#hunter schwarz

[the-arts-of-being]

By the way, Hunter, you won't have grandchildrens. just nah 👎

[2d-dreams]

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #21

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

*Full Title is "Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier Than Real Life!"

[petterwass]

How to beat the Steam Knight, lazy edition

Funny Shark and Funny Orca.

Did Shark for normal and Orca for Adverse since Adverse has a extra lane to guard, and Shark has Block2. So Skadi got to fight the Steam Knight instead.

Killing big beasties are what Abyssal Hunters do for their day job, so the Steam Knight didn't exactly impress them.

Gladiia and Schwarz took care of the initial artillery while Orca tanked the shots.

Schwarz takes out both her two artillery with S3, while Gladiia needs two Toilet Swirlies for her's, but unlike Schwarz, she can tank artillery fire pretty well, so she's not in a hurry.

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins

Tab Hunter Confidential, 2015 (dir. Jeffrey Schwarz)

[cerastes]

When Schwarz was new did people complain about her being too overpowered?

See, I've had this ask for two days, and I wanted to have a good chance to sit down and answer it properly, because it's a good springboard into something I find interesting, the zeitgeist back then and how it has evolved into current, modern Arknights. Let's do a little retrospective.

No, that didn't happen. As to why it didn't happen, well, there's a few factors, the first of which being Schwarz is not overpowered, she's a character with very evident flaws and very evident strengths, and these were, depending on the player, immediately understood or not really considered in depth.

See, Schwarz was the fourth 6* released after launch -- After Skadi, Ch'en, and Magallan, in that order -- and the absurd powerhouses back then were all launch Operators and arguably Ch'en: SilverAsh, Eyja, and Exusiai were the most popular back then, with Ch'en being a conditional potent burst damage dealer (her S2M3 was her main selling point, being an instant helidrop burst of damage that also hit air units). Schwarz was in a place similar to Ch'en in that she was conditional in how she blasted things; she has superior firepower but poor, strict range for a Sniper (back then, we had no such thing as categorized archetypes, so we just came up with nicknames, like "duelists" for what are now Dreadnoughts, "Schwarz-types" for Heavyshooters, "Enmity Guard" for Musha, and many others), and if you wanted to use her big killer skill, S3, she was only going to have a straight line worth of range to hit things.

See, the thing is, being strong wasn't an 'issue' back then. We wanted more and stronger units so we could break the monotony of SilverAsh swish swish, Eyja Volcano Hour, and Warfarin's Apple Pie Combo. A monotony that wasn't a monopoly, mind you, because it definitely wasn't the sole end way to deal monstrous amounts of damage and tackle hard content -- I myself was a dedicated Specter, Saria, and Angelina user -- but it was what practically all guide makers and tier lists suggested. Either way, the demand for Cool Strong New Units was definitely healthy back then, ESPECIALLY by the time of Schwarz' release, since Skadi and Magallan had been rather disappointing for 6*s; Skadi was the sole Abyssal Hunter buff that existed back then (Guard Specter had no Module, thus, no AH Buff), and without Modules or other AH buffs, all she could do was basically S2 Helidrop to kill something or use her S3 probably once per stage to become a raid boss and then sort of just stand there, offering nothing that other units couldn't since things back then were patently not strong enough to need her, as her 3* equivalent, Melantha, was pretty much enough to deal with anything that required a Dreadnought specifically, and you had other, stronger options that did more than JUST deal with strong enemies if a bomb of Skadi's caliber was needed, while Magallan suffered the unfortunate fate of being an early Summoner in a game where super instant DPS came free with your Xbox, leading to the vast majority of people to not really want to learn to play around her expensive Deployment Slot costs and dynamic gameplay, which also necessitated Mastery investment to put out numbers, investment that was not easy to make back then, as Masteries were something you REALLY rationed.

Another very important part as to why Schwarz didn't have to deal with this was because she was the only one of her type. She was a new way to play back then, so no one felt their favorite was threatened; Schwarz and Exusiai filled very different roles, with Exusiai being able to wreck high HP low DEF enemies with ease (which was basically 95% of enemies back then, notably All Bosses Except Big Bob, who has a DEF of 800) while Schwarz had HUGE chunky single hits that were meant to squash enemies even if their DEF was huge, but who ultimately would have less DPS than Exusiai in most cases. What's more, you would use Schwarz in plenty of set-ups anyways because she brought DEF Shred with her kit. People celebrated Schwarz back then because not only was she a cool new unit type, she could bring value to pretty much all sorts of parties with Physical damage, in a way that another unit I've omitted so far could for Arts damage, the support powerhouse of the early, mid, and modern game, throughout the years: Saria.

I make the specific comparison with Exusiai because eventually, the zeitgeist would change: Ash, from the R6S collab, made waves because she was strong, but also because it seemed like she'd steal away Exusiai's place as the Fast Shooter DPS Wrecker Supreme. Time would go on to prove that, no, she would not do that, because Ash is more of a Burst damage unit compared to Exusiai, with immense damage tied to a shorter window and the Stun condition, while Exusiai's DPS window isn't contingent on anything except "Does she do real damage or chip damage". But that was an early sign of things to come: Upstaging.

The initial fears of very strong units had more to do with "this unit is powercreeping an older unit" more than anything. Powercreep is inevitable, doubly so in gacha games where they gotta sell you the PNGs one way or another, and I'll always argue that Arknights has been incredibly good with handling powercreep compared to its peers (and just, as a game in general), but again, it's inevitable, so you end up with situations like Degenbrecher existing and Doctor Manhattan Exploding Ch'en and Irene right into niche uses (Ch'en nowadays being at her best as a support sub-DPS with her Module allowing for great party Offensive/Defensive SP charging, while Irene still has her powerful S1/S2/S1 loop combo with Dorothy) or, you know, Texas the Pale and Yato In A Fur Bikini completely obliterating Phantom out of the face of Terra.

All of this, in my opinion and perception, holds true nowadays: When a unit of a new archetype or playstyle releases and they are very strong, you only hear few people complaining about them being very strong, but when a unit could possibly powercreep an older unit, especially an older favorite, that number increases exponentially. Of course, creatures like Wisadel, Degenbrecher, and Ling exist, which blow other units out of the water entirely, and you've also had units like Surtr or Mlynar who aren't really directly powercreeping any specific units as much as powercreeping entire roles and concepts.

Arknights also does have more content creators now, which I also think worsens matters because they have an obligation and a blood oath to the algorithm to always make a video that goes something like "NEW OPERATOR EXTREMELY BROKEN?????" with a crappy clickbait thumbnail and since [GRUMP ALERT] most Arknights players hate thinking for themselves and love looking at The Content Creator to form their opinions on whether Unit Is Strong Or Not [/GRUMP ALERT], these sentiments, whether legitimate or not, tend to flare up more often. By the way, that's also not a good idea, because everyone thought Gnosis was an easy skip back when he released, and then it turned out Gnosis was cracked, and a shitload of CN players regretted not rolling for him, so hey, sometimes this does result in pretty funny things to occur, as it were.

But yeah, this has been a little retrospective of the zeitgeist throughout the years.

[marimayscarlett]

'Herzeleid' turns 29 today 💿🎶

Rammstein's first album 'Herzeleid' was released on the 25th of September in 1995, 29 years from today.

The album was recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, partly at Polar Studios (built for ABBA back then), mostly for bass, drums and some guitar tracks, and partly at the private studio of Jacob Hellner and Carl-Michael Herlöfsson, the producers of this album, where the main recording of the guitars as well as Till's singing took place. The band actually wanted to have Greg Hunter as a producer, yet he wasn't that thrilled as he visited one of the band's practices and reportedly fell asleep during it.

A famous and integral part of the album is of course the song "Du riechst so gut" - for this song, the band wished for a special effect for the line "Der Wahnsinn...", is it should sound like it would come from a telephone line. To achieve that, one of the band members went out to a Stockholm subway, wearing nothing but a white t-shirt, suspenders, boots, and shorts. From the subway, he called the studio and repeated the line "Der Wahnsinn" over and over again in different intonations. As a result, a worried passer-by called the police, reporting a man shouting German phrases into a phone.

The first mix of the album was done by Hellner and Herlöfsson as well, and Richard was present as the only band member during this mixing. He wasn't satisfied with the result, and called the rest of the band, the management and the label Motor Music. It was collectively decided that they needed a new person for mixing the sound, and as a result, a second mixing session took place in Hamburg at the Chateau du Pape studios, together with the producer Ronald Prent. For each song, several mixing version were produced, and each of the versions were discussed by the band.

In total, 18 songs were procuded in 6 weeks. The seven songs which didn't make it on the album are most likely: Feuerräder, Jeder lacht, Schwarzes Glas, Wilder Wein, Alter Mann, Sadist and an untitled instrumental.

The album was firstly released with a "Riech!" ("Smell!") box, which contained the album (sometimes also the single "Du riechst so gut", sometimes only the single), a small bottle of Calvin Klein's "Obession" as well as several promotion sheets with a epic 'description' of the band and their style (read it here in the rammwiki article).

The album cover of "Herzeleid" sparked heated discussions. Flake said in an interview that newspapers had accused the band members of portraying themselves as "members of a master race" (german: Herrenmenschen) on the front cover. The band firmly rejected this allegation. But the band itself wasn't exactly thrilled with the cover either. Richard said in an interview that the cover looked like an advertisement for gay porn. The band had the photos for the cover taken in a parking lot without thinking about the result.

Alternative covers for the North America version as well as the XXV Anniversary Version, as well as the polish version in cassette form:

More various facts:

The Rammstein menhir was an additional promotional item, which was send out about 50 times to selected record stores to be used as a presentation spot for the albums. It's to this day one of the rarest Rammstein items, eventhough it has been sold over ebay several times.

When "Herzeleid" was released in 1995, it only reached number 99 in the German charts. It was only after "Sehnsucht" was released two years later that "Herzeleid" reached its highest chart position at number 6.

The first album after the album release was held on the 13th of october 1995 in Zurich, Switzerland, which marked the 9th concert in their Herzeleid tour and the first Rammstein concert outside of Germany.

On some early pressings of "Herzeleid", the words "Schulhof" and "töten" in the song "Weisses Fleisch" are censored by beeps.

The track "Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen" contains samples from the PC game "Doom". A scream from the game character and the shotgun being fired can be heard.

In the chorus of the track “Heirate mich”, Till Lindemann sings the syllables "Hei, Hei, Hei". This was interpreted by some critics as "Heil, Heil, Heil" and therefore as a right-wing extremist and national socialist message. The band defends itself against this interpretation.

Sources: rammwiki, radiobob

[lochnkey]

I like to think that Jaye's curse of "resting triad face" follows him onto the battlefield with RI.

Imagine you are some clueless mercenary running into an ordinary Rhode Island squad, and you see: the One True Inheritor of the Sarkaz Crown with all the terrifying abilities that entails, a half-lucid Abyssal Hunter with a monstrous capacity for violence who knows nothing but her orders and the target in front of her, 2 elite operators hand picked by an ageless (possibly immortal) scientist to participate in fate-of-the-world level incidents, a widly feared assassin trained from a young age and known for always reaching her target with whatever means are available no matter how brutal, the strongest woman in all of Sargon who thus far really has been able to solve all of her problems with violence but still chooses not to, and the fragment of an actual dragon god.

Unfortunately, since they just look like: an adorable little cautus teen (Amiya), a polite and demure-though slightly creepy nun (Specter), Terra's first ever e-boy (Elysium), a couple of hot feline ladies-one in a swimsuit for some reason (Blaze and Schwarz), some overly aggressive medic personnel (Gavial), and someone who you swear looks exactly like that one terrible movie director (Nian), you are not terribly alarmed.

But then you look a little to the left, and there's just This Guy standing there. This Stone Cold, Dead Eyed, shredded as hell ursus man holding a goddamn kitchen knife like some serial killer.

He Stares. Right. Through. You.

[the-cornuthaum]

man, typhon. kit? fantastic. voice actress, particularly the EN voice actress? immaculate.

actual character design? the single biggest thematic mismatch between character art, character writing and the surrounding event

typhon, by rights, looks like schwarz. a Siesta character with an absolutely fuck-off huge bow. that's fine, that's something that's been in AK for years. But then they go "look at her! this elite demon hunter from the coldest, most inhospitable part of Terra" and we know what characters who explore the icefield dress like. Santalla and Maggie have been in the game for almost half a decade, wearing thick, quilted fabrics with windbreakers and the techno-mystic bits that tie fully into AK's fairly unique aesthetic.

Typhon has platform shoes like she's just coming back from a Siesta rave and has the sort of fashionable warm-weather asymmetry going.

It's so weird how much it feels like they rifled through their list of old character designs they never used for a character and went "yeah let's use that one next" and didn't really put any of their usual care into making the character design fit the writing.

Banger kit though.

[accessible-flatland-art]

Here's a post with tips for writing your own image descriptions.

If you have Flatland OCs you regularly post art of, and would like to help me at least tag them properly, here are the tags I use for this blog, saved to a notepad for easy copying and pasting as needed.

If you want to help, you can go through these and create a specific tag cluster for your different OCs for me to copy and paste.

Just pick out whatever here is relevant to your OCs, and put it in a paragraph, separated by commas. It should include their name, anything you think people would want to search for (like Queer characters), and if applicable, the title of any stories they appear in.

I have been considering adding tags for the shapes of each characters, so you can add that in as well. (Ie: Rectangle, Cube, Straight Line, Kite, ect)

Then you can send me the results in an ask, and I'll be able to save those to a document, so all I have to do when I reblog your OCs is copy it in and all the right tags will show up.

You can have each character's tags separated by a paragraph.

IE:

Billie: [paragraph of tags separated by commas]

Bomb: [paragraph]

Joe: [paragraph]

I'm not sure what the character limit is for asks these days, but feel free to send as many at a time as you can fit in an ask.

Including the names of the characters in your art whenever you post them will also help.

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[numberoneradioheadfan]

Walking through the picturesque streets of Cardinal Hill, you find Shira Bardot, the 28 year old photographer for the Cardinal Chronical originally from Portland, OR. Living alongside her in such a small town, you know that she’s adaptive and impulsive, but what you might not know is that she is a witch, and that she’s hiding something… ― Hunter Schafer, pansexual , trans woman, and she/her.

previous threads - visage - musings - wanted connections

current threads - mood board

Name: Shira Rose Bardot

Alias: Shi, Rose (only if you know her really well)

Gender/Pronouns: Female, She/Her

Age: 28

Birthdate: 06/02/1964

Big Three: Gemini, Sagittarius, Cancer

Occupation: photographer at the Cardinal Chronical

Height: 5’7"

Hometown: Portland, OR, USA

Family: mother (Helen Bardot), father (Clint Bardot), older brother (Wyatt Bardot), younger sister (Calamity Bardot)

Friends: Elias Schwarz (wcirdo), Silas Addams (ritualove), Leonidas Desai (blackcatxmagic), Luciana Castillo (veilxstars)

Mentors: Beaumont Proctor (twistxdcrafts) and Marisol Hargrove (veilxstars)

Relationship Status: single

Sexuality: pansexual

Other Relationships:

Character Inspiration: Victoria Page - The Red Shoes (1948), Carrie Bradshaw (Sex In the City), Susie Bannion (Suspiria),

Likes: Formula 1 racing, cold matcha , Bauhaus , hot sauce , David Cronenberg , convertible’s , Kim Chee sauerkraut , Esperanto

Dislikes: jerks , spongey foods , elevators , cold coffee , hard eggs

TW: illicit substances mentioned if you squint, abandonment of a child , unaccepting parent, sex work

Shira Bardot’s life began in the rain-soaked streets of Portland, OR, a city both beautiful and melancholic, much like her existence. Born a trans woman in a world where witches exist but are hardly understood or even recognized by all, Shira's early years were marked by isolation and turmoil. Her childhood unfolded in a middle-class neighborhood in the Hollywood district of Portland. Where the perfect backdrop of a nuclear and well educated family line contrasted with the turbulence that brewed within their family. As the middle child in the household, which included her older brother Wade, her younger sister Bernadette and their mother Helen, Shira often felt like a whisper. Struggling to carve out an identity for herself in a world that seemed to shove her into the shadows. Wade, her older brother, was the epitome of masculinity. He excelled in sports and usually was the one to draw the attention of their parents. This was a fact that made her feel proud but also envious. She always admired how confident and sure of himself that he was. Bernadette, her younger sister was a bubbly child who's innocence casted a light over their family even in the darkest times. Shira often would take on the role of her protector, shielding her from the harsher realities of home life. Their mother Helen was ambitious but often times distant-- who saw her not as kin but as a means to an end. Desperate for a "ticket" to a better life. Helen was consumed with her own selfish dreams and saw her children as extensions of herself to polish and improve rather than actual people with opinions and personalities. She pushed her children in traditional paths, wanting them to have a future that was suitable for her delusions. A main focus for her was keeping up with appearances, needing to look like the part of the American Dream. This meant Shira's emerging identity was met with disapproval from her mother at first. But the turning point was when Shira was nine years old. The memory etched into her heart, scorned. When her father Clint discovered her true identity, it left ripples in her mother's perfectly fabricated illusion. He couldn't accept her for who she was so he left, leaving a whole that would haunt their family for years and thrust Shira further into a world of instability.

Following her fathers departure Helen often redirected her grief and anger towards Shira. Any maternal affection completely replaced with a resentment so cold it used to give her the shakes. Her trainings became more frequent and her mind was a minefield; during all of this she tried her best to shield Bernadette from reality. Amidst all of this turmoil, she sought solace in dance. Finding happiness in the rhythm and high that the ballet offered. What was once something she loathed -- became something of an escape for her. At least her instructors were harsh because they wanted her to get better and improve herself. Her mother was harsh because, in her eyes, everything was Shira's fault. And that stung more. It actually became a refuge for her but every day felt like a test of grace and endurance. Training was rigorous. The days began with early morning classes that seeped into late evenings, leaving little room for anything else. The atmosphere was intense and often times unbelievably unforgiving. The studio air was always thick with sweat and rosin, a scent she could still smell on occasion. Her instructor's harsh corrections snapped through the air all day, ringing in her ear's long after training had ended. She was taught to embody total precision and control -- her body transformed into a vessel of art. Discipline was relentless. Every step, every plié had to be perfect. There was zero room for error and at times the pressure felt suffocating. The line between passion and pain blurred as she was pushed to her limits. Shira’s raw talent shone brightly, and she joined a prestigious ballet company as a teenager. For a while, the discipline and grace of ballet provided a rare sense of purpose and escape. One she so desperately needed. The camaraderie she felt dancing with the other girls was unlike anything she had ever had in her life. She felt she had finally belonged somewhere, that someone enjoyed having her around.

But fate had other plans, as it often times does. One fateful evening, while exploring the desolate train tracks on the industrial side of town, Shira suffered a devastating leg injury. The break was severe, and her dreams of dancing ballet professionally were shattered. The pain from the injury was matched only by the emotional void left by her mother’s indifference and the loss of her life's passion.She didn’t think she would ever be the same after that night. And she would be right about that. Shira continued to sit in on dance practices, but they were never the same either. Eventually, she drifted from her dance friends and found solace in more… underground groups.

One day as she strolled down the Alberta Arts district (by far her favorite section of the city), she spotted a flyer. It was brightly colored and it read ‘QUEER DANCERS WANTED’. It was as if the heavens shone a light down from up above, glistening just for her. She quickly wrote the phone number and address in her pocketbook before she scurried home, toothy grin plastered to her lips.

The first time she met up with the queer dance troupe, she felt like she was in another universe. Shira had never even met another trans girl, and now she was meeting several. Ones she would soon call sisters. Those same sisters introduced her to Ballroom dance, and she fell in love instantly. She found a home in the Portland queer community and soon she joined a House, dancing for them for two years. During those two years one of her sisters told her about the Golden Dragon, a strip club that allowed 18 year olds to dance, they served no alcohol but at least she could make some money. And as soon as she turned 18, boy, did she make money! Enough money to allow her to move into her own place. It wasn’t big but it was just right for her.

As Shira continued to grow more independent, she turned to the world of full service, seeking control over her destiny and a way to redefine herself beyond the confines of her past. She completely stepped into the role of dancer and call girl, carving out a niche for herself in Portland’s underground scene. She was a fan favorite for many, including some very affluent business men. Usually something about projecting managing, mergers? Acquisitions? She didn’t know, and she didn’t really care as long as it filled her pockets.

Alongside her performances, she started a side business photographing dancers for the local exotic magazine, showcasing their beauty and strength through her lens. Shira was sick of seeing the creeps who took pictures of the girls for the magazine and decided to take it into her hands. She would be their safe space.

Everything was looking up but Shira's life took a dark turn one night. Fearful of the consequences and the power she didn't yet understand, Shira fled her hometown, crossing state lines to Washington. There, she hoped to start anew, to learn about the abilities that had lain dormant for so long, and to find a way to come to terms with the fragmented pieces of her past. She was smart enough to pack the essentials, including her photography gear; it only seemed natural that’s what she should do.

When she arrived in Cardinal Hill, she was able to secure a job taking pictures for the Cardinal Chronical. She was very thankful for her new life and her new job but she’s haunted. Everywhere she looks she can see his face, she can hear the sounds of his last rasping breath. She succumbs to the irresistible numbness that only certain vices can bring.

Shira Bardot—dancer, survivor, photographer, witch—continues her journey, seeking not just survival but transformation, in a world where magic and reality blend in the most unexpected ways.

Headcannons/Additional Information:

Shira has a hidden spell book that she jots down incantations and spells that she learns from older witches and non witches alike in the community. Most of these come from Beau but there are a few other honorable mentions.

She also has a dream diary where she writes down her vivid dreams and all of her interpretations of them. Often times they contain messages or symbols that correlate with her real life challenges.

Sometimes she hosts workshops to help young dancers find their voices and navigate the complexities of identity.

Shira discovered she has the ability to communicate with spirits. Particularly those who were marginalized or gotten lost. She uses her photography sometimes to capture all of their stories.

a/n: if any birthdates or numbers seem incorrect, feel free to correct me, I have dyscalculia. I’ll be working on my blogs soon, hope everyone is having a good weekend ! 🫶🏻 I’ll also be editing both intros with updated information as time goes on. Sorry this took forever I’m unpacking my house also ! 😌

[2d-dreams]

Hello! I have a couple of questions. I was wondering… why does Mr. Schwarz have the name Hunter? By the way, why does A Sphere have wings? Is he an angel?

Hi!

When coming up with the characters, I had pretty clear ideas for Mrs. Schwarz and Paul's names, but I had no idea about his name.

It initially doesn't have a lot of meaning. I asked some friends at school to give me the most basic random name they could think of, and they said Hunter. So I named him Hunter!

It doesn't get a lot deeper than that, but it does go well with the fact that in a way he is sort of a hunter. Being a lawyer and great at detecting or hunting down lies and stuff.

As for A Sphere, I interpret him as a sort of angel. There is some religious subtext in him atleast in the original material. There is some lore relating to that, and he is a special type of angel. One I call an 'Oneiraph' or maybe 'Oneiran' though it is a bit of a bad name. Plural is 'Oneiraphim' or 'Oneiranim' and it comes from a word relating to dreams and a suffix related to angels (Seraphim, Ophanim, and Cherubim)

This dream-angel thing has a bit to do with how Bill Cipher is a dream demon ::]

Excuse my awkward writing, English is not my first language. I am open to clarifying if you need.

[mangacultes80]

refonte de Mangacultes 80

a partir du 15 Aout nous allons refaire tous les 242 billets qui serons transformé a galeries direct chaque Billet sera refait 30 Images pour toutes les série, Film, Oav, etc..

car la totalité des liens ne sont plus valide alors nous avons décider de refaire tout ses billet en galeries direct de 30 Images certains des billet ne serons pas disponible un moment mais tous les billet serons refait alors le plus rapidement que possible

Les billet refais a ce jour

Ghoblin slayers

Arrette de me Chauffer Nigata

Bkanche Neige et les 7 Nains

Bonkers

Une Vie Nouvelle (Set 01)

Dinky.Dog

Porco Rosso (New)

Wingman (Set 01)

Wingman (Set 02)

Dangaizer 3

Hayate no Gotoku! Heaven Is a Place on Earth

Ef a Tale of Memories - Recollections

Dynomutt Dog Wonder (New)

Campione ! (New)

Love Phéromone (New)

Lucky Luke Les Dalton En Cavale (New)

Legend of Lemnear (1989)

Bubblegm Crisis Oav 01 - Tinsel City

Lucky Luke Daisy Town

The Legend Of Zelda

La Flûte à six Schtroumpfs

City Hunter the Movie Angel Dust (New)

Le Royaume des chats (New)

Bubblegm Crisis Oav 02

The Super Mario Bros Movie

Devils Line

Jeanne Et Serge

La Bataille Des Planètes

Hellsing Ultimate (Oav 01)

Vanessa ou la Magie des Rêves

Hunter × Hunter

Louie the Rune Soldier

Slime Taoshite 300-nen Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita

Malicieuse Kiki

Trigun Stampede (New)

Eden Zero Movie (New)

Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation (Oav 01) (New)

Tempo Express

C – Control – The Money and Soul of Possibility

Dance In The Vampire Bund

Alerte Rouge

Popotan

Fractal

Gantz

Princesse Saphir

Ro Kyu Bu (New)

Nuruto et la Princesse des Neiges (New)

Naruto Film 02 ''La Légende de la pierre de Guelel'' (New)

Inuyasha Kagami no Naka no Mugenjou (New)

Tomo chan Isa Girl (New)

Les Samouraïs De L’Éternel

Nanatsu no Taizai The Seven Deadly Sins

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

La Patrouille des Aigles

Schwarzes Marken

Hellsing Ultimat 02 (New)

Hellsing Ultimat 03 (New)

Ultraman Rissing 2024 (New)

The Idhun Chronicles

Saint Seiya - La Guerre des Dieux

Hellsing Ultimat (Oav 04) (New)

Plastic Little

Tad L'Explorateur A La Recherche De La Cité Perdue

City Hunter Bay City Wars

Luck

Chevalier Deon (Films 01) (New)

Dragon Ball L’Aventure mystique

Les Aventures du Bosco

Olive et Tom Film 01 Un Match Amical

Isekai Yakkyoku (New)

Olive et Tom Film 02 La Coupe Du Monde Junior

Dante, Seigneur des démons

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II (OAV 01) (New)

Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka II (OAV 02) (New)

Dan et Danny (Film 02) - Seriously The God Cannon Is A Beauty’s Keyword To Escape

Le chat botté - Le tour du monde en 80 jours

Hunter X Hunter Phantom Rouge

Sei Juushi Bismarck (Bismarck, les mousquetaires planétaires)

Is Infinite (New)

Kreuz Weib Brillance

Le chat botté 2 - Le retour du chat botté

Le Cygne Et La Princesse (Films 01) (New)

Le Petit Grille Pain 1 Courageux (Films 01)

Zutto Mae kara Suki deshita (New)

Vinland Saga (New)

My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even.at Level 1 (New)

Spy Classroom (New)

Storm Rider Clash Of Evil (New)

Street Fighter Alpha Oav 01 (New)

Aldnoah Zero (New)

By the Grace of the Gods (New)

Jayce Et Les Conquerants De La Lumiere (New)

Le Prince du Soleil (New)

Peach Boy Riverside (New)

Summertime Rendering (New)

Quality Assurance in Another World (New)

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (New)

Chillin in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers (New)

Nous vous remercions pour la fidélité et via le Mails pour vos multiple demande de série, Film, Oav, etc..

si vous avez une demande pour une séries manga, film, Oav etc... envoyer nous un mail via cette Adresse zm2024@tutamail.com

bonne visite de se blog

La Team ¨_¨

[one-with-the-tree]

Time for another reading check-in!

Currently reading:

A Journey's Beginning by Angola Hone (ARC)

Strega del suono by Thea Stilton

Recently finished:

The Last Wolf by Michael Morpurgo

The Dodo by Jan den Hengst

Die schwarze Tigerin by Peer Martin

The Lightning Path by Erin Hunter

See ya next time!

[plantcrazy]

Question #3 - Lost Children

This one's more for fun, but...

Who's your favourite POV to read in Lost Children?

Whose POV at the top of the chapter gets you excited (or fills you with dread) to read?

In case you need a reminder of who's POV is which chapter:

Infiltrating the Airship [Henry]

Compromised [Reginald]

Forgiven Foes [Henry]

Leaderless [Carol]

Long Time No See [Henry]

Escaping the Complex [Henry]

Final Preparations [Carol/Macbeth]

The Triple Threat +[Henry]

Target Acquired [Ben]

The Past & Present [Reginald]

The Rocket Launch [Ahnoldt]

Completing the Mission (Part 1) [Henry]

Completing the Mission (Part 2) [Henry]

Escape The Rocket (Part 1 )[Carol/Ahnoldt]

Escape The Rocket (Part 2)[Carol]

The Hunter & Hunted [RHM/ Ben]

Scrap Metal (Part 1) [Macbeth]

Scrap Metal (Part 2) [Carol]

Ending 17 (Part 1) [Henry]

[petterwass]

Gangbanged by Laurentina, St FedEx, and Ho'olheyak. Pretty sure that's someone's sexual fantasy.

Also, that's EX-8 down, challenge next. It was pretty damn tough since Herkunfstshorn completely bypasses the resilience of my Abyssal Hunters by sending them to stand in the corner like naughty girls, so I was basically cycling Laurentina, Surtr, Federico, and Schwarz to beat on him while Ho'olheyak kept up a steady wind barrage to break up any seals that formed.

Ho'olheyak once again being a great asset. I'm completely serious when I say that she's actually a really good Caster, it's not just because I want her to choke me on her tail. But she's pretty much my main Caster these days, I only bring Eyla, Ifrit, Dusk, or Leizi if there's a specific need for their skills or in case of Ifrit, of there's *two* Ifrit lanes since Schwarz generally gets first dibs because she's more fun to use.