#kai lion

[karialtmann]

Stills from Smart Mobility: Reworlding (Sleep With One Eye Open), 2024 by Kai (Kari) Altmann

[k-core]

Hitashya aka Dr. Kai in Jaipur 2050 (XLE.LIFE) "The water shortages were more extreme than anyone planned. Pipelines that were once used to push oil from Gwadar were now pumping filtered ocean water into newly created reservoirs throughout Rajasthan, each with their own blackmarket pirates and panchayat gangs who somehow kept them empty. Himalayan glacial water came packaged in floating, edible bubbles which cost 7000Rs each. The TATA dynasty’s rulers were known to fill their house parties with them. The public now understood much more about the aliveness and intelligence of water, and Kangen had become a mega corp as big as national governments, partially because of its development in blessing and encoding water with healing images in addition to repairing its cellular structure. But as mystics have long known, water also absorbs and transmits the collective subconscious along with other encrypted messages—it is difficult to fully control. Three days ago in Mumbai during my morning water blessing ritual (which includes riyaz and holotropic breathwork), I received a very clear 6D image sequence from my own floating orb including an unknown lover’s face, the monuments of Jaipur, eagle feathers and a painting of two women underground. That same day I was on my hoverbike, landing at Pink City. I know by now that when water talks, you listen. I just have to find what it’s showing me."

Excerpt from #Indofuturist Visions (XLE.LIFE) by Kai (Kari) Altmann aka Hitashya aka Dr. Kai aka Kai Lion XLE, 2023

[romancemedia]

Cartoon Romances + First Meeting

[ash-and-starlight]

I see the fandom’s “Ambassador of the Southern Water Tribe” Sokka and raise y’all “Emerging Technologies Advisor, Sokka of the Water Tribe.” Working with all the nations as a emissary for scientists and engineers, introducing these new techs to world leaders and brainstorming ways to integrate them helpfully into society — really, he just gets to travel a lot and mess around with machines and I think these are two things that Sokka would excel so so very much at

thiiiisss this so much this his ass would Not settle in the fire nation permanently!!! he travels all over the world!! he sees and learns all the things he couldn’t experience while ending the war!! he fixes things everywhere he goes as easy as breathing. he’s the one behind the southern water tribe cultural center in republic city and behind this huge ass ‘fuck you zuko try to destroy this now’ watchtower/lighthouse in the swt capital.

he has a traveling food critic column and a published haiku collection and fifteen new inventions patents and is just as fundamental for bringing on an age of peace and prosperity as anyone else. so yeah emerging technologies advisor, poet, swordsman, inventor, councilor, storyteller, warrior, artist, white lotus member, food blogger, pai sho champion, trendsetter sokka of the southern water tribe ftw forever amen

[weekend-whip]

My DTIYS for @nutellabit!! My tiger looks kinda weird tho 🧐

[nikox400x]

Kung Fu Panda 4-All the budget went to the animation (spoilers)

Hey all, its me, the guy who everyday make a tour around this site but almost never talk. How are ya?

Two days ago something arrived to the cinema's screens, something that me and everyone were waiting for since 2018, the fourth film and the begginig of the new kung fu panda triology.

You know? When I sat on that theather seat with my friends to see what Dreamworks had prepared for us, I told myself; "Maybe that post I made a while ago throwing shit at what seemed like Kfp 4 was going to be was a bit hard, I hope I can come out regretting what I said that time"

And as soon as the credits ended, it was clear to me, I dont regret a shit. Maybe it was a little exaggerated, compared to what a megamind fan would think about the terrible sequel they made, but still: the film is crappy and boring most of the time. But why?

I'm going to explain some points.

1- Po? Is that you?

I don't know you guys, but i don't think the panda we knew in the end of the third film is the same as this one. Seriously, he share more comparisons with the Po from the legend of awessonless than the one from the films, maybe its a personal thing but it feels that way. At least in the beggining of the film feel like that.

And I don't know what he was thinking about when he decided to follow a thief he doesn't know at all and who tried to steal in his own palace, and that suspiciously know who is the chameleon, whose were her plans, her past, where she lived, where exacly they had to pass through avoiding all the guard inside her home, why the others thiefs of the city hate her so much... With Po's experience with criminals this is like a chef throwing water on a pan with boiling oil, it's obvious what is going to happen.

2- Zheng- Female Nick Wilde but without charisma or half of his intelligence.

I knew it from the first moment I saw Zheng's desing, the people who know me can corroborate that; her facial expressions, her tone while she talk, her animal race, her position as thief, her final when she is part of the justice same as the protagonist... it's clearer than water I think.

Everyone could say this is forgivable if she's smart, but surprise, she's not. This character is just an absurd try of this company for """"conect with infant audience""""(I don't know in what sense, I supose for the cute design, idk). But the point is, the supposed objective of the hollywood companies is give the new generetions better things than we got at their age, but what I see is laziness for write a decent scrip only for take an advantage of a known IP and make easy money. Even the children have quality standars, this is not the dragon warrior and of course this is not kung fu panda.

And talking about the dragon warrior, having our deep and lovely Tigress with her magnific development or Tai Lung back from the spirit realm... why in the hell this character exists?! Oh yeah, for being trending topic in twitter for three days. Yay...

3- The furious five and Shifu, for us : our pretty boys, and for Dreamworks: living jokes.

What made Kung Fu Panda what it is, is not the fucking panda, it's them. They're the inspiration for Po, their allies, the royale representation of kung fu and the ones which everything started with.

Po's a comic relief, and his mission is show his development in part using his humor, but the humor in this film barely works because of the lazy script. Something that even the talented Jack Black himself can't fix, beacuse his only role there is dublin his character, unlike the rest of the residents of the Jade Palace except Dustin Hoffman.

Seth Rogen (Mantis) himself even said that he wasn't even contact by Dreamworks in the first place, only for make a scream in the credits, that's sad beacause he really wanted to see Mantis on the screen. And I know and I understand that the five are expensive, but cmon, they could just simply change the voice actors and offset it with a good script but that's not the case of course. Their role in the film is being a counter for Po's constant jokes, for not to saturate the spectator with jokes, now that's not in there anymore, thank you Dreamworks.

4-The chameleoooohhn and her "motivation".

I can't say much, basically because out of her design she's nonsense. She says that because of her size, she was reyected for being a kung fu warrior.

Yeah of course but only one little thing, what about Shifu? Viper, a warrior without tips? Mantis, literally a dawn insect? Master Oogway, a TURTLE? The masters goose? C'mon even there's a fucking master chicken! Don't talk shit chameleon!

Her importance for the plot? Its almost a lie, the others villains had links to important characters; Tai Lung (with his link to Shifu's past), Shen (with his link to Po's past) or Kai (with his link to Oogway's past), all of them related to important characters. And her? To zheng's past and present I guess? But again, anyone know this character. She's like a villain from a Disney show, you know the type of villain who say a lot of things but at the end, she don't support nothing to the lore.

And her personality is like a mix of all the previous villains, and this sounds good right? HAHAH nope. Do you remember when as a child you mixed all the plasticines of all the colors to create the final color and you ended up with a color similar to poop? well that's exacly how her personality feels like.

5- Po's dads; the only reason they're there is because they ran out of characters to make the film.

The tittle itself tell everything, they don't do anything for the script in all the film, and their objective could be done since the start.

The script of the film except for the final looks like a draft which they didn't know how to complete, everyone who watch it can see it perfecly. The animation, the music and the backgrounds are the only things notable here.

6- Tai Lung and the cheapness nostalgia.

Fan service is not necesarry bad, above all if is used in a good way, they sold us Tai Lung as a miracle but his importance for the plot feels just like a Stan Lee cameo, I like Tai Lung I can say that. But this is too weak, Shen and Kai are only characters in the background who don't do nothing except being defeated or make facial expressions (I don't even joke that Shen would show respect to Po considering what we saw in the second movie, and Kai wasn't supposed to be destroyed as a spirit, what the hell is he doing here again? *sign* I'll to stop trying to make sense of this).

By the way, anyone else think that the dragon warrior role is understimated? I mean Shifu obligated Po to transfers the role to another one just because yes, i mean he only has been the dragon warrior for less than 5 years and now they want to replace him with a random. Everything just for at the end, he choosed a thief with at least 30 crimes registred and who was a traitor during the 75% of the movie.

7- The """""""""humor"""""""", except they forgot the parts where I must to laugh.

Seeing nonsense hits only beacuse yes stopped of being funny a long time ago, and no, I don't want to talk about the bunnies of the portrait because I would get sick. I had to go to the cinema drunk to endure the filler that the movie had, no joke, it was the only way to laugh at those jokes.

So I think about applying the same method as in any movie with bad jokes, ignoring the jokes. I tried to do the same thing but with the pace that the film managed, such a thing was impossible, the pace of the movie seems to be made for Tiktoker children with attention deficit. From the chaos in the quarry until Po takes the bitc... uhg fox out of prison, only 10 fucking minutes pass, all of that for what? So that you feel like the baseless information and the nonsensical plot that they tell us is of any use? they could simply make a non-canonical short and that's it, but no, yes or they were going to tell us a story written by rotten old men who spend the entire day watching Tik Tok. It's not going to be that the child who sees this doesn't get bored, we know that much today's children don't have many neurons as they say, but even to make movies for them you have to have a certain talent.

In some point at the beguining Po make a joke about the ausence of the furious five saying that at least he had them in cardboard posters, and this would be a good joke. Only if the stupid film could be prove that the franquise can do something memorable without the furious five, but again, that's not the case.

Don't have any respect for this movie, look what it had with you. I understand that it is enjoyable because of the animation but it does not go beyond that line, it destroys important things about the canon and spoils its teaching about the need for change by treating it in a terrible way.

Coclusion: KFP 4 is just another Po's adventure as Shifu says, it won't tell nothing to you or make you feel different, it's a shame but after Megamind 2 I imagined something like this. It's a dark era for film, expecially the animated one so like Scar said; Be prepare, there're worse things waiting for us.

Do you want something with real quality? You don't even need kung fu panda 1,2 or 3, for make it easy to this film let's take this marvelous example; kung fu panda: secrets of the scroll (2016). You'll say; "An animated short, this is not like-" Shhh Just watch it, you won't regret it.

If you think I'm wrong in something, just rewatch the film. And if still you aren't agreed with me, well, I respect you and I'm happy you like it. I wish I could love it as you do, but that doesn't mean that the movie isn't bad, because if you watch it with your brain on or remembering the previous movies it's terrible.

. Me? I've to write a story, I love you all. Except you, Dreamworks, I'm mad with you, expecially when you do this at the same day as Akira Toriyama's death :(

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

The arrival of The Strength can come off as daunting—he may appear too wild or too hesitant from certain viewpoints. But when he tames his raving emotions and casts away all doubt, welcoming a balance and power found only within...there is no force alive that could deter his might. And, with love and luck, perhaps he'll inspire that same inner strength within you.

Upright, the Strength represents Self-Confidence, Inner Strength, Compassion, and Persuasion

When Reversed, the Strength is indicative of Raw Emotion, Vanity, Self-Doubt, and Limited Self-Control

[cobaltsunflower]

catching up with my sangatsu no lion and shimada is still a king

[starsfic]

Both of them, gripping each other's hands as they prepared to walk through the underworld, looked like another pair of a boy and a girl, gripping each other's hands as they prepared to step into the scroll. They even looked like them, with Kai having Xiaotian's windswept curls and Nya having Xiaojiao's sharp eyes. He almost expected Kai to call him "Uncie Lion."

[badpanduhmemes]

[shogi-lion]

Shimadas that I love from the recent chapter

[kiwisandpearls]

inspired by a certain post in the proship tag i just wanna say this before i go back into my little hole:

i think discussions on how shipcourse has become very overblown are very important but i think just as important as discussions that shipcourse has become way bigger and more concerning than needed are discussions of why shipcourse has become the beast it is today, is there anything we can do to…not make shipcourse as big as it is, and is shipcourse a possible precursor to real world issues such as censorship of fictional media?

idk…i just don’t think saying “shipcourse is dumb and has hurt people” is really enough to unpack the actual damage shipcourse has and may continue to do.

[sir-borre]

Yvain, the Knight of the Lion

Max Baldry - Prince Yvain of Gore

Emilia Clarke - Lady Laudine

Olivia Cooke - Lady Lunete

Charlie Vickers - Sir Calogrenant

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Sir Gawain of Orkney

Katie McGrath - Queen Morgana of Gore

Chris Pine - King Arthur of Britain

Gene Tierney - Queen Guinevere of Britain

Peter Sellers - Sir Kay

[yeonyoom]

my beautiful wife of 10 and a half years

[cablepowerhouse]

You know what? I think this is one of the coolest design in Ninjago and I’m appalled that we will never get a mini figure of it.

[sokkastyles]

I know you've responded to this post before, but I also saw this reblog of it and I thought you might like to take a crack at it.

I've already addressed a lot of those arguments about the Southern Raiders and the claim the episode was "really" about how Katara and Zuko needed Aang's guidance and how they're so insensitive towards Aang's feelings about Katara's feelings (because Katara's feelings need to be about Aang for some reason?) So I'm not gonna rehash all that, but I do want to address this:

"That's cute, but this isn't air temple pre-school." / "Okay, guru goody-goody..."

&

"You're weak, just like the rest of your people! ... They don't deserve to live in this world! In my world!"

Do sound kind of similar

Because they only sound similar if you are reading Zuko's lines in the most uncharitable light. And yes, there is a difference between Zuko being a redeemed villain and Ozai being the main big bad AND Zuko's abuser who his narrative is about rejecting in every way, especially since this wasn't something Zuko said as a villain, and neither Aang nor Katara act like it was wrong of him to say or think. We already know that Zuko does not believe that the Air Nomads are weak and don't deserve to live in the world. Only a few episodes previously, he told Ozai directly that that was wrong!

It's extremely reductive to compare Zuko disagreeing about whether Katara should forgive her mother's murderer to Ozai advocating for genocide. Like, that's so far from what the argument is about. This is like Christians going around telling victims of abuse that if they don't turn the other cheek they will go to hell, and when someone disagrees with them they act like they were told to go die. Aang is not being victimized by Zuko disagreeing about what he thinks Katara should do about her mom's murder. But Zuko IS an abuse victim who has been told by his abusers that he needs to seek their forgiveness for imagined crimes that were used to hurt him. That's why Zuko disagrees with Aang's take on forgiveness, not because he thinks the Air Nomads are weak.

Also, I and other people have pointed this out already, but rather than what Ozai says about how the Air Nomads did not deserve to live, Zuko says that Aang's statements on forgiveness are more applicable to "Air Temple Preschool" than to the real world. This isn't some nihilistic statement about how the world is cold and hard or advocating for Ozai's darwinist take on "weakness," Zuko is saying that Air Nomad teachings that don't come from lived experience don't have a place in Aang telling Katara what to do about her mother's murder. Aang has experienced immense suffering, but his lines about how the monks say that revenge is a two headed snake don't come from his experiences of suffering - and Aang is never put in the place of having to forgive an unrepentant person, he does not forgive Ozai, and only forgives Zuko because Zuko sought his forgiveness and genuinely changed - they are merely words he was taught that he uses to tell Katara what do about a situatuon he has never been in and will never be put in. The words don't mean anything for Katara's situation, which is about her specific experiences and the man who murdered her mother. That's what Zuko meant when he was talking about the difference between aphorisms one might be taught in school and the real world.

Additionally, although Zuko says to Aang that he was right about violence not being the answer, we already know that Zuko is capable of finding that out on his own, because we saw him reject being goaded into violence by Ozai in Day of Black Sun. We saw him accept Katara sparing Yon Rha without a word. And we saw him in the final agni kai, the actual parallel to Aang's fight with Ozai, defeat his sister without killing her. When Zuko asks Aang how he is going to defeat Ozai, it is not about Zuko thinking violence is the only answer, it is about the fact that currently, they HAVE no answer to the question about what to do about Ozai. Neither Aang nor Zuko know about the lion turtle, and Zuko not knowing about it is not a flaw in his morals. The AUDIENCE doesn't even know about it until the last minute, and the question of what Aang will do about Ozai is answered not by Aang sticking to his morals and proving himself morally superior, but narrative contrivance.

That's why the lion turtle feels like such a cheap win, especially in the context of this argument. The argument seems to be that Zuko should have somehow predicted that pacifism would win the day through an unlikely set of circumstance that conspire to make it happen. If only Zuko, as a thirteen year old, had been able to pull something similar out of his ass to avoid not being burned by Ozai. But alas, clearly the reason he couldn't is because he just didn't believe enough in the power of pacifism, and had to learn it from Aang, who the narrative bends over backwards to accommodate. The real difference here is that Zuko and Katara didn't have the moral luck of the narrative on their side and Aang did. Imagine if Katara's quandary about what do about Yon Rha was solved by her revealing at the last second right before she shoves an ice dagger through Yon Rha's eye that she actually learned how to neutralize him nonviolently in a flashback from a flying hog monkey and then lecturing Zuko for five minutes on the evils of violence.

Even without the deus ex machina, Katara and Zuko still manage to defeat Azula nonviolently in the literal parallel to Aang's fight with Ozai, so like, I don't even know what the point of this comparison is except annoying virtue signaling.