#apparently I'm serving

[spidybaby]

ur flop era is lowkey serving

what?

[rockpaperscissuhs]

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH + BAND OF BROTHERS:

ANTONIO C. "TONY" GARCIA

Born October 15th, 1924, in Inez, Texas

Died August 18th, 2005 (age 80), in Burlingame, California

Tony Garcia was born in Texas but he grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. His parents were from Mexico and had immigrated separately into the States. Tony and his siblings grew up speaking English and Spanish. He decided to drop out of high school in order to enlist, and even borrowed a friend's prescription medicine to cover up a heart murmur for his Army physical. He was accepted for training in 1943, and he served as a Technician 5th Grade with Easy Company from Holland all the way through the end of the war. After the war, Tony returned to Cheyenne where he finished high school, then he moved to San Francisco, working and attending college. Later, he met his wife, Nancy, and started a family. They were married nearly 60 years, and had four children together. When he wasn’t working at the department store warehouse which he managed for three decades, he enjoyed spending time with his family, traveling, dancing, and reading. He was described as a kind, generous, and gentle man, with a “playful sense of humor that belied his quiet demeanor.” The Band of Brothers series bible describes him as “very gung-ho and game” and a “family man and extremely compassionate.” He kept in touch with several of his friends from Easy, and he participated in many Easy Company reunions and events in the U.S. and in Europe. His family has said that he was very reluctant to talk about his combat experiences, but he did like to talk about the people he met, and the families who helped him. Appears in Episodes 3-5 and 7-10, portrayed by actor Douglas Spain

Sources below

SF Gate Obituary for Antonio Garcia

[moregraceful]

Whole body in excruciating pain from gymnastics yesterday. Need someone to remove all my muscles, put them through a wash-dry-iron cycle. Have not been this happy about my meatsuit in months. "Doesn't that mean you're too weak to the do the events" NO it means I was trying

[kalosian-woods]

Clemont is just really funny in general i think. he's just like that, realistically theres so much to unpack about him;

he made an entire invention where he spoke to the mayor and was spread out across the town of the uni he was in which he got in at the age of maybe like 8.

he's a gym leader. he lost his gym to his invention,

there was the slightest chance he could've been mind controlled.

his bag is a bag of holding

he can't run

his entire mental state is the way it is because of a single mistake that wasn't even his fault

There's so much to unpack about him and the creators were like; "yeah anyways!"

okay but seriously, i think we as a fandom neglect the fact that if it wasn't for Clemont's anxious(???) paranoid(???) quick thinking(???) overly prepared(???) he probably he would've gotten mind controlled. like what was up with that.

-⚡(you can call me clem anon! its also just really funny and the fact that i've so far only exclusively talked about him makes it even funnier. electric anon is okay too !)

Clemont is his own bag of holding lol, there really is SO MUCH with him and I'm shaking you on the shoulders rn clem nonnie. Please. How is it possible that there is so much to him as it is. I need to study him under a microscope.

With the first point, that always made me laugh in a way lol. Him at the age of possibly eight created a power source slash Electric Pokemon recharger for a whole town/city. The mayor has noticed his efforts. This is before he is a Gym Leader, and this is the place where he made the promise to Shinx (a promise that he broke, not by any fault of his own, but by the very thing that brought them together in the first place).

The way he actually just straight up lived in Prism Tower, or at least that's how it felt, along with Bonnie. Their father is in the same city with a house but they won't bother with that and he doesn't bother them until they are MIA for at the very least a few weeks if not months. His reasoning for being a Gym Leader is to wield Electric Types from every region and become an Electric-Type Trainer that the world has never seen. The fact that he can be this ambitious with battling gets me (and also his learning from school carrying over c':)

His bag is also a mechanical marvel (not Volcanion, sorry). His Aipom Arm has only malfunctioned once (1 time), and he's easily able to lift Bonnie into the air with it. Also we never see this beyond the first ep but it has an inflatable airbag??? That is actually safe and comfortable to land on even with the everything in his bag as it is.

Even after the whole series and after everything they've ever went through, he still cannot run. Only one time he has ever sprinted ahead (in this realm/dimension) and that was to get to a festival about Zapdos of all Pokemon (and maybe that inventing fair as well??). No one comments on it beyond that one moment. He's also tried to make shoes to help him go up hills quicker but he never tried that one again lol (he forgot he even had it until Serena mentions the monorail, in which also, wow. this gang i swear).

That's actually one of the saddest parts (and something I can totally relate with). The way that we see him so happy and open with Shinx beforehand, ready to learn and be hands on and playing outside even with all the work that he had. And then we hear about how he lost his Gym, how his Pokemon disregard his words and his invention doesn't see him as worthy or strong enough, and it really is him just living out a nightmare of his own making in a way. His fear from back then keeps haunting him with the mistakes that he makes now, and even after meeting with Luxio again you can see the way he just... accepts that he's no longer wanted or forgiven. He's fine with it. He rather everyone have a better life than he does. Just,, he needs a hug. Lots of them.

HELP PLS you've said exactly what I've been thinking off this whole time!! Geez, I thought I was alone in thinking that we brush off whatever happened to Clemont in 'The Needs of Many!' like I get that we lose Greninja, but hello? He got straight-up kidnapped right in front of our eyes! He was going to be made into a superhuman (which has some very very worrying connotations beyond what is already happening). He too was blasted by the Mega Evo Energy, and even if he did resist the mind control, there's got to be other effects as well. If his friends weren't OP and reckless as they were he would've actually been carted away to who knows where and it would've been a matter of time until his preventive measures were found out. And the way he already had a counter against it, against the beam specifically (and for it to be able to work without any issues) is also so sad and worrying in a way?? It's definitely paranoia to me, it was very specific (more than usual, anyways), small enough to hide and easy enough for him to grab. Poor boy :(( I need to just sit down and think every time I remember this is an ep that exists because they just went ham with it, didn't they??

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

my mother, seeing that an episode was going to air on pbs, innocently asked me a question about bbc sherlock.

thirty minutes later, she told me that she regretted asking.

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

[daz4i]

me, jokingly: i'm old

nephew: no you're not! you're not even an adult

niece: yes, you're not a father yet

me: and i probably won't be one 😳

nephew: why not? 🥺

me: it's just not for me!

nephew: nonsense. you're gonna find a girl and-

niece: and you'll get married!

nephew: and then you'll have kids!

and then my sister in law started losing it laughing from hearing this conversation,

[cienie-isengardu]

I'm kinda weirded out that Bi-Han scars his brother and people act like him being a little mean to Tomas is his worst deed and he deserves to die for it or something. Bi-Han doesn't owe Tomas any love or respect. You don't have to like someone just because daddy said so.

I totally agree that hating Bi-Han for not liking or loving Tomas as a brother is pretty wild take on his character, because he did not ask for such a bond, the same as Tomas did not ask to be orphaned and adopted into Grandmaster’s family. Both were forced into a situation created by adults that apparently couldn’t act appropriately to the situation (e.g. killing Tomas’ mother and sister when the family accidentally trespassed on Lin Kuei territory and Grandmaster adopting Tomas out of shame / to save his honor rather than out of love/care for the boy). 

What is even weirder to me, Kitana and Mileena had in previous timeline(s) bitter relationship yet I don’t see fandom to hate original/alternative MK9!Kitana for rejecting Mileena ("You are not my family... you are a monstrosity!") and looking down on her because of Tarkatan blood (“[Shang Tsung] has created horrid replicas of me crossbred with Tarkatan blood!”). People apparently can acknowledge that Kitana was thrown into “sisterhood” she did not ask and the creation of “twin sister” happened out of her control and knowledge while also understanding it was no Mileena’s fault for acting and looking the way she was because it was how she was specifically created. If fandom can accept and support Kitana’s choice of rejecting “sister” on the spot without any empathy to look at the situation from her perspective AND AT THE SAME TIME can feel sorry for Mileena, then the similar treatment should be given to Bi-Han and Tomas, as they were presumably children who adapted to the unfamiliar situation in their own ways. However the main difference between those two scenarios is that Mileena is the “psycho” (so Kitana is excused for not wanting her as a sister) while MK1!Smoke is the personality-wise castrated version of MK9!Tomas who for whatever reason is now the fandom’s Cinnamon Roll that never did anything wrong and anyone who doesn’t melt at the sight of this cutie IS BIG MEANIE, boo!

A character not loving fans’ favorite does not commit a crime however fandom wants to present it as unquestionable proof of said character’s evilness. Fictional or real life, people are allowed to not like each other as the definition of family will vary from culture to culture, and from one person to another - it does not however allow anyone to abuse other people, but that should go without saying.

Bi-Han said mean things to Tomas, and Kuai Liang for that matter. He in general treated others in a similar, cold fashion. But objectively speaking he did much more questionable things over the course of the story, yet people are fixated on Smoke’s feelings alone - and to be honest, I'm not even surprised anymore by that.

But you know what frustrates me the most about fandom’s perception of Bi-Han and Tomas relationship? The amount of fanwork presenting Bi-Han as always mean, always abusive to the poor poor little Tomas which is not just the best proof the fandom is set to demonize kid Bi-Han for his adult self’s choices. It is the whole implication that Grandmaster and the Mother and like everyone involved in raising the brothers, all the masters and teachers did not act to prevent it from happening nor cared to correct Bi-Han’s action. And the most sick thing about that? Children imitate the behavior of adults. Do people really think that kid Bi-Han started saying "Lin Kuei blood only" bullshit out of his mind just to spit in the pitiful orphan's face? Like, really?

Stupid beliefs like that come from somewhere and children are taught by their parents and adult people around what “values” and traditions they should respect and follow. We literally know just three Lin Kuei characters and the fact that only Kuai Liang and Tomas rejected Sub-Zero’s leadership while the clan followed their Grandmaster implies Bi-Han’s beliefs are accepted and shared by the clan. So maybe instead of being so set on demonizing kid!Bi-Han - who so far was only said to be “always cold” to Tomas what is not equal to being abusive and cruel on purpose - maybe it is time for fandom to examine previous Grandmaster and the whole clan’s beliefs that A) were passed to Bi-Han to mold him into man he is today and B) apparently fucked up Tomas’ childhood so much.

[supercantaloupe]

kind of crazy that i went to see a new doctor fully expecting to hear the usual spiel of "you need to diet and exercise and lose weight more. we will not consider different medication options. go do more blood tests" and instead this one just say yeah what you're doing now is fine actually. i'm not worried. testing that much is overkill. maybe eat some more protein but otherwise just keep doing whatever you're doing

[ktiseos]

i legitmately jaw drop emojied in real time when i saw this random taobao JSK posted in a reddit comment section. are you KIDDING me... i need her so bad it's not even funny

[mirchloe]

i want to get back to writing b-movie soon, so i was thinking about a couple early inspirations. spoiler warning for some critical scenes and the "final boss" of bobby's mind.

so, zilchmare! he had his name planned out from the very beginning. for visuals, i had a mix of perfect chaos from sonic adventure and the executioner from alice: madness returns. the immensity "monstrosity" of chaos, with his many watery tendrils, mingled with the overall gore and decay of the executioner. the "cavernous maw" he had to imprison bobby was inspired by various stomach mouths, which zilchmare has a lot of all over his body. i wanted him to be extremely visceral, an entity you would never want to meet, something that lurks in the dark corners of the mind and manifests when untreated/left to grow. amalgamating all sorts of disgusting parts of his body, like his innards basically being congealed guts, was a "sequel" to the memory maze - and while zilchmare didn't construct that, he basically took that in on himself once he trapped bobby in his body. by devouring everything, such as all the memory vaults, he had complete access to them to torment bobby with - along with bobby being unable to stop thinking about his past mistakes, like how the screens would turn on when raz confronted him about how long he planned it or when the scene of ambassador and strongman started laughing at him. also, he, naturally, took on the visage of a pn1 nightmare to the extreme! that came from bobby's severe lack of sleep, how thoughts can keep a person up a night, and the utterly warped visage of him is...well, he's still hiding something that's been hinted at!

speaking of the archetypes, in particular, there was a page in the umineko episode 4 manga that served as partial inspiration for the moment when they laugh and taunt bobby while he struggles with the chainsaw embedded in him.

for context, the clump of meat is ange, who served her role as bernkastel's piece, and she was just tortured to death before their eyes after breaking lambdadelta's rule. the pair of eyes are the bottom are battler, her brother, who did not witness her graphic death. while battler was horrified and begged to know what happened to her, bern and lambda impassively stare at ange's remains, i was really gripped by the presentation of this page and the imagery of them being reflected in battler's eyes - in this case, it was a visual that i had in mind was how raz would react to the archetypes guffawing and sneering at bobby as he bled out and writhed. just genuine terror and shock and a complete state of frozen disgust that they could react with such glee as bobby suffers, all while raz is unable to figure out what to do next, to let his anger bubble over until he's had enough of the archetypes and their cruelty. before that, like battler, he's petrified by what's happening around him and the overall malice. what i really liked about these panels was the silence, the realization seeping in that bern and lambda are just treating ange like her visual: just a piece of meat, just a piece used and discarded. how they look down on her was how i imagined ambassador examining bobby after his initial shock subsides, allowing him to drink in the complete failure of bobby's scheme, and revel in the aftermath - then pulling in strongman with a similar reaction, as both of them had been severely mistreated by bobby and had his faults pushed on them/served as an outlet of bobby's frustrations under the threat of erasure. for ambassador, it's justification on an unbelievably vile scale, and raz can't stomach it without lashing out and putting a stop to it. for a more general inspiration, i was thinking about bobby's mind in a way earlier twitter thread that i can't find right now. i had some ideas that the regrets would hold crts playing the memories, but i'm glad i went with the memory vaults containing crts. it felt more in the vibe of the movie bobby desperately wants to film. having no other mental entities was pretty important to me as another visual of bobby having nothing left, that his self-loathing and self-destruction have metaphorically and literally ate everything, leaving behind husks in the landscape or seemingly endless stretches in the desert. strongman and ambassador were also the only prominent fixtures in his mind as a result of him not really having anyone/pushing away others who offered help. not even whispering rock was spared because of his desire to go back and change it, but he knows he can't, and so, it was devoured, too - even then, the campers in his mind were already colored by his negative perception.

and music! the song that really compelled to give writing this long fic a shot was, probably surprising, find your flame from sonic frontiers. i didn't even know it was from the game when it autoplayed. i distinctively remember being in cvs buying some waters when the chorus hit, and i was immediately STRUCK with the mental image of raz taking down zilchmare with bobby inside of him. it was so strong that i couldn't get it out of my head and really started developing a general idea - that spiraled to 30+ chapters, and i'm glad it did! no way it was going to be finished in ten chapters lmao.

other songs that inspired it were you're going down by sick puppies, intertwined by dodie, it has to be this way by jimmy gnecco (yes, the mgs meme song, but it's a good song, and it was for the part where raz fights zilchmare), and relay by fiona apple. naturally, wolf in sheep's clothing by set it off, too, but i specifically think of the 2024 reborn vision since it sounds theatrical and fitting for bobby's b-movie (thunderous studio applause).

and while not exactly a full song, i will be so happy to admit the fucking. king k rool vs dk scene in return to krocodile isle had me in a death grip while writing raz and bobby in the memory vault maze. i recommend return to krocodile isle any day as a great animation in general, but the complete desperation for k rool to be acknowledged by dk GOT ME!!!! THINKING ABOUT BOBBY!!! HE DID ALL OF THIS RAZ!!!! IS HE ENOUGH FOR HIM NOW???? and in the end!!! it was for NOTHING!!!!! (but not really!! because in the end, raz stayed for him when he believed no one ever should, not with what he did.)

[ayakashibackstreet]

Wanna know something funny? When I saw the launch price for the Switch 2, I initially went 'aw, sweet! That's not much more than the OG Switch!'

(it's a v2 but that's how much I originally paid for my Switch near launch)

Then I started reading the discussion threads and I realised something was off. That's when it fucking hit me.

The OG Switch was $299? Did they seriously bump up the price that much for us, even though our minimum wage is way lower than the US minimum wage? (and no, it's not just VAT/EU stuff, even taking into account the taxes the price is still higher)

Man, gaming sure is fun, huh.

The only reason I was able to buy the OG Switch was because it launched around my 18th birthday and have a huge family. Everyone gave me a little something and I ended up racking quite a sum, decided to use the funds to get myself my first brand new console.

I'll be working full time soon. I will not be spending more than half my wage on a Switch 2. It's even worse for people in like, Latin America. I've seen the price comparisons there, it's a joke. The console is only priced reasonably within Japan. US Americans are complaining about the pricing, too, which is a bad sign. And physical games for up to $90?? I don't fucking think so, especially since Nintendo stuff hardly goes on sale.

Yeah, if I'll be buying anything, it will be a Steam Deck. And I think many people will pass on the new console, even if it has a new Mario Kart as a launch title. I think we might have another 3DS situation on our hands.

[paperlovesadness]

ALSO JUSTICE FOR JET SKIS

Last chance Alex. Last chance

[lesbiansforboromir]

oh OH hO spicey ohhh having a spicey little tantrum about the boromir tag don't listen to me at all do NOT listen I mean it I mean it this is so petty

[amberrockstar]

It is really embarrassing to realise one is no longer poor (there's a whole essay I could write about that statement). And to find oneself thinking about clothes in a way that's more than just "what can I afford with no budget that I can make fit the story I want my appearance to tell?"

And then embarrassing to realise that the reasons I'm embarrassed by that are mainly negative things, rooted in how a lot of us cope with being poor and in the misogyny + queerphobia + class stuff that makes aesthetics be seen as not meaningful and not art.

Anyway, my favourite paid friend* just called me out on some things and it turns out this maybe isn't just privileged whininess?

So, now I need you all to tell me:

If/how you've successfully rocked a unique aesthetic whilst living mainly from a capsule wardrobe. (And maybe tell me how big your capsule is, cos the internet has range on what counts as that.)

Where one finds clothes that aren't super cheap quality and are made to fit AFAB-and-not-on-HRT bodies. I'll worry about making them fit my gender expression once I find them.

* paid friend = therapists, coaches, and the like

[xproskeith]

Well it took 5 episodes for the show to finally make me go =/