#atmosphere on lock

[fitzarts]

He's tired

[maroonmused]

pov: you just got symbiote concussively forced out of you by the spider-men, the tanker down the street is probably about to explode, you can’t feel your left leg, another squadron of hunters is approaching from a jet even though their leader got chomped a couple days ago, and the spider-men are doing a meme

[sbeana]

got bored on the plane and i drew these mock covers for gtn and my dad made me stop drawing because he was like "thats an awful lot of red. thats a lottttt of red"

[mayasaura]

how do you imagine cam pal and dulc in a modern au

Palamades and Camilla grew up on a university campus where Juno and one of Camilla's fathers had (and still have) teaching positions. Maybe Cairo University.

Camilla and Dulcinea met through Palamedes. Palamedes and Dulcinea met on an internet forum that Palamedes would have been instabanned from had anyone known he was eight years old. After becoming friends on the forum they exchanged emails, at which time Palamedes disclosed his age and Dulcinea didn't rat him out. Camilla didn't have much interest in the forum but would listen to Palamedes read his threads with Dulcie out loud, and started writing Dulcie herself once the communications were no longer public.

Their friendship spans thirteen years and seven different communication platforms, including handwritten letters, but Palamedes and Camilla still don't know what Dulcinea looks like. When they started using platforms with video chat capabilites, they simply never used that feature. Even Palamedes' marriage proposal was sent as a written letter. Dulcinea preferred it that way, and Palamedes and Camilla would never push her on it.

[animentality]

yes yes yes blue lock anime bad and all, and they fucked up this iconic shot yes

a shot I love so much, I fucking own it and have it on my wall

BUT.

Y'all are not realizing that the purpose of this shot is to convey to the audience just how massive the stadium is, and how important this match is.

This is the first time Blue Lock has shown its face to the world, and this is the Blue Lockers stepping out into the real world, and either failing, or succeeding, in showing it that they can handle it.

The anime might not have done this shot as well, but it had plenty of build up before that, which the manga couldn't have. For example, all the build up with the merchandise outside and the cardboard cut outs of players and people buying shirts.

All the parents coming to see their kids. The build up with Sae and Rin, and Aiku. The pounding of the stadium above and the cheering, which sounds awesome.

the focus on Isagi as he stares in wonder at the lights.

the actual ambience is there.

it just didn't do it exactly like the manga... and so what?

y'all are the ones complaining that it's an anime, not a manga.

the tension and atmosphere were there!!!

it just wasn't one to one with the manga is all.

blue lock fans try to use more than two brain cells at once challenge (impossible)

[oddly-casual]

I’m gonna try and keep this as non spoiler-ey as I can, but one thing about Mutant Mayhem that I appreciated was that the sewers felt lonely. Every iteration of tmnt makes the lair feel lonely and isolated at times because the turtles are literally forced into hiding (except for Rise, their lair always felt like a home).

But in MM they took extra steps to make the space feel cramped and dark, no major lighting source aside from lamps, candles, and phone lights. Warm colors are scarce in the sewer and the pipes and valves take away any space they could’ve have had, not just in their home but everywhere in the sewers. It actually makes you not want to be in the sewers, because it’s all cold. Even the bars of the sewer grate look like prison bars! Every time they close the manhole cover it sounds like a door being slammed, like they are sealing themselves away.

Obviously this changes, and MM isn’t the first to do this, but it’s the first time watching anything TMNT related that I actually felt uncomfortable in the space that was supposed to be their home.

[myriad-rainbows]

so I know we talk a lot on here about Tamsyn Muir's plotting and characterization (which is 1000% justified) but another thing that GETS me is her descriptions. Like,

[T]hrough the glorious wreck of the smeared and vaulted ceiling light streamed down in such quantities it made Gideon halfway blind again. There were deep couches and seating benches, with cracked covers and the stuffing coming out, with broken armguards and backs. Embroidered throws that clung to the seats like the skins of mummies, piebald where the light had touched them and dank where it hadn’t. Everything in that room was beautiful, and all had gone to seed. It wasn’t like back in the Ninth where unbeautiful things were now old and ruined to boot—the Ninth must have always been a corpse, and corpses putrefied. The House of the First had been abandoned, and breathlessly waited to be used by someone other than time. The floors were of wood—where they weren’t of gold-shot marble, or a rainbow mosaic of tiles gone leprous with age and disrepair—and enormous twin staircases jutted up to the floor above, spread with narrow, moth-eaten rugs. Vines peeked through in number where the glass of the ceiling had cracked, spreading tendrils that had since gone grey and dry. The pillars that reached up to support the shining glass were carpeted thickly with moss, still alive, still radiant, all orange and green and brown. It obscured old portraits on the walls in spatters of black and tan. It hung atop an old, dry fountain made of marble and glass, three tiers deep, a little bit of standing water still skulking in the bottom bowl.

!!!

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart

House on Haunted Hill (1959) dir. William Castle

[chodzacaparodia]

I...

I just wanna see him smile again...

[tchaikovskym]

I'm glad catholics got to read the locked tomb as a catholic book, but I read it as a biologist, and everything was about biology to me. From genetics to ecology, about climate change and research grants, and most importantly, manipulation of live and used-to-be-live matter.

[citrus-sours]

Curly laughing after Jimmy finds the gun that Anya hid, litteraly right under his nose. I have to wonder if it's an ironic laugh, laughing at himself, how he he misses things in plan sight. Right in front of him but not wanting to look. Rarrrgh dead pixels and shit brother. I think about curlys laugh so fucking much the only other moment that holds a candle for me is Daisuke's blood trail from the vent and knowing despite his injuries he still persisted because he was so fucking scared for his coworkers. His friends. And also Jimmy using his empathy against him and manipulating him and convincing him he's the only one who can save them, who can fix this in that moment.

[kitsquared]

For the rf5 people

Has anyone else walked through Atohl's End and Everlasting Darkness and understood why they say rangers lose their minds when they traverse the areas ?

I'm supposed to be normal about this??

[1997berserk]

made my coworker take pics of the shotgun collar hoodie since i wear it genuinely every day of my life lol

[paper-lilypie]

If you survive the exam, ill doodle you something nice :]

I love you

[hundchentanque]

I made this post on a discord with my buddies, but I enjoyed writing this out so much it gets posted here too. Slight Locked Tomb spoilers ahead.

So! For those interested and in need of background, Gideon the Ninth is the first book in the Locked Tomb series. So far the plot follows two characters, Gideon and Harrow who are both of the Ninth house. Harrow has been called by the Necrolord supreme, the Ressurected Emperor (the setting of the Locked Tomb takes place in a weird, necromantic version of the 1000 year reign of the saints from revelation. It is unknown if the Emperor is Jesus himself or if merely a necromancer who stakes the claim to that misunderstood poem-prophesy) to become a Lyctor (a demigod saint of undeath, who leads humanity's expansion and dominion through the stars. Think a Primarch from Warhammer 40k and you're on the right path).

In order to do so they are summoned to the planet of the House of the First (the Emperor's personal house and definitely Earth) from the House of the Ninth (location of the eponymous Locked Tomb and definitely Pluto) With Harrow to undergo trials and Gideon to act as her bodyguard.

The place that they arrive in (as well as all other prospective future Lyctors) is a massive castle built as its own island in the ocean itself, if you need help visualizing, think an oil rig but instead of a massive industrial building its a castle that doubles as a surface-to-space landing station. This is Canaan House, (probable) palace of the Emperor himself.

Chapter 7 of the book devotes its entirety to the description of Canaan House as Gideon explores it out of intrigue. The first thing the reader learns is that even the most livable areas of the house have become subject to oceanic decay; the air is usually humid, stuffy, and mold can grow nearly everywhere. Just in the suite that Harrow and Gideon are staying in, their bathroom has cracked and broken walls, who's tiled floor has patches of mold growing in the corner.

The great dining hall that is open for all of the teams from the houses to use has an immense glass roof, it now has netting underneath the roof so that birds don't get into the hall via the person-sized holes in the glass. Terraces have crumbled, gardens have wilted, and seaweed has grown in the lower sections of the castle proper. It's described both as a place that's too big and too dense: each door leads to another chamber, and stairwells cleverly loop back to previous rooms for expedient travel.

Some entire paths have been consumed by the ocean itself. Gideon finds a walkway which was intended to be pleasantly below or near the sea level, only now its tiles have been completely covered with seaweed to the extent that they look like little heads of hair swaying under the water.

Doors have rotted away so much that one might "Voyeuristically look through their nakedness to the rooms they didn't hide," immense swimming pools have turned green with mold, and training rooms have merely rusted away.

The book paints this slow, creeping change as inevitability rather than evil; there are no signs of struggle, no signs of battle, no marks of violence. The house is simply being eroded away by ocean and time.

This isn't to say that Canaan House isn't magnificent -- it most certainly still is -- but the rot and decay brought on by time and the ocean have given a new form to it's splendor, one which is appropriate for a place enhabited by old priests and skeleton-automata.

How fitting then, that the dreary and embittered Tomb-Cultists of the Ninth House find it so awe-inspiring.

[netaro--yowa]

YAYYY MISHA THEME!!!

MISHA 💖💓🩷❤️💕💖💓🩷💖❤️💖💓💓💖🩷💓