I think Billy wanted to leave or something happened that made him leave and then Big Daddy brought in Lighter to pick up his title but Billy sticked around long enough to make sure Lighter was up for the job given they have a good brotherly friendly rivalry relationship together so once Billy thought Lighter was ready he gave him his title and left. And then Caesar got to be the new boss of the Sons of Calydon when Big Daddy retired, and was strong enough that she was able to beat Lighter apparently.

But the title of Champion is basically being the number 2 of the gang, so if the leader isn't around it's most likely the champion calling the shots and making sure everything is alright and settling disputes and what nots, but since Lighter is pretty scatterbrained, most of the duties went to Lucy while Lighter is just now extra muscles, since Lucy is pretty much the one making sure everything is alright and being the brains of the Sons, but she clearly doesn't have the strenght to be the Champion because Lighter is the one with that title.

So I imagine Billy used to handle negotiations and relations and other stuff with Big Daddy before he left and probably used to be deadly efficient, in some parts of the story he is a lot more aware and shrewd than he presents himself most of the time, such as asking us about the H.D.D and asking why we'd bother to be proxies when we could have done so much more and get a much more lucrative job, or when he was ready to sell us out to PubSec to save the Cunning Hares and himself pointing out that the Cunning Hares could get their record cleaned if they reported a proxy, which was a very smart way of thinking given their situation back then. He is also knowledgeable about the Outer Ring, so he is way much smarter than he acts too.

I do feel like Billy is seen as a superior predecessor to Lighter and while Lighter doesn't resent Billy at all for it he also feels the need to prove himself to him in some way to live up to his "brother's" legacy.

Lucy probably didn't have much to do until Billy left and Big Daddy retired. Then she basically became the second half of the Champion title in the Sons of Calydon, being the brain to Lighter's brawn, but Billy before them had the title on his own to the point that he is still feared today by other people in the Outer Ring.

It does beg the question of what was Billy like back then, probably less happy and more brutal and having the mindset of a weapon maybe, but he was still cared for a lot.

I also like to think that Big Daddy called him Billy Kid because he honestly saw Billy as "his" kid when he bought him from a group of drifters, now I really want the whole story, if they release Big Daddy and Lighter, give them more content with Billy, I need more, Hoyo!

[j-egg-ssica]

I made @brooke2valley 's iconic hair clip in real life! here's a picture from her comic if you somehow haven't seen it:

Here are close-ups of the front and back:

Unfortunately, I'm not a drawing, so it really fucks up my hair when I put it in, and it doesn't really stay in place. I should really redesign the clip part to actually be compatible with human hair (since it doesn't really matter for looks anyways as it's hidden behind the heart anyways. Also I don't know what it's even supposed to look like behind the heart, so I just mirrored the visible part. Hopefully when I have some time I can redesign it a bit to make it actually wearable for more than the 30 seconds it took to take the photo for this one. Details for nerds: It's printed in two parts in 4 different filament colors (esun ABS+ light blue, white, and black, and PolyMaker ABS in pink) Each different color is a new layer, as it's much easier to print that way, when my printer (Voron 2.4 350mm) only has a single extruder. I left two holes in the heart for two M2 heat set inserts (that's why there's a weird dot on the top of the heart, I pushed too far with one of the inserts), and two more countersunk holes in the clip for two M2 screws to attach the two parts together.

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Hairstyle hcs time!

So recently ive been thinking what if all of those bald-ass primarchs actually had visited a hairdresser of some sort at least once in their lives instead of taking a razor and getting rid of all their hair. And also what if other who canonically have hair had something actually good on their heads instead of just going in a fight with flowing hair of theirs and idk being tugged on it by some warboss of whatever.

So there it.

I. Lion ElJonson. I think he should have had some sort of braids and it is also going to be probably just as loose and messy as it is in the picture since you know he likes a mele fighting.

2. Let him stay bald.

3. Fulgrim. Canonically hes already got the best hairstyle of all of his brothers but i think there must be something that would fit him best and also be a little more practical in a mele sword fight than having loose hair. I sadly havent found a male reference but it doesnt matter. So i would give Fulgrim a neat ponytail with a band probably made out of his own hair. Its practical, it shows how good hes hair is, its beautiful, its everything we need.

4. Perturabo. Hes focused a little too much on a practical side of things so i think if he had hair he would collect it into a bun. Not so neat since he does not really care about hair at all and it gets messy with time cause he just makes it in the morning and does not correct anything about it till the time he goes to sleep again unless the bun collapses. I also think he would have slightly curly hair because well greek. It also charcoal black.

5. Jaghatai Khan. Hes allowed to have messy hair because hes the definition of a mess himself and he messes around and pls stop me. I think his hairstyle is required to be a little more loose than its in canon because i dont think that a person like him would actually care about keeping his hair neat. Although i see him having a little ponytail on the back of his head the hair itself is just to short to be collected in one scrunchy.

6. Leman Russ. It was too easy to find lots of scandinavian kind of hairtyle references so there we have it: shaved sides with long braids going from the top of the head which is sometimes collected in a bun and sometimes not. Hairstyle had quite a meaning in the northen contries so i think hes the unexpected one to actually care about his hair and making his little braids. It must be some sort of a ritural for him.

7. Rogal Dorn. I honestly cannot see him with hair any longer than hes got in canon. Actually I see him as a person who would like it to be even shorter because you know another guy whos focused on practical stuff too much. He does not really care about hairstyle so his head is always neat but with nothing fancy or special. Hes hair looks like hes just gotten out of the army and is trying to grow it up but fails and cuts it short.

BUT i think he cares about his hair condition a lot because its quite hard to have a clear white hair when you are in constant war. Hes got plenty of purple shampoos to get rid of that annoying yellowness in his hair. One of the few of the primarch to actually use conditioner so altough his hair is short its the softes and the silkiest of all.

8. Konrad Curze. This was a difficult one actually. Most of his hairstyle habits disappear the moment he exits the Prime of Emperor after he finished his Fulgrims degree. And when he had any kind of hairstyle at all it was mostly made by Fulgrim himself so Konrad does not look like a junk rat while walking on his flagship.

I can imagine Fulgrim making poor Konrad having the worst and the most difficult hairstyle ever so he does not unbraid it himself or gets too frustrated by the structure before he finishes it. Maybe something that in M2 was popular among brides, all those hairstyle that requires at least two people to make it work on a head. Increadibly neat and shiny and silky though Konrad does not like it at all. Hes head is itchy hes eyes are pulled in two different direction because of how strong the tension on his temples is.

However Konrad does not shave his head bald out of protest. He just endures his fates.

9. Sanguinius. His hair must be so hard to work with because hes got the curliest of all curls so I think it would take a lot of time for him alone to make something of it properly. Thankfully hes got his sons who are all happy to help their dad with his hair and would probably fight each other for a chance to do so because its considered an honour.

He needs something that is strong enough to not fall apart during his flights and also beautiful so I decided it to be a head-circling braid or a few of them. It is held my several hidden hairpins and from outside it looks rather magical than real because of how good its made. His curls although are almost unnoticable.

10. Ferrus Manus. There is not that much to say about his hair outside of it being a total mess all of the time no matter how long or short it is. His hair must be very dry and so straight that it would never touch Fulgrimg stay in any kind of shape and will stick out in all possible directions like hes not a primarch but a hedgehog. If his hair ever grows up more than shoulder lenght it would look spiky.

Also no idea who the character is but his hair fits and also a little beard is something I can see Ferrus having.

11. Cut of his head while shaving it. Deserved.

12. Angron. Ive seen it somewhere as a canon fact but his hair must be red. So hes a redhead! Its cute! Since he was a gladiator there is not so much of things that he might have done with his hair so he would probably just keep it short. It wouldnt get too dirty in fights, practical and not as ugly as a bald head. Simple though not so neat because I think its kinda hard to wash it while being a slave.

Since hes got nails I think he would always have bristle because its hard to shave when you twitch all the time.

13. Roboute Guilliman. I do not know why hes hair is not curly since hes a walking reference to the Roman Empire. Anyway there is not so much to say about him too but I think hes really into accessories. Flower crowns, lauren wreathes, all that kind of stuff. Simple things like little golden leaves as hairpins too.

I also think that in 41M hes wreath hurts him because it has sharp leaves and is spiky in general so hes got little wounds on his temples all the time which sometimes bleed dirtying his hair and making him look even more like a figure of faith.

14. Mortarion. Hes hair is white or rahter colorless and very thin, also its very brittle considering all the toxic stuff hes met on his homeworld and also his casual habit of taking a glass or two of literal moonshine of his own making which is rather a promethium to human body than an actual drink. Since his hair is thin and brittle I think his hairstyle would be very uneven although he would still keep it long rather than shoulder or temple lenght. He lenght is different on every side of his head but somehow he does not look like a mess of a man who cannot take care of his own hair but rather like a fairy moth.

15. Magnus the Red. Hes a literal shapeshifter so he doesnt really care about whether his hair gets cut off or burnt during a fight or not because he can always grow it back in a minute using his warp magic. Although he still would need a hairstyle to attend some official meetings with humans or his brothers so this is it. I have no idea how to call it but with the hair of his it would look so great. It might appear to others like kinda messy but actually it is not and for Prospero where I can see this hairstyle to be quite traditional its very neatly made. Hes also into accessories like Roboute but for him its rather thin chains, strings and necklaces.

16. Horus Lupercal. Somewhere Ive read that hes got canonically red hair too so be it. Hes a redhead. If he wasnt bald he would have a short military hairstyle. Hes hair is straight, thick and healthy in every way though he does not do much to it. Hes got no actual hairstyle but hes very into royal kind of accessories. Crowns. wreathes, tiaras and diadems of all sorts. Nothing too extra like those gigantic russian crowns since he considers himself to be a rather warrior type of king. Its still too much in comparison to his other brothers.

17. Lorgar Aurelian. I think his hair is just like the Emperors because hes always compared to Him in terms of appearance. Brown. straight but not messy, very heavy. If he wasnt bald he would keep it long, much longer than his shoulders, probably to his waist. The hairstyle is simple yet sometimes quite excessive. Little braids with rings and chains of gold braided into them, sometimes with no braids at all and just the accessories put straight onto strands. And there is always a little too much of them than its required. Just as Sanguinius allows his sons to take care of his hair sometimes with braiding and washing it although it mostly Erebus and Kor Phaerons job.

18. Vulkan. Hes getting dreads since it was quite obvoius but its not that simple. I think on Nocturne its very important to keep you hair clean out of all that vulcanic junk that atmosphere is full of and dreads make it much easier to manage. The way it looks, amount of added colours and accessories is the way of showing a status of a person. Since Vulkan is a primarch his dreads would be very colorful and full of small details such as hollow gems, beads, tapes and belts. There must be lots of pieces of dragons` skin too. Its also very practical because a bun of dreads makes it much easier to work in a forge with long hair considering all the sweat and dirt.

19. Corvus Corax. I dont think hes the kind of a person who would put too much effort in his looks but its different with hair. Since hes got very thick hair and its canonically long I think he might grow it even longer and experiment with it a lot. There is a different hairstyle for fight, for meetings with humans, his brothers and his sons, for each and every special occasion. But i think he would prefer ponytails the because its simple, practical and still looks coold with that hair of his.

20. Alpharius and Omegon. Matching hairstyle. I havent found a reference pic for this one that would fit the vibe of the two of them. Its just crazy matching haistyles. Pink waist long dreads? They both got it. Blue quads with a shaved side? They are mirrorying each other. The older they get the more interesting it gets.

[labuenosairesfrancaise]

Alderley House

Hi guys!!

I'm sharing Alderley House. This is the 17th building for my English Collection.

I decorated most of the house, for reference, but with some simple furniture as I found here: https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/629174/doc_0_96.pdf

History of the house: Alderley House is a mid-19th century 23,843 square feet (2,215.1 m2) Grade II listed country house designed by Lewis Vulliamy and built for Robert Blagden Hale in the Cotswold village of Alderley, near Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire, England. It was built on the site of The Lower House, a 17-century manor house built by Sir Matthew Hale, a lawyer. The house is situated immediately to the southwest of St Kenelm's Church. In 2009 it was sold to an American oil executive who restored the house as a private home after 70 years serving as a preparatory school, Rose Hill School.

The Hales of Alderley were a prominent gentry family in the Wotton-under-Edge area of Gloucestershire from the early 17th century to the early 20th century. Alderley, located 2 miles south of Wotton-under-Edge, was home to the Hale family, starting with Robert Hale who built West End House in 1608. Robert's son, Sir Matthew Hale, purchased the manor of Alderley in 1656 and had The Lower House built between 1656 and 1662.

Sir Matthew Hale, a jurist, was raised by a relative and became religiously devout. He lived near St Kenelm's Church and had a right of way granted to his manor house. Sir Matthew Hale resigned as Lord Chief Justice in 1676 due to ill-health and retired to Alderley, passing away the same year. His estate was inherited by his grandchildren, and West End House was bequeathed to his daughter, Mary.

After Sir Matthew Hale's death, The Lower House remained the family seat for over a century until another Matthew Hale rebuilt The Upper House between 1776 and 1780, making it the new family home.

In 1805, Robert Hale Blagden Hale inherited the properties in Alderley, which included The Upper House as the main family residence. In the 1830s, his eldest son, Robert Blagden Hale, chose to set up his independent household at The Lower House due to prevailing Victorian attitudes about the separation of male and female servants. In 1844, he added a new service wing with a distinctive crow-stepped gable designed by Lewis Vulliamy to The Lower House.

After his father's death in 1855, Robert Blagden Hale, who was a Tory MP for West Gloucestershire, inherited the family properties, including Cottles House in West Wiltshire. He resigned as an MP in 1857 and sold Cottles House to focus on becoming a country gentleman. In 1859, he demolished both The Upper House and most of The Lower House to build a new manor house named Alderley House in a fashionable style, designed by Lewis Vulliamy. The new house utilized materials from the demolished structures, including one of the staircases.

Alderley House was constructed with ashlar and a Cotswold stone slate roof, featuring a heron's head motif (the Hale family crest) above Robert Blagden Hale's initials on the entrance porch. The house followed a double-pile plan with rooms facing outwards from a central wall, a design common in country houses from the Restoration period. The total cost of building Alderley House, including decoration, furnishings, and architect's commission, was £16,746 15s 8d, making it a modestly priced country house compared to others of the Victorian period.

For mor information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderley_House

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This house fits a 64x64  lot, but I think you can make it a 50x40 if you lose the church, the stables and the service building.

The church is just for pictures purpose and is empty inside.

Hope you like it.

You will need the usual CC I use:

all Felixandre cc

all The Jim

SYB

Anachrosims

Regal Sims

King Falcon railing

The Golden Sanctuary

Cliffou

Dndr recolors

Harrie cc

Tuds

Lili's palace cc

Please enjoy, comment if you like it and share pictures with me if you use my creations!

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Early Access: 07/01/2024

Download: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108520278

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The Cover https://www.eyeshotstreetphotography.com/.../silver.../

I’m at that point in life where the only way I can “remember” when something happened is to refer to the dated photograph, so it’s a real pity that I took such lousy care with the organization of my negatives until about 1982. My best guess for when I took the cover photo for my new Eyeshot Publishing book is late Spring of 1974. My best friend, and amazing photographer (and later, drummer for the NoWave band Mofungo, and later, long-time food writer for the Village Voice and now Eater) Robert Sietsema, convinced me in late 1972 to trade my beloved Pentax Spotmatic AND the cool, 135mm f2.5 Takumar I had, for a 14 year old Leica M2 with an f2.8 Summaron 35mm. It was a drastic change and completely upset the way I took photographs. Where I had shot things at a distance and cropped with abandon, I forced myself to get in closer and print full-frame. Where I had played with weird darkroom tricks, and loved extreme contrast, I struggled to make prints that looked like the reality in front of the camera. This shot was clearly made with the Leica, and given where it was taken it was probably during a brief period of 1974 when I was dead broke and had moved back in with my parents. But of course, I remember taking the picture. I was in my dad’s car with a friend he carpooled with, heading home at the end of the day. We were in a long line of cars at a traffic light, and I was admiring the shadows of the flying saucers on the gas station when the car with this kid shielding her eyes from the late afternoon sun pulled up alongside of us. I jumped out of the car, leaving the door hanging open in the middle of traffic, naturally and snapped three shots as fast as I could, only the first of which was good. I jumped back in as traffic picked up, car horns started blaring and my dad (normally preternaturally calm) was bellowing at me. It was maybe the second shot I had taken with the Leica where I knew the moment I took it, I had nailed it.

[atiny-for-life]

Creative Spotlight #2: Park Seonghwa

Masterlist

Intro: With so many new Atinys coming in, I figured now would be a good time to shed some light on all the boys' creative solo projects over the years, big and small.

ASMR

Lover of ASMR Seonghwa started his own ASMR series following a one-off video back in 2020:

Titled Mars ASMR, the series kicked off in 2020...

... with the most recent one being released 2 years ago:

In 2021, he also appeared on M2's K-Pop ASMR series, Tingle Interview, with Hongjoong (Seonghwa did a great job, of course, while Hongjoong tried his best... buddy was just a little lost sometimes):

Seonghwa was also featured on his favorite ASMR YouTuber's channel, Soy ASMR, with Wooyoung (once again, he did a great job - Wooyoung on the other hand kept trying not to laugh or seem weirded out until she brought out the snacks and told him eating could be an ASMR thing - then he was fully on board):

Imitation Soundtrack

While playing a smaller role, Seonghwa was also a part of the Imitation cast, together with Yunho, San, and Jongho, and thus a member of the fictional group Sparkling, which means we get to see him perform on several occasions throughout the show.

They toned down their actual skills significantly for the sake of looking like rookies on the show, but damn, if you were around at the time Imitation was airing, you'll know how iconic these songs were for the fandom (more on that on the other three's posts):

Cover Songs

Released in 2021, Seonghwa released a cover of Lauv's The Story Never Ends set to a vertical black and white video with the instrumental arranged by Hongjoong which was super clean and pretty and builds both instrumentally and vocally in the last third with layered harmonies:

In 2022, Seonghwa dropped a cover of Pink Sweat$'s At My Worst, recorded and mixed by Buddy, and sharing many baby pictures in the video since it was a birthday present for himself and us. It's a very cozy and sweet song:

Last year, he came back with Troye Sivan's Angel Baby, recorded and mixed by Maddox and arranged by Hongjoong:

The video has the vibe of getting brought along on Seonghwa’s travels while we get to listen to warm and comforting vocals. He's being very playful and cute throughout the clips, matching the cozy energy of the song. If you were looking for a comfort video on a draining day, this is it.

Fashion

Seonghwa made his Paris Fashion Week debut on September 27th, 2024, styled in designs by Isabel Marant the day after hinting at his appearance there via his Instagram stories. He's now the fourth Ateez member to participate in Fashion Week, alongside San, Hongjoong, and Wooyoung.

Pictures of his outfit were shared by him on his Instagram and his appearance was also included in the guest list reported on by Vogue since he was invited to "an intimate dinner Thursday night, [hosted by Isabel Marant], celebrating both the brand’s 30th anniversary and its first return to Los Angeles in ten years".

His outfit for the main show was now also posted on his Instagram.

On October 23rd, 2024, the Behind the Scenes video for his appearance here was released in the form of a half-hour vlog which kicks off in Korea before he heads on the plane.

While in the car in Paris, he tells us about how hard all the staff worked to ensure he'd be able to attend and make his dream come true, which includes the retelling of a conversation he had with the CEO of KQ (Ateez's dad) so, of course, Seonghwa had to imitate his voice as always:

As a proud member of "clothes have no gender" Ateez, we also get to see him make the conscious choice to wear something from the women's side of the collection (and we love him for it):

While in Paris, we get to see him talk to the staff, wear several unique outfits we've also seen on his Instagram before, and, finally, attend the show itself where he evidently had a lot of fun. The video ends in his hotel room where he expresses his gratitude to the members and Atiny in an emotional speech which was very sweet but also somewhat sad since he doesn't seem to fully acknowledge his own efforts:

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

makes me think of xaviero much

There are peaks

That I can't even reach

And if I don't wake up tomorrow

Or get hit by a car

Bury me in a field of flowers

Without covering my withered eyelids

So that something may grow from them

If I didn't get the chance to grow into a happy man (<- throwing up)

[srbachchan]

DAY 5625

Jalsa, Mumbai                 July 12/13,  2023                 Wed/Thu 1:56 AM

🪔 .. July 13 .. birthday wishes to Ef Manoj Kumar Ojha .. Ef Taran Ghantasala .. and Ef Kalpesh N. Gohel from Oman .. love and more from the Ef Family .. ❤️❤️❤️🚩🙏🏻 .. we are in celebration for you all .. Love ❤️

the wise have said .. and we follow .. but the follow of today is different .. there needs to be a reason for the attitude that is needed for the times of today .. 

just one simple thought breaches the connect and then , a million other follow .. follow to which extent .. is unknown .. each says they are in breach and the never ending follows .. so best to be in distance .. 

न रहेगा बाँस न बजेगी बांसुरी  ; झगडे या मुसीबत के मुल कारण को नष्ट कर देना  .. an advice from old sayings .. they were never wrong .. through generations they compiled and educated ..

no longer the wood , no longer the flute  .. to do away with and destroy the main reason for the trouble and diversity .. and how true it has been .. to understand , that sharing ..

the best offering be, of the ultimate deal .. that which has been incomplete, even after the contracts have been signed .. and when the accusations be in reverse , the true colour and tense of the thoughts and words arise and be made public .. 

do not threaten with deeds that you may be proficient with .. just because you have the benefit of experience .. our own individual strength, is large enough to respond in equal matter .. 

sympathy and jealousy .. strains of the same Symphony .. either strung more than the other .. it breaks .. 

and you look forward to it .. a lesser burden .. a lesser responsibility .. 

SO DID THE WISE ADVISE .. generational deterrents made the mind sense for all   .. 

( was wanting to put relevant pictures up here .. brought them to the DeskTop from iPhone photos .. and they refuse to open here ) 

so either the Carrier .. of whom I am fed up and switching to another .. or the Laptop of Apple, that is deliberately doing this in order to make the market for the new one .. this is the Laptop M2 .. supposed to be the superior one and speeds faster than any else .. but the in operation and glitches are in abundance .. and stopping work and all else .. 

so switching to the old one and never to buy the new ..

Amitabh Bachchan

[meatball-headache]

The Arcadion raids... are amazing. Hands down the best single tier, in terms of sheer fun factor. We'll see where the story goes, but the spectacle of the fights—the visuals, the music, the VOs, and the mechanics, take the absolute cake. Nothing can hold a candle to this.

I mean, look back at how we were introduced to some of the other raid tiers. Deltascape? Alte Roite and Catastrophe are the most boring fights in the history of the world, even on Savage. Alexander had some boppin' music, but at the time the only other raid that existed was Bahamut, and that was a tough act to follow. Pandaemonium... Eric is famously easy, tanks have soloed story mode, and the music was rather... sedate. Eden was probably the most impressive on the first tier, but still, Arcadion is just on a whole nother level.

It almost makes me want to actually do Savage! :p

Spoily pictures below the cut.

I have no pictures of her fight. I was completely enthralled by the whole thing that I was miles away from even thinking about it. My album is hilarious, I snapped a ton of screenshots of her intro and defeat, so if you tab through it just looks like she transforms, gets introduced, and instantly dies.

Once we started M2, I flipped some of my shit because that's when it became clear—each fight gets its own unique music! So, some of the dungeon music, I wasn't blown away by, and the trials, especially, I wasn't impressed by. It's too bad, because usually trial music is one of my favorite parts. But, clearly Soken was cooking for the raids, because first of all, the very idea that each fight gets unique music is extremely unusual. That's something we only sometimes see in the final tier, and even then, the songs are often remixes of previous music. Alphascape might've done it, I can't remember Chaos's music, but, Midgardsormr's music is a song we've heard before, so it doesn't count. You have the single examples like A11 and P11, but A9 and A10 use the typical music from the old tiers, and P9 and P10 have the same song. So, the rules aren't set in stone—until now. If Cruiserweight comes out and two fights have the same music, that's unacceptable. We've tasted glory, now we demand perfection! And, it's only fair, as this is the content that's going to get farmed to death; having the same music for all of them, or even just two of them, can get old.

This guy's the weakest of the four fights. I mean, he's not a cute girl at all! We like cute girls, old men, and for some reason Bakool Ja Ja. But, he still gets his own music and unique mechanics. He punches the refbot, so we have to get revenge for the sake of the inanimate object. It's a good fight, objectively, but there's always going to be a "worst."

Now this is a spectacle! I didn't mention in the first one—as usual, I started out trying to be concise, but turns out, I'm still me—but I adore the first fight because of how it plays with the arena, and the voiceovers. "My riiiiiing! ......ahem. Please stand by while we repair the ring." I love that, every time. And, Eutrope breaks the arena, too, which is exciting. Also—I mean, just look at her. This is where I go "I'm not a furry, but..." She's an absolute badass with a cannon bigger than cities and it shoots both ways, because she's hardy. The color and lighting and feeling of size of the background is just magnificent. Compare this to last season, when we ended tier 1 with discount Castlevania? There's just no comparison.

This game has come so far, and it's only ever picked up speed.

[beevean]

M2 Castlevania

Seeing M2’s positive track record with Classicvanias, pleasing with The Adventure ReBirth back in 2009 (re-release it please, Konami!), and now Haunted Castle Revisited, I can only imagine what they could do with a fresh, unique premise.

If there was one more old game they could totally make killer with their remake treatment, it’d be Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. It may not need one, since it’s already a good game (if highly frustrating, whether it’s the Japanese or North American version), but the fork-in-the-road level progression and multiple player characters with their own weapons and powers are the things that’d be the most interesting to expand upon. There’d also be the opportunity to build on the storyline, giving it more cinema-level presentation and show everyone’s journey outside Trevor’s through mini-chapters. That “ Evil God”, the giant man-bird thing, could even be explained and cleared up (Hector and Isaac making pre-Curse of Darkness cameos in high-quality sprite form would be a nice bonus, too).

Also, we could really use the whole Castlevania III soundtrack, from the epic prologue theme to the triumphant credits track, rearranged and remixed with modern sound tools and, ideally, in multiple genres.

Lastly, what this would do is give the world that knows Castlevania best today as those Netflix cartoons a reminder of what that pair of animated productions owe their conception to: the real, original legend of the Belmont clan’s first victory over Count Dracula (but in high definition).

Reply: On one hand, I prefer when obscure/maligned games get another chance. CV3 is already a solid game if you’re into that genre, while The Adventure and Haunted Castle definitely needed more love. While I understand why many say they’d like Legends to get the same treatment, Simon’s Quest would also be a good candidate, since I can tell by SoTN and HoD that IGA appreciated its ideas.

That being said, by now CV3 is the richest game in lore, with all the additions brought by SoTN, CoD and its prequels. A full remake that takes everything into account, adds more dialogue and easter eggs would absolutely slap. I wonder if it could be made into a 3D game, while still keeping the forked progression! The technology is definitely here now lol. But a 2D game in TAB and HCR style would be perfect too!

(now I’m picturing Isaac as a miniboss sometime later in the game but the fight gets “interrupted” because he spots Hector in the distance lol)

[captain-price-unofficially]

M2 Bradley at the US Army Armor and Cavalry Collection, Fort Moore, GA. Never noticed this before, but the ammo feed for the gun goes outside the turret, the front angles of the turret are actually protecting it (second picture)