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mewdusavt · 9 months

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i got the old wordgirl flash games to work!!!

what you need:

ruffle flash emulator

old wordgirl flash game link (this works with any pbs kids game i'd presume!)

more info under the cut (its kinda long so i dont wanna clog the tag)

tobey's robot workshop was always my favorite so that's the one i focused my attention on

i found the link https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/robotworkshop/

i opened it with ruffle enabled (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ruffle-flash-emulator/donbcfbmhbcapadipfkeojnmajbakjdc?pli=1)

and it worked!! super simple

gonna edit with some more links as i find them!

edit 1:

miss power faceoff

chuck crusher

build a lair

maze mania

captain huggy freeze frame

comic strip capers

captain huggy dance game

power words

whats your favorite word

im trying to get the build a character one to work but since they removed that game before the flash death its a bit harder, ive opened it on wayback machine but its not loading, if you have any ideas please share!

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i index searched "site:https://pbskids.org/wordgirl" to find all the games and im just gonna post all these links here, some of these might be repeats of the first list and some might not even be removed, ill go back and filter it out later

games: https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/drtwobrains/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/huggydance//?eml=MEDIA%2Fsmd%2F20120427%2Ffacebook%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FNoonPosts%2F%2F%2F https://www-tc.pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/storybookadventure/becky-botsford/ https://www-tc.pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/storybookadventure/pretty-princess/ http://r53-vip.pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/storybookadventure/wordgirl/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/storybookadventure/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/games/comicbook/#frame/0

characters: https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/energymonster/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/nocan/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/tj/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/victoriabest/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/prettyprincess/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/halhardbargain/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/lady/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/msquestion/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/mrbig/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/learnerer/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/butcher/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/sonnydays/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/seymour/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/whammer/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/twobrains/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/bampy/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/huggyface/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/birthdaygirl/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/granny/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/sandwich/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/violet/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/momdad/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/wordgirl/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/tobey/ https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/heroes-villains/scoops/

printables: https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/Comicbook_Meat.pdf https://pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/nocan_BM.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/wordGirl_WS.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/wordGirl_WF.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/wordGirl_CW.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/wordGirl_CGhard.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/wordGirl_CGeasy.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/wordGirl_CB.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/wordGirl_BM.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/whammer_CB.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/whammer_BM.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/violet_CB.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/violet_BM.pdf http://staging.pbskids.org/wordgirl/cdn_content/printables/tobey_BM.pdf

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enriquemzn262 · 1 year

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A faceoff between Finn and bubblegum would be cool. Neither side would want to kill the other, Finn unable to accept Bubblegum as evil and Bubblegum knowing how helpful Finn has been. You'd have Bubblegum using escalating low-blow tactic from Kidnapping to mind control she could to stop Finn non-fatally and Finn gradually realizing he's going to have to [unalive] PB. It could end with Princess Bubblegum pretending to surrender, only to finally try and kill Finn, but Finn managing to pull a PG13 sword blow on her. Princess Bubblegum then collapses. As she dies, she tells Finn he did nothing wrong, and asks him to find someone who can take care of her children now that she's gone.

Of just keep with the whole episodic adventure of the day format. That would probably get better ratings among kids.

If Amphibia proved anything, is that you could actually pull such a thing off in a cartoon.

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nerdstreak · 2 years

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#battle of the self inserts #cerise stuff #meet the vandal

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zootplayz · 1 year

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Wilma's Final Choice

I know I said generation yellow would officially be in charge now but this post is definitely rose based so she gets one more. Wilma is finally at a healthy place to finally pursue a proper relationship. Of her many romantic entanglements over the years there are only 5 left. Eve Geraldine Princess Evangeline Faith So we had a bit of a bachelorette faceoff one weekend and waited to see…

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#gen2nsb #goose #notsoberry #nsb #nsbgen2 #nsbgen3 #sims4 #wilma #yyellow

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thegeneralsnotebook · 2 years

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Adventures in Deckbuilding #226: Princess Twilight Sparkle, There's a Spell For That! (Purple/Orange/Blue Aggro Farm) [Core]

Princess Twilight Sparkle, There’s A Spell For That!

Fossil Record

Hello, everyone. As expected, I wasn’t able to spend any meaningful amount of time on this series while I had the Invitational to worry about. Unfortunately, that included an extended delay in getting through the last match which added nearly a month to the expected runtime of the tournament. All that time was more days that this series had to slip, which is especially grating because it is actually very close to being finished. Out of a total of 253 decks that I need to build, I’ve reached 226 so far, counting this one. That’s only 27 to go, well within what I should be able to accomplish this year. So that’s one of my big resolutions this year: getting this series wrapped up with a neat bow. (Notably, until Prize Wheel gave us the new Yona/Sandbar Mane, this series would have wrapped up on the 250th post, which sure would have been nice.)

Now, the interruption of this series for the Invitational each year, does at least come with an upside, that being that spending multiple weeks with so much work needing to be done necessarily forces me to streamline my schedule and clear time to get the work done. So I hope that this series should run smoother for the time being as it slots into the time no longer being used for editing videos. We’ll see how that goes.

As to this week’s deck, a few days ago Hithroc and I revisited our Fond Memories card ratings from a long time ago on the Meticulous Talks stream. Among several things, I was struck by past me’s adamant belief that there was going to be some Purple/Orange Dragon deck which was going to be a major factor in the Core meta. That obviously never happened, and aside from the evidence of my voice on that video I have no idea exactly what deck I was thinking of. So, having rolled Twilight for the second time this week (and yes, I know that last year the previous post said Yuna would be the next deck; well, I forgot) I thought that this would be a great time to try it out and see if there actually was anything to the concept.

Now, in terms of competitiveness, I don’t expect anything special here. This deck will surely get mauled by Stunning Wonder the same way that every other deck does. But I am ultimately on the optimistic side here. The foundation of the deck is indeed the two FM Orange/Purple dragons that I rated so highly the first time, Garble and Maar. While Garble can be a source of AT if there are good Friends on the other side of the board (remember that tokens have zero cost!) Maar is the clear standout, especially when paired with the Blue Ember from DE. Denying an opposing flip in every faceoff is a huge deal, and when active should mean that this deck has an easy time winning almost any faceoff that starts.

Knowing that I was going into three colours and I had a Mane that would likely be flipped easily, I knew that I wanted to take advantage of Bloodstone Scepter, and I tried very hard to keep all of the requirements which weren’t Purple at 2 or less. Sudden Closure is the only card which violates that, and I think it’s worthwhile for the unconditional removal that it provides. It is often hard to get an effect like that in these colours, after all.

The other element which draws the eye right away, naturally, are those Epic Troublemakers. When I get the chance to test this deck I may end up cutting some of those, because this deck isn’t really a Farming deck. Those Epics are there for point acceleration and nothing more, which is why I don’t want Villains. But in a deck that should have such an easy time winning faceoffs, having some non-Villian Epics seemed like a great way to get some extra points every now and then. Even the new Legion shouldn’t be that hard to farm, since we’ll almost always have a dragon involved (they may not be able to contribute power, but they’ll still be involved, which is all that Maar cares about). And, indeed, in the later stages of the game, if we have Orange Ember on the field and have liberally spread the +1 power counters around (and there are quite a few ways of doing that in here actually) then we probably could away with insta-farming a Grogar if we play one.

At the end of it all, I can’t tell if I’ve recaptured that optimism that animated my spirit two years ago as I reviewed these cards. Probably not, because there are a number of other Fond Memories cards that I gave high ratings to “because they’d go in the Dragon deck” which aren’t featured here. Yet even so, I’m eager to try this out. It seems like it should be fairly solid. Or perhaps I’m just so out of practice that I can’t tell anymore. Either way the solution is the same: play more games.

So that’s one down, 27 more to go! That’s still a fair number though, so don’t worry, there’s quite a few of these posts still coming, over the course of this year. Next week, Fluttershy, Reformer!

#mlp:ccg #adventures in deckbuilding #deckbuilding

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calypsos-ogygia · 4 years

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Dragon princess

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goodlucktkachuk · 4 years

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Frantic -- Matthew Tkachuk (Pt.5)

a/n: Here’s part five! hope y’all enjoy and I’m sorry that this took so long to get up

Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four

It was game day. The sun hadn’t been up for long when you woke up to go on your usual coffee run. Your eyes trailed around the room as they got adjusted to the dim light. Looking over at Emily’s bed, it was hard to miss the extra body huddled up next to her. He must have come over after you went to bed. You pulled your scarf over your head as you made your way to the door. As reached for the handle you got a text from Matt.

‘Open the door, princess ;)’. On the other side of the door you found a half asleep Matthew. His curls peeked out below a black beanie and his coat clung tight to his body. He was holding a tray with four cups of coffee on it. Three iced and one hot. Your chest filled with warmth when you thought about him, not only noticing what you bought the day you two had met but him remembering. He leaned in to kiss you quickly with his classic smirk plastered on his face.

“Surprise!” He exclaimed but was met with a quick shush as you pointed to the two sleeping nineteen year olds in the bed a few feet away.

You giggled as you pulled him into the room. You took the tray from his hands and placed it on the desk before removing two of the coffees. An iced coffee in one hand and Matt’s coffee in the other you walked towards the balcony with Matt following close behind.

Slipping out into the cold morning was a cool relief in your lungs. The morning was chilled but nothing you weren’t used to. The Calgary skyline was painted gold as it met the first rays of the day. Everything was calm as you closed your eyes and breathed deeply to draw in how peaceful it was.

Taking his coffee from your hands, Matt slipped his hand around your waist and pulled you close into his side. You rested your head on his shoulder and he pressed a long kiss into your temple, the warmth of his coffee lingering on your skin. You stood in silence for a few minutes and your mind begged for it to last forever. After a while you heard Nick and Emily starting to get up so the two of you headed back inside.

“Good morning, love birds!!” You exclaimed overenthusiastically as you walked back into the hotel room which earned you a warm chuckle from the man attached to your hip. Emily flipped you off as she slipped into the bathroom and your laughter filled the room. You made your way to the dresser to grab the remanding coffees and brought them over to the half asleep rookie mindlessly scrolling on his phone. You pressed one of the cold cups against his bare shoulder and he let out a loud yelp. Snatching the cup from with a scowl you just laughed harder.

“If you weren’t nice enough to get this for me I’d throw this at your head.” Nick’s voice was rough and thick with annoyance but that never fased you.

“Actually Matthew brought them.” You gestured to the man on your bed and he gave Nick a slight wave as you continued “you know I’m not above joining your girlfriend in the shower so I’d keep your coffee to yourself.”

Nick rolled his eyes and put his head back into his phone. However, Matt turned a bright shade as he shamefully thought about what you said for a bit too long.

“I hate you.” He grumbled bitterly.

“Love you too, Robby.”

As Nick went to take a sip he turned his attention to Matthew.

“Is this safe to drink?” He asked.

“Your good man. No foul play” Matt shot back with a laugh. Instantly realizing how rude he sounded Nick was quick to apologize.

“Shit man I didn’t mean it like that, I just…” he fumbled over his words.

“Relax man I know how guys in the league see me, trust me I leave it all on the ice,’ he pulled you onto his lap as he wrapped his arms around you. “Just wanted to do something nice for my girl.” Your face burned a bright shade of red as he squeezed your thigh.

Soon after Emily was out of the bathroom Nick took her place. Matt pressed a quick kiss on your lips as he mumbled a sweet goodbye and he headed home to get ready. Getting ready yourself you put on your regular game day fit of black skinny jeans and a white hoodie tucked beneath a jersey. Even though you wanted to wear Matts and had it staring up at you it still felt too soon so you opted for Freddies instead.

After the boys had taken all the entrance content to the media teams satisfaction you finally got to join them before they started getting ready. You made your way over to Mitch and Auston while Nick and Emily were talking to Mo. In classic Auston fashion he draped his arms around your shoulder and pulled you towards him as he placed his chin on top of your head. After you had Matthew hold you this morning being in Auston arms just didn’t feel right anymore but you didn’t move.

Matt was already uneasy going into this game. The team was in need of some big wins and the pressure just kept building. The thought of this morning drifted into his head as he walked through the arena to clear his head and a soft smile crossed his face. It was almost like he could hear your laughter. Then he realized he actually was. He was still a distance away but he recognized a certain Arizona native holding you tight in his grasp. He didn’t know if it made him more angry or upset to see how you fit perfectly in Austons arms. Smile beaming as you talk to your brother. He lingered around just long enough to catch Auston's eye. Matt stood there helpless as Aus shot him a wink and pulled you closer to his chest. Frustration bubbled in Matthews' chest as he walked towards the locker room.

You and Emily for once weren’t tucked into their regular spot next to the box and were sat on the corner in the leafs end. The game was pretty standard until the third period. Auston had just scored to bring the leafs into the lead . After the celly you watch Aus skate around Matthew and based on Matts face you knew it had something to do with you.

“She sure looked good in my arms eh Chucky?” Aus cackled at the Calgary player. Holding his tongue all Matty did was line up for another faceoff as he started to see red. His only thought was Auston wasn’t getting off the ice himself when Matthew was done with him.

You watched as Nick and Matt lined up next to each other at the faceoff circle. Emily and Y/N watched with bated breath as the time was starting to go down. 3-2 for the leafs with 10 minutes left in the third and both teams were fighting hard. Y/N could see the rage in Matt's eyes from where she was sitting and knew it wasn’t good. She saw where he was looking and who he was looking at and put her head down.

As soon as Matthew took off towards the corner she knew he was laying a hit, what neither of them had anticipated was that Auston was going to move. He took the puck and quickly turned quickly, avoiding the hit but Matthew had too much momentum to stop. Matt knew he hit something and it was a bad hit when the whistle blew right away. Before Matt knew what was happening he was getting pulled off the player and dragged away to open ice by a pissed off Jake Muzzin.

When Matt looked over to where you and Emily were sitting he saw Emily in your arms in tears and his heart dropped.

Tears welled in your rage filled eyes and all you wanted to do was scream. Keeping your composure for the sake of the girl crying into your shoulder. You turned and shook your head at Matt as he was pulled away.

He was confused as he looked away from you to the boy lying motionless on the ice and his fear was confirmed. He could clearly see 89 and he knew he was fucked.

#matthew tkachuk #matthew tkachuk imagine #matty tkachuk #auston matthews #toronto maple leafs #calgary flames #nhl #nhl imagine #hockey #nick robertson

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watusichris · 4 years

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You Oughta “Get Carter”

Another old Night Flight piece, tied to a Turner Classic Movies airing, about a movie I never tire of watching. (Unfortunately, the Krays film “Legend” turned out to be not so good.) ********** The English gangster movie has proven an enduring genre to this day. The 1971 picture that jumpstarted the long-lived cycle, Get Carter, Mike Hodges’ bracing, brutal tale of a mobster’s revenge, screens late Thursday on TCM as part of a day-long tribute to Michael Caine, who stars as the film’s titular anti-hero.

We won’t have to wait long for the next high-profile Brit-mob saga: October will see the premiere of Brian Helgeland’s Legend, a new feature starring Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Dark Knight Rises, Locke) in a tour de force dual role as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the legendarily murderous identical twin gangleaders who terrorized London in the ‘60s. The violent exploits of the Krays mesmerized Fleet Street’s journalists and the British populace until the brothers and most of the top members of their “firm” were arrested in 1968.

The siblings both died in prison after receiving life sentences. They’ve been the subjects of several English TV documentaries and a 1990 feature starring Martin and Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet. However, the Krays and their seamy milieu may have had their greatest impact in fictional form, via the durable figure of Jack Carter, the creation of a shy, alcoholic graphic artist, animator, and fiction writer named Ted Lewis, the man now recognized by many as “the father of British noir.”

Born in 1940 in a Manchester suburb, Lewis was raised in the small town of Barton-upon-Humber in the dank English midlands. A sickly child, he became engrossed with art, the movies, and writing. The product of an English art school in nearby Hull, he wrote his first, unsuccessful novel, a semi-autobiographical piece of “kitchen sink” realism called All the Way Home and All the Night Through, in 1965.

He soon moved sideways into movie animation, serving as clean-up supervisor on George Dunning’s Beatles feature Yellow Submarine (1968). However, now married with a couple of children, he decided to return to writing with an eye to crafting a commercial hit, and in 1970 he published a startling, ultra-hardboiled novel titled Jack’s Return Home.

British fiction had never produced anything quite like the book’s protagonist Jack Carter. He is the enforcer for a pair of London gangsters, Gerald and Les Fletcher, who bear more than a passing resemblance to the Krays. At the outset of the book, recounted in the first person, Carter travels by train to an unnamed city in the British midlands (modeled after the city of Scunthorpe near Lewis’ hometown) to bury his brother Frank, who has died in an alleged drunk driving accident.

Carter instantly susses that his brother was murdered, and he sets about sorting out a hierarchy of low-end midlands criminals (all of whom he knew in his early days as a budding hoodlum) responsible for the crime, investigating the act with a gun in his hand and a heart filled with hate. He’s no Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe bound by a moral code – in fact, he once bedded Frank’s wife, and is now sleeping with his boss Gerald’s spouse. He’s a sociopathic career criminal and professional killer – a “villain,” in the English term -- who will use any means at his disposal to secure his revenge.

Carter’s pursuit of rough justice for his brother, and for a despoiled niece, attracts the attention of the Fletchers, whose business relationships with the Northern mob are being disrupted by their lieutenant’s campaign of vengeance. As Carter leaves behind a trail of corpses and homes in on the last of his quarry, the hunter has become the hunted, and Jack’s Return Home climaxes with scenes of bloodletting worthy of a Jacobean tragedy, or of Grand Guignol.

Before its publication, Lewis’ grimy, violent book attracted the attention of Michael Klinger, who had produced Roman Polanski’s stunning ‘60s features Repulsion and Cul-de-Sac. Klinger acquired film rights to the novel before its publication in 1970, and sent a galley copy to Mike Hodges, then a U.K. TV director with no feature credits.

Hodges, who immediately signed on as director and screenwriter of Klinger’s feature – which was retitled Get Carter -- was not only drawn to the taut, fierce action, but also by the opportunity to peel away the veneer of propriety that still lingered in British society and culture. As he noted in his 2000 commentary for the U.S. DVD release of the film, “You cannot deny that [in England], like anywhere else, corruption is endemic.”

Casting was key to the potential box office prospects of the feature, and Klinger and Hodges’ masterstroke was securing Michael Caine to play Jack Carter. By 1970, Caine had become an international star, portraying spy novelist Len Deighton’s agent Harry Palmer in three pictures and garnering raves as the eponymous philanderer in Alfie.

Caine had himself known some hard cases in his London neighborhood; in his own DVD commentary, he says that his dead-eyed, terrifyingly reserved Carter was “an amalgam of people I grew up with – I’d known them all my life.” Hodges notes of Caine’s Carter, “There’s a ruthlessness about him, and I would have been foolish not to use it to the advantage of the film.”

Playing what he knew, Caine gave the performance of a lifetime – a study in steely cool, punctuated by sudden outbursts of unfettered fury. The actor summarizes his character on the DVD: “Here was a dastardly man coming as the savior of a lady’s honor. It’s the knight saving the damsel in distress, except this knight is not a very noble or gallant one. It’s the villain as hero.”

The supporting players were cast with equal skill. Ian Hendry, who was originally considered for the role of Carter, ultimately portrayed the hit man’s principal nemesis and target Eric Paice. Caine and Hendry’s first faceoff in the film, an economical conversation at a local racetrack, seethes with unfeigned tension and unease – Caine was wary of Hendry, whose deep alcoholism made the production a difficult one, while Hendry was jealous of the leading man’s greater success.

For Northern mob kingpin Cyril Kinnear, Hodges recruited John Osborne, then best known in Great Britain as the writer of the hugely successfully 1956 play Look Back in Anger, Laurence Olivier’s screen and stage triumph The Entertainer, and Tony Richardson’s period comedy Tom Jones, for which he won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Osborne, a skilled actor before he found fame as a writer, brings subdued, purring menace to the part.

Though her part was far smaller than those of such other supporting actresses as Geraldine Moffat, Rosemarie Dunham, and Dorothy White, Brit sex bomb Britt Ekland received third billing as Anna, Gerald Fletcher’s wife and Carter’s mistress. Her marquee prominence is somewhat justified by an eye-popping sequence in which she engages in a few minutes of steamy phone sex with Caine.

Some small roles were populated by real British villains. George Sewell, who plays the Fletchers’ minion Con McCarty, was a familiar of the Krays’ older brother Charlie, and introduced the elder mobster to Carry On comedy series actress Barbara Windsor, who subsequently married another member of the Kray firm. John Bindon, who appears briefly as the younger Fletcher sibling, was a hood and racketeer who later stood trial for murder; a notorious womanizer, he romanced Princess Margaret, whose clandestine relationship with Bindon later became a key plot turn in the 2008 Jason Strathan gangster vehicle The Bank Job.

Verisimilitude was everything for Hodges, who shot nearly all of the film on grimly realistic locations in Newcastle, the down-at-the-heel coal-mining town on England’s northeastern coast. The director vibrantly employs interiors of the city’s seedy pubs, rooming houses, nightclubs and betting parlors. In one inspired bit of local color, he uses an appearance by a local girl’s marching band, the Pelaw Hussars, to drolly enliven a scene in which a nude, shotgun-toting Carter backs down the Fletchers’ gunmen.

The film’s relentless action was perfectly framed by director of photography Wolfgang Suchitzky, whose experience as a cameraman for documentarian Paul Rotha is put to excellent use. Some sequences are masterfully shot with available light; the movie’s most brutal murder plays out at night by a car’s headlights. The breathtakingly staged final showdown between Carter and Paice is shot under lowering skies against the grey backdrop of a North Sea coal slag dump.

Tough, uncompromising, and utterly unprecedented in English cinema, Get Carter was a hit in the U.K. It fared poorly in the U.S., where its distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dumped it on the market as the lower half of a double bill with the Frank Sinatra Western spoof Dirty Dingus Magee. In his DVD commentary, Caine notes that it was only after Ted Turner acquired MGM’s catalog and broadcast the film on his cable networks that the movie developed a cult audience in the States.

Get Carter has received two American remakes. The first, George Armitage’s oft-risible 1972 blaxploitation adaptation Hit Man, starred Bernie Casey as Carter’s African-American counterpart Tyrone Tackett. It is notable for a spectacularly undraped appearance by Pam Grier, whose character meets a hilarious demise that is somewhat spoiled by the picture’s amusing trailer. (Casey and Keenan Ivory Wayans later lampooned the film in the 1988 blaxploitation parody I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.)

Hodges’ film was drearily Americanized and relocated to Seattle in Stephen Kay’s like-titled 2000 Sylvester Stallone vehicle. It’s a sluggish, misbegotten venture, about which the less that is said the better. Michael Caine’s presence in the cast as villain Cliff Brumby (played in the original by Brian Mosley) only serves to remind viewers that they are watching a vastly inferior rendering of a classic.

Ted Lewis wrote seven more novels after Jack’s Return Home, and returned to Jack Carter for two prequels. The first of them, Jack Carter’s Law (1970), an almost equally intense installment in which Carter ferrets out a “grass” – an informer – in the Fletchers’ organization, is a deep passage through the London underworld of the ‘60s, full of warring gangsters and venal, dishonest coppers.

The final episode in the trilogy, Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon (1977), was a sad swan song for British noir’s most memorable bad man. In it, Carter travels to the Mediterranean island of Majorca on a Fletchers-funded “holiday,” only to discover that he has actually been dispatched to guard a jittery American mobster hiding out at the gang’s villa. It’s a flabby, obvious, and needlessly discursive book; Lewis’ exhaustion is apparent in his desperate re-use of a plot point central to the action of the first Carter novel.

Curiously, the locale and setup of Mafia Pigeon appear to be derived from Pulp, the 1975 film that reunited director Hodges and actor Caine. In it, the actor plays a writer of sleazy paperback thrillers who travels to the Mediterranean isle of Malta to pen the memoirs of Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney), a Hollywood actor with gangland connections. Hilarity and mayhem ensue.

All of Lewis’ characters consume enough alcohol to put down an elephant, and Lewis himself succumbed to alcoholism in 1982, at the age of 42. Virtually unemployable, he had moved back home to Barton-upon-Humber, where lived with his parents.

He went out with a bang, however: In 1980, he published his final and finest book, the truly explosive mob thriller GBH (the British abbreviation for “grievous bodily harm”). The novel focuses on the last days of vice lord George Fowler, a sadist in the grand Krays manner, whose empire is being toppled by internal treachery. Using a unique time-shifting structure that darts back and forth between “the smoke” (London) and “the sea” (Fowler’s oceanside hideout), it reaches a finale of infernal, hallucinatory intensity.

After Lewis’ death, his work fell into obscurity, and his novels were unavailable in America for decades. Happily, Soho Press reissued the Carter trilogy in paperback in 2014 and republished GBH in hardback earlier this year. Now U.S. readers have the opportunity to read the books that influenced an entire school of English noir writers, including such Lewis disciples and venerators as Derek Raymond, David Peace, and Jake Arnott.

Echoes of GBH can be heard in The Long Good Friday, another esteemed English gangster film starring Bob Hoskins as the arrogant and impetuous chief of a collapsing London firm. Released the same year as Lewis’ last novel, the John Mackenzie-directed feature is only one of a succession of outstanding movies – The Limey, The Hit, Layer Cake, Sexy Beast, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels among them – that owe a debt to Get Carter, the daddy of them all.

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neonfretra · 6 months

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nico sturm our beautiful faceoff princess who will fall to the floor like the noble fainting goat every chance he gets

#sharks lb

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sheepinthebigcity · 2 months

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Baby Show Villain Tournament: Round 3

Peep the bracket!

Some really close calls this round! Dr. Doodlebug and Tom beat their opponents, Peter+Ivan and Victor Delgado respectively, by ONE VOTE. Cedric and Mortimer had a proper brawl. Huxley and Diesel and Junior and Janja were going back and forth. Oscar winning against Narcistoru despite STILL NOT BEING A VILLAIN. And there was never any hope in my mind Carla would win her bracket. I'm so sad about this regardless!

This time the bracket looks super weird! Wordgirl and Sofia the First characters spread out on the left, and Sesame Street and Wild Kratts characters going head to head on the right!

Remember to send in propaganda! The faceoffs will start in about 45 minutes!

Round 3 is 8 battles, so it'll only last a day, as well the rest of the rounds moving forward! So let's see those battles!!!

Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy (Wordgirl) vs. Dr. Doodlebug (The Rocketeer (2019))

Tobey McCallister III (Wordgirl) vs. Cedric the Sorcerer (Sofia the First)

Dr. Two Brains (Wordgirl) vs. Night Ninja (PJ Masks)

Princess Ivy (Sofia the First) vs. Janja (The Lion Guard)

Oscar the Grouch vs. Huxley (Both from Sesame Street/Elmo in Grouchland)

Donita Donata vs. Zach Varmitech (Both from Wild Kratts)

Robbie Rotten (Lazytown) vs. Big Jet (Little Einsteins)

Tom (Peep and the Big Wide World) vs. Captain Hook (Jake and the Neverland Pirates)

Oh yeah, I'm also down to six dealer's choices. Four if you don't count Huxley and Robbie!

#Baby Show Villain Tournament

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furryfaceoff · 1 year

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Questions to consider:

-Who's your favorite?

-Who's most likely to create more furries?

#furry #furry fandom #tournament polls #tournamemt poll #tournaments #polls #tumblr polls #furry competition #anthro #tigress #kung fu panda #wolf link #loz #legend of zelda #twilight princess #furryfaceoff polls #round 2

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twilightofthe · 4 years

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Star Wars Characters in an Avatar: The Last Airbender AU

So I’ve been thinking of this for a while. The way I’m doing it, only Force-Sensitives will be benders cuz that feels right

PREQUELS

Anakin Skywalker: Earthbender. Well, actually he’d be the Avatar and his best skill would be firebending, but Anakin grows up in the Earth Kingdom in this AU in that desert where he races sandships and wins by sandbending. He also figures out metalbending cuz he’s a nerd and still good with metals and mechanics.

Obi Wan Kenobi: Firebender. NO WAIT LISTEN. Firebender!Obi is a hill I will die on because ik he might SEEM more like water or air or even earth, the guy in ATLA who Obi Wan mirrors the closest is Uncle Iroh. They both are distinguished war generals former war generals who ended up outcasts because the government they served was no longer what they stood for and their loved ones got hurt/killed. Both are the Wise Old Mentor who guide the troubled young men whose fathers brutally maimed them. Both are fucking deadly when they want to be and only grow stronger with age. The only difference is that Obi Wan gets along with Mark Hamill while Iroh.... Does Not. Obes is a firebender because he knows how to control it. Also, if Anakin goes evil in this AU, y’all KNOW the Mustafar fight in this would have to be an Agni Kai. Speaking of, another firebender story Obi Wan matches is Roku (yes he’s the avatar but again, was born Fire) whose friendship fallout with Firelord Sozin is VERY similar to Obi Wan and Anakin’s mess, right down to someone’s wife dying because of their BS.

Padmé Amidala: Earth Kingdom. She also leads the Kyoshi Warriors cuz c’mon Pads and her royal handmaidens are basically MADE for that right down to the facepaint. She serves the Earth King, and is a diplomat between nations

Ahsoka Tano: Waterbender. Ooooooh I debated this for a while whether she should be water, air, or fire, but ultimately chose water cuz Ahsoka gives off big Korra vibes. She’s from the Southern Water Tribe, probably figured out bloodbending but flat out refuses, more of a fighter than a healer, WILL freeze your ass Elsa-style.

Qui Gon Jinn: Airbender. Yeah so no one wiped out the airbenders in this AU, he’s the go-with-the-flow type and has the same tendency to pick up weird animals. It was between air earth and water for him but I figured he was too stubborn for water and too idealistic for earth. Definitely uses his height to wield a big airending staff around and can knock like twenty ppl over at once. Figures out energybending but only to really make his plants grow xD

Satine Kryze: Water Tribe. Ooooooh y’all Satine was the one I had the most difficulty with because ugh basically ALL freaking Mandalorians are fiery hotheads and Satine the most fiery of them all so putting her as the nonbending pacifist leader of a bunch of firebenders is VERY tempting because that would make an interesting story. However, I ultimately chose Water Tribe, the Northern Water Tribe in particular because Satine feels a lot like Princess Yue. Very put-upon leader who’s facing enemies from the outside as well as arguments within her own advisors, just wants the best for her people, ultimately willing to die for her beliefs and her people when some asshole outsider comes in and attacks, traumatizes her boyfriend when she does die and the fandom tends to poke gentle fun at her boyfriend for it afterwards. Also, Bo Katan and her Nite Owls feel a lot like the water tribe wolf warriors to me.

Palpatine: Firebender/Earth King. Yes this makes sense because although Sidious HAS to be a firebender because lightningbending, he also has to be able to screw over Padmé and Anakin. So, he’s a firebender who manages to manipulate his way into the Earth Kingdom and take control of the throne and Ba Sing Se. May or may not still hold power in Fire Nation and talk them into invading everyone anyway or not, but he’s def evil.

Yoda: SWAMPBENDER. Bahaha ok so I know that the swampbenders all kinda fell under waterbender status, right? But yea waterbender would work really well for Yoda, but you KNOW he lives in the swamp as a cretin alllll the time in this AU and trolls everyone else and likes splashing them in the face. Yoda could also def be an airbender

Count Dooku: Earthbender. Dooku is solid, tall, works with the earth, and I think Form 2 kinda looks the most “grounded”, shall I say, of all the forms. Just the way he moves and his stubbornness definitely say earthbender to me, though he could also def be fire

Mace Windu: Firebender. The way in canon he’s all about self-control and knowing how to work with the darker side of you and the rage that’s there, yea, Mace would be a smokin’ (haha) firebender

Maul: Firebender (dammit there’s too many Fire Nation in this AU see this is another reason why I put Satine in water). Maul’s all about the fiery anger, again would really work well for a faceoff against fire!Obi Wan in this AU, Maul to me really looks like a tragic, worst-case scenario never-redeemed!Zuko. So basically Azula lol which ALSO works very well for the S7 Maul vs. water!Ahsoka fight echoing the final Azula and Katara fight

Ventress: Airbender. No, not just because she’s bald and has tats xD. Ventress would make very good use of the air glider AND the airbender ability to create a bubble around someone and suffocate them. (Airbenders can’t be pacifists in this AU otherwise the only people who could go there would be Satine and the Organas lol). She fights in almost a dancer, flying around sort a way that’s similar to what Aang does, and I could also see her whapping someone with an airstaff.

Jango Fett/Boba Fett/The clones: Earth/Fire. Ok so idk how clones would exist in this universe so I’m just gonna say Jango gets around and has a LOT of kids. Jango seems a lot like a down to earth get ‘er done kind of guy, he’s got the heavy hitting kind of play the Earth Kingdom likes. Boba would be much more of a Fire Nation emigrant. The clones I’d say are mostly Earth Kingdom in personality if I had to pick with a smidge of water and some fire of their own.

Bail Organa: Fire Nation. Bail is the one who lives in the Fire Nation and refuses to really play any way besides fairly. Also good for if he and Breha raise Leia because Reasons

Bonus! Hondo Ohnaka: Air Nomad. Hondo has no bending abilities, but he flies around on a flying bison named Melch and Causes Problems. He harasses Fire Nation blimps and Earth Kingdom trading routes and dive bombs the Water Tribe and is just the Horrible Goose of the ATLA!SW world.

ORIGINAL TRILOGY REBELS AND ROGUE ONE COMING UP NEXT

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