#The Fallen TV Animation Empire

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The Fallen TV Animation Empire

Chapter 1: The Rise of Television Animation with Saturday Morning Block

On August 18th, 2023 - I made a Post titled "The Summary of this whole current Debacles of Animation Industry" on this very Tumblr Page, @aniketsanimationblog, and you, animation fans, have expressed the concerns about What is Going on in The Global Animation Industry as a Whole, I am glad by that!! I am so thankful to those who expressed this concerns and realised that Animation is in Danger. Because, what happened in the Last Year, When Nickelodeon and Paramount+ Canceled and Removed Star Trek: Prodigy from their platforms at that time, until Netflix saved it to stream the entire Season 2 in one-go, just paint a big picture in the Animation Community. Last Year, Star Trek: Prodigy's Cancelation and Removal was not just the omission or abandonment of a Star Trek Show set in their universe or the best Star Trek Show in the Alex Kurtzman's Era of New Star Trek Shows, but also a big Massive Shocker of a Serialised Animated Kids' Show, that had a chance to become Nickelodeon's Next Avatar: The Last Airbender, betrayed by their own original Network, is like committing a Seppuku.

And it happened at the same time or before that incident, when most of the great Animated Series at the same time were Canceled/Canceled + Removed/Sabotaged by their respective Broadcasters, showing the Dismays of Fandoms of their respective shows. Now either only a handful of Good shows are left or there is nothing to watch at all, because of Kids TV Broadcasters' Greed and most notably Animation Community's Biasness towards Shows that, nowadays, have become a Money Generator, and no longer serving any good quality things to the fans, whatsoever, once they had in their prime, in the first place.

Now depending on who you may ask, "How did this Happen? What Happened to the Kids Television, once we used to love since our Childhoods, have gone in their Worst Phases now?"

Well, to understand why this happened, we need to go to the history of how this Kids TV Animation had started to build its Large Empire.

To understand the history of Kids TV Animation, we need to go back to where it all started. Since, it's a long history, and for context, The Kids TV Animation first started in the United States of America, as Hollywood were the only film industry to create Animation Renaissance from the big screens, they are also responsible for creating Majority of their Animations in the Small screens, we have to go back all the way to 1928. This is the year, when Walter Elias Disney, as we all know him as the legendary Pioneer and The Father of Animation, released his iconic Cartoon Character, Mickey Mouse's First Short film, "Steamboat Willie". At that time, "Steamboat Willie" was released over on Hollywood Theatres. But at the same time, there was an experiment happened at the small screens, aka The Television, with some limited animation cartoons appeared on TV with one of the images of "Felix The Cat". And remember, at that time, TV was available to some people who could afford TV, when majority of people weren't ready to switch from Traditional Radio. So, a handful of People watched that experiment going on.

Then some Animated TV movies happened like, "Willie The Worm" by Chad Grothkopf. It was an Eight-minute experimental TV Movie in Animated form.

But all changed in 1950s when, TV Animation started to broadcast like, "Crusader Rabbit" and "Colonel Bleep" etc.

But the First TV Animated Series came along, consisting of Animated Shorts, "Captain Kangaroo", by the Terrytoons, which is often referred to as, "One of the Finest Cartoons to ever produce on TV".

But the Cartoons, at that time, was seen primarily as "Children's Entertainment" by some Movie Exhibitors.

In 1954, Walt Disney capitalized on the Medium of Animation to Showcase on TV, with his weekly show, "Disneyland", which was broadcasted by US Terrestrial Channel, ABC, which expanded later to "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color".

But as soon as Television popularized in the US, the people were slowly moving away from their traditional Radios and Movie Theatres, to the Compact form of Entertainment, Television. And thus, a new format was started to develop for TV Animation for Children, "The Saturday Morning Blocks", as the name suggests, the TV Animation would only be broadcasted on Saturday Mornings, because on Weekdays, The Kids are at their Schools, and on Sunday, With the American Football games clogging up the Sunday Schedules. At that time, there were no Cable systems, people were relying on Terrestrial Channels like ABC, CBS and NBC. And thus, American Children of that era were having a Ritual of watching Cartoons on Saturday Mornings.

And thus, some Television Animation Production Studios came afloat at the time. Such as, Filmation, Depatie-Freleng Enterprises, UPA Studios, Warner Brothers with their Merry Melodies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) with their first classic iteration of Tom & Jerry until it's collapse in 1957, Disney Studios, and the leader of all Studios, Hanna-Barbera Studios, by the Creators of Tom & Jerry, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

For the Starters, 1960s era was the era, when TV Animation boomed with mostly H-B Studios, "The Ruff & Reddy Show", then "The Huckleberry Hound Show", "The Yogi Bear Show" and most notably, "The Flinstones", which was like an Half-an-hour Animated Sitcom series, aired on ABC, which was their biggest successful show on Studio History, running for 6 years, alongside The Jetsons and Top Cat.

Hanna-Barbera had the common Trope used in most of their series, featuring atleast an Anthropomorphic Animal and a Child Character, up until they created "Scooby-Doo! Where are you?" in 1969 for CBS. Many incarnations of Scooby-Doo spawned for 17 seasons on CBS and then ABC, uninterruptedly with their new formula of A Group of Teens solving Supernatural mysteries or Fighting Crime. And they are the ones, who started with their Limited Animation Technologies at that time for Artistic Reasons.

Disney Studios had their fair share of Animated Shows, showcased on TV, most notably The Mickey Mouse shorts including characters from the Mickey Mouse Universe, as we all know today, and also "Winnie The Pooh".

The Studio still had a decent amount of TV Animated Series, even after Walt Disney's Demise on 15th December 1966.

At the time of 1960s, there were several Animation Artists, mostly Animators, that are still called Legendary/Veteran Artists, like Walt Disney, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Gene Deitch, David H. Depatie, Friz Freleng, Don Bluth, to name a few.

But as Time went on, the Kids TV Animation was changed for a new era, that is beyond just only for "Saturday Mornings".

To be continued...

Next Post, Chapter 2: The Fall of Saturday Morning Cartoons and Rise of American Cable Television for Kids TV Animation.

[casp1an-sea]

FANDOMS

if anyone actually reads all this, I’ll be impressed

Tv show themes through the years playlist

I colored the ones I cared most about in each section if none are colored it means I care about the things in that section equally.

Star Wars:

Original Trilogy 

Prequels 

I dont consider myself a sequels fan but I am obsessed with HUX and Kylux and basically anything first order

Rouge One

Star Wars Legends

Star wars Infinites

Star Wars as written by William Shakespeare 

Star Wars Clone Wars

The Bad Batch

Star Wars Rebels

Andor 

Mandolorian 

Obi-Wan Kenobi Series 

Star Wars Visions 

Tales of the Jedi 

Tales of the Empire

Anything Lego Star Wars 

THE ACOLYTE (may it rest in piece)

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Marvel:

the movies (I’m not caught up yet) 

Falcon and the winter soldier 

Loki (not caught up) 

Wanda Vision

Avengers Assemble (literally so weird and silly) (not finished with season 5)

spider verse

Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies

Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man movies

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Musicals/Plays:

Newsies

Bye Bye Biride

Christmas Carol

Wonka

Little mermaid

Shrek

Wizard of OZ

Anything goes

Sponge Bob

Beauty and the Beast

Guys and Dolls

Hamilton

Six

The guy who didn’t like musicals

twisted

ride the cyclone

Les Mis

The lighting thief (not finished)

into the woods

Kinda bat boy (HOLD ME BAT BOY TOUCH ME BAT BOY)

Gatsby

Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

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Games:

Zac McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders!!!! (Literally the best game)

Twisted Wonderland (read through book 6)

Ultimate Shark Simulator

Hogwarts Mystery (not caught up)

KOTOR (not caught up)

Star Wars Asault Team

Minecraft

Jedi Fallen Order (not finished)

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Anime:

MHA (stopped watching mid season 4 only really care about Iida)

OHSHC

BSD

Angels of death 

Darling in the franxx (only really care about Goro)

Saki k (haven’t seen season 2)

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Minecraft SMPs:

EVO

Dream SMP (not caught up)

Empires SMP

X Life 

After Life 

New Life 

Rats 

Pirates (not caught up) 

Trafic Light/Life Series (I only watch Jimmy, Joel, and Martin’s POVs)

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2000s Kids shows:

MLP G3 and Friendship is Magic

Wild Kratts 

Octonauts 

TMNT 2012

Odd Squad 

imagination movers

Dinosaur Train

Lego Friends (The og version)

Monster High

Ever After High

Avatar the Last Air Bender 

Sofia the first

Elena of Avalore

dinosaur train

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Weird Sci-fi and Fantasy Shows:

Doctor Who (only on the 4th Doctor) 

Read All About it 

H2O Just Add Water 

Wolf Blood 

Fragle Rock

Mako Mermaids (only watched season 1)

Alien Surfer Girls/Lightning Point

Thunder Stone 

Girl From Tomorrow 

Ocean Girl 

Sparticle Mystery 

Elephant Princess (featuring Liam Hemsworth) 

Eerie Indiana 

Girl’s World

House of Anubis 

A girl named Jo (not sci-fi or Fantasy) 

Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries (not sci-fi or Fantasy) 

Blue Water High (not sci-fi or Fantasy) 

The Prisoner 

Spell Binder 

Just Add Magic 

Maddigan’s Quest 

The Next Step (not sci-fi or Fantasy) 

Return to Jupiter 

Rocket’s Island 

Parallels

Silver Sun (not caught up) 

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Disney Plus Telenovelas: 

Violeta 

Soy Luna 

Bia 

Intertwined 

O11CE

L-Pop

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Misc fandoms and shows:

Harry Potter (not caught up, I do not support J.K. Rowling or read the books) 

The Tick (og cartoon version) 

Monk

The Outsiders (movie, book, and 90s Tv series) 

Alex Rider (the show not the books) 

Wild at Heart (never finished) 

White Collar 

National Treasure Edge of History 

The Lodge

Descendants 

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

Gilligan’s Island

NCIS New Orleans

Hell of a Boss

Hazbin Hotel

Heart Stopper

OFMD (not caught up)

Julie and the Phantoms 

Disney in general 

Tinker bell

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Book series: 

Percy Jackson (currently only read the lightning thief)

The Final Six 

Horizon 

Thea Sisters (when I was little) 

Chronicles of Narnia

Wizard of Oz

The black stallion

Series of unfortunate events

The Outsiders

The Waterfire Saga

[general-kalani]

New commission post, this time gifs! Prices can be negotiated but I'm thinking temporarily $5/two gifs.

Icon commission post here, Dinosaur gif commission post here, Writing commission post here, TWD commission post here

Can be in AUD or USD but if you want to negotiate with any of the options below, lmk! Paypal here and Ko-Fi here

This is an ever growing list and if you ask for a specific movie/show/game/etc I'll do my best to get my hands on it.

Options under cut for what can be chosen:

ANCIENT ANIMALS

Dinosaur (2000)

The Land Before Time (1988 movie)

Walking with Monsters

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Beasts

Walking with Cavemen

Walking with Dinosaurs special - Ballad of Big Al

Chased by Dinosaurs (episodes 1 & 2)

Sea Monsters (episodes 1, 2 & 3)

Prehistoric Planet

Planet Dinosaur

Dinosaur Planet

Primeval

Prehistoric Park

MOVIES

The Hunt for Red October

The Mist

Alien Planet

Dog Soldiers

Dragonlance Dragons of Autumn Twilight

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Wing Commander (1999 movie)

SHOWS

Babylon 5

Battletech Cartoon

Bitten

D&D Cartoon

Stargate SG-1

Transformers: Beast Machines

Transformers: Beast Wars

Transformers G1

Transformers the Movie

Transformers Prime

Voltron Vehicle Force

Vox Machina (season 1 only atm)

ANIME - LEIJIVERSE

Cosmo Warrior Zero

Galaxy Express

Gun Frontier

Harlock Saga - The Ring of the Nibelung

Interstellar 5555

Queen Emeraldas

Queen Millennia (might not be high quality)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey

SSX Endless Orbit

Arcadia of my Youth

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013 movie)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Riddle of the Arcadia

ANIME - IRRESPONSIBLE CAPTAIN TYLOR

Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV series

Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA series

ANIME - LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES (original series only)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes series

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Golden Wings

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Overture to a New War

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden

ANIME - MACROSS

Macross 7

Macross Delta

Macross Frontier

Macross Plus

Macross Zero

Robotech

SDF Macross

ANIME - REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA

Revolutionary Girl Utena tv series

Revolutionary Girl Utena movie

ANIME - SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO/STAR BLAZERS (original series and reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Odyssey of the Celestial Ark

Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato I (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato II (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato III (OS)

Arrivederci Yamato

Be Forever Yamato

Final Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato (2013 movie)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato (1977 recap movie)

Yamato - The New Voyage

Yamato: Resurrection

GAMES - FAR CRY (only games I own, sorry!)

Far Cry 3 (Can be modded for Jason in Vaas' place)

Far Cry 4 (Can be modded for Sabal and Pagan to switch places)

Far Cry 5 (Can be heavily modded)

Far Cry: New Dawn

Far Cry 6

GAMES - STAR WARS

KOTOR (I and II)

SWTOR

Star Wars: The Force Unleased (I and II)

Star Wars: Rebellion

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Star Wars: Starfighter

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Classic)

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars: Jedi Knight series (Dark Forces I and II, Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast)

GAMES - BORDERLANDS

Borderlands (GOTY and GOTY Enhanced)

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 3

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

GAMES - MISCELLANEOUS

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

Dead Island (Definitive Edition, can be modded to get rid of lens flares and more)

Dead Island Riptide (Definitive Edition)

Generation Zero

Left 4 Dead 2

Iron Harvest

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion (Can be specific matches, races, etc)

State of Decay (I and II)

Strange Brigade

[birdsandbeetlesandmoths]

okay genuine question I guess, I tend to also really like polls out of pure curiosity

[aria-i-adagio]

For the WIP ask meme, I am curious about the premise of Thrift Shop Vikings!!

First things first, the project name is 'thrift shop vikings' because this has even less to do with historic vikings than the TV show "Vikings." The setting, however, and some of the (hopefully temporary) names have definitely be influenced by watching a little too much of "Vikings" and "The Last Kingdom."

This is about to turn into a multiple post excursion.

@hoochieblues and @motherofqups, you've also been subjected to my nonsense, so hop in! Let's go! It'll be an adventure!

Here. Have a map to start with. I like maps. A love of maps is apparently, one of the peculiar common traits of my family which has been commented on by several in laws. No GPS, we navigate via geometric reasoning like men.

Lets have some prosaic geographic and historic world-building because obviously, this is the most important part of developing an omegaverse story, because everyone reading that genre cares about coherent world-building.

Welcome to fantasy Europe. As you can see, we have what is definitely not the Mediterranean sea. Now, technically, this is post-apocalyptic, but post at least a millennium since the apocalypse in which highly developed tech savvy society (we shall call this Not!Atlantis) died of literal consumption, fueling various legends and mythologies. Major population bottle neck with various survivor groups essentially dumped back into Iron Age/Early Medieval tech levels. The knowledge loss/gap/etc was uneven, and aggravated by a lack of easily available fossil fuels and loss of the capacity to generate significant amounts of energy to restore an industrial society. Tech that doesn't require significant energy survived much better, so they haven't had to reinvent the wheel (or the printing press, or optics, or gunpowder, or clockwork, or even the basic idea of an engine, but you would have to be fabulously wealthy to access the last at a useful level). Ruins and some amount of historical records exist, etc. (I still do a lot of hand-waving.)

In the interim, several regional empires have risen and fallen, languages have changed enough that when records are recovered they are difficult to impossible to translate. There is also a 'gap' in the extant written records resulting from Not!Atlantis's digital age. The electronic records didn't make it.

Not!Atlantis is actually relevant. I promise.

The deep lore explanation for the omegaverse tropes is gene editing gone horribly wrong in an attempt to address a fertility crisis. Now, obviously, with the number of generations in between the immediate post-apocalypse the regionally separated population groups have formed their own mythologies (as gene editing as a concept would be unthinkable within three generations, if I had to guess). There is a general consensus that the 'hybrid' (for lack of a better word) sexes are created, rather than entirely nature, and distinctly human as one does not observe in a similar crossing of phenotype and reproductive function among animal populations. Evyn, the main Ω character and resident sarcastic nerd, will deadpan that he's a creature of artifice before launching into a lecture on cross-cultural variation of mythology and social constructions regarding omegas.

[Disclaimer: CRISPR is probably too precise for anything to go wrong on this degree. But my thoughts on benefits versus harm of gene editing and international conglomerates like Monsatan (yes, that spelling is deliberate, and yes, I know it's Bayer, not Monsanto) belong in a different post.]

On to the erotica tropes!

Main feature of the alpha/omega sub-types is hyper-fertility, although limited by reproductive cycles, aka the heat/rut cycles. Because if I'm not keeping those, why am I writing this trope? (A good question in general.) I've kept 'betas' as the 'norm' and by far the vast majority of the population. Whatever Not!Atlantis did to precipitate it's fertility crisis has lingered, and left to their own devices, the betas wouldn't quite manage a replacement rate. (Whatever genes are connected with 'beta-ness' are dominant however.)

Female omegas and male alphas are effectively indistinguishable from betas with the exception of the above mating cycles. There are, of course, layers and layers and layers of gender construction imposed on top of physical differences. So, do alphas tend to a higher level of aggression because of nature? Or nurture? Who knows?

The rare male omegas and female alphas (I think I've decided on averages of 1 in 200 live births and 1 in 400 respectively), are subject to even higher degrees of social control, while again being mindful of the fact that different population groups will have evolved social roles and means. In many cases, especially in more remote areas where there greater social devolution, they've become strongly associated with liminality and given spiritual significance. Other places, the main significance of a male omega (they can be identified with certainty at birth) is more functional 'gotta get fertility above replacement rates' and ranges from a very Roman Empire under Augustus 'we really don't care what you do as long as it involves making children as well' to very high levels of control and seclusion (think upper class Greek women in antiquity) because they're valuable units of economic exchange.

As a general rule, no one knows what the hell to do with female alphas due to the combination of rarity, lack of identification until adolescence, and good old fashioned toxic masculinity because not only is this chick another competitor, but hypothetically a competitor who is extra appealing because they 'know what women want.' The more things change the more they stay the same.

I kept the trope scent-thing, mating bonds, and psychic(?) attunement between 'mated' pairs. Why? It pleased me to do so. Also creates some fun talking past each other between two leads where one is extremely superstitious, obviously it's magic/spiritual/religious and the other is hyper-rational, obviously there is a physical mechanism that we simply don't understand.

Recognizing that none of the above addresses the actual question of the plot premise, I am pausing because it has passed 1000 words. Plot and character notes shall follow. ;) After I make lunch.

[Shout out to my brother, who has patiently let me bounce world-building ideas off him even though the omegaverse trope leaves him going, 'WTF? Why?!' There are many advantages to having a little brother with an engineering degree.]

[extremetimedchallengeexchange]

Tag Set Update

So, what's in the tag set?

I look up blearily from a spreadsheet, making a spluttering noise.

YES, talking about the tag set, not just updating it. I can do that.

Three days into Tags week, the tag set as it is looks like this.

Anime, Manga, Books and Literature!

Cartons & Comics & Graphic Novels & Celebries & Real People!

Movies & No Media!

Other Media & Theatre!

TV Shows, Uncategorized Fandoms, Video Games!

That's everything that's been seconded into the tag set.

You want to know everything that's been nominated? Well that is going under a cut because BOY is that a list.

3rd Life | Last Life SMP

Akira (Anime & Manga)

Animator vs. Animation (Short films - Becker)

Archive 81 (Podcast)

Avatar: Legend of Korra

Bleach (Anime & Manga)

Bones (TV)

Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

Buzzfeed Unsolved (Web Series)

Call of Duty (Video Games)

Carmen Sandiego (Cartoon 2019)

Castle (TV 2009)

Class of '07 (Australia TV 2023)

Cogchamp SMP

Content SMP

Creepypasta - Fandom

Critical Role (Web Series)

Dangan Ronpa Series

DCU (Comics)

Deltarune (Video Game)

Destiny (Video Games)

Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)

Dimension 20 (Web Series)

Disco Elysium (Video Game)

Doctor Who (2005)

Doki Doki Literature Club! (Visual Novel)

Dream SMP

Eddsworld - All Media Types

Empires SMP

Enola Holmes (Movies)

Evolution SMP

Fallen Hero - Malin Rydén

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Fire Emblem: Engage

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Frozen (Disney Movies)

Hades (Video Game 2018)

Hamlet - Shakespeare

Hannibal (TV)

Harry Potter - J.K Rowling

Hermitcraft SMP

Hetalia: Axis Powers

Horizon (Video Games)

House Builder Gang SMP

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

iCarly

Keeper of the Lost Cities - Shannon Messenger 

Kuroko no Basuke | Kuroko's Basketball 

Lackadaisy (Webcomic)

League of Legends

LEGO Ninjago (Cartoon 2011-2022)

Lifesteal SMP

Lockwood & Co. (TV)

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Marvel Cinematic Universe

McGillicuddy & Murder's Pawn Shop (Podcast)

Mean Girls (2004) 

Minecraft (Video Game)

Night in the Woods (Video Game)

Nikita (TV 2010)

Nurses (TV 2020)

Original Work

Pocahontas (Disney Movies)

Promare (2019)

QSMP | Quackity SMP

Sherlock (BBC)

SK8 the Infinity (Anime)

SMPEarth

South Park

Splatoon

St Trinian's (2007 2009)

Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Wars - All Media Types 

Stardew Valley (Video Game)

Stargate - All Media Types

Stranger Things

Supernatural (TV 2005)

Tales from the SMP

Teen Wolf (TV)

Temeraire - Naomi Novik

The 355 (2022)

The Accidental Warlord and His Pack - inexplicifics

The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo

The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini

The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon)

The Locked Tomb Series

The Magicians (TV)

The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

The Owl House (Cartoon)

The Pack - YouTube

The Yogscast

Titanic (1997)

Triangle Strategy (Video Game)

Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)

Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)

Victorious (TV)

Video Blogging RPF

Voiceteam and Related Fandoms

Warcraft - All Media Types

Welcome to Night Vale

Wiedzmin | The Witcher (All Media Types)

X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)

전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong

とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)

二哈和他的白猫师尊 - 肉包不吃肉 | The Husky and His White Cat Shizun - Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Manga)

原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) 

名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed

天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

憂国のモリアーティ | Yuukoku no Moriarty | Moriarty the Patriot (Manga)

逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney

陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)

WHOOOOOO (exhausted, but with feeling) EXCHANGES.

[byronicherobracket]

The Byronic Hero Bracket: Qualifying Round Batch D #13

Trafalgar Law from One Piece vs. Zelgadis Graywords from Slayers

Reasons under the cut (spoilers for both)

(All sources from TV Tropes)

Trafalgar Law:

Trafalgar Law from One Piece. He is very attractive when compared to most other One Piece characters, with more distinguished facial features like Shanks and Robin. He boasts enough charisma to gather a crew with 20 members. He is intelligent and cunning, having devised a plan over 13 years to bring down Doflamingo's empire and hamper an Emperor's plan to increase his power. He has experienced two great losses in his life: first his family, friends, and homeland of Flevance, then the father-figure to whom he owes his life. Eventually, everything adds up to him being able to avenge his fallen hero (with Luffy's help) and also have enough determination go on living afterwards.

Zelgadis Graywords:

Zelgadis Graywords from Slayers, more so in the anime than in the novels. His absolutely undeterred lifelong quest for a cure that could turn his chimeric body back into its former human state fits this trope, and toss in the fact that it was his own great-grandfather that did it.

[galacticrambler]

As we approach the end of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, everything is coming together for what looks like a jailbreak from Mount Tantiss. Will everyone make it?

We’ve managed to skate through three seasons with really only losing Tech (it was devastating), but nobody else of any stature has fallen in the battle with the Empire. With only two episodes remaining in the entire show, are they going to break our hearts?

It’s hard to know, and I really hope we don’t lose anybody else… At least, not from the main cast. I think they’ve done a really good job of putting everybody in danger but not to the point where we’re going to lose somebody. Obviously, that could change very quickly over these next two episodes as the Batch heads to Mount Tantiss to try to rescue Omega.

Getting Echo back on the show was terrific, and I’m assuming we’ll get Rex and Co. showing up in the finale. I’m ready.

One thing that I really liked in this episode is that Omega is not just sitting around waiting for Hunter, Wrecker, and Crosshair to come rescue her. She’s actively looking for a way to escape, and she’s made it clear that she wants to bring all of the other kids locked in The Vault to safety. She’s a hero. She’s the hero that we need.

There are two episodes left of The Bad Batch. They’ve taken a show that I didn’t understand why they were making it when it was announced and have made a terrific animated show for Star Wars. Stay strong, Batchers.

[daisychainsandbowties]

hi! ik you’re probably busy and stuff so don’t sweat it if you can’t answer, but i recently read your star wars warrior nun au, and i absolutely loved it. i haven’t watched the movies and stuff in a suuuuuper long time, and your fic really brought that love back, and i was wondering if you would be able to tell me what order i should watch things or which books to read and stuff? again, dw if you can’t respond!

oh! i can absolutely do that. keep in mind that this is going to be my own personal watch order based on how canon works best and resonates thematically for me 🥰 i’ll just make a list i think.

you will notice that i’m not going to say that you should watch things in order. frankly, i don’t think that’s the best star wars experience, but! there should be loads of articles online detailing how to watch chronologically if you decide to do that.

anyway, here we go!

1. the original three! that’s A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. i really truly think that this is the best starting point even on rewatch. just… something about having this as the centrepiece works so well. everything else orbits it and contextualises (and recontextualises) it.

2. the prequels, starting with The Phantom Menace. the prequels are a tragedy 🙂 yes, a very fun tragedy with my best boy obi-wan at centre stage, but it works because you’ve seen the original trilogy and you know what’s going to happen but you’re transfixed by it anyway, by the fire as it eats at the fabric of the story.

3. at this point, you can watch The Clone Wars (the animated move & series) if that’s your jam. i haven’t seen those but i’ve heard incredible things about them. (if anyone wants to chime in on where they think TCW fits in here, that’d be appreciated!)

HOWEVER where i tend to go next is the Kenobi series! it’s perfectly poised between the prequels and the originals. plus i really loved it 😌

4. then Andor. good god. it’s a masterpiece. there’s a second season coming, but it flows beautifully into

5. rogue one. my personal favourite star wars movie. it’s just… stunning, beautiful, tragic. in the timeline it fits between Andor and A New Hope.

6. i really recommend either playing or (if that’s not your thing) watching a youtube playthrough (i recommend no commentary, but that’s up to you) of Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor. my fic is based on these games, but very, very loosely; you won’t be spoiled for Luminous Beings by watching this. there’s a great book set between the two games called Battle Scars. it’s a lot of fun.

7. then the Rebels tv show followed by the new show, Ahsoka!! Rebels is wonderful (i am only halfway through) and i’m gleefully intrigued by what i’m seeing of the Ahsoka show so far. i definitely would recommend also watching The Clone Wars before this, because it sets up Ahsoka’s character!

8. the mandilorian is really good! it’s set after the originals but before the… sequels. might as well address those 😔

8. the sequels - starting with The Force Awakens (a Good movie, actually) - are… complicated to me. i loved the promise of the first one but the others REALLY let me down. the last two are decent action movies with some good characters (finn’s plotline in the second movie is genuinely really good, just too sidelined for my liking. they could have done so much more). basically, you can watch them, and i think you SHOULD watch The Force Awakens, but as star wars movies the last two i… really don’t like.

(there’s a ton of canon games and books and tv shows i’m forgetting after this, but i’d say for me personally this is the structure and the star wars stuff that i really like to revisit over and over. Knights of the Old Republic is an amazing, if old, video game set waaaaay back before the prequels. it’s great if you like viddy games)

i appreciate the faith in my opinion 🥰 and the love for Luminous Beings. i hope this is helpful!

[duelofthefatesmp3]

hi, I never grew up with star wars and am just now getting into it and I absolutely adore it, but man is there so much content to sift through! I’ve gotten through all the movies and plan on jumping to the clone wars show, but aside from those, what book series/comics/games would be recommendable to get into?

sure! I'll try to give you the easiest path into extended content i can:

you should totally follow up with rebels the tv show after watching the clone wars, since it follows up a lot of the storylines and it's plain good in my opinion. there's also the tales of the Jedi miniseries which is basically the clone wars' extended content. then if you're still feeling like watching some animation I'd say you check out resistance! it's not as meaty as tcw and rebels, but it's fun and it expands of sequels lore. i can't stop recommending andor too. very well crafted political thriller with some real interesting insight on the workings of the empire. if you feel like it, watch the Mandalorian. i can't say i completely enjoy it post season 1, but it is currently the biggest star wars thing out there, and it does continue on some threads left in rebels, albeit not very interestingly.

in regards to comics and books, the marvel star wars launches are the safest bet. the mainline star wars comic starts right after the end of a new hope, following Luke, Leia and han. and continues on while mixing with other stories of the period. Vader is really good, too, with one if my favorite writers working on it. also check out doctor aphra, my favorite current star wars comic.

books wise, there are a ton of tie in novels out there. there's rogue one tie ins, sequel tie ins, leía focused books, you take your pick. I'm not particularly fond of many sw books, if I'm being honest, but the high republic line is very fun and interesting. i do adore the return of the sith novelization, though. here's a Goodreads list with all the canon books. if you see something that strikes your fancy, you can check it out

as far as video games go, in so far in the current canon we only have Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor (which just came out lol.) i enjoyed fallen order well enough, has some really compelling characters.

if you eventually wanna explore further than that, i can give you recommendations on legends stuff, but if you're just getting started I'd say you stick to the current "Disney era" canon, since it's only slightly less confusing

[aniketsanimationblog]

Okay, just a reminder!!

As of right now, My Mega-Large Post about The Fallen TV Animation Empire, will be likely in Reposts. So, the Chapter 2 of this post will happen in Reposts to the first Post.

So, in that way, you can watch the continuation of this Mega-Large Post in one go.

P.S. I'll write Chapter 2 tomorrow!! So, Stay Tuned!!

It will be about The US Cable Television's Rise.

See you there!!

[jkl-fff]

Silly Game Time! Who are some of your favorite fighter characters? And what do you like about them?:D

A Preface: I'm a martial artist (IV Dan in Taekwon-Do, been doing it for over 25 years). Ergo, there are few things I love more than a good, realistic fight scene featuring competent fighters (within the rules of the universe, of course--"realism" looks different in a universe where people routinely shoot fireballs out of their hands or can jump 50 feet). The keywords there are "good", "realistic", and "competent" (double points for consistenty in the fighter's style, thus making it part of their characterization). Because I also have *extremely* high standards, since I understand what makes these things good and cometent (and consistent) and especially realistic in the real world. Having a good imagination means I can extrapolate that into a universe with expanded abilities (magic and so forth).

ANYWAY ...

From books, I'm a fan of Wayne from Sanderson's "Mistborn" series. The man has only two powers: Time Acceleration (in limited bubbles) and a Healing Factor (until he runs out). But he uses those so creatively and fearlessly to be an incredibly adept brawler who dual-weilds wooden canes to devastating effect. Plus, he's a cheeky scoundrel, and I always have a soft spot for them. He also is a kleptomaniac with a fixation on hats.

Also, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Ax for short) from "The Animorphs" series. Despite being able to shapeshift into any animal he has the chance to physically touch, he does most of his fighting in his natural, Andalite form *and* unarmed. By the end of the series, dude muse be quite the skilled combatant by his people's standards. I also find him rather endearing, being the only alien teenager amongst a group of Human teenagers, and apparently the equivalent of a football jock now forced to be the smart guy.

From TV shows, I'll go with ... the titular character of the beautifully artistic show "Samurai Jack" (even if the last, resumed season left much to be desired, storywise). He's an idealistic paragon. He's a man of few words. He's a stoic vagabond. He tries to always be courteous despite having no clue what's going on most of the time. He strips down to his loincloth unnecessarily like he's got an exhibitionist fixation in, like, every episode. He loves the natural world. He's the greatest swordsman who has ever lived.

Aslo, Ser Jorah Mormont from "A Game of Thrones" (who Iain Glen performs magnificently). He's basically a sensible mercenary who becomes dedicated to the cause of the young, exiled, dragon-mothering princess Daenerys Targaryen out of love (a bit meh, a bit yuck, but fine) and as part of a quest for redepmtion. Why? She's a charismatic leader who seems for a long time to be genuinely dedicated to the cause of building a better, more just world. He's not the best fighter nor strategist in the world, but he's damned good at both.

For games, there's Cal Kestis from the games "Jedi: Fallen Order" and "Jedi: Survivor". He's one of the few Jedi still alive, and he has to reconnect with the Force and his training because he cut himself off from it to hide from the Empire. But he wasn't some master; no, he was just a young apprentice when all that happened, so there's a lot lacking in his skillsets, technique, and Force power. Besides which, he never feels invulnerable (which is refreshing for Star Wars protagonists, and also something that being a video game character makes the audience feel much more viscerally). He's earnest and his best friend is a cute, little droid he would die for. He has guilt and doubt and spite and darkness in him that he has to fight. He's so fashionable with his customizable clothing (you can make him so damn pretty in pink!).

And for movies, there's whoever the heck Jackie Chan's character is. Now, normally, being typecast is considered a bad thing for an actor. HOWEVER, when one finds their niche, they'd be a fool not to stick with it. For example, Sandra Bullock is the best career-driven woman who needs to learn to have fun and let love into her heart; Kelsey Grammer is the best out-of-touch, high cultured snob who is really witty but also becomes the butt of most situations due to his own arrogance; and Jackie Chan is, hands down, the best friendly guy who is also an acrobatic, martial arts master for reasons whose fights almost always become inadvertantly comedic. It makes him a delight to watch.

Thanks!

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 10.5

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Egypt, Indonesia)

Bells Across America for Fallen Firefighters

Be Nice to a Lawyer Day

Bonn Phchum Ben (Ancestors’ Day; Cambodia)

Catherine Park Day

Checkers Appreciation Day

Chic Spy Day

Commemorating the Victims of Prohibition Day (Cannabis)

Constitution Day (Vanuatu)

Death of Prophet Mohammad (Iran)

Dirij Tereur (Elder Scrolls)

Do Something Nice Day

Education Day (Kiribati)

Engineer’s Day (Bolivia)

Feast of the Empire of Lies

Ganga River Dolphin Day (India)

Global James Bond Day

Goddard Day

International Charge Your Car Day

International Day of No Prostitution

Long Walk Day

Medicine Day (Peru)

Mignonette Day (French Republic)

Monty Python Day

Most Common Birthday Day

National Above the Bus Day

National Be Nice Day

National Caribbean Civility Day

National Dildo Trick Shot Day

National Depression Screening Day

National Family Fire Drill Day

National Get Funky Day

National Hackney Day

National Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration Awareness Day

National Innovation Day (Thailand)

National Kiss a Wrestler Day

National Military Podcast Day

National Rhode Island Day

National Scissoring Day

National Storytelling Day

Nubaigai (Harvest Festival; Pagan Lithuanian)

Republic Day (Portugal)

Sea Serpent Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Stara Zagora Day (Bulgaria)

Teacher’s Day (Pakistan, Russia)

Territory Day (Christmas Island)

Unicorn Questing Season begins

Vranec World Day

Victims of Marijuana Prohibition Day

World Dyslexia Awareness Day

World Meningitis Day

World Teachers' Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brewing Industry Day

National Apple Betty Day

Noisy Munching Day

Pilsner Day

Rocky Mountain Oyster Day

1st Thursday in October

Bring Your Bible to School Day [1st Thursday]

Great American Beer Festival begins [thru Saturday]

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

National Depression Screening Day [Thursday of 1st Full Week]

National Poetry Day (UK) [1st Thursday]

National Women-Owned Business Day [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Outer Space Nation of Celestia (Declared; 1949) [unrecognized]

Portugal (from Kingdom of Leon, 1143)

Feast Days

Anna Schäffer (Christian; Saint)

Baptism of the Prophet (Mali)

Bartolo Longo (Christian; Blessed)

Bigmouth Fraggle (Muppetism)

Faustina Kowalska (Christian; Saint)

Francesco Guardi (Artology)

Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic Church; Blessed)

Galla (Christian; Saint)

Hor and Susia (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

Hosanna Rabbah (Begins at Sundown; Judaism) [21 Tishri]

Mania Mundus (Festival to remember departed ancestors)

Mundus Patet (Ancient Rome)

Opening of the Mundus Cereris (Pagan)

Placid and Maurus (Christian; Saint)

Placidus (Christian; Martyr)

Pope Benedict IX (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Rossini (Positivist; Saint)

Slightly Naughty Day (Pastafarian)

Thesmorphoria begins (3-Day Women’s Festival to Demeter; Ancient Greece)

Thraseas (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (Film; 1945)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney Animated Film; 1949)

Age of Empires (Computer Game; 1997)

Alpalooza, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1993)

Automatic for the People, by R.E.M. (Album; 1992)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Film; 1961)

Cats (Film; 1998)

Cleopatra (Film; 1934)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Animated Aardman Film; 2005)

Dr. No (UK Film; 1962) [James Bond #1]

The Fire Chaser or Bullwinkle Goes to Blazes (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 307; 1964)

Flaming Arrows or Bullwinkle Meets His Match (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 308; 1964)

Frankenweenie (Animated Film; 2012)

Gilmore Girls (TV Series; 2000)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Album; 1973)

Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh (Novel; 1963)

Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Short Story; 1961)

Henry & June (Film; 1990)

I’m the Man, by Joe Jackson (Album; 1979)

Jack and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Laugh-O-Gram Studio’s Goldie Locks and the Three Bears (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1970)

Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong, by the Spin Doctors (Song; 1992)

Love Me Do, by The Beatles (UK Song; 1962)

Michael Clayton (Film; 2007)

Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gág (Children’s Book; 1928)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (UK TV Series; 1969)

¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico (WB Animated Film; 2004)

Music Land (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Music Land (Disney Animated Film; 1955)

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot (Poems; 1939)

One-Punch Man (Anime; 2015)

Right Ho, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse (Novel; 1934) [Jeeves #6]

The Saint Around the World, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1956) [Saint #32]

Serendipity

Skyfall, by Adele (Song; 2012)

10 (Film; 1979)

The Ten Commandments (Film; 1956)

Tunnel of Love, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1987)

Venom (Film; 2018)

Today’s Name Days

Attila, Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf, Placidus (Austria)

Faustina, Mauro, Miodrag (Croatia)

Eliška (Czech Republic)

Placidus (Denmark)

Inga, Inge, Ingeborg, Inger, Ingi, Ingrid (Estonia)

Inka, Inkeri (Finland)

Camélia, Capucine, Daphné, Eglantin, Faustine, Fleur, Placide (France)

Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf (Germany)

Charitine, Charitini, Haritini (Greece)

Aurél (Hungary)

Placido (Italy)

Amālija, Male (Latvia)

Donata, Edvinas, Gilda, Palemonas, Placidas (Lithuania)

Bo, Boye, Brynjar (Norway)

Apolinary, Częstogniew, Donat, Donata, Faust, Fides, Flawia, Igor, Justyn, Konstancjusz, Konstans, Placyd (Poland)

Daniil, Haritina, Misail (România)

Viera (Slovakia)

Faustina, Froilán, María, Plácido (Spain)

Bror (Sweden)

Charita (Ukraine)

Chester, Cheston, Chet, Nia, Nyah (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 278 of 2024; 87 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 21 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 20 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 8 Shù; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 22 September 2023

Moon: 61%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Rossini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 12 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 12 of 30)

[brookston]

Holidays 10.5

Holidays

Armed Forces Day (Egypt, Indonesia)

Bells Across America for Fallen Firefighters

Be Nice to a Lawyer Day

Bonn Phchum Ben (Ancestors’ Day; Cambodia)

Catherine Park Day

Checkers Appreciation Day

Chic Spy Day

Commemorating the Victims of Prohibition Day (Cannabis)

Constitution Day (Vanuatu)

Death of Prophet Mohammad (Iran)

Dirij Tereur (Elder Scrolls)

Do Something Nice Day

Education Day (Kiribati)

Engineer’s Day (Bolivia)

Feast of the Empire of Lies

Ganga River Dolphin Day (India)

Global James Bond Day

Goddard Day

International Charge Your Car Day

International Day of No Prostitution

Long Walk Day

Medicine Day (Peru)

Mignonette Day (French Republic)

Monty Python Day

Most Common Birthday Day

National Above the Bus Day

National Be Nice Day

National Caribbean Civility Day

National Dildo Trick Shot Day

National Depression Screening Day

National Family Fire Drill Day

National Get Funky Day

National Hackney Day

National Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration Awareness Day

National Innovation Day (Thailand)

National Kiss a Wrestler Day

National Military Podcast Day

National Rhode Island Day

National Scissoring Day

National Storytelling Day

Nubaigai (Harvest Festival; Pagan Lithuanian)

Republic Day (Portugal)

Sea Serpent Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Stara Zagora Day (Bulgaria)

Teacher’s Day (Pakistan, Russia)

Territory Day (Christmas Island)

Unicorn Questing Season begins

Vranec World Day

Victims of Marijuana Prohibition Day

World Dyslexia Awareness Day

World Meningitis Day

World Teachers' Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brewing Industry Day

National Apple Betty Day

Noisy Munching Day

Pilsner Day

Rocky Mountain Oyster Day

1st Thursday in October

Bring Your Bible to School Day [1st Thursday]

Great American Beer Festival begins [thru Saturday]

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

National Depression Screening Day [Thursday of 1st Full Week]

National Poetry Day (UK) [1st Thursday]

National Women-Owned Business Day [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Outer Space Nation of Celestia (Declared; 1949) [unrecognized]

Portugal (from Kingdom of Leon, 1143)

Feast Days

Anna Schäffer (Christian; Saint)

Baptism of the Prophet (Mali)

Bartolo Longo (Christian; Blessed)

Bigmouth Fraggle (Muppetism)

Faustina Kowalska (Christian; Saint)

Francesco Guardi (Artology)

Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic Church; Blessed)

Galla (Christian; Saint)

Hor and Susia (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

Hosanna Rabbah (Begins at Sundown; Judaism) [21 Tishri]

Mania Mundus (Festival to remember departed ancestors)

Mundus Patet (Ancient Rome)

Opening of the Mundus Cereris (Pagan)

Placid and Maurus (Christian; Saint)

Placidus (Christian; Martyr)

Pope Benedict IX (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Rossini (Positivist; Saint)

Slightly Naughty Day (Pastafarian)

Thesmorphoria begins (3-Day Women’s Festival to Demeter; Ancient Greece)

Thraseas (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (Film; 1945)

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney Animated Film; 1949)

Age of Empires (Computer Game; 1997)

Alpalooza, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 1993)

Automatic for the People, by R.E.M. (Album; 1992)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Film; 1961)

Cats (Film; 1998)

Cleopatra (Film; 1934)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Animated Aardman Film; 2005)

Dr. No (UK Film; 1962) [James Bond #1]

The Fire Chaser or Bullwinkle Goes to Blazes (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 307; 1964)

Flaming Arrows or Bullwinkle Meets His Match (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 308; 1964)

Frankenweenie (Animated Film; 2012)

Gilmore Girls (TV Series; 2000)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Album; 1973)

Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh (Novel; 1963)

Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Short Story; 1961)

Henry & June (Film; 1990)

I’m the Man, by Joe Jackson (Album; 1979)

Jack and the Beanstalk (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Laugh-O-Gram Studio’s Goldie Locks and the Three Bears (Disney Cartoon; 1922)

Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1970)

Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong, by the Spin Doctors (Song; 1992)

Love Me Do, by The Beatles (UK Song; 1962)

Michael Clayton (Film; 2007)

Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gág (Children’s Book; 1928)

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (UK TV Series; 1969)

¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico (WB Animated Film; 2004)

Music Land (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

Music Land (Disney Animated Film; 1955)

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot (Poems; 1939)

One-Punch Man (Anime; 2015)

Right Ho, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse (Novel; 1934) [Jeeves #6]

The Saint Around the World, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1956) [Saint #32]

Serendipity

Skyfall, by Adele (Song; 2012)

10 (Film; 1979)

The Ten Commandments (Film; 1956)

Tunnel of Love, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 1987)

Venom (Film; 2018)

Today’s Name Days

Attila, Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf, Placidus (Austria)

Faustina, Mauro, Miodrag (Croatia)

Eliška (Czech Republic)

Placidus (Denmark)

Inga, Inge, Ingeborg, Inger, Ingi, Ingrid (Estonia)

Inka, Inkeri (Finland)

Camélia, Capucine, Daphné, Eglantin, Faustine, Fleur, Placide (France)

Gallina, Herwig, Meinolf (Germany)

Charitine, Charitini, Haritini (Greece)

Aurél (Hungary)

Placido (Italy)

Amālija, Male (Latvia)

Donata, Edvinas, Gilda, Palemonas, Placidas (Lithuania)

Bo, Boye, Brynjar (Norway)

Apolinary, Częstogniew, Donat, Donata, Faust, Fides, Flawia, Igor, Justyn, Konstancjusz, Konstans, Placyd (Poland)

Daniil, Haritina, Misail (România)

Viera (Slovakia)

Faustina, Froilán, María, Plácido (Spain)

Bror (Sweden)

Charita (Ukraine)

Chester, Cheston, Chet, Nia, Nyah (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 278 of 2024; 87 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 21 (Bing-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 20 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 8 Shù; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 22 September 2023

Moon: 61%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Rossini]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 12 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 12 of 30)

[welcometokantrias]

What Is The Kantriverse?

The Kantriverse is a setting that started out when I created a fictional country, Kantrias, and alongside a number of friends that I had, in intermittent periods between 2012 and 2014, with a brief resurgence in 2017, expanded on. We also used Kantrias as a vehicle for playing in the game NationStates, as a sort of 'clan' (in more common terms) but it is the fictional country Kantrias (and the continent of Bayetz around it) that we built up in stories and little bits of lore detail and conversations and just for fun that I would later take, combine with pieces of other worldbuilding ideas that I had, and then create into a more complete setting that I could tell stories in.

And also just worldbuild the fuck out of, because I like to do that.

As a result of the mixed origins, and many holdovers from the days when I worked alongside my friends to create things, there are some oddities, but I think they add to the charm of the setting.

Some of those oddities include the fact that because a few of my friends at the time were big Game of Thrones/ASOIAF fans, the places they created had names in common with Westeros - a city called Highgarden, and a set if Islands called the Iron Islands. Neither place really resembles it's Westeros counterpart outside the name, and both names are pretty generic.

Other things - such as the existence of the Genasi in Kolyat-Var, are the result of my own D&D and Pathfinder interest - and in general, while some of the more obvious stuff has been filed off, the D&D and Pathfinder influence can be pretty obvious if you know what you're looking for, and indeed, I have run multiple pathfinder games in this setting, though I've had to make some alterations to the setting to fit the assumptions of Pathfinder's actual play.

But none of this really says what the Kantriverse actually is.

The Kantriverse is a fictional world - the name of the planet is something I don't have, and frankly the people of the world may just call it 'the planet' because why not - and plays host to a number of continents. The three that have ever been established are Bayetz, Guayas and Kholesun. Of those Bayetz is the center of the action in terms of what got and has gotten worldbuilding attention, and of course, the Kingdom of Kantrias and it's capital city, also named Kantrias, was the main focus.

The Kantriverse is a world of magic, but the magic tends to be fairly practical, and direct, and follows generally predictable and understandable rules - to put it in TV tropes terms, Magic A is, broadly speaking, Magic A. Of course, the rules underpinning magic are no more one hundred percent understood than every single rule explaining how reality works in our world, but they are understood mostly.

It is a world where magic can do a lot, but it's generally direct, perceivable, limited effects. It's a world that, broadly, works like our own - gravity, animal life, the way minerals work, et cetera - but it's also a world where dragons once dominated the skies, where caverns and tunnels deep underneath the earth house entire peoples and nations, and where the gods - distant though they often are - are real and give power to their followers.

It is a world of powerful states, fallen empires, and rising powers. It is a world where empires that were once great have been laid low - and sometimes, they might even be making a resurgence. It's a world not just of humans, but of centaurs, dwarves, lizardmen, kitsune, and more.

It is a world where demons and angels exist and can be conjured, but as beings that are pure ideals given form - and quickly find themselves ill-at-ease in a world of grays and nuance, complexity and imperfection. It is a world of spirits often barely understood, and ancient magics even less understood, if even active at al.

It is also a world where ranks of soldiers stand shoulder to shoulder and fire muskets at the enemy. Where ships bearing canon and powered by sails clash for control of the trade lanes, and where airships have begun to challenge the great Rocs for command of the skies. It is a world where new factories powered by coal and magic, structures of steam and gears and pistols, churn out white and black smoke, covering the sky, bringing with it it disease and progress, poverty and wealth. It is a world where clockwork constructs and old style golems can be built to fight the battles of their makers, and where bizarre, occult secrets that break all known rules of magic can sometimes be wrested from reality.

It is in this world that Kantrias sits as the most powerful and wealthy nation. It is in Kantrias that the House of Quilor reigns as the Royal House, where the ancient nobility jealously guards their remaining wealth and privelages in the Senate, and where the elected representatives of the people in the Consistory are torn between those who seek progress and growth and wealth at the expense of all else, and those who seek to see to the needs of the people. Between those who speak only for the narrow interests of new money, and those who speak for the workers, urban or rural, or for the middle classes.

It is in Kantrias that Church and Crown have fought a vicious dance for over a thousand years, where the pagans are persecuted, but not every faith that lies outside the Church counts as pagan. Where renegade covens of witches are hunted by the Ministry of Security and the Inquisition both - but rarely do they work together.

And yet, despite Kantrias's wealth and power, it is not unchallenged on the world stage. The Empire of Voluz, once the great powers of the North, seeks to modernize under a new, reforming dynasty, while the ancient, stagnated Telvir Ascendancy threatens to dust off ancient magics and embrace new technologies both, to stave off the corrupting influence of Kantrian ideas - and of Kantrian influence over states that should rightly be their vassals.

Even Kantrias's allies are hardly content to be merely aids to Kantrian power - the snakemen of the Kingdom of Kharash may be allied with Kantrias against their old enemies in the Ascendancy, but they look in askance as Kantrias courts the lesser states of Guayas to be their vassals in all but name, rather than Kharash's. The Commonwealth of Aurelia may consider Kantrias the lesser evil than Voluz, but the economic hegemony of the Kingdom of the Gavel and the Sword is hardly universally beloved by that realm.

Kantrias is a nation of wealth and power, and for the average Kantrian, even the poor ones, life is generally good, generally safe, generally positive in outlook. But in any great Kingdom, exceptions exist, and with wealth and industry allowed to run amock in the name of the Queen's desire for military adventurism, and with wealth always begetting more wealth when left unrestrained, and when heretics and pagans join forces with disaffected witches and separatist rebels, danger can only grow.

The Kantriverse is a world of steampunk, intrigue and empire - it is a world of war and adventure, of ancient history and a glorious future.

The world turns, Kantrias is, and the Kantriverse continues.

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TIMELINE ORDER:

The Acolyte: (The High Republic TV Show)

⬤ Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace 🔴

⬤ Episode 2 - Attack Of The Clones 🔴

Clone Wars: 2D Micro Series (Vol.1) 🔴

The Clone Wars (Movie) 🔴

The Clone Wars (TV Show) 🔴

⬤ Episode 3 - Revenge Of The Sith 🔴

Tales of The Jedi (TV Show Shorts)

The Bad Batch (TV Show)

Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game Story)

Jedi: Survivor (Video Game Story)

Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV Show) 🔴

Solo (Movie)

Rebels (TV Show) 🔴

Andor (TV Show)

⬤ Rouge One 🔴

⬤ Episode 4 - A New Hope 🔴

⬤ Episode 5 - The Empire Strikes Back 🔴

⬤ Episode 6 - Return Of The Jedi 🔴

The Mandalorian (TV Show) 🔴

The Book of Boba Fett (TV Show) 🔴

Ahsoka (TV Show) 🔴

Star Wars: Resistance (TV Show)

Star Wars: Visions Season 1 & 2 (Anime Shorts)

⬤ Episode 7 - The Force Awakens

⬤ Episode 8 - The Last Jedi

⬤ Episode 9 - The Rise of Skywalker

⬤ Episode 10 -

⬤ Episode 11 -

⬤ Episode 12 -