#send me out with a bang

[thetreestumptherapist]

Y'ALL I MADE SOMETHING FOR 1/17

I need to infodump about the thought that went into making this video. Please watch it before reading the rest of this post to avoid spoilers for the video because I will be going IN DEPTH in my self-analysis.

So, many thoughts.

First, this whole video came to be because I had the twisted idea to put Johnson's line "send me out with a bang" directly over the sadder and slow version of "let's go out with a bang". I am very pleased with how it came out.

Second, I made this with iMovie on my old iPhone, so please excuse anything that could have been done better. I am aware of it, I just couldn't really do anything about it because I didn't have the tools or didn't know how to use them.

Now, about the video itself.

The synchronization of the clips with the song makes me so happy and gives me all the satisfaction dopamine.

I love the line "the rumpus and ruckus are comfortable now" for Chief. It describes how he's grown comfortable with the chaos of war and it makes me sad to think about it.

It switching to him in the cryo pod as the song says "so I got an apartment" was intentional. The questionable hilarity of the song going "quinoa in my fridge" as we zoom in on Chief in a cryo pod did not escape my attention even though it was on accident. But when he steps out of it and we get that "bang Bang BANG" and it's perfectly synchronized? Makes me so happy.

Pausing to say, I'm not trying to brag about how well I can make a music edit, I am just losing my mind at how well it actually came out. And I am still getting the satisfaction of a job well done from it. So I apologize for that. Now, back to the video.

When it switches to the marines preparing and the song goes "so put your best face everybody, pretend you know this song everbody" it's like it's saying "you've need to be at your best right now. You've never done this before, but pretend you know what you're doing" to the marines about fighting the covenant. This was only half intentional. However, the foreshadowing of it being focused on Johnson while going "let's go out with a bang" in this section was not intentional at all but I am happy that it happened.

Skipping over the scene of Chief and Johnson for now, except for Chief's fist pounding as the song goes "bang" again. I am a sucker for synchronization.

I tried to use a lot of parallels and comparisons. So, him blowing up the scarab and walking out of the smoke switching to him walking away from the burning AA gun felt like a good way to switch from two to three.

Now, this scene here. With Chief looking at the sky as the lyrics "thank you all for coming" feels like he's thanking them for the back up or something. And then the line "Hope you like the show " as the ships are flying overhead feels like an air show and a quip from the pilots as they get ready to blow something up. As well as "Because it's on a budget" alluding to the fact that their resources are spread thin at this point. So, I am really happy with these lines being there.

"So put your best face on everybody" as it switches to the cockpit at the front of the pelican was intentional. And then "let's hang" as the group is "hanging out" in the air. I like this part too. But the next part is what makes me really happy.

The song going "let's go out with a bang" as the ship gets hit, and then then running into the other ship as the song goes "bang Bang BANG". I am especially proud of this part.

Skipping over Chief and Johnson too young and too old section for a bit again, but I have to point out Chief grabbing Johnson's arm and it panning to Chief as the song goes "bang Bang BANG" feels like a big reveal and was half intentional.

Now, it going from the beginning of the game to the end was intentional. And again, I love the parallel.

Pausing again to say, I am analyzing this video the same way I would analyze any other edit. The only difference is, I know exactly what was intentional, what was not, and the thoughts that went into it. Again, not trying to brag. Just doing a heavy analysis of my own video.

"Put your best face on" as guilty spark turns red. I like the irony. I can't remember if it was intentional or not though.

Obviously, "let's go out with a bang" at the EXACT same time as "send me out with a bang" is symbolic.

Now, for the too young too old parts. Throughout the entire song Chief has been too young, and Johnson has been too old. But here, Cortana's too young and Chief is too old. This is important for a few reasons. One, Johnson is still very capable despite his age, so technically not "too old". But, he is older than Chief. Two, Chief is also not getting any younger. Three, and most importantly, in the next game, Cortana is the one to fall apart due to old age. Not Chief. I may have to make a sequel edit tying into this one to show that. Idk.

And the ring lighting as the song goes "bang" was absolutely intentional and took some tweaking to make it work.

The song didn't end softly like I needed it to, so I took a part from the middle and tacked it onto the end. "Everybody come hang" as Thel sits in the pilot seat feels like it means something, but I can't figure out what. Thinking about it now, it's kind of like he's saying "everybody hang on" as he gets ready to pilot the ship away.

I kind of feel like tacking One Final Effort onto the end of the video feels like a cheap emotional grab, but at the same time it feels kind of wrong to make a H3 video and not feature One Final Effort somehow. I don't know that I like it there, but my sibling said to keep it. So, what are y'all's opinions on that?

I think this concludes my infodump about this video. I apologize for any audio issues. iMovie doesn't have a lot of audio adjusting abilities so some things may be louder than others. I purposely made the ending of the song a little quieter after Johnson died. I don't know if that was a good idea or not, but it's like that now.

So, what are y'all's thoughts on the video?

[msdanvers]

» SUPERCORP FANFICTION SERIES (14/?) ↳ the body swap episode by teaRexis for the @supercorpbb (read it here)

[annabelle--cane]

staring down this wip doc like I'm the county sheriff and this town ain't big enough for the both of us

[zarnzarn]

nsft odypen art below!

maintenance overstim <3

[flyingmintbunny0]

Heyyyy, can I interest you in an Archivist!Martin AU maybe?

@lelouchootori and I decided we could simultaneously make TMA better and worse, so please enjoy these snippets I had to draw that have taken over my life pfff

Slightly more context below the cut

So basically, the main plot is what if Martin is such a Fear Avatar magnet that Elias promotes Martin over Jon prior to season 1 (Sorry again Sasha).

In this #cracktreatedseriously au Martin (financially and emotionally unable to stay in his apartment after bringing his mother to the nursing home) ends up becoming roommates with Annabelle Cane, Jane Prentiss, and Jude Perry on Hill Top Road. Sitcom shenanigans and drama ensue. For instance, Martin is still Marked by the Corruption by Jane Prentiss, but only because he accidentally ate the spoiled food she left in the fridge for her worms. (He had to stay home sick from work for a while after that.)

In the archives, Jon, Tim, and Sasha are brought in with Martin as his assistants. Jon gets to be his moody self but without any of the boss-level power. Tim and Sasha realize how ill-fitted Martin is for this new job and try to help him as best they can.

There is more to it but this is just the first pic lol

I had so much fun putting tiny details in here, my favorite was giving Martin lil spider friends because they love him <3

[seorikkun]

keeping a close watch on wolfchan!!

for @ggthydrangea / thank you @agibbangs for the help and guidance

[notpaulsguitar]

i fear that pinterest is trying to tell me something, it’s quite the clear message actually

late night happenings on call with @l00k-its-rock-and-roll

[batsplat]

something something the way valentino wanted to destroy gibernau that bad. like for a while there sete did live rent free in his mind I guess. I do realize that vale was using the whole situation to like you said motivate himself but still!

jerez last lap when valentino makes that mistake and runs wide and lets sete through... is it possible to more visibly panic when riding a motorcycle. like valentino just freaks at the idea that he might be letting sete win, immediately gets super shaky as he hops on sete's rear tyre. his own front tyre off the ground right before he sends it on sete's inside in a move that - let's be honest - just wasn't gonna do it. once sete re-overtakes, valentino really only has a few seconds to make his choice, and in the end he decides he'd rather take them both out than let sete beat them. like?? I think when people discuss parallels between vale and a certain other rider, it's always important to remember that valentino isn't really that aggressive on a normal day... he's also really not particularly reckless, like that's why he has a reputation for being an aggressive rider but still in his prime/late prime (basically pre-2011) he also had a super low crash rate. what valentino is all about his calculated aggression, he's very deliberate with what he thinks he can get away with - and when he noticeably escalates the aggression in a way that is also pretty risky for him, it usually tells you something special is going on. the other obvious example is laguna '08, but that was the epitome of calculated aggression: he knew exactly what he was going to do because he decided he had to send casey a message

this last corner move isn't a message. this isn't calculated. it had been job done, lead taken three laps before the end, very cool and calm and clever, but then valentino slips up. and he cannot let sete win. he can't! what does he do if he can't find the inside line, just barrel into sete? like, it's not that the move is even that egregious (I mean it kinda is but also we're all a bit desensitised these days, 2013 was obviously even sillier) and, yes, sete was just plain unlucky to get injured from that contact. but the thing is, if that move ends up being even riskier, if valentino is in an even worse position, valentino fully sends it anyway. like he was always going to send it in that corner. of course he was

it's kinda... it's so revealing, what you get when you really get his back against the wall. what he did in 2004 when he was truly under pressure in the championship picture basically for the first time, how he still went for sete's throat last lap of phillip island... genuinely that's a situation where basically every other rider settles for second because you have a championship to wrap up, except maybe marc and honestly in that specific situation even he might have left it to just the one last lap mov- actually you know what never mind, okay maybe two riders who would've gone for it in that situation. and in basically every other situation against any other rival, valentino doesn't go for it either. phillip island 2009 isn't a matchpoint race and valentino probably didn't have anything for casey that day anyway, but he could've pushed it a bit harder and maybe at least tried to show a front wheel here or there. and that's arguably a less precarious championship situation than phillip island was. but he wouldn't get that kind of head loss over casey! he wouldn't get that kind of head loss over jorge either! but however much he enjoys winning, however much he enjoys, uh, not crashing, all of that can actually go out of the window when he faces someone who he NEEDS to beat

I really stand by this tbh:

like ffs, it's such massive head loss to go on national television and promise your rival who was nominally still your friend 24 hours ago is never going to win another race in his life. we kinda roll with it now because he managed to pull it off but he shouldn't have. this should have been CRAZY hubris from this mfer but now it's like 'wow he really did break that guy'. I know this may be controversial, but I still reckon it is the biggest case of genuine head loss in his entire career - mainly because it's such a spontaneous reaction and had this heat-of-the-moment insanity. makes me furious that this worked. sete got five pole positions in 2005!! FIVE! it's not like he suddenly got slow overnight! he didn't win ANY of them!! sick sick stuff

yeah, valentino motivated himself through sete... but it is kinda crazy, to what extent that motivational process outlived sete being a competitive threat. what's really fun to me about this rivalry is that... you know, nowadays that kind of friendship would be way harder to just erase. we'd have all this footage to go back to, so many more little hints and bits of interviews to work with, probably some instagram posts from ibiza, to have as a record of what that relationship once was. but with them? they were title rivals and they were friends - and they weren't talking about their friendship in interviews before it all fell apart. so now it's just sort of... gone. they went on holidays together, even when they were title rivals - and the best evidence we have for that are the commentators talking about it at brno 2003. we have no clue why they got on in the first place, we don't know how they managed that friendship as title rivals before the disaster. it's still one of the most striking things about the whole thing to me... because it's just a bit further back in the past, valentino really could make the friendship vanish at the time of his choosing. the way you can really tell that sete got to him is how there's basically no sign left of their friendship. valentino erased sete from his autobiography and he's erased him from the story of his whole career more often than not. and that's how you know sete really got into valentino's head... through the weight of valentino's cold indifference

[blujayonthewing]

I CANNOT DECIDE whether I want a Combat little guy or a Little Guy Flavored little guy

[bogkeep]

my special skill is that i'm not afraid of emails. in fact i vastly prefer sending emails because i can do it whenever i have time... the alternative is usually making phone calls, and the phone call times are pretty much always work hours at work days, AKA the SAME TIME AS WHEN I'M AT SCHOOL!!!! this really sucks if the only time i have the opportunity to sit down and do Important Paperwork Stuff is the weekend or the evenings!!! Let Me Send A Written Message Please Please Please

[lavenderbang]

I swear, my brain looks like:

Chan Chan Chan Chan Chan Bang Chan Christopher Bang Mr Bang Chan Channie Chan CHAN CHANNNN omg Bin? Seo Changbin?? The most precious man on earth Changbin!! Binnie !!! Oh but Minho… Jisung…. Minsung omg I love them- also Hyun. And! And! Seungmin too!! 148 frfr WAIT ALSO JEONGIN HELLO??????

<Felix3 lixie~

…

C H A N M Y B E L O V E D bangchanbangchanbangchanbangchanbangchanbangchanbangchanbang-

[gaybd1]

i am ON my desktop i am LOCKED IN it is 3:12pm and i am NOT getting off this computer until i finish this hifthah chapter i am MOTIVATED to write whooooooo

[geeneelee]

do you have any other hc's about Kim's past?

Most of these were made up on the spot but yes, I do!

He didn't have many friends as a kid, essentially none until high school, and often hung out with neighborhood cats instead.

He owned a big book of puzzles - mazes, crosswords, word-searches and the like - that he would solve, erase, then put away until he had forgotten the answers and do them again. He did this until the pages tore from being written on and erased over and over again.

He got good at folding paper from teaching himself to make complex paper airplanes. He was always very smug about beating other kids at paper plane races.

He struggled to socialize with kids his own age, but could get along well with adults. The adults at the orphanage liked him well enough but didn't have time to spend on kids who "didn't need help", so he often wandered the neighborhood and made friends with the less hostile adults - some of the food stall owners, an old man who played chess with strangers, and an old butch mechanic. He liked to sit outside her garage, watching her work on machines and listen in on her radio, and eventually she invited him in and showed him the basics.

His glasses frames were 50% tape by weight from being broken so many times. Kim hated having to wear them, but not being able to read and constantly tripping would be even more embarrassing.

Kim had lots of dreams about flying, and nightmares about being eaten by wild animals after the orphanage played them a children's movie about a boy who gets stranded in the wilderness.

He had a really obnoxious phase where he was a zealous Dolorian. It makes him cringe to look back on now.

The adults at the orphanage tried to gift him some Seolite-themed donations - usually bad children's books. He threw it away, even though he felt bad for being wasteful.

He liked drawing wurms on everything.

[oh-no-its-bird]

Adjusting my glasses and squinting at my ask box

One of you guys REALLY wants edo tensei tobirama huh

[rpfisfine]

youtube.com/watch?v=CDrrKAqXp2Q&t=15618s

hi, i think you should watch this hasan vod with alex and aleksa

it’s actually the same stream as when they went shopping with xqc (but before xqc arrived)

anyway, they join at about 3:51:18, and the first ten minutes (like until 4:01:28) are especially good i think, though there are some good moments throughout

also please watch aleksa at 4:09:22

hiiiiiiii thank you so much for this rec there were so many insane moments that i was forced to strip this comp back to the basics bc the file wouldve been too big otherwise but i think this should still be a pretty exhaustive selection:

the cum eating / cum retention story

"i think i wasn't ready for alex's severe and intense training regime. he ended up putting me in the hospital during one of our spars... which is nice. 😁"

hasan being glad he didn't have to fight alex + saying he looks like a ufc fighter + alex: "i feel like you would still smash me."

"[alex] looks like he grew up in dagestan punching rocks"

aleksa: "alex would just dominate me the entire time"

alex complimenting aleksa

"we weren't going that hard, it's more just [alex] got, like, the sweet spot" (??????)

alex saying he was worried he would appear weak "because hasan's so big" Okay

(my personal favorite) them discussing alex's unreal physique + aleksa saying how annoying it is when he randomly starts working out at home + calling alex a weirdo + "just go bat off like everyone else"

hasan giving alex his shirt + alex saying he looks "like a schoolchild" with rolled down sleeves

"you guys bang each other? all the time." and aleksa's intriguing reaction

aleksa's obsession with bass pro shops shirts

aleksa talking abt wanting to show hunter biden's cock on twitter to alex

[jeahreading]

Fine listen

(Long rant upcoming about my love life....more like failed love life)

DJ yesterday was bullshit up until like the last 15 mins of my time there. The guy was an amazing singer but GODDAMIT PEOPLE ARE HERE TO DANCE ON MERA NAAM MERY HAIN AND SHEILA KI JAWANI, not some roadside mellow english song T_T.

sooo, I was very confident yesterday I looked fabulous for the first time in forever, i had a red lip and fishnets and a pretty short dress(WHICH KEPT RIDING UP OMG I THINK I WAS BUSY PULLING DOWN MY DRESS MORE THAN I WAS DANCING).

So was like *deeeeeeeeeeeeep brethes* i'm gonna ask out a girl today(I had asked her out earlier and she'd said yes for a date but for reasons we couldn't meet up and it kinda just fizzled out after that), so I took her aside when the music wasn't too loud or important, and I basically rambled "My father, ever the wingman, gave me courage, and btw you don't have to answer me or anything, and if you say no this changes nothing we are still best friend and ily platonically<3, but you maybe wanna go on a date on me, ik im asking for the second time haha lmao, oh wait, i forgot to ask, are you even single, you're probably not haha"

And she looked so sympathetic, she was like "The guy who has been standing beside me the entire time is actually my boyfriend, I'm so sorry, I swear this Changes nothing I still luv you bestie mwah"(kissed my cheek).

And qe were hugging like for sure dw bout it, just shooting my shot, if you even break up, call me up jk haha lmao.

Okay, but to be fair, I had a GINORMOUS crush on her in 2023, and then throughout 24, it kind of just died down a little. I still really like her, but she's not occupying my every thought like before. I'm still disappointed, and I would absolutely jump at the opportunity if she's single again, but it's fine. I'm not crying over it; I'm just a little sad.

but BRO her bf is like a fucking tank, I noticed later that guy was standing and looking us over the entire time, Not in a creepy way he wasn't listening in, and she prob won't tell him but more of, i swear if something happens to my gf i will rip you to shreds kinda guy.

Damn man.