#The Legend of the Titanic

[crunchbuttsteak]

Do you think Jack & Rose met the rapping dog on the Titanic?

Why didn’t the giant octopus that saved everybody else who didn’t make it to the lifeboats also save Jack?

The Titanic cinematic universe has some unanswered questions.

[snarp]

[madhogthymaster]

Brain Bubble: Monkeys Violating The Heavenly Temple (My Mind is The Temple)

On occasion, my mind wanders back to that Tails solo-game on the old SEGA Game Gear system. You do know the one, right?

When I do so, I think about the lad himself. His jaunty walk cycle, to be specific. His jolly, not-a-care-in-the-world, confident yet adorable, serotonin-producing strut. That walk.

The memory of such occurrence brings me back in time even further, back to a period when I would sit in front of the television, tune in on a future defunct channel that would constantly play older Japanese animated series imported to my country a decade before my birth. On occasion, I would see a certain jolly, not-a-care-in-the-world, confident yet adorable strut.

And I would get my serotonin.

But enough of me deconstructing my own autistic brain! What you just witnessed was the closing sequence for Gokū no Daibōken, a TV adaptation of Xiyou ji (also known as Saiyuki or Journey to the West), one of the most renowned Chinese literary works. The anime was produced by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in 1967 and then localized for the Italian market by SINCROVOX in 1980. What you just watched (and heard) was indeed the Italian sigla, an original composition played over the end credits sequence. We've had plenty of those, back in the day.

As an aside, this show was simply known as The Monkey during our local TV run. It came to us during the Anime Boom of 1978-83, along with hundreds of other series. Many of which would include plenty of Tatsunoko IPs, Doraemon and its many clones, other Tezuka series and every Super Robot anime under the sun. If you are more curious about the subject, there is an ancient podcast of mine in which I go into more detail on the key figure responsible for it. Spoilers: the whole story somehow involves that infamous animated Titanic film. No, not the rapping dog one, The Other One.

Anyway, I simply wanted to share with you a primordial memory of my childhood, a weird random thought that spiraled out of control - as it's wont to do. Indubitably, you must be feeling enriched by the experience. I might post more of these unstructured brain bubbles in the future as a way to get my mental juices flowing if I can't be bothered to write full articles or essays. To summarize: this monkey lives in my head and he does not pay rent.

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[awakefor48hours]

Thinking about her (a show that was cancelled unjustly) again

[0zeeraa0]

I will defend them with my life

[omnybus]

EVERYBODYS FEELIN FINE CUZ ITS PARTY TIME

[ashtrayangell]

i think that childhood best friends to enemies trope is the most tragic thing to ever exist bc like. we’ve both done unspeakable things to each other and there’s no getting back to what we were at the start of this but there’s a part of me that still knows you like no one else could ever possibly know you. the whole idea of trust and devotion turned to a mutual, burning hunger to destroy each other. I hate you this much because i loved you this much. drives me insane.

[dcufans4palestine]

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[alwaysbewoke]

damn...

[ewa-jednak-chce-spac]

True.

Say what you want about Titanic: The Legend Goes on…at least it had the plentiful balls to really say that people died, instead of coming up with some shit excuse to save everyone. 

The main characters even adopted the singer’s dogs after they explicitly said she died during the “where are they now” sequence at the end. 

Angelica wasn’t even in third class for that matter, she was in second. 

Between the two animated movies, Legend Goes On tries a little harder, even with its rapping dogs and nonsensical pacing. 

[venusaur-propaganda]

Drawing Venusaur with every Pokemon pt. Rhydon

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Layne Staley during a photoshoot at the Starplex Amphitheater in Dallas, during the Clash of the Titans tour; Texas on May 15, 1991.

📸Gene Ambo...

[awakefor48hours]

I hate the fact that the main response to someone lamenting over a show getting cancelled is now usually met with “which one?”

[livsoulsecrets]

Batfam + References to being family (Part 2)

Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here

Bruce calms a kid down and tells him he’s Nightwing’s dad in Titans Beast World #2

Kate comforts Bruce during his parents’ funeral in Detective Comics #939

Alfreed meets a future version of Tim and calls him “dear boy” in Detective Comics #967

Bruce burns Damian’s DNA test because he’s his son anyway (it was positive by the way) in Deathstroke #35

Cass calls Dick “brother” in Batman: Urban Legends #10

Tim in Batman: Urban Legends #6: “I want my family to be safe”

Dick calls Damian “kiddo” in Batman #34

[ben-talks-art]

Just let women be evil 😈

Been seeing some discussion around how the Netflix Avatar made some changes to Azula and tried to paint her in a less evil light and more as some poor child that got manipulated by her dad to be the monster she would eventually become.

And that's... Honestly a little lame imo.

Azula being a heartless monster was one of the many cool things about her, but now it feels like we're giving credit to her dad instead.

Like, she was the golden child, but she wasn't daddy's little submissive pet. A lot of what she did, she did it not because "she wanted to please daddy" but because she's just a little sh*t. Heck, she even manipulates her own father at one point, making him think Zuko killed the Avatar so she wouldn't get any blame when it was revealed he was still alive.

Ozai was the final boss, but Azula is basically the face of the show when it comes to villains. She was the bane of everyone's existence.

Having nuance and layers is nice, but sometimes I just want a lady who just loves being evil for the pettiest of reasons like wanting power, being salty for not getting what she wanted, or just because it's in her sadistic nature.

And, yeah, we have cases like Demona who you could argue is a victim of the circumstances she's in, or, again, Azula, who was practically raised to be evil, but you can't deny they clearly enjoy being bad and doing bad things to others.

Let women just be evil, and let them own their evilness.

[farshootergotme]

The batkids think the alias "Nightwing" is a reference to Batman, being the bat the flying creature of the night. Clark is very much offended when he hears about this.