#proto talks

[spidersface]

let me hear you, are you ready to Ţ̶̨̧̢̧̭̰̬͚͇̰͉̟̞̤̗͔̩̘͓̣͇̬̱̪̯͇͍̬͙͔͈̬̗͎͍̖̤̽̆̀̉̑͊̋̆̊̎́́̈̕͘͝E̸̡̛̛͓͑̈́̏̈̆͛̾̓̈́͛̓̌͛͊͑̊͋̉͒̏̈́̇͐̃̍̽̽̕͝Ć̵̢̢̧̢͈͕̫͖̣̼͈͓̻̗͙̯̖̥̬͇̘̮̫̟͚̖̺̫̣̘̠̆͋͌̅̆̓̿̊͆̀̒̒̿͐̋̀̒̔̒̍̂̒̿͌̆̌̊̾́̉̓̍̍͆̽̆̄̊̃̆̽́̕̚͘͜͝͝ͅͅḦ̵̢̥̞̞̥̻͈̮̥͕̭͚̟̇̌͐̊̃̅͆̌̾̕͘̚Ŗ̵̢̧̛̛͔̣̣͎̥̜̰̞̖̖̫̰̗͎͕̖̘͉̻̲̠̭̦͙̜̳̬̝̓͐̈́̑͐̈́̊̎́͒͂́̊̄̈̐̉̊̈̓̑̈́̋̽̌̒̾̇̍̿̈̇̈́̂̕͘̚͘͜͝͝͠ͅǪ̴̧̧̧̛̣͖̽̓̾͆̾̑̓̉͑̎̂́̿̾̎̕̚͜͠͝T̷̨̨̨̛̺̹̩͖̣̗̰͎̰̩͎̲̺̯̖͚̱̫͉̯̣̙͖̲̭̻̰̉͋̈́̍̐̒͘?̷͍̦̭̮̻̜̗̍̌̀̉̀̿̌͑̆̐͑͌̈̀̽̈́̒̅̑̾́͒͗̑̾̏̃̀̒̌̃̄͌̎̃́̍͘͘͘!̶̡̛̺̝̮̳̞͔̹͖͍͙̻͙͙̪͓̤̤̠͊̌͊̔̾̾͗͐͐͛̎̌͂͒̉͒́͐̽̂͌̌̂̅̃̾̐͊̑̑͌̅̐͂̿͗́̕͘͝͠͠

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[voidmetal-alloy]

Cloaks and scarves

[red1sart]

mm12

[rockhousejai]

Wait hold on—

Cottontail Family idea—

[theology101]

I love Dead Island 2’s representation of a Federal/Military response to a zombie apocalypse cause it perfectly shows the extreme competence and incompetence of the American Government.

Like okay, the US Military is the most powerful institution in the History of Mankind, it’s been the only thing our country has cared about for 80+ years. Against Zombies - which just use even *less* effective version of wwI strategies - the Military can and should easily steamroll the zombies. Shit, even the strongest Apex Zombies go down with a few clips from a rifle - btw, standard issue for the US Army is the 5.56x45 M4 Carbine, or another words, your standard soldier is more then capable of taking down the most elite Zombies around, especially if they are operating in squads/units.

Like this is something a lot of Zombie Media gets wrong - I have a M61 Vulcan, it does not MATTER if I get a head shot. Hell, it doesn’t matter if I’m using a M134 - the sheer amount of concussive force delivered can, should, and will pulverize bone, tissue and organs across the entire body as your mortal flesh tries to contain the impact. Even if you need to break the brain to kill the zombie, concussive force traveling through the body will handle that. Even if it doesn’t, a zombie that’s made up of teo hundred random component shreds aint a threat, is it?

On paper - the US Military could and should have been able to handle the Zombie Apocalypse. But militaries don’t just exist on paper and when rubber meats the road, the two predictable enemies of Capitalistic Military Might rear their heads: Corporate Interests and overconfidence.

The Military intentionally released the virus onto Hell-A in Dead Island 2, with the goal of finding a cure to the Zombie Virus. The Virus would pop up inevitably, and so sacrificing the city of LA (But not the children, over 99% are evacuated before the opening cinematic) to get the 1 in a Million people who were immune to then make a cure is, to the military, reasonable. The problem is that the Military didn’t know what they were dealing with and didn’t have time to learn, and they trusted a Tech Billionaire.

The military could’ve had everything handled, but they didn’t know how to despose of Infected. So, they melted them with Acid and flushed them down the drains. Big problem - the Acid didnt kill the Autophage cells. Instead of having a few million Zombies each running as an autonomous machine, so much biomass is depositted in the Sewer that it begins to grow. The Flesh eats the fat, the waste, the garbage in the sewer to make massive tendrils and whole walls of living, thinking flesh.

In the opening cinematic, 3 days after the infection starts, the military has things pretty organized. Of course, there will be an attack against the border every thirty minutes, and at least one refugee turns out to be bit once every three hours, but things are generally hunky dorey. And then all of a sudden, a dozen earthquaks form around LA that are perfectly in line to breach all of the Military’s defenses

Dumbasses actually invented a Super Intelligent Hive Mind able to command the zombies and burrow into the earth to form artificial earthquakes

[frevandrest]

"During the French revolution, they thought... "During the revolution, they did..."

Wait. Stop. Pause. The French revolution is a thing that lasted 10 years. You cannot give any blanked statement about it as a whole, because there were so many things going on. Things generally common at one point were unheard of in another. To say anything about frev, you must specify these things: 1. When it's happening? (Not just a year; a specific month at least). 2. Where it's happening? (Paris? Near a battlefield? Somewhere else?) 3. Who is saying/doing this? (Different people had very different takes and tried to influence things in different ways). 4. (of course, should come as #0) How do we know/what is the source?

(This is half a joke post and not an instruction on how to interact here, lol. Just a reminder that we can't give blanket statements about revolution as a whole because so many things differed from month to month and place to place and person to person. The more I read about it, the more I realize it.)

[dorkhellbside]

something signal orbs (red), disks (black and red), 8 8alls (black, blue and red/white), cueballs (external white, blue, red/white)

[therandomcreechur]

(10 days ago) art requests you say… you should draw lampy from protos!

[trashlord-watson]

eh. je veux pas dire mais. le 3 janvier 2015 je poste ça

et le premier post taggué 'kloug' sur tumblr et qui n'est pas en rapport avec Le Père Noël est une ordure est ce post datant du 14 juillet 2015

est-ce que............... je serais pas un peu le père de ce nom de ship ????????

[oceandiagonale]

Actually, Guzman is his spanish name.

OH YEAH some other folks pointed that out too, makes sense since it's an irl Spanish name (probably why I see it around a lot!) 😳

(normally it's a surname, I've only seen it used as a first name once in a blue moon -- but also in the pokemon world it's pretty clear that naming conventions aren't the same lol)

[ruffffffing]

actually proto earth still lowk annoying theia should be allowed to kill all the men in her life shes earned it

[voidmetal-alloy]

I think one of the key components of whether or not Proto Man is written well is if you think he’d like Garfield.

[odk-2]

The Music Machine - Talk Talk (1966) Sean Bonniwell from: “Talk Talk” / “Come On In” (Single) "(Turn On) The Music Machine“ (LP)

Garage | Proto-Punk

@Archive (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Sean Bonniwell: Lead Vocals / Rhythm Guitar Mark Landon: Lead Guitar Doug Rhodes: Keyboards / Backing Vocals Keith Olsen: Bass / Backing Vocals Ron Edgar: Drums

Produced by Brian Ross

Recorded: @ RCA Studios Los Angeles, California USA August, 1966

Released: November, 1966 Original Sound Records

The Music Machine are now considered influential proto-punk pioneers. Although the band’s success was brief, it still is recognized for establishing one of the more aggressive and rebellious musical stances of the era. -Wikipedia

[nighthawkes]

does anybody know how to make sure it doesn’t look like anything you ever do is a reaction to anything else

[hiwelcometothemonstersancturary]

At it point catnap is the dad of the mini proto is a granpa now lol

He's more like their sort of responsible older brother! Him and the minis are very close, but he's not their dad. Or mom. He however DOES reprimand them like how a dad would do, because that's him copying the adults of his life.