#uhhhhh... Gene?

[incangencence]

🕯️( from eleven! )

[inner thoughts || accepting]

'He's going to be the death of me.'

"Morana Ripley" leaned against the wall, watching as the tall, energetic, handsome Timelord race around the room. She had to fight to see it. The monster in him. But it was there, for anyone who looked closely enough. Oh sure, he was charming. And funny. And sweet. And he had a smile and an excitability about him that made her feel as if someone had gone and lit something inside her on fire... Which was exactly what makes him so dangerous.

He wanted her to trust him. Wanted to make her trust him. And she-...

Gene shook herself. Forced the unwelcome thoughts away. The man was dangerous. Possibly even moreso than The Master. The charm was just a front. An excuse to worm his way into your heart, before he burned the whole of your world to the ground. He had done it to The Master. To countless humans and others across all of time and space. She wasn't stupid. She wasn't going to let him ensnare her. Wasn't going to let herself be drawn in by those warm arms, and big grins, and soft, sad eyes...

She hated him.

Definitely... hated him.

And she would make it a point to destroy him if she could.

[tinypaperstar]

offers u alnst oc stats

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[mewrising]

Briefly returning from the dead to share my beloved round children

[angeldrawsstuffs]

Not me poking at any and every character’s worst insecurities and giggling like an idiot

[vhstown]

cannot wait to learn about nucleic acids and genetics and finish my fat ass book about mitochondria so i can girlsplain about biology and disguise i5 as a spiderverse fanfic

[hart-on-my-sleeve]

Gene: "You know your underwear is showing." Jake: *looks at his shirt and laughs* "You wanna see the real snake? No scales, I'm sorry." ;D

Jake: "You open their mouth, you run it down their throat, tell them to swallow - if they don't like the taste well that's too bad." THIS IS A FAMILY SHOW, JAKE???? JFSIOKAMDLSA????

*several... interesting gestures*

*so many snake dick jokes*

*SO MANY SNAKE DICK JOKES*

9 24 1986 TNT

[oceandiagonale]

I’ll admit I’m a little anxious, it may be nothing but has Volo switched from “my love” to “my friend”? Is he post-relationship friendzoning Gene?!

OH DON'T WORRY THEY'RE STILL PARTNERS DHDJFHSJ

he's not doing it consistently, only when he's feeling especially worried about if he did a bad thing 🥲

[elidee-art]

The oc brainrot really got me

All I can do is draw this little pink bastard in weird outfits

[t4tdanvis]

headcanon that mcd gene can shove his own memories into other peoples heads. :3 (<- up to evil, angsty things)

[maxknightley]

I've been watching Batman Beyond with the gf and I have to say that S2E1 has aged uhhhhh INSANELY badly. you're telling me that between "people gene-splicing themselves into cool furries" and "government official fearmongering about SPLICER VIOLENCE and IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE" I'm supposed to side with the narc???

[sideprince]

Harry Potter Fancasting - Worst Edition

Dreamcast this, ideal for the role that, yeah yeah. What about the worst possible Harry Potter fancast you can think of? I mean worst. "Who in their right mind????" worst. "I’m burning my books and moving to the moon" levels bad. Ready? No? Too bad.

The Golden Trio

Harry Potter:

Josh Gad. He's got a youthful charm and uhhhhh can pull off a pair of glasses. Plus, he's done children's movies before.

Hermione Granger:

Leslie Jones. She's smart, she takes no shit, she can pass for an 11 year old if you squint. This is Hollywood.

Ron Weasley:

Ed Sheeran. He can act. Probably. Only one way to find out.

Hogwarts Teachers:

Dumbledore:

Al Pacino. He's old, he's grey, he's uhhhh *checks notes* "quirky." Think about it. De Niro could play Grindelwald. You'd pay to see that. You wouldn't like it, but you'd still pay.

McGonagall:

Oh please, you'd love it (I refuse to admit she's no longer with us).

Alastor Moody:

Tracy Morgan. He's unpredictable, he's unhinged, he gives zero fucks. Sounds like Moody to me.

Severus Snape:

Dan Savage. Throw on a wig and some black contacts I guess. Or don't. This is casting, I don't work in wardrobe. (Am I throwing shade at Fabio Snape art? How dare you accuse me of such a thing.)

Marauders generation

James Potter:

So there's a resemblance to Josh Gad.

Lily Evans/Potter:

Lindsay Lohan. She has red hair ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Remus Lupin:

Bryan Cranston. Because Lupin has a dark side I guess. But give it another ten years so he ages even more.

Sirius Black:

Gene Simmons. He's badass, he's got long dark hair, he looks like he could ride a motorcycle. He and Ed Sheeran can take acting lessons together (which we could film and sell as a side project/spin-off TV show... hmmmmm).

Peter Pettigrew:

Manny Jacinto. Plot twist! You'd never see it coming. A man that pretty could do no wrong!

And finally:

Voldemort

Ben Stiller. He'd have no nose but would be all ears.

[harrietvane]

So, in response to tags on this post re: a Daniel Henney/Navarre Ladyhawke scenario, I have been thinking for DAYS on who else one would cast.

To make it fun you really want to set boundaries. Stick to a) people you can cast now (it's not open choice eg you can't cast Gene Tierney then with DH now, it has to be both here and now), and b) be of an equivalent career profile (aka you can't cast some rando from an advertisment), and c) stick within the general vibe and age range of the original narrative. However point c) has really challenged me, as I looked up the ages of the original cast for comparison and it has not satisfied me re: contemp. casting.

For example, Rutget Hauer was 41, and Michelle Pfeiffer was 27. Daniel Henney is 44, so far so good, but then when I went looking at actors in the 27 year age bracket I get like the Ella Purnells and Daisy Edgar Joneses and Anya Taylor Joys of the world? I get that people who notably played teens on screen recently are not actual teenagers, i do know this... but the idea of casting, like, one of the flashback Yellowjackets vs Daniel Henney (44) bores me to tears. BORES ME to TEARS. Navarre/Isabeau, despite sharing very little screentime, have a feeling of being adults of an equivalent experience/confidence/capability, perhaps because they are both the Adults when compared to Philippe's Youth, and the Bishop's and Imperius' Age. Phillipe has to seem like a teenager to her, but he'll be a mid-20's actor already so like I'm not super keen on casting gorgeous models who have yet to see the fun side of 30.

But also like Zöe Robins is in her early 30s and the vibe they have in WoT seems dynamic and interesting between them, so I'd not averse to ZR as Isabeau for for funsies, and just have a WoT LadyhawkeAU. However, I scouted around by going up a decade for the hell of it.

Front runners are: Jodie Turner Smith (you definely go 'holy shit that is the Face of Love', and she can play a quiet dignity combined with a 'i do what i want' vibe); hard to miss Keira 'queen of costume' Knightley (you KNOW she could do it, and she does 'pining and pissed off' so well); but my fave is Sofia Boutella - Isabeau does a lot of no-dialogue scenes of her Looking and Reacting to things, rolling her eyes at Phillipe, thinking about things silently, and Pining, and Boutella is a spectacular no-dialogue actor. She has a dance background, so no surprise I guess. I mean she's been in a lot of action-heavy stuff with minimal/expository dialogue, and you can SEE her feelings. She can do angry and vulnerable and quiet in combination. She can rock a 'i cut my own hair off' look like no problem.

Imperius is Simon Russell Beale. I just like to see him in everything.

Casting Phillipe the Mouse is impossible. IMPOSSIBLE. Ladyhawke is essentially a 2-hander, times 2, because Isabeau and Navarre can't interact due to the uhhhhh central premise of the movie. That means the actual on-screen chemistry has to be between Isabeau|Phillipe, and Navarre|Phillipe (| or / depending on your chemstry preferences I guess).

Due to the age range, you're looking at bascially the kind of people who get cast as one of the kids in Stranger Things, and I recoil. Broderick's entire brand is built on having so much Ferris Bueller youthful rocket-fuel charisma he literally defined the man-child archetype at 23. I cannot think of anyone working now in that age bracket who I would not immediately tell to STFU anytime they were on screen. Idk, find some kid who is live on stage as Billy Elliot or in Matilda right now somewhere, that's probably your best bet

[wrestler-smash-or-pass]

Weekly Wrapup 3/3/24 (late!)

This Week's Rankings:

Hangman Adam Page (Mustache) - 70.7% smash

Drilla Moloney - 70.7%

Kagetsu - 66.7%

Randy Orton - 62.3%

Alex Coughlin - 61.3%

Amir Jordan - 60.2%

Shane Haste - 59.0%

Rocky Romero - 58.4%

Tetsuya Naito - 54.1%

Tony Nese - 51.4%

Al Snow - 47.3%

Eve Torres - 47.1%

Julius Creed - 27.9%

Kevin Sullivan - 13.1%

Average smash rating this week: 53.6%

More stats under the cut, along with my observations, commentary, and some of my favorite tags...

Most total votes this week (most enthusiasm)

Hangman Adam Page - 529 votes

Alex Coughlin - 279

Drilla Moloney - 246

Rocky Romero - 245

Randy Orton - 236

And least total votes this week (least enthusiasm)

Kevin Sullivan - 153 votes

Amir Jordan - 166

Eve Torres - 174

Julius Creed - 201

Tony Nese - 218

The closest poll was Tony Nese, who won 112-106

Top Ten Overall

Kris Statlander - 91% smash

Athena - 90.2% smash

Hikaru Shida - 89.7% smash

Minoru Suzuki (Young Variant) - 88.7% smash

Swerve Strickland - 88.3% smash

Toni Storm - 88.1% smash

Hiroshi Tanahashi - 87.7% smash

Hangman Adam Page - 86.4% smash

Bianca Belair - 86.4% smash

Hikuleo - 86.0% smash

Bottom Ten Overall

Vince McMahon - 3.9% smash

Ric Flair - 4.6% smash

Kane (Corporate variant) - 10.1% smash

Miracle Violence Connection - 11.8% smash

Gene Munny - 12.4% smash

Spike Trivet - 12.% smash

Kevin Sullivan - 13.1% smash

Triple H (Terra Ryzing variant) - 18.6% smash

Eric Bischoff (NWO) - 20.0% smash

Charlie Dempsey - 22.1% smash

Top Women Overall

Kris Statlander - 91% smash

Athena - 90.2% smash

Hikaru Shida - 89.7% smash

Toni Storm - 88.1% smash

Bianca Belair - 86.4% smash

Bottom Women Overall

Eve Torres - 47.1% smash

Carmella - 47.8% smash

Nikkita Lyons - 48.2% smash

Julia Hart (Cheerleader Variant) - 49.8% smash

Kelly Kelly - 50.3% smash

Top Men Overall

Minoru Suzuki (Young Variant) - 88.7% smash

Swerve Strickland - 88.3% smash

Hiroshi Tanahashi - 87.7% smash

Hangman Adam Page - 86.4% smash

Hikuleo - 86.0% smash

Top Tag Teams

The Golden Lovers - 80.4% smash

Best Friends - 66.7% smash

Motor City Machine Guns - 65.5% smash

Roppongi Vice - 62.7% smash

Young Bucks - 43.8% smash

Mustachioed Hangman took the No. 2 spot for most total votes, with 529 votes cast. However, there was a 13.6 point drop in his smashability when the mustache is taken into account. He scored 86.4% smash for his previous poll, with 386 smash votes. With the mustache, he scored 70.7% smash, with 374 smash votes. I thought he'd do better, given how popular mustaches seem to be overall, but maybe the mustache fans are just a small, vocal minority.

Eve Torres had the misfortune of being the least smashable woman overall. She was the fourth woman to score less than 50%.

We can now add Rocky Romero to the rankings for Best Friends and Friends:

Kris Statlander - 91.0% smash

Orange Cassidy - 77.1% smash

Danhausen - 68.8% smash

Chuck Taylor - 66.2% smash

Trent Beretta - 61.3% smash

Rocky Romero - 58.4% smash

And for their tag teams, we have

Best Friends (Chuck and Trent): 66.7% smash

Roppongi Vice (Trent and Rocky): 62.7% smash

In other news, I'm starting to add Cagematch rankings to the results spreadsheet (reminder, that exists here: Google Docs). I plan to eventually make some silly charts involving those ratings, like smashability vs. Cagematch rating.

And now for some of my favorite tags and comment

@tetsuya-taito on Julius Creed: #he looks like he rubs the inner thigh and asks if you like that

@mancewarner on Julius Creed: #he does unfortunately look like hed call me a slur though so id hit it and ghost

@mancewarner on Shane Haste: #just watched an insiderz stream where he was chugging coke and burping extremely loudly into the microphone. that being said yes id smash

@sanguinaryrot on Kagetsu: #uhhhhh yeah I stand for the troops (transgender professional wrestlers)

@dykecassidy on Hangman with a Mustache: #everyone stop clicking smash i wanna be the only one please let me be alone with this hangman

@theunprettier on Drilla Moloney: #i wanna get tangled up in his body hair and die like a fish caught in ocean debris

Honorable mention to the MANY people who tagged the Hangman poll with some variation on "save a horse ride a cowboy"

[eri-lessthan3]

Right, as my rimworld ice playthrough is nearing it's end (?), I suppose I should introduce the colony!

Behold, the Lanwell! Our humble abode, where we have survived checks the days 463 days, wow!

Let me show you around!

The brightest room we have is the Schneider's throne room, since she is soon to become a countess! And yes, we are so rich that we can afford to keep the braziers constantly lit (this wasn't always the case ;p). This room also functions as a place for people to hang out and listen to music or look at the art collection that is way too big for this small room ;P

Right next to it are the main rooms, from which it all started. The kitchen, which used to be our only room at some point, with a nutrient paste dispenser, fueled entirely by uhhhhh... friendly donors! ^^

We also still have our wind turbines as a secondary power source, though we are mostly reliant on chemfuel generators now! Some of which we stole from ancient vaults, and these guys are very efficient :3

We also have our little storage room right next to it. It is mainly a freezer, buuuut it also stores a bunch of random junk, since this is usually how I end up playing rimworld anyway >.<

Next to the kitchen is the heart of our colony, the hydroponics! This is the only reason why we can live and prosper, as it provides us with food, clothes, medicine, beer, wood, money, and even chemfuel from rice, if we run out of it! Thought this room has seen some destruction before, we obviously need it to always function :3

Our colony grew right from that luscious heart. We have our workshop area, our personal bedrooms (don't mind Dorgo, he is just jealous and he really wants some jade sculptures in his room -.-). Although unfortunately, those two rooms on the left are empty. Rest in Peace, Vulcavein. We also have our research room and a hospital, which is often the target of enemy drops, for some reason >.<

To the right of those rooms, we have completely incorporated this space between our base and the mountains. We have a rec room, which used to be a school, we have our temple to Ithalux, with his sigil painted on the floor. As we are also transhumanist, we have neural superchargers and biosculpter pods, and speaking of that

Say hello to Cambiar! He is currently undergoing age reversal procedures, so he probably can't hear you, actually. Anyways

We have a rather empty, yet surprisingly comfortable prisoners barracks, even though if we ever do get prisoners, they usually don't stay here for long...

And yeah, we also have our small gene-tailoring room from that one time I bothered to go out onto the map for a secret vault, and also bothered to bring this stuff back, but we never used it, and we can't regularly loot vaults either, as it can get to -60 degrees with no problem. Our feeble human bodies must stay inside of the base for most of the time. Speaking of that:

This is the reason we have our mech friends! They help us run our base, defend it, and are our only real way to go outside during the winter without freezing to death. Although we don't really do that anymore, as there is no reason to leave our perfect colony.

Speaking of that, meet Manuel, our first and only android! He is also part of our defences, but he is quite helpful around the base, and he can venture into cold without risking his life that much. In fact, we had to send him on a mission to destroy a mech cluster at some point, and together with our mechs (which uhhh, were hard to control that remotely) he dealt with that easily, definitely nothing went wrong. And he doesn't have to eat, which means that he can caravan forever, I think.

I suppose I could also present these few bedrooms, with Schneider's royal one standing out the most. She has to have one, as we are planning to leave this hostile world and join our new friends in the Broken Imperium. Now that I say it, that name doesn't bring much hope, but it should be fiiiine.

For that, however, we will need to protect a royal for quite some time, and thus we have prepared quite the room for them! You can also see our devilstrand growing zone, as we try to extract the most out of this rocky soil. And uhh, don't look at the top, there is nothing to worry about there ^^'

For you see, we have our small factory over here! Thanks to the VFE - Mechanoids, we can produce steel and plasteel out of basically nothing! This used to produce components instead, hence why the weird layout, but our fabricors can do that on their own. We also have a medicine production facility, though it is currently off. And we have our magic neutroamine generator! Don't question how it works, don't look into that room! Better focus on our neat android workshop, which really didn't need so much random junk there, but I am just figuring stuff out ;P. And yeah, this is why we need the neutroamine!

Yeah, there is nothing more to see of this colony! Just a bunch of monuments and steam power plants, and that is all ;P There is no need to open those doors, they just lead to empty monuments we had to construct for quests and such :3

And that was the tour ^^

Now, the reason I did this is that we will try to leave this planet once the "summer" starts here, and I will try to not save scum too much. I really enjoyed this colony, but I feel like it is time to move on. I have so many other rimworld ideas either way. So yeah, hopefully see you in the stars!

[theetherealraphael]

uhhhhh so i have an incorrect quotes generator. so i made incorrect quotes ::::3

feat. @shakespeare-official-account, @thesmallestclown, @nanochittle, @gibbish-anon-from-gell, @darthpastry and myself

i would have featured more people but the generator has a maximum of 6 people ::::(

(if youre uncomfy with this please lmk!)

clown: Never going to a debate team meeting again. gibbish started their argument with "Riddle me this".

shakespeare: When manga characters add a heart emoji to their speech... I wish I could do that.

clown: You can. Just put a little love in your voice. Smile. People hear it.

gibbish: Moan.

shakespeare: Plants are basically the ideal friends. They are quiet, friendly, and easy to please. All they need is a little water and fresh earth, and they are perfectly happy to lie there all day in the sun. And they don’t make increasingly awful life choices, or hide their relationships. They have never, as far as I know, fucked a bee.

clown: My ultimate goal is to punch God in the eye, just to spite him one last time.

*gibbish and raphael's house is on fire, but they don't know it*

gibbish: Damn, it's hot in here.

raphael: I know, it's so hot there's smoke coming out of the vent!

gibbish:

gibbish: First of all, I'm assuming you have no idea what the problem with that statement is.

raphael: What?

gibbish: Second of all, we need to get the fuck out of here, NOW.

*the squad is at a dinner party but someone has been murdered*

nano: You’re acting pretty carefree for someone who’s life’s at stake. Who’s to say you aren’t the killer?

raphael: It’s a murder, not a tax audit. I’ll be fine.

clown: What about gibbish? Nobody ever suspects gibbish!

gibbish: Well what about shakespeare? They have a gun!

shakespeare: nano has a knife.

nano: Yeah, for fun, not for murder! *stabs clown in the arm*

raphael: Everytime I move, I crunch like popcorn.

shakespeare, singing: And everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly!

gibbish: You can probably tell which family member is coming upstairs by their step pattern but wouldn't be able to pick your your own.

nano: If my own footsteps were coming down the hall towards me I reckon I would have bigger problems on my hands.

clown: Why cant trees give off something important like wifi??

shakespeare: So fuck oxygen, I guess.

clown: I have met some of the most insufferable people. But they also met me.

clown: What's this?

shakespeare, hugging clown: Affection!

clown: Disgusting.

clown: ...Do it again.

shakespeare: What if I took off my leather jacket to reveal a second, secret leather jacket underneath?

clown: You mean... Skin?

shakespeare: What an absolutely terrifying thing to say. Thank you.

raphael: Doctor-Patient confidentiality goes both ways. I saw my doctor killing someone on the street and driving off and I'll have to live and die quiet about it.

raphael, teaching biology: Now, what's the opposite of dominant genes?

gibbish: Submissive genes.

shakespeare: Hey darth?

darth: Yeah?

shakespeare: What's your favorite color of the alphabet? True or false?

darth:

darth: ...What.

shakespeare: So, does everybody understand?

gibbish: Yep!

raphael: I don’t think we’re on the same page.

darth: I don’t think we’re in the same book.

clown: I’m personally on a kindle.

shakespeare: …I’ll take that as a yes.

gibbish: Was I supposed to read something????

nano: I’d rather watch the movie, thank you.

gibbish: When I said you should try being friendlier this isn't what I meant.

raphael, stirring a cup of tea aggressively: Oh, so now I'm TOO friendly? There's no pleasing you.

nano, who broke into their house an hour ago: Two sugars please.

raphael: Coming right up.

clown: It’s impossible to make a sentence without using the letter a.

shakespeare: Despite your thinking, it is quite possible, yet difficult, to form one without the specific letter. Here’s one more to further disprove your theory.

raphael: Fuck you.

shakespeare: There was a lizard in the shower so I said "Hello" to it and the person showering next to me was like "Hi?".

shakespeare: I wasn't sure whether to carry on the conversation or be like "Sorry, I was talking to a lizard."

clown: FUCK THE CHAIR. PARDON ME FOR MAKING MYSELF COMFORTABLE DURING A SINCERE HEART TO HEAR DISCUSSION WITH A DEAR FRIEND IN NEED!

clown: BUT THE TIME HAS COME FOR ME TO CEASE STRADDLING THIS DEEPLY OFFENSIVE PIECE OF FURNITURE! AWAY WITH YE, FOUR LEGGED TEMPTRESS! DISTRACT US NO MORE WITH THE MOST BASIC AND UTILITARIAN FORM OF COMFORT YOU SUPPLY!

raphael: clown just threw a tantrum about a chair.

raphael: I just won clown Tantrum Bingo.

raphael: Life keeps fucking me and I can't remember the safeword.

raphael: Hey there demons, It's me, ya boi.

shakespeare: raphael, NO!

gibbish, glaring at nano's coffin: We are gathered here today because SOMEBODY. Couldn't stay alive.

shakespeare: If you took a shot for every time you made a bad decision, how drunk would you be?

raphael: Maybe a bit tipsy?

nano: Drunk.

gibbish: Wasted.

darth: Dead.

raphael: I just want someone to take me out.

gibbish: On a date?

shakespeare: With a sniper gun?

clown: Both if you're not a coward.

nano: Real men don't hit you up at night asking for pictures of your naked body.

nano: Real men hit their desk with closed fists deMANDING PICTURES OF SPIDERMAN.

raphael, holding a Wii mote with a knife attached: Are Wii gonna have a problem?

nano, bringing out their switch remote with a blade: You best switch up that attitude.

-An hour later...-

clown, in the ambulance: Wii-U! Wii-U! Wii-U!

darth: I hate this fucking family.

gibbish: We ran out of coffee so I'm experimenting with new flavors and expanding my tastebuds.

clown: Oh, cool! So what are you drinking right now?

gibbish: Straight bleach.

clown: I have a problem.

raphael: If it's harder than 2+2, I can't help.

clown: gibbish does what people think Harry Styles does.

shakespeare: Men?

shakespeare: Do you think different paints have different tastes?

clown: They do.

darth: ...Why did you say that with such certainty?

nano: *sharpens knife* We've got ways of making people talk.

nano: *cuts piece of cake*

raphael: ...Can I have some?

nano: Cake is for talkers.