#must have toys 2018

[hometoursandotherstuff]

'Vallecitos' is a luxury earthship house built in 2018 in Taos, NM. It's been featured on Netflix, international TV and social media, among the pages of Forbes and AirBnB magazine, and many others, yet it's been on the market for almost 2 yrs. 2bds, 2ba, asking $825K + $20mo. HOA fee. Let's take a look inside.

So, the typically long earthship garden that is usually inside the house, is separate here, and like a greenhouse decorated with bottles in the pretty turquoise walls.

Food grows out here- I see lettuce, aloe vera.

And, look at this- bananas. Or are they plantains?

I must say that the living room is nice, but the dining area is a little tight.

We've seen some pretty primitive earthships before, but this actually looks like a home with beamed ceilings and quality glass doors and windows.

A real kitchen and it's very pretty. Love the turquoise cabinets.

It even has a pantry and laundry room.

Very nice bath and what looks like a real flushing toilet, not a composter.

Beautiful tile sink.

The secondary bedroom is lovely. It looks like a child's room and has plenty storage for toys, games and books. A desk faces the garden window.

As we can see, the garden runs the whole length of the large "ship."

The primary bedroom is nice.

It opens to the garden area.

Pretty en-suite. I would need something on that window, though.

Out on the patio they have a sauna.

Patio looking out over the 2.31 acre lot.

View of the back of th house with the sauna and patio.

Partial privacy wall around a deck.

Aerial view of the property shows grass and vegetation, but it's quite vast and empty.

Glamor shot of it at night.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/27-Earthship-Way-Taos-NM-87577/2061804094_zpid/?

[catastrophicalcat]

Catwoman's Love Interests, Ranked

No. 1. Batman. Predictable? Perhaps. Correct choice? Absolutely. They work purrfectly together. I may roll around to write a similar post for Bruce, but from Selina's perspective, he is an equal to her, values her independence, and helps her believe in herself.

(From the double date in Batman (2016) # 37, where Lois is wearing Selina's outfit)

No. 2-10. Selina herself. She is independent! But seriously, one of the things I loved the most from her 90s run was how not romance-focused she was! It was a lot of fun and refreshing to see female main character just not give a fuuuuck about romance.

(Look at her, just slapping this creep away as a squirrel laughs at him! From Catwoman (1993) #30).

No. 11. Christopher Castillo "Blondie". From Selina's adventures in Rome, the Blond was enamoured, charming, and helpful. Also, it wasn't clear if the attraction was truly reciprocal, or if Selina just got a fun vacation boy toy.

(Catwoman, When in Rome #6)

No. 12 Dean Hadley. I am not sure he really qualifies as a love interest, since I don't think that Selina was into him, but at least he died heroically trying to protect her.

(Can't compete with Batman, dies tragically, from Catwoman (2018) # 34)

No. 13 to 20. Selina on her own some more! Can't get enough of this girl on her own! Love the storyline where she unknowingly has a crush on a serial killer in a dog mask. You know what she did when she found out the truth about her crush? That's right, clawed the shit out of him!

(Catwoman (1993) #53. I think this storyline counts as her loving herself than being into this guy - she barely had any qualms about dumping him once she found out; none of that "but maybe I can fix him" for this cat!)

No. 21. The Riddler. Shocking choice, I know! But I'm thinking here of the Lonely City version - Batman is dead, time has passed, he made amends, they found each other. Doesn't work in other continuities, was fun here.

(Catwoman: Lonely City #3. The reveal that Eddie was a coke addict makes SO.MUCH.SENSE).

No. 22. James Thien. I guess he was fine. I didn't like it because her interest into him was really jarring - this was during the post-wedding break-up period when Selina was generally falling apart. But James was neither fish nor fowl. There wasn't enough development for her to be genuinely interested in him, and her interest was portrayed more like genuine interest than a random hook-up.

(Literally, I think that this is all the development there is! And then I don't remember what happened to him. Maybe he also died? That kind of seems to happen to her love interests a lot. Catwoman (2018) #12)

Nos. 22-90. Selina on her own some more! And Eiko. And others. Never enough of Selina being on her own! I also think that Eiko goes somewhere here probably, if not in my earlier "Selina on her own spot" - I just haven't read the New 52 run so I dunno. Other possible contenders in this range:

Onyx (but I don't think they had enough development)

The Trickster (Reddit tells me he's a Catwoman love interest but I don't remember it so it must have been neither good nor bad)

Spark (also new 52, so I dunno).

OK, this is where we get to bottom of the barrel, where unfortunately most other folks are. BTW, what's up with Selina having so many relationships with older mentor figures?

No. 91. Frank Baz. Some mafioso with whom Selina was hanging out in Italy. Ranked so low since he seems like a bad guy, there was a big age difference with her being really young, and he didn't do that much.

No. 91. Slam Bradley Sr. I think that Brubaker did a decent job making the romance between Selina and Slam Sr. work. I like how the run addressed how messy this relationship was, and how Slam was kind of preying on Selina's vulnerable emotional state. (Slam shouldn't have won that argument, but at least it was raised!) But unfortunately this is ranked so low since Slam becomes kind of a chump later on in the run and Selina's relationship with his son makes this very creepy.

(From Catwoman (2001) #17. Their relationship was actually pretty good in the beginning, but quickly got icky...)

No. 92. Wildcat/Ted Grant. I really like the backstory of Selina learning boxing from Wildcat. It's a sweet little bit setting up her eventual super-heroics, plus, Wildcat is awesome! He's a grumpy old man who is respected by everyone, even Batman (whom he also trained). Which is why I hated when Wildcat/Catwoman wrote her to have a crush on him. Gross! Did I mention that he's old?

(Catwoman/Wildcat #3. The art in this book is really 90s)

No. 92. Slam Bradley Jr. I totally get that hot people in costumes would have one night stands on rooftops after adrenaline rush situations. And the poor guy died right after sleeping with Selina! Nonetheless, ranked so low because it's sooo weird since she slept with his dad - which I think he knew - plus I'm pretty sure that their relationship started really antagonistic. Principles before hoes, bro! Also, not his fault but I don't like how he messed up Helena's paternity story some more.

(Catwoman (2001) #61. No idea why Selina tells the dad the story about how she banged his son?)

No. 93. Cat cult person who kidnapped Selina, dressed her up as princess Leia, and tried to marry her. Forgot this dude's name. Considering the stuff he did, he was a pretty nice dude. But - the stuff he did is pretty despicable!

(Catwoman #31. I really hated this storyline, so I feel like he should be lower, but I also really hated Stark and Valmont, so where can it go? Also not sure that kidnapping and forced marriage qualifies as a "love interest"; may rethink including him altogether but I also wanted to emphasize how much I don't like Stark or Valmont).

No. 94. Stark. Criminal who took Selina under his wing when she was still an underage sex worker, and slept with her. He's also a murderer. Pretty gross person overall, really creepy relationship.

(Selina's Big Score)

No. 95. Valmont. I really hate Valmont, OK? I wrote a whole giant post already about how much I hate him!

[tomssexdoll]

haii againn :> so this could be headcannons or whatever you think is best but like reader and bill who’ve been together since 2007 or 2008 and basically like their life throughout the years if that makes sense? so like reader isn’t apart of the band but they decide to join them on tour so them and bill don’t spend so much time apart and them and the rest of the band are super duper close friends too and then them spending time w bill and getting married around 2014 when they aren’t touring anymore yk and all the way up to 2024 (present)? this seems like a lot omg and confusing but we’re all delusional i’ll give u a kissy kiss

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Relationship headcannons Bill

NSFW CONTENTS MIXED IN!!!

2008

You and Bill first get together

Super shy at first

Boasts about you ALL the time

Brings you to band practice all the time

Walks you to school and back home

Eats you out and the tongue piercing hitting your clit is ADDICTING

2009

Super close

Brings you to band practice ofc

Loves when you spend time with Gustav, Tom and Georg, it makes him feel closer to you

Loves when you play with his dreads

LOVES cuddling you

could cuddle you all day if he could

Makes you breakfast in bed when he can

Gets you the best presents

2010

Takes you to the humanoid tour

Introduced you to the fans at the end of the concert

Talks about you non stop in interviews

Loves when you wash his hair in the shower

Teases you so hard

Talks about proposing to you to the guys all the time

2011-2013

Proposes to you

Showers you with gifts

especially when coming back from a tour

Loves to cook and clean with you

Still talks about you non stop in interviews

Smoking on the porch is a must every few nights

Cuddles with you and watches whatever movie you want

Date nights at home

Clubbing every 3 weeks

2014

The wedding happens

He cries when he sees you in your dress

Kissing you passionately when the priest says you can

Dances very dirty with you when you both get drunk

Before getting drunk he dances slowly with you, savouring the moment

Does the wedding garter toss (hehehe)

Fucks the SHIT out of you when you get home

Eats a lot of cake at the wedding

Finally buying your first house together

Lots of renovating

You love his blonde hair

You help him with touring a lot

You help him with music videos and cds

2015-2020

Closer then ever

Spend every day together

He loves taking you on cute dates

Gets you flowers every week

Sex is AMAZING

Cuddling every night

More renovations

You find out you're pregnant

Bill builds a nursery for you

you love the nursery and it brings you EVEN CLOSER

You give birth to a healthy baby girl in 2018

Super loving and caring

Helped you so much during pregnancy and after birth

Best father ever

Took a while off touring to help you and the baby

2021-2024

You had another baby

He loves taking the kids out

Dresses them in cute clothes

Super loving towards you

Still takes you out on cute dates

Makes Tom and the others babysit hehe

SEX IS STILL AMAZINGGGG

Comforts you when you express your insecurities after having kids

Reminds you how much he loves you and always will

Gets you flowers every week as usual

Lets you splurge on toys and clothes for the kids

Built a lot of things for the kids

Tom is the best uncle and gives the best presents

Cuddles every night after putting the kids to bed

He cleans and you cook

tags: @tomscumdump @itsmealaiah @tomscumdoll @charliesgoodboy @20doozers @syylss @ge-billsgf @ballhair @miyukafujii @tomkaulitzloverr

[electricfied-wolf]

So... you've been reblogging a lot of Starlight Express onto my dash and I feel like it's about time I ask what it's about? What I'm picking up is that it's... humanoid trains?

Whatever it is I must admit it's piqued my curiosity

OHHHH BOY YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY AUTISM CARD I LOVE TO TALK ABOUT STARLIGHT EXPRESS. Ooookay, there's a lot to talk about, especially because a new non-replica production like JUST opened in London. I feel like I'm gonna ramble a lot so we're gonna put it under the cut and I'm just gonna blab until I feel I've explained it well enough. First of all I should note that I am explaining just off the top of my head, if you'd like more info the Starlight Express wiki is run by some very committed folks and as far as I know every word on that wiki is true. Also if you'd like more photos you're gonna have to go there bc GUESS WHO LEARNED THE LIMIT FOR PHOTOS IN A SINGLE TUMBLT POST IS 30? ANYWAY ONTO MY RAMBLE!!!! And be warned, it WILL BE VERY LONG. CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK.

What is Starlight Express?

Starlight Express (often abbreviated to Stex by the fans) is a musical produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber (yes the CATS guy) that revolves around a child's toy trains "coming to life" and having a big ol' dramatic race. They've got an underdog, a couple bad guys, train god and romance. Pretty much everything. Most productions are more song filled than dialogue filled. It has its roots in Thomas & Friends and some of the earliest stuff had a Cinderella type of thing going on (not surprising I'm sure), the plot is actually pretty easy to follow once you get used to it. Starlight Express is performed SOLELY on roller skates (not counting lndn24's scooters for the Trax and Control) for the entire duration! And in such heavy costumes too! The show has been performed since 1984 and has absolutely ZERO signs of stopping as the Bochum, Germany production is still being performed and as I stated above, there is now a non-replica production running at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in London. And if you don't know what that term (non replica) means, it essentially means they are not using the traditional costumes for the show that John Napier designed and are taking quite a few liberties with a newer plot and characters to make the show something much more unique as compared to its replica counterparts.

An older version of Rusty and Pearl in the John Napier style (left) VS. Rusty in the style of the London 2024 production standing with ALW (right) _ I specify 2024 London as the show was originally produced in London but also got revised so there's like three London Stex productions I could be talking abt lol, though the costumes have gone through some pretty drastic changes even in the replica productions.

Electra's more recognizable costume (aka the more compact mohawk version of red/blue Electra) used up until the rehaul in 2018, and the one currently used in Bochum's performance of the show (aka used from 2018-now). The same character and both replica, but still different! Over the course of the many years these trains have shared our earth, I'd say that Greaseball and Rusty are amongst the few that haven't changed that massively over the course of the show (again, NOT counting the current non-rep). This show has indeed graced the US and was even performed on Broadway! Unfortunately, us Americans are really really boring apparently because the show (while still wildly successful) did not stick around here in the states. It is still however beloved by many and that is the sole reason why it has stood to be seen for 40 years: people can say the show was made on drugs and that its "weird" all they want, but Starlight Express has a bigger community than you'd think, and it is incredibly well loved by those in the community. We are VERY devoted to our trains. Despite everything though, it has never gotten a pro-shot and the only fully versions available for streaming (...in terms of official audio for official streaming) on places like youtube and spotify are the original 1984 London Cast Recording and "The New Starlight Express", aka the revised London production's album released in 1993. There is also the english and german version's of Bochum Starlight Express' "Ich Bin Ich" otherwise know as "I Am Me", but no other parts of that production have been released for streaming. You can technically stop here and just go on to the wiki and stuff but if you wanna spend like an hour listening to my infodump I AM going to keep going.

The Characters

Before I touch on the story (a much shorter section I assume) I feel it is important to explain the characters, as there are a LOT and they change depending on each production and long story short yes I am nowhere dear done with this post. The characters can be broken up into groups of which I'll introduce them by. I also cannot really do London 24's characters which I wish I could bc I'm dead obsessed w/ it but it literally just opened a little while ago so the only sharable photos of other characters I got are fuzzy and from the megamixes or backstage pics. So unfortunately no cameos from those guys in this post but trust me THE WEMBLEY PARK PRODUCTION IS SO GOOD. Uhm anyways. First I'll mention the Trax/Racing Marshals, no speaking roles and very simple costumes compared to the other trains. They're simply there to wave the flags for the races and perform other tiny tasks to move the show along, as well as doing some very cool stunts that the other performers cannot do due to the absurd weight of the main costumes. They're just as important as everyone else!

The Marshals (Bochum 2016) *note, I'm mainly going to use Bochum photos to show off the costumes because they're just usually better quality The Humans: Usually disembodied voices (with exception from two productions) our only humans are a little kid named Control, and their mom who is simply known as Mom/Control's Mom and also has an even smaller role than her child as she only comes in at the introduction to put Control to bed. Control is OBSESSED with trains which grants us the plot of this musical, over the course of the show they order the trains around and narrate the races, but (up until recently) typically don't play an active role in terms of properly interacting with the trains. They are, as their name suggests, the Control for the trains. In Bochum's performance 2018 and onward Control mentions having a grandmother who is hard of hearing, but to my knowledge said grandma is only brought up in that specific production. The National/Competing Engines: For pretty much every production excluding WP's, the non-main character racing competitors have been international trains from across the world. However their names and some of their designs have been changed over time, and the French engine even switched genders in the 2018 Bochum rehaul. I am excluding the doubles from the tours because this'll take all day if I don't. _______ The French engine- Essentially from the beginning up to 2018, Bobo the TGV. In/after 2018 in Bochum, Coco the Eurostar. Arguably the most changed of the nationals, originally a male character (Bobo) she was changed to be a female and even given a blue color scheme which Bobo usually never had as he was typically seen with orange colors in Bochum.

(Bobo (Bochum) and Coco) _______ The Japanese Engine: Originally Hashamoto (misspelling of Hashimoto but technically that's his official name), later changed to Nintendo in 1992 for all english language productions but still Hashamoto in Germany, and from 2018 onward in Bochum known as Manga. All three are labeled as Shinkansen bullet trains.

(Hashamoto (Bochum), Nintendo, and Manga) _______ The Russian Engine: Turnov the trans siberian express has literally just been Turnov this whole time and really he's hardly changed aside from his costume having to have its chest symbol changed due to obvious reasons. This poor guy has suffered greatly due to political stuff even all the way back in 1987, though I will avoid getting into that here.

Turnov (Bochum 1991), Turnov (Bochum 2018, ft. Manga) _______ The German Engine: Weltschaft originally, later named Ruhrgold, the german engine is the InterCity Express (ICE). Like Turnov he hasn't really gone through many major changes other than the original switch from Weltschaft to Ruhrgold, though the two are presented with very contrasting personalities.

Weltschaft (Bochum 1991, ft. C.B.), Rurhgold (Bochum 2018, ft. Espresso) _______ The Italian Engine: ESPRESSO! He's a fun one, very similar to Bobo in that they're both pretty flamboyant european engines. Not really similar to Coco though. Espresso's a silly fella, flirts with the audience sometimes. His design has also been pretty consistent.

Espresso (Bochum 1988), Espresso (Bochum 2021) _______ The British Engine: Our pathetic failure king <3, aka the engine that literally never races as he usually breaks down before he's meant to race. Like every time it's got to be one of the most consistent plot points across 40 years of showtime. Even through three different transformations this british loco cannot escape it. Originally named City of Milton Keynes, later Prince of Wales upon the opening of the broadway production, and in 2018 hit the stage as Brexit. Yes, you heard me. They named the British national engine Brexit, and no none of us are particularly proud of that but it is how it is. At least he's got some charm!

No images of Milton are available atm, Prince of Wales (Las Vegas, 1993), Brexit (Bochum, 2018) _______ OKAY WE'RE DONE WITH NATIONALS. We can talk about the important ones now.

So next I'll move onto our main trio of engines. Rusty, Greaseball, Electra. Lots of design altercations over the years but no name changes and basically no role changes. However, the most recent production involves a female and wlw Greaseball as well as a canon they/them Electra! We'll go engine by engine, talk about our trademark "old steamer", and then I'll move onto the cars. _______ Greaseball, the world racing champion of Union Pacific: Heavily greaser based with muscles that make coaches and freight cars alike swoon, Greaseball is a black and yellow diesel and one of the antagonists of our plot. He's the world racing champion at the start of the show. Dating Dinah (both at the beginning and by the end despite some issues) the dining car, VERY proud of himself and pretty damn self absorbent in pretty much every production. He is also NOT that nice. He was pretty terrible in the very original plot back in the day BUT DON'T FEAR! They very quickly edited those plot points and made him less terrible and more of just a really pompous jerk. Bochum GB is actually such a goofy guy by the end. His female counterpart in the new production doesn't lack her meanness either! She's just as big of a jerk but also just as big of a softie by the end of the show. Truly, the same in every universe. Being a girl and a lesbian does not destroy her asshole tendencies and I am glad for that. Let gay girls be jerks too!!!

Greaseball (London 1984, ft. Pearl, Dinah, and Ashley), Greaseball (Bochum, 2021, ft. Caboose)

_______ Electra, the engine of the future: QUEEREST PRE-2024 STEX CHARACTER WHOOOO? Despite never having been fully confirmed (at least up until recent) to be any specific non-cishet identity, Electra the electric engine has been an icon for the girls and the gays since day one. With he/him pronouns but a slightly feminine name and physical demeanor, it's clear he was made to represent a less traditional form of gender presentation as he has been played by actresses in the past too, though primarily has been portrayed by male actors. Andrew Lloyd Webber even once referred to Electra's main song, AC/DC, as "transgender electro-pop". Not to mention the casting notice for the 2019 Bochum cast having described Electra as 'gender fluid / androgynous'. Electra has a pack of "components" aka his freight car entourage who follow him around and sing his praises. He is also one of the antagonists, though antagonist is a bit of a strong word as he isn't as hardcore as Greaseball or our villainous railcar. He has more beef with the diesel than our main character as well, stealing his girl and the show at every opportunity. And also aggressively zapping him as often as possible. The only thing they have in common is that they're full of themselves, they want Rusty out of the race, and they want to win. No photos for Electra I gave him his spotlight earlier in this post. Though do remember that the newest version of Electra (got a little sleek helmet instead of hair, super pointy costume, blue and silver colors) is NOT he/him, they are they/them and so is their current main actor! Electra is accompanied by an entourage of "components", aka shiny and fancy freight cars that bend to the engine's every whim. Pre-2018 the components are Wrench the repair truck, Joule the Dynamite Truck, Volta the freezer truck, Krupp the armaments truck, and Purse the money truck. Post-2018 the components are Wrench, Volta, Joule, and Killerwatt the security truck, Krupp and Purse are no longer present. It is also important to note that pre-2018 Volta is portrayed as very feminine meanwhile post-2018 Volta is meant to be much more masculine. No photos for Electra they got photos earlier in this post and I'm trying to save myself from hitting the photo limit. Same for Rusty. _______ Rusty, the steam train: WOOO WOOO! WOOO WOO! Say hello to the titular bitchular that everyone loves. Seriously I've never seen a Rusty hater. Our main character and a timeless gem of the show, he's a pathetic wet cat, he's rusted and falling apart, and he meets god. The perfect man! Rusty obviously has the greatest arc over the entire story, he's our underdog and incredibly charming in all his forms. Overtime some actors have played him up as sassier while others amped up the wet cat energy (Looking at you, Javeen), but no matter how he's played you will feel sorry for him and likely fall in love with him. He's so overconfident at the start but is very quickly brought down by the other engines, fear not though, because he's the main guy!! I'll yap more about his whole thing in the story section. _______ The old steam engine: Had to make the title gender neutral w/ these guys bc GUESS WHO ELSE GOT GIRL'D IN 2018! Poppa, or in terms of Bochum 2018 and onward, Momma, is Rusty's mentor and the only other steam engine in the show. Quite stubborn, preachy in more ways than one, but ultimately good at heart. They're the engine that pushes Rusty to race and encourages Rusty to seek faith in the Starlight Express (Eyyyy title drop!). Most of this engine's role is story related too so I'll save that for then.

Poppa (Bochum, 1997, ft. Rusty), Momma (Bochum, 2018, ft. Dustin) _______ The freight: For the convience of I'm afraid to hit the word count, we're gonna lump the cars into whole sections. Minus one specific member of the freight due to plot significance. Anyway the freight!! Lots of people are big fans of them and I can't blame them. Though they went through a few changes here and there, they're usually a pretty consistent group (once again, minus 2024). From 1984 to 2003 they contained the boxcars aka the Rockies, then productions between 2003 and 2018 included the Hip Hoppers, with the 2018 rehaul marking the return of the Rockies to the show. All productions included Flat-Top the brick truck and Dustin the big hopper, and while Dustin does play a significant role in the show...there's a certain sixth member that plays the greatest role of all the freight. _______ The Red Caboose: Though his Bochum rehaul design spells out "brake van" on his shoulders (even though brake vans aren't cabooses, rant for another day) and he's gone by the Red Caboose for far longer, most know this beloved boy as CB...buuut the version that is widely marked as CB isn't technically CB! That was his original name in regards to the radio codes he used throughout the show- "10-4, smokey bear!" -C.B., 1984 "10-7, gone to heaven!" -Included in the segment after the first run of the final race -but his original name was dropped upon the entry to Broadway, from then on he was just the caboose, and he continues to be so to this day! No matter the production...or at least the ones he's in, he sticks out from the start as one of the guys to keep your eye on. And I'm sure you caught that, that's right, he's not even in every production! Though he is in most of them! His role is another plot heavy one so I'm sure you get the deal by now.

CB (London, 1984), Caboose (Bochum, 2006) _______ The Coaches: The girls, the lasses, the women, etc etc!!! Full of lovely ladies (again, not mentioning 2024's changes) and honestly the true stars of the show in my eyes. In this group is where you'll find our other main character! But would you believe they've also undergone swaps? Originally it was Pearl the observation car/first class carriage, Dinah the dining car, Ashley the smoking car, and Buffy the buffet car, and it remained that way for a long time...but there was an odd period in which Ashley was replaced with a sleeping car named Duvay, though Duvay didn't last very long in the grand scheme of things. Upon the 2018 rehaul, Buffy and Ashley were replaced with Carrie the luggage van and Belle the bar car. Belle actually shares her name with a coach that was present all the way up into the broadway production, though not really used afterwards. Belle the sleeping car was a companion to Poppa and while not part of the main quartet of coaches would usually appear with the other girls for Girls Rolling Stock! Broadway did OG Belle dirty but that's another rant for another day. Again, for simplicity's sake, we'll only individually cover the gals you absolutely gotta know about. _______ Pearl the observation car/first class carriage: Pearl girl!!! Very near and dear to me, our secondary main character and Rusty's love interest. The label for what type of coach she is varies from production to production, all you need to know for certain is she's a super shiny new coach and Rusty is absolutely INFATUED with her...but she's her own coach too, and she's not as quick to settle as he is. She makes it very clear that she wants her choices to be her own and she's not going to let someone else make those choices for her no matter what. She has her own little arc too. While in older productions Pearl is painted as being new but still having an established bond with Rusty, newer ones (aka bochum and london's current shows) paint Pearl as a completely new coach who doesn't know anyone and literally just got here, making her and Rusty's relationship a bit more fleshed out...but we'll discuss that more later!

Pearl (Bochum, 2011), Pearl (Bochum, 2019) _______ Dinah the dining car: HARD to not just ramble about how much I adore her. I am her she is me we are the same person, ESPECIALLY her 2024 variant same taste in women fr. A southern accented (usually) dining car, Dinah is Greaseball's partner with honestly a very inspiring little arc of her own, she's emotional and devoted to her partner but is not to be mistaken as someone who can't stick up for herself, because she makes it crystal clear that she's not someone to be pushed around. She was given even more of a powerful and independent personality in the 2018 rehaul/london revival, but she's always had fight in her from the very beginning!

Dinah (Bochum, 1993), Dinah (Bochum, 2018) AND WHOOPS TOO LONG OF A POST FOR TUMBLR. I'M GONNA HAVE TO PUT THE PLOT IN THE REBLOGS HOLD ON TIGHT. EDIT: I AM GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A SEPARATE POST NOT A REBLOG BECAUSE TUMBLR WON'T SAVE THE REBLOG AS A DRAFT.

[flammentanz]

“Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes” (“Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace”) (1962)

Christopher Lee: Sherlock Holmes Hans Söhnker: Professor James Moriarty Thorley Walters: Dr. Watson

Holmes: “Aha, our famous archaeologist.” Moriarty: “And our eminent criminologist.” Holmes: “It is already in the Times that the necklace of Cleopatra will be auctioned at Mosley's on Monday. It will be priceless.” Moriarty: “I assume so. To be honest, Mr. Holmes, I had doubts as to whether you would accept my invitation.” Holmes: “My dear Professor, I do not like to forego - how do you say - the pleasure of your company.” Moriarty: “It is mutual, Mr. Holmes. It is a real pity that you have such a bad opinion of me.” Holmes: “I have nothing against you personally, Professor. On the contrary, the inventiveness of your imagination has often impressed me deeply. Just today at Scotland Yard. A brilliant comedy. Masterful. And now, Professor?” Moriarty: “Once again you have guessed my thoughts, Mr. Holmes. I really intended to make you a proposal.” Holmes: “Really? Take a seat.” Moriarty: “Thank you. A partnership, Mr. Holmes.” Holmes: “A partnership, Professor?” Moriarty: “Let’s say 6,000 a year, and a share of the profits, of course.” Holmes: “In my experience, murder is not profitable.” Moriarty: “You underestimate me, Mr. Holmes. We are both men of logic and of considerable ability, but we have wasted our abilities fighting each other. And that, my dear Holmes, is illogical. We should combine our talents. Such a partnership would be irresistible.” Holmes: “Quite right, dear Professor.” Moriarty: “You accept my offer?” Holmes: “It all sounds very tempting indeed, but all I can say is, regrettably, I must continue to waste my energies. At the moment I have only one ambition - to see you hang.” Moriarty; “A most regrettable decision, Mr. Holmes.” Holmes: “This is yours? It looks so familiar.” Moriarty: “Pretty clumsy, isn’t it? Excuse this little toy. Just a minor defect.” Holmes: “It can happen, Professor.” Moriarty: “Your choice, Mr. Holmes?” Holmes: “Would you also like to whistle, Professor?” Watson: “Oh dear! I hope we don’t get into trouble with the police, Holmes, because of the whistles. Still a good idea, eh?” Holmes: “Stunning, dear Watson.”

Notes:

Christopher Lee is dubbed by Harry Wüstenhagen (1928 - 1999) who had a very successful career from the fifties to the early nineties. He was particularly popular through several appearances in the very popular Edgar Wallace films. Wüstenhagen worked extensively as a voice actor. Inter alia he dubbed three other Sherlock Holmes actors: Ian Richardson in “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and in “The Sign of Four”, Nicol Williamson in “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution” and John Neville in “A Study in Terror”. He even dubbed the title role in “The Great Mouse Detective”.

Hans Söhnker (1903 - 1981) had a very sucessful career on stage, film and theater that span five decades. In his early films he was often cast as charming young man - mostly very loveable but sometimes also a philanderer. In his later years Söhnker played loveable father figures and was very successful in various television series.Only after his death did it become known that he had given refuge to Jews on his property during the Third Reich. For this, he was honored as a "Righteous Among the Nations" in 2018.

[captainmantine00]

Feel like I need to give Steven universe another chance, I feel like I was too harsh on it for many years.

I'll be honest, I never really got into Steven universe, during the time it started airing, I was growing into my "all modern cartoons are dumb" phase due to me beginning to leech of other people's opinions on the internet and thinking what they said was right. Along with me having a very skewed perception of queer people due to being exposed to a lot of really edgy memes as a teenager, although I would be there would be some instances where I've given some shows a chance like star vs., the loud house, and some others that I'm probably not thinking about although I do know that I fell out of watching modern cartoons again out fear of being judged.

that phase of my life would finally go away when I hit my early 20's and overtime I would begin re watching many cartoons I haven't seen in years, from classic cartoons from the 1930's to 1940's and even watching one show in particular that I never saw, that being the 2018 She Ra reboot, A year before watching she ra I began learning a lot and becoming more aware about various issues that queer and other marginalized groups of people were facing and learned to take them much more seriously, I was also trying to heal from a lot of bad personal experiences that I would prefer to not speak about here. watching She Ra was a massive part of my egg cracking phase, it was one of those things that made me realize that I was very fascinated with lesbian/wlw relationships, quite literally cheering for catra and adora to kiss in the lips, which is another thing I did when I first saw princess bubblegum and marceline kiss in the series finale for adventure time back when it came out. The show would inspire me to have a lesbian relationship between two of my original characters, Melanie and Grizzly, something that has stuck to this day.

While writing those two characters, I had a bit of a panic in terms of what my true gender identity was, especially because I began to realize I felt a similar way about myself in a similar way that Grizzly felt about her self, for context, Grizzly is a trans woman, so I ended up spending a couple of months trying to unpack my own identity and trying plenty of labels and rethinking my entire sense of fashion. Thus leading me figure out who I truly am, a non binary trans woman and also a pan lesbian. Which was around 2 years ago. and even with in the span of those two years and even this year, I have changed so much as a person, I've gotten back into so many things that I have suppressed for so many years (examples: Minions and ugly dolls, specifically the original toy line, not the movie) thanks to the encouragement of my own partner who I have happily been in a T4T relationship in for the past year, and within the span of that year, I feel like I've grown so much more rapidly and healed from my past experiences much better since we both fell in love. (also dear if you're reading this I love you so much and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life, you are the best human being I've ever met)

Now you must be wondering what the hell this has to do with Steven universe, basically, what I am trying to say is that with the immense amount of personal growth I've gone through, and how much I've become more comfortable with liking things I was a afraid to for so many years, I feel like Steven universe would be symbolic of that growth I've gone through in a way, that and of course I want to give the show another chance in general, now of course, I am aware that it is far from perfect, but it is something that I've grown to respect for how much it paved to way for LGBT+ representation in animation and just having an overall impact on cartoons that we are still seeing today. That show is basically has the same level of impact that shows like Adventure Time, G4 My Little Pony, and Gravity Falls for how influential it is to the current landscape of cartoons and the community that we see today. Also from what little songs that I've heard from the show, they are really good, especially stronger than you, not only that song is really good, but also it just brings me back to my undertale phase when that game was at the peak of it's popularity.

Okay, I feel like I've said everything I've had to say about steven universe, I not really sure how much the show is going to fully pull me into it, but I still think it's worth a try. Although I do have one more question to ask to those that see this post, has anyone else gone through a similar phase of hating steven universe like I did?

[lulu2992]

Exploration of the now-offline Far Cry 5 official websites

Part 7: Toys - Weapons (America)

Recovered content

On July 13th, 2017, a few weapons were introduced on the American website:

BASEBALL BAT "American Grown Pine" Good for: Getting up close and personal When Eden’s Gate throws you a curveball, be ready to knock it, and a few enemies, out of the park.

AR-C "Proven In Combat" Good for: Getting the job done It's not pretty, not a collector's item, and is hardly a family heirloom. But when the tough get going the AR-C gets to mowing.

DYNAMITE "Boom" Good for: Demolition work Clear a path through anything in your way... vehicles, buildings, or cultists.

M1911 PISTOL "Standard Issue" Good for: Taking care of business Happiness is a slick 1911, loads of ammo, and plenty to shoot. Become one with the gun and enjoy the great design that has fought the good fight for freedom for more than a century. Old but reliable, the 1911 is man’s other best friend.

SLEDGEHAMMER "American Steel" Good for: Smash Watch where you are swinging this thing, unless you’re aiming for The Father. Designed to smash through anything in its way, your sledge will be put to good use against the cult.

D2 SHOTGUN "Stopping Power" Good for: A hole in one When you must inflict as much damage as possible unto your foe in close combat, the best remedy is to put a massive hole in their abdomen. Accept no substitutes.

Later, on or before March 27h, 2018, the Toys section was moved to its own page and introduced by this:

GAME INFO You’ll have access to weapons and accessories throughout the game by meeting characters, building your resistance and progressing in the world. Additional customization options will give you the freedom to create weapons that fit your personality and playstyle.

In addition to the weapons that had already been introduced (minus the sledgehammer, which disappeared), these were added:

ROCK "Made You Look" Good for: Causing a Distraction Throwing your enemy off their game hardly involves causing a scene—just toss a rock … or a few.

MP40 "Spray Lead" Good for: Leveling the Field No novice to short-range combat, this machine pistol has been tried and tested.

MBP .50 "Ol’ Faithful" Good for: Getting Out of a Jam This small piece of historical steel is ideal for popping off a few quick rounds without waking up too many neighbors.

GRENADE "Fire in the Hole" Good for: Flushing Out the Vermin Got some cult members holed up? Just toss one of these in and watch them come running.

COMPOUND BOW "Clean Kill" Good for: Eagle-Eye Accuracy Whatever game you’re hunting—be it cult or critter—accept only the highest standard among the most formidable sportsmen.

The page looked like this at least until May 18th, 2019.

Commentary

So we could have had a sledgehammer as a melee weapon in Far Cry 5! It still exists in the files, but it’s not available in the game (unless you have mods)...

Under the cut are all the available source files, saved directly from the website, of the images you see in the screenshots:

[stormxpadme]

Whumptober 2024 No. 23 - "I'm doing this for you."

06/04/2018

She should have binged the new Love Island season; that would have killed just as many brain cells as this disaster.

After Saskia had unsuccessfully tried for minutes to teach the beginner groping at her how to kiss, she discreetly avoided that clumsy mouth by leaning her head back against the brick wall behind her – rolling her eyes inconspicuously –, to allow the boy to continue his fumbling for the time being. Maybe he was better at that.

And here this whole thing had started so promising ... Only a few guys that age knew how exciting it was for a woman to be pushed against the nearest wall to get started ... But that was pretty much the only positive move Saskia's latest toy had come up with so far.

Still, she wanted to give the guy another chance. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been worth the effort to lure him here to the mansion from the other side of town, even all the way down to the basement, without anyone noticing.

Except for Andréo, of course; Saskia had made very sure, he'd see them. Never let that ass think, Saskia was still pining for him in any way. His upset look alone when the Frost Ltd. football team's Captain, of all people, had dragged Saskia along into the gym, drooling, was worth this somewhat shallow show.

Since the sweaty hands of said captain weren't much good for much more than his mouth though, Saskia decided to take the lead. The boy must be good for something, given his impressive reputation ... With one hand clenching around a bar of the adjacent wall bars and the other pressed against the wall, she pulled herself up in a flash, somersaulting over her rather bewildered-looking lover's head, and strolled toward one of the mat trolleys in the corner with swinging hips, throwing a provocative glance with one eyebrow raised over her shoulder, leisurely pulling down the zipper on the side of her top. “Hey, Mister Anabolic 2018, how about we shake things up a bit?”

“Whatever you got in mind, sweet cheeks,” her enthusiastic partner grinned, also quite busy already, peeling off his clothes. At least the bared sight of this Dorito body was enough to get the adrenaline pumping through Saskia's veins again quickly enough ...

Maybe there was a thing or two she could still teach the guy ... With a scissor jump, she swung herself onto the top mat, not without dropping her skirt to the ground, and crossed her legs, bracing herself back on her hands, lewdly biting her lower lip. She gave this somewhat cognitively limited pretty boy exactly two and a half seconds before he'd have fallen for her all the way. “Come play.”

'Hey, Sassy, kid ...'

Her guy hadn't even made it to the trolley yet, despite his visible haste, when a very familiar voice in her head had Saskia close her eyes in annoyance. Why couldn't you ever get five damn minutes of peace and quiet in this house? Much longer, this equally sobering as necessary interlude here wouldn't take anyway, considering how things were going … Reluctantly, she concentrated on the weak mental connection that had developed between her best friend and her in the course of the years. 'Not now, Red. I'm a little ... busy.'

The silence lasted only a moment, but when you'd been having such telepathic conversations for almost two decades, you noticed even such brief irregularities. Especially when they were becoming more frequent recently. For a split second, Noemi's presence in Saskia's mind felt as if it had just become a few degrees colder in the room – a feeling that Saskia, thanks to her own mutation, actually only knew from stories. Again this anomaly in Noemi's soul, which her friend couldn't explain herself, which she kept on dismissing as a lack of focus, and Saskia had given up after asking twice ... But by now, it was really becoming conspicuous … At least if one would have had more than half a brain cell of attention to spare themselves right now. 'Yep, I know.' As soon as she raised her mental voice again, Noemi, luckily, sounded the same as ever, which, right now mostly meant mild amusement at having interrupted things. 'And so does Dad.'

'Fuck!' Saskia opened her eyes with a startle, forgetting any mother hen instinct towards her best friend for good, for now, and stopped the guy cowering between her legs with a firm grip on his shoulder-length hair in his efforts. Those weren't any more interesting than the ones before anyway.

'You got two minutes, kiddo,' Noemi informed her amicably. 'One if he takes the elevator.'

“Hide, now!“ Saskia jumped down from her little perch with gritted teeth and reached for her skirt.

“Okay…” Her guy scratched his head in confusion. “Not something I'm into usually but …”

“Get in there, move!” Saskia roughly pushed the young man towards the equipment garage. “Unless you want to get castrated by an adamantium claw.”

“Hey, you said no one would catch us here!” The guy reluctantly let himself be shoved into the dark, musty room, but immediately turned around with an offended grimace when Saskia let go of him. “Why's it so cold in here suddenly anyway?”

Saskia didn't even bother to hide her growing frustration as she yanked the roller shutter down with a single strong movement. Jesus, the guy didn’t just suck in bed but was obviously allergic to brains, too. “Just stay quiet. I'll get you when it's safe.”

She only just managed to pull her top back over her head before an electronic beep from the door lock revealed that someone with far higher access authorization than hers was bypassing her blocking code.

Completely unimpressed by Saskia's innocent smile, Logan entered the hall, an obligatory cigar in the corner of his mouth. He sniffed the air briefly and grimaced in disgust. “Who is it this time?”

“Who?” Saskia tried to play dumb – as if she didn’t know that thanks to his feral senses, Logan could tell exactly that whatever had taken place in here until a few seconds ago had definitely not had anything to do with working out.

Instead of answering, Logan extended his claws from between his knuckles with a quiet snikt and headed straight for the garage that Saskia was leaning against so demonstratively.

He fortunately didn't need to make the ungraceful effort of fighting Saskia for the gate, because just a few moments later, something the size of an ant in humanoid form crawled out of the latter's keyhole and tried, visibly panicked, to climb down the slippery metal panels, almost breaking its neck in the process. After Saskia had had no choice but to catch her guest and put them down on the ground, mainly because she had a funny feeling that Emma would not have found it particularly amusing to lose one of her students in this exceptionally stupid way, her would-be lover rather assumed his normal height again, his face a bright red. Visibly extremely intimidated by the sight of one of the most famous, lethal members of the X-Men and their most effective weapons clearly pointing in his direction. “Uh ... Never mind me, alright? Guess I better go ...”

“You stay,” Saskia hissed, maybe with a little more dramatic anger than necessary given her waning interest in the guy. But this was about principles. “And you – would you mind staying the hell out of my business? You're not my father!”

“Right. If your father was here now, he'd send you to your room for the rest of the year while the others train for emergencies. With your math books.” Logan stopped with a frown, picking up a narrow leather belt from the floor with the tip of one claw, and took a closer look at the swanky Frost Ltd. logo on the white buckle before throwing it at Saskia's now very pale lover. “I'll take that back. Your father won't lock you up. Your mother will.”

Saskia gladly took the perfect chance to deflect, with her hands on her hips. “You and your stupid fighting! Emma is totally cool!”

“Sure she is.” Logan took a drag of enjoyment from his cigar before he kept crossing the room, heading for Saskia's now completely frozen lover, unhurried, but also not stopping when she came to stand in front of the poor boy with her arms crossed. “When she's not busy trying to take over the world or sending our children to the Morlocks, that is. Move. Tortilla chest and I got unfinished business.“ He gestured to the side with one clawed hand.

“Forget it,” Saskia snarled. “Get out of here! This lame show of yours is getting more ridiculous every time. This is my life! I can do what I want and sleep with whoever I want.”

“You're sixteen. You got no idea what you want,” Logan kindly informed her. ”And if you call what you just did sleeping with someone, I'll have to check the sex ed curriculums with Ororo.” But in the end, the thought of entering the diplomatic ring with Emma because of a sudden lack of more or less elementary body parts on one of her students, seemed too troublesome for Logan after all. When Saskia's lover headed for the door, visibly scared to death, white as a sheet, his two sizes too-small shirt soaked with sweat, Logan made no move to follow the guy. Only when the massive metal door halves had closed behind the young man again did he sheath his claws, with half a grin that only grew at Saskia's disgruntled pout. With another deep drag on his cigar, he assumed one of his favorite postures for such conversations, squatting low, and winked up at Saskia, far too charmingly to keep up the irritation for long. “That's Frost Ltd. crossed off the list, too. None of their pupils will dare come here anytime soon. You keep this up, you'll either have to expand your hunting ground to other genders, or your search radius. You can turn off the air conditioning now, by the way, Ice Princess.” Logan shivered visibly but made no move to leave until they had resolved the last awkward encounter of this kind. Sometimes enhanced healing powers could be a real nuisance.

Mostly to annoy her favorite uncle a little further, Saskia thrust her jaw forward, ready to fight. While in the end, sure, she was not entirely unhappy to be rid of that guy … She simply had to deal with being patronized by her own parents often enough already. “I don't suppose it ever entered your mind that I might actually want some fun for a change, did it? You could just ask before you scare off everyone I invite into my bedroom.”

“What you do in your bedroom is your parents' problem, not mine,” Logan replied, unfazed, with a demonstrative gesture across the room. “And whatever you choose as your poison to drown your frustration over your ex out, is yours. I'm only here to make sure it doesn't end up on the bulletin board or in the mutant gossip columns across the globe. You think this is fun for me? I'm doing this for you. That said, if you're so desperate to publicly castrate Andréo every week over, at least pick people who've learned as much as playing with themselves yet. Or just turn to drinking. Cheaper, less hassle, and you're numb for far longer. Besides, you keep running into my claws in training when you waste yourself every night on people who mostly want to brag about your naked tits on social media. If that's what you're after, I've been told they pay quite well for that on certain online portals these days.”

“Fuck y...” Saskia stopped her rude insult just in time when rescue in the shape of a com signal from Logan's wristwatch echoed through the hall. If she was honest, she was glad she hadn't said it. Even though Logan was pushing his limits for her taste, about making sure Saskia could quickly get rid of the people again that she attracted as a means to an end every now and then ... This rough guy was far too dear to her heart for a real fight. Today, too, she was relieved when Hank called Logan in to tell him something about the new student. She also made very sure to apologetically throw her arms around her favorite uncle's neck before he could leave the room. “It's not gonna happen again.”

“Don't make promises you can't keep, Ice Princess.” Logan gave her a quick kiss on the temple, a far less wordy assurance than the somewhat rough advice before, that he did indeed understand why she needed these little adventures – and that only had very little to do with excess hormones – and that maybe, he didn't mind anyway if a certain winged teammate of hers occasionally was treated to a well-deserved damper of humiliation. But then he quickly wrinkled his nose again. “Shower, now. Pretty sure that guy's aftershave started life as toilet spray. And just so we're clear: What you just did here doesn't count as training. See you half an hour earlier for running tomorrow.”

Saskia shrugged and tiredly waved at Logan, then carefully removed the traces of her little non-slip before the next teenagers would want to train in here. Admittedly, she'd had that one coming.

**************

“Turn that thing off before you enter my sick bay, for Christ's sake. Can you finally stop smoking inside? We're almost two decades into the 21st century, in case you lost track of time.” Hank greeted Logan with an irritated snort, his already mood splendid after his conversation with his current patient that had revealed even more abysses in the boy's life than had been previously known, and none of these atrocities, the teenager's powerful healing factor could repair. That Logan couldn't be taught even the simplest rules of decency even after all these years as a teacher at this Institute, made it difficult not to give up on the day before lunch already.

Even without a lot of teaching hours on his schedule, the guy should actually know that raising the mutants at this school had become more difficult over the years. Even more so since Scott had had a separate school facility built attached to the mansion and now children lucky enough not to have been rejected because of their genes came and went at Westchester, too. These often still somewhat shallow-minded young people in particular, as was typical for their age, cared very little about rules, especially about some that even their teachers stuck to.

“It's bad enough that some teenagers in the schoolyard are fuming like a chimney.” Hank nodded in the vague direction of said break area, where the current gathering of the fleas was probably just dissolving before their next subjects, and the last, particularly unruly kids famous for skipping class deigned to at least attend the last two hours of the day for the show.

“I'd be more worried about them fucking in the gym,“ Logan replied coolly. “Besides, you got Shi’ar air filters in here. Anything else you need to get off your fur chest?”

“You know exactly why I called you.” Hank arduously suppressed a growl in his voice. After all these years, he should actually know the reasons for Logan's demonstratively dismissive behavior well enough.

That Bastian's sudden reappearance at Mutant High had thrown his teammate off course was already easy to sense by the fact that he'd handed over control of the Danger Room unit with the youngest candidates for extensive combat training to Remy earlier. That fun, Logan usually didn't let anyone steal from him. Hank probably should just finally give up his hopes that a notorious loner would talk openly about what was weighing down on him. After that terrible mission at the beginning of the year, Logan had surely hoped that he would never have to face the subject of the destroyed New York II camp ever again. But as was so often the case with the X-Men, the past had caught up with him – and with Ororo, too, but that conversation, which wouldn’t be any more unpleasant, Hank wasn’t ready to have until later that day.

Sooner or later, these two and Bastian would meet for the first time since Alaska, and then Hank would have hated to face major renovation of the house just because a couple of impulsive characters couldn't control themselves. “I would have expected you to give Cat and me a hand with our newest charge.”

“How? I'm the one without a PhD here, remember?” Now Logan was nice enough to stub out his cigar in a medicine bowl after all, ignoring Hank's withering gaze, and leaned against a cot with his arms folded. ”Look what happened up north at the turn of the year sucked monkey ass, I get that. But there was nothing we could do about it. Someone was too incompetent to operate some controls in one of these bunkers, and the wrong chemicals in that priest's laboratory cut off the oxygen supply in these tents. That heat dome worked more effectively than one of your Petri dishes. By the time we got there, it was over already.”

“That's the problem,” Hank nodded. ”The sole survivor saw you from a distance in the camp if I got that right. Bastian is quite angry with the X-Men.”

“All the more a reason not to be on the welcoming committee.” Logan's expression only darkened. Ororo had blamed herself a lot for the two of them not being able to help back then. Logan notoriously didn't think much of unnecessary feelings of guilt, but when he'd returned from that mission, he'd had thrown an especially suffocating cloak of his usual denial over this matter. What had happened in Alaska, the others had had to learn about from sparse mission logs. Because to talk, to think about it deeper would have meant to think about Jericho, and that was not only hard for Ororo. Thinking about Jericho would have meant thinking about Jean.

Useless, trying to keep digging at that particular wall; at least not before the next peacefully shared bottle of Kree-ale at midnight in Hank's laboratory. Sighing, he closed the file about this atrocity on his computer and turned to Logan on his stool. “Talk to Bastian anyway before you chase him through the gym for the first time, if you can. You two ending up at each other's throats won't do anyone any good. Two healing factors of that size mean too much blood even for Shi’ar air cleaners to filter out from the Danger Room for days.”

“I'm not accepting greenhorns in my holo simulations anyway. That all?” Logan was already halfway out the door again without even waiting for an answer when a long drawn-out warning tone from the speakers of Hank's computer terminal had them both startle. It was the proximity alarm, a message from dozens of sensors placed on the rooftops that monitored the airspace in the area. An obligatory measure since Alkali Lake.

“How exactly did I annoy the Gods last night?” Hank leaned over his keyboard again and projected the image captured by the cameras onto the holo-monitor in the middle of the room, but whatever was approaching was still too far away to make it out. At least with his only slightly enhanced senses.

Logan's keen eyes could categorize the shape of a flat, compact vehicle in the distance a lot faster. To Hank's relief, it was only incomprehension, not alarm, showing on his face when he recognized who was coming to visit the X-Men. Enthusiastic, however, he didn’t exactly display either. “An Avengers Quinjet. Looks like someone else can't wait to philosophize about a few corpses in the snow.”

Hank had another comment about tactlessness on the tip of his tongue, but then put Logan off wearily and shook off his still-stained scrubs to at least make himself somewhat presentable for the upcoming, undoubtedly unentertaining meeting. Whatever it was that threatened to disrupt the almost deceptively continuous peace in the last few years so suddenly ... Perhaps it would at least give certain teammates more to do than just put a few rebellious teenagers in their place, so that they might finally find their way out of their ongoing depression over the death of their partner so long ago. Hank didn’t hold his breath.

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[oftlunarialmoon]

What is Age Regression? Is It Healthy? (UPDATED AS OF 2/25/19) - Age Regression Series

Originally posted to www.onlyfunthings.org on May 14, 2018

Ciao lovelies! Today’s post is a follow up to THIS post about how there is no expiration date on fun! Today’s post is going to be about how expressing your “childish” side and indulging “childish” wants or hobbies can be super healthy to your mental state! In other words, we’re going to be talking about the unconventional “age regression” coping mechanism. (TRIGGER WARNING- Mentions of sexual abuse, self harm, eating disorders.)

(Please note that in this post we are not discussing the hypnosis level of this coping skill! We are simply talking about tapping into your inner child for the sake of stress relief and coping with traumas. Also DISCLAIMER- I am not a medical professional or a licensed therapist. I am simply recommending this from personal experience, not from a place of expertise.)

Even though this practice is increasing in its popularity, many have misconceptions about what this is or what it’s good for. The most simple and truthful definition is this “Age regression is when somebody reverts to a child-like state of mind, often as a coping mechanism for things like PTSD, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.” And this meaning is what we are talking about today.

Unfortunately for the sake of this post, there aren’t a lot of reputable sources for age regression, many of these sources get it wrong, and most places that even mention it mistakenly assume it is a sexual thing, when it is absolutely not. And that is why I wanted to write this article, to create a article that regressors can link back to and use to explain this to others, to end stigmas against regression and to stop the spread of misinformation.

MYTHS ABOUT AGE REGRESSION:

“Age Play and Age Regression are the same”- This is incorrect. Age Play is when someone pretends to be a younger age for a sexual reason. Age Regression is when someone feels like or goes into a younger head space for therapy/coping/stress relief reasons. The two are distinctly different but unfortunately get grouped together by ignorance. 

“Age Regression requires you to have a ‘Caregiver’”- This is also incorrect! You don’t need someone to be taking care of you in order to regress, because regression is based off you, your mental state and your coping mechanisms/therapeutic methods.

“You must have had a bad childhood in order to age regress”- Actually, you can have had a perfectly normal childhood and still regress! For one, sometimes the traumas people are coping with happened later in life, so they’re regressing to cope with it now, other times for two, people regress for stress relief not necessarily to relive childhood! 

“You can only age regress if you’re mentally ill/Age regression is a mental illness”- Neither of these are true, as you can regress even if you’re neurotypical. Age regression is not a type of mental illness but is instead a coping strategy/therapy method/stress reliever.

EXPERIENCES:

Now, I will share with you some people’s personal experiences with age regression to help them. Every story shared was shared willingly with us and we have kept certain people anonymous. The only thing changed in these stories is grammar/spelling. Everything else is left untouched.

“I regress because I was sexually abused as a child and teen. When I regress, it’s like I get a new childhood where nothing bad happens to me. It’s nice to be able to play with toys and color and relax and have the flashbacks and painful memories stop for once. I have told my therapist about my regression and she said it sounds like a very healthy coping mechanism. I used to cut to cope with my PTSD from the abuse, but now I can just regress and be happy.” – Anonymous

“I started regressing at the end of high school without knowing what I was doing because I just thought I was childish. I noticed that when I was regressed I could finally get myself to eat which I had difficulty with because of my anorexia. The hardest part of it all for me is knowing I can’t explain myself to the ones I care about because they might judge me or not understand it.”- Anonymous

"When I was very young I went through a lot of mental and physical trauma, and this continued into my young adult life. I ended up developing a bunch of different disorders causing me to have intense mood swings, flashbacks, night terrors, and panic attacks. I'm in a constant state of extreme anxiety without a cause. But when I age regress I am able to express my emotions and deal with past traumas. It gave me a much needed outlet in what I saw as a world of darkness. It helped pull me out of my depression, and helps me cope in a positive way. I've been regressing for about 3 years, and I have never improved as much as I have in these past years. My regressed state is the only time I'm not constantly anxious and paranoid. My mood swings happen less often and I'm more positive in general. Age regression has changed my life for the better, and become a part of who I am as a person." - (Please note that our source for this quote has left Tumblr and we have no other accounts to source them to- 1/13/19 update)

What do you think of Age Regression as a coping mechanism? Would you ever try it? Have you? Let us know what you think in the comments!

One last note! Please do be cautious when using this coping skill. I have been informed that it is possible for this coping skill to cause dissociation. Please exercise caution and only do what you feel is comfortable and healthy for you.

If you are an age regressor, we have some more articles for you! Such as:

 - Age Regression Journaling

and

 -Age Regression Self Care

We also have a YouTube Channel with lots of agere Goodness, like this video:

Remember to Stay Awesome and Love Yourself!

[julie-su]

ok i can respect it.... but WHY!!! surely that must me so difficult to color it like that

Stimulating! I draw art like I'm playing with my toys. It's really fun to try to make colours by dithering the same five colours; I'd hazard that I first messed with it for an AnthroChallenge on DeviantArt in .. 2013, maybe? Which had you use a limited palette. Then again in 2018, when I tried to make a Mother 1 piece using the NES palette (that one was especially fun; I got to compare a bunch of different colour renders) -- But it really clicked two years ago, with that 'terrible colour palette' challenge, where I used my culmulative past few attempts, and drew this;

And I really, REALLY fell in love with doing it then. It took me a few hours to colour, but for once, colouring didn't feel like a chore; it was stimulating and enjoyable. I felt like I was playing a game. Since then, I've been seeking out more and more limited palettes to mess with.

My most recent finished piece being this one;

Which was 5 colours too.

Really, I'm just having fun with it, and playing with what I can do - I've taken a real interest in staring at 8-bit games to see how they shade things... I lifted one of my favourites from a Garfield game.

[5and3nevermind]

People who “believe” in Yoonmin actually think this way:

1. Yoongi is cool and he needs a trophy. What most precious trophy can he have? Ofc Jimin - cute and sexy princess looks good near savage king

2. Taekook is real (bs). We need to attach Jimin to smn who is not Tae and Jk. Yoongi seems the best choice

3. Old married dynamic is funny. So Yoongi and Jimin must be married (tbh Tae and Yoongi have the same dynamic. Even more, Yoongi always talks about how Tae is beautiful and charming and talented and he looks at him with heart eyes. And in 2018-2021 they were forever together. While Jimin receives no compliments (for the last 5 years) and the main insult target. BUT! But Tae is destined to be with Jk, so nope)

4. A rapper needs his vocalist. Well, understandable. Their stage power is insane

It is not a hateful ask. I appreciate your way of discussing Yoonmin (no hate, some interesting points). But it seems to me Yoonmin is 99% a fabricated ship/couple. People who ship Yoonmin are Yoongi-biased or Taekookers. 99% of shippers don’t ship them because of.. Jimin. He is like a toy for them

Ps: I’m not Jikooker. Never was never would be. I was Yoonminer. I just opened my eyes

This is a strange ask because you’re presuming to know how I think, when your points here are things I’ve never said. Not only that, I’ve actually said the exact opposite of these things on more than one occasion. There’s a lot here, but I’ll try to address each point at least briefly.

1. No, Yoongi does not need a trophy, and Jimin is not a trophy. They are each wonderful, complete human beings in their own right.

2. Not sure why you’re telling me this. I don’t consider myself a taekooker (although I am a tkk observer; I think they have an interesting dynamic!) Most of my ym friends/moots are not tkkers either.

3. Gosh, I don’t know where to begin. Yoongi and Jimin both tease each other. It is not a one-way street. And Yoongi has complimented Jimin many, many times, from telling him during pre-debut that he believes in him to saying Jimin’s voice is his favorite. He said just recently that Jimin is a hard worker and a genius. He predicted a bb hot 100 spot for Like Crazy. I could go on and on.

If you watched Ddeun Ddeun, you’d know they discussed their bickering/Tom and Jerry dynamic. Maybe you should consider watching it?

4. I have never known an actual adult who seriously believes this. Is this something people joke about or…? I don’t think people’s professions determine who they are a good match with.

As for your last point, I’m actually Jimin biased.

As for the ship being contrived, if you go through my posts, you’ll see that the majority of them are based on the words that Jimin and Yoongi say themselves. I’m not “analyzing” or spinning elaborate theories. I try to stick to the facts. If those facts aren’t convincing to you, that’s totally fine. But you seem to be making broad assessments of yoonminers in general. I’m not responsible for other people. I can only speak for myself.

Take a stroll around this blog. I hope you’ll see I take a slightly different approach than many shippers. My brain likes lists and facts and putting moments in chronological order so I can understand the trajectory of a relationship. I didn’t pick and choose yoonmin and think they’d be cute together. They offered up information that I could not ignore.

[kaiserincatra]

“Shadow Weaver told me about Thaymor. And Catra,” Scorpia said.

Adora scoffed and faced the ocean again. “I bet she did.”

“She must have meant a lot to you.”

Adora stared out at the ocean. “She would’ve hated this. She can’t stand water. And being this far out…” She shook her head. “I just don’t know how she did it. After everything, she… she left us. She left me.”

Scorpia frowned. Not knowing what to say, she tried pulling the conversation forward. “How’s your uh, brother doing? With you being a Force Captain and all.”

Adora shrugged. “He’s happy he still gets to work with me. Besides, he’s not as much of a leader.”

“Then what is he?”

“A fighter.”

Scorpia looked to the other side of the ship, where Adam, Lonnie, Kyle, and Rogelio were talking. Kyle was playing with a cup-ball toy and absolutely failing. Adam grabbed it and demonstrated how he was supposed to do it. He gave it back to Kyle, who managed to succeed. “I don’t see it.”

“When he’s on the battlefield, you will.”

If you liked this, bookmark She-Ra: Missing on AO3 for chapter 5 this Friday! https://archiveofourown.org/works/50411458/chapters/127368364#main

[blaacknoir]

Okay I would absolutely love an I ❤ Derry beaver hat 😭

Adrian Mellon, you were too good for this world, and I hope Webby and his cronies rot in hell.

Getting anxiety thinking about all the balloon waste that these films must have created 💔

The fact that Don is dressed like... just a regular guy here, instead of the caricature of a gay man he was in the novel is great actually, and it makes the scene in the novel that much better.

Bill just appeared on screen and all I can think of is this post 😭

"You said you needed another day and we're shooting this tonight!" "Yeah but that's like... 17 hours."

"People loved your book, but they hated the ending." "You said you liked the ending..." "I lied."

"I love you mommy." "What." "Myra."

Oh I really could have lived without Richie "throwing up" on me. 💔

I really like Richard as a stand-up comedian instead of a DJ. If they had to change the time period, that was a good move.

OH NO WHY DID THEY HAVE TO MAKE GROWN-UP STAN A BAB??? :C💔

"How long has it been?" "27 years." NO IT WASN'T! THE CYCLE WAS SHORTER BECAUSE THEY STOPPED IT!

No, the scar faded. It only came back when they started to remember.

Get his ass, Beverly! GET HIS ASS!

(That being said, because of the names and the fact that they're both redheads, Adult!Beverly always looked like Beverly Crusher to me 😭)

Do you really expect me to believe this guy hasn't updated his hairstyle in 27 years. I mean, I know they probably didn't exactly let him choose how he wore it in Juniper Hill, but that he'd still be rocking a mullet in 2018?

Mike: *enthusiastic hug greeting* Bill: Uh.... do I know you..... (It's me, I'm Bill.)

God I love Adult!Eddie so much. I would kill and die for you, Eddie Kaspbrak.

"I ended up becoming a risk analyst." No you didn't you drive a limo.

I would like to nominate James McAvoy as Greatest Actor Of Our Time here. Because the range on this man is fucking insane.

While it's completely different than the novel, the fortune cookie scene and everyone scrambling to figure it out is kind of killing me :'( ❤

RIP the poor Chinese restaurant employee 😭💔

"Plus, I just remembered I grew up here like, two hours ago!"

NO NOT THE LITTLE GIRL ADRIAN GAVE HIS TOY TO :C

Okay well this is all I have the energy for tonight. Catch part 2 of part 2 tomorrow. 😔

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

So yeah... That totally unnecessary Nelson Peltz proxy fight saga of current-day Disney is finally over.

Thank goodness. Peltz seemed like he was acting on behalf of former Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, another guy who is bad news bears to say the least. Peltz just looked like another old man who plays to the crowd that loves to call everything "woke". While it doesn't take rocket science to figure out that The Walt Disney Company is having some trouble across various divisions, their solution wasn't even a solution. Nothing remotely near that.

Interestingly, Disney finally released their first *new* theatrical movie this year, a $30m prequel to THE OMEN that got solid reviews but struggled on opening weekend for whatever reason. It's looking to perform more like last year's new EXORCIST movie than 2018 HALLOWEEN (both films directed by David Gordon Green), I guess not all horror legacy sequels (lega-sequels) are destined to make coin. No matter, $30m isn't steep, it should make it back eventually if not in theaters. It's a 20th Century Studios movie, so it's no big deal really.

Weirdly, POOR THINGS is one of their few box office successes released over the past 12 or so months, outside of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 and - by a hair - ELEMENTAL. 20th kinda came to the rescue there, too: A HAUNTING IN VENICE doubled its budget, THE BOOGEYMAN did pretty good.

All I know is, Disney's probably never going to relive 2019 again... And I feel like they keep trying to make that year happen again... But it won't, because that was a case of the planets freakin' aligning...

I extend that to the 2010s in general, honestly, but I'll focus on 2019...

That year saw the billion-dollar releases of - in order: CAPTAIN MARVEL, AVENGERS: ENDGAME, ALADDIN, TOY STORY 4, THE LION KING, FROZEN II, and THE RISE OF SKYWALKER... They got a moderate success out of the MALEFICENT sequel that year, too, while the live-action DUMBO didn't recoup its - ironically - massive budget. (The original 1941 DUMBO was a low-budget picture belted out during the war.) Some 20th titles came out that year, too, most of them not doing great, like the X-Men movie DARK PHOENIX and Blue Sky's penultimate SPIES IN DISGUISE (I call it penultimate because I consider NIMONA a partial Blue Sky movie, their swan song).

Even then, that was a year to die for. But that's the rub... ENDGAME was the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's whole Infinity Saga. 11 years in the making, it's astounding it was able to have juice for that long! Yes, yes, I know, SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME was the *actual* end of Phase 3... That functions more like an epilogue, while ENDGAME was the big finale event everyone waited for... and of course, CAPTAIN MARVEL benefited greatly from being the movie that preceded ENDGAME. By less than two months... TOY STORY 4 was locked to be big, because TOY STORY 3 made a billion nine years earlier. ALADDIN and THE LION KING were remakes of some of Disney's biggest animated movies, and FROZEN II was a sequel to another one of Disney's biggest animated movies. RISE OF SKYWALKER ended the entire Skywalker Saga... And ending the main story of one of the biggest franchises- You get the idea!

Suffice to say, Disney's not going to have that year again. They'd have to acquire like another 2-3 franchises, and release their finales all during the same year in addition to two other favorites. The MCU isn't the must-see event with each and every film anymore post-ENDGAME, Star Wars' future is probably in serialized shows still, the remake well has run dry and all the biggest Disney animated movies were pretty much covered (SNOW WHITE - from the one that started everything - is on its way, but I see that performing more similarly to DUMBO and not LITTLE MERMAID), and... Well, animated movies that aren't sequels are more of a gamble nowadays.

But it seems like in 2025 and 2026, Disney's looking to keep trying this usual platter of movies that would've been a killer line-up in 2017. Not today. That's how I felt about their offering last year, too.

It's a lot of reliance on the brands. New Star Wars sounds like box office gold, right? Well, two new Star Wars movies in 2026 after all those movies Disney did from 2015-2019 in addition to what seems like a ton of Disney+ shows... And Grogu was super-popular back when he first appeared in THE MANDALORIAN back in 2019... Yeah, like, who knows how those will do... In addition to all the Marvel movies planned, not all of them are gonna get everyone packing the auditoriums - as we saw with QUANTUMANIA and THE MARVELS. (And on the Warner Bros./DC end, SHAZAM! 2 and BLUE BEETLE, even AQUAMAN 2 didn't make half of what the first one made, THE FLASH fell sharply after its opening.)

And then you have the animated sequels, which seem like safe bets. Disney only missed with Pixar's LIGHTYEAR, which was a spin-off that went a totally different direction that seemed to have alienated the audiences that made all the TOY STORY movies the big hits that they were. TOY STORY 5 likely does way better than that, but I expect it to be a box office come down from the last two. It would have to have a real banger story, I feel, to get people to keep coming. I think MOANA 2, ZOOTOPIA 2, and FROZEN III - all from Disney Animation - are locked to at least open big. If they're very unsatisfactory movies to the public - like STRANGE WORLD and WISH were, then they have weak legs... And smackdab between this sequel-frenzy is one original Pixar movie: Space adventure ELIO.... Which got delayed, supposedly because it was a big mess and it needed another year and a half to be reconfigured. Not that that really means anything, but it's sure to balloon its probably already-big budget. ELEMENTAL had to climb and climb to somewhat eke out a profit, ELIO might have even more trouble as an original movie. It's also not known what Pixar's other 2026 movie is opposite TOY STORY 5, though I suspect it is another original, which will make it stick out as well. WDAS' original movies seem missing in action at the moment.

20th Century Studios and Searchlight continue to have the interesting stuff, which I think will last longer than more Marvel and Star Wars movies. Both studios really did become a replacement for Disney's former adult movie label Touchstone, didn't they? And they too have their franchise biggies, more for Disney, with the likes of PLANET OF THE APES and ALIEN... Whose new installments come out this year and are sure to do okay. Plus, more AVATAR... And yet those franchise don't feel - to me - as overdone as Star Wars and the MCU. It's been 7 years since the last APES and ALIEN movies, weirdly enough (WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES and ALIEN: COVENANT), and AVATAR took a long break before returning with a cluster sequels all reasonably spaced out from one another. PREDATOR/PREY looks to keep going. I also wonder if future KINGSMAN movies are still in play.

Again, it's the little stuff that matters, because wells always run dry... And I think that's Disney's problem at the moment, ditto them playing things way too safe in other areas... I've said that before, but they - specifically on the "Walt Disney Pictures" end - need to just let loose and let a filmmaker just make something dynamic and cool and new. Something that takes the audience completely by surprise, not just another "Disney movie". Something like PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN or WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. And make more smaller movies, too, and not relegate them to streaming. Little movies like THE PRINCESS DIARIES, HOLES, etc. We're in that scene in RATATOUILLE again where the patrons of Gusteau's ask if there's anything *new* on the menu...

The time is now, Disney. With a new head of your live-action division, let's see what you've got. We're past calendar years locked and loaded with 8 tentpole movies...

[lina-books-studyblr]

Review Princess of Ashes Trilogy by Laura Sebastian

Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia's family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess--a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner.

For ten years Theo has been a captive in her own palace. She's endured the relentless abuse and ridicule of the Kaiser and his court. She is powerless, surviving in her new world only by burying the girl she was deep inside.

Then, one night, the Kaiser forces her to do the unthinkable. With blood on her hands and all hope of reclaiming her throne lost, she realizes that surviving is no longer enough. But she does have a weapon: her mind is sharper than any sword. And power isn't always won on the battlefield.

For ten years, the Ash Princess has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. That all ends here.

Ash Princess

Publisher: Montena N° pages: 384 Publication: April 24, 2018

5/5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Kaiser murdered Theodosia's mother, the Fire Queen, when Theo was only six. He took Theo's country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess--a pet to toy with and humiliate for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak and defenseless. He didn't realize that a sharp mind is the deadliest weapon.

Theo no longer wears a crown of ashes. She has taken back her rightful title, and a hostage--Prinz Soren. But her people remain enslaved under the Kaiser's rule, and now she is thousands of miles away from them and her throne.

To get them back, she will need an army. Only, securing an army means she must trust her aunt, the dreaded pirate Dragonsbane. And according to Dragonsbane, an army can only be produced if Theo takes a husband. Something an Astrean Queen has never done.

Theo knows that freedom comes at a price, but she is determined to find a way to save her country without losing herself.

Lady Smoke

Publisher: Montena N° pages: 496 Publication: February 5, 2019

5/5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade. Renamed the Ash Princess, she endured relentless abuse and ridicule from the Kaiser and his court. But though she wore a crown of ashes, there is fire in Theo’s blood. As the rightful heir to the Astrean crown, it runs in her veins. And if she learned nothing else from her mother, she learned that a Queen never cowers.

Now free, with a misfit army of rebels to back her, Theo must liberate her enslaved people and face a terrifying new enemy: the new Kaiserin. Imbued with a magic no one understands, the Kaiserin is determined to burn down anyone and everything in her way.

The Kaiserin’s strange power is growing stronger, and with Prinz Søren as her hostage, there is more at stake than ever. Theo must learn to embrace her own power if she has any hope of standing against the girl she once called her heart’s sister.

Ember Queen

Publisher: Montena N° pages: 512 Publication: February 4, 2020

5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It is of fantasy genre, magic, adventure, revenge and romance (it has a love triangle). It is a dystopia. It features the four elements, water, air, earth and fire. There are also characters from the LGBTQ+ community.

It has good development of each character, they fit together very well. The plot is unpredictable and that's great because you don't know what you're going to find in the next chapter.

This is a beautiful saga, I loved it and suffered like a damned. Gripping from beginning to end and incidentally very cruel, too much so. It's beautiful, it's well worth reading. Even though I don't agree very much with the ending, it entertained me a lot and is one of my best reads of the year.

"What we do to survive does not define us. We make no apologies for it," she says quietly, still looking me in the eye.

"Maybe, you've been broken but that has only made you a sharper weapon."

"It's not possible to please everyone without losing yourself."

"You're never ready to throw yourself into battle, but you do it anyway."

These are the maps designed by the author to create this beautiful literary universe. Astrea is the kingdom invaded in the siege by the Kalovaxians and it is the kingdom that Theodosia/Thora wants to recover.

Loved the fanart (credits to whom it may concern, I got it from Pinterest).

[cyarskaren52]

King Push: Pusha T Drops New Track “Diet Coke” & Twitter Highly Approves

Written by D.L. Chandler

Published on February 8, 2022

Source: Kevin Winter / Getty

Pusha T last blessed the world with an album with 2018’s Daytona, fully produced by Ye aka Kanye West. The king of coke bars is back with a new track titled “Diet Coke,” reuniting with Yeezy and 88-Keys, and already it appears to be a Twitter favorite. 

After a snippet of the track began circulating online by way of Victor Victor Worldwide boss Steven Victor, the hype around the track began to bubble. Most were stunned to see that Pusha T and Ye were together in the clip after chatter that Push was no longer involved with the G.O.O.D. Music label, but those rumors were shut down last month.

In the wee hours of Tuesday morning (Feb. 8),  “Diet Coke” went wide with Push and 88-Keys having a lot of fun on Twitter engaging with fans and discussing reactions. Push even took a dig at himself after Spotify’s Carl Chery tweeted, “Pusha T coming up with new coke references will never get old.”

Push fired back with, “Welp this album is abt feeding the conscious mind, I hope you aren’t disappointed…I’m growing up Carl.”

Suffice it to say, “Diet Coke” mostly references the narcotic of note during the addictive chorus from Push but much of the track is just the Virginia rapper flexing his verbal muscles.

From “Diet Coke”:

The flow’s untouched, the drums is tucked Drive Cullinan when roads get rough Snows are must, the nose adjust Young Gs like we Hov and Puff Best jewelry and hoes we lust Chanel trinkets and hoes’ll blush Crush hearts like pretty boys And we drivin’ pretty toys Extendos will make plenty noise

You get the picture.

Check out “Diet Coke” at your preferred DSP by following this link. Keep scrolling for reactions from Twitter.

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