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[winstein-nin]

Mario Characters as Batman Villains 55 - Camelot Tennis Players & Golfers + Court of Owls

The following characters are represented as Talons, from left to right:

Kate (Mario Tennis GBC)

Ella (Mario Golf Advance Tour)

Plum (Mario Golf N64)

Clay (Mario Tennis Power Tour)

Joe (Mario Golf GBC)

Certain visible characters are represented as the ones wearing the owl masks in the background. They are, in no particular order: Shawn, Willy, Lime, Bud, Headmaster (Tennis), Kevin, Micki, Sean, Dweezil, Sammi (mostly obscured), Bean, Tiny, Elf, Rozary, and Kyoko

The owl masks are based on the Hootz from Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, which was a result of conducting a poll to see which owl from the Mario series should get represented (or use the original Court of Owls masks). The votes are in slight favour of Hootz, but Hoot from Super Mario 64 got some votes which I think could work due to its sad face.

This one. It took a long time to finish mainly because of the need to not only draw the Court of Owls represented by the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf original characters, but also the different Talons to represent the diversity of the assassins.

Essentially, the player characters were given the role of Talons, but with the golf and tennis twist where their weapons of choice are from golf and tennis, since they came from those games. Since these characters can level up (except Plum), they can be quite deadly after they are well-trained!

I think this is probably not perfect, especially the background where the shading isn't consistent (especially the left side). But I hope that it does the job in showing off this villain team.

After ten individual drawings starting from Boom Boom + Blockbuster, that's it for this batch! It will be a while before the next batch appears, in which it would include the Koopalings as one of them.

Thank you for reading.

[semisweetstuffs]

In my new video on Mario Golf: Advance Tour I advance through a tour and golf with Mario (except not really much of the last two.

Full video:

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🎥: iHeartRadioCA | youtube

Osheaga || 08/04/2024

[suppermariobroth]

2004 French print ad for Mario Golf: Advance Tour.

Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: Consoles+ (France), Issue 153, 2004

[thepipeplaza]

Fact: Bowser takes part in sporting events, such as Mario Golf and Mario Tennis tournaments, so he can defeat his arch-enemy Mario. Bowser designs his own courses and stadiums to this end.

When he’s not invited, Bowser often attempts to gatecrash the events with his minions.

Source(s):

Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64), Camelot Software Planning website

[nintendometro]

The American commercial for 'Mario Golf: Advance Tour' on the Game Boy Advance. Support us on Patreon

[phannie-by-night]

This might be a weird take, but I was hoping that dnp would answer the questions on a yt video and not tour bc I’m not a huge fan of people asking their general audience for questions/content and putting it behind a paywall. Like Dan eventually uploaded WAD for free and it would be great if they did that for TITT as well, bc currently there’s the possibility that someone’s question gets picked and they aren’t able to go on tour to see it answered

[gremlinshatephilosophers]

It’s interesting hearing about this particular reject modernity/embrace tradition line in the show and how often Phil messes it up (but not every time?) because it seems like way too many times to be an accident, but also would be kind of hard to plan out messing it up differently with a different response every time? (It’s okay honey, doesn’t matter babe)

[dandp]

They're immediately so transparent in which theories are the juicy ones though so I guess Vegas really is gonna be something!

[lolo3hwriting]

The White Lily Greenhouse - How Would It Work?

Pure Vanilla Cookie has always been a favorite character to me because of his hobby of gardening. As someone who gardens as well as studies horticulture, it’s fun to see all of the gardens and plants he has in the story. The most notable example for me is the White Lily Greenhouse because it plays such an important role in Pure Vanilla’s character and story. He built it as a place to relax and to enjoy the white lilies he loves so much. But it made me wonder, how in the world would he manage it? Realistically it would take a lot of effort, and considering it's a private greenhouse within his castle, Pure Vanilla would most likely take care of it all alone.

Before I get into anything, I wanted to talk about the specific type of lilies that Pure Vanilla grows. The character White Lily Cookie is based on lilies in general, but most significantly the Madonna Lily. However, I couldn’t find much information about growing Madonna Lilies (Lilium candidum) in greenhouses specifically, so most of the information I have is from growing Easter Lilies (Lilum longiflorum) or lilies (Genus Lilum) in general in greenhouses. The growing requirements are mostly the same, but might have a few slight differences.

Specific Requirements for Growing Lilies and Greenhouses

(Diagram of a bulb, image taken from here)

So first, I wanted to explain briefly about the morphology of lilies and how that impacts their management. Most lilies grow from bulbs, which are specialized structures made up of a short fleshy stem enclosed by thick, fleshy leaves. At the bottom of a bulb is the base plate where the stem, leaves, and roots grow from. One way to propagate lilies is through bulblets (also called bulbils), small bulbs that grow from the base plate, which can be removed and planted on their own. However, the most common way is through bulb scales where the first (and sometimes second) outer portion of the leaf scales are removed and planted. But whatever the case, both the bulblets and bulbs scales need to go though some period of cold temperatures to break their dormancy. This means you can plant them in the fall and let them stay over the winter, or you could put them in a refrigerator to chill. Considering the Vanilla Kingdom is in a mountainous region and high up in the sky, I’m sure they can be put outside before transferring them to the greenhouse.

Heating and lighting are two important factors in making lilies grow well. Lilies need full sun, which is about 6 hours per day. Generally a south facing greenhouse will have more light exposure, otherwise you may need artificial lighting. Lilies will start growing when temperatures are warm enough, so greenhouses usually aim for 60 F, but they can also grow well up to 75 F. I'll discuss how heating and lighting might work for the white lily greenhouse.

Although lilies are perennials and bloom year after year if you maintain them, most ornamental gardens will plant new bulbs every year because old bulbs won’t produce as much or as big flowers as younger bulbs do. This would mean Pure Vanilla would have to dig up old bulbs and plant new ones every year, unless he has some type of special magic that will make them bloom as big and numerous consistently.

Weeding and pest management are always something to keep in mind with greenhouses, but if you don't let them become a problem then it's pretty easy to deal with. Proper sanitation like removing weeds before they produce seeds, removing plant debris and dead plants, and having clean growing media will all help prevent problems. I think Pure Vanilla is vigilant enough to do all of that.

Historical Greenhouses

(A classic greenhouse from England, image taken from here)

In the past, greenhouses were heated just by the sun or with additional heating like furnaces, hot water, or steam. This meant that temperature control was not very precise and had to be fiddled with in order for the greenhouse to be properly heated. If this was the case, I think there would have been some type of boiler specifically for the greenhouse situated at a higher elevation so that the hot water/steam could be carried by gravity into the greenhouse. Water for irrigation had to be brought in unless you had a nearby water pump. Carrying water in would have taken a lot of effort, not to mention that you would have to do watering by hand, which would have been tedious for one person. However, I doubt that Pure Vanilla would mind with his patient nature and enthusiasm for gardening.

The cost of glass and steel to build the greenhouse itself would have been expensive. But taking into account that Pure Vanilla was a king, he probably didn’t have much trouble with the cost of construction or equipment. 

The Vanilla Kingdom is based on Germanic countries, and those countries have a long history of using greenhouses. During the 16th and 17th centuries places like England, France, Italy, and the Netherlands had greenhouses to grow exotic plants that they collected. So the locale and inspiration for the kingdom lines up.

The Modern Approach

(A modern Dutch style greenhouse, image from here)

Considering the Vanilla Kingdom had the waffle bots and advanced technology, it would be reasonable that Pure Vanilla could have access to more modern greenhouse technology similar to what we have today. Things like automatic misting systems, electrical and gas powered heating, and artificial greenhouse lighting. Not to mention all the sensors and timers that can help automate things. However, I’ve seen greenhouses built pretty recently that still use hot water pipes to heat the greenhouse and manually watering their plants. Seeing that Pure Vanilla is more old fashioned and traditional, he could have also run his greenhouse using old school methods. 

Of course, all of this can be hand waved with magic but I like to think that the creation of spells is also considered special techniques that have to be learned and trained. I'm sure that Pure Vanilla or even White Lily Cookie could have developed some type of specialized magic to grow plants easier, similar to how in real life new technology is constantly being developed in order to more efficiently grow plants.

Sources:

https://wyoextension.org/publications/html/B1185R/

[nateezfics]

was on twitter earlier, and saw a fancall convo from today between an atiny and hongjoong. the atiny asked will the world tour be this year or next year, and you wanna know what our captain said?? “after coachella i don’t know what will happen” “i hope it will be this year” ….

uh 😀

[lunar-years]

Those posts that sometimes go around Twitter claiming the problem with Taylor is that she “still acts like a teenager and pretends to be a teen pop star on stage” are so funny for a number of reasons (being that they’re crazy) but the number one to me is that it always boils down just to the fact that they don’t think she can dance. They post a 5 second clip of her flipping her skirt to fearless on the eras tour and then criticize her for “not acting grown” …Like just say you don’t think she can dance why are you making this into this whole insane thing. Bye.

[klunsgod]

PSJ: Mario Golf: Advance Tour

i am the first person ever to ever make a joke about the handheld Mario sports titles where they actually looked inside the game

it's important to know that the GBC/GBA games are RPGs; they have a story. but the MarioWiki doesn't have a story section for them so it's not in the public conscience

Mario Golf for the GBC ends with the player being sent back to their world, but they're not allowed to celebrate their win: in the world the player's from, every golfer's dream is to beat Mario. if they found out Mario was beaten, the dream/love for golf is destroyed and nobody will ever play golf again

a win in my book tbh

[thepipeplaza]

Fact: Bowser has a romantic infatuation with Princess Peach, which, in part, prompts him to kidnap her. 

Peach doesn’t reciprocate his advances, often being upset by his actions, but treats him kindly when he’s civil, inviting him to events and supporting his good deeds.

[schnaf]

23 days until gaon's 23nd birthday

day 4 - jungsu-hyung ♥

[nintendometro]

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