#blade gunnblade

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our beloved blade gunnblade upstage at any time

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feeling SO SO NORMAL about the beloved BLADE GUNNBLADE

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blade gunnblade portrait non gif non extra elements

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U went down the deh will roland billions asia kate dillon pipeline

haha that originally happened over three years ago at this point but yep pretty much just that

or the specifics for me were: distantly & occasionally pick up some info about deh during its first couple of years on bway, eventually actively look into a little more, immediately get the idea that jared kleinman is a character i'd latch on to, start focusing on that angle, and end up watching deh in the context of [the full canon jared kleinman lore (bway) experience] lol, and by which point i was already aware i also like his obc actor's je ne sais quoi: the autumn of 2018 period. for the next month or so i'm steeped in that jared / kleinsen lore, i.e. deh, & certainly paying attention to some more general [will roland doing something] material along the way. right around december 2018 i do a figurative spit take b/c i'd realized he was in bmc (which i didn't know too much about) w/that upcoming bway production but i only just properly learned he is The Main Character, so i dived into that asap too, in time for the [bway bmc engagement is approaching] events of the next few months. on march 21, 2019, i happen to decide to see how much i can find abt each of the several & niche imdb listings of will roland's, in order, b/c i like niche things & sometimes even like to dig into things low stakes like that b/c i was expecting this to end up like fun trivia. naturally his billions appearances were last on the list, so i got around to those last, which were episodes 3x03, 3x09, and 3x11 at that time. they were already surprisingly fun to me when like all of twenty seconds into the first scene in kompenso 3x11 it was so so so good i was flipping out and immediately interrupted my own ongoing conversation w/friend and scholar @nothingunrealistic to relay the urgent facts

this also happened to be like, all of maybe ten days before his next billions appearance was already scheduled, so that was very convenient, because while [we are still thinking and talking about billions every day years later] was maybe not immediately obvious, the fact it was Excellent and Impactful was, and it only gained increasing traction w/us from that initial day of going ham about it. i think it's safe to say the akd appreciation was also immediate, b/c These Two Actors' Energy And Rapport Playing Off Of Each Other In This Performance was obviously essential vs just "oh will roland's doing a great job" (which he is) and calling it a day from there, the winnie n tay dynamic was the hook line & sinker there, so how to not immediately appreciate tay and Their actor as well. it is also immediately epic of them to be nonbinary.

naturally just as the [being on one re billions for years and counting] has been a collaborative experience, soph nothingunrealistic has been the full time pro re: being taylor mason the character and akd the actor's number one appreciator and expert, which makes them the most important billions viewer ever, and in turn they're the one who's gone and made research forays into akd's nicher roles and passed along info to me, same as passing along info from their research forays into billions stuff as [extended taylor mason lore] lmao so full circle from [deh is like extended jared kleinman lore to me] truly. i am and have been glad to reap those benefits.

the other week i felt like watching an extracurricular bmc interview video and chase brock the choreographer being there reminded me about choreographical direction he gave to asia as lucifer in "the mysteries" about ways to perhaps writhe like an earthworm. i knew of this production / role / trivia fact thanks to soph and decided to do some more research in the passion of the "oh to know more about asia kate dillon as lucifer writhing and joking and seducing and entwining and doing anything else in that production in general" moment. it was a tangent to want to also do some more digging trying to find more pictures of them as blade gunnblade, a role i also know exists thanks to soph doing the research and passing it along to me, to not only the general interest of [any acting they do] but also "oh i Love their outfit and they are so cool and i'm looking directly at them" effect, not unlike lucifer in the mysteries, i.e. this seems like one of the especially sexy roles, like their being the adjudicator in jw3. i remember that being on tv anew a couple of years ago and my being sooo hype like catching first glimpses of their scenes and badly filming them spontaneously with my phone to pass along to soph and any other akd scholars via twitter videos while i had to talk over it slightly in my enthusiasm, true to life, b/c it Was life. and also b/c i was determined to eventually make an unlisted youtube compilation of their scenes properly anyways (which i did)

anyways Yeah lol this has been going on for a hot minute now and i hope everyone's enjoying what just so happens to be a spontaneous event diving further into Lucifer "The Mysteries" and Blade Gunnblade lore. like holy shit have you SEEN the greyscale eleven second video i posted. lifechanging. and that i have to give credit to soph nothingunrealistic for the group project element that has been the [billions] and [asia kate dillon] parts of the experience especially, i presumably would not be pacing around this house at 5am the other night b/c of sexy blade gunnblade discoveries without them. teamwork

(p.s. oh and it was very fun late 2021 there being along for the ride of comprehensively experiencing their niche role of cam stone. SO so fun. if anyone's got an [akd] portion of whatever pipelines they're on, check out That tag)

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flashback to part of blade gunnblade’s tragic past, from kapow-i gogo z, episode vii: the world’s martial arts tournament saga: part one: the penultimate episode: “who is blade gunnblade?”

(not a performance of asia kate dillon’s (alex seife, rather), but still pertinent character lore)

(p.s. if you want to avoid seeing anything resembling gore in the least, Don’t Look at 2:30 (actually make that 1:58, if you’re seeing tumblr’s media player progress bar showing the time Remaining in the video rather than the time Elapsed, still two and a half minutes in if the latter), after the killer cyborgs have beat up blade’s wife fran and picked up their baby, until 8 seconds later, when the audible audience reaction has subsided and the “walk / in the rain” chorus has started. if you’re not that sensitive the practical effects are hardly trying to be realistic but it is a bit of a surprisingly gruesome moment, to appropriate tragicomic effect. i thought they were gonna like spike or dropkick that baby offstage or something lol)

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going ballistic i’ve found video of akd’s blade gunnblade. eleven seconds of it, during the part of a sequence set to “rain” cowboy beboy os where [unknown original name in this version. possibly still “frank”] / blade is dramatically slow mo stripped of their shirt and tragically manhandled a bit ahehe THEM!!!!!!!

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also found another shot of this group pic ft. akd blade gunnblade

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Who do you play in Kapow-i GoGo?: Gunnblade. Blade Gunnblade.

Describe your character(s) in three words: Assassin. Terrorist. Gunnblade.

Tell us about Kapow-i GoGo: It's Saturday morning cartoons for drunk adults!

Describe Kapow-i GoGo in three words: Epic. Geek. Theater.

What’s the wildest costume you wear in Kapow-i GoGo?: I don't want to reveal too much so I'll just say that my gunnblade is certainly a weapon to behold.

What’s your favorite all-time afterschool cartoon?:  Oof, it's soo hard to pick just one! "Doug", "Darkwing Duck", "Bobby's World", "Sailor Moon", "Hey Arnold!".... "RUGRATS"!

If you could be a character from any anime or cartoon, who would you be?: Winnie the Pooh

[…]

Who’s the best fighter?: Blade Gunnblade!

Revenge or vengeance?: I can't remember...

What would be your victory song?: "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Prince

What is your signature move?: When I use my gunnblade.

What’s the biggest inside joke at Kapow-i GoGo?: I can't remember...

What is your favorite moment in Kapow-i GoGo?: When we find out what really happened to Blade Gunnblade. WHO IS BLADE GUNNBLADE? #whoisbladegunnblade #icantremember

Why should we come see Kapow-i GoGo?: As we get older it gets harder and harder to retain a sense of pure optimism, the kind of optimism we would be reminded of when we scrambled to get in front of our favorite cartoon show when we were kids. As we inevitably watched our hero, on shows like "Hey Arnold!" or "Sailor Moon", overcome their bullies in school or save the world from an evil monster or learn the powerful lesson of forgiveness our favorite shows helped us arm ourselves emotionally for the punches that life would throw. So here we are, as adults, still looking for ways to arm ourselves emotionally because life it truly pretty effing tough. But life is also pretty effing great. Kapowi-GoGo! reminds us of the power in #believing in yourself and fighting for what you #believe in with everything that you've got. This is the kind of optimism that will ultimately save the world. You'll laugh (definitely), you'll cry (maybe, probably) and you'll fall in love with a whole new cast of live action cartoon characters who are bringing every classic cartoon genre into play. Come join us. The fate of the world depends on it!

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blade gunnblade my beloved

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was speculating like if it’s name gunnname what was that for akd, i’ll have to make it up b/c 0% chance that info’s just sitting somewhere out there. i was going to just make a list of Monosyllabic Names but then i remember there’ll be like 900 baby naming sites to compile those kinds of lists for you. had a shortlist of like five i extra liked before it was obvious to me like oh lol. kate

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like i said wild for me, milo “i’ve never seen anything ever” to recognize something firsthand vs “i’m familiar enough w/references to this / the general idea to get the gist of the context” which is obviously all you need here but like yeah okay so this is blade gunnblade’s song now then. good for them

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i know there’s emphasis on the comedy And tragedy aspects of the panic of ‘29 but i just hope that the repeated info of “an atomic bomb goes off in act three where the action is taking place” isn’t like, in a [killing the whole cast] way =(

can go back and forth on like “well that’d be difficult to either just suddenly end on or have any epilogue about” or whether if you want to make the comment that everything can just go to hell again in a different way anyways and/or that atomic bombs going off just ruin everything, you just do it anyways, but more so turning to encouraging factors like the “hardly daring to hope that she’ll get another shot at love (it’s a comedy, she will)” reassurance in the casting call, and the act three  presence in niagara falls of franny the beekeeper “moved to tears at the very thought of the welfare of her precious bees” like right on, do not Also kill off some hives of precious bees. but this is far from like “oh yeah they wouldn’t kill everyone off as the conclusion or be like well they don’t die but things go so to shit that ‘well, things went to shit again’ is the shrug emoji conclusion” like. there’s just nothing good about such a plot point. i hope they don’t all just die

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what a week......lihn ocr release. deluxe fun billions episode. macbeth casting announced including akd as malcolm. multiple akd interviews posted including one mentioning this post-axe season premiere was billions’ most-watched ever lmao. announcement of greenlit billions season 7. some nice behind the scenes pics (also billions). i finished a nice drawing (tayston (billions)).

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before i forget again, shakespeare's birthday And shoutout to a relatively extensive Doing Theatre dream plotline last night, with all the usual hallmarks of "oh no i can get through the [passing through the background / ensemble] appearances maybe but i don't have this one scene memorized at all!!" and "oh no i'm always too pressed for time finding a costume piece or something before being cued onstage" and "oh no completely missed a rehearsal or performance at a different time than usual" & the like, but it's still all enjoyable enough b/c despite the inevitable [anxiety scenarios, being thwarted, things going wrong] elements it's a Doing Theatre situation. also, i was lucifer the mysteries, and mainly focused on improvising my makeup every time with semitransparent dark blue paint and a variety of gold glitter applications. the role was still like, recurring, sympathetic, observing, Knowing. also a bit ago aptly i had a dream like "ooh i'm playing blade gunnblade" but this was much more fleeting w/no details

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another little blade gunnblade for the world

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our dearest cherished treasured Blade Gunnblade :']