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agreatartist1 · 6 months ago
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Tetocu Cast Of Characters
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Original From X (Formerly Twitter):
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George's Striped Tie Was Taken From The 2017 Movie "Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie"
Harold's Ahoge Was Also Taken From The 2017 Movie Above.
Melvin And Melvinborg's Bowties, As Well As Captain Underpants' Tied Cape, Are Shaped Like Hearts. Because These Are Inspired By Some Fanarts Whose Details Have Hearts On It.
Melvinborg's Green Glasses And Glass Cracks Were Taken From The 2017 Movie And Another CU Fanart.
The Lightning Sticker On Melvinborg's Hand Was Inspired By My Imagination.
Melvinborg's Familiar Design Was Taken From My Traced Drawing Of Him. Find It In My Blog.
The Chinese (Simplified) Word On Melvinborg's Antenna Is Translated "Hate". 'Cause He Doesn't Want To Be Friends With George And Harold Anymore.
The Backgrounds On Each Character Were From Screenshots Of The Netflix Original Series, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants. With Colored Filters. See Below:
George: Season 1, Episode 2
Harold: Season 1, Episode 3
Melvin: Also Season 1, Episode 2
Mr. Krupp: Season 1, Episode 1
Erica: Season 1, Episode 11
Captain Underpants: Season 3, Episode 4
Melvinborg: Season 2, Episode 13
Each Character's Color And Shading (Except Some) Were Also From The Netflix Original Series.
The Text On Every Character (Except Erica) Indicates That These Characters Are Voiced By Their Actors.
This Traced Picture Was For The 6th Anniversary Of The Netflix Original Series, The Epic Tales Of Captain Underpants! Tra-La-Laaaaa!
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trafficjamupthere · 9 months ago
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+ Capt. Duke Wagner's Daughter
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colorhollywood · 2 months ago
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Old Hollywood actors born in 1899
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James Cagney
Humphrey Bogart
Fred Astaire
Charles Laughton
Neil Hamilton
Charles Boyer
George O'Brien
Ramon Novarro
Francis Lederer
Pat O'Brien
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rosecentaur1916 · 4 months ago
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Toxic Online Behaviors
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Just watched this. I've been both the perpetrator and victim of these things. Many people in the fandoms and groups I've been in over the *decades* I've been on the internet have been guilty of these things. Individuals I've known have been guilty of these things. I'm not trying to virtue signal or guilt trip I just want to share this to spread awareness. I'm tagging a lot the fandoms I've been in to try to reach many people.
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coff33-stained · 7 months ago
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Greenwood Cemetery
It has been the home to over 60,000 Corpses over the span of 170 years ⚰️ It's no wonder why people claim to have seen and heard eerie things here. Greenwood Cemetery is located in Hamilton, Ohio and offers a beautiful green landscape as a final resting spot. 

People Report seeing a man horseback riding through the cemetery and sightings of shadow figures. People also claim to hear people talking, whispering and laughter when no one is around.
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theatrekidstatus · 1 year ago
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Fictional Character list
Ramon
Chino
Mike wheeler
Joyce Byers
Max
Copral Martinez
John Lauren’s
Gender bent
Alexander Hamilton
Phillip Hamilton
Noah Díaz
Miles morales
Peggy
The Schuyler sisters~
Angelica
Eliza
Gender bent Eliza Yandre
Justin laboy
Yandre Justin laboy
Spider Gwen
Camilo
Pavitar
Usnavi
Riff
Manny
Frankie
Jessie
Peter Parker
Nathan
Maria
Elana Wallace
Bucky Barns
Wanda maximoff
Natasha romanoff
Yelana Bolivia
Mj
Kate Bishop
Rocky Blue
Elven
Narrator (21CS)
Yandre narrator
Aaron burr
Gender bent
Usnavi
Usnavi One shot
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marcmarcmomarc · 27 days ago
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Kingdom Hearts IV predictions: Radiator Springs/Dinoco Rust-eze Racing Center/Fireball Beach/Thunder Hollow/Thomasville/Florida International Speedway (Cars)
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Takes place after Cars 3.
Is visited by Sora, who enters the world as a 2017 Nissan 370Z before visits to Luigi’s Casa Della Tires and Ramone’s House of Body Art end with him modified into a next-gen race car sponsored by Dinoco (with Tex’s blessing) and with Cruz’s number.
It isn’t combat based. Missions include keeping up with McQueen’s top speed by racing down Radiator Springs’ main street, learning how to turn right to go left at Willy’s Butte, driving backwards with Mater, keeping up with Cruz’s top speed on Fireball Beach, avoiding pushy competitors with the Thunder Hollow challengers, and practicing with Cruz at Thomasville, culminating in the Piston Cup race at Florida International Speedway, where the objective is to win against Jackson Storm.
It’s set during Cruz’s first Piston Cup racing season, so McQueen still has Doc’s colors and spends the Florida race as Sora’s crew chief. Also, Ramone wears his “Saludos Amigos” body paint from the epilogue of Cars 3.
As Sora finishes his story, Mater is certainly unhappy with Xehanort’s actions forcing Sora’s hand. “That dad-gum Xehanort”, he says angrily. Extra points if Sora doesn’t get to the part where Xehanort is dead, then Sarge gets in his face and demands him to teach Xehanort a lesson when he gets back in a militaristic manner. “Is that understood,” Sarge yells. Then Sora tries to correct him, but gets cut off and asked again, “Is that understood,” and has to respond, “Sir, yes, sir!”
Of course, during the top speed races, Luigi is the one to signal the race to begin. In the Radiator Springs race, Sora’s top speed is tracked by Sheriff’s speed radar, and on Fireball Beach, it’s via Cruz’s personal assistant, Hamilton.
If you fail the “Turn Right to go Left” mission, Sora goes flying into the bed of cacti, and Mater fishes him out.
“I don’t like to toot my own horn, but…” (HONKS TWICE) “Toot my own horn. That’s funny right there.” - Sir Tow Mater, beginning his backwards driving lesson, 2017
Cars 2 elements will be here. Heck, maybe Mater can’t be present most for the training because he’s busy with Finn and Holley. After all, does he still owe Holley a first date?
I wanted the player character in this world to be Kairi just so Storm can feel the embarrassment of losing to not one, but two “costume girls”.
The Piston Cup race is announced as a 500-lap race, but no game developer is that malicious to force the player to race 500 laps around an oval, so they’d take after the first Cars game and make it twelve laps with the sun slowly lowering throughout the race.
Starring the voices of:
Lightning McQueen: Keith Ferguson
Cruz Ramirez: Cristela Alonzo
Tow Mater: Larry the Cable Guy
Smokey: Chris Cooper
Sally Carrera: Bonnie Hunt
Luigi: Tony Shalhoub
Guido: Guido Quaroni
Mack: John Ratzenberger
Fillmore: Lloyd Sherr
Sarge: Paul Dooley
Ramone: Cheech Marin
Flo: Jenifer Lewis
Sheriff: Michael Wallis
Lizzie: Laraine Newman
Red: Jerome Ranft
Jackson Storm: A.J. Hamilton
Natalie Certain: Kerry Washington
Finn McMissile: Martin Jarvis
Holley Shiftwell: Emily Mortimer
Sterling: Nathan Fillion
Louise “Barnstormer” Nash: Wendie Malick
River Scott: Kevin Michael Richardson
Junior “Midnight” Moon: Jason Douglas
Mater’s Computer: Teresa Gallagher
Chick Hicks: Bob Peterson
Miss Fritter: Lea DeLaria
Tex Dinoco: Humpy Wheeler
Hamilton: Lewis Hamilton
Bob Cutlass: Bob Costas
Darrell Cartrip: Darrell Waltrip
Strip “The King” Weathers: Richard Petty
Ray Reverham: Ray Evernham
Maddy McGear: Madeleine McGraw
Shannon Spokes: Shannon Spake
Cal Weathers: Kyle Petty
Doc Hudson: Corey Burton & Paul Newman
McQueen’s Biggest Fan: A.J. Riebli III
Tractors: Steve Purcell
Millie: Lori Alan
Tomber: Michel Michelis
Siddeley: Jason Isaacs
The Queen: Vanessa Redgrave
Stephenson: Joe MacDonald
Prince Wheeliam: Christopher Sabat
Sweet Tea: Andra Day
Bobby Swift: Angel Oquendo
Brick Yardley: Will Collyer
Crazy Eight Commentator: John DeMita
Arvy Motorhome: Jeremy Maxwell
Dr. Damage: Bob Peterson
Roscoe: Will Collyer
Mr. Drippy: Peter Sohn
Taco: Patrick Rodriguez
Jimbo: Anthony Sardinha
T-Bone: Andrew Stanton
APB: Jessie James Grelle
Blind Spot: Jessica Nigri
Pushover: Kaiji Tang
Tailgate: Jen Taylor
Cigalert: Barbara Dunkelman
Fishtail: Dustin Matthews
Broadside: Kyle Phillips
Patty: Maggie Tominey
Bill: Tyler Coe
Pileup: Brendan Blaber
High Impact: Lindsay Jones
Faregame: Jason Pace
Airborne: Tiana Camacho
Superfly: Django Craig
Jambalaya Chimichanga: Jen Brown
Liability: Samantha Ireland
Hit: Gus Sorola
Run: Christopher Guerrero
Todd: Alex Mai
Danny Swervez: Daniel Suárez
Ryan “Inside” Laney: Ryan Blaney
Bubba Wheelhouse: Bubba Wallace
Chase Racelott: Chase Elliott
Tim Treadless: Kerry Shawcross
Rich Mixon: Corey Krueger
Cam Spinner: Zeno Robinson
H.J. Hollis: Alejandro Saab
Ed Truncan: Adam Ellis
Herb Curbler: Burnie Burns
Aaron Clocker: Miles Luna
Harvey Rodcap: Garrett Hunter
J.D. McPillar: Michael Jones
Flip Dover: Yuri Lowenthal
Barry DePedal: Kyle Taylor
Steve LaPage: Blaine Gibson
Conrad Camber: Aaron Marquis
Sheldon Shifter: Gavin Free
Paul Conrev: Flynt Flossy
Michael Rotor: Travis Willingham
Richie Gunzit: Ben Schwartz
Eric Braker: Nick Landis
Spikey Fillups: Neath Oum
Chris Roamin’: Connor Pickens
Dan Carcia: Clifford Chapin
Jonas Carvers: Scott Frerichs
Jim Reverick: Howard Wang
George New-Win: Dustin Matthews
Noah Gocek: Eric Baudour
Will Rusch: Aaron Dismuke
M Fast Fong: Todd Womack
Nick Shift: Mick Lauer
J.P. Drive: Richard Norman
Tom W.: Christopher Wehkamp
Sudeep: Aaron Dismuke
Krzysztof: Grant George
Shriram: Bryce Papenbrook
Kurt: Django Craig
Ronald: Alec Willows
Junyi: Todd Haberkorn
Gabriel: Levi Nuñez
Aiden: Angel Oquendo
Jae: Michael Malconian
Ernesto: Robbie Daymond
Melissa Bernabrake: Cia Court
Pat Traxson: Jason Rose
Laura Spinwell: Kara Eberle
Gale Beaufort: Anairis Quiñones
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fakeboygirlbortion · 1 year ago
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not to be cringe in the year of our lord 2023 but imagine fit and ramon with the “look at my son, pride is not the word im looking for, there is so much more inside me now” sound bite from hamilton
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ghostradiodylan · 10 months ago
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What type of music would the counselors listen to?
I know some of my mutuals have answered this question before and I'm sure my headcanons will be influenced by theirs, AND I'm also significantly older than the counselors so they're probably listening to gen z stuff my late millennial ass doesn't even know about but here goes nothing!
Laura So much SIØBHAN! Just kidding. Laura feels like two completely different characters in the game so I have a hard time deciding what I think spunky but straight-laced, ‘this is my first cop,’ over-achieving pre-vet student Laura Kearney would listen to vs badass avenging murder spree Laura Kearney (but maybe she always had that inside her). Part of me wants to say, like, 80’s pop (Prince, Blondie, Tiffany, Michael Jackson, Pat Benetar, etc.) and part of me wants to put her in the hard rock/metal zone with Ryan. Maybe she’s a bit of both.
Max I believe it was Addie (@insertlovelyperson) who said Max would listen to country music where women murder their cheating or abusive husbands. That tracks to me. Maybe it's the use of Alma Cogan's version of 'Fly Me to the Moon' in the game, but I also tend to associate him with crooner type singers of the 40's and 50's (Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, etc), which is what I said he'd choose for karaoke. And because of this fanart I have no choice but to HC him as a major Ariana Grande fan, he's probably the one who chose the music for the drive to camp. So. Max has range.
Abi is the K-Pop/J-Pop stan to me but I know so little about that music beyond the crossover bands like BTS that I can't speak to it a whole lot. I think she'd also like some emo, pop-punk and moodier alt/pop. Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Melanie Martinez, Florence and the Machine, Metric, Lorde, Halsey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers/boygenius, etc. I feel like she's really into female fronted bands for some reason.
Jacob likes pretty much whatever is on the radio. He's a top 40 guy and has no shame about his enjoyment of Ed Sheeran and Justin Beiber, or about ugly crying to Taylor Swift and Coldplay. He rarely listens closely to the actual lyrics (and often gets them humorously wrong), he just goes on vibes. He discovers half the music he listens to via TikTok (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Emma is a theater kid through and through and loves broadway musicals. She goes through phases with each popular one. She's had a Waitress phase, a Mamma Mia phase, a Wicked phase, and a Hamilton phase, of course, and now she's into Mean Girls, Heathers, and Hadestown. Beyond that, I think she'd be a dedicated Swiftie, big Adele fan, and a lover of Britney Spears's entire body of work from the 90's through today.
Nick probably listens to stoner bro music. Like jam bands and psychedelic rock and stuff. He probably likes Dave Matthews Band and the Grateful Dead/Dark Star Orchestra, Sublime, Widespread Panic, Tame Impala, and O.A.R. Googling jam bands to remind myself which ones exist led me to the knowledge that there's an Australian psychedelic rock band called King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and that name is so bonkers that I've decided without listening to more than a few bars that it has to be Nick's favorite band.
Ryan is a little bit emo and a little bit goth and a little bit old school punk. He needs music that's loud and moody to help sort out his feelings about life and drown out all the excess noise inside his head. He's into metal, the harder side of emo/screamo, goth rock, hard rock, punk, and post-punk. He definitely listens to Nightwish, GOJIRA, Mastodon, Lacuna Coil, Linkin Park, Rage Against the Machine, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Thursday, Alkaline Trio, My Chemical Romance, AFI, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Misfits, Ramones, etc. He doesn't hate more accessible pop and rock music, but the closest he gets to choosing it for himself is probably something like The Cure or The Smashing Pumpkins or Depeche Mode, maybe some of the creepier Weeknd songs and Muse tracks too heavy to go on the Twilight soundtracks. He and Abi listen to Babymetal together.
Kaitlyn classic rock and 90's alternative. This girl likes the Stones more than the Beatles, though she'll listen to both. Led Zeppelin, Joan Jett, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Black Sabbath, the occasional hair band. She especially loves the 90's girl rockers like Alanis Morisette, Garbage, Hole, Veruca Salt, and No Doubt (Kaitlyn can't believe Gwen Stefani is married to pop-country dork Blake Shelton who sings that song about being your honey bee, because Gwen used to be so cool [I'm definitely not projecting]). I feel like she'd also love Bikini Kill and Sleater Kinney, Le Tigre, and The Donnas.
Dylan is the Music Guy ™ (and my personal bias/url namesake), so I've admittedly thought about his musical tastes more than most of the others'. The official Quarry website mentions his 'deep musical knowledge' and I imagine he has pretty broad views on what constitutes good music. He's got kind of a vintage vibe to him, maybe it's the reproduction band shirt from 1988, or the fact that he's into analog technology, or both, but I've noticed he's often depicted playing Queen or Bowie or something of that era in fics, which I think is realistic. This kid goes to the used record store and just buys whatever looks cool.
Fun Fact: According to the datamine, the chapters originally had literary or musical quotes at the beginning of each, and Chapter 5: White Noise (the radio hut chapter) was originally headed by the opening lyrics from Queen's 'Radio Ga Ga':
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He's also the only character we see play music in canon, so we know he likes... songs from random compilation albums with inexpensive royalties. XD Just kidding, but these are the diegetic (in-universe) songs we get to hear from Dylan's playlist at the bonfire party:
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All pop music of varying subtypes, so we know he appreciates a well-crafted pop song. I honestly am a fan of all of these. I think Dylan genuinely listens to everything but he seems like the type to especially like alt and indie pop, classic rock, garage rock, a bit of the more melodic side of punk, emo, and pop-punk, new wave, synth pop, electronic, and a little bit of hip hop that’s sufficiently nerdy white boy friendly (probably Beastie Boys, Run the Jewels, Post Malone, emo rap like Blackbear, etc). I also tend to gravitate towards early-mid aughts indie for him, like MGMT, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, OK Go, LCD Soundsystem, etc. Just seems to match his vibe. I think he'd really like BØRNS, Hozier, COIN, Mitski, and K.Flay and probably have a fair amount of overlap with Ryan's more melodic picks (MCR, Muse, The Cure, etc). Dylan probably hates Morrissey but begrudgingly loves The Smiths and definitely cranks up The Killers in his car. He’s also listening to bands right now that you’ve never heard of but will be huge in a couple years. He can probably tell you the difference between subgenres like chillwave, dream pop, and shoegaze but don’t ask me about it because I have no fucking clue.
Since we’re on the subject, here’s my absurdly long and ever-growing Rylan/Radioheads playlist because I have a problem.
And my Sweet Summer Jams playlist, that’s just a bunch of random songs I think would be clean enough to play at a summer camp as long as the kids/your boss don’t ask too many questions.
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agreatartist1 · 5 months ago
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From Tetocu S2 EP 1
Harold: We Climbed Mount Everest,
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George: Visited The Eiffel Tower,
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Harold: We Even Went To The Moon!
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biolizardboils · 2 years ago
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Alternatively: Put It All Together, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Fans young and old, please rise for your combined, headache-inducing national anthem!
Songs used:
Captain Underpants Theme Song by "Weird Al” Yankovic and Theodore Shapiro ft. Ed Helms (2017)
Hooray for Captain Underpants by Josh Katz and Ben Petty ft. Mrs. Dean’s Music Class (2005)
Captain Underpants! (Japanese ver.) by Koji Matsumoto (2006)
Theme Song from The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, sung by Ramone Hamilton and Jay Gragnani ft. Nat Faxon (2018)
YouTube Link // SoundCloud Link
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charlies-a-ghost · 1 year ago
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hi nerds intro posts
im a strange man from the woods here to partake in some henious activity and make bad art
witchcraft practitioner
based in northern california
certified cryptid
I like writing (poetry, short stories, music, novellas), reading (dystopian, horror, graphic novels, comic books, victorian gothic, sci-fi), acting, fencing, archery, art (mixed medias, i do a bit of literally everything), foraging, punk diy, taxidermy, dissection, astrophysics, jewlery making, crochet, I speak french and ASL, i have 5 cats and a dog and a lot of shiny rocks i collect, I play mainly electric and acoustic guitar, but also bass, piano, cello, ukulele and kalimba. I have synesthesia as well as a plethora of issues like severe anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, autism, adhd, POTs, PCOS and hashimotos disease I can NOT catch a break. puppy punk but i like to involve myself in a plethora of subcultures so also goth and emo
bands: my chemical romance, beastie boys, maneskin, ghost, nirvana, ac/dc, fall out boy, pencey prep, green day, peirce the veil, the ramones, the smashing pumpkins, the smiths, the talking heads, the linda lindas, the strokes, car seat headrest, pixies, the front bottoms, sir chloe, leathermouth, gerard way, the cure, david bowie, opal in sky, freddie mercury, queen, frank iero, siouxsie and the banshees, nine inch nails, sisters of mercy, bauhaus, mindless self indulgence, lemon demon, will wood, gorillaz, ayesha erotica, mitski, jazz emu, tom cardy, joan jett and the black hearts, jack stauber, dead kennedys, christian death, black flag, weezer, black sabbath, metallica, blink-182, iggy pop, i set my friends on fire, she wants revenge, like moths to flames, misfits, ozzy ozbourne, the cramps, skindred, social distortion, dresden dolls, the killers, the peggie's, the runaways, the taxpayers, the used, yaelokre
books: the ash house, scythe, Frankenstein, edgar Allen Poe, ready player one, do androids dream of electric sheep, carry on, 1984, the hobbit, lord of the rings, James herriot, renegades, lockdown, diary of Anne Frank, the true lives of the fabulous killjoys, umbrella academy, paranoid gardens, animal farm, handmaidens tale, the right stuff, maze runner, the giver, fahrenheit 451, brace new world, hatchet, the poison thread, the ruins, the watchers, nimona, dracula, interview with a vampire
musicals: beetlejuice, mean girls, hamilton, heathers, ride the cyclone, six, le mis, little shop of horrors, phantom of the opera, newsies
tv shows, movies and video games: saw, silence of the lambs, a quiet place, midsommar, nimona, the owl house, the umbrella academy, young royals, little nightmares, omori, detention, room of old sins, mechanarium, cozy grove, animal crossing, inside, squid game, the platform, bird box, Alice in borderland, girl from nowhere, breaking bad, demon slayer, death note, black butler, don’t hug me I’m scared, seven deadly sins, the promised neverland, the amazing world of gumball, adventure time, Minecraft, legends of Zelda, fnaf, Fiona and cake, gravity falls, more I’m forgetting
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rosecentaur1916 · 3 months ago
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roboticsstuff · 1 year ago
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Cars and Planes and their sexualities
*Humanized*
Robert "Bobby" Swift - Gay
Darrell Cartrip - Gay
Bob Cutlass - Gay
Montgomery "Lightning" McQueen - Bisexual
Mater - Heterosexual
Calium "The Prince" Anthony Weathers- Pansexual, Demisexual
Sally Carrera - Heterosexual
Red - Asexual
Lizzy - Heterosexual
Ramone - Heterosexual
Flo - Heterosexual
Sarge - Gay
Filmore - Gay
Miguel Camino - Pansexual
Shu Todoroki - Gay
Carla Veloso - Lesbian
Nigel Gearsly - Gay, Demisexual
Max Schnell - Pansexual
Rip Clutchgoneski - Transgender, bisexual
Raoul Çaroul - Bisexual
Memo Rojas Jr. - Bisexual
Long Ge - Gay
Frosty - Asexual, Aromatic
Vitaly - Heterosexual
Pyotr Racinov - Asexual, Aromatic
Jeff Gorvette - Pansexual
Lewis Hamilton - Gay
Strip "The King" Weathers - Bisexual
Lynda "The Queen" Weathers - Genderfulid, Bisexual
Doc Hudson - Bisexual
Sheriff - Pansexual
Dusty Crophopper - Bisexual
Remington "Ripslinger" Tornado Baron - Pansexual
Skipper Riley - Pansexual
Ishani - Lesbian
Bulldog - Heterosexual
El Chupacarba - Heterosexual
Rochelle - Heterosexual
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The post about people putting hamilton and basic-bitch pop songs on Spider-Punk playlists as legit ruined my night.  Irreparable psychic damage.  I can’t focus on anything else.  At least listen to The Ramones.
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byneddiedingo · 1 year ago
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Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, and Robert McKim in The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo, 1920)
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, George Periolat, Walt Whitman, Sidney De Gray, Tote De Crow. Screenplay: Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene Miller, based on a magazine story by Johnston McCulley. Cinematography: William C. McGann, Harris Thorpe. Art direction: Edward M. Langley.
Film firsts are usually worth checking out, and The Mark of Zorro is a double first: It's the first appearance of the title character on screen, and it's the first of the genre of films for which Douglas Fairbanks remains best-known, the swashbuckler. Since Fairbanks and co-scenarist Eugene Miller adapted Johnston McCulley's 1919 magazine story, "The Curse of Capistrano," the masked hero has been played by Tyrone Power, Guy Williams (in the Disney TV series), Frank Langella, George Hamilton (in a spoof featuring Zorro's gay twin brother), Alain Delon, and (as the aging Zorro and his hand-picked successor) Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas, and appeared in numerous Mexican and European films. The trope of the do-gooder who pretends to be a wimp but turns into a force for justice has its precursor in the Baroness Orczy's play and novel The Scarlet Pimpernel and lives on in countless superhero tales, most notably the Clark Kent/Superman story. As the languid fop Don Diego Vega, Fairbanks affects a weary slouch and spends his time doing tricks that involve a handkerchief. When he turns into Zorro, with mask and scarf over his head, he pastes on a little mustache oddly reminiscent of Boris Badenov, and succeeds in taking on the villains with great élan. The film itself begins slowly, with too much exposition crammed into the intertitles, but eventually Fairbanks gets his act together, and the climax of the movie is a hilarious showpiece for his acrobatic moves. He leads the Capistrano constabulary on a merry chase over walls and across rooftops, inevitably tempting them into disaster: He leaps over a pigsty, for example, whereupon the pursuers fall into it. At the end, revealing his secret identity, he wins the hand of Lolita Pulido (Marguerite De La Motte), by saving her family's estate from the clutches of the evil governor (George Periolat) and his henchmen, Capitán Juan Ramon (Robert McKim) and Sgt. Pedro Gonzales (Noah Beery), both of whom get branded with the emblematic Z (though the sergeant gets his only in the seat of his pants). Good fun, once it gets going. 
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