#lowkey higher

[anonymocha]

hear me out. their dynamic is basically “i am not sick, there is no need to cure me” vs “i can cure anything i want!!! watch!”

• “there’s no way wonderland is real. there’s always a cure for anything, we’re just not trying hard enough” (is actually curious) —> one (1) makeout session later, got sent to wonderland —> “omg wtf lmao mb ☠️ ☕️ 🎀” —> “this is beyond illness (my comprehension)”

[jadecantcreate]

the krew and body counts

[rosebrides]

haikyuu is crazy. Kageyama “you’re a great reference” Tobio man WHAT .EVER

[meliake]

Frisk taught him slang and regrets it greatly

[moonshapedbox]

just put in my resume for a luxury/high end car dealership receptionist i feel rlly good abt it lets gooooo

[i-may-be-an-emu]

the old pfp is BACK 😌

-> This to this ->

[fricc-darn]

Does BEN get high + if he did what would happen

BEN can't do weed, or any subtance really...

[sugurouge]

girl, the scars are just so slutty... why he gotta do me like that 😩

[bananonbinary]

i adore back to the future the game and other more modern entries into the franchise, because marty is still from 1985, but the thing was made here in the 21st century, so you end up with a REALLY funny mix of "outlandish future tech" and "completely normal things that actually exist"

theres a goof where marty and doc communicate with a "futuristic" computer headset that definitely came from like an xbox or something, but its RIGHT NEXT TO a mr fusion and a hoverboard. it's great.

[bonnieisaway]

anyways while I was editing earlier we have almost a precise ranking of power for the shadow killers despite most of them not actually ever saying/their official ranking never been mentioned. and most of this is either just mentioned in passing or can be guessed from the way the show presents them. up to season 4 spoilers ahead btw

so like, obviously Seven (in his prime, at least - do you think the second spot ever took his when he disappeared btw? like do you think there was a time where he was just labelled missing for ages before somebody else became number one?) was rank number one, it's said and talked about like a million times, Seven was conclusively the highest ranked and most powerful shadow killer by 18 years old.

along with this we hear one other thing: Green Phoenix is mentioned to be the (physically) weakest Shadow Killer. given how much people are sticklers for the rankings we can presume this puts him at the lowest of the seven, even if he chose to appear weaker than he is and his focus is majorly on cunning and wit rather than martial prowess, I assume this is where he's offically ranked honestly

everyone else has never had their number mentioned - or if it was said in some obscure place i don't know it's not on the wiki, but let's be fucking for real nothing is on the wiki seriously one of us might wanna update that thing one day anyways - but I believe we can roughly guess where the rest of the killers rank given by their actions in the show and the order which the show presents them.

which - this might be a controversial one tbh - puts Redtooth fairly low on the list. he is physically more powerful than Green Phoenix, but Green Phoenix is able to outwit Redtooth twice, and Green Phoenix is technically the one who kills Redtooth. But also, Seven at fairly low strength was able to fight Redtooth and almost won on his own. Redtooth is also mentioned in season 4 that naturally, he was physically weak and actually struggled with picking up qi and such - he does not have a natural nor honed talent and his power ENTIRELY relies on the Blood Demon inside him. So he's easily outwitted, he's physically weak without the Blood Demon which, up until season 4 was still restrained heavily, Seven is able to handle him all the way back in season two. Notably, Dai Bo and the rest of the cast are unable to handle him however, even though most of them are built to handle aggressive opponents liked Redtooth.

But it's mainly the fact he appears and is 'defeated' so early in the show that makes me truly believe he ranks so low. Obviously we probably haven't seen the full capabilities of Redtooth and most of the cast however, and this is a ranking with the seal. Obviously he seems to be set up to absolutely rock White Fox's shit in season 5, but it's still really important to keep in mind that this is purely the Blood Demon.

after him the other shadow killer we have the most information on is Blackbird, who Seven ultimately beat into the fuckin ground but boy did we sure almost die getting there!!

So from what we know about Blackbird, from season three, is that unlike Redtooth, he is physically strong, and similar to Green Phoenix he's largely driven by his trauma and his need to validate something that's missing within him, but his weakness seems to really only be his own ego - his weakness (aside from the sun like a fucking vampire. cringelord) is when he can't win, when he is struggling, his frustration is ultimately his downfall. This is one of - if not the only - few fights where 'prime' Seven - or even just Seven as he is now - does not appear to be physically stronger than somebody, and he's actually just barely faster than Blackbird (being able to fucking FLY he's still got a bit of an advantage but Seven's reaction time is evidently quicker, and Blackbird comments that Seven's ambushes and speed used to be infamous - a prowess that Blackbird is almost capable to keep up with) but he wins the fight with wit and outsmarting them. And ultimately, Blackbird's weakness was himself.

Which is a lot to say he's really strong. But it's hard to place him anywhere on the leaderboard without a key thing that Manjusaka says:

"It seems you're the best after all," as she turns to Blackbird. This is (presumably) the direct translation, because in English Manjusaka actually says something different that I wanna touch on again later, but she turns to Blackbird and says he's the best after all. Which would imply: Blackbird took the spot for number one when Seven was missing. Blackbird had been second to Seven in the league - and some of his contempt for Seven may be because of that. This conclusively puts Blackbird in the number two spot for me.

The next three we have even less information on, so it's really hard to put them in precise spots. As for Manjusaka though we have this: she is very cunning and manipulative, and the other Shadow Killer we know to be infamous for their cunning and wit was the lowest ranked - because the ranks seem to have FAR more value in raw martial prowess and strength than wit. Along with this, Manjusaka never actually works alone. In English in season 3, when she turns to Blackbird, she says "I guess we're just better together," which puts a lot of emphasis on her working with somebody, and emphasis on the fact that she's USING the fact that Blackbird is so high rank so that she can be powerful by proxy. She's also the only one who seems to defend her other Shadow Killers - though they aren't immune to her own scrutiny, Manjusaka outright kills three people for shit-talking Redtooth.

Along with this - Manjusaka dies to Green Phoenix (coughprobablycough) and leaves her as an opponent Seven will never (probably) fight. The Shadow Killers have kept appearing in an order of higher and higher ranking, and Manjusaka is the third to ever appear, and of the three, ALL THREE have died and one came back. Just like, the order these characters have appeared in, they usually appear in increasing power and every season has ended with Seven fighting or about to fight a new, powerful Shadow Killer. Manjusaka dying already leaves her feeling fairly low ranked, given the pattern the show has exhibited.

Manjusaka is also tied to Shimen and are inseparable - what Shimen and Manjusaka lack the other make up for. Shimen appears slow yet viciously strong and stone faced, he's nothing but muscle and qi, and Manjusaka is fast and stealthy - she teleports around, she uses deception and poisons to best her enemies. They're also hardly ever depicted apart. They're only separated twice - when Shimen leaves the fight with Blackbird due to general disinterest, and when Shimen and Manjusaka split up in season 4.

(these two symbols fading into each other feel like they represent Manjusaka and Shimen)

They're constantly depicted together and fluently work together. They coordinate easily when that's not the normal for the Shadow Killers - infighting is banned and that's it, they aren't required to get along. But these two are two inseparable halves of one whole, they are both arguably strong on their own but they have glaring weaknesses that the other fills. Their weaknesses, to a point, are when they're separated. This also would seemingly put them next to each other on the ranking - together it feels like they make up one, unstoppable person, and it makes sense that separately they are at similar ranking/strength, just simply excel together, and weaker rankings would be the most likely to bond together to form stronger ones.

Not to mention, Manjusaka dies on screen at the end of the season four and that's it, and Shimen's fate is left entirely unknown because he doesn't appear again and only the leader approaches Green Phoenix. But during the opening for the entire season we see one shot of Shimen we never actually see during the season:

Shimen left alone and unconscious without Manjusaka. And he leaves the Blackbird fight unharmed, he obviously leaves the encounter with Ouyang Zang (is that his name ? straight up might've misspelled it sorry ) alive because he appears again afterwards, and it seems to imply that without Manjusaka, Shimen is left weak and vulnerable. So these two, to me, feel like they're exactly next to each other on the rankings - and possibly ranked somewhere in the middle

Which now only leaves White Fox, who we know the least about personality wise but we've seen some of his martial abilities (AKA: hey guys I can make a nitrogen bomb from my finger. wanna see) and watched him fight the prince of Stan, which does lead to the conclusion that he is fairly powerful, though it seems it's not really physical strength but his qi, speed, and reflexes that let him overpower his opponents. Given the rankings I've given the other Shadow Killers it naturally leaves him at a semi-high spot.

Which leaves me with my final (guesstimated) ranking of the Shadow Killers, with Seven during his prime, Redtooth's seal still not broken:

Seven

Blackbird

White Fox

Shimen

Manjusaka

Redtooth

Green Phoenix

Shimen and Manjusaka feel interchangeable in their spots, honestly? And I would almost put Redtooth above Manjusaka ...? But it kind of feels natural that he's below her. Also, I went back and skimmed the show to see if anybody else was introduced by ranking, given that a lot of people in the show had been previously, and I only found these scenes:

Which are all only labelled 'the seven greats' according to the translation, unless somebody here speaks Chinese and their rankings are actually said/implied in the Chinese characters and Netflix just didn't translate it which wouldn't even surprise me honestly Netflix just fucking does that sometimes

so yea 👍 that's my estimation on the rankings of the Shadow Killers maybe the show will prove me right eventually. this post took me like 2 hours to make. help

[3416]

and this is why asking prices on some guys will be higher than everyone thinks, lol.

i've seen a lot of takes about what mitch's price will be and how it just cannot eclipse auston's at any cost and blah blah blah, but auston signed a short term deal on purpose bc he and judd know the cap's going up and he can get more down the line. if mitch wants to sign a long term deal right now, i don't think the leafs internal cap should be auston's current number whatsoever.... like that is a huge fucking jump for the cap even 2 years from now. anyway... mitch you can sign an extension now king <3

[trevination]

PERFORMING GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOR A DISTRICT MUSIC COMPETITION IN LESS THAN 2 HOURS‼️‼️ AHHH‼️‼️

[qoldenskies]

RAVENDUSK IS SO CUTE 🥺 could u tell us about her mayhaps

of course the first individual ask i get is about depression cat /silly

also sorry to disappoint but that cat is a TWINK a STUPID ASS TWINK who i want to KICK DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS look at him

i just hate this guy and he's lowkey the most interesting one of the boys. fuck ravendusk. finn we need to kill this horse

anyways you may have noticed i called him sensitive and people-pleasing in my original post. that was referring to how he was when he was first split from his siblings-- lmao he is not that way anymore, not openly anyway. he never shuts up and he never seems to take anything seriously, and because of that he's earned a really unfortunate role as the black sheep of the family, as well as. well. the failure. he's so clumsy he cant even hunt, and god forbid he has to FIGHT. they roll their eyes at everything he does and he just smiles and laughs through the lump in his throat.

the way he's seen by everyone in his life just contrasts badly with the fact that his feelings are still incredibly fragile, but he's quick to laugh around it and pretend he's not hurt, even if he'll fall back on avoidant behavior to compensate (mostly self-isolation. depression cat!). he's incredibly lonely, with only stormcall as company these days. he doesn't even sleep in camp anymore. although im not going to gas him up as this tortured soul with no flaws, USUALLY his response to being told to shut the fuck up is to get more annoying. its just that when it comes down to it, he's a little too forgiving. he makes a lot of bad decisions because of it-- you'll never see an angry ray. annoyed, upset, defensive, but not angry. not ever. he's kind of constitutionally incapable of it, even if he can be rude.

otherwise he's only close to wolfmoon, who he loves to bother like an annoying little brother. wolf clings to the same belief that his other siblings (sans stormcall) do, but he's a lot more tolerant of it-- he sees ray as someone who needs his protection and guidance, even if he can be hurtful and callous towards his issues, ultimately. they're not the best at communicating, but they'd do anything for each other. ray loves to sneak over the border and bother him. wolfmoon would kill for him, but only if he doesn't kill him first LMAO

and as for the others. 😬 all he did was have joy and whimsy and be really really gay and they hate him for no reason!!!!!!!

[banefort]

cost me an arm and a leg to get it running, but here's my Google Drive upload of The Generators (2024) dir. Georgie Cowan-Turner. If the upload doesn't work, try accessing it through this - a private Vimeo link I found in the festival's code.

[iamchickenhearmesquawk]

Ok but lowkey the graphic design team for lumon kills it every time they’ve got such a strong brand and stellar design choices. Like that performance review booklet!? ��

Incredible. No notes.

[st4rboyloser]

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