#xcviii

[dontaskchaosandco]

vergil is my sclorbo and i am caring for they

[a-girl-and-her-quotes]

William Shakespeare - Sonnet XCVIII

[seeksstaronmewni]

“Same energy” memes, volume 1

Final Space = Samurai Jack (part 1) [tweet]

Calvin and Hobbes = Ren & Stimpy [tweet]

Total DramaRama = Painbow [tweet]

#Powerless = The Case of Porky’s Pants* [tweet]

Star on Wheels* = Penthouse Mouse (round 1) [tweet]

*copied from my tweet because I couldn't find the original picture

[badarchitectrecords]

Check out this new song and film by XCVIII [98] - Sophia (Official Video)

[everysasori]

Day XCVIII!

official arts

[wallacepolsom]

Wallace Polsom, Dream House XCVIII (22 Apr 2024), paper collage, 21.3 x 34.1 cm.

[tenshichan1013]

RTA: “plus est en vous” favorite screenshots part XCVIII

[turangalila]

Antonio Zacara da Teramo. Magister Zacharias (c.1350 c.1413)

Credo (I) [(2v) Cod. XCVIII. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cividale del Friuli, Italy]

_ Enigma Fortuna – Zacara da Teramo – Complete works. La Fonte Musica, Michele Pasotti. (2021, Alpha Classics – ALPHA640)

[rionas-path]

Chapter 10

Grave News

XCII. The silence persevered for a most unsettling duration Of time. Each heartbeat taking longer and longer, it seemed. Droplets of sweat running down her temples which all now gleamed In the low candle light. She was struck again by hesitation. After an eternity’s wait, a low rasp spoke: “Proceed, If you have courage, if not, you best turnabout with speed-” A capricious tone cut these imposing words short in their narration “Yet, knowing the stakes, we both know the cause of thy migration!”

XCIII. Her hair stood on end as she mustered her valorous tune From within. After all, this had been her idea all the while. With slowed steps, the doorway lurked closer and the once hostile Flow now caressed instead, dancing round in its humming croon. Her entry greeted her with a tragic image of a man That was the Tsar. He stood turned away from her, rather than Show his face; indeed, he appeared gaunt and could likely swoon At any exertion. His hooded rags were across his body strewn.

XCIV. Though of imposing stature, he seemed to not possess an aspect Of which their kin was oft renowned. His voice was filled with languor: “Do not be afraid now, for you’ve all but been warned! Our fate assured And mutual, felicitous for a demigod’s respect!” Thus, turned the ghastly image, presenting himself before The girl, who felt Aurianne herself turn away at the odious eyesore. This repulsion surprised the goddess, for she knew the prospect Of survival leaned on her talent for this fate to deflect.

XCV. He was an aberration of two worlds, wickedly tangled. High horns were finally revealed, the symbols of his holiness: Malformed – gleaming in two separate shades of ghostliness. One deeply blue, the other lightly violet and mangled. So too, his eyes: one blue, the other in purpurate flames. An errant curse ate at the side of his face on which the veins Of divine flow appeared, carving out his gaunt features. Spangled By chaotic deformities, The Tsar was by this bane entangled.

XCVI. Then his voice crackled into an upbeat sputter: “Delight! Incredulity! Thou’st come! Thou’st come!” He gushed vociferously Over the demigoddess: “I knew thou’dst come eventually!” Bemused, she wished to inquire, yet Aurianne scoffed with spite Before the girl could speak: “The Tsar has utterly declined! Don’t even seek the quest of sense that might be in his sick mind! Though I foresaw this narrative, his state does me affright, His souls discordant and dissonant, his time closest to midnight!”

XCVII. Still, Ríona was not so easily swayed and after a beat, She inquired the Tsar: “You had forecast my arrival?” A low groan came again along the attitude’s revisal: “Do not listen to the damned old fool! He hath lost all his wit Many a moon ago. Of course, he did not expect you, Alas, I did, for seventeen years, have I!” Such ire he spew Out, before letting out a breath and made his souls retreat. The perilous prospects of her dest’ny were now laid at her feet.

XCVIII. She finally made her retort: “Balthazar… then you must know Why I have come?” He grinned sorrowfully: “Indeed, wee damsel; And I regret to inform-” the god couldn’t start his counsel As he was cut short by the true, maddened, spirited bellow Of the Tsar: “No need for sad tales! I stand on the precipice Of a breakthrough! If only I had more of time’s blessedness! If only thou werst the Orb Maven which time could bestow And not a wretched warlord! Thence, I’d have something to show!”

XCIX. All this tension and commotion caused a slip and error grave In the mind of Ríona, for up till now, she hadn’t considered That a divine could take over the body unhindered. Yet, Aurianne knew this fact well, and waited to outbrave Her host when the occasion to act would finally appear; Albeit, for the time being, her mind was still not fully clear. The daze of dread which the sight upon the wretched Tsar gave, Still took hold and reminded her of the deal with the Grim Margrave.

C. “What breakthrough?” Ríona asked, who dared but creep slowly t’wards The raving man. He looked at the table behind him and smirked: “Break through Eternity itself! Years of research, of work, Of suffering: but not for nought! Gaze at my labour’s rewards!” With a slow shuffle, she neared the table before which he stood. There laid notes upon notes which studied every likelihood And ramblings on the very nature of all flow’s accords; Glyphs which channelled the power of all known holy records!

CI. Alas, before she could react, the souls swapped their control Again, and with unpredictable swiftness he caught her wrist. Surprised, she tried to pull away in order to resist Balthazar’s grip over her, though this effort required great toll On her body. In fear, she cried out: “What trick is this? Let go of me Or face my riposte! I know not your game, yet I beg you hear my plea!” The god replied in sinister glee: “Regrettably, young foal, I have a grudge to settle with your vessel’s other soul!”

CII. Aurianne; enraged, began to furiously tug at their reigns, Which were loosening from Ríona’s grip, as she wrestled with The other demigod. The goddess hammered words like a smith: “Thou mustest give to me control, surrender me these chains For but a time brief or else he shall crumble our wrist, I beg of thee, Ríona!” Unsure and under high mind mist, She let go, as the goddess crashed in like torrential rains Of Lonesome Eye! A mighty burst of terror shot through their veins!

CIII. “I knew, I never should had let thee breathe another breath The moment I had trialled thee; alas, we meet again!” Spoke wildly Aurianne; no single soul could her wrath contain. Still left in place, the old god of war began laughing at length: “And there art thee, finally! Long time since our last meeting, dear? I see the girl hast not tamed thy ferocity, that much is clear!” The two gods wrestled relentlessly, showing their mastery’s wealth, Right there and then, the witch did win! Ready to deal him death!

CIV. At that moment, Ríona grabbed their reigns again and regained Control of her figure. The goddess screamed for the girl to leap Out of the way, yet it was too late to evade the flow’s sweep Which ruptured from the god’s palm. She made an effort constrained, To stop the flow with a shield of magick matter, yet could not block The sharp brunt of the attack. This bolt of energy did knock Her back into the wall. Her head now felt heavily strained As it hit the cobblestone, leaving her soul’s vigour drained.

[viecome]

Colección de citas literarias. XCVIII

Leer les agrandará, chicos, el deseo, y el horizonte de la vida. Ernesto Sábato Erotismo y poesía: el primero es unametáfora de la sexualidad, el segundouna erotización del lenguaje. Octavio Paz Lee mucho. Escribe mucho, revisa mucho y acostúmbrate a borrar, a cortar y a empezar de nuevo. Mark Haddon El arte, sin embargo, sería como tener nostalgia del hogar estando en casa. Para ello hace…

[simologista]

Episode XCVIII: Mysterious Purchase

Alexander isn't the kind of guy who likes to go shopping. This time, however, he has an important purchase to make so he went to Downtown on his own.

What can this mysterious object that he bought be? I guess we'll find out soon enough.

[dontaskchaosandco]

traced & colored in some previous drawings

[kate]

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

~ William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCVIII

[seeksstaronmewni]

7 years have passed since Samurai Jack got back to the past...

Highlights of events regarding Genndy Tartakovsky and the like during this time include the following:

Genndy in interviews talked about the importance of visual storytelling (including an obvious disliking for "This is me"-type openings in animated movies), reducing dialogue in the script for a sexual animated comedy called Fixed (produced by New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures Animation, and Renegade Animation), and the viewpoint that "Character design informs posing, and it all works together."

Samurai Jack has the Checkered Past lineup on [adult swim] joined, airing on Fridays (soon to be Thursdays) at 6:00 PM... technically like around 5:59 PM, due to other Checkered Past shows having end credits time-compressed. Cartoon Network's social media accounts promoted this with a clip from EPISODE XCVIII, which is the second post they made regarding specifically Season 5 since their first one, in which they used Mao Mao x Samurai Jack fan art to promote Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time... which is now deleted due to Warner Bros. Discovery purging Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart in an effort to save $3 billion.

Speaking of WBD's animation purge: Cartoon Network Studios' building is now abandoned as the crew was forced to relocate to a new building joining Warner Bros. Animation with affiliate CNS as another cost-cutting move. The Cartoon Network logo on the building was originally moved to the new building, but it was soon sold off letter by letter.

As if things couldn't grow worse; after MGM (on the home entertainment level, still an affiliate with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment/Studio Distribution Services) turned 100, Primal Screen, the studio behind much of Cartoon Network's branding including the Powerhouse era, announced that they were to shut down (likely due to financial issues - thanks a lot Warner Bros. Discovery). Buck's Pastel / Prism / Split-Screen branding is by far the cheapest, blandest, and ugliest one CN ever used, and the negative consequences of Discovery on Turner & WB make this era of CN truly the worse, with little sign of any improvement in their branding and their programming.

Unicorn: Warriors Eternal got the ACME Night marathons and airings it was promised to have, but that is unlikely to happen again since Cartoon Network stopped at 5PM with the debut of Checkered Past, causing ACME Night to be part of [as] as well (that may be just technical laziness on Discovery's part - they're already forcing Turner channels to use Discovery's rating & closed captioned screenbugs). Any future airing of Unicorn on TV, if any, so far will remain with the [adult swim] label, even on ACME Night (even though it was supposed to be for CN).

Relative to samurai in general; the Looney Tunes Cartoons episode "Yosemite Samurai" made its TV debut on Cartoon Network, though airing minutes earlier than the 9:30 AM schedule due to longer episode lengths.

Teen Titans GO! celebrated the 100th anniversary of Warner Bros. in October 2024 (was planned for September but was pushed in part due to revisions), and apparently "JACK, SAMURAI" was on the list! Dexter and Dee Dee, along with The Powerpuff Girls (in altered versions of the 2016 models), made cameos as well.

Tara Strong (a Zionist Jew and the voice of Ashi as well as Ilana Lunis) became controversial due to posts she made and liked speaking against the attacks against Jews by the Hamas, a terrorist group in Palestine. I may suffer from flack over this, but I honestly doubt that she is ultimately racist with the people of Palestine in general - just speaking against a terrorist group in Palestine killing people of her own race. May be that we're just too woke about racism?

The Powerpuff Girls Season 10 (the Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe revival; I personally count the 2016 "reboot" as Seasons 7-9 for a number of reasons) is still in production with people from Titmouse on the crew.

Dexter's Laboratory: The Complete Series DVD is set to release in June 2024... featuring the long overdue official US DVD release of Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip! There was a planned US DVD release long ago.

Warner Bros. may be 101 years old now (impressive considering that Discovery put them at over 60% risk of bankruptcy by December 2023), but they're not finished with celebrating their 100th anniversary; a screening of various WB (and affiliate-owned) shorts including Cartoon Network episodes like Dexter's Laboratory and the Steven Universe pilot "The Time Thing" (on which Genndy was the timing director) was announced for Annecy 2024.

Relative to a block that Samurai Jack used to rerun on; [adult swim] announced another nostalgic block: Toonami Rewind! This is so far exclusive to anime.

Personally, Cartoon Network entering into the Pastel era was bad enough, but Discovery exercising more control of WB affiliate Turner Broadcasting System pretty much killed CN for me (regardless of the many older shows airing on special occasions that weren't rerun on the network in years and even decades). I still remain faithful to a fair extent to CN, but, as you can see, there's a lot about the animation industry that's crumbling.

I'll add more to this post if I find anything else that happened.

Highlights of Year Passing 1

Highlights of Year Passing 2

Highlights of Year Passing 3

Highlights of Year Passing 4

Highlights of Year Passing 5 (incomplete; I know)

Highlights of Year Passing 6 (also incomplete)

[fivekrystalpetals]

PH MASTERLIST

(aka I wrote a lot of stuff about this series now trying to put all of it in one place so I find Things when I search for it)

CHAPTERS

retrace i | retrace ii | retrace iii | retrace iv | retrace v | retrace vi | retrace vii | retrace viii | retrace ix | retrace x | retrace xi | retrace xii | retrace xiii | retrace xiv | retrace xv | retrace xvi | retrace xvii | retrace xviii | retrace xix | retrace xx | retrace xxi | retrace xxii | retrace xxiii | retrace xxiv | retrace xxv | retrace xxvi | retrace xxvii | retrace xxviii | retrace xxix | retrace xxx | retrace xxxi | retrace xxxii | retrace xxxiii | retrace xxxiv | retrace xxxv | retrace xxxvi | retrace xxxvii | retrace xxxviii | retrace xxxix | retrace xl | retrace xli | retrace xlii | retrace xliii | retrace xliv | retrace xlv | retrace xlvi | retrace xlvii | retrace xlviii | retrace xlix | retrace l | retrace li | retrace lii | retrace liii | retrace liv | retrace lv | retrace lvi | retrace lvii | retrace lviii | retrace lix | retrace lx | retrace lxi | retrace lxii | retrace lxiii | retrace lxiv | retrace lxv | retrace lxvi | retrace lxvii | retrace lxviii | retrace lxix | retrace lxx | retrace lxxi | retrace lxxii | retrace lxxiii | retrace lxxiv | retrace lxxv | retrace lxxvi | retrace lxxvii | retrace lxxviii | retrace lxxix | retrace lxxx | retrace lxxxi | retrace lxxxii | retrace lxxxiii | retrace lxxxiv | retrace lxxxv | retrace lxxxvi | retrace lxxxvii | retrace lxxxviii | retrace lxxxix | retrace xc | retrace xci | retrace xcii | retrace xciii | retrace xciv | retrace xcv | retrace xcvi | retrace xcvii | retrace xcviii | retrace xcix | retrace c | retrace ci | retrace cii | retrace ciii | retrace civ

some Serious posts: may-reads-ph | some Fun Posts: ph musings

MY ANALYSIS POSTS

1.] Lottie | (add: re: real reason why Lottie changed sides in the last arc)

2.] Noise | (add)

3.] Alice(s)

4.] Lacie

5.] Glen, Children of Misfortune, Juries and the Baskervilles | (Part 1 : Glen, Jury and Knowledge of Abyss) | (Part 2 : Choosing a side) | (Part 3 : Oswald and his sin of passivity) | (Part 4 : Oswald and Lacie)

6.] Core of the Abyss and "her" Children of "Misfortune"

[2kats]

XCVIII