#stories based on tombstone movie

[curlysgirl0202]

DOC HOLLIDAY AND RINGO'S RIVALRY STORY EXERPT!!!! From the Short Story, Holliday and Ringo: Song of Rivals.

Doc Holliday Angers Johnny Ringo in this scene.

Ringo looks up and slowly nods. He stands, his unreadable poker face staring at the exit. He follows the others out and then sees you walking out of the back wing of the theater. He swallows hard and adjusts his hat, clearing his throat. Curly Bill sees you and then looks at Ringo. Curly chuckles. "Good luck, Juanito, round two!"

Ringo shows a small smile and walks towards you.

You stop walking while Ringo moves closer to you. He can feel his face grow red and flushed by his own shyness. He walks as confidently as he can. He's delighted when you smile at him and you appear more beautiful than he recalls. He tips his hat to you.

"Good evening, YN," Ringo says. He takes his hat off and holds it in his hands, trying not to rock back and forth on his feet, showing his fear.

"It's Johnny, right?" You ask, the smile never leaving your face.

Ringo feels a sense of relief that you offer your consideration even though you only met him once at the hotel restaurant.

"Yes, ma'am," he responds. It's tough for him to say much else because of his nervousness; not just because he doesn't want to endure the humilation Doc would rain over him, but also because each time he sees you, he becomes more smitten with you.

"Well, it's nice to see you, Johnny," you beam.

Ringo to his own surprise smiles back at you, keeping your large liquid eyes in his memory.

"It's real nice to see you. I enjoyed your performance. It was as lovely as you," Ringo remarks, suddenly feeling that hot and flushed feeling. He recalls experiencing similar emotions when the girls at church would turn around to get a glimpse of the mysterious boy called Johnny Ringo.

"A lovely lady like yourself should have an escort," Johnny clears his throat. "I would like to ensure your safety this evening. You may have noticed, it gets wild here, especially at night."

You smile up at Johnny, who you can't help but like; he held himself like an aristrocratic cowboy. He suddenly snaps back from his shyness. "Unless you already have one." Ringo looks at his boots, still holding his hat.

"No, I don't," you convey softly. You shake your head and then glace back at the gentleman gunfighter.

"It would be an honor to ensure your safety." Johnny puts his hat back on and waits for your response. He feels a slow ember of confidence begin to burn in his heart. He knows he's not as sophisticated as Doc Holliday, but Ringo has a charm that is as interesting as it is mysterious.

"Thank you, Mr. Ringo," you finally answer.

"Johnny." He tells you.

You nod and take his arm. Johnny Ringo walks with pride down the street with you, moving towards the shops that line the town. A few jewelry stores, a music shop that sells various instruments, a stationary, small art museum, photography studio and other small boutiques that offer the latest styles and custom dress making and a tailor. Several barber shops also line the street and other clothing stores.

Johnny desperately tries to think of something to say. "It's a lovely evening for a walk through town," he says in a soft voice.

"It is," you answer, not sure what to make of this mysterious gunfighter.

"Let me know where you're headed. I'll make sure you get there safely," Ringo tells you, looking straight ahead.

"Well, you begin. "I'm going to the hotel to rest."

Johnny nods his head and escorts you to the Grand Hotel. He takes his hat off and waits for you to disappear up the stairs and into the lobby. When you're out of sight, he puts his hat on and turns to leave. He stops quickly when he sees Doc Holliday moving towards him, a death grin on his face while blowing smoke from his cigarette.

"Why, Johnny Ringo. I see you made an acquaintance." Doc stops walking and looks Ringo up and down. Ringo is in no mood to fight Holliday and his mind is still spinning from walking with you. The sweet aroma of your perfume is enough to weaken him.

"What's it to you, Holliday?" Ringo inquires, staring the death doctor with as much confidence as he coud muster considering his impaired judgement.

Doc holds his cigarette between his fingers while tapping the handle of his pistol. Johnny's eyes move about, eyeing with wonder how steady Doc's hands were.

"You still thinking you're going to win her affections, don't you, Ringo?" Doc examines his opponent.

"Are you?" Johnny quickly responds.

Doc smiles, while he suddenly grows motionless, still holding his cigarette. Doc's ability to move quickly and gracefully and then turn to stone could distract the steadiest of minds. Including Ringo's.

"Oh, I guess nobody informed you. I had the chance to escort that lovely lady through town and we enjoyed a delightful moment together."

Ringo's eyes narrow in on his nemesis for a moment and confusion begins to surface on his face. He can feel his neck grow hot from his rage.

Doc's expression changes and he begins to grin with an almost child like countenance.

"It turns out, YN enjoys chocolate cake." Doc taps his ivory handled gun. He blows smoke from his mouth, his eyes never leaving Ringo's.

"She also loves cream and sugar in her coffee. I bet you didn't know that, Johnny." Doc winks at Ringo, who turns to leave.

"It was a wonderful moment we two shared together," Doc finishes, still standing motionless.

"And what did Kate think about that?" Johnny retorts.

Doc's smile fades for a moment and Ringo feels a sense of triumph. Women were so scarce in Tombstone, it was unlikely that any man would leave his woman. Being without a woman seemed worse. At the very least, you could sleep next to one and feel the comfort of her touch, knowing all the uncomfortable moments promised more intimate ones.

"Well, you know Kate, Ringo." Doc finally answers.

"Go to hell, Holliday!" Ringo responds, turning to leave.

"I'll let YN know you said hello!" Doc asserts.

Ringo's rage boils over and he pulls his pistol quickly and due to his spinning head, he misses Doc by a hair and then stumbles backwards, almost losing his balance. Doc chuckles with triumph, his composure never shaken. He winks at a frustrated Ringo.

"What the hell is going on here, Ringo?" Wyatt Earp demands, moving closer to the battling gunmen.

"Evidently, Mr. Ringo here cannot hold his liquor well." Doc shakes his head and takes a long drag of his cigarette.

Wyatt and Virgil take Ringo by his arms and force him towards the horse troph where they dunk his head in the dirty water. They pull him out, Johnny gasping for air and cursing the Earp brothers.

"Sons of bitches!" Ringo howls, causing Wyatt to drop Ringo into the water again.

"Cool off, Ringo!" Virgil shouts, slapping Johnny in the back of the head. The lawmen toss Johnny aside and he falls, knocking over two chairs after losing his balance. Ringo spits towards the Earps and Doc smiles, watching Ringo squirm.

"What's this about, Doc?" Virgil demands.

Johnny staggers to his feet and throws himself at Doc, who laughs and moves out of the way with his signature aristocratic gait. He holds back his urge to cough and circles around Johnny, who can barely stand, water dripping from his head.

"Would you have to ask Johnny Ringo. He came at me like a wildcat."

"That's enough, Doc," Wyatt shouts. "I already told you to stay away from Ringo! I don't want anymore trouble!"

Ringo, still soaking wet, stares Doc and the Earps down. He knew he made a fool of himself and hoped you didn't witness any of it and hates the idea of you finding out or worse - Doc Holliday telling you about how Ringo was so drunk and out of control that the law had to cool him off by shoving his head into a horse troph.

"Sleep it off, Ringo!" Virgil demands, showing a look of disgust at Holliday, who seems unaffected by the Earps attitude. Doc takes a whiskey flask from his front pocket. He reveals a death grin to the men there and takes a long swig. He clears his throat, stifles a cough and tips his hat to Ringo, who can barely stand.

"Just give up, Mr. Ringo," Doc warns, backing away. "What will YN think when she learns about this?"

Ringo stands upright and moves to throw a punch at Doc, who quickly moves out of the way, mocking Ringo's clumsiness.

"I said that's enough!" Wyatt shouts as he and Virgil take Ringo to a holding cell located behind the courthouse.

"What the hell am I being arrested for?" Ringo demands.

"Fighting!" Virgil growls back. "Let's go, cowboy. Maybe your friends will bail you out!"

Ringo struggles against the law men, but they overpower him and drag him to the jail. Ringo grabs the prison bars, looks to the ground and curses them.

"You damn self righteous sons of bitches!" Ringo bellows

"You're losing over mind over YN!" Wyatt grumbles, fumbling with the keys. "You and Doc both better give up this conquest of yours. YN isn't going to be with either one of you. It was foolish of you both to enter into this deranged bet."

Ringo sits on the cot and holds his head in his hands. The image of your face enters his mind and he closes his eyes and delights in a whimsical fantasy where you come to his rescue. His ears become flooded with your voice.

"You'll stay in here and cool down, Ringo. I'm sure Curly Bill will be here to make bail as soon as he hears about this. And you tell that idiot we don't want anymore trouble with you cowboys!"

Ringo smiles menancingly at the Earps.

"You're the boss, Earp!" Ringo groans.

"And don't forget it, you reckless son of a bitch!" Wyatt snaps.

Ringo stands and faces Wyatt. Ringo's menacing stare causes Wyatt to back away a few inches. Ringo's eyes showed a fearlessness that bordered on rage.

I should let him rot!

Wyatt thinks.

"Do you understand, Ringo?!" Wyatt growls.

"It's easy to understand men like you, Earp," Johnny grunts.

"I really hate your attitude, Ringo."

Wyatt turns to leave.

"I already told Doc. You two are going to end this ridiculous bet of yours! The both of you are acting like petulant boys."

"Maybe Doc should be in here with me. He's not innocent in this," Ringo snaps. "You wouldn't have to worry about losing money because of his cheating." Ringo backs away from the bars, his face twisting into a sinister smile. "I heard about that fellow in Dodge. Doc cut that poor bastard from his dick to his neck!" Ringo turns and sits on the bed.

"See you for your bail hearing tomorrow morning!" Wyatt shouts before leaving.

Ringo holds his head in his hands.

I wish I never saw her! Ringo screams in his mind.

[bogleech]

i've been reading through your mortasheen monster backlog and one thing i like is how a lot of the monsters can both look incredibly cute and incredibly monstrous under certain circumstances, like gobblegeist and braek. On a different note, what inspired you to make the boomen?

The Boo Men are actually a pre-Mortasheen concept I had in my teens and they were first inspired by the Gun-Ho Guns from Trigun, which I was only familiar with at the time for its anime dub!

It was the first time I saw a series suddenly introduce an elite team of weird villains with all different gimmicks as a story arc and I just thought it was so fun I started coming up with my own, which included a squad of "mercenary bogeymen," horror monsters for hire, who I name after the prologue of "Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones"

The "Boo Men" I originally came up with were each themed around a different way to die, basically, so they were like horror movie villain bounty hunters and ranged from simple ones like a slasher ghoul who's very very good with weapons to a sentient tombstone creature that already has your epitaph on it, and bends probability to try and push you towards that death. When I worked them into Mortasheen they changed a whole lot, especially because the setting is already full of odd monsters with odd powers, so I imagined them more like monsters who tried to "become human," which is why they're all strictly humanoid. They are all still named after their main offensive power however and they're still like mercenary bounty hunters.

The first one I designed, Stingg, is also based loosely on a dream I had in which the Pokemon Scrafty got a new evolution that was more like an insect punk girl. The design in the dream was literally just Scrafty with thin claw-like spikes for its mohawk but I elaborated on it a little. I do have some concern that "boo men" sounds too goofy to people who don't know it's an actual archaic way of saying boogieman. Boogieman is a silly word, but everyone's used to it and knows what it means. More than half the Boo Men in Mortasheen are ladies but it's officially a gender neutral designation. Three of the existing ones are slated for the TTRPG's first book, plus a fourth brand new one by another artist! The only reason I don't answer more asks I get about Mortasheen is that every single one has an explanation at least this long

[runningw-thewolves]

Loki Devotional Ideas: Halloween Edition

(Do you seriously think our loveable God of “fuck around, find out”, “constant sugar high insanity” and “what’s the worst that could happen?��� wouldn’t love a holiday about dressing up scary, watching scary movies, telling scary stories and pranking people?)

- Watch horror movies. Any will do! Slashers (e.g. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween), Splatter (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Hellraiser), Monster (e.g. American Werewolf in London, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon), Sci-Fi (e.g. Alien, M3GAN, Predator), Psychological (e.g. The Woman in Black, The Ring, Silence of the Lambs), whatever floats your boat! (Yes, this does include kids horror.)

- Listen to spooky tunes. I don’t just mean Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”, Ray Parker Jr’s “Ghostbusters”, and so on; listen to the Silver Scream albums by Ice Nine Kills, “Halloweentown” by Dark Divine, fucking anything by Motionless in White or Rob Zombie. The spookier, the better!

- PRANKS! Give someone a quick scare, but remember to do clean up/soothing afterwards!

- Give Loki his own Halloween bucket and put some candy in it for him.

- Spooky tarot readings! Use tarot or oracle sets themed around horror in any way. I have an oracle set literally based on horror movies (and it has a card called “The Trickster” based on IT and it is 100% a Loki card. I’ll talk about it in detail another time.)

- If you have some sort of statue or digital representation of Loki, why not dress him up? You can even ask him if he’d like anything in particular.

- Decorate your house how YOU want to. Get out the lumbering, scary animatronics or stick to the kid friendly banners and plastic scene setters and lights. Whatever works for you!

- Indulge in whatever spooky delights you desire. Read that shitty CreepyPasta from 2009, read that Goosebumps story, watch Twilight, play old horror/scary Flash games, eat chocolate till you poop nothing but it, listen to zombie apocalypse ambience, play with your Monster High dolls, WHATEVER! JUST. INDULGE.

- Carve a pumpkin. Give Loki a pumpkin as well (sure he can’t physically carve it in our realm but you could always use your minds eye to translate what he carved as close as you can). Make pumpkin pie from the insides.

- Enjoy the autumn leaves falling, the nights growing longer, the full moon in the sky and all the hallmarks of the autumn season.

- Give out candy to trick r treaters. Laugh at their horrible jokes (convince them you genuinely found it funny), play along with their “tricks”, compliment their outfits. Loki loves kids, and you bet your ass he’d love them going home happy with not just candy but someone playing along with them!

- Draw horror art, write horror stories, create spooky music. Use the time to be spookily creative. And it doesn’t need to be groundbreaking - if you wanna make a Jeff the Killer rip-off, you go and you make that Jeff the Killer rip-off!

- For those who observe Samhain; include Loki in your celebration/tradition, even if only a small inclusion.

- Tell Loki a scary campfire story from your youth. Hell, if you wanna ask him to tell you one, go for it!

- Include his family if you can! Leave candy or toys for the twins, include wolves or snakes in your decorations for Fenrir and Jormungandr, make a foam tombstone dedicated to Hel and Garmr, make decorative potions themed around Angrboda and Sigyn. Whatever way you can think of to include them, it’s worth a shot!

- For pet owners; if your furry buddy is alright with it, dress them up or give them seasonal items! Not all animals (e.g. cats) like dressing up, so try for Halloween themed toys, bedding, enrichment and treats! Bonus points if you dress up your companion to resemble Fenrir, Jormungandr or Sleipnir.

- Get scented candles or incense that fits the season. Pumpkin, cinnamon, rain, apple - there’s plenty of options out there!

- If you do any Halloween baking, invite Loki or leave him some of your baked goods.

- Have a pumpkin spiced latte and OWN being a basic White bitch for five minutes. You enjoy every slurp of that pumpkin spiced latte like your life depends on it. Don’t matter if you are POC, disabled, LGBTQIA+, whatever else - if you wanna be a basic autumn White bitch for a minute, you go and be that basic autumn White bitch! (Bonus if you add whipped cream or anything else you like just for the Hell of it.)

- In summary; HAVE FUCKING FUN. Indulge yourself, play along with games and pranks, take in everything the season has to offer.

[saturnine-saturneight]

Writeblr interview tag

Tagged by @tragedycoded [here] 💕

I thought I was going to sleep a little longer this morning, but looks like I'm up for good, so off we go. Good time to answer this.

Short stories, novels, or poems?

Novels (working on one) or poems (used to write a lot of them). I'd love to try my hand at short stories, though!

What genre do you prefer reading?

I am not a voracious reader. I used to be, I'd like to be that again, but right now, I am not. Those posts that are like 'if you want to write you need to read'? Those are about me.

When I do read fiction, it's usually detective fiction. Easy to digest, no greater emotional investment. I also love horror, but haven't read much of it in the past few years.

Most of the things I read nowadays are nonfiction, generally medical or political (or a Wikipedia article in the middle of a conversation to clear up a question), though I also love reading about monsters and fables.

Are you a planner or a write as I go kind of person?

I go back and forth on this question. I'm a planner in that I know what I want from a novel or a chapter, and then a write as I go-er when it comes to getting there.

What music do you listen to while writing?

Less of a specific genre and moreso just songs I know in and out so I don't pay too much attention to them! Often on repeat. This is even more extreme when I draw. I drew those chibis I posted the other day to the living tombstone's cat song, lmfao.

Favorite books/movies?

I love horror comedies. Beetlejuice, death becomes her, little shop of horrors. Things like that. Nope was also incredible and has stuck with me, but that's not a comedy.

Any current WIPs?

Just Reburial :) I like to focus.

If someone were to make a cartoon out of you what would your standard outfit be?

Oversized black T-shirt, grey jeans, black converse. Phone in hand, headphones always either around the neck or being worn. I'm boring 🤘

Create a character description of yourself:

Jules stands at average height, their blond hair reaching down to their back, their face caught in a permanent expression of mild worry. They talk too fast, always fidgeting.

Do you like incorporating actual people you know into your writing?

Archetypes and ways of speaking/thinking/acting, yes. Whole people, no. I always mix and match traits I've gotten to know in others and myself, and I pay close attention that I don't write 'in attack mode', meaning portraying certain mindsets as negative after someone annoyed me.

Are you kill happy with your characters?

I'm not! Side characters die in Reburial, but I don't enjoy killing characters I like if it means that I can't use them in the same story again afterwards.

Coffee or Tea while writing?

I'm a tap water kind of guy ✌️ Caffeine gives me heart palps.

Slow or fast writer?

Medium? I don't make an effort to write fast.

Where/who/what do you draw inspiration from?

The majority of my horror comes from things that I personally find scary. When I get scared of something, I start reading, thinking, and talking about it, trying to understand it from all angles. And then sometimes, that also includes writing about it to see what exactly makes that fear tick, where it comes from, and which components are important to elicit the emotions. Fear based special interests, hahaha.

If you were in a fantasy world, what would you be?

Some kind of imp or a puss in boots type of creature.

Most fav book cliche:

You know what, I have no idea. Nothing comes to mind.

Least favorite cliche:

I am, however, a little hater. There are a lot of romance clichés on this list, which is a genre I tend to avoid. (I'm fairly greyro ace and would count myself as that if I wasn't also engaged.) If I do read A Romance, it's always with something else going on, and even then I get annoyed often, haha. I want two or more characters to be profoundly, boundary blurringly weird about each other. I don't want to read that they locked eyes across the room and now I'm supposed to believe that they should be partners for life because they find each other attractive.

There are also countless fantasy tropes on this list. Chosen one stuff, holy wars against pure evil, stories with 'good kings', the list goes on. You have to be REALLY good to make me read fantasy.

Favorite scene to write?

I just really like writing dialogue. Banter, arguments, confessions, etc.

Reason for writing?

It's fun. 👍 I daydream about putting Reburial on Itch for free when it's done, illustrated and type-set, but that's as far as my publishing aspirations go.

Tagging @cowboybrunch @marlowethelibrarian @gioiaalbanoart @paeliae-occasionally @writingrosesonneptune + open !!

[moonytoast-x]

ik this is random but i just rewatched tombstone and remembered how fucking gay it is like c'mon anyone with eyes can tell that wyatt and doc were together

and the fact that this is based on a true story, and that when you look it up it really was that gay?

doc holliday and wyatt earp were 100% in a relationship, both as characters in the movie and as real people in real life. you simply can't prove me wrong

[romancomicsblog]

Who should be the villain of Spider-Man 4?

Following the Watts Spider-Man trilogy, Peter Parker in the MCU has faced a number of his most iconic villains. From the villains of the Raimi-verse to Mysterio and Vulture, it seems like there are few villains left for a reported 6 more movies.

What's worse, villains like Venom, Kraven, and Carnage are being taken up by Sony Picture Universe of Marvel Characters (or SPUMC) with mediocre to bad films like Madame Web or Morbius.

While there is potential for new and fresh versions of Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and more to be put into the MCU, and I think they absolutely should, before we go there I think there are a number of solid to great Spider-Man villains who have not made their film debut who can add something new to these films.

I've put together a list of five I think could make solid contenders for Spider-Man 4, a few potential film ideas for each, and some casting ideas, all leading up to my favorite.

5. Swarm

Starting off with the least likely and my least favorite, Swarm was a Nazi Scientist and Beekeeper turned literal swarm of Bees. Due to his form, he can become intangible, fly, possesses super strength, and is the stuff of nightmares.

Due to his Nazi background, this character would need a complete retooling. Perhaps a scientist looking to cure death, or an Oscorp accident turning a good man into a monster.

If we wanted a more horror based superhero movie, this would be the way to go. This character has the potential to be very scary. Think Candy Man but a scientist hunting Spider-Man, perhaps for a cure or for getting in his way.

I'd love a Keith David, someone with a booming voice, scary, but can play sympathetic. Imagine the cat from Coraline or the Voodoo Man hunting Spider-Man, or desperately seeking a cure for his condition, killing anyone in his way.

I think characters like this have been done in the Raimi movies in particular, but could feel fresh in the MCU. Again though, it's a bit controversial being a former Nazi, and the retooling of the character may not be worth it if we're just scratching the surface of good villains.

4. The Prowler

This one is extremely obvious but worth a mention.

The only character already in the MCU, he has been casted extremely well AND has only grown in popularity. Putting him in as Spideys new big bad would not only ground the movie with a very human villain, but set up the story for Miles Morales.

Prowler can take the place of the physical villain of the film similar to Winter Soldier. His strings can be held by Kingpin, Hammerhead, Norman Osborn, Silvermane, or Tombstone, using him as a weapon against their enemies, including Spider-Man.

My main argument against this is simple, it isn't the right time. If we are doing Aaron Davis, we need to do Miles. I think that's better for the 5th or even 6th movie, but not yet. Let Peter have more years under his belt as Spidey before he teaches another.

He'd be a strong pick for a 5th movie, or even maybe a secondary villain in a 4th movie, but not a good main antagonist.

3. The Beetle

Abe Jenkins or Leila Davis have both donned the name The Beetle, an armored villain usually after money and fame. However, this character has a lot of range.

Sometimes they're a heroic member of the Thunderbolts, sometimes they're a petty villain, a genius, daughter of mob boss Tombstone, and sometimes even in a wildly different armor. There are a lot of ways to go with this villain.

Due to the flexibility of the character, we really can use them anyway imaginable. He could be a failed Stark employee (again), a genius prodigy like Peter, an antihero who kills, a terminator like threat, or anything in between.

I think having Spidey face an Iron Man of his own could be a good way to show his more intelligent side, and make Peter deal with the loss of Tony yet again.

Again the range give us quite a few ideas for actors. I'd really like someone who can do desperation and scary but intelligent. Jason Clarke I don't think gets enough love.

If we went with a younger actress and the daughter of Tombstone, I'm a big fan of Logan Browning. I think she'd make a great antivillain turned hero in the MCU, and be part of Spider-Mans new crew. Maybe help him engineer new (although be it not Tony Stark levels) of tech.

I think this villain has the potential to be brought up to Vulture or Mysterio status, they're just not my favorite as far as fresh and interesting.

2. The Jackal

This may be controversial but I'll die on this hill.

Miles Warren is a geneticist who has gone mad due to the loss of Gwen Stacy. He blames Spider-Man and swears revenge, turning himself into the monstrous Jackal.

The Jackal would be an excellent villain to introduce into the MCU and a Spider-Man movie so we can get a version of the worst comic book storylines: The Clone Saga.

Now before you think that is a terrible idea, remember that we just got a great Spider-Man movie based around a version of One More Day. So hear me out.

Having the Jackal create a Spider-Man for Peter to fight would be inherently interesting. Imagine a chase scene where two Spider-Men (both Tom Holland) are chasing each other swinging around New York. It could be as iconic as Zod and Superman in Man of Steel.

Adding the Jackal also means adding Ben Reilly into the MCU, a fun new addition which lets us see Hollands range. Who doesn't want to see edgy Tom?

The Jackal would also be very reminiscent of The Green Goblin while being something fresh and new. He can be scary and creepy, all while being a physical match for both Peter and Ben Reilly. We can get someone Dafoe type to ham it up and give us an iconic weird performance.

My pick would be Bryan Cranston. Forget Lex Luthor, let's let him ham it up and go nuts as a hairy Grinch style villain.

My only concern would be the backlash for even considering it from comic book fans. But, I think if done well, all will be forgiven.

1. Mr Negative

Anyone who has played PS4 Spider-Man and read my blogs knew where I was going.

Having Martin Li as the central antagonist would be a perfect balance for Spider-Man. He is superpowered, making him an equivalent to Spidey. He has the potential to be a mentor turned villain, like all great Spider-Man villains.

Li also is the perfect linchpin to crime villains in the Marvel Universe. He could create a Superpowered gang war against other villains like Kingpin, Silvermane, or Tombstone, putting Spider-Man in the center of something very grounded and dangerous.

Create a mob style movie with Spider-Man unable to fathom how deep crime in NY goes could be the refreshing story the MCU needs. It could add interesting Marvel characters like Daredevil, Black Cat, Punisher, Kingpin, Hammerhead, and more.

And it would all be centered around a character Spider-Man fans currently love. It's absolutely perfect.

I don't have a cast for this, as it would need to be a very gifted martial artist and seemingly good guy turned evil. But I think Marvel can nail casting.

All in all, Li would be the perfect villain for Spider-Man 4. Someone powerful enough to be a threat, fresh enough to be fun, and grounded enough to tell a very different interesting Spider-Man story.

Thank you so much for reading! Please consider following, and check out my socials and other sites here! And let me know: Who do you want to see Peter face in Spider-Man 4?

[jayde-jots]

Sweet fucking Christ on a stick with fudge ice cream! The FNAF movie! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Huge spoilers under the cut!

Good god where do I even start?! The opening, knowing now that the first security guard was supposed to be Markiplier makes me know the movie knew what it was trying to do! This movie was an entire dedication to its fandom, I got more spooked by the audience in the theater cheering at the screen than I did the actual jumpscares! Seeing some of the FNAF legends in there as cameos freaking blew my mind, seeing MatPat as a waiter and him saying- "It's just a theory" made the 12-year-old in me freaking explode! And my theater blew up when CoryxKenshin came up as the taxi driver, I haven't heard of this guy beforehand and now I'm curious as hell as to who he is if my theater practically jumped out of their seats. And don't even get me started on the credits when The Living Tombstone's FNAF 1 song started playing, oh my god the punch in the face of nostalgia I got.

Okay enough about me reliving my childhood and geeking out. For a movie as a whole and my first experience of a horror movie? I question the parents who brought their 12-year-olds and younger into the theatre for an M-rated film, the next time Tumblr gets on my ass about "PRoteCtT tHE chILdrEn!" I will happily point them at this movie and let their small brains do the rest. Now for the actual movie itself? I freaking loved it, my mum who isn't a FNAF fan and didn't even know this movie was based on a video game said she loved it. Great story even for the casual viewer if you have no idea the pretense behind it, the story made sense, the acting was incredible, and I hope to god they make a sequel because there were still some things they hardly touched on, I noticed that the puppet wasn't anywhere to be seen and that gives me hope.

Anywho, thats my ramble, as always have a great day/night, and stay safe.

[deadboyfriendd]

BEGGING you for writing advice please!!! I wish I had chosen differently during my time in university. I didn't realise how much I liked writing until halfway through my degree so I ended up studying a field I'm not passionate about. And I wish we had things like course electives too. It's not really a thing in my country I'm sad to say. The things you've studied sound so interesting. I'm not in a position to enroll in any writing courses at the moment so I've been trying to read more and figure things out on my own and writing fanfic has been part of that journey. I'd love to know more about what you've found to be helpful as you improved your own writing!

Hi!

I think circling back to at least the growth I've seen this year with myself, it to write things that get you excited to get into the mood to write! Write things that you like, even if they're weird and niche and you think they're stupid or don't make any sense! That's how a lot of writers end up producing some of their greatest works!

A lot of my most popular fics (which also happen to be the ones I'm most proud of- just now the numbers worked out ig) are AUs of movies that I liked. I took my favorite scene and rewrote them how I think my characters or myself would have reacted and I imagined myself standing there with a giant microscope and recount what I saw! Stone Gothic was inspired by Red Riding Hood, Stains in the Granite was based off of 50 First Dates, and, as you know, the Cochise Universe is based off of Tombstone with some Yellowstone 1923 and Blood Meridian involved! I have The Science Fiction Double Feature, which is a collection of little blurbs based off of my favorite songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I also have an AU of Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy, which I DON'T expect to do well but boy have I been having fun with it, and an all-new, un-announced Nacho Libre AU that I'm going to write!

I mean seriously, don't take anything too seriously, the world is your oyster!

Once I stopped writing for reads and interaction, I realized that I didn't have to dumb down my language or make a story concise for the purpose of readability. I write because I like writing and I like the story and I like daydreaming of these scenarios. I like putting myself there and manufacturing the things that I see.

I think I have also gotten to a point in my writing where it is now so much more than the characters I'm writing for. At this point, I have devolved so much past the version of Eddie and Steve from stranger things that I have a manufactured my own characters with the same names!

I guess what I'm trying to say here is: let yourself be inspired by the things you like, do the things that get you excited, let your daydreams run wild and write that down, and try to be like the people you admire! I hope this helps, anon, good luck and have fun! I hope you get to explore the things you love!

[ludinusdaleth]

I think I'll go for 4, 5 and 24—dealer's choice as to which of Artagan, Ludinus or Ira (or any npc, really. They don't get enough love.)

oh you have no idea the can of warms you've opened, lol.... i will happily do all 3!

this got so long i actually had to put a read more:

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

artagan - it isnt media per say but i really want to set him loose in our own reality and see what he'd do (there have been some hints i think, if half-jokingly said, that hes been here - boy do i think about that often.)

ira - we really should just let him star in his own horror movie. you could put him in a guillermo del toro film, and no one would bat an eye.

ludinus - i want to see how lud would react to faerun. a world so close to his own, but where the weave of magic is directly controlled by a god. there is an odd dichotomy in that faerun is more controlled than exandria and yet breaking that universe's laws are infinitely easier, and i think he would fall into obsession with that.

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

so.... im gonna (un)ashamedly plug my playlists for them here.... please ignore that they can go as long as twelve fucking hours.... ill try to narrow down specific songs that REALLY hit about them, though.

artagan - "within you" by david bowie, from labyrinth, is a perfect fit. not only is arti based on jareth but the song's meaning directly ties into him & jester. jareth is terrified of being nothing more than a lost concept, a lost celebrity crush made fae king, as sarah is metaphorically maturing. "how you turn my world, you precious thing/You starve and near exhaust me/Everything I've done, I've done for you/I move the stars for no one..." i mean, c'mon. "family of me" by ben folds, "celebrity status" by mariana's trench, "lapis lazuli" by the oh hellos, and "due west" by kelsey lu also really hit as arti songs for me.

ira - "mad iqs" by i dont know how but they found me is a really good song for ira's hatred of ludinus. "a mask of my own face" by lemon demon is self explanatory and far too specific, due to his fascination with ashton's mask of him, with the song mentioning "dancing with all the bells". he would go wild for and try to emulate "thriller" by michael jackson or "i cant decide" by the scissor sisters.

ludinus - if i did a speedpaint of lud, id set it to "science fiction" by church of the cosmic skull. "and all the people, they stood on their chairs, and they stared, at the man with the silver hair/taken the findings of the science man/raising his hands to the air!/so he's making the minds up of the millions, and they'd never deny that he's right/cause he's taken a prize of many a size/if ever he dies he'll have a tombstone of a very high height". "brutus" by the buttress is ABSOLUTELY a ruby vanguard trio song and i even used it in my art of them before. "all history is vengeance" by brad derrick from the eso soundtrack is what goes through my head at the malleus key. "blood upon the snow" by hozier & "never look away" by vienna teng also really work for him. i think "survivors guilt" by emily axford (yeah, prism) also has lyrics FAR too tailored to him - "i see you in my dreams/young, and brave, and pre-calamity/i will tell you a story/i will be the voice you lost too soon/because even in your absence, even in your death/im still your moon".

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

(i wouldnt say im in the fandoms for all of these, but)

artagan - i think it somewhat obvious he's based off of jareth in labyrinth - his voice is basically david bowie's singing voice. to a lesser but still strong degree he's very much marvel's loki, down to the voice - if, honestly, an infinitely better take on the trickster god. as a past extreme loki fan the pipeline is there for sure.

ira - ashley said she & matt based fearne's story off a guillermo del toro film and i can see that in many fae this go-round, especially ira. he is basically a doug jones character. it's very easy to compare him to creepypastas like the russian sleep experiment or slenderman, too.

ludinus - he has some heavy similarities to emperor belos of owl house, vyrthur of tes, prince nuada from hellboy, and other characters who fit the archetype of a white-haired, ancient, pale elven (or elven passing) man, from a different time, who murders & (in some cases) colonizes to exact vengeance on gods, humans, or similar entities he feels have destroyed those around him. characters clearly in the wrong but who do bring up important topics of the endless cycle of brutality they were caught in, mixed with their privelege in every other circumstance. he also reminds me of mannimarco of tes. they look exactly alike and both shadow run an empire, somewhat in cahoots and yet at odds with a balding white haired pale human man within that same empire. oh! and fëanor from the silmarillion.

thanks for asking! sorry this is so long, floodgates are opened when i discuss men i wish were my fictional partners, lol.

[nightwolf377]

With the FNAF movie coming up, being Scott's last project (at least for FNAF I'm not sure), can we just take a moment to step back and appreciate the franchise as a whole? Sure, we got a series of games based around a story that was never planned from the beginning, and quite a few people say that it should have stopped at maybe UCN, but it's not just about the games, not even about the story, but the community we built because of it. What, around 8 years, almost a decade worth of fan creations, theories, songs and memes went into this small horror game about a singing bear. 

Why am I talking about this now? I was listening to This Comes From Inside and goddamn that song is just a masterpiece. The lyrics, the nostalgia, the meaning, it's like the anime closing of the final season, and although FNAF may not be ending, the movie marks what I think is the true end of the Scott Cawthon era. The Living Tombstone made a song that in my opinion is as important as his first two, and it is asking us, how much time do we have? The community has had its share of dramas and controversies and the series has gotten more complex and vague as more games have been added, but look where we are now; A thriving community of millions of gamers and speed runners and theorists all coming together to piece together a game. Idk what im tryna say, but I do know that this franchise and what it created is fucking beautiful and what's in the past should stay in the past and we can move on.

[kaileeandag]

References in Yi-Kyung’s series

There’s going to be some things referenced in Yi-Kyung’s series that I feel would need to be explained. So, here we go!

Beliefs/Superstition: -Fan Death: many South Koreans believe that if one sleeps with the fan on during the summer with the door closed and without open windows, the fan will steal the sleeping person’s breath, leading to their death. -Writing someone’s name in red ink is taboo, as red ink is meant for the name of someone who is deceased. This is also the case in Japan, where names on tombstones are etched in red. In Korea, writing someone’s name using red ink when that person is still alive means that the writer wishes that the person whose name they wrote down dead. This belief isn’t really that popular anymore, but many still see writing someone who is alive’s name in red ink as very rude. -A shared superstition with China and Japan, the number four is very unlucky. Many elevators in South Korea use the letter F to indicate the 4th floor of a building. The reason why this number is unlucky is that their word for four sounds similar to their word for death, much like Japan. -don’t lie down right after eating in South Korea, otherwise you could turn into a cow! -eat taffy on days when you have a test! Why? Because it’ll make information “stick” in your head after you’ve learned it!

Urban Legends: -Mr. Cuckoo: a man who was sent to one of the worst psychiatric facilities in South Korea, where he was mistreated horribly by a female patient. This led him to hate all women and so when he escaped one day, reports of a man attacking high school girls with an ax began flooding in. It’s said that if you were to walk by an alley and Mr. Cuckoo was there, he would jump out and scream “Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!” Now, if you want to survive your ordeal, repeat the phrase back and run for your life. If he gets close enough to ask “Do you know Mr. Cuckoo?”, reply yes and HAUL ASS OUT OF THERE! -Sack Man: kind of like the Boogeyman, this legend involves a man carrying a straw sack that he puts children in. What does he do? Some say he eats the kids, others say he scolds them before sending them home. Korean parents will use this story as a way to make their kids behave, saying “If you don’t listen to what we say, the Sack Man will get you!”

Folk Culture: -Bulgasari: a legendary Korean creature, it is made up of these animals: a bear, an elephant, a rhino, a tiger and a bull. According to legend, the creature grows taller whenever it consumes metal. It is seen as a warning of material greed. In 1985, South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok was more or less forced to make a film based on the creature, titled Pulgasari. The film was made because Kim Jong-il was a major fan of kaiju movies and was a lifelong admirer of the director, who was kidnapped along with his wife in 1978. Sang-ok and his wife escaped in 1986,while in Europe for a film festival.

Places: -Buk-han: the South Korean term for North Korea. Translates to Northern Han. -Everland: South Korea’s largest amusement park, it is located in Yongin in the Gyeonggi-do province. The park opened in 1976 and at the time of Yi-Kyung’s story, it is the home of her favorite coaster in South Korea, Eagle Fortress. The coaster would shut down for good in 2009.

Terms: -Oppa: big brother, used by girls only. When a boy address his big brother, Hyeong is used instead. -Eomma: mom. Mother in Korean is Eomeoni. -Appa: dad. Father in Korean is Abeoji. -Halmeoni: grandmother. -Harabeoji: grandfather. -Jobumonim: grandparents.

[invisiblekatanaartwork]

Artist’s Blog #142 - A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

A Fistful of Dollars, Hands Down, A Classic Western

Hands down, A Fistful of Dollars is a classic Western movie – one of the greatest of all time. I once painted Clint’s character from A Fistful of Dollars on a trashed paint can lid and I have pencil sketched his as well. The pencil sketch was a gift to a friend, and I sold the painting to a fellow in Pendleton, SC. To bleed this right on into the next paragraph, I have to say that I think for me, Tombstone is my favorite western movie. I feel like, though, in the western movie fandom that Tombstone may not be considered a Western. Am I wrong, someone please enlighten me. The “Spaghetti Westerns” with Clint Eastwood are my favorite of what I consider to be real westerns though. I feel some philosophy stewing. Hop on your mule or horse, and let’s hit the blog trail.  

A Fistful of Dollars Raises Discussion Points for Me

I really want to get a discussion started around this because I don’t know. There are 2 questions I have. First, I remember my grandfather watching Westerns on TV. I’m from SC and he was too. Why are Westerns so popular amongst old fellows? Culturally, why does this seem to be the case? Second, and this is the real question, who made the best Western / Cowboy movies? Was it John Wayne, Eastwood, or another? I’m not qualified to have a serious opinion because I know so little about the genre. Please someone that knows more than me chime in on this and enlighten me. I am forever a student, and I have these as serious questions.

A Fistful of Dollars Reflects the Untamed Wild West

I feel like, based on what I’ve read, this is a somewhat accurate portrayal of the wild west. With so few lawmen, towns spread miles apart with only horse as transportation, and no internet (say what?), there’s any amount of craziness that could have taken place. If you rob a bank or shoot a cop today, your picture, name, family history, friends, vehicle, etc. can literally be across the entire globe in seconds. It’s not often that you see someone successfully murder someone or rob a bank anymore. It happens, but it’s rarer than ever. I feel that it really would have been a no one is coming to save you, and you must be bad enough to take care of yourself environment. Otherwise, you would be prey. Clint’s character is certainly this type and fits well in the culture.

Eastwood’s Ninja-Like Behaviors in A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars is a ninja movie without the black suit, weapons, and Taijutsu. If you’ve been reading my blogs, you’ll know that ninja movies from the 80s are some of my favorites. You can read one on Revenge of the Ninja here and another on Ninja III here. I am a product of the ‘80s ninja craze in America, so I have studied about the art. Eastwood’s character is what a ninja would have really been like in feudal Japan. Ninja rarely wore black but rather were the “gray man” and fit in with their surroundings. Trickery and psychological manipulation were huge and lesser-known skills of the shinobi. Eastwood’s character uses these beautifully. Firefights and fighting are not too heavily used though which gives the film a nice feel and it keeps the focus on the character’s wit.

Artistic Brilliance in A Fistful of Dollars’ Color Palette

From an artist’s perspective, this movie is fascinating for one main reason, color usage. This one thing may have been my favorite thing about A Fistful of Dollars. I think it was my blog on Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, which you can read here, that I talked about how loud colors contrast so well against a dull desert landscape. In A Fistful of Dollars, they just have everything dull, and the matching pallet is perfect. The whiskey is a dull brown, the walls are more pale than white, Eastwood’s mule is a gray, and his poncho is a perfect olive green. A Fistful of Dollars is a fantastic story and full of action but, its pace is consistent and so are the colors. The only thing bright was the Hammer film style blood that looked more like bright red melted wax than anything else.

English Class Analytics Paper, Get Film in the Hat

I imagine that English class is still like it was in the late ‘90s and students write papers providing an analysis of a topic. Teachers probably still try to make this fun by giving students the opportunity to vote on a movie to watch and then write about. You likely still have 98% of the class choosing Blade Runner and the cool 2% choosing A Clockwork Orange like in the case of the class of 2001. Just a joke, we would have never been allowed to watch A Clockwork Orange in school but, Blade Runner was the class choice. I hate it to this day. There will not be a blog on this movie – thank you Mr. whatever your name was. Sorry, back on the mule, I’m still frustrated about having to write an analysis paper on Blade Runner. I remember the other option being my choice.

If I were an English professor, I’d let my class analyze A Fistful of Dollars. It’s funny, here I am 20 years after graduating doing this very thing for fun. I have some deeper questions about this western. Feel free, reader(s), to chime in because I’d love to read your thoughts. Why did the undertaker look away in the closing scene? Digging graves by hand at 70 years old in the desert couldn’t be fun but why? Was the knight armor foreshadowing? Not in that Ramone would shoot for the heart but that Eastwood was a “knight in shining armor” to the imprisoned family. The main question for me though – why did he ride a mule and not a horse? I liked how Eastwood’s character had no back story. He just showed up on a mule, handled business, and bounced but, why a mule?

A Fistful of Dollars Delivers Timeless Entertainment

In closing, I am a fan of A Fistful of Dollars and of Eastwood. As usual, I question the unlimited ammo in addition to another unrealistic situation. If I shot a fellow in the heart and it didn’t kill him, his dome would be a canoe quickly. I guess, picking up my #2 pencil for English paper again, that Ramone in his arrogance had to fulfill the proverb of a rifle beating a 45 and stay consistent with his heart shot reputation. In the end, the pace changes from consistent and attention holding to quick, and action packed. Finally slowing down as Eastwood rides out of town on his slow trotting mule in the same way he came in. This worked well. A Fistful of Dollars is a great movie, a guaranteed rewatch for me, and a must see for fans of this genre or just great movies.

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this artist’s thoughts on A Fistful of Dollars. I invite you to follow my art journey on social media, visit my website, and consider supporting and buying my work here. If you liked this blog or the movie, please share. Also, feel free to comment, especially if you are A Fistful of Dollars fan. Weigh in on the questions I presented. Peace. 

[uniquejellyfishqueen]

I'm now unsure who we should be thinking of when we hear Tim McGraw...

10/8/2004 Tim McGraw played the role of a father on the film adaptation of Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G Bissinger (the closest date possible to find is 1990). The story follows the 1988 Permian HS Panthers football team as they took their chance at a run for the state championship. The movie has a run time of 118 minutes, and the 118 show in Germany on 7/18/24 (based on the piano songs from this day is 10/9 suspicious.? And today 10/7 someone posted about a new mural in Germany. It was very "like a rainbow with all the colors."

6/19/2006 TS releases the song Tim McGraw.

10/3/2007 FNL the TV show premiered withe the heartwarming story of the rookie QB getting his shot and the hardass coach that continued to believe in him.

6/16/2009 TM music video

12/6/2011 Ours music video premieres. The male main character is the QB from FNL who is also in love with Coach Taylor's daughter.

*this is silly because now in 2024 TS is dating the TE from Kansas City 1/30/24 he said in an interview that "he knew her before from Philadelphia. Her dad played at Delaware and was a big football fan and had met them there."

*FNL it equals 13

There is also an article from 7/6/2018 titled Kansas City Chiefs as FNL characters. Andy Reid was matched with Eric Taylor and Travis was matched to Tim Riggins. (No offense, trav is too happy to play Tim...)

If you only knew how many other strings this piece of the web was weaving, I'd call this a record year.

Update, yes 10/9 has some things of note:

Happy Birthday John Lennon

And Jack Daniel's is resting in peace I presume.

Elvis and Priscilla divorced after 6 years of marriage (there is a tombstone with for a Priscilla in my childhood backyard)

The U.S. Naval Institute was established

1919 the Cincinnati Reds won the world series

In 1943 Bob Hoernschemeyer (dude I'm so sorry that was the second word you had to learn to spell...rough!) Threw six TD passes in a game

1989 Art Shell was the first African American man to coach an NFL game *inducted to the Pro Football HOF in 1989..

10/9 is also nation pro-life cupcake day

**upon further review and probably a million lyrics later I realized who I wont think of when I hear Tim McGraw.

When you are so blinded to what true love and partnership is you obviously incorporate traits and behaviors that you grew up with for a type of love language. So when you continue to get more and more of the same that becomes your normal, which makes you start to feel a little crazy why would you question something that has always been this way? Because thats when you know it’s not as it seems, it never has been. It could feel like waking up one random Tuesday and running late for work only to smack yourself right between the eyes and literally knock yourself out in the driveway, as you’re crying in pain your partner didn’t even know as they just sat inside the house. Maybe it took you literally knocking yourself to wake up, or maybe it’s looking your daughter in the eyes and hoping to the goddess above that she never knows what it is like to settle. I was blinded by pretty things, when in all reality I thought I really liked those pretty things but I don’t. I lied to myself, I lost myself in this life. In this lie. Now that I know myself again, I see that a best friend wouldn’t let you suffer this way and more importantly a best friend knows when you can’t take it anymore. Therefore in this story all he is, is a supporting character of baby daddy.

[xoteajays]

The High&Low franchise will be removed from Netflix on September 20, so definitely rewatch the movies before then because I might end up doing that within the next couple days. Just to let you know now.

Not that you can't watch the whole franchise on most foreign sites.

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That's how I see it.. Murayama wins a fight against whoever, and the person who lost would be like, "How did I lose to him?!" Before they'd eventually become his friends. Because that is definitely Murayama.

Cobra: Uses a lot of wrestling maneuvers, especially chokeholds that seem serpentine. Which is how he got the nickname Cobra.

Rocky: He mainly uses his cane. Not that he can't punch and kick but because I think he prefers caning people to death with his cane.

Hyuga: He tends to break a lot of limbs, like dislocating arms and legs a lot of the time. Biting. Hair pulling. He basically fights like a girl.

Murayama: He basically fights like a deranged monkey.

Smoky: Combine breakdancing and parkour with fighting.

And that is just for the original SWORD leaders. But someone did this post listing off every characters fighting style, technique, everything.

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Exactly! Rocky, Kaito, Koo, the entire men of White Rascals are ideal boyfriend material. No wonder they're known as "The White Demons Seduction" and "The Alluring White Devils". So gimme that sweet sin.

Granted we don't know much about Smoky because, since the story began, he was slowly dying. So you never see much of his character.

Despite Cobra being the main protagonist, he's still some completely complex character that I can't understand. And usually I enjoy a lot of complex character. He just infuriates me that I can't understand him.

But yeah.. Rocky and Hyuga are the easiest original SWORD leaders to understand. Murayama is give or take. But Cobra's too complex.

That how I saw it!

Based on the ages. Naomi's brother, Tatsuya, was born in 1988 - from his tombstone (because I was curious if a date was mentioned).

So I know most Mugen men were born in the 1980s, the Sannoh guys and girls were younger than the Mugen generation.. At least only by a few years. That's how I see it. This is how I'm interpreting their ages.

Rocky, to me, seems like he's actually the oldest SWORD leader since he already has multiple businesses. And he also knows Mugen gangs, at least to some extent, since they knew each other's full names. So I always imagined Rocky being in his mid twenties to early thirties too.

The frequently mention that Murayama was twenty when he was just first introduced, so between 20 and 21 at the youngest. But 23 by the end of the whole franchise. Seki is the oldest of the three at 25.

As for Smoky. Maybe around the same age as Cobra and Hyuga? But I also imagined him as being the second oldest, like right after Rocky. I don't know why.

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Nobara definitely deserves happiness. But yes.. That is how I actually imagined him trying to get his friends together in the relationships, in some ways they're other friends would help Nobara into getting them all together. They're only himbos because they failed their education.

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That's what I assumed? Obviously the Amamiya family is infamous as fighters. And their legacy, before helping take down the yakuza, was - they were known as the fighters who defeated the Mugen gang in the early years. I assumed people knew who they were on name and face.

Murayama is more intelligent than he seems. At least intelligent in his own way. Despite the fact that Oya boys are known to be apart of this criminal activity, as part of the Kuryu group, because they are known as the delinquents with no futures. Murayama does really reject them multiple times because he hates how the newer yakuza operates. But still. He's intelligent enough to understand important things like that.

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Exactly! Don't get me wrong.. I respect his decision to retire from this career. I get that. But I would miss seeing more work from him.

Especially if there was a rare chance they did continue the H&L series too. And they do have a spinoff show that revolves around characters - like the background characters that you'd want to know about. But I know it's only available in Japan. No overseas fans have watched it as far as I know. Which angers me because I'm curious about characters that you rarely hear much about. I actually sent you a scene from that show. Mostly the scene when the Ichigo girls were complaining about which SWORD leader to date, which was interesting to see.

But it would be a huge piece missing if Keiji wasn't there to continue the story, he's a character I enjoy. And an entertainer I enjoy too.

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That's my problem! Not necessarily with characters are the moment.. But with writing in general. Because I envisioned a lot of scenarios in my head, like character introductions between the canon and original characters. But then I read a story that has basically the exact way I'd want to write that scene. So now I feel like I have to change the entire scene, just so it seems like I'm not stealing from them. Even though I had that exact idea before reading the story. If that makes any sense?

But I'm the same way. Even when I'm not, or have no intentions to, I'll never want to be accused on stealing someone's work in any way.

Now I have to think of different scenerios for my characters now.

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I've always watched anime. And, when it comes to Ghibli movies, I'm sure there was a couple I've watched. Definitely Spirited Away is one.

oh geez is it that soon? i need to finish up the ‘6 from high&low the worst’ episodes and the last movie then. i do have a site i use to watch dramas and such, but it’s a lil laggy and i like being able to watch without buffering.

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murayama gets into fights, wins like 99% of the time (looking at u, cobra), and then turns around to go ‘we’re friends now!’. happened with the oya crew, happened with cobra, happened with todoroki, happened with hyuga. this man just wants to make friends and he’s gonna do it by fighting them first.

god hyuga is such a teenage girl fighter when he’s not breaking arms. he absolutely bites and pulls hair.

slightly off-topic, but i was so surprised by the murayama vs todoroki fight in ‘the worst’ movie. i’d seen pics of todoroki with the eyepatch but i’d assumed it came from an actual enemy like the redrum dudes, not murayama literally slamming todoroki’s face into his knee! like omg?!! dude!??

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the white rascals are just a bunch of hot dudes doing the peak hot guy thing of protecting+respecting women and beating the shit outta shitty dudes. 10/10, the only complaint being that we didn’t get to see more of them, especially the newer smg boys (who were literally some of the only good parts of the dtc movie) and also im still complaining about no kizzykaito kiss scene. gimme it! i deserve it! i want it! i love them!!

i think that mostly works out with the actual actors’ ages too. keiji (rocky) was born in 1980, masataka (smokey) was 88, iwata (cobra) was 89, kento (hyuga) and yuki (murayama) are actually both 90s babies, and reo (takeshi) was 96. i’m surprised, keiji’s actually older than both kohaku and tsukumo’s actors (81 and 85 respectively).

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murayama is so smart and people don’t give him enough credit for it just because he’s the ‘jump around, excitable, still at high school’ guy. he has some genuinely smart quotes, they’re just usually followed and overshadowed by him being overexcited about something silly. it’s also pretty clear he’s got his head on straight about the important things (jobs, protecting his friends/school) and he can be reflective about things (his whole episode arc post-cobra-fight). he’s my boy, he’s smart, he’s just a lil bit of an excited himbo.

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i wish the spinoff was translated and available bc i’d like to watch it. i saw the scene of the girls discussing the sword leaders and i just. yall are complaining too much! you got great options across the board! oh no cobra’s quiet and smokey lives in nameless cit- boohoo!! they’re all hot and cool!! no complaining!! it is so funny though that the only thing they could think to badmouth about hyuga was him riding on the hood of his car, like there is a lot more that could be said about hyuga. i love him but woof.

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i have the same issue! like on one hand, ‘great minds think alike’ ‘hey same concept!’ but on the other hand i dont wanna look like i read someone’s fic and stole a scene out of it. it makes me slightly antsy when reading oc fics for a fandom i also write for, like i don’t want to be accidentally influenced and then accused of stealing. like i promise it’s all coming from my idiot brain!

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spirited away was i think my first ghibli movie and remains one of my favourite childhood movies. and probably holds up the best actually, here’s looking at you digimon adventures the movie dubbed version agshdkdlsl

[girlsexbattle2]

:)

These will need a look over before you put them in the playlist i am horrifically desensitized

Okay ouija by harley poe is hm. okay its about murder. the first and last lyric sounds like he talking about something else but i swear its murder

The Hearse song Harley Poe - youre going to see a pattern here. lots and lots and lots of people have done covers of this song but this one feels like your parents telling you a dark bed time story like how it was originally sung.

Imma Killer - Repetitive, About his exwife

I am the man - one of my favorites, hater of capitalism

american psycho - he got his name from making music based off horror movies, hater of capitalism

7 inches of hell - This is a rock ablum of covers of his other songs. should be fine along as you arent displaying the album cover.

Kreacher Bridge City Sinners - There is a part where they scream 'youre about to fucking die'. it is the only curse word i can recall in the entire song

Satan's Song Bridge City Sinners - how dark are you willing to go? cause this is like 'youre never going to heaven' dark

Delilah Amigo the Devil - Murder Ballad

Perfect Wife Amigo The Devil - Dark

Murder at the Bingo Hall Amigo the Devil - What it says on the tin. Its fun and kid friendly but idk how Halloween-y besides murder

Drink With The Living Dead Ghoultown - what it says on the tim

Ballad Of Blue Docherty K K Hammond - dark bed time story

Death Ghost Number - man i love a fanfare

Worms Viagra Boys - Ignore the name its not sexual

Pretty Lavina American Murder Song - you said obscure and thats not this but its good

Im Always Walking As Somebody Else American Murder Song - Cain!

Dance While The Sky Is Crashing Down Jason Welbley - horror or just folk punk idk. that could be said for everything on this list

Animal The Living Tombstone - ?

Witch Dagger Alec Holowka - banger no words

Dracula Baker - Says Dracula! Repetitive

TUFF GHOST The Unicorns - omg they have many ghost song but this is the best

Friends In Low Places Worthikids - Youtube friendly

Graveyard Blues K.K. Hammond - spoooky

Something Wicked This Way Comes Siouxsie and the Banshees - spooky!

We Will Commit Wolf Murder of Montreal - mmm

Is this too much? Uh I got exited. Ilove music so much. Hope some of these make the cut.

hai guys i need songs for a halloween party and it has to have minimal sexual references/swearing (theres gonna be kids) so recommend me some pls and thx (preferably more obscure stuff, ive already got ghostbusters and dragula and all that stuff)

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You asked us to remind you about the Tombstone poster in Justified.

Yes! Okay, so, behind the desk of his new boss, we see an old Tombstone poster:

This is where you all expect me to go, "And I love Tombstone!" and you aren't wrong, I do love Tombstone, but let's us talk about the OK Corral, Tombstone, and the American Imagination.

The shootout at the OK Corral is one of the best-known events in US history pre-1900 that fucking no one knows anything about. And you think I'm saying, "Because fictional media has gotten wrong from day one" and that is true! That is absolutely true. Fictional media has shaped so much of what the public consciousness thinks about Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the OK Corral that I routinely have dudes fight me on facts about the event, despite the fact that my degree is literally in History of the American West, and my special interest in Doc Holliday AS a part of the American West was so deep that my nickname comes from being called, 'That Doc girl' repeatedly.

So what the fuck does that have to do with Justified? Glad you asked! One of the major things people don't realize about the shootout at the OK Corral is it was one of the best documented examples of police brutality and overreach at the time. The cowboys were in fact not known as a ~band of outlaws~ wanted nationwide--this was largely a political and class conflict! One that ended up with the underclass dead in the street, while laws against carrying in town were inconsistently applied based on class factors. There were actually protests IN the streets of Tombstone after the event, PROTESTING what the Earps and Doc did.

What Tombstone (and all the media the poster is meant to stand for) did was turn that overreach of police power into a narrative that people loved. And not because it turned the 'police good' a lot of those narratives did a lot to make you forget that they were the POLICE and turned them instead into simply THE GOOD GUYS. This is what Western narratives do, by and large, though of course the renaissance of the western in the last 20 years has been largely about dismantling those tropes and ideas. It's tipping its hat and saying, "this is a Western narrative, and you will cheer for Raylan as he broadly oversteps the bounds of his police power"

BUT.

That isn't the theatrical poster! I have the theatrical poster and it's this:

Very 90s, not at all stylized like the one in the back of the office. The one in the back of the office I actually do recognize because, me, all the time, and it's a commemorative poster Bill Roman, an artist based out of Tombstone who does their annual Helldorado posters, done the year the movie came out to commemorate it/cash in on people flocking to Tombstone for vacation from the movie. You CANNOT FUCKING FIND IT for sale anymore, I assume because it was on Justified. This art centers the actual DATE and EVENT in its styling, while superimposing the image of the actors in front of it--and when I say the image, I mean the pose itself. If you look, much the styling has been changed, as well as what’s being carried, to more accurately represent what was carried that day:

So we have a circle of event - movie- event but stylized though, and I think that's what its signaling to us here with the inclusion. This is a Western narrative yes, and we will let you cheer for Raylan while he does things he really shouldn't do, but we will never let you forget the actual things that he's doing. We won't let you forget that this is not a story with a simple white hat. We WANT you to be frustrated and confused by parts of what are happening here, and we want you to come away going, "I'm not sure Raylan did the right thing" in the same way that when you recenter the EVENT of Tombstone, heroes are hard to find and cops who overreach are easy. But it's hard to make them the villains, too!

I think maybe what that signals, to me, is a sense of self-awareness with all the things it's about to do and all it will ask of us, while telling us it's aware of what it's doing

Or it's just a neatlooking poster IDK man