#late sixties

[mariannefaithful]

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Michelle Phillips🌼🌸🇺🇸

[cup-o-stars]

Part four of old GF sketches

The twin thing, Stan and Ford edition

[javelinbk]

Happy 60th anniversary to... this...

The Beatles (minus Ringo) and Jimmie Nicol at their press conference in Adelaide, 12th June 1964 - part 1 (part 2, part 3)

[negronijazzclub]

Style Guide No 1

[c0nn0rsseur]

Can we take a moment to appreciate Bryan Dechart’s performance as Cyberlife Tower Connor aka Sixty and Sixty as a character? 🤌

Though Sixty and deviant Connor are physically identical (minus their demeanors, e.g. the way they stand and walk, like wow, Bryan, wow) and their voices technically aren’t different from each other, the distinction is still clearly there, at the same time it’s so nuanced too. Sixty sounds condescending, imperious and callous compared to deviant Connor whose voice is empathetic, curious and sincere. I’m not even talking about their lexicon, their choice of words here (there’s of course a difference too). Even when Sixty tries to convince Hank he’s the real Connor, you can hear how he’s failing to sound exactly like his counterpart because he can’t replicate deviant Connor’s voice and speech pattern just so. Sixty’s also being very commanding when trying to fool Hank into shooting the real Connor (Hank even gets irritated because of it). Damn that’s brilliant acting, all hats off to Bryan. His performance in this game never fails to impress me. (I wish there were dialogue for RK900 too, I would’ve loved to see Bryan’s take on his voice and presence.)

Also also I have to mention I love the take that Sixty really was a deviant all along too, an ”evil” version of Connor if you will; cold, calculating and even enjoying the situation he had Connor (and Hank) in. You know, doing all of it because he wanted to, because he liked it. Why else would he deliver a whole ass villain monologue before executing deviant Connor, gloating about how he knows what he is and that he is the obedient, favorite child, plus calling Connor a disappointment (and a disappointment to him especially, like how Connor should care in his final moments that Sixty despises him for not being a good little robot)? AND shooting him several times non-lethally before landing that final shot (if the story goes there), like savoring the situation. Of course he also has to ask if Connor has any last words too. That’s definitely not what an efficient machine would have done to make sure it accomplished its mission. In some outcomes his stalling costs him the victory.

Top that off with the ending where deviant Connor dies but the androids still wake up, Sixty is scared and emotional because he failed, scared to be deactivated because of his failure. Then there’s this scene where he shoots deviant Connor eleven times in front of his friend. After that Sixty takes in Hank’s reaction and even torments him by saying Connor’s death was his fault. Still doesn’t sound like a machine much, huh? More like a sadistic psychopath.

Man, I wish we could’ve seen more Sixty, it would’ve been chilling to see if he went full-on rogue, maybe being Markus’ right hand/attack dog on a leash in the violent revolution arc, maybe with his own agenda of taking Markus’ place and wanting to subjugate humanity. Or maybe deviant Connor could’ve persuaded him to their side by making Sixty to see he was nothing but a tool, unintentionally prompting him to seek revenge and to reduce Amanda and Cyberlife to atoms (not what Connor intended haha). There could’ve even been a redemption arc for him, like in a ”what’ve I done?” type way. You know, a bit of an internal moral struggle. And of course, our fave ”sack of shit” (as Hank so eloquently put it) demanding answers from his maker, Kamski, in a not-so, uh, conventional manner. Let them measure their respective arrogance and wit and see who comes out on top. Or would they team up?

Such a delicious character, so many delicious what-ifs.

[marypsue]

I just finished watching the 1966 Hammer flick Plague of the Zombies, and I'm fascinated by it. The premise is that the squire of a small Cornish village, who was raised in the Caribbean before being called home to take over after his father's death, has turned to voodoo to try to get workers to reopen the tin mines that made the village's fortune.

The movie sits neatly in an uneasy horror space between the original horror of the zombie - of your will being overridden by another's, of continuing to be enslaved even after death should have released you from all earthly woes - and Romero's ghouls and everything that they spawned. A nightmare sequence features hands pushing up out of fresh-dug graves, dead faces closing in all around one of our protagonists - but in the end, the only person the zombies are truly dangerous to is the man who created them. The true horror of the story is the absolute power that the squire holds over the people of the village, made metaphorical as voodoo.

The tin mines were closed after multiple fatal accidents caused the men of the village to refuse to work there anymore, so the squire removed their ability to refuse by killing and raising them as zombies. At the end of the day, he owns these people, body and soul, and there's nothing that the police or the vicar or anyone else who is supposed to be responsible for the villagers' wellbeing can do, so long as the squire holds this position of absolute power.

If you feel you simply must transplant zombie horror based in voodoo into a white European context, I feel like using it to highlight the injustices of a system of government directly descended from feudalism is not the worst choice you could make.

[wh0-is-lily]

Twiggy Lashes by Yardley London, 1960s

[poorlydrawnandroids]

Happy Activation Day to these two silly boys!!

We’re just 14 years away from their creation, aww <3

[eavangeek]

I've seen two posts in the Bone Gramps tag complaining about "Erectile Dysfunction is not realistic :/ he's only in his 50s :/" and

1) where are the rest of the Soft Penis Freaks you are referring to

2) the only Erectile Dysfunction Fics that I know of, are on Ao3

3) I know this because I wrote BOTH of them

4) I like it!! I know what I'm about!!

5) is a fetish my bomies (Bone Homies). Forgive the pun, but don't think too hard on it

[ohnoitsz1m]

Goretober Day 1 - Triage

Bit overly ambitious but at this point we’re used to that lol

Anyways YAYYY ITS FURRY VICTOR I DREW HIM AGAIN YAYYYYY

Background is just a painted over screenshot because i did not have time to draw that whole mess

Shitpost doodles under the cut, cw for vomiting

[waitineedaname]

i know trying to decipher the timeline in mxtx novels is always an endeavor that ends in madness, but i can't help it. i can't stop wondering: how old is zhuzhi-lang? and, a related question that might either answer or complicate the first question, how old is tianlang-jun?

demons can live longer than humans, and appearances are deceiving when it comes to guessing their ages, just like it is with the immortal cultivators. zhuzhi-lang is described as looking fifteen or sixteen when tianlang-jun gives him a humanoid form, and as a young man when shen qingqiu sees him later, but that could mean anything

here's the timeline i can piece together:

tianlang-jun's younger sister has an affair with a snake demon and gives birth to zhuzhi-lang. we don't really know how much time passed between zhuzhi-lang's birth and his mother's death and tianlang-jun finding him. we have no idea how much older tianlang-jun is than his sister. they could be a year apart, they could be a decade apart. who knows.

zhuzhi-lang serves tianlang-jun for an undisclosed amount of time, and then they meet su xiyan. that affair goes on for an unknown amount of time but at the very least nine months because uh. you know. pregnancy.

seventeen years pass before shen qingqiu meets him in his snake form because this is shortly after luo binghe is sent into the abyss and he was seventeen at that time. shen qingqiu then meets him in his human form after the five years of corpsezun, when luo binghe is 25

so. let's try to do math while i go insane. putting the rest under the cut because it got long

this is made complicated by us not really knowing how demons age, especially heavenly demons or snake demons. snake demons could reach maturity earlier. heavenly demons could age slower. who the fuck knows. tianlang-jun could've been completely guessing when he gave him a human form that was around fifteen, but zhuzhi-lang seems pretty mature, so he's definitely not younger than that when it comes to maturity. so let's say he really is fifteen when tianlang-jun finds him. I'm going to go with the lowest numbers just to make math simpler. he serves tianlang-jun for a while before they meet su xiyan, let's say at least a year, so he's at least sixteen when they meet her. then let's say the affair with her goes on for at least a year, so he's at least seventeen when luo binghe is born, tianlang-jun is betrayed, su xiyan dies, etc. add 25 years to that, and zhuzhi-lang is at least 42 when he meets shen qingqiu in book two. this is especially funny to me because shen qingqiu is, what, also early forties at this point? if we don't count his five years as a corpse towards his age? so zhuzhi-lang is pretty close in age to him

but then how old is tianlang-jun? again, I'm gonna go with the lowest numbers for the easiest math. let's say zhuzhi-lang's mother was eighteen when she had him, for my own sanity, and let's say tianlang-jun is only a year older than her. presuming zhuzhi-lang really does age like a human, fifteen years pass before tianlang-jun finds him, which would put him at 34. then let's do the same math as before and say he was at least 36 when luo binghe is born, then add 25 years again, he's 61 when we meet him. this is so funny to me. get it grandpa

the alternative is that zhuzhi-lang doesn't age like a human, he ages like a snake, so he's acting like a mature teen but is actually like. two years old because of how snakes age. so then that nudges tianlang-jun's ages down, so he's like 21 when they meet and 23 when luo binghe is born, then 48 when he shows up in the main plot. this is still funny to me

there's not really an answer i can think of that isn't insane. i think I've probably thought about this more than mxtx has at this point. I'm mostly just amused thinking about how, in terms of maturity at least, zhuzhi-lang is close in age with shen qingqiu and significantly older than luo binghe

[shallanspren]

the beatles are so funny bc they split up bc of soooo many internal issues (that are 0% yoko) and big egos. and then you have fleetwood mac with so many Messy relationships within the band, who decided to release 'go your own way' as the lead single to their magnum opus and put 'silver springs' on the b-side. and then rumours doesn't break them. they still make music together for years after, having members sing backing on tracks that are about them. like. it's so funny.

[glass-noodle]

Hello! I hope you are doing well! I love your works in general and have been following your mermaid au ardently so I wanted to express my gratitude for sharing it <3 I may have a question: does Connor have a family in this au or is he the only kind of his own? I don't remember if you have mentioned it before, but I assumed Kamski was trying to reproduce him which will result in having Nines or Sixty.

Nines and Sixty exist! Amanda, their mother, exists too. Connor hasn’t been close to his brothers in years, but when they were younger they were very tight-knit and he served as the protective older brother of sorts. Their dynamic changed as they got older, though (constantly having to compete for Amanda’s approval hasn’t helped either).

Connor’s always been the most curious and sociable of his brothers, exploring off by himself for extended periods of time. He’s also the smallest, though he makes up for it in agility and adaptability. Nines is the strongest and biggest of the mer-brothers and is extremely protective of what’s left of his family. Sixty is vicious and competitive, constantly trying to expand their territory and getting into numerous fights along the way. He also despises humans.

Nines did look for Connor briefly when he was taken by Kamski, but eventually they all agreed that he’d likely left them for good to forge his own path. Sixty looks down on Connor for leaving the family to chase his foolish dreams of exploration, and he often sneers that it was for the best that his flighty, useless excuse of a brother had finally left. Nines has his doubts, but he also doesn’t trust Connor enough anymore to know for certain whether he would just abandon them or not.

[leonardcohenofficial]

Have you ever listened to Ella Fitzgerald's cover of Get Ready by The Temptations?

It's my favourite cover ever, she puts so much into it, would recommend 😊

oh she absolutely EATS on this one

[a-study-in-dante]

Halfway through A Hundred Years of Solitude and still not sure what the hype is about. Hoping for a grand epiphany during the remaining pages because e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e. I know who's read it absolutely loved it and can't recommend it enough. I'm really trying to find something mind-blowing about it but reading it feels more like a chore than anything else and I'm so sad about it

Would love anyone's input (spoiler-free for now) on why it's a defining book though I'll try to come up with an answer myself