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sinni-ok-sessi · 7 months ago

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Five ships in five fandoms

with thanks to @tallangrycockatiel for the tag

Well, there's the Enterprise, obviously, the Surprise, the Terror, the Indefatigable...

OK no, I will do this properly

1. Lin Chen/Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan (Nirvana in Fire)

Coming in first and surprising absolutely nobody! I am so very onboard with any and all permutations of the Greater Liang Polycule, but I have a special fondness for Guy Who Is Very Invested In Mei Changsu and Guy Who Is Very Invested In Lin Shu becoming jointly Guys Who Are Very Invested In Keeping This Idiot Alive In Spite Of Himself. Also I love angst and this ship offers the incredible buy one get one free deal of grief that your best friend now has someone else who knows more of his secrets and grief that your best friend is burning his life up in service of someone else, all turning on the fulcrum of a man who would probably just die on the spot if he let himself feel one tenth of the things he's been repressing for the last decade. Also, I love characters who won't say what they mean, so. You know.

2. Charley Pollard/Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who Big Finish Audios)

God, they're so weird about each other. It's not romantic but it's not not-romantic and also at one point they eat each other's corpse in an anti-time universe (I think? It's been a while since I listened to Scherzo) and I remember experiencing a lot of confusing and proto-aromantic feelings over them when I was seventeen, so they deserve a mention

3. Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames (The Terror)

YES I FEEL WEIRD ABOUT IT OK. Constantly I am playing this game with my brain where a fic can neither be too historically inaccurate nor too obviously Just Straight-Up RPF and let me tell you, this narrows my options considerably. BUT. Hhhh. The fact that they're doomed from the start. The way both of them, through sheer effort of will, put aside the selves they've been playing and better, truer people, in circumstances that really would have justified the opposite. They're doomed and they keep trying anyway. I'm going to go stare at a wall now and maybe bite something.

4. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek TOS)

I know, I know, I'm basic, but look, I didn't get an E in C4 maths because I was too busy writing k/s fic to revise to deny this truth of my heart now. What can I say, I love a man who is repressing a planet's worth of emotions at any given time. I love gentle bickering, I love putting your life in someone else's hands with absolute trust, I love this simple feeling. Ok, gonna go stare at a different wall for a bit now

5. Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)

This one's dedicated to last summer, when I spent three months losing my goddamn mind, having been a casual Good Omens enjoyer for years at that point. I love all the permutations of these characters, but I do especially love watching Michael Sheen and David Tennant's faces do things. I think I mentioned before my love of characters who won't say what they mean, and I especially enjoy SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF IT AND COUNTING. Also, as someone who didn't so much break with the church as saunter vaguely away, GO fic sure does tap some long-buried part of my psyche.

I have all the object permanence of a concussed goldfish, so I'm almost certainly forgetting some personality-defining ship, but! I have done my best and no one should criticise me!

tagging @betweencrossedblades @trans-cuchulainn (you can count each tain recension as a separate fandom if you like), @cendiar , @bitterflames and anyone else who'd like to do it

#insert my usual disclaimer here that I don't have a moral issue with rpf but it is something of a squick for me personally #tag games

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lonelyasawhisper · 2 years ago

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If Queen Won't, Brian May

Sylvie Simmons, Creem, 1st March 1984

SO HERE I am back in the giant Ajax can on Vine Street and waiting for Brian May. I look at my watch; the little hand and the big hand are sticking up like a peace sign; almost noon and it's hard to believe I'm up at this ungodly hour after last night's festivities, let alone the star. (Capitol threw a party to welcome Queen into the Ajax Can family — Elektra won't be getting The Works when it comes out early next year. There were hors d'oeuvres, aperitifs, and talking of a pair of teeths, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and Brian May.) This is not the usual fluorescent-lit room where Duran Duran posters smirk cheekbonely from the walls. This is a cozy chamber tucked around the back somewhere, through convoluted corridors and up and down staircases — couldn't find it again even if you threatened me with a night at Plato's with Steve Perry — dark and small as a confession box...

I confess! I know I shouldn't; I know there's a reputation to consider; I know Mötley Crüe told me just the other day that they're "the opposite" of this band. But I LIKE QUEEN. There, I've said it. Not only do I have all their albums (except Hot Space; I'm not that daft) but I sing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in its entirety at the slightest provocation. And the Brian May-penned 'Flash' is probably the best sci-fi theme tune in the Universe.

Though Brian may not agree. For one, the title track on the first album he's ever done outside of Queen just happens to be a sci-fi theme tune called 'Star Fleet'; for another he's so modest and understated you virtually have to beat the bloke with rubber truncheons to get him to admit that Queen are pretty big.

Anyway, the Star Fleet Project is a mini album — as May's own liner notes say, it's "not your normal kind of album; not an album which has been 'thoughtfully pieced together by a coordinated band as a balanced and polished listening experience.' Not a Queen album." Certainly isn't. All three songs — 'Star Fleet', the theme from a Japanese Saturday morning sci-fi program that shows on English TV that Brian got hooked on thanks to his young son Jimmy, 'Let Me Out', a song Brian wrote for Queen years ago that was never used, and 'Blues Breaker', dedicated to Eric Clapton, the man whose axe-work with Cream inspired a 15-year-old May to build his own electric guitar — were recorded over a two-day period back in April during a break from the year-around Queen boxing match. At loose ends, Brian called up some music friends in Los Angeles and jammed. Yes — jammed. What they used to do in the old days when musicians spent more time with each other than their accountants. Anyway, after much thought — and a bit of persuasion from Heavy Pettin', a British rock band he was producing on the side who heard the tapes and drooled — and more red tape, the jamming session got put out as pure and untouched as Michael Jackson, and credited to Brian May And Friends. His friends? Neighbor Alan Gratzer of REO Speedwagon, Phil Chen, ex-Rod Stewart bassist, Fred Mandel, the former Alice Cooper member who showed up on Queen's last tour, and on co-lead, Eddie Van Halen. (The two met when Brian caught Van Halen's set on a Black Sabbath tour and got friendlier when they met up again in Germany and confessed to being mutual fans.)

Brian May has just walked into the chamber, right on time. He's tall, got the same hairdo he's had for years, an intent expression on his face and a soft, very English voice.

"We had some time off from the group which we forced on ourselves," he's saying about why he's just done a record that sounds like it could have been made any time in the past 11 years Queen's been together. "We felt, Queen, that we'd got too close to each other and we needed a break. We all do different things �� Roger's been making an album, Freddie's been doing stuff with Michael Jackson, John's been doing all kinds of stuff with computers and weird machines, and I thought, 'Why don't I do something?' Most of my favorite musicians were around L.A. where I was, and they all said 'yeah, great, let's go and do it.' Which really surprised me; I thought people would say yeah great, but we're busy.' So I booked the Record Plant and we went in and tried it, and it worked out better than I could ever have dreamed. One of the best times of my life, really."

He doesn't have too many friends in the business, he says. "They are pretty well my best friends, but also some of my favorite players." They're also veterans of some of the most commercially successful, richest mainstream rock bands around. By doing this project, did they reckon they'd show us they weren't in it for the money alone?

"I don't think anything like that was in our minds. There was never any talk of it coming out to begin with — it was just to be in there playing really, and I was quite prepared to leave it that way. Possibly to prove something to myself — that I could play with other musicians and enjoy it, and make something worthwhile."

If he's saying Queen hasn't been making anything worthwhile lately, there's a lot of people who couldn't agree more. Like Hot Space frinstance.

"There's a lot about Hot Space I didn't like. But at the same time," Brian covers himself, "it was probably, in retrospect, the right thing to do at the time, because we had to investigate all those different avenues and get all those bits of R&B influence out of our systems. No, part of the problem with us, the group, was we got so close to each other that familiarity breeds contempt, and we didn't like the way each other played anymore. That was one of the things that happened six months ago. And now, having got outside it and seen a lot of other people. I realize that the other three are pretty good. And I think they've had the same experience. We appreciate each other a bit more now. After this record I came back to the group much fresher. You get to understand how other people play, and you realize that everybody has their own style, and I found that I was a bit more patient with John and Roger and Freddie. Also what I got from stepping outside was realizing what other people think of us as individuals and as a group."

And did he kill himself? "Well, they thought we were pretty good — which surprised me!" He obviously didn't get to poll the people who dismiss Queen as a pretentious sort of band. Brian chuckles. And this Star Fleet Project has to be one of the most unpretentious records a superstar musician has ever made, casually put together and released without the usual sheen and polish a Queen album goes through before seeing the light of day.

"Well it is very different, and that's part of why it was a release for me. I wouldn't agree with you that Queen are pretentious, but I know what you mean. Queen are a group who've always been — everything has to be perfect before it gets out. It's worked on and worked on and argued about and talked about and torn to bits and put back together. We work to keep the spontaneity in there, but nevertheless it was nice in this case to do something which worked immediately, the adrenalin from the fact you'd never played with these people before, and everyone feeling good. I had no desire to interfere with it."

Has Queen lost its excitement? When you've got so many followers and so much success that you can even put out an album like Hot Space and it sells, when you can flash a credit card and get a record co. employee to go out and charge up anything your little heart desires, doesn't it all get a bit boring?

"It's funny you should say that because that never goes through my mind. I certainly don't feel we could do anything. For instance, last night at the party — I suppose everyone's very up about a new deal and a new album, but I was very depressed underneath it all really because what I think about is still the music. And we'd just had a play-back to the record company, and I was really desperately unhappy about the way it sounded. And I couldn't even think about we're a huge rock group, all the things you're saying. All I could think about was I'd hated what I'd heard and I was ashamed of it. I don't really think about what Queen looks like to the outside world very much. I think about what it feels like. It has had its good moments and I think we can play some good stuff; but it also has some really awful moments."

A lot of the Outside World who do think about Queen probably think it's Freddie's band. He thinks of a direction, everyone fights a bit, but generally follow meekly behind. True?

"It's a continual fight, because we all have very definite ideas of what direction we want to go in, and none of them are the same. It's a continual battle and it's very democratic and it's very painful. Most of the time when we're recording, it's hell. You have this constant dividing line between being up and positive about what you're doing, and the other side is that you may be trying to push what you want down someone else's throat, and maybe the other three will take it for a little while but in the end they'll say, 'No, this is rubbish, we hate it, stop pushing.' And that's what's happened a lot.

"I had a very clear idea in my head of what I wanted [the new Queen album] to be. It's an oversimplification, but I wanted it to be more of a rock album. But I obviously pushed too hard in the early days, and everyone got very angry with me and said 'Look, stop. Don't tell us what to play.' And then you take three steps back and try and work it out again. That's happened with all of us. We all feel that suddenly we can see a path ahead and the other three can't see it at all, and that makes it really hard.

"The plus of it is that after you've had your arguments and found an intermediate course at least you've already been through a vast political process, and the stuff which does come out has been through a gigantic sieve. So I think in the end you come out with stuff which is a real group product, and it's better than any of us could do as a solo artist. I honestly think that, and that's why I'm still in Queen. I think the group is still better than any of its component parts."

So is the next Queen album going to be a rock album? (Bumped into Roger Taylor at the party and he slurred that it was definitely "very heavy — one side of the album especially will definitely give you brain damage")

"So far," nods Brian, "I think, in spite of all the shouting, it is."

When a group member leaves the fold to do his first album, it's usually "OK, here I am. Me, the Star." But Star Fleet isn't a flashy guitar album or ego showcase. What gives?

"I don't think I am a flashy kind of person really. When I come to do a solo album — maybe one day I will — I've no idea what it will be like. This isn't it. This is just an event of some people having fun together, and that's the way it should be looked at. I don't know what is me, if that's what you're asking. That's one of the difficulties I've had in thinking about a solo album. Because on the one hand I would like to do all heavy stuff, because I don't feel I've got enough outlet for the heavy stuff in Queen; on the other hand I'd like to do some guitar arrangements and continue the guitar-orchestra direction, which again we've sort of left alone for a while in the group. Then again I like to sing songs that have a lot of personal feeling for me, which also sometimes doesn't fit into the group framework."

Hasn't he ever had the temptation to leap out onstage, push Freddie into the wings and grab the limelight, just once?

"No, I'm very happy with how it is. I get my bit to do. As you say, I can be flash for a while and then blend into the group, and I'm very content with that."

That's the one thing Brian and Eddie Van Halen have in common. They're both pretty low profile guitarists in bands with the most outrageously flashy frontmen on earth. Do they feel any kinship there?

"Yes, a lot. There are parallels, obviously. The whole business of what roles people play in groups is something which interests me very much for its own sake, because you do find that the bass player is always a certain kind, the guitarist is usually a certain kind of person. I don't know whether it's the selection process or whether it's an environmental change process [I forgot to mention; he has a degree in physics!] — you can see those elements in the component parts of groups. Guitarists do tend to be like that, people who feel they have a lot to say but don't really want to be in the center of the stage doing it; they want to be at the side doing their bit and enjoying it and getting into it and not having the responsibility for what the singer does."

And if you're expecting any guitar duels on this album, forget it. Instead of playing superstars, trying to outdo the last lick, they're like a couple of polite gentlemen going "After you"; "No, after you."

"I think we're very alike, and there's no feeling of competition there because we both love what the other person is doing. Particularly in my case. My first reaction to seeing Edward was I didn't want to play with him because he's so great. And then my second reaction was I wanted to pick up the guitar and play with him. Because we're so different in playing, but we're very alike in the way we think. There's no duel there, and I'm glad you said that because I was frightened people would think Guitar Battle kind of rubbish. Just people enjoying each other's company really. And it's not just me and Edward — it's me and Alan and Philip and Fred. We were all in there, and it was a good interaction all round.

"I still think, sometimes, am I being foolish putting this out? But then every time I listen to it I get this great feeling about it. It's so real and live and personal that I hope that other people will get that feeling about it."

With all the members of Queen going their separate ways, there's always the risk that they might forget to get back together again. Does Queen still feel like a real band?

"It does again now. There have been a few crises in our history, and one of them was about six months ago, when we could have easily said, 'Look, we hate each other, let's forget it.' And it almost was that. But instead we said 'look, we're all getting very intense with each other because we haven't had a break for ages, and we've been in this endless make-an-album-tour-the-world-make-an-album cycle; so let's get out of it for a while and maybe we'll appreciate each other.' And it's worked pretty well. We got back together and we feel like a real band again."

Retrieved from The Creem Archive

#article #interview #brian may #creem #star fleet project #1984 #queen band #bri

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lambourngb · 5 years ago

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So I was tagged by @ninswhimsy to name my 10 favorite male and 10 favorite female characters

I have done this one before- but I thought I would switch it up and only list current shows I’m watching. And NOT IN ORDER.

Female- 1. Agent Maggie Bell - on FBI - oh man I love a good procedural, and I’ve been a fan of Missy Peregrym since Rookie Blue. 2. Kara Danvers - Supergirl - I didn’t expect to love this show the way I do, but I do. It’s a good CW superhero show. 3. Sarah Tanner- Bulletproof- the boss of two insane East London detectives- she is a great ma’am but also fiercely protective of those idiots under her charge. 4. Michaela Stone - Manifest - this show is a little nuts right now. There’s another love triangle, meh, but Michaela broke my heart first season when she came back to find her fiancé married to her best friend. 5. Athena Grant - 911 - Athena is the best and she’s why I still watch that crazy show. 6. Maya Bishop - Station 19 - Type A personality who was messed up by her parents and strives to be perfect at the cost of her personal relationships? Err, I might identify too much with her. She’s a bisexual disaster and I love her. 7. Mina Okafor - The Resident - Another type A personality that is too involved in work, with a complicated relationship with her mom, but under it all is just a good person? Yes please. 8. Lucy Chen- The Rookie - oh boy the first season was hard to get through because of the power dynamics, but her later bond with her training officer Bradford is so good. 9. Dr Claire Browne - The Good Doctor - I am so upset after that season finale, but Claire always speaks to me as a high function child of a mentally ill person. And then her mom killed herself in a car accident, and wow, my heart! 10. Tali LaCroix - FBI Most Wanted- a child actress ! Yeah I never like kids in shows, but Tali is great- smart, empathetic, dealing with a dual heritage and the death of her mom. She makes me like her dad, the lead, Jess LaCroix a whole lot more.

Male-

1. Agent OA Zidan - FBI - the other half of the great partnership with Maggie Bell. He was a bit of a cowboy in the beginning, but now I just love how deeply he cares for Maggie and what a team they make.

2. Aaron Bishop- Bulletproof - oh man, kid from the streets, finding his family in his work, his bond with his partner, his very reasonable complaints about dying in a car because of his partner’s crazy driving. Season 2 killed me with how deeply he got involved in undercover work and thought he had found a father figure.

3. Ronnie Pike - Bulletproof- the opposite of Bishop, from a very nice family, married with kids, and he’s a crazy man behind the wall. His deep love for Bishop is so great. These two are my favorite buddy cop duos.

4. Jared Vasquez - Manifest- I mean this guy makes bad decisions because of how deeply he loves Michaela. Definitely the cautionary tale of falling love with your work partner because he has a hard time comparmentalizing. He’s a dumbass.

5. Malcolm Bright- Prodigal Son - I love his brilliant and naive brain at work. The episode where he reconnects with his only friend- oh man break my heart with the feels.

6. Conrad Hawkins - The Resident - I mean, he’s almost a Mary Sue this man is so perfect- hot, brilliant, messed up from his military past, heart open and bleeding, and finally learning to be emotionally open? Yeah.

7. Michael Guerin- Roswell New Mexico- I am so into my network procedurals but Michael is my favorite. He hooked me to the show when I probably would have been one and done, but that first scene in the jail, and I was gone. By episode 6 I was obsessed. I love this soft lonely, alien bisexual disaster. I love Alex too, but that love took some time to build because my very first watch I was turned off by the closeted thing. It wasn’t until when the reasons became clear that I got obsessed. But Michael came first. ❤️

8. Ben Shakir - Evil - oh man this show freaks me out and I have to watch with the lights on, but I’ve loved Assif Mandvi since the Daily Show and he’s a real joy to watch as the tech expert in disproving miracles.

9. Mark Callan - All Rise - Tortured past ? Daddy Issues? Bleeding heart wrapped in sarcasm? Extremely protective of his female best friend? A romantic disaster? Yeah Mark Callan checks all my boxes.

10. Sheriff Bill Hollister - Deputy - I did not expect to like this show. But it really hooked me with the cast. Bill is a bit of a Mary Sue too- always doing the right thing for the most part, devoted to his wife and daughter, supportive of his staff and welcoming. He’s just a genuinely good person who doesn’t like politics. I love the scenes with him and his non-binary assistant Bishop.

#tagged meme #meme #television chitchat

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celmation-gibson · 7 years ago

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Well, It's Time I started these 'Best of' Reviews for what Animated thing had Happened this Year, and Now I'm ready for it, and for me, I think that 2017 was a great Year for Cartoons on TV (and one on the Net), and here are my Reviews on why.

Ben 10(2016 series) – Although the Show was Made and Released in 2016 at other Foreign territories, It finally got a Release in the US in 2017. And some Folks might say that some reboots aren’t very too Bright (and I would agree on TTG and/or PPG 2016), But I find this to be a Nerve Calming excitement, some of the Character Designs/Re-Designing look Cute & Likable to Me. And the One Thing that gets me Fired up for this Series is that some Artists I know worked on this Program, like Mr. Ryan Krammer(Uncle Grandpa, & SpongeBob's 'Food Con Castaways' episode), Ms. Monica Ray(Harvey Beaks, Magic Children Doing Things) as Storyboard Artists & additional Writers& Mr. Colin Heck(Legend of Korra, Harvey Beaks) as Supervising Director. And It was Wonderful to hear Ms. Jessica DiCicco(Lynn & Lucy Loud) voicing a Different-looking FrightWig, who the Character was previously voiced by Cree Summer in the Original Series. But believe me, I remember seeing the Original Ben 10 series along with Alien Force, but didn’t quite go thru the Rest of the Series until the Reboot came. Even the Original villains of this Show look so Cute (except for Billy Billions), which that Cuteness also goes to the re-Designing of the other Villains from the Original ‘Ben 10’ series, and the More appearance I’ve ever seen from a Villain is Steam Smythe (voiced by Roger Craig Smith of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ & ‘Regular Show’).

Billy Dilley’s Super-Duper Subterranean Summer – Quite an Interesting Show, and I bet many people thought that the Program reminded them of ‘Uncle Grandpa’, so Keep in Mind, Most of the Artists & Writers who worked on this Series previously worked on ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ & ‘Uncle Grandpa’. Even the Show’s Creator Mr. Aaron Springer voicing Billy almost sounds like Paul Rugg of 'Freakazoid', 'Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket', & 'Secret Mountain Fort Awesome'.

Samurai Jack(Season 5) - I truly Enjoyed watching 'Samurai Jack' when I was Young, this Program along with 'Courage the Cowardly Dog', 'Juniper Lee', & 'Chowder' are Probably the only Good Old Cartoon Network Programs that I give Full Circle to in my Childhood. After the "Jack and the Baby" episode, the show went into a Deep Cliffhanger, and I truly Sympathize the Great Hero Jack for it, But Twelve Years Later, a New Season had Finally cometh, with the Show's Original Creator Mr. Genndy Tartakovsky coming to Ex. Produced the series after some Great Work back at Sony Pictures Animation(Hotel Transylvania films, & that Popeye Test Footage). And Instead of the Program being a-little Lighthearted like the Past Seasons with just Slime, Oil & Robotic Guts, and Major Boo-boos, the New Season 5 now airing on Adult Swim has moved to a Darker Tone, which I like as much as 'Return to Oz', 'Over the Garden wall', & 'the Black Cauldron', with some major Blood, Profanity, and some Grown-Up jokes put into it. And it was a Surprised to see some Old Characters that I recognize to make some Cameos in that one episode(or few), such as the Woolies, Demongo, and the Ravers, the Robots and their Robo-Samurai, and the "Jump Good" Monkey man & his Tribe. And some Fresh New Voices came in by Surprise, such as Mr. Chris Parnell & Keegan Michael Key in some Episodes. And I was Lucky to film the Final Confrontation between Jack & Aku during the Premiere of the Series Finale for Instagram. And did I nearly weep during the Part that Now that Aku is Gone, Ashi will Never be Born in the Future(because of the Space Timing Continuum), and I got to say, Ashi was a Cute Character that I truly Sympathize because of her Dark Past & People Torturing her back then, and I like her Voice Actress, the Legendary Ms. Tara Strong (Powerpuff Girls, My Little Pony, Ben 10, & Chowder). And even since Aku's Original voice actor Mr. Mako passed away back then, I say that Mr. Greg Baldwin really did a Good Job impersonating Mako voicing Aku, just like he did with Iroh of 'Avatar: the Last Airbender' & 'Legend of Korra', almost sounded like If Mako aged Puberty. I would say I'm Gonna Miss this Show, just like how I'll miss Chowder, Regular Show, and soon Uncle Grandpa.

Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Battle for Mewni /SvtFoE Season 3– To come Clear, I only watched the First Four Stories of that TV Movie Special, from “Return to Mewni” to “Marco and the King”, Because during the Further Episodes there was an Artist whose Career I clearly dislike, Tyler Chen of ‘Clarence’, ‘Fish Hooks’, ‘Pickle & Peanut’ & the Overrated Bravest Warriors minisode “drama Bug”, and that’s why I never made it to the Ending point, But I do read Perfectly that Star won the Battle against the Vile Toffee, and she got her Wand Redesigned. But what I can tell you that one of my Favorite Episodes from that so Far is “Moon the Undaunted”, and I gotta say that Eclipsa, Queen of Darkness is one of my Most Favorite Characters from the show so far. As for the Rest of Season 3 so Far, I’ve only watched Episodes that are NNOT directed by Chen, cuz remember when I said I don’t like his Career, but my Most Favorite Episodes out of Season 3 so Far is ‘Stranger Danger’, ‘Lint Catcher’, & ‘Trial by Squire’. Also, Despite having appeared in the 2016 episode "Page Turner", I like Hekapoo's appearance in the 2017 episode "Running with Scissors", which is One of my Most Favorite Episodes of Season 2.

The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos - I really Enjoyed this Half-Hour Special of ‘the Loud House’, the New Characters there seemed Likable/Lovable unlike the Unlikable/Hate-able ones in Royal Woods where some Folks aren’t that Disgusting as Hell(Funny Business, Cereal Offender), and It’s also a Good Episode where no Sister Siblings were Complete & Utter jerks(Sleuth or Consequences, a Novel Idea), Even what surprised me Completely is that this was the First Thing in a Kids’ Cartoon to showcase a person with Down-Syndrome, and believe me, I felt Really Disappointed on how they were Portrayed in Adult Cartoons, Mostly *COUGH*Family guy*COUGH*. But in a Kids Cartoon, they were Treated Properly with Good Respect. And the Character Rosa reminds me of Mrs. Claus/Mama from Rankin/Bass’ ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ for some Wacky Reason, “Eat, eat, EAT”. And I still Love the RonnieColn Fandom Completely, that one LH Episode “Back Out There” almost Ruined some Things, and that Led me to have Mixed to Negative Feelings for Lincoln’s Friends Clyde, Rusty, Liam, Zach. So I would say that ‘the Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos’ is a Fun-Filled Episode that I could watch Multiple Times, It’s got Cute & Funny moments, some Heart-Warming Drama, and some Great Entertainment when the Alley Cats run amuck in the Casagrande apartment.

OK K.O! Let’s be Heroes – This Show has become a Great New addition to the Grand CN, It was created by Mr. @ianjq, who was previous storyboard supervisor & storyboard revisionist of ‘Adventure Time’, Writer & Story Artist for ‘Secret Mountain Fort Awesome’, voice of Wallow of ‘Bravest Warriors’, & developer, co-executive producer, supervising director, storyline writer & storyboard artist for ‘Steven Universe’, and I really like him Voicing Rad & other Characters such as Darrell & Crinkly Wrinkly in the K.O. program. It was based off a short Pilot episode ‘Lakewood Plaza Turbo’ back in 2013, in that Great Year of Discoveries along with other pilots for ‘Steven Universe’, ‘Over the Garden Wall’, & ‘Clarence’, and that was a Time when I was also Fascinated with Disney’s Nine old Men and their Work/Book ‘the Illusion of Life’, and watching that Awesome Documentary on Cartoon Network’s ‘Next Generation of Animation’, I will always accept New Cartoon Network shows like ‘Adventure Time’, ‘Regular Show’, ‘Uncle Grandpa’, ‘Over the Garden Wall’, ‘Steven Universe’, & ‘We Bare Bears’ into the Cartoon Society. But as for ‘OK K.O.’ , the seems pretty Wonderful, It has a Blend of 1970’s Obscure Anime looks into the Western Animation looks, and How they have some Classical Cartooning Principles(Funny Cartoon Noises, Jokes & Gags) into the Modern Day Greatness. Even some of the characters seemed likable, Mostly on either Lord Boxman(voiced by the Great Jim Cummings), some of the Villainess Characters that the Heroes might met(Professor Venomous, Cosma, & Mr. Cardsley), and even some of the Main Good Characters, especially the Ones I also Sympathize like K.O., Rad, Enid, Dendy, Carol, & Mr. Gar, and I gotta say that Character Crinkly Wrinkly is the Funniest character that I’ve ever seen. I think it was Good that I first get to watch the Series when It was On-Demand before it aired on actual TV, but I have yet to see it’s 2013 Pilot episode along with the Rests that Aired on 2013, But I do know that it had a Mobile Game back then (though I did not Download it or played it) and a Series of Shorts by other Animation Studios, but I haven’t watch them because I am Never a huge fan of SCIENCE SARU and I’m Not too certain about Studio Yotta. But I gotta say also, This Show is a Fanstastic Experience on the Grand CN, Filled with Precious Heart-Warming episodes with Good Life Lessons like How to handle your own Duties as an Employer or how Great your Boss can be (‘Legends of Mr. Gar’), or If you Try not to Spoil your life by being a Self-Proclaimed Selfish ‘Cool Kid’ like Brat, you should have a More Focused Future ahead of you, even without going to Jail (‘We’ve Got Pests’), and the Show had some Crazy Developments such as Enid & Rad used to being a Couple (‘Second First Date’), and Enid being a Witch and being in a Family of Halloween-Themed Characters (‘Parents Day’). Plus the shows got a Good crew, Like the Program's Supervising Director Toby Jones, who Previously worked on 'Regular Show', and one of the Show's Story folks Dave Tennant, previously does some Stories for Pete Browngardt Cartoons, Which I think makes it Better for Me.

Pickle Rick – Why not, It’s “PICKLE RIIIICK!!!!”, I thought I would pass on this, But eventually won my Heart, don’t ask why, but Things just happen like that.

The Summoning - I just Discovered this while browsing on the internet probably from Fan-Art on DA, and I watched it on Youtube, and I gotta say, this Cartoon is Really Cute, Funny, & Creepy at the same time. The Main Characters seemed Lovable, and I mean Claire & Edgar, the Bunny Character is hugely Funny in a way, Though I feel Terribly Bad for the characters accidentally eating some things like Eating some Dandruff from a Big Head Island which Claire thought it was Dirt, and Eating Poop which Edgar thought it was Chocolate. But to make Matters Better for the Cartoon, Celmation Hero Ms. Natasha Allegri(Bee & Puppycat, Fionna & Cake) worked on the short as Director, Story Artist, & Character Designer, WHAT A HERO!!! And the Animations/Celmation was done by Digital eMation inc., the Celmation Team behind ‘Ok K.O. Let’s be Heroes!’ & the Season 5 of ‘Samurai Jack’.

The Movies of 2017 & Probably some on Video Games should be made soon.

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2017 Movie Odyssey Awards shortlist

I wanted to take this time to remind certain followers that your responses for the Best Original Song category preliminary are due on Saturday, December 9 at 11 PM Pacific (or Sunday, December 10 at 2 AM Eastern/7 AM GMT). Due to the lack of responses in one of the prelim groups right now, there is a good chance of a deadline extension, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

ANYWAYS, this is the entire ceremony’s shortlist as of this post’s publication - it is definitely subject to change, and some categories will be revealed later.

Best Pictures (I'm naming ten, I'm not distinguishing one above the other nine)

TBA

Best Comedy

Blackbeard’s Ghost (1968)

Destry Rides Again (1939)

Dr. Jack (1922)

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Hong Kong/China)

Mr. & Mrs. ’55 (1955, India)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

The Sandlot (1993)

Yoyo (1965, France)

Best Musical

Coco (2017)

Funny Face (1957)

The Great Muppet Caper

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955)

Kid Galahad (1962)

Mr. & Mrs. ‘55

Nashville (1975)

Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Best Animated Feature

The Breadwinner (2017)

Castle in the Sky (1986, Japan)

Fantastic Planet (1973, France/Czechoslovakia)

My Life as a Zucchini (2016, Switzerland)

My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Japan)

Ponyo (2008, Japan)

Porco Rosso (1992, Japan)

The Red Turtle (2016, France/Belgium/Japan)

Your Name (2016, Japan)

Best Documentary

Don’t Look Back (1967)

The Horse with the Flying Tale (1960)

Jungle Cat (1959)

Life, Animated (2016)

Monterey Pop (1968)

The Statue of Liberty (1985)

The Tattooed Police Horse (1964)

Tyrus (2015)

Best Non-English Language Film

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), West Germany

A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Taiwan

Charulata (1964), India

In the Mood for Love (2000), Hong Kong

My Life as a Zucchini, Switzerland

My Neighbor Totoro, Japan

The Salesman (2016), Iran

Sound of the Mountain (1954), Japan

Tokyo Twilight (1957), Japan

A Touch of Zen (1971), Taiwan

Best Silent Film

Camille (1921)

Dr. Jack

Ducks and Drakes (1921)

The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

A Man There Was (1917, Sweden)

Now or Never (1921 short)

Sparrows (1926)

Strike (1925, Soviet Union)

Tokyo Chorus (1931, Japan)

West of Zanzibar (1928)

Personal Favorite Film

TBA

Best Director

Michael Curtiz, Captain Blood (1935)

Stanley Donen, Funny Face

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (2017)

Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes (1938)

King Hu, A Touch of Zen

Alexander Mackendrick, Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Jean Renoir, The Southerner (1945)

Victor Sjöström, A Man There Was

Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love

Edward Yang, A Brighter Summer Day

Best Acting Ensemble

A Brighter Summer Day

Caged (1950)

Fences (2016)

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Pollyanna (1960)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Sound of the Mountain

Sweet Smell of Success

Tokyo Twilight

Best Actor

Wallace Beery, The Big House (1930)

Gary Cooper, Friendly Persuasion

Tony Curtis, Sweet Smell of Success

Charles Laughton, Island of Lost Souls (1932)

Gregory Peck, Twelve O’Clock High (1949)

Edward G. Robinson, Scarlet Street (1945)

Andy Serkis, War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

Victor Sjöström, A Man There Was

Denzel Washington, Fences

Robin Williams, What Dreams May Come (1998)

Best Actress

Ineko Arima, Tokyo Twilight

Leslie Caron, Lili (1953)

Maggie Cheung, In the Mood for Love

Viola Davis, Fences

Olivia de Havilland, Captain Blood

Chôko Iida, Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947, Japan)

Dorothy McGuire, Friendly Persuasion

Madhabi Mukherjee, Charulata

Eleanor Parker, Caged

Mary Pickford, Sparrows

Best Supporting Actor

Dan Duryea, Scarlet Street

Henry Gibson, Nashville

Stephen Henderson, Fences

Burt Lancaster, Sweet Smell of Success

Paul Newman, Road to Perdition

Anthony Perkins, Friendly Persuasion

Alan Rickman, Sense and Sensibility

Patrick Stewart, Logan (2017)

Gustav von Seyffertitz, Sparrows

Mykelti Williamson, Fences

Best Supporting Actress

Ronee Blakley, Nashville

Hope Emerson, Caged

Elsa Lanchester, The Big Clock (1948)

Charlotte Mineau, Sparrows

Agnes Moorehead, Caged

Kay Thompson, Funny Face

Lily Tomlin, Nashville

Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea (2016)

May Whitty, The Lady Vanishes

Kate Winslet, Sense and Sensibility

Best Adapted Screenplay

James Bernard, Roy Boulting, Paul Dehn, and Frank Harvey, Seven Days to Noon (1950)

Kenneth Branagh, Much Ado About Nothing

Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, The Lady Vanishes

Yasunari Kawabata and Yôko Mizuki, Sound of the Mountain

Al Morgan and José Ferrer, The Great Man (1956)

Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, Sweet Smell of Success

Satyajit Ray, Charulata

Bernard C. Schoenfeld and Virginia Kellogg, Caged

Céline Sciamma, Claude Barras, Germano Zullo, and Morgan Navarro, My Life as a Zucchini

Michael Wilson, Friendly Persuasion

Best Original Screenplay

Frances Marion, Joe Farnham, and Martin Flavin, The Big House

Edward Yang, Hung Hung, Alex Yang, and Mingtang Lai, A Brighter Summer Day

Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich, Coco

Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, The Florida Project (2017)

Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

Tadao Ikeda and Yasujirô Ozu, Record of a Tenement Gentleman

Asghar Farhadi, The Salesman

Yasujirô Ozu and Kôgo Noda, Tokyo Twilight

William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, A Star Is Born (1937)

Best Cinematography

Thomas Mauch, Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk

William H. Daniels, The Far Country (1954)

Ray June, Funny Face

Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin, In the Mood for Love

Karl Struss, Island of Lost Souls

Julius Jaenzon, A Man There Was

Hua Hui-ying, A Touch of Zen

Conrad Hall, Road to Perdition

James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of Success

Best Film Editing

Lee Smith, Dunkirk

Frank Bracht, Funny Face

Norman R. Palmer, The Incredible Journey (1963)

William Chang, In the Mood for Love

R.E. Dearing, The Lady Vanishes

Gene Havlick and Gene Milford, Lost Horizon (1937)

King Hu and Wing Chin-chen, A Touch of Zen

Takeshi Seyama, My Neighbor Totoro

Tom Held, San Francisco (1936)

Henri Lanoë, Yoyo

Best Adaptation or Musical Score

Richard Baskin, Nashville

Adolph Deutsch, Funny Face

Adolph Deutsch, Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

Pink Floyd, Bob Ezrin, and Michael Kamen, Pink Floyd – The Wall

Leigh Harline, You Were Never Lovelier

O.P. Nayyar, Mr. & Mrs. ‘55

André Previn, It’s Always Fair Weather

Joe Raposo, The Great Muppet Caper

Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, and Buddy Baker, Summer Magic (1963)

Best Original Score

David Arnold, Independence Day (1996)

Elmer Bernstein, Sweet Smell of Success

Alexandre Desplat, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Patrick Doyle, Sense and Sensibility

Jerry Goldsmith, MacArthur (1977)

Joe Hisaishi, Castle in the Sky

Michael Kamen, What Dreams May Come

Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Captain Blood

Thomas Newman, Road to Perdition

Dimitri Tiomkin, Friendly Persuasion

Best Original Song

TBA

Best Costume Design

Captain Blood

Funny Face

My Cousin Rachel (1952)

Pollyanna

San Francisco

Sense and Sensibility

Sissi (1955, Austria)

Sissi: The Young Empress (1956, Austria)

A Touch of Zen

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Brides of Dracula (1960)

Friday the 13th (1980)

Island of Lost Souls

It (2017)

Jigoku (1960, Japan)

Lost Horizon

Sissi

The Southerner

Sparrows

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Best Production Design

Captain Blood

The Goonies

Lost Horizon

Pollyanna

Road to Perdition

San Francisco

Sissi: Fateful Years of an Empress (1957, Austria)

Sissi: The Young Empress

A Touch of Zen

What Dreams May Come

Achievement in Visual Effects (all films nominated here are winners because it’s unfair to have a 1920s film with groundbreaking visual effects compete with a 2010s film)

TBA

Worst Picture

TBA

HONORARY AWARDS

TBA

FILMS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS (this excludes TBA categories) Seven: Funny Face; Sweet Smell of Success

Six: Captain Blood; Friendly Persuasion; In the Mood for Love

Five: Caged; Fences; The Lady Vanishes; Nashville; Road to Perdition; Sense and Sensibility; Sparrows; Tokyo Twilight; A Touch of Zen

Four: A Brighter Summer Day; A Man There Was

Three: Charulata; The Great Muppet Caper; Island of Lost Souls; Lost Horizon; Mr. & Mrs. ‘55; My Life as a Zucchini; My Neighbor Totoro; Pollyanna; San Francisco; Sound of the Mountain; Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets; What Dreams May Come

Two: Aguirre, the Wrath of God; The Big House; Castle in the Sky; Coco; Dr. Jack; It’s Always Fair Weather; Lady Bird; Much Ado About Nothing; Pink Floyd – The Wall; Record of a Tenement Gentleman; The Salesman; Scarlet Street; Sissi; Sissi: Fateful Years of an Empress; Sissi: The Young Empress; The Southerner; Take Me Out to the Ball Game; You Were Never Lovelier; Yoyo

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✦*⋆ RKSHIP: JEON WONWOO & KIM MINGYU ! — ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK ♡

PART ONE — START OF SOMETHING NEW ! * AKA PAST !

START OF SOMETHING NEW ♡ TROY MINGYU & GABRIELLA WON ! ( this could be the start of something new, it feels so right to be here with you, oh. and now, looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart, the start of something new. ) sure, won didn’t know the very second they met that mingyu would be the most important person in his life for all the years to come, but it didn’t take long for him to realise that their homework sessions were becoming more giggles than they were practice questions, and that he felt more at home by mingyu’s side than his parents’ four walls. is this what it feels like to have a best friend?

WE ♡ PRISTIN ! ( if we’re together, it’ll always be alright, today and tomorrow. let’s have strength together, always. ) mingyu gave won the strength and sense of safety to have the childhood he should have had; seeking adventures of all sizes, trying new things, exploring the world around him and all it has to offer. to won, it doesn’t matter what his home life brings, he will always have strength when he is by mingyu’s side.

STARLIGHT ♡ TAEYEON FT. DEAN ! ( I was used to being alone, my days were grey. but I remember the day you lightly came to me, knocking on my door. you shined on me like a light, woke me up from darkness, opened the closed door of my heart. ) it goes without saying that mingyu is won’s hero. quite literally. as he suffers through his early teens, it’s mingyu’s light that pulls him from the darkness, just like it had when they met.

MY HEART ♡ PARAMORE ! ( I am finding out that maybe I was wrong; that I've fallen down and I can't do this alone. stay with me, this is what I need, please? ) won’s eventual coming out to mingyu and his family had been his plea for help. he tells himself he was ready for them to know, that he was ready to accept himself, but it’s telling them that gives him that push. he couldn’t take the secrets any longer; he couldn’t take hiding. luckily, though unsurprisingly, they stayed, and won grew to become more and more confident in himself as time went on.

FOOL ♡ RED VELVET ! ( I’m happy then I hesitate, repeating that like a fool. even though you mess up my heart, I’m smiling. ) of course, it’s hard not to fall for the one who protects and cares about you when it feels like no one else does. it’s a slow burn, and he doesn’t quite realise the intensity of his feelings for a long while, but there’s no denying that at every part of the process, won is a fool in love.

PART TWO — EVERYDAY ! * AKA PRESENT !

EVERYDAY ♡ TROY MINGYU & GABRIELLA WON ! ( there’s more to life when we listen to our hearts, and because of you, I’ve got the strength to start. everyday of our lives, wanna find you there, wanna hold on tight. ) it’s been a while since won started living strictly by his heart, and sure, it’s not been plain sailing at all, but as long as the older is still there every morning when he wakes up and every night when he goes to sleep, won has the strength to get through it.

STAND BY ME ♡ BEN E. KING ! ( oh, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me. ) won’s only wish from the older. there are times where won wonders if it’s worth it for mingyu, if he is too much of a risk, but he’s far too deep now to turn back. won can’t live without him, and prays that he’ll never have to.

HOME ♡ ROY KIM ! ( don’t worry about me, I just need you to be okay. when your heart is aching, when no one is there for you, just come here. ) some things never change. even now, eight years since they met, mingyu is unconditionally won’s protector and hero, and he does his best to be the same in return. he feels guilty sometimes, knowing that mingyu has a far harder job taking care of him than the reverse, but won does his best to make up for what he lacks in physical strength, in heart.

LEAN ON ME ♡ SEVENTEEN ! ( we are doing well, so have strength. even if you wake up from your dreams, if I’m really in your heart, wherever you are, I’ll be there. ) has he said it enough yet? mingyu is his shoulder to lean on, his lighthouse in a storm, the troy to his gabriella. won will always be wherever mingyu needs him to be. even his dreams; in slumber and in life.

LOVE IS EASY ♡ MCFLY ! ( if this is love, then love is easy. it's the easiest thing to do. if this is love, then love completes me, ‘cause it feels like I've been missing you. ) has anything ever felt so natural to won than loving mingyu and being by his side? simply, no. and it never will.

PART THREE — BET ON IT ! * AKA FUTURE ?

BET ON IT ♡ TROY MINGYU ! ( I'm not gonna stop; that's who I am. I'll give it all I got, that is my plan. will learn from what I lost; you know you can bet on it, bet on it, bet on it, bet on it. ) won firmly believes mingyu will eventually be able to overcome whatever it is that plagues him currently. they haven’t talked too much about it, sure, but won should know, after eight years, when something is on mingyu’s mind. whether it takes a month, a year, a decade; won has every faith that mingyu will overcome every obstacle in his way. after all, he’s kim mingyu, isn’t he? his hero.

EVERYTHING ♡ MICHAEL BUBLE ! ( and in this crazy life, and through these crazy times, it's you, it's you. you make me sing. you're every line, you're every word, you're everything. you're every song, and I sing along. 'cause you're my everything. ) of course, won can’t help but hope for a future where his feelings are returned; where he is every bit mingyu’s everything as mingyu is won’s. he’s sure it’s wishful thinking for now, but it won’t ever stop him from dreaming, or feeling the way he does.

EVERYTIME ♡ CHEN & PUNCH ! ( don’t leave me. even if we can’t see our futures, will you believe in me and wait for me? ) it’s natural to be scared, however, and won can’t help but wonder if mingyu will still want to be by his side all those years down the road. after all, he is a liability to have around, and a stubborn mess when it comes to accepting the endless generosity mingyu offers him. will mingyu get tired of trying to help a boy who can’t accept it just yet? he can only pray not.

BACK HUG ♡ GIRLS’ GENERATION ! ( quietly hug me from behind, rest your chin on my shoulder, not too strong but softly. hug me so I can feel your warmth. ) their skinship has become scarce over the course of their teens, identity crises and well-kept secrets pushing them apart ever so slightly. won wants it back more than anything in the world. he feels safest in mingyu’s embrace; where did the times go where he dipped his head down to look mingyu in the eyes, the older’s chin against his chest? even if mingyu towers above him now, where are his frequent late night cuddles for warmth and fingers interlocked? where are the warm hugs to hold him together? he can only wonder for now.

LOVE IS ON THE RADIO ♡ MCFLY ! ( funny one thing led to another; you came along, filled my days with colour, and its been an everlasting summer since we found each other. ) won dreads to think what life would have been like if mama kim hadn’t introduced the two of them. he thanks her in bouquets of the same colours that have filled his life since he met the older, but won thinks nothing could ever truly repay his favourite woman on the planet for everything she, and her son, have done for him. they’ve given him hope, and that’s the strongest force in the world. a young boy with hope can never be beaten.

BONUS TRACK !

WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER ♡ HSM CAST ! ( everyone is special in their own way; we make each other strong. we're not the same; we're different in a good way. together's where we belong. we're all in this together )

#rkship #( +3 creativity )#( i love our precious hsm sons )#wn.hc #rkmg #( you are the music in me. )

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barbosaasouza · 7 years ago

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GameACon 2016: Breaking Into Game Writing

In this podcast, game writers Sande Chen, Jennifer Estaris, David Kuelz, Matthue Roth, and Ant Tessitore, along with moderator Patrick Coursey, give inspiring and encouraging advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer. I am really thankful to Michael Beeghley for salvaging this audio recording. He has really worked wonders with the material, revealing previously inaudible portions. You'll still hear water glasses clinking or other sound quality issues, but I found that after turning up the volume and listening to the panel, I was not bothered by the crowd noise. It was a very well-attended session. Thank you to everyone who came to the panel! Breaking Into Game Writing

GameACon 2016 October 30, 2016 There are as many ways to break into game writing as there are writers, so taking your first steps can be daunting. Join our panel of award-winning writers and designers as they share their successes and struggles with getting a foot in the door of the industry. Whether you dream of writing the next big AAA game or an indie interactive novel, we’ve got the info to set you on the right path. Moderator: Patrick Coursey Panelists: Sande Chen, Jennifer Estaris, David Kuelz, Matthue Roth, Ant Tessitore

You can find other download options here. Patrick Coursey is a writer and narrative designer based out of Baltimore, Maryland. In 2015, he teamed up with Blindflug Studios as writer on the mobile roguelike, Cloud Chasers. The game received four awards including Grand Prize at European Indie Game Days and was an official selection of the Indie Arena at Gamescom. Before that he worked at Fourth Wall Studios in Los Angeles as a transmedia experience designer. He once again joined Blindflug Studios as a writer for their new game, Airheart. He infrequently tweets at @pjcoursey, but would like it if you followed him anyway. A writer and game designer, Sande Chen has over 15 years experience in the industry. Her first game writing credit was on the epic space-combat RPG Terminus which won 2 awards at the 1999 Independent Games Festival. She was later nominated for a 2007 Writers Guild of America award in Videogame Writing for the dark fantasy RPG The Witcher. She runs the WGAE Videogame Writers Caucus and is SIG leader of the IGDA Game Design SIG. Find her on Twitter @sandechen. Jennifer Estaris is a writer, game designer, and mother to a spinning 3 year old. She has worked on games for Nickelodeon, Disney, Tiltfactor, and Dreamworks, and is currently developing indie art games at her studio Astra Rise. Jennifer received her M.F.A. in fiction at Columbia University and why hasn’t my daughter stopped spinning? David Kuelz is the founder of Awkward Pegasus Studios, a writing and story consultancy for game developers. Since starting Awkward Pegasus in 2012, he has written and consulted for game developers nationwide and has led workshops on video game writing and narrative design all across the Northeast, including for the Gotham Writers' Workshop and Playcrafting. He’s currently designing the narrative for an unannounced RPG at Juncture Media. Matthue Roth is a game designer and writer on 30+ acclaimed and award-winning games for iOS and Android. From 2012-2015 he was lead game designer at Amplify, an educational games company that won awards from the iTunes Store, BAFTA, and Games for Change. Most recently his games swept the 2015 Serious Play Conference, earning 3 out of 4 gold medals awarded that year. He’s also the author of six novels, and the New Yorker called his writing “eerie and imaginative.” Ant Tessitore is currently working as creative lead on a to be announced TCG and freelancing as a names and flavor text writer for Magic: The Gathering, Ant Tessitore is an avid gamer, writer and narrative designer. Ant most recently worked on Oath of the Gatewatch, and has cards to be released in both Conspiracy: Take the Crown and this year’s Commander product. Ant has also written for Artist Noah Bradley’s The Sin of Man Project, weekly articles at Gathering Magic, and supplement products for Dungeons and Dragons.

GameACon 2016: Breaking Into Game Writing published first on https://superworldrom.tumblr.com/

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guitarpanda8 · 5 years ago

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A Big-Name Merger In Consumer Health Care - Seeking Alpha

Last Wednesday, Dec 19, pharmaceutical giants Pfizer, Inc. (PFE – Research Report) and GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK – Research Report) announced an agreement to merge their consumer health care divisions into a single entity. The joint venture will be owned 68% by GSK and 32% by Pfizer, with Pfizer appointing 3 of the 9 board members. The agreement gives GSK the right, after three years, to split the joint venture into stand-alone company, which will be traded on the UK stock exchange.

Consumer health care encompasses the over-the-counter products that so many of us rely on for day-to-day needs. GSK markets toothpaste through this division, including the international brands Sensodyne and Parodontax, as well as the popular Theraflu medication. Pfizer’s over-the-counter brands include Advil and Centrum, the world’s best-selling pain-killer and multivitamin. It’s a lucrative segment for both companies, with Pfizer recording $3.5 billion and GSK $9.2 billion in revenues from it in 2017. This suggests that the new venture will hit $12 billion or more in revenues right from the start.

Splitting the consumer health care divisions from the larger parent companies will allow both Pfizer and GSK to focus on core strengths moving forward. For Pfizer, that includes a wide array of ‘blockbuster’ prescription medications. Chances are, you’ve heard of (or maybe even used) some of these: Lipitor, Zithromax, Zoloft, Lyrica. Lipitor, for example, is a popular treatment for high cholesterol, and this author was recently prescribed Zithromax for a respiratory infection.

GSK’s primary revenue generator is vaccine production. The company manufactures and markets many of the regular vaccines that every parent is familiar with: the tetanus and diphtheria boosters, polio and pertussis shots, and even the flu shots that everyone updates every year. As a parent, I can attest to the ubiquity of GSK products when it’s time to renew the kids’ vaccinations.

Will the Analyst Reviews Turn Around?

Neither Pfizer nor GSK has shown great performance in the markets recently. Pfizer stock is somewhat moribund, turning down a bit at the end of last week after holding between $40 and $45 per share since August. GSK’s stock has been volatile for years, but it did get a boost right after the joint venture announcement. We can turn to the TipRanks database to see what the market analysts have to see about these companies, and try to divine their prospects for the future.

Pfizer, Inc. (PFE – Research Report)

Pfizer is the second largest publicly traded pharmaceutical company, with a market cap of $242 billion. As pointed out above, the company produces a large number of best-selling prescription meds, so it is not reliant on any one product for solvency.

Looking at PFE’s analyst reviews, we see an analyst consensus of ‘Hold,’ but it’s important to note the most recent review, a solid ‘Buy’ from Cantor Fitzgerald’s Louise Chen (Track Record & Ratings). She looked at this stock on Dec 20, the after the joint venture with GSK was announced, and set a $53 price target, giving a very bullish 26% upside to the stock.

Referring directly to the GSK agreement, Chen said, “We view the JV as financially and strategically beneficial to PFE, and a spin-out is what shareholders we have spoken with wanted to see. Furthermore, the underlying growth of PFE's key drugs and pipeline will be more evident without the Consumer Business. We think a greater appreciation for PFE's innovative medicines and pipeline should drive the stock higher.”

PFE currently holds a $44 average price, giving the stock a small 6% upside. I think it will be interesting to see how the price target moves in the coming weeks, when more analysts have had time to review the joint venture.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK – Research Report)

In London, GlaxoSmithKline’s stock jumped by more than 8% with news of the Pfizer joint venture. GSK also saw a boost – albeit a more modest one – on Wall Street Thursday. GSK is currently rated a ‘Moderate Buy’ on the analyst consensus, based on 1 ‘buy’ rating and 2 ‘holds,’ all given at least a week before the joint venture announcement. The stock’s average price target of $41 gives an 11% upside when compared to the $37 share price.

GSK’s most recent ‘buy’ rating came on Dec 11, from Peter Welford (Track Record & Ratings) of Jefferies. He gave the stock a $45 price target, suggesting a 21% upside from the current share price. In his comments, Welford based his bullish view on GSK entering “a period of sustained earnings momentum.”

The new joint venture may provide a solid basis for that view. Spinning off the consumer health care division will, by company estimates, save Glaxo more than $600 million per year, while the core vaccine division will continue to generate revenues.

The New Year will tell us if these two stocks are poised to change course for the better. Each has a recent ‘buy’ rating, and the combined venture on over-the-counter meds shows promise to streamline efficiency for both parents. The spinoff, with over $12 billion in potential revenues, will be the world’s largest provider of over-the-counter drugs and healthcare products, and both Pfizer and GSK will each have fingers in that cookie jar.

Keep your eyes open on both of these stocks; while the joint venture announcement came at an inopportune time – only a week before Christmas – to have an immediate effect on share price and market value, both PFE and GSK stand to gain as the news percolates out after the holidays.

Author: Michael Marcus

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