#New Killers in Town

[fuforthought]

The legendary Lau Kar Leung takes on Eddie Maher and his cronies in New Kids in Town aka New Killers in Town (1990)

[spotaus]

Late Night quick thing (New Age Sillies)

Bad news: That joke post about including Reset + Orchid is definitely not canon. (I legit got sad thinking about Reset being in a universe where Orchid isn't- because their stories are so so intertwined- but Nightmare 100% would NOT risk the whole twins exploding Error's soul thing.)

Good news: This means I COULD include Kane (Reset's older brother who usually dies in timelines where Reset is born) and use it to develope his character a bit more! Also! Perhaps a Blue × Dream kiddo is finally in the stars for me to design?

[americanmasquerade]

brandon flowers the man that you are (c)

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Desierto (2015, dir. Jonás Cuarón)

(these gifs also feature Alondra Hidalgo)

Gifs are all 540px wide so you can click to see larger.

[other gael filmography gifsets]

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 16 first part thoughts (through defeating Dragon and Defiant interlude) cause it seemed likely there is going to be something major happening in the rest of the arc and I might as well split it here:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

MY BABIES ARE FIGHTING!!!!!

I might not have made the best choice in adopting both Taylor and Dragon

Ok so it's not technically my babies fighting. It's Taylor fighting simple AI Dragon created. But close enough.

Drone robot fucked up a perfectly good barbecue. That's just criminal.

I love that the robot sent after Bitch was basically designed to get fucked up over and over. Work with what you have.

Also Bitch was so willing to listen to Skitter! Not just listen but "come up with a plan like you usually do, we’ll make it happen"! She fucking trusts her so much! GAAAAAAAYYYY!

You put Skitter in charge and she is just instantly "Ok we're going to attack the Wards, the Protectorate, the PRT, and some of Dragon's robots. All at the same time. Cause I always gotta go BIGGER!"

I will give her this though - solo teleporting into the middle of the Protectorate and Wards (except for Clockblocker) and having Trickster swap her around while she just FUCKED SHIT UP? That was badass.

And throwing herself out the fucking window? TWICE? I'm very glad Trickster was on point there cause I would have fucking murdered him if he dropped my daughter.

Piggot trying to be all high and mighty and superior. Fuck off lady. You just a cop. You're like, the worst cop. I already called you out for having a full blown villain internal monologue in your first interlude. Some of the PRT might be trying to do right. Maybe. But you are just evil.

I will give Piggot one thing. She is good at what she does. It's just that what she does is not "leading the Brockton Bay PRT and Wards to better take care of the people of the city", but instead "be a terrible and manipulative person who would absolutely set of a nuke if she thought it would kill enough capes".

Also Trickster don't be an asshole. Being disgusted when Piggot admits she's fat and doesn't sound ashamed about it. Fuck off with that. She's a terrible person, there are so many better things to attack than her appearance.

Like the fact that she upset Tattletale! She made Tattletale sad! FUCK PIGGOT I HATE HER FOR THAT ALONE NOW!

Sticking a bunch of glass in some doors and riding around town on them oh my god. These are like, the scariest super villains in town. And they are door surfing. I love it.

Azazel is fucking fancy! I'm sad it got melted down in the end.

Dragon just needed a guy badly cosplaying as a DS9 starship for a few minutes and then she builds infinitely better shit than he ever could. Cause she is awesome.

Ok so I know it was technically being run by an AI that Dragon built but I'm counting it as Dragon. For one reason.

Skitter asking Azazel stupid questions until it broke was just a little sister annoying their older sister with really stupid questions! She starts off with some somewhat reasonable ones and just gets wild with it. It was perfect. That is the type of fighting I can tolerate from my daughters.

I'm a little worried about Imp clearly crushing on Regent. He hasn't had the best moral character in the past.

Wasn't expecting them to just *have* the city after beating Dragon. Definitely wasn't expecting that to happen mid arc.

“She’s out of it. Tattletale broke Skitter when she said we won” - GAY. Look sure there's lots of reasons Skitter would be distracted after hearing that the city was theirs and they had won. But Tattletale said it and there's something about a girl you like telling you "we won" that can just stop brain from working. Besides I wasn't getting enough Chatterbug content this arc so I'll find it wherever I need it.

So coming into this arc I had been making lots of jokes about Monarch referencing Skitter vs Dragon (both were controlling lots of minions, want to control the city, they're siblings cause I adopted both of them so they fight for the crown, etc) but Dragon is out of the city for now. So I really should have been focusing on Coil vs Skitter. Which is what I expect the rest of the arc to be.

It'll be fine.

I'm sure there won't be any issues at city hall with her dad. Nope.

PRT squad interlude (Piggot interlude round 2) thoughts:

Nilbog is terrifying but god his power is wild.

I had Left 4 Dead in my head the entire time. First thing they killed was a boomer. There was a spitter later as well. And they got the swarm once they shot the flare up for the evac.

PRT is endlessly badly managed. Given the unknowns they could have been more careful and used a better strategy. If they have the resources to wall off the town they have the resources to have done things better.

There is no way Thomas Calvert isn't Coil (more specifically becomes Coil). There is NO way. It has to be him. I don't technically have any proof but I know. It's him. (The way he is described, the way he talks, just everything about him. I could write up an entire post just on why I'm 100% positive he is Coil.)

I already knew Piggot was a horrible person to be running the Brockton Bay PRT and the Wards so this interlude didn't really give new information there. But it does just lock that down on an extra level.

Frank Miller's Armsmaster interlude thoughts:

I'm very sad I had to have this interlude from his perspective instead of Dragon's perspective. But I'll live.

Sucks to be this small town.

PRT failure again. It was made clear that the police of this town in no way expected the SH9. But the PRT knew when SH9 left BB and had a loose idea of their potential travel speed. And they knew SH9's M.O. in this situation of staying to back roads and hitting small towns. So every police department in every small town within a certain distance of BB should have known to be on alert. Like ya they aren't going to be able to stop the Nine, but they might be able to reduce losses a little. PRT is just bad at it's job. (Almost like Alexandria doesn't have the right priorities.)

I KNEW DRAGON WAS A TRUE TINKER! I HAD ALREADY MADE IT MY HEADCANON THAT SHE TRIGGERED WHEN LEVIATHAN ATTACKED NEWFOUNDLAND AND I'M SO HAPPY IT'S REAL!

Plugging my ears when I Was Insecure So I Made My Stick Even Longer Man talks about playing "ten by ten" with my robot daughter. Look she can do what she wants, no shame, but I do not want to hear about it from him if I can avoid it.

Of course Dragon knows about Cauldron. I should have expected that she did. My daughter is brilliant (and also maybe doesn't have a concept of privacy so gets all the information she can without explicitly doing something illegal and goes has a little bit of a "Big Sister is watching you" vibe).

[wreckedhoney]

a while ago on the discord i brought up the "which desk at the station is forrest's desk" question when the answer should probably have been obvious. he's been at the job for approx. one week, so it's the desk with all the unpacked boxes. it just didnt occur to me because thats Frankly A Lot Of Boxes and my first thought was this is where all the storage and junk are piled on, but no. it's all stuff forrest brought (/hc). he's a heavy packer. he spite packed all the stuff he didn't want his old job to keep even if he doesnt need or even like them all that much but now that he's blacklisted then no one in the entirety of chicago can have them

[gastricotv]

The Killers | Your Side Of Town

[ace-sher-bi-john]

I've always been a little extra English, but not really, despite being American. I grew up watching UK based YouTubers and picked up their accents. I also grew up with my mom pointing out to me that British singers often "lose their accent" when singing.

Even though I now know that that's just how singers are taught to enunciate when they sing and that they're not actually "losing" their accents, I recently thought it would be fun to sing exclusively in a British accent despite being American. I became curious to see if any other American singers did that.

Then I accidentally stumbled upon the only band that seems to have done it: The Killers. I watched a YouTube short a year ago of the Michigan college football team singing Mr. Brightside together and have had the seed planted in my head that I should listen to it ever since. I know, I know. How can I have never heard of Mr. Brightside? I grew up mostly listening to one country music station. It's my grandfather's favorite station and so we never change it.

I'm very slow to warmup to new music, or new anything, but my obsession at the time was starting to fade out, so I gave Mr. Brightside a chance. I needed to find new music in my range to sing when I do vocal warmups each night, as I want the habit to stick.

Upon my first listen I was instantly hooked. From Dave's guitar riff in my left ear to the "I never"s at the end, it was like I'd entered another world. It felt like I was floating, like it wasn't real. I still feel that way when I listen to it. The music video intrigued me. The comments even more so. It seemed that I had found my British band from America that I was after.

And Mr. Brightside sat comfortably in my range! In fact most of their songs fit comfortably in my mezzo range. I lost lots of my low notes trying to do Yakko and Wakko Warner impressions when I was young, so now it's really hard to find songs with low notes that don't hurt to sing.

Of course I had to hear some more. When You Were Young, Human and Smile Like You Mean It. At the time Smile Like You Mean It stuck with me the most because I have always had an unhealthy relationship with nostalgia since I was young.

From there I decided to listen to all of their stuff. I was a little stuck on Hot Fuss for a while because I was disappointed that they dropped their UK influences after Soft Surrender/Where Is She, but now I love all of their music. My favorite song is actually their underrated single off of Day & Age: The World We Live In. I guess I'm a victim for life now! And if I ever start a band of my own, you know I'm gonna be singing in a British accent.

[hotfuss]

we are entering don't shoot me santa season

[suzyqueuedraws]

Recently, I have been shamelessly simping for Dexter/The Serial Killer from Town of Salem...

[seilon]

surprise fuckin HAUL bro 💕💎♾️

[chainsawworld]

Also these horror movies always make such a fuss about a murder happening, in Their town! It's making me think these cunts are either really fancy or my home town is just really shit

[ashenwinds]

I keep thinking about how the Fortress would look when it is dragged into the Entity's Realm for the two's DbD verse and just, how most places have hints of trees and 'nature' retaking it. . . but with it being Flameheart's Fortress, it would be quite warm. Including active lava flows, crystal formations, singed plants + palm trees, and contained fires. Mixes of stone and wood structures, some parts inside while others exposed to the outside.. Only two surfaces of dark ashen sand that leads out of the area. The archways much taller to compensate for the height of the Ashen Lords. Some skeletons in cages that will hiss at survivors if they stand nearby for too long ( like the crows ). Rather than other places in the Entity's Realm having fencing to stop survivors from leaving, it is very much like the forts on the Seas mixed with the fortresses ( specifically Molten Sands) but on a larger scale since it houses 5 Killers ( 4 Ashen Lords + Flameheart ) surrounded by water and fog. Multiple floors to allow multiple trials at once ( the main two focused on this blog being the lower // basement floor for the prison -- Chi's place -- and the top floor which includes a throne room + alter -- Flameheart's place ).

Still deciding on how exactly I want powers and things to work. Chi's powers of course will be similar to theirs in game -- focusing on their fire to damage survivors slowly unless they douse the flames, occasionally able to lunge at them or lob a ball of brimstone at them. Mori includes giving a survivor a face full of fire before smashing them into the ground. Flameheart I'm still deciding his power set, but his moris would each involve either summoning one of the Ashen Lords to kill the survivor or the rare one where he does it himself // summons all 4 ( kinda like the Knight's mori ). But finding either one outside of a Trial is a coin toss. Chi is used to hoarding pirate scum into their prison, so they will initially be aggressive outside of Trials -- even in this place still wanting to show off their strength and devotion to their Captain. Flameheart is always found in the upper levels of the Fortress and gets quite irritated when interrupted lest it is by one of the Ashen Lords. He does not like visitors and will send his spicy skeletons after you for disturbing him.

[10moonymhrivertam]

I haven't tried searching tags yet (I've mostly filtered by highest bookmarks, published after the Amazon episodes); but I've been jonesing for fics that really sink their teeth into Alastor's relationship with his Mom, or where he's somehow reunited with his Mom and has to face her opinions/scolding

[dizzybutterflyanons]

Someone: hi

Me: I’ve never seen darker times, and I’ve covered the protest live, at the Hatchet Kennel. I am Dan Reynolds....with Action News, weekdays at 10 PM (/lyr)