#clusterfic

[stingyslegslookweird]

nothing says “productive way to spend an evening” quite like trying to gulp at least one of every trinket in the binding of isaac repentance.

[theinfinitedivides]

ELIOT + TMG IS SO EVERYTHING TO ME. i fully have been working on a playlist of just mountain goats songs that make me think of eliot.

YES. yes. you get it. it's like they sat down inside his brain years before he even existed and decided to dedicate entire albums to this man's psyche and that's so so so insane to me

[mashuheartwrites]

TITLE: THE BEAUTY OF THE MUNDANE LIFE OF HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS

a clusterf*****

Genre: YA (I think?)

POV: third person

Status: drafting

CW: lots of cursing, everyone insults everyone

Darcy sat in the principal's office, chewing her gum and crossing her black flare pants clad legs and platform Chuck Taylor's.

"What do you have to say for yourself?" He spat angrily.

She blew raspberries, trying to come up with a halfhearted excuse when she spotted Jennifer (the popular girl, remember her?) and Izzy (the nerdy straight a student girl, come on. Keep up.) climbing the tree right next to the window.

"What the fuck?" Darcy whispered as both Jennifer and Izzy mimicked her incredulous expression. They were insane. “Fucking psychos.”

"Excuse me?" Principal Jackson reeled back, like the insult was a punch to the face.

"I am...." (Of course she would choose something that could make a man so uncomfortable they had to leave the room.) "On my period."

"E-e-e-eexcuse, pardon me? What..."

She sighed deep and worried doing enough to block the window with her body. "Yup, it's just," She motioned big. "A red waterfall down there, I'm soaking the chair as we speak! Hell," As he tried to interject (Poor man.) she doubled down. "I might just spew this whole room under with my monthly …feminine juices."

He of course let her leave. If Darcy knew one thing, it was how to drive people insane.

(Or just your typical day in the mundane life of high school girls.)

Clairmont high was the perfect high school. You had your geeks, freaks, chics, nerds, jocks and just the perfect balance of the top bosses to the bottom of the food chain.

And the people? Perfect too. You had your rich popular girl who has it all, the poor nerd who has like nineteen siblings and works hard to get into a great college, and the freak who dresses in all black and cannot for the life of her do anything else but make others uncomfortable.

But things change and it’s all Brian Micowitz’s fault. Just a regular day for the three girls turned into a… well a cluster of messes that ends them in detention. And unexpectedly something brews stews and forms. And that perfect structure of Clairmont high? It tumbles to the ground into a clusterf***

Vibe: campy, 2000’s chick flick, with a hint of every coming of age film you’ve ever watched. (Or… maybe not?)

MAIN CHARACTERS

Jennifer Lovesteine - The perfect mean rich girl

Darcy Hallow - The emo freak

Isabella ‘Izzy’ Howard - The nerdy loser

And… Vanessa Smith… the other mean girl

[delta-magnetic]

GUESS WHO FINALLY HAS POLLS

so naturally i must ask how did all [looks at number] 372 of you get here? aka

[jlhynde-insanitybrilliance]

*Me trying to explain the alternate timelines & time magic 🪄 of UDLTTOM to my readers in the comments without giving away spoilers*

Readers:

Me:

[ronearoundblindly]

heyo, just realized the wip docs list FOR ASKS ALONE is 21 long...

ALSO. TO ANYONE WHOS EVER SENT ME AN ASK

[thegamingcatmom]

We´re approaching 2k for the 1st chapter of my newest piece of WTF, and I couldn´t be prouder of the absolute clusterf*ck that is my mind. 🥹

THEY DESERVE TO BE HAPPY. 😤

[doctorbarontsct]

you know what? today has been just an absolute clusterf--

wait. right. dont want to worry anyone

today's been nice! normal! definitely. ive been just having a blast. relaxing in the sun sort of thing.

yeah, just. good times all around. absolutely.

[lavenderr-starrs]

I want a yugioh crossover movies but I don’t want it to be about the boys/yutagonist (shocker I know)

I want it to be about the girls

Maybe some big bad villain thing or whatever trying to gather the greatest duelists of each timeline Aka our yu-boys but f*cks up tremendously and now our girlies are stuck in this clusterf*ck of nonsense that they have to do deal that was meant for the boys and I want to see them be absolutely ridiculous about it. I want to see them rant about the nonsense they get dragged in because of their boys , I want Anzu/tea and Zuzu to verbally BERATE Someone, I want to see Aoi/Skye question her life choices, GIVE TORI A GUN (aka a deck),

Let Aki Do some crime with her new girlfriends with her witch powers!!! PUT THEM IN RIDICULOUS SITUATIONS!!! LIKE A CAR CHASE OR SMTH!!!

I just wanna see my girls get stuck in random BS that they were NOT prepared for.

The title is gonna be “Yugioh: Girls night!” and they are committing EVERY CRIME

[redstarfish-art]

It would appear that DC has finally acknowledged the other thing fan wants from the Batfam outside of Found Family dynamics.

Ayo I’m probably a little late on this but why are the variant covers for Robins so fucking horny

Like what the fuck is this shit

Especially the Nightwing one it’s basically softcore porn

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Ruh roh. The sugars (British ones included) have found your blog and are clapping back in the comments in defense of MM. On the bright side, maybe they’ll hear and read some actual truths and well-researched facts here about Rachel Meghan Markle. While they’re at it, maybe they’ll go read Plant’s tumblr archives, as well (that’s anonymoushouseplantfan for the uninitiated sugars lurking here). Your excellently researched blog and Plant’s are like bookends for this sorry Sussex clusterf**k. Take special note, lurking sugars, of the PR shenanigans and lies that MM’s been weaving since at least c2015. It’s all there in Plant’s archive, exhaustively researched, cited, analyzed, and exposed (same as in this blog). Happy reading, to any sugars here who may still possess an ounce of integrity and who “may” yet be open to seeing the truth about MM’s destructive, malignant narcissism.

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Yeah, I’ve gotten a few asks/submissions from them. I'm reallllly tempted to take the bait and snap back at them but I don’t plan to give them any more oxygen.

They’re so into whataboutism that they’ve missed the point entirely -- of that specific post and this entire blog.

[oneknightstand-if]

@raptorofwar replied to your post “In the FAQ it says if you want a clusterf*ck...”:

I personally went for claustrophobia. I think it fits a kid who was trapped in a crashed car waiting for rescue beside the bodies of her family.

It does fit (I believe the claustrophic car accident MC gets directly referenced once in the game already, but it should come up again eventually), and it's not so bad as a phobia since it only occurs in very limited circumstances (compared to the fear & death phobics having a great time in a horror-adjacent game).

[pants-magic-pants]

You've probably already been enundated with Valentine content so it shouldn't bother you that Night in With Jareth is being postponed until tomorrow. During the clusterf#$k that was shooting, I did forget for a moment that this wasn't an ASMR video..

[dazed-and-wandering]

"Where fools fear to tread: Arty and Dilla"

"When not-quite-a-hellhound Arty finds out she's royalty she decides to drag her new best friend Dilla into an absolute clusterf*ck of ancient grudges, vengeful angels, and just a lot of her own personal issues and family drama."

[meandmybigmouth]

LISTEN!. THIS CLUSTERF**K IS GOING TO COST MILLIONS! AND YOU DON'T HEAR ONE RETRUMPLICAN MEMBER OF CONGRESS ASK "WHO'S GOING TO PAY FOR IT?"

[gamerwoman3d]

There was a post on mk subreddit where someone posted a model that (I think at least) looks a lot like Bi Han.

His name's is Ibere Nakamura. If you look for the post you can find the comparison pic

My understanding is he already denied the claim, according to this source:

Screenshot of the source is below the cut, jn case twitter is unavailable. Ibere Nakamura is clearly a gorgeous man, but a scanned computer render of his face would look different from Bi-Han.

I still think it's Stephen Oyoung.

From a technical standpoint, Nakamura is NOT in close physical proximity to Warner Bros/NRS studios. A quick glance shows he is Brazilian and Japanese and his management company is based in Italy. That would make it difficult for him to acquire and accept work contracts in the USA where the game was made. He also has no visible prior videogame or mocap experience.

[Above Images - Characters based on Computer Generated imagery utilizing Stephen Oyoung's facial scan data.]

Oyoung, on the other hand, already has a credit in the game ["kredit," Sektor, MK1.] He has already done motion capture, facial mocap, and sat for 3D face modeling for another major game studio IN Los Angeles where Warner Bros/NRS is headquartered. (Disney/Marvel Spider-Man, as Mr. Negative.) That means he has already done the type of work required to create an angry scary asian video game character, IN the same geolocation as NRS/WB (Disney lot and WB ranch lots are right next door.) WB/NRS would have needed that skillset at that location at that timeframe. AND He already would have been on set/cleared by security to enter the WB premises just for the VO sessions.

[Above Images: A computer generated character based on Disney/Marvel's facial scans of Stephen Oyoung compared to computer generated images of Bi-Han.]

It is understandable if Oyoung does not look like his characters after the computer geometry scan/final render. Even Noah Fleder doesn't look like Kenshi to me, and he is 💯 Kenshi’s model, Konfirmed.

But what I'm seeing is similarities between the sculpts for Mr. Negative [Disney/Marvel] and the sculpts for Bi-Han [WB/NRS]. The 3D faces from the scan can look so different from the actors' faces that it can be near unrecognizable.

[Above Images - Same guy, according to computer geometry]

It would ALSO explain why there's no official kredit to Sub-Zero's face model. The imdb for this game is a clusterf*ck right now. Tony Chung is credited as Sub-Zero's face model for MK11 and we know he's also Scorpion's face in MK1. Both were a version of Kuai Liang. But in ONE game Kuai Liang is Scorpion and ONE game Kuai Liang is Sub-Zero. So it's easy for the folks at IMDB (who probably never played all these games) to assume that Sub-Zero's actor from the last game IS Sub-Zero from the current game, especially considering that there is ONE NUMBER DIFFERENCE between MK1 and MK11.

Ultimately, if Stephen Oyoung is the face of Bi-Han (Sub-Zero) in MK1, then it is between him, wb, nrs, imdb, his agent, and his management, to ensure that he gets properly credited for his work. And if an agent goes to imdb one day and sees he's kredited as Sektor on MK1, that agent might just check that "Ensure WB have Stephen credited in MK1" off their todo list. This is true ESPECIALLY if correcting imdb's listing means they have to fend off a sea of misinformed beardnecks who can't tell the difference between MK1 and MK11, or who have no idea how to explain the difference between SubScorp(Traditional) from SubScorp(Problematic).

[Above Images: An image of Stephen Oyoung compared to computer generated images of Bi-Han.]

Tony Chung also never to my knowledge claimed to be Bi-Han's (Sub-Zero's) MK1 model: Chung only claims to be Kuai Liang.

But it would be so easy to get misinformed by someone who misread an article. "Tony Chung was Sub-Zero and Scorpion in mortal kombat" is a true statement. But so were other actors, such as John Turk and all the actors who played Scorpion/Hanzo prior to Tony Chung's takeover in MK1. But of course Tony probably wasn't BOTH characters in the SAME release.

It's a headache for people who KNOW Midway Mortal Kombat lore and WB/NRS New Era MK1 lore to explain Sub-Zero, OR Kuai Liang, OR Bi-Han, OR Noob Saibot, OR Kuai Liang's Scorpion transformation to others in the know. Imagine trying to explain it to some office worker who doesn't play these games and doesn't care about them.

[Above Images: Stephen Oyoung's Mr. Negative character has vantablack skin and glowing eyes when using his power. This would be important to WB's casting decision for Bi-Han, as Noob Saibot will theoretically look similar. WB/NRS had to cast someone whose facial features will still track properly and look good when the character is essentially "in dark mode"]

I imagine workers in the departments in charge of doing the kredits can make mistakes with that particular kredit easily.

Ultimately, I don't see Warner Brothers and Nether Realm Studios bothering to cast Stephen Oyoung, a highly accomplished ASIAN actor with Disney and MARVEL experience in martial arts MoCap purely for some cyborg effort noises. Not when he has *that face* and that experience with crafting a game character for a top competitor.

And not just any type of character - a terrifyingly powerful, charasmatic, murderous leader of an ancient ASIAN clan with top tier martial arts prowess. That's a tall order, and Stephen Oyoung fills it. He filled it in Spider-Man. And I think he filled it in Mortal Kombat, too.

I've been wrong in the past. We may never know for certain the identity of Bi-Han’s face model. For all I know, Stephen took one look at this dickcicle blog and told his agent "On second thought let's *not* announce that I was the face model for that guy." I wouldn't blame him.

[Above Images: Bi-Han and Stephen Oyoung make a point.]

But it could also be that he, like a lot of actors, game creators, mocap specialists, and other creatives, just have their hands full at the moment. The SAG-AFTRA strike is over and there's still a lack of protection for most of the VOs, mocap folk, game folk, and live streaming entertainers. It isn't impossible that he's not on great terms with the studios if he elected to speak out about some of the behind-the-scenes problems of the game-entertainment industry.

He may not even legally be in a position to ask them for kredit where kredit is due.

It's honestly the only explanation I can think of as to WHY the fuck we do not have a clear-ass answer for whose faces we're looking at in these damn games.

Below is a screenshot from January 29, 2024