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leg-made-a-thing · 1 year

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Kamen Rider Chaleon Blightning

OwO what's this? Oh, it's only another Chaleon form! I was originally planning on making a completely different form, but I couldn't figure out how exactly to make it work at the time, so I set that aside and designed another form I've been wanting to get to since I started.

This is Chaleon Blightning, a form with a very interesting design process that I'll get into in a bit. First, though, the in-universe stuff:

Chaleon Blightning is Chaleon's military-themed Super Form, accessed by using the Blightning Data Drive. This form is incredibly durable, moreso than any other of Chaleon's forms, able to withstand even the force of a nuclear warhead.

In addition, Chaleon Blightning has access to multiple arm-mounted cannons, dubbed the Arms Busters. Each Arms Buster allows Chaleon Blightning to fire a different type of projectile, ranging from normal bullets to blasts of pure radiation.

A quick list of each Arms Buster, its type of projectile, and its DP cost:

Magnum (bullet; pictured above) - 1DP

Blizzard (icicle) - 2DP

Flashcharge (solar energy bullet) - 1DP (uncharged), 3DP (lv. 1 charge), 5DP (lv. 2 charge)

Devil Shot (fireball) - 5DP

Fusion (radiation bullet) - 20DP

Revolver (bullet spray) - 1DP/sec

Hailstorm (ice beam) - 3DP/sec

Flashbeam (solar energy beam) - 5DP/sec

Hellforge (flamethrower) - 8DP/sec

Fission (radiation beam) - 15DP/sec

His extreme durability, as well as his similarly high offensive power, comes at a cost, however. Unlike Chaleon's other forms, Blightning uses Diamond Power as ammunition, and therefore requires at least 1DP to be of any real use in battle. In addition, although his weakest DP attack only requires 5DP, half of the usual 10 used by other Forms, Chaleon Blightning's other attacks require 50 and 75DP respectively, as opposed to the 25 and 50DP of other Forms.

Chaleon Blightning's DP attacks are as follows:

For 5DP, Chaleon Blightning is able to activate his Arms Switch ability, allowing him to change which Arms Buster he currently has equipped. Every Arms Buster requires at least 1DP, and will disappear if Blightning's DP goes below that Buster's required amount, leaving him completely unarmed until he activates Arms Switch again.

At 50DP, Blightning gains access to Pentablast, which allows him to fire five separate projectiles from the currently equipped Arms Buster simultaneously. Each beam-type Buster fires for about 5-10 seconds before Blightning's DP is fully depleted, and each bullet-type Buster fires its five projectiles three to five times in rapid succession.

Lastly, at 75DP, Blightning is able to fire the Demolition Beam, a devastating blast of Diamond Energy that, in addition to its immense power, may afflict the target with a "bonus effect", depending on the current Arms Buster.

These effects depend on the strength of the target, how much extra Diamond Power is stored prior to activating the attack, and the mental state of Chaleon's user at the moment. For example, using the attack at 97DP with a clear mind against a weak opponent essentially guarantees a powerful secondary effect, whereas using it at its minimum requirement of 75DP against a strong opponent whilst having a mental breakdown is unlikely to have any effect at all.

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SO WHO WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT THIS FORM'S DESIGN PROCESS?

Okay, right off the bat: every form of Chaleon's so far has had two main motifs: a type of warrior (Ronin's a samurai, Kniron's a knight, etc.) and a style of dress (Chaleon's base form "wears" biker gear, Kniron wears construction gear, etc.), and Blightning is no different. He's a soldier, specifically a 19th century Prussian soldier mixed with a more "modern" US soldier. In other words, he wears a Pickelhaube and has lots of pockets.

Of course, every Chaleon form is based on one of the helmets and by extension forms in the very-much-slept-on-Genesis-game, Kid Chameleon. Ronin is based on Red Stealth, Kniron on Iron Knight, Shatter on Berzerker, and Splax on Maniaxe. I bring this up in each Chaleon form post and usually compare the form I've designed with the original game's sprites and artwork, and I'd say most of them are pretty close, though of course without being exactly the same. This form, however... I think I'll just show you. Here are the title screen and in-game sprites of this form's basis, Juggernaut:

Now, I don't know if you know this, but HeroMachine 3, the tool I use to make these, isn't exactly meant for designing vehicles, and it's especially not meant for designing tanks. It's essentially a superhero dress up game on steroids. The closest you can get is either a Transformer or something with robot spider legs. Knowing this, I initially went in with the thought of "okay, I won't be able to give him an entire tank, so i'll give him robot tank-tread legs". Yeah, no. Turns out HM3 doesn't have anything like that, at least not that I could find, so human legs it is.

Related to that, I originally wanted to make Blightning's clothing motif a sort of Doom-Slayer-esque futuristic space marine. However, here comes HeroMachine 3 once again to smash that dream into tiny little pieces! AND IT'S A SLAAAAAAM DUUUUUNK! TOUCHDOWN! STRIKE OUT!! OTHER SPORTS TERMS!!!

Jokes aside, I again couldn't get the concept to work, so I made him more modern (read: I added a shit-ton of pockets) and decided to swap out the single tank for a multitude of guns, as any self-respecting American would.

By the way, fun fact! In Kid Chameleon, Juggernaut only has one Diamond Power: 5-Way Shot, which costs 5 Diamonds. 5-Way Shot inspired Blightning's Penta-Blast, and I guess also the DP cost for his Arms Switch ability. Demolition Beam, which I was originally gonna call Destruction Beam, is completely original. My thought process was basically "big gun... uhh... big blast ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sure".

I'd keep going but tbh I'm so tired of thinking about this form and I really wanna move on. You know the drill, comments, questions, advice are all always appreciated, have a good day, follow for updates, et cetera. Oh, and thanks to @2030kamenriders for help picking out this form's name. Massively appreciate it. :)

And because I wasn't sure where else to put it, here's Blightning with his other Arms Busters:

in order, left to right, top to bottom:

Devil Shot, Hellforge, Flashcharge, Flashbeam, Blizzard, Hailstorm, Fusion, Fission, Revolver.

now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go relax and hope Blightning's design isn't permanently burnt into my mind.

#kamen rider chaleon #chaleon #kamen rider oc #kamen rider #kid chameleon #chameleon kid #original character #my characters #jesus rollerblading christ this took forever #btw sorry if you spot any inconsistencies or other things that don't make a lot of sense #by the time i was finishing this one up i basically had to cut corners and halfass things or else i'd hit burnout and never finish it #but now that it's finally finished i can relax #and move on to the next form (which i'm going to have so much fun with you have no idea)#so yeah expect that eventually #also thank you tumblr for saving tags #i deleted one of the earlier tags by mistake and nearly died of rage #but we're good now

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wisdomfish · 1 year

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Eventually, we must decide, who will we follow. Will we obey the Lord of the Church, Jesus Christ, or will we play the role of the chameleon and keep changing the gospel according to the whims of the culture?

Murray Campbell

#gafcon #christianity #jesus #heretics #chameleon #gospel #whim #pop culture

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marksbear · 1 year

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can i request like literally any character/ set of characters x a male reader who based off of looks/his style, doesn't look like he'd have a southern accent or something like that, but does

idk if you know much about monster high, but yk kieran valentine? basically like him 💀 (bro is a handsome vampire with a southern accent like??? 💀💀) (also if you don't know what i'm talking about, here's a reference https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRsuuprH/ )

(also also, if u wanna narrow down what character(s) to write this for, i suppose anyone from cod, overwatch, or the boys)

Please I had the biggest crush on him. And because I'm cool like that I wrote one character for each fandom listed.

Tittle was gonna be long as hell, so heres a short version. Its gonna be Homelander, Simon (ghost) Riley, and Sigma.

HOMELANDER X SOUTHERN MALE READER

-Homelander is a judging person. He likes to criticize and study people. So when it came to you he didn't suspect you had an accent.

-In Homelander's defense you didn't dress like you were from the country. Or really like the southern stereotype.

-But once you spoke with your accent it caught him WAY off guard.

-Most definitely stared at you funny. I mean it's not everyday when he hears an accent like that.

-If you have a thick southern accent he'll always listen to your voice no matter how busy the room is or quiet. Your voice interests him so much to the point he wants to be near it.

-When (if) you both start dating he wants to be near you all times to hear you talk. Even when you read a stupid children's book he'll want to hear you read it.

-he hears your voice when hes injured or something It's like medicine to him. "Jesus darlin. You all bloody'ed up." Y/n says looking at Homelander's suit. "Only some were mine, but there's nothing to worry about."

-If you tease him or flirt with him he's already weak in the knees.

-Simon had a feeling you were different from the rest of them, but you were hiding it well.

-You were like a chameleon. You acted and dressed like you were from one place The next minute you dress like you're from another one.

-But once Ghost heard your accent his jaw would have been on the floor if he wasn't wearing a mask. At first he thought it was one of your little fakes, but once he heard it more and more he realized it was natural.

-Everyone he'd met so far in war had their share of accents, but yours stood out to him. He hasn't heard an accent like that in a good minute.

-With your accent he can hear it over the gun shots or shouting. It just keeps standing out for him. He listens to your words when he isn't even realizing that hes listening until you're done talking.

-He heard Soap call you "cowboy" And the nickname stuck with him. "Cowboy..." Simon mumbles under his breath looking at you. "What is it darlin?" Y/n says looking at Simon.

-He glares at someone whenever they make fun of your accent or they look at you funny.

-Don't even start trying to tease him about him having a thing for your accent. He would be so red under his mask and embarrassed.

-The way you dress and act doesn't give him the slightest thought that you have a southern accent.

-Sigma isn't the social man, so don't expect him to be all over you because you're new or something. But if you are different from the other people in your class he would watch and study you from afar. But honestly to catch his eye you at least gotta do something he doesn't see everyday.

-Once you two start hanging out more. And once he hears your accent it would music to his ears.

-Sometimes if you're shorter than him he would use his powers to lift you up in the air so he can hear you talk. Your accent enhances/ hypnotizes him.

-He doesn't find it as annoying as Cassidy's (Mcree) but hey gotta start somewhere.

-Sure he may be crazy for your accent, but it would be the healthy lie amount of it.

-Asks if you can sing to him. If you don't know how he'll teach you. Gives you a whole lesson about singing and music and how you can use your voice to make music to make it even better.

-He loves everything about your accent. He would study where you were born and the place history to understand your background more.

The end!

#homelander x male reader #homelander #The boys #the boys x male reader #simon riley x male reader #ghost x male reader #cod x male reader #mw2 x male reader #sigma overwatch #sigma x male reader #overwatch x male reader #overwatch #x male reader #male reader #the bear club

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hyperfixatedfandomer · 9 months

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I think that after a few months and quite a few sunburns, the clan's resident playboy Spider will realize that wearing human clothes might not be that bad when compared to having to go to the tsahìk every other week or so because your back is in agony and your skin is peeling off. That will lead to Norm coming in clutch and bringing him a set of light, white robes which he and a few of the other scientists managed to put together for him, knowing that he doesn't like modern clothing. And once curly, long-haired Spider is unleashed upon the world of Pandora, the Metkayina teenage population is done for, there will be no more peace for anyone.

That, and the eventual reality of Jake waking up all groggy one morning, only to see a blurry figure of a man with long hair and white robes standing in the entrance of the marui, illuminated by the sunrise, and going: "Jesus?"

PLEASE LMAOOO THAT SOUNDS GREAT 😂😂 poor Jake.

But the ask aside, imagine tanned Spider 😳 like I’m a big tan Spider truther, idk why some ppl draw him looking like a vamp but it’s gonna get even deeper when he’s living in Awa’atlu! The shnburns will realistically be a problem but once he’s completely tanned he’ll just have to make sure to keep his skin moisturised and it’ll be fine✨

Imagine the Metkayina discovering that humans can change skin color🫢

Darker skinned Na’vi exist, but we never saw one actually tan, so they’d be in aw of him like we’re in aw of chameleons, and his popularity will skyrocket even more! 😂

I should propably write that in part three…🫢

#atwow #atwow fanfiction #atwow spider #spider atwow #avatar spider #spider avatar #spider socorro #avatar 2 #avatar way of water #avatar #avatar headcanons #avatar jake #Jake sully

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triple-mayday · 1 year

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There’s hella theories floating around about the reason behind Tucker Carlson’s sudden divorce with Fox News, but there’s one that I love the most.

Its the sexiest, pettiest, most delicious bullshit to ever be conceived. Behold:

We know for a fact that Tucker got bitch slapped across New York City by Rupert Murdoch himself. Not only that, but baby boy was laid off sometime on Friday and notified only on Monday, when he came to work. So, this unforeseen development was like a kick in the balls. For the uninitiated, Rupert Murdoch is the name of the demonic entity responsible for the creation of Fox News.

Tuckerson and Rupert had a special relationship. According to Tucker himself, the now ex-host was “100% [Rupert’s] bitch” (we love a proud sugar baby). Tucker was basically a glorified court jester - he cosplayed for daddy Rupert as a pro-worker, anti-elitist, anti-establishment, Christian, relatable everyman that broke republicans could relate to. That was, of course, a load of horseshit. As said by Tucker himself.

You see, back in Mesozoic Era (circa 2008-2011), our boy was an active participant in shock radio programs where he paraded himself as an open and proud elitist and a self-admitted trust fund baby.

All of this deliciousness speaks for itself. Tucker Carlson is a chameleon that changes his face depending on what’s resonating best with his conservative audience. Which brings us to the nearly orgasmic culmination of events that could have possibly led to Tucker’s current unemployment.

Tuck roleplayed as a hardcore Christian for quite some time. On that fateful Friday night, he turned it up to 100 for his speech at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala. Bubba was popping off, calling abortions “child sacrifices” and demanding daily prayers. The audience loved it. Rupert? Not so much.

The thing is, for Rupert business comes before fascism. Grandpa worships money, Jesus is merely a profitable business strategy. For a businessman, the rabid fundie shit was already incredibly off-putting. And Tucker’s villain monologue just happened to be the last drop in the bucket that was already filled to the brim by Murdoch’s ex. That’s right. The chair of Fox News broke off his recent engagement because his fiancée was a Jesus freak.

Now onto the good shit. Rupert’s ex had a favorite show. Guess what that show was?

Tucker Carlson Tonight

The woman in question even had tête-à-tête chit chats with her favorite TV personality, thanks to her connection to Fox News CEO.

Tensions were rising in the Murdoch household. The ex-fiancée’s obsession with Tucker only added fuel to the fire. The woman went as far as declaring that Carlson was a messenger from God. One day, Tucker had a dinner at his boss’ estate. In the middle of dinner the Jesus lady pulled out a Bible and began discussing the book of Exodus with Carlson.

Rupert just sat there like 👁️👄👁️

In the end, the man was too freaked out by Christian fundamentalism and kicked Tucker out after his particularly awful speech. It was also a cute little fuck you to his ex cause now her favorite show got canceled

This is just one theory, but it’s my favorite, so I prefer it above all else, and now you get to experience this beauty with me

God, I adore American politics

#us politics #tucker carlson #fox news #rupert murdoch #fundie shit #this whole establishment is a fucking circus #I love América nowhere else will you see this kind of fuckfest on full display #christian fundamentalism

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80s-music-tourney · 3 months

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Polls list for the 80's music tourney

Round One

1. Walk This Way vs. Maniac

2. In The Air Tonight vs. Private Dancer

3. How Soon Is Now? vs. Never Ending Story

4. Just Like Heaven vs. Never Gonna Give You Up

5. Birthday vs. Holy Diver

6. With Or Without You vs. Fuck Tha Police

7. Karma Chameleon vs. Radio Ga Ga

8. Gold vs. Falling

9. Dancing In The Dark vs. Just A Friend

10. You Got It (The Right Stuff) vs. Ashes To Ashes

11. Eighties vs. Dear God

12. Hungry Like The Wolf vs. Jump

13. Love is a Battlefield vs. Once In A Lifetime

14. Rock The Casbah vs. Fast Car

15. Take On Me vs. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

16. 99 Luftballons vs. Nasty

17. Under The Milky Way vs. Ghost Town

18. Invisible Touch vs. One

19. Ghostbusters vs. Cloudbusting

20. John The Fisherman vs. Livin on a Prayer

21. Eye Of The Tiger vs. Head Like A Hole

22. You’re The Voice vs. Ace of Spades

23. Come On Eileen vs. Wrathchild

24. Beat It vs. Chariots of Fire

25. Walk Like An Egyptian vs. Personal Jesus

26. Money For Nothing vs. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

27. We Didn’t Start The Fire vs. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These)

28. Never Tear Us Apart vs. Back In Black

29. Paradise City vs. Dead Man’s Party

30. Fight For Your Right vs. Whip It

31. Who Can It Be Now? Vs. Rebel Yell

32. Smooth Operator vs. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

33. Free Fallin’ vs Sledgehammer

34. Blue Monday vs. Blister In The Sun

35. Mickey vs. Everybody Wants To Rule The World

36. Call Me vs. Don’t You Want Me

37. Holding Out For A Hero vs. I Wanna Dance With Somebody

38. Can I Kick It? vs. Peace Sells

39. Raspberry Beret vs. Where Is My Mind?

40. Breaking The Law vs. Kickstart My Heart

41. I Melt With You vs. Epic

42. The Killing Moon vs. Cities In Dust

43. Teen Age Riot vs. Pour Some Sugar On Me

44. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun vs. Raining Blood

45. Don’t You (Forget About Me) vs. Push It

46. We Built This City vs. Relax

47. I Wanna Be Adored vs. Kokomo

48. Libertango (I've Seen That Face Before) vs. Dare To Be Stupid

49. Hip To Be Square vs. Every Breath You Take

50. Africa vs. Love Shack

51. Faith vs. Plastic Love

52. The Look vs. Self-Control

53. It’s Raining Men vs. Flashdance…What A Feeling

54. 9 To 5 vs. She Drives Me Crazy

55. This Corrosion vs. Nazi Punks Fuck Off

56. Valerie vs. Our House

57. Owner of A Lonely Heart vs. Heaven Is A Place On Earth

58. Like A Virgin vs. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

59. Ahora Te Puedes Marchar vs. I’m Coming Out

60. Out Of Touch vs. Sunglasses At Night

61. West End Girls vs. Every Little Step

62. Scarface vs. Simply Irresistible

Bonus Round 1

Bonus Round 2

#80s music tourney #polls #links #80s

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sofasoap · 11 months

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Presents

Pairing : John Price x f!reader. (Reader is medic , call sign : Chameleon )

Summary: 141 boys getting their early presents. Including a very surprised one for Price himself. Slight crack-ish fun :) not beta'd.

This is part of the “Mini” MacTavish universe, but the reader isn’t “ Mini”. Continuation of Little secret series. Thanks for @captainpriceslover for her inspiration for the fic Trinkets, this is kind of continuation from that fic too.

“masterlist” for prequel to this Mini MacTavish expanded verse.

“.... What’s in these boxes Captain? New gadgets for the mission?” Soap stared at the boxes his Captain sat down on the desk.

“Christmas Presents.” Price grumbled. He pushed one box each in front of Soap and Gaz, two towards Ghost.

Soap frowned. “It’s only October. Not even time for Christmas shopping yet.” he lifted the box up, trying to rattle it. “Jesus hell, it's a bit heavy.”

“Hum. Mine is a bit lighter, and sounds like there are things rolling around..” Gaz mumbled.

“Blame my wife. She insisted you boys have the presents early as we wouldn’t be around for the festive season.”

Price loves his wife. He tried to keep her a secret as long as possible but the big gossiper of Ghost “accidently” let it slip about her existence and cue the two nosy boys immediately went and hunted her down in the infirmary. He was actually quite surprised as smart as Gaz and Soap are, it took them this long to catch on, even seeing you and their child during Simon’s wedding.

Gaz and soap peeked into the infirmary, currently void of any patient, and saw you sitting in the corner, sipping on a cup of coffee while shuffling through patient notes.

Hearing the creak of the door, you saw the two men trying to push each other into the room. “Hello, I see you two have found me.” Chuckling as you wave at them to come and take a seat as you push your laptop and paper works aside. “What can I do for you? Did my husband send you two out to drag me out from here?”

“We just want to see the person who beated some sense into our Captain.” Gaz elbowed Soap as he blurted out. Two of them proceeded to bombard you with all sorts of questions. How did you two meet? Who asks who out? How old is the kid? You patiently answered all their questions, trying to satisfy their curiosity. You two “officially”met during the Amsterdam mission, Price asked you out (surprisingly), little Kyle is turning ten soon, a football fanatic just like his father.

Everything slowly became clearer to Gaz, the amused smile his Captain showed, when he introduced himself during the Piccadilly.

The occasional sad smile when his Captain checks his private phone during their long mission away.

The eagerness when they unexpectedly complete the mission and get to return back to the UK early.

He was eager to return to his family. To you and his young son.

Three of them had a good chatting session afterward. They found out you have been in the SAS longer than both of them, they are really surprised they haven’t really noticed you around, even with the amount of times the men have been in and out of the infirmary or on mission.

“Remember what my call sign is? Chameleon. I am very good at blending in,unnoticed.” She explained with a little smile.

You seem to be a very quiet but determined person. Gaz and Soap can see the resemblance in personality in both of you and Price. No wonder Price has fallen for you. He thought. Someone who is just a workaholic but devoted to each other.

Ghost’s brow went up a bit when he opened his box, Gaz looked over, a skull shaped soap dispenser?? And two little cute animal soap dispensers in there.

“She meant to give that to you when we moved.” Price shrugged as he lit up a cigar, a smirk on his face. “The other box is for Mini. Those two little dispensers are for Tiny and Aileen.”

“WHY IS THIS BOX FULL OF SOAP?” Soap cried, he sniffed himself. “Do I stink? Is she trying to say I stink? Oh Gosh Emma never told me I stink…”

Gaz opened up the lid of the box, in there he found a few fancy looking hand-made soaps,

“Soap… I got a few blocks of it too, don't worry. Seems she thinks both of us stink equally.” Gaz laughed. Underneath the blocks of soap, he also found a new set of knitting needles, crochet hooks and different colour yarns, You remembered, to Gaz’s surprise, during that initial conversation he mentioned to you his side hobbies are knitting and crocheting, crafty skill he learnt from his grandmother, which he found soothing and meditative to get his mind away from the bloodshed. Pulling out the yarns, he noticed right at the bottom there is also a little booklet of patterns for …. Baby clothes?

Gaz frowned. He’s not expecting any babies. He doesn’t even have a partner! What are you trying….OH.

Turning towards Price. “.... are you two expecting?” He asked.

Turning his head away from watching Soap’s self-wallowing and Ghost quietly happy with his little gag present, Price slowly turned and looked at Gaz, he could see confusion in his Captain’s eyes.

“ What made you say that?”

Gaz holds up the book.

“..... are you not telling me something Gaz?” Price’s eyes narrowed, throwing the question back at him.

“Captain, you know I definitely don’t have anyone in my life at the moment. And I DEFINITELY did not knock anyone up.”

Price went all quiet. Gaz could see him trying to process the information.

All of sudden, he stood up, startling all three of them and marched out of the office, towards the infirmary.

“....what is going on?” Soap looked at Gaz, and back to Ghost.

“ I think he just got a pleasant surprise gift himself too.”

Moments later, they could hear your scream,followed by you insisting your husband to put you back down, to everyone’s jaw dropping and stares as Price bridal carried you out of the infirmary, along the corridor, heading towards the front gate, trying to get you home to rest.

The day the whole barrack finally realised Captain John Price and you are actually married to each other.

Sorry @captainpriceslover, as with all my stories, it takes turn unexpectly as I write them :P

@tapioca-marzipan @floral-force (mutton chop no. 6 :) )

#call of duty #captain john price #john price x you #john price x reader #john price imagine #john price #john price x y/n #captain price x reader #captain price #captain price x y/n #captain john price x reader #captain john price x you #captain john price x female reader #crack fic

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homocatphenomena · 16 days

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How is it possible for me to be so autistic and miss 90% of social cues, yet so consistently romance repulsed? A slight expression around the eyes or change in the tone of voice is all it takes to make me wanna hurl and have my skin crawling. I stg it triggers adrenaline every time and I feel like I’m on red alert for hours after it happens. And no matter how I explain it to a partner, they almost always inevitably “forget” or decide they must be different, or we’ve been together long enough that SURELY I must have romantic feelings by now. How to explain that I am only really comfortable with physical touch from my cats? Some people I can hug, but even if my mom touches me when I’m not expecting it/we aren’t mutually initiating a touch, even that makes me feel gross. I just don’t want to be touched or looked at by any humans almost ever, and I want romance from NO ONE under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. I can extract oxytocin from my cats thank you very much. I have stuffed animals to hold at night. And I have no need for sex because god invented porn for a reason. What’s wrong with some good old fashioned loyal lifelong friendships. I don’t hate people but I don’t want to pay the blow job tax for the rest of my life just to have a companion that I can share bills with and rely on and hang out with. I don’t want to cuddle, and if you try to gaze into my fucking eyes I might just gouge them out. But I’ll yell at your health insurance company for you and help you write a stern email to HR. I’ll do your taxes and we can travel together and hang out. God why is everyone else so fucking weird. Always making it fucking weird. Bleh!

Even when I explain this upfront, and clearly state that I’m polyamorous and I encourage them to find romance and physical affection from someone else, they never do. They’re like “you’re enough I just don’t want anyone else”. Ok well first off gross. Second, I’m not actually enough. The fake version of me that lives in your head is, but in reality, I am being pressured to regularly go way outside my comfort zone just to keep you minimally happy. And for what? So I can grow to resent you and you can constantly feel lonely and touch starved?

Holy shit please someone just make me the admin of their polycule. I will do all your budgeting and filing and boring shit in exchange for companionship, stability, and loyalty, with the stipulation that you DO NOT TOUCH ME, minimize eye contact, and do NOT make a romantic expression or voice at me. Also I need my own room because I need 5 waking hours per day minimum where I am alone in a room and cannot be seen by other people. I can be in the discord server and hanging out but there has to be a closed door between us. I am not a starter pet. I am perhaps a chameleon or parrot level difficulty polycule member but I really believe there has got to be a niche for me. I mean come on. I have a lot of love in my heart and I’m very loyal and I’m just so frustrated that that keeps getting me in these unbelievably uncomfortable situations. Just because I would carry you up mount doom to deliver the ring into the volcano does NOT mean I want to cuddle afterwards. A “wow thanks man that was really cool of you, I’ll buy you a beer” is enough. Jesus Christ.

#aromantic #asexual #aroace #personal #rant

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justforbooks · 7 months

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The word “great” is somewhat promiscuously applied to actors. But it was undoubtedly deserved by Sir Michael Gambon, who has died aged 82 after suffering from pneumonia.

He had weight, presence, authority, vocal power and a chameleon-like ability to reinvent himself from one role to another. He was a natural for heavyweight classic roles such as Lear and Othello. But what was truly remarkable was Gambon’s interpretative skill in the work of the best contemporary dramatists, including Harold Pinter, Alan Ayckbourn, David Hare, Caryl Churchill and Simon Gray.

Although he was a fine TV and film actor – and forever identified in the popular imagination with Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter franchise – the stage was his natural territory. It is also no accident that, in his private life, Gambon was an expert on, and assiduous collector of, machine tools and firearms for, as Peter Hall once said: “Fate gave him genius but he uses it as a craftsman.”

Off-stage, he was also a larger-than-life figure and a superb raconteur: a kind of green-room Falstaff. I have fond memories of an evening in a Turin restaurant in March 2006 on the eve of Pinter’s acceptance of the European Theatre prize. Gambon kept the table in a constant roar, not least with his oft-told tale of auditioning for Laurence Olivier as a young actor in 1963 and cheekily choosing to do a speech from Richard III; but the next night Gambon gave an explosive rendering of Pinter’s poem American Football that threatened to blow the roof off the Turin theatre.

However, Gambon’s bravura was also mixed with a certain modesty. In the summer of 2008 I met him for tea in London and found him eagerly studying the script of Pinter’s No Man’s Land, in which he was scheduled, several months later, to play Hirst. He told me that he had started work on it so soon because he found it difficult to learn lines at his age.

“Sometimes,” he said, “I sleep with a script under my pillow, or just carry it around in my raincoat pocket, in the hope the lines will rub off on me.” I think he was genuine; but with Gambon, one of life’s great leg-pullers, you were never entirely sure.

Gambon achieved greatness without either the formal training or genetic inheritance that are often considered indispensable.

He was born into a working-class Dublin family that had no artistic background; his mother, Mary (nee Hoare), was a seamstress, and his father, Edward, an engineer. When the family settled in Britain after the second world war, the young Gambon went to St Aloysius school for boys, in Somers Town, central London. On leaving at the age of 15 he signed a five-year apprenticeship with Vickers-Armstrongs, leading to a job as a tool-and-die maker. With his mechanical aptitude, he loved the work. But he also discovered a passion for amateur theatre and, having started by building sets, eventually moved into performing. “I want varoom!” he once said. “I thought, Jesus, this is for me.”

With typical chutzpah, he wrote to the Gate theatre in Dublin, creating a fantasy list of roles that he had played in London, including Marchbanks in Shaw’s Candida; in the end, he made his professional debut there in 1962 as the Second Gentleman in Othello. His best decision, however, on returning to London, was to sign up for an improvisational acting class run by William Gaskill at the Royal Court.

Gaskill was about to join the newly formed National Theatre company at the Old Vic and recommended Gambon for an audition: hence the celebrated story of Gambon’s first encounter with Olivier, which ended with the young actor, in his excess of zeal, banging his hand on a nail in an upstage column and bleeding profusely. Far from being the nail in Gambon’s coffin, this led to a productive four years with the National in which he progressed from walk-ons to substantial roles such as that of Swiss Cheese in Gaskill’s revival of Mother Courage.

On Olivier’s advice, however, Gambon left the National in 1967 to hone and pursue his craft at Birmingham rep – a shrewd move that saw him, at the astonishingly early age of 27, playing his first Othello. He moved on later to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in 1968 made his first foray into television with the leading role in a BBC adventure series called The Borderers.

However, it was through working on another TV series, The Challengers, that he made a contact that was to transform his career. His fellow actor Eric Thompson was moving into directing, and in 1975 was set to do an Ayckbourn trilogy, The Norman Conquests, at the Greenwich theatre. He cast Gambon, against type, as a dithering vet.

He revealed, for the first time, his shape-shifting gifts; and the sight of him, seated at a dinner table on a preposterously low stool with his head barely visible above the table’s edge, remains one of the great comic images of modern theatre.

This led to a highly productive working relationship with Ayckbourn including key roles in Just Between Ourselves (Queen’s theatre, London, 1977) and Sisterly Feelings (National, 1980).

At the same time, Gambon began an association with Gray by taking over, from Alan Bates, the role of the emotionally detached hero in Otherwise Engaged (Queen’s theatre, 1976).

That was directed by Pinter, for whom in 1978 Gambon created the part of Jerry in Betrayal at the National. It was a production beset by problems, including a strike that threatened to kibosh the first night, but Gambon’s mixture of physical power and emotional delicacy marked him out as a natural Pinter actor. That power, however, manifested itself in the 1980s in a series of performances that staked out Gambon’s claim to greatness.

First, in 1980, came Brecht’s Galileo at the National: a superbly triumphant performance that brought out the toughness, obduracy and ravening intellectual curiosity of Brecht’s hero. It was a measure of his breakthrough that, as Gambon returned to his dressing room after the first night, he found the other actors in the National’s internal courtyard were shouting and roaring their approval. Two years later, Gambon returned to the RSC to play both a monumental King Lear and a ravaged Antony opposite Helen Mirren’s Cleopatra.

But arguably the finest of all of Gambon’s 80s performances was his Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, directed by Ayckbourn at the National (1987). It helped that Gambon actually looked like Miller’s longshoreman-hero: big and barrel-chested with muscular forearms, he was plausibly a man who could work the Brooklyn docks.

Gambon also charted Eddie’s complex inner life through precise physical actions. He stabbed a table angrily with a fork on learning that his niece had got a job, let his eyes roam restlessly over a paper as the niece and the immigrant Rodolpho quietly spooned, and buckled visibly at the knees on realising that a fatal phone-call to the authorities had ensnared two other immigrants. In its power and melancholy, this towering performance justified the sobriquet once applied by Ralph Richardson of “the great Gambon”.

When you consider that the decade also saw Gambon playing the psoriasis-ravaged hero of Dennis Potter’s TV series The Singing Detective (1986), you realise his virtuosity and range.

And that became even clearer in 1990 when he played the mild-mannered hero of Ayckbourn’s Man of the Moment (Globe theatre, now Gielgud, London), had another crack at Othello for Ayckbourn in Scarborough and appeared, in 1989, as a romantically fixated espionage agent in Pinter’s TV adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day: that last performance, alternately sinister and shy, was one of Gambon’s finest for television and deserved a far wider showing.

In later years Gambon successfully balanced his stage career with an amazingly prolific one in film and television. In Hare’s Skylight at the National in 1995 he combined the bulk and weight of a prosperous restaurateur with a feathery lightness – a skipping post-coital dance across the stage with the balletic grace often possessed by heavily built men.

Gambon was equally brilliant as a disgusting, Dickensian, accent-shifting Davies in a revival of Pinter’s The Caretaker (Comedy theatre, 2000), as a perplexed bull of a father in Churchill’s A Number (Royal Court, 2002), as a Lear-like Hamm in Beckett’s Endgame (Albery, 2004) and as a brooding, alcoholic Hirst in Pinter’s No Man’s Land (Duke of York’s, 2008). Even if Gambon’s Falstaff in a 2005 National Theatre production of Henry IV Parts One and Two did not quite match expectations, his work for the theatre revealed an ability to combine volcanic power with psychological depth and physical delicacy.

Ill health and increasing memory problems forced him to retire from stage acting in 2015, but not before he had given memorable performances in two Beckett plays: Krapp’s Last Tape (Duchess, 2010) and All That Fall (Jermyn Street theatre, 2012), where he played, opposite Eileen Atkins, the sightless but stentorian Mr Rooney.

He also continued to work in television and film for as long as possible. He belied the whole notion of the small screen by giving large-scale performances as the black sheep of a big family in Stephen Poliakoff’s Perfect Strangers (2001) and as a reclusive plutocrat in the same writer’s Joe’s Palace (2007).

He was nominated for awards for his performances as Lyndon Johnson in an American TV movie, Path to War (2002), and as Mr Woodhouse in a BBC version of Jane Austen’s Emma (2009). Later TV series included The Casual Vacancy (2015), Fearless (2017) and Little Women (2017).

In film, he had a rich and varied career that ranged from the violent hero of Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), to a heavyweight mafia boss in Mobsters (1991), the aged Lord Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited (2008), a cantankerous old director in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet (2012) and the bearded Hogwarts headteacher (whom he privately referred to as “Dumblebore”) in six of the eight Harry Potter films, taking over the role for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) following the death of Richard Harris.

He also provided the narration for the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! (2016) and voiceovers for the two Paddington films (2014 and 2017).

But Gambon brought to everything he did, in life as well as art, enormous gusto, a sense of mischief and a concern with precision: he was almost as happy restoring old firearms as he was working on a new role.

In 1992 he was appointed CBE, and six years later was knighted.

He married Anne Miller in 1962, and they had a son, Fergus. From a subsequent relationship with Philippa Hart, whom he met on the set of Gosford Park, he had two sons, Michael and William.

He is survived by Anne and his three sons.

🔔 Michael Gambon, actor, born 19 October 1940; died 27 September 2023

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Babygirl Polls Lineup: Week Three

Hi everyone! Here is the lineup for the third week of the Babygirl Polls! Thanks to everyone for your submissions!

Chris McLean (Total Drama)

Diego Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Benjamin/Hokma (Lobotomy Incorporation)

Sir Crocodile (One Piece)

Leone Abbacchio (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

Getou Suguru (Jujustsu Kaizen)

Yami Bajura (Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters)

Troy Barnes (Community)

Cahara (Fear and Hunger)

Zuke (No Straight Roads)

Five Pebbles (Rain World)

Obito Uchiha (Naruto)

Matt (Eddsworld)

Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune)

Luo Binghe (Scum Villain Self Saving System)

Raphael (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Death (Discworld)

Kimimaro (Naruto)

Cronus Ampora (Homestuck)

Lorenz Hellman Gloucester (Fire Emblem)

The Doctor (Doctor Who)

Riddle Rosehearts (Twisted Wonderland)

Klaus (The Vampire Diaries)

Caroline (The Vampire Diaries)

Jammie Tartt (Ted Lasso)

Catra (She-Ra)

Adora (She-Ra)

Natalie (Yellowjackets)

Prince Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Caesar Flickerman (The Hunger Games)

Sasha Nein (Psychonauts)

Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off)

Vergil Sparda (Devil May Cry)

Aran Ryan (Punch Out!!!)

Raymond (Animal Crossing)

Randall Ascot (Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask)

Peter B. Parker (Into the Spiderverse)

DJ Octavio (Splatoon)

Tape (Paper Mario: Original King)

Tangent (I Was A Teenage Exocolonist)

Gargamel (The Smurfs)

Tobari Durandal Kumohira (Nabari no Ou)

Emil Castagnier (Tales of Symphonie: Dawn of a New World)

Israel "Izzy" Hands (Our Flag Means Death)

Deadpool (Marvel)

Viago (What We Do In The Shadows)

Julian Devorak (The Arcana)

Grimer Wormtongue (Fleetway Sonic Comics)

Will Turner (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Sea Hawk (She-Ra)

Muriel (Good Omens)

Axel (Kingdom Hearts)

Crowley (Good Omens)

Castiel (Supernatural)

Crowley (Supernatural)

Jack Skellington (Nightmare Before Christmas)

Bow (She-Ra)

Scorpia (She-Ra)

Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death)

Oluwande Boodhari (Our Flag Means Death)

Dr. James Wilson MD (House MD)

Seeley Booth (Bones)

Will Graham (Hannibal)

Niklaus Hendrix (Just Roll With It: Riptide)

Ambrosius Goldenloin (Nimona (2023))

Hawkeye Pierce (M*A*S*H*)

Sandalphon (Granblue Fantasy)

Kai (Kung Fu Panda)

Tai Lung (Kung Fu Panda)

Mikoko Mikoshiba/Mikorin (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun)

Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul)

Doctor Starline (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Adam Stanheight (Saw (2004))

Infinite the Jackal (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Xenk Yendar (Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)

Espio the Chameleon (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Neo (The Matrix)

Morgana Pendragon (BBC Merlin)

John Reese (Person of Interest)

Dr. Cameron (House MD)

Anthony "Anton" Herzen (Professor Layton and the Elysian Mask)

Drumbot Brian (The Mechanisms)

Ivan (Shadow and Bone)

Holland Vosjik (Shades of Magic)

Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)

Jesus (The Bible)

Edgward/Nygma (Batman)

Gabriel Reyes/Reaper (Overwatch)

Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)

Gunpowder Tim (The Mechanisms)

Gaueko (Nasty Dogs)

Hancock (Fallout)

Mothman (American Folklore)

Harry Wilson (Leverage: Redemption)

Kiyoka Kudou (My Happy Marriage)

Rand al'Thor (Wheel of Time)

Nam Seon-ho (My Country: The New Age)

Steven Grant (Marvel)

Howl Jenkins Pendragon (Howl's Moving Castle)

Redos (cuz i messed up in one way or another)

Jason Todd (DC Comics)

#poll lineup #the babygirl polls

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Dale Cooper: A Twin Peaks playlist.

Featuring: Angelo Badalamenti, Julee Cruise, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Harold Budd, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno, Tears for Fears, The Legendary Pink Dots, Beach House, Scott Walker, The Ventures, Dead Can Dance, John Cale, The Cleaners From Venus, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Durutti Column, Bill Evans Trio, Chet Baker, This Mortal Coil, Them Are Us Too, Jon Hassell, Roy Orbison, Psychic TV, Tuxedomoon, Cult With No Name, Talk Talk, Chromatics, Kate Bush, David Sylvian, The Field Mice, Eddie Vedder, Spiritualized, The Chameleons and Peter Gabriel.

Genres featured: Ambient, dream pop, gothic rock, alternative rock, electro pop, new-wave, jazz and post rock.

#twin peaks #dale cooper #kyle maclachlan #playlist #my playlists #twin peaks playlists #Spotify #music

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gilmores-glorious-blog · 1 year

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HI okay so i finally watched the new ted lasso episode and i’m. holy shit. i have so many thoughts.

- COLIN! MY LOVE! most of my thoughts revolve around him tbh,, i am so fucking thrilled that he’s finally getting his gay storyline. while some parts of it are being handled… questionably, it’s still such a good feeling to have thought a character is queer for so long and then get it confirmed. i’ve always loved colin but god my love for him has just skyrocketed,,, there were so many things that just make me so sad for him, from the hiding his face with sunglasses, to having to laugh off jokes about being gay, to the whole chameleon bit, to his mantra, to him having to introduce his boyfriend as his wingman….. it’s all devastating and i want nothing more than for him to be able to be out and be loved and accepted by everyone. someone please give this boy a hug.

- speaking of boys who need hugs….. jamie 🥺my forever love…. he was so good this episode and i just felt so bad for him. he’s become so self-aware though and i love it!! also he is so incredibly well-acted that it makes me insane… the little things like how he fidgets with the bottom of his shirt when he’s nervous or upset and how he flinches constantly… he makes me sad and i adore him. also his earrings were hot and he’s so bisexual.

- and my third love, trent….. i am so so nervous for next week but i’m leaning towards being hopeful. he was amazing in this and i love him and his gay little stares and poses and princess diaries enthusiasm. i don’t think he’s going to out colin, and i honestly wouldn’t be worried at all if it weren’t for the ominous-as-fuck song choice at the end. also? i?? briefly entertained the fact that if they don’t go the shitty outing someone route, they very well could go down the queer mentor route??? and i would???? lose my entire mind if we got canonically queer trent crimm thank you and goodnight.

- also ted? my main mans?? please for the love of god get some help.. i know you’re in therapy and that’s a good step but this is so unhealthy you can’t just keep joking about things and hoping no one notices that you’re on the brink of a complete breakdown. my heart was breaking for him this whole episode :(

- how tf is will the kit man 25. i deadass thought he was 19.

- i. hate the sam and rebecca plotline with a burning passion. i love sam. i love rebecca. i hate them together. that girl at sam’s restaurant seemed so sweet let’s pursue that instead please and thank you!

- final note is that i love jesus christ superstar and i’m so happy it was on the soundtrack <3 (also, as i said to my brother during that scene: “top ten jamie tartt judas moments.”)

#anyways. WILD ride oh my god.#overall very good though i love this show sm #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #colin hughes #jamie tartt #trent crimm #eli.posts

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