#and frank jfc

[frnkiebby]

ray is kind enough to scootch down and give frank the height advantage. i love him~🎃

[veryaren]

shitposy. sorry I keep drawing them. U can cremate me or something....... I'LL DO SOMETHING ELSE SOON. PROMISE. I JUST NEED IDEAS 💔

+wb doodles under the cut.

[wheneverfeasible]

Just found out Cutthroat Island, the movie that should have made me realize I was a big fat queer long before I finally figured it out, is on Peacock.

Time to watch this movie on repeat again.

[lost-my-shape]

Just one more sleep, remember to leave out a plate of skirts and stockings for Gerard Way.

[leihaddock]

I’ve been reading PJO and then inadvertently stumbled into the fandom space here. And, now reading HoH, I’m slowly growing annoyed with the fandom. You all are aware those are children and teens right? Traumatised beyond belief. Full of hormones that sometimes make it hard to think let alone act rationally. Give them a fucking break

[earlycuntsets]

11/06/2005 carlington academy glasgow scotland

taken by elite_cru & dizzy angel on lj

[loppytaffy]

Thunderbolts Annual 2014

Not many notes; Wade still not over his self appointed Uncanny X-Force era Suicide Mission apparently.

Frank being Frank- killing Jotun and pimping out symbiotes (RIP Flash's ass apparently).

They did the thing

[m-rod-unofficial]

Michelle Rodríguez as Salgado || 3 A.M. (2001)

[lostryu]

all i did was literally block this guy bc i don’t think trans men can be butch. i never dmed, send an ask, or interacted with him at all and he’s out here accusing me because of it lol.

just as an fyi: butch is traditionally a lesbian identity, and is utilized in sapphic communities. if you’re a heterosexual man, which you are if you are a man solely attracted to women, you cannot be butch. butchness is all about subverting masculinity through a sapphic lens. simply use the term ‘masc’ or just. say you’re a trans man. you don’t need the butch modifier because it doesn’t make sense for you to use it as a man.

and the funniest thing is that by complaining about this. you ARE a lesbophobe. you poke fun at my pronouns, he/him, which if you claimed to know about the “butch history” you’re touting, you’d know that it’s fairly common for butches like myself to not use traditional feminine pronouns. you are so clearly talking over lesbians when it comes to their history of identity and sexuality.

on top of that, why would you claim i want you to stop taking T???? I’m on a low dose myself as i am trans masculine. if you’re a trans man keep on it and get those gains. just don’t fucking pretend like you have claim to the butch identity because you’re a man. it reeks of butchphobia, misogyny, and lesbophobia.

[frog-0n-a-l0g]

THE “a potato flew around my room before you came” MEME WAS A REFRANCE??? TO A SONG???

I CANNOT be js vibing to random songs when a bitch says “a tornado flew around my room before you came” AND RUIN MY LIFE????

[bayetea]

anyways I'm gonna be mad about every member of the prophecy 7 having 35+ povs in hoo while frank and hazel got under 30 forever

[frnkiebby]

i think i’ll always die over his goddamn arms~🎃

[thelamorakshow]

If Collin Farrell doesn’t play atlas/Fontaine in the Netflix bioshock movie is it really even worth watching?

I’m hesitantly excited for the bioshock movie because I feel like it could go so hard but has just as much if not more of a chance to flop so hard. as long as they get the casting right I think it’ll still be a fun watch. Please don’t fuck us Netflix

[violetreminder]

Happy Willamette Outbreak Day!

So today is the day where Frank West first arrives at the Willamette Parkview Mall, and as I start typing this it is in fact 11:27 AM, the exact time that Dead Rising 1 starts as Frank West is flown over Colorado. To celebrate I thought I'd write a little about Dead Rising 1's story and why it holds up so well even in comparison to its sequels bc I just love this game so much!

So then, what is the *deal* with Dead Rising? Well firstly it should be mentioned that this game came out in 2006, right in the middle of the mid-00's zombie craze. I say this because what sets Dead Rising apart from its numerous peers of "yet another piece of zombie fiction inspired by the works of Romero" is that Dead Rising is seemingly one of the few of these to actually understand Romero's films and their messages instead of just having zombies around because they're popular and scary. Specifically, those in "Dawn of The Dead", which it cribs to the point Capcom put disclaimers out saying that DR isnt associated with DotD.

The parallels are obvious: both stories revolve around people trying to survive in a shopping mall amid a zombie apocalypse using whatever is on hand not only against the zombified hordes, but fellow humans driven to extreme violence. Both also overtly critique American consumerism though Dead Rising takes the established themes from DotD and runs farther with them, but for more on that let's jump back a little bit to remember the plot to DR1

So in brief: Dead Rising tells the story of photojournalist Frank West, who flies to the quarantined town of Willamette, CO amid supposed 'civil unrest' to try and land a career-making scoop. Upon arriving at the town's shopping mall Frank is shocked to find out Willamette is overrun by zombies who soon-after overturn the barricades and flood into the shopping center. After a couple days of aiding/investigating a pair of DHS agents also trapped with him in the security room, Frank comes to realize the dark truth:

The Willamette outbreak is the result of a terrorist attack perpetrated in an act of revenge on the US government for a brutal coverup of the original zombie outbreak in the Central American town of Santa Cabeza, which occurred after US-backed researchers mutated a local species of parasitic wasp in an effort to increase cattle growth so as to sustain American eating habits. Frank at some point becomes infected, though with some help is able to synthesize a temporary cure. This lasts long enough for Frank to escape amidst the chaos of a military clean-up operation and reveal the truth about both Willamette and Santa Cabeza.

Again the parallels are clear, neither story is very subtle about the destruction consumerism causes, though Dead Rising goes a little farther to add a light colonialist aspect. While the origin of Dawn of the Dead's outbreak was an unimportant mystery serving only to set the scene, Dead Rising frames its zombies as an act of almost righteous comeuppance, the US "Finding Out" after "Fucking Around" in Santa Cabeza and the decades of US imperialism leading up to that, if you will. These themes also extend beyond just the shared vision of zombies shambling around a mall vacantly pushing shopping carts and into the world design of Dead Rising itself, for instance:

Dead Rising fans have remarked for almost two decades now that Willamette is a fairly small town for supposedly having a population over 50,000, and that even if this number holds true then the Willamette Parkview Mall is absolutely massive for a population that size. Honestly even just two of these plazas would likely still be too big [for reference, I live in a city of over 177,000 people and our main mall is about a quarter the size of Willamette Parkview Mall]

[above images taken from STiP0 on youtube, who has loads of great videos on DR1] While some of that may just be down to the scope of the game and what the developers were able to make/what they felt was strictly needed (Why model a whole town when youre only going to briefly see the zombie-filled main street before spending the rest of the game in The Mall) this also ends up serving the themes of 'the human cost of consumerism' even if by accident.

As stated by Frank's helicopter pilot in the prologue: The Mall seems to be the only notable spot in Willamette, hanging around its numerous plazas seems to be the only thing anyone in town ever does. Whats more, automated intercom announcements tell you that The Willamette Parkview Mall is only 3 years old by the time of the game. So while Willamette may not have had much before, any prior local identity has been totally wiped clean by the grand temple of consumption erected in its center.

Perhaps this is why Carlito chooses Willamette as the staging grounds for his grand plan of vengeance: this was a town that had no purpose but to aimlessly consume, with no thoughts given as to the suffering created in the wake of that consumption (for starters, one might ask how many local businesses and livelihoods were destroyed by The Mall?). A perfect microcosm of the stateside societal conditions that brought about the Santa Cabeza incident.

All of this to say that even if it is a bit heavy handed and unsubtle, Dead Rising 1 is well-grounded in those themes of the United States's over-consumption and its bloody struggle to maintain that level of avarice at the expense of the already impoverished. The military coming in to try and cover up the truth of Willamette and by extension further covering up Santa Cabeza underlines the latter.

Dead Rising is not always a serious game though, and in fact the majority of it is quite silly. Zombie hordes are treated largely as one big combination Stage Hazard/Meat Gag, you can clothe your Frank in ill-fitting kids clothes, dye his hair blond, and as you level up Frank learns a repertoire of moves straight out of professional wrestling that will see you decapitating zombies with backflip-kicks and ripping out their guts like you were in Mortal Kombat. What makes all that silliness really stick though is that the story never drops the dead-serious tone it opens with. Sure it has bits of humor here and there, and the seriousness of the cutscenes can be a little undercut when everyone is stone faced while Frank wears an oversized horse mask, but its that same dissonance that makes the game unforgettable. In my opinion a similar comparison to make would be to Saints Row 2, widely known for having a more serious and hard-hitting story in a game where you can hose people down with a septic truck in your free time. This comparison becomes even more apt in regards to the sequels to both titles sort of...missing that point and losing that identity, instead giving in to the chaos of the setting and making the world and its stories wackier with every installment to the detriment of the overall believability of the main plot. This might sound a bit ridiculous to say about a series where oversized wasp larvae zombify people (PLEASE do not ask me to explain how transmission works in this series) but throughout Dead Rising 1 once youre past the threshold of "Zombies are real" the rest of the plot and the world it takes place in all make sense for the most part, but by the time of Dead Rising 3 the world is mired in a stew of government and corporate conspiracies that makes Deus Ex look utopian by comparison.

[a solid example of Dead Rising 3 and its tone, though the issue there is less from the psychos and more that the setting has gone fully off the deep end by then] This isnt to say I dont like the sequels, in fact I think Dead Rising 2: Off The Record is the peak of the series in regards to gameplay, and maybe I'll do more writeups on the other entries [I wanted to get into more but this is already SO LONG] but the short of it is that Dead Rising 1 manages such a captivating balance between its ridiculous moment to moment gameplay and the dramatic weight of its setting all while not only holding on to the core themes of its greatest inspiration in Dawn of the Dead, but expanding upon those themes to make a stronger point of it than Romero did. Wow this went on longer than I'd thought. Its also come out way more coherent than I expected, but lemme wrap it up. I dont have the money for the Dead Rising Remake that came out today, but I've heard good things so far outside some performance issues, so maybe Capcom might be looking to bring Dead Rising back like they did with their other zombie-fest, Resident Evil. And maybe, just maybe, if we dream hard enough, they can retcon Dead Rising 4 like they should retcon RE6, but thats a writeup for another day. PS, to all Dead Rising fans: As someone who lives in the PNW, the game says Willamette wrong and it peeves me every time, its supposed to be pronounced "Wool-Lamm-Iht" not "Will-uh-met" but I know thats a losing battle.

[lapdogchase]

why is the mcr fandom so bad at Not Posting Hate Symbols. it seems really easy to me, personally, just stop reblogging/posting/liking pictures with hate symbols in them. why is this hard for people. like do they not know or do they just not care because we've had this conversation so many times that it's hard to imagine it's the first

[mrsmarlasinger]

Me when I start actually physically gagging because I can't stop thinking about how I fucked up my life so insanely bad it's unreal