#sj gary

[smuby]

i gave cancer socks because i dunno how to draw feet

this episode was sweet, but i don’t think i will ever watch it again. why couldn’t cancer be a reoccurring character huh. why couldn’t we see her around the prison being raised by ash HUH.

[cattowersjails]

More SJ dump!

[calithecretin]

Some more human bird since you guys seemed to like her! :)

Finally got some time off from finals studying to make these. I’m really glad one of my art pieces I’m proud of got traction.

(By the way, you guys are free to use my human bird design. All I ask is that you properly credit me as the creator of the design, and please keep it SFW. Also please don’t ship her with any of the human/alien characters on the show, even if she’s a human in the design, she’s still very much a bird in the show and any kind of shipping with canonically human characters makes me deeply uncomfortable. Thank you.)

[virtualplushy]

sjs: planktoooOoooOoOOOOoon

gary gary gary ‼️

[glassprism]

I don't know if you've answered this question before, but do you have favorite Phantom/Christine pairings?

I have answered it before, but not too recently, so maybe it's time to make a big ole updated masterpost of all my favorites as of now!

Keep in mind that if a name isn't on here, it doesn't mean they're not a favorite or whatever, it might just mean I never saw them with a Phantom or Christine I particularly liked (e.g. Gina Beck is an all-time favorite but she's not on here because I never really saw her opposite a Phantom I also really enjoyed) or I preferred a slightly different pairing (e.g. I really liked Franc D'Ambrosio with Lisa Vroman but I slightly preferred the latter with Brad Little). And there may be one or two where I could not decide at all (e.g. do I prefer Kelly Mathieson with David Thaxton or Josh Piterman? I can't tell!). Anyway, here they are:

Michael Crawford/Sarah Brightman - The OG cast. It can't be helped, they both had such unique takes on the role and it makes them one of the most memorable pairings for me.

Dave Willetts/Jan Hartley Morris - His rougher take on the mold that Crawford left vs. Jan Hartley Morris's old-school, classical Christine is a winner.

Mikael Samuelson/Elisabeth Berg - I love Samuelson's slightly harsher vocals compared to Berg's operatic tones.

Alexander Goebel/Luzia Nistler - Goebel is eerie, ghostly, and unhinged at the end; Nistler has a lovely classical voice and a scared, slightly naive take on her Christine. It fits well.

Davis Gaines/Tracy Shayne - Gaines is commanding, sensual, elegant; Shayne is innocent but with a touch of maturity that brings a certain uniqueness to the role.

Saulo Vasconcelos/Irasema Terrazas - Hands! I think both were allowed a lot of freedom in the role and it's great.

Hans Peter Janssens/Ineke van Klinken - Janssens is both very nuts and very sad while van Klinken is a reserved yet steely-willed Christine who is more than a match for him.

Ian Jon Bourg/Alison Kelly - Bourg is good with so many Christines, but I loved Alison Kelly's feistiness.

Michael Nicholson/Olivia Safe - Just a fascinating pairing, and they were both understudies!

Yoon Young Seok/Hye Kyoung Lee - It didn't matter that both were speaking Korean, they were so emotional that I felt like I understood every aspect of their performance.

Brad Little/Lisa Vroman - Kind of mentioned above, but I love how well these two act together.

Hugh Panaro/Julie Hanson - Hugh Panaro is a sarcastic jokester of a man and it makes you really feel for Julie Hanson's child-like Christine at the end of the show.

Gary Mauer/Elizabeth Southard - A real-life married E/C couple brings all the chemistry!

Earl Carpenter/Rachel Barrell - Barrell is also really good with JOJ, and more spirited around him, but I love Earl Carpenter more.

John Cudia/Jennifer Hope Wills - Oh the sparks these two brought to the role! Cudia was scary and dominating but JHW was absolutely able to hold her own against him.

Simon Pryce/Julie Goodwin - The voices of these two!

Marcus Lovett/Anna O'Byrne - Leroux-accuracy heaven.

Jeremy Stolle/Samantha Hill - Again, I've seen these two give fantastic performances with multiple performers, but I really do love what they bring to the show together.

Tomas Ambt Kofod/Sibylle Glosted - Very detailed, nuanced performances in a production that was full of it.

Jonathan Roxmouth/Meghan Picerno - There was fire between these two! Roxmouth was intent on bending Christine to his will but Picerno was so fiercely independent that you knew he could never succeed.

Jeon Dong Seok/Son Ji-soo - JDS is a swoon-worthy Phantom while SJS brought lovely expressions to the role.

And I'm sure there are many others...

[garys-classic-guitars]

OOOOOOH ahhhhhh 1953 Gibson SJ-200 in clean condition!

[algolagniaa]

9 and 10!

a playlist about me in order of most to least flattering:

what if - Emilie Autumn

Firebird’s child - SJ Tucker

The willow maid - erutan

Shiny - lil mariko

bloody creature poster girl - in this moment

part of your world - Jodi benson

party girl - Lana Del Rey

Sea castle - purity ring

Pain - boy harsher

13 beaches - Lana Del Rey

shalott - Emilie Autumn

Veil of elphame - Gary Stadler and stepphanie

the monster - William control

Lilith - halsey

psycho - jack kittel

Opheliac - Emilie Autumn

hit me where it hurts - Caroline polachek

the archer - Taylor swift

girl anachronism - the Dresden dolls

antihero - Taylor Swift

[namhajoonnnn]

Saat Super Junior masih aktif-aktifnya di dunia variety, Donghae sempat sangat ingin pensiun. Beginilah sisi gelap yang membuat anggota unit Super Junior D&E ini selalu menangis.

Lee Donghae mengutarakan keinginannya untuk pensiun akibat kalah saing dengan sesama member Super Junior. Menurutnya, muncul di acara variety show TV adalah hal berat yang membawa masa kelam dalam sejarah kariernya.

Dalam episode terbaru acara YouTube-nya bersama EunHyuk, DongHae mengungkapkan bahwa tekanan tersebut pernah membuatnya berpikir untuk pensiun dari industri ini.

"Suatu hari, aku tiba di kantor agensi dan mengumumkan keputusanku untuk berhenti menjadi selebriti. 'Bukan karena saya tidak ingin tampil di acara-acara itu; aku tidak punya bakat untuk itu,' aku bilang begitu pada mereka," kenangnya.

Diskusi dalam acara tersebut semakin menarik dengan kehadiran Kang Min Hyuk dan Lee Jung Shin CN BLUE. Min Hyuk bahkan mengakui, "Sekarang saya tidak yakin apakah harus membuat konten sendiri atau tetap mencoba tampil di acara tersebut, meskipun kurasa itu bukan keahlianku."

DongHae juga menceritakan bahwa kritik dari sesama anggota Super Junior menambah stres yang ia rasakan. Perasaan Donghae itu pun divalidasi Eunhyuk.

"Setiap kali kita tampil bersama di sebuah acara, member lain selalu banyak mengkritikku. Meski kami bercanda dengan santai di sini, member lain berbeda. Saat aku melucu, mereka memberi saya tatapan dingin," ujar EunHyuk.

Situasi yang sangat kompetitif selama penampilan televisi membuat DongHae beberapa kali mempertimbangkan untuk meninggalkan grup. Apalagi, mereka dulu membuat keahlian melucu di televisi seperti sebuah kompetisi antarmember.

“Dulu, setiap kali aku tampil bersama member lainnya, aku berpikir serius untuk keluar dari tim. Membuat komentar di TV seperti sebuah kompetisi di antara kami,” beber Donghae.

Cowok kelahiran 1986 itu menambahkan, “Jika aku gagap atau terdistraksi saat bercerita, mereka akan langsung berkata, 'Teruskan ke orang berikutnya,' 'Potong bagian dia, tolong.' Itu seperti proses verifikasi sendiri untuk menjaga percakapan kami di udara tetap lucu. Aku sering menangis di mobil karenanya.”

Kisah ini terungkap Super Junior yang berjudul “SUPER JUNIOR: THE LAST MAN STANDING”, yang tayang di Disney+ pada 18 Januari 2023. Dokumenter ini menjelaskan perjalanan kelompok ini mulai dari debut hingga pencapaian gemilang serta luka perang mereka yang menjadikan mereka salah satu grup K-pop yang paling ikonik dan tak tergantikan hari ini.

Debut pada 6 November 2005, Super Junior menghadapi berbagai tantangan sebelum akhirnya dikenali sebagai grup besar dengan 12 anggota. Pada awalnya, konsep sistem “graduate” membuat mereka selalu berada di atas garis tipis, di mana anggota diharapkan lulus dan diganti dengan yang baru. Namun, mereka berhasil mengatasi ketidakpastian ini dan menjadi grup tetap.

Sayangnya, perjalanan mereka juga diwarnai dengan kejadian tragis seperti kecelakaan mobil yang parah, namun mereka selalu bangkit dan menghadirkan musik-musik hit. Lagu “Sorry, Sorry” tahun 2009 menjadi salah satu penanda keberhasilan terbesar mereka.

Kesukesan ini membuat Ryeowook bahkan mengakui, "Jika kami tidak bertemu 'Sorry, Sorry' pada tahun 2009, SUPER JUNIOR tidak akan ada sekarang."

Meskipun mengalami berbagai rintangan, dari anggota yang keluar hingga wajib militer, Super Junior terus menjelajah dan menaklukkan panggung dunia. Kini mereka bahkan memiliki label rekaman sendiri, LABEL SJ, di bawah SM Entertainment, dan telah menggemparkan panggung internasional dengan Super Show mereka.

[jazzruinedmylife-blog]

Sunday 2/18/2024

All day bender. SJ. Texting w/Melanie H. Signed over vid. Exciting. In room all day.

5:45 PM -- Dinner. Spam sandwiches. Corned beef slices, cheese. Jug wine.

6 -- Audition w/Vegas Matt. No show.

Texting more w/Melanie.

9 -- Drive to Schlem's. Pick up Texas Roadhouse rolls from porch.

More bendering.

Gary Burton on Youtube. Rick Beato interview.

Midnight Schlem chat.

1:30 AM -- Sleep. Lights out for once.

[bree-t]

2023 recap

-Flooded garage and teamwork to barricade it with sandbags

-vision boarding with Catherine and Lily

-celebrating Graham and Leah’s marriage

-Jurassic Park at the SF Symphony

-Asian Art Museum and dim sum in SF with Catherine and Lily

-celebrating LNY with my siblings and playing with pop pops

-movie night with Madison and Leah

-hosting visitors - Megan T., Andrew, Kyle, and Jose

-celebrating Chris’ 40th birthday

-UCSD fam brunch at Alyssa and Aaron’s in Richmond

-hosting the London team, and taking them for drinks at the Berkeley marina

-road trip to Sac to visit Jaime, Ranu, and Nicole

-hot pot and other foodie adventures with Chelsea

-getting outbid on a house

-purchasing our first home!

-visits with mom and dad.. eating dimsum, watching Madison’s softball game, and singing karaoke

-escape room for Lily’s birthday with Catherine and Konrad

-first warriors game at chase center

-book talk and getting to meet Martin Yan

-giggly catch up with Tiff Man in SF

-returning to the office and in-person events

-celebrating Alyssa’s birthday with the ucsd fam

-Catherine’s housewarming

-seeing Kristine Bacani Wu at APAHE

-celebrating Theo’s birthday

-SF date with Leslie

-Barbie movie date with Alyssa

-hosting my siblings to celebrate Nicole’s birthday

-chocolate frogs and trippin’ with Lily, Catherine, Upkar, and Viet

-family dinners and bbqs with the Costas

-crawfish boil with Adrienne and Chris

-exploring Argentina and Uruguay with Jose

-launching the first Global Internships program in South America

-celebrating Addison’s 1st birthday

-getting to see Janet Jackson from the 3rd row! And getting to meet her after the show!

-moving and discovering the joys - and never ending projects associated with home ownership (new floors, painting, mold, etc)

-launching a global internships program in Barcelona

-traveling to new places: Segovia, Monserrat, Andorra, and the south of France

-watching the girls pop their swim times

-lots of kitty cuddles with Bella

-reliving my emo kid days at the Yellowcard concert with Lily

-road tripping to Santa Cruz with the ucsd fam for Brent’s birthday

-the worst fight of our marriage, tears, and needing to regroup at Catherine’s for the week

-hot ones challenge with my brother and family, chugging milk and eating ice cream cake to stop the burning

-playing mahjong with Leah, and getting beat by her

-hosting my parents at our new home

-kbbq and dinner dates with Adrienne

-planning andrew and Kyle’s bachelor party in Palm Springs with a Taylor Swift night, a poolside butler, and sooo much vodka

-Beyoncé concert with Vince and Jessa

-annual Labor Day Mendo trip with the siblings. First time for Scott and Kristen

-Lionel Richie and EWF at chase center.. dancing and singing the entire time!

-sending Alyssa and Aaron off to Japan

-making kalbi from scratch for Catherine’s birthday

-Andrew and Kyle’s wedding weekend: poolside hangouts, way too many espresso martinis, and reunions with old friends

-EAIE conference in Rotterdam: poster session, reconnecting with colleagues from around the world, and going on an adventure to find windmills

-reconnecting with Felicia while on a layover in Boston

-dimsum dates with my siblings

-SJ dates with Leslie and Chelsea

-Taylor Swift concert movie with Adrienne

-SD and LA vacation: catching up with Amy and Daniel, Rey and Lorna, meeting baby Finn and seeing Matt and Megan, hitting up our old stomping grounds, eating wayyyy too much Mexican food, catching up with Megan T, Olivia, and Jonathan, hanging with Dan, Connie and June, crushing all the blocks at Super Nintendo World

-celebrating Kenzie’s 4th birthday

-meeting Anthony Rapp and getting to see his one man show

-celebrating Gary and Michelle’s marriage

-pet parade and hanging with Kristen and Kenzo in SF

-virtual squid games with Adrienne and Chris

-celebrating my birthday with Lily and Catherine

-John Mayer at chase center

-besties weekend in LA and Andrew’s home cooked Vietnamese food

-hosting Megan T at our new home

-hot pot for Thanksgiving with the siblings and the chosen fam (Catherine and Lily)

-Thanksgiving in LA with the Costas

-WB Studio Tour with the Costas

-wine and cheese party the with Lambs and Josephine

-family time, gardening and house projects with my parents

-Chelsea’s bougie YouTube holiday party in SF

-volunteering at the food bank with Catherine and Lily

-home alone at the sf symphony with the siblings

-Christmas in our new home with Bella, and the Costas in the evening

-Vegas with the besties - Drew, Kyle, and Jose

-meow wolf with Jose

-African food with Karm, Cecil and Jose

-WB studio tour with mom and the girls, getting to see the Gilmore girls set with mom and Leah’s face light up on the friends set

-ringing in the new year at home with my momma

-reconnecting with old friends, Sophia and Matt

-crying and struggling with watching my parents age

-starting the new year with a grateful heart and the gift of the present moment

[smuby]

some more gary related doodles.. i was gonna redraw more stuff but then i saw he had a female variant so i had to make her fill in most of the page. i love men but i love women a lot more lolz

[stardust-falling]

@nadharz

Look, I have a whole other post about YQY's situation that I will write someday, but for that I'll have to explain some things about the cultivation genre/tropes/etc. that SV doesn't really go into, so that's not what this post is for.

Also note that I never said LBG was not abusive/an abuser either. He very much was! In fact, he's the same as SJ, he was a product of the cycle of abuse in a very similar way-- he became that way because of what SJ did to him, but there came a point where he was fully responsible for his own actions.

The same way that SJ was a victim of his circumstances on the streets, in the Qiu household, with Wu Yanzi, but became a perpetrator as a peak lord.

Also, SJ was NOT "just as abusive as any ancient china teacher. Otherwise, YQY wouldn't have been so uncomfortable about the way he treated LBH (see chapter one). SJ deliberately and intentionally abused a child under his care because he was jealous. "Any ancient china teacher" might be strict and do things considered abusive by modern standards. But attempting to get their students killed/sabotaging their progress/severely beating them to the point they were barely recognizable on a regular basis? That's far beyond what "any ancient china teacher" would do.

SJ was not just being a normal teacher for the time-- he was literally trying to ruin this child's life and get him killed.

Since people like to say "it wasn't that bad" I'm just going to pull quotes here and now.

Chapter 1:

“Shizun.” The youth spoke respectfully even though his movements were unsteady, and he still managed to stand perfectly straight. The small smile that had been forming at the corner of Shen Qingqiu’s mouth froze. He was definitely dead! Before him was the face that would, in the future, infatuate everyone who saw it, from eighty-year-old women to infants still in their swaddling clothes, the Gary Stu protagonist’s face—and he’d beaten it to this extent?! He was dead! But even though this face bore clear evidence of abuse and was covered in injuries, the protagonist was, as expected, still the protagonist.

“No need.” Shen Qingqiu stopped Luo Binghe, and with a flick of his wrist, he tossed over a small bottle. “This is medicine.” He paused before adding in a mocking tone, “Don’t let anyone see; they might think my Qing Jing Peak abuses its disciples.”

The very first time LBH appears, it's made very, very clear that he is being abused. It's stated on several occasions. The fact that if others were to see LBH's current state, they would think QJP abused its disciples, is telling that this is not normal.

But just in case you plan to argue that this is just SY's opinions, like I've seen so many times, then here's evidence from SJ's own POV about his intentions.

Chapter 24:

Luo Binghe was using the incorrect cultivation manual that Shen Qingqiu had handed him; he should have long since died bleeding from the seven apertures, his body rupturing down to his bones, skin, meridians, tendons, and flesh. But not only had this failed to come to pass, Luo Binghe’s cultivation was steadily improving.

Shen Jiu deliberately intended for Luo Binghe to die. This is not the actions of a teacher just holding to current standards. This is explicitly an act of sabotage.

Truly, I don't understand why this fandom is so obsessed with trying to excuse the fact that Shen Jiu literally tried to kill a child under his care.

You can like a character who isn't a good person! It's okay to do that! It doesn't say anything about your own moral character!

LBG and SJ are parallels. They are both victim-perpetrators in the cycle of abuse. This is the entire basis of SVSSS. You cannot excuse one and not the other, you cannot condemn one and not the other.

They are the same.

Lastly, allow me to leave behind my favorite quote in the book, which I believe sums up this fandom quite well:

When written within the bounds of the original genre, this kind of character was extremely difficult to handle. You could say he was scum, but he was also pitiful. But if you tried to acknowledge his pathos, his ruthlessness was real too. Characters that were both scummy and tragic always drew aggro, and they were a hotbed for wank, leading comments sections to devolve into massive flame wars. Better to hack him down into a formulaic asshole and let the protagonist step on him. Easier to write, and the readers would find it satisfying as well.

Shen Jiu is an abuser. Shen Jiu abused Luo Binghe and (depending on how you interpret certain parts of the novel) most likely others. He was a profoundly unpleasant person to be around by his own doing, not just some poor misunderstood baby.

Just because he didn’t murder Liu Qingge or sexually abuse NYY doesn’t mean that he was innocent of everything. Especially not his abuse of LBH which is a fundamental part of SVSSS’s story— about cycles of abuse and how someone’s life experiences can shape them in different ways.

Learning about Shen Jiu’s backstory humanizes him. It explains his actions and how he got to where he was.

It does not, and should not excuse him.

Humans can be both abuser and victim. That’s how the cycle of abuse fundamentally works.

I love Shen Jiu. He’s one of my favorite characters of all time. He’s still an abuser.

You can feel sorry for him, but don’t make him innocent. He knew what he was doing. He did it intentionally. He wanted to spite LQG, he wanted to hurt LBH, to destroy his cultivation and even his life.

Shen Jiu is a brilliant portrayal of a truth people are afraid of— that sometimes survivors are not inspirational. Sometimes they’re mean. Sometimes they’re bad people. Sometimes they carry the worst parts of their abusers with them because that was what they feared, and if others feared them then they would have the control they so desperately needed.

Shen Jiu is not a one dimensional villain who is evil for the sake of it. He’s a human character with complex reasons for being the way he is, and a traumatic upbringing he didn’t choose or have any control over.

He’s still an abuser.

[hezuart]

@wolrt @narusuguru

yeah no Kazui was 100% a legit demon child from the get-go, I knew right away

Kubo set it up this way actually. Demon child / psychotic Kazui is intentional.

"the death and the strawberry 2"? "Ichika" means strawberry flower, meanwhile Kazui is the representative of "death". Like that's a million red flags right there.

I'm just so confused. Kazui is a weird OP fullbringer of some kind. As I've said, SS should be ALL over him. HOLLOWS should be all over him. The fact that his parents don't care that their toddler seems to be skipping through shady parts of town is highly concerning to me. I swear to god Orihime and Ichigo are NOT aware of their child's abilities. There's just no way they know. That makes it even creepier. Lock him up in a cage.

and also as I've mentioned, he and Hikone are essentially the same character, and Hikone is hell bent on killing people and becoming the Soul King or whatever ... and Kazui probably absorbed Yhwach into his body or something so...

I mean, at least if he's powerful enough, he'll get to be with his dad in hell when he dies so that's nice. :) slkdgjdlkgjdlfkjg

but yeah I really didn't understand nor care what Kazui was doing the entire time.

also I swear to god it seems like Kubo is trying to tease a Kazui x Ichika thing and I'm like buddy ..... no.

[budapsht]

so, what's plan guys?

[emrose-gold]

When a callout post for abusers/problematic people in Hollywood lists people that shouldn’t be on there but you’re afraid to point it out because you know op will never say they made a mistake or ever fucking apologize

[yamayuandadu]

Hi, I was doing a quest in SMT4 called "Slay the God of the Violent Winds" where a storm god asks to kill illuyanka, because he was defeated and illuyanka stole the god's eyes and heart, but it doesn't say what this god's name is. Would you know? I don't trust wikipedia to answer my question. Another question: was illuyanka associated with "violent winds", "violent water" and/or flooding rivers? The SMT's compendium leads one to believe so.

Many side quests in IV are remarkably accurate (not the Ishtar/Asherah one, though), and basically on par with SJ, and this is no exception! The god in mention is Tarhunna, the Hittite weather god - well, one of them, Hittites had dozens of weather gods. Still, that was the main one, and the one who generally showed up in myths - both in local ones and in translations of Hurrian myths, which in the original versions would instead star the Hurrian Teshub. Many online sources end up confused about this. A translation of the Illuyanka myth is available online here - it's old but the author, Gary Beckman, is pretty much the biggest Hittite expert in the world nowadays so you can safely assume it to be accurate. Beckman simply interprets Illuyanka as personifying forces of chaos (source), but there are many interpretations: "Suggestions include chaos and evil, winter, the Kaška tribes, and the lord of the underground waters" (quote from here). The compendium entry is pretty decent imo. There is also a depiction of the battle currently on display in Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, there is a good photo of it here.