#Saban Records

[basqueneskak]

+400 celebrities have signed that sh*t of an open letter to keep Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 using Zionist arguments and not a single mention to Gazan people.

Some of the most well-known signers are: Helen Mirren (Actress) Liev Schreiber (Actor) Boy George (Artist) Gene Simmons (Artist/Co-founder KISS & multi-hyphenate businessman) Mayim Bialik (Actress) Julianna Margulies (Actor/Producer/Author) Emmy Rossum (Actress) Debra Messing (Actress) Ginnifer Goodwin (Actress) Scooter Braun (Founder/CEO, Hybe America) Selma Blair (Actress) Gregg Sulkin (Actor) Skylar Astin (Actor) Julie Greenwald (Chairperson & CEO, Atlantic Records Group) Jody Gerson (Chairperson and CEO, Universal Music Publishing Group) Aaron Bay-Schuck (CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records) Dan Rosen (President, Warner Music Australasia); Joshua Malina (Actor) Patricia Heaton (Actress and Producer) Jennifer Jason Leigh (Actress) Tom Arnold (Actor) Tracy-Ann Oberman (Actress) Sharon Osbourne (Manager, TV Personality) Tom Rothman (Chairman, Columbia Pictures) Diane Warren (Songwriter) Ynon Kreiz (Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.) Gary Barber (Chairman and CEO, Spyglass Media Group) Jacqueline Saturn (President, Virgin Music) Emmanuelle Chriqui (Actress) Samantha Ronson (Artist) Odeya Rush (Actress)

Do what you will with this info.

[digi-tama-in-your-pocket]

Headcanon specifically for the Saban Digimon dub that Digimon get their voices by synthesizing it out of recordings on the internet, and once in a while, a Digimon will base their voice on famouse people, which explains why you get things like Joe Pesci Impmon, Elvis Presley Etamon, Boris Karloff Phantomon, and Peter Lorre Digitamamon..

[matt0044]

I feel there are aspects of Glitter Force's dubbing that I think a more legit Precure dub would work wonders with.

Namely the voice direction and a good chunk of the script writing really captures the cheesy, corny and cutesy parts of Precure. I legit forget at times that this was ADR and took a lot of parts for pre-lay.

While the script could have moments of obviously added dialogue, a lot of it was the sort that worked with the more quirky side of Precure.

One thing that older fans should bear in mind in how this is, well, something for kids and can get pretty silly. I felt the dub getting silly in and of itself worked in Smile's favor with the more emotional moments standing out.

That said... the Japanese names and settings should be retained. It's a weird back slide for a dub produced for Saban considering that Digimon has had a good track record of not changing the Earth setting to America.

Seriously, you had Digimon Adventure's Eighth Digidestined arc explicitly claim that the kids were Japanese. They lived in Odaiba. They had nicknames in the dub but their full names were shown in Episode 1 to be Japanese.

So I feel this same sort of open mindedness should've been kept for Glitter Force. Given Anime is pretty much mainstream, dubs made with kids in mind should probably consider that even My Hero Academia is enjoyed by kids.

Oh, and don't skip any episodes.

And dub the theme songs so we can all sing and dance during the credits.

[curemoonliite]

i was at an atla panel over the weekend and toph's va confessed that her grandma played the other role in her audition tape, explicitly because she thought it was dumb that her granddaughter had to record her lines without anyone else to bounce off of

the audition tape script was the scene with toph and the boulder

she didn't keep it but desperately hopes nickelodeon kept a copy of granny boulder's tape and if nothing else, leaking it would be one hell of a promo for latla s2

in other news, this is the #1 piece of lost media i wanna see now that saban moon has been found

[lboogie1906]

Marlin Oliver “The Magician” Briscoe (September 10, 1945 - June 27, 2022) was a football quarterback for the AFL and NFL. When the Denver Broncos drafted him in 1968, he became the first African American Quarterback in professional football to start on a football team.

He was born in Oakland. His family relocated to Omaha and he attended Omaha South High School, where he played on the football team that won the state championship as a running back. He attended the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and played for the football team, the Mavericks, as a quarterback. The team had a 27-11 record and three conference titles. He graduated in 1967 and entered the 1968 NFL Draft. The Denver Broncos took him in the 14th round.

The Broncos wanted him to play the cornerback position, but he negotiated with the team to compete for the quarterback position. On September 29, 1968, he had his first opportunity as a quarterback during the fourth quarter against the Boston Patriots after starting quarterback Steve Tensi suffered a broken collarbone. His first play was a 22-yard completion leading to an 80-yard touchdown drive. A week later, on October 6, 1968, Briscoe became the first African American starting quarterback in the American Football Conference. He threw 14 touchdowns in 5 starts during the rest of the season.

During the 1969 season, controversy occurred when coach Lou Saban chose Pete Liske over him as the starting quarterback. In protest, He asked to be released from the Broncos and went to the Buffalo Bills, where he played as a wide receiver. He led the team in touchdown catches and made the Pro Bowl in 1970. In 1971, he was traded to the Miami Dolphins, where he led the team to two Super Bowl wins in 1972 and 1973 while still playing wide receiver. He played with the San Diego Chargers, the Detroit Lions, and the New England Patriots, retiring after the 1976 NFL season.

He moved to Los Angeles. He became a municipal bond broker and worked with the Boys and Girls Club in Long Beach. The University of Nebraska Omaha honored him with a statue. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #kappaalphapsi

[garr9988]

Just finished Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys after watching it every so often with a friend that found & introduced it to me earlier this year. It was a really fun experience that I’m sad to see end! I enjoyed the writing and the jokes, even the pop culture references I only understand through osmosis.

The voice work was my biggest takeaway, it was pretty fantastic, especially Malcolm McDowell as Rhesus 2 (he must have had so much fun, and I loved all the brain puns). One episode had 2 characters swap bodies, and the VAs’ impersonations of each other were so good! I’m also pleasantly surprised that there were some surprisingly heartfelt episodes, and continuity & character development over time.

It really is a shame only one person’s VHS recording of the series is publicly available. I’d love for the original HD episodes to get taken out of the Library of Congress and released, Ray Mona/Saban Moon style. Maybe I could make my own YouTube documentary about it, eh?

EDIT: THE SHOW GOT A REMASTER AND IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE ON TUBI AND AMAZON PRIME VIDEO/FREEVEE!

Now that I’ve got all the episodes under my belt, I’ve got lots of work to do on its wiki (if anyone is interested), and maybe even fanfiction!

Has anyone else watched this show? I really would recommend it, I loved its flavor of cheese.

[tartrazeen]

Where to Watch!

The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Preservation Project

Sad news: on Sunday, the YouTube channel that had been hosting all the highest quality episodes got taken down. It was probably for copyright infringement, and it may have been because they were working on a lot of old series at once, but no matter what, it sucks to see. It was a matter of time, I know, but argh. I was watching those all the time.

I'm still hoping that one day, whoever owns the rights to the show will release the best quality version onto some sort of streaming platform. That YouTube channel had the best version of all the episodes. The guy took the English audio and put it onto German recordings, and other than the title being in German, you honestly wouldn't be able to tell the difference! There are a few Fox Kids moments to fill in some blanks, but those are fairly rare. :)

Even though the YouTube channel is down, the project's website is still up and even archived! It's linked at the top, and it has its own links to download the episodes. Better yet, the guy actually made Blu-Rays! They're a little pricey (like uhhhh $80 USD plus shipping), but hey - it's more than what Saban ever put out!

I'm not a buddy of the website's owner or anything, btw :P Just a fan who loves the show and was so sad to see the YouTube channel taken down

[jules-has-notes]

Aca Top 10: 80s Cartoon Themes — VoicePlay music video

The VoicePlay boys might technically be grown-ups, but they'll always be big kids at heart. So for their first "Aca Top 10" countdown of the year, they decided to revisit the joy of Saturday mornings spent in front of the TV with bowls of sugary cereal. Everybody sing along!

Details:

title: Aca Top 10 — 80s Cartoon Themes

original songs / performers: "La La Song" by the cast of The Smurfs (1981); [0:18] Inspector Gadget (1983) theme song; [0:35] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) theme by Chuck Lorre; [0:57] Scooby-Doo theme by Larry Marks; [1:16] G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1983) theme; [1:36] Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985) theme by Joseph Williams; [2:03] Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1989) theme by Jeff Pescetto; [2:24] My Little Pony (1986) theme; [2:34] "JEM – Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous" by the singing cast of Jem and the Holograms (1985); [2:55] The Transformers (1984) theme; [3:14] "DuckTales" by Jeff Pescetto for DuckTales (1987)

written by: "La La Song" by Hoyt Curtin; Inspector Gadget theme by Shuki Levy & Haim Saban; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme by Dennis C. Brown & Chuck Lorre; Scooby-Doo (1969) theme by David Mook & Ben Raleigh; The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1984) theme by Hoyt Curtin; G.I. Joe theme by Ford Kinder & Spencer Michlin; Adventures of the Gummi Bears theme by Michael & Patty Silversher; Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers theme by Mark Mueller; My Little Pony theme by Ford Klinder, Anne Bryant, & Barry Harman; "JEM – Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous" by Barry Harman; The Transformers theme by Ford Kinder & Anne Bryant; "DuckTales" by Mark Mueller

arranged by: VoicePlay

release date: 30 March 2018

My favorite bits:

kicking things off with an extra dramatic fanfare

Layne's incredible ratchet sound and miming for the safe's lock dial in the Inspector Gadget theme

Earl giving an excellent Dr. Claw impression

the couch trio doing enthusiastic karate chops at the air 🥷 🐢

J.None taking over the bass line while Geoff sings lead

Layne making the pew-pew noises of the G.I. Joe lasers

Eli, Earl, and J delighting in how springy the couch cushions are at the start of the Gummi Bears theme

Layne and J crooning ♫ "my little brony" ♫ at Geoff while he scowls until he can't resist smiling anymore 🐎

Earl half-heartedly protesting at Eli and J singing the Misfits' part of the Jem! theme whlie he's wearing their signature colors / print

all the electronic-sounding elements they added to the Transformers theme

♫ "here in… Duckburg" ♫ ::quack:: 🦆

Gotta get in a bell chord somewhere, and that's a very good spot.

finishing on a joyful ♫ "Woo-ooo!" ♫

Eli quietly playing with a Transformer and Earl's enthusiastic "Cowabunga, dude!" in the outro

Trivia:

○ This was the first full-length video released on VoicePlay's YouTube channel in 2018. They started the year with a short video of "Happy Birthday", in between two collaborations they had recorded the previous fall that are on other channels — "Waving Through a Window" with Kurth Hugo Schneider, and "Look What You Made Me Do" with pocket.watch.

○ According to their replies to some YouTube comments, there was quite a debate about which songs to include or not, and "Thunder Cats was about a 2 hour argument. Shoes were thrown." 😆

○ Despite being very recognizable as The Smurfs theme, the version of the "La La Song" with lyrics was only used for the show's opening credits during season 2 in the U.S. However, an instrumental version was used for the closing credits from then on.

○ At least one of the guys came by his martial arts moves honestly. Eli studied karate from age six until he was sixteen.

○ For the Scooby-Doo theme, VoicePlay combined the original 1969 song from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (which was still airing in reruns) with some jazzier elements from the 1984 New Scooby Doo Mysteries opening.

○ The silliness in the YouTube description for this one is another misheard lyric — "JIM is truly outrageous / Truly Truly Truly outrageous / Woh oh oh JIM - JIM!!!" // "That's such a weird song. Who the heck is Jim anyway..?"

○ The guys' shirts reflect some of their childhood favorites:

Eli — Scrooge McDuck from DuckTales half-buried in the gold pile in his money vault with the inscription "living the dream"

Earl — Ultimate Warrior (WWF / WWE) facepaint, sort of referencing Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, though the show was cancelled before that character could appear; bonus charteuse zebra-print leggings for The Misfits from Jem! and the Holograms

J.None — face masks of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which aired into the mid-90s for the younger guy)

Geoff — Autobot mask symbol from The Transformers

Layne — Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony (a slight cheat with a character from the 2010s series, but probably inspired by one or more of his daughters). I cannot for the life of me figure out where that specific design came from, but I found a couple close-ish approximations.

○ Layne posted some videos of both the final rehearsal and cleanup process on his Instagram.

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Those light diffusers can be a handful.

[daijindraws]

Black Toons Play - Character Cast

As Black History Month comes to a close, here’s pictures of Bonnie, Kenji, Riley, Huey, Penny and Maya as various rangers or riders for my new lets play series I call “Black Toons Play”. The series has the aforementioned characters playing various FNAF/Five Nights At Freddy’s fangames and other horror games. I’ve already recorded footage of Fnaf Plus and Five Nights at Candy’s. I just need to finish those games and add voice actors.

Bonnie and Kenji ©️ Me

Huey and Riley ©️ Adult Swim and Aaron McGrudar

Penny and Maya ©️ Disney

Power Rangers ©️ Haim Saban and Hasbro

Power Rangers SPD ©️ Disney

Super Sentai, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Engine Sentai Go-Onger, Gekisou Sentai Carranger, Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Ichigo, Shin Kamen Rider Kamen Rider W are owned by Toei and Bandai.

[gaykarstaagforever]

This is a higher quality version of the US Power Rangers theme, which may be a rerecording of it from 2012 or something. The Internet is weirdly vague about it.

It was either composed and performed by Ron Wasserman and whatever his band was called in the early 90s, or it was a Levy-Saban song he and his band recorded. Again, the Internet doesn't seem to be sure.

Levy and Saban were as much music composers and producers as they were guys who bought foreign properties and adapted them to sell to the West. All of their "revised" shows have amazing music they in some way produced specifically for them. So it would be weird if they weren't intimately involved in doing music for their cashcow Power Rangers.

The lyrics especially feel like their stuff: not bad, not great, just perfectly adequate for the TV show the song is for.

My intuition is that they wrote the lyrics and basic melody, then Wasserman and his band worked that into the amazing art that is this song. But I have no idea.

And like the source of the Power Rangers power itself, the Internet considers the true origins of this song powerful and mysterious.

Btw, here are the utterly acceptable lyrics:

They've got a power and a force that you've never seen before. They've got the ability to morph and to even up the score. No one can ever take them down The power lies on their siiiide. Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers They know the fate of the world is lying in their hands. They know to only use their weapons for defense. No one will ever take them down The power lies on their siiiide. Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers You Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Guitar Solo) No one can ever take them down The power lies on their siiiide. Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers You Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers Go Go Power Rangers

[mahou-furbies]

It is time for

This year the event will be hosted by Snow Miku! Not exactly magical girls but close enough design wise.

Here is the magical girl media consumed on this blog this year:

(Delicious Party Precure, Futari wa Precure Max Heart, Magia Record s3, Machikado Mazoku s2, Tokyo Mew Mew New, Magic Users' Club! (OVA), Magic User's Club! (Tv), Tropical Rouge! Precure season movie, Futari wa Precure Max Heart season movies 1 & 2)

At first it looked like I barely read any magical girl manga this year, but then ended up reading a couple in the final few weeks of the year:

(Magilumiere co ltd, Time Stranger Kyoko (reread), The Life After Retirement of Magical Girls, No Match for Aoi-kun, Magical Lollipop)

Also I read a lot of magical girl webcomics!

(Magical Mom, Sleepless Domain, Cloudy Wondrous, Apricot Cookie(s)!, Miss Guillotine, Strawberry Seafoam)

Then let's go through the events that happened this year. We had a tournament for the favourite Precure, and Cure Milky was the winner! This time it has taken even longer to draw the celebratory art for the winners than last year and I'm still not done, but I guess nobody but me really cares about that so all is well.

We also had a poll for most/least favourite magical girl elements, which I used to compile the most liked and least liked magical girls (though I think the least liked one turned out to be more popular). I really liked this idea and would like to do something more with it one day, or at least just get statistics on people's opinions on different magical girl tropes for fun.

I also did both Mermay and Witchtober this year (and Adorkastock Draw Everything June which I've done every year since its inception), which included a lot of magical girl content. I like these monthly drawing challenges since I enjoy drawing a set of themed characters, and usually the results are a lot more varied than the stuff I usually draw. So next year I'd like to do some more, but I'll have to find different challenges so it won't get repetitive, this was the second Mermay I did and while it mostly involved characters I never draw otherwise, I'd still like to give that spot to something else next time.

Saban Moon was unleashed to the public this year, which did not affect me that much since I have very little relationship with Sailor Moon, but I can still appreciate unearthing a secret alternative version of a well known character (also it was my most popular drawing this year)

This year I started and exercise project by trying to motivate myself with the reward of buying a Miku Nendoroid each time I exercise a certain amount of times. It has been mostly successful, or there are breaks but they are a lot shorter than they would ever be without a prize looming in the future. Much recommended!

Finally one thing that's different from last year that I didn't draw a lot of characters for my magical girl chibi series, because I was busy drawing a different kind of chibi series (hundreds of Pokemon chibis on my other blog). And this chibi style spread to several of my other fandoms too, I used it on the Witchtober, and I've done four (I think) sets of requests in it.

Finally a mention to my frustration on the lack of green Precures culminating in a series of green Precure OCs. 

Then onto the awards!

Best Henshin Design goes to Cloudy Wondrous! A solid design where everything works together (I’m especially a fan of the cloud motif used in different places), and the unique details (crown, wing eyepatch thing) make it more memorable.

Best Team Design goes to Tokyo Mew Mew New! Granted I think I like the original designs more, but TMM team design is still strong here as well, it's recognisable as TMM but highly customisable for OCs.

Best Powerup Design goes to Strawberry Seafoam! Or they should probably rather be called separate forms on the same level with different purposes rather than increasing in power, but who's counting. They are all pretty (as are the other mermaids' transformations) but let's say the jellyfish one is my favourite, it has such warm glowing palette (but also an illuminated dark mode!) and it creates a unique silhouette.

Also a shoutout to Cure Spicy's Party Up Style "hat".

Best Civilian Design goes to Amane's winter look from Delicious Party Precure! It just looks so comfy...

Best Hair goes to Sae from Magic User's Club! It's pretty simple compared to the usual absurd magical girl hairstyles, but I like how the angular shapes make it memorable.

Best Magical Item goes to Bijou's pen from Strawberry Seafoam! It looks pretty, and I like magic where you actually draw your spells. And it's fun to see her style evolve!

Best Henshin Scene goes to the dresser henshin in Magilumiere! Overall it has a lot of creative henshin and I really hope it gets animated some day!

Best Fan Creation is the catch-all award for everything that's not from, like, a big corporation, and this year the competition is really tough with all these highly polished webcomics, on a normal year any one of them would have been the winner but now I have to pick one. And it is also this year's Best Work, so more on that later! 

Best Relationship goes to the group in Magic Users' Club! Their relationships feel very natural, and everyone has something different going on with the other characters. And while there is a little drama, the overall vibe is delightfully positive.

Best Mascot goes to Kome-Kome from Delicious Party Precure! Personality or plot-wise there's nothing that interests me about her, but it must be said that I'm a sucker for progressively aging designs and she's also stupidly cute.

Best Supporting Character goes to the 4th wall breaking Director of Darkness, from Apricot Cookie(s)! He just cracks me up every time he is on panel with his friendly and welcoming attitude. 

Honourable mention to Mari-chan from Precure who is the best character in the season but who unfortunately doesn’t get to do much.

Best Visual goes to the art style of Strawberry Seafoam! Bold and unique glowing saturated colours that somehow feel nostalgic. Special mention to all the swirly magic.

Honourable mention to the art style shifts Apricot Cookie(s)!, sometimes the art goes to retro manga or anime or 3d idol dance models for fun. And another honourable mention to the visual presentation of the Apricot Cookies website.

Best Audio goes to the Shiny Luminous / Queen theme in Futari wa Precure Splash Star (not the henshin one but the one when she’s doing something epic). Feels very majestic.  

For the Best Scene I don’t have anything specific that comes to mind over everything else this year, so let’s say Kuroe’s fate in MagiReco, Shiny Luminous in the Max Heart finale and Grandma’s fate in Apricot Cookie(s)! can share it.

Innovation Award is for honouring a work doing something new and refreshing for the magical girl genre. This year I read several webcomics (that generally get to be more innovative than commercial anime) and even one actual manga that focused on "magical girls as a job", but each with a little different angle. So a shoutout to Magilumiere Co ltd, Sleepless Domain, Cloudy Wondrous, Apricot Cookie(s)!, Miss Guillotine and Magical Mom! With this many of them it'd feel a little weird to pick any for the "innovation award" over the same topic, so let's reward Magical Mom, for having, well, the magical mom! Magical girls whose mother is also a magical girl are of course a thing, but this time the child is a boy, and the mother also is an active and prominent character (and not just a background mentor), so that is new to me.

Then the Golden Mana Award, that is the dishonourable mention awarded to one thing I didn't like this year! 

This year it goes to Porun from Futari wa Precure Max Heart. Frankly he was probably more annoying in the original Futari wa but I had something else to complain about that year so now it's his turn. For the life of me I can't understand how this would be an appealing character concept even for children, like don't even 5-year-olds get annoyed at a toddler sibling's tantrums interrupting their big kid play? Even his less overtly irritating scenes don't do much for me, since they rely on "aww isn't it cute how the baby wants to be with you" mushiness.

Also another dishonourable mention to downgrading Pudding’s jumpsuit into a dress.

Best Character goes to Kuroe! (from MagiReco) I really like her design (especially how it mirrors Iroha’s), her quiet and hesitant personality and her melancholic story that felt fresh among all the magical girls who excitedly jump into saving every passerby. Or I don’t really like how she fit in the larger narrative, but in isolation I think her story was interesting.

Best Work goes to Apricot Cookie(s)! It's really funny and the art is great, and the character designs are memorable. The heroine is charmingly dumb and everyone in her family is great. And it took a while to grow on me, but in the end the weeb references make me feel at home.

Plans for 2023

I didn't manage to get any of the shorter mg shows from last year's list (though I did watch Magic User’s Club which wasn’t on the list) so those are still there. I'd also like to watch two series from the Precure backlog, this year I only managed one.

Art-wise I plan to do more for the chibi series, and do another "x colour Precure oc" series. And I'd really like to draw more art that has, like, a background or a mood or a composition, but let's see if that goes anywhere.

(also hopefully more Miku Nendoroids)

[dylanisdazed]

Nerd out about something?

im not good at that. alabama football?

we have 18 national titles (more than anyone) 33 conference titles (more than anyone) a winning record against every sec school (we're the only ones) more playoff appearances than any other team and the two winningest coaches with national titles both coached at Bama. Nick Saban & Bear Bryant

ROLL TIDE

i would nerd out about sports lol

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

ALFIE TRIBUTE VIDEO NOTES!!!

alfie’s video is probably the one i was most inspired to make, he’s my favorite (idk if you know im kinda subtle about it)

the song 'experience' was def an easy first choice for alfie (but guess what it was almost the song i picked for eddie) it’s a song about gaining experience and maturity and that’s exactly what Alfie does

im still using imovie, nothing new there

im writing this before starting the video so hopefully i managed to keep it in the 5 minutes that is the song (future caroline laughs in mocking, then proceeds to cry)

i got it to 8 mins, which imo is progress to my editing

but the uncut version is 14 mins

(so by that logic... Patricia's could end up being around 4-6 mins long while her uncut version could turn out to be 8)

but at this point it's anyone's guess

the opening for alfie being put down or called annoying or how he ‘ruins everything’ etc was in the back of my head for two months. during recording, during editing nina's video, i knew exactly how i wanted to start his video. (that's in the uncut version, and Sneak Peek 3)

then i listened to 'cult' by gabriel saban and realized oh no... no we can't start there unfortunately.

we needed to feel as terrified and as anxious as alfie got when he went through all that trauma (and future trauma)

we get this class clown causing mischief with his best buddy and then this traumatic event happens to him in the cellar.

something he can barely comprehend, and it involved people who are supposed to be taking care of him in this academy. he sees victor drink out of a skull and anubis dog masks and chanting and becomes catatonic by the end of it.

then he drinks who knows what and has to be hospitalized.

then he slowly becomes part of sibuna as they finally tell him the truth and he is eager to prove himself to them, that he isn’t scared and he’ll help (cut to him telling amber 'im part of the club now' to then him being traumatized multiple times from it)

what i love about this is that he IS scared, he’s terrified but he still does it, and he screws up, he gets tricked by jerome into spilling secrets, jerome just takes the ankh piece he was guarding, he messes up a lot but it was mainly in part due to jerome just being a bad friend

and then INSTANTLY i paired it with s3 Alfie telling Jerome after his advice to keep Amber in the dark about fashion school, “See that’s the great thing about having you for a friend, whatever you suggest I know I should just do the opposite.” and then he takes his sandwich, what a boss (ok so i didnt end up using this scene, but the scene exists and i wanted to remind people)

that’s just one little thing Alfie has matured in from S1 to S3, already in S2 he’s very careful about what he lets Jerome know. especially when everyone knows that Rufus is alive, Jerome is jumpy and thinks that whatever Sibuna is doing it could be Rufus-related but Alfie promises him it’s not. but he also never tells him anything else.

alfie's video weirdly gave me less of a headache than nina's if that makes sense. it's probably bc it's my second time doing it. with nina, that was my first tribute video ever. (very different from just pairing a song to silent clips)

when choosing subtitles, pick English bc i spent a lot of time on them, thank you.

i didn't include a lot of willow scenes (or amfie) because well, while he and Willow developing a relationship is sweet and healthy, and they're perfect together, it wasn't necessarily that big for the video

but if anyone wants an alfie + willow video, i have the content to do it, i just need a song to pair it to, so feel free to send me some!

i intentionally made the first part of the video, Fear, be very out of order, it's messy, and for me it's like it's Alfie trying to remember what happened and while he does, it's still fuzzy

the audio at the end of the video is from Doctor Who's S08 E04 Listen, where the Doctor tells a little boy to use his fear to empower himself. (the little boy could also easily play a younger Alfie)

if you want to watch it just type 'doctor who don't look. listen.' in yt, it's the first video that pops up.

however, there's other audio during the scenes where Alfie is running with the fake mask, "Fear is fear. It doesn't speak in riddles. Fear means you're smart. You understand the risks." (and that is from Star Trek Picard S2 E06 (no i dont want the show or anything to do with star trek, but the audio is fantastic and i really liked it)

anyway, that audio is probably my favorite part of alfie's whole video (including the uncut version)

[quotesfrommyreading]

For Doughty, the interest started trickling in late junior year—recruiters calling his high school coach, letters arriving from schools that wanted the wide-set defensive tackle behind their scrimmage lines. The teenage boy even got to go inside Nick Saban's house during a visit to the University of Alabama. But it was the recruiter South Carolina sent to the Doughtys' home on dusty G Lane that sealed the deal. The middle-aged man sat on the loveseat, against the front wall and across from the only window in the room, and told the 17-year-old and his parents this would be the best decision of his life.

Sandra Doughty, who was reluctant to send her son so far away, recalls how the recruiter kept saying if anything happened, they would take care of him, and they would call immediately. "We were so sure they were going to have his back 100 percent," she says.

That's what the Division I football sales pitch is meant to do: gain trust. It starts when a coach narrows in on a high school player and decides he wants him on the team. But he's not the only coach searching for talented young men to stock his roster in hopes of building a winning and lucrative program, and, ultimately, securing his job for another year. There are hundreds of recruiters on the prowl, all competing to convince a small number of top players to choose their school.

How is this accomplished? By sitting in the boy's living room and telling his parents that for the next four years their son will be in good hands. By forming a bond, and bringing the boy to campus. By convincing him this is the best decision for his future. Some may imply that the boy's scholarship will cover the entire tenure of his education—even if doesn't. Some, as in what the Doughtys say was their case, may promise that if anything happens the university will take care of it. "Of course I believed them," Sandra Doughty says.

There's no paperwork except for the letter of intent. Senior year Doughty inked his, along with two other players from his high school team. His classmates each played a year before dropping out.

The Doughtys didn't even think to ask about healthcare conditions, insurance, or long-term assistance. Stanley Doughty was the first in his family to go to college. How could his family have been familiar with the business side of Division I sports?

After Doughty discovered his injury, he went back to the university with the latest medical records. Doughty says his old coaches initially said they might be able to help him with the surgery and getting him back into school. But then, he says, they stopped returning his phone calls and denied his re-entrance. Stymied, Doughty went home, where he moved back in with his parents. He says that he often feels tingling and burning along the right side of his body and struggles to reach for things above his head without sharp, shooting pains. He's now on disability.

South Carolina's lawyer has declined to comment on the school's handling of Doughty's football injuries. Team doctor Jeffrey Guy had this to say: "At the end of the day, we take very good care of our athletes. We don't send them out and say we're not going to take care of you anymore."

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One of the things I found weirdest about the Saban Moon pitch is that they seem to have totally thrown away making Sailor Moon relatable in favor of making her heroic/a role model, which seems like it misses what made the show popular in the first place! The appeal was that you, a young girl could imagine getting some magic jewelry and transforming into a cooler version of yourself who fights evil. (And you can beg your parents to buy a replica of the magic jewelry to make the fantasy stronger...) Whereas Saban!Sailor Moon is only pretending to be a normal girl and seems unrealistically perfect. The normal girl is the transformation!

...in a way it's an interesting, if unintentional, throwback to older "princess from magic land travels to Earth and lives among humans to save her kingdom" type magical girl stories.

The other Sailors--I mean "Princess Warriors"--don't have enough of a defined personality in what we see to say if they were meant to be the relatable/flawed ones instead.

I wasn't suuuper surprised, because it was a pretty common thing is late 80's/early 90's American Animation. I can only speculate on the reasons for that, but I think it was probably multiple things- there was a lot of emphasis on 'good role models' in that era because watchdog groups in full on 'think of the children' mode were actually seen as a threat, which has lessened somewhat put still persists to some degree. It was seen as super important not to set a 'bad example' which is why you had PSA's and stuff at the end of episodes, even in the actual original Sailor Moon dub! So in order to create the perfect role model, you sacrificed relatability. Characters aren't characters, they're tools for teaching children the appropriate way to act, because that's all children's entertainment should be.

I also think it could be a skewed idea of relatability- that in order for the character to be as 'relatable' as possible they have to have a very generic personality that kids could insert themselves on because kids who aren't crybabies might not relate to Sailor Moon being a crybaby, so just give her no discernable traits!

And lastly, I think it's a discomfort with having female characters be messy in particular. It's on record Toonmakers were hyperconcious of avoiding stereotypes, but rather than like, hire women and people of color to write, it's just white guy execs having other white guys mark a check box of 'we avoided this stereotype, and this one' which then just makes for characters with no real flaws or personality. You...also see this a lot today, but it was much more obvious with kids animation in the 90s.

Sailor Moon the anime also had a heavily male production team with some Ideas about Women, don't get me wrong, and you can super tell that! So many times! But I think the fact most of the team was familiar with and enjoyed shoujo manga (and was using one as a basis) probably made a difference, and of course the anime didn't seem to care about making the girls ‘good role models’. I get the sense- and it will come up later- that in contrast, the writers of this were guys with only had a vague idea of what teenage girls are 'supposed' to like. I don't think they were out there reading what was popular with the teenz..

(For the record, I don't think hypercompetent female characters are inherently bad, or hypercompetent characters in general, I find plenty of them either relatable or fun to watch. I love Kim Possible as a kid and I still love Kim Possible, mostly because the show was light hearted and tongue-in-cheek about how amazing she was (and did have episodes focused on her few flaws), there was the fun twist that she was a cheerleader who fought crime (when cheerleaders were typically seen as vapid) etc. It can be done, but you have to have fun with it and put a nice spin on it. A lot of early 90s stuff just missed that).

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Georgia: 2022 NCAA Division I FBS National Champions

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- For so long, Georgia was the flagship program of the really good but not quite great. It produced a few decades of pretty nice seasons ending in pretty nice bowl games played by a lot of really good players dressed in red, white and black. But the Dawgs were always a few steps behind the sport's elite.

They were always one play shy of beating Alabama. Always a few five-star recruits behind Florida. Always a few inches short when measured against the true ruling class of college football, even as the head of that class rolled through different eras and teams, from Miami and Nebraska to Southern California and seemingly every team in the SEC except for the one in Athens, Georgia.

But on a damp Monday night outside Los Angeles, the Georgia Bulldogs didn't simply engrave their names onto the measuring stick by which all other college football programs are measured, they pulled that stick off the desk and beat the TCU Horned Frogs with it. Now, the conversation about Georgia football isn't about what it hasn't been able to do. It's about what it might be able to do that few have ever done before: move past building championship seasons and move into building a championship era.

"I don't know about that word, era; I'm not even sure what an era is," Kirby Smart confessed as he headed from the confetti-covered SoFi Stadium field to the cigar-smoke-filled locker room after winning the College Football Playoff National Championship. "But I know what a great program looks like, a program that is built to last. I was part of four national championships as an assistant coach at Alabama. I know how hard it is to get to the peak of the sport, and I know it is even harder to stay there. I know what the foundation of that looks like. I think we are building that foundation. I hope we are."

Consider it built. Concrete poured, cured and seemingly built to last.

UGA won its second national title in a row, only the fourth team to do so since 1990 and the first in the nine-year College Football Playoff era. It did it via a beatdown the likes of which hasn't been seen in a college football title game of any format in 152 years of college football. Not the 1971 Orange Bowl (Nebraska 38, Alabama 6). Not the 1972 Rose Bowl (USC 42, Ohio State 17). Oklahoma 1985 (25-10 over Penn State). Nebraska 1995 (62-24 over Florida). USC in 2004 (55-19 over Oklahoma). Florida in 2006 (41-14 over Ohio State). Not even the previous standard-bearer for title game dominance: Alabama over Notre Dame 42-14 in the 2013 BCS championship. Miami in 2001, LSU in 2019, whatever comes up while thumbing through the record books … not a single one of those juggernaut teams or lopsided evenings on the gridiron comes close to approaching the 65-7 Bulldogs bulldozing that took place Monday night at SoFi Stadium.

It demoralized the upstart Horned Frogs and sent shivers into the souls of any team hoping to stand in TCU's cleats anytime soon. It was the most lopsided postseason victory since bowl games made their debut in Pasadena, California, in 1902, capping a 17-game winning streak, the longest for Georgia since 1947. The Bulldogs' 29 wins ties the mark for any major college team over a two-season span and is the most ever for an SEC school. Monday's victory rewrote page after page of the college football history book.

"Georgia, obviously you've seen them in the past couple of seasons now, really, they've taken hold of college football." That declaration was made by former Georgia All-American linebacker turned TV analyst David Pollack during ESPN's halftime coverage of the game, when the score was 38-7.

He said it while sitting beside the network's guest analyst for the evening, Alabama coach Nick Saban.

If it's possible to say it, the game was even worse than the score. It was such a throttling that Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, shortly after tying LSU signal-caller Joe Burrow's CFP title game for points responsible for (36), was pulled from the game … with 13:25 remaining in the fourth quarter.

This is a team that lost 15 -- yes, 15! -- players to the 2022 NFL draft, five more than any other team, and simply reloaded. A defense that was supposed to take a step backward after a 2021 unit that was statistically speaking among the greatest of all time instead limited TCU -- which came into the game averaging 474 yards and 41 points per game -- to 188 yards and one solitary TD. A team that looked emotionally and physically exhausted after a New Year's Eve thriller comeback win over Ohio State in the CFP semifinals responded by embarking on a week of practice that Bennett described in the days leading up to the title game as "a damn reconstruction project."

"You attack every aspect of this as a challenge," Bennett, 25, recalled of the week, quick to praise the UGA scout team that played the role of tough-as-railroad-spikes TCU quarterback Max Duggan. "Now I am done, but I think that those who are still here, and maybe those of us who are gone, have a responsibility to make sure this keeps rolling. Make sure you feel the pressure of keeping up what has been built."

The comment showed shades of those all-time teams that Georgia once chased. The legendary Miami Hurricanes calling out from NFL locker rooms to those youngsters now in their beloved orange and green to ask what happened after a loss to a rival or one that ended a streak. Saban's Alabama veterans showing up to spring practice to talk to their heirs about maintaining the principals of the process.

"That's what we all have to guard against, complacency, and I am talking about coaches, players, even fans, never taking a night like this one for granted," said Smart, who played defensive back on a lot of those good but never great Bulldogs teams of the 1990s. "You have to expect to be in these games and expect to win these games, but you can't assume that it will happen. And I think that's why trying to win a third straight championship will be an even steeper challenge than this one was. We lost so many guys last year and have so many more guys coming back next year. That's more chances for complacency."

It's also more chances to benefit from experience, to lean on been there, done that. More than half of this season's starters were redshirt sophomores or younger. They'll be paired with what will be Georgia's seventh consecutive top-three recruiting class.

Smart is only 47 years old. His former mentor, the guy sitting awkwardly next to Pollack, is 71. The GOAT was fully focused on what was in front of him. Saban always is. "I have hard time watching football because it's always work," Saban confessed the morning of the game. "How would we scheme against this? How are they accomplishing that? And in the case of what Kirby has done at Georgia, that is especially true. That's the greatest compliment I can give any program, that everyone in our business has to watch everything you do."

Yes, there are plenty of cautionary tales when it comes to college football dominion collapses. The transfer portal; name, image and likeness (NIL); an expanded playoff -- the list of what has derailed the mighty and could do the same to Dawgs in the future is ever changing. All of those teams listed earlier, from Miami to Nebraska to USC, have fallen from "they can't be beaten!" to "whatever happened to those guys?" It was just four winters ago when Clemson was playing in its fourth CFP title game in five years, and it has since slowly started sliding from the national conversation.

But even the players and coaches from those ruling-class programs, hailing from every spot along the timeline of college football history, likely spent their Monday night like the rest of us, watching the Georgia Bulldogs and wondering if what we witnessed against TCU might be a lot closer to the beginning of something big than it is to any conceivable end.

"I want to enjoy tonight, and I will," said Georgia's Brock Bowers, the All-American tight end who hauled in seven catches for 152 yards and a TD. He also is one of those sophomores. "But we go back to work as soon as we get home. There is always work to be done."

That's how it goes when you're building an empire.