#fansite dvds

[honeytofu]

Fansite dvd sale / exchange

Hi, selling or exchaning KPOP fansite dvds. 1$ per copy. All download links are located on pan.baidu. Email me on: [email protected] if interested

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-PDoK441zvNq_lj6jzLGcjG1cl3-oB8gmwz5bA16YgE/edit#gid=0

#fansite dvds #kpop #ikon #snsd #dbsk #shinee #f(X) #kara #hyuna #bangtan #bts #exo #red velvet

[kn96artworks]

hhhh sugar daddy! jugjug/sugar baby! gai

or rather some ppl saw them together too often and speculates stuff about them

#random #gaijug #there's even a fansite #with pictures #ppl probably writes fanfiction on them #which jugjug stumbled upon one day and now on and off reads in his free time #gai only cares about food #as always #the inside of his head is the black dvd screen with the logo bouncing around #my brain and me

[lizardsfromspace]

Oddly specific genre: in-character behind-the-scenes docs for 90s movies. I don't know why so many of these exist, but they do?

Behind the scenes of The Truman Show...the show

Behind the scenes of Galaxy Quest...the show (this movie's official website was also a gem, since it was a low-quality fansite for the show)

An in-universe news report from Independence Day

Behind the scenes of X-Men...but it's a report about mutant registration from Senator Kelly (this one is more of a frame story for movie clips, though, this is the only one I saw at the time)

An actual infomercial starring Tom Cruise's character from Magnolia

I'm sure there's more examples of this that I can't remember now. I've seen later examples but they're confined to DVD special features or Youtube, but these all aired on TV. It's cool but also why was this a trend

#film #movies #Youtube

[partywithponies]

Parts of 2008 era fandom I'm glad we left in the past:

Fics being rated 18 just for featuring two gay people holding hands

Author's notes in the middle of a chapter, like we're watching a DVD with the director's commentary on, except without the option to turn it off

Half your favourite fics being on obscure private fansites that could be taken down without warning at any time, leaving your favourite fic lost forever

Parts of 2008 era fandom we should bring back for funsies:

Bad/earnestly cheesy Windows Movie Maker fanvids set to Cascada and/or Linkin Park that use about every effect and transition possible

Wildly implausible fankids for all our favourite ships

Parts of 2008 era fandom we should have left in the past and I can't believe they keep coming back. How do we keep letting them come back:

The ATLA shipping wars

Cassandra Clare-related fandom drama

#fandom

[refractionfish]

Some art of Vash, Rem, and Knives that I found floating around old geocities fansites! Those files were tiny tiny, so I tried to upscale and enhance the image as best as I could.

This picture was uploaded onto the rather well-archived Colorless Sky as a supposed scan of the art that Nightow drew for the Geneon Remix DVDs, released between 2004-2006 with six DVDs in total. However, this image certainly isn't a DVD cover. I couldn't find it anywhere except other fansites.

But it's a beautiful piece, and if someone has a better scan, or knows the origin, let me know!

I've stuck the actual DVD covers beneath a read more if anyone wanted to see them:

All of the DVDs except Volume 5 (yes, the Wolfwood kneeling one!) were uploaded to Colorless Sky, with the title and other package information cropped out. The scans found on DVD product listings were a lot better than the geocities originals, so those are what I'm posting :)

And here's the original image that was uploaded to Colorless Sky:

#mine #trigun #vash the stampede #millions knives #rem saverem #trigun maximum #trimax

[why-its-kai]

fun fact for anyone who's seen this Kuroneko vector around (she's an emote in both the Trigun Stuffs & Tricord discord servers!)

I've still got the original Illustrator file:

...and the file will be 11 years old in May!

here's the original crusty screenshot I traced the vector from:

(it was most likely downloaded from animegalleries.net bc that was my go-to resource for Trigun screencaps since like 2009 up until i made my own dvd rips last year lol)

I originally made it for the header/title banner on the @texts-from-gunsmoke blog I made back in 2012, and she's still there! (tho if you're on mobile, she's not visible.)

and now she is part of my wip neocities Trigun fansite!

I'm amazed how much mileage I've gotten from this silly little vector trace.... and despite everything, she's still smiling..... truly an inspiration. Anyways here's to another 11 years of kuroneko.ai!!!!!

#my art #long post #trigun #trigun 1998 #kuroneko #kuroneko sama #idk if vector tracing a screenshot technically is art but whatever

[sunburnacoustic]

Since the last Muse ask game took off but was a bit old, and since we all seem to like to get nerdy on the details on here, here's a new one:

Muse Down-To-The-Nitty-Gritties Asks

What's your favourite live performance?

What's a Muse song that sounds better live than in the studio?

What's a Muse song that sounds better in the studio than live? (if any!)

Favourite Muse cover?

Favourite Muse acoustic song/version?

Favourite one of Matt's dances?

Favourite Muse outfit? (from whenever, not just gigs)

Favourite 'live' performance? (mime ;) )

Favourite iconic Muse post (*Question originally said 'favourite iconic Muse Tumblr post' but that would disqualify 'wub wub fuckers' which came from Reddit)

Favourite non-studio lyrics (demos, live additions, etc.)

Favourite song that's never been played live

Favourite Muse/members Tweet/Instagram post

Favourite scene from a making-of DVD

Favourite live riff/jam/intro/outro

Favourite Dom live moment?

Favourite Chris pic?

Dan or Morgan?

Favourite Muse merch (including cover artwork)/fave era for Muse merch of any sort?

Favourite photoshoot of the band?

Favourite live moment?

Favourite wtf moment in an interview?

Favourite guitar/bass riff/drum fill?

Favourite Muse lyric?

What's something you wish Muse did that they don't normally do?

Dream Muse setlist (or just a few songs you'd like to see live if not a full setlist)

Favourite Muse pop song

Favourite Muse heavy song

Favourite Muse piano part/song(/organ, for obvious reasons)

Favourite Muse rarity (including hidden tracks)

Favourite Muse fan art?

Have Muse impacted your life?

Have you ever followed Matt's advice to not give a fuck if people think you're a pretentious wanker?

Which Muse member's autograph do you like most?

Have you met any of the band (/if not, any favourite fan interaction/gig stories)?

Favourite Muse moment that's overused in the fandom to literal meme status (e.g. fuck off you cunt, Soldier's Poem was on Absolution, anything at all from Panic Station, Hey You Crazy Kids!, etc.)

Favourite song to sing along to

Songs with lyrics that embarrass you in front of other people (no shame, our Matty has plenty of those too lol)

Favourite Muse instrumental to play (if you play an instrument, otherwise to listen to if you don't)

Do you prefer Muse in a club/small venue or a stadium?

Favourite live era?

Favourite stage/set?

Favourite festival performance?

Who's your favourite out of Muse's influences?

Have/Would you block someone for posting too much about Muse (asking for a friend)

Tell me a little-known fact about Muse

(Biased question but) Best Muse fan community? (Tumblr, Twitter, Reddit, muse.mu messageboards, MuseWiki, any other old fansite, your IRL group of Muser friends)

Petition for takeabow19 to post again

Have you made friends through Muse fan communities?

Have you ever taken part in old Muse easter eggs? (e.g. anagram puzzles, the 2005 bicycle treasure hunt, etc.)

Chris' curls or the legend of Pedro?

Dom - bleach blond era, 90s slacker-band, wraparound shades-era, surfer dude era, Drones black era, 2022 'pornstache' baby blue era, or 2006 aviators era?

Matt offered £50,000 to whichever member of Muse is the first to go shirtless in the 2015 Nick Grimshaw Radio 1 interview. Who's getting paid?

brie or bananas?

Mirror Manson or Glitterati? (or any other Muse gear?)

Favourite catchphrase? ("Cheers!", "I've lost the plot", It's WOTPing time!, etc.)

Favourite silly Muse video (general)

Favourite music video?

Does the singer from Muse have only one tooth

(Okay I promised niche) Favourite Muse accessory? (Matt's OOS era thick necklace, the guitar-pick necklace, any rings, etc.)

(Let's pretend it's 2011 for a minute and the fandom is still losing their mind over Matt swearing in song) Favourite song/lyric that has Matt swearing?

#I know I've asked some version of favourite pic before and that's my favourite post ever #muse #muse band #muse asks #musers #faffing about #get involved!

[animenostalgia]

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 121: ReView: Project A-ko Versus

This month’s episode is another short ReView! What is a “ReView” episode, you might ask? Well, it’s my highly-clever (ok not really) name for episodes where I go back and revisit an older title I haven’t seen in a long time, and see if what I remember (and what my opinions on it) are still the same now that some time’s gone by. This month, I’m going back in time to revisit a Saturday Anime title that I only ever watched once before, and never again, until now--it’s Project A-ko VERSUS! ....y’know, that official Project A-ko AU? Where A-ko & B-ko are bounty hunters? And they live together?.........no, really, that actually happened! I’m serious!! THEY WERE ROOMMATES!!! 

Stream the episode above or [Direct Download] Subscribe on apple podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify

Relevant links:

Buy the out-of-print Project A-ko: Uncivil Wars DVD on Amazon

Buy the original Project A-ko on bluray at Rightstuf or Amazon

Visit Project A-ko.com, probably the biggest Project A-ko fansite still active!

Other anime mentioned in this episode: Dirty Pair, Bubblegum Crisis, Maris the Chojo, Fight! Iczer One, Dangaioh, Queen Emeraldas

Big thanks to the Shoujo Sundae Podcast for sponsoring this episode! They just recently celebrated their podcast anniversary this month, so if you love shoujo or want to learn more about it, check them out!

My theme song music was done by Kerobit! You can find more about them on their website!

Support the work I do on this podcast by leaving me a tip on Ko-fi! Want to have your name read in the special thanks segment on the next episode? All you need to do is buy me 2 or more “coffees” on Ko-fi!As always, feel free to leave me your thoughts on this episode or ideas for future episodes here—or email me directly at [email protected].

Thanks for listening!

#The Anime Nostalgia Podcast #Project A-ko #Project A-ko Versus #90s anime #ReView #dubbed anime #Saturday Anime #Sci-fi channel #affiliate links

[rorschachisgay]

i find the logic of being in the fandom for something created by someone terrible but opting to not financially support them by only illegally downloading their stuff kind of short sighted when you're talking about modern continuing media. like i think if you're talking about something by a writer or a director that's long dead, i agree, i don't think it makes a whole lot of difference if you draw fanart and talk about stuff publicly. if you talk about the two guys from Rope sucking each other off it doesn't tangibly mean anything because Hitchcock is bones.

but if you're talking about something that is actively continuing. lets be to the point , if you're talking about Harry Potter. well.

ok think about this. how many times have you heard stories about fans campaigning online to get a show renewed or an actor cast? and theres examples of that being successful. and you've heard about examples of shows on Netflix being cancelled or renewed because of the online engagement they receive. so you can understand that studios are paying attention to what happens online, right?

we do not live in an era where our online fandom circles have no impact. if you are running a fan twitter for harry potter, regardless of whether or not you are buying and contributing money to Rowling's own personal estate (which just so we're totally clear, she is directly contributing money she gets towards anti-transgender rights campaigns in the UK. she is funding hate groups personally. money she gets is going towards legislating against transgender people and women in particular), this is contributing to her power. she and Warner Bros are paying attention to the online fanbase. they have for a LONG time, Rowling has historically been personally involved with online fansites.

we live in a society now where online culture is more powerful than it ever has been. if you are dedicating your time and love to something like this, it is actively beneficial to them. money is a way of showing support, but its not the sum total of what matters. there's a reason Rowling very publicly said she sees people talking about being fans of and loving Harry Potter as direct supporters of her and her politics.

idk. i just think a lot of our understanding of what "support" means needs to shift. because unless your fandom is exclusive to like, rewatching old dvds at home and never tweeting or blogging about something ever, your fandom is being taken by Rowling and the studio as unilateral support for her and is encouraging them to continue doing what they do.

[rz-jocelyn]

[TRIVIA] Live Spectacle NARUTO: Getting to Know Sato Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) in the "Live Spectacle NARUTO" (Part 02)

Compiled from the Twitter thread: HERE

Part 01 of this trivia series can be found: HERE

Sato Ryuji’s Official Accounts

Personal Twitter: @ryuji7117

Official Staff Twitter: @satoryujiST

Personal IG: ryuji_japan

Blog: https://ameblo.jp/ryuji7117/

FANSITE: https://sato-ryuji.com

NOTE: He doesn't have a Weibo account.

1. When Ryuji did the aerial performance, rehearsals began in the afternoon for the rest of the main cast, and only Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) had solo rehearsals in the morning for the aerial before joining the main rehearsals in the afternoon.

To top it off, he also did everything else, like the trampoline. Kenta (Gaara) commented on how he felt that Ryuji had the most to do physically.

2. In the "Live Spectacle NARUTO (Narusute) ~Akatsuki no Shirabe~ 2019", Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) fell doing a stunt (shown in image). Despite that, he was amazing for the rest of the performance.

During the curtain call, he kept bowing and apologising profusely for the accident.

3. When it came to the formation of Team Hebi/Team Taka in the "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Akatsuki no Shirabe~" (2017), Nanaki Kanon (Uzumaki Karin) and Yamaguchi Tomoya (Juugo) had this to say about Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke).

4. Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) being cute with Koudai (Uzumaki Naruto) and Nakao-kun (Uzumaki Naruto).

For "Tomoshibi", Naruto and Sasuke's part was left to Nakao-kun and Ryuji, and Kimi-chan (Hatake Kakashi) commented on how the cast looked forward to what they would do every performance.

5. Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) and Rachi Shinji (Uchiha Itachi) from the "Live Spectacle NARUTO" (Narusute) were selected to be ambassadors for "Nijigen no Mori", and participated in the opening ceremony for the "NARUTO & BORUTO SHINOBI-ZATO" attraction.

To watch a video of the opening ceremony, please refer to this link: HERE

6. During the talk show for "Nijigen no Mori" , Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) mentioned that he was born on the day of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, and had become a goodwill ambassador to contribute to the revitalization of the area (Awaji, where "Nijigen no Mori" is, was one of the hardest hit).

7.  Ryuji's (Uchiha Sasuke) first impression of Rachi-san (Uchiha Itachi) in the "Live Spectacle NARUTO": "President Nogami told me, 'I brought someone who is like an older brother for Ryuji-kun!', and when I looked at his career, I thought, 'An amazing person has arrived.'"

Rachi-san's first impression of Ryuji in the "Live Spectacle NARUTO": "Sasuke is really here."

Since then, they have become like brothers, and Rachi-san has Tweeted things like, "[My] Cute younger brother. Is it the alpaca that is cute? Is it Ryuji who is cute?"

8. Some stories of Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) being cute with the actors who play Juugo.

During the "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Akatsuki no Shirabe~" (2017/2019), Tomoya called him and Ryuji the "Happy Set".

During a Q&A for the "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Uzumaki Naruto Monogatari~" (2021), the cast sent each other questions. Emoto Kouki asked Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke), "When do you feel the happiest?" Ryuji's answer? "When I'm with you." (Although, Ryuji was talking to the camera so he could mean Kouki-kun and the fans. LOL!)

Ryuji has known Ohno Ryota since 2015, and was happy when Ryota-san joined the cast for the "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Ninkai Taisen, Kaisen~". They worked together on the "Musical Touken Ranbu". In both Narusute and Toumyu, Ryota-san is on Ryuji's team. He plays Juugo, a member of Team Hebi/Team Taka in Narusute, and is on the dance team for Ryuji's solo lives in Toumyu:

Musical Touken Ranbu ~Kashuu Kiyomitsu Tanki Shutsujin 2017~: BD ( HERE ) / DVD ( HERE )

Musical Touken Ranbu ~Kashuu Kiyomitsu Tanki Shutsujin 2018~: BD ( HERE ) / DVD ( HERE )

Musical Touken Ranbu ~Kashuu Kiyomitsu Tanki Shutsujin ASIA TOUR~ (2019): BD ( HERE) / DVD ( HERE )

9. Kitamura Ryo (Sai) announced his marriage in 2021 when a performance of the the "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Uzumaki Naruto Monogatari~" (2021) was ongoing. He was no longer playing the role of Sai at the time, but Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) referred to him as "a precious member of the NARUTO family" and sent him well-wishes during his curtain call comment.

10. Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) cried so much during the "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Akatsuki no Shirabe~ 2019" while acting that, at the time, he felt like that was the most he had cried in his entire life.

He also cried during "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Ninkai Taisen, Kaisen~".

11. "Live Spectacle NARUTO" (Narusute) and "Jujutsu Kaisen" The Stage (Jujusute)

Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) plays Itadori Yuuji in Jujusute. Yasue Kazuaki (Shikamaru in "Narusute ~Uzumaki Naruto Monogatari~") also plays Fushiguro Megumi.

To pre-order the BD/DVD, please refer to this link: HERE

12. During interviews for the "Live Spectacle NARUTO ~Akatsuki no Shirabe~ 2019", this is how Koudai (Uzumaki Naruto) described his relationship with Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke):

"Even when we meet after a while, he [Ryuji] is a presence that doesn’t really give me that feeling [of distance]... For me, 'back-to-back' is a phrase that fits [us] nicely. I've been able to entrust my back to him quite a number of times."

"The both of us, we have a relationship where we don't act formally around each other and can be ourselves with each other, and the fact that we trust each other is something you can see with your own eyes."

Even when we meet after a while, he [Ryuji] is a presence that doesn’t really give me that feeling [of distance]... For me, 

13. Rachi-san (Uchiha Itachi) once talked about how he, Ryuji and Koudai shared a table during rehearsals for Narusute.

He and Koudai brought a ton of personal things to rehearsals, but Ryuji didn't. So, their things took up most of the table space leaving little to no space for Ryuji, but Ryuji never said anything about it.

At one point, Koudai noticed how little space Ryuji had and did kind of try to make more space for Ryuji, but Rachi-san still reflects back on that feeling apologetic towards Ryuji.

14. At the "2.5D Grand Screening Festival 2022", Kimi-chan (Hatake Kakashi) also talked about how there were moments where Ryuji and Koudai were really like Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto, which he thought was nice.

One such instance was when they practiced heir acrobatic stunts for the trampoline. Ryuji got it pretty quickly, and even though Koudai had confidence in his reflexes and physical capabilities, he couldn't catch up to Ryuji's speed of picking up the stunts, which made him feel vexed.

15. Ryuji (Uchiha Sasuke) and Koudai (Uzumaki Naruto) also worked together in the TV drama "FIVE" (2017) playing Shimizu Toshi and Iwabuchi Takui.

To purchase the DVD, please refer to the links below.

BD (Limited): HERE

BD (Regular): HERE

DVD (Limited): HERE

DVD (Regular): HERE

The DVD version has unaired footage and bonus features.

#Sato Ryuji #About Sato Ryuji #Uchiha Sasuke #Live Spectacle NARUTO #Narusute #Musical Touken Ranbu #Toumyu #Jujutsu Kaisen The Stage #Jujutsu Kaisen #Jujusute #FIVE

[lady-layton]

hi! so I was combing thru ur PL tag, and I noticed u have a large collection of dvds/cds. i hope this doesnt come across as rude or imposing, but do you think it would be possible for you to "burn" and upload the videos/audio to youtube? highest priority has to be the interviews, esp with the seiyu, i don't think i've ever seen that ANYWHERE. even if most people can't understand the japanese, having an archive of this content allows us to archive the games, their development, and the fandom. second priority would probably be any commercials featuring cutscenes from the 3ds games, as they were never released in HD to this day. besides that, i have been able to find most of the CD releases online, but i was curious about the premium cd layton theme cover song. if you are worried about copyright law or just don't want to, that is understandable 👍 but as it stands, there is more and more layton content completely lost to time (like the flip phone exclusive official art and games) and without its preservation, the less and less there will be to celebrate as the anniversaries continue... i hope that's not too dramatic. as far as i can tell when it comes to copyright strikes, i uploaded layton game content to YouTube and never got any (i got one immediately over the utena anime) so i believe it is safe, but there are alternatives like gdrive etc. "burning" (copying) dvds is also very simple if you have a computer.

I REALLY really hope I don't come off as demanding. Ultimately it is 100% your decision. But the layton fandom of today (in its tiny size) would thank you. It also would be a nice way to look back in time, as I personally played all the games only in 2020. I'd love to know more about the process behind the development of the games in general, but as the fandom even at its peak was never huge (and bc its been 15 years...) very little of that has been recorded in western fandom, vs big IPs like Zelda or even Fire Emblem. It'd also be really cool to hear the thoughts of someone who was there when things WERE happening!

Regardless, I will respect whatever decision you make. Game (and game-adjacent) preservation matters a lot to me, but I do know how to take a "No". I hope you can understand my perspective however. 😔 While I don't think the fandom will ever fully revive (unless maybe we got a switch port of each trilogy like Ace Attorney), I hope the new generations of Layton lovers can appreciate each other as well as the old fandom they built upon. Thank you for hearing me out!

Hello!

First of all thank you so much for this ask (o´∀`o) To be honest my plan with buying these commercial DVDs in the beginning was to preserve a part of Professor Layton history. There is so much about Professor Layton that have disappeared over the years, since some fansites and blogs have shut down long ago. So I really want to save as much as I can of what is left.

I've been looking into transferring the trailers, interviews and such to some online archive in some way. Sadly I have not had the time to properly sit down and research how to do it more exactly, but I do have a close friend of mine who is willing to help. If I get them uploaded somewhere I will absolutely share the links through this blog! It would be even more fun if a subgroup would be willing to help out with texting some of the clips as well. I have managed to collect quite a lot of these DVD's since I last updated my collection, but I should have the following:

3 different DVDs for Curious Village

4 different DVDs for Pandora's Box

2 different DVDs for Lost Future

1 promotional DVD for Eternal Diva

3 different DVDs for Spectre's Call

3 different DVDs for Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney

1 DVD for Layton Brothers Mystery Room

1 DVD for Professor Layton and the Phantom Thief

1 for Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy

1 for Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy

1 for Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy DX

I also have this one DVD from Code NEO from 2007 that I remember purchasing because it said to have some Layton content. But it got to me just now that I have never checked it out. Perhaps I should do so, so I know what is on that disc haha.

About the premium CD I have been pondering over uploading it as well. I'm not so sure how comfortable I am with sharing MP3s online, but since it's from quite an old era by now and not released outside of the premium disc I could perhaps make an exception.

#Ask #Anon

[popculturebuffet]

Daria Tom Arc Retrospective Part 1: “I Kissed Your Boyfriend”, a look at Jane’s Addition, I Loathe a Parade, Fire!, Dye! Dye! My Darling! and some assorted Tom Bits

Hello all you happy people and welcome to my look at a true classic of animation.. and the arc that continues to divide anyone whose seen it to this day.. and where I came into the franchise over 12 years ago. It’s an arc i’ve wanted to talk about since I started this blog, paticuarlly the movie Is It Fall Yet? and this year I finally had the room in the summer for it. So i’ts time to talk about some heartbreakingly brilliant television and a fandom breakingly contriversal kiss along with the greatest multi media project of all time, the glory of jake morgendorfer, parade floats that sadly don’t include daffy duck’s faviorite mode of transportation, cyber stalking played off as wacky comedy because late 2000′s, and one of the most crushing half hours of tv ever penned. Join me won’t you?

                             This is Just Where I Came In

So before we can talk about Daria we have to talk about why this arc in paticular means a lot to me. See back in the late 2000′s I got into Daria in a very late 2000′s way: Via a fansite and reviews on said site. See back then it wasn’t exactly easy to find shows that weren’t avaliable through legit means online and the show had yet to be released in full on dvd. So instead of finding it via watching episodes, I found out about the show via tv tropes, then glommed onto the historic Daria Touchstone Outpost Daria. While the site sadly went down in 2013 a rebirthed version with all the old content is avaliable RIGHT HERE. Worth a look.

So naturally when I was able to actually find some of the show on dvd I exploded with glee. At my local FYE I found the dvd for the film “Is it Fall Yet?”. It’d also be where I later got the dvd for “Is it College Yet?” the series finale movie we’ll be taking a look at sometime in the future. So it was through “Fire!” that I was introduced to this great toon and the following masterwork of an ep, Dye Dye My Darling! and the stellar movie.. with the terrible Allison plot we’ll get to next time that has aged like fine cheese hit with a croquet mallet into a flock of seagulls. 

It’s a show near and dear to my heart that despite having ended twenty years ago, still feels incredibly relevant. But for those of you reading this who have no idea what Daria is..

Here’s a quick refresher to catch us up to where our story begins

                   Surviving Stupidity on Sarcasm (And Pizza)

Created by Glenn Eichler and Susan Lewis, Daria is the story of Daria Morgendorfer, who began her life as a supporting character on beavis and butthead, serving as a sarcastic foil to the two loveable dipshits for most of the shows run. 

So naturally with the show coming to a close soon, MTV wanted to cash in and to get that sweet sweet female demographic, so they approached Eichler , B and B’s series editor to make a pilot, they bought it and Mike Judge agreed as long as Beavis and Butthead were kept out of it which MTV agreed to.. then planned to jam them in there should the show not be a hit. 

Thankfully that didn’t happen as Daria quickly became a hit and for good reason as Glenn clearly got how to make a good spinoff: He kept Beavis and Butthead’s social satire but wisely reframed it in a new package to fit a diffrnet protaganist: instead of two idiots constantly stumbling into adults who were way too trusting and tolerant of their BS and showing just how ludcrious society is that way, Daria instead followed a character who very well knows everything sucks and will gladly snark about it and is instead often forced into said nonsense by school, parents or bribed into it. It also takes a diffrent approach to the supporting cast: while many of them are foils to daria like b and b’s cast are to them, their strong enough to support their own subplots which sometimes are the best part of an episode> It’s a show that rightfully gets how to make adult comedy: it’s in the characters and setups and while you can go places kids show can’t, you use those well instead of just screaming I’M AN ADULT LOOK AT ALL THE SEX I CAN WRITE. It’s why the show holds up so well despite being late 90′s/early 2000′s as hell:it’s clever, hilaroius and well characterized and it’s worth your time if you haven’t seen it.

As for what the shows about, it follows Daria and her family: workaholic lawyer Helen who tries to push her daughter out of her shell with predicable results, equally workaholic deeply traumtized manchild Jake who is a geninely loving father who also happens to scream dammit a lot and is geninely frustrated at the world, and Quinn, Daria’s sister who dosen’t want anyone to know that fact and is her opposite: while daria is intellegent and is a outsider by choice Quinn only wants to fit in, go on dates, and wear cute clothes. 

The family moves to Lawndale where Daria thankfully finds a fellow bastion of snark in a sea of idiots: Jane Lane. Jane like daria is deatached, loves horror movies and mocking th eworld around her, but is a diffrent type of outcast, a painter who is a bit more socially savy and is a bit more willing to get out in the world than daria. 

The two spend their days dealing with the high school hurricane around them: Greedy, selfish asshole and average school Principal Li, constantly stressed out teacher Mr. DiMartino who ACCENTS every OTHER world WITH rage FOR valid REASONS given the IDIOTS he has to PUT UP WITH, Mr. O’Neil, Daria’s overly optmistic teacher who unlike her previous overly optmistic teacher is oddly selfish, out of it and tries badly to reach his students positivley despite ti working never times. Their class includes Kevin, the kind and personable but completely braindead QB , as he’ll tell you, Brittany, his cheerleader girlfriend whose also kind and also kind of stupid, Upchuck, a sleazy nerd no one tolerates, Jody, a bright young overachiver, one of the only black kids in the class , and someone whose both popular but also bright and aware of things, and thus is one of Daria’s only real friends outside of Jane, her boyfriend Mack who isn’t given that much promience given his va’s keep switching. We also have the Fashion Club, Quinn’s friends which consist of Alpha Bitch and Rival Sandi, loveable anxiety ball Stacy and spacy moron Tiffani, as well as Joey, Jeffy or Jamey, three interchangable boy band rejects who go out with Quinn reguarly and do her bidding. 

Finally we have Trent,  Jane’s brother and one of the best characters in the show, a spacy moron who fronts the band Mistik Spiral (their thinking of changing the name), is constantly late to rehersal, talks slow and drawn out, sleeps a lot and is still the only one in Jane’s large family she can actually count on. 

Trent is important to this as up to our first episode here today, he was Daria’s crush, something she regretted as while he’s a cool indie guy, she constantly is nervous and embarassed around him and incidents like getting a rash because of her crush and getting a piercing because he said he’d like it really bother her. Thankfully despite being a legal adult it’s fiarly clear Trent isn’t intrested, but does see Daria as anothe rsister, likely not saying as much in the first three seasons as he dosen’t want to hurt her feelings. This started to fall apart with the episode Lane Miserables, where Daria imagines a future with Trent and realizes they just arne’t compatable. Granted the crush resurfaces at the end but it was clear the cracks in the crush fantasy were starting to form... and this is where they crumble.. and where Daria’s first actual love intrest comes in. After avoiding thrusting our main character into romance for most of the series the creators decided she needed to date, but realized Daria wouldn’t really seek a guy out. He’d have to be someone she knows.. so they made it intresting by making said guy START as Jane’s boyfriend first. And fans were not pleased. Which I get with The Daria and Jane shippers; the two have great chemistry and thus our story begins...

                                           Jane’s Addition

It’s project time again and this time Mr. O’Neil is trying to reach the kids which for once dosen’t end in tears specifically his, but is an actually GOOD idea: A multimedia project. Naturally Daria and Jane partner up: Jane’s grades need a liver transplant and Daria dosen’t like interacting with anyone else so it works. 

So to encourage Daria’s crush on trent for whatever reason, torment, bordeom, a love of statutory, Jane suggests dragging him into this and the two go to Mystik Spiral perform. They naturally sing a song with the chorus “Hey mr normal, it was you!” 

Jane ends up meeting Tom, a rich kid who nonetheless has the right amount of sarcastic wit and the late 2003 look to charm her. Though we won’t see said sarcastic wit for a bit as the episode frames him well: At first we don’t get to really KNOW tom, we just see him looking at Jane sideways party on tilt, and they end up going off together. We see him from Daria’s perspective: as this guy on her perphriy whose invading her comfy life: hanging with her best friend, snarking at everything and having one person she can count on to always be there. The show’s explored Daria being Janeless in the past: Season 2′s See Jane Run had Jane become part of the track team and Daria struggle at her best friend being gone a lot. But that was a one off thing.. this... is more permant and Daria reacts with hostility and bailing. She DOES get trent to agree to the project, but she goes home right after and when Tom shows up the next day when she goes to talk to Jane, she leaves again and we find out Jane ends up being busy most of the week: Jane gets her part done.. but days after Daria got her script done and everything ready. Trent of course is nowhere having anything because it was a terrible idea to include him. I mean he is the best, but he’s also Trent. The fact he’s survived this long is a minor miracle. 

So the two have a night as usual planned, with Tom busy with his friends we never meet and i’m convicned don’t actually exist. Case in point he shows up to Pizza and Daria is pissy about it despite him trying to be nice. Granted tom’s reaction to her sarcasm is to storm off after a while, and while he’s right to call Daria out, leaving.. isn’t going to fix this. Neither of them are being at all mature but it’s Daria who gets all the blame. 

Naturally Jane calls Daria on it the next day, and to the shows credit Daria ISN’T being at all resonable. It also shows off something I like about the show especially as it goes on: Daria.. isn’t infallible. She’s often right in her criticsim of the world.. but the show often takes time to poke holes in how far sarcastically holding everything but maybe one person at arms length is going to get her. Just up to this point in the series we’ve had the various trent episodes show us she’ suspetable to a hopeless crush on someone too old and too irresponsible for her as any teen who isn’t ace, Monster had her ALMOST crush Quinn with a documentary before realizing just how much harm that would do her sister and that it was a step too far, Write Where It Hurts shows her being so cyncial even in her writing makes it hard to actually write at times, and by being more hopefull.. she writes something wonderful: a calm happy future for her and her family, and the Misery Chick has daria and jane wishing someone dead sarcastically.. actually happen and her dour front making it seem like she isn’t phased to Jane. She is and simply dosen’t want to treat the guy like a hero as he was indeed an asshole and even if it was sad he died, he still shoudln’t be glorified just because he’ sa corpse. Daria being a three dimensional character allowed to make mistakes while still being one step ahead of most people in her life is what makes the show for me. It disects her edgy, late 90′s cynisim while still acknoleding she has a point at times.

As for this situation, Daria is sympathetic as she is wrong: You get where she’s coming from especially given her speech later in Dye Dye My Darling!

“Because I moved to this town and I immediately knew i’d be a total outcast, and in the one moment of good luck in my entire life I met another outcast I could be friends with and not feel completely alone, and then you came along and screwed the whole thing up!” 

She tries to push tom out of things.. because she NEEDS Jane. She’s her support system, the one person who truly gets her in the whole world. Her parents love her, but often struggle to understand her, and Quinn is... Quinn.  Her only other friends are Jodi who while someone who she truly respects is isn’t really on her wavelength being someone who fits in more and tries harder and somehow Brittany and Kevin, who are more loose aquantices with one braincell between them. And of course Quinn is Quinn, so no sisterly help.  They all care about her, but only Jane GETS her and dosen’t judge her for being herself. The only times Jane ever calls out daria is when daria really has stepped out of line. So it’s understandable that when someone else shows up that takes up all Jane’s time and leaves Daria basically alone, she lashes out at him. It’s understandable. 

What it’s not.. is fair. Jane should be able to have boyfriends and since her and Daria sadly aren’t happening , at least until any revivials, Daria simply needs to adjust to this new reality. And ultimately the only thing that gets her to confront it.. is said reality pulling up to her. Tom pulls up in his old junker, a bit of rebellion against his parents as we’ll find out and has an honest talk with Daria. Daria feels she’s being replaced.. and Tom makes it clear no she is’nt. Jane talks about her all the time, and she’s still important to her. But Tom makes the same point I did: Daria can’t and really shoudln’t stop this and a point I did’nt: he’s not the bad guy. He’s just a guy and a charming one too: he’s cyncial like our heroes, and is kind enough to make this effort because he WANTS this relationshp to work and to be with jane means beign welcomed by her only friend. 

And so Daria does. Granted this only lasts the end of the episode.. but when Tom shows up... she welcomes him. Granted Jane isn’t happy they have in jokes, but she is happy their getting along. This... won’t last long. 

As for the project, our heroes do pass with the wonderful lifecycle of a high school student, which is truly hilarious.. as is frankly most dialogue in this episode, but as a reviewer I gotta gloss over that. It maps it to the stages of grief with anger just being them getting some dialouge from poor Mr. DiMartino and acceptance being college acceptance. The other videos are also a treat, from Brittnay and Kevin’s crudely drawn hilariously half assed video on school spirit and the utter glory that is Upchuck’s assignment that makes me want to worship him as some sort of god before slapping myself upon remembering it’s upchuck. 

All in all the episode is excellent and deftly sets up the story arc. And Tom wouldn’t go away either: he’s in a good chunk of season 4 to the point I did watch most of his apperances, though I remembered his apperances in a tree grows in lawndale and psycho therapy well enough I didn’t have to. While i’ll only be focusing on the four biggest eps in depth, I’d be remiss if I didn’t cover

                                                    Some Assorted Tom Bits

Partners Compliant starts the season off with Daria back on not being really happy about Tom, though she accepts it it dosen’t mean she’s on board with him in her life and it leads to Daria and Jane having diffrent partners, Jane being stuck with Brittany and Daria partnering with Jodi and learning a lesson from it about her own hubris. Honestly I could and shoudl do a Jodi article. She’s the best. 

A Tree Grows in Lawndale has Tom save the day by suggesting Kevin become a motivational speaker. I love that my job is writing sentences like that. 

Psycho Therapy has one of Tom’s best apperances as Jane sets up a 24 hour web cam as an art experiment and dosen’t tell him. So he shakes it for the camera unaware he’s being tapped and understandably pissed when he finds out as his girlfriend you know, didn’t tell him.  Gee I can’t imagine why they have relationship issues later. The punchline is also great as Tom calms down.. till he starts getting fanmail.. from inmates. 

Finally we have Mart of Darkness, where tom accidently eats some Gummi bears Jane had sorted for a project. So Jane goes to get some from the new big box store while tom goes to do the same and ends up saddled with Jesse and Trent. It’s one of the few times Tom gets to do something besides be a love intrest and it is great. Sure it’s jane adjacent, he’s going there to make up for his mistake, but it’s fun seeing someone else have to play only sane man with these two doofuses and Tom is a lot less patient with them. It also underlines the issues that are forming in their relationships: Jane is into her art and tends to fly off at tom for it, and while Tom is understanding he really dosen’t fit in her world at times. Granted these last two take place after our next ep

                                                     I Loathe a Parade

This ep starts simply enough; Jake is out of TP, Helen and Quinn have left, so it’s up to Daria to get him some in 15 minutes for a bribe. Which would be an easy enough task... if it wasn’t also the homecoming parade, something I relate to as not only is said parade right down the street next to my house, but I live next to mainstreet, where the local fair happens once a year and thus makes traffic, even if I can’t drive I stil lhave to get places, and walking around a living nightmare. So Daria having to naviigate similar nightmares speaks to me. 

She runs into Jane whose taking Photos for her own amusment and trying to find tom. Naturally all the usual players are here and ‘tis part of why I spotlighted them, the other being they all have their own plots in the movie: Kevin is on the homecoming float with some.. pagent girl, I don’t know, which pisses brittany off, not helped by Kevin’s skeezy behavior in one of his less sympathetic apperances.. I mean he’s not creepy but he does end up putting his hand on her butt without presumibly asking and you know WHILE HIS GIRLFRIEND IS DIRECTLY BEHIND THEM., Mrs Li is trying to prevent a lawsuit, Quinn has a float with the fashion club who balk at one point when the parade stops and Upchuck of course has a bachelor’s club car with two dolls in the back and hits on our heroine. We also get a nice tiny subplot with Jodi and Mack, as Jodie and Mack are elected homecoming king and queen.. and both are ENTIRELY and annoingly aware it’s a stunt by the school to try and prove how woke they are. I do like how the show tackles racial issues with Jodie while not making it her entire character: there’s more to her than being black but her race and how it effects her isn’t ignored either. And the solution is heartwarming: Jodie almost gets off.. but notices a young black girl waving at her and gets back on. It’s geninely sweet. 

The main bulk though is Daria trying to navigate this madhouse and instead finding Tad Gupty, a kid she babysitted/deprogrammed in season 1 whose lost. It also shows Daria’s character: She may be annoyed by the inconvience and lost of bribe but she dosen’t take it out on Tad and does her best to find either his parents or an officer. She may be cynical, detached and constantly done with this shit... but when an innocent kid needs her, she helps. 

She ends up finding Tom who was at the wrong drugstore and teams up with Daria both out of the kindness of his heart and to find Jane. The two end up bonding as they’ve read similar books, have similar natures and Tom shows his own nature, a bit more outgoing than either of his girlfriends, and a bit more proactive, deciding to get on a float to look and taking tad with him, wtih Daria getting on once the child begs her not to leave him. 

Said float ends up being the Fashion Clubs and they just so happened to be looking for someone to make over. Daria has to blackmail quinn to get out of it and while our dynamic duo can’t find the gupty’s, they do manage to loose Tad once they get back to ground. Things only get worse when they run into lawndale’s obnoxious mascot, some dope in a lion costume who won’t leave Daria the hell alone till Tom gets him to step off and later overheats, with daria pulling the mask off to reveal Mr. O’Neil. And he woudl’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for thos meddling kids. Soon after the guptys show off as it turns out Tad found his parents who are greatful and Daria gives a rare genuine smile and talks with Tom a bit, the two really hitting it off.. almost a bit TOO well. Jane naturally shows up and both look at each other as they seperate.. with both clearly conflicted about what they both now realize they might feel. It does feel a bit fast on that part, but otherwise I loathe a parade is a solid episode. Also if you were curious the Brittany subplot ends with her getting mad and storming off and the parade ending in disaster, while Upchuck gets beaten up by the police. So at least Daria gets that, even if her dad dosen’t get TP for his bunghole. 

                                                     Fire!

And now we’ve come to the hard part of this. And not in terms of quality: unlike the last time I spotlighted a tom with my Tom Lucitor retrospective, the episodes here are excellent and the breakdown of a relationship well handled versus 

But it dosen’t make it easier to watch. Honestly it reminds me of a late season episode of Tuca and Bertie: there’s still a joke or two here or there but the pressure that’s built up all season is about to explode, but isn’t QUITE there yet. It dosen’t help that the comedy b-plot meant to help ease said tension is not really funny but instead deeply disturbing. 

The episode follows the morgendorfers as the inevtible happens: Jake nearly burns the house down trying to make himself some warm milk. Look I love the guy but the fact it took four seasons for the house to nearly burn down is a miracle, as is the fact he didn’t pour gasoline on the fire to put it out. 

Helen is pissed about this but thankfully Jake’s connections from work get them a nice hotel. And while Helen and Jake get to be happy and relax, for once, Daria is stuck in hell aka other people aka her sister. Ten minutes with her is all it takes for Daria to pack up and head for Janes and all it takes for Quinn to not squeal is Daria almost talking to her friends on the phone. 

So getting this terrible b-plot out of the way a bellhop at the hotel romances quinn, giving her complemntary stuff and Quinn loves a boy whose attractive and gives her stuff. Sandy brings up the idea he’s a creepy stalker.. and turns out to be right hence why this isn’t all that entertaning. If you don’t know the twist it’s just a stretch of quinn and the fashion club, who I do find entertaining but just don’t get anything funny to do in this subplot, and the “Joke” that a guy was stalking her is just.. creeepy. The actual joke that Quinn is more upset the guy was a computer geek than you know STALKING HER is kind of funny but this was obviously written in an age when stalking was taken way less seriously and it shows. 

Thus the main plot is that much more tense: See when Daria calls Jane and Tom are having issues: their just not really meshing, something that was hinted at earlier but now painfully comes to the fore: While Tom clearly dosen’t mind the splatterfests jane enjoys, his attempt to have them see an art house film goes nowhere. Tom just has some diffrent intrests.. ones Daria shares as she recommends the film, and the fact the two are talking irks Jane. 

It dosen’t get better as Jane procedes to get passive agressive as heck, telling Daria she could contact Jane thorugh tom which is a rather red flag and then working on her art rather than enjoying that her friend is here, passive agressively working the drill. She only gets angrier when Tom shows up but since Jane’s busy he goes to talk to Daria, and they talk.. for hours about litreature and stuff. Look if you want to know how many times an x-man died or about the red planet Arakko, i’m your guy. I’m not into classic literature so outside of knowing about the Prince, the book Daria was reading, i’m out of my element here. Jane gets pissy again. And Tom and Daria DO have genuine chemistry. While jane and tom had some i’ts clear the two ar ejust way more comfortable than Jane and Tom were and click better: their both bookworms, they both have overacheving families, and their both outsiders just for being themselves, tom for not wanting to over endulge in his riches and Daria for being well. .Daria. As much as the fandom HATES this paring.. I think it works to a degree. The two do work together. How it happened is more questionable, and there are issues with Tom’s character i’ll get into, but you can see why Daria likes this guy once she lets him in.. and why Jane is loosing her shit

Daria eventually confronts her, it being her turn and Jane reveals she’s jealous, that it’s been hard with Tom and Daria makes it harder by things being so .. easy with the two of them... and concedes it’s not their fault. But while Daria dosen’t THINK she has feelings for her best friends boyfriend, Trent points out Tom.. probably does “guys can tell when guys are into a girl”.... which is macho bs in how he phrases it but as oblivious as Trent can be I DO think when it comes to relationships he knows what he’s talking about. He has an on and off one and in these episodes is a geninely good friend and council to both girls. And he can play the guitar pretty well and as we’ll see in the movie can write a REALLY good song on occasion, so he has some talent he just dosen’t have drive or common sense. 

So the episode ends with Daria’s angry parents picking her up, and Daria starring whistful. Anjd now we’re going from it boiling up.. to boiling over... but first I nearly forgot to mention Stacey had a cowboy hat this episode. It’s both early 2000′s as hell, I also saw them on sex and the city on occasin, and delightful. To the pain!

                                                 Dye! Dye! My Darling!

So we’ve come to this. The kiss that made a fanbase go nuts, changed the show forever for a second time and is still divisive to this day. We’ve also come to the second best episode of Daria, the only one topping it in my eyes being the final episode (Not the finale, that’d be the movie), Boxing Daria. It’s painful, tense and amazingly acted and animated. Despite the shows stylized animation not being one for heavy expression, the expressoins here and the acting, esecpailly from Tracy Grandstaff, is phenominal. 

So we open with Jane at the Zoo starring at a tiger

Turns out she’s planning to paint tiger stripes in her hair, the lady or the tiger, and wants Daria to do it. And this is where the deep episode long discomfort starts. Unlike last time there’s no attempts at levity via wacky cyber stalking.  There’s no real break. It’s just one long slow motion sprial of pain. This is a bojack penultimate episode level of emotional agony.. and i’ts just as quality. 

See Jane wants Daria to dye her hair and while Daria tries to quip her way through it she also repeadtly tries to back out, pointing out she has no idea what she’s doing, she dosen’t want to do this and Jane being passive agressive any time daria DOSEN’T want to help. It boils over in the actual application as Jane accuses Daria of trying to steal tom passive agressively.. then when Daria, SHOCKINGLY botches the job because she has no idea what she’s doing and said repeadtly she didn’t think she could do this, just outright accuses her and throws her out, not going to school the next day. 

And then.. it happens. Cue the proper music

Tom pulls up wanting to talk things over, and Daria gets in the car while the audience, both those watching this for the first time and those of us who know all too well what’s about to happen scream no at the screen like Tom’s a slasher in a horror film and Daria is his unsuspecting victim.

The two talk, with Tom at his wits end with Jane, and Daria giving the rant from above, mad that some guy has driven a wedge between her and her friend, while Tom rightly points out he just went out with a girl, though she was cool and it didn’t work out. The two agree they aren’t attracted to each other, huff off with a fine.. .and then... 

It’s an incredibly well done moment: from Tom impuslively deciding to kiss her from it being clear she reciporcates.. to the second kiss where both fully let it sink in how fucked this is. And the reason this works so well, especially when certain other shows have tried and failed at a plot like this is the show never once forgets how fucked up this is: Ther’es clear passion there but the second that’s over just pure guilt, pain and shellshock.l And tom’s “I liked it too” and daria’s rare, impassioned dammits just undersell it: He liked it.. but his tone shows just how bad the timing was while Daria is pissed off in a way we rarely see her and runs out afraid. And she can’t get anyone to help: Quinn just dimisses out of hand she’d do the same and Helen is busy with work. In the end all Daria has going in to telling jane is pure guilt

The scene where she tells her.. is also just pure hurt. Daria looks miserable, guilty, and broken, and it’s clear from minute one she’s going to tell her friend.. it’s just a question of how and when Jane finally notices how upset she is we get one of the best deliveres in the series “I kissed your boyfriend, I kissed tom”. Daria makes no justifactions, no excuses.. and  compared to other cheating storylines tha’ts why I like it. It makes the lead sympathetic, daria really is confused by these emotion.. but it dosen’t undercut what she did and neither did she. Daria destroyed her friendship and knows it and all she can painfully do is cry “I’m sorry, i’m sorry” at jane and then run off. 

The resulting confrontation with Tom is no less painful with Jane opening up with a “Hi.. go to hell” before lighting hitting tom who more than deserves it and once her anger subsides a little she ends her rant with “How could you! How could she!” and tom admits it was an accident.. but it was wrong. 

The two then have a more emotional breakup on the swings, with Tom admitting things weren’t working and Jane forced to admit it to, and Jane making it clear she’s intending to end her friendship with Daria. And again to his credit tom points out both how much they need each other and how Janes anger at being possible third wheel is hypcoritical given she asked the same of her. It’s not exactly the same but points for effort

The ending is still soul crushing though: Daria and Jane talk and while Daria both apologizes and has no intention of dating tom it’s clear their friendship is on life support at best as Jane leaves.. and Daria gets a call from tom. It’s painful and while the ending music isn’t bad, the origianl ed music which I looke dup after hearing about it on tv tropes... god

God I love cake and this.. just perfectly accentuates the ep. 

This ep is damn near perfect, painful and an excellent cliffhanger.. and sadly where we leave off for a few weeks. But prepare because in two weeks we look at the followup, what this was building toward as we as the question “Is it Fall Yet?”. Hope I see you there, thanks for reading, follow me for more and considering joining my patreon campaign

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#daria #mtv #dye dye my darling #daria morgendorffer #jane lane #tom sloane #quinn morgendorffer #jake morgendorffer #glenn eichler

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Can I just say the music on QAF (Queer as Folk US) was *chef's kiss*? I think they had to replace a lot of it when the DVDs came out, because they didn't have the rights. It was fun looking up the one fansite website that would list all the music and then going to download it.

#qaf #queer as folk

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Found the archives of some old sites, and I don't know about other people but I'm feeling slight old/lost fansites nostalgia, so I might post some clippings from fansites here. What is this blog if not a tribute to everything in the Muse universe anyway?

But so that it's not an awful scroll on your dashboards, I will break it up into posts. Find the full thing on the Internet Archive, linked (thank goodness for the internet archive!)

The Muse biography from the now-defunct microcuts.net, one of the biggest Muse fansites before MuseWiki ended up being the only one left (social media doesn't count).

Archived here.

Biography Pt. 4 [Pt. 3]

Origin of Symmetry

John Leckie then returned with Dave Botrill (Muse asked him to produce the album with John) to produce the second album, ‘Origin of Symmetry’. Matthew explains the change in direction. "When we did the first album we'd only done a few gigs in London, no major tours. We've learned so much about how we want to be from touring with other bands because of the way they are on stage. If we recorded them in the way other bands do I'd be worried that it would sound the same as them. We've used wind chimes to set up entire backdrops... bits of bones, Llama claws and bubble wrap. It sounds much more atmospheric." Their first single off the new album, ‘Plug In Baby,’ reached number 11, the highest chart placing yet for any Muse single. Their second single ‘New Born,’ also charted top 20.

The Origin Era [Hullabaloo]

The album was eventually released soon after to a bag of mixed reviews. However, Muse were on a roll and won the Best British Band award at the Kerrang! Awards and were nominated for three Q awards (Best Album, Best Live Act and Best Producer) but didn’t win any. ‘Bliss’ and the double A-side ‘Feeling Good/Hyper Music’ were the last singles from the album.

What followed in 2002 was a massive world tour promoting the album and a CD and DVD called ‘Hullabaloo’. The DVD featured Muse playing in ‘le Zénith’ in Paris in October 2001. The CD featured a selection of b-sides on one CD and the concert in Paris on the other. Another double A-side called ‘Dead Star/In Your World’ was released. An EP was also released in France called ‘Dead Star/In Your World’ and a second Japanese and French box set were also made. Muse won the ‘Best Live Band’ at the Kerrang! Awards for the second year running topping off a successful period for the band, which saw 1.3 million copies sold.

[Pt. 5]

#Muse band #Matt Bellamy #microcuts.net #muse fansites #old website nostalgia is kicking in; I am not old enough to have old website nostalgia and yet technology moves so quickly that here we are #muse biography #muse #matt bellamy #chris wolstenholme #dom howard #2001 #Origin of Symmetry #Muse Hullabaloo

[why-its-kai]

omfg last night i discovered a site that had trigun with all of the original unique op animations that are missing from my funi dvd release (as well as the original english release). the videos can be downloaded so i can finally get my hands on all of them i still can’t believe the unique op versions were readily available all this time on newer funi releases and the old geneon remix release but all this time i was watching exclusively on my dvds and the old youtube uploads of the original english release…i remember reading the trivia about the unique episode ops on a fansite years ago and like i figured they were still exclusive to original japanese release. funi mcfreaking restored them to the releases after the set i bought and i was none the wiser ??? like i was talking last night in the discord that older viewers who only watched trigun on adult swim back in the day or owned older home video releases that they still watch had such a different experience watching the series (which includes me apparently) without seeing the unique ops ??? how many of the newer fans think i’m absolutely crazy for thinking the unique ops were hard to find bc i couldn’t find anything on youtube except the one for episode 5???? they’ve been right under my nose all this time but i had no idea i am a fool

anyways i’ll see if i can cut the ops from the downloaded episodes and compile them so they will be easier to find since if you go looking for the trigun op on you tube you are most likely gonna see the one for episode 1 but there are 25 OTHER VARIATIONS !??!! can’t believe it’s not documented better omfggf

[asterocky]

Ode-nim is one of the earliest fansites of bin. They already know what they do, and like what you said, they have the best fancams of him going viral. Why are they like this🤦‍♀️

they want to sell dvds... as if no one bought them last time when fancams were posted....