#parkour nyc

[diegopenate]

Update from NY

I’m having a blast

[foolsocracy]

Ok I think him having a foundation in dance when he was a kid just from learning late 19th cen stuff already gives him a bit of dexterity to start with. You gotta be coordinated and (assuming he's the lead) you gotta be thinking. Social dance is all improv so you need to be able to judge your own self, your partner, and convey the next move you're trying to do on the fly.

While other spiders are really acrobatics based, Pete gets in there and brawls. I think being able to judge another persons movements from up close would benefit him here pretty well. And the thing about brawling is that you've got your knees bent, you're a bit lower to the ground, your bouncing on your toes and well.. thats actually the proper lindy hop stance as well! While ballroom dances are more European with straight posture and higher held hands, lindy is derived more from African dances which have a totally different stance

cant believe i havent gone more into depth w dancing for the noirverse before. my 2 joys r colliding so fast and powerfully that im vibrating out of my skin

[nuka-goblin]

babe wake up new oc just dropped

info below the cut!

Her name is Libby (short for Liberty) and she's an ex-Child of Atom. She's still a fervent believer, but she left her sect over disagreements about the sanctity of fusion. She has the Blessing of Atom, making her immune to radiation, instead feeling it as a comforting glow. She lives in the ruins of New York City. While most people can only survive in the less-irradiated subway tunnels (I imagine NYC being like Metro) she's free to explore aboveground. She makes her living by climbing destroyed skyscrapers and scavenging for valuable tech that nobody else could reach. Libby also occasionally acts as a guide, leading groups of travellers through the city - as long as they provide their own protection, and are willing to listen to her proselytizing. Libby is a peaceful, friendly, and crafty survivalist. She enjoys her solitude, but makes time to be sociable between trips aboveground.

Additional notes:

she's a highly skilled climber and parkour-er(?), and is very athletic

her climbing rig is a repurposed parachute harness

she wears through shoes like nobody's business

she has alopecia, unrelated to the Blessing of Atom. (her brows are part of her tattoo)

originally from Broadway Junction, but does most of her trading in Grand Central Station

really wants to bang a non-feral glowing one

[ckerouac]

I am absolutely fascinated by some of the Bridgerton S3 discourse I've stumbled upon that seems to funnel into one of two arguments.

'Penelope should've married Debling because she'd be rich, left alone, and able to do exactly what she wanted because he'd be gone/dead and that's a win for her because that's what all of us really want!'

'Penelope should've never forgiven Colin for saying he'd never court her because it was cruel and indicative of what he really thought and she deserves better because in real life this happens all the time, especially to fat girls, and he's the worst!'

My friends. My dudes. Y'all.

Are you lost? Did you take a wrong turn in the library and are unsure of how you arrived in the Romance section? Because Bridgerton is not contemporary fiction. It's not even Historical Fiction. It's ROMANCE. Which has its own genre rules and traditions and I can only imagine these bad faith complaints are from someone who thinks everything has to 'defy the genre!' as if the term romance is a dirty word.

If this were contemporary fiction, sure. The HBO limited series of this where Nicole Kidman plays a brooding Portia would have Penelope learning the lesson that she's wrong to wish for a man to complete her and take her doomed husband Debling's money to girlboss her way into a gossip empire while impressing her success on Colin who realizing too late what he let get away. I've read many stories like that, loved a bunch of them. She'd move to NYC and end it overlooking her empire from her glass penthouse. Amazing.

But this is not contemporary fiction.

This is ROMANCE.

And one of the requirements of Romance is the Happily Ever After. Penelope, as our heroine in a Romance story, will get the Happily Ever After that she states she wants. And that is to have a marriage based in love and to have that love be a partner that supports her dreams. Rules of the genre guarantees that that's where we are going to end up. That's not Debling - who offers her support and freedom, but not love. Pen wants love. So she will hold out for love, and will get it.

The other nonsense with Colin who should be punished for saying one cruel thing... The other BIG ASS FANTASY EXPECTATION OF ROMANCE FICTION is that the hero will fuck up and disappoint the heroine and, here's where the romantic fantasy comes in, will recognize his mistake, sincerely apologize to the heroine, and then change his actions. Which he did. Immediately. As soon as he realized his bravado hurt Pen, he parkoured his way through everything standing in his way to apologize and beg her forgiveness.

THAT is the crux on which Romance hinges. In real life, he will make excuses and will insist he did nothing wrong. In Romance, the heroine was correct to hold out for what she wanted. In Romance, the hero recognizes his error and apologizes and changes for her. In Romance, he releases the pretenses he's been holding up because she was right to believe in him and he desires to be the man she wants and deserves. That's the fantasy this genre promises. THAT'S the Happily Ever After. He explicitly says 'you were right' and she gets what she wants.

'That's not how it happens in real life!' is the entire fucking point. Insisting that the heroine should settle or that the heroine should not receive a sincere apology which leads to her getting everything she's dreamed up is just being deliberately genre ignorant.

[elphval]

best drywall in nyc comes from tony sabronis pizza parkour i eat it by the pound

[what-gs-watching]

“Everything you do, you’re doing for someone you care about.”

Fun fact, kiddos - it’s now been just over a year since I was fired and that is absolutely wild to me. It doesn’t feel like that long, and it feels infinitely longer. I honestly wasn’t sure I was going to get through it for a while there, but I’m pretty thankful for where I ended up. It turns out, workplace trauma is a real thing even if I feel stupid saying it, and it’s weird and thrilling to finally be in a situation where I feel seen and supported. 

And I have to say, I appreciate that I’ve had this little corner to rage through all of those inconvenient and gross and upsetting feelings, while content has kept my spirits up (or appropriately down). The internet can be a wonderful place. 

And so is this season of Only Murders In the Building. It can be hard for a show to maintain quality the longer it goes on sometimes, but honestly OMITB is only getting BETTER. My sister was texting to say this might be the best season yet, and she might be right. 

DISCUSS.

Episode 2: Gates of Heaven

GANG. Steve Martin is fucking incredible. This episode was soooo good. After discovering Sazz’s remains in the incinerator, Charles is still covered in her ashes and it’s heartbreaking to see him shaking and panicking about trying to wash ‘her’ off - the entire scene of him in the bathroom trying to wash it into a bowl so he can pour the water into a mason jar and let it evaporate - jesus. It was ridiculous but like, how else do you react to that? I can’t imagine. 

And then the crew has to figure out what to do, deciding to capitalize on having some time before the police arrive, because NYC’s 911 line has an incredibly long wait.

So Charles and Mabel go to investigate the tenants of the Arconia’s west tower, who apparently are all lowly renters (GASP! The horror) since they’re convinced the shot must have come from across the courtyard. They insist that Charles stay in his apartment, he was clearly the target, and so he waits and he frets and he’s on hold and of course he’s seeing visions of Sazz. Just like Mabel had with Tim Kono. But it’s more devastating, more satisfying this time, because we’d seen some of their friendship and I love that they delve into it even further. 

Having Sazz do the voiceover on this episode really was perfection. 

And how good was the surprise visitor Charles gets while he’s hiding out in the apartment? It makes me think that Sazz’s killer got in to drag her body to the incinerator through the tunnels. “A mix of parkour and psychosexual manipulation” is up there on the list of best quotes of the series, for sure.

Meanwhile, the Westies are WEIRD and Mabel and Oliver end up playing a card game with them called “Oh Hell” which the internet tells me is actually a real thing and apparently they also hang a pig leg in the bathroom that they chop at with a knife? It’s all very suspicious.

But the most important part of the episode is when Charles describes working with Sazz, how he’d do his scene up until the most dangerous part and they’d yell “CUT” and Sazz would say “tap in” and finish the stunt. She took every single hit for him.

Also, the scene where Charles describes Sazz helping him make friends on the set of Brazzos? Jesus. “You took care of me in every way a person could take care of someone.” My heart, y’all. 

Eventually, once the police have come and gone (I love that Detective Williams shows up and is exasperated with them as always - “shut the fuckin’ fuck up”) they luminol the floor and discover that with her last bit of strength, Sazz scrawled “tap in”. She absolutely knew what was going to happen. How effing devastating.

Episode 3: Two For the Road

Obviously I’m going to say I loved this episode because of my frankly unhealthy love of Zach Galifaniakis. I can’t stop, I won’t stop - detective Williams and I have that in common. She shows up at the beginning to feed the gang information since the FBI has taken over the case, and when she sees Zach walk into the apartment she loses her mind, and I’ve never felt so seen - “scrumptious fuckable baklava” indeed. 

Of course Mabel is upset their movie doppelgangers have shown up by Oliver is over the moon, he wants to convince Zach to get into his character, so they decide to split up with their actors to investigate.

Y’all, Eva Longoria is obnoxious immediately. Like, absolutely the worst. Talking about “her Mabel”. But I just finished rewatching Schitt’s Creek so I really enjoyed Eugene Levy being SO into Charles. It’s adorable. He’s convinced Charles is some deep, fearless savant. 

Eugene and Charles trying to get the Westie with the eye patch to remove it because they are wanting to see if he has a bruise from a potential gun kickback, is pure awkward comedy gold. They’re “yes and”-ing each other. Hilarious.

Eva and Mabel end up at Christmas-all-the-time guy’s apartment and Kumail Nanjiani plays it really well. Kid really is fit. And Eva is still the worst, but I love that it turns out that he actually hates Christmas, but keeps up the charade because his most successful fitness video was Christmas-themed and he’s now he’s trapped because social media is a fucking disease (she says, writing a blog entry she’ll post to complete strangers).

OBVIOUSLY though,  my favorite part of the entire thing though is the fucking montage of Zach and Oliver learning Oliver’s character. Zach playing the flute and their matching shoes  and their creepy ass smiles and running with shopping bags and the little kick at the end. Holy hell, he’s beautiful. 

But he’s also a dick, he pretends he’s invested in Oliver only to talk shit behind his back. He’d told his agent he wanted to play deep, psychosexual dramatic characters and he thinks Oliver is just a pure fluffy narcissist. Howard’s speech in defense of him is sweet and also depressing as hell but it turns Zach around, at least. “You’re this technicolor cockroach refuses to die. I HATE you, but I love you.” 

Funnily enough, at the end of the day, Eugene realizes Charles isn’t complex, he’s just a chicken shit. How the turn tables. 

They do end up with some clues though - a picture of the Westies with one person’s faced scratched out, the ‘tinsel’ they found in the sniper’s nest isn’t tinsel at all, and after Mabel decides she’s going to squat in the empty apartment/crime scene in the West Tower, they get a warning from a stranger on the ham radio they’d stolen and monitored. Shit’s coming together…

Episode 4: The Stunt Man

I think y’all know what my favorite part of this episode was, but we’ll get there in a second because right away we’re back to Charles seeing visions of Sazz. This time he’s dreaming she’s wandering through a forest and he’s trying to catch up with her. I really appreciate that he isn’t discounting what he’s going through, he immediately gets up and sets to work creating a murder board especially for her, and he includes what he says to her in the dream, she’s trying to get to “paradise”. Charles does not seem like the type to lean into his mind running away like this, but he’s doing it for her. 

It’s the emotional stakes that are making this season so satisfying, for sure. 

While Charles is doing that, we find out that Oliver is down a social media rabbit hole because he’s worried about his relationship with Loretta and he found a picture of her posted with a mystery dude hugging her so he does what any insane teen would do, and he creates a finsta. Which is hilarious. And even more hilarious because he’s doing his internet stalking on the world’s largest ipad. The back and forth about his brightness setting was absolutely hilarious. 

But social media leads them to a bar Sazz had been at the day she died, and here is where we get to my favorite part. It’s a stunt man bar because that’s totally a thing, and who do they stumble upon while trying and failing to get any information? Ben Glenroy’s stunt double!!!!!!

AKA, Paul Rudd with a weird Irish accent and a missing tooth. Fucking amazing. What an incredible way to utilize him. I just can’t. His attempts at impressing them with his stunt double moves is so ridiculously silly. What a charming little weirdo. 

Turns out Sazz was there to see a chiropractor because she was in consistent pain from all her years as Charles’ double, she’d told the doctor that she was retiring because of a relationship she was in - she said she was tired of giving more than she got, but she didn’t know how to get away. Obviously, Charles thinks she was talking about him but could that be a red herring, y’all? 

Charles’s guilt drives him to ‘tap in’, and he volunteers to lay in state for Sazz’s funeral at the stunt man bar because they said “no body, no funeral”, and it’s really sweet. He gets pelted with breakaway bottles and the entire affair devolves into a brawl because Ben Glenroy’s double somehow ended up with a real bottle and while Charles is passed out from the blow, he remembers that that Sazz had a life dream to open a trampoline park for kids so she could teach them how to fall. 

Oh, and Mabel discovers that the Westies are probably not a cult, and are just participating in a rent-control scheme - Professor Dudenoff had rented all of the apartments on the floor, and he lets them sublet from them because they are just straight up weirdos. He sends them ham and they pay him $200 a month (???! holy shit), and they tell Mabel all of this because they’re gonna cut her in, as long as she keeps it out of the podcast - she’s the right kind of weirdo for them, apparently. 

So I guess that makes sense, but there’s got to be other shit going on, right? There has to be. And clearly there is, because when the gang heads out to the site of Sazz’s never-built trampoline park, they stumble upon the producer of their movie, who immediately proceeds to point a GUN at them. What the eff? 

Here’s my thing about shows like this: I never really want to try and figure out what’s going on. The ride is the best part. And so far, OMITB is delivering like only it can. What a gift.

[looselipssinkships-x]

9.1km//5.65mi -> 56min:14sec

✨ in my maze runner parkour era ✨

the sharpest lives (mcr) - hold me like a grudge (fob) - mama (mcr) - ohio is for lovers (hawthorne heights) - in bloom (neck deep) - tiffany blews (fob) - saturday night again (pstump) ((twice bc i walked most of the first time bc oh my god my eyeballs)) - death valley (fob) - sleeping in (atl) - flu game (fob) - g.i.n.a.s.f.s. (fob) - the kintsugi kid (ten years) ((fob)) - rat a tat (fob) - twin skeletons (hotel in nyc) ((fob)) - so much (for) stardust (fob)

y'all remember those maze runner books? particularly the first one. I never did get around to watching the movie. Anyways, remember the grievers, the roly poly scary machines they ran from in the maze? That is what running with snowplows feels like. Slow because snow, both on the ground and blowing directly into my eyeballs, but how could i pass up the opportunity to be a part of *this*? (winter wonderland pics below the cut)

[ghostcasket]

for the alphabet soup oc ask, L ?

thank u for the ask!! :)

Levi Oakland - he/him - 26

You might know Levi from my silly Hallmark boyfriends story! He wasn’t meant to be anything but the narrator for that piece, and I definitely didn’t expect the love that it (and he!) got on this insane webbed site, but like… your honour I’m love him.

He’s an editor (recently promoted to editor in chief!) for a very prestigious literary magazine. No it doesn’t actually exist, no don’t ask me what it’s called, what’s important is that it’s a big important job and it’s a lot of work and he really likes it there and he makes very decent money. Like any good Hallmark Disposable Boyfriend.

Levi’s originally from Alberta, Canada, and his family still lives there. As a kid, Levi was a little bit of a troublemaker. He did parkour from ages 11-17, until he got his knee injury that never healed right because he was an idiot and didn’t give it the opportunity to. He always got fairly decent grades in school, but he was an absolute beast at essays and could (and still can) talk, charm, or flirt his way out of literally anything.

He moved to NYC for—you guessed it—love. He was in a relationship with Anika Laval for four years before she dumped him, and it was definitely not a very healthy one. Anika is not a great person. We don’t like her.

But that break-up opened his eyes and made him realise that he deserves better, and also that he’s definitely for sure bisexual, which he’d sort of figured out when he was younger except he never actually examined it—just looked at his attraction to men and went haha, cool, and then did not think about it ever again; and shortly after he met Anika and then it wasn’t really important anyway (Right? That’s how these things work).

Anyway. I love him, he gets his happy ending complete with lawyer boyfriend and his dog, and also gets a dog himself, and yes they are getting a sequel, and yes I’m also working on art of them :)

[shamelessrabbithole]

Hi Bunny! I used to ask a lot of questions here but I took a break when I got a bit too intense with following the NYC updates. Glad to be back. So I got my own hypothesis that Cam is still in NY and maybe trying out for Broadway/off Broadway or maybe he has gotten involved in trying to make The Nursery happen in other locations. Basically behind the scenes work that he wouldn't update us on unless there's something confirmed (auditions, meetings, networking, etc). I don't have much to support my theory though, just him not being around his usual friends/Madison on LA (that I know of, because I don't have insta). Maybe he could have met with Kit Connor or at least got to see him at his play? Not having any Halloween updates is a bit weird though. I was ready to get my heart broken over a couple costume this year. But we still have some hours to go lol

So, firstly, what I would like to know is how many people on here call me Bunny? I was assuming it was just one, but now I'm not so sure? 😝

Second, I am also wondering a bit about Cam's current whereabouts. In the past, when he's vanished without a trace, he's often turned up in the UK. 🙃 I have no reason to suspect that he's there now, but the suspicious lack of updates, especially around his favorite holiday of the year, are bizarre to me as well. The pic he posted is extra shaky and tells us nothing except that wherever he is, the trees are still green. New York City qualifies. It's close to 80 degrees there today.

It does seem that he's been following Broadway actors lately and people connected to his go-to New York boxing gym. This is true. Dylan Corbett-Bader, an actor he just began following, is going to be in a Shakespearean revival. (Cam talked about doing something in June in NY that was Shakespeare-related on the podcast with Natalie.) However, he also listed an unnamed Disney film project at the top of his resumé—this also has me wondering if there's some kind of connection to Cameron that way.

Lastly, you mentioned couples costumes with Madison. I can't predict whether we'll get that or not. I'm thinking probably not at this point. But, what I have noticed with her is that all of her latest follows are stunt performers and she's been spending time at parkour gyms taking workshop classes with them. Could be nothing, but I wonder if she'll be trying to get into film/fight choreography more as a potential career move. It's neither here nor there, but something that's been on my radar.

[tmnt-oc-comp]

Round 1A OC info cards: Jason (Jay) Peters

Information: “He was born in a small-ish town in upstate New York before he and his parents moved to NYC when he was really little, about 5-ish. Ever since he was a kid, he has been obsessed with dinosaurs, specifically dromeosaurids. He never really fit in at school and struggled with bullying for most of his life. His parents weren’t too much help, and he grew further and further apart from them as it seemed they couldn’t really give him the time of day. And yet, they always wanted him to have the perfect grades, join clubs, etc. He joined the parkour club at his school and that was his main form of escape from life in general. When he was 16, he tried to come out to his (unknown to him,  extremely homophobic) parents as gay, but they were disgusted and ended up kicking him out. Lo and behold, that was the same day as the Kraang invasion. Them kicking him out of their apartment was what saved his life. He made it a few blocks down the road, trying to find shelter from the event, when he heard a building collapse and he discovered it was his own apartment building. His parents were crushed in the debris. He lived at the NYC Invasion Relief Center (Made up for my story lol) after that, for he had no sustainable income to rent a place to live). A few months later when everything calmed down, he managed to get an internship at the Museum of Natural History through his school. He worked there for a few months before he was but by an Oozesquito while working on a Utahraptor skull for a new display, and was mutated as such. He runs in fear after authorities are called, and meets the turtles on the rooftops of Times Square. After a brief misunderstanding that he was a new Villain of the Week, they decide to take him to the lair and help him. Later on after a fun little adventure, Splinter allows him to stay for as long as he wants (behavior permitting ofc), and the turtles are given the chance to test their own training in the form of teaching Jay how to be a ninja.”

Creator: @dragonartist56

[rainnthundr]

tmnt au!! im gonna copy paste the details from my notes so sorry if its messy. it goes over the details for the AU and my Mikey’s backstory. im gonna make Future Mikey’s (aka 22 year old mikey) design later. some of the mental health details for mikey are based off of what i learned in my high school health class with family relations

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Breeds:

mikey - (eastern) painted turtle

leo - red bellied short necked turtle

donnie - snake necked turtle

raph - philippine forest turtle

Heights - Tallest to shortest

Donnie (5’8)

Raph (5’5)

Mikey (5’4)

Leo (5’0)

roles are same as 2012

Lgbtq/Pronouns

Leo - Transfem (mtf) - she/her

Raph - Cis - he/him

Donnie - Bisexual - he/him

Mikey - Pansexual + Genderfluid - depends on what day - Mia on girl days Mikey on boy and non bi days - but sometimes likes to be called Max on non bi days

Ages

Mikey (he’s 2 years older cause of dimension X)

Leo

Raph

Donnie

Hobbies/Activities

Mikey - drumming, graffiti/drawing, skateboarding, parkour, cooking, hiking, skitching

Donnie - gardening, inventing, chemistry astrology, rock tumbling

Raph - weight lifting, parkour, people watching, playing with chompy, sparring

Leo - meditating, astronomy, tea making, and i also feel like she’d be into wine tasting when she’s older, and she’d do it with karai as she’d definitely be into it

Others

splinter - bushy tailed woodrat

casey - half latino half italian

april - scottish

Story Context

The 2012 storyline goes as in the show, with some differences. after season 5 though, mikey’s little siblings and april began to drift apart to lead their own lives. they still fought crime together. Mikey took up drinking to ease his nerves when he turned 20 and would hang with Leatherhead, Casey, and Mondo and they’d have fun

they find an abandoned building to make their hang out spot, the area covered in plants and graffiti, and they decorated it with a record player, various vinyls, a slightly broken drum set, and a couple hammocks hanging from the rafters

Then Mikey is recruited by Steam to join the Mixfits (temp name maybe) and he only lets Leatherhead, Mondo and Casey know that hes leaving and no one else

The turtles notice after about two weeks of Mikey being missing that they start to panic

Donnie starts searching through NYC cameras, police scanners, his old mutagen scanner (from season 2) to try and find out if Mikey is still in NY somewhere

Raph gets Mona’s help to keep an eye out in space in case he somehow made it out there. He also uses his pigeons to fly all over the country and report back to him in the case they find him

Leo starts to patrol NYC more often than not. She gets joined by April mostly as they beat up thugs to try and see if they have Mikey

Karai uses her international connections to see if Mikey made it out of the country and is living a life on the run

They all know Casey, Leatherhead and Mondo know something but they can’t get them to talk about it, and if it seemed like Mondo or Casey were about to break, Leatherhead would butt in, growl and leave with the teens (they’d be 19 at the time, a year younger than mikey and the rest of the turtles and april would be 18)

oh and i added this last minute while drawing, but i added a bit of Diabetic Raph into my au. I thought itd be a cool way to represent. i dont have it personally but i have a teammate who does and i had her in mind when drawing. also i think that lea would carry snacks like fruit gummies or nut bars for when raph’s sugar levels get low

[stevishabitat]

Did I never post this??? Found it in a folder and then searched my posts and apparently I didn't.

Anyway...

My Notes While Watching Daredevil 2003

First, the NYC building lights changing to braille, changing to text? Cool.

DD draped around the cross? Iconic.

DD splatting on the floor of the church? Typical.

My kiddo giggled.

Me: Oh Matty, you're so good at superheroing...

Oh wow, the young!Matt actor looks shockingly like Charlie Cox. Even more so than the kid in the Netflix series (which is fine though, that kid was a hell of an actor!)

Is his dad already retired from boxing at this point?

Special effects for Matt's senses is pretty cool. Possibly better than the 'world on fire' stuff in the series.

Ah, I see. Jack is going back to boxing, to get out from under Fallon's thumb?

No Stick? He's training himself?

Parkour!Matt

Oh damn, he's there in person? Hearing the whole murder?

OK this is all a little over-dramatic.

TF? He's in a sensory isolation tank? Weirdo.

Yikes, that is truly some hair.

LOL, Foggy is Happy Hogan, OMG.

Matt is a little too uptight for my liking. Maybe he'll feel better after punching somebody.

Woah, he's gonna start something in front of all those people? No back alley? Dude, at least take him out to the hallway...

Fuck. Flashing lights. There wasn't even a warning on this.

And apparently no descriptive audio??? Fail. HBO. Absolute fail.

Got my kiddo to tell me when the flashing lights were over. God I hate that shit. My head was already splitting.

Woah. Did he just let that guy die???

No no no. He left a calling card? Who is this? #NotmyMatthew.

He has a secret lair? And/or his apartment is in the church crypt? What even...

Why does Heather sound like she's calling from the 80s?

He just pulled out a tooth. Gross.

Wait wait wait... He *sleeps* in the isolation tank? Dramatic bitch.

Oh, they went full 'Irish priest' on the priest, huh? Irritating. Offensive.

Matt really is uptight. And do he and Foggy even like each other?

Oh its the hot girl radar.

Aaaaaand we get our first blind joke as Foggy has a coronary in the background. This feels more normal.

Oh, Matt, creepy stalker is not a good look.

WTF is this? In broad daylight? I assume this is Elektra?

Did not like any of that.

Well here we have someone who is obviously Fisk. Smarmy looking weasel is Wesley?

Mr. Natchios *daughter* would willingly and easily take your head off, Wilson.

Bullseye is a skinhead? A skinhead who is also Colin Farrell. OK then.

Oh look, finally a good fucking hallway.

You're not the bad guy, huh? You just stand in the rain like a sad puppy and convince yourself.

I love how Foggy assumes he's the plus one.

Why does Foggy put up with him being like that?

Self pity?? Get ahold of yourself Matthew.

"What happens to that lie detector of yours when it detects your own bullshit?"

Good question Fog.

Foggy has to know about his senses then, yeah? But it doesn't seem like he knows about Daredevil? That's... strange.

Oh god, it's the rain trope.

Definitely prefer the boxing ring sex scene. This is boring. Zero chemistry. Possibly because Ben Affleck has no emotional range.

Party time.

All the cigarettes and cigars must be hell for Matt.

Eww, he *sniffed* her. My Matt would never.

Aaaaaand the glasses trope. And now we're sad about his blindness. Gross.

Fight time!

Meh.

Oh damn, that was unexpected. Are we going to pit Elektra against Daredevil now?

Damn, more flashing lights.

Time for guilt and self flagellation...

No no no no.... It's Evanescence, I can no longer take this movie seriously.

Matthew left his billy club behind like an amateur.

Also, I just realized his cane is really short. Like... really short. That's weird. His sighted guide technique seems inconsistent too. Somebody needed more practice.

More Evanescence. Please send help.

Elektra's training montage looks like it was copied straight from BTVS. Could easily have been Eliza Dushku in that scene. In fact, maybe Eliza Dushku would have been better.

Well now what, kids? She's just gonna believe him that it wasn't his fault? Could we get a little emotion from these people?

Bullseye & Elektra fight! And it's over real fast.

Oh no, really? Is she getting fridged? Shit. That's disappointing. I wanted a full-on team-up to take down Kingpin.

Apparently Matt's radar has been knocked out a bit.

I dislike the smugness of this Bullseye. Our Dex was somehow more sympathetic, even if he was a horrible person. Granted, when is Colin Farrell ever sympathetic?

They really went for actors who refuse to emote. It's a whole theme here.

Oh damn, using the church bells against Matt? Clever.

None of these fights are doing it for me.

Damn, Wilson is just gonna Hulk smash our baby.

The lightning is killing me. And now with way too much rain. Like visual snow. Sensory nightmare. Can't even watch this fight.

Mr. Fisk, you've just made yourself an archenemy.

This is better Matt and Foggy banter. I guess Matt got some stuff out of his system. Apparently he's not that sad about Elektra?

Oh, that's a nice t-shirt.

Urich, you aren't gonna out him are you?

Nah, I didn't think so.

Woah. A mid-credits scene? That's a surprise. I recently watched The Incredible Hulk, and mentioned to kiddo that the final scene felt like it should have been a mid-credits scene. But I said that was less of a thing at the time. But this is even older. Weird.

OK. Thoughts. I feel like the entire script needed more editing. I feel like it didn't do enough to make Matt likeable. I needed more Foggy & Matt friendship and less snarking. Idk if part of it was Ben Affleck's acting, making Matt too stoic?

Elektra was incredibly disappointing. Especially the fridging. Yikes. Way to really counteract any build-up of the character and the little bit of agency she had, just to take her out like that. She should have been way more formidable.

There was definitely some cringey moments of ableism and stale blind tropes that easily could have been avoided if they'd had someone read the script with that in mind.

I've lost all respect for Joss Whedon over the years, but I feel like back in 2003, if he'd had the opportunity to edit this script, it would have been better. I kept looking at how they played Elektra, and all of the church imagery and stuff, and it felt almost like a knock-off of Buffy/Angel. So if you're going that route, just get the guy who knows how to do it successfully, right?

Anyway, it scratched a bit of the Daredevil itch. But there was a lot that I feel like could have been so much better with a little more effort on the script, and maybe a few different acting/directing choices.

And it could have had 100% fewer flashing light scenes. Damn, I really didn't remember movies being that bad about that in the early 2000s.

Speaking of the early 2000s, how about that soundtrack, huh? Ode to 2003 pop radio, lol. I had flashbacks to the office I worked in at the time and how the radio station was playing Evanescence like every third song all day long.

[we-are-inevitable]

jack watches those reddit story voiceovers with minecraft parkour in the background when he's bored. davey is more of a candle wax scraping asmr kind of guy. theyre both stuck on the aesthetic travel video side of tiktok and show each other videos while planning elaborate trips even tho they both wouldnt survive a day outside of nyc

[existentialarcade]

new spiderverse movie is out so you know what that means: SPIDERSONA REDSIGN!!!!!!!! Character info below the cut!

This is my girl Rei, The Silver Spider! She roams the streets of Cincinnati (because i know jack shit about nyc and cincy has skyscrapers so- close enough)  fighting crime all while going to Art School!  Some fun facts about Rei:  Unlike most spider folks, Rei isn’t sticky! (She makes up for it by practicing her parkour) Rei is in her 20s! Rei carries freeze bombs, the silver orbs around her waist! (Don’t ask how they work idk they just do) Rei hasn’t changed much in character since I made her back when spidersonas were first going around, but her design is SO different, i honestly dislike the old one so much i’m not gonna even show it xD BUT i’ve made a lot of progress in my art since then and I’m proud of that!

[caffeinated-beverage]

🩸and 👠for canada

💋, 🧨 and🥀 for latvia

⏰ for nyo america

🚨 for nyo lithuania and america

OMG YAY ok ok so

🩸: Matthew may seem like the “smarter” brother, yet he is usually Alfred’s partner in crime when they do stupid shit. He’ll be in the hospital bed right next to Alfred’s hospital bed. And he always hypes up Alfred, and Alfred always hypes up Matthew. And, they both are constantly pulling pranks on each other and messing with each other. And, they also do fight over the stupidest shit, because they are siblings, after all.

👠: When learning how to communicate and make friends and such, he has to take it one baby step at a time. He is still learning, and is still so awkward.

💋: Raivis doesn’t really like kisses much. Regardless if platonic or romantic, they physically feel too weird for him to like it at all.

🧨: Raivis actually does get mad a lot, but he doesn’t normally go apeshit. And it’s understandable for him to be mad, because he gets put through a lot of bullshit, and there’s hardly anything he can do about it. Normally, if he gets too angry, he just cries. But, push him even further, past the angry crying, and he might put up a fight.

🥀: WELL my Raivis is actually aromantic, but he used to try and force himself to have crushes, if ykwim. If it counts, he tried to make himself have a crush on Liechtenstein at some point, and she thought he really did, and friend-zoned him. And he wasn’t even upset at all about it.

⏰: Oh, she’s ALWAYS (fashionably) late.

🚨: Honey, they ARE the emergency. They do dumb fuck shit all the time, and pay the prices with their medical bills. A good example would be when they tried doing parkour in NYC and fell, and had to be rushed to the hospital.

[topgamestodayps]

Spider-Man 2: A Stunning Evolution of NYC

The Manhattan map in the 2018 Spider-Man game was a marvel of open-world design. However, the bustling streets and iconic landmarks felt somewhat lifeless when compared to its successor, exclusively powered by the PS5. In this sequel, players can truly appreciate the potential of Sony's cutting-edge hardware. It expands the virtual world to include a detailed rendition of Manhattan, Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens, and Coney Island. The result is a more vibrant cityscape, with more yellow cabs zooming down Fifth Avenue during rush hour, tourists snapping selfies in Times Square, and an overall sense that the virtual metropolis is teeming with life beyond the main action.

Combat: Lightning-Fast Reflexes and Tactical Choices

Surviving the frenzied wave-based battle royales in Spider-Man 2 demands lightning-fast reflexes. Players must fluidly transition between different attacks, utilizing the square button to strike, the circle button to dodge, and the triangle button to close in on the nearest enemy. Special abilities add a strategic layer to the combat, no longer tied to specific suits as in the first game. Now, players can assign abilities through the pause menu, allowing for greater customization and tactical depth. Mixing and matching these abilities becomes crucial in determining the most effective combination for your play style. One viable combo that players interested in buying PS5 games might appreciate could start with a Reverse Flux to immobilize foes, followed by a Chain Lightning to eliminate weaker enemies. This sets the stage for unleashing Thunder Burst, a powerful area-of-effect attack, and Galvanize, a focused strike that sends one enemy airborne while damaging nearby foes. Managing cooldown timers and building your focus bar through regular attacks are essential aspects of combat strategy for those diving into Marvel's Spider-Man 2. Only when the focus bar is maxed out can you heal or perform slow-motion takedowns, either solo or in tandem with your spider companion?

Skills and Gadgets: Versatility in Combat and Traversal

A suite of skills, gadgets, and suit tech options complements the dynamic combat system. Players can unlock improvements using skill points earned from winning battles and discovering secrets. Both Peter and Miles have unique combat traits, while a third tier of shared unlockable skills offers broader advantages for both combat and navigating the city. The traversal aspect of the game benefits from the addition of a 'web wing' wingsuit, allowing gliding through the skies at any altitude instead of solely swinging from high platforms. This feature proves invaluable when crossing the East River towards Queens and Brooklyn. Wind tunnels and updrafts, indicated by glowing rings on-screen, help maintain aerial momentum, adding a touch of puzzle-solving to the traversal experience. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 boasts an impressive roster of 66 spider suits (34 for Peter and 32 for Miles), each paying homage to specific eras or storylines from Spider-Man's rich history, making it a must-have for fans looking to buy PS5 games. Notably, the symbiote suit holds a special place within the game's narrative, though discussing its significance would reveal major story beats.

Accessibility Options: Enhancing the Gaming Experience

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 features a comprehensive suite of accessibility options, catering to a wide range of player needs, including those who may want to buy PS5 games. These options include Hearing Presets for adjusting subtitles, colors, music volume, and vibration settings. Motion Sensitivity Presets offer control over camera-related features like shake, blur, and depth of field. Motor Presets aid aiming, melee combat, and parkour, with options like continuous dodge, enhanced auto-aim, and QTE autocomplete. Vision Presets offer various gameplay aids such as auto-heal, chase assist, and waypoint navigation.

Exploration and Side Activities: A Living, Breathing World

Unlocking the diverse districts of the game is a more organic process compared to its predecessor. Discovery now depends on physically entering areas, as opposed to the comms tower interactions reminiscent of Far Cry. The map of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is filled with extracurricular activities apart from the main quest, including designated photo ops, raidable enemy gang strongholds, randomly generated crime scenes, and time trial-style puzzles. Completing these activities rewards players with tokens, which can be used to unlock skills, suit tech, gadgets, and more. To put the game's scale in perspective, completing just the Story Mode leaves over 50% of the content unexplored.

Conclusion: The Pinnacle of Superhero Gaming

Marvel's Spider-Man 2, developed by PlayStation Studios and Insomniac Games, represents the culmination of years of evolution and refinement, both within the developer and the superhero action-adventure genre. The game offers numerous improvements over its predecessor, featuring a combat and gadget system that pays homage to Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham series, and traversal that caters to anyone who ever dreamed of swinging through the city skyline. In summary, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sets the bar high as the ultimate superhero gaming experience.