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noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas · 6 days

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Sean bienvenidos japoistasarqueologicos a una nueva entrega en esta ocasión os presento una nueva entrega dicho esto pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - Hoy dia 27/1/2023 se ha externado una nueva película japonesa que se llama The Legend & Butterfly( La leyenda y la mariposa) el título original es レジェンド＆バタフライ. - Resumen del argumento:El enemigo de Nobunaga Oda, Yoshimoto Imagawa, ataca a Owari con su vasto ejército y Nobunaga Oda está desolado ante la abrumadora diferencia de fuerzas militares, pero NoHime anima a Nobunaga Oda a no desesperar y luchar contra su rival. - Espero que os guste y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones de Japón y que pasen una buena semana un cordial saludo. - ようこそjapoarchaeological japoistsへこの機会に私はあなたに新しい割賦を提示し、それは言われて、あなた自身を快適にし、始めましょう。 - 本日2023年1月27日、「伝説とバタフライ」という新しい日本映画が封切られました。原題は「LEGEND ＆ BATTERFLY」。 - あらすじ：織田信長の敵、今川義元が大軍を率いて尾張に攻め込み、圧倒的な兵力差に織田信長は打ちのめされるが、濃姫は織田信長に絶望せず、ライバルと戦えと励まします。 - 気に入っていただけたら幸いです。また、今後の日本の記事でお会いしましょう。良い一週間をお過ごしください。よろしくお願いします。 - Welcome japoarchaeological japoists to a new installment in this occasion I present you a new installment, that being said, make yourselves comfortable and let's begin. - Today 27/1/2023 a new Japanese movie has been released called The Legend & Butterfly, the original title is レジェンド＆バタフライ. - Plot Summary:Nobunaga Oda's enemy, Yoshimoto Imagawa, attacks Owari with his vast army and Nobunaga Oda is devastated at the overwhelming difference in military forces, but NoHime encourages Nobunaga Oda not to despair and fight his rival. - I hope you like it and I'll see you in future Japan posts and have a nice week, best regards.

#日本映画 #信長田 #歴史 #日本史 #ユネスコ #戦史 #役者 #japan #samurais #Nobunagaoda #history #japanesehistory #unesco #militaryhistory #actors #japan photos #art

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wingshowdown · 1 year

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Here are the contenders (alphabetically)

Aisa (One Piece)

Aisha (Winx Club)

Aizawa Mint (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Alata (Tensai Sentai Goseiger)

Albedo (Overlord)

Allay (Minecraft)

Ananas Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run)

Angel Cookie (Cookie Run)

Angel Cure Berry (Fresh Precure)

Angel Cure Passion (Fresh Precure)

Angel Cure Peach (Fresh Precure)

Angel Cure Pine (Fresh Precure)

Angel Devil (Chainsaw Man)

Angella (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Aradia Megido (Homestuck)

Aroma (Go! Princess Precure)

Asreil (Undertale)

Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Barbatos (Genshin Impact)

Beck (Disney Fairies)

Bird Person (Rick and Morty)

Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap (Undertale)

Blackjack (Percy Jackson)

Brietta (Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus)

Butterfly (The Last Unicorn)

Castiel (Supernatural)

Charizard (Pokémon)

Cheese (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy)

Colt (Hunter x Hunter)

Corvin D’Oro (Montress)

Crona (Soul Eater)

Crowley (Good Omens)

Cthulu (The Call of Cthulu)

Cure Felice (Mahoutsukai Precure)

Cure Grace (Healin’Good style) (Healin’Good Precure)

Cure Infini (HUGtto Precure)

Cure Parfait (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode)

Cure Princess (Happiness Charge Precure)

Cyprin (Spyro the Dragon)

Dahlia (Barbie: Fairytopia)

Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Dark Pretty Cure (Heartcatch Precure)

Discord (My Little Pony)

Dragonite (Pokémon)

Duck (Princess TuTu)

Eda (The Owl House)

Elina (Barbie: Fairytopia)

Emyr (The Witch King)

Ender Dragon (Minecraft)

Eternal Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Fledge (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Fluttershy (My Little Pony)

Genesis Rhapsodos (Final Fantasy)

Giratina (Pokémon)

Goddess Hylia (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

Grian (Hermitcraft/Evo)

Happy (Fairy Tail)

Hawks (My Hero Academia)

Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle)

Hue (Barbie Fairytopia)

Icarus (Greek mythology)

Iridessa (Disney Fairies)

Irma (W.I.T.C.H.)

Jake Long (American Dragon Jake Long)

Joshua Kiryu (The World Ends With You)

Junior Troopa (Paper Mario)

Kaepora Gaebora (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

Konan (Naruto)

Kushina Anna (K)

Link's Loftwing (Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

Little Bird Holding a Rat (Spirited Away)

Lock (Go! Princess Precure)

Lychee Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run)

Mario (with wing cap) (Super Mario 64)

Mariposa (Barbie: Mariposa)

Max (Magical Boy)

Medli (Legend of Zelda: Windwaker)

Megeara (Hades)

Meta Knight (Kirby)

Monet (One Piece)

Paarthurnax (Skyrim)

Palutena (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Panty (Panty and Stocking)

Parakarry (Paper Mario)

Penelope (Barbie as Rapunzel)

Philza (Origin SMP)

Pikario (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode)

Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Postman (Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass)

Prilla (Disney Fairies)

Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony)

Raphaella La Cognizi (The Mechanisms)

Rem (Death Note)

Ridley (Metroid)

Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Royale Candy (Smile Precure)

Ruby the Red Fairy (Rainbow Magic)

Rufioh Nitram (Homestuck)

Ryuk (Death Note)

Sam (180° Angel)

Sephiroth (Final Fantasy)

Shantae (bat form) (Shantae: Half Genie Hero)

Sigrún (God of War: Ragnarok)

Smaug (The Hobbit)

Spamton NEO (Deltarune)

Spyro (Spyro the Dragon)

Star Butterfly (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)

Stocking (Panty and Stocking)

Tank (Forever After)

Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)

The Sorceress (He-Man)

Tinker Bell (Peter Pan)

Tobias (Animorphs)

Toothiana (Rise of the Guardians

Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)

Tropius (Pokémon)

Tsunderplane (Undertale)

Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony)

Untitled Goose (Untitled Goose Game)

Venger (Dungeons and Dragons)

Vex (Minecraft)

Vidia (Disney Fairies)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Winged Pikmin (Pikmin 3)

Yasha (Critical Role)

Yume (Mewkledreamy)

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elusium · 11 months

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helluu i'm so so excited that opening's here wuhu!! i'm blue ( 21+, s/h ) & this is heo yewon, nothing notable to her name </3 she's just some rich astran's personal assistant, waiting for the day her boss promotes her to astra & she can leave this place behind... if that ever happens! u know what it is, profile page here, her tldr & plots are below the cut, pls like to plot or add me on dc ( pomelos. ) & i’ll be there ♡

TLDR

backstory is ur usual ansan born, raised & still stuck here kinda deal. it's not all bad, because she did grow up on the nicer side of the airstrip, but it doesn't mean she's satisfied with this life. there's gotta be something more, something out there meant for her, right?

but she doesn't know what that something is, aimless in that sense. restless, with no reason for it. she's latched onto the idea that astra will be the place for her, the place with all the answers, so she's put her name in the lottery every year & dreams of it, her wes anderson new york fantasy

there's a disconnect between what she thinks of her ansan experience & the reality of it, her dissatisfaction colouring everything a shade darker than it really is. all things considered, she had a fairly calm childhood & a cushy job now, but it doesn't stop yewon from complaining about it! she's been in fairly close proximity to astra & that better life that she can't help but compare it to everything that she doesn't have, not noticing all the things she does

& her job! can we say astra / corpo sellout... yes we can! went from secretary straight out of high school & slogged her way to personal assistant for some fancy rich astran because the company promised that employees who perform well might get promoted to astra. she handles all their ansan business matters & kinda wants to d word from being on call 24/7 but she also gets to stay at their la mariposa apartment for housesitting / keeping purposes

she says she hates her boss & hopes they get eaten by karma... only after she gets to astra, pls. screw the astrans, until she gets to go !

jokes on her though, her boss gambled away some trivial assets on hand... which were all of their ansan businesses & her job... so she's got a new boss she's never met & yikes, he's in town! 😱

anyway she's fully willing to do anything for her boss even if it's shady because she's 1) just a dumb assistant & 2) really wants this promotion to work out! how far is she willing to go so she gets her dream of going to astra? we're gonna find out!

secret family backstory unlocked! daughter of an nightrunner known as an ansan legend for the damage he caused when he went cyberpsycho defending his crew ( insp by david from cyberpunk edgerunners! ), her dad's last job netted her & her mum enough eddies to live on the clean/good life… but she still lost her dad as a child & it's partly why she wants to get out of ansan & also why she looks down on that side of the city even though technically what she has is owed to it. yewon keeps it quiet, her dad known more for the chipware he had on than his name, & it's the only thing she doesn't complain about. super unlikely that muses would know this ic, but it does inform a lot of her actions!

misc fun facts: all her mods are vanity mods & a made up ver of google / chatgpt ... no protection u could beat her up! also has an ashley too doll ( black mirror inspo ) probably outdated / a relic of the times but she still bops to the songs hey yea whoa-ho!!

personality wise, she's ur cynical uncle's gen z stereotype. expects too much, complains about what she has, doesn't have a backbone to speak of & does whatever is easiest at the moment for her until something easier comes along. thinks she's better & above all of this. & on the flipside, she's more than willing to work & wait for it, whatever it may be; she romanticises everyone's life but her own, loves helping people but for the wrong reasons because it gives her a boost of self-esteem. makes reckless impulsive decisions, doesn't really know what she wants but she's demanding anyway, kind of all over the place but somehow comes in clutch thanks to her caffeine shots. she's trying! not her best, but she swears the trying counts!

chara inspos are portia from the white lotus & the vampire familiars in wwdits... astrans are vampires confirmed??

horoscope chart time she's an aries sun ( fireball ), pisces moon ( anxious insecure fireball ), gemini rising ( anxious insecure fireball who doesn't know where she's headed but she sure is going somewhere, help! ), she's got no earth to ground her at all & her signs are just a conflicted mess all around! good luck girly!

PLOTS

fellow starseeker, spacewalker hopeful? someone who aspires to astra like her, for whatever reasons they might have!

someone who grew up always having a little less than her, a friend as long as she had more & they had less... until now? someone who makes her feel a little better about herself, who may be climbing up the ladders and/or realising she's a bad friend

someone she's envious of, but embarrassed about being envious. they don't have the usual markers of success but they're content in a way she's doesn't understand

fellow victims of capitalism working for revel / hansol. trauma bonding over bad working conditions?

party friends, here to cut loose, live life, get totally smashed & swear they won't do it ever again... until next weekend arrives

someone she screwed over for her current job, maybe she beat them out for it or did something at the behest of her boss while knowing it would screw them over?

ya know the usual... childhood friends/rivals, exes, coworkers, friends, enemies, u name it i would like it!

also lucy & david moon braindance scene that's all i ask!

#rmnt:intro #𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙋𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙇𝙊𝘼𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙂… OOC.os #updated w new family background!!

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godlyheathens · 1 year

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2023 books ☁️

january:

1. arlindo — 5 ⭐️

2. não olhe para mim — 4 ⭐️

3. tiger honor — 4 ⭐️

4. red, white and whole — 5 ⭐️ + ♥️

5. a brush with love — 2,5 ⭐️

6. violet made of thorns — 2,5 ⭐️

7. the dead romantics — 3 ⭐️

8. self-made boys — 4 ⭐️

9. mr. perfect on paper — 3 ⭐️

10. unseelie — 4 ⭐️

11. unfamiliar — 3,5 ⭐️

12. destiny's surrender — 4 ⭐️

13. destiny's captive — 3,5 ⭐️

14. the worst woman in london — 4 ⭐️

15. forbidden — 3 ⭐️

february:

1. taco bout love — 3 ⭐️

2. the fraud squad — 2,5 ⭐️

3. highly suspicious and unfairly cute — 4,5 ⭐️

4. songs of vice — 3 ⭐️

5. for her consideration — 3,5 ⭐️

6. to catch an heiress — 2 ⭐️

7. better than fiction — 3,5 ⭐️

8. a thousand hearbeats — 1,5 ⭐️

9. hard feelings — 2 ⭐️

10. exes and o's — 3,5 ⭐️

11. wait for it — 4 ⭐️

12. the border keeper — 3 ⭐️

13. breathless — 2,5 ⭐️

14. mooncakes — 4 ⭐️

15. tempest — 3,5

16. wild rain — 3,5 ⭐️

17. roda gigante — 3,5 ⭐️

march:

1. full exposure — 2,5 ⭐️

2. bitter medicine — 3,5 ⭐️

3. the bodyguard — 4 ⭐️

4. the lost apothecary — 3,5 ⭐️

5. the midnight lie — 3,5 ⭐️

6. i love you so mochi — 3,5

7. how to win a breakup — 4,5 ⭐️

8. never kiss your roommate — 2,5 ⭐️

9. the care and feeding of waspish widows — 3 ⭐️

10. to catch a raven — 3,5 ⭐️

11. perfect on paper — 4 ⭐️

12. a closed and commom orbit — 4 ⭐️

13. la différence invisible — 4 ⭐️

april:

1. azedo — 2,5 ⭐️

2. something spectacular — 3 ⭐️

3. to sir, with love — 3 ⭐️

4. dracula — 3 ⭐️

5. the gossip games — 2,5 ⭐️

6. flowerheart — 3 ⭐️

7. a prayer from the crown‐shy — 4 ⭐️

8. assassin's apprentice — 4 ⭐️

9. the fine print — 2 ⭐️

10. take a hint, dani brown — 3 ⭐️

11. stars collide — 4 ⭐️

12. untethered sky — 4 ⭐️

13. dreams bigger than heartbreak — 4 ⭐️

14. happy place — 3 ⭐️

15. promises stronger than darkness — 4 ⭐️

16. heartless prince — 4 ⭐️

may:

1. playing for keeps — 3,5 ⭐️

2. breakup, makeup — 4 ⭐️

3. the problem with perfect — 3 ⭐️

4. nick & charlie — 3,5 ⭐️

5. you dont have a shot — 4 ⭐️

6. chlorine — 3 ⭐️

7. yellowface — 4 ⭐️

8. her good side — 3,5 ⭐️

9. garotas (im)perfeitas — 3,5 ⭐️

10. jana goes wild — 3 ⭐️

11. single dads club — 3 ⭐️

12. livre pra recomeçar — 3 ⭐️

13. one to watch — 3 ⭐️

14. the matchmaker — 4 ⭐️

15. chasing pacquiao — 2 ⭐️

16. jasmine and jake rock the boat — 4 ⭐️

17. the last tale of the flower bride — 2,5 ⭐️

18. delicates — 4 ⭐️

june

1.heartstaker — 3,5 ⭐️

2. todas as nossas meias-noites — 2,5 ⭐️

3. até o último floco de neve — 4 ⭐️

4. the love theorem — 2,5 ⭐️

5. o auto da maga josefa — 3,5 ⭐️

6. finders keepers — 2,5 ⭐️

7. the songs you've never heard — 3 ⭐️

8. legends and lattes — 4 ⭐️

9. no cooldown for love — 2,5 ⭐️

10. pageboy — 5 ⭐️

11. querida penelope — 4 ⭐️

12. playing for keeps — 3 ⭐️

13. you've been served — 3 ⭐️

14. timekeeper — 3,5 ⭐️

15. payback's a witch — 4 ⭐️

16. the girls ive been — 4 ⭐️

17. o nome dela é sophia — 3 ⭐️

18. como se fosse fanfic — 2,5 ⭐️

19. late to the party — 4 ⭐️

20. lose you to find me — 3 ⭐️

21. riley weaver needs a date to the gaybutante ball — 3 ⭐️

22. just as you are — 3,5 ⭐️

23. venom & vow — 3 ⭐️

24. chef's kiss — 3,5 ⭐️

july

northanger abbey — 4 ⭐️

kismat connection — 3 ⭐️

the only purple house in town — 2,5 ⭐️

os padrinhos — 3 ⭐️

mariposa vermelha — 4,5 ⭐️

scandalized — 1 ⭐️

love at first site — 4 ⭐️

princess princess — 4 ⭐️

chef's choice — 4 ⭐️

the invisible library — 2 ⭐️

the ex talk — 3,5 ⭐️

bear with me now — 2 ⭐️

lights — 4,5 ⭐️

boas maneiras — 3 ⭐️

confetti realms — 2 ⭐️

agust

a hollywood ending — 3 ⭐️

role playing — 4 ⭐️

to have and to heist — 3,5 ⭐️

curves for day — 2,5 ⭐️

this winter — 4 ⭐️

a master of djinn — 4,5 ⭐️

café majestic — 3,5 ⭐️

sign of the slayer — 3,5 ⭐️

brynn and sebastian hate each other — 2 ⭐️

cuckoos three — 4 ⭐️

september

the unmaking of them — 3,5 ⭐️

the second chance hotel — 3,5 ⭐️

sister of the bride — 4 ⭐️

her radiant curse — 4 ⭐️

witch king — 3 ⭐️

hell followed with us — 4 ⭐️

others were emeralds — 4 ⭐️

little thieves — 4 ⭐️

the spirit bares its teeth — 4,5 ⭐️

some kind of blunderful — 3 ⭐️

lies and other love languages — 2 ⭐️

glitch — 3,5 ⭐️

the sun and the star — 4 ⭐️

cleat cute — 4 ⭐️

of dreams and destiny — 3 ⭐️

the borrow a boyfriend club — 4 ⭐️

they hate each other — 4 ⭐️

forged by blood — 2 ⭐️

percy jackson and the chalice of the gods — 4 ⭐️

operação paddock — 4 ⭐️

#mirella says #text #2023 books #books 2023 #booklr #bookblr #booktumblr #january #somente para organizar 😘😘

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cellulargreys · 2 years

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Parent directory star knight apk

PARENT DIRECTORY STAR KNIGHT APK SKIN

PARENT DIRECTORY STAR KNIGHT APK FREE

Star Knight was about as basic as they come, "Alien comes to Earth to study our world and he falls in love." Big whoop, right? Well as simple as it is it really could have succeed (in its own way) had the characters worked better and the film was played straight. I suppose the alien "IX" (Miguel Bosé) was okay but he doesn't get lines and his acting consisted of wide eyes and head nods. Honestly, this was a real forehead-slapper. Keitel's "brave knight" is idiotic and it only gets worse when the Brooklyn accent spills forth during his poorly delivered Olde English dialog. I wanted to like Kinski, his ice-cold blue eyes and dazzling smile but the vibe his character gives off is decidedly sinister and therefor hard to connect with. The alien, his "suit of armor" and his ship were gorgeous, they deserved a film worthy of their design, not this goofy meandering crap. Star Knight (aka The Knight of the Dragon) comes off like a cheesy mash-up of Starman, Dune and Black Knight, it combines elegant, unearthly production design with ineffective, bumbling comedy and unlikable characters. What a steamer! I have to admit that I was seriously Gung-ho for this flick because it sounded intriguing and I figured, at the very least, it would be a quality film with Keitel and Kinski involved. And in the 2000s directed Al Sur Granada (2003), El Próximo Oriente (2006), Rivales (2008) and La Banda Picasso (2012). Especially known for directing comedies such as 1987 La Vida Alegre, 1988 Miss Caribe, 1989 Bajarse al Moro, 1993 Rosa Rosae, 1994 Alegre Ma Non Troppo, 1995 Efecto Mariposa. Fernando Colomo was born in Madrid and is a talented and versatile writer/director who has made a vast array of often solid and entertaining films in all kind of genres as comedy, drama and one science fiction movie, this 1985 El caballero del Dragón, in a career that spans over 30 years. The motion picture was middlingly written and directed Fernando Colomo.

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Alcaine frequently works with Pedro Almodóvar, Bigas Luna and Vicente Aranda, as he has photographed ¨The skin I live in¨, The bad education¨, ¨Volver¨, ¨Women in the verge of a nervous breakdown¨, among others. Furthermore, a colorful and evocative cinematography by Jose Luis Alcaine who was first cinematographer to use fluorescent tube as "key" lightning and deemed to be one of the best Spanish cameraman. Jose Nieto is a magnificent composer and deemed to be one of the best Spanish musicians. Atmospheric musical score by Jose Nieto, Vicente Aranda's ordinary musician, he composes a stirring soundtrack by means of synthesizer. Very good cast but frankly wasted, it stars two myths of modern cinema, Harvey Keitel and Klaus Kinski, in addition, the great Fernando Rey as an inquisitive priest, but all of them turned into caricatured figures. Adequate production design by Felix Murcia and naive but effective special effects by Reyes Abades, many of them made by old computer generator. The film moves in fits and starts most of which would be desirable, with more traps the viewer resists any kind, and some moments of enjoyment and others quite a few embarrassing. Spanish exploitation of American fantasy, realized by time of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET and other films in which extraterrestrial visits and UFOs were common themes and here adding the legend of Saint George, ¨Jorge¨, and the Dragon. This is a Gothic sci-fi tale of power, greed and the universal language of love. It is a slightly funny film with entertaining events, giggles, and a love story between a princess and an extraterrestrial. This ironic Sci-Fi contains lots of humor with tongue-in-cheek, entertainment and amusement, though falls flat for its continuous absurdity and ridiculousness. Worldly boundaries are crossed in this spoofy Sci-Fi. Count of Rue (José Vivó) asks for help his magician alchemist (Klaus Kinski) and the Green Knight (Jose Maria Pou) to find the beautiful princess.

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When a dazzling craft illuminates the sky above a medieval European village, the townspeople fear mayhem while the ruling party prepares for battle with the mysterious "dragon in the sky." After Princess Alba (Maria Lamor) is discovered missing, being abducted by an alien aircraft the quest for power and the young girl's affections drive Klever (Harvey Keitel) to free her from the strange cosmic knight, IX ,(Miguel Bose, though Imanol Arias turned down the role). Ironical and dis-mythical fantasy packs acceptable production design, primitive special effects, and evocative as well as colorful cinematography.

#Parent directory star knight apk

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littledozerdraws · 5 years

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The campaign for James Lawerence’s The Legend of La Mariposa: The Deamon Gauntlet is now live on Kickstarter!! 💪💜💥

I’m so thrilled I got to work on a piece of guest art for the comic. please consider checking out and backing the campaign. the comic is 👌👌👌👌

#the legend of la mariposa #digital art #kickstarter #comic #wrestling

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longlivelamariposa · 9 months

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I feel bad that Virgo doesn't have much to do in this story but rest assured he has a rich life of his own.

#the legend of la mariposa #the sweetest crime #webcomic #lucha libre #luchadora

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kingfridayjoe · 6 years

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You guys know I do a webcomic, right? It’s called The Legend Of La Mariposa. It’s about mexican wrestling and monsters and it RULES!

Check it out HERE or if you prefer your webcomics to be Tumblr-based, HERE.

#the legend of la mariposa #webcomic #lucha libre #luchadora #camazotz

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warrocketpodcast · 3 years

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Show Notes 6/28/21

The creator of The Legend of La Mariposa, James Lawrence, joins us for the show this week to talk about getting into lucha libre in Britain, El Santo movies, living the gimmick, Zubaz pants, Ribera Steakhouse, designing luchadors and a whole lot more! Plus, Matt and Chris judge a Great Indoor Fight bout!

The rundown:

Follow James on Twitter!

There are just a couple days left to back the newest Legend of La Mariposa book on Kickstarter!

Chris’ check and rec: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore, Starstruck

Matt’s check and rec: Conan’s show ending, Hacks

Comics reviewed:

Infinite Frontier #1

Checkmate #1

Fantastic Four: Life Story #2

Listen here!

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regnumveritatis · 3 years

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The black witch is considered a harbinger of death in Mexican and Caribbean folklore. In many cultures, one of these moths flying into the house is considered bad luck: e.g., in Mexico, when there is sickness in a house and this moth enters, it is believed the sick person will die, though a variation on this theme (in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas) is that death only occurs if the moth flies in and visits all four corners of one's house (in Mesoamerica, from the pre-Hispanic era until the present time, moths have been associated with death and the number four). In some parts of Mexico, people joke that if one flies over someone's head, the person will lose his hair.

In Jamaica, under the name duppy bat, the black witch is seen as the embodiment of a lost soul or a soul not at rest. In Jamaican English, the word duppy is associated with malevolent spirits returning to inflict harm upon the living and bat refers to anything other than a bird that flies. The word "duppy" (also: "duppie") is also used in other West Indian countries, generally meaning "ghost".

In the Ecuadorian highlands they are called Tandacuchi and in Peru Taparacuy or Taparaco. These countries share the belief that if this moth, a messenger of death, appears in your home, someone will die very soon.

In Puerto Rico, these moths are seen as a sign you've been cursed/bad luck. This is because of their use in santería spellcasting. The moth can also be the witch/spell caster themselves transformed into the moth. It is important not to kill the moth because then the slain will have their revenge one way or another.

In Hawaii, black witch mythology, though associated with death, has a happier note in that if a loved one has just died, the moth is an embodiment of the person's soul returning to say goodbye. In the Bahamas, where they are locally known as money moths or money bats, the legend is that if they land on you, you will come into money, and similarly, in South Texas, if a black witch lands above your door and stays there for a while, you will supposedly win the lottery.

In Paraguay, people are afraid of the black witch, as there is a mistaken belief about the moth urinating over their human "victims" and thereby inoculating their eggs, which then develop into maggots developing under the skin. Some also believe, if it touches your eyes, you can go blind. The maggots referred to are the myiasis-causing larvae of the human botfly (Dermatobia hominis). As a consequence of that belief, both the moth and the maggot are called with the common name "ura". Both the name and folk belief are of unknown origin.[citation needed]

In Spanish, the black witch is known as "mariposa de la muerte" (Mexico and Costa Rica), "pirpinto de la yeta" (Argentina), "tara bruja" (Venezuela) or simply "mariposa negra" (Colombia); in Nahuatl (Mexico) it is "Miquipapalotl" or "Tepanpapalotl" (miqui = death, black + papalotl = moth); in Quechua (Peru) it is "Taparaco"; in Mayan (Yucatán) it is "X-mahan-nah" (mahan = to borrow + nah = house). Other names for the moth include the papillion-devil, la sorcière noire, the mourning moth or the sorrow moth.

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As Merawi Gerima’s debut feature Residue lands on Netflix, he tells Gemma Gracewood about being the son of indie film legends, duty of care as a director, and why Akira is his go-to comfort movie.

Sometimes it’s impossible to move forward with your art until you’ve taken a good look back. In Merawi Gerima’s impressionistic and hypnotic first feature, Residue, a young man, Jay, returns from college on the West Coast to find that his Washington, DC neighborhood has been hugely transformed within a few short years. A white neighbor barks at him to turn his car stereo down. Familiar faces have disappeared. The gentrification is debilitating, but Jay’s efforts to work out his disorientation and rage through art meets opposition with old friends.

Like his lead character, Gerima is both a DC native and a graduate of a West Coast college (USC’s School of Cinematic Arts), and was similarly confronted by change when he got home. Making Residue was “absolutely something that I had to do because that was the only positive direction to pour my energies into,” he says. “I think that there was a lot of destructive potential in my life at that point. The film really was the first moment when I started to feel that I perhaps was not powerless in this situation.”

Derron “Rizzo” Scott as Mike in ‘Residue’.

Gentrification as a form of structural racism has long impacted Black communities, and Gerima is not the first in his family to cover this ground. His parents are the LA Rebellion filmmakers Haile Gerima, whose work includes the Golden Bear-nominated 1983 slavery drama Sankofa, and Shirikiana Aina, who documented changes to their DC neighborhood in her 1982 non-fiction short Brick by Brick.

Residue was a family affair; the Gerima name is all through the credits. “My aunts were the chefs; my sister, she was, like, the head of the catering.” Although his legendary father managed to get off lightly with Costco runs, Gerima’s equally impressive mother ended up anchoring two of the film’s most affecting scenes, as Tonya, the Mom of Jay’s childhood friend, Mike (Derron “Rizzo” Scott).

“I had somebody else cast—she was a no-show. My mother was on set that day, just kind of helping feed people. I knew that she had what we needed, emotionally speaking. She was actually trying to drive away to go find the woman; I was like, ‘Nah, I need you right now’. She did it, but at a great cost.” The thing about filming in your own neighborhood, Gerima explains, where you’ve raised not only your own but also everyone else’s kids, with varying outcomes, is you end up bringing that lived experience to your scenes. “It’s very real for her. She’s not acting. I almost cried once we finished filming. Nobody spoke for a long time.”

The scene taught Gerima much about a director’s duty of care—particularly when he dared to ask his mother for a second take of a pivotal scene that takes place in a downpour. “In preparing to shoot in the rain we made a few mistakes, with the camera, the placement, there was miscommunication with me and the DP [Mark Jeevaratnam]. I, he, we both agreed that we needed another take. When I asked my mother for another take, she just looked at us like, it hurt, it was painful to ask. She did what she could, but you could tell that she didn’t have it in her.” As it turns out, the first take was the one. “I thought we ruined everything, but once I slowed down, I just saw what a miracle it was.”

It’s impossible to separate Residue from its limited budget and circumstances. Structurally rich and technically unusual, the film is a triumph of local knowledge, happy accidents, and “hood auditions”, where people were pulled straight off the street into the cast. It’s infused with an all-hands-on-deck spirit, constructed scene-by-scene during a home edit by Gerima himself.

“We shot the first draft of the script. You know what I mean? We didn’t have time to wait for a rewrite. We didn’t have time to wait for money. We didn’t have time to wait for anything. In many ways, it was the source of many of our problems, but it was also the source of a lot of our freedom, because we weren’t tied down by money. We weren’t tied down by a locked-in script.”

Mark Jeevaratnam, Merawi Gerima (with camera), and Obinna Nwachukwu on the set of ‘Residue’.

At Slamdance this past January, Residue won the audience award, and an acting prize for its star, Obinna Nwachukwu, whose story is a lesson for other aspiring actors. He was right for the role (“He fit the bill in terms of, he knows DC lingo, he knows the culture, he’s from the area, which was incredibly important”). More importantly, he was available. “The fact that we didn’t have resources, we needed somebody like him. He wants to act. He designs his life in his way where he was able to give us two weeks without knowing much about us. Once we got him, everything else became a lot easier.”

After Slamdance, of course, 2020 took a bit of a turn. Residue was shortlisted for Cannes, but that was cancelled and in May Gerima told his college paper: “I think that the festival prospects for the rest of this year are getting dimmer by the day.” When we speak, however, he is in Venice, where his debut feature has just screened in the independent Venice Days section of La Biennale di Venezia. It turns out that Cannes Directors’ Fortnight head Paolo Moretti had put in a word with Venice Days. As 2020 goes, this is as good as it gets for new filmmakers—and is a beautiful demonstration of how the global festival community has pulled together to make something good out of the mess we’re in.

Likewise, Gerima is grateful to Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, who made the Netflix deal. He notes that a Black-led distribution company is a luxury his parents never knew. “I think if Ava did not exist, our film probably would not have distribution. The broad imagination necessary to see the commercial potential of Black films is still not there. I’m often sad thinking about the fact that my parents had no such opportunity.” Like a scene straight out of Dolemite is My Name, Gerima describes how his folks would book their own theaters across the US and use the African diaspora to help fill them, “proving the commercial nature of these films, in communities that hungered for real Black stories”.

Merawi Gerima directs Jacari Dye on the set of ‘Residue’.

Gerima’s film appetite is wide, and he’s often looked outside the US for inspiration. Some of the most crucial films in his development as a director have been the 1968 post-revolutionary Cuban films Lucia and Memories of Underdevelopment. He is also a fan of La Lengua de las Mariposas (‘Butterfly’, 1999, José Luis Cuerda), which has “one of my favorite endings in film, period”. Japanese influences include Akiro Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) and Kaneto Shindo’s The Naked Island (1960) and he also looks to Chilean legend Miguel Littin and Soviet directors Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Eisenstein and Nikita Mikhalkov. His go-to comfort film? “Akira. I don’t know if it’s comfort, but I watch it all the time! I just think it’s one of the best films ever made.”

On the home front, an “incredible, important” American film is Ivan Dixon’s 1973 action drama The Spook Who Sat by the Door, while the movies that “really put me onto talking to girls” are Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball and Rick Famuyiwa’s The Wood. “These are the types of films, circulating within the Black community [that] we memorize the lines to. That set the sexual compass of Black adolescents, you know what I mean?”

‘Sankofa’ (1993), written and directed by Haile Gerima.

His parents, however, remain Gerima’s greatest influence. “Sankofa was made without arbitration. Black stories that have no minders like that, nobody to answer to, often are far and away, the most honest types of Black storytelling that we see in film.” For other storytellers yet to take the first step, he offers this: “My best lesson from this film has been to always and at all times green-light my own self, my own actions, because that’s the only thing that I can control—and to not wait for conditions to be right or perfect.”

Acknowledging the privilege of being born into a filmmaking family, Gerima adds: “That may not apply to everybody. There are many, incredible things which prohibit action at times. But I think that there are many incredible conditions under which people can take action with the camera. I think that it’s really just a matter of how urgently that story burns within you. I can only say for myself, that’s the way the film got made. Without that, it would have been literally impossible.”

When asked who we should watch next, Gerima recommends 200 Meters, written and directed by Palestinian filmmaker Ameen Nayfeh. (“He’s an incredibly poised and principled filmmaker.”) The film won the audience award at Venice Days. He also recommends Really Love by Angel Kristi Williams, which won a SXSW Special Jury Recognition for acting, and will feature as a Special Presentation at AFI Fest next month.

‘Residue’ is in select US theaters and on Netflix now. Follow Gemma on Letterboxd.

#merawi gerima #haile gerima #la rebellion #residue #netflix #netflix film #array #array releasing #ava duvernay #washington dc #washington dc films #usc #usc cinema arts #letterboxd

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Round One Match-Ups

I cannot find a 128 contestant bracket template that isn’t two pages long, so I’m only going to make a visual bracket for the second round. So, for now, here’s the match-ups. They were randomized via Random.org

1. Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle) vs. Tobias (Animorphs) 2. Aradia Megido (Homestuck) vs. Ridley (Metroid) 3. Charizard (Pokémon) vs. Tsunderplane (Undertale) 4. Crowley (Good Omens) vs. Spamton NEO (Deltarune) 5. Dahlia (Barbie: Fairytopia) vs. Yume (Mewkledreamy) 6. Megaera (Hades) vs. Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck) 7. Rufioh Nitram (Homestuck) vs. Ruby the Red Fairy (Rainbow Magic) 8. Asreil (Undertale) vs. Parakarry (Paper Mario) 9. Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising) vs. Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy) 10. Philza (Origin SMP) vs. Little Bird Holding a Rat (Spirited Away) 11. Genesis Rhapsodos (Final Fantasy) vs. Mario (with wing cap) (Super Mario 64) 12. Ender Dragon (Minecraft) vs. Brietta (Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus) 13. Kushina Anna (K) vs. Duck (Princess Tutu) 14. Link's Loftwing (Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) vs. Dragonite (Pokémon) 15. Max (Magical Boy) vs. Smaug (The Hobbit) 16. Lock (Go! Princess Precure) vs. Rem (Death Note) 17. Goddess Hylia (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) vs. Lychee Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) 18. Albedo (Overlord) vs. Pikario (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode) 19. Elina (Barbie: Fairytopia) vs. Butterfly (The Last Unicorn) 20. Toothiana (Rise of the Guardians vs. Ananas Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) 21. Vex (Minecraft) vs. Giratina (Pokémon) 22. Dark Pretty Cure (Heartcatch Precure) vs. Tinker Bell (Peter Pan) 23. Spyro (Spyro the Dragon) vs. Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap (Undertale) 24. Eda (The Owl House) vs. The Sorceress (He-Man) 25. Aroma (Go! Princess Precure) vs. Bird Person (Rick and Morty) 26. Monet (One Piece) vs. Yasha (Critical Role) 27. Grian (Hermitcraft/Evo) vs. Vriska Serket (Homestuck) 28. Royale Candy (Smile Precure) vs. Cyprin (Spyro the Dragon) 29. Star Butterfly (Star vs. the Forces of Evil) vs. Cure Princess (Happiness Charge Precure) 30. Untitled Goose (Untitled Goose Game) vs. Aziraphale (Good Omens) 31. Panty (Panty and Stocking) vs. Cheese (Sonic the Hedgehog) 32. Mariposa (Barbie: Mariposa) vs. Eternal Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) 33. Angel Cookie (Cookie Run) vs. Aisha (Winx Club) 34. Prilla (Disney Fairies) vs. Cure Parfait (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode) 35. Meta Knight (Kirby) vs. Corvin D’Oro (Montress) 36. Palutena (Kid Icarus: Uprising) vs. Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2) 37. Tropius (Pokémon) vs. Penelope (Barbie as Rapunzel) TIE 38. Cure Felice (Mahoutsukai Precure) vs. Konan (Naruto) 39. Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising) vs. Kaepora Gaebora (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) 40. Aisa (One Piece) vs. Shantae (bat form) (Shantae: Half Genie Hero) 41. Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony) vs. Tank (Forever After) 42. Discord (My Little Pony) vs. Venger (Dungeons and Dragons) 43. Cure Infini (HUGtto Precure) vs. Fluttershy (My Little Pony) 44. Mew Mint (Tokyo Mew Mew) vs. Angel Cure Pine (Fresh Precure) 45. Joshua Kiryu (The World Ends With You) vs. Angel Cure Passion (Fresh Precure) 46. Sam (180° Angel) vs. Alata (Tensai Sentai Goseiger) 47. Winged Pikmin (Pikmin 3) vs. Irma (W.I.T.C.H.) 48. Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) vs. Cthulu (The Call of Cthulu) 49. Beck (Disney Fairies) vs. Barbatos (Genshin Impact) 50. Emyr (The Witch King) vs. Raphaella La Cognizi (The Mechanisms) 51. Iridessa (Disney Fairies) vs. Sigrún (God of War: Ragnarok) 52. Angel Devil (Chainsaw Man) vs. Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog) 53. Castiel (Supernatural) vs. Ryuk (Death Note) 54. Allay (Minecraft) vs. Vidia (Disney Fairies) 55. Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony) vs. Paarthurnax (Skyrim) 56. Blackjack (Percy Jackson) vs. Crona (Soul Eater) 57. Jake Long (American Dragon Jake Long) vs. Angel Cure Peach (Fresh Precure) 58. Stocking (Panty and Stocking) vs. Angella (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) 59. Colt (Hunter x Hunter) vs. Medli (Legend of Zelda: Windwaker) 60. Hawks (My Hero Academia) vs. Sephiroth (Final Fantasy) 61. Angel Cure Berry (Fresh Precure) vs. Hue (Barbie Fairytopia) 62. Fledge (The Chronicles of Narnia) vs. Cure Grace (Healin’Good style) (Healin’Good Precure) 63. Icarus (Greek mythology) vs. Junior Troopa (Paper Mario) 64. Happy (Fairy Tail) vs. Postman (Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass)

Round One will last for four days with sixteen polls posted per day. See you then!

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