#as it's the same principal

[ddagent]

John Sheridan is a lonely man. A former soldier, John is now mayor of Babylon, a small, self-contained island located squarely between several major nations. It’s a tourist destination, an ideal spot for wanderers, and the perfect place for retired diplomats. 

Diplomats like Delenn Mir - formerly of the Minbari government. She arrives in Babylon, hoping for a fresh start. Her book store is a welcome reprieve from the big chains moving onto the island, even if the local residents are skittish about the Minbari woman and their war-hero mayor. 

But John finds himself smitten with Delenn. He finds himself walking along the beach most evenings in her company, lost in her. They talk for hours, about everything and nothing. After so many years of being lost in the dark, they are finally found. 

[dixidin]

[the-silliest-lad]

Niko Sasaki’s death is not inherently tragic because she dies or because it’s sudden, even though it’s upsetting. Dead Boy Detectives is a show about 2 dead boys solving cases mostly centered around other ghosts, death isn’t an end in this world. Edwin even says “Take it from a ghost, no one is ever gone.” The reason her death is so tragic is because she was happy. She had spent so long self isolating in a state of grief because of her father’s passing, avoiding her mother completely. But now she has a support system, friends who love her, she’s even going to reconnect with her mom. She has Edwin and Charles and Crystal and Jenny (with her and Jenny’s bond slowly healing). But it was also these connections that led her to Esther’s home, and led her to her death. All of her newfound joy for life and the potential she had was all taken from her.

[marrelica]

Some of the pics from Sarajevo trip

[flowerbloom-arts]

You claimed that “it's like [Skinner] is just a kicked puppy sometimes and I wanna hug him” so could you maybe make something where he gets comforted please?

He needs a good cry so so bad...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[lynnbutlertron]

fuccking scudlertro n/.......... . GOD. if its not real by the end of season 2 i will throw a hissy fit equivalent to the one mr b pulled in season 1 over e cybo-pooch. ALSO the first one is a redraw from this VVVV

[bluebeerg]

my other lower effort road to cincinnati wkrp in cincinnati amv .. smiles

[lbctal]

[aetalk]

[magentagalaxies]

"tour of duty" (the filmed version of their 2002 tour) in general is just kind of a bizarre point for kids in the hall that i haven't really talked to any of them about but is hard not to notice when you look at their entire canon. like it's certainly good - there are some tour-original sketches that i highly enjoy and some live versions of filmed sketches that take a fun creative spin on it, but in general things just feel noticeably strange.

buddy cole specifically tells the fur trappers to "fuck off" (buddy very rarely swears and across all the buddy material i've watched for the documentary he's only said "fuck" 3 times across forty years). danny husk wins an award for being a high school vice principal and at&love isn't acknowledged in the bit. the "is he?" sketch has been revised to pack in as many euphemisms for gay as possible, putting the bit on top of another bit. and of course i have my chicken lady thoughts but i don't want to bias anyone else bc i genuinely want to know what your takes are before i share mine.

and again these aren't all bad choices - i think the danny husk vice principal monologue works really well and may not work as well as a different character despite contradicting the Husk Lore™️. but they're all very distinctive choices

idk there's two reasons i personally give for why tour of duty is so strange (to me at least, maybe other people don't notice). the first is that it comes less than 3 years after their other tour-film, the 1999/2000 tour "same guys new dresses" (also available on youtube!) i fucking love SGND and i'll be up front that it's my preferred kith tour video. but part of what makes SGND so special is that it's not just a recording of the live show, it's a full tour documentary following the guys traveling across the country performing together, occasionally showing full sketches but also delving into the stories behind why the sketches played out the way they did. and, sure, sometimes that means cutting out a sketch that i wish i could've seen in full (rip power of the suburbs) but my life is so much better for having seen the "laser eye surgery gossip" or knowing how much drama that goddamn robot-dog-prop caused.

so to then see tour of duty as a straight-up recording of the live show leaves that element of mystery, that we don't get to know why choices were made because we only see the end result. there was a conscious decision not to shoot tour of duty like SGND - the tour doc didn't do well financially, and they also had more of a reason to document that tour since it was their first time working together since the disastrous fallout of "brain candy," and first big national tour since the show ended. the circumstances were just very different

and that's true both personally and politically bc the second suspected reason for tour of duty's weird tone is you can obviously tell 9/11 just happened. two sketches directly reference it - bruce and mark's businessman characters sell scam patriotic products that are all just a rubber band, and buddy cole visits the middle east and ends up having sex with saddam hussein (tho fun fact this concept was written BEFORE 9/11). but the event casts an obvious shadow, especially since both the buddy cole bit and the danny husk monologue were recycled pieces from scott's cancelled one-man-show which was set to debut in new york city on september 19th 2001.

it's also interesting comparing this to SGND. the late 90s are often remembered through rose-tinted glasses due to a generally good economy in the united states and a lot of the social tensions with disenfranchised groups still bubbling under the surface rather than being talked about openly. SGND doesn't reference contemporary events much, but the closure of AT&Love from the KITH finale is undone since the economy has re-entered "rock-on fashion," and buddy cole comments on the Y2K computer bug being underwhelming. (i also went on a super long tangent on how the original show reflected the socioeconomic climate of the 90s but that's a whole other topic i need to go to bed)

i don't know how the KITH feel about "tour of duty." i can't know how much this strangeness was felt for them backstage, and i think in some regards it can only be picked up on as an outsider, albeit an outsider who has watched so much KITH content to know how their work evolved even when not on television. all in all, i'm glad "tour of duty" exists and even the swings that didn't really land for me are still admirable as creative choices.

it's also cool to analyze as someone who has now been to a KITH live show over 2 decades later and got to see those behind-the-scenes conversations play out. the bellini benefit also featured a lot of strangeness, caused by a limited rehearsal schedule and one of the cast members being unable to attend due to illness, but they absolutely exceeded these limitations to put on a very fun show. we did film the performance and rehearsals and that show is going to be released eventually (i'm not in charge of it but the person who is also works on the buddy cole doc so i'm involved). i don't know if it's going to be presented more like SGND or tour of duty or something completely different, but it'll be cool to be part of KITH live show canon

[kitnita]

i haven't been able to sit down & Watch a hockey game for like a week now & it takes me a day to register anything beyond just. the score when i'm not watching live. so anyway all this to say WHAT is going on with my beloved rabid purse dog in san jose 😭 ty had four (?) fights his whole time in dallas, two of which were cringefail bouts with luke kunin and the rest of which i'm pretty sure he Decisively Lost ......... what is he DOING with two fights in a singular month. what are they putting in his water in california. is this what happens when he's not living rent free in his goalie's house.

[black-and-yellow]

I think what makes Mic's moustache so iconic is the fact he's not the kind of guy who should have a moustache in the first place, at least not in the style he does. When I think pencil moustache I think; chef, gentleman, artist, otherwise refined fellow. Not someone who dresses in all-leather, screams for a living and improv raps. This guy looks like he listens to Beastie Boys, stinks of patchouli oil and knows who Sid Vicious was. From a character design perspective, I could understand a scruffy beard, but not the finely manicured facial hair he canonically possesses. He adopts the 80s Brit Punk style, but I don't know of a single punk musician from that era with a moustache. Why he decided to grow this pointy lip adornment is beyond me. But because of these factors, it really smacks you in the face upon first viewing.

Think of the other contestants of the stache-off polls so far. The king from Katamari. It makes sense for him to have some impressive facial hair, he's a king, he's regal. Dr Wily. He's a doctor. He wears a lab coat, a moustache practically comes with the territory. But Mic? No way.

It's rebellious, it's out there, it's out of the norm. And that, I believe, is what makes Mic truly punk.

[beastsovrevelation]

If it isn't my beloved celestial harpy, most holy Michael the Archangel herself (meaning, I turned this into proper line-art). ⚔ Good Omens has insulted her, but she will always be Supreme Commander of the Heavenly Host in my mind, and in my fics. I can only try to do her justice.

What do you think, should I colour it? It almost looks like a colouring page, I'm tempted to print it, and colour it with pencils or markers. ✏

[interstate35south]

li ling deserves a crashout!!

talking abt li ling again bc obviously. so basically dislyte careers are kinda notorious for ending the little snippets in a way that implies that the character is like, on the other side of their struggles and has a clear direction of where their life is going next, and typically i don’t mind it, but i dislike it for meta li ling and i’ll tell you why. just in general, the idea that passing the trials/gaining pneuma is an indicator of like, self actualization or enlightenment or whatever kinda erases the interesting potential from li ling’s circumstance and OH BOY is there a lot.

so, walk with me here. over the course of his trial, li ling lives CENTURIES as nakia, to the point where he literally forgets his own identity, and for all intents and purposes, IS nakia. he lives nakia’s life, to the point where he loves and loses the same way nakia did millennia ago when he first lived. li ling lives through nakia’s entire descent into madness: the bouts of mania, the guilt of having killed, the vilification by old friends, the suicide attempts, the whole nine yards. he even lives through the transformation of nakia’s body into something truly monstrous, and it’s only when yun chuan reaches him does he remember his old self. 

he then. literally slits his own throat. to save yun chuan from nakia’s contract, knowing that he would die with no way out, which ok hell yeah go power of love. but then nakia gives roy the scale that will quote “reshape his body”

where am i going with this? li ling lives nakia’s long, torturous life, comes to terms with dying, and gets fucking ship of theseus’d back to life in the likeness of the very man whose spiral into madness he lived. that’s gotta fuck a guy up. idk abt you but i’d be having the MOTHER of all identity crises in his place. like you’ve been irreversibly changed to resemble the man who you FELT lose his hope and humanity to rage and violence and on top of that your body may not even be yours anymore?? body image issues go crazy

while it’s undeniable that many of the personality changes li ling underwent post-chaos miracle were a result of his newfound maturity/consciousness of his own place, i think many more can be ascribed to like. clinical depression. like on top of everything he lost his damn arms too!!

tldr: li ling’s mental state post-final elegy is literally a gold mine but goes largely unexplored bc of dislyte’s implicit idea that the personal revelations that cause the meta transformation override the whiplash of returning to one’s life after the fact

[asheronangel]

[day 8] tried out something. i did start this on time i just procrastinated on colouring (and i originally wanted to add silver but he just wasn't cooperating)

both coloured and not because i like certain aspects of both