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lokisrare · 5 years ago

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A/N: Just in case you don’t know I’m a hardcore Harry Styles fan and Fine Line belongs to a museum so I thought of this (I’ll list the songs at the end) if you haven’t listened to it yet I recommend you to do it, it’s really a masterpiece. I won’t put any warnings because there aren’t any, except some angst anyway I hope you all love it, if you do, let me know! Had to repost because the links weren’t working and I didn’t know how to fix it so yeah lol

WORDS: 2071.

PLOT: George recapitulates his life with Lola as she walks down the aisle.

PAIRINGS: George Mackay x ofc.

She (she)

She lives in daydreams with me (she)

She’s the first one that I see

And I don’t know why

I don’t know who she is (she, she)

Maybe it was the pink hair that had completely grabbed his attention towards her or maybe the different flowery jumpers she used to wear almost every day; the thing is, George realized as days passed by that she owned a lot of them, with different colors and patterns, not because he stared at her all of the time like a psycho -or maybe a little-, but because she just outshined everyone wherever she was by the way she dressed and how spontaneous her personality seemed to be.

It was a Monday morning, it was really early and everyone looked like crap including him, except for her, she was doing one of the girls’ hair while looking effortlessly beautiful, now the locks of her hair were violet and a nose piercing made its first appearance; George was mesmerized by her and only realizing how much he was staring when someone hit his head in the back. Really hard.

“Careful! You idiot.” He said while massaging the back of his head.

He was about to get up to follow Andrew, who was already walking off while laughing but a little giggle stopped him in his tracks; turning around, he directed his attention to the make-up section where she was looking at him with a funny expression on her face, her cheeks blushed when she realized he heard her. George smiled at her and when she smiled back his heart stopped for a moment. Cheesy. But it was a start, he thought at the time, he still didn’t even know her name but it was a start. Definitely.

Sunflower

My eyes

Want you more than a melody

Let me inside

Wish I could get to know you

“Lola please, it’s just a coffee. If you hate me after it, I won’t talk to you or even look at you” he pleaded.

He had finally gotten her name, it suited her, he thought. George had reached out to her one night while she was organizing her stuff, after that, they started to talk almost every day on set; early in the mornings when no one really wanted to talk they’d be laughing at some stupid conversation topic.

But George wanted more, he wanted to know other things rather than the superficial stuff, he wanted to really get to know her.

Lola crossed her arms and huffed, George thought it was funny how intimidating she was even when he was way taller than her, it was like she was always the one in control, and he found himself already liking this side of her.

“I told you I don’t like to get involved with people from my job, I’m still working my way into this industry and I don’t want to fuck it all up” she said, very serious and looking really concerned about her place at the time and George almost instantly regretted being so insistent.

“I’m sorry, you’re completely right,” he saw Lola’s face transform into a look of surprise and relieve, maybe it was the first time a boy actually listened to her and understood her reasons; “but, please, keep doing my make-up, Rose makes me look like a Ken doll whenever she gets her hands on my face and I creep myself out when I look in the mirror.” He tried to ease the moment with a not-so joke.

Lola let out a laugh and nodded. He smiled at her and started to leave not before leaning in and kissing her on the cheek, before turning on the opposite direction he caught a glimpse of her blushing and smirked.

Before he could cross the door, he heard her let out a curse under her breath and a heavy sigh right before she called out his name, asking him to come back into the room.

“Fine, let’s grab a coffee, but I get to choose the place.” Lola said with a shy smile. It was the first time she didn’t look as her confident self, he thought.

“It’s a date, then” George smiled satisfied and she furrowed her eyebrows.

“Not a date, it’s just a coffee.”

Tastes like strawberries on a summer evenin’

And it sounds just like a song

I want your belly and that summer feelin’

I don’t know if I could ever go without

Watermelon sugar high

Every day it passed he realized how much of a free old soul she was. Lola loved exploring and finding places; like one time in England when she found an abandoned theater with a little museum inside and made him spent the night, it wasn’t creepy at all because they also found out stray dogs lived there. Maybe if he made a top three of their dates, it would’ve been number two because now, as he stared at the ocean right in front of him while he seated on the top of a rock he thought this date would be placed in number one for sure.

Not only because he loved the beach and how private and intimate this place was, but how beautiful she looked with that loose white dress she was wearing, her hair up in a messy bun, and her cheeks red because of the sun.

“I could stay here forever,” he said mostly to himself as she was eating a piece of watermelon, she nodded, her mouth full. It made him laugh at her, she looked like a little girl doing a mess.

“I wouldn’t though, this place gives me the creeps during night because those rocks there look like a skull when its dark and some friends say they heard a woman crying once.”

“Oh, we are not staying then. Definitely not.” Lola nodded agreeing with him while she cleaned her hands, once she was done she laid her head on top of his thighs.

George smiled down at her and looked straight into her eyes and then down to her lips, Lola grabbed the back of his neck leading his lips into hers.

The kiss was soft but loving, her lips tasted sweet and he thought how he could never get tired of her.

Lola was something else.

But I can feel it take a hold (I can feel it take a hold)

I can feel you take control (I can feel you take control)

Of who I am, and all I’ve ever known

Lovin’ you’s the antidote

Golden

“Lola, sweetheart, would you help me over here?”

“Of course!”

George looked at Lola as she helped his mother with some recipe for a dessert she had found on the internet.

He didn’t know why he couldn’t stop staring at her, maybe the fact that it was the first time in four years -five almost-, he saw her with her natural hair color and she looked absolutely stunning, her nose ring was still there but her factions were way more mature.

Or maybe it hit him how much they had grown together, how many moments they lived, great and not so great, and how much he loved the way his family adored her.

He loved her. Lola had him since the first moment he landed his eyes on her and then never let him go. She was his treasure, his gold, his everything and he was so happy knowing he was the exact same thing for her.

It was then when he looked down at his pocket and felt the little delicate ring his grandmother gave to him. He never felt more ready.

There’s things that we’ll never know

You sunshine, you temptress

My hand’s at risk, I fold

Crisp trepidation

I’ll try to shake this soon

Spreading you open

Is the only way of knowing you

We’ll be a fine line

(…)

We’ll be alright

The apartment was dark and silent. It felt as it was completely empty. Yet it wasn’t. George was sitting at the end of the hall, his back against your shared bedroom door, it was long time ago when he last heard you sob, he figured you’d be sleeping by now but still it didn’t felt right to come in.

He hurt you, he was well aware of it, yet he couldn’t do anything about it. He knew he had no control over this part of his job, the traveling.

He knew Lola liked to pretend she was doing fine, she didn’t like to be seen as fragile or dependent, she was raised that way, he could never blame her, but it was hard sometimes when George wanted nothing but to know what was hurting her, it was so hard to get Lola to open up about how she was feeling.

He would feel like she didn’t trust him, and distance fucks things up most of the time when trying to talk things through, she was stubborn and he wasn’t patient.

George got up and slowly opened the door, she was facing him and he could tell she was peacefully sleeping by her calm breathing.

He sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Lola, her nose was still a little red, he noticed her eyes had gotten a little swollen too, it broke him because he hated being the reason behind her suffering.

George caressed her cheek, then her arm, slowly and lovingly; he looked at her hand, his grandmother’s ring decorating her finger. George felt his chest getting heavy and his sight getting blurry from the tears so he closed his eyes letting them fall, it hurt him too, he hated to leave her for so long, he hated not being there for her accomplishments or her difficult times and vice versa. Sometimes he felt his love wasn’t enough.

George opened his eyes startled as he felt her hand cupping his face. Lola was looking at him, her sight holding sadness and tiredness but yet he could feel the love on her delicate touch.

“Come here” was all she said.

George laid beside her and she hugged him, their faces inches from each other, he kissed her forehead as she closed her eyes.

“We’ll be alright” she said before falling back asleep, and George held to that promise.

And oh we started

Two hearts in one home

It’s hard when we argue

We’re both stubborn

I know, but oh

Sweet creature, sweet creature

Wherever I go, you bring me home

Sweet creature, sweet creature

When I run out of road, you bring me home

All this moments, the good and the bad, the really low times when they had nothing but each other to hold on to and the happiest of times when they also had each other to share their joy.

It all came to flashes to George’s mind as he saw her walking down the aisle to him, her white gown with little golden flowers decorating it perfectly, she had her hair up but he could still see the pink on the ends of it falling loose from her hairdo, just like the first time he saw her.

And maybe, he thought, he wouldn’t be able to promise her a perfect marriage but he could promise her his devotion and all the love and adoration he felt for her.

Because he loved Lola since the first time he saw her, when she still had a baby face with round cheeks and so many doubts about her future and he loved her now as the successful woman she had become, so confident, so smart and so beautiful.

When she finally arrived to him, he realized he was crying when she laughed and cleaned his cheeks with her fingers.

“Oh please George, you’re going to ruin the Ken doll make up” she said jokingly.

“Yeah, joke all you want. Look where just a coffee leaded us too” George said and Lola looked at him with a confused look, he smirked at her and then she gave him a look, realizing what he meant.

“God, George, can we please get married before I regret it” she said making the priest laugh.

“You had 8 years for that” he bragged, “fine, let’s get this done milady” he took Lola’s hand winking at her as the priest started speaking.

He stared at her. She was perfect. This day was perfect.

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from Fine Line(2019): She, Sunflower, Watermelon Sugar, Golden, Fine Line. from Harry Styles(2017): Sweet Creature.

(CLICK THE ALBUM’S NAMES IF YOU WANT TO CHECK THEM OUT)

#george mackay #george mackay imagine #george mackay x reader #1917 imagine #1917 fanfic

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leenaevilin · 5 years ago

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[Personal] 2019 stages watched this year

only 2 days are left in 2019... so I thought it’s time for this year’s watched list

like last year... I was curious how many stages I’ve watched over the year (performances 2019 only + older stages) and I was shocked O_O (again)… YOU CAN OFFICIALLY CALL ME AN ADDICT!!!!! (good thing I don’t really watch tv anymore... less than 10 dramas/variety shows this year!!!)

you find the whole list of 2019 stages and a list of older stages I have watched this year under the cut~♡

ps: aspecial thanks goes to @mandilo who is responsible for my addiction to rare stages, @ryota-kunstranslations who adds to my tsukipro addiction, @annikamuffyn who is my German backup system and moral support and the rest of my beautiful little group here on tumblr and twitter!! without you guys, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy so many stages throughout the year!!!!

2019 Stages:

01. あんさんぶるスターズ！エクストラ・ステージ～Memory of Marionette～ (ensemble stars! extra stage ~memory of marionette~) [December 28th – February 15th]

02. 銀岩塩 Vol.3 LIVE ENTERTAINMENT「『神ノ牙-JINGA-転生』～消えるのは俺じゃない、世界だ。～」(ginganen vol.3 live entertainment kami no kiba -jinga- tensei ~kieru no wa ore janai, sekai da.~) [January 5th - January 14th]

03. Fate/Grand Order THE STAGE -絶対魔獣戦線バビロニア- Enuma Dingir (fate/grand order the stage zettai majuusensen babylonia enuma dingir) [January 11th - January 27th]

04. 舞台アニドルカラーズ! キュアステージ (butai anidol colors! cure stage) [January 11th - January 27th]

05. ミュージカル封神演義－目覚めの刻－ (musical houshin engi -mezame no toki-) [January 13th - January 20th]

06. 舞台忍び、恋うつつ (butai shinobi, koi utsutsu) [January 18th - January 27th]

07. ミュージカル『刀剣乱舞』～三百年の子守唄～ musical touken ranbu ~mihotose no komoriuta~) [January 20th - March 24th]

08. ミュージカルスタミュスピンオフ SHUFFLE REVUE (musical starmyu spin off shuffle revue) [January 23rd - February 3rd]

09. 舞台「BASARA外伝～KATANA 虹の話ー銀杏ー」(butai basara gaiden ~katana niji no hanashi -ichou-) [January 25th - January 28th]

10. MANKAI STAGE『A3!』~AUTUMN & WINTER 2018~ [January 31st - March 24th]

11. 舞台『メサイアトワイライト -黄昏の荒野-』(butai messiah twilight -koukon no arano-) [February 7th - March 2nd]

12. Bunkamura 30 周年記念シアターコクーン・��ンレパートリー2019「唐版風の又三郎」(bunkamura 30 shuunen kinen theater cocoon on repertoire 2019: karaban kaze no matasaburou) [February 7th - March 2nd]

13. 舞台『機動戦士ガンダム 00 -破壊による再生- Re:Build』(butai kidou senshi gundam 00 ~hakai ni yoru saisei~ re:build) [February 15th - February 24th]

14. 怜々蒐集譚 (reirei shuushuu tan) [February 16th - February 27th]

15. 舞台漫画みたいにいかない。第2巻 (butai manga mitai ni ikanai. dai 2 maku) [February 19th - March 9th]

16. 舞台「文豪とアルケミスト余計者ノ挽歌」(butai bungou to alchemist ~ yokeimon no elegy) [February 21st - March 10th]

17. 舞台「レイルウェイ」(butai railway) [February 22nd - March 2nd]

18. ミュージカル「ロミオ＆ジュリエット」(musical romeo & juliette) [x2] [February 23rd - April 14th]

19. 舞台「プロジェクト東京ドールズ」(butai project tokyo dolls) [February 27th - March 10th]

20. 舞台『K -RETURN OF KINGS-』(butai k -return of kings-) [March 1st - March 17th]

21. 舞台どろろ (butai dororo) [March 2nd - March 23rd]

22. 2.5次元ダンスライブ S.Q.S BLAZING & FREEZING (2.5 jigen dance live s.q.s: blazing & freezing) [March 3rd]

23. 舞台『仮面ライダー斬月』-鎧武外伝- (butai kamen rider zangetsu -gaim gaiden-) [March 9th - March 31st]

24. 朗読劇ぼくは明日、昨日のきみとデートする (roudokugeki boku wa ashita, kinou no kimi to date suru) x8 [March 12th - March 17th]

25. 舞台劇団シャイニング from うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪『Pirates of the Frontier』 (butai gekidan shining from uta no☆princesama♪ pirates of the frontier) [March 15th - April 7th]

26. 舞台「俺たちマジ校デストロイ」(butai oretachi majikou destroy) [March 21st - March 30th]

27.「ツキステ。」第8幕「TSUKINO EMPIRE -Unleash your mind.-」(tsukisute. stage 8 ~ tsukino empire -unleash your mind.- ) [March 27th - March 31st]

28. つかこうへい復活祭 2019 VOL.1『熱海殺人事件』LAST GENERATION 46 (tsuka kouhei fukkatsusai 2019 vol.1 atami satsujin jiken last generation 46) [March 28th - March 31st]

29. 舞台「桃源郷ラビリンス」(butai tougenkyou labyrinth) [April 4th - April 14th]

30. ハイパープロジェクション演劇『ハイキュー!!』“東京の陣” (hyper projection engeki ‘haikyuu!!’ “tokyo no jin”) [April 5th, 2019 ~ May 6th, 2019]

31. ミュージカル『薄桜鬼志譚』風間千景篇 (musical hakuouki shitan kazama chikage hen) [April 5th - April 21st]

32. ONE PIECE LIVE ATTRACTION『PHANTOM』 [April 7th]

33. 王室教師ハイネ-THE MUSICAL II- (oushitsu kyoushi haine -the musical II-) [April 11th - April 28th]

34.『僕のヒーローアカデミア』The “Ultra” Stage (boku no hero academia ~ the “ultre” stage) [April 12th - April 29th]

35. 舞台『黒子のバスケ』ULTIMATE-BLAZE ～帝光編～リーディング (butai kuroko no basuke - ultimate-blaze ~teikou hen~ reading) [April 15th]

36. 舞台「幕末太陽傳外伝」(butai bakumatsu taiyouden gaiden) [April 18th - April 28th]

37. 舞台「PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス Virtue and Vice」(butai psycho-pass virtue and vice) [April 18th - May 6th]

38. 舞台『銀河鉄道999』さよならメーテル～僕の永遠 (butai ginga tetsudou 999 ~ sayonara maetel ~ boku no eien) [April 20th - May 12th]

39. ミュージカル『刀剣乱舞』加州清光単騎出陣アジアツアー (musical touken ranbu ~ kashuu kiyomitsu tanki asia tour) [April 20th - May 7th]

40. 浪漫活劇譚『艶漢』第三夜 (roman katsugeki banashi: adekan hosakayo) [April 20th - April 29th]

41. アイ★チュウザ・ステージ～Rose Ecarlate～ (i★chuu the stage ~rose ecarlate~) [April 21st - May 12th]

42. S.Q.S ~ SOLIDS & QUELL on STAGE Episode 3 ROMEO - in the darkness [April 25th - May 6th]

43. MANKAI STAGE『A3!』~SPRING 2019~ [April 27th ~ June 2nd]

44. 舞台『黒子のバスケ』ULTIMATE-BLAZE (butai kuroko no basuke ~ ultimate-blaze) [April 30th - May 19th]

45. 舞台「やがて君になる」(butai yagate kimi ni naru) [May 3rd - May 12th]

46. 舞台「+GOLD FISH 」(butai +gold fish) [May 10th - May 19th]

47. 舞台『弱虫ペダル』新インターハイ篇 ~制・限・解・除 (リミットブレイカー)~ (butai yowamushi pedal fin interhigh hen ~limit breaker~) [May 10th - May 16th]

48. ミュージカル「憂国のモリアーティ」(musical yuukoku no moriarty) [May 10th - June 26th]

49. DYNAMIC CHORD the STAGE [May 11th - May15th]

50. 2.5次元ダンスライブ『ALIVE』ステージEpisode 1 (2.5jigen dancelive ~alive stage~ episode 1) [May 15th - May 19th]

51. ミュージカル「スタミュ」スピンオフ team柊単独レビュー公演「Caribbean Groove」(musical starmyu spin off team hiiragi tandoku revue kouen ~ caribbean groove) [May 30th - June 2nd]

52. 最遊記歌劇伝－Darkness－ (saiyuuki kagekiden -darkness-) [June 6th - June 14th]

53. LOOSER～失い続けてしまうアルバム～ (looser ~ushinai tsuzuketeshimau album~) [June 6th - June 16th]

54. 錆色のアーマ -繋ぐ- (sabiiro no armor -tsunagu-) [June 6th - June 30th]

55. 舞台『刀剣乱舞』慈伝日日の葉よ散るらむ (butai touken ranbu jiden hibi no ha yo chiruramu) [June 14th - August 4th]

56. 家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN! the STAGE -vs VARIA part I- (katekyou hitman reborn ~ the stage -vs varia part I-) [June 14th - June 30th]

57. Rock Opera「R&J」 [June 14th - July 7th]

58. 高橋悠也×東映シアタープロジェクト TXT vol.1「SLANG」(takahashi yuuya × touei theater project txt vol.1 ~slang~) [June 20th - June 30th]

59. 舞台「魍魎の匣」(butai mouryou no hako) [June 21st - July 7th]

60. 舞台「紅葉鬼」(butai kouyouki) [June 28th - July 7th]

61. ミュージカル少女革命ウテナ～深く綻ぶ黒薔薇の～ (musical shoujo kakumei utena ~fukaku hokorobu kurobara no~) [June 29th - July 7th]

62. ミュージカル『刀剣乱舞』髭切膝�� 双騎出陣2019 ~SOGA~ (musical touken ranbu higekiri hizamaru souki shutsujin 2019 ~soga~) [July 4th - July 14th]

63. Starry☆Sky on STAGE [July 10th - July 15th]

64. GEKIIKE 本公演第10回「月光仮面」(gekiike honkouen dai 10 kai gekkou kamen) [July 25th - August 12th]

65. Live!!! アイ★チュウザ・ステージ～Planete et Fleurs～ (live!! i★chuu the stage ~planete et fleurs~) [July 27th]

66. 舞台『pet』─虹のある場所─ (butai pet -niji no aru bashou-) [July 29th - August 4th]

67. THE STAGE ラッキードッグ1 Break Through (the stage lucky dog 1 break through) [July 31st - August 4th]

68. ミュージカル『刀剣乱舞』 ~葵咲本紀~ (musical touken ranbu ~kishouhongi~) [August 3rd ~ October 27th]

69. MANKAI STAGE『A3!』~SUMMER 2019~ [August 8th ~ September 29th]

70. ミュージカル「スタミュ」3 (musical starmyu 3) [August 12th ~ September 1st]

71. 舞台 Stray Sheep Paradise (butai stray sheep paradise) [August 15th ~ August 18th]

72. 舞台「7ORDER」 (butai 7order) [August 22nd ~ September 8th]

73. あんさんぶるスターズ！エクストラ・ステージ～Destruction × Road～ (ensemble stars! extra stage ~destruction × road~) [August 22nd ~ September 29th]

74. 舞台「幽☆遊☆白書」(butai yuu☆yuu☆hakusho) [August 28th ~ September 22nd]

75. ミュージカル「アルスラーン戦記」(musical arslan senki) [September 5th ~ September 16th]

76. 舞台「メサイア ―黎明乃刻―」(butai messiah -reimei no toki) [September 5th ~ September 23rd]

77. 舞台「GOZEN -狂乱の剣-」(butai gozen -kyouran no ken-) [September 12th ~ September 29th]

78. 舞台「ULTRAMAN DARKNESS HEELS～THE LIVE～」(butai ultraman darkness heels ~the live~) [September 13th ~ September 23rd]

79. 私に会いに来て (watashi ni ai ni kite) [September 13th ~ September 20th]

80. S.Q.S Episode 4「TSUKINO EMPIRE2 -Beginning of the World-」[x2] [September 26th ~ September 29th]

81. 舞台けものフレンズ「JAPARI STAGE!」～おおきなみみとちいさなきせき～ (butai kemono friends japari stage! ~ookina mimi to chiisana kiseki~) [September 27th ~ October 6th]

82. 体内活劇「はたらく細胞 II」(tainai katsugeki hataraku saibou II) [September 27th ~ October 6th]

83. 舞台版『PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス Chapter1―犯��係数―』 (butaiban psycho-pass chapter 1 -hanzai keisuu-) [October 25th ~ November 10th]

84. ライブ・スペクタクル NARUTO -ナルト- ~暁の調べ~ (live spectacle naruto ~ akatsuki no shirabe) [October 25th ~ December 10th]

85. 「ツキステ。」第9幕「しあわせあわせ」(tsukisute. stage 9 ~ shiawase awase) [October 30th ~ November 4th]

86. LIVE ミュージカル演劇『チャージマン研!』(live musical engeki ~ chargeman ken!) [x10] [October 31st ~ November 6th]

87. ハイパープロジェクション演劇『ハイキュー!!』“飛翔” (hyper projection engeki haikyuu!! “hishou”) [November 1st ~ December 15th]

88. 舞台「血界戦線」(butai kekkai sensen) [November 2nd ~ November 17th]

89. 2.5次元ダンスライブ『ALIVE』ステージ Episode 2 (2.5jigen dancelive ~alive stage~ episode 2) [x4] [November 8th ~ November 17th]

90.『ヒプノシスマイク-Division Rap Battle-』Rule the Stage -track.1- (hypnosis mic -division rap battle- rule the stage -track.1-) [November 15th ~ December 1st]

91. 舞台「暁のヨナ～烽火の祈り編～」(butai akatsuki no yona ~houka no inori hen~) [November 16th ~ November 23rd]

92. 舞台『刀剣乱舞』維伝朧の志士たち (butai touken ranbu ~ iden oboro no shishitachi) [November 22nd ~ January 18th, 2020]

93. さらに『さらざんまい』～愛と欲望のステージ～ (sarani sarazanmai ~ai to yokubou no stage~) [November 28th ~ December 8th]

94. テイルズオブザステージ -光と影の正義- (tales of the stage -hikari to kage no seigi-) [December 5th ~ December 15th]

95. 脳内クラッシュ演劇『DRAMAtical Murder』(nounai crash engeki ~ dramatical murder) [December 20th ~ December 29th]

96. イケメン戦国 THE STAGE 番外編～はじまりの物語～ (ikemen sengoku the stage bangai hen ~hajimari no monogatari~) [December 26th ~ December 30th] (waiting patiently for a message from my partner in crime^^)

97. STAGE FES 2019-2020 [December 31st] (nice way to wait for the countdown^^)

other stages watched this year:

01. 夜想曲... GOLD (nocturne... gold) [November 3rd, 2010 - November 7th, 2010]

02. 舞台『レシピエント』 (butai recipient) [February 29th, 2012 - March 11th, 2012]

03. ミュージカルコードギアス反逆のルルーシュ魔人に捧げるプレリュード (musical code geass: hangyaku no lelouch ~ majin ni sasageru prelude) [June 28th, 2012 - July 8th, 2012]

04. ニコニコミュージカル千本桜 (niconico musical senbonzakura) [March 13th, 2013 - March 24th, 2013]

05. 俺たちの明日 (oretachi no ashita) [January 10th, 2014 - January 19th, 2014]

06. REVELATION GARDEN -スパルタクスの反乱- (revelation garden -spartacus no hanran-) [February 22nd, 2014 - March 2nd, 2014]

07. 舞台 STORM LOVER ~波打ち際の王子SUMMER!~ (butai storm lover ~namiuchigiwa no ouji summer!~) [May 3rd, 2014 - May 11th, 2014]

08. Patch stage vol.6 ~SPECTER~ [March 18th, 2015 - March 22nd, 2015]

09. 舞台 STORM LOVER ~波打ち際の王子SUMMER 改!~ (butai storm lover ~namiuchigiwa no ouji summer kai!~) [May 23rd, 2015 - May 31st, 2015]

10. Flying Pirates ネバーランド漂流記 featuring GUY'S (flying pirates neverland hyouryuuki featuring guy's) [September 18th, 2015 - September 23rd, 2015]

11. 極上文學高瀬舟･山椒大夫 (gokujou bungaku ~ takasebune sanshou dayuu) [October 9th, 2015 - October 25th, 2015]

12. ペルソナ4 ジ・アルティマックスウルトラスープレックスホールド (persona 4 the ultimax ~ ultra suplex hold) [July 6th, 2016 - July 10th, 2016 ]

13. bpm EXTRA STAGE ESORA [September 8th, 2016 - September 15th, 2016]

14. 劇団番町ボーイズ☆ 第5回本公演スイーツボーイズ1st「甘くはないぜ!」 (gekidan banchou boys☆ dai 5 kai honkouen ~ sweets boys 1st amaku wa nai ze!) [December 2nd, 2016 - December 4th, 2016]

15. ミュージカル忍たま乱太郎第8弾 ~がんばれ五年生! 技あり、術あり、初忍務!!~ (musical nintama rantarou dai 8 dan ~ganbare gonensei! waza ari, jutsu ari, hatsu ninmu!!~) [January 7th, 2017 - January 22nd, 2017]

16. ミュージカルイケメン王宮◆真夜中のシンデレラ (musical ikemen oukyuu ◆ mayonaka no cinderella) [January 14th, 2017 - January 22nd, 2017]

17. ミュージカル手紙 2017 (musical tegami 2017) [January 20th, 2017 - February 5th, 2017]

18. 舞台弱虫ペダル新インターハイ篇 ~スタートライン~ (butai yowamushi pedal shin inter high hen ~startline~) [February 25th, 2017 - March 12th, 2017]

19. 厨病激発ボーイ (chuubyou gekihatsu boy) [June 8th, 2017 - June 18th, 2017]

20. 劇団番町ボーイズ☆ 第7回本公演オフィスクレッシェンドプロデュース「マネキンライフ」 (gekidan banchou boys☆dai 7 kai honkouen office crescendo produce mannequin life) [June 9th, 2017 - June 11th, 2017]

21. 舞台イムリ (butai imuri) [July 26th, 2017 - July 31st, 2017]

22. The Stage 神々の悪戯太陽と冥府の希望 (the stage kamigami no asobi: taiyou to meifu no kibou) [August 16th, 2017 - August 20th, 2017]

23. 舞台 OZMAFIA!! (butai ozmafia!!) [September 6th, 2017 - September 10th, 2017]

24. 死にかけ男が転生目指して芸能界で頑張ります! ~しにてん~ (shinikake otoko ga tensei mezashite geinoukai de ganbarimasu! ~shiniten~) [September 13th, 2017 - September 17th, 2017]

25. 勇者セイヤンの物語 (仮) (yuusha seiyan no monogatari (kari)) [November 8th, 2017 - November 12th, 2017]

26. 劇団☆新感線髑髏城の七人 season月 '上弦の月' (gekidan shinkansen: dokurojou no shichinin season tsuki ~ 'jougen no tsuki') [November 23rd, 2017 - February, 21st, 2018]

27. 劇団☆新感線髑髏城の七人 season月 '下弦の月' (gekidan shinkansen: dokurojou no shichinin season tsuki ~ 'kagen no tsuki') [November 23rd, 2017 - February 21st, 2018]

28. 銀岩塩vol.2 「牙狼＜GARO＞ -神ノ牙覚醒-」(ginganen vol.2 garo -kami no kiba mezame-) [November 29th, 2017 - December 3rd, 2017]

29. バリスタと恋の黒魔術クローバー班 (barista to koi no kuromajutsu clover han) [December 20th, 2017 - December 26th, 2017]

30. 舞台 ONLY SILVER FISH (butai only silver fish) [January 6th, 2018 - January 17th, 2018]

31. ミュージカル忍たま乱太郎第9弾 ~忍術学園陥落! 夢のまた夢!?~ (musical nintama rantarou dai 9 dan ~ninjutsu gakuen kanraku! yume no mata yume!?~) [January 6th, 2018 - February 4th, 2018]

32. イケメン革命アリスと恋の魔法 Episode 黒のエースフェンリル＝ゴッドスピード (ikemen kakumei alice to koi no mahou the stage episode kuro no ace fenrir godspeed) [January 10th, 2018 - January 14th, 2018 ]

33. もののふシリーズ��終章駆けはやぶさひと大和 (mononofu series saishuushou ~ kake hayabusa hito yamato) [February 2nd, 2018 - February 18th, 2018]

34. 舞台アンフェアな月 (butai unfair na tsuki) [February 22nd, 2018 - March 4th, 2018]

35. ミュージカルヘタリア FINAL LIVE ~A World in the Universe~ (musical hetalia final live ~a world in the universe) [March 17th, 2018 - March 18th, 2018]

36. 舞台バグバスターズ ―Stage BLUE― (butai bugbusters -stage blue-) [March 21st, 2018 - March 25th, 2018]

37. わが家の最終的解決 (wagaya no saishuuteki kaiketsu) [March 28th, 2018 - April 1st, 2018]

38. イケメン戦国 THE STAGE ~織田信長編~ 幸福ルート (ikemen sengoku the stage ~oda nobunaga hen~ koufuku route) [April 5th, 2018 - April 9th, 2018]

39. イケメン戦国 THE STAGE ~織田信長編~ 情熱ルート (ikemen sengoku the stage ~oda nobunaga hen~ jounetsu route) [April 5th, 2018 - April 9th, 2018]

40. 1789 -バスティーユの恋人たち- ♪Version de courage (1789 -bastille no koibitotachi- ♪version de courage) [April 9th, 2018 - May 12th, 2018]

41. 劇団シャイニング from うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪「JOKER TRAP」(gekidan shining from uta no☆princesama♪ ~ joker trap) [April 19th, 2018 - May 13th, 2018]

42. ハイパープロジェクション演劇「ハイキュー!!」"はじまりの巨人" (hyper projection engeki ‘haikyuu!!’ “hajimari no kyojin”) [April 28th, 2018 - June 17th, 2018]

43. ミュージカル青春 - AOHARU - 鉄道 3 (musical aoharu tetsudou 3) [May 4th, 2019 - May 26th, 2019]

44. 劇団シャイニング from うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪ 『SHINING REVUE』レビューソングコレクション (gekidan shining from uta no☆princesama♪ ~shining revue~ revue song collection) [May 26th, 2018 - June 2nd, 2018]

45. BOYS★TALK 第3弾 (boys★talk dai 3dan) [June 6th, 2018 - June 8th, 2018]

46. 舞台アニドルカラーズ! キュアステージ ~シリウス学園編~ (butai anidol colors! cure stage ~sirius gakuen hen~) [June 30th, 2018 - July 17th, 2018]

47. ミュージカル『テニスの王子様』3rdシーズン全国大会青学vs氷帝 (musical tennis no oujisama 3rd season zenkoku taikai seigaku vs hyoutei) [July 12th, 2018 - September 24th, 2018]

48. ダンガンロンパ3 THE STAGE 2018 ~The End of 希望ヶ峰学園~ (danganronpa 3 the stage 2018 ~the end of kibougamine gakuen~) [July 20th, 2018 - August 13th, 2018]

49. 勇者セイヤンの物語 ~ノストラダム男の大予言~ (yuusha seiyan no monogatari ~nostradam otoko no daiyogen~) [July 25th, 2018 - July 29th, 2018]

50. 舞台『宇宙戦艦ティラミス』(butai uchuu senkan tiramisu) [July 25th, 2018 - July 31st, 2018]

51. 舞台炎��蜃気楼昭和編散華行ブルース (butai honoo no mirage shouwa hen ~ sangekou blues) [August 11th, 2018 - August 19th, 2018]

52. ミュージカルマリーゴールド (musical marigold) [August 25th, 2018 - September 9th, 2018]

53. 最遊記歌劇伝-異聞- (saiyuuki kagekiden -ibun-) [September 4th, 2018 - September 9th, 2018]

54. 舞台『かくりよの宿飯』(butai kakuriyo no yadomeshi) [September 5th, 2018 - September 16th, 2018]

55. イケメン革命アリスと恋の魔法 Episode 黒のキングレイ=ブラックウェル (ikemen kakumei alice to koi no mahou the stage episode kuro no king ray blackwell) [September 6th, 2018 - September 11th, 2018]

56. 舞台モブサイコ100 ~裏対裏~ (butai mob psycho 100 ~ura tai ura~) [September 13th, 2018 - September 23rd, 2018]

57. 舞台劇団シャイニング from うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪『ポラリス』 (butai gekidan shining from uta no☆princesama♪ polaris) [September 13th, 2018 - October 8th, 2018]

58. 家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN! the STAGE (katekyou hitman reborn! the stage) [September 21st, 2018 - October 14th, 2018]

59. 舞台「文豪ストレイドッグス黒の時代」(butai bungou stray dogs kuro no jidai) [September 22nd, 2018 - October 6th, 2018]

60. Théâtre de Candy Boy 第一回公演 BON BON (théâtre de candy boy dai ikkai kouen ~bon bon~) [September 27th, 2018 - September 30th, 2018]

61. ハイパープロジェクション演劇『ハイキュー!!』“最強の場所” (hyper projection engeki ‘haikyuu!!’ “saikyou no team”) [October 10th, 2018 - December 16th, 2018]

62. 2.5次元ダンスライブツキウタ。ステージ CYBER -DIVE- CONNECTION (2.5 jigen dance live tsukiuta. stage cyber -dive- connection) [October 18th, 2018 - November 4th, 2018]

63. 舞台銀河英雄伝説 DIE NEUE THESE THE STAGE (butai ginga eiyuu densetsu ~ die neue these the stage) [October 25th, 2018 - October 28th, 2018]

64. ミュージカル深夜食堂 (musical shinya shokudou) [October 26th, 2018 - November 11th, 2018]

65. 舞台けものフレンズ ~ゆきふるよるのけものたち~ (butai kemono friends ~yuki furu yoru no kemonotachi~) [November 8th, 2018 - November 18th, 2018]

66. 舞台信長の野望大志春の陣天下布武 ~金泥の首編~ SIDE織田 (butai nobunaga no yabou taishi haru no jin: tenkafubu - kindei no atama hen - side oda) [November 8th, 2018 - November 12th, 2018]

67. 舞台暁のヨナ ~緋色の宿命編~ (butai akatsuki no yeon hwa ~hiiro no shukumei hen~) [November 15th, 2018 - November 25th, 2018]

68. 舞台『君死ニタマフ事ナカレ零_改』(butai kimi shi ni tamau koto nakare zero kai) [November 29th, 2018 - December 9th, 2018]

69. 舞台遙かなる時空の中で3 (butai haruka naru toki no naka de 3) [December 6th, 2018 & December 16th, 2018]

70. ミュージカル『テニスの王子様』3rdシーズン青学 vs 四天宝寺 (musical tennis no oujisama 3rd season seigaku vs shitenhouji) [December 20th, 2018 - February 17th, 2019]

71. LUNATIC LIVE 2018 ver BLUE & RED [December 26th, 2018 & December 27th, 2018]

#personal #jstages #stages #watched list #2019 #call me an addict #good thing I don't really watch tv anymore...#O_O

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fnlrndcllctv · 4 years ago

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REVIEW: SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium (1999)

When it comes to 2D fighting games during the early/mid 90’s, there’s two names that absolutely dominated the scene with their releases and became household names;

SNK and Capcom.

To this day they remain some of the most well respected and most loved games companies in the fighting game genre, so the prospect of a crossover between the two companies back then was certainly a tantalising thought.

In November of 1999, we got just that in the form of SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium for the Neo Geo Pocket Color system.

While this wasn’t the first time we’d see the brands clash in a single game (that award goes to SNK Vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash, released earlier that year), it was the first time they would meet in the setting of a tradition versus fighting game.

The game was a critical success, and was followed up with entries in the genre that many consider to be the best fighting games ever made.

So, with the bar set so high with this historic title, it finally sees a re-release on the Nintendo Switch almost 22 years later as part of Nintendo’s Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection series, alongside games such as SNK Gals’ Fighters, The King Of Fighters R-2 and Fatal Fury: First Contact.

So, does it still hold up all these years later?

Let’s find out…

Gameplay

First of all, there’s a number of different ways in which players can play through the tournament mode (and regular versus mode); you can either go 1-on-1, fight a 2-on-2 battle as a tag team, or as a team of three in an elimination match. This variety of battle styles appeals to players who may be used to fighting in different forms.

Want to play this like a King Of Fighters game? Go ahead!

How about like the Marvel Vs Capcom titles? Play as a tag-team to your heart’s content, my friend!

For a game that utilises just two attack buttons, there’s a surprising amount of depth to how special moves are executed as well. Instead of relying on the four-button approach that SNK based their games on or the usual six-button layout in many of the Capcom fighting games, SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium’s control scheme actually focuses on how long the A and B buttons are pressed.

The longer a button is pressed, the higher the amount of damage it causes (but takes a hit to how quick it is), mimicking the LP/MP/HP and LK/MK/HK button functions in games such as Street Fighter II and Darkstalkers.

It’s a simple system that works wonders, and makes the amalgamation of each games franchise’s special moves work together seamlessly.

The game also boasts three different “power gauge” command styles to choose from too;

AVERAGE - This is similar to the traditional super gauge in the Street Fighter games, where once the gauge is filled up, more powerful versions of normal attacks can be pulled off.

COUNTER - This is a more defensive approach that allows counterblows while evading enemy attacks. It also has an exclusive function in the form of “critical hits”, which do greater damage if they successfully hit an opponent.

RUSH - This one only fills up when chain combos are successfully executed, and although this gauge nerfs your normal attack damage, super moves can be done at any time (as long as there’s enough juice in the tank, so to speak).

So no matter which side of the fighting game coin you land on, there’s definitely a playstyle in SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium that will suit you perfectly.

In the original release, if players wanted to play against each other, a link cable and another console were required, making it something of a inconvenience. Thankfully this new Switch port has 2-player versus available straight away by using the two joycons.

Story

The game’s main storyline centres around a not-so-subtly named fighting tournament known as the “Battle Tournament of Evil”, which promises the victor the title of “World’s Mightiest” and a ridiculously high amount of prize money.

The benefactors and organisers of said tournament? None other than Fatal Fury’s Geese Howard and Street Fighter II’s M. Bison!

This newly formed alliance of nefarious (and powerful) psychopaths has an ulterior motive with the tournament, and intend to create an “immortal military” whose first wave of elite soldiers are to be the captured contestants.

The character stories vary slightly depending on whether an SNK fighter or a Capcom fighter is chosen, and the game’s ending depends on the outcome of a specific match during the tournament where a player faces off against their rival.

Putting together the two “Big Bads” that are synonymous with their respective franchises is a great move and the fact that players can get a “bad ending” through poor performance in just a single match ups the ante somewhat as well.

Roster

SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium’s roster is comprised of 26 different fighters (18 of which are immediately playable, with a further 8 that are unlockable) from across the various SNK and Capcom franchises;

From the King Of Fighters, Fatal Fury and Art Of Fighting games, we get Kyo, Terry Bogard, Iori, Ryo Sakazaki, Mai and Leona.

From Psycho Soldier, we get Athena.

From the Samurai Shodown series, we get Haohmaru and Nakoruru

From Street Fighter II, we get Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Guile and Zangief.

From the Street Fighter Alpha series, we get Sakura and Dan

From Darkstalkers, we get Morrigan and Felicia.

The unlockable fighters in the game are from a good mix of the various games series, and there are 4 to unlock for each side.

It’s an impressive roster for a game that was released on a platform like this, and does a great job of bringing together the more familiar faces of Capcom’s games with some perhaps lesser known fighters from the SNK side.

Graphics

SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium’s stylised graphics are one of the most immediate things players will notice about the game.

The character sprites are more cartoonish versions of each fighter’s normal likeness and all strictly adhere to a 3-colour palette. Considering the history of alternate looks for 2D fighting game characters being simple colour swaps, this simplistic look works really well for the most part (well, Zangief might be the only exception here…).

Seeing the fighters in motion is also a joyous thing too, as the movement during fights is fluid and animated to a brilliant degree. Even the animations when characters are idle feel charming in this game!

A large problem with fighting games on handheld systems during this era was that they all too often felt like an attempt at creating a scaled down version of the bigger, more technically advanced games to fit the lower specs of the systems, ultimately resulting in a crappy version of the game.

Games such as this, along with many other titles in the Neo Geo Pocket Color library, always felt like they were made from the ground up to fit the system, so they not only played well, but they also looked very unique in a really positive way.

SNK Vs Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium is arguably the best of the bunch, and it deserves praise for it.

As is par for the course with retro fighting game re-releases on modern hardware, there’s also some extra display options to help things feel like the real deal, but with this (and the other NGPC releases on the Switch), there’s the option to view the game in a mocked up fashion on a number of different Neo Geo Pocket Color models. It’s a nice touch that effectively shows the amount of care being put into this port.

Stages

The stages in the game are essentially a megamix of different locations from several SNK and Capcom games, ranging from the helicopter wreckage in The King Of Fighters ‘94’s Brazilian jungle, the Great Wall Of China from Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors’ Dreams and the crashing rocky waves of Japan from Samurai Shodown to the cloudy Japanese castle of Ryu’s Street Fighter II stage, Morrigan’s spooky Scottish Darkstalkers cave/lair combo and the moving train carriages that pass by Mount Rushmore (over and over again) from Fatal Fury 2.

There’s plenty of references for longtime fans of these games to spot, and they have been recreated perfectly to fit in with the game’s visual style.

I mean, sure, some of the characters in the backgrounds do look a little murky and lack detail in places, but when you consider that the screen on a Neo Geo Pocket Color was a smaller, low resolution affair, it can be ignored for the most part!

Replayability

SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium’s gameplay experience is essentially split into two halves.

One one side, you have the regular versus game modes and a story mode to fight through, as one would expect from pretty much every fighting game. On the other side is the unlocking all of the hidden characters and beating a plethora of minigames to earn new special moves.

This is where the game’s replay value truly shines through, and its nice to see that it’s all present in its original form on the Switch port.

These extra games are known as “Olympic Mode”, and is divided up into separate SNK and Capcom sections. While both sections do share some of the same minigames, such as the 100-round survival match, Time Attack and the “whoever gets connects with the first hit, wins!” mode, there are also a couple of games that are unique to each brand.

On the SNK side, managed by Samurai Shodown’s Rimiruru, we get “Targets” - a shooting game that sees players assume the role of Marcus from the Metal Slug franchise as he shoots down as many aliens as possible. We also get “Blade Arts” - where players take on the role of Samurai Shodown’s Jubei as he slices through as many straw dummies as possible before a timer expires.

On the Capcom side, managed by Street Fighter Alpha 3’s Karin, we get “Ghost Trick”; which sees Ghosts ‘n Goblins’ Arthur having to jump across platforms to collect treasures on each side of the screen while avoiding a pesky Firebrand that pops up between them. The other challenge - “Cat Walk” - is a Dance Dance Revolution-style minigame that sees players have to quickly input buttons as they are announced so that Felicia can dance along.

These extra modes are pretty challenging, and undeniably make the game feel so much more complete, while also showing some much deserved appreciation for other iconic games in both companies’ back catalogs.

Final thoughts & overall score

SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium is fondly remembered by many as one of the best handheld fighting games ever released, and the Switch port further cements that notion, bringing the series into the modern era.

The visual style of the game still oozes charm, the gameplay system still feels immensely satisfying and the wealth of extra playable content that is packed into it puts many of the more well known titles of the era to shame.

With the features of the Nintendo Switch implemented, the small handful of nagging issues that came with the game’s original release are now completely fixed, making this not only a cool item of interest for fans of either SNK or Capcom, but an absolute essential for any fighting game fan.

For the purposes of this review, a review copy was provided by Renaissance PR on behalf of SNK.

Do you agree with our review of the SNK Vs. Capcom: The Match Of The Millennium?

Let us know in the comments section below!

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All of the anime I’ve ever watched so far

One Piece Naruto Naruto Shippuden Sword Art Online SAO 2 Attack On Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin Magi: Labyrinth of Magic Magi: Kingdom of Magic Blue Exorcist Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Z Dragon Ball Z GT Dragon Ball Super Kaze No Stigma Rosario Vampire Bleach Eye Shield 21 Slam Dunk Ranma 1/2 Kenichi Kill La Kill Soul Eater Dead man Wonderland Soul Eater Not Yu Yu Hakusho BeyBlade Yugioh Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood Black Cat Gin Tama Shaman King Ruruoni Kenshin Pokèmon Digimon Hunter X Hunter Psycho Pass Psycho-Pass 2 Free! Clannad Clannad After Story Gurren Laggann Noragami Death Note Tokyo Ghoul Log Horizon Terror in Resonance The Irregular at Magic High School RWBY RWBY S2 Terra Formars World Trigger Aldnoah.Zero Madan no Ou to Vanadis Parasyte -the maxim/Parasite FLCL/Furi Kuri/Fooly Cooly Shaman King Neon Genesis Evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion Ansatsu Kyoushitsu/Assassination Classroom S: 1,2 Death Parade Tokyo Ghoul Root A Aldnoah.Zero Season 2 Seiken Tsukai no World Break The Rolling Girls Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 Cowboy Bebop Haikyuu!! Arslan Senki (TV) Kekkai Sensen Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku Shingeki no Kyojin: Ilse no Techou Kyoukai no Rinne (TV) Ninja Slayer From Animation Owari no Seraph Bakemonogatari Nisemonogatari Rinne no Lagrange Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Ghost In The Shell: SAC 2 GIG DanMachi Plastic Memories Gangsta God Eater Charlotte Space Dandy Tokyo Ghoul: Jack Noragami: Aragoto Owari no Seraph: Nagoya-Kessen-hen One Punch Man Heavy Object Young Black Jack Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry Comet Lucifer Concrete Revolutio Digimon Adventure Tri Trigun Fate/Stay Night Prince of Stride: Alternative Norn9: Norn+Nonet ERASED/Boku dake ga InaiMachi Divine Gate Active Raid: Kidou-Kyoushuushitsu Dai Hakkei Musaigen no Phantom World Hai to Gensou no Grimgar Bubuki Buranki Terra Formars Revenge Hundred Endride Boku no Hero Academia Joker Game Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Sousei no Onmyouji Kiznaiver Bungou Stray Dogs Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou 2nd season Taboo Tattoo Berserk (2016) Arslan Senki S2 Days (TV) Servamp Mob Psycho 100 Bungou Stray Dogs S2 Ajin S2 All Out!! Keijo!!!!!!! Drifters Nanbaka Bubuki Buranki S2 Yuri!!! On Ice Haikyuu!! S3 Trickster Zetsuen no Tempest Fairy Tail Seven Deadly Sins Boruto Durarara!! Attack On Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin 2 Re: Creators Boku no Hero Academia 2 The Devil is a Part Timer Knights of Sidonia Fate/Zero Fate/Stay Night: Ultimate Blade Works Fate/Apocrypha K Project Welcome to the Ballroom

Classroom of the Elite Katsugeki Touken Ranbu

MOVIES Akira Psycho Pass (Movie) Summer Wars The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki Blame! Paprika Tokyo Godfathers Mind Game Tekkon Kinkreet Perfect Blue Memories Patlabor: The Movie Patlabor 2: The Movie Patlabor 3: The Movie Redline Millennium Actress 5 Centimeters PerSecond Colorful Your Name. Gantz: 0 Bakemono no Ko The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Gekijouban Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners Movies:1-7 Ghost In The Shell (Movie) Ghost In The Shell: Innocence Ghost In The Shell: Solid State Society Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel Naruto the Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom Naruto Shippuuden Movie Naruto Shippuuden: Bonds Naruto Shippuden: Inheritors of Will of Fire Naruto Shippuuden: The Lost Tower Naruto Shippuuden: Blood Prison Naruto Shippuuden: Road to Ninja Naruto Shippuuden: The Last Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the gods Howl's Moving Castle Spirited Away Princess Mononoke Porco Rosso Grave of the Fireflies Laputa: Castle in the Sky Ponyo: On the Cliff by the Sea Tales from Earthsea Kiki's Delivery Service My Neighbor Totoro Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Lupin III: Castle of Cagilostro The Wind Rises From Up on Poppy Hill The Secret World of Arrietty Whisper of the Heart

Any suggestions for new ones?

P.S. My favorite one is Neon Genesis Evangelion and you should follow my anime account @code-kirito-ken

#anime #anime gif #anime art #animelover #animeboy #animefan #animeworld #anime memes #animation #animated gif #manga #mangaka #anime manga #otaku #otakuworld #otakon #otakuforever

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take-a-chill-la-pill · 7 years ago

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Tagged

I was tagged by the awesome @rabiesvaccine

Rules: Answer 20 Questions and tag someone else who you want to get to know more.

Name: Jasmine

Nickname: Jazz

Ethnicity: A bunch of Hispanic things like Mexican, Spanish, Puerto Rican, maybe one white thing and some Native American. Idk, I’m just a mutt.

Favorite Fruit: Strawberries and watermelon.

Favorite season: I like Fall because I like to wear beanies and jackets but I don’t like freezing my butt off in the winter.

Favorite superhero(s): Nightwing, Batman, Wonder Woman, Wolverine, Batgirl, and Spider-Man.

Favorite non-anime TV show(S): The Office, Rick and Morty, King of The Hill, Invader Zim, Arrested Development, Daria, Regular Show, and SNL.

Favorite Hobby: Working out and drawing

Favorite Color: Purple, Green, and Black. I can’t choose one over the other.

Favorite anime character(s): Ryuko Matoi, Satsuki Kiryuin, Mako Mankanshoku, Ira Gamagori, Mikasa Ackerman, Sasha Brause, Eren Jager, Erwin Smith, Hanji Zoe, Levi Ackerman, Ymir, Kamina, Simon the digger, Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Italy, Spain, Japan, the narrator from Hetalia (even though she’s technically not a character) Koro-Sensei, All Might, Iida Tenya, Ken Kaneki, Revy “two hands”.

Favorite bands: Foo Fighters, Panic! At The Disco, Paramore, Nirvana, Weezer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fall Out Boy, The Neighbourhood, My Chemical Romance, Twenty One Pilots, Arctic Monkeys, The Fray, Kumbia Kings, Selena Y Los Dinos, and Mystik Spiral (but they’re thinking of changing their name).

Favorite Animal(s): Lions and Tigers and bears (oh my)!! Jk, just wolves, tigers, pandas, and pretty much every kind of dog. Cats are okay, though.

Favorite anime movie(s): Wolf Children, Your name, The Cat Returns, Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Though Time, Cowboy Bebop:The Movie, Hetalia: Paint it White, and The Boy and the Beast.

Favorite non-anime movie(s): The Dark Knight Trilogy, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Kill Bill vol.1 & 2, Silver Linings Playbook, Inception, Logan, Wonder Woman, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained, Inglorious Bastards, The Breakfast Club, Grease, Wayne’s World, Casino Royale, Mad Max: Fury Road, Australia, Back to the Future trilogy, Clueless, Mean Girls, The Princess Bride.

I was born and raised in: Austin, Texas. I like to keep it weird.

Favorite Sports Teams: San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Cowboys, Texas Longhorns, and Putas Del Fuego (that last one is a Roller Derby team).

Blog created: December 2016

Number of followers: 878 and growing thanks to everyone :)

Favorite food: Mexican, Italian, Chinese, and BBQ

Top 10 favorite anime series: Kill la Kill, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Attack on Titan, Cowboy Bebop, Black Lagoon, Assassination Classroom, Steins;Gate, Tokyo Ghoul, Hetalia, Psycho-pass.

Okay. @theatxjazz97blog @everydaysatsuki @followingryuko its your turn.

#there it is #i did it #my blog is strictly a kill la kill blog #but i'm too stubborn to back down from a challange #i sound like a loser #mystik spiral isn't a real band #i was just referencing that show daria

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pervitiini · 7 years ago

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Get to Know Me Meme

Got tagged by @whitecometofakagi a month ago. Better late than never, I guess.

Nickname: Blue (nowadays also Pervi and Methamphetamine Ryosuke, I hate this website) Zodiac sign: (¬‿¬) Height: 168 cm ಥ_ಥ just why Last Thing You Googled: Love Live Scouting Schedule Favourite Music Artists: Iron Maiden, Nightwish, Sabaton, Turmion Kätilöt, Korpiklaani, Rammstein, System Of A Down, Pet Shop Boys, several eurobeat artists (e.g. Manuel, Go 2, Dave Rodgers, Ken Blast/T. Stebbins, Maurizio DeJorio), just to name a few :’) Song Stuck In My Head: Wain L. – Make Up Your Mind Last Movie you watched: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales What are you wearing right now: Sabaton T-shirt and black jeans Why did you choose your URL: To be honest, that is something I would like to know. I am not sure in which state of mind I thought that choosing methamphetamine’s Finnish brand name would be a good idea. Do you have any other blogs: too many What did your last relationship teach you: (¬‿¬) Religious or spiritual: Yes Favorite color: Fifty Shades of Blue (lmao), black Average hours of sleep: 5 or 6? Lucky Number: I do not have one. Favorite Characters: too many but to name a few: N, Silver, Blue/Green Oak (Pokémon), all my beautiful Love Live daughters, Ryosuke Takahashi, Takumi Fujiwara, Rin Hojo, Mako Sato (Initial D), Shogo Makishima, Akane Tsunemori (Psycho Pass), 9th and 10th Doctor (Doctor Who), Snufkin (Moomin), I better stop now -- How many blankets do you sleep with: 1 Dream Job: Beats me. People I want to get to know better: I do not tag anybody personally because so many people have already done this but if you have not and you want to, go ahead.

#tag game

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leblacknoir · 7 years ago

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About Me~ As tagged by my friend~

Name: Anne Nickname: Ein, N Zodiac: Libra Height: 160cm Orientation: Pan-Sapio with pinch of Asex Nationality: Malaysia Favorite Fruit: Apple Favorite Season: Rainy Favorite book: Anything by Thomas Harris/Murakami, Howl's series, Paprika, too many to count. Favorite Flower: Can clover be a flower? Favorite Scent: Vanilla Favorite Color: Black Favorite Animal: CATS Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Tea and milk Cat or dog: CATS Favorite fictional character(s): I found myself relatable to Tsunemori Akane (Psycho Pass), Katsuki Yuuri (Yuri on Ice), Tsukasa (.hack//Sign), Fran (Franken Fran) and Kaneki Ken (Tokyo Ghoul). I adore those from the older series such as Spike, Matoko and Kaworu. Was tagged by @chainelements /muwah Tagging errr @kazliin //runs I'msorryIhavenooneelseIcantag

#about me #Rival Series Support Group

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trulyhumblenarcissist · 8 years ago

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Rules: Answer the questions, then tag 20 followers you’d like to get to know better.

Tagged by @nancmi thank you so much!

Name: My family and friends call me Rama

Gender: Female

Star sign: Aries

Height: 170cm (yes... metric system ftw)

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Favorite color: purple and green (but I think you* can guess it, so...)

Favorite animal: Dogs (yes, I'm basic af)

Current time: 6:05 PM

Cats or Dogs: You* already know

Favorite Fictional Characters: I'll go only with anime-manga characters for now

Kaworu Nagisa and Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

Mello and Near (Death Note)

Erwin Smith (Attack on Titan)

Cain C. Hargreaves and Riffael Raffit (Godchild) *omg these two are still a thorn in my chest

Hansel and Gretel (Black Lagoon)

Dazai Osamu (Bungo stray dogs)

Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)

Urumi Kanzaki (Great Teacher Onizuka)

Roy Mustang (Full Metal Alchemist)

Shōgo Makishima (Psycho-Pass)

Kaneki Ken (best characterization by far... I relate to him a lot, even tho I haven't been tortured, killed, or turned into someone else), Furuta Nimura (well... it's kinda obvious that I love this character with all my might), Uta – all these pretty guys are from Tokyo Ghoul

Number of blankets I sleep under: 1 and honestly... this is creepy question

Favorite singer/band: I really TRIED to hold myself

Nirvana

Queen

Avenged Sevenfold

Blue Foundation

Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti

Powderfinger

Einsturzende Neubauten

Foo Fighters

Marina and the diamonds

IAMX (they're freaking good)

Mating Ritual

Meg Myers

Mogwai

Nickelback (I KNOW... don't burn my house please)

Patty Smith

Radiohead

Sia

The knife

Marco Mengoni

Anna Oxa

Loredana Bertè

Angelo Branduardi

Fabrizio De Andrè

Dream Trip: I don't know, I travel a lot, but I've never been outside Europe, so... maybe America for starters

Dream Job: I'm studying for becoming a doctor.

When has this blog hit its peak: I don't think this godforsaken blog has ever had “its peak” (it's a late bloomer)

Why did you decide to get a tumblr: because I usually make awful choices in my free time (joking!......)

When was this blog created: Around 9-10 months ago? I don't remember how to find the actual date and I'm too lazy to check it out.

Why did I pick my URL: because I truly am an humble narcissist

Aaand that's it! I'm sure I've done this tag before, but whatever... *Also why the hell do I talk to this tag like it's a person?

I’ll tag @curiositykilledthefaux @weppy @furuta-is-dead @furuta-is-my-daddy

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prof-kenny · 4 years ago

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psycho-pass Happy Birthday Rikako Ouryou 8.10 2020

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itsworn · 7 years ago

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2017 Meltdown Drags: Gassers, Altereds, Rails and More Celebrate the Bygone Days of Drag Racing

After attending the last four (of eight total) Meltdown Drags events held mid-July at the famed Byron Dragway (aka, The Playground of Power), we can tell you with absolute certainty that this is one of the coolest independently staged vintage drag racing events in the country. Organized by the Meltdown Drags Association (MDA), a consortium of dedicated Midwestern drag racers, the event was created to celebrate the bygone days of the sport, not for the sake of winning trophies or huge cash payouts, but for the mere fun of it.

All proceeds from the event (with the exception of the gate fees collected by track owners BJ and Ronda Vangsness) cover the MDA’s production costs. Should there be any funds left over, those monies are recycled back to the racers in the form of some pretty impressive door prizes: drag slicks, engine parts, tools, a welder, floor jacks, and so on.

In a way, the racers benefit from the gate fees, too, as BJ and Ronda use the money to make running improvements to the Dragway, including the construction of a new three-story tower, a new concrete starting pad, public showers, and the cleanest restrooms at any racing venue in the Midwest.

This year’s Meltdown Drags hosted a grand total of 557 vintage dragsters, gassers, altereds, Super Stock, and altered-wheelbase cars from 1966 and earlier. Entries came from all over the Midwest, but also from as far away as California, Nevada, Utah, and even Europe. Many of those attending were members of race groups including the ScottRods AA/Gassers, Great Lakes Gassers, Nostalgia Gasser Racing Association, and Nostalgia Super Stock Association.

A number of events within an event, Meltdown Drags 8 featured a well-attended swap meet and car show, a Miss Meltdown Drags pin-up girl contest (won this year by Betsy Boondocks), a model car contest, and a Young Gun Award, which celebrated the debut of three second- and third-generation teenage drag racers. Meltdown Drags 8 also saluted our veterans with a field of American flags placed trackside along with a color guard and 21-gun salute by American Legion Post 97 and VFW Post 8739 prior to the Saturday evening race session. Featured guests at this year’s event included “Camfather” Ed Iskenderian and gasser great Robert “Bones” Balogh.

Sounds like a lot going on in one place, eh? Take a look!

Ideal: With ideal summer weather and temperatures in the low 90s, attendance figures for Meltdown Drags 8 topped 13,837 spectators, some of which came from as far away as Hawaii, Sweden, and Great Britain.

Fowl Play: Talk about diversity! “Rocket Joe” Hickenbott’s Wisconsin-based Fowl Play ’57 C/Gas Ford Thunderbird kicks off the event by taking on Jay Rogers’ Iowa-based Hustlin Henry C/Gasser. Both cars hail from the Great Lakes Gassers.

Legends: Featured guests at Meltdown Drags 8 were gasser great Robert “Bones” Balogh (left) and “Camfather” Ed Iskenderian, seen here signing autographs in front of the Nosse Brothers Racing trailer. Other luminaries at the Meltdown included AA/Fuel Altered legend “Gabby” Bleeker and former Ramchargers hot shoe Merek Chertkow.

On the Bumper: A perennial favorite at Byron Dragway is ex-Chicago police officer Mike Bolina’s wheelstanding ’56 Chevy sedan. Although fans love Mike’s bumper-dragging wheelies, the Tri-Five suffers from occasional “guardrail rash” every now and then.

Anglia Envy: Leader of the ScottRods AA/Gassers is Seneca, New York’s Al Borowski and his all-steel, 496ci pearl green Anglia.

Two Crazy: Two more examples of ScottRods team cars include the It’s Crazy AA/GS Anglia owned by Brian and Tami Spotts, and Bob Cook’s Cleveland, Ohio-based alcohol-burning 496ci Crazy Grandpa ’57 Chevrolet Corvette. These cars put on quite a show with their eighth-mile burnouts. Cars run eighth-mile for safety reasons.

Wildest: The Gasser Wars booth featured a fine lineup of vintage Willys gassers, including the rainbow-hued, ex-Mura Brothers ’41 pickup with a blown 426 Plymouth Wedge engine. It is still “The World’s Wildest Willys.”

Airborne: Another bumper-dragging favorite at Byron is Chicagoland Tri-Five racer Nick Shervino and his candy gold and red ’57 Chevrolet Bel Air. Wheelies like this are par for the course for old Nick!

Rebuilt: Believe it or not, this is the same vintage Chrysler three-window coupe Deluxe featured a couple of years back (“Kohlmann’s Krysler Koupe,” Nov. ’16). Well, sort of. A slight disagreement with a concrete barrier last year forced owner-builder Brian Kohlmann to completely rebuild it into a full-on NHRA-legal altered. Car did some hellacious burnouts.

Anglia Battle: Michael “Toad” Neal’s Dixie Fever squared off against Tod Barker’s America’s Lil Bit (from the Ohio Outlaw AA/Gassers) in the battle of the Anglias. Next to the vintage ’33 and ’41 Willys and Tri-Five Chevrolets, the Ford Anglias were the most plentiful with dozens entered.

Young Guns: In keeping with the family tradition, future drag racers Cole and Oliver Buck test their reflexes on the Hot Wheels track. Winners were awarded actual Mattel Hot Wheels sets in an all-kid Hot Wheels eliminator.

Young and Old: Young Matthew Mothershed wheels past a competitor from the Nostalgia Super Stock Circuit with wheels-up racing (a best of 9.98/132.00) being the order of the day. Matthew’s ’62 Plymouth is powered by a Mancini Racing “413” (actually 498ci) Wedge. The “Old Driver” referred to in the rooftop lettering is Matthew’s dad, Dennis, CEO of event co-sponsor Victory Driveline Components and Performance Parts.

Ramble: Getting back to that diversity thing, here we see Ohioan Denny Perry’s Straight Shooter 401 AMC Rambler American squaring off against Ken Kappper’s Chevrolet-powered C/Gas Henry J in wheels-up action.

AA/Gassers: Two more ScottRods AA/Gassers go at it, with Tim Irwin’s Crazy Man’s Toy Anglia besting Ed Kasicki’s Phenomenon chopped ’33 Willys coupe. Both cars are powered by blown Chevrolets.

Ted’s Tribute: The Ted’s Performance Shop ’37 Chevy A/Gasser is quite reminiscent of the old Vintage 37 Chevrolet gasser of yore, and with big-block Chevrolet power, it runs as good, too! Driven by Ted Beach, the coupe runs in the 8s.

A Gas: The Psycho Pass ’48 Anglia A/Gasser is another regular at the Meltdown Drags. Here, driver Ryan Hanlon squares off against Murphy Flats, Missouri’s James Toczylowski in the De-Railed ’41 Willys A/G pick-em-up.

Hustler: Randy Stone’s Bootlegger A/Gas ’55 Chevrolet sedan unofficially won the Chi-Town Hustler Burnout Award, and you can see why. These vintage gassers really put on a show!

Hairy Willys: Meltdown Drags event co-organizer Paul Zielsdorf had his Hairy Hauler B/GS ’41 Willys pickup (“The Hairy Hauler,” Mar. ’16) tuned and ready for the event. Unfortunately, with Paul being one of the major go-to guys at the race, runs like this were limited to only a couple a day.

Tech: Meltdown Drags tech inspectors stayed super busy teching a registered 557 cars.

Flying Bug: You see all kinds of cool stuff competing at the Meltdown Drags. Case in point: Kentuckian Paul Combest’s C/Gas VW Bug takes on—and defeats—this ’55 Chevy C/GS with a nicely executed holeshot!

Time Capsule: Talk about drag racing in a time capsule. Seeing the light of day for the first time since 1962, this small-block-Chevrolet-powered C/Gas ’41 Willys coupe driven by Bruce Frumweller handily dispatches a ’57 Pontiac gasser in the far lane.

Flat Fast: Now here’s some real rolling nostalgia. Bob Huberty’s HA/GR flathead dragster on the tower side takes on a similarly powered D/A Model A Tudor owned by Floyd Craig.

Custom Push: When being period correct counts, there’s nothing like a ’50s-style custom ’51 Ford F1 pick-em-up to get the job done!

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The New Capcom Fighters Network Arrives May 30 Alongside Monthly Targets, Ed and an All-New Spain Stage!

From Capcom Blog

The cage returns! As part of a bevy of new features and updates coming on May 30, Street Fighter V will receive a remastered Spain stage loaded with dancers, musicians and all the requisite flair we’ve enjoyed since its stylish debut in Street Fighter II. And Vega players… yes, you will be able to climb that bad boy. Pick up the Flamenco Tavern starting on May 30 for $3.99 / ï¿¥ 400 / €3.99 or 70,000 Fight Money. Hit the jump for a full round up of what to expect May 30.

The Thailand stage will also return on May 30 with all-new BGM for $3.99 / ï¿¥ 400 / €3.99 or 70,000 Fight Money, and was detailed [ back in this earlier blog post ].

Additionally, May 30 is the day the New CFN rolls out to all online warriors. The New CFN is a massive update to the online SFV experience, [ detailed in this earlier blog. ] New balance changes, matchmaking improvements and loads of other benefits await – including a whopping 50,000 Fight Money bonus for signing in at any point from May 30 to June 13 PST!

Speaking of balance changes, we have a few additional updates to share alongside the New CFN:

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Turn Punch

â‘ Level 1 – 6 Motion: Added throw invincibility for frames 1-18F.

â‘¡ Level 1 – 3 Motion: Changed to upper body and projectile invincibility from frames 3-18F.

â‘¢ Level 4 – 6 Motion: Changed to attack and projectile invincibility from frames 3-18F.

â‘£ Level 7 – 10 (Final) Motion: Changed to complete invincibility from frames 1-18F

R.Mika

Passion Press

Hitbox was reduced

Dhalsim

Stand Heavy Punch

Changed the total frames from 44F ⇒ 42F

Back Throw

Reduced the distance from the opponent after hit.

We also want to thank all of our fans for continuing to support the Capcom Pro Tour this year through the new in-game items we’ve released and the new 2017 Premier Pass! [ As we mentioned ], users who purchase the CPT 2017 Premier Pass will not only get access to all the cool new content such as costumes for Ryu and Ken, we will also be offering up additional Targets.

To kick things off, we’ll be offering up four Targets in June to celebrate the launch of the New CFN which will net you a cool 36,000 Fight Money! We’ll be releasing a new Target each month after that through November.

Keep in mind that each target only lasts for the month that it is active. For example, the Targets in June will expire on July 1 st , the Targets starting in July will expire on August 1 st and so forth.

For a full rundown of all the new Capcom Pro Tour content this year and more information on how this initiative supports Street Fighter V esports, check out this post [ over at the PlayStation Blog ].

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Last, but most certainly not least, our latest Season 2 character, the Young Commander Ed, makes his formal debut alongside the New CFN, Spain and Targets. Test your Psycho Power infused boxing skills for $5.99 or 100,000 FM.

S.I.N. kidnapped Ed as a child and experimented on him with the goal of creating a replacement body for M. Bison. Today, he’s a force all his own! Check him out – and his Story and Battle Costumes – starting on May 30.

Don’t forget, the Season 2 Character Pass is now available for $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99 and will grant pass holders with Akuma, Kolin, Ed, in addition to 3 brand new fighters to be announced later this year. The pass comes with Premium Battle Costumes with colors 3-10 unlocked and default costume colors 3-10 for each character. Additionally, Season 2 Character Pass holders will receive an exclusive PS4 theme!

And as always, for the latest updates on Street Fighter V , follow us on Facebook and Twitter .

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Salem Horror Fest launches in fall 2017 #knowfear

#KnowFear

To overcome fear, we must first understand it. Salem Horror Fest * Sept 21 – Oct 15

Salem Horror Fest examines American fear with a month-long celebration of terror and social justice partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum

SALEM, Ma. – Salem Horror Fest, in partnership with the Peabody Essex Museum and CinemaSalem, today announced four weeks of screenings, parties, concerts, panels and exhibits that explore societal themes of fear and anxiety in horror at the Halloween capital of the world; Salem, MassachusettsAmidst the notorious backdrop of the 1692 Witch Trials, the festival will feature a city-wide program set to kick off at the Peabody Essex Museum on Thursday, September 21 as part of the PEM/PM evening party series in conjunction with their upcoming exhibit “It’s Alive” Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection.

“We live in fear. Fear of failure, commitment, each other and beyond. It’s one of the few things that unites us all. Salem knows this more than most,” said festival director Kevin Lynch. “The cinema is a graveyard of cultural reflections trapped in time like a celluloid ouija board. If we are to overcome fear, we must first understand it.”

Following the Opening Night Party on Thursday, September 21, Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead) will accept the first-ever Salem Horror Award on behalf of Duane Jones for his cultural contribution to the genre as one of the first positive representations of a person of color on the big screen in George A. Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead.

A concert performance by queer, negro-gothic soprano M Lamar will be held at Ames Hall on Friday, September 22 featuring a program The New York Times called an “otherworldly, goth-tinged projection into the distant future of our violent, racially and sexually charged present offering a space of melancholic, alluring, ultimately stirring reflection.”

Four films will be screened in the PEM’s Morse Auditorium with panel discussions exploring subtextual themes of cultural fear found in Night of the Living Dead, Matinee, Gods & Monsters, and The Haunting.

We live in fear. Fear of failure, commitment, each other and beyond. It’s one of the few things that unites us all. Salem knows this more than mostKevin Lynch

Following the Haunted Happenings Parade on Thursday, October 5, CinemaSalem will host Wicked Shorts, a free evening of short films in consideration for the first annual Orlok Award, named in honor of Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery’s 10th anniversary.

The second half of the festival will screen seven double features at CinemaSalem that feature social themes such as racism, misogyny, gay panic, media manipulation, and xenophobia in films like Get Out, People Under the Stairs, Tragedy Girls, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, American Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Mist, They Live, Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Cruising, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, Videodrome, Let the Right One In, and Fright Night.

All these events can be found on Eventbrite and Facebook. (Creative Salem members receive $50 off a VIP all inclusive pass! Please look for an email with your special code!)

The October 7th screening of Tyler MacIntyre’s Tragedy Girls will be the New England premiere at Women With Guts, a celebration in partnership with Rue Morgue Magazine. The event will also screen Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood followed by a Q&A session with its stars Lar Park Lincoln and Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees) moderated by The Faculty of Horror podcast.

For more information, visit salemhorror.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Opening Night PartySalem Horror Fest partners with the Peabody Essex Museum to bring you the ultimate kickoff to the Halloween season! Featuring PEM special exhibition It’s Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection, come haunt our inaugural Horror Fest with this night of live music, and interactive programming as part of the PEM/PM evening party series.

Thursday, September 21, 6pPeabody Essex MuseumM Lamar This “otherworldly, goth-tinged projection into the distant future of our violent, racially and sexually charged present offers a space of melancholic, alluring, ultimately stirring reflection.” – New York Times

Join us for this very special performance, featuring Queer Soprano M Lamar, who will perform an assemblage of old spirituals, in the “gothic-devil-worshipping-free-black-man-blues-tradition” in recognition of the 156th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Friday, September 22, 8pAmes Hall at the Salem YMCA

Wicked Shorts Wicked Shorts celebrates independent filmmakers with a timely showcase of terrifying horror shorts. Submitted films will be curated and considered for the first annual Orlok Award, named in honor of Count Orlok’s Nightmare Gallery’s 10th anniversary.

Thursday, October 5, 8pCinemaSalem

Women With GutsSalem Horror Fest partners with Rue Morgue Magazine to celebrate women in horror for the New England premiere of SXSW hit Tragedy Girls! The screening will be paired with Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood followed by a post-credit Q&A with the film’s stars Lar Park Lincoln and man behind the mask, Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees) moderated by The Faculty of Horror.

Saturday, October 7, 6pCinemaSalemSCREENINGS

Night of the Living Dead Director: George A. Romero

America: The year is 1968. The Cold War is approaching détente, the Civil Rights Movement is winding down, Vietnam continues to escalate… And then come the zombies, creeping in through the cracks in American life. Taking shelter in an abandoned farm house, seven strangers must navigate their differences before the walls give way to a ravenous zombie horde.

Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead) will accept the first-ever Salem Horror Award on behalf of Duane Jones for his cultural contribution to the cinema as one of the first positive representations of a person of color on the big screen.

Thursday, September 21, 9pMorse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

MatineeDirector: Joe Dante

The escalation of the Cuban Missile Crisis collides with the premiere of a new atomic-age monster picture, MANT. This comedic homage to legendary producer William Castle celebrates the joy of horror cinema and theatrical gimmicks in one of Joe Dante’s (Gremlins, The Burbs) most underrated films. Panel discussion to follow.

Sunday, September 24, 2pMorse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

Gods & Monsters

Director: Bill Condon

The last days and career of renown gay horror director James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man) are explored in this biographical drama set in the time following the Korean War. Panel discussion to follow.

Saturday, September 30, 2pMorse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

The HauntingDirector: Robert WiseA scientist, skeptic, psychic and lesbian question reality as they explore a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of death and insanity in this 1963 horror classic. Panel discussion to follow.

Sunday, October 1, 2p

Morse Auditorium at the Peabody Essex Museum

Get OutDirector: Jordan Peele

Slavery is a zombie in Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out, which falls somewhere between Alfred Hitchcock and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Chris is preparing to meet his girlfriend Rose’s Caucasian family for the first time. What could go wrong?

Friday, October 6, 7pCinemaSalem

People Under the StairsDirector: Wes CravenUS, 1991Gentrification and racism are among the topics of socioeconomics tackled by this 1991 Wes Craven offering. On his 13th birthday, young Fool attempts to burglarize the house of his family’s evil landlords, before making a horrifying discovery in a tongue-in-cheek tale set in a post-Reaganomic, urban apocalypse.

Friday, October 6, 9pCinemaSalem

Tragedy GirlsDirector: Tyler MacIntyre

Salem Horror Fest presents the New England premiere of Tyler MacIntyre’s Tragedy Girls, following the unanimously positive response at the 2017 SXSW Festival!

Named “one of the freshest, funniest horror-comedies to emerge in ‘Scream’s’ long wake,” by Variety, the film stars Alexandra Shipp (X-Men Apocalypse) and Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) as two social media-obsessed high school serial killers who use their online show to turn their small town into a frenzy.

Saturday, October 7, 7pCinemaSalem

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New BloodDirector: John Carl BuechlerJason Voorhees has been imprisoned at the bottom of Crystal Lake for years, until a troubled, and telekinetic teenager unwittingly sets him loose upon the camp, once more. This installment of the franchise steps away from the classic elements of gore, and takes a more supernatural turn.

Saturday, October 7, 9pCinemaSalem

American PsychoDirector: Mary HarronDo you like Huey Lewis and the News? You never know if it’ll be the last thing you hear. Grab your Walkman and unsettle yourself for this cult-classic interpretation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho. Patrick Bateman is an Alpha Male, CEO/psycho, whose murderous, misogynistic fantasies begin bleeding into his reality, in this dark-comedy directed by Mary Harron.

Sunday, October 8, 7p

CinemaSalemTexas Chainsaw Massacre

Director: Tobe HooperWhat you are about to see is true. Who’s to say, really? First released while America was struggling with the realities of an oil embargo, the impeachment of a president, and what seemed like endless war, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a direct response to the horrors of its time.

Sunday, October 8, 9pCinemaSalem

The Mist

Director: Frank DarabontA supermarket becomes a petri dish in this film inspired by the Stephen King novella of the same name. A group of strangers are forced to confront the unknown as a unit, as a mysterious mist rolls in around them. Are they human enough to survive? Or are they too human for their own good?

Monday, October 9, 7pCinemaSalem

They Live

Director: John Carpenter

In a world where the media is flooded with subliminal messages constantly making demands of humanity to conform, obey, consume, and reproduce, it would seem the only thing left to do is throw on some shades, and see the true horror that is our ruling class. John Carpenter’s 1988 commentary on the state of American democracy, society, and consumerism.

Monday, October 9, 9pCinemaSalem

Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

Director: Jack SholderThis 1985 camp classic explores the homoerotic horrors of high school when the man of Jesse’s dreams, Freddy Krueger, claims his body as a portal into the world of flesh.

Friday, October 13, 7pCinemaSalem

CruisingDirector: William Friedkin

Al Pacino stars in this controversial crime thriller from 1980. When human remains begin washing up in the Hudson River, the NYPD sends an undercover officer to investigate a string of murders in the Meatpacking District, in which gay men are targeted specifically.

Friday, October 13, 9pCinemaSalem

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace

Somewhat of a departure from the slasher genre and Halloween franchise canon, though nonetheless produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Season of the Witch delves into the supernatural as terror takes root in the themes of commercialism, media manipulation, and the superstitions and traditions of All Hallows Eve.

Friday, October 14, 7pCinemaSalem

VideodromeDirector: David Cronenberg Director David Cronenberg serves up this chilling and surreal gauge at media consumption. James Woods stars as Max Renn, President of a Canadian UHF television station known for its outrageous programming. After coming across a disturbing broadcast from far away, Renn is inspired to deliver high levels of violence to his viewers in ways previously unimagined.

Saturday, October 14, 9p

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Let the Right One InDirector: Tomas AlfredsonPart vampire movie, part coming-of-age film, Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In is a refreshing visit to an otherwise well-trod genre. A young teen, frequently the target of schoolyard bullies, makes a new friend in a mysterious neighbor who has just moved in next door, in what Roger Ebert called “the best modern vampire movie.”

Sunday, October 15, 7pCinemaSalem

Fright Night

Director: Tom HollandCharley Brewster enjoys the rather simple life of a 17-year-old horror fan. He watches the movies, and really digs the late-nite horror show, “Fright Night.” But things start to get a little strange when two guys move in next door. They spend a lot of time alone together, and seem to be quite… close with each other.

Sunday, October 15, 9p

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EXHIBITIONS“It’s Alive” Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art From the Kirk Hammett CollectionKirk Hammett, best known as the guitarist of the rock band Metallica, is also an avid collector of classic horror and sci-fi movie posters. This exhibition features 90 works that provide insight into the evolution of horror and sci-fi films and how they have played upon contemporary societal fears. Hammett acknowledges his poster collection as a source of inspiration for his own musical creativity. The exhibition features film posters as well as collectible electric guitars, monster masks and sculptures.

Saturday, August 12 – November 26, 2017Peabody Essex Museum

Count Orlok’s Nightmare GalleryPrepare for a delightfully creepy journey down the eerie exhibit halls as you discover characters from the darker side of cinema. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, demons, madmen (and women), and all things that go bump in the night are all represented here by life-sized reproductions made by Hollywood Special Effects Artists.

Hours: 10AM – 6PM (More hours added as the season approaches!) More details here.

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A New Documentary Explores the Work of Legendary Rock Photographer Mick Rock

Over the years, the rock documentary has become an increasingly lampooned genre of filmmaking, giving rise to such parodies as Hard Core Logo, Brothers of the Head, and Documentary Now's Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee Part 1. Tomorrow, VICE Documentary Films and director Barnaby Clay fire back with the release of Shot! The Psycho-Spirtual Mantra of Rock, a new film profiling the life and work of iconic rock and roll photographer Mick Rock. Growing up in London during the 60s, Rock was quickly embedded into his community's booming music scene. He went on to spent the next two decades running around London and New York, snapping what have become truly emblematic photos of stars including David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and Queen.

The story is told entirely from Rock's perspective, the filmmaker even prefacing the film with the decree that all its materials used came from the "mind, body, and soul of Michael David Rock." With the exception of a few audio recordings taken in conversation with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Rock's voice is the only one heard throughout the whole film. In fact, the very first scene is a staged reenactment of a cocaine overdose he suffered in the mid-90s. The photographer is shown in present day form looking over the body of his younger self, as he lies splayed out on the operating table of some sullen hospital floor.

The dreamlike sequence is emblematic of a greater theme that runs throughout the film: self reflection and internalization. After spending his life documenting the lives of others, Rock takes a step back and looks inward, narrating each step that got him to where he is today. Intimate studio interviews, never before seen archival footage, and original stills trace Rock's cinematic adventure through the dazzling glam rock scene, the grit of NYC punk, and the excesses of the 1980s.

Shot! is thus a considerable departure from the traditional "rock doc." Creators recently spoke with Barnaby Clay to try and get better sense of his process:

Creators: How you were first introduced to Mick's work? How did you get involved with the film?

Barnaby Clay: I've been familiar with his work since my early teens. My sister owned Transformer, the Lou Reed record, and played that a lot when we were growing up. Its a very striking image. I remember just seeing that ghostly face staring out at me as a kid. I was like, 'Who is that?' I flipped it over and theres another crazy picture on the back cover with that guy with the big bulge in his pants, and the leather cap. At my age these were pretty intense images.

A couple years later at school I started getting into the Stooges and discovered Raw Power. Seeing that image on the front of Raw Power that Mick took was again something that really stuck with me. Then maybe in my early 20s I went to a show in London of Mick's that was primarily his Syd Barrett pictures from the Madcap Laughs Sessions. When I found out he shot all these other covers, I realized the breadth of his work, and the iconic imagery from that period that he's responsible for, but I would say it was really those two images from Raw Power and Transformer that really stuck with me from the beginning.

Years later in New York I came across Mick"s manager, Liz Vap. We became friends, and she introduced me to Mick a couple of times but really just in passing. And then I got a call one day saying that he was trying to make a film. He'd been talking about it for years, and I think he finally got to the point within himself where he was ready to actually do it. So they were looking for directors. I was kind of, in a way, a director-for-hire at that point, and got interviewed for the job. He had already met a bunch of people, but I think we hit it off because we came from the same part of London, we both really focused our careers on music imagery, worked within the same sort of genres, and both had made this type of transatlantic journey that started off in London and ended up in New York. For him I think those factors were all very important because it just meant that I could get him and his story, so thats really when he said, "Yeah, let make this."

So you set out to make the film. What was it like working with him? Did he have his own vision of how he wanted it to look or was it more of a collaborative process?

When it came down to putting it together, concept-wise, I was given a lot of freedom, and that was really important to me because, as much as I am a huge fan of Mick and his work, I don't consider myself a documentarian. I'm somebody that's made music videos, commercials, and a lot of short films but really wants to make narrative feature films more than anything else. My one prerequisite when I signed on was that I could get to do this my way. Everyone was fine with that.

Obviously we had to agree on a concept, though, and I came up with a number that I pitched to him and the financiers. I remember in a very early meeting he told me about his near-death experience and how after many years of cocaine abuse he ended up nearly dying. And he talked about how that was such a big thing for him and how we should obviously go into that. So we did but this actually became a bit contentious further on down the line. He had this image of himself that he remembered where he was just lying there in the hospital basically waiting to have open heart surgery after experiencing a series of heart attacks. When he told me about it, he was like, "Yeah you should have some of that in the film," and to me that just suddenly stuck out as an image and I thought, "Whoa. That would be great!" To have somebody on their deathbed recounting their life to themselves seemed like an interesting concept and a fun one.

We had a lot of discussion within the edit about things which he deemed too far, and I'd push and he'd pull, and it went on for years basically. I love documentaries and I definitely like ones on music, but I just feel like so often they're just the same kind of thing. We've all heard about people who have got on to the fame wagon and it just going horribly wrong from riding too fast or whatever. For me, my job was to try and tell that in a way which was somehow exciting and different.

You wanted to create something that distinguished itself from the canon of rock documentaries.

Yeah, I mean, I just don't see enough of that in documentary these days. They used to risk more, like British filmmaker Ken Russel did back in the 60s. They're like music videos basically, just totally over the top, packed with incredible imagery, and I just really admired him for going there and trying to do it that way. There's a million ways to tell a story like this and it would be very simple for me to have done a straight-up 'talking heads' thing but I just didn't want to do that.

Another thing which became very important within the film was the idea to tell this entirely from Mick's perspective. He's the only voice within the film apart from the two recordings of Bowie and Lou Reed because for me I am more fluent to the idea of poetic truth and rock and roll myth. Some of these facts that he comes out with, or stories that he'd tell, might not be 100% reliable, but at the same time it's his version of the events and I like that.

As I'm sure Errol Morris would tell you, the idea of having one person telling the story is really difficult—it becomes soporific after a while. Those sequences with the hospital, the operating theater, they became very useful as breaks from hearing Mick's voice. They provide a little kind of pause or relief and then he carries on the story.

How would you say his photography and videos impacted your art direction? Would you say you were trying to recreate his style in your own film in a way?

I wasn't trying to recreate his style, but we totally drew from his work. I was really drawn to the aesthetics he came from, which is like glam rock, Bowie, Lou Reed, Rocky Horror Picture Show... all those guys created this slightly dark but also very theatrical and slightly over the top imagery, which I wanted to infuse within the film.

At the same time, it's a film about a photographer and you want his work looking good. So yeah I did sit down with my cinematographer Max Goldman, and looked at a lot of his work. When we did what we called the "key interview," which was the interview of him in the studio where he's just sitting in the chair, Max set up a series of five looks, and within each of these looks he had a lighting board and he was just basically live-mixing the lighting throughout the interview. When Mick was talking about this certain subject, he would kind of keep it this way, and then half way through he would switch it into a slightly different look.

But all those looks were based on some of Mick's images, and when it came to coloring the film, we ended up doing the same thing where we'd always be referring back to Mick's images just to check that they were within the same scope of colors and feeling. This wasn't always easy, because half of the film is shot in 16mm, the other half was shot on the [RED] Alexa, and then all of Mick's stuff was either 35mm or medium-format stills. Getting consistency was really hard.

So, how did you go about organizing all these different materials?

I had the idea that this was going to be Mick's point of view, but that you do need other elements to break that up. Some days Mick would just come to the shoot and say, "Oh I've got recordings of me and Bowie and I got a recording of me and Lou," or, "Oh I've got some Super 8 footage of me and Syd Barrett on acid." He was a journalist at one point, and wrote pieces for Rolling Stone and various men's magazines from back in the day. The Bowie tape, funnily enough, is from a now-defunct adult men's magazine called Club International. He did a piece on Bowie and at that point they had already become friends, so Bowie is very free to talk to him. Then there was the Lou Reed tape. I don't really know what it was for. Reed was actually a really techie guy. He was really into his tech. He had a VCR from when they first came out. He had a video camera in the mid-70s, and also one of these early Sony Walkmen that recorded sound. I guess they were just playing around with that and recorded the conversation. It's like five in the morning, both of them pretty blitzed out of their head...

They're both very different, because Bowie's is very clean, he's at the time sober and talking in a very structured manner, whereas the sound quality for the Lou Reed tape was dreadful so we had to fiddle around with it to try and clean it up a bit. We went and listened to the tapes and after going through them a few times, pulled out the bits which felt most interesting and tried to figure out how to thread them through. They were almost like a bookmark throughout the film, a sort of textural bookmark. You figure out the themes and then just try and match them up to where the themes are highlighted in the movie. The hardest thing was where to stop, and I think a part of that was Mick. He was always very conscious about not abusing his friendships with these guys, and not overdoing it.

What do you hope people take away from this film?

I'm hoping that people get that I put a lot of effort in to trying to make it different, trying to tell this story in a more unusual way and, and appreciate that. I'd like it to be the kind a film people can sit down and get stoned to and really get in the zone with. You're in this weird space for so much of the film, this dark place with Mick next to this operating table, and there's these weird animations. It does kind of feel like you're in this bubble for the whole film that you come out of at the end. Rock documentaries all get lumped together in a way, but the treatment and presentation of this film is completely different. Its just important for me that people recognize that. Whether thats a good thing or a bad thing is up to the viewer to decide, I want to people to enjoy the historical musical side of it but also enjoy the way it was told.

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