#quoting arnie

[horror-aesthete]

Christine, 1983, dir. John Carpenter

[characterssaythedarnestthings]

Hayao Miyazaki: (big sigh) Totoro. Kill.

[thespoonlagoon]

It's time to stop associating the 1996 masterpiece "Jingle All the Way" with Christmas, and treat yourself to this amazing inspired cookie jar to ensure the entire year 'tis the season.

Need reasons?

Well firstly it's a practical and excellent storage solution for cookies, thus encouraging you to have cookies regularly stocked in your home and be THAT person 8 year old you would respect!

Every guest you have in your home (with nostalgic class) that lays their eyes on your cookie jar will have their respect for you raise tenfold! #FACTS

You have the option to choose what quote you want hidden under the lid too. Check out it out on Etsy

[misterlemonztenth]

02-21-24 | official-arnie-nutts. misterlemonztenth.tumblr.com/archive

[boricuacherry-blog]

Michael [Jackson] was obsessed with his looks. He wanted people to see him and pee in their pants. That's what he told me.

-Dr. Arnie Klein

[socialtomcat]

one episode later and chunt is dropping a love confession trying to recreate challengersjdhdkdbdbfhsk i really was not exaggerating like hes soooo..,,!!£.?:.!!&&:@:!,!?:!

something very jarring (in a good way) about being so used to shows that will not address the homoerotic tension in the main friendship but will make jokes about it to have a show where one of them is so upfront and honest that they will just say everything out loud. no skirting around it just very openly like “im not obsessed with u or anything but im kind of in love with u and would say yes if u asked. im chill about it tho and will give u a hard time about everything (affectionately) because u irritate me but i care about u and also ur stupid”

like i know its not gonna go anywhere but godddd. i dont even care idc that its unrequited. just to hear a character saying everything out loud like that makes me start bouncing off the walls. is this what drugs are like

[folsaeure]

REALLY OBSCURE POST-MOVIE AU for Animal Room, where Doug and Arnie for some ungodly awful reason end up together in a rural small catholic town where nobody asks about the details of their relationship and past cause everyones too intimidated by these freaks who are NOT normal about each other, oh and Doug's a priest. MORE UNDER CUT

»Picture it, you live in a small community of like 150 people max. mostly spread out over multiple acres of farm- and woodland, one day you're in town (it's practically just a handful of buildings, some of which have storefronts, and the church, all huddled around the end of the main road) on a supply run, animal feed, groceries, the likes. As you're looking for a box of nails to fix a fence with, you glance above the aisle and see a man whose name you can never quite remember (Adam? Aaron? Arnold? Mr. Mosk), and the local priest across it on the other side, backs turned to you, they're arguing over how much chicken wire to buy, how much space chickens need, how they already have too much, and are "living in luxury, when the bible teaches us to be humble" (you think that was a joke). You're not quite sure how they know each other, or why they live together, nobody is. Apparently Mr. Mosk got shot in the head a long time ago, a story you wouldn't've believed if it weren't for the scar on his forehead, and people just figure it has something to do with that, that Mr. Mosk needs the help. Of course people talk, there's mumblings of how strange they are, that it's uncommon for a priest to live with another man even if the priest wasn't gonna marry cos he's catholic, especially if the other man is agnostic (self proclaimed). It's all the same to you, you mind your own business. Then there's more outrageous theories. You think this is because Mosk isn't overly popular; he doesn't talk much, doesn't go to town much, there's something depressing, something pessimistic in his air, and he has a habit of quoting literature at people should he talk. Mosk is still wrestling the chicken wire, the Father proclaims "Sooner a camel travels through a needle's eye than a rich man goes to heaven!", smugly (he's still talking about their flock of chickens, you still think it's a joke... probably.), Mosk cuts his palm and, never flinching, immediately yet with no haste holds his hand out to the Father, before your brain can catch up with his movements, he's already taken it in his, pulled it up to his face and licked the blood away. You close your eyes so hard for a second, you see stars.

Eyes flitting between their faces in between blinks, you stand rooted to the spot. What the hell? The Father wears an expression you can't help but describe as a "shit-eating grin", Mosk looks unfazed bordering on unimpressed, before taking his hand back and reaching for his handkerchief. He had that the whole time...? You turn around and walk away.

The fence can stay broken for another few weeks.« — by @disasterous-merl (in conversation with me about this au)

[oh-a-very-toxic-octopus]

Finally got around to watching the Terminator films. We've seen 1–3 so far and I fucking love them. Spoilers in my rave below the cut.

The Terminator

Yeah, it's old and the score is cheap & doesn't rise like a modern audience expects and some of the dialogue is unintentionally silly, but the pacing of this film is mind-blowingly perfect and Linda Hamilton is just the coolest person on the planet. (Shout out to the invisible hand of Gale Anne Hurd, who surely did a lot here.)

The early character work is intensely 80s but I fell in love with Sarah and her buddies so quickly. Their chemistry is brilliant.

I love the stakes of the story and how succinctly they're explained. A lifetime of struggle and a near-impossible victory could be undone in an instant. Hhhh. We don't even need to see much of the future — its impact is evident in Reese (who I thought was Rhys, btw, so I died when it was revealed Reese was his surname and his first name was KYLE) and how battered and war-wearied he is.

The props and prosthetics are about as bad as you'd expect, but the team knew it and mitigated that by keeping those shots short. I loved the stop-motion terminator regardless. It's kinda charming and the final fight is so good I was carried away by the action.

Terminator 2

Jim is of the opinion this is the best Terminator film, so I went into it primed to be contrary, naturally. But I liked it!

I'm sad time and pop culture has removed the big reveal at the start; I can only imagine how fckn awesome it must have been to watch a contemporary screening of this film and experience the heel-face turn unspoiled.

The T-1000 is just plain cool, and the old CGI was clearly such a labour of love (and money) that it stands up remarkably well.

I love love the film's focus on what future sight really does to you, but I kinda hate it when characters go crazy, so I didn't much enjoy Sarah's early scenes.

I didn't much enjoy the sniper sequence either.

But in an unusual turn... I liked the kid actor and his interaction with the Terminator. The slang sounds even more ridiculous now than I imagine it did then, but it's fun.

As a result, I died at the end. When his arm was ripped off, I piped up all "omg, but they have another one for him in John's backpack!" Apparently Jim watched me from that point onwards and saw the moment my little heart broke, lmfao.

Terminator 3

I know this film gets a lot of hate, and I agree it skews too silly/kiddy in places, but the T-X was a really good active threat and seemed even more focused on her target than the T-1000. The boob joke was the only miss with her, in my opinion.

I enjoyed the film, liked the way it explored the impact of a supposed victory on John and then spanked him with that original fate/choices quote.

Kate was pretty cool but underutilized towards the end; I felt they failed to capitalise on the idea that she sent this Terminator back after it had killed her fckn husband. Not to understate how brilliant the final twist was to watch, but I wanted more Kate in the scene just before it; that final showdown shouldn't have been solely between Terminators, which 2 had clearly recognised.

I wish John's move with the T-800 in the hangar hadn't worked. Honestly it felt like Arnie had a hero clause or something; clearly the most impactful thing to happen there was a mirror of things to come, his attachment to a robot leading to his demise. Kate could have rescued him somehow and then have that image in her damn brain for decades until he's terminated in the future. I just... Yeah. Your main villain can control machines and she only hacks the good Terminator for three minutes? When there's so much emotional material to tap into with the betrayal? Boooo.

Overall I think 3 ties thematically into the other two films, so I like it and I'm unimpressed they've tried to hide it from the world. Might watch Dark Fate next and see how it fares as a replacement.

[therecordconnection]

Ranting and Raving: "Velcro Fly" by ZZ Top

If you ask a bunch of people right now to name a long running series that incorporates many references to classic rock songs into its story, the most common answer you’ll get is JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Hirohiko Araki’s long-running manga and anime series about the Joestar family’s quest to win the day and defeat all kinds of––you guessed it––bizarre evil. Araki’s series thrives on references to classic songs and bands, both through character names as well as through the spirit creatures (known as Stands) that characters command from Part 3 and onwards. It is not uncommon to find a classic rock song on Youtube and find countless comments from fans making references and jokes (“JoJokes”) about its inclusion in the series.

I can name a second long running series that incorporates many references to classic rock songs into its story: It’s called The Dark Tower by Stephen King.

King’s Dark Tower series, famously inspired by the 1855 Robert Browning poem “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, are seven novels written and published between 1978 and 2004 (I disregard The Wind in the Keyhole). The novels tell the epic tale of Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger of Gilead, and his quest through Mid-World to reach the titular Dark Tower in the center of the world. As he goes through his quest, he eventually finds and brings three companions from our world into his: former heroin addict Eddie Dean from the New York of 1987,  Odetta/Detta Walker, a woman from the New York of the 1960s with Dissociative Identity Disorder (who later fuses the two personalities together and becomes Eddie’s wife, taking on a fused persona and the name Susannah Dean... It’s a long story), a twelve year old boy named Jake Chambers from the New York of 1977, and a “billy-bumbler”/dog(?) found in Mid-World named Oy. Together, they traverse many strange and distant lands and meet even stranger characters along the way.

If you’ve read enough Stephen King, whether it be The Dark Tower or not, you’ll get a good idea of the kind of music he likes simply due to his references. He references music in some form in just about everything I’ve ever read from him. Every chapter of Christine begins with a quote from an old rock n’ roll song and Christine communicates to Arnie Cunningham by playing songs on the radio at him. “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” has Red lamenting how music has changed for the worse (“Now every song sounds like it's about fucking”) since he first went to prison versus when he left. The Stand’s epigraph begins with a quote from “Don’t Fear the Reaper” (a quote he got wrong, I might add. I bitched about it a little when I did the Ranting and Raving on that song). Most people remember the reference to the Spinners’ “The Rubberband Man” in It. “Blitzkrieg Bop” by the Ramones is a memorable one in Pet Sematary. The point I’m trying to make is that he’s basically done this for his entire literary career, so song references in The Dark Tower wasn’t a new thing for me, but reading the series itself was.

I took the plunge and started reading The Dark Tower series earlier this year after picking up The Gunslinger on a whim from my (admittedly large) “To Be Read” pile (every English major has one the size of the Tower itself). I got hooked immediately and I’ve been enjoying my time with it. As of this writing, I’ve just finished reading Book 3 of the series, The Waste Lands. 

I also can’t get ZZ Top’s “Velcro Fly” out of my damn head, a song I was unfamiliar with before reading. That means this is King’s fault. The way he uses it in the book is wonderfully insane and the way he completely changes the context of this song is worth talking about.

Unlike most of the music references in King’s Dark Tower books, “Velcro Fly” is a song that has significance to the plot of The Waste Lands. Technically, only the drums have plot significance, but that’s besides the point. Let me try to explain it.

Most of the second half of The Waste Lands involves Roland and his crew (known as a “ka-tet” in Mid-World) traversing through the ruined city of Lud, looking for the last running train that will safely carry them across the titular waste lands. As the ka-tet make their way towards the city, they hear incredibly loud drums echoing from inside the city. Most of the ka-tet––Roland, Susannah, and Jake––don’t know anything about what the people of the town of River Crossing (a small village within the distance of Lud) refer to as “god-drums”... but Eddie does. Being from New York in 1987, he’s the only one of the ka-tet that can recognize that the drums people are hearing are the just the beat to ZZ Top’s 1985 song “Velcro Fly.” It’s a very distinct beat, so once you’ve heard it and you know it, you’d recognize it immediately.

So, whenever the inhabitants of Lud hear the drums, they think they are the sounds of angry ghosts. What do they do after that? Why, they sacrifice people to appease them, of course!

"What these people had apparently wanted to hear in the recorded drum-track was an invitation to commit ritual murder. And now, when the drums began to throb through these hundreds or thousands of speakers––a hammering back-beat which was only the percussion to a Z.Z. Top song called 'Velcro Fly,' if Eddie was right––it became their signal to unlimber the hangropes and run a few folks up the nearest speaker-posts."

Blaine the Mono, the train the ka-tet are searching for and the source of how the song is playing over thousands of speakers, is a sentient (and insane) monorail train that Lud's few remaining residents are terrified of and worship as a malevolent god. As the plot unravels, it turns out that he is an ancient supercomputer run by an intelligent A.I. that has slowly gone mad after centuries of no longer being able to fulfill his original purpose. He takes absolutely zero issue with playing the role of a god if that’s what humans choose to see him as and implies that he has sent “angry ghosts” to the city if the citizens stop playing along with him. Susannah argues to the Luddites against the idea that the city has these ghosts. She and Eddie eventually discover and try to convince them that what they call “the god-drums” is nothing more than a tape stuck in a machine that is playing on a loop.

And just so we’re clear, everything I have described to you is centered around post-apocalyptic people hearing and reacting to an utterly stupid and meatheaded mid-eighties rock song about women dancing and ditching easily removable clothing. That’s what “Velcro Fly” is.

It’s one of the best parts of The Waste Lands to me and it’s proof that King at his most imaginative is something so weirdly and wonderfully special.

For starters, I seriously can’t tell if King included the song as a plot point because he genuinely loved the song and thought it would make for an interesting fusion of post-apocalyptic fantasy and pop culture, or if he included it because he found this song utterly infuriating and thought having to hear the song (and that drumbeat) several times a day on the radio would make you to want to kill somebody. Regardless of the reason, its inclusion makes a hell of a lot of sense to me.

There is something so weirdly industrial about the beat and the entire song itself. It’s ZZ Top at their loudest and most overproduced. Afterburner, the 1985 album the song is featured on, is a perfect time capsule for the era because it tells you everything you need to know about what music sounded like in 1985. The whole song is just an onslaught of sound and it’s overwrought with keyboard blasts, loud guitars, and a monstrous beat that almost drowns the whole thing out. It hits you in the face harder than when Dustin Poirier knocked out Benois St. Denis. It’s a fun song and I like it well enough, but it’s a hard song to like because it almost sounds too mechanical for ZZ Top. You could tell me that only machines made this and I would believe you. In fact, the song only achieves its best form as a studio creation where everything is controlled and the gears can turn the way they have to. The band hasn’t played this song since 1987 and the reason for that might be that it sounds like a bitch to play in a live environment. Take a listen:

Granted, this is a bootleg, but you can hear drummer Frank Beard is having a tough time and struggling with that beat. The rest of the song just sounds like a mess and you can hear why they stopped trying this song pretty quickly.

Afterburner suffers from a lot of the trappings of mid-eighties production, but none of the other songs have it the way “Velcro Fly” does. The only warmth and humanity the song really has is Billy Gibbons’ vocals, which almost sound completely out of place on a song like this. By 1985, ZZ Top had embraced the eighties full-throttle and enjoyed an entire career renaissance from it, but this feels like the song where they might have gone too far, even on an album like Afterburner, which is so mid-eighties it hurts. The video for this song (linked above) is dangerously eighties. Even your parents and grandparents would tell you this is rough. Even people who don’t like Rush in the eighties would’ve told you that at least they never made “Velcro Fly” or the video to it.

I’m choosing to put focus on the drumbeat to this song both because that’s the only part that The Waste Lands is concerned with and because, in all honesty, the song is rather generic without it. The lyrics are minimal and absolutely brain-dead (even for ZZ Top standards), the keyboard riffs are fun but not at all unique to the era, the guitars are fine but you’ve heard better. Understand that if you like this song a lot, it’s mostly likely because of that beat. It’s doing everything for this song. It’s utterly infectious and it sticks with you more than anything else in the song. I’ve caught myself tapping it out on things over the last few days, so it’s definitely gripped me. 

I’ll give the rest of the song this, without any of the other instruments accompanying it, those drums just become downright terrifying to listen to. They just pound monotonously and so aggressively loud that I definitely get why Lud’s citizens would think they’re angry ghosts asking for sacrifice. It definitely doesn’t help that it’s that one beat for the entire song. It never changes. You keep listening to it and it just sounds like something that would be blasted in a Mad Max movie. You can picture in your head roaming biker gangs just riding through an abandoned city slicing each other’s heads off or beating and killing each other in gruesome ways. I think King realized how terrifying it would sound without anything else accompanying it and that’s where his strength as a horror novelist kicked in and took over, because imagining a bunch of scared citizens sacrificing people while a ZZ Top song plays louder than an Anthrax concert sounds exactly like the kind of weird and twisted thing King would come up with and include in one of his novels. 

About fifteen years ago, an artist who goes by the name of “Fingers T.” created an audio version of what the “god-drums” might sound like in the story. It’s perfect and it really captures King’s description of seeing an abandoned city in the distance and hearing drums that will only get louder and louder the closer you approach the city. It’s so damn ominous when stripped of its original context and presented with the book’s context instead. If you had a hard time trying to imagine what Roland and his ka-tet were hearing while they were in Lud, this is the best thing to listen to. It really sells King’s idea:

It’s such a good idea and if Mike Flanagan ever gets that proposed Dark Tower television adaptation off the ground, I’m having a hard time trying to find what he would replace it with if they couldn't get the rights to the song. If not “Velcro Fly,” the only other song choice I could think of that would have the same effect is if the Luddites had to hear the drumbeat to “Some Like It Hot” by The Power Station again and again and again. Both of those songs have a distinct beat and both have that same cocaine-fueled, balls-to-the-wall, in-your-face sound to them. In the end, I can’t think of a better choice than “Velcro Fly.” It’s just perfect.

Remember when I bitched about King getting the lyrics to “Don’t Fear (The Reaper)” wrong in the epigraph to The Stand? Well, I’m gonna play Music Nerd(tm) and shake my fist again for a second. Eddie Dean is correct when he identifies that the song playing is “Velcro Fly.” He then proceeds to tell the Luddites, “Jesus Pumpkin-Pie Christ, don't you get it? You're killing each other over a piece of music that was never even released as a single!” The only issue with this statement is that he’s incorrect about “Velcro Fly” having not been a single. It was a single! It was the fourth and final single from Afterburner and it would end up being their last Top 40 hit (barely, it peaked at #35). I’m aware it’s pedantic, but I get a kick out of telling people more successful than me that they’re wrong.

I don’t know how loved this song is with ZZ Top fans, but I can tell you that Dark Tower fans love it. If you visit the comments section for the music video on Youtube, pretty much every comment is either quoting The Waste Lands or making some sort of reference to the series. It’s the Gen X version of JoJokes before they became popular in online classic rock spaces. Some of my favorite comments include:

If you’re a ZZ Top fan but have no idea what The Dark Tower is, I imagine these comments are very confusing to you. In a way, the comments being flooded with Dark Tower references only serves to tell me who really loves this song (and they also serve the fuckin’ beam. Do NOT forget that!)

I think the reason “Velcro Fly” has stuck with me after reading The Waste Lands is because I’m always fascinated by how a song can be created and exist in one context, only for somebody to come along years later and completely flip it on its head and change the context completely. I don’t think the Texas trio of ZZ Top could’ve ever imagined this silly little song they made on a hit album would one day go on to be featured as a gruesome and horrific plot point in some wacky guy from Maine’s epic fantasy series. It not only speaks volumes about King’s imagination that he could hear a song like “Velcro Fly” and find a way to spin horror out of it, but it also speaks to the unique ways that we can consume media and find new things and imagine things that nobody had ever thought of before. It’s like that legendary post here on Tumblr where somebody completely re-imagined Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” as a song describing an eldritch horror. Dolly Parton and ZZ Top just wrote and played songs for people to enjoy. They wrote them with their own intentions and their own interpretations and they allow people to draw their own conclusions and feelings, but I highly doubt either of them would’ve imagined that anybody could spin “Jolene” or “Velcro Fly” into genuine pieces of horror.

That’s one of the many beautiful things about art and because of King’s strange and twisted ideas regarding “Velcro Fly”, I now have a new song to enjoy and appreciate. I also now have jokes and references I can make with a fanbase of people who all liked the same book as me and all liked how this one song was used in that book. In a way, fans of this series are all connected and help create one big ka-tet, and that’s always a wonderful thing to see, regardless of the thing we’re all fans of.

To any other Dark Tower readers out there, may you all remember the faces of your fathers while listening to the pounding of the god-drums.

[bi-hans]

Top 5 movies of all time?

i can never aswer this accurately cause there's tons of movies i like a lot and can/will rewatch forever, plus i go through phases, but i'll try ig

Mortal Kombat (1995) I have some gripes with this movie but overall i love it more than those things bother me

Home Alone (1990) i usually reserve it for xmas but i could watch it on repeat anytime idc

Commando (1985) arnie has so many great lines in that movie i quote it all the time. i annoy my dad by constantly suggesting we watch it even after we literally just watched it lol

For A Few Dollars More (1965) the only western movies i like are spaghetti westerns and this one is the best imo and i love lee van cleef

Scarface (1983) this one is very conflicting for me tbh. in grade 8 is when i became aware of it and i was obsessed like it became my whole personality for a few years lmao. but now i don't really enjoy watching it anymore. which isn't to say i dislike it now, but just that i kinda find it depressing. but it genuinely is probably one of the best films ever made and for a while there in my teens it was absolutely my #1 and Tony Montana is one of my fav characters in media so it just doesn't feel right leaving it off the list.

[goblin-girl-gets-the-gold]

>PUMPKIN: Examine Posters on the Wall for hints on the RATMAN'S personality.

He only has the three posters and they seem a bit faded and aged. On the one side of the wall is one of ARNIE from the 1970s pumping iron. There is an inspirational quote on the bottom of it.

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

You are 100% sure his ass did not say that.

On the other side of the room are posters showing his love for 1980s HEAVY METAL. Man, that Dio album art kicks so much ass.

[digitalsatyr23]

I come to you with a Character Question~!

What does your character's home look like?

For this ask, I'll choose Rina's house from my Bebop Bayou series! I'll go ahead and include an excerpt from some writing I did for her to showcase her home, as well as some other descriptors.

Her family home was a sturdy wood house with a tiled roof, chimney, and a dock with a large boat fit for giants tied to the dock cleat. Climbing up the half-submerged ladder in the water, Rina stepped onto the dock and shook the water off as best as she could. She then walked upstairs to the house, dragging a bit of water and mud behind her. Outside the front door were bright red peppers hung up to dry, and with the window open, Rina could already smell her mother making roux. She sniffed the air and smiled.

The inside of the house has a large living room (to the right) and dining room (middle), with a huge table and chairs, with Rina's chair decidedly being regular-sized with tall legs. The fact is that Rina's people can grow really big (with her parents being over 10ft tall) so there's stuff that's size-appropriate for them and things size-appropriate for Rina, including a special set of cutlery just for her. Shelly (Rina's mother) spends a great deal of time in the kitchen (to the left) to keep her family fed and is very particular about how things are done, but she has taught Rina quite a lot about cooking (Shelly's recipes are derived from Cajun cuisine). The living room has a jury-rigged tv and tape/disc player that the family managed to get working, and sometimes Rina and her friends find old videos and movies they can watch. Rina and Crush (her dad) have watched a ton of old action flicks, often quoting and imitating action heroes of the past for fun. Before Rina had met humans, she was under the impression that all humans were tall, buff, and carried huge guns with them wherever they went. She still feels that these types of humans must exist somewhere since they're so good at fighting and affectionately refers to these people as "Arnies."

Because of the size differences, the front door to the house has a smaller door with a knob that Rina can use to get in and out, and the other doors are constructed in much the same way. Across from the front entrance is a hallway that leads to other rooms, with Rina's on the left and her parents' room on the right. Rina's room is very spacious, as she used to share it with her late brother, Root, though most of his belongings have been packed up and put in a storage shed that's located nearby the home. Rina has a few of his things in the room, but as you can imagine, keeping everything there would just be too painful for the family.

Of note is the one window connected to Rina's room, which has a variety of marks and holes from nails and screws in the past. Rina has a tendency to get into troublesome and dangerous situations, and Shelly (not wanting to lose her only other child) has attempted to ground and contain Rina on multiple occasions, with Rina and her friend Lafayette (a grey fox boy) coming up with more and more ways for Rina to escape. As for Rina's personal belongings, she has an old banjo, a bookshelf full of different old world books that were found and donated to the family by Old Man Eli (a snapping turtle man), some fishing supplies, and a barely functional Big Mouth Billy Bass which Rina has tinkered with on numerous occasions. It doesn't make any noise (of its own volition) but Rina got it to move around, and on rare occasions, it gets possessed by a wayward ghost which talks through the animatronic fish. Rina is used to ghosts and talking objects, though, so she isn't especially bothered by it.

In case you're wondering, Old Man Eli was the founder of Bebop Bayou and taught many of the other beast folk that live there how to use tools and construct things. He has a wealth of knowledge on construction, engineering, and other fields that proved vital to kickstarting the community. Rina's home, like other places in the bayou, get power from a large hydrogen engine that was found and secured by Eli many years ago. It requires a good deal of maintenance and no one but Eli knows how it works since it's modern tech (which many beast folk think is magic), but it runs clean, is connected to solar panels, and only requires water which gets filtered through it to power the engine and provide electricity to the whole community. This might seem strange, but it's worth noting that the setting of Bebop Bayou is quite a ways into the future, so a hydrogen engine that no longer produces NOx is just one example of the advanced technology humans and other races beyond the bayou have constructed in order to survive.

[boricuacherry-blog]

[stoxen42]

Cyberpunk RED Character idea:

A tech named Reese who is infatuated with the Terminator franchise, to the point where she is trying to build a model accurate T-800 from the first Terminator in her free time.

She has a cybereye customized to look like the piercing red eye that Arnie has after he cuts out his organic eye, she has flowy blonde hair like Sarah Connor and throws out quotes from the movie when they're applicable.

[arniarts]

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[the-firebird69]

This guy is saying that this guy's pushing him to take things I want to know where they've taken things and he said it to his people. A few minutes later they called back and they said all over here in this area it's like 1/3 of the planet it's not that huge and it's vacant land but we can be below and they don't know they pointed out our bases that are top side and there's about 20 no there's about 50 that are what they call mega class and they'd say it's an easy match for the empire. What are you letting this **** **** **** in here for to make me look bad. And he says I don't know and our son says I don't want him anywhere near me he's carving his stupid **** back and forth to his little hut. Blaming me and it's more insulting than you would ever imagine. So that's in real time right now and he says and partly and he says I don't have any time for this that's stupid **** **** has been using my carts. I'm not too. So now it's kind of a question what does that mean using my carts And what is a see through screen on a boat so now we're going to nail that piece of crap twice once with the ai story and now we're going to nail with this screen **** that he's doing and Tano cover it's a convertible or something which might mean heads and we're going ahead and getting him and his and we're going ahead and getting him and his boys are up it says it's well worth it mac getting mad at you. So don't let it be habit but I do see what you're saying you're a thinker and it's dangerous and you thought about it and we're thinking about together which is different but yeah this is wrong this guy is a huge loser now I'm going after him. So he said that and he is going after them thankfully and Ben Arnold hears it and says wow we're messing around with him and it's wrong and he's thinking about the problem. And he says what is he saying he's he's karting. So he went to records and he found out what particular pieces and it looks like what our son and daughter are saying. We're gonna have a war and the max are probably and the max are probably gonna get interested because he's saying it about them too.

Thor Freya

I'm actually not laughing it's not funny but I am laughing 'cause they bothered him and we're just not paying attention it's the dumbest show you have ever seen. My kids feel bad and they get it we're stuck in this mental hospital it means something as these **** doing it. So we have to look at the way that it is cheap easy simple code and Dave had code like that too and he's using it within theirs and we're going ahead and examining it. Some nasty **** that we have to figure out about the AI too. I thank my friend he thanks me he got the laundry done he didn't explode until he's riding along and people are threatening him and I do see and it's awful what a bunch of turds he told them that he lives up there he's going to take over and he knows who's coming down and they always pretend they're him and Arnie's around he says Arnie is probably alive and you never heard anybody for the most part i'm starting to see something he's trying to survive and it's hard I am too and he realizes I'm helping and I helped by sitting there because we don't want the guy there and I get a lot of information so I'm going to trade off for the guys and Michael too has information he sat here forever. We're gonna ask him. Thank you for coming down says no problem i'm keeping everybody out of there so you don't have to work. Well they dropped their laundry off and they come by and see how it's going and really what they're doing is driving by and harassing us. He says that's good enough for a week or two good God this is good quotes this is gross they're like animals and they had this plan to take over they still think they're big we're going to get on this and Garth was right.

mac daddy

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