#jim appreciation post

[katerina-q]

"once-mighty"

:O

BELLROC ADMIT JIM WAS MIGHTY. THEY'RE A LITERAL DEMIGOD BUT JIM IS/WAS MIGHTY IN THEIR FREAKING EYES

AND BY THE END OF THE MOVIE JIM FUCKS YOUR SHIT UP AGAIN, BELL!

[trek-tracks]

Times "Jim Kirk is a survivor of the Tarsus IV massacre" is brought up in TOS episodes: 1

Times "Jim Kirk is an absolute shit pool/billiards player" is brought up in TOS episodes: 2

(don't @ me with "this line from this episode can be interpreted as a reference to Tarsus," I just love that Kirk being unable to work a pool cue properly is actually a recurring gag, intentional or not)

[juliavaccina-art]

Kermit + Jim directing together

[ohnoitsjetster]

Jim appreciation post for

Christmas eve❤️🎶

Happy Jim day, everyone!

Bonus Della 💕

[mishtergoose]

Watching the Muppets Christmas carol and thinking about how genius Jim Henson was

And can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that they managed to make a PUPPET FROG CONVINCINGLY RIDE A BICYCLE WITHOUT MASS AMOUNTS OF CGI!??!!??!??!?!!!???!?!?!??!!!!!

I am 1000000000000000% sure that Jim Henson and the folks he worked with were all in fact just magical wizards!

I miss the old sense of magic and 'howdhedoit' of the old muppet show and movies

[theeio]

I just discovered your blog and... I fell in love with it. Seriously, everything you post here is just awesome!! I'm obsessed with your toa sketches, especially the jim ones. And the Draal Jr au (can it be called like that ?) is just so wholesome I can't <3 That's why I drew this for you, I hope you'll like it:

(I know Dj doesn't have defined colors, at least from what i've seen, and it looks messy and uncomplete because of it only being flat colored, but I loved doing it)

omg…waaaaah this is so so sweet, thank you so much for taking the time to look through my art, to send this ask and for making this beautiful drawing!!!! your colour choices are so pleasing, and i love how much emotion you show through jim’s eyes, poor boy hes so traumatised😭😭😭💔💔 i love how you drew draal jr comforting him here, theyre so soft and wonderful, thank you, thank you!!!!💖💖💖

[polikate]

jim appreciation post

[ilikethisacompletelynormalamount]

Summer is too hot and I don't know what to do with myself, so we're having an Andrew Scott (and characters played by Andrew Scott) looking cool in sunglasses megapost, just for fun and in no particular order.

Gary Essendine, Present Laughter

Lord Merlin, The Pursuit of Love

Paul ^, Andrew Scott, Birdland

Mark Nicholas, The Town

Jim Moriarty, Sherlock (obviously)

(Also they may be my favorite sunglasses he's ever worn)

Well that's all the pictures I'm allowed in one post, so maybe a part two later. (There are a lot more sunglasses pics!) BYE! 😘😎

Now with Part 2, because summer can fuck right off.

[aaaarsonist]

"Hero with a Thousand Faces" is one of my favorites and comfort episodes ever. I've watched this episode more times than I can count lmao it never fails to make me feel better, laughing like the first time I watched it

My favorites scenes/dialogues:

I fucking love how this is animated

"Uhhhh I'm not dealing with this"

"GGGGLORYYYYYY"

"This is the worst day of my life!"

"Woops. That... Wasn't supposed to happen"

"Well, that's gonna require about ten years of therapy"

"He made more? Of course he did. Why'd I'd have to be so clever" LMAO HUMBLE BOY

"I'm starting to get really sick of myself in here"

"HOLLA! CRRRRISPYYYY, YEAHHH!"

"I mean, he looks like me, but are my legs really that skinny? Why hasn't anyone told me my legs are that skinny?" (Meanwhile Nomura, not more than 3 episodes before this one, calling him "skinny legs" JDNDKDK)

"There's no better soldier for the mission" I love hunter Jim's laugh lmao it's so sinister

"Oh boy, you are not hunter Jim"

"He just cares a lot about... Utilities"

"This music's too loud. I don't want guacamole" "How about we leave then?" "I don't wanna get up!" "Too bad!"

"You got sacked, yo!" "No! He's too strong. He'll kill us!" "I just wanna make things right!" "I don't like your face!" "¡Adiós, zapatero!" (Every time Jim speaks Spanish I piss myself cuz Spanish is my first language)

[horangislittletiger99]

I did a thing

[nonsensegnomes]

“In the Highway Nemesis narrative, the American highway becomes a nightmarish no-man’s land in which the conventional rules of law, order and polite society hold no sway. Journeys which should be straightforward become terrifying, repetitive ordeals revolving involving cat-and-mouse chases, near-death experiences and brief pit-stops at roadside locations which (...) seldom prove to be places of sanctuary. Our protagonists are pitted against fellow travellers who perceive the freedom of movement and anonymity facilitated by the highways as a licence to do whatever they want, to whomever they like.”

Murphy, Bernice M. “‘That Truck Driver Tried to Kill Me!’ The Highway Nemesis Narrative”. The Highway Horror Film. Palgrave Macmillian, 2014. pp 38-60.

inspired by @dogdayafternoon1975′s excellent film analysis project

@justaskingtoask more movie homework!!

@romanromulus just tagging you bc we were talking about this film many moons ago & i thought you might be interested!

[t4tails]

i was iffy on her in the first season when she was just like. jims girlfriend. but now that barbara is unapologetically evil i love her i think shes a delight

[kaiowut99]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 110 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 108-109 Subbed [Finalized])

(Check out my Subbed!GX Stream Masterpost!)

TURN-110: Tyranno Kenzan VS Fossil Dragon Jim

Jim Crocodile has noticed an outbreak of strong electromagnetic waves at the Duel Academia. Accompanied by Judai, Johan, Shou, and Kenzan, Jim decides to investigate in the jungle. As they do, some strong electromagnetic waves spring up, causing his crocodile Karen to pounce on Kenzan--and at the same time, the effects of the electromagnetic waves cause Kenzan to forget who he is and pounce on Jim.* This leads to Jim having a duel with Kenzan, and as Kenzan instinctively summons his powerful Dinosaur Monsters, Jim activates his Kaseki Yuugou -- Fossil Fusion Magic Card to summon his Fossil Dragons. *Worth noting that the pre-airing summary text here makes it sound like Karen biting Kenzan and Kenzan lunging for Jim both happened as they're looking around in the jungle, when in the episode proper, Karen biting Kenzan is what gets Jim onto the scene; wonder if that was the original idea in production...

[EDIT, 5/19: Episode reuploaded after correcting two of Cobra's lines near the end, and also fixing an animation error I missed initially with Kenzan's Disk near the end of the episode; details added below the cut.]

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*runs in to post this in Engrish*

Well, mates, episode 110 is now up and finalized! With Season 3 starting off with a couple of two-parters, I figured I'd take a slight breather and work on just 110 this go-round given the multiple two-parters on the way. And it's a good one, as we're introduced more to Jim Crocodile Cook (and his well-done Australian accent in the dub, for some kudos there to 4Kids [some dialogue choices for him (and Kenzan [that's not how Tail Swing works???]) aside]) while also seeing how quickly Judai seems to have recovered after his duel with O'Brien, and we see the debut of Jim's Fossils, which would go on to take a good 18 years or so before finally being printed with some buffs to them; it was always an archetype I liked. Kenzan also just spending a good 3-4 minutes growling was A+ (a shame the dub just made him talk semi-primitively, even if it mostly works), more of Jim's Engrish was just as good, and I liked how Jim and Kenzan came away with some respect for each other by the end after how offended Kenzan was by the Fossil Fusion concept. Fun times!

Animation error-wise, like with 108-109, I mostly did some quality-of-watching touch-ups around split-screens (with some of the fixes I did also allowing me to get rid of some of the ghosting in the footage), though there two card fixes I applied with Kenzan. Details below under the cut as always for the interested!

Quick housekeeping: in case you missed it, I re-released my finalized episode 1 work, as I went back and applied various card fixes that were bugging me and that I've grown to be able to fix, lol. Still shook I first started finalizing everything in 2014... 💀 Currently, I don't anticipate going back to re-finalize anything pre-84, mostly due to the annoyance of cutting/splicing stuff to get around not having the original unreleased scripts I'd keep with the ATK/DEF counter subs and whatnot thanks to a 2022 data drive failure, and hopefully it stays that way. 😅 I also applied a few minor styling fixes to the ending credit subs for 105 and 108 (noticed the text for a few names in the cast lists were scaled inconsistently) and reuploaded those; rereleased episode 1 has been posted on NAC, while re-finalized 105 and 108 will be posted there with 110.

Anywho, enjoy! I'll likely be going back to some TFSP stuff for a bit (in case you missed that news~) and then I'll dip into episodes 111-112 and Manjoume VS Amon; stay tuned!

Fixes/Edits!

As Jim first activates Fossil Fusion, we see the card first before he fades in holding it, but his thumb is missing as his fade-in starts, and then it just appears, fully faded-in, in the next frame even though the rest of him is still fading in. I fixed this in Sony Vegas by masking out his thumb and adding it to the first frame in which Jim starts fading in, then making his thumb fade in with the rest of him.

Later, as Kenzan thinks Dark Driceratops bested Jim's Skullgar, Skullgar turns around and defeats it, causing Kenzan some damage; as he reacts while his LP drop, Jim slides in on a split-screen exclaiming "Bravo!", but his split-screen slide-in starts with his split already about 50% into the shot. After that, Jim sets one card face-down and ends his turn, and as Kenzan opens his eyes and starts to growl while the split-screen ends, Jim's split starts to slide out the frame after Kenzan starts to move. Fixed the first in Sony Vegas by re-doing his slide-in to be more natural and start closer to the edge of the screen, then fixed the second by just removing the one frame where Kenzan has moved but Jim hasn't so that they move simultaneously, holding a frame once the split-screen's over a frame longer to compensate.

As #2 here leads into Kenzan taking offense at how Jim woke his dinosaur out of its sleep to use as a piece for Jim's fossil "freak," he says he'll make Jim pay for that as their match gets going for real; Judai and co look on as Jim and Kenzan stare each other down on a split-screen leading to the eyecatch (the split-screen here cut from the dub, likely for time), but Jim's split slides in unevenly compared to Kenzan's. Fixed in Vegas by redoing his split's slide-in so they both slide in evenly.

Later, after Jim uses Dowsing Burn to take out Sabersaurus, Kenzan reacts as Jim slides in on a split-screen to declare his Sample Fossil summoning, but Jim's split starts to slide in with it already about 50% of the way into the shot. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing his slide-in to make it slide in more naturally, while also redoing Kenzan moving in the background to eliminate the ghosting during this split-screen's forming.

A bit after #4, Jim uses Sample Fossil to dig up Sabersaurus from Kenzan's Cemetery to make a specimen out of it, and as we see its chains working to drag its remains up from the ground, we see Kenzan still has Sabersaurus on his Disk despite it being in his Cemetery. Fixed this first in Photoshop by cleaning up the Monster Zone in question on the shot's first frame, then threw the fixed frame into Vegas, where I then shook it along with the screen for the rest of the shot, also slightly zooming it out and fading it out as the transition from Kenzan into the dug-up Sabersaurus happens.

Shortly after, as Jim taunts Kenzan about his lovely Sabersaurus specimen, Kenzan growls in response; Jim then slides in on a split-screen to say that Sample Fossil's ATK becomes equal to Sabersaurus's, but his split again starts to slide in with 50% of it already in the shot. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing his slide-in so it slides in more naturally, and redoing Kenzan moving to again eliminate some footage ghosting.

A bit later, Kenzan activates his Treasure of Variation card, and as the close-up shot on it transitions into a split-screen splitting apart to show Kenzan behind it explaining its effect, each side of the split-screen jitters slightly in the frame before it properly starts to split apart. Fixed this in Vegas by holding the earlier frame over the jittering frame so that it properly splits apart in the next frame.

After Kenzan's next turn, as Jim wonders if the electromagnetic waves aren't behind Judai and co's exhaustion, he draws another Fossil Fusion; he smiles upon seeing it, but his smile ends up being slightly drawn onto his eye bandages. Fixed this in Vegas by just masking the eye bandages over it to keep his smile off the bandages.

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(9) After Kenzan's Brachion switches into Defense Mode from Jim summoning Skullgios, Jim is impressed by its 3000 DEF; Kenzan slides in on a split-screen to think that there's no way he can hold off an attack from Skullgios, but his split only starts to slide in the frame after Jim starts to move for it, and with it starting about 50% of the way into the shot. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing Kenzan's slide-in to start as Jim moves and slide in more naturally.

(10) As Jim has Skullgios pause its attack on Brachion, Kenzan looks up and wonders why, but as he does, we see that Brachion is on his Disk in Attack Mode despite it just going into Defense Mode. Fixed first in Photoshop as I blanked the Monster Zone in the first frame of the shot, then took it into AfterEffects to add a proxy in Defense Mode, and then took the fixed frame into Vegas to re-pan into the footage, masking in Brachion as it starts to cover the Zone up.

[EDIT, 5/19] (11) After Jim and Kenzan are drained of their Duel Energy, Kenzan shudders for a second or two before falling to his knees panting, but as he does, the end of his Disk (on our right) isn't fully drawn in for the five frames of movement that takes (each lasting 2-4 frames), though it comes back near the end of the shot. As noted here, fixed this first in Photoshop by using one of the initial frames as reference to snip out the end of his Disk and adjust it into place for three of the five movement frames, while I just painted in what was missing for the last two; once done, I threw the fixed frames into Sony Vegas and re-panned them to complete the fix.

[mieczyhale]

"Never apologize for putting stupid in its place."

- t.

[always-tilting-at-windmills]

new fanfic!

[the-lark-ascending69]

Still rewatching S1. Surprised by how hecking smart Hopper is, like dude is a talented detective. I need to make him Nancy's mentor in my monster hunter/comphet Robin AU.