#robin shou is the only liu kang to me now fuck it

[arttrampbelle]

To kill off shang tsung right away and so easy mkes me hate this game. Hate goku kang. And hate annoying fanboys who oogle after this version of "liu kang".

Im sorry but i really do hate this liu kang. I really do. And if any of you hd any shred of respect for these characters. You'd understand why im pissed.

And the amount of badassry we got from tagawa s shang in 11 and the decent performance of liu in 11. (I say decent as i hate god liu kang anyways. But he wasn't infuriatingly insufferable as he seems in 12's teaser trailer. Ugh) im sorry in what fucking world is shang taken out that fucking easy?

Making shang tsung that fucking weak after he bodies people is ridiculous.

And not to mention. Sucking liu kangs dick and nrs making him "uwu special boy" isn't gonna make him likeable or worth it.

Turning liu kang into a mockery of his character and going ham with the whole "chosen one" and "golden child" is lowkey racist too.

Not to mention these fans be pissing me off. Im sorry goku kang needs to fucking go. Someone fucking kill him off already!

It sucks whenever im looking up shang tsung shit i get nothing but people happy about him dying,praising goku god kang,or people showcasing shangs "teaser trailer death"

LIKE WE GET IT YOU WANNA SUCC GOD LIU KANGS DICK. YOU GOT YOUR HAPPY PRECIOUS ENDING!!!!

Leave shang tsung alone. Leave other characters alone. Like god damn. Its already irritating i have to hear the bullshit greedy corporate news about this bum ass game.

Its another i have to have people shit on my main because these fanboys dont know when to quit. Ugh!

Like i hope onaga is in this game so he can wreck bitch god kang to the netherealm or better yet the void,in the trash bin, Where he belongs.

Not my liu kang. Not my liu kang.

I have to block blogs now that keep showing my main dying. Like they did this with kung lao,now shang?! Wtaf?!

Ugh. Im done man.

[docholligay]

How was Mortal Kombat?

It was badly written, but I expected that! The 90s one isn't winning any goddamn awards, admittedly, but I think it captured the ridiculous spirit of the game in a lot of ways.

And don't misunderstand me, I think Mortal Kombat should ALWAYS have been rated R, it's a video that has always relished in its sheer gore and that's an important component of what it IS, you know? So that was great.

ANd also admittedly, the game is MUCH MUCH more unwieldy now than it was when the 95 movie was made. The lore has sort of gone everywhere and now there are vampires and time travel and oh my god Holligay why do you know all this, you shame your literature degree.

But still, I felt it did what I was afraid it would do--it took itself to seriously to be silly, and so in having to CONSIDER it as a serious movie, I noticed all the ways it fell down.

For starters, I know the studio required Cole Young to be there but MY GOD, was that a huge fucking distraction from what could have been going on in the movie. We have far, far too many characters with far far too many independent motivations and plots and any ONE of them could have made a good movie, but ALL of them just makes a confusing soup.

FOr example, they clearly wanted this movie to be about Sub-Zero and Scorpion's whole ~~drama~~ and I LOVE Scorpion and Sub-Zero's whole drama. But it never explains anything about it, and I don't need there to be a drawn out chart or nothing, but if you don't know MK lore? Fuck you, pal. Sub-Zero going "For the Lin Kuei," who the fuck are the Lin Kuei, a reasonable person not wasting their brain cells on MK lore might ask? You don't need to know, the movie says. "Why is Bi-Han so familiar with 1600s Japan if he's Chinese, and why the fuck is he obsessed with the Shirai Ryu?" REASONABLE! the movie thinks you should shut up and Cole drag out Scorpion's knife for the final fight for...reasons???

DOn't get me wrong, I fucking LOVE Sub-Zero and Scorpion's whole thing!! I would have ADORED a movie about their rivalry and Scorpion coming back from hell to kill SUb-Zero. LOVED. THe first 7 minutes of the movie? HOnestly the best. Into it. But in competition with every other story they were trying to tell, it got lost. The field of this story is TOO CROWDED.

SO like, when Kung Lao gets killed, we feel zero emotional resonance as Liu Kang says, "We were to die, we were supposed to do it together." compelling, if I knew fuck all about their story or closeness or anything like that, but his death came across as meaningless and pointless. Liu Kang's story could have ALSO been its own (much better) movie.

I did not like the Cole Young story at all. He's not an MK character, he was stock and flat, ~inspired by his family~, insert character here type. He bored the shit out of me.

But you know the WORST sin? The fight choreography was not great. You make me a high budget MK movie, I expect GREAT fight choreography. Sub-Zero and Scorpion were pretty good, but everyone else was terribly wanting, with an overuse of special effects and most of them shot in that close, choppy style that helps hide that the actors have no clue how to fight, and that annoying sped up style that tries to convince you mastery is happening here. And a little of that as a decadent seasoning is fine, but it was 85% of the fight scenes. I DON'T WANT YOU TO ACT THE FIGHT SCENES ARE THE REASON I'M HERE. That was the one thing that made me go, "THis isn't fun" was that failure. The 95 movie sucks in many ways, but it also actually involves Robin SHou (Liu Kang) showing he can fight. WHERE ARE YOU ROBIN WE NEED A HERO.

And supposedly Ludi Lin (Liu Kang, present) can fight also??? So why are we DOING THIS??? Why am I not being treated to WILD ASS FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY.

I actually liked the Arcana concept, which is a movie only thing, as an explanation for Earth folks having powers. A good, quick explanation, I think a lot of fun could be had with the idea, I'm VERY into it.

BUt the whole movie was a mess, and more than that, the whole movie was a fucking training sequence. WE DO NOT ACTUALLY SEE MORTAL KOMBAT AND WE HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN RID OF SUB ZERO, SCORPION, KABAL, NITARA, GENERAL REIKO, KANO, AND KUNG LAO.

Now a handful of those names most people don't know but there are also REAL HEAVY HITTERS FOR THE NOSTALGIA SET.

I'm sure I'll have more "and another thing!!" stuff later, but for now, these were my main issues.

[saltine-kakyoin]

OH SHIT!!!! my clown ass never saw that u rb'd those ask posts, i was Looking at my notifs to see if u would so i could send u some but SOMEHOW I MISSED IT??? clown hours.... ANyways for the emoji one have 🤗💙💘🍀😇 and 👍 (tried to not do repeats from your ask 2 me cause they all apply anyways but, Regardless) and for the questions post, maybe 5, 11, 12, 17, 20, 23 and 25? ;__;/ ily so much and i hope u have a rlly lovely night!!! and that this coming week is kinder 2 u!!!! 💖💖💖💖

ahhh, it’s no worries!!! idk about you but for me, tumblr has been having the Time of Its LIFE lately wrt notifications and most disconcertingly, unfollowing people! D: so i completely get it, it’s no worries!!! ;w;/ i already know for a Fact i’m going to write so so much, so i’m gonna put this under a readmore >w< ruth 🤝 sarah respectful lesbian moments

edit: so I finished writing it and it’s Insanely Long- just in case you don’t make it to the bottom, thank you mein broth-er!!!! ; O; i hope you have a wonderful night too!! writing all of this out made me reminisce on some really nice times, and I’m having an a1 night! ^^ ilysm! it’ll probably be daytime when you read this, so i hope you have a great day! <3

🤗 given the chance I would gladly hug you

on god!!!! ;___; i think i would frfr dissolve if a got a Ruth-Certified hug, things have been so overwhelming lately

💙 you are my closest friend

the feeling is mutual!! <3 we don’t always get to talk often, but fhdhshg when we do we talk about like All of the Madness in Sarah’s Mind^tm, and you are so patient + tolerant of my incoherent ramblings which is something i don’t think i’ve ever fully experienced? anyhow, after a year (more than a year?) of having these kinds of convos and going through the general madness of life together, I totally agree ;w;

💘 I love you so much

i love you too!!! so so much!!! 💃🕺 i don’t think words will ever be able to express how much i love and appreciate you! 💜💛

🍀 i’m lucky to have met you

i know we talk about this often, but seriously i feel the same way! it’s a little crazy that we met, technically, because Joseph Joestar tm deserved more than to be a cheater... there is something hilarious about this wild friendship rooting from him!! of all jojos!! 🤢 but i’m so grateful that we met, it’s been such a wonderful ride ;w; <3

😇 you’re a sweet cinnamon bun

🥺🥺🥺🥺 bro i- fhdhghdhgh thank you!!! ;o;

👍 you are fun to be around

ahhh, thank you!!! i am glad you feel this way bc whoo boy, i think some other people would look at the madness i tell you about and go 👁️👁️ that’s a no for me, luvs. remember last year when i was losing it tryna prepare for ren faire + i cut my palm on that one glass bottle? bc a- i barely do and b- i feel like that moment encapsulates the nicki minaj roman holiday-ness of my life XD i’m really grateful you’ve stuck around through it all 🤗💕💖

now buckle in bro!!!! the essays are incoming!!!

5. Name a movie that makes you genuinely laugh.

i swear on my life the Mortal Kombat movie from 1995 is a national treasure, it is SUCH a solid movie and has so many funny moments. Robin Shou makes such a 🥺🥺 Liu Kang, and jesus fuck he can be so savage when the script calls for it!! there’s one part where he takes Johnny Cage’s luggage and straight up fucking chucks it into the ocean + then bullies him about it later! honestly the Ballad of Johnny Cage and His Luggage is one of my favorite parts from the movie <3 if you haven’t seen it + you like cheesy, old school movies, i really recommend it!!!

11. Describe the memory of the last time you felt true happiness.

So I can’t remember the last time I did, bc my memory is horrifically terrible + probably getting worse as time goes on?? but i will tell you about one of the more recent times I remember! :D There is one crucial expository note for this memory- my brother-in-law makes THE best chili in the entire world. my brother and I were trying to recreate it because it’s such a simple but delicious + filling meal- I think this was our first time trying to create it? and it was SO chaotic, the tomato sauce and stuff kept popping and burning me and we weren’t 100% certain that we’d gathered the right ratios for the ingredients and it was just. madness lmao. Chance’s chili is one that you leave alone for multiple hours at a time (I think this is the case for all chili but i don’t cook often enough to know ;__;), and we were kinda 👀👀👀 because we weren’t sure it’d turn out right? But it did!!!! I vividly remember when it was finished and we taste-tested it + went oOOH FUCK! it wasn’t quite the same as chance’s but ohhh my god it was so good 🥰🥰🥰 but yeah!! we ate it all up and I think this was around the time I started my playthrough of Esteban for Dragon Age 2? which was one of my favorite playthroughs for the entire franchise... he’s just a simple ig beard model mage ;w; i wanted to show you what he looked like in this post but the formatting went wonky so ig i’ll just post him separately?? it’s 1000% in-character for him to infiltrate my jojo blog 😔

12. Name a song that makes you feel ethereal.

hm...I’d say it’s between Forget About or Feet of Clay! They’re both such light and tenderhearted songs, and when I listen to them I feel like I’m in an apartment kitchen slow-dancing with a love, and it’s so dark except for the slowly rising sun. I don’t know if that feeling could be described as ethereal? but it’s close enough for me

17. What is something you own that is important to you? What makes it so important?

I have a small collection of scripts from the shows I’ve been in, and two of the most important ones are from the plays my high school put on during my sophomore and junior years, The Nit-Wits and The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, respectively! The Nit-Wits has a ton of sentimental value to me because it was the last show I genuinely acted in, and it was a show we had to pull together in 2 or 3 weeks!! We were originally going to do a murder mystery play for the fall, but none of the cast was feeling it and it just wasn’t going to come to life in time (honestly this speaks volumes for how much we weren’t vibing with it, because all of our shows came together at like.. the final dress rehearsals if not opening night lmao). I vividly remember we took a vote during rehearsals about whether or not to switch the show, and then we did and it was SO fun + chaotic!! My character was one of the only regular characters in the show, but I think everyone else had a lot of fun acting as actors who were hired to be maniacal, and that made acting off of them so fun! I remember there was also a night my friend Adonis almost tore the entire set down because he ran through a door and tripped over a set brace in his haste!! The Nit-Wits is hugely important because it was a really fresh acting experience for me, and again, my last time genuinely on the stage and not behind the scenes!

MCM is important to me because it was the first play I ever stage managed! I’d stage managed our musical the spring prior, but that was a huge undertaking and involved many different people and moving parts. Stage managing a play, at least at my high school, was a calmer and more intimate experience, and one I really enjoyed! Another huge reason I treasure MCM’s script is because it is one of the last shows I had with my friend I told you about- he was a senior. I have little notes and doodles from the cast and crew scattered throughout my book for this show, and I remember being so irritated by this because it meant I was losing space for stage directions, cues, and notes. Now, I’m super grateful to have these scribbles- it’s one of the only things I have left of him. 

On that note, relating to him, MCM is also the show which birthed my most horrific theater horror story!! During one of the performances, I guess he forgot his line?? idk. But he ended up jumping six pages ahead of where the current scene was (I knew this bc I was following along in my book backstage + was frantically trying to figure out where he’d gone), which threw the entire cast, who were all tragically onstage, way off-track. This resulted in the most frightening game of script ping-pong I’ve ever seen: he’d skipped six pages ahead, so Adonis ended up saying a line from two pages after the six-page skip, and somehow someone else went!! oh I have a response to that line! And then said something like 9 pages back! I think the lead actress tried to ground everyone back to the lines they were supposed to be saying, but she ended up just saying a lot of their lines? And one of those lines that was supposed to be said by someone else was supposed to cue a black-out that someone got murdered in, but my lighting techie was SO fucking lost (we were both huddled over the script next to the breaker trying to figure out WHERE the hell we were! i think i had a flashlight in my mouth so I could flip through the book with both hands and thus faster??), so ofc the lights stayed up! I remember getting through this scene being the most painstaking endeavor of my entire life, but thankfully intermission was right after it! We actually extended intermission because the cast needed a hot second to fuckign RESET for Act 2 bc sweet jesus that was so bizarre...Needless to say, after that show we never messed that scene up again + everyone who acted in the show became super anal about knowing their lines as the years went on. The Six Page Skip became a legendary part of our hs theater Canon (like biblical canon ;w; although I don’t think anyone’s talked about it since my class graduated) alongside the times one of our ensemble dudes had to break through the roof of the girl’s dressing room to retrieve the keys to the theater + i got stuck on stage!

20. What’s the sweetest thing someone has done for you?

I really had to wrack my brain to answer this one, as I’m generally not the person people do things for, you know? This answer goes wayyy back, to 8th grade :O but so! there is mild exposition for this- when I started middle school, I lived in North Carolina, but we moved to Florida right before 7th grade bc my grandma is ill. We lived with my uncle while we were looking for a house, so I went to the local middle school bc why wouldn’t I? but in November, we finally found a house + my mom was like....So... are you going to switch schools or...I’d struck up some really solid friendships in this time, so i was like Mom I’d Rather Die OAO. So, we struck up a deal that I’d get to stay at that school on a zone waiver + that she’d drive me to school everyday. Sometime closer to the end of eighth grade she was like, yeah so.. I can’t do this for high school, it’s too much gas- which was valid! I was really sad about it, but I sucked it up.

Anyhow, fast forward to the last day of eighth grade, which was perhaps the saddest day I’d lived up until that point, mostly bc I knew I was probably never going to see all my friends again. My best friend, who I was like hardcore v close to + the person I shared all my wacky AUs and OC’s and headcanons with, was waiting with me for my mom to come pick me up, and then!!! When my mom pulled into the school she suddenly whipped out this lengthy letter she’d written to me about how much she enjoyed my friendship and how grateful she was that we were able to have lunch together (lunch was.. tragically ;__; the only time we really saw each other that year), and that she would never forget me! And she’d drawn me a ton of fanart from all the things I was obsessed with back then!! it was so much so fast, but then my mom was yelling at me to get in the car and I had to go :(

We kept in touch through email freshman year + fake-dated bc a senior was stalking me? ;J; and then we went to Megacon together! but I became really heavily involved in choir and theater after that, and we just kind of drifted apart :( we do follow each other on ig tho! It’s insane to think about her and that letter because on GOD ruth, that was a thinly veiled love letter and I never like... wrote her anything back that was as worthy as what she wrote me. But, she’s doing really well in uni now, so I guess it’s all okay? idk! ; o ;

23. What’s your zodiac sign? Do you think you fit the general characteristics of that sign?

I’m a Cancer!! and also a metal dragon by the Chinese Zodiac, which I’ve always thought was pretty sick! :3 I am 10000% your stereotypical Cancer, super emotional and introspective + often prone to tears ;u; My mom always said that dragons are steadfast and loyal people, and I think this also applies to me, to a fault. I checked around some websites to see what characteristics were often applied to metal dragons specifically, and it seems they are pretty strong-willed, ambitious, and generous? I don’t know if you could call me strong-willed or ambitious, but it’s all good ig.

25. What’s a song that gives off good vibes anytime you listen to it?

Ohh man, I went in on this question for Shannon, but bc I was digging around my library for Jules, I actually found an old fave! This song is from one of my all-time favorite musicals, Once on This Island- it’s The Human Heart! This song is so sweet, and god between the writing for the orchestra + the writing for the ensemble, this song is a straight masterpiece <3 I love love love the line, “Through your love you’ll live forever”, and although I am Hardcore Terrified of getting a tattoo, I really want that line tattooed on my body. if you have time, I recommend giving Once on This Island a listen!! I’ve never heard a show that uses its instruments and singers the way OoTI does (and holy FUCK it is so breathtaking live!!! I got to see it on Broadway and bro.... 🥺🥺 it was transcendental..)