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leoremin · 8 months ago

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I just finished watching the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...and I have...thoughts (along with some bad grammar)

This is an overall negative post, so if you don't like that keep scrolling. If you like this movie, go ahead and scroll on past if you don't want to read this. If you want to debate me, then hell, go ahead, I might be wrong in some areas and I'm fully willing to admit that. I'd love to see anyone's take on this movie.

To say real quick, I haven't finished reading Dracula (over 1/2 through tho), Sherlock Holmes, 4 billion leagues under the sea, and a few others.

Also...spoilers...obv

(last note: I am not against retellings or that stuff, I'm just rating it on MY OPINION of these little guys and all that stuff. This is depending on how much I like them from just a writers sense.)

Tbh I really love the idea of crossovers, I love so much seeing the babies all together (I am working on a crossover myself so...) but I feel like this one was just...mediocre

First up Jekyll!

Number one, assuming this takes place after the novella, that is not how HJ7 works. Jekyll turning back into Hyde is not right then. At that point, Henry would be living on a timer rather than Hyde.

Also, little pet peeve...THE POTION SHOULD BE GREEN!!!! THE POTION'S FINAL COLOUR IS GREEN AND THEY MADE IT CLEAR!!!

Also Jekyll is a doctor, he acts like the fucking wimpy Swiss man from Frankenstein. Jekyll is meant to be a (mentally) strong man who experimented on himself and kept good notes during the whole thing. He is a doctor; he is used to seeing some shit.

Also...why would you make Hyde look like that? One of the few clear physical descriptions in the book is that Hyde is much shorter than Jekyll, but he's...hulkish. I don't like that because it takes the monstrosity away, pinning it all on looks and not on action.

Also why Paris? Why did Hyde run to Paris? There wasn't really a reason for him to do that in a writing sense.

Upside: At least he continues to run on rooftops. All Hydes run on rooftops; it is not optional.

Next on the Chopping block is Dorian.

For a moment there, I really thought they ruined Dorian, but hell yeah! They kinda did it!

I wish they'd had another actor to play him, since the dark hair makes him look a little malicious, which is quite the opposite of what he's supposed to look like. He's supposed to be a child-like and innocent; deceiving.

Also...what the fuck was his ending?? Like he doesn't perish if he looks at the portrait. It literally says earlier that "the last time [he] looked at the picture" which literally contradicts what happens later. He can look at the picture, but chooses not to.

I am glad they decided to not have him redeem himself. That fits a little closer to the book.

For Mina!

Quick thing: I have not yet finished reading Dracula, so I have no clue what's happening there or why she's the vampire (please don't spoil it) so I won't say anything on that (cough cough...should've been Carmilla)

I don't like making women the sole love interest. It feels weird. Literally three people liked her (well only 2, Dorian was pretending) out of five. Make it interesting, make it something someone would ship...there is literally no chemistry between any of them (except Dorian, and we don't even get a proper "oh yeah I hooked up with him" moment. It's only implied. When did that happen???). Also, Mina isn't that kind of person. She's (in book) not looking for romance in that sense, she had a husband, and I'm pretty sure she'd probably stay faithful to him even after death.

Speaking of Chemistry, why tf is she a chemist? Jekyll should've been the chemist. Mina is literally known for being able to write in shorthand, and they could've used that to her advantage. Again, please excuse this if somehow Mina does become a scientist after Dracula, but considering people's views on women in that time period, it's unlikely.

Skinner:

I think that's his name...idk. I have not read the Invisible Man, but why would they kill off Griffin? Like Jekyll dies, but he doesn't have a replacement. I can't say much since I haven't read the book.

I think that's all.

Thank you coming to my Little Leo lecture, and I hope anyone reading agrees, or can hopefully handle this as a mature adult. If you have other thoughts on this movie (whether they agree with mine or not) go ahead and share them, I'd be thrilled.

I may update this as I have things to say, but idk.

#Also Quartermain is picking favourite wives #he was laid next to only one body #lmao #I *know* he and his first wife didn't get a divorce #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #dracula #the portrait of dorian gray #the league of extraordinary gentlemen #jekyll and hyde #mina murray #dorian gray #the picture of dorian gray #leo's lectures

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duhragonball · 1 year ago

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Dragon Ball Super Movie 2: Super Hero (1/5)

Finally, finally, it's time to talk about Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. I've been waiting a long time to do this. First I had to wait for the movie to come out, then I had to wait a while for the rest of the fandom to go see it so I wouldn't spoil anything, then I had to wait for the DVD release so I could take screenshots, and by the time I was ready to do that, I was waist-deep in the 2023 Dragon Ball Apocrypha Liveblog. So the DVD has been sitting on my table for months waiting for me to get to this point, and now I'm finally here.

It's probably just as well, since blogging about the other stuff has helped me figure out how to tackle this movie. Like a rhinocerous sandwich, this thing is pretty big and dense, and I'm not really sure where to begin, and now Tumblr only lets me put 30 images in each post, so I have to think ahead a little. So I'm going to split this up into five installments and hopefully that will give me the room I need.

Super Hero opens with a flashback/recap focusing on the Red Ribbon Army. Real quick: the Red Ribbon Army was a mercenary group that dominated much of the world, until their hunt for the Dragon Balls put them into conflict with Son Goku, who destroyed their headquarters in Age 750. Seventeen years later, the Red Ribbon scientist Dr. Gero launched a campaign of revenge, using several cyborgs and androids of his own design. Gero failed, but his final experiment, Cell, managed to travel back in time from the future, where he nearly destroyed the whole world before Goku's son Gohan defeated him.

If you're a Dragon Ball fan, you probably already knew all of that, but what this movie reveals is that the Red Ribbon Army still lives on through its parent organization, the Red Pharmaceutical Company. When Commander Red died, his son Magenta inherited control over RPC, and he's been building up funds ever since, hoping to restore the Red Ribbon Army to its former glory. From behind the scenes, it was RPC that financed Dr. Gero's cybernetics research, but with Gero's death, there was really nothing more Magenta could do.

And that's what I really love about this shot of Magenta looking at a scale model of the old RR HQ. His father ran the Army from the real thing, but Magenta can't build a new one because Goku would just wreck it like he did before, and he can't beat Goku because Dr. Gero was the only one smart enough to build android warriors to kill that guy, and Gero's dead now. Magenta ought to be satisfied running the RPC, but what he really wants to do is rule the world, and he can't. Without Gero, the closest he can come to that dream is hanging around in this private little war museum he seems to have, and he probably can't even show it to anyone since it would expose the RPC's secret.

But then Magenta learned of Dr. Gero's grandson, Hedo. The movie opens with Magenta's right-hand-man, Carmine, giving a briefing on Hedo, so I assume Carmine was the one who discovered him. Better throw up the Carmine screenshot...

Man, these look great. Unfortunately only the bad guys seem to get them. Would have been neat if they made one for Goku or whatever. Yeah, everyone knows who Goku is, but who cares? I want to see an obnoxious still with his name in big letters.

This movie is chocked full with little gags and Easter eggs and such, so there's a lot to cover. Part of the reason for this is that the first twenty minutes of the movie is really heavy on exposition. The plot isn't all that complicated. The bad guys want to make some evil robots to kill the good guys, but to get there we have to explain who the bad guys are and how they joined forces, which takes a while. So there's a lot of visual things happening while they talk. For example, in this scene where Carmine has an overproduced powerpoint presentation playing while he explains who Dr. Hedo is. While he talks, Magenta has some sort of difficulty with hot beverages.

And while Carmine's video plays, we see Dr. Gero's family tree, including his wife, Vomi, and his son, Gevo. This is the first direct appearance of either character, although we've known about Gevo for some time. Several years ago, Akira Toriyama did an interview where he explained that Dr. Gero had a son in the Red Ribbon Army, and that son was killed during the battle with Goku, and so Gero modeled Android 16 after him. In the video game Dragon Ball Fighterz, we meet Android 21, who looks a lot like the image of Vomi in Carmine's video. I forget how and when these details were established, but the idea seems to be that Gero modeled #21 after his wife.

So does this mean Hedo is the son of Gevo? No, Gero had a second son, and that was Hedo's father. Hedo's parents died during his childhood, and he then went on to become a great scholar, earning his doctorate by age 14.

Today, Dr. Hedo is 24, and he's in prison, because he's a little too smart for his own good. Recently, he dug up some corpses and turned them into primitive androids, then he got them jobs at a convenience store to earn money for Hedo's research. I'm not exactly sure which laws were broken here, but it was enough to put him in jail. In the dub, Magenta observes that Hedo would have made more money with less fuss if he had simply robbed the store.

But Magenta doesn't care if Hedo is a little goofy. His talent for cybernetics is even greater than Dr. Gero's, which is pretty scary considering how close Gero came to destroying the Earth. Magenta needs those talents if he's ever going to bring back the Red Ribbon Army, so he waits three months for Hedo to get released from prison, then swings by to offer him a lift. To Magent's surprise, Hedo already knows who he is and has a pretty good guess as to what he wants.

This is because Hedo's been tracking Carmine with a surveillance device. It looks similar to the ones Dr. Gero used to study the Z-Fighters and collect genetic samples for Cell's creation. The difference is that Hedo claims it's a cyborg he built from a live bee. Maybe I shouldn't take this too literally, but it sure sounds like Hedo vivisected a bee in his prison cell and installed cameras and robot parts into its body. And for all I know, Gero did the same thing to make all of his spy robots, but I always assumed they were purely mechanical. Anyway, Carmine's been monitoring Hedo for a while now, driving by the prison yard whenever Hedo's out there, and Carmine's limo has a dome in the roof for his pompadour, so it was conspicuous enough for Hedo to notice. He built the bee, then had it trail Carmine until he found out who he was working for.

And the bee also gives us a great shot from behind Magenta's desk, where he has two framed photos. One is his dad, Commander Red, while the other is Colonel Violet. So we pretty much have to assume Violet is his mom, right? Kind of wild that Red and Violet were a thing, considering that one of the last times we saw Violet was when she looted the Red Ribbon vault during Goku's attack on their HQ. And she even did it in full view of the security cameras, probably knowing that Red would be watching.

So I wonder what Magenta and Violet's relationship must have been like? Is she still alive? Does Magenta know about her betrayal? How could he not? And considering how devoted he is to his father's dreams, how could he let her treason slide? Or maybe he recognizes that Red was a bad leader, and he means to succeed where Red failed. It's interesting stuff, that's all I'm trying to say.

Anyway, Hedo isn't too impressed with Magenta, but he has snacks, so Hedo gets in the car. Magenta asks if he got picked on during his prison sentence, and Hedo says everyone who gave him a trouble would always meet with "mysterious deaths". That column of black smoke behind them is the prison, by the way. The other inmates (and probably some guards) were chewing out Hedo as he left, so Hedo tossed a bomb inside as a final parting shot.

Magenta tries to sweet-talk Hedo by explaining their family connections. Gero once worked for Red, then Magenta inherited the RPC and continued to fund Gero's research. But Hedo isn't moved, since he never met his grandfather, and Hedo's parents hated Gero for his association with the Red Ribbon.

More importantly (to Hedo), he finds the Red Ribbon Army unappealing, because they resemble villains, while Hedo is a connoisseur of superheroes. That's why he's wearing the purple bodysuit, by the way. From what I can tell, Hedo's a fan of a TV show or something that features a character in a similar outfit.

So if Hedo's all into heroes, why did he... you know... desecrate those graves? I'm pretty sure that contradiction is the point of the character. He likes certain genres of entertainment, and he likes and identifies with heroic characters and their exploits, but he seems pretty much devoid of morals himself. He's like a Star Wars fan who loves the Jedi but has no qualms about harassing people who liked Episode VIII. He's one of those... oh, what's the word?

Asshole. Yeah, Hedo's an asshole.

So now Magenta has to convince Hedo that he's not an asshole, which is pretty stupid since they're clearly both assholes. Hedo just wants Magenta to pretend his asshole-ery is the same flavor as his own. So Magneta weaves this whole tale of how he wants to use his power and wealth to improve the world and stamp out evil. While he says all of this, Carmine cuts off the car ahead of him for driving too slow. But it's not just any civilian he did this to...

It's Janet! We'll meet Janet later on, but she gets a cameo here at the start of the movie, which is awesome to spot when you rewatch it. Fuck you, Carmine, for passing on the right and scaring Janet. Carmine doesn't had a big impact on the movie's plot, but he does generate nuclear heel heat simply because the things he does are very obnoxious. One thing I have to respect is that he's the one bad guy who doesn't try to rationalize or disguise his villainy. Carmine's a prick and he doesn't care who knows it.

For example, even after Magenta explains how he's a "champion of justice", and raises his offer to one billion zeni per android, Hedo still isn't convinced, so Carmine brandishes a gun just to make it clear that they won't take 'no' for an answer. Magenta may haggle, but Carmine is too direct for that.

So Hedo accepts Magenta's offer, but not because of the gun, since he enhanced his body to make it bulletproof some time ago. Also, his cyber-bee is armed with a toxic venom so deadly that it can kill any biological life with a single sting. So Carmine's threats are useless. Hedo is only taking the job because he's fascinated by the challenge of creating the ultimate android with an unlimited budget.

So he asks for background on Magneta's enemy, and Magenta explains that it wasn't Mr. Satan who defeated Cell at the Cell Games. He's part of the "organization", but the real ringleader is Bulma of the Capsule Corporation. Magenta says that her confederates appear to be aliens, which explains how Capsule Corp. got the technology for miniaturization and spaceflight. I'm not sure how much of this Magenta actually believes, and how much is a spin he's putting on things to make Dragon Team look like a gang of villains.

Magenta says that Capsule Corp is collaborating with aliens to pacify the Earth, then subjugate it for colonization. Hedo finds this hard to believe, until Magenta shows him footage of Future Trunks killing Mecha-Frieza. I'm not sure how he could have gotten that footage, unless it was recorded by Gero's spy robots.

In this twisted scenario, Gero created Cell to take the fight to Bulma's "organization", but he just couldn't get the job done. 17 and 18 turned against Gero, and Dragon Team was just too powerful that day. Hedo asks if Bulma is an alien, and Magenta's like "sure, why not?"

Then Hedo eats his Oreo all weird. Like, who does this? He takes apart the cookie, which is pretty standard, then he uses the one side to scrape the cream off the other, and he eats this part. Why? You already had a cookie with cream filling on it! This is just a duplication of effort!

The absolute best way to eat an Oreo is to dunk it in milk until it gets so soggy that it almost falls apart. When I was a kid I designed a device that would allow you to immerse the entire cookie in milk for maximum sogification without having to get your fingers wet. In hindsight, this was a stupid idea, because you can just do that with a spoon.

All this talk of alien conspiracies and Cell's heroic last stand get Hedo fired up, and he pulls up the hood of his costume and declares that the world needs a hero to design the ultimate android. I mean, he just got done saying he didn't buy into Magenta's good guy bit, but he does buy into his own good guy bit, and Magenta's story seems to suit this. For Hedo, it's less about being a hero and more about playing a hero. Magenta has created the role, and Hedo is eager to fill it.

And they finally arrive at a Red Ribbon base out in the middle of nowhere. Then the movie flashes forward to six months later, so I guess this a good place to sign off. Next time, we'll get into Piccolo and Gohan, and see what they're up to.

#dragon ball #2023dbapocryphaliveblog #dragon ball super #dragon ball super super hero #magenta #carmine #dr hedo #janet #bulma #commander red #colonel violet #gevo #vomi #dr gero

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duckapus · 1 year ago

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Most of the major events in the Haltmann War, in more-or-less chronological order:

The distraction plan is successful and the Crew + Kirby manage to get into the Access Arc undetected...but shenanigans ensue because it's them and they all get separated early on.

Susie succeeds in copying Mario's Player Data over to Elanore, but doesn't kill him right away, because even if she wasn't afraid of how Movie Mario would react to her killstealing she'd still let him be the one to do the deed since she promised him revenge if he helped her and it would go against what's left of her principles to go back on a deal.

Lots of cool fight scenes down on the surface, with Marcy, Shroomy, Kaizo, Amy, and the other Major Side Characters, as well as the Hologram Trio, getting most of the focus.

There's also a scene with Slenderman, Siren Head and Huggy Wuggy teaming up and absolutely slaughtering Haltmann's forces.

Elanore and Barney decide to help Mario escape because he seems like a nice guy. Unfortunately, the Tax Evasion Yoshis find out and won't let them go without a fight.

Primp Town comes under attack because of course it does, allowing the Puyo Puyo characters, the Koopalings (minus Iggy 'cause he's trapped with the other mad scientists), Root and Lil Coding to show off their skills.

Tari and Saiko find Hal, who's been upgraded Mecha-Knight-Style into the Halt Monitor and is guarding the bootleg Guardian Pod Susie made from the God Box Shard.

The Access Arc's defenses come online to assist Haltmann's fleet against the good guys' much larger fleet, and Sage retaliates by bringing out the Death Egg and fighting Death Star Parody to Death Star Parody, which provides an amazing background for the ongoing fight between Movie Mario and Melony's team

The New and Improved Augmented Security Swipe takes to the battlefield back on the ground, getting into a fight with the side characters and surprise entries Dusty Grumpton and Heavy Squid, while Joe, Dusty's Dad and Fury Bowser fight the King Salmonids and that one giant robot boss from Kirby 64.

Bob and Boopkins run into The Goomba, who now has a personalized Robobot Armor he calls his Executive Suit. It has four massive arms because he, like most Goombas, has kind of a complex about that sort of thing. He's also still only calling Boopkins Fishy, which makes him rather quickly shift from trauma-and-bad-at-fighting-induced-fear to also-trauma-induced-murderous rage

Cody discovers that he inherited his mom's skill with a shotgun when his siblings nearly get killed by a squad of Octoling Clones that slipped past Primp Town's actual combatants.

Kirby, Luigi and Perry find Susie guarding the Scientists, and it's immediately obvious that they're going to have to knock some sense back into her

A second invasion fleet appears in the Internet Graveyard, only to discover that it has not been left unprotected, with 1, 2, Juliano and Knuckles leading the Dead Memes as a well-coordinated army instead of the chaotic feral mess Haltmann had probably been expecting

3 and 4 find Vee and Hex, and while 3 and Vee's frustratingly similar personalities do make them clash at first they manage to get the kids on their side like Mario did. And then the Bob-Omb Battlefield Chain Chomp shows up with a plasma cannon mounted on it.

Meggy ended up alone and, in a scene framed almost identically to the Octo Expansion Agent 3 boss cutscenes, finds DST-19, the Octoling Clone who most closely replicated their DNA donor: Desti. It even has her original Blaster, the signature hot-rod paintjob faded to almost nothing and replaced by patches of rust from its years at sea.

Movie Mario looks like he's on the ropes after a devastating blow from a Super Waluigi Launcher attack, only to tap into the God Box's power and become Mari0, which gives him a second wind also unleashes his secret army of Anti-Minions onto all of the ground battles.

There's also a massive, surprisingly powerful Anti-Meme version of the Onceler who shows up in Primp Town

At the Goomba fight, Booplins manages to actually climb up the mech while Bob's drawing fire with his actual direct fighting, and he proceeds to push the Goomba out of the mech, take control of it himself, and use it to stomp the Goomba without remorse.

Mario, Elanore and Barney defeat the Yoshis, with Mario afterwards lamenting his broken friendship with the main green one, not knowing that he's actually still conscious and has been given some things to think about

Saiko and Tari have a lot of trouble with Halt Monitor, but eventually manage to break through his reprograming thanks to their shared past in the Reboot timeline

Just when it looks like the Primp Town group is beat, Lily discovers that her siren song is the least of her voice's powers, because she unlocks the power to SHOUT DEVISTATINGLY AND IMPOSSIBLY LOUDLY, which basically deletes the Mega-Anti-Onceler, most of the invaders...and a great deal of the surrounding countryside.

During the Susie boss battle, she gradually realizes that her situation with the God Box Shard is a direct and terrifying parallel to what happened with her father and Star Dream. She's not exactly cured of her corruption, but she does at least now know there's a problem and is actively fighting against it. Unfortunately, between all the damage to the Access Arc, the God Box's influence permeating everything by this point, and Mari0 and A.S.Swipe being Mari0 and A.S.Swipe, she doesn't currently have any way to call the invasion off

Meggy vs DST-19 is nasty, both because Obvious Trauma Reasons but also because DST-19 turns out to legitimately just as good as the original Desti was, and besides the lack of talking is even acting exactly like the original would have. Ultimately the duel leads to a draw, at which point DST-19 actually finally talks, commenting on how Meggy's getting slow in her "old age," because apparently she's had Desti's memories the whole time and was looking for a rematch! So now she's part of the group, apparently.

Also A.S.Swipe gets blown up again. Hopefully for good but probably not.

It's at this point that everybody in the Arc actually manages to meet up at the bootleg Guardian Pod...well, almost everybody. Guardians are still missing up until they come crashing through a wall still pursued by the Cyber-Chomp, who's then quicky taken down and freed from its cybernetics by Executive Suit Boopkins, because he's tough now apparently. We'll see how long it lasts.

Meanwhile, out in space, Mari0 is handing Melony's team their asses and Sage is getting way too into tearing the Arc apart, to the point where she's seemingly forgotten that everyone has to actually escape from it before she finishes destroying it. Eggman is very proud of her.

The Arc group gets inside the Pod, which the Chomp puts inside its mouth, and they all shoot out the nearest airlock just in time to not get blown the fuck up, since the Chomp is the Chomp and can totally survive the vacuum of space and falling from low orbit. While that's happening Mari0 sends the group fighting him crashing to the ground

this leads to the final battle happening in a massive crater. While the Arc group is mostly still fresh to go, the space battle and ground battle groups are running on fumes at this point, with the chaos emeralds spent, Waluigi and the Demigods unable to access their powered up forms, Shaggy fucking dead (and poofed because it turns out he was the Shaggy that Axol drew on Anime Island), and Creative Mode disabled.

Despite this they still stand up to keep fighting, with Waluigi pulling out a tennis racket(gloriously fitting), Desmond doing his best with his lance and shield, Steve breaking out the Diamond Gear, and Melony actually having Kirby use her sword to become Fierce Deity Kirby and pulling out Inkweaver to use herself.

Just about everybody still standing working together(including a surprise Lawyer Kong pulling a Cease and Desist for a brief stun at one point) just barely manage to take him down...except the boss music just changed keys instead of ending.

Mari0 grabs Luigi, stating that its fitting he'd use SMG4 Mario's brother to gain the power to destroy this world, given what happened to his own, and starts fucking absorbing all of his Meme Energy! This gives him the boost he needs to start draining the Meme Energy and Anti-Meme from everyone and everything around him, except for Mario because he wants his counterpart to ba awake enough to suffer and the Haltmann siblings thanks to their immunity to Anti-Meme energy.

Regardless, this allows Mari0 to assume his final form, Mari0 Soul('cause Kirby), with only Mario, the Haltmann siblings and Peach(who has no Meme Energy of her own thanks to the Worst Activation Ever) left standing to fight him

Except, as the fight wears on and it all seems hopeless, their friends start managing to jump back into the fray, still weakened from exhaustion, injuries, pain from the extraction, and the fact that they can't use memes to screw with reality like usual, but no less willing to help save the day

Even Yoshi manages to come back and sides with the heroes, allowing for a last-minute Big Super Move courtesy of the whole Seven Star Children thing Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Wario, Yoshi and Donkey Kong have going on(from Yoshi's Island DS) that Mari0 couldn't have possibly seen coming thanks to his origins. And now he dead and the Anti-Memes die with him

Now there's the cleanup, including dealing with the whole "Desti is a goo clone now" situation, detoxing everyone who got pumped full of Anti-Meme Energy (especially Susie), and figuring out what to do with a whole extra weak-but-fully-functional-and-stable Meme Cycle Set who on one hand are creations of the God Box meant to be used for evil but on the other hand are literal children who ultimately decided to be good the very first chance they got.

Also Yoshi now gets to join Peach and Welony in the "Attempting Redemption" group! Mario is probably going to be significantly more wary about this one, considering.

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mindshelter · 1 year ago

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tagged by @lemontongues :]

1. are you named after anyone? no, but my first english name was kitty and my attachment to hello kitty back then makes that naming choice by my family highly suspect

2. when was the last time you cried? genuinely do not remember. i was probably watching a baby animal video

3. do you have kids? never happening!

4. do you use sarcasm a lot? wouldn’t say... more than the average person?

5. what sports do you play/have you played? fond of badminton! and i did gymnastics for a hot second as a smaller kid. nothing crazy. i twirled a ribbon a few times

6. what’s the first thing you notice about people? voice, then maybe outfit!

7. what’s your eye colour? dark brown :]

8. scary movies or happy endings? either-or!

9. any special talents? #girl and avoiding eye contact. absolutely spectacular at all-nighters. but in seriousness, i’ve been told i’m very funny enough times and make people laugh frequently enough that i believe it. someone also once said i’m a good speaker (for sciencey-talk at least), in the sense that i sound like i’m “talking to a pack of dogs.” so there’s that!

10. where were you born? [guy who made a cameo in home alone 2 and should also go to hell voice] chiiiiiiinaaaaa. cantonese-speaking region.

11. what are your hobbies? comic books, writing, hiking... sometimes i take pictures of bugs if i come across one that looks fetching. (appropriately, this is usually a honeybee)

12. do you have any pets? i’d like a cat one day! and a large fish tank to aquascape with. when i was a child i caught bugs (dragonflies, crickets, ants, ladybugs) and would keep them in a jar for a few hours.

13. how tall are you? 157 cm (← never seen without boots that give an extra inch and a half)

15. favourite subject? they all fall under the life sciences category but... immunology, oncology, and bacterial pathology

16. dream job? never had one, but as of late, scientist (and oncologist) doesn’t sound too bad of a career path. i’m well on my way to getting there now, and i’ve had a lot of encouragement from the people in my life, which is always nice! and while it’s not a necessarily going to be a job, volunteering/doing work for more inclusion/equity/accessibility in different spaces and harm reduction is a big big deal to me, so i’d like to keep it up my whole life :]

#tag game #anyone who wants to can join in!#anyway. finally did one of these. sorry to anyone who ever tagged in in a tag game it's like pulling teeth but i do appreciate it

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lindamathewblog · 1 year ago

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10 Reasons Why Oppenheimer Is A Modern Cinematic Masterpiece

Nolan's new movie "Oppenheimer" gets praised for amazing acting and an exciting story. Here are the top 10 reasons why it's a modern movie gem.

Christopher Nolan's latest movie, "Oppenheimer," starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the smart guy behind the first atomic bomb during World War II, finally came out in theaters on July 21st. It's based on a true story from the book "American Prometheus" and has a bunch of famous actors. The movie shows how the U.S. worked hard to make this super powerful bomb that was used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. But it also looks at all the bad stuff that happened because of it, like the big moral problems.

To celebrate this big movie release, here are ten reasons why "Oppenheimer" is such a great film, according to people who've seen it. It's not just a movie; it's a masterpiece that's breaking box office records and getting lots of love from critics and fans around the world.

1. The movie deals with a tricky moral issue, making it a bit of a head-scratcher

"Oppenheimer" is a movie that tells the story of a man who played a big role in making atomic bombs, which can destroy entire cities. But it doesn't just paint him as a hero or a villain; it shows the struggles he faced and the scary things that can happen when science goes too far.

This guy, Oppenheimer, was a complex figure. He was once a regular student, then a famous scientist, and even seen as a potential spy. The film lets you decide what you think of him. Even if you don't know much about him, you probably know he changed history with atomic bombs. But the movie also highlights his support for good causes, his opposition to even more dangerous bombs, and his tough times during a trial in the 1950s.

2. Oppenheimer based on a really good original story

Christopher Nolan, known for his grand storytelling, took on a big challenge by making a three-hour movie about the man who created the atomic bomb. But unlike some of his other films that became too complex, this one stayed interesting throughout.

One reason for its success is that it's based on a really well-researched 700-page book called "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy Of J Robert Oppenheimer." The authors spent over 25 years studying and writing about Oppenheimer's life, from his early days as a physicist to his time leading the project that created the atomic bomb and the tough times he faced during the McCarthy era.

Having such a solid source of information ensured that Nolan's movie, which covers many different parts of Oppenheimer's life, could switch between different times without any problems.

3. Cillian Murphy did a great job as the main actor

Cillian Murphy, known for his roles in Nolan's previous movies and "Peaky Blinders," takes the lead in "Oppenheimer" as J. Robert Oppenheimer. He delivers a powerful performance, embodying the physicist's complexity and inner struggles. Critics are already praising him as a top contender for Best Actor. They say he captures Oppenheimer's contradictions and turmoil perfectly, with precise acting that makes the character seem almost mysterious. If awards season comes around, Murphy is likely to snag his first Oscar.

4. A really talented cast

Christopher Nolan, a well-known filmmaker, has the prestige and resources to bring together a big and impressive cast. This cast includes famous actors like Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Casey Affleck, and Gary Oldman. They're all willing to play smaller roles in his movies because they trust Nolan to make everyone shine. In his upcoming film "Oppenheimer," Robert Downey Jr. stands out as a powerful character. But even the other actors in the movie, despite discussing complex topics like quantum physics and security issues, manage to make these scenes very interesting.

5. It teaches us important history lessons from the past that still matter in today's world

"Oppenheimer" is a special kind of movie that comes around once in a while. It manages to be relevant to today, look back at the past, and even predict the future. The movie deals with the scary idea of nuclear bombs and the chaos they can cause, something we've worried about since World War II. Even though the director, Nolan, had this idea for a long time, it's even scarier now because the risk of nuclear war is higher than it's been in decades. Nolan wants to remind us how dangerous nuclear weapons are, especially with all the tension between powerful countries making the news.

6. No CGI in the movie

The filmmaker, who is 52 years old, said that in the movie "Oppenheimer," they didn't use any computer-generated special effects. This is a pretty daring statement in today's film world, where CGI, or computer-made visual tricks, are commonly used to make movies more exciting and lifelike.

7. Movie shot in IMAX

People are really impressed with this movie. It's been filmed using a special IMAX camera that makes it look amazing, like top-notch quality. And what's cool is that you don't even need those 3D glasses to feel like things are popping out at you – it's like you're right there in the action!

8. A different approach to Filmmaking

Nolan's no-nonsense and super dedicated way of making the movie, like how the actors explained it, makes the movie feel real and like everyone really cared about making it.

9. Barbenheimer: Something cool that helped keep going to the movies fun

After years of pandemic uncertainty and Hollywood disputes, the "Barbenheimer" movie double-feature, featuring Greta Gerwig's fun doll comedy and Christopher Nolan's character-focused film, became a global sensation. Together, they made an astonishing billion dollars in just 9 days. This success is a big deal because it's rare for original, non-franchise movies, like "Oppenheimer," to do so well these days. Nolan, a big fan of theaters, used fancy IMAX cameras to make the movies look awesome on the big screen. He wanted to give folks an experience they can't get at home, and it seems to have worked.

10. The Trinity test sequence was the step-by-step process of conducting the first-ever atomic bomb test

In 1945, during World War II, scientists conducted the first atomic explosion called "Trinity" in New Mexico. Christopher Nolan recreated this explosion for a movie using real explosives instead of computer effects. The result is a stunning 10-minute scene that captures the danger and beauty of the historic event.

#hollywood #hollywood movies #oppenheimer #oppenheimer movie #oppenheimer 2023 #entertainment news #celebrity #celebs

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thealmightyemprex · 2 years ago

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Disney Month :Return to Witch Mountain

The 14th installment of Disney Month is a review of a sequel,we are going to look at Return of Witch Mountain

In this 1978 film ,two alien siblings Tia(Kim Richards ) and Tony (Ike Eisenman ) travel to Los Angelas only for Tony to be captured by the mad scientist Dr. Victor Gannon (Christopher Lee) who plans to use Tonys special powers for diabolical means ,and Tia teams up with a gang calle the Earthquakes in order to save Tony

So I have seen the first movie Escape to Witch Mountain,and I liked it well enough for the performances of Donald Pleasence,Ray Milland and EDdie Albert ,but honestly a lot of its a blur

I did enjoy this film ,its an odd film cause it is half lighter then the first film ....But also half darker .The light stuff involves a gang of dumb wanna be tough kids help Tia ,and there is some comedy there ....But the villains plot is kind of intense and much higher stakes then the first film ,involving kidnapping ,mind control ,nuclear destruction and attempted child murder,compounded by getting two film veterens mor associated with horror and thriller films to play the villains

The kids plot is fine ,I think Kim Richard does a good job as Tia but the Earthquake gang are just OK and some of the humor grated on me.I say the best part of the gang half is the poor truant officer Mr. "Yo-Yo" Yokomoto played by Jack Soo in his final role .Yokomoto is just sucha likable character ,a guy who belives in what he is doing and goes on to help our heroes in their quest ,His speech about why he does what he does is actually very sweet ,and he is my favorite heroic character in the film ,with Jack Soo giving a pretty good performance

OK lets talk about the bad guys cause they are the best part of the movie,not so much for their personalities as much as for who plays them and how they are played .Doctor Victor Gannon is your classic mad scientist,obsessed with fame and power ,being totally morally bankrupt and completely insane.Letha Wedge is his now bankrupt backer who is motivated by greed ,and is sleightly less evil then Victor(At the very least she cares about her nephew ) , but is still pretty darn evil ,its just she is more practical .We also have Sickle,Lethas thuggish nephew ,who I dont have much to say about ,I think actor Anthony James does an excellent job being both entertaining but still menacing .....But lets talk about the two main villains,cause the filmmakers decided to go all out with them and got CHRISTOPHER LEE and BETTE DAVIS!!!Bette Davis was already a screen legend who was most well known for thrillers and horror and Christopher Lee,while not yet an icon ,was already a well known name associated with intense intimidating villains being both Dracula and a Bond villain ,so its wild to me they are in this family movie(Though Davis did is specifically as something her grandkids could watch ),and I adore that they are in it.Something really fun is the pair approach the material diffrently .Bette Davis hams it up ,she is the more comical less intense villain,but still has that Bette Davis flare ....I think Lee is convinced he is in a straight forward sci fi film , he is as serious as a heart attack ,and is super intimidating .Honestly I think it works ,Davis and Lee play off eachother well ,and their performances fit their characters.Honestly they are pretty good villains

The big flaws with the film are that the humor is hit and miss ,and poor Tony is mind controlled throughout the whole film so he has very little to do

Question time,with questions by @ariel-seagull-wings

1. Can these two psychic siblings who stared in three Disney movies (one a remake) be considered early examples of Disney superheroes before the MCU?

Oh yeah in my mind they are definately superheroes....Hmmm anyone want a team up of them ,Zorro and the Rockateer ?

2. What did you tought of the kid gang that befriended and helped Tia?

I liked the concept and the fact one of them is named Dazzler,but I was kind of meh on them,and preferred the villains plot

3. How would you rank the villains played by Bette Davis and Christopher Lee in the pantheon of live action Disney villains?

I dunno I'd have to really rank them,they are great but I dunno if they are top tier favorites

Overall this is a fun film ,and worth a watch if you love Christopher Lee and Bette Davis

@goodanswerfoxmonster @amalthea9 @angelixgutz @the-blue-fairie @ariel-seagull-wings @themousefromfantasyland @princesssarisa @marquisedemasque @filmcityworld1

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Why do people dislike Bayverse TMNT so much anyway? I’ve watched both movies and other than Casey being a cop I don’t personally see any problems

Eh idrk. I can’t speak for everyone obviously but I just wasn’t a huge fan for a couple reasons

1. The Casey situation. Love that guy and they fucked him over so bad

2. I also didn’t like how they did raph and Leo

3. April is sexualized by a 15year old turtle the entire time and nobody seems to have an issue with that

4. This may be a weird complaint but I did NOT like how they had the mutagen be made by scientists and all that and then in the sequel they completely disregarded it and made a krang made mutagen

There are probably more I just can’t think of any-

Now for some parts I did like

1. I loved how krang looked. Like he was just constantly gross looking and that was so real

2. Vernon fenwick. His character was so good

3. The boys all jump to defend mikey. Examples (btw I haven’t seen them in a long time so might be inaccurate): on the plane they’re just going around insulting eachother then when Leo insults mikey raph and donnie stop bickering and start scolding Leo. And also when he was grabbed by krang the others all instantly went to save him

4. The scene where they get high

Anyways they weren’t great but I’d watch them again cause they are still enjoyable

#asks #tmnt #bayverse #teenage mutant ninja turtles #fucking rambling

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cottoncandythetrashpanda · 2 years ago

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Half N Half Chpt. 2

Chapter 1

A/N: this chapter is also already up on AO3, like the first one, but future chapters will go up on Tumblr FIRST, then ao3 a few days later.

April sat in the middle of the backseat of a car, doing all she could to keep Leo and Raph upright as their father weaved through traffic.

"Alright." He said to her, "Who are you, and what happened?"

April took a shaky breath. "I'm April O'Neil, I'm Leo and Raph's friend. It's, uh… nice to finally meet you, Mr. Hamato?"

"Just call me Splinter. So you're who they're always sneaking out to see?"

"You know about that?"

"Well, duh. They're not exactly stealth experts."

"Heyyy, we so are expert ninjas.." a groggy voice came from beside April- Leo.

Splinter let out a breath. "Thank God, they're waking up. Ok, now, tell me what happened."

April looked over at Leo. He didn't look like he was in any shape to explain anything quite yet, so she took another breath and gave it her best shot.

"Um, we were just hanging out in my room, when we felt the building shake. So we looked outside to see what was up, and there was this… weird looking dog on the roof of the next building, right? So we went to try and help it, but these two guys showed up, and they were like "hand over the agent"- that's what they called the dog for some reason- and we were like "Hell no!" but the guys pulled off the broaches they were wearing and they were also turtles and then they completely kicked our butts-"

Splinter slammed the breaks and pulled over.

He turned around in his seat to look at April.

"They were turtles?"

"Um." April squeaked out. "Yeah."

"They…" Another groggy voice spoke up from beside April- Raph was awake. "They said they were our brothers."

"The orange one threw me off the roof." Leo added.

Splinter had a white knuckle grip on the steering wheel.

"So… they did make it…" He muttered. He shifted the car back into drive.

"Do… you know them, Mr. Splinter?" April asked.

"We're almost at the house." He said. "Boys, how are you feeling?"

"You didn't answer the question," Leo remarked, sounding slightly more awake now.

His grip on the steering wheel seemed to tighten even further. He turned it to the right, the car slowed down, and April looked up to realize they were pulling into a driveway.

"Is this your house?" She asked. It was a nice house, 2 stories, well-maintained, a tall fence around the perimeter- but wasn't exactly huge or fancy. She thought the turtles' dad was supposed to be a rich movie star, did they really live here?

He grimaced. "Yes." He looked at Raph. "Can you boys walk on your own?"

"I... I think I can. Leo?" Raph replied.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine," he waved off his brother's concern, "But seriously, Dad, what is up with you right now? What are you not telling us? What do you know about those other turtles?"

Splinter sighed as he turned the car off. "I should have known I couldn't hide this from you forever. Fine. I'll explain inside. It is.. a long story." He got out of the car and started walking to the front door. Leo and Raph followed. April hesitated a moment- she didn't really want to be in the middle of Admitting Family Secrets Time- but she followed them into the house.

Splinter sat on the couch and took a deep breath. "When I was younger, after I retired from acting, I met a man. A scientist. I was... In a bad place. He rescued me." He smiled slightly. "We were, uh, friends. I stayed with him for a while, one day he said he wanted me to participate in one of his experiments, and I agreed." The smile on his face slipped away. "Then he told me his experiment involved testing an experimental procedure... on four innocent baby turtles."

"You agreed to be part of an experiment before he told you what it was?" April questioned, confused.

"Hey, I don't come to your house and question your life decisions! Anyways... I had grown attached to these same young turtles. I tried to stop the experiment once I realized what he was going to do, but it was too late. The baby turtles were mutated. I tried to escape with them afterwards, but in the chaos, the lab caught fire, and I couldn't reach them all. I could only save two." He paused, and looked at Leo and Raph. They looked at each other, then back at their father, eyes wide.

"I had thought the other two turtles had perished in the flames," he continued, "but it seems I was wrong."

After a moment of silence, Raph spoke first. "So they really were our brothers. And the guy they kept calling their dad..."

Splinter nodded. "It must be him." He looked up to meet each of their eyes. "Baron Draxum."

"That doesn't sound good." Leo said.

"It is not. And now that they know about you-"

"What are they gonna do to the dog thingy?!" April shouted. "Is this Baron Draxum guy gonna do messed up experiments on it too?"

"Uh." Splinter shrugged. "Maybe. Messed up experiments were kind of his thing?"

"We gotta go save it!" April hopped up from the couch, but was stopped by a hand on her shoulder.

"No." Splinter said.

"What?"

"Dad, come on, we can't just leave it there!" Raph stood up as well, wobbling a little- he grabbed the arm of the couch to steady himself.

"You two just fell off a building! You need to rest." Splinter firmly stated. "And April. You need to go home, your parents must be worried."

"But- but the dog thingy..." She attempted to protest.

"It's out of our hands now. It isn't worth it to meddle. Trust me. Now, come on, I will drive you home."

April's shoulders slumped. "Alright. I already told my parents I was going to a friend's place, though. Can I just stay the night? It's late, I don't want to wake them up."

Splinter thought about it. "Alright, I guess that's fine. Just don't stay up too late."

The three teens shuffled up to Leo's room.

As soon as the door shut behind them, Leo spoke up.

"So... We're definitely going to go save the dog, right?"

"Okay," Raph whispered as they made their way down the stairs, "We gotta get out of here without waking up Dad, then head back to that rooftop, and track the other turtles down."

"And how are we gonna do that, exactly?" Leo whispered back.

"Uhhh... You know, we just, uhh-"

"Guys?" April nudged Raph and pointed over the railing, to the living room. "What's your dad doing?"

Splinter was rifling through a cabinet, until finally, near the back, he found what he was looking for- he pulled out a palm-sized dial, with a strange symbol on it.

"His do-not-touch cabinet," Raph muttered. "What is that thing?"

They heard Splinter sigh. "I should have known I couldn't stay out of this forever." he said to himself, and headed to the door.

"... Okay, new plan, let's follow Dad." Raph whispered.

They made their way out the door, managing to not alert him to their presence, and followed him as he kept walking. After a few blocks, he turned and walked into a construction site. The teens looked at each other, shrugged, and followed as he approached a brick wall standing in the middle of it all.

"Hope this still works..." He brought out the dial, held it up to the wall, and started tracing out the same symbol on the dial, onto the wall. As he did, the symbol began to form, glowing, on the wall, until it was complete. For a moment, it glowed brighter, and then the glow swelled, and swirled, and the brick shifted, until it formed a wide open stone maw, with a portal swirling in the jaws.

The teens stared, eyes wide, mouths agape.

"Woah!" Leo said- a little too loud. Splinter whipped around.

"Uh oh."

"Hey!" Splinter started walking towards them. "What are you doing here?"

"We gotta get through that portal," April said.

"How?" Raph slumped in defeat. "He's never gonna let us-"

"I'm just gonna go for it."

"What?"

"APRIIIIL O'NEEEEEIL!" She ran forward, shoving past Splinter, and jumped into the portal.

"Oh my God, she just ran in!" Leo shouted.

"Shit-!" Splinter turned and ran to the portal after her.

"Alright, let's go!" Raph grabbed Leo by the arm the two of them rushed forward as well, and all three of them jumped through the portal.

They landed on top of each other with a thud.

"Ow..." Splinter, at the bottom of the pile, groaned out.

Leo lifted his head. "Oh, wow."

Raph and Leo lifted themselves off of each other and to their feet, staring at the sight in front of them.

From the cliff they stood on, they could see creatures of all shapes and sizes walked the streets below them, passing by and weaving between towering buildings of alien architecture.

"What is this place?"

"The Hidden City." Splinter's voice came from behind him. He dusted himself off and stood next to his sons. He stared out at the city with them for a moment, a wistful look in his eyes, before turning to the two turtles. "Where is your friend?"

"Right here," She said, walking up behind them. "I looked around a little bit, and I think I know where we should go to find the dog thingy-"

"You three are not going to find anything! You are going to stay right here until I get back." Splinter turned to look at her as he spoke. "I am not messing around, this is dangerous. You should not have followed me."

"Dad." Leo put a hand on his father's shoulder. "Dad, we get it. This is dangerous, you don't want us messing with this, but, listen. You know you aren't keeping us out here. Either we can go with you, or we can follow quietly a few feet behind and probably get ourselves into way more trouble. Your choice."

Splinter let out something between an exasperated sigh and a groan. "I never thought I'd have to say this... but you make a good point, Blue. Fine. You can come." The three teens cheered. "BUT." Splinter continued, cutting off their celebration. "You must follow me closely, stay quiet, do not touch anything, do not say anything, do not do anything. This is a stealth mission, that is the most important thing, above all else. Remember everything I have taught you."

"Uh... You haven't really taught us anything, Pops." Raph pointed out.

"What do you mean? You've seen my movies dozens of times. Now. Let us go." He pointed towards a building standing on- no, floating next to the cliff they stood on, and marched towards it.

"It is time for us to face our past."

#rottmnt #rottmnt au #tmnt au #rottmnt fic #half n half au

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To all the elders i met till now.

Don't mark this as some old humans I met but just older than me be it 1-2 years, though most of them were really older than me. today I am writing to everyone I met through Simran di at THT. Talk happy therapy was such an eventful part of my life. Although whatever I did during my time there could be seen as goofing around with my time for some project but well it was something big for me. I saw a post once in facebook, it might as well be an article, about a girl saving someone live through a phone call. Well I don't really remember the article or the headline but I was moved. I saw the app attached to article and downloaded it so that I can contribute whatever I can. I can at the very least spread the word.

I used the app and it was just okay but I was cool with it as, how much a single human can do on their own, no? lol I just git reminded this was supposed to be the letter...

hii di,

So i saw the teh volunteer word there and I did not think more than, I clicked on it and send the mail or details whatever was required and that day changed my life. I saw you on the scooter with pranesh bhaia, all though I did thought for a bit how you would be coming, well I did see you as a founder, but scooter was cool too, I did not put too much attention on anyone travelling after that in my entire life anyway... I remember all of the people, well Kanishk Bhaia did an amazing job for that as I remember most of the introduction people did there, someone was like Doremon, Sandeep Maheshwari, I think I chose Detective Conan, their was Hesignberg I thought he chose that as the scientist name but maybe it was not that reference but who knows, well I guess my memory Is not that great hehe, I learnt a lot from you, also went to so many places too for the first time and also last time as of yet, I hope you are doing well, I do write you letter twice a month but not sure if you have that id still or not. anyway, I guess this is a bye for now. anil To kirti di, rishabh bhaia, sarah di, c,v,apd, a, s2, maggo di, singer bhaia, legend bhaia, comedian bhaia, quizzer di, well hehe, and baaki...

i mean i thought i can write letters to you individually but looks like I would either fall of memories or the words for you. and I do still write some of you letters even now. Should I text you guys like a quiz ? well it may not be good, but if I have a letter or something I might do it. whats bad in a positive letter, cheese cake and dhokla. i have yet to eat a cheese cake though...

I was going to write some generic words like how you inspired me, and bla bla, than I thought how not fun that is so I stopped. i will do a quick activity like a words associated with the you guys and the memory ... so R-Pokemon go-teaphics k-mysterious-lead q-encyclopedia-movies k-funny-relevant apd-cute-happy ad-pahad-bhaari p-wow-amazing l-legend-. S-well-good s2-ding-ding-travel s3-singer-happy s-soulful-eng m-rapper-cause c-well-good c-cha..-neah v-holy-vibe s-gone-enog p-whyyhw-ieei I think my brain will crash if I tried to remember rest of the participants, anyway I hope you all are doing great I wish I get to meet you once more . till we meet again brianil.

#open letter #writers on tumblr #brianil #blog #curators

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sarah-dipitous · 1 year ago

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Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 299

The Thing/The Ghost Monument

“The Thing”

Plot Description: Sam and Dean head to a Men of Letters outpost to find a crystal that opens doors between dimensions. Ketch reconsiders his arrangement with Azmodeus

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: I’m hoping I wouldn’t be in this situation but…I can’t tell if she actually died

Dean, you’re basically the entire audience for the post it notes you put on Sam’s back…

Don’t lie, you don’t love books, Dean

Sam, you should get your brother back for….YOU DIDN’T EVEN KNOW TIL NOW?!

Sam’s so excited to have found the hole in the ground door to this outpost

I can’t believe they only had one bunker for the whole US MoL

Oh she’s anything but dead. She’s over 100 years old but barely looks over 20

Boys, if you thought introducing your mom who died in 1983 to the future was hard, this woman has not seen the surface of the earth since 1925

Did Azmodeus call Ketch in just as a power move?

How…how are there still other MoL in the US and why is one of them working at this random diner?!

And why is her being gone from the outpost a problem?

Marco, you can’t just poison the food!!

Oof, Ketch. I can see why you’re regretting teaming up with Azmodeus. Maybe don’t be an opportunistic bastard next life (he’s not dead…yet, but I bet he kind of wishes he was)

They’re kind of lucky…well, Dean and Sandy are SOMEWHAT lucky some creeps in robes showed up. Sam’s started eating the poisoned or at least drugged food

Oh damn! So Sandy is like a vessel for another dimension’s god…but a literal monstrous one

Is Azmodeus injecting grace into himself?

This speech Azmodeus is giving Ketch isn’t not a little hot. The gist was that they’re not so different and that’s why no matter what Ketch does or where he goes, he belongs to Azmodeus

Ah, poor kid. He didn’t even want to go check outside

Has Azmodeus been siphoning Gabriel’s grace? Oh my fucking god, I can’t tell if Gabriel is resisting this rescue by Ketch or what

That does sound like your kind of Hallmark movie, Dean, one with tentacles

Dean, you weakling, you don’t want to be a betentacled god alongside Sandy? Move over gayboy, I’m bout to get it

Dean, you don’t get to say there’s nothing wrong with “tentacle porn land” (his exact words) after passing up being its god

They really framed that to make you know someone was either already in the bunker or about to arrive just after the boys (Ketch & Gabriel)

The fact that Ketch thinks this bunker is a safe place for him…….honey, you’ve got a big storm coming

DEAN?! I did not expect you to fold to Ketch’s request so easily

Oh good. Ketch is going to apocalypse world with Dean. Lmaoooooooo, love that Dean is so honest about not caring (and in fact hoping) Ketch dies in apocalypse world

This cannot end well

“The Ghost Monument”

Plot Description: can the Doctor and her friends stay alive long enough to solve the mystery of Desolation?

Oh. Oh! Ryan and Graham got picked up by a different ship than Yas and the Doctor after getting zapped to space

Oh good. The ship Yas and the Doctor were on nearly crash landed on top of Ryan and Graham

Ew. This dude makes people race for fun but only one person gets to actually survive and go home at the end

Oh. The ghost monument is actually the TARDIS

I would LOVE to have seen some of the race before these four got here. The hunger games-like history the last two contestants have

Ryan and Graham’s ongoing issues are going to be heartwarming when they get them sorted

So this planet is basically dead but for flesh eating microbes in the water………..and robot guards in some ruins

I hope the guy contestant loses. He’s such an asshole. Like, obviously I hope they all get to leave. I just hope he doesn’t win the prize

Ohhh, horrifyingly, 1) the alien they faced off against last episode seems to be some sort of big bad that will come up again and again this season (maybe), 2) that alien race abducted, tortured, and forced a bunch of scientists to come up with a whole bunch of ways to kill people, 3) some kind of sentient cloth is now suffocating the guy contestant, and 4) there is not enough time left to wrap up this story in this episode

Why does the sentient cloth know how to talk

I’ve heard The Timeless Child get mentioned before

They really went full hunger games with joint winners

I really didn’t think they could wrap this up in this episode

Of course, when all hope seems lost, the companions rally together and then the TARDIS shows up

I don’t know if I like the TARDIS interior redecoration…I need a better view. Ok. It’s cool. We’re back to the warmly lit interior Ten had and Eleven started with, but it has a different vibe all the same

#hellsite nostalgia tour 2023

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Sans for the character opinions bingo

Okay, I will now explain everything I circled because I know a few will be confusing (and because I never want to stop talking about Sans, my #1 blorbo, my scrimblo, my scrunkly wunkus)

1. I am obsessed with his character arc. There is so much to his "backstory" that we just don't know. However, it's pretty clear from many limes of dialogue that he's lost and depressed and hopeless. However, during a pacifist route, he actively puts in the effort to take care of his family, his friends, and the Human. A lot of people say he doesn't lift a finger to help you, but at one point he supplies you with healing items, and he is always telling you something encouraging. By the end of the pacifist route he is willing to let go of (some of) the past and move on and be happy with his new family/friends. I cannot and will not stop thinking about this.

2. You know why I think he got done dirty by fans. Some people boil him down to funny ha-ha bone man. Some boil him down to angst and Bad Time. And some people so fundamentally misunderstand his character that they place him in AUs where they put an adjective or something in front of his name and ship him with different versions of "himself" that all might as well be completely different characters considering how they ARE ACTUALLY COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS.

3. Okay, let me explain. Do I think Sans is one of the best-written characters in Undertale, along with the likes of Alpnys and Toriel? Yes. Do I also just want him to get some love and comfort but Toby made several routes where he is trapped and hopeless and possibly he comes from Deltarune and if that's the case no-one can stop his inevitable trapping in the world of Undertale? Also yes. So thank you Mr. Fox, but also, screw you Mr. Fox.

4. I am constantly rotating him around in my head. He is all I think about. I think I am legitimately in love with this fictional character. Judge me if you want. But I wish he could be happy more than anything. I have so many theories and thoughts about this man.

5. Every song I listen to is about this man in some way. I will not elaborate on this. If you send me a song, I will find a way to make it related to him somehow.

6. I WANT TO STUDY HIM LIKE A ROACH. I AM ALREADY STUDYING HIM. EVERY NEW CHAPTER OF DELTARUNE BRINGS US (potentially) CLOSER TO UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF HIS BACKSTORY. IS DELTARUNE HIS HOME? IF IT IS, WHY AND HOW DOES THE MACHINE PLAY INTO THIS? HOW DID HE END UP IN UNDERTALE?? much to think about!!!

7. What's wrong with him (affectionate)? He and Papyrus are so weird, and then @carlyraejepsans goes and makes a bunch of posts like, yesterday, that make him even weirder. And I cannot thank them enough for this. He is goofy. He can be terrifying. He has an angst backstory. He is full of hope. He is ha-ha funny man. He knows about quantum physics and may have been a scientist at some point. He fortnite dances. He can't go home. Is his accent fake? Is his name even "Comic Sans"??? Or is that a persona??

8. He will never have enough screen time. Toby could make an entire game only about him and it wouldn't be enough. I need more time with this man. He is fantastic. I want to know more about him, but not just the backstory. What is his favourite food? His favourite movie? What was his childhood like? I am going insane.

9. He has never done anything wrong. He kept his promise as best he could to Toriel. He is sweet to his brother, and in many neutral endings, his other friends. He helps you. He makes you laugh. Even when he kills you, it's for a reason. And in Deltarune, so far, he's just some guy running a small business.

10. Okay, I may be generalising the fanbase here. I follow many Undertale blogs with good and/or shared opinions of the man. But some of my thoughts and feelings, while not controversial, may be...a lot? Too much? Too weird? Like, maybe I just project onto this man or too much Steven Universe/Gravity Falls has given me theory brainrot regarding this man. And yet...

11. I circled this one in a different colour bc it is strictly a personal opinion, and you know what? Anyone can disagree with me. This is not a hill I will die on, but one I like to sit on while humming and picking flower. Basically, I won't fight to convince other people of my view of him. I love him, certainly, and I want other people to think he's great, too, but I won't argue that he's "better" than any one character. He's just the one I, personally, like the most. But I also love the other characters a whole bunch, too. They all have flaws, they all have strengths, and Mr. Toby Fox made them all wonderful friends or well-written and empathetic enemies. All said and done, I love every one of Toby's characters because they're all lovable in some way. Sans is just my little scrunkly, my scrumbus, my himbly humbly horcus. Uh...sorry. I just love him. 💀

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homosexuality-at-its-finest · 4 years ago

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3+1 (Avengers x Male!reader)

Plot: 3 times you saved the avengers and the 1 time they saved you

Avengers x Male!reader

Warnings: cussing, slight angst?, readers a selfless idiot

Y/N: your name

H/C: hair color

E/C: eye color

Word count: 1396

The mission was supposed to be a simple one, infiltrate a HYDRA base and get information on their current plans. The team had gotten word from and informant that HYDRA was planning something big, something that could endanger the world at large. The plan was rather simple, most of the team would distract the agents while Natasha snuck inside and hacked into their systems and got the information they needed.

It started off well, with everyone but Natasha distracting the agents as she creeped into the building, making her way towards the main server room. The trip to the server room was surprisingly easy, the red head only having to take down a few of the HYDRA goons. She had taken them down with ease and was now in the server room, eyes scanning over the words that ran past the screen in front of her. She plugged the flash drive in, hacking through the needed files so she could upload the documents onto the flash drive. She could hear the playful banter mixed with orders from Steve over the comm, a small smirk spreading across her lips when she heard Tony make a snarky comment towards their team leader.

In her moment of distraction an agent had snuck up on her, but before he could lay a hand on the assassin a cry of pain left his lips as someone hit him over the head. Natasha’s head whipped around, eyes landing on Y/N who was giving her a little grin.

“Next time watch your six Tasha.” The man teased, causing the red head to roll her eyes with a sigh. “I’m never going to live this down.”

It was a normal day at the tower, Thor was off in some distant place, Clint went back home to his family, and Natasha was off god knows where. Bruce was having a rather bad day emotionally, the feeling of hulk clawing at his brain was excruciating. He wanted to slam his head against the wall until the pain went away and hulk just shut up. He sat in the ‘Zen room’ as the team called it, it was where he could go to calm down and relax when he was having a bad day. Usually no one else other than him would come into the room, it was really his room, and no one wanted to overstep an unsaid boundary.

He was curled on the fluffy sofa, a cup of tea in his shaking hands. He could see the green creeping into his skin and it absolutely terrified him. He let out a shaky sigh, closing his eyes for a moment as his heart began to race. He felt like he was about to go over the edge, but a gentle and steady hand tore him from those thoughts. His eyes snapped open, his head turning to the side to see the gentle gaze of Y/N. The H/C gave Bruce a gentle and understanding smile, not one ounce of judgement on his face. “Bad day?” He questioned, his voice calming the unforgiving monster inside of him.

The scientist let out a shaky sigh, giving his friend a little nod. Y/N simply hummed and sat beside Bruce, squeezing his shoulder. “How about we watch a movie, I can make you some tea and make whatever you want for lunch?” He offered, wanting to do anything he could to relax his teammate. Y/N helped Bruce more than he had realized, calming the raging storm inside of the scientist, the big guy lulling into a calmer state. Bruce couldn’t be more thankful for it.

Tony wasn’t sure how he got in this situation, one second they’re fighting an alien threat and next thing he knew he was being thrown against the side of a building. His ears were ringing, and his vision was blurry, he could feel himself hit the ground with a ‘thud’. He could hear his teammates voices in the comms, the worry for him was clear. He tried to lift himself up, but his entire body felt like lead and he just fell back down into a heap of metal. The billionaire let out a groan of pain, his eyes falling shut.

He heard rapid footsteps but couldn’t bring himself to open his eyes. His head was pounding and every inch of him hurt, god he fucking hated aliens. He could hear what sounded like a fight, flesh hitting flesh and grunts of pain or horrifying screeches from the aliens. He forced his eyes open, seeing a blurry figure in front of him fighting off a small hoard of the creatures, but he couldn’t discern who it was. He gave up on trying to stay awake, slowly sinking into the abyss.

When he woke back up, he was in the med bay, pepper by his side and his fellow avengers scattered about. The only person he couldn’t spot was Y/N, which caused concern to swell in his chest. “Where’s Y/N?” His sudden words caused a few people to jump, but Pepper let out a sound of relief, her head resting against his arm. “Never do that again.” Her voice held steady and strict, but her red eyes spoke volumes of her worry. “Where’s Y/N?” Tony repeated once more, causing Steve to let out a low sigh.

“He’s being treated by Hellen right now; He sustained some injuries during the fight.” He explained to the brunette. Tony’s eyebrows furrowed a bit. “How? Is he okay?” You were the youngest avenger; he was going to worry about you till his hair went gray. (Even though he pretended to be annoyed by your presence.) Steve rubbed the back of his neck with a wince, knowing Tony would blame himself. “He got hurt defending you after you were thrown, he saved you.”

Y/N was objectively the most important member of the team, always quick to think of a solution or putting himself at risk to save his team members. So, to put it lightly the team was protective of him, because he was stupid and selfless and so entirely Y/N. It was one of those moments of him being stupid and selfless, there was a bomb in a building to close to civilians and no one was close enough to be backup; so, he went alone. He knew the chances of actually disarming the bomb, he wasn’t as experienced as Tony or Bruce, so all he could do was hope to give the team some time to clear out civilians.

He knew he was fucked the moment he walked into the building, yet he still did it, and it baffled the team. He could hear Steve screaming at him to get out of there, yet he persisted and kept himself steady as he walked towards the explosive. He began working as fast as he could, he felt his heart pounding and could see how shaky his hands were, yet he pushed past his fears, for the greater good he told himself. The bomb itself wasn’t to complicated and with some work he was able to bump the timer up another minute, but he knew damn well there was no way he could get out of the building in time.

So he sat there, waiting for the time to run out, simply listening to his teammates speak, trying to engrave their voices in his head. They were his family, he could die happily knowing he did so protecting the people and his team. When the bomb did blow he could feel himself being thrown through a window, everything became a blur and nothing felt real except one thing, the feeling of cool metal catching him and then it was darkness.

He woke up to the rhythmic beeping of a heart monitor and his entire body felt like hulk beat the shit out of him, but he couldn’t find it in himself to care when he realized his team, his family was in the room, all strewn about. He could see all of them were sleeping, and he wouldn’t dare wake them up. He simply went back to sleep with a smile on his lips, because they had saved him.

#marvel #avengers #x male reader #avengers x male reader #marvel x male reader #tony stark x male reader #Natasha Romanoff x male reader #Bruce banner x male reader #steve rodgers x male reader #clint barton x male reader

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sufferthesea · 3 years ago

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predictions for jurassic world dominion

*SPOILERS for other recent films!!!*

i have seen exactly one (1) trailer so i’m going based on recent trends in films and my own knowledge of the JP/JW universe

it’s pretty clear that jurassic world falls into the “requel” genre of films (reboot + sequel). they have been bringing back “legacy characters” in each film (rexy + dr. wu, rexy + the brachiosaurus + ian malcolm cameo + dr. wu, and now presumably the OG 3 + rexy + dr. wu).

the purpose of the requel is to bring in legacy characters so that they can pass the torch to the new generation who will carry the franchise on. this has happened so far in scream 5, texas chainsaw massacre 2022, star wars, and even 21 jump street. unfortunately, if we follow those trends, that that means a legacy character will die. they already did this in JW2 with the brachy that died when it was left on the island since it was confirmed it was the brachy from JP1. the legacy character dying also happened in all the films i just listed above. going off of standard movie plots, the new requel rules, and what we have seen in JW1&2, i’m gonna guess that

1 or more (perhaps all) of the legacy human characters will get killed (any of the original 3 + dr. wu)

yeah dr. wu is definitely going to die

a legacy dinosaur will be killed (i don’t want it to be, but i’m guessing it’s rexy since the movie is supposed to be “the end of the jurassic period” and rexy has been the face of the jurassic period since 1993)

blue will die since i saw a post that said she has a baby??? so there is quite literally a “blue 2.0″ to take her place

ian malcolm is going to have a smaller role than grant or ellie

a “new legacy” character is going to die or be close to death (most likely zia or franklin)

dodgson is going to be one of the Big Bads of the film

dodgson is either going to die (legacy character) or he is going to replace dr. wu as the new main scientist-antagonist in future films after wu is killed

another weird hybrid dinosaur (probably with wings and/or feathers)

this is not the last JP/JW film because money

zia and franklin will probably have some weird awkward almost-kiss scene after a near-death experience and then zia reveals she’s actually a lesbian and even if she wasn’t, she would never in her right mind kiss franklin

more claire/owen drama no one asked for

claire and owen adopt blue’s baby as “their own”

claire and owen adopt maisie as “their own”

alan grant has a one-on-one convo with owen about: claire/ellie, blue, dinosaurs being “pets,” “training” dinosaurs, and being impressed with how owen managed to “bond” with a velociraptor

lots of references/jokes about the first movie

meta meta meta meta

i was originally planning to see the film in theaters the day it premiers but then i realized they might actually kill rexy (it’ll probably be dodgson who does it, or he forces owen/claire/good guy’s hand to do it, or to kill blue) and i really don’t wanna see rexy die on the big screen so i’m gonna wait and see if i’m right on any of these

#scream 5 spoilers #texas chainsaw massacre 2022 spoilers #texas chainsaw massacre spoilers #21 jump street spoilers #star wars #star wars spoilers #jurassic world #jurassic world fallen kingdom #jurassic world fallen kingdom spoilers #jurassic world dominion spoilers #jurassic world dominion #ian malcolm #ellie sattler #alan grant #my predictions #akimi.txt #akimi 4444

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wack-ashimself · 3 years ago

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WOW! I hated the beginning of 'don't look up', but the twists and turns made it worth it. SPOILERS!!!

I hated the beginning because it took 1/2 the movie for me ever to feel like leo dicaprio was the professor. Cuz his acting sucked. It DID. This is not his best movie. Jonah hill played his superbad character grown up. That's it. And the steve jobs type guy? THE WORST. HE JUST WAS A TERRIBLE FUCKING ACTOR. I was dumbfounded the writer/director didn't fire him. All 3 brought down the movie for a good chunk of it. Leo kinda redeemed himself in the 2nd 1/2.

Everyone else, however, was fantastic, and they were the saving grace. I loved every other player. Never heard of rob morgan, but he was my fav! He's a fantastic actor in this.

I just want to start, right now, with my favorite story part because it is one of the DARKEST government lead ideas out there I COULD SEE HAPPENING being the rich control the government:

Comet heading toward earth. Earth ender. The american government/businesses in control of it want to break up the comet into pieces and mine it for the resources (to get richer). Tho eventually you find out their idea is...1/2 assed, at best, and probably would not work. So other countries unite to form their own way to deal with the comet.

America destroys the foreign bases and ANY OTHER WAY to stop the comet! Everything depends on america's BAD idea, and there is a more likely chance it will destroy the planet.

DO YOU KNOW HOW DARK THAT IS?! The american government/the rich/the banks/the businesses stop probably one of the only real ways to save the planet for MONEY IN CASE THEY SURVIVE!!!!

There's so many, SO MANY jokes, satire, tongue in cheek moments you would literally have to watch it twice to get them all. My favs?

1-early on the general helping the scientists gets them snacks, but charges them. They find out the snacks were FREE. So on and off thru the movie characters talk about WHY he would do that; a power play? And it's funny cuz no one lets it go, and it is a fair thing. A semi rich general taking a few bucks from middle class strangers? CUZ I COULD SEE THAT HAPPENING! (they also mention how the general shook a character's hand, farted, looked him straight in the eyes, and never said excuse me.)

2-the president, smoking. right next to a huge sign, unknown to her, that says flammable, and stating 'we're the adults now.' HA! Just so ha. When jen lawerence's character says the people in charge can't be as evil as some people think cuz they're too stupid to be that effectively evil is...perfection.

This movie IS what we needed right now. I mean, the world IS ending, and this is a good indicator to what those in power would do: let it end for a profit.

The name of the movie when it finally dawns on you how it comes to play in the movie? GENIUS. (and I just realized another metaphor for 'don't take your eyes off your phone. Stay distracted.')

There are just so many layers, so pay attention.

7/10. Worth the watch, but a lot of scenes felt played out to a 'it doesn't even make sense in this universe you created' satire. I hated jonah hill, and only liked leo in the end. And again, the steve jobs type guy...but still funny enough to watch more than once.

Fav overall scene? The ending. I ain't gonna give it away, but it's beautiful, and the credits ending...gives a solid final laugh. Rarely is the ending one of the best parts, but this one plays for keeps.

**SPOILERS!!**

#dont look up #don't look up #movie #movies #spoiler #the way i screamed

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