#Todd Cooper

[yourfavealbumisgender]

The soundtrack for Sonic Adventure 2 is Transgender!

[jeffcbliss]

Todd Cooper of The Alan Parsons Project (Guy Erez, left; Alan Parsons, right) - The Wiltern; Los Angeles, CA (6-15-24). @TheOfficialAPP #ToddCooper @GuyErez

Photo: Jeff Bliss

[saberstarart]

just some sketches of ocs for a story I may or may not be working on

[connorsui]

"How beautiful was she?"

"Was? ...please ..she is beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She is beautiful, for the way she thinks, She is beautiful for the sparkle in her eyes when she speaks about anything she loves. She is beautiful for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She is beautiful, deep down to her soul ....

She is the love of my life"

The man: Nanami Kento, Geto Suguru, John Price, Jason Todd, Sam Winchester, Higuruma Hiromi, Halsin, Astarion Zayne, Sylus, Xavier, Levi Ackerman, Simon Riley, Johnny Mactavish, Leon Kennedy, Aizawa, Dabi, Hawks, Rafayel, Cooper Howard, Logan Howlett, Aemond, Nikto,

[bantuotaku]

(shinomiyaa)

[artemis-pendragon]

Todd Andrew Howard naming the jaded gun-slinging cowboy ghoul that he knew every single one of us goddamn heathens would desire carnally "Mr. Howard" was possibly the biggest power move of the century

[aflamboyanceofflamingos]

Batfam ranked from best to worst at Driving:

Jason gets pulled over the most because he follows road laws in Gotham, something that people only do if they’re not from Gotham, and if you’re not from Gotham why the fuck would you come there -very suspicious behavior. He does ignore the speed limit in an emergency though

Bruce does not follow driving laws expect from when one of his kids (or any kid) is in the car, if which he gets very close to following them

Duke is newer to driving, but is well on his way to becoming a menace and as Signal uses a motorcycle he does not have a license for

Tim has never followed the speed limit in his life, even as a civilian. He adds modifications to every for a transportation he owns (cars, Redbird, his skateboard) to make them go as fast as possible, but is somehow still has a very quick reaction speed and though he is a hazard to those in his car, everyone outside the car is fine

Dick is the worse driver of the kids despite not growing up with Gotham’s streets and I don’t have a reason, I just think it would be funny Dick and his Mini Copper are the go to car for all the batkid while also being a hazard to society

And last but not least, the worst driver:

Alfred. He’s the one who taught all of them.

Not mentioned:

Damian- Is 9-14. Should not be driving. (Would fall between Bruce and Duke)

Cass- I have decided that Cass can’t drive a car. A tank or a jet, sure, but not a car

Steph- will never be the designated driver because what is the point of having rich friends if you can’t ride in their luxury cars

BatMobile- Only Bruce uses it like an actual car, everyone else always ends up crashing it (this is not explained)

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Frisk, 1995

[newwavesylviaplath]

yall ever just

[queerryan]

(Sheldon Cooper likes Jason Todd, so I think of something)

George (dad): WHAT IS THIS PHONE BILL? YOU THINK I'M MADE OF MONEY?

Sheldon: *crying*

George: You made all these phone calls to "kill Robin"? Why would you kill a bird anyway?

Sheldon: NO I called to save him, he's my favorite character *Starts crying even more*

George: *expression gets softs but he's still mad* Well... You're grounded, go to your room. Wait who's robin again?

Sheldon: he's batman's sidekick.

George: okay. *Pick up the phone*

Sheldon: who are you calling to?

George: This DC comics, I want to scream at batman for letting this bird die. Now go to your room!

[unsafescapewolf]

Summer Kofi doodles part 11!

[cowboymater]

humble proposal for an alliance between the wasian jason & latino jason truthers: mexican catherine, filipino willis (sheila stays white), therefore wasian jason todd raised as pinoy-chicano

[jeffcbliss]

Todd Cooper of The Alan Parsons Project - The Wiltern; Los Angeles, CA (6-15-24). @TheOfficialAPP #ToddCooper

Photo: Jeff Bliss

[witch-supermarket]

Going shopping with the witch and his familiar

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[tleeaves]

Folks going "WHAT they made a show about the Fallout franchise?? I've been hearing people say Bethesda messed it up, but I haven't watched it myself, so I'm going to trust the word of other people -- some of which also haven't finished watching it" is driving me insane.

Being a hard core fan of something obviously brings with it a lot of passionate feelings when adaptations come into play. Of course, there's going to be people going "but in 8 episodes of the first ever season they made, they didn't explore Theme C or D, didn't introduce factions E and F and G, and because the source company is notorious for its scams, we and everyone else who's a TRUE fan should hate it".

The Amazon Original series Fallout follows the videogame franchise of the same name. It is a labour of love and you can tell by the attention to detail, the writing, the sets, and YES THE THEMES ARGUE WITH THE WALL. It's clearly fan service. I mean, the very characterisation of Lucy is a deadringer for someone playing a Fallout game for the first time. She embodies the innocent player whose expectations drastically change in a game that breaks your heart over and over again. Of course, she's also the vessel through which we explore a lot of themes, but I'll get to that.

There're some folks arguing that the show retcons the games, and I gotta say... for a website practically built on fandom culture, why are we so violently against the idea of someone basing an adaptation on a franchise that so easily lends itself to new and interesting interpretations? But to be frank, a lot of what AO's Fallout is not that new. We have: naive Vault dweller, sexy traumatised ghoul that people who aren't cowards will thirst over, and pathetic guy from a militaristic faction. We also have: total atomic annihilation, and literally in-world references to the games' lore and worldbuilding constantly (the way I was shaking my sister over seeing Grognark the Barbarian, Sugar Bombs, Cram, Stimpaks, and bags of RadAway was ridiculous). Oh, and the Red Rocket?? Best pal Dogmeat? I'm definitely outing myself as specifically a Fallout 4 player, but that's not the point you should be taking away from this.

The details, the references, and the new characters -- this show is practically SCREAMING "hey look, we did this for the fans, we hope you love it as much as we do". Who cares that the characters are new, they still hold the essence of ones we used to know! And they're still interesting, so goddamn bloody interesting. Their arcs mean so much to the story, and they're told in a genuinely intriguing way. This isn't just any videogame adaptation, this was gold. This sits near Netflix's Arcane: League of Legends level in videogame adaptation. Both series create new plots out of familiar worlds.

Of course, those who've done the work have already figured out AO's Fallout is not a retcon anyway. But even if it was, that shouldn't take away from the fact that this show is actually good. Not even just good, it's great.

Were some references a little shoe-horned in to the themes by the end of the show, such as with "War never changes"? Yes, I thought so. But I love how even with a new plot and characters, they're actually still exploring the same themes and staying true to the games. I've seen folks argue otherwise, but I truly disagree. The way capitalism poisons our world, represented primarily through The American Dream and the atomic age of the 45-50s that promoted the nuclear family dynamic -- it's there. If you think it's glorifying it by leaning so heavily into in the adaptation, I feel like you're not seeing it from the right angle. It's like saying Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck glorifies the American Dream, when both this book and the Fallout franchise are criticisms of it. If you think about it, the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout is a graveyard to the American Dream. This criticism comes from the plots that are built into every Fallout story that I know of. The Vaults are literally constructed to be their own horror story just by their mere existence, what they stand for, what happens in each of them. The whole entire show is about the preservation of the wrong things leading to fucked up worlds and people. The missions of the Vaults are time and again proven to be fruitless, unethical, plain wrong. Lucy is our brainwashed character who believed in the veritable cult she lived in before she found out the truth.

So then consider the Brotherhood of Steel. I really don't think it exists in the story to glorify the military. We see just how much the Brotherhood has brainwashed people like Max (also, anything ominously named something like "the Brotherhood" should raise eyebrows). Personally, I don't like Max, but I am intrigued by his characterisation. I thought the end of his arc was rushed the way he "came good" basically, but [SPOILERS] having him embraced as a knight in the Brotherhood at the end against his will -- finally getting something he always wanted -- and him grimly accepting it from all that we can tell? Him having that destiny forced upon him now that he's swaying? After he defected? If his storyline is meant to be a tragedy, it wouldn't surprise me, because Fallout is rife with tragedies anyway. And a tragedy would also be a criticism of the military. That's what Max's entire arc is. It goes from the microcosm focusing on the cycle of bullying between soldiers to the macro-environment where Max is being forced to continue a cycle of violence against humanity he doesn't want to anymore because a world driven to extremes forces him to choose it to survive (not to mention what a cult and no family would do to his psyche). Let's not forget what the Brotherhood's rules are: humankind is supreme. Mutants, ghouls, synths, and robots are abominations to be hated and destroyed. If you can't draw the parallels to the real world, you need to retake history and literature classes. The Brotherhood is also about preserving the wrong things, like the Vaults (like the Enclave, really). They just came about through different method. The Enclave is capitalism and twisted greed in a world where money barely exists anymore. The Brotherhood is, well, fascism plain and simple.

Are these the only factions in the Fallout franchise? Hell no. But if you're mad about that -- that they're the main ones explored, apart from the NCR -- I think you're missing the point. These themes, these reminders, are highly relevant in the current climate. In fact, I almost think they always will be relevant unless we undergo drastic change. On the surface-level, Fallout seems like the American ideal complete with guns blazing that guys in their basements jerk off to. Under that surface, is a mind-fuck story about almost the entire opposite: it's a deconstruction of American ideals that are held so closely by some, and the way that key notion of freedom gets twisted, and you're shooting a guy in-game because it's more merciful than what the world had in store for him.

I mean, the ghoul's a fucking cowboy from the wild west character he used to play in Hollywood glam and his wife was one of the people who helped blow up America in the name of capitalism and "peace". There are so many layers of this to explore, I'd need several days to try and keep track and go through it all.

The Amazon Prime show is a testament to the Fallout franchise. The message, the themes? They were not messed up or muddled or anything of the sort, in my opinion.

As for Todd Howard, that Bethesda guy, I'm sure there's perfectly valid reasons to hate him. I mean, I've hated people for a lot less valid reasons, and that's valid. We all got our feelings. But the show is about more than just him. My advice is to keep that in mind when you're judging it.