#Peoria tattoo

[spirit-inx]

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In addition to my guest spot in Peoria next month, I'll be tattooing at the Rosemont Tattoo Art Convention in Chicago as well! Would love to see yall stop by!!!! 🤩

Appointments can be booked ahead, but I'll definitely be taking walk-ups too!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Robert P. Jones at Religion Dispatches:

Last week’s historic verdict is worth rehearsing. On May 30, Donald J. Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a crime. Twelve ordinary citizens unanimously found Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an attempt to conceal hush money he paid to a porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair—all driven by a desire to protect his 2016 presidential campaign. Following the verdict, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who had already made a public pilgrimage to the New York courtroom to undermine the legitimacy of the trial while the jury was still considering evidence, continued to defend Trump and called for the US Supreme Court to “step in.”  [...]

Johnson’s boasts of personal relationships with and open partisanship among US Supreme Court justices is deeply troubling. It builds on the legitimacy problems the nation’s highest court is facing in the wake of the recent stories that Justice Alito flew flags representing support for the January 6th insurrection and White Christian nationalism at his primary residence and a beach house. That revelation, in turn, amplified previous confirmations that Justice Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas was deeply involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election to keep Trump in office. But on Saturday, ahead of a Republican fundraiser event in Peoria, Johnson said something even more disturbing in his continued defense of Trump. Trump, Johnson said, “is not just our nominee, not just an individual running for president. I think now he’s seen as a symbol, a symbol of one who is willing to fight back against that corruption, the deep state and all the rest.”

Given any number of other statements by Johnson, this comment may seem unremarkable. But the transformation of Trump from a person to a symbol is the key to understanding the power of the MAGA movement and the internal logic of the upside-down world where a unanimous guilty verdict in a fair trial results in solidified support, record fundraising, and desperate Christian defenses of a convicted felon. [On the latter, see Al Mohler, president of the SBC’s flagship seminary: “Say what you will about Donald Trump and his sex scandals, he doesn’t confuse male and female.” Also, see “From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict“]

[...]

The MAGA movement, more than any in my adult lifetime, has spawned a multitude of transgressive and aggressive symbols. The proliferation of flags alone is remarkable: the ubiquitous blue Trump 2020, the “Trump is My President, Jesus is My Savior,” and the thin blue line. These commune with older flags resurrected with new meaning, such as the Tea Party’s “Don’t Tread on Me,” the insurrectionist’s inverted US flag, and the Christian nationalist’s “An Appeal to Heaven.” And they whip alongside White supremacist flags that still mean what they have always meant, such as the Confederate flag and even Nazi flags. Beyond the banners, a gleaming golden idol made in Trump’s image appeared at a 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), clad in a coat and tie paired with American flag shorts and flip-flops, holding the US Constitution in one hand and a magic wand in the other. At the individual level, a plethora of hats, t-shirts, bumper stickers, digital art (often featuring Jesus and Trump), tattoos, and, of course, Trump’s “God Bless the USA”-branded Bible flooded into public spaces. This explosion of symbolic material was the result of the energy unleashed by the Big Bang of the MAGA movement. Yet, this chaotic cloud of symbols are only mediating objects of devotion, held in loose orbits around the gravitational force of Trump, transposed from man to totem.

[...] When the leader becomes the totem, no transgression is capable of separating him from his acolytes. A totem can’t lie or be vulgar. A totem doesn’t have marriage vows that can be violated. A totem can’t sexually assault a woman. A totem can’t commit fraud. A totem can’t betray an oath to the Constitution. A totem has no innate human characteristics at all. It’s a mirror, reflecting back the collective fears and aspirations of the group, who both generate its image and receive it back reinforced.

Robert P. Jones writes in Religion Dispatches describes the symbolism that Donald Trump represents to his brainwashed supporters: They view him as a totem for their grievances against a civilized society.

[anthrofreshtodeath]

tattoo parlor or celebrity! also bones crossover 👀 I just started season 6 on my rewatch- oh my slow burn

I want to do the Bones crossover so badly but have self-doubt about doing it justice. It'll come eventually.

Also this is a You Only Live Twice snippet disguised as a celebrity AU so whoops. At least Jane and Frankie are celebrities in that universe😂

Frankie Rizzoli, Jr. stood next to the green lined cages with a bat in his hands, even though he hadn’t taken any swings since high school. He had been a notoriously bad hitter - do you have to stink it up so bad?, his sister would complain - so bad that even as he watched now, he got that familiar slither of nerve sweats down his back. 

That could have been the Arizona heat, however. It was persnickety in the spring, wavering between chilly in the midmorning and oppressive in the afternoon. Afternoon approached now, the sound of maple against leather- pop pop pop - its clarion call. 

Bats on balls always ushered in the start of spring. 

Frankie routinely spent his times in between warmups and bullpen sessions watching Mariners hitters so that he could reacquaint himself with the sight of a batter. None stood in the box across from him until the second week of Spring Training, but he needed longer than that to pump competition into his veins. Their objective? See ball, hit ball. His? Throw ball, miss bat. Thus, the reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

The cages had hit that cacophonous sort of rhythm, if it could be explained that way - the interplay between the whir of pitching machines, batted balls, and hits striking the aluminum fencing - sputtered to background noise when about ten Mariners dropped their work for a commotion at the front entrance. 

Frankie couldn’t make out what they gathered around, and he squinted when he walked over there because the opening to the cage area faced the sun. At first, he saw white. Then, the mesas of the Arizona desert came into view until they bled into close-by hills and the light towers of Peoria Sports Complex. His eyes adjusted to the sun and when they did, his sister appeared, surrounded by a gaggle of grown men.

Jane Rizzoli wore the Angels’ Spring Training uniform, the red button up jersey with the A emblazoned over her left breast, tucked into white pants with a red pinstripe. She had Frankie’s most recent New Balance turf shoe on, too, but none of that enticed the Mariners saying hello.

No, Aria, the two-and-a-half year-old with the brown-blonde hair up in a bun atop her head enticed them. She wore a small jersey with her own surname on it, Rizzoli with the number 10, and except for the color, it matched Frankie’s teal one. She looked like she had just woken up from a nap by the way Jane carried her on a hip and the way her glossy stare went through them rather than to them. 

Frankie pushed his way past his teammates. At 33 and a decade on the team, he’d earned a right to do so. Especially as the ace, a fact about her uncle he’d never let Aria forget. “Hey, hey! Look who’s here!” He greeted her, all smiles and waving arms with his big chest puffed out. She turned to him right away, but her face remained unchanged. Frankie chuckled to himself. “Asleep on the car ride over here, huh?” he asked Jane when he reached for Aria.

Jane adjusted the hat over her low ponytail as soon as Frankie took over. “The whole forty minutes from Tempe,” she replied, and Frankie thought she might have rolled her eyes behind her Oakley glasses. She shrugged her duffel bag closer to her shoulder. “She’s gonna want down in a minute. She’s just gotta wake up.”

“She’s too young to remember when you guys visited us last spring, but she’ll get the hang of it,” Frankie said.

Julio Rodriguez himself caught up to Frankie, and clapped him on the back just so he could get some facetime with Aria. “She gonna be a power hitter with how much she come here,” said Julio, ruffling her hair with his sprawling hand. 

The group of them walked the few feet back into the tunnel toward the batting cages and Jane bumped shoulders with Julio when she put her sunglasses on the brim of her hat. “That’s the plan. Watchin’ you’ll only help,” she said. “Thanks for havin’ her.”

“You kidding me? Anytime,” Julio responded. Like clockwork, Aria grumbled as she listened to the adults around her talk until her uncle put her down. “Now,” Julio began again, “get her in there.”

“You hear that, kid? Get in the cage, let’s go. You’re late for barrel work,” Jane deadpanned, summoning Aria to the fence like she would any of her Angels hitters.

Julio pulled a tiny tee out from behind the pitching machine, one that stayed around for all the Mariners kids should they drop by. Aria helped Jane unzip the bag she put down on the carpeted floor, and pulled out a foam bat just her size.

Jane stuck the ball on the tee and then stepped back, winking at Julio. “A’right, show ‘em what you do,” she encouraged. Aria, with a gaze of concentration stood on the left side of the tee and whacked the cloth ball a few feet away.

“Ma, run!” she ordered when she threw the bat. She pointed forward where a base might of been had they been on a field.

“You run!” Jane ordered back with a deep belly laugh. “You’re the one who hit it!”

“You see her flippin’ that bat?!” Frankie bellowed, arms crossed against the backstop. “She’s a celebrity already.”

“Don’t let her hear that,” Jane said when Aria wobbled on less-than-certain feet toward the pitching machine and toward the great Julio Rodriguez himself. “Don’t let Maura hear that, either. I’m gonna have to send her to LineDrive when she turns five.”

Frankie held his bat out and tapped his sister’s chest with it. “Ah, stop and smell the roses, would ya? You’re the parent of a prodigy. Spring’s here. Baseball’s back.”

“You’re right, you’re right,” said Jane. She took hold of Frankie’s barrel until she held the handle in her own grip. “Baseball’s back.”

[upon-the-sand-of-the-sea]

FULL NAME: Dale Ferdinand Kobble ALIAS(ES): Longlegs, The Suspect, Pale Bride of the Fallen King PRONOUN(S): He/Him/His D.O.B.: 01/21/51 ORIENTATION: Dale

SKILL(S): Dollmaking (good) / guitar (passable) / vocals (nooooo) / Wheel of Fortune from the couch / evading law enforcement

GIFT(S): Capturing likeness in sculpture / farting on command

HAIR COLOUR: Blond / Gray

EYE COLOUR: Kind of like oatmeal with blue undertones

HEIGHT: 6'2"

TATTOO(S): Not yet

SCAR(S): Entire face / Nipples (keloid) / Ritual Self-Circumcision

PIERCING(S): ... wanna see?

OCCUPATION: Phallic Queen at the Gold-Adorned Hand of Pandemonium's Sole Ruler His Majesty Satan / gross guy who's back again / alcoholic HOMETOWN: Peoria, IL CURRENT RESIDENCE: Possibly your very own cellar, Dear Reader... BELIEF(S): Public restrooms should be free for everyone all the time PARENT(S): Sonja Anne Kobble (construction foreman) / Milton Bosgrove-Kobble (pharmacist) SIBLING(S): None, thank god CHILDREN: You know who you are, Miss Agent Silly Noo-Noo... ;-) PET(S): Garth-Darby (53-Lb Continental Giant Rabbit, Albino)

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[blogmysticareena]

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[garyjugert]

Uniclues:

1 Add more salt.

2 The long story of how the brown horse became known as Blondie.

3 Wet puppy smell.

4 Short poem by anti-porn advocate.

5 Awkward conversation starter on the third date.

6 Watch the drain in horror after hearing the "clink."

7 Italian sauce made in Peoria.

8 Take a baseball bat to a loud mouth with a mohawk.

9 Northern New Mexican standing alone in front of the TJMaxx.

10 Powder ancient aviator.

11 Tattooed a glass of water from a Great Lake.

12 What you should do when your genius goes unrecognized.

13 An unbalanced existence.

14 Un-moist malaise in Mexico.

15 Power wielded by warthogs if you move too close.

***

1 SPICE ITEM ANEW

2 COCOA MARE SAGA

3 SLINKY DOG ODORS (~)

4 ACLU / STINKY TOFU

5 BOOTS, OK? I'M KINKY. (~)

6 TRACK PINKY RING

7 RINKY DINK PESTO

8 CORK PUNK ROCKER

9 I'M SAD TAOS PINE

10 TALC INCA PILOT (~)

11 ERIE UNIT INKED

12 SULK. ASK MEN.

13 ASYMMETRIC REAL

14 NADA MISTY DOOM (~)

15 WAGS TUSK AGONY

[suehutchinsonbravo]

Maybe Kambel Bennet over at Matriarch Salon in Peoria can explain that giant number 14 tattoo on her arm?

Nazi shit.

[artostattoo]

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[kjack89]

Wanted to do a roundup post for all my @themiserablesmonth (thank you for organizing this, by the way!!) fics. This was a heckuva challenge for myself – I had wanted to write at least 1000 words a day, and managed that and then some (I think my average came out to something like 1600 words a day). I didn't succeed at making these as autumn-themed as I wanted, but alas.

AO3 series above, tumblr links below.

1. Red – The Scarf 2. Fire – Bonfire 3. Heart – Heart Tattoo 4. Fabric – A Pleasure to Unwrap 5. Spark – The Spark that Will Light the Fire 6. Flower – Hope He Buys You Flowers 7. Blood – Make Use of Thee 8. Ink – Inked 9. Black – My World When He's Not There 10. Light – Let the Light In 11. Wish – Wish Upon a Star 12. Lantern – To Light Your Way Home 13. Sun – Sunlight on the Windowsill 14. Moon – The Full Moon 15. Magic – Cast a Spell on You 16. Dark – Into the Dark 17. Friendship – Early Morning at the Art Studio 18. Comfy – Make Yourself Comfortable 19. Reincarnation – We'll Be a Dream 20. Key – Picking the Lock 21. Flame – To a Flame 22. Greeting – hey whats up 23. Last – One Last Kiss 24. Romance – Sweet Nothing 25. First Glance – Coup de Foudre 26. Message – Kill the Messenger 27. Hands – Such Faithfulness in Effigy 28. Reflection – Getting Old 29. Soulmates – Apollo 30. Smile – Play in Peoria 31. Dawn – Flooded by the Dawn

Needless to say, I will be taking a little bit of a break to catch up on everything I have not done over the past month, but never fear, I'll be back! Thanks to everyone who has supported me as always, y'all are the best!!

[zombeesknees]

Okay I have been thinking about it ever since i read your tags on that ofmd post and I’ve GOT to hear more of this story about the werebear erotica biker. It’s too many vastly different words in order and i’m fascinated lmao

OK, SO:

When I worked at the Barnes & Noble in Peoria, I had a lot of really cool regular customers. But by FAR my fave regular was a gentleman by the name of Sandman.

(Yes, that's his legal name, he had it changed in the 80s, his driver license reads MR. SANDMAN in the first and last name sections.)

And Sandman is:

6'4"

A Vietnam vet with a full white beard, long hair, and a knee brace that squeaks like a rusty hinge with each step.

A biker/Harley enthusiast who attends Sturgis every year (when I left the Peoria store, he gave me a Sturgis shirt to remember him by, and I still sleep in it every winter).

Always dressed in a full length leather duster (which is covered in patches and pins, one of which reads DO NOT MISTAKE MY KINDNESS FOR WEAKNESS) + a leather top hat.

COVERED in tattoos -- no, really, he has cobwebs tatted on his forehead and the back of his hands, stars on his eyelids, and dragons and pin-up gals all over his arms. He once told me about 70% of his body is tattooed.

A devoted fan of shape-shifter erotica, PARTICULARLY werebear erotica.

He would come into Barnes at least twice a week, right as we opened, come over to Customer Service, and ask me to load whatever new paranormal romances/erotica I could find onto his Nook. He's a wonderfully warm, friendly, cheerful man with a booming deep voice -- a total teddy bear, which only makes his interest in werebear smut even MORE apropos. And when he found out I had books available, he promptly ordered all of them, even though he prefers to read ebooks and mine are only available in print. SUCH a lovely man.

I enjoy working at the Bloomington Barnes now, but lemme tell you: I really and truly miss seeing Sandman every week. I haven't heard from him in a couple years, not since the Pandemic started, and I sincerely hope he's thriving (and still reading all of the supernatural romances on offer).

And just in case anyone thinks I'm making this up out of whole cloth, here's a photo of Sandman (from a professional photoshoot he was a part of a decade ago or so):

[sneakyinsuburbiaa]

Cute outfits on vacation. 💘

[spirit-inx]

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I will be at Mixed Personalities in Peoria, IL between August 14th-17th! DM me to book if you're in that area! I'll post more of my available designs that I'm bringing with me, but I'll also take custom work if you've got an idea 😁

[acourtofidiots]

Doctor Neo Cortex is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Crash Bandicoot video game series. He has appeared in every mainline game in the series as Crash Bandicoot's archenemy, as well as a playable character in several spin-off titles. Cortex is an egomaniacal mad scientist who seeks to achieve world domination with the use of the Evolvo-Ray, a machine capable of creating genetically enhanced soldiers from ordinary animals. Crash was one such subject but thwarted the scientist's plot; Cortex is subsequently determined to eliminate Crash as an obstacle to world domination.

Cortex was created by Naughty Dog founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin, and was originally designed by Charles Zembillas. Voice actors who have portrayed Cortex include Brendan O'Brien, Clancy Brown and Lex Lang. Cortex has been positively received by reviewers, with much of the praise going to Brown's and Lang's vocal performances as well as the character's portrayal in Crash Twinsanity.

During the development of Crash Bandicoot, Naughty Dog founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin conceived the idea of Cortex while eating near Universal Interactive Studios. Gavin came up with the idea of an "evil genius villain with a big head" who was "all about his attitude and his minions". Rubin, having become fond of the animated television series Pinky and the Brain, imagined a more malevolent version of the Brain with minions resembling the weasel characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. After Gavin put on a voice depicting the attitude in mind for the character, he and Rubin instantly came up with the name "Doctor Neo Cortex". Gavin and Rubin described Cortex to character designer Charles Zembillas as "[having] a huge head but a tiny body, he's a mad scientist, and he dresses a bit like a Nazi from The Jetsons". Rubin owns the original sketches of Cortex by Zembillas.[5]

Crash Bandicoot co-artist Joe Pearson wrote a full backstory for Cortex as part of the game's production bible.[6] The backstory details Cortex's birth to a large family of circus performers (his birth is said to have occurred within a gypsy wagon fleeing Peoria, Illinois), the abuse he suffered from being made part of the family act (which culminated in a large "N", standing for "nerd", being tattooed onto his forehead), the murder of his family in a fireworks explosion, and a period of vagrancy and fugitivity with his henchman and high school classmate Nitrus Brio.[7][8] Cortex was originally envisioned as a self-aware video game character who was bothered by the clichés he embodied and addressed the audience throughout the game. This aspect was removed after Naughty Dog decided that cutscenes would disrupt the game's pacing.[8][9]

Cortex was kept stationary in many of his early appearances because his game model was unable to walk properly due to the short length of his legs.[5] Artist Nicholas Kole adjusted Cortex's proportions for his appearance in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, though according to Kole, Cortex's more "debonair" build resulted in his animations turning out "too handsome". In response, the game's artists created an expression sheet to preserve Cortex's comedic characterization.[10]

Cortex is voiced by Brendan O'Brien in the first Crash Bandicoot game,[11] and by Clancy Brown from Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back up to Crash Nitro Kart.[12][13][14][15][16] Brown eventually left the series due to his dissatisfaction with the video game industry's financial compensation for voice actors.[17] For Crash Twinsanity, Lex Lang was called in for an audition to replace Brown,[18] and was given an explanation that Vivendi Universal Games considered Brown's performance to be "too mean".[19] After voice director Chris Borders described Cortex to Lang and had him listen to signature samples of Brown's performance,[18] he encouraged Lang to play Cortex as more flamboyant and self-absorbed.[19] Lang eventually created a depiction of Cortex that was "master evil with a bit of a childish feminine side that leaks out in his tirades" that had everyone laughing at the lines and the character.[18] Monty Python's Flying Circus was an additional influence on Lang's delivery as Cortex.[20] Lang voiced Cortex from Twinsanity onward.[21][22][23] In a flashback to Cortex's childhood in Crash Twinsanity, he is voiced by Debi Derryberry,[21] while Corey Burton voiced Cortex when he is momentarily turned into an infant in the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy.[23]

Cortex's basic characterization was conceived by Gavin and Rubin as "A villain, all full of himself, unable to conceive of ever doing anything the simple way, but constantly (in his eyes) betrayed by the incompetence of his henchmen".[5] Cortex is depicted as a mad scientist who is ruthlessly and obsessively motivated to dominate the world by the desire to exact vengeance upon a humanity that spurned and humiliated him.[7][29] He possesses an outrageously high intelligence quotient, which he believes makes him the logical choice to control the world, and he is frequently frustrated by the inferior mentality and failures of his underlings. In awareness of his diminutive build, Cortex avoids physical combat and rationalizes his cowardice by claiming that such engagement is beneath him. Cortex is exceptionally skilled in the fields of engineering and mechanics, which allows him to create a wide variety of devices and machines. Although he is prone to wild mood swings, his single-minded determination keeps him functional. He is highly self-confident and views himself as perfect, which convinces him not to subject himself to the Evolvo-Ray. Cortex is a lifelong loner whose sole friend has been his assistant and childhood associate Doctor Nitrus Brio, whom he treats with contemptuous affection. As a result of his traumatic childhood experiences, Cortex flies into an hysterical rage at imagery of clowns, laugh tracks, seltzer bottles and bananas.[7] Crash Twinsanity artist Daniel Tonkin observed that Cortex is "massively egotistical" and has "a real insecurity complex",[30] while voice actor Lex Lang summarized Cortex's character as a "maniacal narcissist".[19]

In Crash of the Titans, Cortex kidnaps Coco and steals a large quantity of Mojo from an ancient temple, planning to use it to create an army of "Titans", which will aid him in the construction of the Doominator, a giant robot capable of destroying the Wumpa Islands. After failing once more to destroy Crash, Cortex is lambasted by Uka Uka, who replaces him with Nina. Incapacitated for much of the game, Cortex is denied the opportunity to watch his Doominator in action. At the end of the game, Cortex rescues Nina from the collapsing Doominator and praises her for her treachery, but nevertheless promises retribution. In Crash: Mind over Mutant, Cortex deposits Nina at his Evil Public School, then reconciles with Brio to invent the NV, a personal digital assistant that controls whoever uses it by transmitting negative Mojo; the Mojo is forcibly extracted from Uka Uka after Cortex takes him captive. Cortex later engages in a fight with Crash inside his new Space Head space station, empowering himself with the use of Brio's mutation formula. Upon losing the fight, Cortex throws a tantrum, causing the Space Head to plummet towards Earth. Cortex returns to normal and escapes the Space Head in a smaller shuttle.

In Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, which retcons the games following Warped from continuity,[32] Cortex and Tropy escape from their temporal prison, which creates rifts leading to different dimensions, and they begin a plot to conquer the multiverse. After another defeat to Crash, Cortex prepares to retire until Tropy announces his own plot to reshape the multiverse, which would erase both Crash and Cortex from existence. Cortex, incensed by Tropy's betrayal, teams up with Crash and his group to stop Tropy and seal the dimensional rifts. Following a celebratory trip to a futuristic metropolis, Cortex kidnaps Kupuna-Wa − a magical "Quantum Mask" with time-altering powers − and uses her to travel back in time to his original bid for world domination and avert Crash's creation. However, he is unable to convince his past self to abandon the experiment, and is again defeated by the present Crash. The present Cortex is banished by the Quantum Masks to the end of the universe, where Cortex relaxes on a beach and enjoys the peace and quiet until Uka Uka suddenly appears before him.[33]

A series of collectible "Flashback Tapes" in the game detail Cortex's training of the then-unnamed Crash prior to his initiation into Cortex's army,[34] and the final tape featuring Crash includes Cortex christening him with the name "Crashworth Cortex the First", or "Crash" for short.[35] In the subsequent tapes, which take place following Crash's escape from Cortex's castle, Cortex trains Crash's sister, whom he codenames "Coco",[36] hires N. Gin,[37] and creates Dingodile as a potential substitute for Coco,[38] who ultimately escapes Cortex's castle under the guise of undertaking another trial.[39]

Cortex appears as a playable character in the racing titles Crash Team Racing, Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Tag Team Racing,[40][41][42] as well as the party titles Crash Bash and Crash Boom Bang!.[43][44] Cortex is the main antagonist in the handheld titles Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure, Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy.[45][46] Although Cortex is absent from the narrative of Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, he is a playable character in the game's multiplayer mode.[47] On mobile platforms, Cortex appears as an antagonist in the racing title Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D and the runner game Crash Bandicoot: On the Run!.[48][49] Outside of the Crash Bandicoot series, Cortex appeared alongside Crash as a playable character in the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions of Skylanders: Imaginators.[50]

Cortex has been featured in a series of Crash Bandicoot action figures produced by Resaurus. For Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Resaurus produced a "Dr. Neo Cortex" figure bundled with a laser gun, a Wumpa Fruit and a Crystal as seen in the game.[51] A vinyl figure by Funko and a rubber duck by Numskull Designs have also been made in Cortex's image.[52][53] On July 28, 2020, First 4 Figures unveiled a 21-inch resin collectible figure of Cortex, with an estimated Q3 2021 release date. The figure depicts a scene from the boss fight against him in Crash Bandicoot: Warped, in which Cortex wields a ray gun and a timed mine. The figure will be released in both a standard and exclusive edition; the exclusive version features a light-up hoverboard, mine and smoke trail.[54][55]

Cortex has ranked within a number of lists of best video game villains. Robert Workman of GameDaily ranked Cortex number twenty-three on his list of the "Top 25 Evil Masterminds of All Time", stating "His twisted Wario-like hair, his pointy goatee and that big N stamped in the middle of his forehead makes him look like pure evil."[25] Chris Buffa, also of GameDaily, ranked Cortex at number twenty-one in his "Top 25 Craziest Villains" list.[26] In the Guinness World Records' 2013 Gamer's Edition, Cortex was ranked 42nd on its list of 50 greatest video game villains.[56] GamesRadar ranked Cortex 98th in their 2013 list of the best villains in video game history.[57]

Clancy Brown's vocal performances as Cortex have received positive notice from reviewers. Major Mike of GamePro and Mark Cooke of Game Revolution both praised Brown's performance in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, with Cooke describing Brown as "hilarious" and "satirical".[58][59] In his review of Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Ben Kosmina of Nintendo World Report singled out Brown's voice-acting as "great", and recalled Cortex's line "...and a woman with nice, big... bags of ice for my head" being a highlight in Crash Bandicoot: Warped.[60] Chris Carter of Destructoid, in his review of the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, stated his preference of Brown's performance in the original trilogy over Lex Lang's performance in the remastered version.[61]

Cortex's portrayal and Lang's vocal performance in Crash Twinsanity were also praised. Reviewers appreciated the added dimension to Cortex's personality and considered the character and his dialogue to be the most entertaining and accomplished in the game.[62][63][64] Nick Valentino of GameZone described Cortex as "nutty in the best possible way",[65] while Andrew Reiner of Game Informer admitted that "turning Cortex into a cross-dressing lunatic brought about a few chuckles".[66]

Eddie Makuch of GameSpot, discussing the demo for Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, was delighted by Cortex's "cartoonishly evil" personality, and Alessandro Fillari of the same publication appreciated his humanization after observing him from a distance in the original games, describing him as "sort of like the Wile E. Coyote, but with more advanced technology and a bigger ego. He's somehow always two steps behind Crash, which is hilarious".[67]

you know what, i grew up playing the original crash bandicoot trilogy so i’m thankful you copy and pasted the wikipedia article for neo cortex 😂

[tlexx]

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Look for the girl with tattoos that is tripping, burping, and dancing at once. If I hear someone yell daddy at me I will be so excited omg

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[jeremiahlambertart]

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