#do you want to see oppy. can i show you oppy :]

[carbon--14]

i have been stalking looking at your blog and not to be weird but i love you (in a mutuals way not a stalker way) also please tell me more abt your rocket scientist life i’m very intrigued if you’re interested in sharing.

hi nonnie why don't you come off anon and say hello properly ;))) jk. are we mutuals? or do i owe u a follow O___O

seriously though it's not even 1 pm and today has legitimately been one of the worst days of my life (family stuff, don't ask) so this was super needed and appreciated. thx for the little giggle lolz

anyway yeah aerospace/astronautical engineering is kind of a weird place to be :P it's kinda niche and the workload is insane, so people burn out quick and the ones who stick around actually enjoy it a little too much tbch. the vibes are a little weird because half of my classmates are like me and there because it's a long time special interest they're willing to commit several years to and the others are obsessed with military tech and really want to be a part of that development. and they're pleasant people to be around, like they're polite and stuff, but i have actually had a conversation with a classmate who told me (and i'm quoting here) "well, i'm not the one pulling the trigger, so i'm not responsible for anything." and his ideal career paths were working on stealth bombers or hypersonics :///// yikes. there's a reason we're not taught ethics especially since military contractors are the primary ones snapping us up for jobs right out of school. ironically though the actual rotc kids are the nicest of that bunch and tend to be super collaborative and friendly? but i'm not joking in one of my first year classes we took a poll of the group's favorite movies and i shit you not over 50% of the class said one of the two top gun movies and another 15% said interstellar X__X (mine is scott pilgrim btw cuz i have taste)

luckily the yippee creatures of the class are very aware of how fucked up the industry is and willing to talk about it so there's still hope. my personal strat is to make myself a very competitive candidate for a very niche subset of the industry without very many "defense" applications lol. :D especially since a lot of those "defense" jobs are in the middle of nowhere in like, texas and alabama and florida. so not exactly the greatest places for me to be. i'm super interested in ion thruster design and development and there's a couple of startups on the west coast that are working on that so i'm crossing my fingers. tbch i am so fed up with the actual industry that i'm genuinely considering going all-in on my online "content creator™" presence just to have some shot at avoiding it. i have been having an actual existential crisis for about 3 weeks wondering if i actually made the right choices in life

but yeah the actual workload will crush your will to live unless you actually enjoy it. my classes this semester consist of incompressible fluid dynamics, dynamics control systems, structural mechanics, numerical methods, and astronomical computer simulation development >_< i'm gonna dieeeee!! and probably need an insane glasses prescription by the end of the year with the amount of coding work i have to do. plus i'm trying to score a research position and finishing up a senior-level independent study lol AND this semester i'll be driving back and forth between school and home (which is three hours each way eugh) to go to concerts and shit with my dad, but hey free tix are free tix. so in case you were wondering why i barely draw anymore, this is my life now X__X alsoalso my faculty advisor for the independent study is nonbinary and giving me job advice! they're super cool i love them foreverrrr

as for my actual hands on experience i'll admit it's limited :PP mostly because it's super hard to score industry experience before the summer before junior year and i was in recovery the whole summer so i literally couldn't hold myself upright for more than a few minutes. but i've done a bunch of projects for classes + uni-funded ones too!! my biggest claim to fame (lol) is working on a three-stage rocket designed to fly to the karman line (which is the Super Official Divide Between The Atmosphere And Space™ lol). everything except our motor was built in-house and i worked on structural design and analysis, so my job consisted of

a) working on and approving cad models of each component before we sent them to the fabrication team,

b) stress-testing all parts the fab team sent us to ensure they were flight ready (there is a picture of me somewhere sitting on a chair precariously balanced on top of three sandbags on top of a giant tube filled with more sand and our nosecone, because sand under enough pressure puts a similar kind of stress on a nosecone as it experiences in flight),

c) fixing any uneven surfaces or manufacturing errors on our parts, and

d) doing so. much. documentation. i have to be totally honest, like 75% of aero/astro e is writing the most boring papers you will ever read in your life :[

and i also built a 3d cad model of the opportunity mars rover from scratch with only official promo pics and rover "selfies" and that thing crashed the lab computers twice and took a week's worth of 8 hour days in the lab + 3 all-nighters. fml but she was so worth it thooooo

sorrysorrysorry nonnie that was probably 10x more info than you were expecting but tl;dr i'm the world's biggest weirdo who actually loves physics and rocketry so i enjoy everything i'm doing in class but the actual job search is hell on earth and i dread the day i graduate :/ for now it's still mostly fun

[in1-nutshell]

Hi, and so for the request, in TFA Silver Aid …

Do you remember in the Nutshell summaries, where Silver Aid get turn into a Human or genderswap version? Can we see where Silver aid got turn into?

Lets do the human version!

Hope you enjoy!

Silver Aid turns into a human

SFW, Platonic, Romance, Cybertronian (techno organic) reader

TFA

The incident happened while Silver was looking after Sari.

Bumblebee had been called on a mission and someone needed to look after Sari.

The techno organic was ‘grounded’ after a little stunt she pulled on a couple missions ago.

Optimus hated to call in Silver, but it was either her or leave Sari to her own devices.

Quite frankly, he’d rather face Megatron than deal with any disaster the child would cause on their return.

Silver was glad to help her friend.

She was a little bit late though.

Blame it on Megatron and the others not wanting her to leave the base.

After she came it was a smooth afternoon… until the sudden ray beam started flying around.

Sari flying around with her jet pack trying to avoid the beam. Silver seeing the beam head straight towards her: “SARI!” Quickly, Silver Aid grabs Sari to her chassis and feels the sting of the beam on her back. POOF! Two figures fall to the floor. Sari groans standing up, quickly taking notice of the missing spider bot. Sari: “Silver? Silver Aid! Where are you?” Another groan beside her appears as the smoke clears. It was a woman in her underwear swatting the smoke from her face. Underwear with a familiar color palette. Sari goes closer to the woman as she opens her eyes. Sari: “Silver?” Silver Aid: “Sari? Are you okay?” Silver goes to stand up but notices her new hands and freezes. Her hands and eyes quickly travel her arms and legs before looking at the reflection of a puddle to see her VERY human face. Sari carefully coming closer to her: “Silver, everything is going to be—” Silver Aid: “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!” Just in time for the rest of the bots to show up. Optimus is the first to transform and looks around. Optimus: “Sari where is Silver Aid? We just heard her screaming!” Silver looking up at the bots. Silver: “Oppy?” Optimus freezes and looks down at the human woman. Silver tries to stand but has trouble with her legs. Sari is by her side helping her walk to the Prime’s lowered servo. Sari: “We don’t know what happened. There was this weird ray beam thing, and she got hit and POOF!” Silver stumbles onto his servo clutching hie digits like a lifeline. Silver: “Prime?” Optimus: “yeah?” Silver squeezing his digit and looking at him with slight teary eyes: “Don’t let me go.” Optimus pulls her closer to his chassis. Optimus: “I got you… I got you…”

It was later found out that the Professor had been working on his latest invention and the beam had flown out of his lab.

Sari provides Silver with some clothing after coaxing her to let go of Optimus.

It took long with Sari making her try on different outfits she had.

Eventually Silver had on some blue jeans and grey shirt.

The new human still had trouble walking around and mainly stays with Optimus.

Not that she doesn’t trust the other members of the team… but it was more out of a preference thing.

Refused to have anyone else carry her.

Silver on Optimus’s shoulder: “Optimus, what did you tell Megatron once… this happened?” Optimus: “Umm…” Silver raises and eyebrow: “You did tell him about this right? Or at least told him that I wasn’t going to be coming back to the base for a while.” Optimus: “…” Silver looks at the rest of the team: “Did ANYONE tell any of the cons I wasn’t going to be back!?” Prowl: “To be fair, we were more concern with your predicament.” Silver ran her hands throw her hair stressed: “By the Allspark… Someone get me on the line with him now!” Bumblebee: “I’m sure he’s fine. You haven’t been gone the whole day.” Silver looks at him with a deadpan glare: “I left for two days on a steel run and when I came back, he looked like he was going to tear someone’s helm off and shove it back in its frame. So, if you’d be so kind as TO CALL HIM that would be greatly appreciated.” Meanwhile at the Decepticon Base… Megatron drumming his digits on the table trying to mask his anxiousness. Blitzwing: “Shy should have called by now.” Lugnut: “Maybe she just forgot. I forget to report sometimes when I am with Strika.” Starscream: “Yes, but she isn’t with her Conjunx is she.” BEEP BEEP! BEEP BEEP! Megatron quickly answers the com line: “Prime.” Silver over Optimus com line: “Hey Megatron…” Megatron’s posture slightly relaxes: “Silver—I mean Silver Aid; you best have an explanation to why you have not comm in back. And why are you using Prime’s line?” Silver Aid: “Well… about that… because of some… unfortunate circumstances that have recently happened, I won’t be coming back to base until everything is sorted out.” Megatron raises an optic: “And circumstance is?” Silver Aid: “Some having to do with my… physical appearance. But don’t worry! I will be back to the base as soon as it is fixed.” Megatron: “… I want to see.” Silver Aid: “What?” Megatron: “At the park in a couple of nanoclicks.” Silver Aid: “Wait—” The line ended. Silver Aid: “…great…”

Both Autobots and Decepticons arrive at the park at the same time.

Megatron is looking around for any sign of his Conjunx but doesn’t see her.

The only new thing was the new human female in Prime’s servo—Oh…Oh…

Optimus walks forward to the war lord with the human in his servos.

The woman waves shyly at him.

He knows it’s her.

Megatron tries to hold her, but almost quickly let’s go when he hears her yelp in surprise.

The rest of the Cons swarm around to get a better look at their medic’s smaller stature.

It is agreed for Silver Aid’s safety and health that she stay with the Autobots until she returned to normal.

It takes a while before the effects of the ray beam to wear off.

POOF! Silver Aid turns back to normal. Silver Aid with a bright smile looks at her servos: “I’m back! Guys! I’m—oh…” Optimus is groaning from the sudden weight on the back of his helm. Later… Silver Aid swinging into the Decepticon base. Silver Aid: “Hello? Any bot here? I’m back—ACK!”

Silver Aid gets ambushed by a giant bear hug from Lugnut.

When he lets go, Blitzwing’s faces welcome her back with a side hug.

Starscream gives her a pat on the back while mumbling about never pulling a stunt like that again.

Megatron just wordlessly throws Silver Aid over his shoulder and heads straight to their room.

The war lord is quite attentive to Silver for the next few days and private affection increases to a tenfold under the simple statement of ‘catching up on time loss’.

[aphroditeslover11]

Thinking In Numbers

Oppie x Reader

A/N: as always, based on Cillian Murphy’s very fictional depiction of Oppie, if you don’t want to read it I’m not forcing to and if you do then please feel free to stick around.

This is the response to the poll from the other day, handling some problems arising from the couple’s age gap.

Warnings: mentions fo alcohol, age gap, world’s mildest angst with a happy ending!

You had been on his arm at a lot of fundraising events recently, trying to raise money for the causes that he supported, which meant that you had been spending a lot of time with Robert’s circle of friends. They were all amazing and very interesting people, the conversation was always incredible and you loved them, but you couldn’t help feeling a little like a fish out of water. You were only a philosophy student, in a sea of seasoned academics.

The first time that you really started to notice the difference in your ages was at the end of the summer semester. Both the staff and the students were organising parties and you didn’t know whether you should go and celebrate the end of term with your friends or go and have a far more civilised send-off for the holidays with Robert and the professors. For him there had never been any question that you would accompany him, despite your age he always perceived you as being too mature and sensible to enjoy the parties of your fellow students. He assumed that you were exactly like him at your age, unbelievably introverted and not seeing the point in all of the chaos. You did as he expected of you, and it was a lovely evening with the help of a few of Oppie’s martinis, but you had ended up following him towards the physics faculty who were now having a conversation that you had no chance of understanding. When you got home that night you called your friend’s house, making sure that she had got home from the student celebrations.

“You don’t have to worry about me y/n,” she chuckled, clearly under the influence.

“Did you have a good night?”

“Yeah, the boys decided that it would be a good idea to to try and raid the chemistry stock room so we ended up with impromptu fireworks, it was quite a show actually. One of them nearly blew himself up, but I think he’s alright now.”

“God, I wish I could have been there.”

“How was your evening?”

“Not too bad, it was nice to spend the evening with Robert but he ended up in a corner with the physics department so I was left to my own devices. He expects it of me though so I just do it for him. I’m sure you had a better evening than me.” Little did you know that Oppie was walking past the semi-open door, and heard every word that you were saying.

~

The next day you went back to the campus to pick up some books from the library that you wanted to look at over the summer. You bumped into a few of the boys that you had met over the year, all part way through their degrees just like you.

“How was the party with the old boys club y/n?” One of them asked.

“It was quite fun actually, a lot of interesting conversations. They aren’t all old men, you know.”

“Oppie’s alright, the rest of them can be a bit of a drag,” this came from Luke, who you knew took one of your boyfriend’s classes.

“I heard about your antics with the fireworks, I’m amazed that you’re all still in one piece. I’d take a drag over a near death experience!” You tried to joke back, though it was true that you would rather have spent the evening with them.

“Come on, why don’t you come out with us tonight, live a little. Do you want to be old before your time?” It was then that you felt a familiar arm wrapping around your waist. Looking to your side you were met with Robert, his face with the usual soft smile it wore whenever he saw you.

“Why’s she going to be old Luke?” He questioned, humouring the lads. He was closer with his students than many of the other lecturers at Berkeley and they felt that they could have a little banter with him as a result.

“All of the time that she…” Luke started.

“…Spends sitting at home reading books when I could be out with them.” You quickly cut him off, Robert didn’t need to be involved in this. Luke gave you a bizarre look and carried on talking to his professor, but you could tell that said professor was unsatisfied. Not long later, as you were walking away, he started questioning you.

“My love, what didn’t you want me to hear Luke saying back there?” You were walking back to his office to collect the papers he had left before heading to New Mexico for the summer.

“If you want the truth, they were teasing me for spending so much time with the faculty. It was all in good fun.” Oppie paused for a moment.

“It is true that you don’t spend much time with your own friends though. I have to admit that I heard you on the phone the other night, I never thought that I might have been pressuring you into anything, but I can understand now that I have.”

“It’s not that I don’t want to spend time with your friends, I really do. Sometimes I just feel like I want to do the sorts of things that normal students do.”

“Darling, why didn’t you say any of this earlier?”

“I didn’t want to make things awkward or make you to feel obligated to do anything that you didn’t want to do.” Robert sighed softly at that, turning and taking your face in his hands, looking down at you.

“My love, you can always tell me anything. You are too caring for your own good sometimes, you know that? This is my fault, I shouldn’t have been so shortsighted, so its up to me to make it up to you.”

“Robert, you don’t have to…”

“This weekend we’ll stay here, we’ll have some people over to the apartment, your people, and we’ll do whatever you want for an evening. You know what, I can clear out for the evening and leave you in peace if you like.” He could tell from your smile that you had other ideas.

“Or you could stay and join in with the madness, you do owe me afterall and I think you could make it up to me by proving to Luke that you aren’t an old man. Maybe then he’ll stop taking the mick out of me.”

“I could probably do with a good shafting anyway,” he acquiesced. “So, will you forgive me for being so hopeless.”

“Only if you cover up the raid the boys did the other day on the chemistry department.”

“What raid?”

“They have a habit of setting off homemade fireworks at parties.”

“They are not setting off fireworks in my house…” You stood on your toes then, closing the gap to silence him with a kiss.

“Dr Oppenheimer, my party, my rules!”

[salty-an-disco]

It's Hero dress up time!! (most of these were done ages ago, I just didn't feel like sharing until now lol)

one of my main Thought for this idea is how only the first chapter's title references the player character's role (The Hero and the Princess), and it got me thinkin', 'hmmmmm. What role would 'The Hero' change to to match with the Princess in these titles?'

So, yeah! That's where my 'Hero also changes depending on chapter' thought came from lol

Here we have–

The Savior and The Tower; The Champion and The Adversary; The Liar and The Witch; The Dashing and The Damsel

Hero's change isn't only to match the Princess, he may also change to make up for the voice you got in that chapter. For example: in Tower, Broken is hopeless and can't see a way out of this that isn't giving in to the Princess, and so Hero, to make up for it, becomes even more heroic and willing to do anything for what he thinks is right.

And in Witch's case, since she can only see you as a liar and a trickster, and because Oppy is already there to play into that role, Hero actually tries to be the opposite of a liar, and wants to show Witch that they can change and move past these roles. This Hero would hate his title if he knew what it was.

Dashing and Champion are more straightforward. While they're not as passionate about their respective roles as Stubborn and Smitten, they're still willing to go along with it to get the job done, though they still have their doubts and will question this whole thing.

[dangthatscrayz]

Jaz my man, Oppy and Para if I may ask so kindly :3€

(I can’t talk I have the exact same flags as you)

Also challenge accepted

Here’s slay the princess characters x voice reader because someone has to do it (headcannons still cus I am NOT a writer)((don’t even look at anything I post which all includes writing it’s just the art backs up the writing)

I will feed you good

Characters: voice to the opportunist, voice of the paranoid

Cw: voice of the opportunist existing, heart lungs liver nerves, uuuuuuh mention of deaths bc ofc, slay the princess spoilers

Voice of the opportunist:

Platonic:

-I keep asking why, but I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone kinda sucks in this game

-whatever they are all terrible people but in a good way

-in the witch route the whole goddamn time he will be trying to convince everyone to do what he wants and backstab the princess

-if you agree with him he will be louder with his ideas

-i do believe that he is the kind of guy who has alot of ideas but doesn’t say it outright unless someone also shares them

-he also jumps ships to whatever is winning

-so if you are backing him up that’s giving him more confidence in what he is doing

-I feel like if you change teams to be on team save the princess he will shut up more like in the thorn chapter if you get the smitten

-if you two become buddies I think he would just repeat stuff you said like it’s his idea

-if your chill with that I think he would do it more

-if you aren’t chill with it I think he would change tunes and say something like

“Oh really? Great minds think alike”

Or

“I was just repeating your great idea, don’t take it personally”

Romantic:

-he will be more obnoxious

-he is absolutely the kind of guy to want to show off infront of someone he likes but in a way that makes him look aloof or something

-but like in the real game when he is sucking up to people to get them to what he wants it’s VERY obvious

-I’m picturing this happening during the thorn chapter

“What if we-“ <—the vot hero probably

“I don’t care what you think”

“Y/n what do you want to do?”

-probably will huff if you want to save the princess annoyed

-he’s the number 2 suck up (number 1 is the broken for obvious reasons and the smitten is number 3 bc he isn’t a suck up he just is always like that)

-the razor chapter I 100% think he would take the opportunity to try and look tough or something

-like Everytime he tries to look smart literally everyone can see through it

(Don’t ask any the photo I didn’t have anything voice of the paranoid related so here’s something that almost made me need to “heart lungs liver nerves” to breathe again after I saw this pfp)

Voice of the paranoid:

Platonic:

-if you both were tangible I see him hiding behind you

-even if your shorter

-even if your skinnier

-he will find a way(this is a threat)/j

-if in the nightmare route you help him “hearts lungs liver nerves” every once and a while to give him a break he will thank you

-I see you having to calm him down after he gets paranoid alot

-may or may not work

-if you both are extra good pals I see him asking you to tell him a story or something to distract him

-maybe he also wants to look at a bird

Romantic:

-I see him as being VERY clingy

-he will ask you a lot of things

“What if (insert something about something bad happening)”

-of course you will tell him it will be ok

-welll I hope you do

-it would be weird if you told him that everything will go wrong

-after you tell him everything will be ok I think he will relax a bit but he will still ask you things

-probably the kind of guy who asks if you love him every single night before you go to sleep

-of course by law you have to say yes.

-he will get paranoid about stuff like what if something was secretly happening with you that makes you not like him but of course you probably will say that’s not true

-he needs some rest

Enjoy your food

[sphnyspinspin]

Can I ask a genuine question about RBA? Like, does everyone think that when Wedge revealed that he used to be a decepticon and how the other recruits reacted to it, it was because all info and history about decepticons being majorly altered or erased? I get that in that episode a lot of the choices made were interesting. How each recruit reacted differently to even hearing about what a decepticon was. Especially Hotshot’s being openly critical of decepticons. But I mean……can you blame him?

Put yourself in that kid’s shoes for a second and imagine knowing that an entire race turned against your entire world and plunged said world into a total catastrophe. I don’t even think that many of the older generations even remember why Megatron started the war in the first place. And I mean the REAL reason. I admit Megatron’s intentions were for bettering society, and he couldn’t really accomplish that with his status. Except when you you really look back on the flashback sequence in TFP, he wasn’t really on the “try to reasonably convince these powerful leaders into abolishing a harmful government,” and it was more of a, and correct me if I’m wrong, “fiercely question why the state of this government is absolutely corrupt and make a very violent point about how to correct it immediately,” Okay I think I might’ve botched it a bit. But you get the point right? When Megatron actually wanted to go to war, it wasn’t about freeing the oppressed, it was about proving a point in the most cynical and violent way possible. That’s why when he was freed from Unicron, he actually understood what it meant to be oppressed.

Back on track, now picture a post-war kid being born on Cybertron. Now that they aren’t immediately forced into a caste or function, they get to explore the world around them. Seeing what they like and figuring out who they are and what they want to do, and maybe finding a mentor or two. And seeing what kind of post-war kids this continuity brings to the table, we’re talking about Strongarm, Sideswipe, Wedge, Whirl, Hotshot, Hoist and Medix. We’ve all seen what they can be like.

And I’m theorizing is that in this era in RBA, new-borns are so busy exploring and being well, new borns, I don’t think a history book is what is going to catch their eye first. Instead they learn from the world around them, maybe overhearing a couple conversations, running into the wrong crowds, and maybe being born into a different part of Cybertron where the decepticon influence is more profound.

Okay, okay, Wedge, we all love Wedge, but I personally headcannon that maybe he wasn’t exactly born AS a decepticon, but maybe he was taken in by a couple decepticons who uh….showed him the ropes. Then blah, blah, blah, a bunch of young dumb crime spree after crime spree and then big man Oppy shows up.

Or maybe if he was literally BORN as a decepticon, that just gave a whole new meaning about how the caste system worked in ye olden days. It also might’ve influenced ACTUAL culture stuff on Cybertron.

I don’t think I’m making any sense. Please help me out @novafire-is-thinking @viewer-of-many @thegirlwhoflies26

[barnesboo1967]

not.justine.rossi: loving you is easy

agentrossi: Why I am just now learning about this and why do you have a glass of wine in your hand

not.justine.rossi: agentrossi maybe because I am an adult who can drink

pretty_boy: You missed triva night

not.justine.rossi: pretty_boy sorry spence I'll make it up to you

momma.JJ: why have none of us heard of you mystery man prentiss_emily pene.lope.

SSA.Hotchner: you make everything better

true.pretty.boy: looks like hotch is gettin some

SSA.Hotchner: true.pretty.boy never say anything like that ever agian

pene.lope.:OMG hotch is dating someone

agnet.rossi: yall are so unprofessional

pretty_boy: is that why youve been late in the morning and at lunch?

SSA.Hotcherner: pretty_boy sometime I hate working with profilers

not.justine.rossi: willing to risk cooties for you

agent.rossi: No daughter of mine should be getting cooties from any boy

pretty_boy: it's not very smart to have your credit card in you clear phone case

not.justine.rossi: pretty_boy good thing its not my card its agent.rossi's

momma.JJ: that neck and jawline looks familiar or is it just me

SSA.Hotchner: never wanna get-a-way from you

pene.lope: so that's were you went this weekend

true.pretty.boy: she is totally posting theses Hotch is not clever enough for this

SSA.Hotchner: true.pretty.boy I am still you boss enough though I am not there

agent.rossi: my kid and my work hubby is gone who will I annoy now?

pretty_boy: I've seen that hoodie before

not.justine.rossi: and he calls me a nerd

agent.rossi: is this the guy you've been seeing young lady?

not.justine.rossi : agent.rossi maybeeeeeeee

pretty_boy: I KNEW IT HAHAHAHAH true.pretty.boy you own me $20

pene.lope: OMG I CANT BELIEVE THIS YALL ARE SO CUTE

SSA.Hotchner: wowwww I thought you were never gonna show this to anyone

not.justine.rossie: SSA.Hotchner oppies must have forgotten

SSA.Hotchner: When you are on a case, but your girlfriend misses you

agent.rossi: I never wanted to see this

not.justine.rossi: expose me like this? I feel the love

SSA.Hotchner: not.justine.rossi You did it to me its only fair

true.pretty.boy: thats why I heard laughing from the room beside me last night

momma.JJ: Why does that not shock me

[istherewifiinhell]

okay just gonna link a bunch of the es story boards videos (i started this with the mind of curation but ended up in a place of COLLECTION. whoops)

and ONE FUN BONUS at the end which u could just skip to the bottom for if (website popup voice) YOU DONT LIKE COOL ANIMATION. (joking lmao. this is for me interact however u like). The bonus is BOTH a fun fact and a fun vid.

i could not be any more clear at ALL TIMES. that i want ppl to watch es but lol either way. <3 story boards. (note also the rise turtles like swag (crossover staff) and see why i say this show looks so good cause u can tell their doing the 3d like its 2d)

notes: scratch track (the non VA audio in theses) so charming. yay u get to see them actually use purple rain. u can really clock mandroid flubbed a punch cause he DIDNT want to punch alex (inch resting) LOOK how extra expressive twitches alt mode is in 2d tho RIP. (crys about the little bird moment for the five hundredth time). Hashtag <3 fucking lmao.

this scene is one of those first DAMN thats crazy in the show i feel like and oh lol. would u look at that. DAMN THATS CRAZY.

AND THEN. this is the part with the meg move i love so much and the meg.op battle couple AND THE AND THE. (passes out) its sooooo cool.

notes: deleted scene, explains WHY shock wave got out during the megs field trip ep. gayass. CUTE KITTY. #3 son mug. this shits literally just so funny. she/her rav pronoun drop fjgbdfjg.

notes: altered version from the final ep they moved night shade around. they all have their final mode colours in the boards aw lol. ALSO. little like. adopted kids moment that i doooo get why they cut but u ALSO GET how it would emotional payoff in the ep with NS protecting their parents Oughhh (rolls on the ground)

notes: JUST A LITTLE MORE emotional oumph to the megs flash back but not that different. hes handsome tho i like to see him. like the scratch tracks impression of shock wave its cute. i can hear the vocal quality their going for.

oh hey also GAY CARS. i just found these/am seeing them first time today

Neat!

NOT THE SAD SHIP VIDEO VIBES.... OH GOD OH GOD... NOT THE SAD ASS PIANO MUSIC..... WHAT THE HELL. THIS IS DEVASTATING. watching bd tanking those shots for bee and crumbling APART. awesome. what the fuck. HELLO.

finale stuff

kids fighting oppie at the train yard. just COOL

fight on the bridge. ALSO COOL.

BIG finale scene stuff in 3 diff parts

scary shit and visuals that FUCK

THE MEGS ANGST. im KILLS ME that it didnt get a way in there. tho would have killed me to see also. no really tho this shit is so visually insane god damn. seeing this DID also help me understand how the screamer save happened better. EVIL SPIDER MAN. also in the group that comes saves em. was not in the final ep but we must pray hes still safe maybe just doing smth else.... (hes with swin and his bro busting in. the brother is the car. lol). twitch doing megs move!!! (propelling herself with her canon). mandroid going full fucking beast mode.... etc.

urghh u can really vibe out how bad those injuries are. and emotionally. bwah.. and. THIS SHOW. god. okay.

okay this one isnt the bonus but ill give it anyway

song from the tf the movie and also my alarm for several months (yes it HAS stopped working thanks for asking) BWAH. my loves. (weeping gently)

OKAY HERE IS THE FUN BONUS VIDEO

REALLY funny really goofy really fucking delightful. the mean girl trio seekers energy is supreme. god i love gay ppl. anyway. hey. doesnt that screamer look.... familiar...... WHY YES. YOU MAY NOTE THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL... SAME PERSON. THEY GOT A FUCKING JOB. ON THE SHOW. (unsure if its causally related) THATS SO FUCKING CRAZY the world is wonderful. es seeker trio THE mean girls seeker trio of all time. even if their barely in it. cause like. wow. (gets stuck in my loop of watching this forever and ever again) BWAH

[freeroaming-curiosity]

//transcribed from a Discord RP with @vocaloid-voltage

[begin video log

Oppy had just barely made it to Lilycove in time for the latest Hatsune Miku concert. She wandered around a bit, looking for the venue, until she saw her friend waving at her

Miku! She runs over, stopping herself from tackle-hugging her Good to see you ^u^

“Hey Oppy! I heard you got the badge from Fortree! Congratulations!” She beamed, raising a hand for a high five.

they high five, then Oppy brings out her badge case 6 now! Plus all my team except Celsius and Strelka evolved! Oppy's pokemon - Serperior, Gyrados, Cryogonal, Ninjask, Shedinja, Litwick, Metang, and Type: Null had followed her

“Hey, nice! I always wanted to try raising a Cryogonal. Never really worked out, unfortunately.”

Celsius is great! He's been carrying me through the gyms and having him around's great for the heat 

Oppy then sees a familiar orange shape watching them at a distance. Considering the fact that Miku was not looking in that direction, the orange man did not appear in her view.

“I can imagine. That’s why I have Ice Voltage, to be honest.”

Oppy’s phone buzzes Hm? She opens it (over Twystcord): it’s Top Man

Opportunity was that you in the concert hall?

Yeah. Why?

...hey here's an idea. Why don't you take your friend and go check out the department store or the shrine by the sea and don't be near the concert hall for a while, k?

... >_>

She showed Miku Top Man’s conversation, and she opened her own DM with the Robot Master

Hey, uh. I saw that message. What’s going on exactly?

Well... Not sure if you saw the whole drama but I'm on slightly better terms with Opportunity now... the issue is, Dr. Wily now has someone in play who doesn't have that rapport, likes him a lot more than I do, and is a lot more dangerous in his practices... I don't want the kid getting hurt is all. I can't do anything to stop it, so I figured I'd at least warn her

Okay but like… I’ve got a concert tonight. Does it have to be tonight? Also you should totally come to one when you’re not working with a terrorist.

You have NO IDEA how much I want to be there and not with this bitter old fleabag and his drama. Also that was not up to me. I'm pretty sure Dr. Wily picked specifically tonight to make scene

Alright that makes things a lot more difficult because I can’t just. Not perform, I legally have to be there.

...good luck. Don't die :thisdoesnotpleaseme.png: (don't know if he'll do much more than cause a scrap ton of damage but you never know with this guy. He's a bit of a loose cannon)

Are you allowed to tell me who it is? I played a game or two when I was a kid I might recognize the name.

To be quite frank, Miku was just hoping that her being part Porygon didn’t ruin the whole First Law thing. Though it was the Second Law actually in this case (Wily had ordered this part of his operation be secret), but still, Top Man was able to manage something

Ninja- %(&(-&*% ^-^%-That's all I can say I guess

She looked to Oppy,  clasping her hands together. “Alright, what do you say we have a shopping trip distraction?”

! Sure! That sounds great!

but as fate would have it (of course) Miku's phone said that the concert was starting - the two girls had lost track of time - and she couldn't leave until it was over

Miku sighed slightly, but nodded at her phone. Her body pulsed, and her hair turned purple, her eyes a dark crimson. “Dagnabbit, time.” She shifted back to her normal appearance, looking back to Oppy. “Nevermind, we’ve got Bowling For Soup playing opener right now so I have to be ready in 10.”

Oh... I'll be on the lookout! Do I watch from here or in the crowd? I've never been to one of these "^^

“You watch in the crowd! I’ll ask someone to guide you there!” Almost as soon  as she said that, a green haired girl entered through the door. She didn’t say much, simply waving to Miku with a smile and waving to Oppy with a surprised face.  “Melody! Great timing! Do you think you could show Oppy to the crowd?” Melody nodded, making a gesture towards Oppy to follow her.

Oppy went back with the crowd (still toward the front though) as the concert began. As the opening bands finished their last songs, the curtains drew back, and Miku arrived onstage to raucous applause. 

“How’s everyone doing tonight!”

More cheers. Miku grinned as she listened to the crowd.

“Sorry for the wait, a bit of a software issue! But I’m back now! Let’s get this started!”

We love you Miku!!!!! ^u^

While she couldn’t hear the specific call, she did hear it as part of the crowd. To be fair a lot of them were saying that exact same thing. “I love all of you too!” Music began, and she began her performance. She really seemed to be getting into it.

Right as one of her more popular numbers was reaching its head, the backup musicians began being attacked by... a Weavile?!

The music stopped almost instantly (to be fair, the backup musicians were for an acoustic cover of Hypocrite Justice they were going to do later), and Miku turned around in shock. She immediately rushed to the musician’s aid, changing to Fire Voltage as she ran.

“Get off of him!”

the Weavile's movements are strange, almost as if it was programmed to attack, and when it got close to Miku, she felt its surface was metallic. The Weavile tried to hit Miku with a Throat Chop, but it was parried by a large, thick, pink hand from behind her. Miku was… rather surprised to see the hand, looking back to see who owned it. How’d it get this far, she was on stage alone, wasn’t she? Looking next to her, she sees Oppy had somehow made her way onto the stage to protect her. She gives her a thumbs up with her non-shifted hand, then turns to the Weavile, who's still trying to cause as much damage as possible, this time attacking a fog machine, making it so the area is covered in mist and the audience has a hard time seeing what's going on. Miku, admittedly, was starting to panic a bit. She was a pop star, she was completely and utterly unqualified to handle this.

Wait hold on, fog machine! She could handle that at least.

She shifted to Flying Voltage, leaping across the stage before changing to Steel, making her much heavier in comparison. She may not have fancy attacks or anything, but she could protect her fans.

fortunately a Mystical Fire from Candela took out the Weavile

Phew... what was that? And who sent that thing?

“I don’t know…” Miku put her hand to her chin. The answer was incredibly obvious, but she wasn’t really made for thinking with Steel Voltage. She swapped to Psychic, and the answer hit her like a load of bricks. “Oh right yeah Wily.”

Almost as she realizes it, the other fog machine breaks, and a stage light almost falls on her. Oppy moves her out of the way, then the mist thins enough to see a strange, ninja-like robot put the metal Weavile in a pokeball - this was DWN-024, Shadow Man

“Aaaand this is exactly the guy I was expecting. Oppy? You might wanna run.”

Back to Steel Voltage she went. Oppy shifts a shield around herself but stays 

I'm gonna help too if you need it!

“That’s kind of the thing? I was also going to, I haven’t done anything like this before.”

Neither have I, really. The other guy didn't really want to be there so he didn't go all out like this guy, but I think we can beat him!

Shadow Man throws a Shadow Blade that strikes Oppy and she recoils, but isn't seriously hurt. Oh dear, oh no. He was attacking the kid. That wasn’t good. How was she supposed to take care of this guy!? 

Wait hold on… if she remembered right he wasn’t made with the others of that line… but he was still weak to Top Man’s weapon… which could only really mean…

And so, Hatsune Miku, the Cyber Songstress, threw her full body weight against a ninja.

Urgh- What are you doing?! He tries to launch a Shadow Blade, but misses by a longshot

“Good question!” She responded, charging forward more. Maybe Fighting Voltage would have been better, but she needed the extra weight considering the fact that her opponent was made of metal.

Miku then discovers she was pushing against a log - the real Shadow Man descended from above and struck her. To be fair, she was expecting something like that. Which is why she was in Steel Voltage. However, she did not remember that she was barely over 150 pounds with Steel Voltage active. Stupid pop star diets. She made her distaste for the situation known, extremely vocally even. “That was just cheating there.”

Shadow Man grunted, then a second Shadow Man then appeared next to him, and then the two scrambled themselves, making it hard to tell which was which

Huh?! There's two now?!

“It’s okay, it’s just Double Team. Got anything that can hit both of them?”

She almost wished Melody was here just for the extra help. But that would just be adding another person who had no idea how to fight in here.

I could make something! she shifted her hand into a long flail, and swung that at the two Shadow Mans, only for them both to disappear

Behind you Shadow Man knocked over Oppy with a hit from behind

OW! NO FAIR!

“Hmm… there’s a bit of a problem here… wait, I’ve got it!”

She shifted to Psychic Voltage. That should give her a better view than Steel. If he’d just stay still she could enter his circuits, but she didn’t have that option. through Psychic Voltage, she's able to see Shadow Man attempting to sneak up on Oppy through the mist. Miku’s eyes widened, electing to — instead of being an idiot and punching the robot in the face — warn Oppy about the incoming stealth attack. hearing Miku's warning, Oppy instead makes her body larger, squishy, and slightly adhesive. Shadow Man gets stuck on her and Oppy traps him

Good job Oppy!” Miku clapped slightly. “Let’s see if I can’t do anything here…”

She approached the robot, looking for any sort of entry point to his system. She was hoping it would be simple, but things rarely were. Shadow Man's putting up a beast of a fight, and the systems are already hard to grasp, being not of earth...

Miku! Look! Oppy points out an interface port - likely where Dr. Wily would connect to for maintanence. She moves this closer to Miku for convenience

“Thanks!” She nodded, sticking a finger into the port and transferring herself into the droid. It looked like she was still there, but her eyes were lifeless.

Inside Shadow Man is a landscape that seems like Shadow Man's stage from Mega Man 3, complete with enemies. She gets the sense she'll be ejected if she gets defeated, so better make this count. She was so happy for this, she never thought that she would ever find a use for this. Immediately enemies begin approaching her - it does seem like she has some rudimentary equipment based her franchise. Aw heck yeah, she can do stuff. Apparently the question of “what would Miku do in a platformer?” was answered with “Whatever the hell made sense for the setting.” Miku eventually made her way to Shadow Man, in his mindscape, and he immediately began going on the offensive, jumping around and throwing Shadow Blades. Well. She was hoping that she’d be able to talk things out with him, but that did not seem to be the case. At the very least, this was a very familiar pattern. For Dr. Wily! though his attacks are relentless, she knows them, and in short order Shadow Man is defeated. Miku automatically ejects, but Shadow Man has gone slack

you entered my mind... I'm lucky I trained for that. You saw only what I allowed you to, but even still... I'm in no shape to fight anymore…

Being back out of his mind was. Definitely a shock. She expected to leave on her own.

“Normally this would be when we’d like. Blow you up and take the chip thingy but we want answers. What are you doing here?”

you're a fool if you think I'll tell you

at that moment an awful noise is heard and the Wily UFO flies overhead that descends a grabber claw that collects Shadow Man and startles Oppy into letting go 

Excellent work Shadow Man! We have what we needed from that lab now!

strangely, Strelka seems to notice the UFO and starts trying to chase it for some reason

Strelka what are you doing?!

“Huh? What’s going on?”

Miku attempted to chase after it, but as it turned out, being tackled by a ceratanium-adjacent-constructed robot when you yourself weigh 90 pounds normally really hurts, and she collapsed onto the ground.

Oppy doesn't notice at first, chasing Strelka until the Wily UFO flies out of sight and Strelka howls mournfully

Strelka what's wrong? Oppy then sees the guy from the Devon lab earlier

"Oh... it's you. Well if you want your dumb mutt you can keep it. Without the type memories it's useless to us, and given how much of a pain that project's been we're probably gonna cut funding for it. I won't bug you again about Type: Null"

Well... that's one thing down, now to deal with Wily. Wait where's Miku? 

realizing, she runs back to her friend and helps her back up 

Wily got away…

Miku was in. A lot of pain. Like… so much pain.

“It’s fine, we’ll get him later. Or. You will. I need to go to the hospital. I can message one of the others to help at least, I don’t wanna just leave you out on your own.”

I'll get you there, don't worry Oppy shapeshifts into a form that could fly her there and gets Miku to the hospital as fast as she can

end video log]

[queenshelby]

I think the initial hype died down for a few reasons:

1) the strikes - no promo, no new photos of him on red carpets, no interviews nothing for people to gush over. The strikes are vital and it's important for a-listers to support them as it shows solidarity for the 'jobbers' in the industry but the strikes mean there's no more promo. The barbie hype has also died down.

2) Oppenheimer was a real person who helped create a WMD and I think people feel weird reading fics about him. For a lot of folks it can seem in poor taste. For myself I haven't read anything anyone's written using Cillian's Oppie bc it makes me uncomfortable. If people want to write about him or read it, it's fine but I do think it's a feeling that's shared.

3) I think there's still a very strong corner of the Internet (myself included) that is obsessed with Cillian and who have been obsessed with Cillian for years - that hasn't died down. What you're probably seeing is the 'man of the moment' trend drop off (which happens) and then you're left with the core people who are obsessed and the people who became obsessed and stayed.

At any rate it isn't a reflection on you as a writer. I know it can seem disheartening when your engagement drops but it's well worth remembering that there are still people who will read your work.

Aw thank you so much. It’s only natural for the movie hype to die down and some people will probably move on to someone else which is perfectly fine too.

[voidpacifist]

I just went to see barbie and oppenheimer together in theaters and I have a lot of thoughts on both

NOTE: as far as oppenheimer goes I just wanna make the disclaimer that when I refer to oppenheimer, im referring to the character. I'm very well aware that nolan depicted him in a favorable light (even if the framing of the movie would lead you to believe otherwise). LISTEN to survivors of nuclear fallout (particularly the indigenous people of new mexico who were affected most by irl!oppenheimer's testing) and understand that not everyone is going to love what appears to be the glorifying of a man who made the atomic bomb possible. I tried to differentiate for film commentary purposes the vast difference between oppenheimer the horrifying historical figure and oppenheimer the sad little conflicted pretty man okay? okay, lets get this show on the road.

THIS REVIEW WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR BOTH FILMS

I went to see barbie first, because in my mind, it was a strategic decision — did I want to be underwhelmed after a three hour film filled with bomb-y sfx? no, not really. so I went to see it before oppenheimer just so both films could have their intended effects.

I was not prepared for barbie to be as visceral as it was. greta gerwig is a GENIUS with the way she directed this film. in particular, my favorite parts were:

- weird barbie knowing everything because she has, quite literally, been through the most

- ken thinking the patriarchy wasn't just about male dominated society, but rather male-on-a-horse dominated society

- THEY HAD A PREGNANT BARBIE! THEY HAD A WHEELCHAIR BARBIE! THEY HAD SO MANY DIFFERENT BARBIES AND THEY WEREN'T SHY ABOUT IT <3

- og!barbie calling an old woman beautiful the first time she ever calls a human being beautiful just means so much to me

- ALLAN!!!! ALLAN NEEDS HIS OWN MOVIE HE'S MY SPECIAL LITTLE GUY!!!!

- the unexpected fourth wall breaks were quite funny and very well paced, and added a layer of realism to the film that I was not at all prepared for

I don't think there's a single wrong thing I can think of with this film. I sincerely hope it receives multiple awards and I sincerely believe it will! this is a movie for the girls and the girl understanders and if you are either, go see it ASAP!

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after barbie, I went to see oppenheimer. I too, was not prepared for this film. I already knew from the internets review of christopher nolan that, as a woman at least, I'd have my reservations about whether or not it passed the bechtel test. it did not, but the thing that surprised me most was that I didn't mind that aspect.

I watched a man consumed by his work and his morals and their conflict with one another play out in such an intense marriage of science, politics, etc. and I watched the results of it, how his life was torn to pieces by the american government, colleagues, and the people most affected by his work (this last one is in more of the abstract sense because of course nolan would never outright give a voice to them, way to go ig).

and then, I realized I watched a film that truly depicted a main character I could sympathize with at some points, but never fully empathize with if I ever met the man (the real oppenheimer, not murphy's oppie). this is a main character you don't leave the theater loving or hating. his life, his work, his conflicts in both, do not paint him in any type of way — he does all of that himself, and I think those who left the movie understanding or even liking oppenheimer as a historical figure missed several points of the film that would try and dissuade that conclusion.

these were my favorite parts of the film:

- seeing glimpses of kitty oppenheimer and understanding, just from those glimpses, that she is the backbone of her marriage to robert. there isn't a single moment (except maybe how she got together with him in the first place) that I disagreed with

- now I know how heavily talked about the florence pugh scenes were and I do disagree with how the metaphor of robert "confessing his sins" of infidelity were played out in the manner they were. I am glad that his vices weren't shied away from. we were given everything about him, the good and the bad and the horrifying

- the imagery of how oppie's mind was thinking and processing the physics and the theories of the atom, the overlaying of the sound affects of applause, train tracks, a bomb detonating. from an artistic standpoint this is just *chefs kiss*

- the moment he understood the magnitude of his work, even in just glimpses, and how that left him in such a state after being applauded for the central work that helped to kill tens of thousands of people across the world. the vast difference between his reaction to it and the president of the united states demeaning him for having emotions about it

overall, I'm just glad that I wasn't watching cillian murphy portraying a fictionalized historical figure. he embodied the role in such a way that I wasn't watching the man oppenheimer (from history) nor was I watching cillian murphy. they'd become inseparable in my mind by the time the film was over, creating some not so secret third oppie that wasn't a person pulled from time nor was he just a character.

overall, if you're looking for a film you can sit through and leave unscathed, I would not recommend this one. it will stay with you. and it will make you uncomfortable. and if it does, then it worked.

I will also be quite shocked if this one doesn't receive any awards.

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now, let's talk about barbenheimer as a unit because it's a metric FUCKTON of the dichotomy of being human and that is beautiful, just BEAUTIFUL to me. where barbie illustrates the beauty and positive meaning you can make of your life, oppenheimer illustrated the horror and ransacking you can make of your life. seeing these two one after the other will have you both loving and hating yourself, and either way, maybe you're right!

here's the difference between them that I loved best though.

at least for me, barbie is a mirror. it's a mirror into womanhood, into the inherent ordeal that is existing, and how you can make the best of it an embrace every part of yourself, even the parts that are confusing. and then you get oppenheimer, and if barbie is a mirror, oppenheimer is a window. it's a window into the horrific parts of discovery, into the terrifying parts of being human that are terrible to look at in oneself, it's a window into how someone makes the worst version of himself, and how it comes back to haunt him. but oppenheimer CAN be a mirror, too, for that matter.

seeing these back to back was not a mistake by any means, and if you're planning on sitting through five hours of film anytime in the near future, make it these two. I'm so very serious about that

[denimbex1986]

'“Oppenheimer” composer Ludwig Göransson guesstimates there’s “about two and a half hours of music in the film,” which he recorded over the course of five days.

The film marks his second collaboration with Christopher Nolan, after the pair first teamed up on 2020’s “Tenet.” Göransson describes the “Oppenheimer” score as “dynamic.”

“Sometimes, it’s just the use of a singular instrument, and other times we bring in a whole ensemble. It fluctuates,” he says. Nolan’s most ambitious film, about the race to create a nuclear bomb during World War II, in turn became Göransson’s most ambitious score — it was different from anything he had done before.

Göransson says Nolan wanted a violin-heavy score for the film, which stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. “His thought process was that the violin is a fretless instrument. You can go from the most romantic melodic tone and within a split second turn the tremolo into something neurotic and manic,” the musician explains. So he enlisted his wife, Serena, who is also a violinist.

“Violins have been used a lot in horror movies, and Serena and I looked at how to take that technique of horror clusters and turn it on its head into a beautiful melodic vibrato,” Göransson says. “I had never read a script like that before where he immediately puts you in the mind of Oppenheimer. You’re seeing the world through his eyes. Oppenheimer is a genius, but he also has demons in his closet.”

Musically, that meant he had to establish an unsettling tone from the beginning: “You feel this unease in this character, and it shifts.”

Göransson says the score essentially follows three movements to reflect the different phases of the film, as Nolan follows Oppenheimer’s love of physics into the building of the atomic bomb and the Trinity Test in Los Alamos. There’s also the United States Atomic Energy Commission hearing, woven across several timelines, and Oppie’s romance with Kitty (Emily Blunt) and dalliance with Florence Pugh’s Jean Tatlock.

After Göransson first read the script, and before he started working on the first movement, Nolan invited the composer to an IMAX theater to screen some of the visual experiments he was working on. “I remember being in the theater and being hit with fluorescent lights. That was so jaw-dropping for me, and that’s how I wanted the music to sound,” Göransson says. He knew he needed a live string orchestra, but his biggest challenge was how to capture the energy and movement through tempo.

Göransson explains, “It starts with a haunting melody, which starts off as an intimate solo violin. When you see him in class, there’s one person followed by four people joining him. So we added four violins, and when the whole class shows up, we have an entire orchestra come in.”

For the scene in which physicist Niels Bohr (Kenneth Branagh) asks Oppenheimer if he can “hear the music,” Göransson created a two-minute piece with 21 tempo changes. “I thought we had to do it in segments and record it bar by bar,” he says. “But Serena said, ‘They’re great musicians, why don’t we try different recording techniques and figure out how to do it in one continuous take?’ So, we figured out a way to do it, and that’s why you hear this crazy energy that is causing that momentum.”

Thumping bass and metallic ticking, like a clock, define the second music movement, as the race to build the atomic bomb kicks off. When Oppenheimer and Co. launch the famous Trinity test of the nuclear weapon, the film cuts to silence. “Once he presses the button, there’s no turning back,” Göransson says. “And that’s how it all builds up towards that piece of silence.”

But it wasn’t until Göransson was watching the finished film that he realized he had used no drums at all. “There are some [percussive] elements such as the foot stomps or the explosion, but it’s so cathartic because there aren’t those bombastic sounds,” he says of the decision to use strings, piano and harps to give “Oppenheimer” an emotional core.

For the film’s climactic third act, focused on the aftermath of the bomb and Oppenheimer’s hearing, Nolan asked Göransson to come up with a “20-minute piece of music with a lot of action and high stakes.” As Nolan began editing, he asked Göransson to come up with another 15-minute piece.

Oh, and did he mention the entire score was recorded within five days? “It was a tremendous, crazy recording session, and we had a lot of music to record in a very short amount of time,” Göransson says. “But we did it with an incredible group of live musicians.”'

[emmatgc]

"Oppie"

There are only 3 movies that highlighted 2023 for me. To be fair, this year I only managed to watch maybe more or less, 10 current movies , my fewest, ever. I had so many challenges faced this year that 2023 feels like a freaking nightmare and the problems never stop. 🤣 But anyways....

Oppenheimer is one of the 3 movies I liked this year. The best for me but not my favorite, my favorite is Air: Courting a Legend then Journey to Bethlehem.

This is not a total or intricate review of the movie. Everybody played their role great esp Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. Hence, their nominations are well deserved.

Only a few 3 hour movies will keep me glued, this is one of them. Im always interested about the atomic bomb and warfare policies, history and such. When this was announced, I became so interested esp the actors in it.

For me, Robert Oppenheimer is both a hero and anti hero. A very conflicted man but not an innocent one, he knew what he was doing, he made his bed and laid on it. His moral compass has always been there and to be fair most, most scientists are in no way morally upright. They value science more than anything. Weird, nerds-they are exactly like that. Geniuses, extraordinary intellectuals with flawed, egoistic character, not to mention their not so perfect love life- the messy ones like any other.

Robert is a very complicated man. He is just good at compartmentalizing. He did his duty as he sees fit but yes,he also aimed for glory. Why not? Are politicians and war mongers are the ones only allowed on Time magazines? scientists greatly deserve it, too. The movie made Robert human and not just focus on his brain cells and the atomic bomb. It is both a gift and curse to mankind.

A gift to science and breakthrough but a curse to people. However, as much as ideally speaking, we can always say Robert has a choice, if he doesn't want blood on his hands, he could have walked away but no, he knew. He changed his convictions later on but he still made the bomb that killed hundreds of thousands. There was a war and in wars, you have to pick a side. He chose his. He made a bomb but doesn't want the bomb to hurt anyone? Ridiculous, right?

Both Oppie and Straus made sense. Oppie just had the better resume for a war hero plus, Straus was really vindictive and jealous, too. Scientists, majority of them rallied around Oppie because the system sucks. One day you are a hero, the next you are not. The government has always been an enemy for some but at the same time,the standard of excellence and success. Oppie wanted the masses to know, wanted his theories to be for the common people and good.

Oppie as he said became a bringer of death. As much as I loathe wars, old people deciding wars killing innocent ones, a war or fight sadly, is part of our DNA, whether as a system or among ourselves. We are all conflicted, Oppie just happened to be conflicted more.

The bomb to end all wars is also a bomb that starts a war. They are all soldiers. If Robert didn't make it, others will. That is a fact. Robert and America just wanted to be 1st. It killed a lot and saved a lot, too but I know killed more. That's why in war, it is always unfair. Christopher Nolan wanted to show the bad side, the conscience of Oppie, the government's trait of using people for their benefit trope but in the end, the movie still projected Robert to be the hero majority of Americans view as. He did what he had to do.

I oppose wars and fights by all means, but growing up as a child of a man in uniform, we are fighting for what we believe is right. We protect people we love esp our homeland and mostly at the expense of a lot. Unfair as it may seems, our freedom is not absolute and mostly, we choose a side. Robert did, too. History will continue to judge him and the movie? Well, for me is a masterpiece of story telling.

He made his bed until now he is laying on it even after his death. Robert was unapologetic. Even though he was conflicted, he didn't reason out himself as "i didn't know it will be in the wrong hands". No, he owned it through and through. The right and genius thing to do. Let the people decide. But I guess Oppie wanted that, too. To be deemed a hero, a villain and a victim. To be an eternal debate. Nonetheless, to be remembered, forever whichever side you are on.

Oh, lastly, give Cillian his fookin oscar next year!

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Three ships:

natsuki subaru/emilia, honestly anyone with subaru is usually good, but this one's the main pair so i'll go with that

maybe zenitsu/tanjiro? zenitsu and inosuke is kinda rare but they are a funny duo

luffy/trafalgar law, they're such opposites it's hilarious to see them interact and law loses every time

First ship ever: maybe something pokemon or warrior cats related? i've never been very dedicated to shipping and don't have the clearest memory. more into platonic things generally

Last song: mawaru (kikuo, basically the only music artist i actually follow. 1:40 is the best bit, heard that bit from the kikuoland concert and looked up the song)

tangent, but why do his songs on yt often have such insane mode subtitles? some of them look so good people straight up think they're a part of the vid (aishite, aishite, aishite especially). want to try something like that but VTT subtitles look tedious and have trouble showing well on mobile

Last movie: oppenheimer. also, they actually call him oppy in the movie. i thought that was just an online joke

Currently reading: confessions of a former bastard cop

Currently watching: reborn as a vending machine. yes, the vending machine isekai for some god forsaken reason. yes, i need to catch up on one piece

Currently consuming: water lol

Currently craving: nothing, decently full rn.

Not gonna tag anyone, but anyone can feel free to pick up the chain

[wanpakupaku]

I can't see a 'crisis' here because you always cry, young lady. Your handsome anonymous seems quite busy these days. As for the movies, I was surprised that you went to watch Oppenheimer instead of Barbie. Barbie has become a hype among all the girls around me. I'm curious about what you think about Oppenheimer. Because the movie had so many close-ups and was dialogue-driven, it felt to me like there was no need to go to IMAX. What do you think? Besides, I miss you. How's life going?

hi haiiiii

yes i do! crying is good for us humans, gets rid of the unneeded hormones and built up stuff.

i wanted to see barbie first but it was a friends night out, we were 6 ppl in total and we all went together. and yeah, it didnt need to be seen on the cinema screen tbh. but i dont think id be able to sit through the whole movie if it wasnt forcefully projected into my eye balls. it is an interesting movie, but i know id be skipping some scenes by myself.

some of the visuall metaphors, like oppenheimer having sex w his lover in front of everyone in the eyes of his wife, was impactful. bcuz the way it is portrayed, you first assume its bcuz shes jealous but later it is revealed that she is actually mad that oppie would lay himself bare in front of these men and not defend himself. the main assumption and the wifes real thoughts are very different, which directly lets us know that we dont know these people and making assumptions about their personal lives is not up to us.

and like, oppie having a panic attack basically during the "celebration" of the bomb and he steps on an imagined dead body thats been burnt to crisp. for such a tragedy for all the 100s of thousands ppl dead and the horrors of the war, human mind cannot comprehend such big events. but it can see and recognize a burnt body. that was a very impactful scene for that reason. we do not even see the bomb landing on japan, we just hear about it. bcuz the movie is about the man, not the bomb.

i appriciate the fact that they tried to not force us to sympathize with oppie but rather show that he was a human that created one of the worst things a human has ever created.

and i enjoyed the parallels of oppenheimer and prometheus, not bcuz they are similar stories. but bcuz oppenheimer was a mere mortal but he was seen similar to a fucking titan, a primal being that was formed before even the gods had. and see the hubris of humanity and the idiolization of men.

Life is going well! An old friend came to visit me and we spent a lot of nice girl time together. I missed her a lot. The job is going good as well.

My breakdown was about the meaning of life and had i beat cancer and finished university to just rot at a deskjob. But i changed my view of the world adter talking to my loved ones. Im good now lol

Whats been going on in your life?

(btw handsome ppl dont call themselves handsome)

[springtrappd]

Totally understand your stance on the books, they're. They're a thing. They exist.

The puppet has been my favorite forever, it made me so sad when there was no like variation of it in sb. The security puppet was always my favorite cause the story is so sad (I'm a sucker for sad stories) and the whole schtick of the puppet was cool too.

Springtrap/Afton in general is definitely a good second though, love me a good villain character. We need more content imo, I'm wondering if he'll show in the dlc at all

they sure do, buddy. they sure do. (<-shaking with rage) (i can go on for hours about how terrible they are, don't let me start)

fuck yeah, good taste!! it is kinda sad, yeah, esp with all the nightmarionne references... she's criminally underrated and underutilised for how pivotal she is to the overarching narrative, and notably has never been given a chance to tell her own story the way that henry, cc/bv, elizabeth/baby and even William Motherfucking Afton have (TSE DOES NOT COUNT). there's such a stark difference between how henry speaks of her, her actions, and how novel!charlie behaves that it really begs for any form of elaboration that just... never happens, and seems unlikely that it ever will :(. and i love me a good character that haunts the narrative but she deserves a motivation at the very least! justice for puppet charlotte "charlie" emily marionette!!

slightly less good taste but i cannot blame you. he is, unfortunately, a Delight. i simultaneously want him to appear in ruin (because he is always fun) and never ever want to see burntrap ever again he is such a downgrade from glitch holy shit. i guess my one major hope is that -- if they're not gonna switch gears and continue pandering to the p/oppy playtime audience -- it will at least be utterly insane in a funny way (like the twisted ones ending with springtrap getting shot multiple times and an animatronic battle royale) and not a painful way (like the entirety of the fourth closet)... we will simply have to wait and see ig