#VERSE. ( waterworld. )

[ofbloodandbullets]

so here's what i can tell you about andy's waterworld verse so far.

it's super unfun for her. she hates water, especially when it is covering like 98% of what used to be land. dying in the water is the worst because you drown over and over and every time you wake up you only get so far before you die again and getting anywhere takes forever and you lose direction really quickly etc etc. plus the guilt and all that from the hundreds of years that quynh/noriko spent trapped underwater it's just like. the worst way the world could almost but not quite end.

that being said, she has been around for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. she knows everything about boats, sailing, navigation. she knows how to live off the land (or the water) she can make clothes and weapons and houses and boats and nets and can forge glass and metal, she can grow and cook just about anything, she can design irrigation and rain traps and like -- anything at all that might be useful for survival.

she doesn't get sick and heals from anything so diseases and all of that that comes with declining population and lack of 'modern' conveniences and medicines don't bother her personally she can also eat and drink anything even if it's poisonous or irradiated it might just suck getting sick or dying from it - she can also just starve and die of thirst or hunger and come back so there's really not a lot that isn't just INCONVENIENT or annoying about the state of the world

she definitely has at least one island somewhere that she and whatever other immortals have survived live. they don't really leave it much for a slew of reasons but every dozen or two years andy will venture out to see what's happening in the hellscape that is the world and see if there's people left, if there's any sign of return of land or civilization etc. occasionally her ship gets wrecked or what the fuck ever and she ends up stuck on an atoll or catching a ride with someone to an atoll until she can trade or earn a boat of her own to go back.

they never bring mortals back. it's just too dangerous for them.

the parts of things that are my mixed canon that include phel's relationship with andy, phel's little narnia pantry of food, herbs, grain etc. is still a thing but per usual all those headcanons don't tend to directly influence roleplay unless you wanna plot / scheme something out.

i do suggest reading through her headcanons in general though!

i'll add more as i think of it but yeah. this is the gist.

tagging @marinarius for obvious reasons

[caelumfcrged]

@marinarius liked for a starter.

"So .... what makes you so special?" Maybe it came off a little rude -- she didn't mean it to be, she was just more than a little surprised. "It's been like ... a really long time since my mom brought anybody to the island, so there has to be something." She was pretty sure that the guys wouldn't have been able to keep her form finding out if they'd found another immortal, all told, that left her more than a tiny bit curious. "I'm Vinnie, by the way," she said, sticking a hand out in the direction of their unexpected guest.

[zponds]

(Credit goes to JWBtheUncanny on Deviantart)

R.O.W. Pokemon Characters 1

Here is something for the Reign of Water Storyline going on in the Pokemon World, While Earth has become a Waterworld because of the Death of Poseidon and his powers now Belong to the Queen of the Oceans, It's having an effect on Mermaid Colonies on the many Worlds in the Anime Multi-verse, The Pokemon World is one of them, With the Seven Mermaid Princesses (From Mermaid Melody) Establishing there Forming Empire on the Pokemon world with not just the Panthalassa, But other Aquatic Ally Races.

Bianca seems to be surprised that she has become a Mermaid, This is due to a Serum that the People of the Water used to unlock a part of a select few Beings that may have had a Family Member who was one of the Aquatic Races, The Serum had spread through out the Pokemon world's Oceans It doesn't affect Everyone though, Only those that have Ties with the Mermaid Empires of Centuries past, If some of you are wondering how did Bianca make that Bubble-Floaty Well she Blew it herself so she can float on Dry-land When she is dry enough her Tail will Change back, But when she goes into the Water, She change back into a mermaid.

Now for Burgundy & Georgia... Well, They have become Bubble-Maidens, This was a Result of a Drug that is an Off-shoot one to the one that's in the Oceans, Professor Jenifer calls it the Bubblefication-Serum, Used by Bubble-Maidens to make Girls that join them to become one of there own (If you are familiar with the Hollow-Man Movie in 2000, It's a Similar thing But it's painless) It's sometimes used as Poison in Blow-Darts to Secretly Dart another with the Drug, It makes them posses the same Qualities and tricks of any Bubbloid You'd find on DA here, But like the other Bubble-Maidens... They are like Jelly-Gumdrops and are like Balloon-Foxes, and Be like Rubber-Dolls and Stretch and Shape-shift, Since there Nerve-Ending have been Eliminated with won't pop like normal Bubbles They are unable to feel-pain of any kind, But The affects of the Drug are... Permanent, Since... they are living Human shaped Bubbles with Air inside of them. There Normal Cloths can no longer stay on them for long and will Go right Through them since... The outer-layer of there Bodies are a Rubbery Liquid-Membrane It will sock the Fabric and Pass right through them or go inside there bodies as proven with Burgundy, However... Georgia is wearing a version of her Usual Cloths that is make of Latex so She could wear them all the time without worry of it coming off while moving, A Bubble-Maiden's Clothing will be converted into the choices of Latex or Waterproof Plastic.

[marinarius]

Indie and Selective RP Blog for The Mariner from 1995's Waterworld

other Blogs: @gowesten @withinycu @bianfu @impercre​ @eynsavalow​ @warriours​ @akcsha​ @ekbatdesebat

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No Godmodding/Metagaming

Don’t Send Starters to my Askbox Unless Asked (memes are okay)

Always down to turn memes into threads

Ask if you need something tagged (I try to be diligent about this but may slip up or not catch something!)

While this blog is canon divergent I do highly recommend the extended or Ulysses Cut of Waterworld to those new to the franchise.

Verses | Headcanon | Canon Divergence

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[lifefcrged]

TAG DROP. ( verses. )

VERSE. ( you are a weapon; not a shield. )

--> MCU / (reluctant) shield recruit.

VERSE. ( you are a weapon; and weapons do not weep. )

--> HYDRA (or equivalent)

VERSE. ( the world was not created in a deluge; it was covered by it. )

--> Waterworld (crossover.)

VERSE. ( a world divided; what a world it might have been. )

--> XMCU (geneticist. mutant / ally of the x-men.)

VERSE. ( if death is justice; what is injustice. )

--> TOG (crossover.)

VERSE. ( women do not forget; women do not forgive. )

--> HotD / GoT.

VERSE. ( i am become; what you have made me. )

--> post hydra au; mercenary / villain verse.

VERSE. ( peace is a lie; there is only passion. )

--> SW. ( dark side force user. )

VERSE. ( Ex Astris; scientia. )

--> ST.

VERSE. ( victims; aren't we all. )

--> unspecified fandom. vigilante.

VERSE. ( no man is above the law; nor no man below it. )

--> on the run, post hydra.

VERSE. ( don't open; dead inside. )

--> TWD / generic apocalypse / post apocalypse.

VERSE. ( this lonely road; trying to make it home. )

--> JUSTIFIED.

VERSE. ( such things must happen; but the end is still to come. )

—> DOMINION.

VERSE. ( the only thing necessary for evil to triumph; is for good men to do nothing. )

--> THE BOYS.

[locktobre]

For the birthday spoilers ask: are elves different from fairies/faeries?

Birthday spoilers!

Note: Also spoilers for, like, everything, including After and the end of my verse.

Elves are actually the ancestors of fairies (and mermaids)!

They have a super long history (that I mostly haven’t filled in yet bc honestly I don’t have to unless it comes up), but here are the bullet points:

The planet was originally called Utopia. (I’m thinking about changing this, but as of now, this is correct.)

Around 200,000 years ago, elves already had a society more advanced than our current one, and started to go and explore space. (Having magic helps in this regard.)

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod were among those who went out there, in a ship of their own design, but they weren’t really interested in colonizing. They wanted to figure out where magic comes from and what the limitations are, that kind of thing.

The elves had a space empire spanning across 4 galaxies, but overextended themselves and overestimated their ability to keep ahold of all their colonies, so it fell apart. (This is the beginning of the intergalactic society seen in SLA.)

Elves stop going into space bc what’s the point. Been there, done that, etc. I mean, some probably still would, but there’s no longer a concerted effort to go out there and colonize or anything.

Around 11,000 years ago, Briony broke the universe.

This also broke Utopia itself, naturally, and led to a series of cataclysmic events that ended with a few elves escaping to Earth and other places, and when the planet finally kind of settled there was a massive storm that flooded the world. Like, Waterworld level flooding, the land still above water is quite a small area.

Elves were already familiar with genetic engineering and body modification, in part bc they had been mingling with aliens for quite a long time, so the responses to the flooding basically fell into two camps: Those who wanted to figure out a way to navigate the parts of land still above water, and those who wanted to give up on land entirely and just live in the water. These camps eventually became fairies and mermaids, respectively. (And there are some outliers who kinda went between land and sea, or didn’t give themselves wings, or whatever, but the majority of elves did.)

(”Our fair Utopia” -> “Our Fairytopia”)

The elves’ magic, which was now fairies’ and mermaids’ magic, became weaker over time in part bc they were focusing so much on maintaining their modifications, and partly bc their connection to the source magic thru the UD was messed up.

Around 3,000 years ago, the first fairies and mermaids crossed over to Earth. I’ve gone back and forth on why, whether Fairytopia is still experiencing repercussions from being broken, if there was a conflict and they were trying to get the hell out of dodge, or what. But there was some catalyst there.

So, to summarize, elves are different... but also kind of the same, since they’re an ancestral form. They don’t look super different, they just don’t have wings (or tails). That is, elves like Briony who were around 11,000 years ago, bc the old elves like WBN from 200,000 years ago look more like grey aliens; they modified themselves heavily during their imperial period, as they met different alien species, either for aesthetic purposes or bc they wanted to interbreed. I’m considering giving the two kinds of elves different names to differentiate them, but I can’t decide what to call them, and WBN are the only ones of the old type left anyway so maybe it doesn’t matter.

I hope that all makes sense! But yeah that’s why I sometimes talk about Fairytopia being a post-post-apocalyptic society. Bc they are. Many times over actually lmao.

[no-gorms]

Watched 'Mad Max: Fury Road' with my family & choked on my tea when I heard "A Furious Vexation". Was that the inspiration in some aspects to the series? The only definite or concrete one I could find was the ref to having a "wife" and tribes vs. towns. Would the illusory green land be 'Carbon Town'? Anyway, I loved that series so it was a great nugget & hilarious to try and explain to my sister. Also, the film was just superb.

Hah! Yes that’s right the Mad Max films (well, Thunderdome and Fury Road) did indeed inspire my post-apoc series, so it made sense to swipe a line from Fury Road for the title. :D The ‘verse is not set within the Mad Max world itself, so the worldbuilding is fast & loose picking the bits I like, for eg. Carbon Town is more a reference to the how Mad Max places are named like Oil Town and Barter Town. But my ‘verse is also riffing off the feel of Waterworld, in reference to humans with mutations and also…. the whole….. transactional exchange that went down between Steve and Tony in the first fic.

[ao3feed-thor]

Sexy times with whang-chan

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/oqVbwWT

by Weebmaster69

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Words: 376, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: whang, Silent Hill (Video Game Series), Silent Hill (2006), Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012), Real Person Fiction, Waterworld (1995), Thor (Movies), Thor: Tales of Asgard, Mighty Thor (Cartoon), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types, Mortal Kombat (Video Games), Street Fighter, Super Mario & Related Fandoms, Super Mario Odyssey (Video Game), Super Mario Bros. (Video Games), Ghostbusters - All Media Types

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Mario (Nintendo), Rey (Star Wars), Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Pyramid Head (Silent Hill), Cinema sins voice

Additional Tags: Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Cannibalism, Surprisingly consentual, Little Caesars - Freeform, Documentaries, Warning: Pyramid Head (Silent Hill), Alpha Pyramid Head (Silent Hill), Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Verse, hello fresh, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Pizza, Cinema Sins - Freeform, Sexy Times, Horniness, Cat Ears, S&M, Past Relationship(s), Rain, implied rain sex, Your Mom, Implied Hate Sex, Implied/Referenced Sex, YouTube, Booty Calls, References to Real People, Japan, Blood and Gore, Weeks, Five, Not the character five just five, Out of Character, One Shot, Angel shot for my braincells, moobies, man boobies, Influencer, Influenza, Rave, Orgy, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, aaaaa, My First Fanfic, My First AO3 Post, Ding!, dead meme, I'm wasting my life, nobody will read this, nobody should read this

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/oqVbwWT

[trashartandmovies]

Berlinale Film Festival 2021, Industry Event, Day 1

We all knew the 71st Berlinale would be different, but who’d have guessed we’d be given a twofer? At this point, the juries for the Competition, Encounters, Shorts, and Generations sections have all handed out their awards. These juries got to watch the films in their respective categories on the big screen. Meanwhile, the press were given the opportunity to screen these movies at home, as well as the films in the Berlinale Special, Panorama, Forum and Forum Expanded sections, as well as the six films making up the Perspektive Deutsches Kino category and episodes from the six television shows included in Berlinale Series. (The always excellent Retrospective section is only screening during the summer.) Altogether, around 150 at-home screenings were made available to the press. We had five days to watch them. I was able to watch 22 of them. This is Part One.

———

I’m sure everyone covering the festival is hoping that the Summer Special, in mid-June, will go smoothly and we’ll be able to catch at least a fraction of the movies we weren’t able to see. (For geo-blocking streaming reasons, a few films in the lineup weren’t available at all in my geo-region. Including two in the Competition: the FABIAN adaptation and Daniel Daniel Brühl’s directorial debut NEXT DOOR.) Usually, the press is given a week ahead of the festival to check out the Panorama, Forum and Generations titles. One assumes it’s so that audiences may get some recommendations on these lower-profile movies in the inevitable situation when all the high-profile films are sold out. Will this happen in the summer? Unless I missed a press release, the details around the Summer Special are still a bit vague. Rightfully so, since we’re still living in week-by-week uncertainty as far as lockdown measures go.

All we can do now is cross our fingers and hope for a chance to get a look at some of the these titles, because when presented with the challenge of covering a 150-movie lineup over just five days, you have to make some obvious decisions. I suspect many people did what I did — try to watch all the Competition titles and get in a few Encounters, Specials, some shorts and hold out hope for one or two stray Panoramas or Forums. To make matters more heartbreaking, the press screenings went like this: every morning at 7:00 AM, you’d get an impossibly long list of films to watch until 7:00 AM next morning. You’d get a few Competition titles, a few Encounters and Specials, and a deluge of films from the other categories. For many films, all you could do is look at the title, nod, and say to yourself, hopefully we’ll meet again soon, because there’s no way I can fit a sixth movie in today without losing my mind.

(Now there was a wrinkle added to this plan. Over the weekend of March 6 - 7, the press could screen the award winners that got announced on Friday. But it was difficult to try and take this into consideration in any strategic way.)

———

Like most film festivals, Berlinale usually kicks things off with a star-studded opening night movie that’s usually too mainstream for the critics. With no red carpet to be concerned with this year, that wasn’t the case. Instead, on Day One, the closest to a big movie star name was Iain Glen (Game of Thrones). Glen isn’t the lead in Tim Fehlbaum’s TIDES, shown in the Berlinale Special program, but he does play a key role as an astronaut who’s landed back on Earth, generations after human had mostly left the increasingly inhabitable planet. Humans have been living in a space colony called Kepler, but everyone ended up sterile, so missions are being sent back to Earth in the hopes that they can once again live there and get their reproductive groove back.

That’s the underlying story of TIDES, and it’s just one element that will likely feel very familiar to anyone who’s well-versed in post-apocalyptic cinema. The color palette is stark, with muted colors. The landscape is barren, this one with lots of water, rather than the desert locales of Mad Max. In fact, the notorious WATERWORLD came to mind more than once while watching TIDES. There’s even a doll in the film that looks just like Dennis Hopper’s character in that film, eye patch and everything. That little detail may be one of the most interesting things about the film.

The main character of TIDES is another astronaut, played with a committed intensity by Nora Arnezeder. She crash lands on Earth, is held captive by central casting post-apocalyptic scavengers, and eventually tries to track down a McGuffin that will let her contact Kepler and report back that there are people reproducing on Earth. Meanwhile, she also suspects that something might remain of the previous mission that was comprised of her father and Iain Glen.

The main attraction here is Fehlbaum’s use of stunning landscapes and practical locations, like a beached industrial ocean liner that serves as inspiration for one of the primary sets. The art design and costumes are all exceptional, while the acting and photography are all decent enough. But it never does much with the conspiracy it tries to entertain us with. Its attempts at being thrilling look good, but can’t help but feel like pretty standard stuff at this point. It’s worth noting that one of the film’s producers is Roland Emmerich, a man who knows a thing or two about making generic high concept action pictures. Some things, like the art design and the pleasingly diverse and international cast, set TIDES apart. But the story is far less inspired.

Faring better were the Day One Competition titles. I started with MEMORY BOX, a lively picture wherein a daughter gets to better understand her mother when a box of the mom’s old teenage diaries and correspondence ends up on their doorstep. (This mother-daughter connection is essentially the same theme that Céline Sciamma’s PETITE MAMAN covers in a different, more sci-fi, fashion.) As the daughter, living in a nice house in Montreal, digs into her mother’s old journals, scrapbooks and tape recordings, the film travels back to 1980s Beirut through the eyes of her teenage mom. It makes these trips back in time through some pretty cool moments of collage-like animation — putting scrapbook pages into motion and diving into photographs and contact sheets that come alive. Plus, the soundtrack is killer, full of lively 80s post punk like Killing Joke, The Stranglers and Blondie.

There’s romance, the trauma of war, a strong refugee story, and a poignant tale of cross-generational understanding. The kicker is that it’s very autobiographical, with the film mirroring co-director Joana Hadjithomas’s own story of corresponding with her friend in Paris while Beirut was falling down around her. These journals are backed up by old photographs taken in Beirut from the other co-director, Kahil Joreige. Like last year’s fascinating BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS, and this year’s A COP MOVIE, Berlinale movies are continuing to find success in blurring the line between documentary and narrative fiction. The movie has a little trouble maintaining momentum all the way through, but I loved the experimentation on display here, and the unique ways it tells its story. It helps that MEMORY BOX really sticks the landing at the end.

Next up was ICH BIN DEIN MENSCH, or I’M YOUR MAN — another film, like many in recent years, interested in the ethics behind artificial intelligence and robots with emotions. Think of it as a romantic comedy version of BLADE RUNNER, or an updated version of the forgotten-by-time Ann Magnuson and John Malkovich vehicle MAKING MR. RIGHT. This one, based on a recent short story by Emma Braslavsky, is directed by Maria Schrader, who recently helmed the popular Netflix series Unorthodox (she’s also a veteran film and TV actress, from Tatort and Deutschland 86 to AIMEE & JAGUAR). Schrader continues to prove that she has a good eye for framing and storytelling. The movie doesn’t always escape the problem that many German movies continue to struggle with, which is that they often feel like a good TV movie rather than a work of cinema, but it manages better than most.

The general idea is that Maren Eggert plays Alma, a researcher who is assigned the task of spending a couple weeks with a new personal companion robot named Tom, played by the dreamy-eyed Dan Stevens. Alma is, of course, a completely rational-minded person who is happy to just get through the two weeks with as little interaction with Tom as possible. In her mind, it’s an impossibility that a piece of technology could fulfill a human being’s needs. Of course, as each day goes by, Tom continues to surprise her and wear down her defenses.

It’s a pretty well-worn story by now. The issues that get raised over the course of the movie are some that Star Trek: The Next Generation was dealing with on a regular basis (Tom is similar to Data, though Stevens doesn’t need any special contact lenses), but there are some interesting wrinkles here. Few movies have looked at this subject from the female perspective. And if there’s one that that this year’s Berlinale truly excelled at, it’s offering a wide variety of movies by female directors and/or with female leads. We’ve covered three movies that fit that criteria already, and many more will come. What’s more, Maren Eggert gives us a character who’s at an age where she’s wrestling with the question of whether or not her child-bearing days are behind her. When’s the last time Hollywood dealt with that subject? So, while Alma starts off as a very emotionally distant, academic type, and the best thing about the movie is uncovering her past and getting to understand why she has put up so many walls. I’m not sure it does much with the subject of AI or robot companions, but it does provide a charming odd-couple story and I don’t have any complaints with Eggert winning the festival’s best actress award.

The nightcap on Day One was INTEURODEOKSYEON, or INTRODUCTION, the newest film by the prolific Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo. At last year’s Berlinale, Sangsoo was also in the Competition with the excellent THE GIRL WHO RAN, and he doesn’t disappoint with INTRODUCTION. Ironically enough, if you’re unfamiliar with Hong Sangsoo and don’t know where to start — understandable given the nearly 30 films he’s directed in the past 25 years — INTRODUCTION ain’t a bad way to start. It’s not his best work, but it’s pretty damn good, and a very accessible entry-point into the man’s style and thematic interests. And it barely cracks the 60-minute mark, so you’re not committing to much.

This one ping-pongs between a young man, Youngho, and a young woman, Juwan, both trying to figure out what to do with their lives. Juwan wants to study fashion in Berlin, Youngho wants to become an actor. Both run into problems with these pursuits — some of which are out of their control. In Youngho’s case, it leads to a hilariously drunken dinner confrontation with Ki Joo-bong, who may or may not be playing a version of himself, since he’s only credited as “Old Actor.” The esteemed Korean actor Joo-bong has appeared in Park Chan-wook films, SAVE THE GREEN PLANET, as well as few of Sangsoo’s other films and some 70 other movies. In INTRODUCTION, his character is revered by every other person he meets. And his advice to Youngho is an eruptive highlight in a movie that’s otherwise pretty subtle.

Subtlety is often Sangsoo’s thing, but the emotions he leaves you with tend to be pretty strong. This is his magic. He writes very realistic, dialog-driven scenes that, on their own, are nuanced and deceptively simple. But these quiet scenes build up to an ending that makes everything come together in a profound way. Even if you’re familiar with Sangsoo’s work, INTRODUCTION may come across as slight, or a minor work in the maestro’s deep catalog, but I found it’s pleasures to be more immediate than usual. To my knowledge, no one is writing screenplays like this. The way he reveals characters, develops them, and draws connections through casual lines of dialog, sometimes nested deep within a conversation, is practically his trademark move, and it’s never not remarkable. It demands your attention and then rewards it at the end. His technique is patient, confident and hugely sophisticated. The only problem I see is that, given his track record of releasing one or two movies a year, his talent is in danger of being taken. Don’t be one of those people.

[ofbloodandbullets]

also, re: waterworld - if they did find land that was actually big enough to build up a small civilization on, andy would consider finding survivors to bring to it and kind of start over but it would be super slow and a very hard selective process

but she definitely does have all the skills necessary to teach - from building and hunting and farming to math and language and science etc

[mnemo-ink]

Cherik Fusion List (L...Z)

As the list grew too long for tumblr, I had to divide it into two posts. You’ll find the first part here.

For the rare pairs, the post is here.

Labyrinth

Labyrinth by luninosity

Maze by AuraWhiteFox

Three different fills, two on anon and one by murf1307

NEW Fanart by shigtopia

Ladyhawke

As Dark Longs For Day by Yahtzee

Fanarts by a-ard

A gif set and a poster by darksideofafangirl

Drawings (Charles with wolf!Erik and Erik with Hawk!Charles) by Takhesis

The Last Of Us

Drawing by temple-secrets

The Last Unicorn

Drawings by brilcrist

Drawing by Takhesis

Legally Blonde

Legally Charles by until_the_earth_is_free (trans!Charles, non-powered)

The Little Mermaid

NEW Drawings by nympah

Chibi by thacmis (first one)

Fanart and prompt (1, 2, 3) by thacmis (crossdressing Charles)

Fanart by Shadow

NEW Another fanart by Shadow

Lord Of The Rings

Lord of the Flings by Fullmetalcarer

A painting by thacmis and a ficlet inspired by it by theregoesallthecottoncandy

Mr.& Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mr. X, Fanart by thacmis

Macbeth

Fanarts by nikorys

Fanart by yaya1029

Mad Max

Fanart by dwaroxxx

Gifs by unearthlydust

Magic Knight Rayearth

A Flowery Band To Bind Us To The Earth by keire_ke

Maid in Manhattan

Can’t Buy Me Love by niniblack (powered)

Maleficent

Once Upon A Dream (You'll Love Me) by FaerieoftheCourt (you need to log in ao3 to read)

Once Upon A Dream (Remix of True Love’s Kiss) by thacmis (fic and art)

True Love's Kiss by Butterynutjob with art by avictoriangirl

A great serie of drawings by GQD

Two drawings

NEW Mamma Mia

Photoset by ittakun

Matrix

The Matrix by swoopswoop (you need to log in ao3 to read it)

Megamind

Fanarts by GQD

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 

Fanart by Ju Lee

Moulin Rouge

Come What May by FuryRed (modern au, powered)

Mini-Fill on anon (powered)

Photoset by ittakun

Much Ado About Nothing

Photoset by chessandmagnets

Mulan

Hold Your Own, Stack Your Stones by primetime (Dom/Sub verse though it’s written more like an A/O verse)

The Mummy

Love Immortal by Gerec

The Mummy by professor

The Nightmare Before Christmas

King of the Pumpkin Patch by tahariel

North And South

To Turn and Look Back When Thou Hearest the Sound of My Name by lachatblanche (powered)

Overboard

Sink or Swim by endingthemes (ABO verse, brief Charles/Shaw)

Pacific Rim

Fanart by 4xontuesdays and GQD

The Painted Veil

Fic by turtletotem (ABO verse, non powered)

Parks and Recreation

Battle Strategies and a sequel by madneto

Doors Unlocked and Open by Clocks

Persuasion

No Longer in Silence by Black_Betty which inspired this cover and manip by amarriageoftrueminds

Phantom Of The Opera

Drabble by Kairin16

Drawings by Arisell

Drawing by delannoie

Manip by Krem

NEW Photoset by pumpilu

Pocahontas

Pocahontas by Schach (mutant!Charles, human!Erik)

Pokemon

Battle Strategy by aesc (11th ficlet, kid!Charles and kid!Erik)

I Will Travel Across the Land by wallhaditcoming

How to Train Your Magneto by Unforgotten

Portal

Love as a Construct by Takmarierah

Somehow Suddenly by hiza-chan

NEW Powerpuff Girls

Fanart by emotions5

Power Rangers

Go Go XMFC Rangers by professor

Pretty Woman

Downtown (everything's waiting for you) by so_shhy (non-powered)

Pride And Prejudice

A fic inspired by the ending of the movie of 2005 by ikeracity (powered)

Photoset by deadalliandra

Princess Bride

A Tale of Two Bubs by madneto

Twoo Wuv by theapolis

Prometheus

Fanarts by brilcrist

Robin Hood

The Glorious Tale of Love, Deceit, and Milkshakes by Pangea, ikeracity, kageillusionz

Photoset and prompt by plavapticica

Sailor Moon

In The Name Of The Moon by TurtleTotem

My Heart Is A Kaleidoscope by wallhaditcoming (unfinished but the end could work like that I think, also it’s really good)

Untitled Ficlet by loveydoveyecstasy

Untitled Ficlet by TurtleTotem

Sailor Moon!Charles Doodle by the picklest pickle inspired by TurtleTotem’s drabble

Sleeping Beauty

Beyond the Brambles by velvetcadence

The Sleeping Beauty in the Ivory Tower by ximeria

Drawing by thacmis

The Sleeping Beauty Android AU with the original prompt by trobador with a gif set by starrose17, a ficlet by aesc and a comic by palalife

Sleepless in Seattle

Fic by Gerec

Snow White

Love while the night still hides the withering dawn by Kairin16

Chibi by thacmis (fourth one)

Drawing and prompt by thacmis (crossdressing Charles)

Sound of Music

Family Business by cherik-mcbender

A Moonbeam In Your Hand by alphabetotter

The Sound Of Music by Gerec

Drawings by amimochi

Star Trek

Resistance Is Futile by professor

The Trouble with Telepaths by endingthemes

Drawing by jeusus

Star Wars

200 words fic with jedi!Charles and sith!Erik by bad-luck-blue-eyes

Across The Stars by anon (kid!Charles and kid!Erik)

Across The Stars by Gerec

Across The Stars (The Blue-eyed Jedi Remix) by Nostalgic_Kitty

NEW Fic by cherik-prompt

Ficlet with Leia!Erik and Han!Charles by niniblack

Got a Lead Brain ; It’s a Battle Magnet by letosatie

I Promised You Life by Sperare

Lonely Hearts Club by scrapbullet

X-Men VI : Return of the Jedi (comic) by Thacmis

Drawing with both of them jedi by Thacmis which inspired this ficlet by Pangea

Drawing of Padme!Charles and Anakin!Erik by Thacmis which inspired this ficlet by Pangea

Drawings by GQD

Photoset and prompt by liveanddiefortissimo

Manip by Sasheenka

NEW Steven Universe

Moodboards by ittakun

NEW Stranger Things

Moodboards by ittakun

Supernatural

Without You I’m Nothing by PippinPips

Tarzan

Into The Jungle by madneto

Tarzan by Schach

Drawing by allenfung

Manip by lprock

Titanic

Untitled Ficlet by Ikeracity

Titanic AU Snippets (orphan account)

An inktober drawing by Thacmis

A photoset by Sasheenka and Another edit here

A photoset by

Tomb Raider

On Hearts and the Finding of Lost Treasures (The Tombs and the Raiding Thereof Remix) by luninosity

Tombs and the Raiding Thereof by professor

Treasure Planet

To Rattle the Stars by Pangea with drawings by GQD

Tron

Inside the grid (fanart) by spaceAltie

NEW Warm Bodies

Fanarts by GQD

Waterworld

The Lonely Sea and the Sky by Black_Betty

The X-Files

Drawing by drawsbutnotreally

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(Credit goes to JWBtheUncanny on Deviantart)

R.O.W. Ash Ketchum's Ultra-Suit

Here is something for the Reign of Water Storyline going on in the Pokemon World, While Earth has become a Waterworld because of the Death of Poseidon and his powers now Belong to the Queen of the Oceans, It's having an effect on Mermaid Colonies on the many Worlds in the Anime Multi-verse, The Pokemon World is one of them, With the Seven Mermaid Princesses (From Mermaid Melody) Establishing there Forming Empire on the Pokemon world with not just the Panthalassa, But other Aquatic Ally Races. Ash Ketchum as you will know, is one of the Main Protagonists of the Storyline, During the Reign of Water Storyline on the Pokemon World (Return to the Temple of the Sea) Ash would Switch from his Sword & Shield cloths and back into his All Stars Memories Cloths since he has respect for the ones that made him the clothing (Cure Black and Cure White), but he would make the switch should he feel like returning to the Galar Region, While his Clone Satoshi remains in Alola as an Ultra-Guardian. What you are seeing here is Ash's Ultra-Suit that is the most advance version yet, With some of the best enhancements it can offer, Advance Combat, Re-enforced Armour with some Flexibility, a Built in Retractable Helmet that activates at will with his hat, Wearing the Helmet will allow Ash to Breath underwater with limitless supply of Air, And the Hat has a Built in Tracker in it so Ash can Look out for any Clues Activate a Detective mode, And it can alarm him if there's a Trap.

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Winners for the 45th annual Saturn Awards, honoring motion picture, television, home entertainment and live stage productions, were announced today at an exciting ceremony hosted by Aisha Tyler at the historic Avalon Theater in Hollywood and streamed across 8 online platforms.

 Leading the way with 6 Saturn Award wins was Marvel/Walt Disney Studio’s Avengers: Endgame which took home the awards for Best Comic-to-Motion Picture Release, Best Actor in A Film (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Film Production Design, Best Film editing, Best Film Make-Up, and Best Film Special/Visual Effects. Additional film acting awards went to Jamie Lee Curtis who won Best Actress for Halloween, Zendaya who took home the award for Best Supporting Actress in Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Josh Brolin who won Best Supporting Actor for Avengers: Infinity War.

Leading the way for television and streaming, HBO’s Game of Thrones took home 4 awards: Best Fantasy Television Series, Best Actress on a Television Series (Emilia Clarke), Best Supporting Actor on a Television Series (Peter Dinklage), and Best Performance by a Younger Actor on a Television Series (Maisie Williams.)

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2019 SATURN AWARDS FULL LIST OF WINNERS

* This year’s 16-month eligibility period includes projects publicly released from March 1, 2018, through July 7, 2019.

FILM:

BEST COMIC-TO-MOTION PICTURE RELEASE

Avengers: Endgame  Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

  BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM RELEASE 

Ready Player One                                                                             

Warner Bros. Pictures

  BEST FANTASY FILM RELEASE

Toy Story 4                                                                                        

Pixar Animation / Walt Disney Studios

  BEST HORROR FILM RELEASE

A Quiet Place                                                                                    

Paramount

  BEST ACTION / ADVENTURE FILM RELEASE

Mission: Impossible – Fallout                                                            

Paramount

  BEST THRILLER FILM RELEASE

Bad Times at The El Royale                                                            

20th Century Fox

  BEST ANIMATED FILM RELEASE

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse                                                   

Sony Pictures

  BEST INDEPENDENT FILM RELEASE

Mandy                                                                                               

RLJ Entertainment

  BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM RELEASE

Burning                                                                                               

Well Go USA

  BEST ACTOR IN A FILM

Robert Downey Jr.                 

Avengers: Endgame                          

Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

  BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM

Jamie Lee Curtis                    

Halloween                                          

Universal

  BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM

Josh Brolin                             

Avengers: Infinity War                       

Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

  BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM

Zendaya                                 

Spider-Man: Far From Home            

Marvel / Sony Studios

  BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNGER ACTOR

Tom Holland                           

Spider-Man: Far From Home            

Marvel / Sony Pictures

  BEST FILM DIRECTOR

Jordan Peele                          

Us                                                     

 Universal Pictures

  BEST FILM SCREENPLAY

Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski                                       

A Quiet Place

Paramount

  BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN

Charles Wood                        

Avengers: Endgame                         

Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

  BEST FILM EDITING

Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt                                                         

Avengers: Endgame

Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

BEST FILM MUSIC

Marc Shaiman                       

Mary Poppins Returns                       

Walt Disney Studios

  BEST FILM COSTUME

Michael Wilkinson                  

Aladdin                                               

Walt Disney Studios

  BEST FILM MAKE-UP

John Blake, Brian Sipe                                                                      

Avengers: Endgame

Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

  BEST FILM SPECIAL/VISUAL EFFECTS

Avengers: Endgame                                                                        

Marvel / Walt Disney Studios

TELEVISION AND STREAMING TELEVISION

  BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES

Supergirl                                                                                             

The CW

  BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES

Westworld                                                                                         

 HBO

  BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES

Game of Thrones                                                                               

HBO

  BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES

The Walking Dead                                                                             

AMC

  BEST ACTION / THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES

Better Call Saul                                                                                  

AMC

  BEST ANIMATED SERIES ON TELEVISION

Star Wars Resistance                                                                       

Disney Channel

  BEST ACTOR ON A TELEVISION SERIES

Sam Heughan                        

Outlander                                           

Starz

  BEST ACTRESS ON A TELEVISION SERIES

Emilia Clarke                         

Game of Thrones                              

 HBO

  BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ON A TELEVISION SERIES

Peter Dinklage                       

Game of Thrones                               

HBO

  BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ON A TELEVISION SERIES

Danai Gurira                          

The Walking Dead                            

AMC

  BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNGER ACTOR ON A TELEVISION SERIES

Maisie Williams                      

Game of Thrones                               

HBO

  BEST GUEST STARRING PERFORMANCE ON A TELEVISION SERIES

Jeffrey Dean Morgan             

The Walking Dead                             

AMC

  BEST STREAMING SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES

Marvel’s Daredevil                                                                             

Netflix

  BEST STREAMING SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION, & FANTASY SERIES

Star Trek: Discovery                                                                         

CBS All Access

  BEST STREAMING HORROR & THRILLER SERIES

Stranger Things                                                                                 

Netflix

  BEST ACTOR IN STREAMING PRESENTATION

Henry Thomas                       

The Haunting of Hill House               

Netflix

  BEST ACTRESS IN STREAMING PRESENTATION

Sonequa Martin-Green          

Star Trek: Discovery                         

CBS All Access

  BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN STREAMING PRESENTATION

Doug Jones                            

Star Trek: Discovery                        

 CBS All Access

  BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN STREAMING SERIES

Maya Hawke                          

Stranger Things                                 

Netflix

  HOME ENTERTAINMENT

  BEST DVD / BD RELEASE

King Cohen                                                                                        

La La Land

  BEST DVD / BD CLASSIC FILM RELEASE

2001: A Space Odyssey (4K)                                                            

Warner

  BEST DVD / BD SPECIAL EDITION RELEASE

Waterworld Limited Edition                                                                

Arrow

  BEST DVD / BD COLLECTION RELEASE

Universal Classic Monsters 30 Film Collection                                

Universal

  BEST DVD / BD TELEVISION MOVIE OR SERIES RELEASE

The Outer Limits (Season 1 and 2)                                                  

Kino Lorber Studio Classics

  LOCAL LIVE STAGE PRODUCTION

  BEST LOCAL LIVE STAGE PRODUCTION

Puppet Up! Uncensored                                                                    

Henson Alternative

Full List of Saturn Awards 2019 Winners Winners for the 45th annual Saturn Awards, honoring motion picture, television, home entertainment and live stage productions, were announced today at an exciting ceremony hosted by Aisha Tyler at the historic Avalon Theater in Hollywood and streamed across 8 online platforms.

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Saying ‘okonomiyaki is like pizza,’ is like saying ‘basketball is like Earth.’ They have a similar shape but otherwise have nothing in common. Telling tourists (foreigners) that it is like pizza will lead to immense disappointment. No cheese, no bread, no tomato sauce. Or, it is like pancakes? Don’t get me started.

I am not a huge fan of okonomiyaki, top, so I got the Korean dish and octopus salad, bottom.

I visited Osaka again this week, famous for okonomiyaki and tacoyaki. I have been there a few times but this time I visited Universal Studios Japan (USJ). An overall review would be that it is not a dreamland like Chiba Tokyo Disneyland and Chiba Tokyo Disneysea but instead has some darker content like Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, and Chucky’s Horror Factory and maybe less attention to detail around the park that I could tell. As a man I am more familiar and interested in this set of movies as well. And the plethora of Coca-Cola advertising over the 9 hours got to us buy one bottle at about 2.5X the regular cost of one outside of the park. I then craved another the next day but managed to resist the urge – not too difficult for someone who drinks less than 10 bottles per year.

Halloween Horror Nights Unofficial: The Story and Guide 2017

My favorite attractions, because I am already a fan, were the Waterworld show, Jurassic Park – The Ride, and Terminator 2:3-D. Waterworld was a huge surprise. Big production, intense, epic, and made me want to watch the movie again. Very cool. Jurassic Park The Ride was short but awesome – perhaps supported by my watching the original movie more than a dozen times. Terminator 2, similarly, I have watched around a half-dozen times and have watched each of the installments more than once. This is quite an old attraction that probably came soon after the original movie release with original footage from the actual actors in their same ages at that time, but it was new to me and added a new layer to the story. And with a cool ending!

I believe this to be an exclusive university in Harry Potter.

For ride enjoyment, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, The Amazing Spider-Man – The Ride 4K3D, and Jaws were my favorites for the thrill (for a non-rollercoaster-rider). I had seen one Harry Potter movie, the second-last one, and felt that I had wasted my time. The ride on the other hand was pretty enjoyable despite me not being well versed in the story. The Spiderman ride was more themed in the level of animated comic books or perhaps a cartoon that I am not very familiar with. This ride was quite memorable where at one point it successfully tricked my brain into thinking that we were physically flying through the air. I have yet to see Jaws but will add it to the list now after the cool ride. For the other attractions, maybe next time! We had perfectly lined up the timing to do the Night Parade and Halloween Horror Night but out of travel convenience caught a flight back in the evening from the closer Osaka (ITM) airport (vs KIX).

Deluxe room with a nice desk, the New Testament, The Book of Mormon, and Buddhist discipline.

I used my SPG/Marriott loyalty points to get one night at the Westin Osaka, as the lower level hotels around were the same pricepoint at 35,000, but the Westin was the closest in the hotel group to USJ. After vaguely recalling something about a pool in the hotel, I saw no mention of it inside of the hotel where I would normally look: the list of things on each floor, and all of the in-room paper materials. After checking out the gym, I found that there was indeed an elusive pool. I had to ask the staff whether it truly existed and it did, behind the locker room. While I had seen that the pool closed at 10:00pm, we arrived for a dip at 9:15pm only to find out that the last entry was at 9:00pm each night. I had even confirmed during the day by texting them through the app that we could rent bathing suits for less than ¥500. I refused to let this taper the excitement of our romantic birthday getaway so we proceeded to the in-room bathtub to learn that there was no bubblebath. It was BYOBB: Bring Your Own Bubble Bath to the Westin. This escalated to a complaint to the front desk. While the pool couldn’t be accessed (and also costs ¥4,000 per entry), nor could bubblebath be found, the manager offered an upgrade from our Deluxe room to an Executive suite with a jacuzzi and brilliant corner views of Osaka. We decided to forego the pool and Deluxe room, and make do with the Executive suite with a jacuzzi! We also decided to burn the candle at both ends.

The upgraded room was fantastic. If I had to make a comment it would be that it looked dated, especially the carpets, and turns out that it was built in 1993. And somehow, whether the furniture or the layout, something reminded me of the psychological horror movie 1408. Nevertheless, that is my first time getting a hotel upgrade, and a 100m2 suite, and it was thoroughly enjoyed.

1408?

I could get used to this.

Maybe there is a deeper level to this trip: Nostalgia. I grew up in the ’90s. The Westin Osaka hotel was built in 1993, USJ in 2001 (designed in the ’90s?), Waterworld movie released in 1995, Jurassic Park 1993, Terminator 2 1991. And while I had unfortunately missed Chucky’s Horror Factory, I had seen the movies back in the day: Child’s Play 2 1990, 3 1991, Bride of Chucky 1998.

I will have to brainstorm other ’90s-set travel excursions.

Traveling through time Saying 'okonomiyaki is like pizza,' is like saying 'basketball is like Earth.' They have a similar shape but otherwise have nothing in common.

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WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, July 30, 2018

The following is a transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for July 30, 2018.

Hi, I’m Angela Godwin for WaterWorld magazine, bringing you water and wastewater news headlines for the week of July 30. Coming up…

Singapore start-up launches 3D-printed membranes Monitoring algal blooms with AI technology Finding precious metals in wastewater just got easier China makes progress on water quality but has far to go

    Nano Sun, a water technology start-up founded by a scientist from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, has launched a 3D-printing facility to manufacture a new type of water treatment membrane.

Nano Sun’s process 3D-prints millions of nanofibers layered on top of each other, compressed into a thin membrane.

  The result is a membrane with a pollutant rejection rate comparable to traditional polymer membranes, but with a faster water flow rate.

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  Nano Sun says the new membrane is also more resistant to breakage and biofouling.

  Two of Singapore’s largest semiconductor manufacturers will be among the first customers to use the membrane, as well as a new municipal wastewater treatment plant in China. 

    Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed artificial intelligence software that can identify and quantify different kinds of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae.

The system uses software in combination with a microscope to automatically analyze water samples for algae cells.

The inexpensive process takes about one to two hours, as opposed to one to two days for the traditional method of sending samples out to labs for manual analysis.

Since testing can be done more quickly and frequently, the AI software could provide an early warning system for potential cyanobacteria threats.

The researchers believe the technology could make monitoring at water treatment plants cheaper and easier — and help safeguard public health.

  Wastewater contains an abundance of resources, even precious metals like gold and platinum.

But it can be difficult to analyze wastewater for these elements, especially if they are in very low concentrations.

Scientists from Japan’s Kanazawa University and Fukushima University have developed a compact and portable instrument that is able to analyze wastewater samples for gold, platinum and palladium in just 15 minutes.

The underlying technology combines liquid-electrode plasma-optical emission spectrometry with a solid-phase extraction system.

In tests, it led to the recovery of more than 95% of precious metals from both reference and actual samples.

  China’s environment ministry said last week that overall water quality in the country has improved in the first half of this year.

About 70% of the groundwater samples were within acceptable limits for human use – -that’s up from about 68% last year.

But progress is slow, particularly in more rural areas that lack the financial resources to invest in infrastructure improvement. 

Environmental officials in China estimate an investment need of about $148 billion dollars to implement necessary wastewater treatment and conveyance systems — including some 250,000 miles of sewage pipe.

Under China’s comprehensive “Water Ten Plan” released in 2015, the amount of badly polluted water in urban areas is not to exceed 10%. Cities have until 2020 to meet that goal.

  For WaterWorld magazine, I’m Angela Godwin. Thanks for watching.

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