#Onion Records

[bandcampsnoop]

11/18/23.

I'd heard of Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments (Columbus, Ohio), but never listened. I got an email from Goner Records announcing a huge sale. And "Bait and Switch" was one of the LPs available for $9.99.

So, I headed over to Bandcamp, and was literally blown away. Snotty and aggressive almost aren't fair descriptors of this garage punk. Ron House (formerly of Great Plains) and his crew are here to wreck you. This reminds me of a bloozier Mclusky. Or a rougher Pere Ubu. Or a sloppier Black Lips or The Replacements.

The version at Goner Records is the reissue on Dot Matrix. This was originally issued on Onion Records.

[drbtinglecannon]

In Knives Out Blanc wanted to do the murder mystery investigation with Marta so bad, but she was certain she was guilty so she spent a good amount of the movie avoiding/hiding stuff from him

Meanwhile in Glass Onion Helen was fucking carrying the investigation, even while accidentally getting drunk, and even went to investigation lengths Blanc was hesitant to do

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

y’all. We need to have a talk about the union leaders’ keyblades

okay, so the first thing you have to know is that khx and khux’s keyblades are different. khux introduced new keyblades that weren’t included in khx originally, but! khux also made some changes to the keyblades that were originally in khx. Namely, it removed some of the in-between forms of each keyblade

(credit to this image via @appre-chi-ation)

As seen above, khx’s Starlight originally had these 5 forms in khx. The base form, plus its 4 upgrade forms.

But khux’s Starlight only has these forms, essentially having its upgrade line cut in half, and the addition of a new final form (sorta lol, it just glows)

This is the same for all the khx-khux keyblades. Starlight, Treasure Trove, Lady Luck, Three Wishes, Olympia, Divine Rose, and Moogle O’Glory all have their upgrade lines essentially compressed in khux.

Now, why does this matter? Ephemera, Skuld and Strelitzia wield this Starlight form in particular:

This is Starlight upgrade 3 / 4th form overall. It only exists in khx.

And Lauriam wields this:

Divine Rose upgrade 3 / 4th form overall. It also only exists in khx.

Since we know that the chi saga (and kh in general but chi specifically) is really great at tying gameplay mechanics and lore together, I think I actually understand the potential lore significance of this now.

These four were wielders before the war and were chosen to be union leaders. Putting Strelitzia aside for obvious reasons, Ephemera, Skuld and Lauriam escape to the new world wielding a form of their respective keyblades that actually doesn’t exist there. Now we don’t actually know why these forms don’t exist in this world from a narrative standpoint, but it might have to do with everyone’s memories being overwritten except theirs, or maybe it’s a glitch in the data that wasn’t taken into consideration (or maybe it was placed there on purpose? 👀 but this is just speculation).

Whatever the reason is, the fact that they wield non-existent keyblade forms from a forgotten reality could potentially explain why their keyblades never get upgraded past that, despite them being union leaders. You’d think that they would upgrade to the strongest form, right? Maybe going to the new world/reality stunted their keyblades’ evolution, and they’re just stuck with what they came with because they weren’t able to finish maxing out their keyblades before the war. (This is why you always do your materials quests, kids!)

Now, the reason they don’t just choose to wield a different, stronger keyblade instead is a whole other thing. Amongst the “new” keyblades brought into khux (Stroke of Midnight, Sleeping Lion, Counterpoint, Fenrir, Darkgnaw, Missing Ache, Fairy Stars, and Diamond Dust [Bad Guy Breaker is a special case]), they certainly have a lot to choose from.

My guess is either A. they simply can’t, as in, they’re physically unable to switch their particular keyblades in for a different one because of the circumstances of data Daybreak Town or because of something Ava did, or B. they chose not to, in order to just have a memento of the pre-war world, before their life changed drastically. I’m leaning towards the latter, since Blaine gives Ephemera Master’s Defender while they’re in data Daybreak Town and it wouldn’t make sense if there was even a possibility that Ephemera wouldn’t be able to use it there. This opens up a whole conversation about keyblade lore and how keyblades themselves change overtime and in different circumstances, along with how data worlds might affect keyblades. But that’s a whole other can of worms.

Anyways, here’s the most interesting part about all this…

Ven.

He wields Missing Ache upgrade 2 / 3rd form overall.

Already right from the get-go, you can see that this is different from the “formula” the other leaders are following (except Blaine, who’s the exception here, as he is to many things). Unlike the other leaders, Ven wields a keyblade that wasn’t in khx, but is included in khux as a “new” keyblade. He’s wielding a keyblade that was only put into use in the new world where everyone had their memories wiped in some capacity, including him. His keyblade is an anomaly. It may have very well been a big hint about him being an anomaly amongst the other union leaders!

tl;dr the union leaders were nerfed, the hints about Ven being a fake leader were there all along, and we need more keyblade lore. Thanks for coming to my ted talk ✌️

(an additional P.S.: Eph and Skuld were introduced in khx, so it’s possible that the main reason they were given their particular Starlight form was so they could be relative to Player’s hypothetical strength level at the time they’re introduced. But I still like to believe that there’s this additional significance to it)

[vse-kar-vem]

we should talk about baby kris winking at bojan

[mildmayfoxe]

at the farmers market yesterday i was struck with inspiration to make some gorgeous sandwiches so i got this stunning bunch of spring onions, a nice loaf of fresh hearty bread, and some fresh quark cheese. halved some of the onions and let them get pretty brown in some bacon fat, layered em on bread n quark with a good shake of garlic salt, sliced up some chicken thighs, gonna toast the sandwiches. the scallion tops i also fried up & im going to use them for something else later 😈

[garland-on-thy-brow]

[divinish-comedy]

benoit blanc and miles edgeworth play amongus together. who wins?

[torturedbitchesdepartment]

guys i am going wild

[oldshowbiz]

Dick Smothers admits that this legendary comedy record wasn't actually recorded at San Francisco's Purple Onion, but at the Tidelands in Houston, Texas.

[cantsayidont]

Love is stored in the "Green Onions." (Stax Records, 1962)

[whyeverr]

Eugh. This smells... familiar...

"MMMMM! [retch] Oh god."

Alright, you nasty ass onion syrup.

[night-city-valentines]

Watching a streamer play the Elden Ring DLC and seeing them complain that a boss did something that looked similar but acted differently to a base game attack sums up what I think most Gamers™ are pissed about.

Shadow of the Erdtree isn't hard, but the aforementioned Gamers™ expected it to just be the base game when it really isn't. So when they see something that vaguely looks familiar they assume they already know what's going on, rather than approaching it as what it is - new.

[mwagneto]

not to start shit but as someone who was on the front lines of tjlc during season 4 it's insanely funny to see people huffing the same exact breed of copium like these are word for word just repeated arguments that ppl made back then. like bro if you think the writing was bad that's because your opinion is that the writing was bad. it's okay to think the writing was bad. see *i* dont think it was bad but your repeated insistence that "we all agree it was bad" just tells me that you need people to agree with you because you can't just accept that you didn't like something. like im sorry but sometimes the things you like are gonna make you go "huh i think that bit was badly written" and that's okay it's not some big conspiracy 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[bigassbowlingballhead]

Guess who had onions a second night in a row and now has a tummy ache

[mildmayfoxe]

soooo important to shred up a chicken thigh and toss it in yogurt dressing (greek yogurt olive oil salt black pepper lemon juice garlic paprika cumin thyme oregano sesame seeds) and warm up a naan (or pita i only had naan) and pile a bunch of lettuce on there and then the chicken and then red onion and cucumber and fresh parsley and dill. and then eat it

[sneezingfetishftw-wavs]

I'm finally feeling (and sounding) well enough to record the dialogue for the healthy characters! Vox's audio was recorded while I was sick.

CW: crying (just a few seconds towards the end of the wav)

Here's the link to the fic so you can follow along.